THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
VOL. V. NO. 11.
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W.:c. SMITH Charlotte NC
In Russia, declares the Office, there is
a system of severe censorship over all
printed matter. A subscriber often re
ceives his paper with an article con
sidered politically dangerous completely
obliterated by being rolled over with
printer’s ink. All foreign periodicals
are, of course, examined by censors
understanding the language. As the
censors have not understood Volapuk, a
special application has been necessary
for permission take periodicals in that
language. But now the Russian Govern
ment has recogni/.ed Volapuk, and one
of the censors lias, by order of his
superiors, learned to read it, so that Vp.
periodicals arc oa the same footing as
those in any other language.
Contracts have just been signed for
the construction of a marine railway
scross the neck of land which joins the
province of Nova Scotia with New
Brunswick, n distance of ten miles, thus
enabling vessels to be carried from the
Bay of Kundy to the Northumberland
Straits, across the country. The object
of the railway is to transport steamships
and sailing vessels from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence into the Bay of Fundy. Some
years ago the Dominion Parliament
voted a subsidy bonus of $5,000,000 to
ward the work, and last session the
amount wai increased to $5,500,000,
one-half that sum to lie paid as the work
progressed and the remainder spread
over a period of twenty years thereafter.
Inventions and discoveries always
keep pace with each other. The dis
covery of new ways of making paper
from new materials, such as the cotton
plant, is accompanied by wider openings
for the use of paper. The very best
material now known for wheels for tbe
most enormous engines is paper belted
with steel tires. Such wheels are slightly
elastic, will endure enormous wear aud
are not in danger of breaking. There is
no feature of our times more remarkable
and characteristic than the increased
uses of paper, the application of appar
ently fragile material to tbe purposes
demanding I lie most intense wear and
service. Its use in domestic utensils and
in the place of cloth and crockery will
surely follow. The Japanese precede
us in such art and artilice for saving
labor as we surpass them in labor-saving
machinery.
The New York Sun says that at Man
chester, England, the coroner has made
the startling statement that every year be
bolds m<|iiesU on at least 100 babies,
whose deaths were caused by parents
everlaying thorn in bed. One yeer he
had 121 such cases. In many cases the
deaths aie really accidental, but there is
grave reasons to believe s considerable
proportion of cases were deli Iterate mur
der,committed for the saks of obtaining
money for which tbe poor little lives
were insured. The competition of §o
cslled industrial insurance companies,
who collect premiums weekly in pennies,
Is so keen in tbst country thst when
claims aie made the directors, even if
suspicious, do not ask inconvenient ques
tions, as they dread the results to their
business of obtaining tbs reputation for
such inquisitiveness. Nearly sll the
cases occur on Saturday nights, when the
psrents are more or less stupefied by
drink. Manchester's deputy coroner
makes out a statement which demands
legislative consideration. He point# out
that in Germany parents are arrested
end convicted undersuch circumstsnces,
end says that such a law i* greatly
needed in 1 ngland.
SEVEN HOUNDS FOB LOVE.
Two Boston Youths Fight for the Pos
session ofthe Girl They Loved.
Georgo Cowly ami Howard Wheeler,
two East Boston, Mass., young men,have
recently been Plying attentions to
the same young woman. She has divid
ed her affections so as to allow one of
her lovers to accompany her on one day
and the other on the next. Although it
was pleasant for the young inamorata
the young men themselves began to show
jealous feelings. Cowley had her out for
a promenade Sunday evening, when
Wheeler met them on the street. He
rushed up and nccust d his rivnl of “cut
ting liim out on the quiet.’’ Tho latter
replied: “I've got her and what are you
going to do about it?” A large crowd of
spectators gathered, and the indications
were that a lively alteration was to take
place. Each piinci|>al was surrounded
by his friends, some urging ono method
of fight and others another. The two
Suited off Iheii coats to have a fight in
laveilck square, but were prevented.
The youDg woman, when appealed to,
declared that she did not kmiw which
she loved best. A most ludicrous scene
then ensued. Cowley said to the girl:
“Do you love me?” and she answered
‘ ’Yes. ” Wheeler at this shouted angrily,
“Don’t you love me?” “I do, I do,’’was
the reply. The young men then agreed
to settle the trouble by going to a va
cant lot and fighting it out, the girl con
senting to accept tbe victor. The police,
however, put a stop to this and the party
repaired to a well known clubroom.
The principles were stripped naked, ex
cept that they wore a pair of drawers.
The referee was a well-known base-ball
sporting man. The fight was a bloody
one. aud it was not until seven rounds
had been fought that Wheeler was de
clared tho winner. He bad so complete
ly knocked his opponent out that he was
unconscious for nearly half an hour.
Both principles were badly injured, but
the victor was aide to dress himself snd
escort the young woman who had been
the cause of the battle to her home. She
had been waiting in an ante-room during
the whole of tho fight.
Mark Twain Takes His Ease.
When Samuel 1. Clemens Mark
Twain—conies to New York he rests
himself at tho Slurray Hill Hotel, says
the Graphic, and occupies one of the
cosiest apartments in the big house.
Wonder if he ever thinks in these days
of his nrosperty and while he lounges
gracefully amid his rich and luxuriant
surroundings of the time, now nearly
thirty years ago, when he shoveled
quartz in a Nevada silver mine for *lil a
week and found himself ? Yes, Mark
Twain saw a great deal of the merciless
side of a poverty stricken life in his
early days, and nobody should blame
him in these years if, after gathering a
ortune of about a million, be is as care
fill of it as he was of liis first salary of
250 a month as a Mississippi Hive:
pilot. He isn’t looking old. either, ami
when he told the Observer that he wa
just turned his fiftv-sccond year hi
looked stalwart and sturdy euougji t<
hut easily another quarter of a century.
Fuller’s First Opinion.
Chief Justice Fuller delivered his first
opinion in the Supreme Court of the
United States in session atWasliington The
case was that of the Wi stern Union lclc
giaph company, plaintiff in error, vs. the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, brought
there on an appeal from tho Supreme
Court of the State of Pennsylvania. The
commonwealth levied a tax on all tele
grams passing over the company's lines
within the State, this tax being regarded
as a fact, much business was not confined
wholly to the State, but was sent to
points in other States. The Supreme
Court today held, through Chief Justice
Fuller, that the State was not entitled to
collect the tax except for messages tie
tween points within the borders of the
Snate. and accordingly reversed the
judgment of the State court with costs,
snd remanded the case to the low er court
for further proceedings.
The New York Produce Market.
BUTTER AND EGGS—
i ‘reamei y Butter, 23 to 24c
Dairy ** 17 tolUte
Factory “ 191-2 to 14c
Eggs 17 to Ute
MEATS AND POULTRY-
Live VeaJ Calves 7to So
Calves (country dressed) » to 10c
Lambs 5 3 4 to 6 1-4
Sheep 11 2to 5c
Ho*. 9 1-4 to!) 1-2
Spring Chicken. 14 to 15
Ffiwl», Southern, 13 to 14 1-2
Turkey. 1# to 15
FRUIT AND VEGETABLES —
Apple. *2 0010*2 50
Pear. 3 UO to *4 00
Peache. -75 to 1 00
Grape. sto 6c
Watermelon, (bbl) *7 00 to *5 IK)
Beans, *175 to *2 00
Peas (green) per bu., 1887 1 00
CHARLOTTE COTTON MARKET
Middling Mr
Good Middling « , „
Strict Middling » ]-*
Mklding J* 1 *
Ttog« " H
Stain. 7 • s
Net to lie Intimidated.
A country editor thus da.he. the
hopes of those patrons who believed
they could control his course by threats
of withdrawal of patronage:
We don’t belong to our patron..
Our paper i. wholly our own;
Whoever winy like It may take it.
Who don’t, inar just let it alone.
No Time to Waste.
Clerk— “ Glove., did you sey, Mist?
Something with lik buttons f”
Country Girl—" Without button.. I
ain’t got time to fool away half an hour
every time I put ’em on.— tyt.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1888
THE TWIN STATES.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Mrs Davis, widow of the late Justice
David Davis, has returned to her old
Home in North Carolina.
! Wm J Yates, editor of the Charlotte
Democrat , died suddenly Thursday morn
ing of apoplexy.
The Georgia Carolina & Northern
road is now completed to Chester, 8 C,
and trains arc running regularly between
Monroe and that place.
The residence of John Robinson, state
commissioner of agriculture at Raleigh,
was burned Tuesday. Part of the fur
niture was saved. The fire was acciden
tal.
Bituminous coal haa been discovered in
Orange county, near the Durham county
line. A company with large capital has
been organized to push the exploration
of deposits, and great tracts of land have
been purchased.
There are 1,259 convicts at work on
the different improvements in the State
as follows: WNORK, 179; Murphy
Division, 114; CF& YV R R, 206; C
K &WR R, 175; F & W RR, 231; Ply
mouth Turnpike, 78; penitentiary and
farms, 276.
New forgeries have been, brought to
light, in looking ovor the papers of the
State National hank, of this city. They
are of the signature of Mrs Thomas E
Skinner, a wealthy lady of Raleigh, and
are attached to drafts on Lorilard & Co.,
of New York.
At Newberne, Tuesday night, the large
machine shops, known as the Outhbert
shops, took fire from some unknow a case,
and burned so rapidly that they could
not be saved by a fire department. All
the machinery was badly injured, entail
ing a large loss. There*was very little
insurance.
All the prisoners in jail at Troy, Mont
gomery county, made their escape Satur
day night by cutting through the wall.
There wore nine prisoners. Some of
them had lreen very carelessly put in a
room used in old times for the confine
ment of debtors. They cut Ihrough the
wooden walls of this, and released the
other prisoners. It appears there was
also iiriat carelessness in pursuing
the prisoners after discovery of their es
cape, There will be an investigation of
the matter and the sheriff may be indict
ed.
There was a remarkable and perhaps
fatal accident at Wilmington,Tuesday ev
ening. Henry Harris, night watchman
of the Wilmington, Columbia and Augus
ta freight yard, climbed into an open
freight car to shield himself from the
rain, in a car where car wheels were
stacked. A few miuutes later the freight
cars came dow n tbe track, striking the
car with such force as to throw seven of
the heavy wheels upon Harris. His leg
caught under them, and was crushed
from the hip joint to the foot. The limb
was literally crushed to splinters.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
There is remarkable activity in the
Charleston rice market.
The Reformed Presbyterians of Pros
perity are putting up a fine new struc
ture.
A gin house belonging to Dr W B
Fewcll near Rock Hill, was burned Mon
day. Loss $2,500.
The Adger Presbyterian college, at
Walhalla, was consumed by fire Friday.
It was the property of the town. No in
surance.
B R Tilinan, Chairman of the South
Carolina Farmers’ Association, has made
a call for the third annual Convention
which will he held at Columbia on No
vember 14.
On Friday near Privateer, Mr W T
Strange lost, by fire, a building contain
ing 4 bales of cotton, ten bushels of corn,
2,000 pounds of fodder and 500 pounds
of seed cotton.
The Bycn Brothers, whose farm is near
Blacks, have discovered an immense cave
on their property. While digging for
water, th *y struck a limestone formation
at a depth of twenty feet, and when this
was pierce 1 a rush of air took place that
was accompanied with a loud noise, and
I continued until the next day. An effort
| was made to measure the depth of the
' cavity by means of a long pole, but it
' failed to reach anything solid, and when
dropped gave back no sound to those
who listened At the opening.
The old Cathedral of St Tinbar,
Charleston, is to be replaced by a new
and massive Cathedral. The new Cathe
dral will Ik* the third Catholic Cathedral
in 'Charleston. The first was finished
about the year 1887, by Bishop England,
i It was a wooden building and fronted on
I Friend street. It was called the Cathe
dral of St Finbar, in honor of the Patron
Saint of Cork, the spelling of tbe name
in the manuscripts being ginen as Fin
barr. This Saint lived about 1,300
>ears ago. The Cathedral which was
burned wna begun in 1849, and was fin
ishtd under Bishop Reynolds in 1854. It
wa* them dedicated to the honor of St
John and St Fiubar.
Origin of the Coach-Whip Pennant.
Many people have wondered what is
tho significance of the long pennant car
ried at the main truck of all ve»sels-of
war in commission. When the Dutch
Admiral \ an. Tromp hoisted a broom at
the top of the mast of his vessel to in
dicate his intention to sweep the English
from the sea, tho English admiral hoisted
a horse-whip, indicating his intention to
chastise the Dutchmao. Hence the
coach-whip pennant was adopted as the
distinctive insignia of a war vessel in
commission for service?— AVi*
Tribune,
CROSS MAKES CHARGES.
Intending to Make Other Victims
Besides Himself.
E R Stamps, ex-president, and W S
Primrose, ex-director of the smashed
North Carolina State National Bank,
were arraigned before United States
Commission Purnell, on a warrant sworn
out by Charles E Cross, ex-president of
the bat.k, who, with Samuel C White,
its cashier, plundered it and tied to Can
ada. The warrant charges Stamp* and
Primrose with having years ago made
falge entries on the books of the bank,
and false indorsements on its paper. It
is tbe general opinion here that this
prosecution is purely malicious, and that
Cross, who is a desperate and hardened
criminal, is making this last attempt to
drag others down in his fall. Stamps is
now, and has been for years, president of
the board of trustees of the penitentiary,
and Primrose is president of the North
Carolina Home Insurance company. Both
men stand high in the State. Purnell
decided to set the case for the November
term of the United States district court,
and took a merely nominal bond of three
hundred dollars from each defendant for
appearance.
Political News.
Thursday was “Labor Day” with the
Republicans in Indianapolis.
Speaker Carlisle opened his Indiana
canvass at Terre Haute on the 27th inst.
Summerville, S C, held a large Dem
ocratic mass meeting Friday night.
U. S. Senator Ranson spoke at Salis -
bury, N C, on Friday.
Gen Harrison visited the Republican
headquarters at Indianapolis Wednesday
and held a consultation meeting.
Three amendments to the Constitution
of West Virginia are to be voted upon by
the people at the election of November
6, 1888.
The President viewed the immense
business men’s parade in New York City
Saturday. He was accompanied by Col
Lamont.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia,
says that the report that he had ordered
out cavalry to escort him from railway
stations to political meetings is false.
A Democratic mass meeting held in
Charleston, SC, on Wednesday night,
attracted a large crowd. Possibly over
5,000 people were gathered in front of
the City hall. Bands of music and elec
tric lights made the scene a memorable
one. Senator Wade hampton delivered
a great speech.
FOREIGN NEWS
King Milan, of Servia, has at last se
cured an absolute divorce from his wife,
Queen Natalie.
The strike of colliers in England is as
suming alarming proportions, and it is
feared that the movement will become a
general one. In Yorkshire 15,000 more
workers went out today.
In France Gen Boulanger attended the
meeting of the committee of the Cham
her of Deputies which is considering the
Government bill for the revision of the
Constitution. Boulanger expressed him
self in favor of the dissolution of the
Chamber of Deputies and convoking a
constitutional assembly, which should be
independent of the executive power and
responsible to the country.
The Great Defalcation.
There is about $450,000 belonging to
the city of Cleveland, 0., deposited in
half a dozen banks, but the bondsmen of
Thos Axworthy, the defaulting treasurer,
have attached it, and the result is that
the city is bankrupt. Kaufman Hayes,
a member of the council, has been placed
in charge of the office and will continue
to act as treasurer until Ax worthy’s suc
cessor is elected. At present there is
only SB,OOO in the city’s vaults, and
when this is paid out the treasurer’s of
fice will be closed for financial repairs.
The board of aldermen declared the
office of treasurer vacant, and empower
ed the mayor to issue notes of the city to
the amount of $200,000, in order to re
lieve the present financial embarrassment.
Origin of “ Boom.”
A writer in No’et and Querist traces
the history of “boom” in its present half
slang sense of exceptional prosperity, and
can carry it no further back than 1879,
wherefore the Wvo'fjather rises to remark
that for at least a century the word has
been current in the middle houth, as ex
pressing a superlative condition. At
first we make no doubt that the appli
cation was a trifle onomatopiic, a stream
was “booming” when its flood tid
roared through the land, then crops,
when warm rain aud hot sunshine made
them grow ashy magic, were metaphori
cally “booming,’ too. *o it isnowonde
that when coal and iroi and wondrous
water powers budded cities in a night,
as it were, and made tho wns e place,
precious, that their habitat was spokeu
of as having a boom.
A Difference.
“When I was young,” said good Miss Jean,
“Girls weren’t ashamed to learn to cook.
They didn't spend their time tietween
The parlor and the fashion book.
Nor did they take three hours to drees 1”
<Hhe rais'd her hands in consternation.)
“And dream of nothing more nor lata
Than picnic*, parties and flirtation,
When I was young!”
“When you were young! I dare aay, when
Ah! when indeedr rmw-d naughty Alice
"I m glad I didn't Jive ju-t tben,’ r
Kbesakl aloud, with playful malice.
••Not fiirtf I’m sure tbe eauie is clear—
They never knew my Cousin Harry!
Another reason, aunty dear—
YOU see the maidens didn’t marry
When you were young!”
m~Mur!h t r, Tyler in Ju4v*-
Georgia Central Scooped.
Late Monday afternoon several Rail
road magnotes dispersed from No. 2 Wall
steet New York, where they had been
attending an extraordinarily important
director’s meeting of the Richmond &
Wes Point Terminal Company. They all
looked happy, as if they had just come
triumphantly through the complications
of a financial deal of unusual magnitude.
And so they had, for at that meeting
they closed the bargain for the capital
stock of the Georgia Company, amount
ing at its par value to twelve million dol
lars. This Georgia Company’s stock is
predicted upon a majority of the capital
stock of the Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company of Georgia, the most pros
perous, and and one of the largest, rail
road systems in the South. Hence by
the purchase which the Terminal Com
pany made that afternoon, it acquired
absolute and perpetual control of the
great Georgia Central, and thereby in
creased the mileage of its own already
extensive system from five thousand
miles to eight thousand miles.
Jno II Inmon’s masttr hand has been
plainly seen throughout the conduct of
the mammoth negotiary. About a week
ago he succeeded in securing from all the
Giorgia Company stockholders in option i
on their stock at $35 per share. This
option he transferred to the Terminal
Company, which was accepted only after
a many day’s debating.
THE NEW SYSTEM.
The Richmond and Wast Point Ter
minal Railway and Ware House Compa
ny now controls 7,214 1-2 miles of rail
and water lines, as follows:
RICHMOND AND W EST POINT.
H. & D. and Incased Lines 855
Richmond and Mecklenburg 31
Virginia Midland 413
Washington, Ohio and Central 50
Char., Columbia and Augusta 373
Columbia and Greenville 296
Western North Carolina 290
Statesville and Western 20
Asheville and Spartanburg 70
Northeast Georgia 66
Knoxyille and Augnsta 16
Oxford and Henderson 16
Georgia Pacific 401
Water lines 200
3,094
FAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA.
East Tennessee Division 242
Walden s Ridge 45
North Carolina Branch 43 1 2
Ooltewah Cut-off 11 1 2
Alabama Division 264
Meridian Sub Division 113
Atlanta Division 158 1-2
Brunswick Division 190
Hawkinsville Branch 10
Memphis and Charleston 330
Knoxville and Ohio 66 1-2
Mobile and Birmingham 150
1 624
CENTRAL, OF GEORGIA.
Main stem (Savannah & Atlanty)294 1-4
Milledgeville Branch 17
East Alabama 39
Augusta and Savannah 53
Katonton Branch 21 3-4
Southwestern 333
Mobile and Girard 841 2
Montgomyry and Fufaula 80
Columbus and Western 159
Eufaula and (’layton 21
Ocean Steamship Comj»any 300
Western, of Alabama 138
Port Royal and Augusta 112
Atlanta and B est Point 87
Savannah, Griffin and N. A. 60
Upson County 16
Puit Royal and W. C. 229
Columbus and Rome 50
Hrightsvilltf ami Ttnnille 35
Buena Vista and Elloville 30
Louisville and Wadley 10
Sylvania Branch 15
7alboth>u Branch 7
2,1891-2
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Main Line, Augusta and Atlanta 171
Macon Branch 7*
Athens Branch 40
Washington B. anch 18
Tt aekage 4
307
Total, 7,214 1-2.
There appears to be :\ hitch in the big
deal. It is said in Philadelphia that
suits in equity will be brought immedi
ately by parties in interest to prevent
theionsummation of the aequisitionof the
Georgia Central by the Richmond Ter
minal, and also to prevent the leas? of
the Georgia Pacific to that company.
The grounds on w hich the suits aro bas
ed are that the proposed acquisition and
lease aie in opposition to the laws of
Georgia and other Southern States and
agaiust public policy.
Tho Knife and the Bible,
“Sliut up, old man, you’re off your
base, Pm a preacher today.’ This lan
guage was addressed to Rev J T Radcliff,
a Baptist minister in Shelby county, Ala.,
as he announced his text last Sunday
morning. The speaker was David Ilar
rel Ison, a member of the church, who
had suddenly become crazed on the sub
jectof r* ligion. With a kn fe in one
hand and a Bible in the other, llarrcllson
then marched tip and down the aisle and
preached a sermon Parson Radcliff
tried to leave the house and llarrcllson
spraug upon him and beat bint severely.
While tbe tight was g >ing on the con
gregation escaped fiotn the church.
Harrcllsou then wandered around through
the neighborhood for three days with his
knife in one hand and his Bible in the
other, preaching to every one he met and
defying arrest. He was captured and
taken to the insane asylum atTui»caloosa,
Unreliable Chinese.
“The Chinese are very persistent,” re
marked Miss Learned to a gentleman
visitor.
“1 don’t know about that. It seems
to me tbe character of a Ihiuaman is apt
to bo wish- he-washy. Hi/iiuyt,
Miss Anqa Dickinson is always happy
when making political speech©*.
Terms. $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
Three Hundred People Killed and
Five Hundred Worn led.
Advices received by the steamer Mo
selle, which arrived at Aspinwall on the
10th instant from Hayti, state that never
before has Port an Prince p used such a
night as that of the 28th ult.
The night, to begin with, was dreal
fully dark, the heavens being a mass of
black clouds, with an occasional flash of
lightning. Revolution was abroad. Fir
ing commenced *t 7:30 p. m., and the
cannons and Gatling guns of the palacd
did dreadful execution, as did also the
shots from the b ; g guns on Fort. Alexan
der, which crashed clear through build
ings, destroying everything and every
body with which they came in contact.
The firing lasted up to 0 a. m. of the
29ih.
These advices say that as far as had
been ascertained 30Q|persons were killed
and over 500 wounded, including many
women and children. Among the nota
ble persons killed were Gen Seide Tele
maque, Charles Borno aud Duscasse.
Telegraphic News.
The tidal wave of tramps has struck
the South.
The news has been received that the
heroic Bishop Weed, of Florida, has
been stricken with yellow fever.
Justice Lawrence, of the Supreme
Court, handed down decisions sustain
ing the will of Samuel J Tilden.
During the month of September, 39.-
865 immigrants came to this country,
against 48,443 in September of last
yeor.
Elizalreth Frvar, the wife of a promi
nent farmer, was killed by a south-bound
freight train on Cincinnati Southern
railroad, ten miles north of Chattanooga.
She was attempting to drive a cow off of
the track, when the engine struck and
horribly mangled her body. She leaves
a husband and three children.
The Attorney-General of the State of
New York has written an opinion to the
effect that a citizen entitled to a vote at a
general election may vote for Presiden
tial electors, go away from tbe polls for
a while, return and vote for Governor,
return again aud vole for other candi
dates for which separate boxes are pro
vided.
Several bills passed at the last sess oi
of Congress and approved by the Prcsi
dent are nevertheless inoperative, be
cause no appropriations were made to
carry them into effect. Amorg them
are acts authorizing the establishment of
a light off Pamlico Point, N. C., provid
ing for the construction of a road on Hav
Island, N. C.
I E Wright, a leading farmer, attempt
ed suicide Monday morniDg at his home
near Kingston, Ttnn., by cutting liis
throat liis physician says lie cannot
recover. His daughter gave birth to an
illegitimate child a few weeks ago, which
caused him to lose his reason. He was
sent home a few days ago, and was
again seized with a fit of insanity, with
the result as stated.
The rigid quarantines heretofore exist
ing throughout the State have seriously
interfered with the political '•ampaigp
in Florida, but now that the fever is
abating, more activity is noticable, es
pecially among the Democrats, who are
preparing to make a vigorous canvass.
The Republicans, however, except in
the second District, (which will b? very
close) are making but little effort, and
no systematic movement has been inau
gurated.
Little Snake Stories.
They are having a genuine f=careabout
Warren, Ind., over a snake that steals
chickens and even swallows small pigs.
Samuel Weesner has seen it, and says it
is at least fifteen feet long and as large
as a man’s thigh.
A well-developed snake, five inches
long, may be seen in the eye of a n are
belonging to T. E. Budd, of Carthage,
N. Y. It is as large around as a horse
hair and very active. It is held in a
transparent sac which covers nearly the
whole of the eye and which is filled with
a light colored fluid.
Two anacondas, that somehow or
other got into the hold of the barken
tine Emma E. Smith while she lay at a
Brazilian port, completely rid that vessel
of rats.
A ringed snake, about three feet long,
was captured alive over four mile; out
at sea off the English coast.
A rattlesnake, eight feet long and sev
enteen inches in circumference, was
killed by Frank Kveritt near Raleigh,
X. C., just as it was about to strike at
his three-year-old son.
One New Yorker’s Physical Training
I*was at the country house of a New
York lawyer the other night, says T. C.
Crawford, in the New 1 ork World. If
all New York business men follow his
course, the English cannot reproach us
with being negligent in the matter of
physical training. This friend, who has
as many busy and hard-worked hours
during the day as any one in New York,
when he reaches home drops all care
and goes in for riding, walking and
athetics. In the morning he is up at
fi, into a cold plunge, and then he is
off for an hour’s ruu or r.de on horse
back. Then when he returns he has his
rub-down, his solid breakfast, and is
away Itefore 9 to the city. In ths
evening he puts on flannels and runs for
a belabour before turning in. After the
ruu he hits the yielding and defenseless
bag until 10:30 aud then to bed. The
result is that he is brown and hardy, al
though engaged daily in a nervous strain
tnat would soon pull t|own a man q!
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