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K. D. GILMER,
attorney and Counsellor ut
X.il sr.
WAYNESVILLE, N. C
Will practice in the Courts of Western
North .Carolina, the Federal Courts at
Asheville, tfnd the Supreme Court at
Raleigh.
Office over Hardware Store.
GARLAND S. FERGUSON,
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WAYNESVILLE, N.
C.
A. A. Howell. 0. II. Sraathers.
HOWDELL& SMATHERS.
Attorneys and Counsellors at law,
Waynesville, N. C.
Will practice in the counties of Bun
combe, Madison, Transylvania, Haywood
Jackson, Macon, Swain, Cherokee, Gra-
ham and Clay, also, in the U. S. District
and Circuit Courts at Asheville and in
the Supreme Court at Raleigh. Collection
. of claims a specialty.
'J. C. L. GUDGDER,
Attorney and Counselor at law,
WAYNRSVILLE, North Carolina.
Will practice in the Twelfth Judicial
District, in the Federal Court at Ashe
ville and in the Supreme Court at Ral-
Jamei M. Moody.. Edmund B. NorvelL.
MOODY & NOVELL,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
V Waynesville, .N. C,
Practice in all the courts of the twelfth
judicial district, in the Supreme Court
of the State, and the Federal Court at
Asheville, i Special attention given to
investigation of land titles and collection
titles and collection
of claims..
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ana Snrteon.
Special attentipn given to Surgery. Office
andresience up ttairs in- Mclntcsh
BLlfluing. -
Waynesville, - N. C.
Drs. G, D. S. & R. L. ALLEN,
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N. C.
WATNKSVILLE,
.iKce opposite G. D..L. Allen & San'S
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AH calls promptly attended. j
JR. C. ELLIS, M. D ,
Graduate University, Baltimore, ;
Physician and Surgeon,
WAYNESVILLE, N. C.
Office Main
street. Residence nefif
. Methodist Church
Dr. H. L McFadyen,
pjiysiciari a rid Surgeon,
WAYNESVILLE, X. C,
Offers his professional services to the
citizens of Haywood and adjoining
counties. ,
Ofliee over Webb's hardware store, on
yi.i'.n street.
Or. B. F. Smathers,
DENTIST,
Office in Miller Euilding over the Hard-
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Vuynesville) 1- O-
5All Work Guaranteed. . -
Farties having artificial work Hone can
have mouev refunded if satisfaction is
not given aftsr a trial of ten days.
JOHN M. DAVIS,
THi: .jKWEIiEK,
lFAYNESVILLE, - - - - - N. C.
DEALER IN
W ATfllX CLOCKS. JEWELRY,
SPECTACLES, Kir.
Watch - Repairing - a - Specialty
Also repairs Sewing JIachihes.. Can
furnish parts of auy Machine, if de
.sir'iil. 1 . ; ' :.''.' : "
V S. P. Shanks,
Contractor and Builder,
WAYNESVILLE, N. C.
Plans and climates made in either
brick. Buildings erected with
nd in a satisfactory manner.
VOL. I.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS
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THE SOTJTHERN STATES.
News Collected hr Wlre -BdM. Kr.m
All Pans of Dixie.
NORTH CAROMXA.
All arrangements have been completed
lor the immediate erection of a cotton mill
at Salisbury. The capital stock is
$150,000.
Davis Brihkley and Charles Lawrence
young white men of Catawba county'
who are charged with burglary, have
been taken to Charlotte jail for safe keep
ing, rumors being in circulation at New
ton of . threatened lynching and also
rescue by their friends. '
,L.L. Polk, State Secretary of the
i armers' Alliance, reports that'tlu re are
four hundred and thirty-six alliances in
North Carolina, with sixteen thousand
live hundred members.
-The Auditor's report will show that
there are forty-nine railways' in North
Carolina. Two of these arc exempt from
taxation. , 1
Near Battleboro, a few nights ago, W.
I. House was struck by the mail train
while he. was sitting on the track ap
parently, asleep. His injuries are very
serious.
It is learned that several suits for dam
ages in large amounts are to be instituted
against the Chester and Lenoir Narrow
Gauge Railway. Theee-grew out of an
accident near Hickory a few weeks since
wherein the train fell through the trestle
and all was burned.
William Ellis, a young white man,
has made a confession that he robbed the
postoflice at Floral College, Robertson
county. He stated that he had hidden
the stolen property, money, stamps and
registerejl letters, in the church near by.
His statement was true, and the property
has nearly all been recovered.
An attempt was made some days ago
to wreck the train on the Scotland Neck
Branch Railway, near Fillcry. The
switch leading to the I gravel pit was
opened by force, the train ran into the
pit, wrecking six flat cars and two box
L1'18 - . 1 he I)asscnger cars did not leave
me rans, out several passengers were se
verely shaken up.
In Winnsboro in the case of the Slate
versus Charles Veal, charged with as
sault with outrageous intent, the jury,
after a half hour's deliberation, returned
a verdict of guilty, and the Judge .sen
tenced him to ten years at hard labor in
the panitentiary.
' There arc to be many interesting fea
tures at the Craven county rish, oyster
and ifkmo, fair, wbirh ionics off o'n" the
13th, I4th, and 15th of March. X tour
nament, a street parade of one ,f the
most efficient fire departments inthe south
and a glsss ball andclay pigeon shooting.
Special low rates over railroad and steam
boats lines in the state, and excursion
rates from points north have been secur
ed. Joe Berry, a noted negro desjierado,
was killed by the superintendent of the
state penitentiary farm, near Columbia.
He was evidently intent on robbery, if
not on murder. Mr. Davis, the superin
tendent, on his approach ordered him to
halt, but the warning was unheeded.
After he was shot, Berry ran some dis
tance. He was a terror to the neighbor
hood and his death by violence occasions
little surprise or regret.
SOl'TII CAROLINA.
George Sims, who is wanted by the
Atlanta officers Jar larceny, has been ar
rested at Greenville by Detective Schlap
back. - -
About six miles from
a negro about . twentv-one
Abbeville
years old,
named Jas. Wharton, shot a small negro
boy 12 years old, named Nathan McClin-
ton. The ball went in at the right shoul
der, but it has not been found yet by the
attending physician. The doctor consid
ers the wound mortal. There was no ap
parent cause for the shooting. A war
rant has been issued, and it is thought
that Wharton will be arrested. -
A curious complication has arisen, m a
murder case pending in Lexington cojin-
i a, o .
tv. in S. C. IJixon Aiiuy was con-i
victed of manslaugrlter in killing Joseph
Swygert at a politic u barbecue in lSSo.
He appealed to the supreme, court and
got a new trial. When the case was
called up at Lexington, it was
discovered that the indictment.and other
papers were lost. The case cannot be
tried without the indictment, nor can a
new indictment be written out until' a
nolle prosequi be entered and written on
the old paper itself. It looks now as if
Addv can never be tried again, and there
is considerable talk about it. Nobody
undertakes to guess who abstracted the
papers, but the suspicion is that some
friend of Addv did it to help him out of
his very fad case. His lawyer? are men
of high characters, and there is no sus
picion whatever of them.
;eok:ia.
!. The'mouument to them memory of the
late Bishop Ph-rcc will le erectM in
Sparta on the 1st of next September.
The citizens of Sugar Valley arrested
Henry Kinncbrew, a negro house-breaker,
and brought, him to Calhoun with a
chain around his neck last week. Their
experience with a former prisoner taught
them the lesson that it would, not do to
trust a prisoner, and hence the chain.
Two miles north of Crayfish Springs,
on the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
Railroad,. Jess McGugin" and Taylor
Camp, Iwth colored, quarreled aUut a
bridle. McGugin got his pistol and shot
Camp through the heart. Camp died in
stantly. McGugin has skipiod the
country.
A little negro girl on Dr. Steve' Jack
son's place, in Oconee county, was
burned to death by her clothing taking
.. -,n in the house. She ran out,
but before the flames could be extin
guished she was so badly burned that she
died in a short time.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
Two copies of the Cleveland issue of
the Sanford Fla. .Tojurnal will e printed
on satiu, and presented to President and
Mrs Cleveland as a souvenir of their vis-,
it to the Gate City of South Florida.
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An attempt was made to rob the St
Louis, Arkansas and Tex? express train
at Kingsland, Ark. It is. said that 'he
messenger locked the doors but the rob
bers smashed them in and robbed the
car of two thousand dollar.
A special to the Galveston, Tex. News
from Tenaha says: ' Tom Forsvth. the
murderer of Treasurer Hill aW
from the Panola conntv jail 'by A mob of
;two hundred men rthd'hanucf.
Mr. Davenport teacher of a public school
at Honie.lMi-s.. expelled one or two pu
pils recently. 1
Friends of the teacher on the one hand
and those of the expelled parties on the
other met at the schoolhousc,1 and, after
matters were thought to be satisfactorily
arranged, some difficulty occurred. James
Bailey, Jr., tired six charges from his
pistol, instantly killing R. A. Rutledge
and fatally wounding his son.
IKTll, EAST AD WEST
1 lie siiet-t mill of the Reading Pa.;1ron
works has suspended, throwing 275-men
out of employment.
Smallpox is reported as' ragjng in Ha
vana. Two thousand deaths occurred
from the dreaded disease between May last
and January, lKgs.
It is mimored'at Washington that Gen
eral John Newton, superintendent of
puolie works, is to lie appointed sujht
intchdent of the coast survey.
Work on the new gunboat Ydrkton
and a dynamite t rusier, at Cramp's ship
yard. Philadelphia, has progressed so
rapidly th.it they will be launched with
in a month. .
Eighteen men -were, injured by the ex
plosion of dynamite in a rock cut on
Fourth street, Duluth, Minn.
The roof of a nearly completed hotel at
Kans;is dty, Mo., collapsed and crushed
through eight stories to the ground. One
workman was killed and abont a dozen
injured.
At Salirhanca. N, Y., the second larg
est fires 'ha4 ever occurred in the town
broke wut at 12 30 o'clock yesterday
mornirg. The buildings burned "were the
Opera House block, post office, Nies's
block and other buildings. Loss, 75,000;
insurance, 35, 000.
Five shares of.th'o Ne- York Sun Pub-'
lishing Company, par value 1.000 each,
w ere sold at the New York Real Estate
Exchange for $;?.3."i0 each.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de
clared iiioicrative the law enacted by the
last legislature, which permitted habit
ual druirikards to be confined in an asy
lum nof to excede two years.
A slight shock of earthquake wa felt
at San Francisco, Cal., the other day.
The sh?v k is also reported from several
points north of Jhiit city, where it was
more jre nnTf CRUsectTOTSOnR ; TO" riTTSIT
from their houses in alarm. '
Governor Greet), of New Jersey has
vetoed the local option high license bill
which the Republicans had passed as a
caucus! measure...
HONOKIXG A GOOD MAN.
(-Funeral
el Mr. Corcoran Mrs. C'leveli
Attends (be Services.
nd
The funeral of Mr. W. W. Corcoran
took place late from his residence
in Washington. D. C. In accor
dance s w ith the wish of the de
ceased the ceremonies were simple and
devoid of all ostentation. Amocg the
floral tributes was a large pillow sent by
Mrs. Cleveland. The services were con
fined tjo the form laid down in the Epis
copal ritual. There was no address.
Rev. Dr. Leonard, pastor of St. John's
Church, conducted the services with the
assistance of Bishop Parel and Rev. Dr.
Stuart, of Christ church, Georgetown.
Mrs. Cleveland was preseut during the
services and her carriage was in long dra
pery", which followed the remains to the
grave j She was escorted by Secretary
Endicott and stood during the services
in the hituse very neat the head of the
casket.
Chief Justice AVaite, Senators
Eustis and manv other licrsons
Barbour,
of note, were assembled in the parlors of
the mansion during the service. 1 here
was a large representation present of va
rious organizations with which the de
ceased was connected, and which he had
aided.' Upon the arrival of the funeral
corteare at Hill Ccmctary,
the casKei was
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4 r - .i l 1 it
u . t V1" l" ,uc. 'T vk r
,.n-cm) jinm.T tin- rpin.ains of Mrs. t.or-
corau. A touching incident was the
presence at the grave and the singing of
the children of the City orphan asylum.
The Worlds Deepest Wells.
The deepest well d.illed in the United
States is that of George Westinghouse,
at Hcmewood near the city of Pittsburgh,
which, on Dec. 1, 1880, had reached a
depth of 4,018 feet, when the tools were
-lost and drilling ceased. The Buchanan
farm well of the Niagara Oil Company,
drilled by Frederick Crocker in Hope
well township, Washington county, is
4,:S03 feet deep.
The Rush Well of the Niagara Oil
Company in Washington county was
abaudoned at 3. 300 feet. The deep well
of Jonathan Watson, near Titusville, was
drilled about 2.500 feet. J. 31. Guffey
& Co.s well on the Walz. farm at A est
Newton, Westmorelaud county, was
drilled to a depth of ?.500 feet. The
well of Isaac. AVi.lets at Sargent's Mills,
neat Sycamote, in Crcene county, was
abandoned at e, 003 feet.
The deepest bore hole in Europe is at
Schladcbach, near Kolschau station, on
the railway between Corbet ha and Leip
zig, and was undertaken by the Prussian
Government in search for coal. The
' apparatus used is a diamond drill, down
the hollow shaft of wh'ch water is forced,
rising aaiu to the surface outside the
shaffof'the drill' and inside the tube in
which the drill works. '
' Bv this method cores.of about fifty feet
in length have oeen ouia neu. memvt
ae length bored in twenty-four hours is
from twenty to thirty-three feet, but
under favorable c'.rcumstanccs as much
as ISO feet has been bored in that time.
Other deep holes are as follows:
Pomnit ', near Wettin 'H?!
rrobat-Jes-ir, ileoklenbum vt-1,
Siierenberg, near Zosn 4.Tb
C nseii'.irs. near Stafcsfurt "- --r
Liefrt-Elwshorn, Holstein ...4,-iM
BcUadebach , -4,515
Progressive Age. .
A new tanning agient, called pyrofus
cine, has been extracted from coal-dust
by means of caustic soda. The tanning
prociss is somewhat complicated, but it
is claimed to be fifty per cent, cheaper
than 'the bark process, . and twenty to
thirty per cent, cheaper than the alum
process. i
WAYNESVILLE, HAYWOOD COrXTY, N. C.,MAKCII
WASHINGTON
OOSSIl FROM UNCLE SAMS' CAP
ITOL What sir fiasr Law Makers are Doing.
CaDgresslanal aad Other KeWs.
Orders have leen issued for the dis
Continuance ef a number of signal ser
vice stations. Pensacola, Fla., is the only
one in the South. The remainder are in
the North and Northwest. The scarcity
of money is the cause.
The bill to appropriate an additional
$7.),C00 for the Chattanooga public
building has passed the committe of the
whole. This jjiveSiChattanooga an ap
propriation in all of 1275,000. There are
now only five public buildiags on the
calendar ahead of Mr.
will be voted on in the house about TuesJ
day or Wednesday. Mr. Grimes has
many friends in the house and, this to
gether with the true merit in the bill
makes its passage doubly assured.
The civel service commissioner gives
notice that it will hold examinations for
applicants for positions in departmental
service at Washington, who, in addition
to ordinary clerical attainments, have a
knowledge ). of stenography and type
writing at the following times and nla
ces in the south: Birminirhani. Ala
e
iiuiauiii, jinivji o; v imiiiuiooini, leuii.,
Saturday, March 10; Knoxville, Tenn..
Tuesday, Mi nh 13; Nashville, Tenn..
Tuesday, Mirch 13; Memphis, Tenn..'
Thursday, March 13.
The President has signed an ordei
placing employees of the c ivil service
commission in the classified departmental
Tki.MU.. t 1, o - I 'I - . 1 rT
service. I his is the first act of. the Pies
idenl under the new rules and regula
tions, and it is understood to Ik- prelimi
nary to an order placing under civil ser
vice rules the Inter-State commerce com
mission, the Indian school service and all
other commissions and bureaus which
were organized independent of the exec
utive departments at Washington, as
contemplated by the new rules.
The will of the late W. W. Com rnu
has been filed and admitted to probate.
The only public Inquests are $100,000 to
the Corcoran art gallery, to which Air.
Corcoran had already given $1,500,000;'
$50,000 to the Loufse Dome, to wh ch
Mr. Corcoran gave in his life half a njil
lion dollars; $5,000 each to the three
orphan asylums of the district, and $3,
000 to the Little Sisters of the Poor. He
makes many bequests, ranging from $100
to $15,000, to relatives, personal friends
and servants. The remainder of the es
tate is left in trust for his three grand
children.
"I love to rove," says the old ong.
and there is something connected wit
roving that has a peculiar and irresistibi
charm for many people. While there an
many .rovers Who sail the waters blue,
there is a multitude of land rovers, also
Among them we think wc arc justified
in giving the printer a prominent iKsi
tion. It is difficult to find an old printel
who has followed the business from boy
hood, who hasn't "held a case ' in mosl
of the prominent cities of the LTnion.
not to mention the small towns where h
has been caught broke, while tn r nit
from one city to another. Your thorough
bred type-sticker has a contempt for 8
case except in a city Office, and if you
find him picking up type for a country
paper he is stranded for the time being.
;YVc don't know that the printer is at
migratory now as he was "in the earliei
nml purer days of the Republic," but
there arc plenty who arc not disposed te
settle down until they have salislied that
thirstfor travel which the handling ol
type seems to inspire.--J'fj-nt friftinys.
Loved to Have His Teeth Pulled.
There resides on Wyhe avemie an old
colored n an named Edward Benson, bet
ter known as I n !e Ntd." w !:, it if
said, contrary t the experiene of ot,he
children d-ring ' their iiif .iitll: years,
enjoyed a pleasant sensation dining his
teething period.' and who mi m- rgirii!
into manhood experienced ths same Vo
lightful sensation on having h s teeth
extracted. S grcit w;is the pleasure
experienced by th perat mi that he vis
ited a dentist asitl had one tooth aftct
another cxtr'-.:-Ud. takinir an cxnitisitt
delirht in w ha., would be a torture" to
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others, until c.( ry tooth was outrof his svere sixty present, and high prices were
head, when he began to look about foi j calized. R. R. Bogert paid the highest
other means ol' torturing his. gums., j price for any stamp for a Brattle
Finally he hit upon a spring lothes pin, ooro of 1846. It is one of the rarest and
which he attuhe to a id presses upon j 5nest ever sold at auction. The next
his gums like a vice, from which he ap- ; iighest figure, f86, was paid for a New
parently derives the mot.inicnse feeling J f ork of 1846. This was the first offici
of pleasure. Since his paiting with .his 1 illy used postage stamp on (he American
teeth he has lived entirely on soft food,
not a particle of solid foo I having passed
his lips for forty-five years. PUttburg
Leader.
mtmm
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Fence Rails of Walnut.
"I was once riding up in the Cumber-
land Mountains," said the Chicago man,
"when I saw - a bearded mountaineer
splitting a big tTee he had felled. It was
a huge black Walnut. I said to him,
'Myfricad, what are you doing?' 'lim a
matin' fence ra Is,' was hb reply. 'Well,'
I said, 'you don't mean to tell me youar
making fence-rails out of that piece ol
timber?' 'Why, sartin. That's a good
log, ain't itV It was as fine a black wal
nut log as I ever saw, and if my friend
had known enough to get somebody with
a few Oxen or mules to drag the log tc
the railroad he could have sold it foi
$200, for it was worth more than that."
ChLnyo Tri'june.
,
,
The champion " Benedick n of the
civilized world is Francois Sauron, wood
ranger of Saint Paulien, France. He is
68 yc irs old, and on January 10 was
married for the sixth time to a widow of
60. Ilia last four "marriages have oc
curred in the last four years.
a A 'icSiali'Vt rf f!7ar AlaYarriie II '
The night 'lie fore tV.e eventfi:! day the
- t ;p!rat-rs workcdflll ihroush the hour?
i! d'.irkncs to compl-te their prepar.i
t ; n I a daylight dawned cn (he
c-iry winter mornin ; everything wa-
t idy and each man was told off to his re
spective' position. Sophie I erotTskays
d.i'.'vr p!ans of the routes and marked the
sj"t wl e C the coa-p'rat-irs were to wait ;
an l she hc.'i'If arraa ;c 1 to tae up aeon
spiruous position, and t tignal the Em
p;ror's approach. She took under hei
especial charge two men named Rcesa
kotTandElnikoiT. The latter was quite a
young man and is said to have been in
fatuated with her beauty and ready to do
her lightest bidding. It was these two
men who actually committed the deed.
n ,he 81gnM bc,ne Biyca hJ V,
I Heesakoff threw the first bomb. It ex-
ploded with a tremendous report, slight
ly wounding the horses, partly shatter
ing the carriage, and killing on the. spot
ihi- Co'sack footman who rode behind.
The coachman was unhurt, and he iraj.
plored his Majesty not to alight, saying
hr would drive him safe to the palace.
L'ut the Emperor was greatly alarmed,
and insisted on getting out. At soon at
ever. he alichtcd. Flnikoff, who was
i i v.t,
j -v a jards away, threw hu bomb
' w,!h so tr,,e an nim ,hat " fell t the
Qar's feet.but, strangely -enough, though
I the force of ; the explosion was tremen-
dous.mcn who were standing many yards
; away being knocked down by it, while
j a huge hole was plowed in the ground,
the Emperor was not httla outright,
but both he and his assassin fell to the
ground terribly injured. ElnikoS died
very foon afterward, but his
Majesty lingered in dreadful
agony for several hours. His lowei
limbs and part of the abdomen were torn
and shattered to pieces, and it is truly
marvelous that he survived so long. The
rest of the ghastly story is well known.
Of the two women and eight men who
were subsequently proved to have taken
an active part.- in the tragedy, one of the
men (Sablin) shot himself, Elnikoff wa
killed by the explosion of the bomb,
two brothers (Kobozcffs) escaped, and the
other four mop and the two women were
brought to trial and sentenced to be
hanged, which sentence was duly carried
out on April bi, except in the case of
Hesse Helfmann, who was reprieved.
None of the conspirators showed any re
morse for the. crime, n(tryTrcotgrwry Jn theiray, are
therr rleath ithout apparent, sign "ol not by any meani the only precautionary
were taken immediately after the tear's
assassination prevented the other-part o!
the conspirators' programme from being
carried out. It was a bitter disappoint
ment to them, for nothing was altered,
nothing changed. The Czar was no sooner
dead than the cry was raised of "Long
live-the Czar!" and the dropped' crown
of Alexander II. was immediately taken
up by Alexander III. For the time being
Nihilism was scotched but not killed.
From the Mow it then received it has long
since recovered and is now stronger than
ever, and the Damorlean sword that so i almost unknown; laaimless banter and
long swung over the head of Alexander . oe lowing ami boasting are the nearest
II. swings, now over the head of his sue- I approach te brawls. There is a tender
cessor, and the Nihilists are sworn to , hcartedness i mong them that isremark
"execute''him if the opportunity occurs, j able and almo-t pathetic. Many go away
But the tragedy of 1881 taught the au ! tli it never come back, j "Stand here, if
thorities a lesson, and the looked-foi you will, i.t these crowded wharves,"
opportunity may be a long way off, writes a i orrcspondent of the Pittsburg
though in the rauks of the Nihilists are j li piCh, "and watch the arrival and
menand women who will stop at nothing, j dcpai tu e of fishing fleets and if you
shrink from nothing, that will enable jhae a heart you will feel .something
them to "regenerate their country." It j heavy in your throat."
may bean ambitious dream, but these j The old mothers and father, the
who dream it are persuaded that the time j yung brothers and sisters, the w' ves and
is fast approaching when the dream will ! wee fishers' children, are all there, score
be f ul filled. Ge n ilema .V MiQazine. on score. Th. y are trying to look brave
: : as the vei-se! i (ail out. 5 The e are pride
Some Rare tnl Costly Stamps. and loyfil valor in their fices all. They
Stamp.dcalcrs say collecting is on the j , , K,lont th, .i..,..:-, ones.
increase. The craze extends even to the
very rich. Jay (iould's son Edwin visits
the stores occasionally and makes a few
purchases to add to his collection. The
.widow of Stewart, the wj
aalthy sugar
nan, is an enthusiastic collector, as are
ilso many members of famil
ics who are
h the lest New1 York socieflv
Auction
i; ales are well attended arid b
lyers plenty.
: 1 New York firm held
kheir ighty-
lecond sale a few nights since. There
;ntinent. A 48 newspaper stamp
j srought $21; a $60 one, T2C: two St.
j Louis stamps sold for $35 and $"40 re-
ipectively; a Mobile, Ala. 2c. black
j it amp, Confederate, brought $30.50;
j 00c. Bolivia of 1871 went for $34;
i British Guiana of 18-jo at $10; a Natal.
j id., at $'26; a Newfoundland, Is., at
j ft25; a Roumania-Moldavia of 1858, 54
j paras, at $29. Among the .large pur-
j ;hasers were William Thorne, R, 1L
i Bogert, E. B. Starling, Mr. Elverson, C;
' 8. Corwin and II. N. Terrett. One of
' ihe finest collections in New York is
j wned by J. W. Scott. The best in th
j world is in Paris, while the next is the
! sroperty of a gentleman in London. The
i najority of collections comprise but from
j 100 to .500, this being about as large a
T number as can Ije 'collected without
j nying. AV-c York Sdx.
j.
j pjn9 Man.
' Omaha Man "Let me see. Mr.
j Siirepop is front your section, isn't he? "'
I Colorado Man "Yes, lived there for
years. "
' He seems to be a remarkably fine
man."
Hasn't an enemy in he world."
I should sup nose not."
No ; they're all dead." Omaha
Wotld.
7, 1888.
Haw Colds are Caught. .
Cold i not ihe only factor in the pr
duction or cntarrh. There is a collateral
cause, and a mon important one, in cer
tain depressed conditions of the nervous
system, which is loo little known and
appreciated. Ij healthy conditions ot
the nervous system, provided reasonable
precautions are taken against cold, there
is enough vitality in the 'organism to re
sist its injurious influence. The nervous
system is, in fact, the guardian, control
ler, and prime regulator of animal heat
or body temperature, and its slightest
failure to fulfill its responsible duties
the lea t relaxation of its constant vigi
lance renders us liable to fall a prey to
cold. -
The following supposititious cases will
afford an illustration: An individual
who habitually drives about in an open
conveyance with p rfect fwedom from
catarrh, happens on one occasion to fall
asleep when he is out. and the very next
day has cold
The explanation of the.
nnpnnmpnnn la rn I lAimn in iha tm-i I
, . . ' .... i
t r y " "v "i)
that during sleep uervous energy'
lowered and the srstem therefore A
able to withstand the injurious e.Torts of
cold. If we assume that the ii dividual
was also in a state tif intoxicatiei at the
time, the damage done by cold would be
more serious, as the depression by alcohol
is Miperadded (o that of sleep.) It is
therefore not surprising to find that in
flammation of the lungs is frequently con
tracted under such circumstances. We
instinctively acknowledge the nervous
depression during sleep ty ; taking the
precaution to throw a ru(j oter the knees
before our forty winks the dining
room sof.i.
A timid woman comes home one night
pale and phtstlr with friyht. having en
countered a spectre cla I iu white, which
she calls a 'ghost.'' In a day or two she
develops a cohl, for which she cannot in
any way account, j Fear acts as a depres
sant to the nervous system, crippling its
powers of resisting the action of cold;
hence the phra.e, "shivering with fear."
Similarly, innumerable events of daily
life tend to irritate, depress, or c xcite
the nerves, and render them unfit for
maintaining thebody temperature against
the fluctuations of weather and climate
During these unguarded moments i
trifling exposure to cold or damp is suffi
cient .to induce catarrh. It is known
that stout boots, umbrellas and wraps,
hieasurea te bo dtfred ; that -
ndosTot to atresgtben the aervona sys
tem, if it be defecttTc, and that when
we are corapcllcd to expose ourselves to
cold or wet when the nerves are de
pressed from temporary causes, such as
fatigue, anxiety, grief, dyspepsia, or ill
humor, we should be specially careful to
gaard against cold. Chr.mlert't Journal.
Gloucester Fisher-folk.
Thriftlsncss is uncommon
among
(ilouce ter
fishermen ;
drunkenness is
who send it all back in i;ooI rr.etsure,
every manner ot good cueer an l sea lore
! for I :ck. As the schooners clear the
; harbor, out past Ten Pound Is'and.some
will run away around the harbor edge,,
jas if t kc:-p company to the last. But
I those who stay, leming far out over
th. dark bulkheads, look fixedly on and
. on until the white sails disappear be-.
' hind cruel Norman's Woe, or sink
Leh'nd the hoii 'on ; and if you can see
in their eyes, as they at l ist turn tqthc
little home spot for the weeks or months
i of dreary waiting, there is unutterable
j sadne-s behind the quivering lids. Then
; when the fleet returns, who can picture
j Ihe gladness and the woe upon .these cen
j tury holJ whirves and slips?
i They s y that down at brave old Mar-'
: hlehead every third woman is a wridow.
j And so the going and coming a-d
j K"tnS an1 never coming have woven a
. warp and woof . of imilc and tears
here, which have mellowed and softened
: thousands of human hearts in way you
can see and feel. Your fbherman who
,l .v,. ;r. ..uii,rf rh
-----
,'. . .
The old city is used'to it, and does not
mind it It is the way its toilers of the
sea have. And .o if yea ever walk her
streets and see a hulk of a fellow hold- i
ing a happy woman as he would clutch a
fife fail or a capstan head in a heavy j
storm,, you will know he is simply j
' making fast" with ti e strong hawser of I
an honest love to the very anchorage of
his life, utterly unconscious of youorj
anybody's sense .of the proprieties. And
this tenderness, too, is all-compassing.
There are many trusts and funds for
the widow and fatherless, and these men
give generously to them.- On every
week-day night the whole year through,
when the seaport is stirred by the arrival
of fleets with their "fares" or cargoes
of fish, there is a "fisherman's ball,"
and often many. These are never for
individual profit, but invariably for the
benefit of women whose hearts are breaking.
NO
tit Han't Land.
"Although I am a native of these good
Tnited Plat's, have never Worte-l the
Stars and Stripes in any emergency. hare
foiiffht.in twn wars to. uphold her cn-j
signs, and hnv retted a half dozen pa
triotic son, I am without a home and
without a country," remarked an elderly
gen lem in loir, Km liner repre'ent tive.
"And lh', t,.o. while I have never
crossed hr Udtrs, !ind hate ahav
Seen credit; d with being prc'ty
sort of a t iti en."
"What iitho ii Idle -to all this, ihonl
'I hnil fmm n Van',, fjtiid. No
Mmh's land, alien I wa l'y. meant
some plaee atj- off in the oce:ui ; hut j
this, as you kn'wi if you have leen )
watching ifce doing of l'win i lately,
means a psr ow vtrip, 1 70 mile long and
2 1 wiiir, beiwcen Colorado and Texas,,
and ferfriing the tiiil-end ot the Indian
TV,T"'0,y. s called. Asa matter Of fact.
it-wns never part of that Territurr. nor
my other, and we ire V.ow askiim Con-
. nr ,
yr?! 10 sei us on as an itiiici
rudent
Territory, so that we may make liwsiind
govern ou se'.ves. As it is, we have no
laws, that is. none that may lie called
such, although we manage to do busi
ness and keep things straight in an aver
age way. There are about three thou
sand of us in Xo Man's I,and. It is a
country well waterVd by the north fork
of the Can idian River and its tributaries.
A good nv:nv of the Oklahoma boomers,
when they didn't mske things stick in
Oklahoma, rame over to our country.
We are a thriving lot, and who knows
but we mny build up an Kmpire. Our
princ'v-rtl villages are. C'a-np Nicholasaud
Camp Supply. It is s level and cry
product ie country mtly. In round
figures
tuite enough, isn't it, to make a little
principality of itself? It would make
bigger Sta'e than Connecticut. We waut
it called t iinarron and waut a decuat
toConirrcn the ssmc as all hc Terrl I
. I
tories. The last T ongress jiase " j the would be traitor. in one ( aea let -allowing
the settlement ol the disputed j ,cr nttm h d to a kile.whirh 4sUowed (
strip under the (Jctieral I and laws, but I (o UJ), , ,,1 U, ,y .m pea-'
President (Mevtlsnd has not yet signed I Rui) ,,.t-lXn ti. pn.tt'vtations'that.
it, and we now havo ien in Washing: I ,hoy w i,ablo to i.-.d, they wrr at
ton who lie trying to get it put j ()( )(lt , ,,,, ,v ,). guards to whom
through.'- ' ' - they ilelivcnd the letter, and it wss
Vhe sj aVer wns Henry Bent, for five nftf.rxara'a.-reed 'that the piat.Uthert J
i . .. I'.n.rlian rtmr 11a I
years a trafleron ne v .....
is bound lion trirt Monrovia and leaves
bjf waj the Central Pacific to day.
in FranctM-o Ef.iatinrr.
FUN.
I
nnattiactive girl fU ,
Xlsnv a honiely,
a hu.'hnnd
The pr'
the drop
, mint ! her pa vaiti
rription clerk generally nets
n everything '' Pr-
iraj'htr.
It it the fellow who can't w rite who is
.... . i.iV
bound to make nis a mars, in tue worm.
. I
easury IVp irtment ues 1,000 ;
onth. and still tlw surplus is
out.
HV,,'irt;'..i Vri'i: I
ttoman are oiten c
.,'..,. rv tf, .Se.l I
for wearing loud colors. What would
you call a loud color?" Husband :
"Ycller, I suppose." Ifon'o! Courier.
Agent (to lady at front door i "Is the
mistress of the house in?" Lady "I
think so, sir. Will you be kind enough
to inquire at the kitchen door?" AVis
York Sun. .
Nurse "Doctor: Docttrr ! 1 Hy mis.
take I gave the patient No. 17 a spoonful
of ink instead of medicine." Doctor
"Well, make him eat a blotter, right
away." Waterburg.
A California widow had plans for a
fifty-thousand-dollar monument for her
late departe 1, but when the lawyers got
through fighting over the estate the
widow wat doing housework at $2 per
week for the man who draughted the
monument. IhtroU Free Prtt:
"I want a surgetm- at once," he said,
as he hastily entered a hospital; "J've
just shot three of my fingers off!" "I'm
sorry, my friend," .replied the superin
tendent, "but you'll have to grir and
bear it for a while. The surgeons are all
over to the toboggan slide." Ttxa Mift-
xnqt.
Mr. FanjrleV watch won't run at all, 1
and he doesn't know what is the matter
with it," observed Mrs. Fangle. "Well,
I heard him tell Mr. Cumso that he'd
had it in soak," replied Mrs Cumso,
"and I know it just ruins waters to get
any water in their works." -San Antonio
Qottip. J
The story that a wolf was recently
captured in one of the streets of this city
has been published far and wide as a
phenomenal incident. It seems difficult
for the outside world to realize that a
.v .
that o
city whose growth is at rapid as
i . .. j '
chica-'O must inevitably jovertaKe ana
I now and then. Chicajo Tribune. .
! ,
r iatia Etf?eti ef Colors. - ;
Curious effects are known to . oftes
lel bv color on persons and ani
i. The' sTtrht of an obnoxioua colo.
may induce an attack of hysterics
naosea, or a headache, or it may ' use i
violent fit of ill-temper. The o ndinj
color is fotnetimcs blue, aometimes yel
low, but oftener red or scarlet. S icntift.
attention is being directed to these pbe
nomcns.
A Great Oesceirt.
Mr. Mcforkle (an attenuated dude
tanding U-.'ore portrait of a broad
chested warrior-like ancestor) " I tell
you, Miss NIvens, I'm no enob, but I'm
proud of my descent."
Miss Nivtns " You should be, -Mr.
McCorklc; it has been a great one!"
Lit.
i
The "Sir
1
towels X m
not wipekl
Wife "
ta eeat-Ho srtth Ik Conner. . .ww
equtpl Cnsanerrta) Prlatta Mik la tats
. .n-., ib nr.,, t arvtias. aa.i are prrrvsra to
rate U Sffl. V'l sad oraaniMilal ttattaa la
ie iwa sty- n.t at the rrr hwM arkwa. w
! ma aopeeU't ,4 . .
riae (aanervlal rriallaa.
VrwJ l yw ordr for tetter Heads, Mil Reait.
( Nota Hearts. Statetivrnls, Paratope. Circulars, Hsxf
j Hiiu. rvtce Usts, T -m. Caeds Maaks. atats
I'rsny tfcltM ftmm.vr wan) In llw prisons Hue,- and
- m 111 aarnnee
, .IS HIKlt) AJfB A LOW FftlfJLS
' aay jlt.i In Weal. ra Korth t"a.
Sscrecyl l"vestlo.
Comparatively'"' 'nrcntion tnaw
a-orked ccrrU.f. marX. the S7rjey
VwmVr. as th' ra,ro vid !
the nrrt ssiry protect if,. In oldrfl
Ct w.is ih'ffercrit, and 'uliisnlo invrntmns '
had to be kcp""'ct iu order to drrive
anv liencfit "u1 rn, and in most eases
the ere""1 precautions were of nosvsi!.
TVe secret of thf rnanufarture of citric
rid was stolen frem an old rbeniist
who had a shop near Temple Har, by a
chimney sweep, who dropped ttown the
flue and Jnok. note of the process. The
secret of the ininufactuie of tinware,
winch was discovered in IhMland, and
kept a secret for fifty years, was stolen
by James Sherman, a Comiah minor.
Cast steel was discovered 'by a watch
mtker named Hiintntan, in ltn, in At
tereliff, mar Shotticld, for the purpoati
of making improved w atch sprir.ga. In
170 a large fa. tory was established at
AtterclitTe, the process still bcin kept a
closjo secret, but a benighted traveler
once gained access to'the works through
an appeal to the feelings of the foreman
by feigning exhaustion. He cruelly re
paid this kindness by divulging the se
cret. -
-'
Probably the only kecrect process whir
has been kept inviolate, and for 'Jf-
openiy oentoi uic worttt ol acienee.. 0
iron trade of Russia. This nw
Russian sheet iron is owned ' .
, . . , tense m
e. nment, and is such a . . (o
rjopoly that it is currer, n
defray the entire cxpei",. - ,.
, 1 n entire
went. The work . . .
city, isolated n-i f w' . .
rest of the
man enters
it, ii "
acrvive he bid
rTt
a last farewell
is family nnd friends.
Av bt to the rc' of thf
,I fs pnu"J "
ssorld.: Jll "'vc' ,c,, fr
iit fterT
ward, an-l r
re or it ics, alt
i . . ld f..r..i.,i L.l I lifre have I
bem ovel "spenU nttempU made to C.
S(,.N) ot lietiay me secret, nut in rttji
,nstan( c,it has resultetl in the death of
.... .
ciil ves should ni-is the remainder of thefr-
Jjvs within the woiks.
The Truth of Mreathrr-Lorc
The pcrsitt'nt survival of w.'hci l-rn
in these .lavs f ' manci,.a.
tion ts nni at all remaikuldo when we
consider the e.vteiit to which the vulvar
, ,, f ,,.al,'
Ago Hessrs. Aliercromby mid M.nrioft
embarked on an extremely iiitcrotinj;
inquiry and with the viw todetermine,
by actual comparison, how far llw
popular proverbs express relations, ot
sequence which the result1 of metenro
logical science show to be real. The jn
. l ...... ii,) n IiLh
vcsiiKii ' '"" s
a nunnreu oi tne more p..,......, -j"-
rc, unocr oroiuiiry iw"Jmk-
""'"'J- aBiipi in i l'r, iree-i
not be surprised that simple country folk
prefer familiar couplets to all the "iao
bars," "cyclones," and 'synchronous
; charts" in the world. If hills clear, rain
hear," means ihe same as "the presence
of a wedgesliaped area of hij;h pressure,
accompanied by great atmospheric via
bility, is likely to be followed by the ad
vance of a disturbance with rain and
southerly winds," which for all practical
purposes it doc-s, the preference is justi
fied on the mere ground of hicath
economy. The thirty one word dcr
mandcd by s ience stand no chance
against four.
But it is nnfortunate that along with
the limited number of. folk-sat i;4
founded on truth, there has survired a
very large number 'founded on the
grossest error. Thec 'latter have bor
rowed credence and ropei t from the
proved credibility of the others, and ap
parently they are all defined to sink or
swim together. Hammer as we will at
certain favorite proveriis which we know
to be based upon error, it is all in vain.
The reverence for tradition is too much
for us. And of all th1: sujicrBtitions,
pure and simple, which defy our attempts
at aestruction, the most invaluable
are
those ascribing ettain effects to the in
fluence of the moon. Vvdir Seienre
Monthly.
Smarter than the Pawnbroker
A firm of gun dealers down-town got
conMnment of - beautiful cast Iron shott
guns from England. They were of Ua
linpular patternwh'K h you can sell at
shout f 1 nd make a profit, the govern- -n;ent
te-t mark thrown in. They look
well, but It is better not t fire tl-.em.
The barrel may fall ff or th. charge
' . .t ...i. i.
lOmeoutthe wrona way. '
, .,,.,,.!,.,,;.
! lf-i.k neat dav and bought
pne. He came i.a K nesi nay
inotner. J Ki'l coiniii. j-m
. i .. .1 .1
! :hcm one at a time, auj sin. "
m to look any less seiv -r hate miK h
more capital. The y.m dealer be -an to
J svondeiwbat he as ing with alt those
iuns. rie piigni of jir' jmi i"
tion or a riot or something. He follo-vcd
him one day. The fellow to-.k the gun
to a pawnbroker and pt W on it. It cost
ft and be kept on buying those guiyt un
til he had loaded up ail the pawnbrokers
,n town with them tutd almost drank
himself to death with the promts.
Frirfiv Clroimje.
Tl, l.n lt siti-lr and w II in the old
daVs. J lie om tnrcc-uecai i, n. -
i . t i -i iiifwireJTre
war vessel ;c:ory. " u -.
ar.iian in i'oniiww" .r r
.. hrrrnber
1L ki.n ANA ntlV VIHII 11I.VI t
V ill U V cm 'J -
were found a flm and goofl
J vessel was built.
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