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NORTH CAROLINA NOTES.
CHOICE ITEMS TAKEN FROM OUR
EXCHANGES AND BOILED DOWN
FOR THE HERA I,D READERS.
Cotton blooms are now report
ed from many counties in the
State.
1 lie Hotel Albert, at New Bern,
now has a Chinese laundry at
tached. The Chronicle says that Char
lotte is soon to have a tile-brick
and sewer pipe factory.
Durham Recorder: The Dur
ham Morning Newsy for the
second time, has suspended pub
lication. A Chatham county manwas in
dicted recently, says the Home,
for gating geese, and was bound
over to court.
The Baptists of Durham have
contributed $6,000 for the pur
pose of building a church on
Chapel Mill Street in that city.
From the Monroe Enquirer
we see that all the farmers agree
that they will be compelled to
stop trying to raise a wheat crop,
.owing to the ravages of the
chinch bugs.
Maj. Charles B. Duffielcl, for
merly of Norfolk, Va., and late
a resident of Asheville, was
found dead in his bed last week.
Heart disease was his ailment.
The deceased was about G8 years
of age.
From the Wilson Mirror wo
see that a child of Amos Owens,
about nine years of age, acci
dently shot itself with a pistol
which had been left within its
reach. The ball entered behind
the light ear and produced death
instantly.
Two men and two women re
cently ran away from the poor
house of Mecklenburg and mar
ried. One of, the men was 70
years old and had not a tooth in
his head. His partner was 68.
This is Gretna Green with a ven
gence. What fools "we mor
tals be-
Wilmington Star: Informa
tion was brought to the city
yesterday by the steamer "Hurt"
that a Mr. Brennon, a passenger
on the "Cape Fear," which left
Tuesday afternoon for Fayette
ville, fell from the lower deck
of the steamer into the river and
was drowned.
Greensboro JVews : The annual
meeting of the North Carolina
Railroad Company takes place
in this city on Thursday, July
14th. , Stockholders who want
to attend in person, and with
their families, must send their
names to P. B. Ruflin, Secretary,
Company Shops.
New bern Jounial: A genuiue
old time celebration of the
Fourth of July is what we are
going to have in New Bern this
year. Other towns in the State
are taking steps to celebrate,
but Newbern must take the lead.
Let every citizen contribute his
mite to make it a success.
Wilmington Review: While
removing the material of the
Messenger office from the car ta
the Journal' building the horses
took a notion to runaway sev
eral cases with which the team
was loaded were scattered pro
miscuously about the street. No
serious damage was done.
Recently near Chapel Hill, a
young farmer by the name of
Luther Strowd, who had been
cutting wheat, fell from the
fence on which he was sitting,
and was pierced through the
body with his cradle which was
lying in the fence corner. He
died shortly from lockjaw.
The body of Mr. Brennon, of
Bladen county, who fell over
board from the Steamer Cape
Fear and was drowned near the
"Devil's Elbow," while the boat
was on lier trip up the river, last
week, was discovered by officers,
of the same steamer on the
return of the boat Sunday before
last.
Temperence Reform Club held
a very successful meeting at Oak
Grove Church, in Perquimans
county, Sunday. There wtre
123 signers to tin p udge of totul
abstinence, and a Reform Club
of 113 organized. In a Recent
trial before a Justice of Chatham
county involving t Ik property of
a colt, the colt was brought into
court as a witness.
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Established 18S2.
VOLUME 6.
Slaxwell to lc Hanged.
A St. Louis special says : Max
well, alias Brooks, the murderer
of Preller, is to be hanged. The
Supreme Court refuses to reverse
the decision of the court. The
prisoner was unofficially notified
by his attorneys yesterday and
was very much dejected, saying
that this trial was a farce.
Hugh M. Brooks, alias Walter
Lennox Maxwell, made the ac
quaintance of C. Arthur Prellef
on an Alantic steamer and de
coyed him to Louis, where he
murdered him with chloroform
and then packed his body in a
trunk. He robbed the remains
and fled to Auckland,New Zealand
where he was captured and
brought back. The murder oc
curred April 5, 1885, and was not
discovered for eight days; Max
well's defense was that it was an
accident and the defense hope
for a reversal on the ground that
th(rstate introduced a detective,
in the cell with Maxwell, who
wormed a confession from him.
Shoot i n g A flra y .
Lexington, June 22. Infor
mation has been recieved by the
Transcript of another battle in
Rowan county, which occurred
this morning at 9 o'clock. In
the fight Craig Tolliver, the des
perado who has lorded it over
that section, was killed. It is
said that a large party of men,
ostensible led by Dr. Logan,
whose twoysons were murdered
in cold blood by the Tolliver
men about two weeks ago, and
who was. in jail in this city at
the time of the tragedy, had or
ganized a bend of regulators for
the purpose of ridding the coun
ty of desperadoes. Rumors of
this band being in the neighbor
hood of Morehead have been fre
quent. This morning at a littre
after 9 o'clock, the regulators'
being" concealed in close proxim
ity to Morehead, opened fire on
the streets?. Tolliver was killed
in the engagement and the fight
assumed a bushwhacking char
acter, the men hiding behind
houses and trees and shooting at
any one that could be seen. Re
ports differ as to the number
killed : one placing the number
at five, including Tolliver. An
other state that Craig Tolliver,
two of his brothers and thirteen
others had been killed. There
is great confusion in telegraphic
reports coming and accurate
news is out of the question.
Star.
The Whipping Post.
Several of our State exchanges,
we notice, are advocating a whip
ping post for the punishment of
minor offenca-3 in lieu of sending
the criminal to the penitentiary
for two or three years, to be sup
ported at the expense of the
State. The whipping post would,
no doubt, have a salutary effect
and save the tax payers of North
Carolina several thousand dollars
annually, but in some instances
it would not be worth a cent.
The lash did not always have the
desired effect prior to the aboli
tion of slavery, nor do Ave be
lieve that it would now. In ca
ses of petit larceny, where the
offeuder is a minor, the lash vig
orously applied by a stout and
willing officer a few times, would
doubtlessly have a good effect ;
but where an old tough, hardened
criminal, who has become accus
tomed to it is found guilty of a
crime, some other mode of pun
ishment should be adopted. Ac
cording to the way our peniten
tiary is managed at present every
one is forced to admit that it is
an expense to the State, but it
seems to us it could be so con
ducted, as to make the convict,
not only pay his expenses while
there, but pay the cost of his
trial. There is no doubt that
both a whipping post and work
house are needed in every county
in the State, but there are crimes
that a sufficient punishment
could not lx inflicted at these
places, and for such criminals we
need a peni tentiary not a place
Avhere they can lay up in idleness
and fare better than they did at
home, but where they can be
made to defray their own expen
ses and at the same time be a
source of re verence to the State.
Seaboard Reflector.
in i r '- -fc n- " '
Mr. ParnelPrt health is so in
firm that it is believed in London
that he will be compelled to re
tire from Parliament.
Smithfi
" CAKiOXISTA, CAROLINA, SEAVEJTS BLES3IKO
When Spring Time Comes Again.
ET J. K H.
O dreary day, O fate unkind,
That bids me far to roam,
And leave the one I lore behind,.
To pine in grict at home.
Tho many times shall set the sun.
Thy prayers shall not be vai ;
For I wil' meet, thee, dearest one,
When springtime comes again.
For thee I leave my native land,
And i'liends and kindred dear.
To seek fur that- on foreigu at rand.
Which is denied ire here ;
And thorny though my path shall be
In Fortune's eager train,
Fear irt. I will return to thee.
When springtime comes aain.
Tim' lightnings flash and billows foam
Around me as I stray,
Sweet thoughts of thee and blis to come
Shall cheer me day by day.
The love with which our bosoms burn,
Shall know a sweeter strain :
Be true, and look for my return
When springtime comes agaifa.
Tho' far away from thy dear face,
1 gae on other's charms.
This head shall know no resting phirc.
But in thy loving arms;
Tho' pleasure lures, I'll past her by,
With conscience free from stain ;
Turue my course, and to thee fly.
When springtime emcs agvin
Whcre'ei I rove on land or sea.
Tin u ne'er slialt be forgot,
But fortune gained. I'll welcome ihee .
On this same hallowed s -at :
And then, dear love, we'll name the day
"V make one of in twain.
And happy walk li c's rugged way,
When springtime comes again.
But if I feel death's chilly darts.
In seeking br the prize,
God grant we meet where loving hearts
Miall know no broken tie:
Ami even thoug!i thy h-art, should beat
In bitter gri. f and pain.
O .ing the song i iho.-tglit so sweet.
When springtime cones again.
l'ulilixhfti by RrqH,'f.
THE STRIKE AT GEOTON Q0EG2.
BY IIKI.KN FORK3T OKJIVF.
Arethusa Allen was only eight
een when she came to Groton
Gorge to take charge of the dis
trict school a sligat, dark-eyed
slip of a thing, with a low voice,
and such a shy, timid way, that
the big girls and the rebellious
boys at once jumped to the con
clusion that she would be con
quered at once in her capacity of
"school-ma'am."
-They discovered their mistake,
however, in a very brief period of
time. Miss Allen might be
quiet, but she had the spirit of
a Joan of Arc She reduced her
little flock to order, and she kept
them there, too.
Mrs. Binns, who presided over
the Gorge House, also bore testi
mony in behalf of Arethusa Al
len.
"I didn't s'pose when I first
see her, that she would amount
to a row of pins," said Mrs. Binns,
who weighed three hundred
pounds, and stood five feet eight
in her stockings. "A slim, school
girl-lookin' creetur like that !
And I hadn't a room to spare
and I didn't see how I could pos
sibly accommodate her. But she
spoke up so pretty-like, that she
hadn't no friends and didn't
know where to go, so says I : 'If
you don't mind a room over the
laundry, I can clear out some of
the stores and put up a cot-bed
till the season is over, it s a
noisy place daytime says I,
'with them Chinese cackling and
screechin but it's still and peace
able of nights. And if you'll
help me make out the bills and
keep the accounts, Miss Allen
says 1, I'll consiaer it in your
board, for I ain't no scholar and
never was.' "
Mrs. Binns was an ungainly
creature to look at, but she was
as beautiful at heart as the Ve
nus di Medici's self, and Arethu
sa soon felt herself at home in
the little room over the laundry,
whose windows looked out at the
thread-like fall of a silver cas
cade and the unfanthomable
gloom of the fir glens beyond.
For Groton Gorge was as lovely
a place as ever leaned from moun
tain plateau over the misty val
ley belew ; and the Groton House
was full of city borders.
Nor was the domestic staff con
temptible. Mrs. Binns had all
her servants from the city du
ring the summer season, and to
all appearances, everything went
on velvet.
Until one foggy August morn
ing, when Mrs. Binns awakened
to find herself racked in every
joint by acute rheumatism, and
utterly incapable of moving.
She sent for Mrs. Mackenzie,
the cook, to give the day's orders j
but Mrs. Mackenzie did not wait
to hear about roasting chickens
and joints of spring lamb, before
she began on her own account.
"Sorry to inconvenience you,
ma'am said Mrs. Mackenzie, with
her arms akimbo ; "but we ladies
and gentlemen down stairs have
concluded to ask for an Increase
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SMITHFIELD, N. C, JULY 2,
of salary. And until you have
conceded to our demands, we shall
ttmallft tr TkO?af 4Pirtnr wtahIt "
Mrs. Binns opened her eyes
wide.
"Ain't I payin' you good wages
alrea.dy?" said she. "And I
can't afford to pay no more not
a cent !"
Mrs. Mackenzie took a roll of
paper out oi ner . apron-pocKet
and opend it.
"I have here, ma'am," said she,
pursing up her thin lips, "the
signatures of all the ladies and
gents at present asaistin' in the
mediterreneanegises down stairs
including the four waiters of the
colored gender and two Chinese
washer-laundries ; and we won't
none of us stay another hour
without you'll agree in acumen
tary writin ma'am, to raise our
salaries."
And Mrs. Mackenzie tossed her
head in spiteful satisfaction.
Mrs. Binns sank back on her
pillows. 'J
"I can't give no answer," said
she "not with this pain in my
bones. Send Miss Arethusa Al-
Ian r-v in r v1aooa "
"Oh, certainly,
tainly!" said the
ma'am- cer
cook, rising.
Sorry you feel so poorly. But
you'll bear in mind, ma'am, that
we shall expect an -answer "im
mediate." ,
And Mrs. Mackenzie withdrew.
Presently Arethusa Allen came
in for, as it chanced, the dis
trict school had closed a week
previously, for the summer va
cation and found Mrs. Binns
disolved in tears. y
'What is it, dear Mrs. Binns ?"
said Arethusa.
"The help has all struck for
higher wages !" cried Mrs. Binns.
"And I'm payin' 'em more than
I can afford now. And all the
prices of provisions have riz, and
I may as well close the place at
once. Oh, Arethusa, my head
aches so I can?t think! What
shall I do ? Tell me there's a
dear!"' Z vr -'
"Nothing," sttid Arethusa,
quietly. "Just lie down again
and let me send for the doctor."
"But the boarders and the
dinner ?"
"I'll see to that," said Arethu
sa. "Trust me, and all shall be
right. Those people down stairs
have been growing idler, and
more domineering and inefficient,
eyery day ; and now they want
you to pay them more money for
doing less work. There must be an
end to this. You will empower
me with full authority !"
Mrs. Binns sent for the cook.
"Mrs. Mackenzie," said she, "I
am too sick to parley with you,
but Miss Allen will represent me
fully. What she says I say !"
And she Lay down and turned
her face to the Avail, with shut
eyes, as if she Avashed her hands
of the whole concern ; while Mrs.
Mackenzie bridled and turned to
the slim young school teacher,
Avho in her heart she secretly de
spised "as no better than a ser
vant herself, Avith all them airs
and graces of hern."
"Well, Miss Allen," said she,
"what's your mind on the sub
ject? The sooner the question
is settled the better for all par
ties. We ain't going to stand her
imposition !"
Whatever idea Arethusa might
have entertained as to a compro
mise Avas throughly banished by
the cool insolence of this last re
mark. - "You may go," said she.
"Hey?" said. Mrs. Mackenzie,
bristling up like a setting hen.
"I decline to entertain your
proposal," said Arethusa, calmy.
"Pack up your things, all of you
and leave the house at once. If
you are expeditious, you may
succeed in taking the noon-train,
that stops at the Gorge."
. And she paid their Avages, out
of Mrs. Bi jiii'h cherry-wood sec
retary, and discharged them, as
the good lady afterward remark
ed, "horse, foot and dragoons."
Then she called a convention
of the boarders, and told he
tale.
"If you Avon't mind a dinner
of cold lamb and lettuce to-day,"
said she, "with a desert of snow
puddsng that I can make myself,
1 Avill promise you something
more elaborate to-morrow."
And they all cheerfully consen
ted. John, the stable-boy, Avas the
only adherent left, and he har
nessed up the horse and drove
Miss Allen doAvn the "mountain
side to a farm-house, where lived
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ATTESO nEB.
1887.
Mrs. Beasley, the mother of the
big boy who had been the school
ma'am's worst enemy at first and
her most faithful ally ever after
ward. "Mrs. Beasley," said Arethusa,
"I ""want to borrow your two
daughters 1"
"Bless me, Miss Arethusa!"
said the good Avoman, "what for ?"
""To help me at the Gorge
House !" and Arethusa told her
story. "Joanna and Fanny are
quick, smart girls. I'll pay them
a dollar and a half a week to act
as Avaitresses."
"They'd oblige you, Miss Are
thusa, cheerfully, without a cent."
said Mrs. Beaslev.
"They Avill oblige me more by
accepting a suitable remunera
tion," said Arethusa. "At this
stage of the world, everything is
worth its money value, you know.
What say you, "girls ! Will you
go ?" '
"And welcome," said Fanny.
"If we can learn the business'
said Joanna, who was shyer, and
more distrustful of herself.
"I'll make it my business to
instruct you," said Arethusa,
brightly. "Pack up your things.
Be ready to jump into the wagon
when I come back."
"Can't I do nothing Miss Al
len ?" said big Junius, wistfully.
"I am going to get Susan Rich
to do the washing," said Arethusa.
"If you would turn the handle
for her sometimes "
"I'll turn it from now till dooms
day, if it'll help you, Miss Allen,"
said Junius. "Susan ain't half
a bad girl, neither, if she didn't
chaff a fellow so."
"Thank you, Junius," paid Miss
Allen. "You will oblige me very
much, indeed."
Mrs. Ridley, who had once been
housekeeper in a grand Pough
keepsie family, and now lived
on her interest money, volunteer
ed as cook, Avith the assistence
of Marian Seiver, the rector's
daughter, Avho had. spent a winter
in New York and taken lessons
of Miss Parloa.
"It will be such fun," said pret
ty Marian, dancing up and down.
"And Mark is to be Miss Allen's
caterer, and send in. supplies to
her."
"Yes," said Mark Sevier a pro
fessor Avho had just come home
to the parsonage to spend his va
cation "the Gorge House shall
be liberally supplied, even if
I have to turn highway robber
for Miss Allen's benefit. But
hope, Miss Allen, there need be
no danger of our coming to that
extremity. I know the farmers
who raise lambs and calves, and
tender young 'broilers.' I can
put my finger on brooks Avhere
trout do congregate, and boys
who Avould like nothing better
than to catch them. I know
where the berry-pickers live, and
there isn't a mellon-patch or a
plum orchard that I can'f press
into the service. You shall live
like epicures at the Gorge House !"
"Oh, Mr. Sevier, how can I
ever thank you ?" said Arethusa,
who had scarcely known how to
manage this portion of her du
ties. "
"Do not try," said Mark gaily.
Miss Euphrasia Boggs, the
dressmaker, and Kitty Plume,
who wove rag-carpets, swelled
the ranks of waitresses, as soon
as they learned that Miss Sevier
was going into the kitchen, and
that Arethusa herself Avas to
give out the linen and help
with the deserts ; old Mrs. Jen
kins came as dishAvasher.
"Anything to earn an honest
penny," said she.
And the Avaitresses, Avhen off
meal-duty, Avere to act as cham
bermaids, under Arethusa's own
direction, so that by night-fall
the new staff of atetndants were
ail on service.
"Well," cried Arethusa, gaily,
to Mrs. Binns, what do you think
now?"
"I dunno Avhat to think," said
the landlady with a sigh of in
tense relief. "It does seem as
if you had Avitches' blood in
your veins, Miss Allen."
The little band of industry
Avorked Avell under its enthusi
astic young leader. Of course
there Avere some "hitches," some
awkwardness, a few blunders.
What housekeeping machinery
was ever entirely devoid thereof ?
But on the Avhole it Avas a.dis-
! tingnished success. Gorge House
had never- known a better sea
son. Mrs. Binns's treasury had
never represented a more satis
factory balance. And Avhen the
Subscription $1.30.
NUMBER 4.
boarders, briven by keen Octo
ber frosts, Aveut away, many of
them had "engaged rooms for the
ensuing season.
Mrs. Binns hugged and kissed
Arethusa, with the heartiest good
will.
"My dear," said shef "if ever
a fat old woman as don't deserve
it had a guardian angel, you're
mine. And you'll be here next
season to help me ? Promise now !"
"Oh, I couldn't promise !" fal
tered Arethusia. "I am eoiner to
Europe next summer, Avith
with Mr. Seiver."
For one second, Mrsv- Uinas
was struck dumb.
"I might have known it," said
she, recovering herself at last.
"I here wasn't never any thins?
going on, but Mark somehow al
ways got mixed up Avith it. He's
the handsomest fellow herea
bouts, as you are the prettiest
girl. I hate to lose you; but I can't
find it in my heart to grudge your
good luck ; and I must try and
get along without you as best as I
can next summer, but I do hope
to gracious that I shan't have no
more strikes."
Commuted.
Gov. Scales has commuted the
sentence of Grant Best, the ne
gro boy that was convicted at
Wilmington and sentenced to be
hung, for the unintentional shoot
ing of five negro boys5 to impris
onment for fifteen years in the
penitentiary.
John Sherman's Hard Time.
The over zealous republican
journals are having a hard time
in booming Sherman in his dress
of the bloody shirt. People are
not hugging that garment to
their bosoms. It has gone out
of fashion. The people of the
South Avant a harmonious union,
and most of the northern people
agree with them.
Nothing Hew to Him.
"Now, my boy," said a police
man to a boot-black as he stood
on the corner and saw the patrol
wagon go past with a prisoner in
in it, "you can' see what vice
finally leads to. Look Avell at
that picture."
"Oh, rats!" exclaimed the boy,
in deep disgust, "I've seen my
old dad run in by that same
wagon twenty times. That's no
new chrorno to me!"
Yon Can't Do It.
"You can't make money so long
as you scratch over thirty acres
of land to get a yield which
should be produced on ten acres.
You can't make money on cot
ton Avhich you are forced to seli
at eight cents, if it costs you
twelve cents to produce it.
You can't make money by buy
ing commercial fertilizers to use
alone on poor laud. You can't
make money by impovrishing
your lands.
You can't improve your lands
by taking away from them every
year and give them nothing in
return.
You can't make money if yoii
bu all your meat, corn, flour
hay and fertilizers; no matter
how rich your land may be.
You can't maintain your credit
nor your own self-respect, if you
become a slave of the chattel
i mortgage or crop lien system,
j You can't get relief from the
i T-irAustiiA rf hjirri" t.imfis. fxr.pnt.
through proper economy and in
dustry. You can't buy on a credit as
cheap as for cash.
"Women in Mothers Hubbards
are not allowed on the streets of
Albuquererqe, N. M. Men in
shirt sleeves, however, many be
found "at any corner."
Gentlemen who hereafter feel
a desire to corner wheat will find
it useful to measure the elevators
in Chicago with a tape line and
figure out the result. Perhaps
they will then conclude to start
a bunko shop instead.
I It is stated that Sam Small, the
I Southern evangelist, looks like
! Senator John James Ingalls ; but
people should not be prejudiced
against Mr. Small on that ac
cannt. When Mr. Small begins
to talk as badly asr" Senator In
galls does it Avill bef.time for
moral congregations to refuse to
listen to him.
JOB PRINTIHG.
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NEWSY ITEMS WHICH ABE GLEANED
FROM MANY VARIOUS SOURCES
FOR OUR READERS.
A heavy storm visited Lynch
burg, Va., on the 21st iust.
Bernhardt bagged 1,000,000 by
252 performances in South Amer
ica. President Cleveland's letter of
congratulation to Queen Victoria
is published.
Further revolutionary movements-
in Spain are expected by
the government.
Emma Vinton dropped dead
as she rose to join her partner at
a ball in Baltimore.
The Massachusetts legislature
refused to raise the governor's
salary from $5,000 to 10,000.
The New Hampshire Odd Fel
lows' home, at Concord, was ded
icated with impressive ceremo
nies. W. W. Co co ran, a prominent
citizen of Washington, D. C, has
recovered from recent severe at
tack of paralysis.
Kentucky may not have as
big a bonded debt as Virginia,
bnt she has 39,000,000, gallons of
bonded Avhiskey, and that's what
she brags about.
Giles S. Whittier, an old liquor
dealer of Covington, Ga., hanged
himself because of the insane
fear that prohibitionists wonld
physically torture him.
Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil,
favors a bill before the Chamber
of Delegates to provide for the
freeing of 1,200,000 slaves with
in the next two years.
Winfield Scott, a nephew of
Gen. W. Scott, Avas stabbed sev
eral times by a gambler named
Levy, in a disorderly house in
Richmond, Va. His condition
is dangerous. Levy has fled.
Governor Beaver, of Pennsyl
vania, has signed a bill appro
priating 110,500 to provide suit
able memorial tablets for the
Pennsylvania regiments at Get
tysburg. The Canadian government is
to enquire whether the act against
foreign contract labor being ad
mitted to the United States is to
be enforced against the Canadi
ans Avho cross the border to Avork
in American cities.
A Chico, Cal., father attempted
to spank his tAvelve-year-old boy
with a shingle, when the young
ster Avhipped out a revolver and
gave the old gentleman just two
minutes to convert the shin
gle into yelloAV chips. The time
Avas sufficient.
As the examination of the Fi
delity National bank proceeds
the deficit increases. It is now
the common talk on the streets
that the liabilities of the bank
Avill reach the stupendous sum of
six millous, Avhile the assets
dwindle in proportion.
There are 6,000,000 acres of
public lauds illegally inclosed
with wire fences by cattle syndi
cates in the west and they have
turned a deaf ear to all Avarnings
to remove them. It is now pro
posed to try the virtue of tAvo
companies of cavalry on them.
Surgeon General Hamilton, who
has just returned to Washington
from a visit to Chicago, express
es the belief that all proper steps
have been taken to check the
yellow fever epidemic at Key
West, and that a further spread
has been well guarded against.
Commissioner Miller has com
pleted arrangements for the
transfer of the several Internal
Revenue districts 'consolidated
under the recent executive order,
so that the new order of things
may go into effect on the first
proximo, the beginning of the
next fiscal year.
A few years ago a tramp died
near Wheeling, W. Va., and it
now conies to light that he Avas
Avorth 150,000. This man must
have found something inherently
attractive in "the romantic but
rugged life he led. The tramp
and the rich man, perhaps, find
a sympathetic hand of tho Union
in the circumstance that neither
is compelled to Avork; and this
excentric fellow doubtless be
lieved that the largest measure
of independence could be attain
ed by becoming a Avealthy tramp
with two separate defences
against the necessity of Avork,