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VOL. IX.
NO. 24.
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J. JASKULEK,
PRACTICAL "
Watctaier, Jeweler 'ant Optician,
'all work warranted.
Dealer In Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Spectacles and Eyeglasses.
AND A FULL LINK OF
Cigass, Tobacco & Fancy Goods.
Tk. I! VI t i-i, .... .V. . b ,1 !nof
ment of Spectacles ; always on hand.
Depot of the Genuine Brazilian Pebble Spec
tacles and Eyeglasses.
Office First Door South of Postoffice,
ItOHEIIUHG. OREGON.
LANGENBERG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
ItOSEBUllCi, OREGON,
On Jackson Street, Opposite the Post Office,
.Keeps on hand the largest and best assortment of
Eastern and San Francisco Boots and
Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers,
And everything in the Boot and Shoe line, and
SELLS CHEAP FOB CASH.
Boots and Shoes SXade to Order, and
Perfect Fit Guaranteed.
I use the Best of Leather and Warran all
my work.
Repairing Neatly Done, on Short Notice.
I keep always on hand
TOYS AND NOTIONS.
Musical Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS IiAXGEXBERG.
DR. M. W. DAVIS,
639 DENTIST,
ROSE BURG, OREGON,
Office On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over S. Marks & Co. s New Store.
HAHONEY S SALOON,
Nearest the Sail road Depot, Oakland.
JAS. MAIIOXEY, - - - Proprietor
The Finest "Wines, Liquors and Cigars in
Douglas County, and
THE BEST BILLIARD TABLE IN THE STATE,
KEPT IN PROPER REPAIR.
Parties traveling on the railroad will Grid this place
cry band; to ait during tne stopping or. tne train
the Oakland Depot. Give me a call.
JAS. MAIIONEY.
JOHN ERASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, OREGON.
UPHOLSTERY, SPRING MATTRESSES, ETC.,
Constantly on hand.
FURNITURE.
have the Best
STOCK OF FURNITU RE
South el 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 etsewnere.
ALL WORK WARRANTED,
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oakland, Oregon.
RICHARD THOMAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num
ber of years, and has become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
FIEST-CLA8S SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
AND THE
Table supplied with the Best the Market affords
notel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. STANTON,
DEALER IN
Staple Dry Goods,
Keeps constantly on hand a general assortment of
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AND GLASSWARE,
ALSO .
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
A full stock of
SCHOOL BOOKS,
Suoh as required by the Public Count; Schools.
All kinds of Stationery. Toys and
Fancy Articles,
TO scrr BOTH YOU NO and old.
Buys and Sells Lejral Tenders, furnishes
Cheeks on Portland, and procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
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t
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ALL ORDERS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
witn care.
Address,
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Portland, Oregon.
SeaGra and Oatmeal.
Loaves and Fishes.
Bread is made on the Devonshire coast
of England from a sea-gra..s, porphyra
laciniata, which is chopped and mixed
with a little oatmeal. It will keep from
four to eight days, and the people who
use it are tond of it.
How Rich New Orleans Editor Do.
New Orleans Picayune.
Some rise with the lark; others get up
when the steam whistle blows. Real
eomfortis found in lying in bed until
one feeli like getting up.
TWTLTGHT.
" ' fJoaqaiu Miltur.
The broad re J city in her blossome 1 trees
Lies compassed about by the hosts of night
Lies humming, low, like a hive of bees;
, And the day lies dead. And its spirit's flight
Is far to the.west, while the golden bars
t That bound it are broken to dust fM s'.ars.
Come under my oaks, O drowsy dusk!
The wo'f and the nog; iear incense hour
When mother earth hath a smell of musk,
And things of the spirit assert their pow er
When candles aro set to burn in the west
Set head and foot to the day at rest
NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.
Former meetings a Mescrlbed by
Long John Went worth.
Chicago In'cr-Oeean.
"The first national iolitical convention,"
said Long John Wentworth yesterday, "ever
held in Chicago was ia ISOl). I was mayor of
the city at that time. Did you know that
Horace Greeley was the man who nominated
Abraham Lincoln"
"No," said the reporter. "Was Greeley a
delegate from New York?"
"No, from Oregon." " ' "
"From Oregon C'
"Yes, he bad the Oregon
proxies. Well,
you gee, there was a
fight between Seward
and Horace made up
bitter political
and Greeley,
his mind to
down him. Seward was the proraineut can
didate before the convention, and everybody
expected to see him nominated. Greeley
didn't care who was nominated so it wasn't
Seward. Well, Bates and Chase withdrew
in favor of the dark horse. Greeley l ad no
candidate of his own to start on, but he is
entitled to the whole credit of nominating
Abraham Lincoln for the presidency. When
Lir:cjln came to be president he did what few
men would dare dohe made up h's cabinet
of his opponents. He put in Seward for sec
retary of state, Bates for ; attorney general,
Chase for secretary of the treasury.
"The second national political convention
held in Chicago," said the Hon. Phil Hoyne,
was that Demccratic convention of 1864
that nominate 1 McClellan and Pendleton.
My two boys we:e pages in that convent on;
now they are young men. The convention
was held on the lake shore in the old wigwam.
It had a canvass roof. I went in with
Governor Dick Yates and Pitt Kellogg.
They had bad some trouble in getting in, and
I thought it singular that the governor of Il
linois couldn't get into a co:ivent:on, so I
helped them get seat3. The convention was
very orderly, indeed. I remember seeing
Vallandinghani. Crowds followed him about,
1 believe ho made a speech from the steps of j
the old Sherman house, where he was stop-;
ping.
'The next was the Republican convention
of 1S63, held iu. the Crosby opera house,
where Grant and Colfax were nominated.
Joseph B. Hawley presided. I saw Dan S el;
les, rorney and R. , Thompson present.!
I think Logan nominated Grant Any way J
the convention was unanimous for GrantJ
The effect was creat when the roll of states
was called and the vote of each to au
aouncod by the president in his maguifl-'ent
sonorous voice, lue cnoice or uoaax ror
vice-president was not .'unanimous at fiistj
but was afterwards made so,
"No more conventions were held here until
in loM', wtjen uarneia ana Ar
thur were nominated, ur course, you re
member all about that, it was such a short
time agOi Grant and Blaine were the prom
iuent and talked-of candidates. Garfield
was the dark toise, starting on one vote,
cast, I tHnk, by a delegate from Pennsjd-
vania. There was great excitement through
out the country. It lasted from the 21 to the
8th of the month. Tiie first two days were
consumed in straightening the delegations,
There were fights in nearly all of them. The
nomination was made on the 8th, about 3
o'clock. There wouldn't anybody believe at
first that Garfield was ' nominated just as
they wouldn't believe the report of his nssas
sination. I heard the speech of Flannigan,
of Texas, when he said:; 'If we're not here
for the offices what the ! are we here forT
The chairman sm led, ana every no ly eise
laughed,
Of all."
the newspaper boys the loudest
Shooting the Caaade lSapld.
Po-tland (Ore.) News.
The Gold Dust, a stanch and trim little
steamer, successfully ran the rapids at the
Cascades of the Columbia yesterday morn
ing. There were five persons aboard. The
Gold Dust was bnilt m Portland some five
years ago. She is eighty-five feet in length,
with a twelve-foot team, and has a draft of
six feet, lieht. For a j-ear or two she ran as
an inderendent boat between this city and
Vancouver; then she I was taken to the
Columbia river to rim ibetween the Cascades
and the Dalles. The owners had to cut the
boat in two a;.d haul the sections with teams
around the Cascades rapids. Lately her
owners concluded to return the boat to
service on the Willamette river.
"It was a mighty ticklish job to run the
rapids," said Eugmeer , St. Martin to a News
rep rter last evening as he was enjoying a
smoke in the engine-room of the Gold Dust,
snugly moored at Ham; Taylor & Co. s dock.
"I've been on the water for over fifteen
yeais, and it was the hottt time I've ever
experienced. We started from the upper
Cascades at S:30 m the morning, and at once
shot into the seething waters in the channel,
close to the Washington si le. We shot
through the rapids, fully 300 feet in length.
like an arrow. It didn't seem to me to take
us half a minute. The water was very rough,
the mad waves dashing us to and fro.
This channel is less than 100 feet
wide, with savage rocks on both sides.
Owing to high water these rocks are some
six feet under water, and this fact made the
trip the more dangerous. Twice in the rapid
vovasro I thought we were sroners. lhe
waves dasnea against me ooat viciously,
- ; a. v - i
knocking iu the lights of the engine-room and
Louring a volume of water into the boat. I
was drenched to the &kin, and so were the
othei-s. Once out of the mam rapids we had
smooth sailing. We made the trip from the
upper Cascades to the dower Cascades, some
six mil.-s in about as 1 many minutes. The
Oregon shore was lined with spectators,
mostly government employes, and tr.ey gave
us a round of hearty cheers as we safely rode
through the rapids. One such a trip will do
a man for a lifetime.
Jim Flk. Revenue.
New York Letter in Troy Times.
The late Samuel Bowles, former elit.or of
The Spriogfitild Republican, Fpent one night
in the Ludlow Strtet jail, and found even
this brief experience fully sufficient This
was the work of Jim j Fisk, whom Bowles
had Landled in a very severe manner.
Bowles soon afterward came to this city, and
Fisk arrested him for libel. He ordered the
.ofacers to wait till late in the afternoon,
when business men had gone home an 1 no
bail euiild be obtained. Bowles was trapped
iu this tricky manner,! but the next mornnig
bail was procured an 1 he was release ). Fisk
then dropped the tu t I Uis only object was
to lock Bowles up. He was always proud of
this exploit i
Ai kansaw Travelert A man wbut is evil
but whut ti les tar do good, soon gita tirw l o'
de job. Da wolf ken 13 ez gentle ez de lamb,
but it's so tiresome dat he kain' noT out long.
MADAME SAUVAGE.
FNew Orleans Times-Democrat from
the
French of Guy de Maupassant. 1
When the war broke out, the son of Sau-
vage, wno was then 33 years old, enlisted.
leaving his mother totally alone. Folks did
not, however, pity the old woman much be
cause she had money everybody knew that!
So she remained alone in her isolated house,
so far from the village at the edge of the
forest. But she was not in the least afraid,
being of the same stock as the men of the
country a hardy old woman, tall and gaunt,
who seldom laughed, and whom nobody pre
sumed to trine wtth. Indeed, the country
women there do not laugh much. Laughing
is well enough . for the men! The minds of
those women are melancholy and narrow, for
their lives are dismal and seldom lightened
by an hour of joy. The peasant husband or
son learns something of noisy gaiety m the
tavern; but their helpmates and mothers re
main serious, with visages perpetually
austere. The muscles of their faces have
never acquired the movements of laughter.
Uld Mother oauvage continued her ordi
nary mode of life in her cabin, which was
soon covered with snow. Once a week she
used to eorao to the city to buy a little bread
and meat, after which she would return to
her dwelling. As there was a good deal of
talk about wolves, she never went out with
out a gun slung at her back the son's gun,
a rusty weapon whose butt was quite worn
awav by the mere rubbing of horny hands
against it, and it was really curious to watch
the tall old woman, a little stooped by age,
striding leisurely through the snow, with
the barrel of the gun sticking up above the
black covering which surrounded her head
and contned those white tresses which no
body had ever seen.
Une day tuo Prussians came. Ihey were
quartered upon the inhabitants of the place,
according to the fortunes and resources of
each family. The old woman had to receive
four, liecause she was-icnowu to be rich,
These were four big lads with fair flesh,
fair beards and blue eyesi who had remained
stout in spite of all the fatigues they had en
dured, and who seemed to be right good fel
lows, although conquerors in a conquered
country. Finding themselves alone with the
old woman they took pains to show her all
possible consideration, and did all in their
power to save her trouble and expense.
They could be seen every morning, all four
together, making their toilet at the well, in
their shirt sleeves; pouring the cold water
over that fair, rosy, northern flesh of theirs
even on the days when it was snowing most
heavilyT while Mother Sauvage went to and
fro, preparing the soup for them. Then they
1 1 A T 1
couiu oe seen cleaning up tne Kitonen, wasn
ing the windows, chopping the wood, peeling
the potatoes, washing the linen, in short, do
ing all the house-work, just like four trood
sons migM do for their mother.
But she, the old woman, was ever thinking
of her own son her tall giant boy, with his
hooked nose and brown eyes, and thick mous
tache that seemed to cover his lip with a
veritable pad of black hair. And every day
she used to ask each of the f our soldiers quar
tered in her home: ' Do you know where
that French regiment hi the Twenty-Third
of the line? My son's m that."
They would reply, as well as they could:
"Nein! don1 know don' know nodings." And
comprehending her pain and anxieties, these
young men, who had mothers living far away
in Germany, paid her a thousand delicate lit
tle attentions. She liked them well enough,
too those four enemies of hers; for peasants
do not feel patriotic hate; such feelings oidy
belong to the upper classes. The humble folk
those who pay the most just because they
are poor, ami wno are oeing perpetually
weighed down by new burthens; those who
are slaughtered wholesale, who form the ver
itable food for powder, because they are the
majority; those, in fine, who stiff er most
atrociously from the miseries of war, because
thev are the weakest and the least aggressive
such folk do not at all understand what war
enthusiasm fci, nor touchy points of military
honor, and still less those pretended political
combinations which exhaust two nations in
six months, the victor as well as the van
quished.
People m that part of the country used
always to Bay when speaking of Mother
Sauvage's Germans:
iueres tour reiuows wno ve found a
snug berth."
Well, one morning while Mother Sauvage
was ail aione at uome, sue caugnt sigut oi a
man, quite far off on the plain, hastening
toward her dwelling, tie soon came near
enough for her to recognize him; it was the
country postman. He handed her a sheet of
folded paper; and she took her glasses,
which she always wore when sewing, out of
an old spectacle-case; and read as follows
Madame Sauvage : This will bring you a
sad piece of news, i our bov V ictor was
killed yesterday ty a round-siiot, which liter
ally cut him in two. I was close to him at
the time; for my pjp,ce was always next mm
in the company ; and it was only that very
day that he was talking to me about you, so
that 1 could let you know it anything should
happen hnn.
I took his watch out of his pocket to bring
it to you when the war is over
I salute ycr' amicably,
Cesaire Rivot.
Private second class in the Twenty-Third
regiment of the line.
The letter was dated three weeks pre
viously.
She did not cry. She remained motion
less, so overwhelmed, so stupefied by the
blow, that she did not at once feel tie pain of
it. She thought only: "There's Victor killed,
now!" Then, little by little, the ter.rs lowly
rose to her eyes, and the pang began to make
itself felt at her heart. Fancies came to her,
one after the other frightful, torturing.
Never could she ki s her child again her
only child, her great tall ton! never! The
gendarmes had killed hi father, the poacher;
now the Prussians had killed her son. ne
had been cut in two by a camion balL And
it seemed to her she could see the thing the
whole horrible thing; the s head falling off,
with eyes wide open, and his teeth still gnaw
ing the comers of bis thick moustache, as he
was wont to do in his licurs of anger.
And after, what had they done with his
body. - If they had even given her back her
son again, as they had brought her husband
back to her, with a rifle ball through the
center of his forehead,
But she heard a sound of loud voices. It
was the Pruiians returning from the village.
Quickly she hid the letter in her pocket, and
received them very calmly with her cils
tomary face; for she had had the time to
wipe her eyes well.
They were all laughing, the four of them
quite delighted because they had been able
to bring home a splendid rabbit with them
stolen, no doubt ; and they made signs to
the old woman that they were going to have
something wonderfully good to eat.
She set to work at once to prepare break
fast for them; but when the time came.to kill
the rabbit, her heart failed her. And yet it
was not the first rabbit by any means that
she had been given to kill! One of the sol
diers killed it by striking it behind the ear
vith his hand.
Once it was dead she took the red body out
of the skin; but the ght of the blood which
she was handling, which covered her hands
the wa itu blood which sho felt getting cold
and coagulating made her tremble from
head to foot; and she always saw before her
the figure of her tall son, cut in two, and all
red just like the body of the stfll palpitating
animal.
She sat down to table with her Prussians;
but she could not eat even so much as a
mouthfuL They finished the rabbit without
noticing her. Meanwhile she watched them
sideways, without 6peaMng maturing a
singular purpose in her mind, and yet with
such an impassive face that none of them
observed anything unusual
All of a sudden she asked: I don't so much
as know your names; and yet we ve been a
month together now .
They were not able to understand what sne
wanted without some diHcuI.y, and then
they told her their names. That was not
enough! She made them write the names
down on a piece of paper, together with
the addresses of their families; and, perch
ing her spectacles upon ner great nose,
she looked at the strange German writing.
Then she folded up the paper carefully, and
put it into her pocket, next to the letter
which had told her about the death of her
son. :
When the meal was over she said tCthem,
'Now, I'm going to do some work for j-ou."
And she proceeded to carry hay up to the
loft in which they slept
They thought this was very queer; but she
explained to them that it would enable them
to keep nice and warm, so thoy all helped
her. They piled up the hay to the straw
roof; and thus made themselves a sort of bed
room with four sloping walls of forage,
warm and fragrant, where they could sleep
delightfully.
At dinner-time one of them became quite
anxious at seeing that old Mother Sauvage
ate nothing. She told them she had cramps.
Then she lit a good fire in order to warm
herself : and the four Germans ascended to
their loft by the ladder which led to it
As soon as they had closed down the trap
door, she took away the ladder; and gom,
out noiselessly, she began to collect straw and
fill her kitchen with it She walked barefoot
throueh thev snow so softly that no one
could hear her. From time to time she heard
the loud and irregular snoring of the f our
sleeping soldiers.
WTienshe "judged her preparations com
plete, she put a bunch of straw in the fire,
then flung the burning heap upon the rest;
and she went out and looked !
A fierce glare lighted the ulterior of the
building in a few seconds; then the whole be
came a frightful furnace, a gigantic oven
whose violent light blazed through the single
narrow window, and flung a long bright band
across the snow.
Then a great and terrible cry rang out
from the upper part of the house; succeeded
by a clamor of yells, human howlings,
hideous cries of agony and fear. An then,
the floor r .mmbling in, a storm of flames,
roared up into the loft, burst through the
roof of straw, rose to heaven like a vast
torch-fire; and the whole structure flared
against the night.
Nothing could' now be heard but the
crackling of the conflagration, the crumb
ling of the walls, the falling of the great
beams. The last fragments of the roof fell m,
and the red hot carcass of the dwelling flung
skyward a great jet of sparlcs through a cloud
of heavy smoke.
The snow-whitened country, illuminated by
the fire, shone like a sheet of silver, tinted
with crimsom.
Afar off, a great bell .began to ring.
Old Mother Sauvage stood erect bef oie the
red ruin of her home, armed with a rifle, her
dead son's rifie, fearing that one of the men
might escape. 1
When she saw it was all over, she flung the
weapon into the fire. A single sharp
report rang out
People came running to the scene peasants
and Prussian soldiers.
They found the old woman sitting on the
trunk of a tree calm and satisfied.
A German officer, who spoke French like a
Frenchman, asked her:
"Where are your soldiers f
She stretched oiit her long, lean arm to
ward the crimson mass of ruins, where the
fire was dving down at last, an answered in
a strong and violent voice:
"INSIDE!"
All gathered about her. The Prussian
asked:
"How did the fire startP
She replied sonorously:
"I started it"
They could not believe her; they thought
the disaster had rendered her insane. And
then, while all listened, and pressed closer
about her to hear, she told the whole story
from the beginning to the end from the re
ceipt of the letter even to the last cry of the
men burned up in her house. She did not
forget one single detail of what she had felt,
nor of .what she had done,
Then, when she had told all, she took from
her pocket two pieces of pajor, and in onler
to distinguish them by the light of the fii-e.
she coolly put on her glasses. Then she said,
showing one paper : ' 'That is the letter about
Victor's death." And holding up the other
6he added, nodding her head toward the
ruddy ruins: "There! that's their names, so
you can write to their folks about them."
She presented the paper to the officer who
held her by the shoulders, and she continued :
"You can write to them how this thing
happened ; and you can just tell their parents
that it was I who did it I, Victoire Simon,
called La Sauvage I Don't you forget it!"
The officer roared out some orders in Ger
man. They seized her and flung her back
against the still glowing walls of her dwell
ing. Quickly twelve men took their places
in front of her, twenty yards away. She never
winked. She knew what was coming. She
waited in perfect calm.
An order rang out, followed by a long de
tonation. One shot was heard later than the
rest all by itself.
The old woman did not fall ; she sank down
perpendicularly, as though her legs had been
cut away from under her.
The Prussian officer approached to look.
She had been almost severed m two by the
volley, and her sti:Tened fingers still
clenched the letter, all spattered with blood
The Wife's Strategy.
New York Morning Journal,
"My dear," said a young wife to her hus
band, who had already fallen into the habit
of going to the lodge in the evening, and who
was just preparing to go out, 'l am going up
street to interview the superintendent of the
post office this evening.
"Ah! indeed; on what business, prayf
"I want to see if he con give me any ad
vice in regard to getimg a naoituauy late
male in od time."
The husnand Diusned, pretended he was
looking for a newspaper instead of his hat,
and there was a member absent from the
lodge that night
Efl"ect of the Earthquake.
Exchange.
A curious result of the recent earthquake
shock in Essex, England, was that the wells
in and around Colchester exhibited a rise in
their water level of about five feet This
gradually increased for five days after the
phenomenon untO a height of eight feet was
attained. Th wells at last accounts had
apparently permanently rested at the height
of seven feet above their old water mar it.
IN THE "3IQ FLAT."
Tenement House with Over Eight
Hundred People In It.
W. M. Donnelly in Texas S:ftmg.
We will go up "Mott'&treet to that tall
brick building labeled on the front, iu
letters five feet high, "TIIE BIG FLAT."
It is detached, is seven stones high, has
seven windows on each floor in front and
thirty-two on each floor at the sides, and
runs right through to Elizabeth street.
It is said to bo fireproof and it appears
to be so. lwo broad flights of stone
stairs with iron balusters, one on the
Mott street and one on the Elizabeth
street end, lead from floor to floor. At
the top of each flight is a long, dark
corridor, off which sixteen doors open
on one side and thirty-two windows on
the other.
Each of the doors load into a suit of
three rooms, with windows opening on
the court -yard, and each suit, except the
end ones, which cost $13, is rented for
$9 to $10 a month, payable in advance.
There are, at present, the janitor informs
us, between 800 and 900 peo
ple living in the house, Most of
them are Bohemian Jews, but there are
some Russians, Italians, Chinese and
Irish also. "We have very few Irish,"
savs lhe janitor, "for wo don't want the
lowest of them, and the better class
woman t come here. lhe tenants are
chiefly tailors who work a home, and
street peddlers.
"The Big Hat," continued the janitor,
was originally built for colored pooph
and was afterwards turned into lo h
ings for working girls. Now it belongs
to the New York Steam-llouting
company. What are my duties? Well,
to collect rents, to see that the tenants
keep their rooms clean Jews aro mostly
dirty to have the water-tank on the
roof, which is filled by a steam pumn in
the cellar, kept always full; anl to exe
cute general repairs, l here is no gas
in any of the rooms except mine, and the
tenants burn kerosene They bring their
own cooking-stoves with them. No, there
is no elevator; if a man lives on tho top
floor, ho must walk up and down to his
room."
"The Big Flat? ' savs the sergeant al
the desk in the Elizabeth street .station:
"Tho most troublesomo house in the
precinct! Not so much the tenants, you
know, who are hard working people, but
thieves and pickpockets, when they com
mit a robbery, make use of the passage
from Mott to Elizabeth, to escape the
officer chasing them. Wo get a good
many complaints of all sorts from the
tenants, too, but they don't amount to
much. Go and see some of the Italian
tenements in Mulberry street. The
Italians are a saving people, ana are
rapidly buying up all the Mulberry st reet
houses.
Up long flights of dirty stairs we toil,
until at length we reach an open door
A woman, apparently about oo, but in
teality not more than half -that age, J
Stan .Is in the entrance with a fortnight- !
old baby in her arms. She is unkempt,
unwashed, and altogether unattractive.
Is this a sample of the bright Italian
beauties of whicli we have read and
dreamed so much, with their darkly
flashing eyes and raven locks, and clear,
pale olive skins to which the red blood
rushes on occasion? Alas! it is even so.
Italia's maids are women at 15,
mothers a year later, grandmothers at
30, and decrepit hags in a year or
two more. Here in New York the
descendants of the Masters of the World
live like rabbits in a burrow. They
sleep anywhere and anyhow on the
floor or sitting on a box with their backs
against the wall. You will find twelve
or fourteen domiciled in a .ooin that
would fairly accommodate two persons.
Disease is common among them, and
their dense ignorance of the commonest
things makes tho evil worse. They eat
anything they can get, whether they buy
it from the butchers' offal, or pick it out
of the ash twirrel or the gutter. They
will not spend money on fuel and pork
is cheap, so they eat it raw, and tri
chinosis is rife. They can live, like the
Chinese, where men of other nationali
ties would starve, and so they are sav
ing money and leeoming householders,
and arc forming a permanent Italian
colony in Mulberry street and its neigh
borhood, as they have already done m
the vicinity of Snow Hill and Holborn
Valley, London.
An Kagle ICye.
IF.xehaii; e.
A story is told of Van Amburgh, tho
great lion-tamer, now dead. On one oc
casion while in a bar-room he was asked
how he got his wonderful power over
animals. He said:
"It is by showing them that I am not
the least afraid of them, and by keep
mg my eye steadily fixed on theirs I'll
give you an example ot tne power of my
eve. '
1'or.mng to a ioutisn tellow who was
standing near oy, he said: "lou see
. 1 mm. ...
that fellow? He's a regular clown. I'll
ina'elim come across the room to me,
and I won't say a word to him." Sitting
down, he fixed his keen, steady eye on
the ma l. Presently the fellow straight
ened himself gradually, got up and came
slowly across to tho lion-tamcr. When
he got close enough he drew back his
ann and struck Van
Amburgh a tre-
mcndo'Ai blow under the chin,
knock.ng
him ds.vr over tne chair, with tne re
mark:
again,
"You'll stare at mo
won't you. ,
ike that
A IitUle Abeut-iTIliided.
pi--w York TrutM.J j
A Whi; ehcill woman, about to boil an
egg for her fiisband's breakfast, asked
the loan f his watch to time the boS
ing. "Your watch has stopped," she cried;
"the egg is in and I can't tell how long
it ought to remain in the kettle."
The husband hastened to the stove,
and was horror-struck to find that the
good woman had dropped his elegant
gold watch into the kettle, and was hold
ing the egg to her ear.
Cement tor Patching Shoes.
Trxis Sifting!!.
The cement used in patching the up
pers of fine shoes is generally made b
dissolving gutta percha in chloroform
until the mixture is. about as thick as
syi up. f crape and pare clean around
the hole to be covered, and thin care
fully with U long chamfer the ed-;e oi
the bit of. leather to be applied. nh
a little of the cement is needed, but u
surfaci must be pressed close toget ier.
The parts will atlner firmly in a few
minutes.
FOREIGN TELEGRAPHIC I7ZWS.
The Nile
expedition is progressing fa
vorably.
Lord DufTerin has been appointed Vice.
roy of India.
The Czar attended the theater in War
saw incognito.
An unknown vessel burned in Valpa
raiso harbor recently.
A Nihilist manifesto has been liberally
circulated in Warsaw.
t creat crowd greeted General Wolseley
on his arrival at Cairo.
Direct communication is maintained be
tween Paris and Tonquin.
France has abandoned the scheme for
the occupation of Formosa.
The physicians of Spezia, Italy, believe
mat nies spread the cholera.
A grand fete was given at Paris recently
in aid or tne cholera suiierers.
Telegraphic communication has been
opened between Tamarand and. Bahara
Typhoid fever has broken out in on; of
the British regiments stationed at Cairo,
Several Rome physicians wiU be prose
cuted ror refusing to attend cholera pa
tients.
King Humbert, while visiting cholera
hospitals in Naples, refused to use disin
fectauts.
A United States gunboat has arrived at
Lima, Peru, fifty-three days from San
2 rancisco.
A serious fire is reported from Calais.
Due Brencie8' factory burned. The loss is
very heavy. (
A recent fire in Piere, Dak., destroyed
tne mam nusmess block of that city.
AjOSS, $auu,uuu.
A number of army officers at Warsaw
have been exiled for life for being mem-
Ders or a secret society.
Six thousand Turkish trooos have been
ordered to Western Arabia to suppress the
rebellion in that district.
Advices from Debbeh state that rebels
under El Mahdi's ameers have been de
feated with great slaughter.
The London Truth is authority for the
statement that Rubenstein has agreed to
give twenty concerts in America.
M. de Giers, the Russian prime" minis
ter, has started to Poland to be present at
the meeting of the three Emperors.
A dispatch from Warsaw states that
most of the subjects arrested during the
Czar, will be released upon his departure.
The Paris Figaro declares that if China
issues letters of marque the French will
hang all who may be captured, as pirates.
A London cable sayS: Stocks & Co.'s
leather works at Leeds have been de
stroyed by fire. The loss is placed at 80,
000. John M. Francis, the new American
minister to Austria, presented his creden
tials last wees: to emperor rrancia Jo
seph. As lung Humbert was Dassina the
prison at Naples last week, the inmates
raised a loud shout praying to be set at
liberty.
The burial of cholera victims at Naples
is found very difficult, owing to the unu
sually large number so suddenly needing
interment.
That cholera is on the increase in Naples,
is shown by the following record for
twenty-four hours: Number of new cases.
uocs: aeatns. azo.
Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, is raD-
idly breaking down in health, and it is
feared she will not much longer survive
her husband and son.
une oi steamers nas been placed along the
coast and rivers of Corea.
It is reported that England has offered
to guarantee a loan to the Egyptian gov
ernment, if Egypt will place the mosoue
propeny under English control as security.
The Highland brigade has been ordered
up the Nile. General Lord Wolsely will
remain at Cairo for the present. He will
take command of the troops above Assi-
out.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the London
2 inies says: A Russian flagship has been
seus to ancnor at a uorean port, wmie tne
ileet remains at Nagasaki, awaiting or-
aers.
The colonial policy inaugurated by Bis-
marcic is steadily growing in popular fa
vor, and the chancellor daily receives let
ters of congratulation and other proofs of
its success.
According to an official statement the
total number of forces under the French
flag m Tonquin is 19,000. Of these 14,000
are Europeans, and the remainder native
auxiliary troops.
Advices from Tamatave, Madagascar,
to August 30th, state that the French had
bombarded and temporarily occupied Ma-
hanoro, a town on the coast some distance
south of Tamatave.
The Governor-General of Canada has
signed the new quarantine regulations.
affecting the transportation of Montana
cattle in bond through Canadian territory,
and will go into effect immediately.
Operators in the London markets have
lately been inclined to a hopeful viev of
tne outiooK or American anairs, in conse
quence of the excellent report of the
cotton, corn, wheat and all other crops,
i
A dispatch from Peking says the Rus
sian fleet has left Chefoo, with excessive
supplies of provisions. I It is believed that
Russia mediates a blow at the integrity of
China, while the latter is seriously engaged
witn r ranee.
Having become alarmed at the reports
about the African climate, a number of
those who enlisted in Canada for service
in the Nile expedition for the relief of
Gordon, have deserted to the United
States after having drawn a portion f
their pay in advance, j
Admiral Peyron, French minister of
marine and the colonies, supports the de
mand made by Admiral Courbet, that
France shall officially declare war with
China as necessary action to insure the
complete success of his naval operations.
Later dispatches confirm the report of a
substantial victory of Mupor of Dongola
at Ambukal over the rebels from ivorao-
fan. Recent advices report Mahdi in
South Kordofan with an army of 14.000,
which have been sent to reinforce the
army besieging Khartoum.
There has been considerable re-action in
the number of settlers going into the "Ca
nadian Northwest during the past twelve
months. At Emerson there was a falling
off in the number entering at that point
of lo per cent during tne past year, and.
compared with 1882, the decline was 50
percent.
Advices have been by the Canadian de
partment of agriculture from St. Lucia,
West Indies, stating that a coolie shin had
arrived from the East Indies with thirty-
two cases oi Asiatic cholera on . hoard,
twenty-seven ot wnicn died on the pass
age, and advising the dominion govern
ment to quarantine against vessels from
that sort.
DOMESTIC TELEGRAPHIC KXWS.
Mitchell. Dak., had a S125.000 fire re
cently.
Ben Johnson was hanged in Cincinnati
last Week.
San Francisco lumber mills are running
on half time. .
Disease has appeared among the cattle
In Osage county, Kan.
The steamer Wyoming brought 500 more
Mormon recruits last trip.
There is great excitement at Benton, M.
T., over recent gold discoveries.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad is
to be inspected and-re-orgauized.
Levi P. Morton, "minister, to France, is
talked of as Judge Folger's successor.
A cyclone passed over Clear Lake, Minn.,
last week, and several people were killed.
The brig Anita Owen, Santiago de Cuba
to New "iork, lost three men on the pass
age. ;
Actors and actresses from abroad are
pouring into New York by every incom- ,
ins bteamer.
Frank IlHtchings, the San Francisco
strangler, expiated his crime on the gal
lows last week.
Alonzo Morreys, formerly of Portland,
Or., was found dead in his bed at San
Francisco last week.
The grand council of the United States
Improved Order of Red Men held session
at Springfield, 111., last week.
John McCullough, the tragedian, who
was prestrated at Manhattan beach re
cently, is said to be recovering.
All telegraph, telephone and electric
light poles in Philadelphia must be put
underground by January 1, 1885.
An autopsy of the body of Judge Moore,
found dead at Jackson, Cal., recently,
shows that he committed suicide.
There was a meeting held at Sacramento
last week for the purposes of developing
the resources of northern California.
At Nerfolk, Va., recently. Sam Blouse.
aged 18, shot and killed Nellie Devlin,
aged 14, and then committed suicide.
Professor Newton, of Yale College, was
elected president of the American Asso
ciation of Scientists at Philadelphia last
week.
A representative of the Indianapolis
Sentinel has been in Pittsburg a week or
more looking up evidence in regard to the
Blaine libel suit.
Oliver H. Bateman. confined in the Sa
vannah, Mo., jail, confesses to the murder
of the McLaughlin girls at Flagg Springs,
iuo., August 31SI.
At Petaluma. Cal.. recently. Patrick
Shea poisoned himself and four children
witn strychnine. The father and two
children are dead.
The difference between the New York
stone cutters and master masons con
tinues. Apprentices are all locked out.
There is no prospect of a settlement. '
About 200 members of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., from all parts of
the world, arrived at Minneapolis, Minn.,
recently, wnere a session of the lodge was
held.
J. H. Square, a private banker of Wash
ington, D. C, who made an assignment a
short time ago, committed suicide last
week by cutting his throat with a pen
knife. .
Last week the steamer St. Paul, of the
St Louis and St. Paul Packet Line, was
seized at Keokuk, la., on an attachment
of the Second National Bank of Keokuk
for 8,255.
The agricultural department reports
that the product of winter wheat is above
I 3 - it . m
ine junior Dondnoiuers of the Keading
Railroad are organizing to ask the United
states Court to instruct the receivers to
see that the junior interests are not en
tirely ignored. '
Miss Victoria Morsini. daughter of G.
P. Morosini, a millionaire and partner in
jay uouid s oroKerage nrm, created a sen
sation in New York last week by eloping
with Ernest J. Shelling, her father's
coachman.
During a terrific thunder storm at Olean.
N. Y., last week, a 35,000 gallon tank of oil,
belonging to the National Transit Com
pany, was struck -by lighting and set on
fire. Loss, including car, tank and oil, is
about 20,000.
Several attempts have been made to
wreck the East Tennessee train near Mc-
Donougb, Ga. Last week a colored boy
named Ed. Jenkins, aged 12 years, was
discovered placing obstructions on the
track and confessed his guilt.
Last week a largely attended convention
of residents oLSchnectady county, New
x orK, passed a resolution calling on the
senator and assemblymen of that district
to work for the woman suffrage bill, in
stead of opposing it as heretofore.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
last week, obtained an attachment against
property in New York state belonging to
David E. Swan, cashier of the company at
St. Paul, Minn., charging that Swan
wrongfully appropriated $21,000 of the
company s money.
The Lacowsie cassimere mill of Hamp
den, HI., is under attachment for 830,000.
The nominal owner is George B. Webb,
but II. Smith holds a mortgage of 825,010
to the full value. The unpaid wages for
the month are 5,000. Seventy-five hands
are out of employment.
The United States sub-committe, con
sisting of Senators Dawes, Cameron, of
W isconsin, and Morgan, have left Wash
ington for San Francisco, en route for the
Round Valley Indian reservation, to in
vestigate troubles existing between In
dians and white settlers.
Charles Perdue, while cutting brush on
the Pewens farm, a mile north of Decatur,
ill., made tne gnastiy discovery of a
human skeleton dangling from the limb
of an old" tree. The skeleton is supposed
to be that of an old German who disap
peared last winter, and it is thought that
he hung himself.
A Jamestown, Va., dispatch eavs: The
hearing of Attorney Maney before United
States Commissioner Hewitt, for the al
leged violation oi the postal laws by using
cancelled stamps, resulted in his complete
exoneration, the Court stating that there
was nothing whatever in the evidence to
cast any suspicion of guilt.
The Amalgamated Association at
Wheeling, W. Va., is out in a card in
which it calls upon all rail consumers to
reject the steel rail and leave it upon the
hands of the manufacturer. It shows
that the iron rail, which was so useful a
factor hitherto in the nation's progress, Is
cneaper, Deiter, ana in every way more
suitable than the steel rail.
In the Cincinnati jail languish the fol
lowing who are to be hanged on the dates
set opposite their names: Joe Palmer, the
accomplice of Berner, October 10th; John
H. Hoffman, October 24th; George Oliver,
November 7th; Pat Hartnet, December
5th. Dates are yet to be made for George
Gilbert, Pat Muldoon, Mike McDermott,
Thomas Bernhardini, Maria Walsh, James
Boyd, Mrs. Pratt and Charles Ball.