Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1883, Page 6

TBE GHOST OF TEHACHAPI. What = Rallroad Engineer Saw on the Tehachapi Grade. From the Modesto Farmer's Journal. Railroad enginéers are queer fellows, and are €s full of superstition as an egg is of meat. Last week, while the big ninety-ton engine was Milling her tank at the depot, a Jounal reporter and Engineer Dirting, who has taken seven of those monsters down to Tehachapi, had the fol- lowing conversation: “Did you ever take a train up the Tehachapi grade at uight—I mean since the horrible acci- it?” asked the reporter. “Yes: I made a trip over that part of the road the last time I was down,” replied the engineer, “and, so help me God, I never want to see an- Other sight like the one I witnessed that night!” at did you see, if I ma ell, Ldon't like to talk about such things, for (m different to most of my brethren and don’t believe that spirits visit this earth; but what I saw that nig’ ost convinced me that they di ns. Thad had a very '$ worgg and the night was one of the arful that Lever saw on the mountain, *r the road more than a thou- Well, just_as we were passing | ears jumped the track my fireman— the young ian In the cab now—called my atten- | tion teaman lying onthe track only a short distance abead. It was only a moment's work to stop the engine—we didn't have a train. The cow-catcher was within about three feet of the body when we stopped. I thought It was some oor tramp who had fallen down and frozen to most death I couid see the body just as plain as T see you now, but when I got down and went in front of the engine I eouldn’t see the sign of a man, nor where any | oue had been. This was a stickler, for there Were several Inches of snow on the ground, and had any one been ther could have seen the int in the snow. I was so much astonished hat Ecould net speak a few minutes. At ompanion asked If he was dead. I told | bim there was no one there, and he repli Tsee him right | This cansed me to take the sec- not the sign of a mancould I find. into and, strange to say, I that body just’as plain as day. I sent my fireman down and watched him. He walked all over the body and came back in a moment with the whitest faee I ever saw on a human | k aword. It | ‘What's the matter with you? at your feet” from the horrible thing. rthe spot where the body seemed to be [never heard such yells in my life. They came trom beth sides of the road.” They both stick to the story and say others have seen it. When we pasce | — Lead-Poisoning in England. Brom the Lonaon Time In th® Shoreditch Union twenty-three patients saflering from lead-potsoning were admitted into the infirmary during eighteen months. Of | this number three died, the remainder were under treatment for periods varying from three or four weeks to six months, and some of them are 20 crippled that they’ will probably be paupers for life. In the Gateshead Union “decrepitude, palsy. blindness, and often death are the trequent results of lead-poisoning, and the board appeais to the home secretary to institute an inquiry, “with a view to the introduction of machinery to do the most dangerous part of the work,” In the Poplar Union thirty cases of lead-poisoning were ad- | mitted during twelve months, and in many of them “the iliness was of long duration, render- ing neceseary a lengthened residence in the sick | asylum, at 4 great charge to the rate payers of | the Union.” From Newcastle no details are fur- | nished, asing their application merely upon rot cases of this de- scription which are constantly coming under | their notice:” but from Holborn we learn that fifty-four cases of lead-poisoniug were admit- ted into the infirmary during the year; that | one of the persons died a few hours after admis- sion, and that the stay of the survivors ranged from three weeks to three months. Mr. Red- | what the rallying cry means. “HEY! RUBED The Battle Cry of the Circus Man—0c- casions Upon Which it Has Been Raised. From the New York Sun. A few evenings since, the class in experimental study, then In session upon the subject of ‘“bock beer,” diversifiying and relieving its earnest labor by light and discursive conyersation, chanced to diseuss the recent attack by a mob, in Dover, Del., upon the people of O'Brien's cireus, and the question was raised whether or not thecry of “Hey! Rube!” is, as was affirmed in the published aceounts of that occurrence, the circus men’s rallying cry tor war. Mr. W.C. Coup, the veteran circus manager, settled it. Just as he came in, some one of the party tested him by an experimental yell of “Hey! Rube!” at his back, and his instantaneous jump and look of combined alarm and ferocity were reply enough for even the most skeptical. He said: “That Is a terrible cry to any man who has ever seen its consequences, and it gives me a cold feeling down my back even to hear it in conversation. It means savage force, desper- ate combat, and too often death. A man who has heard that yell sounded in earnest, as I have, will not monkey with it even in a parlor, among ladies and chilgren. I don’t know what its origin was, or how’ it came to be so univer- sally recognized. 1 only know that ever since I have been in the business or known anything about It that has n the circus men’s slogan. It used to be equal to immediate discharge for aman to yell that about my show. Why, I'd rather have given a thousand dollars any min- ute than hear it from one of my men. Fire it up In the air once and it brings together, as if by magic, two or three hundred men, all there are about the show, generally powerful and de- termined fellows, armed, perhaps, only with stakes and clubs, but stakes and clubs are ter- jrible weapons in the hands of such men, all wild with excitement, and ready for a des- perate and pitiless fight, for they know that is it signifies to them, ‘You have to fight for your lives, and to stand by one another or be killed.’ Thank God. It is less necessary now than it used to be in early days of cireus life in this country. I say ‘necessary,’ for there was a time—and some- times it comes nowadays—when circus men had no otherrecourse than to fight or beslaughtered, and then they had to stand together. Very sel- dom, if indeed ever, have the circus men begun . It was against all their interests to have side from the very likely chance of being Killed in it, the best they could hope for would be wounds, injuries, and consequent illness in a strange and hostile community, or arrest per— haps where bail would be out of the question and fair trial very problematical; and if they were overcome by the mob, their tent and wagons might be destroyed, and the show to- tally ruined and all its people thrown out of em- ployment. “But the fights would be started by country roughs, who would come in gangs out of the woods to the towns, attracted by the rare ex- citement of the advent of a circus. They would assimilate with the worst town roughs, and they would all fill up together on ‘forty-rod’ and ‘chaln-lightning.” They would come loafing about the circus. They preferred to spend their money in whisky to investing It in circusticketa and seeing the show in an orderly manner. And the elght of a number of strangers would have. upon them a similar effect to that which a red flaghas upon a bull. Among them would be some fellows of the type of the chap who said ot himself: ‘I'm a tough citizen.| andabad man. I'm from Bitter Creek. The men from Bitter Creek, they all fight. The further up the creek you go the wuss they are. And I'm from the head waters. I'm a wolf, and to-night’s my night to howl. Whoop!’ Those pilgrims would constitute themselves leaders of the mob and the first thing anybody abqut the show would know the fight would be forced upon them. Some poor canvasian strolling about alone, or a doorkeeper, woutd be the first to catch it, but_as he went down he, or soine one near him of the showmen, wouid raise the yell, ‘Hey! Rube!’ and the exercises would grave carries the Poplar statisti further, having obtained from the Guardians a} list of “persons who applied for relief in conse- | quence of lead-polsoning between J 1881, | and Jul Mr. Super: | intendins ctor Ora visits of in- | quiry with regard to t The eases were thirty in namber. of whom all but three had | been in the sick asylum, two had been in a | hospital, and one had been’ treated by a private ie joner. The hospital were nts for three and five weeks respect- | ylam cases two died, | twelve were discharged within a month, nine | within three. months, two within six months, | and two were still in the asylum at the time of | inquiry. 1 lures, notwithstanding thelr | ie, de net represent the full extent. of | for the medical attendant at one white- ctory reported that sixty-four cases of | lead peisouing arfiong the employes were re- Jerred to him in wine months: and at another there were 154 cases between May, 1881, and Oc- tober, 1882. It is well kuown,moreover,that cases | of lead poisoning. arising among the persons works In Poplar and Shore- ely ever absent from among the @ut-patients of the London hospital. In order fully to appreciate the significance ot the foreoin: atements, it is necessary to re- Member that lead-poisoning implies very severe which often entails per- 'y. Like most metallic poisons, Jead has especial affinities for certain structures. ‘and It coustantly produces paralysis of the ex- tensor muscles of the hands and of the feet, ‘with the result that the hands hang helplessly from the wrists, and that the feet are un- able to support the weight of the body. ‘These conditions are more common when the ison has been Inhaled as dust or introduced absorption through the skin than when It has been swallowed: and they are by no means unknown as consequences of the use of certain hair dyes. When lead is swallowed, it is more prone in the tirst instance to produce severe ab- dominal pains, and in the last century such pains Were so common in Devonshire as to constitute & disease which was described In medical books ‘Devonshire colic,” the canses of which were Yainly sought in ail sorts of real or supposed conditions peculiar to the locality. ‘“Devon- shire colic” was at last discovered to_be only a form of lead-poisoning, and to be due to the general employment of leaden vessels in the Manufacture of cider. With the removal cf the €ause the effect has disappeared: and Devon- shire colic is now unknowa to the present gen- eration of residents in the county. Similar symptoms are apt to attack persons who drink Water which has been conveyed through new | Jeaden pipes. and it is said that publicans are | Prone to suffer in new premises, or after the putting up of a new beer engine, the assump- tion being that the first glass of beer drawn In the morning, which has been standing in the pipes ail night. Is usually for the consumption ot the publican himself. A Silent Partner. From the Chicago Dranimer. At supper one evening Mr. Topnoody, after praising his wife's fine biscults and good coffee, began to talk on municipal affairs, in hopes that Mrs. T. would take a hand, and she did. “My dear,” he said, “do you know the city is going to appropriate €1,000,000 to clean and re- pair the stree! “I did see something about an appropriation, or whatever you call it, and @ man named Ingalls, but I thought It was something going mgress, or the Senate, or Cabinet. or something?” “I believe so, but this matter is right here at home, and I'm glad to see the prospect of an | ¢ra of reform and cleanliness, because we need It, not only in the streets, but everywhere else.” “Are you ready to do your share in cleaning the city, Topnoody?” “Aye, that Lam, ready and willing; more, I am eager todo my humble portion,” and he swelled up with municipal patriotism. “Very well, then, Topnoody, go out there in the back yard and begin. It’s too dirty to think of, and I've been at you ever since last spring to a your poor, struggling wife In her efforts to @ your surroundings respectable. I like to see you men blow about cleaning the streets ‘when you leave your wives to paddle around in ferry tacts In their own back yards. They are all alike, Topnoody, and you are more alll e, I Delie¥e, than any of the rest of them. Bah, at your stréct cleaning and your million dollar ap- Propriations, when, if your wives didn’t make you, you wouldn't even put on a clean shirt oftener than once in three months! I like to hear men talk, but I don’t want to hear any- thing from you, Topnoody, until you've disin- fected that back yard.” Topnoody is at present only a silent partner. ee It Is romored in Meiningen that VonBulow, the pianist.desires to remarry his former spouse, Wagner's widow. The law of divorce is 80 easy that it is considered in Meiningen ngf at all un- Tikely that it may be appl in this A — xet Sern wife of Bulow is willing to to her husband's desire and to rezain her ecdoun, Johann Strauss, by turning Protestant, accomplished his divorce without trouble, and his repudiated wife has- tened to wed the director of the theater: where she had long been a performer. Klausenberg, tear Vienna, answers to the English Gretna Green of former times,and couples have recourse to the services of the innkeeper. | dent to aay fo1 begin. You can hardly form an Idea how fero- cious and determined those mobs sometimes were in their devilishness. I remember once, down in Mississippi, they ent down trees across the road in front of us, and destro bridges to keep us from getting aw: ing that they would killusail. Why, in old times uses were compelled to carry along six or eight tough fighters to act as feaders in such desperate emergencies, and it is said that when old John Robinson took his show through the south right after the war he deemed it pru- along a supply of arms, cutlasses and rifles, for his entire company. It wasn't necessary to go away down sonth to find the dangerous places, however. Why, Paterson, N. J., right out here, only a few miles trom New York, near enough to have been civilized a good many years before she was, used to be a town where circuses had to take along gangs of tight- ers for protection, I never went to it but once, and never afterward wanted any more of it. They almost took possession ot us. I would not let my men fight them, and it was awful close work getting out witlrout it. I have always opposed fighting, because it frightens women and children and keeps them away from the show, and it is likely to do damage to the prop- erty of the show, perhaps to result in the killing of somebody on one side or the other, and to cause any quantity of trouble, legal and other- wise. “Two causes are making circus fights more Tare now than they formerly were. The first is that the public is ming more civilized, and there is less local toleration for the rough than there used to be. The second is that shows now are of such magnitude as to overawe the mob element in most cases. It will have to be a ver numerous as well as a wicked mob that will tackle a circus company composed of 400 men presumably able to take care of themselves in moderate weather, and a big show nowadays carries that many; but in old times it would be a big show that carried 100 men. The main tent was then no larger than the dressing room of a big show is now, and only 8 or 10 canvasmen Were required, whereas we now have to carry 7 or 100 men to handle the enormous tents. “Yes, I've heard ‘Hey! Rube!" a good many times. Theard it once at Manchester, N. H., when I was running the Barnum show. On the morning of our arrival there I found a hastily constructed shed, used as a whisk: saloon, on the lot we had contracted for. asked the man to remove it, but he refused, and defied me to move it. I found that he was backed up bya fearful crowd of roughs, and the marshal of the town told me I had better not get into a row with the saloon keeper; so rather than have a disturbance I let him re- main, but requested him not to allow any of the cireus employes to have liquor in his saloon. He promised that he would not, but he lied, as I subsequently discovered. Ali day my men were getting liquor there, coming in contact with the town roughs, and gradually the trouble grew. Just before supper I saw a gang of fully a hundred men, armed with clubs, come ‘out of the woods near the horse tents, which were some little distance from the others. Some one raised the old yell of ‘Hey! Rube!’ and in a minute the circus was ready for attack. In those days nobody carried a pistol, in the north, at least, but we all had stakes and clubs. I managed to get between the two crowds, and, causing a parley, detained them from fighting until anextra force of the local Police got on the ground, and so the trouble was averted. It was one of the very tew cases in which I have heard of that rallying cry being sounded without bloodshed following it quickly. In Lewiston, Maine, it was raised Aerie and we had a terrible fight, broken bon a skulls, and all that sort of thi No, didn’t discharge the man who yelled ‘Hey! Rubel on either occasion, because I could not find out who he was. “Only last year, when my show was in Car- tersville, Ga., I Happened to be away from it just at the time, and a desperate riot occurred that might possibly have been prevented, even there, if I had been present. The marshal of the town, a regular rufMfan, came up to the cars when my men were loading up the show and cracked one of them over the head with a club. He got hurt. Then some of his friends shied in, @ mob gathered. ‘Hey! Rube!’ was shout eee and when the scrimmage was over three d men Were found lying about. In that fight fire- arms were used, as well as clubs and stones, “At La Salle, IIL, last season. =F enue seca awfully near having a desperate fight with the qui n, WhO were determined to have it, bi ground and arryme! be! oe be on og “ man- ;0 control my men. hadn't there would have been an infernal riot, for my men still had blood in their eyes from the Georgia fight, and felt ugly. Lira 2 years ago the fight that followed a = of ‘Hey! Rube!’ in Vermont, at Mont; lier, think, was the cause of the State re! ing for several years to grant a ireus to exhibit within its boundaries. It was by all ac- counts a very bad riot, of course the circus or tains strangers, had to bear all the blame wasall blown the who insisted upon seeing the show withont pay- . The spoke pretty roughly tothem; they gathered a crowd of their kind and made an attack on the show with stones, guns and pistols. The cry of ‘Hey Rube!’ had to be sounded for self-protection, and a ferocious fight followed, in which several men were niles on beth sides and many very severely in- Jured. (i “In Manchester, Towa, some fitteen years ago, Yankee Rovinzon’s and Frank Howe's showe both landed in the town at the same time, and as pretty much all their people were acquain- tances and friends, there was a sort of a general Jubilee among tiem. Some of them got a little inore ‘obejoyful’ juice aboard than was good for them. A town officer undertook to arrest a thief, got knocked down, swore that a circus man had hit him, which may or may not have been the fact, and in a little while the riot grew to eueh proportions that the two circus compa- nies consolidated, and yelling ‘Hey! Rube!’ were fighting the whole town and surrounding coun- try. The state militia had to be called out to suppress the disturbance. Several men were killed in that fight, but how many and on which side I do not now recail. “John Robinson's circus had a bad fight in Texas, at Jackson, I think, a few years ago. It was a fearful affair, and several men were killed on each side, probably the worst fight between a cireus company and a mob that Is upon record. There was a regularly attack by an armed mob upon the cireus. Whéa ‘Hey! Rube!’ was yelled there it meant serious business, for the company knew that in that country, then, they were car- tying their lives in thelr hands all the time, and they were well armed and desperate. They fought while they loaded up on the wagons. The mob lay in ambush for them along the road by which they tried to escape, and endeavored to burn the bridges in front of them. Eventu- ally they got aboard a steqmboat, andso escaped out of the state. At Cassville, Mo., there was another bloody fight a few years ago with guus and pistols between a circus company and the mob, in which two or three men and two horses were killed. “ But it has not only been down {n the hot south and the wild west that the circus men have had to rally at the signal of ‘Hey! Rube!’ and fight for their lives. Many yearsagoa mob in Toronto, Canada, attacked Jim Meyers’ circus, overpowered his small body ot men ané made @ fire of his tents and wagons. “Oh, I could go on telling you abont such in- cldents as these until morning, but I hate to think of them. One distinction should be made, by the way. ‘Hey! Rubel’ Is peculiarly the can- vasman’s cry. Performers are seldom guilty of raising it. Perhaps that is because the canvas- man, being outside the tent, moving about and guarding it. is most apt to be the first victim of the violence of the mob, and necessarily the |readiest to have to call for ald. , But whoever ‘about the show raises it, you may be gure that it will bea point of honor for every man within hearing belonging to the show to rush to his corsrade’s aid and peril his life tor the mutual safety of all.” Se ee A RAILROAD THAIN IN A TOR- NADO. ‘The Story of a Passenger in a Car Cap- sized in the South Park, Col. From the Denver Tribune, A Denver and South Park train was blown off the track near Como last week, and the follow- ing particulars of the accident are from one of the passengers onthe train: “The wind was first noticed as being high when the train reached Buena Vista. It kept on increasing in tury, and when the train reached Gerands, in the South Park, there was @ regular hurricane blowing. I got on the train at Gerands. From there to Como Is only ashort ran through the park, but it was three hours before we got through. The wind was blowing in squalls. At times it would slack up, and the train would jump ahead as if something had pushed it. Again the wind would strike us, and the train jwotld tremble and almost stop. It was just as if some giant hand had taken hold of it and was pulling back. The wind made a | dull, hollow sound as it beat against the cars, | but above that you could hear the shrill whit | ling through the telegraph wires. It was a vel odd sensation. Every one could tee! the resist- ance to the train. The engineer sald he felt all the time as though he were pulling a dozen trains at once. For fifteen minutes before the accident Conductor Patton was very nervous. We asked him if there was any danger of the train blowing over. He said he thought not, but he was afraid it would force a wheel off or break it. He stood In tha smoker with his hand on the bell rope, ready if anything happened. The brakeman was sent back into the coach with instructions to do the same. ‘he passen- gers in the smoker were all young fellows. We were chatting about what we would do if the train blew over. Mr. Exbert was in the rear coach. He asked the chief engineer what he should do if the train blew over. The engineer sald he should stand by the closet, so that nothing would fall on him, and he took that po- sition. Mr. Egbert warned him that the stove would catch him, and he had just moyed from the place when the train went over. “The smoker went first. It tipped in the easiest way imaginable. The conductor yelled, ‘Here we go!’ every one caught hold of the | Seats, and the car just naturally laid down on iteside. The strain twisted the draw-bar off between the smoker and the baggage car. The engineer reversed his engine, and stopped within two car lengths. By that time the mail car and coach were both over. As soon as we lit I looked around and saw every one hanging tothe seats. I looked for the fire, and saw that the rear stove had emptied into the closet opposite. Then 1 climbed out of the window. 1 went to the door, aud bv the time I got there the conductor had got it open. he fire was put out at once. We then went to the coach to see if any one was injured, and found that the only damage was that a little boy had got hislip cut on a broken pane of glass. The coach had struck on a tie and broken in two. Wethenstarted forward. The first man who tried to cross to the baggage car was knocked down bt the wind. We got across as best we coul When we reached the baggage car we thought some one had been Killed, as there was blood running from a tle under one of the windows. We soon learned that it came from the gage master’s nose. He had been sitting with his feet cocked upon the stove on the upper side of the car, and when it went over his nose lit on the window sill on the other side of the car. “As soon as we found that no one was hurt we got the two ladies and the children who were in the coach over to the engine, and it ran down to Como with them. It took three men to get one lady from the coach to the engine. When th@y were gone we got back into the cars and enjoyed ourselves. The peanut boy’s box tarnished the refreshments for the happy occa- sion, and when the engine got back there was nothing left init but his basket and a life of Jesse James. They were afraid to bring down @ coach or a box car for us, so they brought down two engines and a flat car. We rode up to Como and laid there for twenty-six hours before going on. It was lucky that Mr. Exbert was on board, as he saw the danger of the situa- tion, and stopped everything on the road at once. If the accident had happened 200 feet back of where it did the train would have gone down a thirty-foot embankment. We had got paw OVER THE BI BY CABLE. —-- Five Winutes to Breoklyn in Trains of Four Cars Each. From the New York Sun. The-East River Bridge rajlroad will not be opened when the rest of the structure is, because experiments are to be made with the rope- traction power in order that all r'sk may be avoided. There are to be twenty-four cars, the most of them being already finished. They are light, airy, and comfortable.» The rallroad will be opened with all of tnem in place if the storage tracks are finished next month. If not, about half ot the number will be put in service. The cars are similar to those in use on the Sixth avenue élevated road. There is so much glass about them that a superior aystem of brakes would be needed to preyent the bamping of the cars together, even if the sharp grades did not make them necessary. The grade is about one foot in one hundred, and the inertia of the cars alter passing the center of the brifige either way, would cause them to acquire an impetus, it unchecked, that would be disastrous before reaching the station. Hence three kinds of brakes are used, including the Westinghouse brake. In the event of a mishap to any one of the brakes either of the others will be ample to control a car. ‘The cars will start from Brooklyn, and return by an opposite track. so that one track will be exclusively for New York business and the other for Brookiyn business. ‘The system, which is called the circulating system, has been perfect- ed regardless’ of expense. Its cost exceeds $350,000. The endless cable is operated by a 400-horse power engine near Prospect street, Brooklyn, and is 11,700 feet long. There will be an extra cable alongside, to be: put into use in ease of an emergency. The cars will be attached by a clamp made of two aye facing each other horizontally, and under the control of a lever, which, moved in one direction, will re- lease the grip of the clamp, and, in another, will tighten it. The tighter the clamp the switter will be the speed of the cars. When the clamp is released the sanie movement will apply a brake to the wheels. It 1s expected that four cars will be run over at a time, carrying, at a pincli, as.many as 400 pas- sengers. e first car of the train will be at- tached to the cable. The cars will make through trips, and will not stop for way passengers. They will be switched fromone track to another at the termin!. Passengers will pass out bya stairway to be used solely as an exit. The pas- sengers who enter will buy tickets at the en- trance and deposit them in the box at the foot of the station stairs. Surplus cars will be stored on tracks over Sands street in Brooklyn. The distance to be traversed by the ears Is a mile, and at, the rate of speed which will be adopted it is expected that the trip will be made in about four minutes and a half or five minutes. In the busy hours the a) may be greater. It is calculated, however, that the trip will gener- ally require five minutes. The saving in the trip from the same points in the two cities, as the distance is now traversed, will be from fif- teen to twenty minutes. ‘i “There is nothing experimental,” sald an engi- neer last evening, “about the rapid transit sys- tom devised, any more than about the other un- usual features of the structure. It is sure to work perfectly. Col. Payne, who invented the improvements to the cable system which have been used in San Francisco and Chicago, has given the use of his patents to the citles, and has ceded what would ‘huve qelded him a for- tune in royalties had he not been a member of the engineer corps. Every detail Has received the most careful attention, but the conservatism of our policy requires a practical test, which will follow the opening of the bridge. The cars will be in operation for the public probably about the middle of June.” ee Farm Laborers in England. Phebe Earle Gibbons in Harper's Magagine, The foreman on the farm was described by his employer as a man of high principle, who had been with him 28 years. Perhaps I would bet- ter say Mr. Thompson had been with the fore- man 28, for, when a farm changes hands, the laborers, by choice, remain on the place. Aa comfortable place, a cottage and other fix- tures, Mr. T. said: “When aman has a nice place. he does not want to move.” What a contrast to us restless Yankees! Four generations of the foreman’s family have worked for Mr. Thomp- son, beginning with the grandfather; and it is his great-grandson who is driving the horses in the reaper, “And the land I now hold on your honor’s estate Is the same that my grandfather tilled.” If is quite probable that living thus on one spot limits the ideas. Ina near hamlet, I called on an old pair of a well-to-do class, who spoke in the Sussex dialect, and still used the old style of reckoning for their rent days. As new style was introduced into England in 1752, I may say that they were in this matter only 132 years be- hind time. As to the pay of the agricultural laborer, Mr. Thompson's foreman earns a pound, or about $5, weekly, and an extra pound every quarter, but isnot boarded. Employment, however. is found for him in the winter as well as summer, the open winters of this region differing from those of Pennsylvania. At Mr. Ford’sI am told that the plowmen get about $3.75 weekiy, or 15 shillings, and their rent, and the shepherd about 17 shillings, but he has to work every day in the week. When the land is heavy, here, they gen— erally plow with from three to five horses in single line, and must therefore have two men, called the carter and his mate. To their ani- mals they use old Sussex cries, such as ‘‘Mather woot,” or “come hither, wilt thou?” The hours of labor are moderate, men going out to work about seven, even in summer, and coming in about half-past five. But during the har- vest they work from five in the morning, as long as they can see, stopping only for break- fast, dinner and afternoon “‘bait,” or lunch. During the harvest month, August, they receive double wages, or sometimes the farmer simply pays £2 extra for the month. Is the laborer intelligent? Twenty-eight years ago. when Mr. Thompson came to his farm in the Downs, he thinks that there was not a man on the place who could read fluently; now every house takes a paper. Education in England {s now compulsory, and when the laborer can read and vote We shall doubtless cease to hear of ‘Hodge and his master.” Mr. Thompson’s foreman ‘‘of high principle” has not a vote, because he does not occupy a house paying arent of £128 year. (In boroughs all householders have votes.) Mr. Thompson says that as the foreman does not drink, or use tobacco, he has no tax to pay for the support of the government, excepting that on tea. | What is its pecuniary status? With this high character, with his having, perhaps, lived all his life on this one estate, what has he accumu- lated? Probably he has not laid by anything; he has not eyen joined one of the “benefit societies,” common among laboring men. In his old age, he is entitled to relief from the parish; to accept it, says Mr. Thompson, is no carer It is his share of the wealth of Eng— land. —— He Was a Fisherman and Could Not Fabricate, From the New London Telegram. A plecatorial gentleman happened into police headquarters, and remarked with considerable over it and come to a level place just in the nick of time.” ——__—_~+-e____ The Revival of Knitting. The Hartford Post rejoices at the advent ‘among fashionable young women of what It calis “a practical renaissance,” by the revivalof the old-fashioned art of knitting. By this, says the Post, we do not mean to include the knitting of afghans and robes, fancy hoods and scarfs, Macrame lace and all that class of knitting which comes under the universal head of “‘lancy work.” Not at all, but the, actual revival of the art of Wonderful. ign’tit,that after knitting stockin; so long a timethe existing “craze” should take course, this art has 80 practical a turn? not yet progressed in the hands of the latter day maiden to that intense practicality exhibited by our grandmothers, who were mistresses of the art, and knit long, strong woolen stockings that the keen frosts of winter could not pene- trate; this te be expected at so early a stage of the revival. No, the renaissance has Prostessed so far as the knitting of silk hose, ut it will do for the coming seaside season. What can be more charming than to wander by the seaside or the brookiet in company with one of those gentle dove-eyed knitters of silk Kindly assisting her to pick up the stitches she may drop and entering into rhapsodles with her over the beautiful clocking of the stocking she is sony and carefully knitting? And then, what tafe ia the most churning youre inna y m ing youn, at the hotel. She knits beantitany.® Apsilee ————+o Doxes’ Lor Nor a Harry. One.—A clal from Uniontown, Pa., 3 Dukes bimeelf is. “eoncernsd, His, Everybody ostracises him;and the ‘treet of the etty with his the ground and his hat pulled brow. It is said that the only man who be- suppressed enthusiasm: ‘I caught sixty of the finest flat-flsh you ever saw yesterday—I mean Saturday.” “Where did you get ’em?” asked an officer. “Oh, down theriver—fished off the stearn of the New York steamboat at Allyn's Point.” ‘But there’s no steamboat that lies over at the point on Saturday,” continued the meddle- some officer. “Wal, there must be—guess they've changed the time,” replied the fisherman, nervously. There was alargeaudience listening, who watched thecross-examination with interest. It was evident the man was almost hooked. “Wasn't the sun too bright for good fishing?” “Oh, no, it snowed all day—confound it! Well, I might as well own up. I caught them fish Sunday, and don’t you forget it.” The crowd Toared. : ———— totale ert Titres merit York _ says: John referee the breach of romise sult in which Bernard H. Barwick sued iiss Rebecca McLean, an heiress of Stapleton, Staten Island, for $10,000 dam: has ren- dered a decision in favor of the defendant. Mr. Barwick represented that his disappointment ae him jill, injured his character among his nds, and caused him to forego speculations in which he would have been likely to make considerable profit. A Lrrtze 12+ Id girl in Knoxville, Iowa, was frightened to death by a severe thunder storm a tew nights ie had been quite well the day before, awoke the storm and besought her mother to take her to her bed, “for she was afraid of thunder.” supplications were and soon the mother was aroused by the child's difficult the bed with a breathing. Ap condition, and ina her last, # she found her in few moments she TAKING THR VERY Leos FROM A PAUPER.—At almshouse Bus- to lea Joh who-had both testified that he took to the aimshonse $20 & watch. IT WOULDWT po. ‘Threugh a Hapit of Keeping His Eyes Open a Gentleman is Protected from @ Small Swiudie. “Thanks, my Httle daughter, you aid the errand Very quickly and nicely,” said the head of a certain Pleasant home in Thirty-fourth street, opening a dim- inutive package the child had just placed in his hand. *‘But, eee here Mamie, this isn't what I sent you for, this ie not BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER ‘stall, but some cheap imitation of it, It is notes nest ‘aa the genuine, and it haan't got the word CAPCINE cut in the middle, You must have madea mistake, dar- Ung.” “‘No, I didn’t papa, no I didn’t,” answered the bright Uitde eight-year-old eagerly defending herself. ‘I asked the drug man down here on the corner for BEN- SON'S CAPOINE POROUS PLASTER. I told him the ‘whole of the long name, exactly as you told it to me, and then I gave nim the twenty-five cents you gave me to pay for it with, and he took this out of a box and told me to run home wi hit. Ididn't make any mis- take, papa, I didn’t in Jeed,"—half ready to cry. “tall right, Mamie, on your part,” said the father, Kindly, ‘‘I think Ican see through this business. In the language of the reporters, I guess I'll go out myself and ‘interview’ that drug man, as you call him.” Scexe 1. Five Minutes LateR.—Mr.Gamboe, I sent my little girl to your store just now for one of BEN- SON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTERS. Didn't you ‘understand what she wanted?” "*Oh, yes, I understood her, but—" “But what?”—indiguantly. ‘‘But what? If you un- derstood her, why in heaven's name, sir, didn't you send the right articler” | “I beg pardon. I meant no offense, but we are out of Benson's plasters to-day. Sold the last one this morning, and I thought what I sent would answer as well, and so—" “There, that'll do, that'll do. Please remember that when I send for a thing I wart thatand nothing else. When I desire you toexercise your judgment I'll let you know. Here's your cheap and worthless substitute. Be good enough to refund my money, and I'll try somebody else in your line who is not addicted to small swindle.” All druggists are not like Gamboge, but precaution is always wisdom. Seabury & Johneon, Proprietors, New York. m5 FEFEERL ,SS83 000 00. .sss, For u & Pg Co orf 8 PEE Sassq 2s $53 3 Sass, Heririx®sss® Sat4 CoS? Speg8 D Eo BaBD Ha oft, BHR B i uu ippp FFF FFF RER FEB Q@ CO OF F KE her PELE ¥ EREEEB 18 PURE COFEEE REDUCED TOA LIQUID AND QUICKLY MADE READY FOR THE TABLE BY ADDING BOILING WATER. IT DOES NOT LOSE STRENGTH AND AROMA. LIKE ROASTED COFFEE, BEING PUT UP IN BOTTLES AND NOT EXPOSED TO THE AIR. « Made Instantly— ‘One Cup or many. . No labor. no worry— Always uniform. Always deliciour. Youn Gnoczs Szx1s Ir asp Recommenns Ir. FELS & CO., Proprietors, sp23, PHILADELPHIA. For Taste Use, ‘The Natural Mineral KAISER WATER, FROM BIRRESBORN ON THE RHINE, Recommended by the Highest Medical Authorities. FRED'K HOLLANDER, 8. A. for the U. 8. and Canada, 116, 117, 119 Elm street, New York, sp12-3m MM MM REENN N NN NL y Y MMMME NNN O ONNNL y PEELED QS Suage | y MoM M KEEN NN OO N NNLILLL ¥ 7 DR. CHEEVER'S ELECTRIC BELT, or Regenera- tor, is made expressly for the cure of derangements of the procrestive organs. Whenever any debility of the generative organs ocours, from whatever cause, the continuous stream of ELECTRICITY permeating through the parts must restore them to healthy action. ‘There is no mistake about this instrument. Years of ‘use have tested it, and thousands of cures are testified to. Weakness from Indiscretion, Incapacity, Lack of Vigor, Sterihty—in faot, any trouble of these organs is cured. Do not confound this with electric belts adver- tised to cure ail ills from head to toe. Thisis for the ONE specified purpose. For circulars giving full information addrese— CHEEVER ELECTRIC BELT 00., mh3-skw 103 Washington street, Chicago. AxEE2 CATHARTIC PILLS ARE THE BEST ‘Medicine that can be employed to correct irregulari- ties of the stomach and bowels. Gentle, yet in their action, they cure constipation, stimulate the digestive organs and the appetite, and cleanse, build ‘up, and strengthen the system. HE “CONSTANTLY TIRED-OUT” FEELING 20 often experienced is the result of impoverished blood and consequence enfeebled vitality. Ayer'’s Sar- saparilla feeds and enriches the blood, increases the ap- petite, and promotes digestion of the food and the asmm- ilation of its strengthening qualities. The system being thus invigorated, the feeling rapidly changes to agrate- ful sense of strength and energy. my3 MATICO LIQUID. ‘Where all other medicines have fail this prepara- tien i always effective. Repid mad exteton anges, recent oF ©: standing. It in the Hospitai of Paris by, the onisprated Dr. room, and is foun: ‘superior remedies ‘al Druggusts. -wasly Wt FRYING FISH AND OYSTERS OLIVE BUTTER Hise no equal. More wholesome and econominal than Lard, and is free from the it odor usual to Cook- ing Oils. Cook Books containing valuable recipes and instructions how to use Olive Butter, by the Frincipal of the hia Cooking School, mailed free upon epplication. WASHINGTON BUTCHER'S SONS, PHILADELPHIA, Pa. jan?)-wks NOTHER JOB LOT—60 PRS. WOMEN’S KID eee eee teres See ce eee ee cer ee F odds and ende Child shorn trom Sc. apy sold lor double, Misses and Boys’ But. and Laced Bhoes, the in for $1; Ladies’ Peb. Goat and eee Ee eee ee Sug 9s W. KUBY. 1911016 Penn. aes, E PPS’: cocoa BREAKFAST. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING __PIANOS AND ORGANS. JEKAMP PIANOS. ;NSURPASSED PUY OF TONEAND Several of our own make, ta SQUARES AND UPRIGHTS, Dut little used, which we wi'l sell at reductions from. cost, on email canh payment and $10 to §28 per month. DUBREUIL BROTHERS, M. se PTS FAMERS 1112 F Sraxet Nonrmwest, Wasmtnoron, D.C. Rix of the Finest Drees to order, $12 Bix E: Fine Ero reraben tae ©: A a | BRANCH FACTORY WAREROOM, 627 10TH ap2 STREET. BACE AH the NEW ENGLAND MARKER DAETIMGN oat ae PRINCE GC facts rices for Cash, or op easiest nown 1 imeat plan, at ise be BE THE KRANICK & known monthiy instalment @. L. WILD & BRO.'S MUFICAL WAREROOMB, apes 709 7th street northwest. a] A Cimo To Tae Ponzc. Astam ofits bow Tectia ct oq turrat GAN! \d how I often have new INSTRUMENTS at lesa fem tert heparin Wholesale Prices, perhaps a public explanation is in ‘Ast. M: ition is me. second-hand instruments in juare Pianos in exchange for d. I take: at 2d. |qrest mau: xchange for new ie. Price, $250; worth FE octaves. Bold at oe, No. 3—A good 7 octsve Upright, an Soe No. 4—A Toctave Square, ate. No. 5—A Chickering Square, at $75. No. s— ‘he finest i Cdn! vores ier Orvane at $50. ‘Besides many others that may cen, CHAUNCEY J. REED'’s, apls 483 SEVENTH STREET N. W. - H._ KUHN, 407 10th street. n. w. “DECKER BROB."PIANOS, **They are superior instruments."’--Theo. Thomas, 8.B. Mille. BURDETT ORGANS. Best now made. ‘Tuning and Repairing. mh22 RRCHENDACIS PIANO WAREROOMS. PIANOS Pianos. Tuning and Rept a Tithetreet, above Pas ates NTR Pros, ORGANS, SHEET MUSIC. STECK & CO. PIANO, ‘The most Perfect Piano Mads. EMERSON PIANO, ‘The Rest Medium-priced Piano Mannfactared. WILCOX & WHITE AND KIMBALL ORGANS Pisnos and Organsrold on instalments, rented or ex- 4 rent applied if purchase. 5 CENT MUSIC, ‘The only complete Stock in thectty. HENRY EBERBACH, No 915 F STREET, ‘Managing partner of the late firm Ellis & Co. 42 EATTWS ORGANS, 27 STOPS, $125, PIANOS, 50. 0 night. Cata- Bere Soon Punters oe ton, N. 3. m2 5 STEAMERS., &c. EDUCED RATES! TON AND_ FT. MONROF, DATER TINE, CARUSING: CoS. Bent. FARE, $1.60; ROUND-TRIP, $2.00. Steamer EXCELSIOR cn MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS ‘and FRIDAYS at 5: ie Steamer ,GEOKGE LEARY on ‘UESDATS and 'URSDAYS at 5:30, SATURDAYS at 6 BURSPAOM Tr STREET WHARF. 3an30 rhe Steamers atop at Piney Potni EXOLUSIVE CONNE® OVIDENCE STEAMERS. FREIGHTS FOR THESE AND OTHER FASTERN oo THIS LINE OND = FOR FURTHER PAKTICULARS INQUIRE at TIO) TS CAN GO BY TH: THIS Office, 7th street rf. ae WELCH, eeu {. M. HUDGINS, Gen. Supt. Tuoxrsows SHIRT FACTORY and MEN'S FURNISHING EMPoRIUM, £16 F Street, Opposite Patent Office, Fine Drees Shirts to order a specialty. Stx best Shirte for $13.50. Keady_made ‘Shirts at ‘Silom Prices - A 5 cts.; finished, 90 ct cls. ; finished, 50 cta. Pull line of Shirts. Fine assortment of Scarfs, Gloves, H and Underwear, FINANCIAL. ee sa a ae ‘ ay Hasex Cy Towns & Co. BANKERS, BROKERS AND INSURANCE, 1420 F STREET NORTHWEST, Wasurxoron, D. 0, ‘We pay special attention to obtaining CORRECT an@ RELIABLE information regarding our various city eccurities, and are prepared st all times to anawer inqule Ties reganting same, HARKY C. TOWERS, member Stock Exchange. mbit PERHAes THE SIMPLEST, THE TEAST com. Jeallcaed, Hien of ineurance ver resented to, the jathers and mothers of families, and a plan that sf the Sittual Reserve Once can be widerstood, is Fund Life Association." Office 1809 H street, mhl7 1. Y. KNIGHT. Manager, un we “STREET OPERATIONS. ‘The old-established Banking House of JOHN A. DODGE & CO., No, 12 Wat Starer, New Yorn, Buy and cell all active stocks on three to five per cent, manein. Theg send ‘free their “WEEKLY FINANCIAL REPORT,” Showing how large profits can be made ou investmentsog $10 to $1,000. Tok private STOCK TELEGRAPH WIRES BETWEEN WASHINGTON, NEW YORK AND RICHMOND, H. H. DODGE, Bonds, Stocke and Investment Fecurities Bought eng told on Commission, No. £39 1$7m STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING,) 4sency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokera, (4 Broapwar. New Youu, regarding wires INSTANTLY Exchange. REDUCED RATES. FORTRESS MONROE AND NORFOLK. STEAMER LADY OF THE LAKE. FARE $1. RUUND TRIP $1.50. Steamer Lake leaves 6th wharf, terminus of 7th and 9th street cars, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 5:30 p.m, without stopplug after leaving jexandria. ‘lickets and staterooms secured at general office, 613 15th street. Boston F1 ht taken as al. yd ALEMED WOUD. Secretary and Treasurer. UMMER SCHEDULE—STEAMER ARROWSMITH Biever ‘ith street wharf at 7s. m. for Potomac River Derderian at alevandria witht 90 2 mt Ferry Bost vr xandria wit m. Ferry from Washi: ‘On Mond: jomini and inter- Rediat- landings, returning 1 On Thursdays for Currioman, Nomini, st. t's Bay, wharves and intermediste landings, returning Fridays. On Sat- for Currioman, Leonardtowa_and intermediate landings, returning Sundays. See Schedule. For in- formation apy ly at office, 7th st. wharf, Wash , D.C. J.B. PADGETT, Agt. [ap23] C ‘RIDLEY, Man. GTHAMER JOHN W. THOMPSON Leaves Sixth Street Wharf EVERY MONDAY, WEDNU'SDAY AND SATURDAY Stopping atmearly all the river landings as far down as ._ Returning Mouday morning. Zoquire at General Office, 613 15th street or at boat. POTOMAC TRANSPORTATION LINE. The steamer FUF, Capt. W. C. Jeaves greens anemones er see Orclock p- mies for ore. and’ River Returning, leaves Baltimore every FRIDAY at 8 o'clock p.m. All accommodations strictly first-claas. River freight must be and will be received on SATURD, oats onl} — STEPHENSON & BRO., Agenta, mi6-6m_ _7th street wharf and 12th st. and Pa. ave. IPE STEAMER MATTANO LEAVES WASHING yelook ain., for Potomac hiver Landinges Paks e se st Brent's and Chanel days up: layein Mattox creck (acetinatlos) ay nen offices of G. $form ‘ane bs 1! si 111 Penbeyivania venus G. T. JONES, M® VERNON! MT. VERNONT STRA. Yemen atiootciocy a ma? ‘onabout 3:30 p.m, i Abe line SUMMER SERVICE. Sailing from QUEBEC to LIVERPOOL every SATUR- Eailing from BALTIMORE to LIVERPOOL every al- te MONDay, Via NS TOWN.) SHO! GEAN VOYAGE. ONLY FIVE DA¥8 FROM LAND TO LAND, Extra Ships f1 GALWAY, LIMERIGI LONDUNDERRY and GLAS- ) (CK. Only DIRECT LINE trom GALWAY and LIMERI Cabin $70 and $80. Tnetmediate ‘Prepaid Steerage For information, Be. apriy to LEVE & ALDEN, General Agents, 207 Broadway, New York. GW. MOBS, 295 Penneyivania avenue; Sis" peoee WM "Ith etreet: Or, Mus. D. A. BEOSNAN, 612 9th strest, m3 Agents in Wi in Washington, D.C. EURorei KCROPE COOK'S GRAND EXCURSIONS ea New oS April 20th, June lst, June 13th aaa a eek acer Remon toon TOUMIBT TICKETS for individual travelers in Eu- g THOS. COOK & SON, Broadway, N.Y. py gus 605 7th street, Washington, VERNOX H. BROWN & CO., New York, & CO.. Or to Ofesirs O18 BIGELOW Gus Cooxme Sroves io Gana ion TENTH STREET. AFE DEPOSIT CO. ECURITY FROM LOSS BY BURGLARY, ROBBERY, FIRE OR ACCIDENT. THE NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, of Washington, In tte own ballding, Conxen lirn Steer axp New Yous Ave. Perpetual Charter of Congress January 224, 1867, : : Proof Vaults, at os varying from $5 to $60 per year, according to’ size and location, Rooms aud ad- Joining Vaults, provided for Safe-renters, VAULT DOORS GUARDED BY THE SARGENT TIME-LOCK. SECURITIES AND VALUABLES of every Soon tion, including BONDS and STOCKS, PLATE, Jew ELRY, DEEDS, &c., taken for SAFE-KE!PLNG, on SPECIAL GUARANTEE, at the Lowest Ratos. BENJAMIN P. SNYDER, Presid RLES C. GLOW ct Rie & ALBERT SSELS, Treacurer. L. STURTEVAN « Secy. Dmzcrone: Benjamin P. Snyder, Charles C. Glover, John Cassels, Henry A. Willard, Albert L. Sturtevant, ‘Themas Evans, Joun G. Parke. myl ____ WOOD AND COAL. Coa, Axo Woon. We have just received YOOH aio a nee CAE wtpstor genigg ek domesti ic use, allof which we a lowet market ‘The attention of. is x jon of consumers is respectfully invited to STEPHENSON & BRO., ‘7th st. wharf and 12th st, and aP. ave. RAILROADS. mi6 lor and Slee} pend idem. ite S30 Ta an c 10, 2:20, 4: i, 90, 9280, 1180 fame ~ jore 240, 5: town and sunday. 2:25, 9:25 p.m, From New York and Philadctrhia, 9:55, 6.15 a.m, daily, 8:10 p.m, aaily, exoupt Sunday. 1¢ Jom Antapatin 6:60 a.m., 1:60, 6:37 p.m. ; Sunday, From 8t daily, ‘Sunday. fendey. .. 6:37 p.m. ‘Staunton, 2:15 p.m. a. cry ‘Bun. Yai w 53 point: city. os og gy TS. BM. or J an Se per ony, ¥, Lzave W, Teams eae Foiows:— ? 130 pin. every week-day, ae tr 6am, 2nd 440 p.m. daly,’