Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1883, Page 2

ie THE EVENING’ STAR: WASHINGTON D. C.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26 883—DOUBLE SHEE Siow the Metropo! Pinyed. € twin une si stmas mm ON LOA OF PRESENTS, The Christmas Business of the Express Companies. THE TRAFFIC MUCH HEAVIER THAN LAST YEAR—THE GREAT VARIETY OF GOODS SENT BY EXPRESS— HUMAN NATURE 4S SEEN OVER AN EXPRESS OFFICE cousTER, “We have had a tremendous Christmas business this year,” retnarked an oMicial of Adams Expr Co. yesterday to a Star reporter. He had just recelpted for a large package intended to gladden the hearts of somebody's country relatives in Vir- ginla. As he dropped his pen and rested his elbows on the counter he continued to Tae Star may: “Yes, It's been much heavier even than last year, both as regards goods slipped from here and shose recet And, too, the packages have been more than usual. date, and U fly con’ Which f pes th A en ¢ ard, or row of r side threw thetr I The Professor, with worked manfully at t he last note of the selection he wasp naming through the morni turned panting and perspiring to wel reporter. The welee sor had to turn into his music in ions compristag the blackness of ure h closed the prograt Ule Professor turned to the prod ¢ ‘a man for every bell sing and not chiming,” sald could y tunes, All ¥ they could do was to ring had to swing ove could not be d to play ss The bell enough to make tt or two p passers by, od down 6 ire mo: neh tivo levers with f the how you.” The and timbers tl. bells, ‘Then he mtor ex- © pipe ie Fe i ny for the proper pitch ruck the rizht note, the bell a ring fn response. ne Professor, “they piteh-pipe. With some distance from the could hear it in the note is the harmonic’ of the note that leaves the bell, pass- CALITIES OF A BELL. ned the technical parts of reporter. Just above the rim isa esonnding bow, on which the ham- Above that and near the top ts the of the bell. When the clapper strikes, the said, one, by placing his finger on the > Profess the bell to the cfrele called th low the sound, or the vibrations, up bell to the waist, where it stops, and ain, unit little The 2 uin— 5 cop; ‘Too The propor ald the Professor, making and ret vinwr thee @lutict= 23 placed until twelfth would take away from the sig- as sugzested by our corre Tar] ning Street Cars Down Capito? 21 Editor of NG Stan: ngh the medium of your columns I de- the attention of the public and the tes to the dangerous practice of the W. R. R. Co. in running their cars down pitul Hil in slippery weather. When single teams are In use the driver anhitches the horse car slides down with the conductor at ake. In casethe car is not heavily ly oceeds in safety down th rns the curve of Ist street, and is then eked in its farther course. The whole ope- ation is in itself of y the accidents that t Sunday I was ron the car that left New Jersey ave- p.m. There were quite a number s inside thecar, and I stood on the xm when the car moved down the stee) hill on its own accord, with the young condue- he brake. Before the caf was half way the hill it was evident that with the ed it had gained it would be impossi- sible to bring it around the sharp curve at the of the hill. The brake was powerless, and, with lightning rapidity the car jumped the track, ran across Ist street, Jumped the curb- stone and continued ranniug on the sidewalk towards the church, until some blankets, falling under the wheeis, stop] its mad career. In the meantime the passengers were badly shaken, the windows broken and all movable gear scat- tered about. Daring the momentary excite- meant [ could not learn of any injuries received by others, but in my own case I discovered a number of bruises, a large bump on my head and consequently headache ever since, and an acute pain in one of the sides. A small diverg- ence in its course would have thrown the car against the formidable church building at the corner or the lamp-post would have killed or crippled one of those at the forward end of the car. If the Commissioners have no power in this matter they should 4t once call upon Cor- &Tess to pass an ordinance forbidding the above- Mentioned mauner of running cars down hills without horses. A small outlay would keep the track in a safo condition for horses to precede « the cars, but it seems that the company would Father endanger the lives of its patrons than make timely expenditures that may save it, @ooner or later, a large amount ee A Carson City photographer treats each @us- tomer who will take rte a drink of in order to get the proyer “pleased one proper “pl on e,however,was brief | said the | «A of course that | >| | Well as a number of addtional wagons, “at by fong | p: t reckless nature, as | there ws W ro es until A | mornin, KO to bei days pai ave had to employ quite a number | ofextra men and wagons too, and everything and i k OF course we e pt-on the ‘jum, at many es 1u the city 1 part of the compicted. To-day and to-morrow, Ds even the next day we will be kept ering goods a8 fast as recetved. “How did our packages range in value! O! from several cents to several hundred dollars Of course the | Bost valuable goods Were sent through the money order branc my, thls 13 a the official, musingly. of human nature. off apa aeer business,” continued We see so many varieties ‘One person comes in and sends » valued at 25 cents and he has to pay over a dollar expre: ‘Then again package after packaze Is brought in marked carefully and conspicuously ‘glass; handle with care,’ or ‘this side up,’ as If It were possible to keep a’ bundle or box in Any particular position when sent by ex- PSs. ‘Then, too, Just the reverse hap} ‘Time and again people bring in packages containin: ass Ware oF some equally fragible goods wrap) shaply In a piece of paper and tlea with a cord. When we explain that such packages can't go f that shape with any chance of safety they ex- postulate and seem aggrteved that they have to put them in proper shape. There 1s one thing that we ship a great geal from Washington about this time of the Year, and that’s oysters. They bring them here in Utt kegs to be sent mostly to sin the west, where people don't know any- | thing about the luscious bivalve. ‘They fnd them mulghty good eating, too, Tl bet. Do we lose maby” packages? “"Welk I should say not. We would of course if we had no system; Dut, You see, We have such a complete arrangement for king all round that If a package does go astray, It right up tn less thai no time.” vam; bundle will go off to-night, ed_at its destination to-morrow rnin elnarked the official to a lady who I just stepped up tothe counter with a package had been delayed in preparing. ‘ot wishing to lhterrupt longer the duttes of the overworked b the reporter strolled out into the | Weather that the signal office had not predicted. Stopplig at the onice of iS BALTIMORE AND OHIO EXPRESS he learned that thetr holiday experl- had been a good deal similar to those of the Adamscompany. “We haye been kept hard at Work from early morning until midnight for many : uid the man behind the counter, “and pout a dozen extra men employed, too, as hi “Yes, | and will} | Will be considerably lightened att though we expect to be kept pretty bus a to come delivering packages, ‘ has been heavier than last year, and 1t was more then than for many years previous. All the express Packages to go out of town have been shipped all Tight so far. Priday night there wi g Lup near Willa but the goods mgh considerabl: ‘The messenger was hurt paged at all, naken up, and only a short Tsupi articic Imacinat e can stand it as‘tie reporter took Lis | ee . C. Breck nd one of | no and let the paupers move Dukes is dead, but h 2 are no paupers’ in th -y never lie or beg. How do you taink you wil a bullets rattle through your old house? ryou, Good ky UBL we see you LES.” vulgar family. 5 Goo Of tis letter are omitted, belng too Lous for publtcation. ht last the folk the © of C ur Parts and s¢ Be on Breckenridge wiil be shot at is | desk.” This Is your first and last warning. Again | | be on your guard. ‘This 1s not the town for his | home.” ‘The People’s bank 13 just across Main street from Jenning’s hotel. It Was in this bank that Capt. Nutt had his last conversation with | Breckenridge on the fatal morning, one year ago | Yesterday. “Here tt was he told Breckenridge of the ad that was crushing him down, and wept bitterly as he leaned against the same desk at which Dukes’ alleged avenger threatened to shoot Cashter Breck- Jenrifige. “Col: Browufleld's dwelling joins the bank ding. your guard. ———_= Bloody Work in the South. | WHOLESALE SHOOTING AND LYNCHING IN MISSISSIPPI ‘ XAS—TARING OF LIFE BY SHOT-GUN AND ROPE. A terrible tragedy occurred in Yazor, Miss, Mon- day. J.T. Posey, of the firm of Williams & Posey, | was insulted by John James, a colored butcher. | Posey atterwards returned with friends to where 18 last seen, when, without warning, the Sfired upon. John Posey, ©. Posey, and e darkness who re- | Th ere fullot ty. Prete ar, McLemore and Thad t @ saloon in 3 w men and carri were hanged with burglary ihe brush, where they to a tree, McLemore was charged and the other two happened to be in u the Iynehers arrived. Yesterday nd relatives of the men hanged, town and picked a quarrel with Tonk itlom, and a fight with shot- ‘Two of the sixtette, y, were killed, and a ny, Was badly wounded. The viilts Grifin, a citiz of the two jer lay in the ey unclaimed. ‘The citizens have organ- weting a general raid, | Sherman, Texas, says: “A band of a errorizthy the northwest p | Uon of this (Grayson) county. When ralded they | seek their fastnesses in the Red River bottom, ‘They | killed an unoffending colored man at Pottsville on | Saturday, and have since murdered a white man at Dexter, th Cooke county, where they also burned a | churel’and a schootistse. Dy puty sheriffs May and Kelley, with a posse of cltizeus. leit last even- ing Lo scour the brush.” Sag ee Another Cousin of A. T. Stewart. SUING THE WIDOW AND JUDGE HILTON TO RECOVER ‘HIS STARE OF THE ESTATE, A St. Albans dispatch to the Boston Journal says that another cousin of the late A. 'T. Stewart has | tuned up in Vermont and ts a clatmant for a share of the wealth ssed by the widow of the dead erchant and Judge Hilton, the executor of the es- te. ‘The clatmant ts John Stewart, a resident in | Johnson, who says he was born near Lisburn, in | County Antrim, Ireland; that his father’s name was | Thomas Stewart, and that he was a brother of Al- | exander Stewart, who was the father of Alexande! uurner Stewart, the New York merchant, | He has already begun a sult against Cornelia M, Stewart and Henry Hilton to recover his the estate, and has been | with LEG to a successful | Ssue the suits of Alexander and Matthew Stewart, of Proctorsville, against the executor of the Stew= art estate. On’ January 10th J Taft, of the | Windsor county court, will attend at Granville to take the deposition of Mra. Isabel Wag born in the north of Ireland and Js the widow Cosgrove, who was an unci 0) Stewart. ‘This claliiant asserts that he aD and parentage, and also his rela- tionship to the late A. 'T. Stewart. DORSEY IN TROUBLE, His Great Western Caitle Ranch in the iiands of a Receiver. From the New York Star. “Dorsey In trouble! This is the beginning of the end. He isa man of rare attainments, and might have become a prominent figure in public ailairs, Bat prosperity spoiled him, and after all his star route jobbery, his great New Mexican cattle ranch splurge, and his other equally wild {nvestments, I'm not sarprised to hear that he is In the toils at last.” The gentleman who spoke in this tone of the great star router is a prominent federal official in this city. He was accosted in the lobby of the post office by a Star reporter yesterday afternoon, and then heard for the first time ot the appointment of Mr. James E. Temple as receiver of the Palo Blanco Cattle company at Springer, New Mexico, and of the further fact that an injunction had been granted restraining the company from disposing of any propetty or increasing its stock. Ex-Senator Dorsey and the president of the , James W. Bosler, of Pennsylvania (who died on the 17th inst.), were the principal stockhold: and they had a business dispute. vns a third interest, deposed the manager, C. M- Woolworth. The latter alleged that Dorsey failed to keep his agreement to sup- ply one-third of the funds for expenses, extra stock. cattle, ete., and he was therefore com- pelled to borrow money from President Bosler. In selling a large quantity of cattle,the proceeds had been taken to repay the money thus bor- rowed trom Mr. Bosler. This caused Mr. Dor- sey’s displeasure and prompted him totake for- cible possession of the several ranches. This is thought to be the beginning of a very important suit, involving the ownership of over £500,000 in the great stock ranchesand improve- ments in Colfax county, N. M. Three years ago ex-Senator Dorsey was in good pecuniary circumstances. He was then Teported to be the sole owner of the New Mex- {eo ranch, which embraced 70,000 ‘acres, and upon whose rich roiling lands 45,000 head of cattle were browsing. His home was a bulld- ing of rough-hewn logs, two stories in height. Hehad one fence that was thirty miles in length, and cost $17,000. A museum and bil- liard-room contributed to the attractions of “Mountain Spring Ranch.” The situation of this tar-western home is most delightful. It 1s 7,000 feet above the level of the sea. Eighty miles away, beyond the seemingly boundiess plains, the snow-crowned peaks of the Rocky Mountains were plainly visible. Dorsey lived there in almost baronial state. He appears to have been greatly attached to hls home in the far west, and amid ail the excitement and tur- moilof Washington and metropolitan life he constantly sighed for the untainted breezes of the moutitains agd plains of New Mex For some time past ex-Senator Dorsey has dropped out of publicnotice. His present finan- cial troubles will once more make him an object otinterest. His friends assert that he is yet guite wealthy, and will come out of his embar- rassments unl +2. _____ Parsons?’ Christmas Presents. From the Detroit Free Press, “I presume you have a general idea of what you will get in your Christmas stocking?” ob- served a reporter to a well-known clergyman. “Oh, yes,” was the smiling reply. “It will be about the same as last year and year before. I count on ten pairs of slippers, five dressing gowns, six handerchiefs, fve pairs of gloves, two silk hats, three canes and fifteen book- marks.” “And what do you count on?” was asked of a second member of the cloth. “Oh, T have a list in my mind. There will be five pairs of slippers, four canes, two hats, three pairs of gloves, ten diferent mot- toes of ‘Feed My Lambs,’ a paper weight, a gold pen and an eight-day clock.” Let's see. The third clergyman smiled in a sad way and mournfully replied: ’ut me down for twenty-two dressing ¢bwne, twenty-four pairs of slippers and thirty pen wipers.” Ibe exactly what I tell you. I've re eight years and never knew the list to The fourth one doubted whether he ought to it away, but finally remarked: fou can put me down for fifty-two paper hits. Ihave never received less than fitty- two, and sometimes ag many as eighty-five. have over 400 in the house now, outside of all I have thrown at cats.” ‘The fifth one tried hard to get away, but after being driven into a store and cornered, he said: Well, my congregation rather runs to hard- Tshall count on forty pairs uf scissors, twenty-five bootjacks, fifty erasers, forty pen- racks and about thirty pocket knives.” Still another clergyman was interviewed as to what disposition was made of the surplus pres- ents, and he replied: “Bless you! but it wouldn't do to getrid of a single present! We simply box ’em up, label the boxes and build an additionto the house each year to store ‘em away. Come up some day and see my museum of natural wonders.” 9. He Died a True American, From the Boston Transcript. Why does that gentleman rise from his seat? Because he gets out at the next station. But we have not got near the next station yet. Ibeg your pardon. From an American point of view, we are very near it; it is less than a mile away, See, he rushes wildly toward the door, and now he is on the platform. Is he not in danger? The only danger that he dreads is the danger of losing one-quarter of a second. Ah, we are almost at the station now. he not walt until the cars stop? No, indeed; that would be a waste of precious time. Will There he goes. Good heavens! He has fallen! ie cars have run over him. such things frequently happen In America; but you know when one is killed, half a dozen men jump off successfully. The chances of death are only one in six or thereabouts, They have picked him up, His lips move. He baking. “I die atrue American.” —$-o2 What Came of Heing a Deadhead. From the Chicago Herald, “What a little thing will get away with a public man!” sald a citizen of Michigan, the other day. “Only a year ago and all wecould hear was ‘Begole,’ ‘Beyole,’ the greatest and best man in the state. He was the man of the people, who would never truckle to the railway monopolies. People were excited about the rafl- roads, and they looked up to ‘Uncle Josiah’ as their deliverer. When the disclosure about Gov- ernor Begole asking a railroad for one of them little red books, also one for Mrs. Begole,’ came out, our people refused to believe it; but now that the proof has appeared, there is weeping and walling. Why, sir, @ year ago Begole was talked of up here for President of the United States, but now he couldn’t be elected ditch master in ina back township. Asking for that pass killed him dead in Michigan.” A Dr. Granville writes to the London Times: “Many persons who are not by habit ‘dreamers’ are dreaming a great deal just now and wonder- Le why they do so. The answer is very simple. When cold weather setsin suddenly and is much felt at night, the head, which is uncovered, has the blood supplied to it driven from the surface tothe deep parts, notably the brain—the organ of the mind. The results are light sleep and dreams. The obvious remedy is to wear a nightcap or wrap the head warmly, at least while the cold weather lasts. I believe we of this generation suffer more from brain trouble than our predecessors because we leave the head ope at night and the blood vessels of our cerebral organs are seldom unloaded.” Sacramento licenses. gambling, and Mayor Brown says that fewer young men are lured into the games than before the city began to derive $8,000 annually from them. It was a dull day in a barber’s shop in Bangor, Me., and one of the loungers oftered him 75 cents for the receipts of the day. The offer having been pep oes the lounger went out and Gromeed up he ds, and the receipts reached yut $10. The negro “Big Ike,” who, while attempting torobthe bank at Durango, Cal., last week, shot dead Bruce Hunt, son of ex-Gov. Hunt, died Sunday night in the jail at that place from the injuries received in Jumping headlong from a forty-toot embankment to avoid being tured. Just before he died he made a Sontes sion implicating four others, who are all under arrest. * Dr. Dudiey A. Sargent, superintendent of the asium at Harvard, says that walking sim- ply of itaclt sof itl value as an exerci, bat at @ spirited walk is one of the best. A Hint la gives to capitalists ip southern: sea- vessels ever bulit in Bath- ship! ated towns in Maine were- e+ ‘The Outlook as to the Election of Bishop Pinkney’s Successor. From the Baltimore gun. The approaching visits of Bishops Lyman and | Burgess to administer the rite of contirmation | in the Protestant. Episcopal churches of the diocese ot Maryland has set churchmen specu- lating again as to who will probably be the sue- cessor of the late Bishop Pinkney. Bishop Lyman presides over the diocese of North Caro- lina, and Bishop Burgess over that of Quincy, | Il. The former will come here in January. and the latter in February and March, Their only | duties will be to confirm and if there are any candidates to ordain. It is said 'to be not at all unlikely that the next convention, which meets in May, will be unable to elect a bishop unless a clergyman ean be found who will be acceptable to both parties, as it requires a two-thirds vote to elect, anv neither party commands that much stre: o effort is being made at present to put for- ard any particular clergyman, but it is thought that both parties will begin a quiet canvass be- fore long. As any number of clergymen may be put in nomination, it is said that there is every reason to suppose that if a bishop is elected he will be somebody as yet unknown. It has always been a difficult thing for this diocese to elect Its bishop. Three years passed between the death of Bishop Kemp and the con- secration of Bishop Stone, and after Bishop Stone's death there was nearly ag long a period before Bishop Whittingham was consecrated. Bishop Kemp died on October 28, 1827. The next annual convention met on June 4, 1823. There were two parties. about evenly divided. The Rey. Dr. Johns was the choice of the clergy and the Rev. Dr. Wyatt of the laity. Three bui- lots were taken. Forty-two votes were cast, of which twenty-eight were necessary to make a majority of two-thirds. The highest yote re- ceived by Dr. Johns was twenty-five, and by Dr. Wyatt seventeen. After the third ballot It was resolved to refer the election to the next con- vention. In the convention of 1829, before the voting began, @ resolution was passed to have the clergy make a nomination by ballot within two hours, for the consideration of the laity, failure to do which postponed the electioh to the next convention. Five ballots were then taken in vain, the vote on the last ballot being Dr. Johns, 24; Dr. Wy The substitution of Mr. Hens! name forthat of Dr. Jolina on | the fourth ballot had made no material differ- ence in the result. At the close of this conyen- tion various proposals for the amendment of the constitution were discussed, and it was atlength agreed to substitute ‘a majority’ for “two- thirds” in the article governing the election. Action upon the final adoption of this amend- ment, however, was postponed next year till the convention of 1831, and then it was defeated by asingle clerical yote. Meantime a bishop had been elected by the convention of 1830. At this convention Francis Scott Key offered a resolu- tion requesting “that a committee of four cler- ical and four lay delegates be appointed to con- fer together in a spirit of Christian conciliation.” 4 committee recommended the Rey. William . Stone, who received the requisite two-thirds majority of both orders. Bishop Stone died February 26, 1838. Dr. Johns and Dr. Wyatt were agaia put in nomina- tion for the bishopric, but they united in a letter to the convention declining the nomination and recommending the Rey. Alonzo Potter. Bat the followers ot Dr. Johns were not willing to ac- cept this compromise, and the Rev. M nominated Mr. Heushaw, whereupon Mr. hiney, who had at first nominated Dr. Wyatt, said that if anyother person than Dr. Potter were put in nomination the agreement between Dr. Wyatt and Dr, Johns was at an end. He then nominated Dr. Wyatt again. Nine bal- lots were taken, on two of which Dr. Potter's name was substituted for Dr. Wyatt's, and two more on Dr. Henshaw’s for that “y was passed, and the committee which was ap- pointed recommended the names of two distin- guished clergymen, Dr. Hawks and Dr. burn. The report of the committee was adopte] and Dr. Eastburn elected. But the struggle was not ended, for Dr. Eastburn de- clined, and a special convention was called, meeting on August 2, 1833. Nine ballots were taken between Dr. Johns and Dr. Wyatt. On several ballots Dr. Johns had a majority of seven, but still lacked five of the necessary two- thirds. On the tenth ballot, Dr. Henshaw was voted for in place ot Dr. Johns, but the result. was pretty much the same. A comuittee of conference was appointed as before, but its members were unable to agrees. Thea more resolutions were passed and a joint ballot tried, but nothing decisive resulted until Dr. Johns and Dr. Wyatt withdrew their own names and nominated Bishop Kemper, who was eiected on the thirteenth ballot. Bishop Kemper de- clined. The convention of May, 1839, was the scene of another long contest, ending in the election of Rey. Benjamin Dorr. His opponent was Dr. Hawks. The convention voted as a whole at first, and when Dr. Dorr received a two- third vote he was presented to the clergy to be elected according to the forms of the constitu- tion. Dr. Dorr declined. A special convention was then called for November 28, 1839, and the plan of voting was similar to that of the previous con- yention. Nine ballots were taken between Dr. Whittingham and Dr. Hersy Johns. Othernames were substituted, with no result, and after the eighteenth ballot the convention adjourned. In 1840, however, a committee of four clergymen and four laymen unanimously recommended Dr. PuEabR tar, and he was elected on the first ballot. = ———______+e.______ BETRAYED EN HEART AND POCKET. A Pretended Maid Who Fooled a Trust- ing Lover. Chicazo special to the New York World. Asuit Just begun in the superior court pre- sents some interesting features. The plaintii to itis G, A. Lomar, a carpenter and builder, twenty-seven years old, and the defendant is Olive E. Logan, alias Mary G. Ball. Lomar al- leges that about three years ago he made the acquintance of the defendant through the me- dium of a newspaper advertisement. She was young and comely, and easily induced him to visit her at her home on 27th street. The woman gave her name to her admirer as Olive E. Logan, and claimed to be unmarried. She kept house, she said, for her brother-in-law, James H. Bail, a cooper owning a little shop'on 18th street. He says she told him that Mr. Ball was courting her, that he was insanely jealous of her and that he would not allow any man in his house after he returned from work, lest she might be smitten with him, and thus frustrate his own hopes of winning her hand. She didn’t like him, though, she declared, and would never consent to marry him. Thus, the plaintiffal- leges, he was never allowed to visit the house in the evening. But during the day he had things all his own way, took the fair Olive out for drives in the parks and places of amusement. Their intimacy finally resulted in an engage- ment of marriage, Being engaged to her, Lomar alleges he was easily prevailed upon to lend his inamorata fre- quent sums, of mqney, ranging from $100 at a time to $10, She explained her borrowing, he claims, by telling him that she had a lawsult pending in Indiana. and that she expected it to PHOTOGRAPHS ON FHE WING. Fhe “Detective? Camera—Apparatus for Amateur Photographers. There has been ot late years a large increase in the sate of photographic apparatus for amateurs one often rans across people who talk knowingly of cameras, len: “the time of ex- posure,” “develop ste. Ama- teur photography does not probably eaeroac to any extent on the business or regular photo- sraphers, but it aflords amusement to thousands of persons and enables them to preserve bits of Scenery, character-groups, ete., which they could not otherwise secure. A N.Y. Tribune re- porter the other day dropped into the store of a firm who are among the largest dealers in photographie apparatus in the country. A clerk brought out a pretty little box about a foot long, which looked like a medicine chest with ahandle on it, This invention has only been onthe market a week or two. It isso made that on and take a view of a in the act of cluvbit man, or a pretty girl's smile Ina street car, without any trou All one has to do is to press a button, after looking th the object is in view, and presto! In the twink- ling of an eye the picture is taken. Then the exuitant amateur has only to take out a slide and reverse it and he has his photographie gun ready for the next shot. The slide holds twa. extremely sensitive plates. If one wants more than two pictutes he should carry half a dozen extra plates in his pockets. If the plates are exposed to fight after taking the picture they can be lett for any time before “developing.” The reporter ‘was shown the work of an amateur with the “detective” camera. The pictures were about 4x5 in size, and were as good as any out-door photographs. There were scenes in Broadway and the up-town streets in which men and horses in motion were clearly picture 1. A horse was seen with a foot up, or atelegraph boy in the act ofrunning. Here was a group at a fruit stand—every one of the peo- ple being ‘caught on the fly” and “‘in the act,” whether it was dropping pennies in an old woman's hand or devouring a big Bartlett-pear. Amateur outfits come as low as $10, and the extra-prepared plates are quite inexpensive. tive” camera is 45. It is not expected that amateurs without a gallery can take specially out-door work they can do a8 well as any one. Speaking of the improvement made in the “dry plates” in the last year or two, Mr. An- thony said: “It has come to pass that large numbers of photographers use dry plates in their galleries. Sarony uses them entirely, and they are often of good service in catching the posture of an actress which could not be kept up long enough for a wet plate to photograph. For instance, formerly when a person held his hand above his head it was necessary to suspend it by a black wire from the ceiling, in order to hold it steady. Dry plates are used in pre ence to wet for all out-door work, views The dry extra sensitive plates are also excellent for photographing babies, and also people who cannot keep a pose.” The reporter was next shown views of a steamboat in motion taken from a boat going in an opposite direction. So uteky was it taken that the jar and motion of the boat had not impaired in the least the clearness of the picture. Another view showed a column of. water thrown up by a torpedo near Willet’s point. The time of the exposure in instanta- heous photography is but a small portion of a second, and on some cameras it can be altered to suit the action that is to be photographed. The quick exposure is made by having a drop screen with a round aperture In it moye quickly by means of gravitation or a spring across the lenes, thus admitting only a flash of light. The quality of the lenses has mach to do with the cost of cameras. The best lenses are made of crown glass and flint, and are perfeetly achro- matic and rectilinear. —————o¢.—__ A Story About Senator Brown. Senator Joe Brown, of Georgia, is quite ple- A half dozen poli many times their w izht in gold, and all of them itan hotel last night. The subject of conversa- tion was their favorite viands. One by one they went over various delicious morsels, smacking their lips as they mentioned them. Each had his favorite. Wade Hampton liked quail on toast and bourbon whisky, Anthony preferred good fat turkey with oyster stuifing, washed down with red wine of Burgundy, while Sena- tor Butler, of South Carolina, grew eloquent over terrapin and dry champagne. All this time Joe Brown sal with a sneer playing above his long white beard, and said nothing. Atlast he blurted out: “Well,” gentlemen, you may have your terrapin, your turkeys, your reed birds, and your oysters, but fora good square meal I'll take fat puddie-duck roasted and sweet taters.” sae: = Sharper Than a Razor. From the Wall Street Daily News, : A long-waisted man, with the nose of a fox and an eye full of speculation, walked up to a second-hand clothier in Buffalo the other day and said: “See that overcoat hanging out down there?” “Of course.” “Well, I've taken a fancy to it. It’s rather cheeky to ask you to go down there, but I'll make it an object. I won't give but $8 for the coat, but I'll give you $1 to buy it forme. You are also a Jew, and know how to beat him down. Here are 29.” The dealer took the money and started off, and in five minutes was back with the coat. “Good!” chuckled the other. “I reckoned you'd lay him out. How much did you make for your share?” “Vhell, ash dot is my branch store, and I only ask six dollar fur de goat, I was about tree dol- lar ahead!” a Wednesday Waits. “Yes,” said the Idaho man, “it’s dreadful un- fortunate that my gal got hugged by that ar’ bar. She's sort o’ heid me in contempt since.— Bosion Post. A young man named Darling lives in Fargo, and when any one calls to himon tie strect every young lady within three blocks blushes and looks around, gentiy saying, “Sh, sh.” It sounds rather rough to speak of a girl win- ning a man’s love. If she wontt she must have been playing tor it—Philadeiphia Chronicle- Herald. “There is danger in the electric wire,” re- marked the criminal when overtaken by a tele- gram.—New York Commercial Advertiser. In Salt Lake City the sidewalks are twenty feet wide. This, probably, is to permit a man’s widow to walk abreast in: of in couples when going to his funeral.—Oil Cily Blizzard. The Koran says “God is with the patient.” We are imtiined to think this statement was written before doctors of medicine were in- vented.—Lowell Citizen. After seeing the poem that Al. Tennyson got $1,000 for, all we have to say is that we'll give him fifty per cent to sell a horse and a bull dog for us.—Boston Post. Tt was a Detroit girl that married at fifteen so as to have her golden wedding when it would do her some good. result in the receipt of about $6,000. In the meantime, however, she was obliged to pay law- yers’ fees, According to the plaintiff, Olive kept up this game for three years. In all their inter- course, and ‘In the letters she wrote to him—a hundred or more in all—she called herself Olive E. Logan, and in one letter she signed herself Olive E. Lomar. At the end of the three years the trusting lover was dismayed on learning that this was not her real name, but that she had a better title to the name of Mary G. Ball, being the wife of James H. Ball, the pretended brother-in-law, and that she was the happy mother of a: boy seven years of age. Mr. mar now brings suit against his former sweet- heart for $10,000 ~ — A Brave LAttle Girl’s Escape. ‘From the Charlotte (N. 0.) Observer, 20th. Night before last Capt. Charles F. Harrison, chief of police, received a telegram trom Atlanta, asking him to meet the Air Line train and arrest a young girl named Mary Hecker, who had ran off from her home in that place. The telegram was sent by the girl's stepfather, and when the train here Sergeant Irwin E f Bee eehrensee 5B Ay two ladies were gazing at the large black beaf brought into town yesterday, one remarked: “Oh, what a nice buffalo-robe his skin would ‘Or such @ splendid Derrick, “Well, my child,” said a fond father to his little daughter, after she had been to church, “what do you remember of all the preacher sald?” “Nothing,” was the timid reply. “Noth- ing!” he exclaimed inasevere tone. “Now, remember, the next time you must tell me some- thing of what he says or you will have to be punished.” Next Sunday the child came home with her eyes all wild with excitement. “I re- member something to-day, papa,” she cried eagerly. ‘I am very glad of it,” said her father. What did he say?” “He sald, ‘A collection will now be fe Journal. The tunnel under Lake Michi; diameter and 6 ital diameter, and has been blasted ‘money 1ed to the ling af as unde ‘240,000, is Invested in's hotel on Toronto Island. He has a wife and two children. zh a lense in the top of the box to see if | Some amateur ontiits cost $200, and the “‘detec- | good portraits, but for ordinary photography an | beian in his taste, as the following will show. | D. most ot them worth | 3 fond of the table, were chatting in the Metropol- | “SAY ‘KES, GHRANDPOP.” in Court. From the Philadelphia Times... Thomas M. C. Giveney w son in ertion court ye jecting his wife. He was so ¢ | { wrinkled. She said the cause of all t was drink.° He thought It was tongue.” The pair argued in ago way for a quarter of an honr. and then 1 that pe ps it was a “litt both dr “ said the judge. ‘rou two people enght not to be living apart after so many year of lif together. ed. sir, We oughtn't,” replied the wo- sald the aging ob ‘yes.’ grandpop—why don't you say "cried a childish yotee in the crowd of rs. Inamoment the owner of the volce had wriggied through the throng and was cling- ing to grandpop’s legs. “Yes, sir, we'll go home toget! | sald. He yathered up the child i | Kissed it. “My granddauhter, marked to the court. and me. Ww r.” grandpop | hts arms and sir,” he fe- he lives with my wife She'd be kind o' lonely at Christmas | out grandpop, wouldn't you, dearie?” “Yea, grandpop.” As grandpop and grandma, with the child be- tween them, turned to go the court began: “After Christmas you must— ‘After Christmas we will begin a brand new year,” said grandpop. = URIAM WALE Refusing to Speak to His Wife for Ten Years Because She Was Not a Chris- tian. Uriah Wales had been a member of the Free | Christian church, of Coalton, Pa., for nearly thirty years, and was a ciass leader and exhort- er. His wife was not a communicant, and fre- quently ridiculed her husband's enthusiasm In his religion. Ten years ago he told her that he Would not speak to her again until she saw her error and experienced religion. He kept his word, and the couple never exchanged a word until last week. Ali communication between them was conducted through a son. Early in | the present month a revival of reli the church. Mrs. “Wales was converted Ia | week. Her husband on Thursday evening aros | tn church and said that he had been a widower | for ten years, but that “now he thanked God he had a wife.” Mrs. Wales created a sensation by rising in her seat and saying that she did not believe a man who was truly relizious could de- liberately ignore his wilt for ten veara, and asked that special prs version of her husband. She then turned to him and said: “Uriah, get on your knees, ask forgiveness | for your sins, and be awakened’ to the error of | Four ways. I will lead you to the Lord my- can” She walked toward the seat where he was sit- ting. He arose hurriedly and went out of the | church. Since then he has not been seen, andno | trace of him can be found. prsepasibectarre | | | jon began in t A Father’s Horrible Crime. The night of Feb. 7, 1883, at Middletown, a smail vill 35 miles north of Vincennes, Ind., | two children of Mr. James Dyer were burned to | death in a most horrible manner, and now the | father has been indicted by the Owen county grand jury and lodged in jail for the murder of | his oftspring. On the night in question Dyer's | house was burned with e thing tn it, t ing two of his children family consisted of ser and four children, his wife having died a | The oldest clild was a girl 11 years Three were still younger; one was a almost hapless, who liad never able to walk; the other was aiflicted lepsy, and was alt was a health pst an idi Th i, The night | the house Dyer took the angest child to Middletown, leaving the | otwers at home in the log ¢ About 9 | o'clock the eldest child was awakened bya fire in | | the front room and rushed out. | vented by the flames and sic the other child | them erying | She was pre- | ¢ from rescuing | en though she could plainly hear ‘Take me out,” “I'm burning up,” | h, take me ont.” The young girl ran screain- to a neichbor's, When the neighbors arrived | | With the father the bones of the two children | | Were found tnteriuced a3 If tney nad I Their tant { agony clasped each other for protection. The | eldest daughter says that when she rushed to the door she found it barred on the outside, but she succeeded in bursting it open and escaping. When she rushed out of the flaming building, the girl says, she saw her father standing at a | short distance trom the fire watching the flames | consuming his home and children. It is claimed that the crippled children were in the way of Dyer’s second marriage, which in- duced him to get rid of them in this horrible manner. These facts have just been dis- closed through the pe tent efforts ot the j grand jury; which has just concluaed its in- vestigations, and threats of lynching are freely made. i :—_—_—_—__+e-—____ Forced to Tell the Truth. From the Providence Star. “Just stay in your seat until the theater is out, Mr. R. You are not going out to ‘see a | man’ to-night.” | “But, Mrs. R., I don’t expect to see a man when I go ont. Oh, indeed! Just want ‘fresh air’ I snp- pose? ‘* No, this house is very well ventilated.” “Want to ‘stretch your: “No, that’s not the reas y | comfortable. I couldn't very well be otherwise than comfortable when you are by my side, my | lamp of delight.” “Then I presume you are only going after ‘a | clove’ for your tootliache? ot at all; Ihave no di evening, my angel dovey.” “Glad to hear it. Well, go out then; I shan't | object. But, by the way, what in the world are | | you going for, anyhow? ‘I have exhausted the ordinary reasons why men go out trom theaters ire for cloves this | | Am Aged Couple Thai “Made It Al Up" | | superintendents, ers be offered for thecon- | » | mile in length; the nun before the close of the performance.” “My beatific idol of my heart's affections, if you must know, Iam going to getadrink.”| | As he out on the quiet street "neath the twinkling stars and in the soft radiance of the electric light, he murmured, “Confound that woman, she knows altogether too much. What in thunder did she want to crowd a fellow so hard for? Why couldn't she let him have a little moment all to himself, without making him own up?” And the vicions slam of the swinging door next door showed that he was mad “clear through.” Protestants in Catholic Europe. The Luther celebrations have brouglt to light some curious statistics. The ite popu- lation of France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal amounts to 90,000,000. Of these only 680,000 are Protestants. In France the propor- tion is largest, the Protestant ppulation amounting to 630,000. In Spain the Protestant opulation is 30,000; in Belgium, 15,000; in italy 14,000, while in Portugal the entire native Protestant population amounts only to 500. It is claimed that but for the decrees of Napo- Jeon L, who endowed all religious bodies with @ membership roll of 100,000, Protestantism would have been stronger in France, But that Protestantism has still some vitality in France is proved by the fact that some of her most —— men belong to that side of the Chris- church. Gulzot was a Protestant. ‘The are Protestants. Haussman isa Protes- tant. Woodington is a Protestant. Senators a meeskl and Pressense are Protestants. ion’s cabinets contained three Protestant ministers. “May I have the honor to conduct yout daugh- ter to the supper-tabio?” asked a society gen- tleman of a lady from the Bay you countrys. take her to ? | Why, of co: See ng Ee na eae eee ‘Why They Parted Company. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. A DESERTED CITh. The Strange Dectine—Popntation cimated in Bight Yeurs, Te. mn the Chicago Her It ts not doomed to da, agov other and ulation. It was th Denver and San Fran doing business w were private house Macke: » were thre pany, @ sp »0, 000, and the town ie have dwindle krupt, er been eon n be si t .. le taxes. Nothing cai worth to move aw gone. Those who remain are ad the ealoor biers, The latter are usua’ st to come to a mining tuwn and the last to leave. The cause of this decadence, which has ew ‘al- lowed up millions of capital and wrecked tie f worldly ambition of thousands of per the failure of the Comstock mines to tu additional weaith, The mines are wor and the question of their total aband but deferred fora brief thne veloped to a depth of about nothing further of value has b are down toas great a and muscle and lunge can the earth. At that depth the cost of operat is creater than the yleld of averaye sliver ore would repay even if it were fou and the time is near at hand when ever that will alwars of the pi 1860, there have vein, In a space nh 8,000 line cold and sily g Which lend such r fascination to the pursult. HINDOO MANEEAGES, How They Are Celebrated in Migh Life on ot ,Who came. | the Invita- dinner given in honor of Meer from far 1 r in tious to be present by him on Satur triple marriages his family. On sents to be " Baba to the brides were palace. The gifts i suits of furniture mou «i displayed Jaded sou ed in dam notic beads, of string her here ts; the , most Of it be tifal pair of brace! English patte stall pearls, sey same pattorn, oubstitutti for the y Comparat! amongst the jewelry. A single ear- that I inquired the value of was ¢ 300rs.; it was a trifle that wou missed from amongst the the aggregate value of ay be it is difficult to ima room there were some ha’ yer-gilt tea service ete., etc. Alter seeing the presents, the guests returne of the palace, wh sion of coolies carrying on their h tial gifts. The proce: , 60 W ornatn In the ait ine. must have been, I #! coolle hire on this one « formed, amounted to 400 rs. Ti Separate processions on different ing the marriage presents to the he brides, besides wher MICHIGAN'S reets. MAN. A Happy Milthon: Kis Vast Posse: a Lunberman. the rounds of the pres e wealth of A ily a curiosity. Ward saw t t locked up in t every ¢ being the cork variety and the balance ball sap. It is said that all told he 7,000,000 feet of Norway. Ask any lum who Is acquainted with the Michigan pic who owns the choice pine of th ans' Dr, Ward. On the he: Manistee he has rich posse: The axe, to him, has been a he although for many years he has been directly or indirectly, more or less in tacture of lumber, we believe he ly bered a tract of land it was imperilied by fire from the ope his neighbors. For much of his say sap pine he has been offered $5 per and from @6 to 8 per thousaud for bis « Without doubt hie Michigan and Wisconsin pise is worth, at current prices, €15,000,000. however, by no means measures the extent of his possessions. He owns valuable hard wood and mining lands which, we believe, will swell the above amount to $25,000,000, Not a cent of this colossal fortune bas ' obtained in the whirlpool of destructive sj lation. The possessor of it has been conten: to wait year after year and work as steadily go the mechanic does who earns nis daily brea’. o- day he is as fun-loving asa boy aud nearly « spry a one. es — ABDUCTING HER OWN CHILD. A Carriage Ride That Sct a Connecticut Tewn ina Ferment. The alleged “Mamie ‘Lynch abduction” bas created a sensation at Bridgewater, Conn. Mamie, who is now a handsome young school girl, is the daughter of a man who died before she was born. Her mother was impoverished and gave Mamie to her aunt, Mrs. Michael Daley. As Mamie grew up the Daleys became very much attached to ber, and she was petted and well edufated. A few weeks ago Mrs. Lynch, having recently been married a second time, visited the Daleys and demanded a return ofher child. Her,requeet was peremptorily de- clined. Early in the forenoon a few day ago @ close carriage drove up to the school-house where Mamie was, and two men alighted and acted as pickets up and down the road. Mrs. ‘ Lynch then called at the achool door and asked the teacher for Mamie Lynch, declaring that she was her mother and was on ler way to Michael Dailey’s house. The child came out and started off reluctantly with her mother. Suddenly the drove up and Mamie, suspecting some- thing ran away, One of the pickets seized her, as she was scaling # high fence, thrust her into the carriage and whipped the horse intoarun. As the velilole went rat- tling along the road the child's screams could be distinctiy heard for a jong distance. Tue people in the village have taken sides, and o lawsuit will have to decide the legal ownership of the child. Mamie expresses a desire to return to the — Daleys The organization of asceret societs t proted a fryvsts in Caovien county