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SUH'DiRD. ill JMJKST TAPER i ;:;.!-ill'. IX C'OXCOni), Tl .MfillK K HADING , ; ;; THAN ANY OTUKK !; IN THIS SUCTION. iioiri.r.rt:. .. ; . .,i words that are sweetest k , v oi ils that are never said; , ;;.v :iu ins mat, pass me neci- , last ones with the dead. , ;:t:iits that are truest ami ; i t. , t.e ones that are never cx- i tender lore thou cravest i . a- is never confessed. .. :!.( friends that are truest , ti.o.-o we see in our dreams; a wo feel the one that is new- . i . y in ar what he seems. . --e that is sweetest aud fairest :l.e lu.l that is killed by the .t, the love that is dearest and urcst ;Le tine love we just have lost. , iv u v s s w x n i a x u r. i .. :e Macon Telejrrarh.l HixcTox, September 15. It 1 ".' interesting to trace back : list acts of aggression the - feuds which still exist to ;u records of the South and ! '.. v.ils w hich set family against . ai.d divided conmninities :,iities into hostile camps, . ...wr.g and extending their :.! :.iis by the ties of kith, kin 1 .:i"iiship, says the Washing P. t. The " Hatiield-McCoy which has resulted in a murders and spread s. still exists, and its : in view. But there into end was : ci:detta more bitter than and Sieillian feuds of v, '.:!eii has been sleeping now wen years, and to the world ..vet lives, and may again :i:at iad the newspapers ;.ears ago does nut remember 1 of the Lowry gang, or : Angels,"' whose headqtiar ;:i ::nd around Scrabbieton, . e.i'inty, X. (.'. ? More ter the IlathYlds. as daring .'r.uu-s boys, the Lowrys fer : years defied and held at :.:y iii.riffs and the legal . N". rth Carolina. There are . :. will tremble when they : Henry Berry I.owry still . . writer of this article last - '1 with a prominent North . who assures him that leader is in the flesh and : iiid vheii the time comes. . :. r Century before the civil I was wrecked on the ! :. lina coast under some :.pic;ous circumstances. . .ii ii. a Portugese, went to .'. v of North Carolina, and "A judge of land, bought state in Kobeson County. - i in married a creole woman : -e of colored blood in her ! '"ituge.se have no color ' s. To this is due their i.'i'..!e sucGess in dealing with ..L.res of the tropices. If they ' ntific training they would be . '-t explorers in the world. fact not generally known - t raders had every n the i.'.k and cranny of Africa, Z.unl .i-zi to the Coniro. and "M the north, and the Zanzi on the east, in search of .'. I ivory, long before Living ; Stanley, set foot on the i outiiient. The torrid climate ., nh them. Already thou ii' Portugese half-breeds are : the keenest of traders :h .til the country not monop 'v the Creoles. 1'ortugese captain, to return, from his neighbors, partly lonely location, partly by his mI marriage, and still more 1m lination, lived a quiet life ' in the iic-iirhboring woods '':;nii's. raising corn, tobacc 'ton for a litt'e ready money'; l-'iiiing spirits for his own ; U 1 1 - -: i th war broke out a half stalwart sons and several ' : - had grown up around The girls were magnilicent ; : adorned with more than; 'v comeliness ami the sons ideiulid specimens of manhood, i'd in physique, dead shots,; j riders and as handsome as i h toreadors. By marriage! aiid daughters had attached i families and powerful inter-, ' the Lowrys. Like many i aiolinians, thev were intense 1m-', and after -under found i wo tires. the attack n themselves be-' it i-.' i-i.n f'jtiiiitv is mi I lm Ssikiitli "i i line, aim viieiu", wjui no -'''" d.-d Secessionists, was but a 1 -'iav's i ide to the West. In or ', iw.;. i ,.;..!:,.., l. if !; i... n i !., He ""'.'i .u.e i jj'in'ii vu iiiiii.ti.ji ; i- Ki!i: inen one McLean, a lead. ' e i ot Jtobc-son, organized a .!.. I I 1 ' ...... ,.F 41. nja nn- lar organizations which sprang VOL. II. NO. 45. up all over the South, with the sole purpose of acting as draft-gangs to force their unwilling neighbors to take up arms for the Southern Con federacy. me .Mors ens ami JUcClearys,. kinsmen of McLean, made up its membership. Along in 1S03, after numerous unsuccessful attempts to capture tho Lowry boys, Capt. Mc Lean with his press-gang one day rode up to the Lowry house, called out Capt. Lowry, then past his prime and ordered him to tell the hiding place of his boys, lie refused. In furiated, they stripped him to the waist, hound him to a tree, and gave him one hundred lashes. His back and arms a mass of cut and bleeding flesh, the heroic Portugese still re fused to bettay his sons. Turning him around they riddled him with bullets, and he fell, dying, to the ground, hissing maledictions iu his native tongue, through clenched teeth, on his murderers. With mingled fear and fury lest a wit ness might be left, fury that their vengeance should be balked the press gang strove to wrest the se cret from Mrs. Lowry, her, give the wench the same treatment," shouted one of the marauders. In a moment she, too, fell dead by her murdered husband. Their foul deeds done, but baffled of the prey they sought, the Home Guards tied toward Lumberton. By their crime a feud was born. When Henry Lowry discovered the dead bodied of his father and mother he gathered the family and made them swear never to cease their vengeance while a McLean, a Mc Neil or a McCleary was left alive in Kobeson county. The times were unpropitious then for carrying on their feud. It slumbered and the Lowrys bided their time. In 1807 a McLean was shot near Lumberton. The following year two McLeans and a McNeil were killed, and Kob eson county awoke to the the feud w as on. Before closed a half-dozen of fact that LSGO had the three bitten the offending families had lust and the Lowrys had just begun. j SheriiY after sheriff sought to ar ! rest, them and failed. In the im- penetrable recesses of the swamps the Lowrys hid, emerging on their ; errands of death through paths know n only to themselves. Yet j when a month r two of peace had j brought a seeming respite, the Lovv j rys, armed to the teeth, would ride j the highways of Kobeson, dash ! through the streets cf Lumberton, and even strike across the line to Cheravv. Once Henry Berry Lowry j was captured. He immediately es- caped. Again he was captured and ! taken to Wilmington jail for safe keeping. It was there that the I writer's informant interviewed him. 4,I was prejudiced against the Lowrys,'" said he. "I had known nothing of their side of the story until an old Methodist preacher had told me, when he heard of Henry 1 Jerry Lovvry's capture, of the strong sympathy which many people lllld fur the SwamP AnSe,s- I was allowed to see mm in me in the debtor s room of the jail. When the outlaw leader, with a dozen prices on his head, entered the apartment, I saw a man of 30 odd years, tall and splendidly proportioned, herculean, even, with a dark Spanish face and t - - 7 A J an expression of absolute command I and fearlessness. A thick growth j of jet black curling hair covered his j line head, and coal black eyes gleam i ed from beneath heavy brows. "I have heard of you," said he to me. "I am told that that you are a i brave, honest man. I want you to ! come down to Scrabbieton. I will ! give yo.i a pass aud the best of treatment, tell you the whole history j of our warfare, and prove to you the wrongs we have suffered." "You speak as though you were t) bo released," said I, bnt here v'ou ar'', hard and fast iu Wilming ton jail." "Tho Swami) Anirel smiled. "I i C3 shall escape from here," said he. "The jail is not built that will hold me long. You can tell that, if you wish." "Sure enough he did escape, and I went on a mission to Scrabbieton. This will be the first time this story has been published. I met Lowry and he took me to the ancestral home. There he told me the whole family history, pointed out the place where his parents were shot down, the tree where his father was lashed. "We were Union men, said he, "Sona of us lifted a finger for the Confederacy. That is why the Slate to readily lends its aid to hunt us down. No Lowry ever owned a slave. When we bought a negro we set him free, and the big slave holding planters hated us for it. "Finally he brought out the big HE brass-locked family Bible and open ed it to the record pages. ''There," said he pointing to a page, "is the recorded oath of ven geance. We have sworn never to stay hand while we live and a Mc Lean, McNeil or a McCleary is left in Kobeson, and we never will." Once Henry Berry Lowry's wife, Khoda, was taken prisoner and put in Lumberton jail as a hostage. Her captors thought that by hold ing her they could compel the sur render of her husband. He imme diately sent word that if she was not released at once he would burn Lumberton to the ground before morning. So great was the terror of the community that they not only made the sheriff release her, but put her in a carriage and carried her home. After this matters grew worse. A score or more of the three offend ing families were killed, with an occasional Lowry to even matters. Kewards were increased. Parties, organized to hunt the Lowrys, went boldly into the swamps of Kobeson and never emerged. The Swamp Angels seemed to be endowed with a charmed life. They were abso lutely fearless. They seemed to have utterly put aside caution. A Swamp Angel would calmly board a train and ride for miles with a sher iff whom he knew had a warrant for his arrest, would stop the cars in a piece of woods and step off. All the dangerous characters in the Carolinas naturally drifted to the Swamp Angels, until a hundred or more, negroes and whites, held the bolder in a condition of abso lute terror. As might be expected, depredations were then committed on people who had no part in the feud, and crimes were ascribed to the Lowrys of which they were en tirely innocent. Finally in 1ST2 the State put forth a strenuous effort, and the gang was crushed out. One of the Lowry boys was shot, one or two were hanged, and one sent to prison. Henry Berry Lowry escaped, and with several of his fellows was sup posed to have joined fortunes with the James hoys. If so he was never captured, and his whereabouts are unknown, save to a few intimate friends and relatives, who guard well the secret. Numbers of his followers can still be found around Kobeson county. They live around Scrabbbleton, where a Yankee nam ed Hayes, an 'ex-soldier, kept store, runs the postoflice, and is king bee of the whole region. Many of the Swamp Angels have since given the revenue officials a world of trouble over moonshine whiskey. But this opportunity is taken to give the unwritten story of a family who has been known only as merci less desperadoes, and ruffians, jet who were merely avenging the brutal murder of their father and mother. What Iiatt He to he Thniiklul For? National Democrat. Mr. Benjamin Huirison did well to issue his Thanksgiving proclama tion before the election of Tuesday last. If he had delayed it for a week, perhaps he would not have felt like publishing it at all. What has he to be thankful for ? Does he rejoice over the annihila tion of his man Mahone in Virginia? Does he feel thankful for the downfall of his friend Foraker in Ohio? Does it make him grateful to the Almighty to know that Senator Payne's successor will be a Democrat? Does he see anything to make him chant a gladsome hymn in the grand overturn in Iowa? Does the Democratic triumph in New York make him wish to give thanks to Cod or man? Does tlia Democratic victory in New Jersey arouse sweet emotions in his breast? Does the reduced Kepublican ma jority in Massachusetts make the Thanksgiving season to him a sweet and holy time? What is there, anywhere, we slnuld like to know, to make this gentleman thankful? Even the Presbyterian doctrine of predestination is liable to lose its power over the presidential soul in a time like this. . Sack cloth and ashes would seem to be the fitting habiliments of a party leader who leads his party up to such results as those of Tuesday last. Benjamin Harrison will do well to devote the national holiday to silent prayer and self-examination. This is what he needs, and what will do him good. The Indian agcncie3 are Gl in number. The uumber of houses oc cupied by Indiana are 21,232. CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2.9, WHAT THEY EAT IN CHINA. Blaek oKs Meat, Nlee Cat'a Eye aud Itlrd Newt Roup. Courier Journal. What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice, That's what little girls are made of. What are little boys made of? -Kats aud snails aud puppy dog's tails, Thats what little boys are made of. This nursery rhyme is especially true of the little boys in China. There are thousands of almond-eyed, yellow-skinned, pig-tailed little ones throughout South China, who con sider the above menu a feast. I vis ited a rat restaurant and watched tbo cooking of ' dogs and cats in soup. I priced dried rats at many a butcher shop, and was offered plump, juicy pussies for less than the cost of their raising. I was told that the flesh of dogs would make brave the men who ate it, and I watched not a few people who smacked their lips as they conveyed bits of cat from their bowls to their mouths. These Chinese dog restaurants are largely patronized by the poor people of Canton. They are usually ou the ground floor, and they consist of a kitchen in the front and a dining room in the rear. From nails on the walls and in the ceiling haug the dressed bodies of dogs, which look not unlike the carcasses of pigs, and which hang tail downward. Just below these upon great beds of coal or in-oven like stoves or pots, in which dog and cat stews simmer away. The meat is cut up iuto bits, as big as the end of your finger, and it is fried with chestnuts or garlic in oil, or is stewed into a sort of soup. At the restaurant which I visited, I was told that I could have a pint bowl of cat flesh for ten cents, and as a special dainty I was offered fried cat's eyes at two cents a piece. The cats are skinned before cooking, but the do3 are prepared for the pot in the same wav that we make our pork. They are killed and the bodies are soused into boiling water to get the hair off. A little hair is alwavs left on the end of the tail to show the color of the dog, for th meat of the black dog is worth twice that of the yellow variety, and black cat's flesh is a dainty. In some parts of China yau can buy dried and smoked dogs' hams, and some regions make a business of export ing them. The season for rats is the winter, and cats are good at any time of the year. The Chinese are the greatest pork eaters in the world. The pigs are the scavengers ot the city, ana they root their way into every quarter, and turn up the ground and wallow- in the mire on the very edge of the F.mperor's palace in Perkin. You see pigs for sale in every market, aud the sucking pig is the piece de resistance at every feast. It is nev er eaten in the roast, however, but is hashed up into bits and stewed, and this is the case with all Chinese meats. Small bit3 are a necessity where the chopsticks are used, and the result is that most of the Chi nese dishes are soups or stews or roasts cut fine. There is little beef used in China, and good cows are practically unknown. Such milk as is offered for sale is by no means re liable as to cleanliness and charac ter, and an English resident who was disappointed by his milkman, and asked him the reason why he no longer pulled around his milk cart, received this reply : " No can. Sow she die, and woman she have moved away." Human milk is sold in many parts of China, and when the Empress Dowager was sick recently, it re quired twenty wet nurses to keep her alive. Paw fish is a common article of diet in both Japan and Corea, and I attended a Japanese dinner at Tokio, where slices of white, uncooked trout were brousht in covered with ice and served as one of the entree3, It was not bad to taste, and my Japanese friends ate it with great gusto. In Corea if is not uncom mon for the fishermen to take a bot tle of pepper.sauce along with them aud to eat a fish as they take it from the hook, sprinkling a bit of red-hot Chili over it and eating it down without cleaning anything off except the scales. The Corean3 a? e by no means particular as to the manner in which their hsh and meats are served. The entrails are sold and eaten as well as the rest of the meat, and a common dish at a big dinner ia a chicken baked, feathers, entrails and all. and served whole upon the table. The Coreau is the greatest eater in the world, aud, more than any other man in the world, he lives to eat. The average man the country over eats evervthinar he can get his TANBARB. teeth on, and he will take a dozen meals a day if he has the chance. I had sixteen chair-bearers on a trip which I took into the interior, aud these bearers stopped at every village and at almost every house to rest and feed. They would dart oil one by one into fields of turnips by the wayside, and for the next half mile would go along eatiug raw turnips. The bigger a man's stomach is in Corea the more wealthy he is sup posed to be, and you see pot-bellied youngsters everywhere you go. A Corean has a short sack, which comes down just below the middle of his waist, and his full baggy pan taloons are tied up under this. Some of the baby boys have outgrown the size of their jackets, and you see a belt of fat yellow skin between the ends of the pantaloons and tin be ginning of the coat. Some of the wealthy ones wear bustles over their abdomens, in order to increase the size of their fronts, and the King annually niake3 a present to those who have audience with him. lie sent a lot of provisions to the Anier can General a few days after they arrived in Corea to reorganize the army, and there is no lack of good things in the palace. The Corean country produces good meat, and the Coreans are greater meat eaters than either the Chinese ar the Ja panese. All nations of the East which haxe a large number of Budd hists among them are, to a great extent, non-consumers of meat. The Buddhists believe that their ances tors are trotting around inside the feathers and under the fur and hair of the animal creation, and they believe it is a sin to take animal life. According to the theory of transmi gration of souls a man may be chewing up the choicest bit of his great grandfather's body when lie masticates a tenderloin steak, and the tenderest wing of this year's spring chicken may have trotted around under the animation of his grandmother's soul. To people of delicate sensibilities, possessed of that faith which moves mountains, such gastronomic remembrance would spoil their feast. It is for this reason that the Burmese and Siamese eat so little meat, and it is largely due to this that you find but little meat consumed in the greater part of India. There is fine game all over China. and you can get wild ducks for five or six cents apiece. Ducks are cheap in Japan, and at Peking I found the finest of venison, pheasants and hares. I think the markets of Pek ing are as fine as those of any capi tal in the world, and the richest of the celestials live very well. Some of their dishes are more costly than terrapin stew, and bird nest, soup casts 5 a plate. It is made from the nest of the swallow found in the caves in some of the islands of the Pacific ocean, and the exporting to China of these nests is quite a busi- r.,1 . , ! I I I ? ness. j. ne material oi tne nest is made of sea weed, crushed by the bird in its crop and drawn out in fibres with which the nest is woven and fastened to the side of a cliff. These nests are seldom larger than three inches in diameter. It is a big job to clean them, and they are cooked with pigeon's eggs and spices into a soup. When cooked they look like isinglass, and it takes an artist to prepare them for the table. He Had Him There.. Detroit Free Press. A man who had business with the occupant of an office on Griswold street carefully took down the sign of "Shut the Door" and laid it away before knocking. When in vited to come in he left the door ajar. "Hang it! but some folks can t read!" exclaimed the occupant as he rose up. ".Read what ?" " Read signs !" " What sign have you got?" "Don't it say 'Shut the Door!' in big black letters on that doer ?" " No, sir !" "Bet yon a dollar !" " Done !" They advanced to the door and of course discovered that the sign was gone. "All right take the dollar," said the disgusted occupant of the room. " I have tried every possible way to keep that door shut, and now I'll nail the dnrned thing up and hold my office out iu the hall !" When Wilberforce was a candi date for Parliament his brilliant sister offered a new gown to the wife of every freeman who would vote for her brother on which a cry was raised: "Miss V llberforce lor ever. She replied: "I thank you, gentle men, but I can not agree with you I do not wish to be Misa Wilberforce for ever." - 1SS9. Interesting: FartN. Patent Flour Arraigned. The or ganization of the "Old Stone Millers' Association," at Detroit, with the avowed purpose of educating the public mind to the dangers to health attending the use of roller flour throws some doubt upon the state ment that "the world do move." The association charges patent flour with being the cause of the rapid increase of insanity and kindred i diseases, as well as the startling fact that the human race is fast losing their teeth, and dentists are multi plying by hundreds in every part of the country. The new association has already started a healthful influ ence in the inquiry and investiga tion which the discussion of the subject will involve, even if the re sult should be its own discomfiture. Use of Oil on Rough Seas. With the approach of winter storms it is incumbent upon navigators to note the maiS'y instances where serious danger and damage have been avoid ed by using oil to prevent heavy seas from breaking on board. There are many cases where oil can be used to advantage, such as lowering and hoisting boats, riding to a sea-anchor, crossing rollers or surf on a bar and from life-boats and stranded vessels Thick and heavy oils are the hest. Mineraloils are not so effective as animal orvegetable oils. Raw petroleum has given favorable results, but it is not so satisfactory when refined. Certain oils, like cocoauut oil and some Kinus or tisn on, congeal in cold weather, and are, therefore, useless, but may be mixed with n.in eral oils to advantage. The simplest and best means of distributing oil is by means of canvas bags about one foot long, tilled with oakum and oil, pierced with holes by a coarse sail needle and held by a lanyard. The waste-pipes forward and also useful for this purpose. New L"se for Carrier Pigeon very .A new use has been for the carrier pigeon in Russia carrying nega tives taken in a balloon to the pho tographer's. A Russian paper gives an account of some experiments recently made, in which the Czar's winter palace was photographed in the air, the plates being sealed in paper bags impenetrable to light, tied to a pigeon's foot and sent to the developer. A California Rabbit Drive. The rabbit scourge, which has reduced such large tracts of land in Austra lia to barrenness, is now threatening parts of California with similar ef fects. In Frenso county these ani mals have become so numerous and Destructive to the larmers that a wholesale extermination of them is imperative. It is estimated that five rabbits consume as much as one sheep. They are particularly fond of the grapevines, fruit trees, corn and other grain. A drive has been made by stretching fine wire netting about three feet high and seven miles in length, V-shaped, terminat ing at the smaller end in a circular corral. One of the drives resulted in the death of 12,000 rabbits. Willing to Oblige the Lady. Col. Thomas, one time member of Congress, was in the city this week, and among tales of the old days told the following about Thaddeus Ste vens : " Thaddeus Stevens was sitting in his office one day with a few friends when in walked an old lady, wearing a poke bonnet, blue goggles, and carrying a green alpaca umbrella. She looked around the room as if in search of some one. and then said solemnly: " ' Can you tell me where to find Thaddeus Stevens, the Apostle of Liberty ?" " Old Thad' blushed. " ' I'm Thaddeus Stevens,' he re plied shortly. "'Are you Thade-e-us Stevens, the Apostle of Liberty ?' " ' I reckon I am, ma'am.' " The old lady drypped her para sol, made a rush towards Stevens to kiss him. and when he held her off. she said : " 'I came from Bucks County to see Thade-e-us Stevens, the Apostle of Liberty, and to take home with me a lock of his hair.' "The Apostle of Liberty took off his red wig, handed it to her, and said : "'There it is, ma'am. Take as much as you want.'" New -York Tribune. Patti receives $3,500 a night for singing in Albert Hall, London. There are many Americans who try to sing who would take the job at a smaller figure say at $3.50 a night WHOLE NO. 5)7. Antouinhe.s the Natives. The natives of tropical countries are seldom so much astonished as when they are first introduced to snow and ice. The congealing of water is a phenomenon they are slow to com prehend. A few months ago Sir Wil liam McGregor enticed several New Guinea natives to the hitherto un sealed summit of Mount Owen Stan ley, the loftiest peak in British Aus tralasia. On its barren summit, near ly a thousand feet above the zone of vegetation, big icicles were found, grtatly to the amazement of the na tives, who were much startled when they touched them, and insisted that their fingers had been burned. A year ago, when Mr. Ehiers as cended Mount Kilima-Njaro, in Af rica, his native porters, who had lived all their lives near the base of the great mountain, pulled oft the boots with which they had been pro vided as they approached the snow line and plunged merrily into the snow in their bare feet. They lost no time in plunging out again, and lay writhing on the ground, insisting that their feet had been sverely burned. Some of tiie Central Afri can natives who have be n introduced intoGerniMiy mistook last winter the first snow storm they saw for a flight of white butterflies. Lieut. Francois says the mistake wa3 a very natural one. One dav when he was iscending a tributary of the Congo he saw for the first time the air fill ed with a swarm of w hite butterflies, and he says the spectacle closely re sembles a gentle fall of snow. The seductive summer drink, so popular in our latitude during the dog days, produces upon the untu tored savage when first brought to his notice as unpleasant an effect as an unexpected electric shock. King Dinah, of the West Africa has been one of the recent sightseers in Paris. An attempt was made one day to ex plain to him the nature of ice by in troducing him to an ice drink. The unusual sensation greatly startled his Majesty, and he dashed the cool ing draught on the floor as soon as he had tasted it. It is said that our Alaskan Eski mos think the weather is uncomfort ably sultry when the temperature is at the. freezing point, while the Cen tral African shivers in great distress iu a temperature of C0 above zero. l!ren-heH of Etiquette. Scottish American. It is a breach of etiquette to stare i around the room when you are mak ing a call. To take your dog with you when making a call. To open the piano or touch it, if found open, w hen waiting for your hostess to enter. To go to the room of an invalid without an invitation. To walk about the room examin ing its appointments when waiting for your hostess. To open or shut a door, raise or lower a curtain, or in any way to al ter the arrangements of a room in a house at which you are a caller. To turn your chair so as to bring your back to some one seated near you. To remain after you have dis covered that your host or hostess is dressed to go out. To fidget with hat, cane or parasol during a call. To resume your seat after having once risen tc say adieu. To preface your departure by re marking, "Now, I must go," or to in sinuate that your hostess may be weary of you. For a lady receiving several callers to engage in a tete-a-tete conversa tion with one. To make remarks upou a caller who just left the room.. To call upon a friend in reduced circumstances with any parade of wealth in equipage or dress. For the hostess to leave the room when visitors are present. To assume any ungraceful or un couth positions, such a3 standing with arms akimbo, sitting astride a chair, smoking in the presence of ladies, wearing the hat within doors, standing with legs crossed or feet on the chairs, leaning forward in your chair with elbows on the knees all or wnicn acis uenoie iacK oi good breeding. The Son of a Puesidkxt. Pow ers Fillmore, the only son of Presi dent Fillmore died on Friday night. Mr.Fillmore was an unambitious man and made no noise in the world, but he was held in high estem and affec tion by his circle of intimate personal friends and will be sincerely mourn ed. He was a lawyer, and an able one, but never an advocate, and of late years he had retired even from office practice. He was a Democrat and there were many years during which he might have had anything within the gift of the Demooratic party, but he wanted nothing and would accept nothing. -Mr. Fill more never married, and with his death the Fillmore line terminates. Buffalo Courier. THE STANDARD. WE DO ALL KINDS OF job -woee: IN THE XEATKST MANNER AND AT THE LOWEST JUTES Brazil! Xew President. Gen. Deodorio da Fonseca, who, as leader of the Brazilian revolution and head of the new Government at Rio, is at present the subject of wide spread curiosity, is a native of Brazil, fifty-five years of age and a military man by profession. Ilia father, who came from a wealthy family of Portugal, emigrated to Brazil early in this century and set tled in Rio Grande do Sul, where he had some concessions of land from the Government. He soon after wards married a Brazilian lady and three sons, of whom the revolution ary leader was the oldest. The three brothers were educated together at the Polytechnic School at Rio and all went into the army. They took a conspicuous position in the war against Paraguay fifteen years ago, all rising to the rank of general. The second brother, Hermes, died four months ago when commandant of the army in Rio de Janeiro, and the youngest brother, Sevtriatio, is at present commander of the army in the province of Bahia, which po sition he has occupied for some six years. Gen. Fonseca, the head of the new government, Ib'st attracted public notice at the battle of Moa soro in the war with Paraguay when he was promoted on the field from the rank of lieutenant to a major. His bravery earned for him the name among the soldiers of " The Lion of Mossoro," and upon returning to Rio, Dom Pedro, whom he has just deposed, publicly decorated him with the Order of the Rose. He was then sent as commandant of the army in Matto Grosso, where he remained for two years. Returning to Rio, he was given control of the Government magazine and cartridge factory there, being raised to. the rank of general. In lSsi3, while in Rio, General Fonseca created an organization that has much significance in view of the developments of last week. This was a military club, embracing near ly every officer in the Brazibau army, of which he himself was elected President, and within a year or two his popularity among his fel low officers has led Fonseca to be called the Boulanger of Brazil. Kepublican ideas were spread in the army throughout the length and breadth of the country by the Club Militar of Rio, and on several occa sions the Government endeavored to suppress it. So influential had this organization grown to be, however, that the Government only desisted from these efforts when convinced that' if the Club was suppressed a military revolution would ensue. It was thought matters had come to a crisis in the Spring of 1887, when a controversy arose between General Fonseca and Franco de Sa, the Min ister of War, in the course of which Fonseca claimed to have been insult ed, and was ordered off to a remote province. He had no sooner left than deep indignation manifested itself iu the Club' Militar, and the members formally notified f)om Pe dro that unless De Sa resigned his portfolio there would be a revolution. A Cabinet meeting at the Emperor a palace followed the receipt of this message, De Sa retired from the Ministry and the victorious Fonseca was recalled. He was the lion of the hour in Rio, and so great was his popularity that Dom Pedro again sent him away to avoid trou ble, this tune to Minas, as civil and military Governor of the province, which position he occupied at the time of the recent uprising. Gen. Fonseca is married and the father of three children. He is a handsome, imposing man, some six feet in height, and makes a fine figure on horseback. A Cleuoymax's Queer Idea. A distinguished clergyman has re cently condemed all social and polite tictibns. When, for instance, a stu pid bore calls upon you, he think3 you ought to tell him that you are not ghid to see him, . but that, on the contrary, yon are 6orry to see him, and that you wish he would go. Thi3 sort of brutal frankness would not do in pulpit, a3 a critic of the clergyman might a3 well quit preach ing, who should begin his sermon as follows : "My selfish, mostly ignor ant and despisable hearers, I should like to call your prayerful attention to my text, but 1 know most of you are thinking about other matters and that you do not come here to learn piety, but rather to show your good clothes and maintain a social position." New York Tribune. Animal natures differ, some are like an old Dutch clock, of slow and stately pendulum, others like a lit tle Waterbury watch, always in a hurry, and so with plants; some, like the mushrooms, are in haste to vegetate; others, like the century plant, may take many years to Vegetate.