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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1886)
r l'i:i!SU.AI. AXI OT1IICK XOTI2S. Mr. How ells is lo pass the winter ut Washington. President Cleveland not Infrequently joins liia wire in singing sentimental songs in the evening. liisliop Klllcot, ot tlio clmrcli of England, is i crack billiunl player, nnil paints excel lent pictures. George Francis Train announces Hint lie lias now quit talking UchiUlteii. lit; writes as niucli as ever. Wade Hampton's lienllli grows lietter as ho crows oliler, and his old wounds now cause Iii m little pain. Congressman Smalls (colored), of South Carolina, has had his daughters educated in Massachusetts seminaiies. Henry Ward Needier declares that he -will not, cross the Atlantic again until there, is a bridge spanning its turbulent waters. Andrew I). White, ex-president of Cornell university, has a library of over thirty -thousand volumes, which ho intends to leave to Cornell. Loriug Pickering, editor of the San Fran cisco Call, has just become father to a vig orous buy. Mr. Pickering is 70 years old, and Home lime ago married for the third time. Senntor Vance's summer home, "Gom broon," is in the wildest part of the IP110 lthlgonnd l'.lack mountain country, 12.700 feet above the sea and eight miles from any railroad. Prince liisnmrck hns resumed his little dinner parties. IIo invites a few gentlemen to each, prefers lo seo thorn informally rircsstd, insiHts upon frank talk, and gives them two wines only, a good red wine Hint and a very dry champagne afterward. Mit-s Kate Field, the charming literary lady, snys she is tired of the world and would be glad to live apart from the fash iouablc bustle. That is where she differs from the majority of her sister ladies, who evidently like to have to have the bustle about them all the time. Robert Grant read at tho latest meeting of the. Papyrus club in Boston a clever skit satirizing both tho idealists and realistic extremes in fiction, through a dialogue be tween representatives of tho two schools, who were endeavoring to collaborate in a short love story of the people. that ma i:xi'imss itoiiiinnY. St. Louis special: A special lrom Ne vada, Mo., says : Frank James, ex-train robber, received the folio .vine letter yester day, containing four new bank bills: St. .Iosucii, Oct. 31. To Frank Jnmes. Esq. Dear Sir: Plenseaceept the enclosed as a memento of tho late 'Frisco train rob bery of October 125. Yours u iily, Jim Cumminos. The enclosure consisted ol four unsigned national bank notes made for the Mer chants' and Planters' National bank ol Sherman, Mo. The notes were one $20 and three $10 bills, the latter of which had not been detached from each other. Tin letter was written evidently in a disguised hand, and was mailed tro a St. Joseph on November !l. Manager DiiiiisdII, of the ex press compnnv, was shown the above dis patch, and sn'id that the detectives were alreadv following up tho clow contained in it, biit'he did not know whether tho money stolen October l'f contained that received bv Frank James yesterday or not. He would nHcorlain. however, as soon as pon sible. He hud two theorit'H in legard to the affair: The ten I robber had sent tho letter to turn suspicion upon James and put the detectives on the wrong trail, or else some over-zealous detective leally thought Jim Ciiininiiigs and Frank James weieoue, and wanted to so whateffect tho reception of the letter and bank notes would have upon him and what (Imposition ho would make of them. Tlio mutter would bo fullj investigated, and might lead to some inter esting (lev shipments. HOW IT WOULD SVAXIi. Washington, Nov. 9. According- to the rote of Tuesday last the electoral college con sisting of 401 electors, would btand us follows: DUMOCHATIO. Alnbnmn -Arkansas. . . . , Colorado Delaware: Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Munhiurt Mississippi.... Missouri lOiNevv Jcrey !l V '..... .' 7 1 New Vor .... if North Carolina... .... IljSniitli Carolina... ... 4lTcunc.4scej .... 12ITVxns 11 9 12 311 12 .... lit! Virginia. .... .... 8 .... 0 ... 1(5 West Virginia (5 Total C01 Illinois ... Jnwa Kansas . . . Maine Michigan . Nebraska. Nevada . . . 22 Ohio b'l(Oregon .... 9 lViin-vlvanla., 2.1 :t 3) 1 11 Vermont. . . . Wisconsin . . Total U'2 Calafornln Connecticut... Indiana MafrsaihilscUs. Minnesota Dounrrtn. ... 8 1 New Hampshire. .. 4 ... (i 1 Rhode Island 4 ... 1.) .... 11 Total M ,. . 7 is a srAiirixa coxoi riox. Washington dispatch: The secretary of the interior having received from tho war department a telegram from Gen. Howard saying that Gen. Miles repents that 700 Ilunlpal Indians located on 11 reservation in Northwestern Arizona, are now in a destitute condition in a barren country and must be fed or starve, has reepiexted that tlio military authorities issue two thirds rations per day to those Indians to tho extent of $0,000, tlio whole of the ap propriation mud., by congre-s for ther . support, and in event that that sum proven iiiHiillicioiit to subsist them through the winter months, or until they are abo to provide for theuisel ves; that the interior department bon.l vised ot thofact before t tie $15,000 is exhausted, when further provis ion will, if possible, bo made for their sub Histeuce. Tho government ration for an Indian is t lit eo pounds of beei greins and Lull a pound of Ilour per day. IXTKItXAl. ItM'HXUK UUCKll'TS. Washington, Nov. 9. The total collections -of Internal revenue from the time tho present system Rt oryan.zed, July 1, 1S0J. up to June , 3), ibisij wcro f3,aiS12'JJ,l.V. The states In which t be aggregate col cctlons reached nv.T $100,0)0,0)0 were: Now York, fiXXl, 700,000; Jim 01 w.t,.(V o,oo,0; Ohio, $372, Ml; I'eiinm -yania, 26s,!jo,(mi; Kentucky, WU.40i.OM; AbvK'icbtKeUi. mUiO.OJ; M Mourl, 127.&M,. '(AM: luiliilllll. Kl I, m 1 fkin. lr. &inr.i,i.l- UOJ, II IX I iw .l, r,.i mi vim ,i 1 r .. "-pre'aMe receipts from liiteriial rev. nue," remark.-! un MhW of the tr.-tmirv lo , ?o fcunlVK,"'t l Imve paid the entire public debt at IU highem ligur,., f,7.V.43l, .171 mid leave 11 balai.eje of f rtl.bM.&St if they had beeu uj.j.ied o thut purpose." William J. Sexton hu been declared elected io pari ameut for the wwteru dlvUlon of Uel JatU The ooiirt rejected the charge of bilbery J trcforred by Mr. UsslotL I nu.sTXHss jinmitK rt.i:.tsvni:. I'rrrlilnil Clrrrlmitl .Xmr f Worli on Ills .Wriif;r iik( 1171 Xothe llollirml by OJicr Srrkm. Washington special: Among the presi dent's callers to-day was a man named 1) ily, who used his hands ns preqiellei s, his legs having been amputated near the thighs and only the stumps remaining. It was remarked by all present, the number of pretty girls au.l the well-to-do aspect of the majority of the callers to day, but none were more cheery and appreciative than the president's maimed visitor. Calling lit itt by namo the piesident stoopi-d down to grasp one of the hands which served as feet, and the poor fellow straightened up visibly alter the kindly gteeting from the brad of the nation. Daily belongs in Phil adelphia, and is employed as an engineer on one of the local steamers. The trip to llostou seemed to have exhilarated the piesident, and few of his calleis this after noon were permitted to pass without an expression of pleuritic at meeting them. The president's rule not to receive nny visitors, exiept upon puiely ollicial buxi ii"ss and at 11 tri weekly afternoon recep tion goes into effect to-morrow. He pro poses lo devote his principal attention iroiu now on until congress meets to the pre piiriition of his annual message, mid will not bo bothered about appointments-. Ni:w SUOAIIl.NO I'KOCKSS. The follow iug telegram has been received nt the department of lurirult lire: "Ft. Scott. Ivan., Nov. h. To tho Com-mi-sioiier of Agi ieult are: We (iniilied boil ing eighty-three tons of Louisiana cane to night; mado nearly 10,00.) pounds of strike. A weighed portion run into cen trifugal gave 5 1 per cent of dried mi gar. This will bo mote than 120 pounds of BUgar per ton. The nine juice had 10 per cent of nucrose, 1 h-1 0 per cent of glucose, nnil 1 per ( cut of total solids. It would have iiiiule only Si) pounds by the old pro cess. Wo have increased the yield fully 40 pounds per ton. Sugar of line quality. Wii.i:y, ( liemist." This dispatch is regarded bv the aiithoii tics at tlie ugi iciiltural department as a iiHilliucnt of the promise of impoitaut re Hiiltn given by the litst expel iiuonts in the diffusion process as applied to sugar cane. Tin: cast, op i-.Mti.isi.i:. Representative Wellborn of Texas, who is one of the ablest nnd most expeiieuced parliumeiitariaus 111 the house, was asked to day what effect a contest over Carlisle's seat should there be a contist would have upon Ids ciindidaey for the speaker (.hip of tho house. Wellborn replied: "Should there be a contest over Carlisle's Heat the house itself will, in some suitable way, select a committee on elections, and thus Catlisle will be relieved of any possi bil ty of enibarnissment on that score. To hold that Thobe's contest w it li ('a rlisle disipial lies the bitter for speaker is illog ii al and absurd. If such holding were fol lowed, the inlliienceand powerof tliecliosen leader of the dominant pin ty in the house could be effeitually crushed at any time by spi inging a contested elect ion ease, no inn I ter how absolutely devoid it miht be of merit." Tilt; API'KOl'Itl.VTION nn.i.. Mr. Randall, chairman of the commit too on approprintioiis, is expected to urrivo here on the IStli inst. to get things in lendiness for the meeting of his committee, which takes place, if a quotum can bo brought together, on Dee. 2. Among the nieiiibeiH who 1110 confidently expected uro tlm-e composing tlie sub-committee 011 tlie sundry civil uppropi opriatioii bill, which measure it is said to bo Randall's tiurposo to have in readiness to be reported to the house at tlio opening of tho session. The estimates aro now in the hands of the printer. It is said, though not by otlirial milhority, that their uggicgato is slightly helow tlio total of last year s appropria tioiis. Tim yiki.u or coiin. Tlie yield of corn, acceirding to tlio re vised returns, is twenty-two bushels per aeie, making the product upon present ad justmentof acreage of 1 ,(i(i8.000,000. This accords well with the present returiiKot the couduiou, and will not lo materially changed in the final review work of tlio year. Tho yield of great rorn surplus states is wtrinolc, t no lowest, of course, 111 tlio region of tho drought. Ohio, .12.;!; In diana, 2.1; Illinois, 21.7; Iowa. 2J.o;M a souri, 22.2; Kansas, 21. II; Nebraska. 27.5; Now York and Easternstatesexceed thirty bushels; Pennsylvania nearly as much, ami the Southern states a geueially reduced rate of yield. Till! 1IOSTOX ICXICIITS AllOVSr.l). lioston dispatch: There has been con siderablo excitement among tlio Knights of Labor in this city recently over tlio dis covery Hint qnito a number of members of the order had gono to Chicago to inn k in the parking houses in which labor troubles aro at present existing. Tho Exerutivo lloard of District assembly. No, 30 of tho Knights of I.nbor to-day issued a circular to all Knights in tho district, cullimr their attention to tho packing liouso troubles mid forbidding them under penalty, to go to Chicago to work in those houses until the troubles aro bii tlrd. Jle Is Afraid, It Is quite likely that Powderly himself knows what he means, but It Is quite certain he docs not desire that nnvbexly else shall. Ills annual address to the General Atsi-mbly of tho K. of L. at Richmond Is merely a string of words of no more value to tho worklngmen, for tho tlckliui; of who'e cars they are spoken, than are the wouls that ling In party platform resolutions. Powderly says the "contest" In which the knights are engiigi d Is "not a war of labor against capital," but that it has to be "determined wh eh sha'l rule monopoly or the American p onle, gold or manhood," Further ho reuiiuks that "the monopolM of to-day Is more dangerous than the slave owner of the wist," and that "anarchy Is the legiti mate child of monop'ilv." In reviewing the many labor failures of tho jear, Powderly tavs that the cigi t-hour strike'was premature, and that before tho -hnrt-hiur syMctii will he of any hem lit the relation wluci the woikman beuis to labor mv ug machines must undergo a radical change, "The inuchlno must be come the slave of the mini Instead of the man being subord ualc to the m ichinc." In other words Powderly is willing to talk war us long us it be thoroughly understood that there Is to be none, and to admit the lights of labor a, Ions 11 s It will undertake to merely thcoilze upon the subject and commit no overt act tow r,l claiming those rights. Under such rules of conduct the K. of b. be comes a mi re machine for the purjxeof pav ing hall lent for weekly Indulgence In oratory and the collection of assessments for the pay ment of olllccrs' salares l'owelerly Is evl denilv contented that It shall so remain, and It w.ll bj well for the mouoKillsts as long as the Order Is as content us Powderly, We do not hellere Powderly really wants to ftand jitlil; he Is simply afraid to 'move le cause he do bts his Jxiwcr to Hop any move ment when once begun by an organization numbering at least 1 100,000 un mb ts In good standing. O ie of the noted Hour chiefs was niim-sl 'Yniiiip-1 Man-Afrald-nf-HU-Ilnraes." PoMileilv m glit be culled "uld-Man-Afra.d of 111 Asseuiliile." ban VjHfure JJai.y K port. "Now come and tell me, Deane, what was Ibe most Interesting thing lu the sermon this morning." "Why, mamma. It was where the minister told about somebody taking some ls,dv else 'a hart:' b it he didn't tell vrhv It was - v ' 1 done, or how he wai put together egalu." J ,'il.jl, IttrtXf. Wealthy Xrg-tvtps-. doim W. Cromwell. a tu'ro journalist in IMiilailidpliia. lias i-ompiled an iut r itinj i'li bit of the business condi tions ef his nu in America. The Carolina take the load in tho number of well-to-do negroes. North Carolina Inn twenty who are worth from ilO.liOO to S.50.0.W ouch. In South Carolina the negroes own $10. -OOD.OOO worth ef property. In Cnarles ton fourteen men represent 'OO.OOO. Thotna K.Smalls ts worth .lS.(lOi), anil Charles C. Leslie is worth $12.0 0. This family of Noisettes, truck fanners, are worth' $150,000. In the city sav Yvz banks the negroes have $121. MO. IIo on deposit. One man has over $", 000. He recently bought a $10,U0J plantat on and paid $7,000 in cash. In Philadelphia John McKee is, worth half a million. 'He owns -tOJ houses. Several are worth $100,000 each. The negroes of New Yeirkown from live to six mill on dollars' worth of real estate. 1'. A. White, a wholesale) drug gist, is wen-til a quarter of a million and has an annual business of $200,0 0. Catherine lilaek is worth $1.10.000. In New .Jersey the negroes own $2, 000.000 worth of real estate. Haiti more has more negro homo owners than any other largo city. Nineteen men are worth a total of $300,000. John Thomas the wealthiest, is worth about $150,000. Less than a hundred ncgreics in Washington aro worth a total of $1,000.0 M. lu Louisiana the negroes pay taxes on $l."i.000.000 in New Orleans and $;il).00J,0J0 in tlui state. lon e Laf.ni. u French quadroon, is worth $1,100. 000. Tlie Mercer lirotliers, clothiers, carry a stock of $.1)0.000. Missouri has twenty-seven citizens worth $1. OOd.OOO. 111 amounts ranging from $2J, 000 to $'.ViO,000. The r chest colored woman of the south, Amanda lCubanks, made so by the will of her white father, is worth $100,000, and lives near Augusta, (la. Chicago, tho home of 18,000 colored people, has three colored linns in busi ness whose proprietors represent $20,- 0)0 each, one $15,010 and nine 10,-000- Tlio Kastlake furniture company is worth $20,000. A. J, Scott has i?35.000 invested in the liverv business and is worth $100,00J, including a well stocked farm in Michigan. Airs. John Jones and llichard Grant are worth $70,000 each. A. G. Whito of St, Louis, formerly purveyor to tho Anchor line of steamers, after financial reverses, has since the ago ef 45 re trieved his fortunes anil accumulated $130,01)0. Mrs. M. Carpenter, a San Franc see) colored woman has a bank account of $50,000, and Mrs. Mary Pleasants has an inconio from eight houses in San Francisco, a ranch near San Mateo and $100,030 in govern ment Ijonels. tn .Marvsvillc, Cal. twelve individuals are the owners of ranches valued in the aggregate at from $150,000 to $1S0,000. One of them, Mrs. Peggy lh'edan, has besides a bank account of $10,000. These statistics show that the brother in black is making some headway in the world, He is learning to '-tote his own skillet." Exchttnye. Young Disciples of Zola. A trial which lias just taken plaeo in tlie Pas de Calais discloses in a sink ing manner the pernicious u fleet of cer tain hinds of literature on the weak minds of the young. Two cousins of 111, sons of comfortable fanners in tho department, had be.'n in the habit of reading sensat onal romances. One of them named Clement Muchenibl -d fell in love with a girl of 15 named Mane l.eelent, and their amours became the subject of some verses written at tho carnival time by a local poetaster. Those verses we're rather uncompli mentary to Clement, who consulted his cousin ilonry, a notary's clerk, about thorn, lie had received his copy of them from Marie Ledent, with whom he was accordingly fur.ous. Tlio two cousins armed themselves with long knives to ho like Fenuiinore Cooper's heroes, and called themselves by two Indian names used by that novelist. They had at first intended to hang or shoot tho g rl Ledent as she passed through a forest, but resolved to dispatch her with the knives instead. They soi.eel her one evening, and, having cut her throat, gashed her body in seventeen places. The young rascals had writ ten a long account of the murder and tlio circuinUances leaeling up to it, which they had entdleil "A Horrible Drama" The production showed touches of naturalism worthy of Zola. The miscreants have been condemned to fifteen yerrs' penal servitude each, and the r parents havo to pay X'3-'0 to the father ot the murdered girl. 'am Cor. London Tclajra h. His Creditors. "I am sorry you havo takon down tho window screens, madaiuo," said Dallawag. "I felt tolerably secure from being bored by creditors as long ns tho screens were in." Creditors!" "Ves, for tho last fow nights, thny have poured in and presented their bills, a elozon at a time. "Well, I'm sorry, I'm sure; but 1 haven't seen a soul call on you for 11 week. And as for coining through a third storv wiudow. vou must havo dreamed it." "O, no, 1 didn't; there is onoof them on the ceiling now, that I paid In full last night," repl ed Dallawag, as ho pointed to a gorged mosuuito on tho ceiling. Cart I'relzeVs Weekly. Feathers Aro Unhealthy. Don't liko your bed, Mr. Withers?" "No. ma'am, I do not," 'You're tho first boirdor I ovor had that kicked on the buds. It's an insin uation against my establishment, sir." Can't help it. Feather beds, too, for every boarder in tho house!" 'That's lust it I in satisfied that they're unhealthy." "reatlier been iiniicaitiiyr' "Yos, ma'am." "What makes you think so?" "That Miring chlolcon vou had for dinner to-day. He slept in feathers, and aee how lough he wasl" Chicago Led'jer, CURING HARD DRINKERS. J, l'lilliidolpliln Woman'M Wonderful Success In tlie Troittniciit ol Victims of Alcohol. What should be the treatment of vic tims of alcohol is a ipiestion, says The l'h.liuUlihia Times, wh eh has been discussed and argued for many jenrs ami is still undetermined. Various forms of treatment have been offered as the best and safest, but as yet there has been no specific remedy accepted by the world. The poor bummer who is whirled to the station-house in a patrol-wagon with his brain muddled with 5 cent rum. lies in his cell all night, and goes to Moyatnensing prison the next morning. Unless ho is actually attacked with delirium tremens ho is allowed to stiller the tortures of tho damned unattended by doctor or nurse until turned out. If ho has be come a nuisance to tho policemen tho bummer may bo sent to tho house of correction. There the eloctor doses him with bromido of potassium unt.l his nerves are c timed, and a few weeks' work in the epiarry makes a new man of him. There are retreats and sanitari ums and ri'Iorinalory homes bv tho score in an 1 about the city for inebri ates of social .standing ami wealth, and the hosp tals care fer the unfortunates who may be brought to them, but in all of them the attendance in furnished by men. In but one iustane is tlie physi cal care of drunken creatures devolved upon women. St. Joseph's hospital, situated at, Seventoentii street and Girard avenue, is a well-known institution, but fow uro familiar with the departm nt set aside for tlie cure and treatment of rum v e; tims. It has been in existence for nine years, under the supervision of Sister liuptista, whoso success has been re markable. Within the past two ve.irs although hundreds of in -n havo been under her chargo, from the raving maniac in the agony of elel rium to tlie harmless toper whose mind is incapa ble of frenzy, not a death has occurred. The department consists of twenty large, bright and airy rooms, and is comfortably furnished, with cheerful d ning, reading, and .smoking rooms. Appl cation tor a.linNs on is madelo the mother superior, but Sister Hap tista has thu department under her su premo control. Each patient is placed in her charge immediately em entering the hospital, and she al once assigns him to a room, makes a thorough diag nosis eif his case, and studies bis tem perament, in order to understand not only how to treat, but also how to con trol him in h s abnormal condition. From information and p.-isonal obser vation the sister eleeides up. 111 tlio man agement of each particular case. To this is largely due the wonderful suc cess that has attended her labors. It s a desperate e-aso that under Sister Hap tista's care and niauancineiit is not controlable within a week. Tho pre liminary st -ps taken she proceeds with the medical treatment, ke ping careful watch over patients who have reached a dangerous age and are w Id and ll.ghty. The first ot.j -ct is to secure the patient sleep and rest. With sloop, even though induced by opiates, the danger line is passed, and then the work of tenting up the nervous system and strengthening the stomach begins. Sister Haptista has reduced this portion of the treatment to perfection. As soon as slie considers it safe the patient is ollered light and nourishing soups, grind, eir beef tea, but they aro not forced on him, If he declines one another is placed before him. and if that fails to tempt his appeiite still another, and so on until something is found that Ins stomach responds to and will retain. After the first successful attempt tho appetite grows rap illy and the eligcst ive organs resume their functions. Then the patient beg ns to look and feel like himself, and generally within two weeks can elo full justice to three meals a da, with an occasional lunch con thrown in. Absolute rocovesry elu pen.ls in a great measure upon the con stitution iinel will-power of the man. The names and identity of patients aro sealed from the outsid 1 world, but a re cent patient g. ves somo interesting in cidents of the daily life of the depart ment. "It was astonishing and often amus ing," said he, "to seo tlio wonderful control S ster Haptista obta nod over patients whose braim wore racked by long dissipation and who would run n fear from their relat ves and fr,onds. I havo seen patients of this k 11 1 wuom two strong watchmen could not force into their room, at a weird from th s delicate little woman iju'oily go to their beds and beg the s ster not to lock them up. "In their preliminary treatment pa tients aro given 1 epior at intervals, am! it is pitiable to listen to their pleadings for an extra allowance, anil the argu ments with with winch they bos eg.) the sister. She listens to them patiently, reasons w.tli them good nature. Ily, but tho extra ration never follows unioss it is apparent that it is a nee tssity. here aro not a few who have boon sent out by Sister Haptista reloivd to health and recouped lor the dot es of life more than once to have them re turn in u few months or a year, agu 11 wrecked by ruin. A well-known and prosperous business man periodically enters tlie retreat when liquor has the best of him, in a fow days recovers his appetite and senses, and ruiurus to iiis famdy. A singular case is that of thu head of a leading I'hdadulp iia ineliis try, whom 1 saw there convalescing from the alcoholic malady. When ho became rational and was on the high roael to complete restoration, his wife, who had devotedly watched his treat ment, one morning insisted that he re turn homo, ns h s large business de manded Ids attention. It was agaoist Sister Haptista's judgment and advice, as she was niralil lie was not strong enough to resist temptation mid requir ed a longer probation from 1 epior. IIo left, however, looking br glilann cnur fill, and his wife accoiupauied him from thu hosp tal a very happy woman. That even ng he was brought back loaded with liquor and a fghjuol for furtu.-r repairs. "1 saw a young man not out of his teens, whose father sn ropoutod mur- i chant ntV?l whose mother anil s'stor idolize him, b -ought to this r. treat while I was there. se ora.v and un I nmi!i!oablo from a protracted spree I t hat it was nee 'ssary to lock him up. ' It was two ilav s b 'fore it was safe to leave him alone. He saiel he had been in drinker but a .short tini . but his I associates were stteh that it was one in 1 cessunt round of dissipation w.tli him. His parents had tried every wav to lead I him to .sobriety and lie had struggled I hard, but in vain, to please) them and I redeem himself. They had placed him under Sister Haptista's care, and he I was glad of it. for he believed that if he was once thoroughly sobered up ho I would not fall again. " At present lie is lining a responsible position in his father's establishment. "In striking contrast with his case is that of an old man over O'O years of age, who has retired from business with sonic $20,000 who has for years bo. u a regular patient of Sister Haptista. The whisky habit is chrou e with him, but as he has no immediate relatives or friends to nurse or care for him when he breaks down, from excessive drink, and as ho is harmless, he is roe -ived whenever he applies, Which is at frceptc nt intervals." A Novel Settlement. A City of Mexico correspondent writes: Up in the mountains, about twenty leagues from this capital, there is a "pueblo." or commuii.ty of pure Indians, winch is governe I bv six wise old men and s venerable women, who form a sort of patr. archill council, to which all the disputes or d Herenees occurring in the Village aro submitted for arbitration. In order to attain pa triarchal d gnity, a man must, during hisvoiith an 1 middle age have been honest, laborious, and truthful. The in. anarch must have brought up a fam ily of children proprlv, and never been given to lying, stealing or gossip ing. lu this pueblo each Saturday is sot apart for labors of love and charity. All the able-bodied men and women leave their own land or usual occupa tions anil till the grounds of the wid ows and young orphans, or else work torthe bcnetit eif the old, sick, blind, and helpless. Sum. 'times, when there is a large family of bos and the par ents can not give each land "whereon to raise his food," soin 1 energetic youth, who has heard of tho great world called "Alexico City." desire to go there to earn his bread and prehaps that, toei, of some dusky maiden whom he elesigns or hopes to wed. Tho fact that he does not know a phrase of Spanish rarely deters him; moreover, there are a few learned men in .Mexico CiU w lio understand the Ottouite lan guage. When the family of a young Indian has consented to the proposed exodus the patriarchs and the matriarchs hold a ".solemn comic.. I," wa.s and means are discussed, and then tho would-be emigrant is earnestly admon ished: "He) brave, honest, truthful, and industrious, and never disgrace your pueblo by any act unworthy an Otto nnc." The lad's departuro is a serious af fair. Tho entire community accompa ny h m to a certain boundary litt; and the "venerable fathers and mothers" bestow llieir benediction upon h in. In the cotirs) of tini ;. or whenever thu exile has a chance to send a m.tssago to his nat vo laud, tho "venerable father! and mothers" aro in teuilorlv remembered as Ins own ' blood kin' What Ailed Him. "Oh dear, doctor!'' cried out Air. Pauginpaunoh, "l can't stand these pains. Every now and then I gel. a sort of a cucumber yank that makes mu feel as if mv semi-colon was doing duty as gonlian knot. Is there no help for mo?" "I can tell better when I havo learn ed the came of your trouble. Have you been over indulgent at the table, Air. l'anginpaunch? ' ' Far from it, doctor! far front ouch! ni-m-in inighty, Goliah! what a yank that was. O doctor! do lull mu what is tlie ma tor with me." "F.rsl tell mo what you have oaten, my good sir!" "Nothing nn-uii-un Usual doctor. I took about my Whoopy! they've luni cel the crank again; I feel as if they were winding my duodenum on a wind lass There, there! Its letup again. Notli ng unusual, doelor. I had somo mulagal.iwiiy soup and somo vension and a hltlo tripe and a fow eggs, some potato salad, a do.en or two rice cakes, an oyster p e, a platter of eaulillowor, half a .lo.eii of sweet potatoes, a pint of ice cream and a watermelon. That's all, doctor.'' "That's all oh? Oh, then you're merely sufl'uring from an attack of hog cholera!'' Yonker.i Uutetto. Matrimony Day, "Matrimony Day" iu gedt ng to bo epi te an institution nt county fairs. A Now York count, fair rccontly gave a $500 wedding outfit to a couple who were marred on tho grounds. Hon. It. I'. Flower added $U0 from his pri vate purse and the railroad running to Niagara Falls passed the happy pair free to that groat curiosity una back. This is a rather high pruui tun to pav for gott ng two young people married, but a good deal less would no doubt ef fect thu object, in many instances. On the whole the malr inouinl feature of the comity fair cannot help proving an inturuitiug and excellent cue. Terra Haute Mail. Scandinavian Names. "Funny thing nbout my ancostry," said Ole Williamson, u son of Scandin avia, tlie other day. "Away back, my original ancestor was Ali Olesou, his sou was Ole Alison, and he named his boy Andrew Oleson. His sou was John Anderson; his sou Andrew Johnson. M grandfather was Jacob Hurgotrom, his brother William Stromberg. My lather was called Henry Jaeobson, and they named mu Ola Williamson." "Thou your sou?" 'Will bo William HenryBou." Chi cayo Ledger. BYRON AND BULWER. Tticlr Domestic Dlnicultlcs nr.d At . tempi nt Arbitration. In his "Heininiscenccs" just published S r Francis Do.v lo says that on two oc casions Ids father "hail to tako upon, himself the difficult and disagreeable task of arbitrating between a husband ami wife, anil that after a reconciliation hael become impossible1. Tho husbands in both cases were eminent men, though not ijuitc of eepial eminence. Lady Hy ron, an olel family frienel of ours, whun driven to desperation, applied to my father to act on her behalf." "Tins he did. Hut as ho felt bound in honor te) disclose nothing, the greedy our.ositv of the public must not expect any food from me, who know no mora than the-y elei. I can only tell them that inv father never repented of what ho had done. The one point I can speak of which appears to 1110 worth noting is this: Here were three men m father. Dr. Lushington. and Sir Robert Wilmot llortem, a cousin and early friend of Lord Hvron's. They were all three men of great ability, they were all three thorough men of the world, they wero all three men who had worked out their lives on perfectly ditVcreut lines. My father had been tos-eel about tin world from the time that he found himself 11 captain 111 the ariuv at 11; l)r Lushing ton was a distinguished Oxford man ami fellow of a college, whei bi came a highh -successful uihoeu'e; Sir Robert Horton, the cousin, a lounir) seiuiro of goeel position, afterward an able civiL servant and profess onal politic an. And yet these three men. so different in their antecedents and characters, were completely iu unison, and held that Lady H run had no choice except to sep arate herself from her husband! Thoy were, 1 said, all men of the world. In other wends, if Lady Hy run's anger had been roused eu discovering Hint Lord Hron was not an irrcprotuJinblu husband, they would, 1 am sure, have told her in very pia 11 language: "As you chose with your eyes open lo mar ry a man of wavward "genius, who is at the .same time the spoilt chilel of socie ty, you can not expect him te) behave exactly like a model archdeacon; you must accept the consequences of tmr own lashness, and try to touch" tho higher and better parts of his nature by gcntless and preserving all'cction." As they did not tako this course, 1 must leave le Lord Hvron's partisans to set tle for themselves how it came to pass that since these threo gentlemen, be ing the men they wore, if Lord Hyroti's conduct wore pardonable at all. never suggested lo his wife that she should pardon him." Again, many years afterward, ho at tempted te mediate between Lord and Lady Lyttem (shu was a cousin of ours), but iu vain. "Her temper was in such a state of inllainmatiou that she would listen to no moderate counsels, anil my father had to sit still under her furious in vectives wh 1st ilying of heart disease. 1 have always thought that by hor im placable egotism she shortened his life. Long after h.s death I put my resent ment on one side and tr oil to help her, but she soon became intractable. Lord Lyttou. who al wins behaved with per fect courtesy, both te my father and in sul f, ollered to increase her allow ance on certain conditions. 1 thought them reasonable enough; but the very mention of the word "conditions" drove her wild with rage, and a storm of abuse fell on my devoted head. Our intercourse enilcd'with a letter address ed to me with a hostile direction. Tim inside of the letter matched the out s ele, and 1 never saw or communicated with her again." Imagination Precedes Fact. At least two of tho amusing soion tilic conceits of that erratic French nov elist, Jules Verno. have this year boon proven to ho practical realities. Soma weeks ago wo gave an account of a new torpedo boat grimly named tho "Pcacoinakor," which actually sailed about under the waters of the Hudson with a crew aboard, after the ma iner of Verne's "Nautilus." Now, apro pos of that writer's "Around tho world in Highly Days" wo not uo that the steamer Alameda, of the Oceanic Steamship Company, arrived at San Franc sco October -', having mado tho trip between Sydney and that port in. twenty-three days, six and a half horns, the tastest time ever made. Thu steamer brought a mall which had just arrived at Auckland thirty-seven days from Loudon, and this ma I was for warded from San Francisco by train and is expected to arr vo at Liverpool October 10, thus making the trip around the world 11 sixty-nine days. While the voyage from England to Auckland requreil forty-two days, that from Auckland to England b way of San Francisco will bo made, it is expected, in live days loss, showing the advan tage of tho route by way of tho United States. Very possible aoruil navigation may bo real zed in a fow years after tho manner of "Five Weeks iu a Balloon," but it will l)o some tone before tho "Journey to the Alexin" is madu in a projectile. M. Verne is not entitled to be called a prophet. He has simply written iu the instances noted nbovo mom truly than he know. Do$tou Commercial Bulletin. Movements of Fast llorsco. An interesting statement has recent ly been worked out, showing tho dis tance a trott ng horse goes at each second ut various rates of speed. Maud S., when sho covcrod a mile in '2:083, traveled 41 1-3 feet por second. At 11 2.-20 ga t a horse travels 87 6-7 feet per second. At a 2:25 gait ha travels iltfj feet per secon I. At a 2:30 ga t lie travels JJ6 1-5 feet iu thu same time. At a 2:1)5 gait ho travols 34 1-6 feet; nt a 2:40 gait, tho ilislnaco traveled is 33 feet; at a 2:45 gait, 32 foot; ut a L'.Gogat. 31 1-17 feel; at a 2:55 gait. 30 1:16 feet. When going a mile in, threo minutes he travels over 29 feet pur second; at a 3:10 gait, 27 feet; at a 3:20 gait, 2G 2-5 feet; at a 3:30 gait. 25 1-7 feu'.; at a 3:40 gait, 2 1 feet; ut u 3:60 gait. 23 feet, and at & 4:00 gait, 2 feet per second.