THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. IV. NO. 35.
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W.C. SWIITH Charlotte NC,
Fatal Errors.
Successful Merchant —“I have no
lit ili< r need of your services, sir.
> w < lerk—“Eli! What’s happened?”
. ou Lave been here but one day and
have already cost me two good cus
tomers.”
‘*My giaeious! In what way?”
Von addressed Miss Skindundbones,
tli i old maid lteiress, as ‘Mrs./and you
> • Mrs. Swectsixteen, who was mar
; < i last week, ‘Miss.’” —Omaha World.
.list til I 111.
in 178*. Captain Phillip took posses
o i of the whole island continent of
. Ualia in the name of King George,
iI, total area of Australia, including
an«l, is 3,075,238 square miles,
aim-.- precisely the area of the United
; and thiriy times thatof the United
.•loin. The white population, at the
tnd of ! .'* was 3,307,430, and increased
by ihe surplus of births over deaths at
tli rate t.f 07,004 in one year. The
nimuicr of immigrants from all countries
v. . I: hut the emigration is also
■ .i-al, a d the excess of those remaining
ua only ‘‘VI?. Australia, therefore,
would only increase by about a million
in every eight years; hut the tide of pop
ulat on is setting at last in its direction.
The total revenue is $117,500,000. or
m-ariy $lO a head, almost three times the
Lriii.-b average; blit the total expendi
ture > higher still, and the total debt
r:s"> to tin: enormous sum of $765,000,-
o o. That will he a danger hereafter;
but, as yet. Australia possesses an unas
sign d ("state of eighteen hundred and
In ix million acres, and lias raised in
; j,, r tin* first discoveries more than
double her debt. Much of the Austra
lia a- ate estate suffers from want of
w. . but it is noticed that, as immi
push in. the ‘desert” recedes,
[’.din all but the worst districts irriga
te . i possible. The belt round the
hm :. known to lie fertile, would sup
port fifty mill ons with case.
Strange Discoveries.
i, (ii tca have toads been found in
«l , ,j b, ...| d bodies that it is not sur
i.ri ing to lead in a Scottish paper that
s'-rvant, while breaking a large piece
f c -il for the tire, was startled to find
ia the ntre of the block a full-grown
v ad. which appeared to be in excellent
1. Hi- jjinl pints. A less < ommon dis
. wi made in Birkenhead. A
gcntlcMit there was presented with a
, dv. ti.m . which appeared to be
]' rf<; ■ in every ?e#|»cct. After the
1., jj. w.u boiled, he discovered a niece
of i. d-tone imbedded in it about three
ipiartcrs of ar. in- Il in tenth, half an inch
in width and a quarter of an inch in
thickness. * Longman?* Magazine.
After Seventeen Years.
At Pri ibe g. in Saxony, a native ot
booth A meric • was a pup 1 of the Miners*
■ li-iny. ’Mi ll'll" win "ngii'.'Cil to »
iriri. Ilu\i •; ii'iiciklj' mean, of .upport
i',o left witliiml lmr, (irtmiißiDK to fetch
j„. r , . ~,,u hi. income would allow-
The - ; irl waited patiently seventeen
yi |... Win ti < lirimma* eve *et in nhe
wa- mii j r *ol liy the Hidden rcap|ie»r
--»n-c ~r'her Ion;; tnived lover. He had
atlivl -«i i ed a cerla'n income large
•'Dough to iiep'iitlhem in luiurr, and
the happy couple arc now on their way
t? their new hoiii,,~-AVI, Yvrk J’rtHi
FARMS AND FARMERS.
Short Talks With the Men Who Guide
the Flow.
Os General Interest toFanuem.
Depth For Planting Seeds.
The proper depth for planting seeds is
not to be determined by the greatest
depth from which they will come up and
reach the surface successfully. A plant
may struggle and reach the surface so ex
hausted that it never recovers its vigor,
and though it may not die, yet never at
tain perfect development. The condi
tions of life whilst under the ground,
and after it has come up into the light
and air, are quite different. Under the
ground it lives upon the food stored up
for it in the seed, drawing nothing from
the soil, perhaps, but water. The heat
in the soil is the motive power xvhieh ex
cites it into activity. When it gets up
into the air an entirely new set of opera
tions begins. Like everything else it
tends to lose moisture by evaporation;
the water which thus escapes is replaced
by more absorbed from the soil, and with
this absorbed water comes into it food
from the soil. Its leaves bathed in the
air, draw in carbonic acid from the at
mosphere, and w ith the aid of sunlight
build up, out of it and the elements of
water, new tissues. It thus Incomes an
independent existence. Whilst under
the ground it was dependent under its
mother’s milk (the food laid up for it),
now it can forage for itself. If planted
too deep, the food laid for it may be ex
hausted Ik*fore it can reacli the surface:
in that event it perishes; or it may fall a
little short of this, and reach the surface
with its parts imperfectly developed—
its leaves small, its stalks slender; or
still farther, it may reach the surface be
fore its supply of seed food is exhausted,
and proceeding to gather food from the
atmosphere, receive no cheek and not be
come stunted in its growth.
Natures mode of seeding is to drop the
seeds on the surface, and trust to their
being covered by rain, or alternate free/
ings and thawings, or by insects disturb
ing the soil, or other agencies of like na
ture. Whilst this is an uncertain mode,
and calls for a large amount of seed, be
cause so great a portion is liable to fail
ure of covering, it indicates very clearly
that nature's method is shallow covering,
and that the organization of plants is
adaptod to shallow* covering. Just
enough covering to secure the necessary
moisture is the plain indication. Espe
cially is this true early in the season when
moisture near the surface is abundant,
and heat (the motive power) is greater
than at lower depths As the season ad
vances moisture retires from the surface
and heat penetrates deeper down, and
seeds must Ik* planted deeper, but the
loose dry nature of the soil above them
enables young plants to reach the surface
more easily than when the soil is wet
and cold. So much for theoretical con
siderations—practice, however, confirms
them—careful experiments with planting
seeds at different depths show that for
the larger seed, like corn, wheat, oats,
etc., ope or two inches covering give
the most vigorous plants and largest
yields. Plant corn now as shallow as
possible. — Atlanta CnnsUtution.
The Sand bagger's Advice.
“I’ll never forget my first e\|K*rionce
as a footpad,” said “Soaps” out at the
workhouse the other day. “I’m not a
proscssional footpad or robber, but once
in Chicago I thought I’d go out and get ,
in my work with a stuffed club. Well,
who (to you suppose I picked out as my
first victim? A man with a ping hat.
Did you ever hear of such a thing?” and
Soaps, who never washes, fairly over
flowed with laughter.
‘‘Why, what is funny about that?*’ <
“Well, a Hradbaggcr—that is, a pro
fessional—never tackles a man that wears
a plug hat. It don’t do any good.”
“Why not?”
“Well, you are green. A sand bagger
attempts to strike either just in front of
or behind the hear. Those are the most
effective places. Well, a plug hat is so
constructed that no blow can begot in on
the points on the head it covers. The
rim is very stiff ami breaks the force of
the blow, and before a second can be
given the man has cried out for help and
your attack has been in vain. Now you
know what to do when you are going
out at night -wear a plug hat. It's a
complete armor against saiulbaggers.”—
St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.
China’s Solomon.
Another Solomon has arisen at Shang
hai, China. A man was accused of hav
ing stolen a table. He professed to be
so weak and sick that he could not have
carried away the table. The judge lis
tened sympathetically and then said:
“I think you arc* right. I pity you.
Take ithat bag with SIO,OOO and spend
it in/ getting thoroughly cured.” The
accuiid bowed and took up the bag on
his •Moulders and walked out. “bring
that man liackl” ordered the judge, and
on tte culprit’s reappearance the wise
jtidgfc told him he had noticed him as lie
bad walked through the room with that
heavy load ’of money on his back, and
he considered him quite equal to the
task/ of carrying away a table. So he
pronounced the accused guilty of the
thefj. Chicago Herald.
A mtw -t Dead wood gave his wife i
S2OO in gr enbacks for safe keeping. |
The lady put the money in a pillow case, j
and shortly after thoughtlessly gave the j
article, with others, to a Chinese washee- >
washer. Discovering the loss she went j
to the laundry and found the greenbacks |
floating around in pieces in a kettle of ;
boiling water The fragments were re
cured and sent to Washington, and it is
thought the loss will not ba more than
tea pereett*
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1888.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
News Collected by Wire aad Mall Fraas
All Partsaf Dixie*
NORTH CAROLINA.
Charles Harrington, son of James Har
rington, was found dead in the woods
near his home in Johnson county.
Considerable damage is reported as
done to the fruit crop in the Piedmont
section by the recent cold snap. Peaches
are said to have suffered badly, and it is
evident that three-fourths of the entire
crop is killed.
large two-story dwelling of Mrs.
Caroline E. Cherry, near Greenville, was
destroyed by fire, and Elisha Johnson, a
colored preacher living in Halifax coun
ty, has mysteriously disappeared. See
ing some tire in the woods, he went last
Friday to look after it, and has not since
l>een heard from.
News has lieen received at Raleigh of
the death of Rev. Dr. Matthew T. Tates,
in China. He was tha oldest of the Bap
tist missionaries, having been in China
forty-two years. His age was seventy.
Last Bepteml»cr he had a paralytics!
stroke, from which he never fully recov
ered. He intended returning to North
Carolina next June. Dr. Yates was born
in Wake county, near Raleigh, and
graduated at Wake Forest College. He
was looked upon by the Baptists as one
of their leading preachers.
At Ashville, C. I). Higgins was
arrested, charged with attempting to kill
the conductor of a Pullman car. The
conductor ordered him. out. Higgins
struck at the conductor, who knocked
him down, Higgins sprang up and shot
twice at the conductor, the bullets strik
ing the car ana frightening the passen
gers. The trained moved off, but Hig
gins lM»gan firing promiscuously into
houses near by. He was arrested after a
chase and desperate fight.
Details have lieen received at
Raleigh of a most horrible story, the
scene of which is an illicit distillery on
Barnes creek, on the line between Mont
gomery and Randolph counties. A young
man uamed Andrew Collicott had been
to the Steel gold mine, and imbibed too
freely of whisky. Upon returning to tl e
distillery he was soon envolved in a
drunken stupor, in which he remained
uncoochms for some time, .Some one,
attracted by his pietous tries, went to
his assistance, and found him in the still
house with almost his entire Iwidy, from
the waist up roasted. Physicians who
were summoned think the injuries are
fatal. It is stated that his injuries
the result of the brutality of a party of
gamblers, who had gathered at the still
for the purpose of winning Collicott’s
money. Tin* gamblers finding him too
drunk to resist poured whiskey on him,
and set him on fire, taking his money and
afterwards claimed that it had been
burned.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
New rails have lK*en ordered for the
Barnwell Railroad.
Only ixteen acres of land were sold
for taxes at the lastsalcsday in Orange
burg.
The Barnwell Railroad during January
cleared •i ,*€B3 above all expenses.
All the piers for the Three C’s bridge
over the Catawba river have been fin
ished.
Col. Eugene B Gary, of Abbeville, will
soon have ready for publication a book
on criminal law.
Dr. C. H. Green, Jr., of Sumter, has
received an appointment of the surgical
department of the Chambers Street Hos
pital, of New York city.
During the twenty-three days of Jan
uary that the Black ville, Alston and New
berry Railroad was in operation its re
ceipts amounted to $1,680.92.
William Pleasant, colored, while try
ing to get on the up train while in mo
tion at Reynolds Station, fell and was
instantly killed.
A petition, which is numerously signed
by the most influential and conscientious
citizens of Beaufort, has been circulated
and w ill Ik* sent to Governor Richardson
asking him to commute the death pen
alty appointed to be executed on the 6th
of April against. Si Robinson, for the
homicide of Bailey. The mental condi
tion of the unfortunate condemned would
seem to l»e a sufficient reason for the ex
tension of the sought for clemency.
Both evening tr ins on the South Caro
lina Railway were thrown out of time on
account of a terrible fire along the track,
and in the surrounding woods a few
miles below Windsor. The fire was
raging for several miles along the track,
and hundreds of cords of wood were
burned. The heat w as so intense that
for a considerable distance the steel rails
were twisted so as to render it impossible
for the trains to pass over. The whole
community turned out to fight the fire,
but could do but little against the heavy
gale that was blowing alt day. The sec
tion hands along the line have Ween tele
graphed for, and the damage will bo re
paired as soon as possible.
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GEORGIA.
Atlanta claims a population of 66,000
j within-the city limits.
Thomas ville has 1,500 visitors, who
! spend an average each of $3 a day in the
towu—#4,soo per day- $82,300 per week
—5135,000 per month—s44o,ooo per
season of four months.
At Macon the large number of visitors
to the jail to seo Tom Woolfolk is daily
on the increase.
It is reported that a Northern capital
ist tfill build a $150,000 hotel in Bain
bridge this year.
A State military encampment on St.
Simtnon’B Island is suggested for the
summer.
But a few hundred dollars in postoffice
receipts is needed to ensure Athens hav
ing a free delivery system of mails. The
annual report is not made until April 1,
and therj is every probability that the
receipts will reach the necessary SIO,OOO
notch by that time.
Several large pieces of the monument
to be erected over the grave of the late
Gen. Robert Toombs have arrived at
Washington. It will be a massive and
stately shaft, and altogether a fit monu
ment to mark the last resting place of
that illustrious man.
Lumber City has another barrel factory
in operation. B. S. Pinkleton was the
founder of the first one in the spring of
1887. The new one is supposed to be
owned by a syndicate of naval stores
commission merchants of Savannah, xvho
proposes to fight the present monopoly
in the spirit barrel business.
The Presbyterians of Atlanta discus
sing among themselves various plans for
establishing in that city a Presbyterian
college. The idea seems to be to estab
lish at Atlanta a Presbyterian university
for the South of such high character as
to attract patronage from other States.
The matter has gone so far that a meet
ing of the Presbyterians of Atlanta and
Georgia will be called at an early day to
discuss the subject.
NORTH, EAST AND WEST
A heavy blizzard is raging in the south
east of England. The storm is slight in
London.
It is reported that the French Govern
ment has deciced to cashier Gen. Bou
langer.
At Cassell. Germany, a snow storm
has prevailed for three days.
Commander Griffin, of the American
navy, offers to back lvilran for £SOO
against Sullivan.
At Aberbeen, Miss, Gattman & Co.,
bankers, have failed. It is believed that
the failure is for over $200,000.
The Dublin Evening Telegraph says
that Mitchell has challenged Sullivan to
tight in a sixteen foot ring for £I,OOO a
side.
In Spain the storm is very heavy, es
pecially in the north, and in the south of
Spain floods arc doing enormous damage.
In central Germany there is complete
suspension of highway traffic, and in
many districts railways are snow bound.
H. H. Key, representing D. Apblcton
& Co, of New York, died suddenly at
the Battle House, Mobile, Ala., of heart
disease.
THE PRESIDENT’S PICTURE.
Sent an a ('•mplinient to a South t'nro
llnlan.
A rare honor was conferred upon
Judge W. G. Field, of Pelzer, S. C., a
few days ago, by President Cleveland
sending him a photo engraving of him
self and wife. Mr. Field was a great
admirer of the President before his nom
ination, and on the first of June, 188*1,
he was made father of a baby boy which
he christen'd Grover Cleveland Field, in
honor of the President. Mr. Field men
tioned these facts to Congressman Perry
in one of his letters, and in this way it
came under the eye of the President, and
he wrote him the following letter.
Executive Mansion, Washington,
Feb. 27th, 1888. —W. G. Field, Esq.,
Pelzer, S. C.: Dear Sir—l have received
from Mr. Perry your recent letter to him,
and learn from its perusal that you have
a son who beam my name. Permit me
to thank you for so flattering a manifes
tation of your confidence and regard,
and as further evidence of my apprccia
tion of your courtesy, I take pleasure in
sending the accompanying engraving.
Y'ours very truly,
Gkover Cleveland.
In response to the compliment, Mr.
Field wrote to the President thanking
him for the letter and engraving of him
self, adding a “modest” request that a
picture of Mrs. Cleveland might be sent
him to be placed alongside of his in the
“humble home at Pelzer.” The request
was promptly granted, and Mr. Field
was made the recipient of a handsome
photograph of Mrs. Cleveland, with her
own name affixed.
Three People Burned to Death.
News has reached Charlotte of the fa
tal burning of three people, in Ruthcr
ford county, two being minted to death
in a house, and the other in a field while i
firing brush. In the first mentioned case, I
Mrs. Lawson Davis and her sister-in iaw, !
an imbecile, perished in the ruins of their ,
burning home. They were in the house j
alone, at the time, ard the origin of the
fire cannot Ik? accounted for.
A colored girl named Jane Freeman !
was burned to death while firing brush. ,
Her clothing took fire and before assist
ance could reach her she was burned so
Imdly that death ensued very shortly
thereafter.
It Is Interesting to trace the evolution
of words and expressions. Cultured
people say “how do you do?” Those
who are less precise sav “howdv do?”
In the backwoods of Tennessee tnevsay 1
“howdy?” The noble red i..au of tho
West says “how?” Whu4 Jis cat en ths ,
fsnoeeaji “owt*® 1
THE WHITE TERROR
COVERING EVERYTHING IN THE
NORTHERN STATES.
Terrible Htorlen of Buffering—Drifts
Renchlng the Second Storlo* of Houncm
TruiiiM Fanieiied Between Statloim.
The sun is shining brightly in New
York and the weather is moderating.
Travel on the elevated roads has fully re
sumed, but the surface roads are still.
The telegraph wires south and east are
still entirely cut off and there is little if
any communication east. Meagre
reports received show that people living
in New Jersey towns who started for
New York Monday had dreadful experi
ences.
Many trains were snowed in a few
miles from the city and passengers were
compelled to sleep on them or wade
through the snow to look for shelter in
villages. A number of persons, it is as
serted, perished from cold and exhaus
tion.
At Elizabethport, N. J., a dozen em
ployes of the Singer's machine works
started for their homes. Several were
badly frozen. One man was picked up
out of the snow stiff and breathless. He
was carried into the railway station where
he soon died. By strcncous efforts the
Pennsylvania road got a single track
clear to Newark. Trains were kept run
ning all night between there and Jersey
City to keep the track open. None of
the other roads have been able to move
trains. Above New 'York on roais of the
New York Central system the situation
is unimproved.
The Chicago limited express train on
the Pennsylvania road, xvhieh was stalled
for a day near Harrison, on the New Jer
sey meadows has reached Newark. Relief
cars of supplies had been sent out with
three locomotives pulling and three more
pushing. About Elizabeth a stock train
is blocked on a siding and many sheep
and cattle frozen to death. In the Penn
sylvania freight yard a car load of sheep
perished.
The meat supply is getting short and
prices are advancing, sls per ton being
paid for coal. There is plenty of it in
the yards in New Y'ork and Brooklyn,
but the difficulty is to deliver it.
Snow again fell heavily at Philadel
phia, but the temperature is decided
ly warmer, and the snow melted as fast
as it fell. The situation so far as the rail
roads are concerned are much more hope
ful. Pennsylvania railroad officials re
port their main line to the west open, but
that the Ncxv Y'ork division is yet closed.
The Chicago limited express which at
other times is started from New York
was made up here and left for the west.
The fast express for the west left about
half an hour later and in addition to
those for father points also carried pas
sengers for larger way stations. Travel
has also been opened with the smith, and
trains arrive from and departed for Balti
more and Washington during the fore
noon. The situation on other Hues, cen
tering here, is also improved, and with
the continuance of moderate weather,
the officials believe that travel can be re
sumed to all points by tonight or tomor
ioxv. Telegraph communication with
New York. Baltimore and Washington
is still interrupted, and the only xvay to
reach those points is by xvay of Cincin
natti and Pittsburg, over very precious
wires.
GRATEFUL DAKOTA. j
The following dispatch has been re
ceived at Ncxv York:
Mayor Hewitt, New York: Bismark stands
ready to give suhstaneial aid to the hli/.zard
sufferers of Ntw York. Let us know your
needs. Chamber ok Commerce.
Mayor Hewitt lias received telegrams
from sympathetic people in Bismarck and
Huron, Dak., St. Paul, Minn., and oth
er places in the west where blizzards are
not uncommon, offering relief for the
storm sufferers in New Y'ork ami vicini
ty. *
Slavery of a White Man.
[From the New York Herald.]
Atlanta, Ga., March 17.— A slave is
now a strange sight in the South. A
white slave is yet more strange; still one
was seen on the streets of Atlanta yes
terday.
John S. Hughes, a white man of good
character, owed (Jus Kaglcmacher a sum
of money xvhieh he was unable to pay.
He met Kaglemaclicr yesterday, and
jokingly asked him if he would accept a
bill of sale to himself as pay for the debt.
Kaglcmacher agreed, a lawyer was called
in, the bill of sale drawn up and prop
erly signed. In the document “Hughes
sold himself, and his body after death,
to Gus Kaglcmacher, the said Kagle
nmeher to have control of the said
Hughes as long as U‘‘ might live, and to
barter, sell or convey him to others if he
chose to do so.” A copy of the contract
xvns given each party.
After the contract was handed him
Hughes began to think more seriously of
tl*e matter, and consulted a lawyer as to
its validity. Upon being informed that
it would hold good in the courts, he
got drunk and was arrested. This morn
ing he was lined in the Police Court, and
his owner, (?) who was on hand, paid
the fine, and this evening took him out
to his farm, where, he say*, he shall
work him for the balance of his life.
A Lake Bolling Hot.
Lake Rotokakahi, New Zealand, is
inclosed by steep, lonely mountains, the
volcanic deposit covering which looked I
lustI ust like half-melted, dirty, slushy snow, j
t is a rather significant fact in thermal
activity that two or three years ago this
lake rose to nearly the boiling point.
This was considered a most remarkable
phenomenon, as the lake wai always
•old before. It afterward regained iU
lormal stata»— San Franc** (Mrtfrfcfe
Terms. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
WASHINGTON
GOSSIP FROM UNCLE SAMS’ CAP
ITOL
What our Dtiay Law Maker* are D«l«|.
Coiiffrenaional and Other New*.
Tlie President has recognized Euget£
Thiebaufc as vice consul of France at
Charleston, S. C.
Congressman Hemphill presented a
pctitioii from the citizens of Bay Spring,
S. C•, recommending an increase in the
compensation of fourth-class postmasters.
The Supreme Court has rendered a de
cision affirming the right end power of
the State of Massachusetts lo tax the
property of the Western Union Telegraph
company xvithiu its limits.
The senate committee on postoffices
and postroads has erdered a favorable
report on the senate bill to reduce the
postage on seeds, cuttings, bulb 3, etc.,
to one cent for every four onnees. The
present rate is sixteen cents per pound,
xvhiie that of Canada is only four cents.
The purpose of the bill «s to place Amer
ican seedsmen on an equality with the
Canadians so far as the use of the United
States mails are concerned.
In anticipation of the decision in the
telephone cases, the United States Su
preme Court room was crowded to-day
when Court assembled at noon, and a
large number of people were turned
away from the door. Alexander Melville
Bell and Air. Starrow, of counsel for the
Bell Company, were present, as were also
the Commissioners of Patents, soveiak
patent attorneys and a large nnmber of
persons directly or indirectly interested
in telephone stocks.
At 12:05 Justice Blatchford, acting
for Chief Justice Waite, began reading
the opinion in the telephone eases. The
opinion was prepared by the Chief Jus
tice, but owing to a slight indisposition
he did not feel able to read it, and there
fore requested Justice Blatchford to read
it for him. The cases covered by the
decision of the court are six in number,
one coining from Massachusetts, one
from Pennsylvania, and four from New
York. In the first live cases the appel
lants are Amos E. Dolbar et al, the Mole
cular Telephone Company, the Clay
Commercial Company, the Peoples’ Tel
ephone Company and the Overland Tele
phone Company. In the sixth the Bell
Company is the appellant against the
Molecular Company. The opinion was
a lengthy one, and decided in the favor
of the Bell Telephone Company.
The dissent of Justices Bradley, Field
and Harlan is based on the Drawbaugh
claim. These three Justices are of opin
ion that the evidence overwhelmingly
shows that Drawbaugh xvas the first in
ventor of the speaking telephone, al
though lie was unconscious of it and was
not aware of its importance.
The opinion of a majority of the Court
was read by Justice Blatchford, but was
prepared by Chief Justice Waite. The
latter, oxving to indisposition, did not
feel able to read so long an opinion,
which occupied in delivery one hour and
three-quarters.
Immediately after the conclusion of
the reading of the opinions in the tele
phone cases Justice Lamar began the
reading of his first opinion as a member
of the United States Supreme Court, the
case being No. 168, the Missouri River
Packet Company vs the Hannibal and St
Joe Railroad Company. The point in
volved xvas the construction to be given
to a laxv of Congress, authorizing the
building of a bridge for the use of the
railroad company across the Missouri
River at Kansas City. The judgment of
the Supreme Court of Missouri, in favor
of the Hannibal and St. Joe Company,
xvas affirmed.
A Modern Woolly Horse.
Louis J. Wyman, of Roxburv, Mass.,
owns a horse which is dressed in a full
suit of wool instead of being clothed in
coat of hair like the ordinary everyday
horse. The wool is an inch long and of
a reddish brown shade. The owner
shows a bundle of yarn made from it
and says he has enough to make a suit of
clothes for the man who will exhibit the
horse. Mr. Wyman bought the animal
from E. B. Rhodes, a planter and 6tock
raiser of Spartanburg. S. C. The horse
xvas bred by thoroughbred Kentucky
horses and is perfect in form, 14$ hands
high and weighs from 850 to 876pound*.
It arrived on the Gate City from Savan
nah, Georgia, last week, and has since
been recuperating from the effects of his
sea voyage. The covering of the animal
seems to be veritable wool, and has so
been pronounced by a number of wool
dealers in Boston. The horse has no
foretop or mane—only a somewhat
thicker growth of wool where these ap
pendages should be. His tail, as well at
the rest of him,is covered with the wool,
and, singularly enough, hangs limply
down betweeu the legs, exactly as a
sheep’s tail does. Another mark of the
sheep is the horse’s disposition to butt,
an offensive operation xvhieh he resorta
to frequently.— Hartford Time*.
Ilad Already Been Worked.
Bunco Stcerer (to stranger)—“Why,
how do you do, Air. Sloppeuhcimer? I
ain very glad to see you.”
Bt ringer—“But my name is not Slop
penheimer; it’* Tuggerly.”
Bunco Hteerer—“What, not the Tug
gcrly who xvas recently mulcted in $50,-
000 damages in a breach of promira
case?”
Stranger—“Y’es the same.’*
Bunco Stcerer—“Ah, then I will bid
you a very good morning.—
Chronicle.
The position of postal clerk has been
handed down in one family in Ger
many for two hundred year*