Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1884, Page 2

CITY AND DI Amusemen Atnaven's Or stage In company len eupport. Asthe spr Limter Raymond ke tinual roar of souvenir night. every evening except s “Col. Sellers,” as times, will be pro NATIONAL good, the d and the acting far a’ play Is full of istic effect. It is very se ny is a strong fone Biddy Ronan 13 2 fine bit of ¢ acting, while B. R. : hero, fs very good. taken. scoring a Tbe audiences ar the rise to the in a continuous rn ing incidents wh comedy. Mr. Da bring down the house. as Tony Jity and are very strong | The rest of th “a Rag Bag” will week. Dive Meser.— the Museum this week one. Among the Charles H. ey and more and Wilson, Ws and Warner, the Wi jue: Bickett, the a the last London s: with hosts of other which success In $200,000 and acter ot the concer choir of the church o: ter of general remar Will be pleased to lea’ Manrst’s H Iver here thi “Madagaskara,” the ls Sailor.” The lecture co @ novel and hazard: African Island, 1 opticon views f taken by the tainment has Graxp The fair held at Wi St. Andrew's P. E. ch The Kindergarten ba: at Masonic le, ¢ A fair fort 8. of J.,at Jon the week. A To the Editor of Tar Evexine S: Our District Commission¢ paths, as the la! mere sloughs of d. cares to put his them a small n (on the door) would be h more than one How to Eke Ont the Petice Force. ‘To the Editor of Tre Ex employed in the Dist endangered co! take the liberty ernment would plice for stationed el a foolish prej against _m derstand tional proper Likely to be a F W. G. Wilkins, tive in week ago Wi cy. and his there. T house. T! Baron von and was admitte ward waited in an kinscame out hesaid hi Redward began to n New York on b THE UTAH COMMISS: CLES TO ITS. ENP TRY. In thelr report to commissioners state that tration lists in that elections 0} believe that all Yoting at both ¢ the August ba! who are not I present year th gamie revival defiantly def answer to circ show that entered poly the law. The Fiages seems to be vin pletionot the Mormon t Host prominent and northern section of th: Io the recent tri living in polygamous esked if he believed in said that they did, an 'y atthe triels that have nesses disciaim all kno Fiages. The report ree gress eight amendments, the most Interest! ‘of which are the fourth, prov: tions for polygamy sh rations of the statute of | eighth, waking it a penal ¢ toenter the marriage re! knowing him to have a wite living and undi- worced. ek a leeas: A Canadian has just had st the general hospital in 7 cancer alleged to have bee muoking. rr ee = TRICT. ‘The Coming Gathering ts. hn T. Ray- success this nt upon the Part. | movement known as Methodi | by Philip Embury, Captain W. Heck, reinforced three years Boardman and Joseph Pilmoot not orga john We: Ast it ove the s superintendent of th as Tom ¢ cles for the sacraments. the -solntionary Ww: t $3 traveling mi ters, 60 as | in December, 1,54. jand, and Rev. Frane’ ligion, with the exception of ad the Lita ureh, abridd + Book of Discip this bed; Sunday, January 2, and one deacon were ordained. line, whieh hi preachers was fixed as foli allowance for children wi later, and no re fees and presents were to be coi ry and reported as such. : Methodist South, n Methodist Ep ese branch 360.000, with epresent T seven di ussed. the conference will ral delegates. The ot! churches, in different parts of open three evenings of the 1 med to each 3 W for the disci W ‘rican Methodi affords. COINED GOLD Yams Georgia. wnan Herald, tance but what was visited | troopers. her intervened and shiel he season above specified had approached tne © in their lov bridge was burned, by w | know. Onr people were al: al were busy hiding t B. Berry and his | Ju in to be | which th h no christian | to thei to make some | fp, Be rm on the bridge om town, and selected a pl and carefully destroyed all were taken from four large t spot couid be afterwards ident ny of | and that was the larg time Lapy. c i Thursd: Last George W. after four or five 4: handed It to Mr. Bel The and y a thin sheet of lead around the bottle. Mr. Smith Dy Frank Saunders, an inventor: ‘he dead body of his wife in rd wo republi ans. rea . his wife’s father, at Brooklyn. The latter iiroad Guide, Ss friend, Mr. George Carlton avenue, } not go. she wet and poring drug stor as, of Waterb on a Thank and sent for D1 Co vered consciousness. tr ong tho: was Henry who was b ves his conditior and dejected.” He wa t nervous prostration. geal > to ar use him trom his wife had always ardly for a moment. y morning Mr. Saunders where his ¥ bleeding from bis mouth, Pratt, who was_prompti: need life extinct. The | Dr. Menninger held | The jury in the case of Mrs. Sa | death Tesulted from P caused by morphine an | that he was suffering from te in Brooklyn. n years. The funerala w! wood cemetery From the Cincinnati En 3 I found a friend at work mi ‘on the old rag-carpet plan. the colors bright and varied, good at are you goin; T'll give it to Henry Henry ts her best beau. of plural mar- mends to Con- the ns, and the an im se fora wo tion with a She dropped her scissors jot tell him that the rug I s tongueamputated ed until Deceriber 4, 1784. y, the founder, appointed Francis By a rule of conference the sala One evening wiil be given to ar ion of the conference for the reception ed to platform meetings, father, . haying aquantity of gold coin y feared to keep about them, proceeded © | for the burial of their treasure. © | crowbar they dug holes as deep as they could e- | reach with their arms, deposited the packages ——$———_o_____ ng by His Dend Wife. stockings!” she at length ex your heart, that’s the charm of the thing. When THE METHODIST CENTENNIAL, at Baltimore, in Which 600 Delegates Will Take Baltimore Cozrespondence of the Philadelphia Times, Active preparations are making for the com- centennial conference commemorative of the organization of American Methodism, which is to assemble here In a few days. The religious ism, although in- troduced into this country trom England in 1766 ebb and Barbara later by Richard Fr and others, was In 1772 ¢ American socie- who immediately began organizing the rk on this side of the Atlantic. The colonists | were dependent, however, upon the English Most of these re- turned to England upon the breaking out of In 1784 thereremained of whom assem- “1 at what is known in ecclesiastical history ‘The Christmas Conference,” held in this city . Thomas Coke, ordained by Mr. Wesley in Asbury were elected nops—the first Protestant bishops world. The Anglican artictes of re- the seventeenth rzy ot the Protestant Episcopal were adopted, together with as ever since gov- The conterence lasted until 1785, when twelve elders of the lows: Traveling if they had wives it was double; d under the age of 6 years, 216 ad- or ail over 6 and under 11 years, $22. ‘as repealed two 1 ular provision was made jor them until the year 1800. Even marriage unted as so much Episcopal, Meth- African Methodist Epis- iseopal Zion, Col- odist Episcopal, Canada Methodist, Methodist and’ Independent Metho- ¢ a membership 2,545 regular ministers, 8 have been made for exercises ex- when Methodism in A_ prominent be the evening her evenings will Eleven the city, will be week and two chureh. Five be open upon the evening as- jon of the topic: pirit of Methodism.” The lected are among the ablest that “Edu- DER GROUND. -| Sixty “Wellow Boys’ Dug Up Like = From the Eertile Soil of In the summer of 1864, during the dark days | of the war, when the federal armies were pass- ing through Georgia, scarcely a town of impor- by the enemy’s Thouzh Newnan was several times | threatened with them fortunately one thing or ded our people. the federal cay- hattahoochee at re’s bridge, eight miles from Newnan, and hom we do not larmed as usual, valuables, the late ‘heir road, three miles lace in the woods With a short traces. Bearings rees, 60 that the tified. When the ar closed and the danger overpast. they be- gan to dig for the gold, and were fortunate in nat if | finding all of the dozen packages except one, . containing $500. Mr. ered one-half of it as a reward to the finder, and numbers of people searched in vain i Smith, of Carroll came in exultingly with the missing ays spent in dig- Try with the seal aackage consisted of twenty ‘orty $2.50. They were in a d glass bottle, and sealed with plaster of being wrapped received his share “yellow boys,” and went on his way re- From the New York Sun, December 1. and manufacturer of parlor rowing machines, shot himself over Brookiyn yester- They removed from Brooklyn a few days e election to Plainfield, N. J. He had ker in the ranks of the inde- On Wednesday he and C. Saunders, went from Plain- visit to Mr. George €31 Carlton ave- is the editor of Mrs. Saunders had alld sinch the birth of her chiid, d, about twelve years ago. ed to use chloral hydrate to re- She had and had made arrangements to dine Chapman, at 340 on Friday, but his wife was so The ain was more nt at noon toa purchased mor- As she had not recovered from the ary, Conn., who ziving visit, became harles Corey, of 23 South Oxtord street, the family physician. Dr. found it tmpossible to counteract the ects of the drugs, and she died without hav- ders was much affected by her death. se who called on Saturday to console pman, jr., of $40 Carlton closest friend. : “Although he had anced mind,I found him utterly broken Ss suffering from Ifonnd it impossi- gloom. The ill- had a depressing ders became more and more despond- as almost constantly by the side of . This continued nervous depres~ is brother-in-law, who left him At 9o'clock yes- went to the room was lying, and In a few moments report of a pistol was heard. Mr. Thomas up stairs to the room, and found his brother- aw stretched on the bed beside his wife, wth a revolver firmly grasped in his hand. He and unconscious. summoned, pro- juliet _had entered roof ot his mouth and had penetrated the double inquest. unders found that aralysis of the heart, chloral hydrate taken to relieve pain, and in the case of Mr. Saunders moporary insanity. | Mr. Saunders was amember of the Prospect ub He was 43 years old, and They had been married four- ill take place to- norrow, and the interments will be in Green- eee Making a Solace for Henry.) aking a floor mat She was cutting the material into (strips, braiding it, and then sewing It into form. The stuff thus being util- ized was discarded hosiery. The fabric was silk, and the effect as ‘s such patchwork permits. ig to do with it?” I asked. " she replied. She blushed a trifle, as girls are usually able to do when epeaking of something particularly delicate and sentimental in connection with their lovers; and at the same me she brought to an end the strip which be- gan at the top of a stocking and ran a yard or 80 to a utilitarian-darned spot at the toe. “I suppose he won't know what the thing is actually made of,” I remarke:t. and lower jaw, and gazed on me in mute astonishment. is composed of my claimed. “Bless oronto, because of | he puts on his smoking cap and Nes o caused oy cigar | back in his easy chair, and rests his slippered foot on.the mat, won't it be a solace?” HOW CONKLING WAS BEATEN. Ex-Senator Sessions Gives Some In- side History of the Great Contest of 1ssi. Ex-Senator Lonin B. Sessions, a prominent halt breed from Chautauqua county, N. Y., related toa New York Sun correspondent on Saturday the fol- lowing interesting incident in relation to the resig- nations of Senators Conkling and Platt from the United States Senate In 1881. The news had been Tecelyed in Albany of the resignation, and a mes- sage to that effect was to be sent at once to the legislature. “It was evident,” sald Mr. Sessions, “that ff any- thing was to be done It must be done quickly, or Ar. Conkling, who had the most aduereuts 1a the legislature, would be returned to. fight the aamin- istration of Garfield. It was beileved that Conk- Ung’s and Platt’s constituencies did not echo this sentiment, and if time could be gained this fact could be made known in such unmistukable terms that many members of the assembly who would by personal choice vote for the return of the recreant Senators would not dare to doso. ‘The law made 4t obligatory to proceed with the election of Sena- tors ou the Second Tuesday after notice of a va- cancy. ‘This was Monday afternoon. If a message Was Fecelved at the session that evening it must be acted on a week from the next day. If not received it would require two weeks. I thought it over, and determined that the only way to keep Roscoe Conkling from an immediate return was to keep the governor's message trom being received that evening. 5 A HURRIED CONSULTATION. “Reaching the Delavan house I went to Woodin’s room. Robertson, Birdsall, Wagner and other op- position senators were there, anxtously discussing the situation. I told them the news, which carried consternation with it, Differant measures were hasully discussed and abandoned as impracticable. Atlength I broached my plan, The senate must be adjourned that evening before the message was recelved. “Buvit can’t be done,'satd Robertson. I wouldn’t think of such a thing” ‘Yes,’ he asserted, “ ‘And It is legal, isn’t 17? & Yes, but— “Well, if it's both parliamentary and legal we have a right to use It,” ‘This is politic aud nu sentt- ment.’ “Now, if you throw Robertson out into the mid- die of the stream he will padule hard for the shore; but he is hard to get into the water. He wouldn't listen to the plan, and, seeing tha: it was e to urge it, ett the room with the rem: ry well, gentiemen, Koscoe Conkling will be his own successor, and you will be responsible for it! “An hour after I was cailed from my room at the Kenmore to return to Woodin’s rooms, It appears that George Dawson, the veteran editor of the Evening Journal, had ealled, in much tribulation, to learn what waS to be dont in the emergen When my pian was told to him he jumped rigat out henthusiasin. “It is just the thing, he declared. ‘It must be done.’ ‘his warm en- dorsement from so conservative and prudent a source rather stiffened the backs of the olbers, aud they immediately sent tor me. “““It mist be done,’ said Robertson, ‘but I can’t Tshould inake a botch if I tried.’ “If you will let me preside to-night,’ T sald, at ‘will be done, and you may bet on 1 uaat it will be done clear through, too,’ A ONE MINUTE PRAYER. “So he gave me a note to Vrooman, clerk of the Senate, instructing him that I was to preside, I took the chair at the appointed hour and called the Senate to order. Good old Father Halley was chap- lain at that ume, and I told him tw make his Prayer just as short as possible. I sat with my Watch th hand, and he prayed just a minute, but It seemed tome to be the longest prayer I ever heard. I expected every second to see the mes- Senger from the governof enter the door, and one! inside, the message would be held to be fh tne Session Of the senate, Whether formally dell ornot. ‘Amen’ had hardly dropped from Halley’s lips when, iooking over toward Woodin, I ‘Saw him rise, and without Walling to hear what he Said I put tie question: ‘The senator from the twenty-sixth moves tat the senate do now ad- Journ. Many of you as are in favor say aye, con- trary no—senate stands adjourned untll to-indrrow morhing at 11 o'clock.’ “Woodin voted yea, There were no nays. ‘They Were too much astonished to vote anytlilag. There Was only one man that 1 was afraid of, and that Was Bob Strahan, of New York, a warm'supporter of Conkling, and’ as quick and’ sharp as ligatning. dropped the gavel and almost reached iny seat, when Bob, whose eyes stuck out like saucers; Jumped to his treet and shouted ‘Count!’ I nodded. to hum pleasantly and sald, ‘I hear you in the morning, Bob; tlie senate is adjourned.’ at that moment the governor's message can in. He had delivered the message to the assembly, but was 100 late for the senate, and a Week was gulned to ight the battle. |. ‘They were overwh and changed their intentions. But if tm had not been gained Miller and Laphatu wouid not Fthis have been elected to the Senate.” BUTTING A ‘TAN IRON DOOR, Extraordinary attempt by Neville, the Bigamist, to Commit Suicide. Toledo, Ohio, dispatch, November 30th. A rumor was current in this city to-day that Sir Charles Neville, the bigamist, had commit- ted suicide tn the jail where he is confined. On inquiry atthe jailit was found that Neville arose this morning in a yery melancholy frame of mind, and said little to his fellow-prisoners, contrary to his usual custom. About 8 o'clock heasked one of the guards fora Bible, and spent come time !n reading and praying in his cell. He afterward entered the corridor and bade a few nersonal friends among the prisoners good-bye, remarking that he would never besen- tenced, and that he did not intend ever to go to Columbus. His remarks caused no suspicion of his real fntentions, as he has always boasted more or less of what he would or would not do, Atl Sheriff Harbeck entered the corridor, greeted Neyille pleasantly, and went to the further part of the Jail, near Neville’s cell. He was followed by Neville. The sheriff's atten- tion was attracted for a moment by another risoner, when Neville turned suddenjy, darted ike lightning toward the barred and bolted fail door, and hurled himselt headforemost at the strong iron door, striking it with a bang full on the head. His body bounded back and fell heavily on the stone floor, where he lay as if dead. After an hour in a comatose state he relapsed into epileptic convulsions, having not less than ten during the afternoon, some of which were terrible, requiring the efforts of six men to hold him. The force of his body striking against the door caused concussion of the brain, afterwards resulting in e ptic convul- sions. When he rallied he stated to the attend- ing physician that he had taken ten grains of foxgiove, a deadly poison, but the Jail physician denies this statement. His wifé visited him yesterday, and, it is thought, furnished him with the poison, if he had any.’ Animation was suspended for nearly an hour, and the reaction was terrible, yet there is a bare possibility of his recovery unless inflammation sets in. If he lives @ motion will be made for a new trial. A Physician in Trouble. SERIOUS CHARGE MADE BY A WIFE AGAINST MER HUSBAND AND HIS SISTER, Syracuse, N.Y. Dispatch to the New York Herala, No- vanber 30, Quite a sensation was caused here to-day by the arrest of Dr. Horace Henderson and his sis- ter, Miss Addie Henderson, on the charge of un- lawfully ving together as man and wife. The charge 1s made by Mrs. Delia E. Henderson, the doctor’s wife, with whom he hasnot liyed for several months. On her sworn statement a war- rant was issued yesterday, and detectives took them Into custody. Both the doctor and Mra.Henderson were for- mer members of Plymouth Congregational church and moved in good society. A short time ago, however, his name was dropped from the church rolls. Mrs. Henderson claims that he has neglected her, leaving herself and her two-year-oid child to care for themselves tor several months. Her counsel says that he pro- poses to prove that the doctor and _ his sister ave occupied the same apartments for a num- ber of weeks in a Syracuse tenement. ‘At police headquarters to-night Dr. Hender- son expressed great mortification at the turn of affairs and denied the charges. His friends offered bail, but it was not fixed, so theyare de- tained at the station house. Heis forty-five years old and Miss Henderson is thirty-six. Their preliminary examination will be held on Wednesday. Dr. Henderson's friends are very unwilling to believe the charge, while Mrs. Henderson’sfriends uphold her in causing his arrest. ————— After the Lynchers, INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS GROWING OUT OF THE HANGING OF A MEXICAN. About three months ago Lucian Padillo, a Mexican, who was sent to the Nebraska peni- tentiary at Lincoln, Neb., asa convict from New Mexico, was released from prison, his term hay- ing expired. He started south on foot andnear Crete, 20 miles from Lincoln, assaulted a little girl. He was captured by citizens of Crete and vicinity and promptly lynched. His brother, who is quite wealthy, resides in New Mexico, and is a subject of the Mexican Republic, as was also the lynched man. Through the brother the Mexican authorities were notified, and asked to take action, on the ground that Padillo should have been punished according to the law of the land where the crime was committed.’ In other words, he was entitled to the usual trial, and ifconvicted his punishment would have been confinement for a term of years instead of death. The result is that during the past month the United States ernment, having beea duly notified by Mexico, took steps to investigate the matter, and the Mexican minister at Washi ton also interested himself. He employed de- tectives to obtain Soemames of the byncners Gee all other necessary information, an 1s work has now been accomplished. It is claimed that the United States will be call oo oe any pay a large ers to trial. citement in N | were perfectly calm and collected and gave no | indemnity, but to bring the ‘The affatt creates considerable ex: | jebrask, SHOT DOWN IN THE STREET. ‘Two New Orleans Sisters Avenge Them= selves on Their Betrayers. STORY OF THEIR RUIN AND UNAVAILING EFFORTS TO GET THEIR WRONGS RIGUTED—GRAPHIC AC- COUNT OF THE TRAGEDY—ANTECEDENTS OF THE PARTIES—PUBLIC SYMPATHY WITH TEE GIRLS. ‘New Orleans Special to the New York World, Nov. 90th. The tragedy on Canal street last evening, at which two sisters simultaneously shot two prominent young men of this city for alleged betrayal, is without parallel in the criminal annals otthis city. .The causes leading to the shooting as given by the brother of the girls are about as follows. John D. Lagan and Joseph A. Devonshire made the acquaintance of Georgiana and Josephine Conway some months ago, and soon became intimate with the tamily. They escorted the sisters to several places of amusement, Young Conway alweys going with them. One night when the brother was absent the two young men called and persuaded Mrs. Conway to let them take the girls to West End to see a pyrotechnic display. When young Conway was informed of this he told his mother that no ex- hibition was given on the night in question and that the two men must discontinue their visits. Lavan and Devonshire called when young Con- way was absent and succeeded in making the mother believe that her son was standing in the way of her daughters’ happiness, and induced her to move iuto a house on Dumaine street. In afew days the son succeeded in getting his mother returned to his house, but the girls re- fused to follow, and went to live with the young men, The mother tells eubstantially the same story. ‘The iris say that in the home provided for them by the two men they Jed miserable ltyes, sulfering for the simplest necessities. Their love received 9, fatal blow when, atter hours of pleading, the men refused to mai when their brother and younge asked them to return to their mothe ingly complied. up to last nigh Lagan and Devonshire were walking on Canal | street, near Baronae. Behind them tripped the two girls, dressed in circulars, to all appearances merely taking an evening constitutional. They , they will- . Such was the course of events t. indication of their terrible purpose. When the men were opposite Jayne's confectionery the girls quickened their steps, and, coming close behind the men, simultaneously drew bulldog | revolvers trom theircloaksand fired. Georgiana, the elder sister, shut at Lagan, and Josephine selected Devonshire as her tar; Josephine’s bullet grazed Devonshire's back, Just turning the ski He immediately fled, but was quickly followed by another vullet, which abrased the | skin on hisneck. The last shot caused him to | fall, but he was quickly on his feet and soussht | refuge in a store. Josephine was caught by some one in the crowd, and after a desperate struggle was disarmed. Lagan was not as fortunate. Georgiana's bullet struck him in the all ot the back, passed through his kidneys, and inflicted in- Juries that will probably cause his death. As the bullet entered his body, he turned quickly, wheeled, caught the woman's pistol arm and a tempted to wrench the weapon from her grasp. His wound had weakened him, however, and Georgiana was his match in strength. In their struggle they staggered against the confec- tionery door, foreed it open fell ona center table in the saloon. While lying across this table the girl fred a ond time, the ball en- | tering Lagan’s cheek and shattermg the jaw bone. Lavan then relea: he girl, and ing into an adjoining store rejoined Devonshire and was conveyed to the hospit Georgiana was approached by the proprietor of ~ confectionery and asked if she was in- jured. Yo, 1am not,” she replied, “I tired twice. I did it to protect my honor.” Josephine, when arrested, said: Joseph Devonshire. He is the father of my child. Me will not ruin another girl.” The sisters were conveyed to the central sta- made as comfortable as possible. They sited in their cell by a World correspond- ent to-day, and said they had passed a comfort- able night. Gees ina, however, looked some- what fatigued. Both were perfectiy cool, and inquired as to the condition of the wounded men. When told that Devonshire was not hurt, Josephine expressed regret, saying she was will- ing to suffer forty years {fshe had only killed him. Georgiana expressed a similar wish in regard to Lagan, Both said they were enciente, and added: “We have no statement to make nor aught to explain. Whatis done could not be helped.” Georgiana Conway is twenty-two years old and Josephine twenty. Both are pretty brunettes of average height, Georgiana being a trifle the taller aud more slender. It is rumored to-night that the girls are of mixed blood and that for this reason the young men refused to marry them. John Lagau isa son of ex-Alderman Mat Lagan, a prominent politician and foundry man, and bad an interest in_ his father's busi He was resting easy this evening, but e surgeon expressed little hope. Joseph Devonshire is United States deputy marshal. James Conway is a peaceable, quiet young man of studivus and taborious habits. He clerked during the day and taught school at night, thus supporting his. widowed mother and three sis- ters. Hels charged by Devonshire with being accessory to the shooting, aud is now in prison. One ot Josephine’s tullets struck a gentieman one hundred yards from the scene of the shoot- ing, grazing the temoral artery. The wound was dressed and causes little inconvenience. Public sympathy is entirely with the young women, and itis probable the only suffering they will undergo will be in lying in prison until their trial. The Misses Conway were arralzned Monday before Recorder Davey, ona charge of shooting with intent to kill Joseph Devonshire and John Lagan. They pleaded not guilty, and were released on $1,500 bail each, to appear Decem- ber 9. Lagan 1s now reported to be out of immediate danger from his wounds. Dry vs. Sweet Champagne. From the London Graphic, The vintage of this year 1s splendid both in qual- 'y and quantity, and it seems that sweet cham- pagnes are looking up inthe market. Many people, who have affected a love for champagne, dry and extra dry, have spread a deiusion that dryness is a proof of merit in champagne. But dry wine is simply made by putting in less sugar at the time of fabrication. A fashion for dry wine arose a few years ago because some high personages insociety had a taste for it, and because few writers with a disposition to obesity, and a consequent distaste for saccharine matter, set themselves to pulf dryness with the air of connoisseurs, But very few ladies really like dry champagne, and most men—unless they be daily drinkers of this pleasant wine—prefer it moderately sweet. The tart stuff which it had become customary not long ago to offer as the perfection of champagne was little better than apollinaris with a squeeze of shaddock in it. As always happens in this country, the fashion went to extremes, till it became amusing. but pathetically, to watch the wry faces of ladies while they Bipbed wine which they would have confessed to be positively disagreeable if they had spoken out their minds. The grape from which champagne 1s mada requires sugar to bring cut its full fiayor. Let valetudinarians dreading gout, heartburn adispose tissue keep to champazne.eztra sec if they please, but let us have no fashion in what should be a matter of taste. Those who only drink champagne on festive occasions must not let themselves be laughed out of their liking for sweet, sotf- flavored, delicate wine by the blase epicure and the dyspeptic, who, as Lord Seffton sald, would swallow penknife blades to get a new sensation. In the Forest, Ah! what a mournful change is here, Since last I stood beneath these trees; ‘When in the sunny summer time {thelr green leaves trembled on the breeze; Then happy birds, with joyful song, Filled att the alf with inusto swest, ‘Then all the forest rang with glee, ‘And flowers blossomed at my feet, ‘The birds are flown, the flowers gone, ‘The leaves fail slowly fluttering; Beneath the trees they fall and spread A golden and crimson c ra ‘There's naught but silence all around, here; ves, A solemn stiliness ev’ryw! A sadness o’er the fallen lea A sadness in the very air, Geep, dim recesses there comes ‘The odor’of decaying leaves; ‘The wind, among the naked boughs, Tn hoarse and hollow murmur grieves, Beal dethe rocks, s0 cold and gray, ‘The long fern hangs a drooping head, lere sad nature seems to mourn A summer time forever dead, the Republican Boys Came Down How the Rep Lee ys The Nashville World compares therepublicans to the boys In the tree: Man comes out in the orchard: ‘‘Child’en, come right down outen that are tree this minute.” “Which tree?” “Why, that un yer in.” “Thisone?” ‘Yes, that one.” “This one here by the fence?” ‘Yes, that unyerin.” “This one with the red ples?” “Yes, that un, an’ I don’t want to tell you agin.” “Well, we’er comin’ down.” “Well, come down mighty quick.” ‘Well, we are. “Hurry then.” “Must we come clear down?” “Clear down to the ground, and there mighty quick, too.” ‘Well”—slowly sliding down the —"We am down; what are you hollering at us for?” SHEET. HER BODY IN ASHES, Laura Clancy’s Last Request. HER REMAINS TAKEN TO LANCASTER AND BURNED IN THE CREMATORY—HER SPIRIT AT A SEANCE —HOW THE WORK WAS DONE—THE ASHES IN CUPS. From the Baltimore American. Lancaster, Pa., December 1.—While the shadows were falling to-night, all that was mor- tal ot Laura C. Clancy, the young actress who died in Baltimore November 10, was committed to the flames, and in less than two hours there remained in the white-heated retert of the Lan- caster Crematorium only a few pounds of white ashes. It was the young lady's dying request that her remains should be thus treated, and, in compliance with that wish, her friend, Mrs. Her- man Leimbach, brought her body to this city to-day. Laura Clancy was but twenty-one years ofage. She was pretty, witha light, symmetri- cal form, and during her short career on the stage she proved she was an actress of no mean merit. She was a warm friend of Mary Ander- son, and before her death the leading lady for Frank Mayo. Her sister Venle, who also died in Baltimore, in 1882, was noted for her pretty face and form. Lauta aspired to higher roles than Venie,and had she lived would have made a name for ‘herself; but consumption ciaimed both sisters, and they died within three years of euch other, one in California and the other in Baltimore. Both were baried from Mrs. Leim- bach’s home, on South Broadway, Venie’s body being placed in tle Baltimore cemetery forever, and Laura's only temporarily until it was cremated to-day. The sisters were spiritualists, althouzh buried bythe Episcopalehurch. Lanra, who was a firm believer in this faith, had studied the subject of cremation, and before her death gave minute instructions as how her wish was to be carried out. The day she died she said: “Mother will be here t ight to escort my spirit to the spirit land. ake my ashes, place half Jn Venie’s grave, and the other half with mother in the graveyard at Burlington, Ver- mont.” Her wish wonld heve been complied with sooner, but Mrs. Leimbach preferred to consuit with Miss Clancy's father, who is still alive, and some of her relatives, and havin gained their consent, arrangements were made for the cremation to-day. It was a little party that left Baltimore early this morning with Laura’s body—only Mr. and Mrs. Herman L h, and J. N. Gardner, of Baltimore. Mr. Gardner, who is well-known as a merchant in Baitimore, is a convert to crema- tion, and a spirit ist. He isatriend of Mr. Leimbach, but never met Miss Clancy until a Tew days While attending a seanee THE SPIRIT OF MISS CLANCY appeared. He saw her, but she did not speak. He described her perfectly to Mr. Leimbach, and then decided to attend the cremation of her body. The body and friends arrived in Lancas- ter at one o'clock. Undertaker Heinitsh was waiting with a hearse. Having received the casket, it was driven at once tothe cremato- rium, in the suburbs of the city, the friends fol- lowing. St intended to have the cremation at 2:50 o'clock, but owing to an accident the not heated to the 2,000 degrees ne- cessary, and so the casket was placed in the re- ci it time for preparation. Time crept on, and still the requisite heat was not attained. The crema- tion was to be strictly private. The friends, the members of the associatic and the press were admitted, but during afternoon quite a number of persons visited crematorium, among them a number of cle: the the men who were in Lancaster attending the fune- | ral of Thomas E. Franklin, which took place at two o'clock. Among them were Rey. M. Powell, of York P. E. church; Rey. J. E. Pratt, of the Free Episcopal church, Lancaster; Rey. I. Fran- Rev. Dr. Cyrus er; also Prof. es also attended, among them Mrs. shountz and daughter, of Phila- delphia, and several ladies of this place. These remained all the afternoon, and attended the cremation. The delay im the afternoon was caused by one or two gentlemen of the associa- tion thinking they knew more about running the fire in the retort than the fireman hiuself, but he remarked that unlesa he was let alone THERE WOULD BE NO CREMATION. He was then given full swing, and in a short time the retort was ready. It was six o’clock— nearly four hours late—when the requisite heat was attained. The heat, and the friends took seats in a circle op- ethe door to the retort, Meanwhile, Dr. M. L. Davis prepared the bedy for cremation. It had been placed in the yault at the Baltimore cemetery, November 11, by Deuny & Mitchell, of Baltimore, who embalmed it. It was found in lent condition. The pretty form of the fair actress was wasted by disease, but the face was quite natural. After lifting it from the rose- ® | wood casket the attendants wrapped it ina heavy white cloth, washed in alum water. Be- alnning with the head, they wound the wet cloth lightly around the frail be and, sewing it tight, then pees it in the cofflu-shaped iron crib, the cage-like receptacle in which the body is placed the retort. This was placed on a table with six Iezs on castors, the table being one-quarter inci higher than the door of the re- tort, and as the crib lays on rollers, it is easily pushed into the white-heat retort. The four lamps cast a taint light on the party in the aud- ience room aa the door of the reception opened, and the table and crib were wheeled into the room with a creaking sound. Resting in the erib was the slender form of the once popular actress, looking like the body of a person for burlalat sea. Messrs. J. D. Pyott, H. Clay Bru- bakerand W. A, Heinitsh wheelea the table, while Dr. Davis went to the door of the retort. There was no service, the funeral having taken place in Baltimore. All was still save the sound of iron beating against iron as the men tried to undo the great door of the retort. Between the clink of the iron the noise of a falling drop of water on the cemented fiocr from the cloth around the body only was heard. The In- tense light from the white-heat chamber of the retort almost blinded those sitting in front ot it, and instinctively they turned away. The gen- tlemen at the table, however, were quick. In an instant, with their long-handled rods, they rolled the crib and body oif the table and into the oven. THE BODY LOOKED LIKE SNOW against the white rose colored sides of the heated chamber, There was no change, save the sides of the chamber grew a deeper red. There was no flame, no disturbance of the body by the heat. Inasecond the door was closed, and the faint light of the lamps In the room took the place of the glare of the retort. The friends of the dead actress retired to a private room, and the heat began its work. For about fifty minutes no change was noticed. The form was still i t, and by looking into the cham- ber by means of small holes in front and back, the outlines of the body could be seen, and then it suddenly collapsed, and in less than two hours the body was reduced to ashes. By to-morrow at nine o'clock the retort will be suffictently cooled to take them out. As yet the association have been unable to secure urns for the ashes of the bodies cremated here, andso Miss Clancy's ashes will be placed in two neat tin receptacles, labelled: “The ashes of Laura G. Clancy. Died No- vember 10, 1834. Aged twenty-one years.” One will be placed in the grave of her sister at Baltimore, and the other with her mother in Vermont. When urns are made the ashes will be transterred to them. Mr. and Mrs. Leimbach walt until to-morrow to take the ashes with them. This isthe second body cremated here. “siegal People.” Stepniak, in the Cornhill Magazine, When a nihilist, after a rather long absence, suddenly reaches some city without previously conferring with those who have been there re- cently, his position is a very singular one. Al- though he may know he fs in the midst of friends and old companions in arms, he is abso- lutely incapable ot finding any of them. Bei “illegal” people, or outlaws, they tive wit false passports, and are frequently compelled to change their names and their places of abode. To inquire for them under their old names is not to be thought of, for these continuous changes are not made for mere amusement, but from the necessity. constantly recurring, of escaping from some imminent danger, more or less grave. To go to the old residence of a nihilist and ask for him under his old name would be voluntarily putting one’s head into the lion’s mouth. Under such circumstances a ni- hilist is put to no end of trouble, and has to wander hither and thither in orderto find his friends. He Spalies to old acquaintances among people who are “‘legal” and peaceful— that is to say, officials, business mei doctors, &c., who form an Intel late class, nnconsclously connecting the most active Nihil- ists with those who the least interest In public affairs. In this class there are people of allranks. Some secretly aid the Nihilists more or less energetically. Others receive them into their houses, simply as friends, without hay- ing any “serious” business with them. Others, again, see them only casually, but know from whom more or less accurate infor- mation is to be optained; and soon. All these or , and, living as they under their own retort was then at a white | DIFFERENCES IN RGGsS, Boston’s Preference for Brahmas—A Rising Race of Egg CET S. From the New York Sun. “A dozen eggs. Pick out the yellowones.” The groceryman selected tweive ezzs with yellow shells and placed them in the lady's basket. The lady carried her head quite high and wore eyeginsses. “If Ta'a been selling thera Inthe town that young woman come from,” said t ceryman, as his customer passed out, got seven cents more r a “Where did she come fro “Boston,” replied the grocery likes the Brahma egcs, and will pay seven cents Yorkers like the white ezcs the best,at can get ‘em, are willing to pay more than for the yellow or As far as don’t see why the yellow eg: the most, for five Brahma of any of the white egys. stronger and coarser than the othiv why can't see the 5 Boston taste the best ca Brahma exg don't spread ali over w turned out of the shell soft-boiled, ¢ into the pan to try do. The Boston s rabout the yellow eve t bat [ agree with the y that the white ones ar The 8 mt Maybe it’s led egy: Rocks, Hamburgs, De “Plymouth Reck and Br: dotte is crowding ‘em youngster will t weeks after er the Plymout ih weeks longer. A ‘shorn to broil at sixteen weeks ol ably well fixe: and there isn't much ju the Leghorn is " enough to make it ¥ caterer.” ————— ROGUISH CUPID'S STERATAGEM, A Matrimoniai Lottery Wher Be Well That Huds We! AN Wi At a recent wed lina a young lawyer bi scheme of matrimony, be beneiicial. company this president sep entirely should anew president duly commun ec be then hand it to the pr if any e chosen each ch of the r appointmes ns were accordingly d it was found that tw: chair | but them Twas pa days ago, ana was inf 1 declare great that they dressed. their respecti e Was SO have ad- HE WSS READY TO Manny. But, Somehow, Circummtnnces Were Always Against 1 on “IL do not be dri want to appear to evoke the ass “Well, I'm rea biuecoat. “You see, man, who his coat-t 1 na! continued the lon; the evening ar He hada shot gun. ition, He ran me three nd the nuptials wer “A month ago, on the day riage, Iwas blown up in iy bo: and had to remain in bed for a we now settle ow night. help of the pol! y Want you. you know, itted to wv ; seems foe seems as if T ong! object of tobe p my heart's aflectio And I wouldn't.” Mh, Ishan't. Iam decided—quite decided to use every effort to get married to-morrow s J said. T don't wish to act impulsively necessary, law. behind ia her He was_ pro tlon: “Really, but you are kind. again I'll cailand see you, but I feel—I rea feel as if I ought to close the transaction as sc as possible.” Choosi 000 x 2 Husband. ‘rom the Home-Journal, A girl, if she cannot always choose ways refuse; and it is evident that th: ng love to m choose; shall I choose or shall I forbear? It ts here that the power of choice comes in; and it is here that the voice of pradence must be heard, ifitis to be heard at all. Insuch cirenmstances a girl will act wisely if she pays considerable at- tention to the general opinion whic cases out of ten, is held of the gent! question by his professional brethren or hi iness acquaintances. It Is, In man who is agreeable among women. but he who ts well liked by his own sex, who is the man to choose as ahusband. There are sons, however, of the opposite sex w as goo fudges of a man’s disposition as those ef his own, and they are his can always tell How a man stands with his s ters, and if they are really fond of him she may feel almost sure that he will make a good hus band. A mother, of course, always speaks well of her son; it is not what she soys ot him, but his behavior to her, that is to be looked to. How They Pay Their Bets in Eric. From the Er‘e Herald. “Have you seen the latest thing in cigars?” inquired a State street cigar merchant of a Her- ald reporter yesterday, “What is it?” asked the reporter, “tobacco?” “No,” replied the dealer, ignoring the revised minstrel joke. ‘The reporter allowed, then, that although it was his vies Feed to Re _ of far everything, there might still be a bare possi- bility that the latest thing in cigars had escaped him, “Well, then, here it is," and the dealer pro- duced a neat cedar box about four inches long, an inch and a halt wide and an inch anda half deep. He then raised the cover of the little box and. revealed four cigars. : “That,” continued the dealer, “is the election bet cigar box. You see,a manufacturer down in York state, knowing that there would be thousands of boxes of cigars bet upon election, and that the loser would naturally feel bad and want to get back at the winner, conceived the idea of making up a lot of these boxes of rs.” you sold any of them? “Yea, quite a number. Have one? It will cost you only twenty-tive cents.” or < | mone | thought, ev N | close i 1 shouldn't | but it | d the | (, be | ised the nid of the whole police | force, and be backed away with the observa- | | If it Is adjourned | do so if I hort, not the | oes — _ — MES, DUGGANS DOWESTIC INV! ENT Lending Money to a Matrimonial Ade vertiscr—Doublie Brench of Promise. From the Now York Tribune, Dee, In the suit begun by Mrs. Catharine Duggan, of Fius! L. L., to recover €10,000 as dam- each of promise of marriage, against a H. Le Roy, an order of arrest has been «ranted by Judge Pratt, in the supreme court in Brookiyn. Mrs. Duggan was left €30,000 by her former sband. fa ast'she answered a per- { advertisement setting forth that a man of w 5.000, wanted to form the acquaint- a good husband. 18 she became acquainted with Mr. brief correspon i, and many en- pa en them. The wed- tfor June it. But before tt ar- ir, Le Roy ded in borrowing 8800 from Mrs. Dn said he wanted the } | Re up a dificulty about some with his partner in Boston, n t bin Morton house y. ‘The next she heard to Chicago, and a little e went to St. Louis with ot no more letters from him rs, and when she met him in this » wonld not speak to her. The aid, although it was to have the wed.iing day 1 to indemnify tie he has not ¢ the which is ty in August, ) was not te Here we are oid of its last mouth— shortest days. It . how, ere we shall year's shortest afternoons. to have come upon them already. down at it grows dark is to be su to the clock, y due. In ol “sundown” rtest_ afternoons, d_ introduced ail We are going, t. on time which Isa ok t ar or five days as it will be eumt- purposes to ns are reache d tha ate for the shortest afte hor the r ed on will begin te # pleasant grow nth to come, 80 of daylight ore almost the »have the tter end” —the whose chief am- to call the roll of his inker Hili monument, ky fishe When ainiy in appear- anions used to say that he fter fishing all day up a huge mud on the hard < into the water. hing at the It was which he had inseribed ad to find be to catch fish ht the denizen of » below. The story sutical turtle po tie, in afit of t wud the last pe as yet actually Ti surface 27 This is the great Vienna turned ont by Mr. Grubb, t still awaiting the com- loring career. It will, er, soon be surpassed by the Pulkowa ordered more than four years ago on rnment from Alvan ridgeport, Mass. Still by the coming © predict that the . in 1889, b Sons of ner will it i refractor. cal championship of the world is, at t for the ,ext few years, secured to instrument, the completion way be looked’ for in the tmme- future. It will have a clear aperture A disk of flint glass for the 3 4d 170 kilo- at the establishment Paris, early in 1882. Four days eight tons of coal consumed in Vast mass of flawless crystal; © ‘ook a calendar month to cool, and cost £2,000. It may be regarded as the highest triamph so far achieved im the art of optical telescope three feet light than a quality, then, ides the Rosse A refracti a ‘tofthe running, but one rival. val—the 48-inch Teflector of the y—it will have ail the ad- ul robustness, 80 to speak, onstruction affords, while ion for which Alvan’ Clark j A | was wild in ja choice bloss 8, lives at o1 elderly bachelor who , bat who has been m of propriety lo! these many ur house this winter, There is nt Bt pe hole through the wall ‘h divides the bachelor's room from an un- pied one, which hole is covered and hidden wall paper, and the bachelor knew not of its He made a few bets on the election, tom of the bachelors whether old or ndon $ day night last he collected nd treated the 3,” aged trom rs. He Is astaunch old demo- all his bets and been de- y years; hence it is not at all on this oceasion he became as ous” as Tam o’ Shanter aforetime, At a late hour he came home in what had been his normal nightly condition twenty years before, and stumbled up to his room. Now, it so chanced that there was a visitor in the unoccu- pied room that night, the gaslights where! shone dimly into the bachelor’s room thro: the paper which covered the round stovepipe hole. The bachelor saw that light at once and gazed at it with eyes of horror. Terror-stricken, he ran with bo; speed to a friend's room, and bursting the door he walled in @ voice loud enough to waken every inmate of the house: “Take care of me, Charlie; I have got them azain. Ihave not had them for twenty-seven years, but they have come hack in. Save me, Charlie, sare me!” Charley to soothe him by asserting that he was all right, &e., whereupon the old fellow roared: “I know I have them, for I saw a full moon in my room! asfall as a tick!” Mr. Conkling’s Double-Dealing+ Frora the Philadelphia Press, ‘The Sun says it never heard “the imputation” that Mr. Conkling encouraged the nomination of Mr. Blaine until the Press made it. The Press stated what it understands to be the exact fact. We do not rest onthe testimony of George C. Gorham. It is true that Mr. Hart of the Wheel- ing Intelligencer