Huron Record, 1880-12-03, Page 2DISASTERS AND CRIMES,
Lenge*, Mo., Nov. 17.-W1110 J. Morden,
a murderer under 'sentence of death, con-
fined in the jail here,has been ]released by
the sheriff's Kielce, a girl fifteen, years old, with
whom he has eloped. The girl has been the
prisoner's principal custodian of late. It is
.not thought probable that Martin will be
captured alive, as he is a desperate character
and armed with a Spencer rifle, which h,
took from the jail,
BOSTON, Masa., Nov. 17.-4 special Wor-
ceeter dispatch says it is rumored that two
powder mills or storehousesat Barre, Mass.,
exploded last night. The shook was distinctly
felt at Worcester. Nothing bas been heard
in Boston as yet; of the *extent of the, dis-
aster.
Onuses, Ont,, Nov. 17. -Mr, Swoetnam,
PoBtoffice Inspector, caused Francis. Mitchell
to be brought before the Police Magistrate
this afternoon on a charge of stealing letters
from boxes in the Oshawa postoffiice, which
had been left unlocked by the holders..
Mitchell admitted his guilt, and will be tried
tomorrow.
New Yeas, Nov. 18. -Major Nelson, army
paymaster,is. on trial on a charge of misap-
propriating the Government funds. Yester-
day he acknowle4ged his guilt of the embez-
zlement of (18,000, for which' ilia bondsmen
are liable.
TORONTO, Nov. 18. -.-The tailoringestablish-
ment.. of Wm. Muldrew, on King street was
burglarized early this morning, .and made up
clothing to the value of over 0100 -carried off,
Subeegnently 'Constable " Sheehan arrested a.
young man named George Adams,' a resident
of Lombard street, with the goods in his pos-
session. . •
Sam HARBOR, L. L, Nov. 19. ---Mrs. Brush
while drawing water from a well; fell headlong
to the bottom, a distance of 80 feet. She had
her neck broken and was killed. '.
Now Yon; Nov. 19. -The Tribune's Cum-
berland, Md., dispatch reports that Thomas
Mcdardeil, ex -City Clerk, and -it Democrat,
will publish a card charging thatFrankl3rady,
a miner; personated RobertLindsay in Price's
affidavit, and confessed thesame to McCar=
dell. The latter says that 'Brown, a :promi-
nent citizen and State Inspector of mines;'
was a witness to Brady's confession. •
CHICAGO, Nov. 19. -Yesterday the empties
train ran into a freight train, at Edgewood,
killing the conductor and' fatally injuring a
brakeman. •
MERRI rroN, Nov. 18. -Last might, aboiit.8
o'clock, a fire broke out in the carding room
of the Merritton Cotton Mills,.and would have
proven a disastrous conflagration bot for the
great efforts put forth by the hands andvil-
lagers, who, owing to the early hour, turned
out in large numbers • and succeeded in es.-
tin uishiu -it - -fihe laes-will„atao7tttt' WOO.
ghi' _ • h
ort ee t odsand'dollar "'beside s, d throwing
the mills behind 1n "the rbusie'st part-`ofItte•'
•
year.
"'- CINCINNATI,.Nov."18._KPitteburg•siispate"h
announcesthat a great fire is raging there.
It is said .that 'the works of. Wm. Bowen ds
Co. are deetroyed: ' The fire communicated to:
the confectionary establishment of Reynolds
Bros. and the ,Sportsmen Club building, and
threatens the destruction of the.whale Square,;
bounded by Wood street, Fifth' street and
Smithfield avenue. •
BUFFALO, Nov. 1.9. -Herman Schmidt the
Alleged husband of Mrs. Wahl°, : committed
suicide earlythis morning by. shooting him-
self through the head.
NE Yon11, Nov:19.-Maargaret'McDonough;
---of Williamsburgh, was --committed-for--the-
murder of her child, throwing it alive into a
vault, and Carrie Kenstler is held an:accoasory.
PRxaRoKE„Nov. 19.-A young man named
McDonald was accidentally, shot through the
heart at Fdrester's Falls afew days,ago while
scuffling with some friends with a loaded gun
in his hands.
LONDON, Nov. 19.-- James ' Hipks, .who
arrived in town from the north with •a flock
of 35 sheep was arrested on"•attempting to
sell the same, on suspiciot thathe had come
by them dishonestly. He professedto be a
butcher, and to have raised them, and; stated'
that there wore nine lambs when there: proved
to be 15. The flock were purchased at $5 a
piece, the money to be paid over Whet the
bank opened. The police, however, got wind=
of the transaction; and Hicks was *merged.
It was found that;on:driving through theta
gate this morning . Hicks. had no
money to pay the toll and, asked' the -gate-
keeper to collect the amount from'his.wife,
who would shortly come rip,: the keeper; •how-
ever, took one of the sheep as security. ,The
man has been remanded till Monday next to
sae if the matter is all right. .
O1ATTAN000a; Tenn:, Nov.. 18. -Captain
O'Neil's saw and gristmill, a mile from Sterne
son, Alabama, was blown up to -day by the
bursting of the boiler, and was totally de-.
etroyed. Two white and two • Colored' men
were killed; and two' colored men probably
fatally and two. white men seriously wounded.-
The pause was carelessness of a negro 'engi-
neer.
New Yoax, Nov. 19. -The body of a man,
supposed to be Andrew J. Gillen, •the niur-
dorer of Miss Mary Sigerson, was found' in
the water at Clifton, L. I., today.
John Bowden; a sailor, who was taken from
his sinking vessel in mid -ocean by a perusing
steamer and brought to this port, died of
starvation on Wednesday. His stomach had
been so long without food .that it rejected
nourishment. Some of the orew had died of
starvation before•the_ steamor•took'off the sur-
vivors, who were all in : an - ema'ciated condi-
ion, The vessel was a Glasgow bark,•bouna
from St. Domingo to New York. • •
Tbirty.four robberies have occurred in the
township of East Orange, N. J., during the
past four months. ' The . residents are
greatly alarmed and have formed a citizens'
protective association, witli;a view of arming
men to patrol the streets at flights
LAORAWAxEN, Pa., Nov. ; l9. -Burglars en-
tered the house of Joel 'Shannon early this
morning, and after chloroforming the in-
mates, ransacked the apartments. ,Mrs. Shan-
non will likely die from the effects of the drug.
New Yonit, Nov. 19 --lt is reported to the
palioe that Sarah Walsh, aged 19, had been
poisoned by drinking sothe water in which
opium had been placed by an 'unknown
person.
COLUMnus, 0., Nov. 19. -The . pay cat of
the•Hooking Valley Railway, when clear Lan -
easter to -day, collided with a train on the
Cincinnati '& Muskingum Valley Railway,
wrecking both trains badly and fatally iota
-
Mg the engineer of the Hooking engine,
CHICAGO, Nov. 19. -Edward Powers con-
fessed tonight to having shot and killed a
Chinaman, Yee Mon, and claiming that he
acted in self.defense,
Pam .DELpz is., Pa., ,Nov. 20. -Nearly all
the passengers in the Bleeping oar from
'Washington on Thursday night were robbed.
The amount stolen aggregated $7,000.
MArav1LLR, Ky., Nov. 20.-Cyrus4 Ewing
yesterday stabbed attd killed Reuben Gaunt,
4
against who he had a grudge. Both were
colored, .;
Columna, Tenn,, Nov. 20. -Emanuel Johns
son (colored), a section hand on the Nashville
do Decatur Railroad, shot and killed the fore-
man, John Booth (white), because Booth dies
charged him, Tohnson will bo lynched if
caught,
New Yoas:,Nov. 20. -Mrs. Careline Janes,
an aged lady, wee, knooked down on her ewn
doorstep fast night, and beaten, gagged and
robbed of, 0400 in money and a package of
jewelry. The money was ,the savings of 'a
lifetime, and was carried in a belt around, her
waist, the lady being afraid totrust the
banks. The robbers escaped.
Hamm, N. S,, Nov. 20.-A terrible acci-
dent osourred on the western bound train to-
night, near Newport station, by which a.
brakeman named G. Riley lost his life. He
is supposed tb have fallen while passing over
the train. Hie head and legs were severed
from the body.. He has relatives in Corn-
wallis and leaves a wife and children,
NEW YORE, Nov. 20, -Henry Van Asbern,
a. railroad employe, aged 32, •residing in West
Hoboken, murdered his wife early this morn-
ing,- kicking her to heath. Vaii-Aebern has
been arrested. He says they did not live happily
and thatboth were drunk and quarreled. He
also *aye that his wife was. enciente. • The
only % liners of the primo was the murderer's
eight-year-old eon. After kicking her in the
face and abdomen and neck, Van Asbern
washed the blood from his victim anddragged.
her by the hair .into a bed. She was comely
in dppoaauoe, but her face was'badlybruised
and mangled. The murderer had previously
borne a good character and has three children.
He expects to be hanged.
BexamvILLe, Nov. 20. -William Hazelette,.
a resident of Tyendenaga, on Tliuraday laid
information against three men, one of. whom
is named Munro and the other two Markle,
charging them with having assaulted and
hottest him with wagon stakes whilst driving
home. He was left' for dead on the road;:but
was picked' up and cared for by some persons
passing.
Poeassrouxrl, N. H., Nov. 20. -The body of
William Calory, a seaman attached to the
schooner J. J. Clark, was found in the mrd
near Trediek's wharf this morning. There
are suspicions of foul play. •
THE PRAIRIE PROVINCE.
Election it Winnipeg -. Meeting of the
Legislature -Buffalo.
Wninzezo, Nov: 18. -The date of holding
the local election for Winnipeghas been fixed
forDecember 4th. Premier Norquay, in ad-
dressing a meeting in the interest of Mr.
Iiewell,-announced-•-that--a•--writ-had be'on'
-issunoroinadour: mak:fixed ibr he=
27th inst.; atd polling for December 4th. Be•
aide "saidtliat" at tliei eneuing`ees'siotr of -the"
Dominion Parliament measures would be sub-
mitted fortheextensionof the boundaries of
the province.
The Official Gazette. issued last. night
summons tothellfanitoba•Legislature to meet
in this city on December.lGth,:for the dispatch
of business, • The house will probably sit a
short time, and then adjourn. The• Tinter
assigue.as anent: for'._ tho.aaserabling of the.
representatives at this early date; .that it
for the passage of : legfsliition connected with
the proposed extension of the boundaries of
the province, in order to enable a; concurrent
measure to.be carried through • the Dominion
Parliament at its enaning'sessi'on. •
" -Bus a are reports• as plentiful on Uans-
dian •territory, forty- miles east'of Fort• Walsh,
and numerous herds have been observed' mov=
lug in . a northwesterly direction from Deer
River ' to the South .Saskatchewan. . This
augurs well for the successful solution' of the
Indian question for another year, as failing it
the entire Indian population would be thrown
on the charity of the Government to prevent
their starvation. > ,
• WHAT IS A COLI? BATH?
•
The season of the year when very many
people who have experienced pleaauro .arid'
advantage from a daily cold bath have to dis-
Continua the practice is come... Monthswill
elapse before the return of genial weather will
allow of their indulgence • in what may be
termed man's natural stimulant. Amongthe
young and robust there aro a large number,
who are able to bathe. even in the'.depths.-of
winter ; • the advantage of so doing is, how-
ever queeitionable. Bu. lot . jt ,be, once well
uhderatood what a cold bath really is.. and
the course by.which.we can avoid Scylla and
Charybdis will be obvious. A cold bath is
not necessarily a bath. in water. of the tem-
perature of the atmosphere: A bath•is truly
and really cold when it produces a .certain
physiologica . effect - a:• alight momentary
shock' followed by a pleasant and lasting re-
action. These effects are for'the majority
of people 'meat pleasantly obtained by
bathing in water about 35 0 'to
40 ° below the' temperature.of the
body -the usual temperature of unheated
water ;iia June'and 'July. Bearing this; in
mind we can enjoy our physiological " gold"
bath as safely and pleasantly at Christmas as
at midsummer, and' there is. no necessity for
the most:timid or weakly to discontinue his
morning tub•because the summer weather is
over, When: the water sinks below a temper-
ature of 600, let it be boated; to that point
and then used, and we shall still have our
"cold" bath, though of heated' water.The<
daily stimulant•effect of such a bath is so'
beneficial to tlier•,r "d•Phiajority of,pereone and
is of such marked eervioe in maintaining
health, that it is very important to have it
widely known that a.00ld bath may be• taken
all the year round, provided cold is not wits.,..ta I.te mean "at the temperature of the
outer air." To heat our bath during the
winter months is too often. thought to to un-
manly, while in,reality it is truly scientific,
and to bathe in unheated water all the year
round, whatever the temperature that water
may be, is to prove one's self an ignorant
slava of outward circumstances --Lancet.
SHEIK ABDULLAH.
He Proposes to Make; the Kurds an In-
dependent People.
A gentleman connected with the American
Mission at.Oroomiah has Piet furnished the
nubile with the first authentic description of
the aims, object and extent of Kurdish move-
ment in Eautern Persia. He finds its
origin. in the long cherished schemes of Sheik
Abdullah, The deference paid this Kurdish
chief by the Turks is due to the exalted rank
given him by the Soonnu Moslems through-
out Tyrkey; Arabia and even Africa. He is
esteemed the third dignitary of the Faith,
being next in rank to the Sheriff of Mecca.
The Kurds have Come to regard him as their
great prophet, and accord him implicit obedi-
ence,. He is undoubtedly a. man of large ability
and much tent. It had "been °evident for a
long time that he had designs on Persia.
Last year he attempted to resist the Prince
Governor of Oroomiah on his way through
certain border districts principally Kurdish
in population to collect ; the rev-
enues, The matter was 'then compromised.
This year he tried by diplomacy to havo those
districts placed -ender his control, guarantee-.
ing their revenues to the Persian government,
His eon, Sheik Abdel-Kadir, ' spent some
time in Oroomiah thissummer negotiating
on this point ; but the remit was' unsatisfac-
tory, and the Sheik determined to try the
issues of war. His design was thought to be
ono of allying ' the Christians with him,
-with a view to contemplated expulsion of the
-Turks.from-Kurdiah territory.. He considered
that autonomy was' as good for Kurds as for
Bulgarians, Armenians and Albanians. $e
knew he was"able to help themto noire it
without begging assistance from any foreign
power. He had a small supply of breech-
loaders, gathered up from the debris of the
Turkish lame in Armenia, and the Persians
had none: Ile was shrewd enough to oulti-
vate;friendly relations with the American mis-
sionaries. for the sako.of tlieirconnection with
British consuls. - •He asked for a profession-
al visit from their medical' missionary. He
returned themtwo or three horses which his
subjects had stolen. He assured them of
his purpose to rule with animpartial hand
as between Moslems and Christians, and the
Christiaps near him testify that of late years
he has treated them well, though itis only
about fifteen years ago he pulled down one of
their ancient churches to build a mosque on
the site. The Nestorian Archbishop residing
noir him, a timid man, is greatly overawes
by him, and is always afraid the Shiek may.
find some provocation for,,turning his ireful
despoticpower against him. For Shiek Ab-
dullah is a stern ruler, andoertainly hassome
ideas °•of,justice and right governp�ent-,q_uite
far -sign -to. and Persiat courts of Jus-
tin.. `Herat one Virile-out-oif•the$ead of -tem•
of his subordinateswho was found to have
taken a bribe Tn •personal appeerattn-he is -
dignified 'ails pleasing,` and foreigners ":ivhe
have Visited him have found him very agree-
able and communicative: ''And, apart from
the man and his aims, the establishment of
an independent and powerful Kurdish state
lea matter that will:attract deep attention in.
'Europe. Its bearings -'upon - the Christian
populations that will fall within its borders
.aro fvery serious nature. It is a new East-
ern question Of scarcely` loss iimpo'rtauce;,than-
the one that has so long engaged Euiopean
attention'' ' .' • • , •
U1 I I tie91 AND 11418 I.AMlT tlNOW
they gather in their dance horses to ling'
to -ah" a ceremony which consists of
dancing around thefire and relating,.
f.•a kind of song or chant, to the musie of
a drum, their deeds ,pf daring in the
past and indulging in promises of
still more glorious ' ones in the future
The result of the conflict, however, is not
always in the Indian's favor; the beer porno -
times • gets the best o1 it and handlesthe
savage very roughly. Warsaw several natives
who bore the marks of very severe scalp
wounds, received in encounters with bears
One Been at Hotham Inlet was, terribly muti-
lated.
Polar boars•are round listributed.overnoar-
1y the entire ocean. They are generally on
the ice or in the vicinity, although instances
are recorded of their being found at sea fifty
riles from any land or ice.. They grow to an
enormous size, Of six killed by us during
the cruise the smallest would weigh -at least
nine hundred pounds and the largest some
thousand pounds. . They swim rapidly when
pursued and seek to escape by diving, but can
remain under tho'surface only a few seconds.
When_yvounded they almost- invariably --tern
and show fight --Captain Hooper.
LATE NEWS NOTE.
The -panic caused by the earthquake at
Agram is subsiding,
Three thousand inhabitants liave'left Du1-
oigno owing to the.searoity of food., •
Disastrous floods , are reported at various
parts.-afItalggepsed by_a.deludge of rain.
The Italian revenue receipts for, the present
year exceed the budget estimates by ten 'mil-
lion lire.
A mutiny among the prisoners in jail at
Dartmoor, County Devon, on Friday, was sup-
pressed after two convicts had been killed.
At a large free trade meeting at Madrid a
demand was made for the reduction of customs
tariffs, with a view ofobtaining concessions
from other countries.
George Augustus •Sala says of Edwin
Booth : " I went away with the conviction
that I had seen a very conscientious, refined,
and appreciative, but somewhat old-fashioned
Hamlet;"
TheyWesleyane are preparing for a great
oecumenical congress of. the chief- repreeenta-
tivee of their faith, and at which .. delegates
will be present from France, Australia' and
America, representing a million members of
the W eslyan .Church. •
A Paris dispatch says it is announced that
590,000. Panama canal shares will be issued
at 500 francs each The issue will . take
place in America, in London, Amsterdam,
B_etlin.,_-and...Switzerland bathe will,
probably be. made in Paris on the'llth of De-_
cembor
•
A 'Copstanti4ieple• • dispatch says: Two
'thousand -Turkish troops -have .:been_sent_to •
Volo. ,Tho members of the Albanian.League
at Scutari continuefavorable id the session.
of Duleigno but the chief of the Leaguoraises
difficulties it the way of carrying the;plan to
fulfillment, � '
A•Paris dispatch says In tae Chamber. of
deputies Ori Saturday, M.'Chauveau"(Bonapar.
tist) complained that President Gambetta had
disregarded the rules of the House: in the
Baudry-d'Asson-affair.: M-,Gambotta; nhaL_
aeterised the action of the. 'bkpolled deputy
and his friends as rebellion. o
A Vienna dispatoli-says : Four thousand.
AustrieeermanConstitutionalists met •here
Sunday and made an impoain demonstration
against.. the federalistic ten. envies -o -
Government.-- Resolutions 'were-,passed=`de
glaring that.ihe_foderalistio tend'encies.of_'the
Solana are dangerous, to Austrian unity and
calculated to sow discord between the nation='
attics. ' .
A dispatch from Teheran nye the excite-
ment among the .. inhabitants .of Urumyiah
against the Christiane, eepeoially the -.Ameri-
can missionaries, for their supposed compli-
city with the Kurds :is increasing. • ' The
Christians, however, have convinced, "the
Persian authorities that' their suspicions, are
baseless. Two thousand'bodies are lying Un-
buried in the environs of ;ousebolak.• The
death of the Persian commander•in•ohief is
confirmed.
Earl Baconsfield's new novel "Itlndymion"
will be published toward the end of this
month.. It hae been generally' reported that
Mr. Gladstone was to figure in ts.pages; and
possibly to .bcamentioned in as complimentary.
a fashion as -Professor Goldwhi Smith was in
" Lothair." ` But upon the very best.. author-
ity it is stated that this is not the case. The.
Longmans have paid £10,000•for ..the .Jnanu•
script. No such price was ever heard of tib-
iae for a novel. The interest of the literary,.
social and political world is concentrated on
the new book, the first edition of . which • will
be of twenty, thousand copies: ^ '
Le Courrierdu..Canada editorially announces
that a company is being fermed''for the eon:
struetion of a railway, from' Quebec to Murray
Bay by way of Ste. Anne do Beaupre, and that
an aat of incorporation,will likely•be asked
for the next session, of the ]coal House. It ie
expected the pilgrims to and from Ste. Anne's
will be 'a large source of revenue, and that
theoounties through which the lino will pass
will ytiliee it to bring, their products to mar-
ket. •
Oh ! mamma ! Is°it snowing ?" •
"Yes, darling, it has just begun." •
"Isn''t-it nice, mamma-;-you-know'wanted
to live to hear the sleigh -belle again."•
"Hush, my.ohild,. mamma will not let you
die.: No, darling; you shall have many sleigh
rides yet before;you die."
"No, not :many, mamma ; if T could just
have one it would be so him." .
It•was ast Tuesday and alittle girl whobad
seen' 'the snow. come and go nine times lay
dying in her humble 'hone on St. Antonia
street- Weeks and weeka'the fever had burned
within her; and its fierce fire showed itself in
the deep. blue eves ifnd the lovely; ;innocent
face. The mother, an ever conatant' watcher
at the suffe'rer's pillow, had never given up
hope, but the child with that knowledge which
seems to come. to all before death,: knew'_ she
would never join her merry playmates=overon
theca pool ground. Day. by day .ars .the fevei
burned sfie had wished for the snowto edam
and when the white, flakes. fell the other da
the loving mother changed the child's
pottition that she might, unwarned,
catch the *first glimpse , of the fleecy
snow.' The child gazed outinto the
flurried air'long:and earnestly and then when
the pain made her writhe, she turned at ap-
pealing look to the sad; faced mother and
said : .
'' But, -mamma, I ddn'tbelieve I shall ever
have another sleigh -ride. Now promise me
if this, snow is on the ground when I"div
you'll have my coffin carried to the grave ox
a sleigh.".
Why, my sweet child, why do,you make'
such a request ? . You shall not die -you wil
grow better to -morrow."
But, mamma,'' promise me, •will you
Please mamma, please."
"Yes, darling, yes."
Oh, thankyou, mamma -that's so nice..
See,,it is growing dark outside. Pull the bed
nearerthe window, mamma, so that I ein see
the' street lamp. There, secs-the-eflakes-
they glisten just-liko-diamonds.: It will be
sleighing in the morning, mamma;nndl shall
hear the belle." - • "
;Like the snow flake that falls upon , the
warm earth, she molted awayand no one
knows whether she woke to hear the mucro
and Bells on that Morning we shall all oae
day open our. eyes upon.
Yesterday passers-by turned to look at a
small funeral procession, and wondered why
the undertaker had put his hearse upon run-
nel's so early in the season. -Detroit .Free
Press. • •
There are 170;pupils attending the even-
ing classes of the School of Art and Design of
Montreal, The claesos are free:
---The Freeman's Journal, Dublin, nye :
We urge the Land League to make war
without quarter upon assassins and akulkers,
not for the sake of their own character, which
is not at stake with rational mon, but for the
interestof their' agitation,which is. If the same
Gazette which' probably will offer a reward of
£1,000 from the Crown for the apprehension
of the Skibbereen'murderers announced a re-
ward of 41,000 from the Land League . for
the acme o'bjeet, the League would be using
their matey Wisely and would promote the
object for which- it was subscribed, They
have more to fear than the landlo ds from
revolvers in the Laude of madiuen.'
IIl►WINNIJITBEA/i9.
These Indians live lttyhunting bears; moose,
wolvice and reindeer and trap mink and foxes.
In the summer they hunt with guns ; in the
winter,'when game cannot run fast •
on ac-
count of now, the bow and arrow are used.
Black bears aro killed with a knife or spear.
It is considered disgraceful to shoot : them.
When an Indian meets a black bear, he ap-
proaches within a few . feet ; the bear stops,
faces him and rises on hie haunches prepared
to give him a hug. The Indian then draws
his knife with great deliberation, and address-
ing the bear 'says, ." i know you are not
afraid ; but neither am T. 1 am as brave res
you are." Then advanoing cautiously' he im-
proves the first opportunity when bruin is off
his guard to give him a thrust with the knife
in a vital spot, and the gavage has one more
deed of valor to boast of to hie friend's when.
ILIO W.. A U;i'11O1iO 'WORK.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich writes his stories
over three times before they go:to press. -Tse-
change Shakespeare, Dickens, and Thad`lt.
Bray wroth rL ir$ feet' brief linea" only once,
but they "'Wee/if no acoount compared with
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. --Troy Press.
The Press take a little wide of the mark in
this matter. How Shakespearewrote no man
can tell. ,His method are ae shadowy as his
manuscripts. Dickena•we know to have .been,
with all his apparent ease, a most careful and
laborious writer, interlining and erasing al-
most as finically ne Balzao. Thackery, on
the other hand, used to cover;hiti paper with
all sorts of figu'ros and fantaatio shapes before
he began to write at. all; That he was a. pains-
taking writer is self-evident. The fact of the
matter is, it is only shallow, gloppy, ephem-
eral writers, who dash off So many pages by
the hour and novels by the year. The work
that lives' is the result of hard, patient study,
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ORO, OARDNER'9 Latt16-1KRLl'1
• '(Detroit Tree Pressed
" Lae' nice de ole woman an' I went •out to
atten' a leetle banquet at de home of a nay -
bur;" began Brother Gardner es the dust
settled down. " ring's was movie' off as slink
as a boy siidin' down a cellar door when ole
Judge Spooner remarked .dat it was an airly
fall,. Attorney -General Blossom replied dat
he'd aeon a good many airiier falls clan dia. A
dispute sot in den an' dar; an' afore it ended
seberalguests had der' heads punched an' de
feStiiities war' broken up. It as cum from
two men, disputin ober suthin' of no conse-
quence, an' suthin' bate war' ignorant about.
You will notice dat de less some men know
about fings de more •sot dey will be in argy-
went. Dey seem to imagine dat load talk an'
obstinacy will kiver up want ob knowledge.
De puason who am ready to fight ht defense
ob his argyment feels de weakness ob his side.
De Olsson who atioks to a And bekase ho said •
it was so am a bigot an' not worf mindin'.'
Argyments keep,prinoiples burnished up, but
dar-sen a dividin' lint' between argyment an' - -•
abuse, .'Seo to it dat you deals' cross die line. ,
De man who can't argy en' not lose, his tem:
per am too -weak minded to be convinced by
argyment. De man who won't reasonam a
bigot.. De man who can't be convinced. am
a fool'an' shouldn't be meddled wid twice.,
Wo 'will, now puma arta. do reader pro- . '
gramme,"
-ETITIONS.'
There More sixteen petitions on the Secre
tary's dosk, representing ten States .and the
Indian Territory, The most interesting came
from Now Orleans, and read as follows ., .
GxNTs,-I am known as the•great Southern
Mocking Bird. I imitate twenty.fonr species
of birds, from the stately ostrich to the tiny ,
canary. I, warble; I carol. • I twitter. "I
ebitter. I break forth into sweet song. My a
business standing can be certified to here in
the custom' house. My moral: standing will be
guaranteed by the First African, Baptist
Church of this city. ' I believe I would be a
'valuakle addition to your club, and I there.
fore forward my humble application..
Very' truly,
PAaxionatT8 dorms. A. M.'
Gen. Piebald Smith arose and said that, he
could vouch for the cbaraoter of the applicant,
havingknown hint for the past ten years, and
on his motion the rules wore suspended and
Mr.' Jones was placed among the candidates
for election, ' •
- • ore A0AIN.
The•Committee on Harmony reported that
the Concord School of Philoseophy and the •
Chicago Chamber of Metaphysics • were again
bythe•ears,:and-had•asked"•the-assistancethe Lime -tile Club to settle their dispute..
The. Conoorders held that nature' couid not •
make a • mistake ;- the Chicago philosophers
contended that she' could be thrown off her
bal`ano 7--Noither World rettede "the 1Fo.•-•
eition taken and the club was appealed to,
"I wish de dispute had bin•on de' anbjeot
of been: or'taters," observed the'old man as
he soratobed the paid spot on his head:. "Kin
nater' be.frowed•dffher balance? Dat's'cot
din' to haw we look at it.' If I've got inycorn
planted an'; hung up ie hoe an' 'long comes a
week's rain, I pat de • ole gal on de bank: If . ` •
my naybnr war jietready to plant, he,gin..de,:'
o e ady away in ferocious language an kions
de dawgall ober de•house. De(knead folkaas
should. change dar' assertion to : Nater' can
not favor one -without offendin' ander. As to
de second,•>Natur',has :no pertiokle track to'' `•
abble-on-;-one-day am' gloms an de nes'
Wet.. She -roars an' raves, an' she sings an''
sighs., an' wehave.to take it its it Domes.'She
hes no balance, an' she can't be depended on;
Darfore de Chicago folkses should give wagon
de original dispute an? sot 'up de. -claim dat
Natur' am erratic.: De dub will den be in full
sympathy wid'em, fur,wp have seen '']even'
sorts of weather heah*in two days, an' ,party
short days, too." '
USE.
moCarniveioua 'Mozart,,.a leading citizen of
Cohoes, N. Y., „forwarded a " communication
In which lie, stated that be was the inventorof
a hew method for faete5 eg bootstraps, ands
he. desired to pass over half his interest in the
inventipn'to".the 'club, in• ease it would go in
with hien and secure a'patent and work up 'a
demand for the'now style.
" De Sekretary will let him down softly,.
but at the -same time inform him dat the
club can't. see' any mony in it,':" replied- •
Brother Gardner. ."Factis as we all know,•
straps am' fastened' to bate -legs merely, for'
chow. !When it.00mes down to biznoet., de
bizness man cut holes in de bute logs for hie •
angers, an' de butes have got to come on or'
the uppers give way.".
, DON'T BELme I a IT.'• . -
. Under ilato ,oft Selma, Ala., Shadrach
Shakeshin, a prominent colored man in that ,
locality, informed the club that a' strange and
a relent darkey, calling himself the.. " New
Heater," was passing about among hie • race'
ail 1 eretondiug to work miraculous cures by •
the' laying on of, hands, burning locks of theirwool, burying their stockinge, etc; His cap-
ital in trade was' the statement that he had
cured Col. Higham, of the Limo•I iln Club of
the habit of stuttering by'givinghim u' -pow • • .
der to wear in his boots for a week. •
"' I b -b -b -rend d-dat as a f-f-f-alsthood i"•
exclaimed the Colonel from his seat down the .
hall.: • •
.' " If he ober triad it on ;de.Kernal be failed,
n' failed bad," remarkedthe President, "De ,
culla race better lot sick ole pokes •alone," •,
embalm new. •
• The janitor begged leave to state that ho
had received at the hall during the past week, '.
at the hands of a prominenteitizon of 'Toledo,
the tomahawk worn by Tocumseli when that
great chieftain went to grass to rise no snore: -
Ho had' 'started to take it home ,to put a
handle in it and sharpon it up, but had lost it
on'the'street. • Ho was very sorry, he said,:,
and was willing to buy the next gallon of
kerosene out of his own funds.
The hall .grow• still as death as hp ceased
speaking. A long minute paned before Brother
Gardner rose and said :.
"Do man who accepts. a posiahun of•pub•'"
lie trust an' confidence mus' anffer if ho re-
laxes his vigilance. While we. kin replace dis
tomahawk wid forty or fifty oddcrs car'd by;
do old.injun when be fell, wo.mus' not ober
look de fuck dat our trusted otlishnl was' lax •
in his Booty. • 1 shall darforo fine him $400
an' oasts 1"
The janitor sank back in his chair, shaking..
in every limb and vividly realizing that his
Christmas stocking would be as empty as
apace, and the triangle Bonneted to close the
meeting, It is probable that an effort will be
made by the friends of the victim to have the
fine re mod at the next mee ng, aghe could
net 'pay the Num as it stands a day under 142. '
years. .
--The grain orop f Italy is this year
larger by ono -third than in 1879. .
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-The Montreal Telegraph Company has
disposed of its interests in•tho telephones in
the Dominion to'the Bell Telephone Com.
"puny for. $75,000. Soong to be money in the
Hello business.
-The boys in the gallery of a St. Louie
theatre did not like the 'Lemilia in "Mazeppa.'
They hissed and hooted at her a' while, and
finally tore up the bombers, the fragments of
which they throw at the unfortunate actress.
She was hit by manual of the Missiles, and
the performaneo camelato a riotous dote. ,
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