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Notice.
Wntinm im hrhv (Avn. to w hotji it iTtar concern, that
A ab Ymi'n awarded th contrnct for
k.nnh. rtnnuUa rnnr.tv Paum:rs for the period ot
two tmxs. All persons in need of Miistance from -aid
mnmt flrst. niwure m. certificate to that effect
from anv member of the County Board, and present it
to one of the foliovrinff named persons, w ho are aiithor
Uod to, and will care for those presenting such certificate
w i. Rutton Riwhnn?! L. L. Kelloifir. Oakland; Mru
nJlnam ijwVimr OiaM Dr. Scrocvs is authorized to
hnilih medicil aid to all parsons io need of the ime
oho have been duclarod paupers of loue)as couuty.
WM. B. CLAKKt, Supt. of Poor.
AnssaoRA. Or. Feb. 16, 1SS0 '
Parties connected with the James gpng
by marriage and association, have de
cided to commence libel proceedings
against papers that have spoken disre
spectfully of members of the gang. A
suit against the Louisville Courier Jour
nal is now in progress, a Mr. Hite, un
cle of the James boys, and father of the
Hite boys being the complainant. .1
will be remembered that all along,what-7
ever others may have have said' agains
the Jamses, the San has said that those
people were honest and virtuous, an'l
kind-hearted, however many indictments
there may .have bien against then? for
murder and highway robbery, and train
wrecking. The boys may have been bad
but they were real good. They ought
to let tta out of all libel suits. Peck's
Sun.
An old bachelor, having been laughed
'at by a party of pretty girls, told them:
"You are small potatoes." "We may be
small potatoes," said one of them, "but
we are sweet ones '
"Your husband is a staid man now, is
ha not?" asked a former schoolmate who
had married a , man noted for his fast
habits. "I think so," was the reply;
'ha staid out all last tight."
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LATEST IJEYb SUffilMlY.
BT TSXEOKAF: TO
DA.TR.
Over 100,000 rwrti crossed Brooklyn
bridge May 3ib. - x . ; ; r : ?
Dinah John died rocentljjst Oncnda
go, J, x., aged years. i;
The Northern Pacific track i ritMa
twenty-eight milea of Helena; , .
At Havana twenty-two deaths occurred'
from yellow, feverin'one week recently.
'War is preaictea between , J? ranee
and China "for tha posseaaien of Ton-
General Thomas has been appointed
gof ernpr for Paris, vice General Sabatierr
deeeasedr, - ' - I
A fire recently in the towrKof Aflter
ronafield, Holstein, Prussia, destroyed
50 houses.
The Tabor milling company's stamp
will at Leadville waa bnrned recently.
Loss. $60,000.
Duluth has a gold and silver excite
ment, rich ores being found in the cen
ter of the town. :
Travel across the great bridge span
ning East river began May 25th, at the
rate of 5000 per hour.
Tbe Swedish ministry has resigned, in
consequence of a defeat in the diet on the
army organization bill.
Eight thonsand emigrants, most of
hem Mormons, have passed through
Hull in the past few days for America.
An 180,000 acre purchase of land in
he Panhandle of Texas by an English
syndicate, is reported; Price, $3,000,
000. Alexander III., Czar of all the Rus-
sias, was crowned at juoscow, may ztn.
Great rejoicing over the event among
he people.
A conspiracy against the Turkish eov- I
eminent has been disoovered at Van.
. O "S a 1 I
Three hundred persons were arrested for
connection with it.
The boiler of the steamer Pilot explod
ed in San Francisco bay, May 25th, kill
ing and drowning a number of persons
and injuring others.
At Philadelphia, Charles and Burd
Milliken, brothers, were drowned while
fishing recently. One went to the assist
ance of the other.
The market buildings and a large sec
tion of the business part of the village of
Uxbridge, Ontario, were burned re
cently. Loss, $50,000.
San Francisco is having a boom in
rxining stocks, Hale and Norcross main
taining the lead, having touched $10.
One year ago it was quoted at 25 cents.
The emperor of Germany has issued a
decreo ordering the 10th and 11th of
November "next to be observed as thr
400th anniversary of the birth of Martin
Luther.
The first accident since the opening of
he new bridge occurred May 25th. A
man with a dog in his arms fell from the
west side of the bridge into the water.
He was rescued.
A colored man named Willis Shannon
and three boys named Harry Cass, Geo.
Talbot and Harry Snodgrass, were
drowned recently at Martin s ferry, w.
Va., together with two horses.
At Louisville, the graves of confeder
ate dead were quietly decorated Satur
day afternoon, May 26th. There were no
ceremonies, other than a prayer by
Bishop Dudley and the singing of
hymns.
The millers' national association held
recently in at Milwaukee, give publicity I
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to the wheat crop estimate, which prom
ises for the wnoie wneas oets oi me
United States a yield of -373,500,000
bushels for 1883.
A Berlin dispatch of May 26 says: A
law student here has been shot and killed
in a duel. A captain and lieutenant in
the army also fought a duel, in which 11
shots were exenangea, ana me lieutenant
. "t 1 il - 1 ? a .
mortally wounded.
Mrs. Helen M. Roberts died at San
Francisco May 25th. Deceased was a
native of Boston and 61 years of age
Mrs. Roberts came to California on the
steamer which brought the news of the
admission of California to the Union.
Irishmen of uaiveston are raising a
fund for the benefit of the widows and
children of the men recently executed
in Dublin for the Phoenix Park murder.
Seven hundred dollars is already sub
scribed, and the intention is to make it
$1000. .
A mob in attempting to break in the
jail at Mt. Sterling, Ky., recently, with
the intention of lynching some of the
prisoners, were charged upon and driven
back by a company of the state militia,
and several of the mob seriously
wounded.
A certificate of incorporation of the
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone
company was filed at New York city re
cently. The lines of the company are to
run between Saratoga and Albany, N. Y.,
across the country southwesterly to Gal
veston and Austin. Texas, and also to
pass through Little Rock, Arkansas. The
capital stock is fixed at $2,000,000, di
vided into 20,000 shares.
A Visalia (Cal.) dispatch of Mfy 26th
says: About 6 o'clock last evening, as J.
M. Harlan, of the Westejrn Union Tele
graph Company; was returning from a
buggy ride with the wife, a son aged 4
years, and a daughter aged 6 years, of
Levi Elliott. .Elliott met tne party at tne
entrance to his premises, and exclaiming
You 1 lve caught you,
opened fire with a revolver on Harlan.
Harlan shielded himself with the body
of the little girl, who received a bullet
in the breast and died in a few minutes.
Harlan was wounded in the right band.
the left wrist and the hip. . After firing,
Elliott either shot himself or was shot by
Harlau through the heart, expiring in
stantly. It is difficult to determine which
was the case, but from Harlan's manner
and the finding of two pistols near the
scene of the affray, it is believed Harlan
shot Elliott. Harlan, after the shooting,
went to a drug store, where his wounds
were dressed. He was then taken by the
sheriff to the jail, where he is now con
fined. The affair has caused quite an ex
citement and threats of lynching Harlan
are freely made. Harlan has recently
separated from his wife, and Elliott's
I wife was seeking a divorce from him.
General Ijord Rokeby of England is
5ea4t4;-it?', '.-W '
Edotiird Rene lie Febrje Ijaboulage,
the Jit known French general, is dead.
. SosiDesa failures for the past seven
&ja ending May 25th were 158, as com
i' ared with 187 last week.
" Smallpox of the Tirulent type has
broken out in the Lancaster county, Pa.,
prison, and the institution has been
placed under quarantine. -
' .The schooner Wells Burt, plying be
tween Chicago and Buffalo, is supposed
to have wrecked on Lake Michigan, and
her crSw of eleven men lost."
A Paris Hspatcd of May 25th says: An
extensive fire occurred, at Varsin depot,
in the upper Alps.i Fifty; houses -were
destroy Ofd msM ;aoTeitiP3on'per ished"
in the flames. - ,
It is announced that Warsaw is to be
made one of the most strongly fortified
places in Europe, by the construction of
fourteen new forts, on which work is to
begin at once.
A miser named Henry Thomen, a na
tive of Switzerland, died at Ban Francis
co recently. In an old trunk in his room
were found bonds, notes and mortgages
amounting to $77,000, and over $5000 in
coin.
Information has been received that all
the people of the American ship Oraole,
wrecked a short time ago in the south
Pacific ocean, have been rescued from a
desert island and taken, to Valparaiso by
a German bark.
The Brooklyn bridge, spanning East
river, was opened May 24th. Both cities
regarded it as a holiday, and thousands
were present to witness the opening cer
emonies. President Arthur "and other
high officials were there.
Mrs. R. J. McMillerie, of Leedville,
Ashtabula county, Ohio, while in a fit ot
temporary insanity .drowned liertwochil
1 fT.
aren ana men poisonea nersmi. xnere is
no hope of her reoovery. ' The children
were aged 2 and 6 years.
David Todd, son of Justice Todd, of
the supreme court, and Joseph Livesey,
of Mascott, fought a duel near New Or
leans recently. After an exchange of
harmless shots at , fifteen paces, both
parties declared themselves satisfied.
Ex-Judge C. H. Krum, one of the
best lawyers of St. Louis, a prominent
republican, and appointed U. S. district
attorney by Grant, and subsequently
counsel for defendants in the celebrated
whiskey cases.has been absent since 26th
of April.
It is reported that, during a fierce wind
and raiu storm recently at Belou, wis.,
a number of live fish, one of them weigh
ing a pound, dropped in the business
streets, and hailstones, the largest four
inches m circumference, fell. Many win
dows were broken.
The Lutheran ministerium in-its recent
session at Norristown, Pa has resolved
to instruct all conferences, pastoral asso
ciations and congregations in the minis
try to make preparations for appropri
ately observing the 40th anniversary of
the birth of Martin Lututr.
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A Los Angeles dispatch of May 24th
says: About one o ciock mis morning
the supreme court rooms, on the corner
of Commercial and Mam streets, tooK
fire, and a few minutes later the entire
building was all ablaze. The court rec
ords were burned. The loss to the
building and stores is about $20,000.
A. N. Towne, general manager of the
Central Pacific, met with a painful acci
dent recently at San Francisco. In an
altercation between a kindling-wood
peddler and a teamster as to the right of
i -i. . i
wav. the peddler hurled a stick of red
wood at his opponent, but missed him
The stick- went crashing through the
window of a passing street car, in which
was Mr. Towne, striking him on the head
and knocking him senseless
The attorney general has given his
opinion to the secretary oi tne unitea
. . t m t TT ! n
States treasury that under the provis
ions of the act approved March A, load,
no tax can be collected on the capital
and deposits of national banks since the
first day of last January, ana no tax- on
the capital and deposits of State banks
since the first day of last December. The
attorney general says that he is of the
opinion that duties are not assessable
and collectable on the deposits and capi
tal stock of national banking associa
tions. for the period between the date of
the act of March 3. 1883, and January 1,
1883. nor on the deposits and capital of
other banks and bankers for the period
between the date of the samo act and
December!, 1882.
A Richmond. Ind. dispatch of May
24th says: Morgon Hewitt and Nathan
D. Thomas, Mormon elders, are in the
city, or, rather, Wee.t Richmond, and it
is generally understood they come direct
from Utah as special envoys to prepare
the way for holding a series of meetings
here. This is an exceptionally religious
community in which about every denom
ination has a representative and re
ligious tolerance is correspondingly elas
tic and enduring, but, per contra, there
is perhaps not a community in the United
States where stronger prejudice exists
against the Mormou faith, and their
actions are awaited' with unconcealed
anxiety. This situation they are perhaps
aware of, as they came Saturday night
and have not as yet showed up. It may
be that they will be rather backward
about coming 'forward until reinforce
ments appear.
A Techachai dispatch ofMay 24. says:
Emigrant train No. 22, bound north,
consisting of thirty-two box cars, five
emigrant cars and a caboose, in charge
of Conductor Moore with two breakmen,
Was wrecked while going down the hill
one mile north of this place! The acci
dent was caused bv a breakbeam drop
ping on the track. When the break-
beam dropped the train broke into three
sections, consisting of five emigrant cars
and the caboose and five box cars, four
of which left the track and were badly
wrecked. The middle section consisted of
five box cars, the frontjof twenty -two box
cars and engine. In this section , were
both the breakmen. Alexander Cochran,
one of the breaamen, was in the rear,
and seeing the five box cars following
them, signaled the engineer to run out
of danger. He then jumped on the five
cars at the risk of his life, and stopped
them. The train had 100 emigrants jon
board.
Heine's1 Widow.
.The widow of Henri Heine has just
died at Paris at the age of 68. When
Heine saw her for the first time at a stu
dents' ball she was a young girl" with a
round full face, large black eves and
abundant hair, with beautiful white
teeth and a laughing month; a real type
of the Parisian working girl, with hands
of an ' aristocratic distinction. What
captivated. Heine was the voice of this
girl; it was the voice of a warbler who
always sang in the i high chorus. The
voice of this waijbler rwas for ; Henri
Heine a source of enchantment until tne
day of his death. In his long agony he
loved to repeat, "How many times her
voice has recalled my soul at the mo
ment when, really; A k its flight - to
ward the unknown." With the devotion
and gaiety of her race she cared for him
who had given her his healt for her joy
ous and clear prattle. Unfortunately
her voice was only able to bring out the
beauties of Mme de Sevigne's letters;
poetry was not her forte. .
He had sent her some months to a
boarding school; but the only result
seems to have been that she was able to
astonish him by repeating long lists of
Egyptian kings. Thinking that she
ought to learn German she took lessons
from a German exile, and she was very
proud when she could say to visitors
from the fatherland, - "Nehmen Sic
Platz" a phrase that is so difficult that
whenever she succeeded in pronouncing
it she laughed heartily. According to
Mme. Jaubert, in whose "Souvenirs"
there is an interesting essay on Heine,
Mathilde had never read any of her hus
band's writings, and did not even know
that he was a poet. "Lately," he said to
Mme Jaubert, "I have discovered in her
a vague idea that my name is printed in
a review but she does not know which
one." She was not quite so ignorant as
this, but she did ask Heine's friends
sometimes, whether he waa really, as
people said, "a very clever man, and
had written beautiful books." , On one
occasion, as Heine wrote to Lowell, she
looked into the French translation of his
"Reisebilder." He saw that she at once
became pale and began trembling. She
lighted on a passage in which he speaks
of himself as a lover; and Heine had to
pacify hir by promising that in future
he would never make love even to imag
inary maidens. It is feared that Heine
will be gravely censured by advocates of
the higher education of women; for the
intellectual darkness of his wife, far
from vexing him. afforded him constant
amusement; and he was delighted to
think that his fame as a writer had noth
ing to do witbher attachment to him.
Mme. Jaubert says that on ms "mat
tress-grave" he was Vhorribly jealous";
and. on the authority of Heine's doctor,
she tells how the poor poet, haunted by
uniust suspicions,", glided one night
from his bed and crept to the door of his
wife s room, where he lay for a long
time unconscious. No other biographer
mentions this incident, or any incident
of the same kind; and when Heine ex
pressed, or affected to express, anxiety
about his wife, he always did so with a
touch of humor. "Yesterday," he said
to a German friend who visited him, "I
was very restless. My wife had dressed
and gone, out at two o'clock, and had
promised to be back at four. Half past
four comes, and she does not appear;
half past five comes, and she does not
appear; half past six, half past seven
still she does not return. At eight my
fears increase. Could she, tired of the
sick man, have gone away with some
one? In my distress I send the maid
into her room to see whether Cocotte.the
parrot, is there. Yes, Cocotte is there!
A stone falls from my heart, I breathe
again. Without Cocotte she would never
have left me!
One night when Heine was Beized with
one of those dreadiul attacks which fin
ally killed him, his wife clasped his
hand, warmed it iu hers and caressed
him. one wept bitterly, and in a voice
half-smothered in sobs, the poet heard
her say: "No, Henri, you will not die,
will you? You will nave pity! I have
already lost my parrot this morning; if
you should die I should be too un
happy!" "This," he afterwand said to
Mme. Jaubert, "was an order; I obeyed,
and continued to live. You understand.
my friend, that when
I am given such
good reasons-
However childlike, or childish. Mme.
Heine may have been, and whether her
husband was jealous or not. it is not
true, as the Paris correspondent of the
Times asserts, that "Heine's physical
and mental sunermgs were aggravated
by the" bitter consciousness of his blun
der m marrying ner. They loved each
other to the end; and. the few gleams of
happiness which inspired Heine with
courage to live he owed chiefly to his
wife s companionship and loyal service
mat sne lovea him ardently every one
who saw them together testifies. "For
Mathilde," says Meissner, who knew
them intimately, "Heine was not, as for
the rest of the world, a great poet: to her
he was, what he did not seem to the rest
of the world to be, the best, most affec
tionate and upright of men. With tears
in her eyes she. the smiling French
woman,' often told me stories of her
Henri, which afforded the most touching
evidence of rare goodness of heart.
Mathilde was a devout Catholic, and
went regularly every morning to mass.
in ner presence uenn never uttered a
word that might have.tended to shake
her faith; and he appears to have
thought that women need the support of
a strong religious conviction, although
there is so much irony in his expression
of this opinion that it is difficult to make
out how far he intended it to be taken
seriously. .
Heine did not marry his Mathilde un
til 1841, several years.after he first met
her. A certain Strauss of Frankfort had
made some . unpleasant remarks about
Heme s household in a letter written
from Paris to the Mavence Gazette. The
poet, on the day before his marriage
sent Theophile Gautier and Alphonsus
Jioyer to demand, an apology from
Strauss. The correspondent selected as
his seconds Raspail, the chemist, and a
Germat literary man named Kolloff.
Strauss wished to fight with sabres, but
Qeine insisted for pistols. It took eight
hours for the seconds to arrange for the
affair. Strauss hesitated. "He must
come on the ground," said Heine, "even
if I have to drag him to the great wall
of China." The duel took place in the
Saint Germain valley, and two pistol
shots were fired. One of them struck
Heine in one of his thighs, and some
of his friends wre fond .of saying that
his paralysis dated from that injury.
Heine himself never cleared up the
question.
Three years after their marriage the
brilliant Heine fell ill; in two years he
was paralyzed. From that moment he
no longer qnitted his mattress tomb, as
he called it. For eight years he suffered
atrocious tortures, day: and night, with
out a moment of repose. He used to
say, with a gayety that was rather curi
ous, that he had never quite made on t
whether his disease was a French soften
ing of the spinal marrow or a German
phth ifia -of the, dorsal olaxoa ; All I
know," he was wont to say , "is that it is
a very frightful malady, which tortures
not only my nervous system, but my
thinking system night and day. At cer
tain moments, especially, when the
cramps are holding a veritable revel on
my vertebral oolumn, I feel palpitating
in my inner self a kind of doubt as to
the reality of the assertion which old
Professor Hegel used to make in my
hearing 25 years ago that man is a di
vine biped." Toward the close of his
life, and when his death was expeeted
almost daily, he penned in his corre
spondence this little sinister saying:
"My wife weeps now whenever" I talk of
moving from this apartment." The wife
was entirely justified in weeping, for she
knew that there could be but one more
move for the poet', who had had many
lodgings, and who had not been able to
pay for them in his time, and that this
last demenagement would be to the
cemetery. "How unhappy the worms
will be," he said one day v itb, an odd
smile, "when they find I have invited
them to a banquet of nothing but
bones."
For eight years Mme. Heine, was ad-
mirable in her devotion and patience.
She believed in the possibility of a cure.
She found some moments of gayety to
amuse him, but often it was in vain.
Both remained silent for a long time,
and then the young wife would say
With a smile, "This is German conver
sation !" Heine used often to say dur
ing his illness that he had two consola
tions his French wife and his German
muse. Since Heine's death in 1856 his
widow has lived at Passy surrounded
with care and affection by the members
of his family. She has now been buried
beside him in the old Montmarte ceme
tery, where repose so many men of
genius. Thiers said of him: "This Ger
man is the greatest and wittiest French
man that France has seen since VX1
tairo's time." I
The
Right
Kind of a Man.
Choose a man who has plenty to occu-
py his mind, jnoc necessarily a great
deal of money or real estate, but one
whose mind is active, and who will' be
likely to find plenty to look after outside
of the' house and home. That woman is
wise who chooses for her partner in life
a man who desires to find his home a
place of rest. It is the man with many
interests, wuu eugrusamg occupations,
with plenty of people to fight: with a
struggle to maintain against the world,
who is the really domestic man in the
wife's sense; who enjoys home, who is
tempted to make a friend of his wife, who
relishes prattle, who feels in the home
circle, where nobody is above him and
nobody unsympathetic with him, as if he
were in a haven of ease and relaxation.
The drawback of home life, its contain
ing possibilities of insipidity, sameness.
and consequent weariness, is never pres
ent to such a man. He no more tires of
his wife and children than of his own
happier moods. He -is no more bored
with home than with sleep. All the
monotony and weariness of life he en
counters outside. It is the pleasure-loving
man; the merry companion, who re
quires constant excitement, that finds
home life unendurable. He soon grows
weary of it, and finds everything so tame
that it is impossible for him to be happy.
or not to feel that he is less unhappy
there than elsewhere.
We do not mean that the true domestic
man will be always at home. The man
always at home has not half the
chance of the man whose duty is
outside of it, for he cannot help being
sometimes in the way. The point for
the wife is, that he likes his home when
he is there; and that liking, we contend,
belongs first of ail to the active and
strong and deeply engaged, and not to
the lounger, or even easy-minded man.
The only point to guard againBt is that
he does not become so deeply engrossed
in his business that he takes it home with
him and makes a wife of that. lint in
nine cases out of ten the wife is at fault
for this more than the husband, and if
she had but the tact to make it enter
taining for him. and the aptitude to be
entertained by any one. she would find
that such a man is the very man to most
appreciate and enjoy the society and the
rest and freedom, from care his home
afforded.
Woman's Disadvantage In Courtship.
A man's quest of a spouse is limited
only by his time and opportunities for
looking around, according to the Cleve
land Leader. He can try to win any
body, although a resonable chance of
success may attend him with but few. At
any rate, he stands souarely upon his
cheek and his merits, and that is enough.
On the contrary, society says that a wo
man must never go a step out of her way
to secure the best and most desirable of
mankind. She must simply sit and wait
until chance brings the longed-for op
portunity of speaking. In fact, it is said
that young ladies pride themselves upon
feeling as well as seeming indifferent to
all men until an effort is made to awaken
their interest. No wonder social re
formers protest. If young maidenhood
did not so often fall a victim to the first
flight of . Cupid's darts, its . range , of
choice would still be very small. As
they go, rich and poor, pretty and home
ly .intelligent and ignorant, probably wo
men would not, if they accepted none of
theno, receive on an average more than a
dozen offers apiece, and not over three
of these reasonably eligible. Suppose
mac sne is xonunate enough to wiu a
score of suitors, a young lady is still ter
ribly handicapped. Like enough none
of the twenty would be just to her lik-
ing, and meanwhile one she greatly pre-
ierrea to any oi the others might just
escape coming under the spell of her
charms. It is all very pretty,
but this sitting in "maiden
meditation, fancy free," until
some stray youth makes a vigorous
enors to deprive the aforesaid fancy of
its liberty, a very unsatisfactory thing
when critically examined. Probably it
may never be advisable to put woman on
an exact quality with man, and let her
go forth, with a stock of caramels and
valentines to her ideal, and put the
motto, "If at first you don't succeed,
try, try again," to a practical test. At all
events, anything of that kind is far in the
future, v If, however, man is to be
robbed of his time-honored prerogatives
o losrocd to- ol-41eTa r-e'n oVot termor
kyiWrr i
we respectfully submit that adequate at
tention be given to his immense ad
vantages in courtship.
An Important Errand.
A conductor jon a Missouri,Kansasand
Texas train approached a swell-looking
colored woman.arrayed in all the glories
that ribbons can lend, and asked her for
her ticket.
"Go 'way fum y'ah. Don bodder me
with none yo' foolishness' she ex
claimed, bridling with indignation.
"Come, give up your ticket," remon
strated the conductor.
"I tole yo' go 'way f am ya'h. I done
got no ticket, an' I don' want no foolish
ness." "If you don't gfve me a ticket or pay
your fare, I'll put you off the train,"
growled the exasperated functionary.
"Yo' don' put me off no train, now,' I
tole yo fer suah!" retorted the darkey.
"Ise got biziness down yere dat you
can't postpone. Ef you put me off de
train, yo done got iu fuss, suah's yo'
bo'n!"
"Where are you going, anyway?
What's your business?" demanded the
conductor, : rather impressed by her
manner.
"Ise gwine to de hangin' a piece down
yere, an' mo'n dat, Ise gwine, an yo
can't stop me!" '
"Who're they going to hang?" asked
a passenger, who had become interested
in the discussion.
"Dey's gwine fer ter hang my hus
band, and Ise ter be de only lady pres
ent. Go 'way fum y'ah. Don' fool with
me. Ef yo' think yo'a gwine ter get me
off dis train an' beat me out'n de last
chance o' layin' over dat nigga's mudder
and sister, who can't get in and won't
stay out; yo' don' know nothin' about de
strength of a wife's devotion! Go 'way
fum y'ah. Rudder dan lose de chance
of breakin'dem nigga's hearts, I done
put dis heel under yo railroad an' lift it
over de stato line.. - Go 'way fum. y'ah!"
The conductor let her ride free, but
whether to save the railroad or let her
have a last opportunity to get square
with her mother-in-law, was not appar
ent on his returns. Drake's Magazine.
A Story of President Garfield's Illness.
Mr. Crump, the steward of the White
House during General Garfield's Ad
ministration, and one of the most faith
ful nurses, is now keeping a dining-room
in the old Club House building on New
York Avenue, in this city. He tells
many interesting reminiscences of Presi
dent Garfield a last illness, one of which
is of the day when the president first
asked him for a glass of cold water.
Crump relates that the physicians had
forbidden him water, "but the poor man
begged so hard and so pitiful like that I
bad frequently to leave the room to keep
from violating the doctors' orders.
When he found that pleading would not
serve his ends, then he assumed an
authoritative tone, and I instantly be
came deaf . Then he tried persuasion
and cajoling; but I wouldn't weaken,
uiitil he suddenly called me to him in a
low voice, and, with tears in his eyes.
said: 'Crump, would you refuse a dying
man a drmk of water? 'No, Mr. Presi
dent,' I answered, 'but you are not
dying.' 'But, Crump,' he added feebly,
'if yoa do not give it to me I will die,
and he closed his eves. I couldn't stand
that, and I couldn t disobey the doctors.
BuUsomehow or another 2 just set a
glass of spring water on the table by his
bed, and went to the window, and, hang
me, when I returned if that glass wasn't
empty; and the president wanted to
know, with a smile, what I meant by
tantalizing him by placing a glass with
water in it within his reach, and he so
thirsty. However, he never asked for
any more that day, and I am certain that
if he did drink that water it did him no
harm." Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Coloncl According to Law.
A few days after a .baby was born in
Newport a gentleman neighbor called in
the house, and, on being shown the
young one, said to it:
"How are you, colonel?
It's mother then asked: "Why do you
call it colonel?"
"It's a male child, isn't it?" he re
sponded. -
"Well, then, he's a colonel. By the
common law of Kentucky every male
child born in the state is a oolonel."
The mother was greatly tickled over
the fact that she was the mother of a
colonel. -Louisville Courier-J ournal. .
A historical horse died at Waterbury.
Conn., a few nights ago. This horse was
owned by u. jm . nan and was purchased
by him twenty-four years ago in South-
bury of Samuel Goodrich (Peter Parley) ,
the well known historian and writer of
juvenile literature. The money paid for
the horse was expened hy Mr. Goodrich
in his final, illness. The horse was 30
years old when it died, and had been in
active service till within a year. The
last five years of its life it was used as a
saddle horse.
' Queen Victobia's Oldest Pebsonal
Attendant.- Lord Torrington. one of
Her Majesty's lord's in waiting, is how
commonly known in the London clubs
as "John Brown the Second." on the
ground that at John Brown's funeral
Her Majesty, overcome with emotion,
put her hand kindly oh Lord Torring
ton a shoulder, and, to the unspeakable
disgust of that peer, observed: "You are
now my oldest personal attendant!"
FEMININE ITE1IS,
When an elderly maiden ladv adorns
herself with false hair, false teeth, paint
and powder, she is making up for lost
time, ;,
The Duchess of Sutherland signed the
otal abstinence pledge at Torquay, Eng
land, early this month,4 and henceforth
will wear the bine ribbon badge.
A Detroit woman is so artistic that she
has hand-painted the rattan with which
she whips her children, and tied a bow
of blue ribbon on the end.
Mrs. Louisa B. Stephens has been
elected to succeed her husband as presi
dent of the First National Bank f Mar
ion, iowa.- fane is the nrst woman who
Tfr Jialdo.Jik position .
It is said thJT.' the dynamite - scare in
London is s6 great that a girl does not
dare run down the streets with a' bonnet
box in her hand for fear of being arrested
as a dynamite fiend.
An old lady who had been reading tha
health officer's weekly reports, thought
that "Total" must be an awfully malig
nant disease, since as many die of it as of
all the rest put together.
Miss Anna Oliver says that either Bos
on University must cea3e to . admit wo
men students to its theological depart
ment, or the Methodist Episcopal church
must weloome them to its ministry.
Mrs. J. C. Stone, of Milwaukee: If
policemen were as blind , to the dog law
as they are to the liquor law," you might
have a dog as large as an elephant, with
church cell on it, and no policeman
would see it. '
Miss Dawes, daughter of Senator
Dawes, decided that Pittsfield," Mass.,
ought to have a public park. She made
apian, and used pen and tongue so per
suasively that the town has voted in
avor of the scheme. ,
Two young women at the birthday
party of Jesse Tay, Findlay, O., moved,
his chair from under him as he at
tempted to take a seat between them.
Jesse fell and broke his neck, one ot i
the young women is now a maniac
through grief.
Mrs. Richards, of Richfort, Vt., has
brought suit under the recently enacted
Damage Act for $5000 against Dan
Moore, of East Berkshire, for the loss of
her husband, who was accidentally killed
while intoxicated with liquor alleged to
have been sold him by Moore.
Among the rich women of Boston, Mrs,
Susan O. Brooks is assessed upon $1,034,-
300; Mrs. John L. Gardner, $1,293,800,
and Mrs. Gardner Brewer, $937,690; but
many of the wealthy ladies of the city
are not taxed for anything like the actual
amount of their property.
, . r it man., went,lwn&Jiheother nighiand
found his house locked up. After infin
ite trouble he managed to gain entrance
through a back window,and then dis
covered on the parlor table a note from
his wife, reading: "I have gone out.
You will find the key oa the side of the
Step.".; ; . L
A New York upper-ten bride fainted
while dressing for her wedding, and the '
family physician forbade further excite
ment. At last it was decided to have
the ceremony performed in her room.
Just then the minister sent word that he
was sick and could not attend. Another
was called and the knot tied, two brides
maids holding the bride up while it was
being done. j
A white lady took the place of one of
the teachers in the colored school in
Stapleton, Long Island, last week. The
scholars stood it one day, but the next
morning she was waited on by a com
mittee composed of the big scholars,who
said they wouldn't stand it. Then the'
smaller ones struck, and she was left
alone. She wrote a note to the director
in which she said: "The Caucasian
must go.
He Didn't Like it Well Enough to Stay
to Breakfast.
A Cincinnati traveling man, who had
been in the "poor lands" of Indiana,
called on us the other day and was ' tell
ing his experience.
"How do you like it over there?"
"Not so powerful much as I might."
"Don't they live well?"
"They mix too much?" .
"What do you mean by that?" '
"Well, I'll tell you. I stopped one
night at a poor farm house, because I
couldn't find any place else, and after
putting away my horse, I went in to wait
for supper. The old woman had just be
gun to oook seme meat in a stewpan, so
I concluded to watch her, and sea how
they got uty a real home-made meal.
After the meat was cooked she filled the
same stewpan with potatoes, and then
with cabbage, and last with coffee, and
supper was ready. At the supper table
the stewpan served as a water pitcher,
and after supper she washed the dishes
in the pan and then carried the slops out
in it. That looked to me like stretching
the uses of culinary vessels; but when I
maa roalir tft trn tit fft tho lnft tvk hod T
saw the old lady bring out the stewpan
again ,and strike me dead with a baggage
check if she didn't wash the baby in it
right before my eyes! Now.that is what
I call mixing things, and I didn't like it
well enough to stay to breakfast." Cin
cinnati Commercial. ' , vr
it is refreshing to learn that, as a
rule, our millionaires take, nowadays,
excellent care of theirj health.; , Mr.
Gould has had a sulphur bath fitted up
in his house, and Mr. William H. .Tan
derbilt employs an expert to punch, him
all over several times a. week upon the
massage principle. Mr. Vander bilt
seems, however, to have always been a
- mwt ' a . f
partisan of water, for, u we can believe
his own stories, he was in the habit,dur
ing his farming days on Staten island.of
pouring bucketfols of water upon the
hay, and then putting a little dry hay on
the top of the load, so that it should
weigh heavy and seom dry at the same
time. It is by watering hay that he
learned to water stocks. N. Y. Sun.
Some one wants to know why Nilsson
announces every concert, she gives in
Boston as a farewell. Because she does
farewell eyery time. Milton News.
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The other day a Florida couple, aged
sixty years each, rode thirty miles in a
springless cart to get married. ; .