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ROSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1883.
NO. 15.
A.TT PORTLAND PltlCEO.
THE INDEPENDENT
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.JASICULEK
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND
OPTICIAN.
ALL WORICWARRANTED.
Dealer In Watchea, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles aod KyrglaM,
And a Fall Line of
Cigars, Tobaccos and Fancy Boots.
Tbe only reliable Optometer In town for tbe
proper t JJuHment cf Spectacles ; always on band.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
OFFICE First door south of post office. Rose
bury, Oregon. -
LNGENBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store,
IIOBEBDHG, OGN.,
On Jackson Street ODtofte the.Postoffico. Keeps
on ban d tbe largest and boat assortment of
Eaatera and San rrsselieo Kaota and
Shoes, alters, Sllppera
And everything In tbe Boot and Shoe Line and
SEIXS CHEAP for CASH.
Boots jtnd Shoes Made to Order Perfect
Fit Guaranteed.
I use tbe Best of Leather and Warrant all
my work.
XITCITAITIINO Neatly Done
On Short Notice. I keep always on band
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
WJIuBlcal Instrument sad Violin Strintrs a Spe
cialty. I.Ol'tS J.AAGRftK&RG.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
DENTIST,
ROSEBURG, OREGON.
OFFICK-ON JACKSON STREET.
Up Stairr, oyer 8. Marks & Co. 'a New 8tore.
MAHONEY'S SALOON
Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland
Jag. Mahoney, Prop'r.
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Dowg
laa county, and the beak
23IIL.IL.IJa.tlI Tja.IllL.X3
la the State kept in proper repairs
Parties traveling on the railroad win find this
place rery bandy to visit daring tae stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land Depot. Giva meacalL
J as. HAo.OI?EY.
JOHN FRASER, "
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR,
OREGON.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
Constantly on hand.
tTIIDMITIIBET nave the best stock of
r Ufiltl I UnC. juraiture south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to Customers
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
1ST ALL WORK WARRANTED.-
DEPOT HOTEL
OAKLAND,
ORKUOIf.
liicliard Thomas, Prop'r.
rPHI8 HOTEL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED
for a number ot years, and has become rery
popular with the traveling public. First-class
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hotel Hf the dpot of the Kail road.
H. G. STANTON,
Dealer iu
Staple Dry Coods!
Keeps constantly on hand
meut of
a general aasort-
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
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WOOD, WILLOW ASD GLASS WARF,
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
SCHOOL
13 O O ItS
Such as required by the Public County Schools,
All kinds of STATIONERY. TOYS and
FANCY ARTICLES,
To suit both Young and Old.
B
UYS AND SELLS LEGAL TENDERS,
furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Drain on ban rranciaeo.
SEEDS !
ALL KINDS OF KKST QUALITY
-A. L JL. ORDERS
Promptly attended to and Goods shipoed
with care.
Address,
Hacheney & Bene,
Portland. Oregon.
The Minnesota state prohibition con
vention met at Minneapolis July 10th.
The tariff for revenue only was tabled by
vote of 44 to 26. The platform con
demns the course of both parties on the
liquor question ; favors the enfranchise
ment of women, and tbe election of all
officers by the people when possible.
The following is, the ticket: Governor,
Chas. Evans Holt; lieutenant governor,
Professor E. J. Payne; secretary of state,
;. B. Shore; treasurer, C. Manderspn.
At Macon Station, Ala., July 10th, a
man by the name of Carpenter was
fatally shot by his brother-in-law, A. W.
Smith, who soon afterwards fired two
t&ots in his own heart.
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY.
BT TELEGRAPH TO DATE.
The mortality of New York city for
tbe week ending July 14th is 1110.
It is reported that Marquis Ripon has
resigned the rice generalship of India.
The Chicago police raided the Chinese
opium dens, arresting thirteen persons.
Fighting continues in Zaluland. It
is reported that Cetewayo has been de
feated. Four men were Jailed by a derrick
giving way in a stone qnarry at Eureka,
111., July 12th.
The semi-centennial anniverary of
the incorporation of Chioago as a village
will occur August 10th.
At Berlin a student of Werzberg uni
versity waa shot dead recently in a duel.
His antagonist, a German-American, fled.
- It ia said Japan has declined the pro
posal of the French ambassador at
Shanghai to form an alliance against the
Chinese.
At Waterford. Pa.. July 13th. May
Hultz, seven years old, fell from a
scaffolding 60 feet high, and was in
stantly killed.
Geo. Hakes, a farm laborer, recently
of Oregon, was fatally shot by a oolored
man named Gilford Logan at Farn.ing-
ton, (Jai., J ulj loth.
A dispatch from Breckenierd. Switzer
land, says nearly all the cultivated land
iu that district has been ruined by
storms and land slides.
At Cockatoo, Minn., July 13th. three-
fourths of the town was destroyed by
fire. Three railroad men were burned
to death, and one man had his leg
broken.
A Barnsley, England, dispatch of July
15.h says: 'During a rain storm to-day,
five children, who had taken refuge in a
culvert, were drowned by the sudden
rush of water.
The treasury department July 9th and
10th issued warrants for the payment of
$14,600,000 on account of army and
navy pensions fer the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1884.
A Moritzbarg, Natal, dispatch of July
15th says: !Fifty corpses of Zulu men.
women and children were seen June 5th
at White river, on the border of Zulu
land, massacred in their hiding place by
Cetewayo's followers.
At Almaden mills. Cal., July 13th.,
Wm. Brown and Francisco Avilla were
killed by the breaking of a ahain by
which the car in which they were riding
was ascending from the smelting works
at the haoienda to the shaft on the hill.
A Paris dispatch of July 10 says: A'-h-
ird has introduced a bill in the chamber
of deputies authorizing the taking of
soundings for piers for a railway bridge
from Cape Gresnez on the French coast
across the strait of Dover to Folkestone
in England.
A heavy rain storm at Harrisburg.Ya.,
July 12th, did a great deal of damage.
washing out the streets, carrying away
sidewalks, small bridges and a few
houses. The surrounding country like
wise suffered from the rain and flood, do
ing much damage to crops.
John S. Gray, ex-secretary of the har
bor commission, San Francisco, against
whom forty-four charges of felony are
pending, was released from the county
jail, having filed bonds for $22,000. Ho
will be given a speedy trial after the
Hamblin case has been disposed of.
A Pes'th dispatch of July 15th says
A large nre occurred at a village near
a f
here to-day, and a number of persons
lost their lives. Eight corpses were
extricated from the ruins. Twenty per
sons, including the prefect of police, are
missing. Many are made homeless by
the fire.
The June report of the Kansas state
board of agriculture places the wheat
crop at 27,956,555 bushels, being 7,778,
000 less than what was raised in 82. The
crop is about all harvested. The corn
area is 4,557,042 acres, being an increase
oi our per cent, over looz. me pros
pects for a good yield of corn this season
are as favorable as last year.
A heavy hail And rain storm passed
over parts ot southern lowa, northern
Missouri and western Illinois, July 13th,
doing untold damages to crops and
fruit, and demolishing hundreds of
houses and other buildings. In Lee
county, lowa, the storm blew a passen
ger train from the track, two passengers
being fatally injured and six others
slightly.
At Bloomington, Ind., July 12th, the
new department of the Indiana nniversi
ty was discovered on fire. The labora
tory was soon in flames, and shortly
afterward the library and museum. The
latter contained the famous Owen col
lection and Dr. Jordan's collection o
fishes. The library had 15,000 volumes
The building was entirely destroyed
The fire caught by lightning. Loss
200,000; insurance, $30,000.
At Middleboro, Mass., July 15th
Charles Hey ward Stratton, better known
as "General Tom Thumb." died at his
residence of apoplexy. He had been
slightly indisposed a few days, but noth
ing serious was anticipated. Deceased
was born at Bridgeport, Conn., January
4, 1838. At the age of 14 he entered the
service of P. T. Barnum, and ever since
then he has been before the public. He
leaves a widow, formerly Miss Lavinia
Warren, also a dwarf, who has been on
the stage with him since their marriage
in 1863.
Andrew White, a wealthy farmer liv
ing near D wight, Illinois, was recently
placed in an insane asylum, owing to the
impairment of his mental faculties
caused by close attention to tbe details
of his business. He there became
strongly possessed of the hallucination
that bis wife and children desired to rob
him of his property. He escaped from
his retreat and proceeded to his home
Arriving there in the middle of tbe
night he watched till morning, when he
called to his wife to come and welcome
him. His wife and two children, aged
ten and twelve years, came at once, and
he allowed each to caress him. He then
drew a revolver, shot and instantly
killed his wife, and followed this by
murdering his two children. He made
the tragedy complete by killing himself.
Adrian Boltter, French musical com
poser, is dead, aged 67.
Gen. Moore, American consul at Cal
lao, Peru, died of yellow fever July
11th.
The President recognizes Lamar Quiu
ters as vice consul of Costa Rica at New
Orleans.
James Carey, the informer, has been
declared a bankrupt, owing to his failure
to pay his rates.
At Tripoli, July 11th, twelve soldiers
were killed by the explosion of a bomb,
while being removed.
News from Yeneznala state that locusts
are doing a great deal of damage in many
parts of the country.
At Batavia, Java, a powder magazine
burned and a quantity of war material
was destroyed recently. -
A large hall at Delft, Holland, spec
ially erected for the celebiation of an
anniversary there, burned, July 11th.
Alexander Billingsly. was killed in a
powder explosion in a powder mill at
Wilmington, Del., July 13th. Three
other men were injured.
The Republican state convention of
Pennsylvania met at Harris burg July
11th. They endorse Arthur's administra
tion, favor high tariff and fair wages.
Three thousand orangemen at Toronto
celebrated the anniversary of the battle
of the Boyne July 12th by a publio pro
cession, and afterward enjoyed games in
the provincial exhibition grounds.
Everything was quiet.
Reports from the middle of Texas say
that careful estimates state the number
of cattle driven on the trail in that sec
tion at 600,000, an increase of 250,000
over thato f last year. The bulk of the
cattle will be driven to Kansas, Nebraska
and the western territories.
Hamilton county, Neb., was visited
ately by a destructive wind and ram
storm, doing great damage to buildings
and crops and killing some stock. Num
erous business buildings in Aurora were
heavily damaged and a large number of
dwellings and outhouses were wrecked.
At Chicago. July 11th, a runaway
horse attached to a light Duggy.in wnion
were seated four young people, ap
proached the draw of the Harrison street
bridge at a furious gallop and plunged
into the river, the bridgo having been
swung to allow the passage of a vessel.
The buggy was precipitated into the
river and all four were drowned.
A dispatch from Florence, Arizona,
states that the people of that territory
are disheartened over the present status
of the Indian question. They have little
confidence in a peaceful result in replao
ing the renegade Apaches on ban Carlos
reservation, but are of the opinion that
the Apachea should be removed from the
emtorv.
At Burnt Prairie, 111., recently, a
atal affray occurred between Douglas
Gowdy and Buck Williams, the result of
an old family feud. Gowdy went to
Williams' house armed with a knife and
cut Williams several times. The latter
ran but was followed by Gowdy. He
then drew his own knife and stabbed
Gowdy to the heart. Gowdy dropped
dead.
A Marvsville, Cal., dispatch of July
12th bays: Yesterday Denis Haggerty
and Henry Dowling, two hold-ups, met
James Linn and a S'?ede, three miles
from town. Shooting Linn and beating
the Swede ith a c'.ub, they then robbed
them of a few dollars. Last evening
Haggerty and Dowling were arrested and
locked up.and afterwards taken from the
jail and hanged by the citizens. Linn
and the Swede will die.
The state veterinary of Illinois re
ports glanders prevalent in nineteen
counties in that state. He claims te
have been prevented from killing the an
imals afflicted. The attorney contended
he could only resort to this measure af
ter the governor had issued a proclama
tion declaring glanders epidemic. The
attorney general is now expected to
give an opinion as to the powers of the
state veterinary undor the state law.
Dr. Mary Walker, having been noti
fiedby Pension Commissioner Dudley,
acting under the advice of Secretary
Teller, that she might consider her place
vacant .on the 1st of July, replied by
mail that she would still be found at her
desk after the date mentioned. She
threatened that if Dudley persisted in
the attempt to dismiss her, she would
next winter invoke the aid of congress
on her behalf and bring upon him an in
vestigation that would go to the bottom
of affairs in the pension office. Thus the
matter stands.
The Chicago Railway Age of July 12th,
publishes the following statistics of rail
way building for the first half of the our
rent year. These are: construction of
2509 miles of main track, not including
switches or sidings, on 1140 lines in 35
states and territories. , During a corres
ponding period last year 4990 miles were
constructed. The difference is accounted
for on the ground that last year was ex
traordinary favorable for the early com
mencement of work, while the reverse is
tine of this year. In 1881 only 2300
miles were laid for the first half of the
year. The Age estimates the construc
tion for the entire year at 8000 miles.
California leads thus far with 200 miles
built in 1883, Montana next with 196,
New York 193, Pennsylvania 186, Utah
156, Idaho 122, Arizona 120.
A conference called together through
the efforts of the Merchants' Exohange
of St. Louis to consider the most practi
cable course to pursue in advocating lm
provements for the Mississippi river met
recently at the Southern hotel. The
conference was composed of delegates
appointed by representative commercial
leaders of every "important city in the
val'ey states. Twenty cities were rep
resented, some of them, especially New
Orleans, sending a strong delegation.
Besides the delegates there were present
Charles oster, governor of Ohio; U.
S. Senator Miller, of New York;
Speaker Heifer and ex-Congressman
Townsend, who are there, however, on
anotner mission, me oonierence was
called to. order by J. C. Ewald, presi
dent oi the. Merchants . .Exchange of at
Louis. The., convention then effected
permanent organization by electing B.
Wood, of the New Orleans Cotton Ex
change, permanent chairman, and G. L.
Wright permanent secretary.
How We Die.
"The ideal death," said a physician in
charge of one of the city hospitals, "waa
that of my uncle. He was a hale, hearty
man of eighty, a bachelor, wealthy, and
surrounded with every comfort in a
beautiful home not far from New York.
He had traveled la Europe, and was .full
of anecdote and memory of his long life.
He arose one morning apparently in per
fect health. His buoyancy of spirits was
noticed. He was singing some of the
quaint old Scotch songs of his boyhood.
He expected a visit from me, and as he
desired to confer with me on a matter of
business, he arose from the table after a
hasty and partial meal, saying he would
drive down to the depot,, not far away,
and bring me to the house. He had the
servant bring his ponies to the door and
refused to let iltiaan go. with him, say
ing he preferred to drive himself. He
mounted the box and drove off at a smart
pace. The old gentleman had not driven
more than a few rods from his own house
when he was met by a neighbor who no
ticed something strange in his appear
ance. His horses stopped. The neigh
bor dismounted and went to the side of
his carriage and spoke to him. The old
gentleman did not answer. He sat up
right in his seat, holding the reins in his
hand. He was dead. He had passed
away without a shock of any kind. There
was no apparent cause for his death,
which was probably occasioned by heart
disease."
Dr. L. L. Seaman, physician in chief
of Charity Hospital, Blackwell's island,
took much interest in observing tbe
much vaunted death scenes of Sara
Bernhart, and when once started on the
subject he is apt to give a judgment of
the great actress' performances some
what different from the general conclu
sions of the dramatio critics. Speaking
on this subject the other day, Dr.
Seaman said that Mile. Bernhardt had
seven different ways of dying and all of
them were totally unlike anything he
had ever seen in a medical practice cov
ering many thousands of cases of all
kinds of deaths.
"Of course I do not hold myself re
sponsible for the deaths in my hospital
any more that for the births," said Dr.
Seaman. "Many patients come in when
they are in almost the last moments of
life. Many are known to be absolutely
beyond the hope of recovery. But my
observation convinces me that the dra
matists and actors have far over-estimated
the pains of death, and especially the
possibilities of great mental effort just
previous to the moment of final dissolu
tion. "It is, in fact, about as difficult to tell
when a man dies as to determine when
he goes to sleep. Death is gradual , not
a sudden process. I am speaking now of
death by disease, net of violent death.
Possibly in the representation of violent
deaths the actors may come somewhere
near the truth, but generally their pic
tures of death by disease are, to one who
knows the truth, simply ridiculous. Dis
solution is as painless and nnconscions
as birth. The approach to it may be
protracted and psinful. There may be
long and agonizing scenes resulting
from disordered imagination. Death de
stroys one organ after another, not all at
once. The last organ to yield are the
lungs, which show the oppression in the
breathing and produce what is termed
the death rattle. As soon as the lungs
orase to act tee venou blood is not
ohanged to red artificial blood, but it is
propelled un purified from the
heart and thus poisons the body like a
narcotic. The energies of the brain are
gradually lulled as in the approach of
sleep, and unconscious cerebral action
produces the murmur of the names of
friends, of the recollections of past life,
or reference to what ever has passed
through the mind. But that there is
pain in natural death I have long since
ceased to bel eve."
A veteran physician, speaking on this
subject, recentlv said: Judging of the
thoughts of men by their words just
previous to death, I should say it often
happens that a dying person gives no
indication of thought upon a subject
that has been the favorite topic of a life
time. I have known active business
men with important affairs unattended
to, who died with words upon their lips
that indicated absorption in some inci
dent of the moment, generally relating
to personal comfort. It was that sort of
death that Washington Irving died,
saying, "Well, 1 must arrange my pu
lows for another weary night; if this
oould only end.' Long suffering under
the afflictions of a painful disease will
serve to divert the mind of the strong
est. Even the philosopher Jien Frank
lin was forced to say with his last
breath, 'A dying man can do nothing
easy, it is a very common thing for
dying persons to express sympathy with
attendants who have been fatigued in
attending them. Among them the last
words of Sir Walter. Scott were, 'Poor
souls, I know you were up all night.'
"And yet, where thero has not been
protracted suffering, and where the ad
ministration ot narcotics has not pro
duced a wandering mind, a dying per
son will manifest an interest in whatever
has been the uppermost thought of his
life. Lord Chesterfield is reported to
have illustrated his proverbial politeness
by requesting that a friend at his bed
side should be given a ohair. Very
often the last words indicate thoughtful-
ness for loved ones, such as the utter
ance of Charles II., 'Let not poor Nelly
starve,' or of Thomas Jefferson, who
said, I resign my soul to God, and my
daughter to my country.' it is but nat
ural that whatever consciousness is left
at the moment of death should be that
of affection. I have seen it expressed in
a loving look, or a pressure of the hand,
often long after the power of speech had
gone.
"How about the facial expression of
dying persons?"
"That is often spasmodic. The laugh
ing or crying muscles are often excited
in the convulsions of death when there
are no corresponding feelings. In the
same way there are often muscular con
tortions of the mouths of infants, who
are believed to be smiling, when in fact
they are troubled with stomach ache,
"H.ave you ever observed the visions
and ecstatic delights that are often spo
ken of by religious writers
"Certainly. They are quite common,
and not at all confined to religious per
sons. Experienced physicians testify
that most persons die in a state of trance.
Although they are apparently conscious,
they pass away in a state of dreaming.
Often they seem to be listening to mu
sical sounds. Sometimes they seem : to
be beckoned to by angels."
"And do you regard such exhibition
aafpurely physical?"
"Just as much so as any dream. They
are controlled by the ordinary thoughts
and feelings, the every-day life and ed
ucation and imagination of the subject
in precisely the stae way as a dream is
controlled. Generally a dream is a repro
duction of a waking thought. The cu
rious jumble of subjects in a dream is
the result of absenoe'of volition. There
is a suspension of the functions of the
median tract of the' brain. The same
thing occurs in the mesmeric trance.
The suspension may be temporary, and
then the person may not only return to
consciousness, but remember some of
the curious things seen in the vision.
Something of the same nature occurs in
taking opium. In the earlier stages of
opium eating the subject appears to
have two mental operations going on at
once. One is fantastic and odd, the
other normal and regular. In suoh a
case one is able to keep up a running
comment on the visions' passing before
his eyes."
"The death of a healthy person is
always a very different thing from the
death of a diseased person. In cases of
acoident, where persons know, that they
must die in a very short time, unless the
shock has been very great, they preserve
their customary trains of thought; they
direct their affairs with comparative oom
posure." "Have you ever known persons to die
in a comical mood?"
"There are historio cases. Douglass
Jerrold is reported to have said, 'Why
torture a dying creature, doctor?' and
everybody remembers the dying joke of
Robert Burns 'Don't let the awkward
Bquad fire over me.' "
It must be remembered, however.
that what are called the last words of
great men, may have been uttered a con
siderable time before death either hours
or days. Some allowance must be made
for the impossibility of procuring testi
mony. When the late Dr. Beard died,
after having become widely known as an
intelligent and educated sceptio, his sis
ter proclaimed that he had recanted on
his deathbed, and had indicated his hope
of heaven by pointing upward, and say
ing, 'Higher, higher.' But the attendant
who sat beside Dr. Beard, said the
words, 'Higher higher had no reference
to a future state of existence, but were
simply
an indication that tbe doctor
to be raised on his pillow." N.
wished
Y. Sun.
A Story of Johns Hopkins.
A writer in the Baltimore American
contradicts the oft-quoted story that the
late Johns Hopkins first entered that
city a friendless and penniless boy, and
quotes the following story of Mr. Hop
kins life, given him by that philanthrop
ist himself a short time before his death:
"When I was a boy," said Mr. Hopkins,
my uncle, Urerald T. Hopkins, often
came to South river to visit my parents.
and noticing I was an active boy on the
farm, asked my mother to let me come to
Baltimore to live with him, and said that
he would bring me np a merchant. At
seventeen I came, stayed ia my uncle's
store, who was a wholesale grocer and
commission merchant, and lived in his
family. He was an eminent minister in
the Society of Friends, and when I was
but nineteen, he was appointed to go
out to Ohio to the first yearly meeting
to be held at Mount Pleasant. My aunt
accompanied him, with three others.
They all traveled on horseback, a great
part of the way through a wilderness,
with no other roads but Indian paths.
But they returned, after an absence of
several months, in safety. Previous to
leaving, my uncle arranged his business
affairs, and calling me to him.
said: As thee has been faithful
to my interests since thee has been with
me, I am going to leave everything in
thy hands. Here are cheoks which I
have signed my name to; there are , up
ward of five hundred of them. Thee will
deposit the money as it is received, and
as thee wants money, thee will fill up
the oheoks which I leave with thee. Buy
the goods, and do the best thee can.' I
felt my responsibility to be very great.
But on his return, on looking over his
affairs, he was surprised to find I had
done muoh better than he had expected.
I had increased his business consider
ably, and it is with pride and pleasure I
look back to that time, and to the great
confidence that Uncle Gerard reposed in
me. l lived witn my uncie until l was
twenty-four years of age, and one day he
took me aside and asked me if I would
like to go into business for myself. I
answered: 'Yes; but, uncle, I have no
capital. I have only 800 which I have
saved up. He said: 'That will make no
difference; I will indorse for thee, and
this will give thee good credit, and in a
short time thee will make capital ; thee
has been faithful to my interests, and I
will start thee in business. o, x took a
warehouse near his, and with indorse
ments and assistance, the first year I sold
200,000 worth of goods, and soon made
the capital which my uncle said I would
make. I succeeded in business and
realized largely, and often think of my
early days, and like to talk of them and
Uncle Gerard s kindness to me."
Uncle Sum's Great Creditors.
The treasury has paid the June inter
est on United States bonds. The Herald
prints a list of some of the largest hold-
ers. Air. v anaerDiit neaas tne use witn
37.000.000. A year ago he had 50,000,-
000, but he has disposed of 13,000,000
for some purpose. The next largest
owner is Mrs. A. T. Stewart, who has
about 30.000,000. As some of them are
coupon bonds, the amount of her hold-
id g cannot exactly be told. Ten years
ago A. T. Stewart had 40,000,000 in
bonds, the most of them being sues. Mr.
Gould has 13,003,000 iu registered
bonds and a large number of coupon
bonds, which he keeps to use as collat
erals in Wall street, when he needs large
sums of money. The California million
aire, Mr. Flood, is the next largest
Holder. Je has 813,UW,OOU. Then there
is an estate in Boston and three or four
persons in New York, who have each
10,000,000, and a lady in New York, un
married too, nas 55,uuu,wu, and the es
tate of Moses Taylor, in New York, has
90,wv,vw, and v. U. Mills, Whitelaw
Reid's father-in-law, 4,000,000. On the
other side of the water Americrn securi
ties are very popular and are preferred
to those of other nations, because the
rate of interest is higher than that paid
Dy any otner great power. The house of
the Rothschilds owns' nearly one-onarter
of Amerioa's wholo bonded debt, as, in
cluding all the bankers of that same
they have 400,000,000.
Baron Leopold and Sir Nathan Meyer
Ve itothschild each own 30.000,000,
and the head of the Yienna house has
25,000,000 in his own right. The rea-
son,' I have heard, for their putting such
extraordinary amounts into American
bonds, is that political and social sys
tems are every day becoming more and
more uncertain in Europe, and, there
fore, if a general break-up should ccour
in the continent or in England, enough
would be left in the securities of the
great republic to make them all very
comfortable indeed. Lndy Hannah De
Rothschild, who married the Earl of
Roseberry a year or two ago, brought to
her really impoverished husband 20,-
UOO.000 in American four-and a-halfs;
the Duke of Sutherland 5,000,000, and
Sir Thomas Brassey 5,000,000. Cin
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
Mr. Bancroft at Exeter.
Although nearly 1,000 of the 5,000
men who have been prepared for college
at Phillips academy were present at the
celebration of the centennial anniversary
of that institution yesterday, and ad
dresses from several of them who have
won distinction were heard. Mr. Ban
croft, the historian, was easily the most
conspicuous of the guests of his Alma
Mater, and his brief after dinner speech
was the most notable utterance of the
day. It is an extraordinary event when
a man 83 years of age delivers an address-1
which is recognized by an audience of
the highest intelligence as a model in
thought and diction, but the day has not
yet passed when extraordinary things are
to be expected of George Bancroft.
He begrn by a most happy reference
to the contemporaneous origin ot the na
tion on the institution in whose praise he
spoke, saying: "Exeter academy came
into life simultaneously with her repub
lic, and rests on the principle that the
freedom of the people and the culture of
the. people must flourish together".
He paid a tribute of profound
respect and " affection to Benjamin
Abbot, on whom "heaven bestowed
length of days and fixedness of
purpose," that "as a ruler of young men
who had not his equal" he might lift the
institution he found -"languishing in the
feebleness of childhood" to "health and
beauty," and he recognized the extreme
good fortune of Exeter in having as the
successor of Abbot, to fill up nearly the
whole century, Soule, an almost equally
able instructor.
Mr. Bancroft was especially felicitous I
in his reference to the relation ot phvsi
cal and mental culture. "Why should
not a scholar have health and the perfect
development of his system?" said he.
"Remember that Pythagoras was famed
among men for lm physical power, and
that the very best, most graceful and elo
quent writer of prose in any language
ever spoken among men, Plato, bore
away the prize in the athletic games of
Greece. As the wonderful preservation
of his own powers of body and mind is to
be attributed chiefly to his lifelong,
habits of spending a part of each day in
the saddle and of devoting much time to
the cultivation of flowers with his own
hand, his dictum as to athletics and
scholarship deserves and will receive the
most earnest consideration. N. Y. Mail
and Express.
How She Punished a Dade.
A dude stood iu a pensive attitude
near a grocery store, indulging in an
early breakfast from the top of his cane,
says the Portland Argus, a vacuous
smile swept across his unintelligent face.
His collar was so high he was obliged
to turn his body to look across the
street, and his pants o tightly fitting he
dare not sit down, although a tired ex
pression denoted he was weary. Pres
ently a bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked, hand
some young lady started from a house
opposite and ran across the. street to the
store. The dude thought he had a
mash, because she happened to cast her
eyes toward him to see u sue could
make out what he was. lie lifted his
hat, smirked and indulged in other ec
centricities so common to the dude. The
lady paid no attention to him, made her
purchases and returned home. Just as
she was closing the door she detected the
fellow in the act of kissing his hand at
her. She laid down her bundle, retraced
her steps to the store, procured four
eggs, and going up to the dude, said:
"You insolent puppy, how dare yon
insult a ladv?"
Without giving him time to reply, she
projected an egg, which struck the
chap on the chin. It broke. The next
one nestled confidingly on his necktie
and the next sought his shirt bosom.
The last one found lodgment in his hair.
and there were four colored streams
tending to -one common oenter. The
dude concluded it wasn't his day, and,
amid the shouts and leers of tbe by
tenders, he slunk away, thoroughly dis
gusted. - -. :
A Scullion Who Became a Bake.
The death is announced of the Duke
di Ripalda, the owner of the famous For
nesma palace at Rome, the walls o:
which arc adorned with some o
Raphaels finest frescoes. The Duke
was not one of those who can trace back
their ancestry to the time of the Cru
sades. His beginnings were in fact o;
the humblest. He was for a long time a
scullion in the kitchen of Marshal Nar
vaez, an occupation to which he eventu
ally added that of barber-in-ordinary to
ms master, in this capacity his good
looks and graceful figure attracted the
notice of Queen Christina, and she took
it into her head to aaopt him as her pro
tege. He evidently turned his opportu
mties to the best account, for he died
millionaire. St. James Gaastte.
KE1YS
Harvest hands in Maine are said to be
scarce, although the wages are 2.50 per
day. . "-'.,
Three of five elephant seals recently
placed in the Philadelphia zoological
gardens have died.
It is said that some persons in Rich
mond are paying 4 per 1000 for con
federate bonds.
Forty-seven liquor dealers in Cinoin
nati have paid their Scott law assess
ments, aggregating 8,600."
A lady of Yicksburg, Miss., has sued
the city for 9674.50 damages for rock
taken off her property.
Dukes, the murderer, left property
valued at from 8000 to 12,000, a great
deal of it in western lands.
The bodies of two ladies were sent
to Washington, Pa., from New York for
cremation recently.
The English sparrows which have col
onized Pennsylvania have been doomed
by statute to extermination. i
A census of Portland, Me., has just
been taken, which shows a population of
35,890, an increase of 2000 in three
years.
The cost of profane expressions uttered
in publio in redericksburg, va., is
1.50 each, according to a recent de
cision. Lightning from a clear sky killed two
cattle dealers at Bay St. Louis and
melted the gold and silver coins in their
pookets.
Alderman Kelly, of Cincinnati, delib
erately shot a wag named James Toal for
exchanging hats with him at a fire en
gine house.
Recently George W. Humphreys, of
Plymouth, Mass., obtained 10,500 dam
ages for injuries received in a collision
on the Old Colony railroad.
A land sink occurred at the head of
Swift creek, in Hamilton county, Flor
ida, a few days ago, large pine trees dis
appearing below the surface.
In Paduch two English sparrows tried
to drown each other in a street gutter.
The struggle was a long and desperate
one, and finally, one got the head of the
other under water and kept it there un
til life was extinct.
A company has been organized in New -
Orleans to build a railroad to the jetties.
The charter authorizes the company to
constrnct warehouses, harbors, piers.
wharves, etc., at the junction of the rail
way with the sea or river.
Five beggars, hailing from Jerusalem,
were arrested at Mansheid, June zuth,
and were found to have 500 in gold
coin, checks for 100 and a registered
letter receipt showing that a large sum
of money had been sent by them to
Jerusalem.
A western oourt has decided that a
passenger whose money is stolen while
he is asleep in the sleeping car is enti
tled to recover the amount stolen on the
ground that when a company charges
for "sleeping facilities" it is bound to
protect its sleeping patrons.
The awful crack of the murderer's pis
tol is still heard in every direction, and
especially southward, while the brutal
practice "of lynching prisoners before
trial, by mobs, who are themselves crim
inals of the worst type, seems to be
spreading in the West. N. Y. Post.
The lard failure in Chicago is due in a
measure to the charges of adulteration
against the product, and the pork manu
facturers must begin to realize that their
industry has received a severe blow in
having this charge come from a domestic
quarter, in addition to the poor standing
of American pork abroad.
A Yienna Centennial
Yienna is intending to celebrate next
September its defense agsint the Turks,
two hundred years ago, and its rescue by
King John Sobieski of Poland. No
more useful mode of recalling a remark
able event, says the London Times.
oould have been devised than the publi
cation, undertaken by the director of
he Imperial War Archives, of the mili
tary operations and armaments. The
whole is of a nature to fill an important
page in history, and is as picturesque as
it should be instructive. Internal agi
tations bore as great a part in the crisis
o which the Austrian capital nearly suc
cumbed as Turkish power. The Empe
ror Leopold I had enough of the obsti
nacy of his family to excite discontent,
and none of tbe family force of charac
ter to quell or confront it. Attempts
to interfere with national liberties had
resulted in a general rising cf the Hun
garians. They offered to ally them
selves with Turkey, and Mahomet IY ea
gerly accepted their terms. Hungary
occupied the Austrian troops and opened
tne road to Vienna to suu,uuu men, un
der the Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha.
Leopold fled to Linz, and the me
tropolis was formally besieged. Much
to its honor, it held out bravely, al
though resistance seemed vain. Suoh an
army as had been gathered of Austrians,
Saxons and Uavanans oould not ven
ture to assault the intrenched Otto
man camp, and a breach had already
been made in the walls. North German
dislike to Austrian fanaticism and ag
gressiveness combined with the intrigues
of Louis XIV to isolate the city. Mate
rial suooor was not even hoped for, ex
cept from Poland; and at one time Pope
Innocent's and the Emperor's supplica
tions for Polish intervention seemed
doomed to disappointment. Had the
French envoy at Cracow succeeded in
his mission to corrupt the Polish diet
Christendom must have been shamed by
the fall of Yienna. Happily his designs
were baffled, and Sobieski .was enabled
to equip a force of thirty thousand sol
diers. -With this addition the army of
relief did not exceed seventy thousand.
Yet it was sufficient under him, to break
in pieces the enormonsTnrkish and Tar
tar host before nightfall of September
12th. Although a subsequent campaign
wss needed to clear to kingdom of Otto
man garrison, Sobietki'a later victories
of Parkany and Gran only confirmed the
lesson of the 12th of September. The
siege of Vienna and its relief on that day
represent the conflict between the Cross
and Crescent, a high water mark never
afterward to be passe 1.