THE
VOL. IV. NO. 31.
THE
Charlotte Messenger
IS PUBLISHED
Every Saturday,
AT
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC,
Grew a Beard After Death.
About thirteen years ago Hal Clayton,
one of the best known gamblers on the
coast, died here of a fever. He was rich,
and his remains were placed in a costly
metallic casket with a glass case and
consigned to a handsome tom I*. His
wife, who was frantic with grief, placed
her diamonds on his shirt-front. The
stones were valued at SBOO. Fearful lest
the gems would be taken from the Tault
Bhc placed a watch at the tomb, and it
was maintained for many weeks. Clay
ton was a Southerner, and the body was
disposed of above ground.
A few days ago George Dobbs, who
has the care of the cemetery, was pos
sessed with a curiosity to visit llal Clay
ton’s tomb, and securing the keys of the
vault took a look at the remains, lie was
astonished to find that Clayton's beard
and mustache had grown under the glass
case to such an client that they readied
below his knees. The beard was a rich
brown color, extending in wavy masses
over the body and having a Perfectly
healthy appearance, as it might have had
on a living inan. The heard had been
growing in this way f< r thirteen years.
Clayton had a romantic life. He was
engaged to a handsome young girl in the
Eolith ami left her to seek his fortune.
Bhe became tired of his absence, and,
setting out to find him, drifted homeless
and friendless from one mining camp to
another. After years of this life she met
her foimer lover, but was so changed by
her wandering life that he refused to
marry her. After his repudiation of his
old sweetheart he became sick, and
when lying at death's door she came to
his bedside and nursed him hark to
health. Filled with gratitude at her de
votion, he renewed the affection of his
youth and married her. H4ic proved a
devoted wife, and when he died she built
at large expense the vault where his re
mains now lie, and in which his beard
has been growing all these years.
Whether the diamonds are on lrs shirt
front is not known, as the beard hides the
body from the knees up. Carson (Noe.)
Appeal.
Chinese Table Etiqnetta.
As soon as the guests are seated on the
mats, two, ami sometimes three, small,
low tables are brought to each. On the
one immediately m fiont of him the
guest finds seven little covered bowls.
On the second tat.le will lie five other
bowls. The third, a very small table,
should bold three bowl**. Take up the
chopsticks with the right hand, re
move the cover of the rice howl with
the same band, transfer it to the left,
and place it to the left of the table.
Then remove the cover of the bean soup
and place it on the rice rover. Next
take up the rice bowl with the right
hand, pir-s it to the left, and cat two
mouthful* with the chop stick**, and
then clrink once from the soup * owl.
Anri so on. with the other dishes—
never omitting to cat some rice between
ear h mouthful of meat, fish and vege
tables, unless you forg"t which i? your
mouth and which is your right hand, or
have become so giddy that you ran not
tell your left hand fr m a chop-stick or
your rice lw*wl from your third table.—
Chisago Tribute. _
Da Hraz,n, the African explorer, says
the upper Congo region teems with ivo»y.
He found large rpiantities of tusks In
some of the village-, and they were oftes
offered to him for small quantities of
liaads. While he was floating down the
river he «aw in eight dsys \QZ elephants
lon* the bank.
CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
News Collected by Wire and Mall From
All Fori* of Dixie.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Four hundred anrl one farmers’ allian
ces have been organized in North Caro
lina.
An incendiary burned the residence of
Mrs. Saunders, in Beaufort county. A
reward is offered and efforts to capture
him arc being made.
Rev. R. G. Pearson, the famous revi
valist, will hold meetings in Ncwberne
for the next fortnight. He goes to Wil
mington March 18th, to remain a month.
Calvin Stockton, colored, has been ar
rested at Winston charged with having
caused the death of George Harris by
striking him upon the head with a stick.
Adeline Allen, a negro woman tried at
Winston, N. C., for murdering her in
fant by drowning it in a mill-|>ond, has
taen convicted of murder, with recom
mendation for mercy.
Mike Cook and William Lending, the
negroes charged with burning the town J
of Oxford, will lie tried at the next term
of Durham Superior Court, the case hav
ing been moved there from Granville
county.
Joseph Dortch and Seabwy Sasser, ne
groes, have been arrested at Goldsboro
for robbing John G. Coxe, a prominent
farmer, on the ridgeway near that place.
They “held up'’ Coxe and got all his
money.
Within the next two years the North
Carolina State hoard of education con
templates doing a good deal iu the way
of drainage and opening of the vast
bodies of lands it holds, aggregating very
nearly 800,000 acres.
The North Carolina Colored Teachers'
association meets in Raleigh June 12th,
at Shaw university. The programme is
very complete. The meeting continues
six days. Rev. Joseph C. Price is presi
dent of the association.
Miss Josephine Williams was burned
to death at her mother's residence near
Raleigh. She caught fire in the house
and rushed out. Whcu the family caught
her, all her clothing, save her shoes, had
been burned off.
A gold mine in Lincoln county has
just been sold to English capitalists, and
other party of Englishmen, who not long
ago bought the noted Christian min** in
Montgomery, arc preparing to s|M*nd
three hundred thousand dollars in its de
velopment.
Last week three men were arrested in
Iredell county on the charge of having
assassinated Abraham Barker in his moth
er's house. Another man, named Wil
liam Hepler, has been arrested charged
with complicity in the same offetisc, and
is in jail at Statesville.
A colored man, while engaged in cut
ting down trees near Charlotte was
caught under a falling tree, and instant
ly killcl. A similar accident occurred
al out the same time, another colored |
man being caught under a falling I
tree and probably fatally wounded.
At Salisbury, N. C., Johnson A Ram j
say’s tobacco factory was burned, with 1
all its machinery and stock of tobacco. !
The latter was insured. There was no
insurante on the buildings, the tobacco
being property of J. L. Herrick. At
one time the town was in danger of de
struction.
At Elizabeth City, N. C., unknown
)M*rsons entered the dental office of J. H.
White and robl»cd him of all his dental
instruments ami appaiatus, ami tried to
set fire to the building by turning over
the stove, after putting kerosene and
)ia|tcr on the floor. But strange to say
it was only |*artially burned.
Governor Scales has commuted the
death sentence of Adeline Allen, a color
ed woman, to imprisonment for life in
the |w*nitentiary. She murdered her in
fant child last autumn by throwing it
into a mill |wnd near Winston. The ap
plication for commutation of sentence
was signed by the judge, solicitor and
jury.
Revenue officers, finding some irregu
larities going on at the bonded distillery
of J. B. England & Co., near Morganton,
seized the distillery with all the fixtures
and 175 gallons of whiskey. Storekeeper
I). F Denton and all the distillery firm
were held in a bond of three bundled
dollars each for appearance Indore the
commissioner.
The roaring noise in the wells in the
vicinity of Glen wood. Johnston county
N. C.. continues. The same phenome
non is now reported in Duplin county.
At nearly regular intervals, one well there
<iii the premises of C. Byrd, is thus affect
ed. The sound is that of tauling and
trembling, and is audible at a distance of
nearly a hundred yards from the mouth
of the well.
The body of a negro man was found in
the Kijhiirtm of Raleigh, lying in a pool
of blood. The Innlv was that of Andrew
Fenner, who had a store near by. Two
negroes, with whom he had recently had
a fight were arrested. While Fenner’s
I»oi|y was laid out in his store awaiting
the arrival of the coroner, a negro named
Alfred Pearce broke into the place anil
stole a |»ockethnok ami other articles
from the dead man's pocket. IVarcc was
I cantured and tailed.
At Cottageville a colored tay named
Toney Dore, fell Imrk ii|»on a
circular saw while it was running ami
was nearly cut in two pieces. The saw
struck him across the buttock ami fllit
through the hip bones, leaving a thin
•trip of muscle and skis in front. He
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ SATURDAY, FEB. 25, 1888
lived a short while after the accident
and retained consciouseess nearly to the
last. He died in about four hours after
the accident.
New* lias rcched Raleigh of a murder
in Tatam's township, Columbus county.
A venerable negro, named Squire George
was in his house seated in a chair in front
of the fire, when he was approached
from the rear and knocked on the head
with an axe or some other heavy instru
ment. It has lieen discovered that a
young negro woman, Alice Rrown, com
mitted the crime. She lips been arrested
and is in jail at Whitevillc. No cause
for this murder can Ik; discovered.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
South Atlantic and Northeastern railway
at Southport N. C , has renewed the con
fidence of the i»cople of that section at
the ultimate building of the road. Offi
cers say all that remains to make it a
success is for the people along the line to
aid it by projxir subscriptions. It is
claimed that this road will open the eoal
fields of North Carolina, Virginia and
Tennessee, ami as a consequence it is a
leading part of the scheme that South
|iort is to become a coaling station.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charles Randolph, of Greenville, has
taen appointed to weigh the mails on
the route between Charlotte and Atlanta
for four weeks.
Mr. John Propst, who lives three miles
from Halsellville, had his barn destroyed
by fire. It contained his corn, fodder,
four fine mules, and one horse. The horse
was saved. It is supposed to have been
set on fire. There was no insurance.
Justice Davis has issued a warrant for
a man named Neal, a United States court
witness from Edgefield. Neal sold his
pay certificate to one party and his parole
to another, and departed from his home.
The warrant was handed to the sheriff,
who w ill make the arrest.
A company, consisting of John B. Mar
shall, Professor C. 11. Judson and George
Westmoreland have bought the Green
ville S. C. ice mills. The sale of the
mill was made to satisfy a mortgage held
by Mrs. Susan Hall, of Charleston, S. C.
The property sold for $41,000, which is
only $4500 above the amount of the mort
gage-
Jim Brooks, who was recently lodged
in jail at Greenville charged with for
gery, had a hearing before United States
Commissioner Heywnod. Brooks pre
sented a false claim against the govern
ment for mileage as a witness iu the Uni
ted States Court. He was placed under
ltond of SIOO for his appearance at the
August term of court in this eity.
Jessie Belehor was arrested at Green
ville w ith breach of trust. T. R. Marlin
claimed that he had given Belehor a
watch to have fixed for him, but the de
fendant swapped Ihe watch for an infe
rior «me. While before Justice Davis,
Belehor was asked what he had to say to
Discharge, and in reply, said that he
had done as stated and deserved punish
ment. He was given twenty days in jail.
An ex|teriinental factory, for the man
ufacture of plain and cheap men’s pants,
was started at Greenville reticently un
der the management of T. W. Davis.
The experiment has proved a success,
and it is probable that a company will he
formed to conduct the business on an
enlarged scale. About fifteen women
and children are employed at present,
and a hundred pair of pants arc turned
out every day.
Ransom Jones and his wife, of Lancas
ter county, S. C., went to a mill, a few
miles away, leaving at home their four
children, the oldest aged nine years and
the youngest eighteen months. Shortly
after their departure the older children
lurked the youngest in the house and
built a tire near one corner of the build
ing, which soon became ignite*!. When
the Joneses returned they found their
! house and baby in ashes. A coroner's
j jury exonorated the children.
<;*:<> RUiA.
The anti-prohibitionists of Baldwin
county have withdrawn their petition for
an election.
Mis. Todd, a sister-in-law of Mrs. Ab
raham Lincoln, i 3 stopping at the Central
hotel in Valdosta.
Mr. Robert Moody of Glynn county,
was killed by the lever of a timber cart.
The lever came down on him while sit
ing on the tongue, and split Ins head
rqien, killng him instantly.
The Albany Ga. street railroad is an as
Mired fact. About $15,000 of the $25,000
required has been subscribed. The first
tramway will extend from the union de-
I h>t up Washington and Broad streets to
the mineral artesian well.
At the sawmill of W. C. Gentry, Mr-
SolTord had his arm cut off at the elbow.
: ||* was handling lumber and fell against
, the saw while il was in motion .
I Th< negro Tom Marsh, who forged sev
eral money orders on some of the leading
; merchants of Chipley, has been raptured
and handled by proper authorities. Tliir
| ty dollars reward will lie paid as soon as
decided by a conviction in the siqicrior
■ court.
[ Tin* ncgr.i, Tom Marsh, the boss forger,
■ w hile taing carried to the county jail by
| Constable Hardy, at Chipley, leap*-*I
from the train while in full s|>re<l, hand
cuffed. He made good his rsca|>e. The
last heard of him he was tagging some
lof his negro friends to loose his hands.
They refused to do so. An additional
| reward of $25 has been issued by Mayor
Tucker.
Wes Brinkley has tarn arrestod in Rus
-1 sell county charged of placing obstruct ions
on the Mobile and Girard railroad track.
Sheriff Bellamy, who is one of the most
vigilant officers, says he heard of the at
tempted wreck by accident and did not
obtain the facts from the railroad author
ities, although an employe of the road
was approached upon the subject. There
are six negro prisoners confined in the
Russel county jail, charged with attempt
ing to wreck trains oil this road.
In Mitchell andDoughcrty coun ies,the
acreage in melons has increased from two
to three hundred per cent, If this increase
is general throughout the melon growing
sections, the growers may expect a glut
in the markets, and in that event the
melon crop will prove as unsatisfactory as
the cotton crop.
Bethune Jones, of Mclledgeville, was
bitten by a mad dog last September, and
has suffered none scarcely until a few
days ago when he ta*gan to complain,
and soon afterwards was thrown into vio
lent spasms and fits. It is now ascertained
that he has hvdrophohia and is not ex
pected to live.
SOUTHERN ITEMS.
Fire at Ocala, Fla., burned about a
dozen business houses and residences,
and caused a loss of about $60,000; in
surance is about $30,000. The cause of
the fire is unknown.
F. D. Pourport, confidential clerk of
Adolph Schrieber, treasurer of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, is a defaulter
for $23,000.
Two brothers named Smith were killed
in an attempt to arrest an Irdian at Bcn
tonville, Ark.
NORTH, EAST AND WEST
D. R. Locke, better known as Petro
lenm V. Nash)', editor of the Toledo
Blade, is dead.
The United States Senate has con
firmed the nomination of Alex McCue to
be Assistant Treasurer at New York.
Near New Orleans seven out of eight
colored persons crossing the Mississippi
in a skiff were drowned.
Thirteen prisoners escaped from the
jail at Newark, Ohio, by digging through
the floor. Two had been sentenced to
the penitentiary.
A family consisting of father, mother
and daughter, at Camden, N. J.. are dead
of tiichinocis. The poisoned pork was
eaten two weeks ago.
The City of Pekin, arrived at San
Francisco from China and Japan, is the
fifth steamer of that line in succession
with smallpox on board.
In Chicago Ralph Lee was convicted
of the attempted assassination of his
step-father, the hanker Rawson, and sen
tenced to eighteen months iu the county
jail.
Ninety per cent of the insurance com
panies in New York have signed a docu
ment looking to the re-establishment of
the old Insurance tariff in that city, which
means an increase of rates.
Startling statistics are published in re
gard to the Western and Northwestern
railroad rate war. Over the whole terri
tory involved the eompanies affected
have lost in two weeks in the neighbor
hood of $2,000,000.
Th** jury in the case of August Hctzke,
at Chicago, 111., charged with beating to
death with a strap his little step son,
Max Gilman, returned a verdict this
morning finding the prisoner guilty, and
fixing the penalty at death.
Eight firemen were caught under the
falling wall of a burning building, at
New Brunswick, N. J., and were seri
ously injured, and another of the same
company was run over by an engine. Two
of the firemen will die. The fire was of
small imi»ortancc.
At St. Alban's, Vermont, fire broke
m t about midnight in the St. Alban's
hospital. Th** hospital was completely
gutted, and two out of eight patients
wvrv Miffocated. There was no male help
present, and no special provisions had
been made against fire.
(’aiihc or Cotton Fires.
A New York letter says: The national
board of lire and marine underwriters
have investigated the recent cotton tires,
and have decided that the fault must be
laid to the planters. The underwriters
contend that the sewing of hales is so
faully that large spaces are left which
expose th** cotton to danger from fires.
The underwriters invited a committee
from the Cotton Exchange to meet them
yesterday evening. They notified the
cotton men of the results of their inves
tigation, and stated that they would
shortly issue rules and regulations which
must be adhered to in baling cotton if
planters and shippers wanted insurance.
Th«* cotton men agreed fully with the
underwriters, and at the next meeting of
the Exchange they will recommend that
cotton not baled according to th** forth
coming rules shall not be dealt in upon
the exchange.
He Cut u Swell.
The assistant postmaster at El Paso
Del Norte, Texas, has tacn arrested for
j mail robbery. He abstracted, at various
times, valuable articles from letters pass
ing through the office, among them some
diamonds intended for President Profino
Diaz, in the city of Mexico. Nineteen
diamonds, valued at SIO,OOO, have been
recovered by th** officers making the ar
rest, and a eluc has been found to others
that were pawned or given away. The
i name of the culprit is Flo wry, and lie
has moved in the swell circles of society
until now. It was known to the |mst
office authorities for so sic months past
that there was something wrong iu the
El Paso office, hut no tangible proof
could ta* obtained until the day of hu
arrest.
WASHINGTON
GOSSIP FROM UNCLE SAMS’ CAP
ITOL.
What oar Bnny Law Maker* are Dolnu.
CongreMMloiinl and Ollier New*.
A bill appropriating $50,000 for a pub
lic building at Roanoke, Va., was passed
A petition was presented to the Senate
by Mr. Blair. It contained 15,000 names
and had been circulated by the W. C. T.
U., and the Knights of Labor. It is in
favor of legislation for the better protec
tion of women and girls. Mr. Blair said
that the traffic in young girls in the great
cities had become so notorious and in
famous ns to secure signers from all parts
of the country to this petion.
The bill to exempt American coast
wise sailing vessels, piloted by their
licensed masters or by United Slates
pilots, from the obligation to pay State
pilots for services which are not actually
rendered, was defeated by the House
Committee on Merchant Marine. The
committee has given considerable atten
tion to the matter, and heard many per
sons who were interested, and the di
vision was so close that an aye and no
vote was necessary to determine the com
mittee’s feeling. Persistent efforts have
been made for twenty-three years past to
secure the passage of such a bill, and last
year they had so far succeeded as to se
cure the favorable report of the measure
from the committee. Mr. Hatch will pre
sent the report to the House.
The End of the Strike.
The miners of Shenandoah, Pa., met
in Bobbin’s Opera-House to act on the
order for resumption of work. The room
could not accommodate them, although
almost two thousand persons gained ad
mission. Two votes were taken, the first
being almost unanimously against going
to work.
After addresses by James Brennan, of
the joint committee, James Masked and
others, who stated that the strike was
lost as fought so far, that many families
were starving, witn no hope of speedy |
relief, and that the offer made was fair
and reasonable, a second vote was taken
and resumption was agreed to. It is un
derstood that the Lehigh Valley Compa
ny has agreed to the same terms as the
Reading Company, and that work will
also be resumed at their collieries there
this week
MINERS FOLLW SUIT.
At a meeting of the Knights of Labor
held at Ashland, Pa , it was decided to
obey the instructions to return to work.
The Earth ('racked.
A remarkable phenomenon manifested
itself near Akron, Ohio, the other
morning. People in th** vicinity of the
seat of trouble were thrown out of tad,
and windows and ceilings crumbled,
while the earth rooked, the convulsions ;
being preceded by terrific reports of an
explosion. A great fissure in the earth
is the only sign of the strange occurrence.
People fled from their houses and the
greatest excitement prevailed,
Hereditary Tricks.
A ease is on record of a man who pos
sess*;*! the habit of sleeping on his back
with the right leg crossed over the left,
llis (laughter, w h Ic still an infant in the
cradle, exhibited the same peculiarity.
The poss.bility of imitation, conscious or
unconscious, is here obviously excluded.
A case has been icportcd to the w riter of
a man who had the habit of alternately
flexing and extend ng his great toe while
lying in bed. llis gr.in Ison developed
Ine same habit, though quite ignorant, of
his grandfather’s peculiarity. Riliot
records a curious instance of a domestic
servant who exhibited an incapable vice
of loquacity. Slu* talked incessantly to
any one who would listen, to animals, to
inanimate objects, and even to herself.
When upbraid d with her folly, she
said it was not her fault, as Iter father had
possessed just the same habit, and had
almost driven her mother distracted by
it. Cltamher't Journal.
A Youthrtil Weather Prophet.
The six-year o’d son of a Kentucky
man is acquirin'' notoriety as a weather
i prophet. The clrld is small for his ago,
I and cannot vet talk plainly, but has de
veloped barometrical powers to a won -
| derful degree. Since be was four years
| old his parents, wh * are respectable and
reliable people, declare that be hut fore
told every rain.hail storm or snowstorm,
find even the light showers and sprinkles
so plentiful in the spring of tin* year,
tine day recently,while the sun was Ida -
1 ing down with intense heat, tin* child
rain; into the hoo-e. from the yard,where
he had tacit inten ly gazing at the
heavens, and predicted a heavy rain
storm, to be fotlowd by a pro me fall of
hail. In the afternoon his prophreywas
verified by a heavy storm. —Cnicagg
Just Hut It Is Done.
Speaking with a young lady a gentle
man mentioned that lie had faded to
keep abreast of the scientific advance of
the age. **. or instance.” It** said, ‘’l
don’t know at all how the incandescent
electric light,which is now used in soma
buddings and milway cars, is pro
cured.”
“Oh, it’s very simple,” said the lady.
“You just turn a button and the light
appears at once. n —/*/#i 'adrlpltia Tele
graph.
There were op.imm linnets of cotton
•C'«l oil produced last year, of which
( hcago took .1)0.0 at barrels, t ln* bulk it
it licing used by the lard ivliusr*/
Term $1.50 per Aim Single Copy 5 cents.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Blondes choose very light colors foi
th'*ir street toilet^.
A very new bracelet is a mere thread
of gold set with a rough emerald.
Diamond hairpins, jeweled both at
point and head, are now fashionable.
Pale and deep tan plush skirts are worn
with dresses of various colors and fubrics.
Cloth gowns of pale suede hare white
nioiie vests and a trimming of golden
heaver.
Young ladies trim their black silk
gowns very effectively with silver and cut
jet gimps.
The Princes? of Wales is forty-three,
hut she makes up so well as to pass for
sweet sixteen.
Dainty home toilets are almost inva
riably made with a belted corsage of
some description.
Bonnets of dark-green velvet are
spangled with jet and trimmed with
black moire ribbon.
Cashmere bonnets, with pinked edges
and caps sewn inside, are in vogue for
babies and little girls.
In a recent publication a woman an
nounces that she is the only woman infi
del Iccttucr in the world.
Very new di aperies are straight
breidtbs, showing their selvage?, which
are further a* ceil ted by a lining of pirot
ribbon.
The oldest old maid in the country is
Miss Betsy Sargent, of Centerbury, New
Hautpshiie. the was one hundred years
old last July.
Oxvdized silver lace-pins in the form
of a turkey’s claw are popular. Another
new design repicsents a silver log with
a tiny gold frog upon it.
The wife of Don. M. Dickinson, the
new l ostinaUer-Gcneral, i» a handsome
woman, tall, with auburn hair, clear
complexion, and large dark eyes.
White ribbon, folded, or birely show
ing the edge and ending in a tiny bow
outside, i* still the fashion for the neck
and sleeves of dark woolen gowns.
The Primes:? of Wales, it has been re
ported, has a velvet basque tr.mined with
black 'Ong-haired fur. Basques, it need
liardly be told, are now in fashion.
The contour of the head is best dis
played by a low coil of hair. If one has
a Grecian profile, the small, high Psyche
knot is becoming, as well as fashionable.
Skirts of cross barred Bengaline and
watered silk are fashionably worn with
polonaises or basques and draperies of
cashmere of harmonious or contrasting
shades.
The St. Louis llcpuhli'an, having dis
covered that the belles of that town are
growing thinner, expresses a fear that
the women will ultimately disappear al
together.
With costumes of light tan camel’s
hair, nothing is so stylish as a long wrap
of gray blue cloth, edged with nioiiflon
fur. and accompanied by a cloth bonnet
of like hue.
The Chicago News, without mincing
matters, admits that ‘ the genuine Chicago
complexion is undeniably grimy,” and
that “few C hicago women ever have
really clean face*.”
Miss Louisa Corbin, a niece of Austin
Corbin, now at Nice, has become en
gaged to Mr. Horace Walpole, nephew
and heir of Lord Orford. The wedding
will be in London in May.
( ollars, frills, jabots, fichus, plastrons,
vests —every shape, form aud color of
net, lace, ribbon, or muslin, is now ad
missible for neckwear, but care must be
used to fit them to their occasion.
All the sjMits of the leopard may now
he had upon a walking hat d'rcct from
I ondou, ami a good part of them upon
the bands and loops, now the accepted
garniture for brown felt hats and bon
nets.
The Baroness Burdctte-Coutts and
other philan hropists, of London, are
perfecting plans for furnishing work
shops and sewing machine* where poor
seamstresses can go and use the machines
lor small cost. 4
Fashion insists on the absolute aban
donment of black stocking* and patent
leather slipper* with evening dress. Only
one kind, and that the color of the tan
suede glove, can ta worn, and stockings
mid slippers must match.
It is au interesting fact that although
the appointment of
Vilas i»» the Secretaryship of the Interior
is eon idered a piormton it causes Mrs.
\ il is 10 move down one place in tbs line
of cabinet ladie* at the White House re
ceptions.
The “high art” craze in London and
Laris has about done away with the
tight sleeve, iu which the arm had quite
the effect *»? a Miusagc mil, though it is
questioned if some of the draped, sloshed
ami puffed attars that rcp'ace it are not
even more of monstrosities.
White and go *1 is throughout a favor
ite combination. Young matrons par
t cularly a lcct evening gowns of white
broad loth, flannel or chuddar cloth,
heavily cm * bed with gold—silver, too,
sometime*--and th** Luc y further ap
pear* in both h its and bonnet*.
An “ Auti*C'olibacy Insurance Com
pany” bas lieen established in Doumark,
iu which young women taxinning at the
ago of |.i can insure themselves fora
tri ling sum. If they mairy ihey forfeit
all claims, but i* they remain spinsters
until 10 they aie entitled to a sninll an
nuity.
Two startling, not to say romantic,
event* have transpired at Vassar College
niuce-thf; opening of ihe picsent school
year. One young lady, who was passing
herself off ns * being still in the market,”
was discovered to have taen married for
J ionic time. Another fair damsel fell
' into the college lake ami was rescued by
a handsome artist who was riding by.
Professor Virchow. In his new wort,
declare* that cancer ia curable.