Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1887, Page 2

HE'D RATHER NOT BE KNOWY, A Gentleman Who Admires Mrs, Langtry, But Not the Newspapers, OMAHA AND MEXICO TRADE. Xfforts to Place it on a Commercial Basis—A Survivor of a Rebel Bullet and a Dangerous Operation, A Much Talked-ot Man, Mrs. Lily Langtry will arrive in Omaha this morning and will appear at th opera house this evening in “A Wife By u strange coincidence there is already in the city a gentleman who tofore received a notoriety which ards far from enviabie in connec tion with Mrs, Lungtry's previous tour in this country. This gentleman is Mr. Harry Oclrichs, of Oclrichs, D, T, mana- ger of the Anglo- American Cattle com pany, and one of the mbst thoroughly enterprising and best known cattlcmen of the west. Mr. Oelrichs is an old acquaintance of Mrs. Langtry, having known her before sho aspired” to honors before the foot- lights, He met her at Cheyenne when she arrived there three years ggo on her transcontinental tri panied her to the const the enterprising newspuper made a gay lothario out of him clothed him m the weal garh of the cow man of the plans, dubbing him *“Mrs, Langtry's cowhoy lover,” before whose impetuous, wild western way of wooing polished hauteur- Sty c-muking paled into most insignificant moonbenms, The Po- lice Gazette finally pictured it all out and that capped the climax. ‘The truth 1s that Mr. Oclriehs is from one of the Knickerbocker families of New York City, and isa most highly cultivated and polished gentdeman. He stands feet one inch when he lifts up head and weighs 22 pounds. He s splendid specimen ot hysical development, and knows how to uke care of himself on foot or in the saddle, He was very indignant over the stories ublished concerning him by the Sun rancisco papers, and subsequently re- ublished by many other journals. One unny feature of 1t was that the Demo- eratic Leader of Cheyenne, in which Mr.? Oclrichs held §500 stock, gave speeial Imhlgr-ity to the reprinted articles. Mr. Jelrichs drove into the city the next day and gave his stock away to Dave Miller, a jeweler of Cheyenne. Miller being o personal friend of the proprictor of opposition puper, the Sun, presented part ol the, stock to him. The Leader was worried a good deal before the management suceeeded 1n buying the stock up. It is stated that Mrs Langtry likes flowers. Mr. Oclrich’s wouldn't confess it,but he could tella good story about that particular taste of the lLaly if he wanted to. An itemized bill in the court records at Cheyenne shows that a New York florigt collected the modest sum of §150 from Mr. Oelrichs tor tloral tokens during the i s0n the latter was aining the sobriquet of the “cowboy over."” 1t isa somewhat strange coincidence, it may ngain be remarked, that Mr. Oelrichs 1s in Omaha at this particular time. but that is only a coincidence he mssured a reporter last evening, as his business called him here, and he will leave for Lincoln to-day. WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION, An Effort to Open a Big Trade Be- tween Mexico and Omaha., George Johnson, sceretary of the Mex- flean Commercial exchange of St. Louis, wrrived in this city yesterday on a mis- sion which seems worthy of the con- sideration of Omaha business men. His mim is to induce Omaha wholesale men to make an eflort for a portion of the Mexican trade especially now since the Missouri Pacitic has direct communica- tion with this city and its rates have been reduced. Mexico has removed all tariff rom imports from the United States, etting it remain standing as regards other countries. Thus it is that English exporters are now shipping their wares to St. Louis so as to have them get to Moxico more cheaply than by direct ocean carriage. The inter-state com- merce law of course has no effect beyond the Rio Grande, and consequently Mexico js offering all induc: ts possible for * Bhipments of merch se from this country in return for its exports of hide, wool, palm oil, gold, silver, ete. The Omaha smelting “works are members of this exchange already, and are domg a business in Mexico. . Johnson also represents the El Co- orcio del Valle(the Commerce of the Val- loy), the leading Mcxican trade organ of the west which will be printed in the Span- §sh language. St. Louis and Kansas City are numerously representod, and only one more city is nceded and that is Omaha. An effort will be made to obtain member- ships for the exchange which now has 650 members sand is under the manage- ment of the Hon. John F. Cahill, consul of the Mexican republic at St. Louis and editor of the journal named. OMAHA'S “TWO." Departure of the Typographical Del- egates to Buffalo, This evening Messrs. J. R. Lewisand W. H. Gonsolus, of Typographical union No. 190, delegntes to the International con- wvention, leave for Chicago, wnen, after a short relay, thoy will start for Butfalo, N, Y., the place of meeting. 1t is unneces- Bary to state that the representatives will do the eraft and the city credit, and act their part well 1n one of the most im- Ko"l‘m typographical conventions ever eld in this country. Both are young, active, thorough going men, who have the confidence of as fine a constituency ot printers as there is in the Umted States, and there can be little doubt of the favor- able impression Omaha’s representa- tives will mak on the conven- tion. Several invitations have aiready been received by Messrs. Lewis and Gonsolus to excursions, feats, ete., and there is but little doubt but that the peo- wle of Buffalo intend to treat the visiting delegates right royally. The Buffalo Printing Ink company will give them an exeursion on Sunday next down the Niagara river with a collation at Sheen- water. As anindication of the import- ance with which the Omaha influence is regarded, it need only be mentioned that they have received hundreds of letters drom delegates all over the union re- questing their opinions on eertain im- portant questions which will come be- fore the convention. Omaha is now re- garded as the leading city in typographi- cal matters west of St. Louis, and it is certain to make its strength felt with such delegates as Moessrs, Lewis and Gonsolus, Coffea Statintics, Europe and the United States for the past four years have absorbed over 11,000,000 bags of coffee per year, while the average yield of the world has been about 10,000,000 bags. All the old sur- plus has been more than used up, and a short crop is staring the trade in the face, -Last year's expp of Rio and Santos were 6,000,000 bags; Java, 1,250,000 bags; total, 7,250,000 bags. This year's Rio sand Bantos crops are 4,000,000 bags; Java, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY., MAY 31. 1887, 50,000 bags; total, 4,350,000 bags. Al shortage in_ Rio, Santos and Jave 2,500,000 bags, The estimated shortage in crops of all other cotfees is over 1,00 000 bugs. Total shortage of this year's 10.000 bags. ‘I'he ubove figures ier than generally estimated. The sply of the world, all kinds world, ; total, authorities estims crop at 1,600,000 bag: as giyen nbov The available roast ing coffees of the world, old erop, which is all that can be used for roasting for nearly one year, does not amount 4,000,000 bags; while the average stock carried in Burope and the United States is about 5,000,000 bags. The visible sup- ply of the world is 1,000,000 bags less last year with its full crops. It ean be readily scen that there will be no coffee left one year from this summer, unless the con- Sumption falls off very much, Consump tion is not ling off; neither are there any indications of it. One pound of cof- fee proverly made up will yield 100 cups of the beverage. At present prices it will cost ¢ cent per cup. CARRILS IT :\87\ CHARM. General George W. Harrington's En- field Bullet and 1ts History. General George W. Harrington, of the Stein manufacturing company, of Roch- ester, N. Y., 18 in the city, and carries suspended from his watch chain an En- field r bullet, neatly set in gold. The bullet was shot into its posses<ors anat- omy in the second day’s fight at Gettys- burg, when he was leading a cavalry charge ot the First division of the Army of the Potomac. It passed through his Teft lung and through one of his kidneys, lodging behind thatorgan, Seven we ago it was cut out by Dr. Livermore in Chieago by an operation that was both skillful and dangerous. B Although troubled at various times by the presence of the ballet, saflering oce: sional hemorrh G 1 Harrington did not experience effects until three months azo. In endeavoring to eross the Missouri r in 1 small boat, below St. Joseph, a cake of ice struck the skiff and overtvrned it. All abo; had to struggle ashore. In the extr inary endeavors which he made on that ocea- sion General Harrington tore the bullet from its resting place and immedi thereafter suflered such ing pain he had to submit to the dangcrous operation. General Harrington has friends in Omaha that the p ar inei- dent possesses almost a est. He passed through Omaha with Gen: eral Albert Sidney Jonnston in the expedition against the mormons, and sinze then has trequently visited the city, spending several weeks upon a number cnsions. Heis rapidly recovering Ith and is glad to be rid of the ounce of lead he carried nearly a quarter of a century. CAUGHT WITH THE TICKER. George Brown and Mitch, fleming Accused of Stealing a Watch, Mrs. C. Swuart and Miss Mary Fisher, residing at 1003 Douglas street, snugly esconsed themselves in a hack driven by George Brown, at 10:30 last night, and were driven to a saloon on Fifteenth street, where they were met by another man and the quartette sat down to a table in a wine room to enjoy a *‘small bottle."" At 11:45 o’clock Mrs, Stuart and Miss Fisher were anxiously hunting a police man. They found Oflicer Dick Burdish, to whom Mrs. Stuart stated that she had been robbed by the two men of a gold watch valued at $125, Oflicer Burdish kept his a hackman who ans: seription Mrs, Stewarts gave and soon found Brown He ‘took the latter aside and whispered 1n his cur that he would like to see the watch. Brown said he didn't know anything about it, but subsequently owned o hav- ing it, and went to the hack where it was concealed under the seat. He claimed that Mitch Fleming, of No. 8 hooks, of the fire department, was the man who gave it to him to ki until it should be called for. Fleming could not be found last night. Brown was locked up. 50 many cos open for od w de- School Election Conyention Dolegates The Fourth Ward Republican club held a meeting in Germania hall last evenirg at which the president, Mr. Webster, oc- cupied the chair. The following dele- gates to the republican convention to i chool board candidates were chosen Haney, R. W. Breckenridge, E. Whiteham, F. k. Moores, . T. Clark, T. J. Crea and T. Kinnistol As altern- ates J. A. Waketield, M. Goldsmith and N. Shelton were chosen. Messrs. Kenniston and Nickolas were elected as judges, and E. Whiteham and James Carpenter as clerks for the primaries. Brought to Tume. Saturday last William Kinkaid, the well known railroad contractor, had a horse stolen from his camp near Flor- ence. He pursued the thief as soon as he was informed of the affair. Riding night and day he came upon the thief a few miles southwest of Klkhorn station, in this unty. The display of a very neat little revolver caused the man to abandon his 1illegally obtained property and to skip r the prairie grass like an antelope. nkaid returned home with his horse. The man’s name was Cannon. Here is a case where the revolver was mightier than the Cannon. Small Fight, There was a winiature battle of the Boyne at a new saloon just opened at Florence on Sunday might. At one time it looked as if the *‘eroppies” would tolie down sure. The proprictor himself with two large revolvers, and the railroad graders who were in the melee became somewhat meek. The appear- ance, however, of a prominent rai contractor settled the whole ditliculty no blood was spilled. Equine Eccentricity. Yesterday Joe Witherow was driving his spirited horse up Sixteenth street and at the same time leading another horse behind the buggy. The latter horse be- came frightencd at the asphalt steam roller and jumped into the rear I)mrt of the buggzy, upsetting it and nearly caas- ing a strious runaway. Mr. Witherow jumped to the ground and very !ortun\' - y saved himself from injury. The vehicle was badly smashed. Bohemian Turners. Next month there will be a convention of all the Bohemian turners in the world at Prague. It will be one of the most prominent athletic events known in modern times. A large number of dele- gates passed tward today for Chicago, whence a special train will” convey them to New York. On Saturday they will sail by special steamer to Brooklyn. Nebraska sends several delegates, Mr. Moravic being the representative from this city, ———— The Blue and Gay to Mingl EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 80,—A grand in- ter-state reunion of union and confederate soldiers will be held here next September, a week before the assembling of the national encampment under the ausplces of the Grand Army. An Obio Cyclone. UPrer SANDUSKY, O,, May 30.--A cyclone passed over here this afternoon doing great damage to trees, fences, ete. The spire of the Catholie chureh, mfiafl mi.h' was blown over and the front of the church wreek * AMUSEMINTS, LANGTRY, There was a big rush for Langtry s at the Boyd box oflice yester She appears to-night in Peril,” and the indications point to one | of the largest houses of the season, to | TIE TDEALS, The Ideal Comedy company opened & week's engagement at Metz's summer garden last night in a new wmusical comedy entitled “Bubbles,”” The audi- ence present manifested their approval of the good musie, funny situations, ete., by frequent applause. Miss Kitty Arde the star of the company, acquitted her- self ereditably as did also T\Hlss Linde- man, of German theater fame s McDonald, Miles, Vigas and W very good, in t the entire cast able support and should good we or the company their engagement will surely prove a successful one. Same bill to-night with entircly new mu; TOM O'BRIEN ANGRY, He Denies the Assertion that He Slapped a Woman, Tom O’Brien, the well known hack- nian, was not in pleasant humor last evening, which is something unusual, for the smiles generally play around his Grecian-cut features like butterflies among the blossoms, The cause of his ire was that the 1 papers had stated he had struck a woman at a road house on Sunday night. Tom puts up his strong right hand and doth solemnly af- firm that such was not the ease. He says that he and o brother hackman named Dave Benton went northward on Sunday morning for a day’s pleasure. They were at the Lake house and then came to Hill's road house, ere he invited the entire rty to drink among them being two women from the city. Just after tne *‘Here's to you'’ had lost its echo amid the gaudy frescoes of the palatial bar room, and play a resonant tattoo on the aetes: floor, a man appeared in the doorway. He advanced not across the portals, but called one of the nymphs. As soon as she approached, the stranger made some msulting remark, and knocked the glass of Gambrinus nectar from her hand. ‘Then some rich, rare and racy conyers tion followed. O'Brien scemingly bemg the only man with money in the party, dered on another round of h(]!lilfih The man at the door told the woman by his _side that she must not drink. She said she would, whereupon he struck her in the face. Then the Irish blood of O'Brien beeame hot and he downed the woman hitter in great style. The latter arose and presented a gun and firea, Luckily it was a blank cartridge or there would have been a ake. O'Brien, being unarmed, re- treated into the bar-room. All the others ran pell mell out of the bar-room. The stranger appronched the door with a re- and and fired four shots » took effeet. This ter from Rapid s, is the true Personal Paragraphs. J. C. Cook, assistant clerk of the late legislature, is in tne city from Lincoln. E. Rosewa rsent in Chicago, at- tending the annual meeting of the. west- ern associated press. He will return the last of the week. Harry Counsman has resigned his posi tion as postal clerk, to take effect June 1, and has accepted a position in City Cle Southard's m\h Q. (. F. Swift, the Chicago pork packer, isin the gity accompanied by Mr, Gard- ner, who has the plans of the big pack- ing house, which is to be commenced at once. Mr. John Widener, head clerk” of Ros- enberry's rhming mill, celebrating the arrival of a (l:lufihl_ ,regulation weight and strength, The mill shut down 1n consequence. Mr, I’. Connolley will leave the latter part of the week for Ireland, Mr. Con- nolley’s parents live in county Monag- han, and he has notbeen there for thirty years. He will be gone for a month. J. Chase, of Weeping Water; Dr. J. Price Nelson, of Lincoln; George Mead and, W. E. Dorrington, Percy Pepoon, Falls City, and Edwin Sharpe, Douglas, Wyo., are at the Paxton among the ar- rivals, Thomas I\ou%h\s. the popuiar leader of the A, O. H. band, leayes to-day for California on a two months’ pleasure trip. During his absence his brotner James, a thoroughly capable musician, will take charge of the band. Doctor Ibraith returned yesterday from an extended trip in California, Ore- gon,Washington territory and away up to uget Sound. The doctor is looking splendidly and says that he never felt better 1n his life and never had a more ant vacation. F. Jeunkins, an enterprising shoe- dealer of Cheyenne, left Omaha, where been in attendance at the Presby- terian assembly as a commissioner from the Boulder presbytery, for Chicago last evening. He will attend the National Sunday School association in that city. - Fatal Boiler Explosion. Hu~xtiNgToN, W. Va, May 80.—Three men were killed and a dozen or so badly in- jured by the explosion of a boiler in the ele- vator at the foot of Thirtieth street this morniug, —— TheSkiff Was Drunk, Too. MONONGAHELA CItY, Pa., May 30.—A skiff containing three miners capsized in the river this afternoon, and the men were drowned. All were intoxicated. At Ll A Postal Clerk's Haul VIENNA, May 30.—A postal clerk named Zalenski absconded with registered lotters containing bank notes to the amount of $75,000. T Bits of Philosophy. Every farm should own a good farmer. —Beecher. How much the wife is dearer than the bride.—Lyttleton. The way of every man is decl: the end of every man.—Cecil. Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.—Hawthorne. Receive your thoughts as guests; your desires as children.—From the Chinese. Only the dead can tell what death has been.” It may have been many times—an ecstasy.—Mrs. Whitney. Three essentials to a false story teller— good memory, a bold face and fools for an audience.—From the Welsh. Compliments are a coin that people pay a man to his face; sarcasm, what they pay him behind his back.—Home Journal. No city bred man has any business to expect satisfaction in a pure country life for two months, unless he has a genius for legislature and even laziness.— Beecher. Man has subdued the world, but woman bas subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers.—Gail Hamilton. Disorder in a drawing room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle ulu‘n on a soldier’s face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is,—Ruoskin, Ridicule is like a blow with the fist; wit, like the prick of aneedle; irony, like the sting of a thorn; and humor, the plaster which heals all these wounds.—From the Germaun. The first wealth is health. Sickness 15 poor spirited; it must husband its re- sources in order to live. But health an- swers its own euds, and has to sptre; runs over and inundates the crecks and neighborhoods of other men's nceessity. —Fmerson, . ative of VICTIMS OF ‘THE TREMENS, A Pathetio Night Soene at Bellevue Hos: pital, THEY TOOK AN The One-Legged Man's Opinlon—Men Who Come Regularly for Treate mont—The *Soaking Out" Pracess. New York Commoercial Advertiser: The gray light of morning was strug- gling through the mist that hangs round the East river every night now when the wind don’t blow. The streets are most deserted at that hour, and up around the big gloomy walls of Bellevue hospital and the cheerless precinets of the morgue it didn't scem as though there was any more human life anywhere than there was i those twenty-eight grim coftins laid out side by side in that low building out over the water. There was somebody alive in that part of the city, though, for after a while there came the sharp clatter of hoofs down Twenty- sixthstreet and a cab shot out of the mist and ran at a ratthng pace through the open gate of the hospital, up to the broad steps that lead to the office. The driver got down and whistled sharply on his fingers, and a heavy set man, with one leg, a crutch and a kindly looking face, stumped out of the basement door. He looked in at the cab window and shook his head. Then he whistled on his fingers, too, and three or four stout attendants came out and stood about the cab door. ‘T'he one-legged man opened the cab door, and_by degrees a pair of legs, en- veloped in a pair of fashionably cut trousers and kicking wildly, eame into view. One of the stout attendants grab- bed each leg, and by and by, assisted somewhat unsteadily” by two rather dis- heveled gentlemen in o ekt Iisy b out the gentleman to whom the legs be- longed and set him, whirling his arms around like a wound-up automaton, on his feet. He was or had been a rather preposessing looking young man. His attire was of the latest fashion, a dia- mond pin glittered in his scarf and a rold watch peeped out of his pocket. He h:nl vellow hair tossed all about his un- bonneted head and his k v rims and glared frantic v He tottered about unsteadily for amo- ment, and then whooped with all his might INVENTORY. v!" he yelled, with great itaway! Don't you sec it's mad ok out;it’s going to bite me My God here's two of them now! and shivering and crouclyng, he clung piti- fully to one of the .umsteady gentlemen by s side. v Take him in Meike,” said the one- legged one; and tha attendants, grasping the struggling viepm, threw him on their shoulders and pore him in the base- ment door. 19 The one-legged man skipped nimbly after ham, and going behind a big stand™ g desk in one corper, opened a book and prepared to wiite, TAKING ANINVENT( “Phat's he got, Moike?” he pronounced Harlem accent. Moike's big hand went into the howl- ing young man's trousers’ pocket “Wan of them silver match safes, o brass kay, by the powers, a pool chick, an’ that's awl, ceptin}/ this super an’ the sparkler here, By me soul, not a emt, and mind the togs he’s got on, will o) The one-legged man entered the inven- tory rapidly in the big books, putting down one gold watch for the “supew’ of the unlettered Mike, and one diamond ring for his “sparkler.” Then he wrapped the of- fects up, and marked the parcel and put it into the safe. The attendants shouldered the young man again and bore him, still besceching them with shrieks of terror to “take it away,” or “shoot it, somebody shoot it,” through the basement out into the little plot of ground in the hospital inclosure that in the summer takes on a doubtful green, down into another basement to a door, where they knoc with their toes. A little, old white-headed man with trembling hands and a clean-shay face ovened the door and led the proces- sion into his room, had had many such a proc was a long sort of corl wooden- barred cells out it on both were some stout wooden atall the windows, too. Some of them had been hammered and some had been nawed. They did not look very pretty. ome staring gentlemen who were loung- ing nervously about the settees at the fur- ther end of the room in various stages of dishabille and convalescence, had at ong time or another taken their turns at the rnawing and hammering, though they iruukml armless enough then, “One of them wore a light and airy attire con- sisting of a faded red flannel undershirt and a peir of trousers that it is to be hoped had seen better days. He was sit- ting next to a rather refined looking patient in a Prince Albert coat and dark trousers, who was twitching his hands and smacking his lips incessantly, The attendants bore their burden into the little wooden barred cell near the door. The old man whipped out a broad leather belt with two steel handeufYs tixed in it and a steel ring fastened behind. The attendants took oft the young man's coat and vest in a jifly, slipped the belt around his waist and forced Lis stru, gling hands into the steel handey ‘Then they passed a broad leather thong through the steel ring in the back of the belt and strapped the young man down to the bed. 'l'lm old man came up just then and poured a soothing dram from a bottle down the young man’s throat. After a while he stopped yelling and dropped oft to sleep. - ABOUT ALCOHOMS PATIENTS. The one-legged man mopped his fore- ead vigorously with a red handker- chief, and said “whop?? like a man who had done his hard work faithtully, but is a little tived of it. Y ; *How many alchoholic paticnts bave you had in here to-night?" asked the re- porter, who had lolIL]Wcll the procession t vigor, 1 with o opening sides. rom the doorway. “That makes t brought in by frien: n the ambulance, work for such cases. “Do many people bring suffering friends here who have; homes of their own?" ol “Lots of them. >Many of them are wealthy people, too,nd could aflord to be treated at a privitta asylum if they wanted to, and that young man who just came in has been here twice before, ~He has plenty of maney and used to have social standing. e won't have either pretty soon.'" 2 “How many more times come?” “He's young and had & stitution” once. ['ll give him twice or perhaps ‘three times more. That will finish him. Of course, everybody who comes here hain’t got the delirum tremens by a great deal. Some have only been on lozg sprees and feel badly broken up. Others have the shivers. Some 77e just crazy drunk, and their friends take them here rather than let them go to a police station. We have regular customers. Some wealthy men I know who have been here twenty times. Their friends have orders to take them here when they reach a certain point in their cups. The world would be [ den. They were and the rest came iat's a fair night’s will he powerful con- mightily surprised if 1 could toll you the names of some of our paticuts Ihey are great people inthe metropolis as soon 'y leave our care, Why do they come here if they can afford to go to private asylums®" rashly asked the reporter, “Why," shrieked the one-legged man and the white-hair man i chorus, “why, because the treatment’s better, that's why. Yes, sir,” went on the old man, the pride of the artist flushing his nkled face a little, “we give bettc atient than any Turkish bath or, other soaking-out establishment in New York, We have had more to do lately than any of them, too. Turkish baths for soaking out intoxicated gentlemen are not as popular vow as they used to be Peonle would her come here to the inder the care of ph sicians, There is no danger of sufterin from the carclessness of attendantsin th cooling-off room at nhospital. Beside 3 ave n lot of public You don't know who nm_r) find out you've been to a i house to be soaked out, while at a ital, you know, there are thousands of things you can be treated for besides acute incbriety; see?"” “Perhaps the fact that the hospital is free and the bath isn't has something to do with it?"’ suggested the reporter, THE “'SOAKING T PROC o *Not much. Our first-ciass customers are a rap about that. ‘They couid o wherever they wanted to. After they've been here once they are pretty sure to give orders to be taken here iin if they need anything of the kind. i ' with a punchin the ribs of the one-legged man “You bet,” said Ricketts, exprossively. “Ilow long does it take for a man to ‘sonk out,’ as you call it, under the hos- practice?’’ Well, you'd be surprised to see_how much difference there is in that. Somo contirmed old tanks that are chuck full of liquor will be out as chipper as larks m three or four days. On the other hand, some young feliows,who have only been in the businoss a few years, won't get out in as many weeks. It all depends on the capacity of the system to absorb rum. The first thing we do is to man guicted down until the worst of the aleohol hav, chance to pass ofl. Then we drive the stufl’out of his system, and tone his broken-down We have to put the belt or down to the beds when they are in a con- dition to t things. That only lasts a few hours. When they get convalescent they can go anywhere they please about the ward.” “Do you giv are raving for it “Sometimes we e to, but we never do i y substitute will do any good. We erally get along with hyperder- mie injections and tronnde, without using any alcohol,” ‘ zan, old man,” broke in the one- legged man at this point, “why wouldn’t a nice, quict, hgh-toned place for men to sober of’in the proper way be a good thing? You could command all the best custom, and I could taki pro- ceeds, 'l tell you what [ '« But he didn'’t. A little electric signal bell near the door rang sharply just then, and the one-legged man stumped rapidly away. There had been another rattling in the street a moment before, followed by the famiiiar sound of an ambulance hem liquor when they gong. ‘The reporter went after the one-legged mun as rapidly as he could, anda when he got back to the desk by the basement door the attendants were just earvyimg into the big e tor a !nm«l‘ln, of mamied and bleeding h, out of which looked a white and ghastly face. “Run over by a beer wagon-—cmer- geney ward,”’ gaid the one-legged man without looking up from s book. The sun wae shining brightly now. T'he one- legged man turned a page in his new book, and another day of g cnce began at Bellevie hos - S ‘Wall Paper and Wall Paint, For parlors the fashioaable colors in paper for this season are nsually almost white, In some cases a pure white fol the ground. The most elegant varicties include one in silk. formed by uniting this material to a paper backgrounda and then printing the design. It is $24 a roll, or about &3 a vard, A lace paper in white is among deli- cately effective wall hangings. It is suited to the boudoir or to the decorated walls of dainty chambe or wore )lim’)]y decorated chambers large use is made of papers in soft pink or in light blue, with fresco tintings carried out in corresponding tones. Another style shows designs of Rena! sance character in white on a neatral- tinted ground like gray or ohve. The impulse in_ the direction of Lowis XIV and Louis XV sty 18 not diminished the requirement for English wall papers. These are used asin recent years with either the scintillating effects of mica backgrounds or in quieter tone Another channel has been widened for the industry of coration. The work of mural painters is now hmited to public buildings. Many walls are now painted in the stories of dwelling houses. [n v cases the painting is on eanvas, ap- plied 1n panels to walls and ceiling. ‘The sim ity of painted walls is the R G Sl i IR e piece of work of this character executed at Newnport is illustrated. ‘T'his is the de- coration of a music-room in coloring of white und yellow. The dado, extended to the height of the fricze, is formed in square panels in enamel white. The fricze shows on a yellow background a delicate seroll design relief in flat white, ‘The ceiling, arranged with the effect of bemg slightly covered, 18 cen- tred by anoval in robin’s egg blue. The ceiling spandrels are desighed in charie ter with the fricze in scroll work, the flat white forming a harmonious contrast WHIIII the enamel white of the wainscoted wall. Rich arrangements are introduced with decoration in white and gold, whicn, to be tolerable, must be exquisite. The style is desirable because it is worked out with care and by hand. Knowing ones are horrified by deuradations of a fanci- ful Rococo style. “White and gold,” as a representative of severe taste asserts, “shonld be in Louis XVI1 style; but to take a kitchen chair, paint it in white and gold, and put a couple of bows on it is dreadful—horrid, horrid.’" Caprice, nevertheless, to much further lengths supplants noble conformity to law. The }»fll‘iwig pigtail style, which grew out of the Rococo under the foster- ing care of Louis X1V pervades in spots. e Says the Buffalo Courier: Although the fact 1s not generally known, many of the homesin Buftalo are rich in ecurios from cvery part of the world. In one residence 18 a tall Duteh elock, found by its pregant possessor in a remote part of Norway, wot far from the North Cape. Among other ingenius attachments it has a set of chin tinkle twelve dif- ferent psalm tun fore the strik ing of each hour. The time-picce is very ancient, and singularly enough appears to be homesick, forit hus an icurable propensity of getting to fast, in an carn- est endeaver to eatch up with the time of aay in Holland. Another olt clock in the same house has a front pancl made from olivewood cut_on the Mount of olives in Palestine. These are just men- tioned incidentally. A eatalogue of all the rare and beautiful objects owned by Buftalonians would tili a whole news- paper page. et Mary Stewart, a ncgro woman of Talia- ferro county, Georgia, has invented a car coupler that 18 said to be simple and about perfect, She says that the idea came to hor like a dream and she made & model, aceording to her vision, out of old ‘oyster cups.” Mrs. Stewart was the first slave born to BUCCANEERS AT NAPLES, An loteresting Story of tho Days of Fiorida, see Fla, Tallahasseen: Prior y of steam, as applied 1o the purposes of navigation, and before the modern rage of scientitic oxploration and survey had led men to penetrate to the uppermost ends of the carth, the frc:?wr part of Florida was unknown and The everglades were untrodden, save by unfrequent bands of wandering Semi nole Indians, and even their tresspasses in that wildnerness was hedd in cheek by the reptiles which swarm in the oozy VP8, There was no inducement hould the patient mariner dream {ing the intricate navigation of coasts, deeply and variously mdented as they are, studded with thousands of s lands; home of the pelican and eranes, the osprey, the eagle and the screaming sea gull. Kach river mouth, too, with sand and soil washed from the land, abounds in treacherous shoals Thus consts and interiors alike were admirably adapted for and did become the haunt and refuge of the lawless—the savages, the smuggler and the pivate—alt of whom frequented these parts unmo lested, earrying on their depredations far and wide, On the east coast of America and on the Spanish main, we read tl Captain Kidd was pirate Kking, but here on the west coast of Florida, which now we have good reason to expect will soon be come the garden spot of the world, and where we now see fair and prosperous cities spring mto being; here, I say, was the headquarters of a pirate chicf, who, Judging by the following narration, sur. passed 1n daring and o cruclty all that I have ever he: aseribed to Captain Kidd. My informant was an ancient negro named Antonio Pepino, who died in Tallahassee at the age of 117, shortly after the late . His own his tory and recollections would fill & good d volume. He was born in the isiand amaica, and at the age of sixteen {0 a British officer, who was ed there. On the breaking out of the war of independence, Antonio accompanied his master to this continent, taking part in- numerons engagements, among others that of Bunk ill. At the close of the war he to the south, finally taking up his abode at St. Augnstine, When there he entered the service of the Spanish governor of the fort, who so far trusted Kim as to employ himin car- ing dispatches between there and the Fort of St. Marks, a service ot considera- ble responsibility and attended with con sle danger at that unsettled sarely Tallahs to the discoye nothing to ys, old Autonio could tell now storm, the severest he ever ex- perienced, which, in 1802, overtook him on one oceasion, between St. Augustine nnld St. Marks. But to return to our tale. He deseribed traveling by land and by Se ingerons in the extreme. On his frequent journeys (generally made on horseback) he had to beware of hostile Indians, and also the buec ) who did not confine their operations to the 1 only, but it was well known that 1 stations some distanee from the , 50 well fortified by nature and art as to be well nigh impenatrable. _ According to Antonio’s tale, the notor- ious pirate emef alluded to above hac such a stronghold on the shores of Gor- don’s bay, only accessible through a se- cret pas or canal cut by the pirates through the outside peninsula. Curionsly enough, while surveying there a fosw weeks ago, we came upon this canal, which leads through the side of the town of Naples to a deep natural basin beyond. ‘he basin beyond, sheltered and deen, a secure anchorage to the pir (, while the fort ashore could be ga risoned by the pirate crews. They found it good policy to ally themselves with th i then enraged at the ocen- paney of the Spaniards, and such an alii- ance proved most formidable, as the unfortunate governor at St. Augustine fonnd to his cost. In spite of the danger attendant upon the voyage between Cuba and the continent, he kept up constant communi- wtions with the port of Havana, and having hitherto alw: made the journey with safety, he was induced, at the earn- est soheitude of his young son and 1zuter, who at the time were nearly o , to let them start for the port of Hayana, Never wasa decision attended with more fatal conscquences, The pirate flotilla attacked the vessel in which wer the children, and after a short, sharp struggle, the ves: we! and the childrea taken prisoners Arrived at their stronghold on the ba the pirates deliberated as to the Lest y of turning the important eanture to ac- count. Summoning their Seminole allies to the council, they at last decided on the bold stroke of marching on Fort Augus- ALEXANDER DUMAS, SENIOR. An Interesting Sketch of tho Famous Au- thor, Who Was of African Descent. A MOST WONDERFUL His Early Struggles for Recognition of His Tal and the Final Trinmphs of His bition, Alexandre Dumas, the elder, was of Africandescent. He was born on July 24, 1802, in the village of Vilars-Coterets. i grandfather, a Fronchman, the Marquis de la Pailletr was governor of San Domingo, and married a negress named Tiennette Damas. The marquis returned to France, taking with him s son, a bright mulatto, the fatter of the subject of this sketeh, The young man took the name of his mother and entered the French army as a private soldier, and s00n rose to the rank of general of a i vision, He died, leaving his son with his widowed mother to n the best of lifé without money, Alexandre began his studies under the Abbe Gregoire, who, 1t is said, found it impossible to teach him arithmetie, and with great difliculty taught him a httle Latin, This was due to young Dumas’ craving for outdoor sport, which caused him. to neg leet his books, and not to stupidity At the age of cighteen he began the study of law in the oftice of u notary in his native village. Leuven, who was at that time in exile, resided 1n the village; he formed the acquaintance of Dumas, and, scemg that he was ambitious, ad- vised him to writé dramas. Dumag thought it was a good idew, and straight- way applied hunself. In ineredib short time three dramas were produ and were offered for sale to the directors of the Paris theatres, and were rejected by all. This did rot disconrage Dumas, however. His new acquaintance Leaven, returned to Pa and Dumns was anx ious to follow him. but the young author wus poor and could not pay the tare. He was determined, nevertheless, to see and know the actors of Paris, so he planned a pedestrian expedition in copartnership with a fellow clerk, who was also a ehild of impecuniosity with a vaulting ambiti- on, aftd both proceed to walk o Paris. Dumas and his partner carried each a gun, which they used to shoot game on their w I'hey were successful at shooting, and the game they brought down t soid to a game dealer, and thus earned money enough to food and lodging slong their journcy When Dumas enter the great city his friend Leuven received him with open arms and gave him a ticket to hear Tah the then great actor, L Dumas was specially privile to go behind the scenes between the acts and converse with the actors. Talma saw him and at once pronounced him a wenius, and bade him return to his na tive vill: {enter his study, where the “angel of poesy’ would find” him Acting upon this wiviee Dumas retired to the vill he was born, and con- tinued dramas. He returned aris, He had a wother g cotmment Us of the CAREER. to some of the old gene few of whom received nim coldly, but General Foy ne four warm friend I'he general mtroduced him to the duke of Orleans, who wade him one of his secretari and him u salary of 1,200 frane tary to the duke, wre applicd hi self to the stady of Shi Scott, Goethe, and Schiller, n again to write | ome of which were brought out by several managers of thea- tres. His success as o writer scemed us sured to him, and he wrote for his mother to come to Paris, and the couple took up their residence in humble apartments in He is said to re- m- time © this, contrary to his expectations, his suceess was very poor He finally wrote a tr: that pleasea the director general of the theatres, who promised to bring it out, but before this was done, the director feft for the oast, and the person who took his place ret fused to have the play brought out. Du- mas complained; the censor asked him what he did for a living. Dumas re- ferred him to the duke of Orleans and 200 franes, whereupon he was told to his situation. next play was entitled “Henry ., and was brought out under the pro stion of the duke of Orleans. It was very successful, and he received for it the sum of 50,000 francs. This was quite {a lift for Dumas, and he, in con moved from his humble lodgings tine, and ealling on the governor to sur- render. In the event of his refl 2, (lm‘y would threaf to put his children to death. Little did llu‘e’ know the stern stuft’ of which that old soldier was made. In front of the fortress walls, aceording to their plans,theytirst produced the girl, and threatened to destroy her if their demands were not complied with. The staunch old governor replied that he would “hold the fort.” Bahled for the time they again came forward, this time with the son, who, they believed was his father's favorite child; still the governor refused ‘They then had te resort to torture. In tull view from the ramparts the mis- creants led out their eaptive, and tightly binding round his head the knotted cord, through which was traversely thrust the hyr of a pistol, they deliberately pro- ceeded to thrust this round as alever, cord cutting through the skin into the skull.” The eams of the victim ¢ heard within the fort as he implored his father to yield. But no, the governor would not treat with them ata Sorely tried as he must have been he doubtless knew that no de- pendence could be placed on any treaty made with such treacherous and eru s, Had he yielded, the probabil- that his submission’ would simply nthe torture and massacre of his whole command. I zed at his persiztent refusal, the ased the pressure of the ligature that the boy fell lifeless in the hands of his tormentors, It was after rds found that the skull was actually fractured. Madaened by the sight. the heading the défenders, made sally from the fort, routing the and Indians, who broke for the leaving the dead body of the son, oily, carrying ofl’ with them hapless girl, Protonged but fruitless was the chase after the fiendish of Too well they ¢ the and in deep UTSUCES T ods, but, the the pirates on Gordon’s bay, but il too late. ‘Uheir stronghold was sbandoned, and the poor capture rl no more was seen or heard ofl, Such was the tale negro witness those ents, old of 10- the as told by the and participant and hard it is quict waters of !ly lanc to realized that midst these sc air, such bloody decds were done, and 8t such a recent date [The old canal ent across the beantiful gite scleeted for the future city of Naples and the slight remains of the old fort, i all that is [oft to Lus of its for occupuncy by the daring buceancers Who knows but that the treasures of this second Captain Kidd yet lie buricd along the line of this old canal!---Editor Taila- took up his abode inthe rue de 1" Uni sity, where ho lived in elegant spending his moncey as freely as it After the of “‘Henry 1ML bronght “Christine,” a play that was on cted, which also had a big suceess. After the French revolution he brought out his dr: Bonaparte'' and that ¢ then followed other p! rger Dumas's income grew the vagantly he lived. He built famous Villa Moy it to Frs nore ex: f at St. Germain h Cristo. He broug iteets from Algiersto decorate, at a g expense, one room in the villa after the fashion of the east, and put them under obligations in the form of a binding con- et not to execute & similar design in Europe, ‘There wero twelve reception rooms in his house. e kept birds, par- rots, monkeys, and a fine breed of horses. From 1545 to 1816"he issued sixty volumes which gfound ready market at enormous profits. A theater was built especially production of his play e vis ited Spain and Africa, taking with him his son Alexandre, jr.. who now lives in Previous to his death Dumas ex pressed a desire to visit the United States but he did not like to be reminded b prejudiced minds that he was a descend- ant of an African, ——— Apparently Texas has 4 genuine casc wild man. He appeared perfectly aked, carrying an ax, and chasing rson he saw, He laughed “a rse dwngi,” and, straddling w floated down the Dublin river, yelling and Janghing. Thatnighthe was capturned 1n a fodder house and now lies in the Fort Worth jail YIELDS 10 EVERY MOVEMENT OF THE WEARER. Owing to e BIAUONAL KEANENITY of the cloth (whieh Alexander H. Stevens, | hasscean.