Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1887, Page 13

An 014 Veteran's Visit to fpits Made Bacred by the Blood of Brothers. THE PEOPLE'S PROGRESS. ' Two luteresting Letters From One Who Wore the Blue--A Land of Promise to Men of Indus- try and Enterprise, ArrrssuRre, Tenn., July 12.—|Corre- spondence of the Bee]--In order that my stewlve-year-old boy might ap- preciate the fact that a ‘“‘government of tha people, by the people and for the people,”’ costs something, [ brought him to this famous battle ground to show him where his ‘‘paternal father' skipped through the woods, a distance of two miles, in company with 40,000 other blue- eoats, one hot Sunday afternoon in April 1802, with “our friends, the enemy,” in lose pursuit, yelling like demons and banging away atus with muskets and artillery i1n o very reckless fashion, Charge—charge everywhere. The road, cut through the brush in order to rush Buell's artilicry up the hill from the steamboat landing Is grown up with “n]m‘i! of oak, hick- ory and chestnut ten inches through. The hill where stood a log building oc- supied a8 a sutler store, where we used 10 pay 25 cents each for dried apple pies, 18 now included in a ten-acre tract used for a national cemetery, beautifully platted and trimmed like a garden, and the scars of shot and shell on forest trees have disappeared beneath the new wood- fibre,nature has woven silently butsurely during these many years. OFL, the cutting and tearing of human flesh, the crashing of human bones, the roar of artillery, the rattle of musketry, the shouting, the cursing, the shricking and yelling witnessea on that bright Sun- day = in 62 on these wooded knolls and in these pleasant val- leys! Eighty thousaud men striving to slay an maim each other, one fourth of their number being killed and wounded before the fray was ended, And for what? To-day I walk over the battle ground with men who fought with John- ston, and Beaurcgard, and Bragg, and Hood, and hear nothing but expressions of good-will and high regard for the union soldier; only a desire for the peace and prosperity certain to follow a better acquaintance and a mingling of interests between the two sections. The talk of disloyalty in the south is the talk of blatant politicians who have no other stock in trade. The southern people, financially ruined by the war, returned to desolated homes and devastated fields, took up the burden of life under circum- stances of appalling discourage- ment, and fought for years to ob- tain the barest necessities, with the same courage and endurance they exhibited during the war—and those qualitics never shone brighter in any people since the days of creation, Only an ignoramus or a coward could find it in his heart to add to the difficulties the southerners have had to contend with during the past twenty-tive years, by seeking to oppress them politically or in any other way. The National cemetery contains less than 4,000 graves,ncluding dead brought from hospitals at other points. ‘I'he fed- eral loss in killed and wounded at the battle was over 13,000, and a large num- ber died in hospitals here and in the ad- vance on Corinth, which occupied thirty days, under the immortal Halleck, who did not possess ability to manage an army, and who was too jealous of Grant to ailow him the chance, The site of the old Shiloh church is now occupied by a new building, within 200 ards of which is another of the same denomination, Methodist, and there are also two Baptist church buildings on _the battle tield, all having fair congregations aa o size, and supporting large Sunday schools, A railroad from Corinth to Pittsburg Landing is likely to be built this year, and would prove of vast importance to section of the country. The Tennessee river supports a good steamer traflic now, which would be largely increased by railroad connections. There is a fine chance here for the man who “knows how to keep n hotel” and is socking a 'ocanom Fine beef cattle can be bought in this country by the thousands at from $5 to $15 per head, and the mash which covers the ound in the fall would fatten immense oves of hogs at a trifling additional ex- pense. Good land can be bought at from P to $15 per acre, on easy terms. Fruit s grown to perfection _in this portion of the state, and the mild winters enable the farmers to work the year round, and reduces the expense of feeding stock to avery small sum. Snappy, energetic northern farmers would be heartily wel- comed, and letters of inquiry addressed to W. C. Meeks & Co., Pittsburg Land- I.E' Tenn., will be promptly answered. The northern people devoted four years to devastating this region, and 1t is their duty (and it will be to their financial in- terest) to helv in huildm} it ONN FROM CORINTH, CoriNTH, Miss., July 18.—[Corre- l‘wflndence of the Bre.]—In 1862 and 1803 1 spent eighteen months of time in this town, with several thousand other northerners, and have not seen the place since until to-day. Straying about the suburbs this afternoon trying to locate oluts once very familiar, and halting in nt of a comfortable looking house, a middle-aged man sitting on the porch fnvited me in and after some con tion I learned that his name was S| and that he BeLL, P, was major of the Lhirty-first Tennessea infantry during the war, When I told him that 1 had porved nearly four years in the Second Towa infantry and was trying to locate the position our regiment occupied dur- ing the second day of the battie of Cor- Inth, he “warmed up" at once and laced himself and team at my service Jor the remainder of the day. He also Introduced me to Dr. Loung, an old resi- dent who was a confederate surgeon dur- ing the war, and who procured the pho- tographs to illustrate Roscrans' paper on Corinth and Grant's paper on Shiloh, published in the Century. Bince the days of the federal occupa- tion of Corinth time has marked great ohanges here, a heayy growth of timber taking the place of the extensive clear- ii made, first by the confederates, and l'zl'ud by our own forces. The old lines of fortitications have been leveied in many blaces, and the growth of the town contributes to the changed appear- ance wrought in the past twenty-four eurs. Howcver, the outlines of battery binette are still distinetly wvisible, where Colonel Rogers, leadio, a exnis troops, made one of the most dosper: ssaults of the war,losing his own life and having his commund al- most annihilated. That charge was made in plain view from the position our regi- ment then occupied, and was a most thrilling signt. Colonel Rogers was buried near where he fell, and his grave is marked with a high 'mliug fence. It should be endorsed with a monument of marble in honor of the wonderful cour- age there displayed by himself and his heroic followers. Major Sharp is a fair sample of the men composing the confederate army. From the beginning to the close of the war he. tramped through Tennessee, Leorgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Ala- sma whenever his command was or- tered, and when peace caweo he was left steanded in Greng ., steapped, houseless and homeless. The hat bought just as the war closed he paid $150 for and teaded it to a Union soldier for one which cost the latter a dollar and a haif, and got the best of the bargain, For calico enough for two shirts he paid #8300 in greenbacks after he got in_shape to earn something, He took hold of the first work he could find and has been working ever since. Now he owns 400 acres of land, n com- fortable home, mules and farming im- plements, and has a fine family of boys Bll‘l‘flrlfl. All this in a country devas- tated by both armies for vears, and with nothing but his bare hands to start with, But a large share of his success he doubt- less owes to hie wife, a good looking sen- sible woman who sat by his side this af- ternoon on a spot where lead and iron left death and anguish in_their path twenty-four years ago last October, and spoke of the sufferings endured by the southern people during those tirst dread- ful years when they were trying to ac- commodate themselves to a wonderfully changed condition of things. “So many northern people continue to find fault witi us,” she said. “Weare all flud that slavery 18 done awny with, and we are ready to welcome northerners here at any time. We have no trouble in getting ulong with those. who were 1n the Union army, for they can appreciate the situation we were left in by the war. Not long ago a party came down from the north and spent several days here. The citizens entertained them as pleasantly as possible and the visitors thanked us over and over again when they started In a few days newspapers were here with accounts of the visit, idiculed and snecred at, the writer saying that young ladies offered to sell the northerners’ battle field relics--bullets and brass buttons ‘with hens on,’ meaning omcrr"s buttons with eagles stamped on them.' Cheap lands, admirably adapted to fruit raising, can be had here at from $1 to ®15 per acre, the price last named in- cluding _improvements of considerable 1e. This section abounds in the linest ber in the world, and corn and cotton staples which produce fine returns. A junction of the Memphis & Charleston and Mobile & Ohio roads furnishes abundant railway facilities, to be in- creased by a proposed new line to Birmingham, Ala. The men who once wore blue clothes ana camped 1n the beanutiful groves surrounding the town would all find & hearty welcome if they would locate here and assist in bnilding up industries they were once so swift to destroy. This region bristles with op- portunities for ren of svml) and ente) prise. The people are thrifty and inte gent, and northerners who are casting about for new locotions would do well to come here. J.T. B. e s SINGULARITIES. A white woman with three black babie was a recent sight on the streets of Pekin Illinols. Sheriff Gosling of Vernon county, Wis., killed a rattlesnake that weighed seven and a half pounds and carried twelve rattles. Lizhtning struck Miss Adeline Slaton, of Augusta, Ga., and deprived her of her voice, but did not sorlouslr injure her, Two red spots on her left cheek showed whera the electricity entered. Since she was struck Miss Slaton has not been able to say a word. A Freuchman recently rode into Water- ville, Me., drivlngn big ~ Newtoundland dog hitched to a small two-wheeled cart, which the animal had hauled inside of three days from a town in Canada, a distance ot about 150 miles. The owner said the doz could out- trip in a day’s journey the best of horses. A medical journal savs that the body of Ed- ward 1, who died in 1307, was found 463 years afterward a little ~wasted but not decayed. Cantus died in 1017, but his body was fresh in 1708, as were those of _William the Con- querer and his wife in 1552, Three Roman soldiers disinterred from a peat moss near Aberdeen, Scotland, were found but little changed after 1500 years, Lightning struck” the chimney of Willis Crusman’s house,at South Clarksville, Tenn. Yosged down into the bed-room and shocked illis and his wife, who were sleeping there, killed a dog which lay at the foot of the bed, darted out through the kitehen into the hen roost and completed its work by killing seven chickens. The chickens were picked e“"r“{ clean of feathers, the skin being left smooth and white. Lightning struck Charlie Spencer, a littla Milwaukee boy who was fishing in the lake from the government breakwater, and killed him Instantly. The electricity entered his breast and passed down his left lez and out throuch the shoe on his left foot, leaving a faint line as if traced by a blue pencil, to mark its course. 'T'he suit of clothes he wore was cut clean in two, that on his left side be- ing stripped off from his body. The following cases of longeivity are re- corded in Russia: A woman named Sophia Masluchenoff has just died at Kharkoff at the age of 152, Upto the time of her death she enjoyed good health, and had an excel- lent memory. A medical man, practicing at Novo Bslarzet, writes to the V that there is a peasant of the name of Mamed in the village of Belok Mazra who is now about 122, as good health and very fair evesight. He is an exceedingly good walker. In his mouth are five sound teeth. In boring a well on the farm of Mrs, Sarah Williams, some five miles south of says the Sun of that city, J. C. who has the farin rented, stru piece of woad at a depth of 160 teet. The wood brought up by the augur was in an ex- cellent state of paeservation, and was rro- nounced “all oak.” This placeis onlv fifty feet above the sea level, so that the wood is 120 feet below the ocean’s surface, If it was sunk there when this valley was a lake or an arm of the bay, it was in pretty deep water* How long since this piece of wood wasin a growing tree? ‘I'ne valley, of course, has grown, but without some convulsion of na- ture the growth has been slow—not, perhaps, over one foot per century. Then has it been 17,000 years since this oak tree grew? In the shadow of the Intinite thisis not long, but, measured by the history of man, it is indeed a long space. — ——— PEPPERMINT DROPS. A newspaper has been_started in Kansas under the name ot ‘The Soap Box. It ought to be a clean sheet. When an Awherst (N, H.) farmer wants to lasso any cattle he borrows the name of the Quoquinnapassakessananagnog house and usea‘n for a lariat, “Do you have good drinking water?” asked a stranzer in Kentucky. ‘*‘Guess it's pretty good,” replied the native; ‘‘never seems to hurt the horses and cattle.” One swallow does make a summer, as every one knows. It may also be further stated that often an entire glass of soda- water doesn’t make one swallow. ‘This is the season of the vear when the country boarder eats salty ham and drinks blinky milk and has narrow escapes from mad bulls and playful folls. and imagines that he is recuperating his ed energies. **Say, didn't you tell me when you sold me that dog that he was a bird dog?’ “Yes, that is what I said.” ~ “Well, you swindled me. That dog won’t hunt.” “I didn’t say he would hunt. He's a bird dm‘f, Cook the birds for him. ~ That’s the way he likes them best.” Architect—Have you any speclal fea- in the designs eybags—H’m ! not particular, Only 1 must have the two halis that 1 hear so much ab.ut nowadays, Architect lllll'\\lrillllh’{—lha two halls? Mr. Moneybags—Yes, the long hall and the short hall, doncherknow, Mistress—Nora, 1 would like to have you wear this cap. Nora O'Dowd—A cap is it? A cap you're wantin’ me to wear? One uy thim things loike a dolly shtuck oun the top uv me heaa! Sure the next thing you'd be axin’ me to be coachuman for the baby: I'd as lave be drivin’ a pix to the market wid a rope o his leg as do the loikes o' that, An editorfof a country paper having been invited to a pic nic on the day when his paper had to 20 to press, called the bo{ who set the type and said: “‘Tom, I'm golng away to- 4(1\3' and haven't time ' to 5st out any more copy. ‘Take my article headed ‘Party Organ- ization’ and run 1t in again, putting over iy ‘Republished by re(\mm.’ ‘That will save considerable time and you can go to press at once.” When the editor returned from the icnic and took up a copy of his paper, he Kecnmu justly indlgnant upon reading the following: “Party Organization. Repub- lished by request of the editor.” AN INNOCENT AT THE RACES A Young Wifs Disobeying Her Lord's In- Junction Makes a Big Winning MISERY OF SLENDER WOMEN. The Vanderblit Lawn—Potted Mes- senger Boys—Qucen Kapiolani's Paristan Modes—Clara Belle's Lotter. New York, July 14.—[Correspondence of the Bee.|]—Everybody knows how horse talk invades the dining room and parlor at home. The men bring 1t in trom the club and takeit with them to the office. But sometimes a portion of it stays behind and is eagerly rolled over the tongues of the girls of the family. A young bride was calling with a friend, and at more than one house found other friends who had been to the races. En- trancing were the stories they told of backing the winners. Now our bride, Louisa, had never been to the races in her life. and that very night she asked her husband if he would not take her. “‘Now who has heen putting that into your head?” asked John brusquely. “Why, I don't know, John, dear,” said Louise, ‘‘but everybody seems to go and Iwantto. I wantto back the winners.” The next scene is at Sheepsh Bay. Three races have been run, and Louise is intensely interested, not only in events, but the scenes uround her. She has kept her eyes open, and has noticed that la- dies near her send money away in the hands of boysin uniform, and that the boys return with tickets, which the ladies put in their bags. She Las pleaded with her husband to let her bet just once on a race, but he has forbidden it so sternly that 'she dares not speak of it againe But John has left his seat after each race,and not returned until the next one is about to be run. In her innocent little head has crept the idea that John is betting on the races, and she longs to know what his fortune has been, By the time the third race has been run, she has grown mto a fever of excitement over a project which she wanted to execute. She would take advantage of his absence and bet for herself secretly. John looked very dark at the conclusion of the third race and ground his teeth us he aLswere: to his wife's 1mno- cent question that he had rather hoped such & horse would win for he knew the jockey. ‘‘Heis telling a white lie,” thought bright Louisa, “and I will fict even with him.” But it seemed as if ohn would never fe( up and disappear as he had before. In fact John was won- dering whether he would take a final plunge with what he had left. He de- cided that he would go out to the betting pavillion at all events and see how the odds were running, and it was unneces- sary to say that he plunged. As soon as he had gone, Louise was thrown into a rage of excitement and doubt. The color mounted hot to her cheeks, and her heart thumped like a typewriter, as with a su- preme impulse she beckoned toa boy. IT WAS THE LAST CHANCE, **Here,"” she exclaimed,producing some bills from her purse, “‘take this and bet it for me.” *Who on?’ asked the boy, stoldidly re- ceiving the money and ~counting it. There were thirty dollars. “Oh dear?” whispered Louisa, ““I don't know anything about horses. You know, don’t you?" ‘*Well, said the boy scratching his head, “‘they are giving two to one on Ichi Ban and f1x to one on Pocomoke, but I think it's a race for a short horse mysalf."’ “*But can a short horse run as fast asa long one?" asked Louise 1n surprise. “Well,” said the boy, ‘“‘that depends but [ am backing Ovid and you can get fitteen to one on him.” “Well, well, hurry along and do what you think best, only put it somewhere and don't let anybody know. ‘“The boy_disappeared, and presently John came back. She looked at him fur- tively to see if he suspected anything,but John's face was like that of ‘a Sphinx. The boy returned, too, and slipped a piece of paper into Louisa’s hand with- out uur:\c\in(; attention, She hastily thrust it into her purse, feeling wofully fiuill_}h The race run and it would e hard to say which was the more ex- cited. When it wasover, John sad awk- wardly: ‘'Louise, you brought some money on the track with you, didn't you?'’ ~ “'Yes, dear,” she replied faintly, feeling that now the storm was coming. “[ guess you better let me have it,” he said; ‘‘to tell the truth I have got rid of mine. A friend told me that n race was coming a certain way, he wanted me to back it, —and—I did so, and it's gone wrong,you know;such things will happen sometimes,’”’ and his courage rcturned as he got the confession out of his mouth, Louise trembled. ‘I haven't got the money, John,” she faltered, *I—I—spent it.” “The devil you did! exclaimed John, ungallantly; “humph! I'd like to khow how we are going to get home, to say nothing of naving anything to eat,” and he relapsed into silence. Louisa felt all the sorrow and anguish of a penitent, It took more nerve than it had to bet her money to put her hand in her bag, produce her ticket, and pass it to John, saying faintly: ‘“‘Perhaps this is worth something. They might give you back the money if you told them about it. John did not hear the last part of her sentence. He was staring hard at the bit of pasteboard, and all he could say was, “How in thunder did you come to play that horse Then, before Louise could say a word, he turned upon her, held the card before her face and ex- claimed: ‘‘Have you the slightest idea how much this is worth?'’ *No,” she an- swered, repressing a sob, "I didn't mean to, and I won't do itagain;I won't, truly, and I don’t want 10 come to the races again.” “Well,” he assented, ‘I don’t think you better, for this pfny was about the most absurd that could be made, but it just happens that this particular ticket is Worth #3101 g They had a pretty good dinner. The messengers who bplace bets for Iadies &t the race tracks ought to make GOOD INCOMES FOR BOYS. but it is altogether possible that they do not, for they are invariably persistent gamblers., The fees they get from lucky women are oftentimes extravagantly gen- erous; and even if the fair gamblers are not lucky, the boys are likely to come in for something. The regular attendents, women I mean, have their favorites among the boys, and condescend to smile upon them in a way that they would not use toward any other class of servants, This perhaps is natural enough at the grand stand, where much depends upon the faithfulness, promptness and honest of the messenger, but it extends mucl further, and many a full grown boy, whose blushing cheek 1s dark with a com- ing beard, is overwhelmed with atten- tions on the way home. For with the end of the races, and the cashing of winning tickets, the boys' duties are done, and they go off on the same train with the spectators. I rode to the city in the same car with two women who had gambled luckily on the day's events. No sooner had they reached the train than they looked about with apparent anxicty for that ‘little messenger,” and when a five-feet-ten young fellow with a white cap appeared they seized upon him and made him sit beside them. Presently another wessen- ger who had served them came into view, wnd he also was made to sit with them, one on each side. The women lean their heads over to the boy in their ears, cajoled them, and eyen be- stowed caresses on them, Other boys in the car looked on and grinned. They bad had the same experien nd Jooked upon it as ons of the amenities of the business. What do they say fo them? Oh, they talk hi , review the events of the day, wisely conclud that they would have done better to bet differently upon the race in which they backed the loser, and ask the boys' opinions upon horses and ockeys. Further than that they tell the oys what dear fellows they are,and how much they will do for them if a few more days of good luck shall follow soon, All of which the boys take in with apparently eager interest, sure that; if the vague or indefinite promises are not fultilled,large tips may be expected om the morrow,dur- ing the first race at least, To go through Fifth avenue in July is to see a strangely diversitied thorough- fare. The wealthy families are all away and their houses are dark. Many front dors are boarded over, and pains are taken to show beyond a doubt that the premises are unoccupied. Along with these shut baildings are scattered a score of club houscs, which are contrast- ngly wide open—practically doorless and sashless, for everything is made free to the entrance of the faintest zephyr of mitigating air. The several hotels on the avenue are lively spots, too, for the summer transient business is good with them, and the guests swarm to the fronts. The curious July exposure, how- ever, is of the extent of boarding houses in Fifth avenue. Some of the intensely stylish ~ ones are closed, for their residents have gone to the country resorts, but the establish- ments devoted to the lodging and feeding of midling prosperous people, principally bachelors, are much more numerous than might be supposed, and on the door- steps of these, on hotevenings, the board- ers lounge with a s disregard of the unwritten Fifth avenue law against sit- ting in the uestibule, The Astor and Vanderbilt residences might be vaults for the dead for all the life that they show. The block of man- sions erected by the late William H. Van- derbilt, and now the homes of his widow, two bachelor sons and two married daughters ave utterly deserted except by a complement of watchmen. But mght across the way is a Roman Catholic or- phan asylum, with about an eighth of an acre of greensward. It 1s understood that an annual and liberal donation from the Vanderbilts binds u sort of reciprocal treaty, under which the young paupers are kept out of this conspicuous lawn, and are sent to play in a rear yard. But the summer evidently is counted out, for the little ones daily tumble on the grass before the Vanderbilt windows, from which there are now no eyes to look und be offended. ? Hot weather has its humor even in a baked city., Passengers on the East Side elevated railroad are whirled closely past the gorgeous banners that hang on the tronts of the dime museums. Each has a fat woman pictured, of course, and in one instance the enormous bulk of hu- manity was newly inscribed: “The fat woman is suffering horribly from the intense heat. ~ Do not fail to see her. The sight of a hfetime. Doubtless those who find diversion in the tortured dogs in a pit, or in the mauling of pugilists in a prize ring, would be de- lighted by the misery of a quarter-ton woman in a temperature of 100, Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, has again been u sort of a side show at a Broadway hotel this week, and some of the few fashionabls folks left in town went to see her. She is a commonplace monarch, though perhaps not more so than Queen Victoria; but she puts on no airs with her good clothes and is distinctly amiable. She was indastriously fanning herself during my brief call, and a gush- ing rifth avenue girl said to her: “I'sup- pose that your majesty:doesn’t tind this weather uncomtortable, considering that your home is in the tropicss"’ “0, I do find 1t very hot indeed,’ was Kapiolani's reply, as she pulied up the loose sleeves of her dress a little; *‘it is ost unbearable.” comprehend,” gurgled the n; ‘‘our kind of clothes seem bur- densome to you.” In her unadvised imagination she pie- tured Kapiolani in the garbless state of A FIJI ISLANDER. The graciously informed her that modes prevailed at the Hawalian court. How do women whose extreme slender- ness forbids really thin clothes exist this weather? My heartiest sympathy goes out this morning to a young lady who went to Saratoga after spending the night with me, She is tall and slender, and always wears tailor-made gowns ot great accuracy of fit and style. She what they call willowy. Jennie's trayel- ing bag was perfect to look at. She had a sling sleeve wrap of ecru pongee, a material that s s _round and makes believe be cool. She had a pin-head, check-cloth, tailor-made dress and a love of a traveling hat of smoke colored ship with a crimson bird sitting on its ridge vole, surveyving the slanting sides of straw, that looked for all the world like & slated roof. Jennig was tired from her ride, and Emma and 1 helped her {nt off her things. 1 never was so shocked in my life as when 1 beheld the condition of that poor crea- ture. As I think of her on the hot, dusty cars, the tears come into my eyes. The dress walst was lined with thick twilled silk, and was boned till yoa couldn’t put your finger on the lnirg between the seams. It was padded over up into the shoulder like ~ tho front of a cav- alr; officer's cont. The sleeves ha two thicknesses of sheet wadding on the under side and one on top, between the check stuff and the silk lining. It was like looking into a gas pipe to gaze_down those dark little stuffed sleeves. I laid the waist on a chair on its back, and its shape remained as in hife, while the sleeves stuck up asf it was drowning and wanted a helpi hana, Attached to her dress skirt wus a massive panier to complete the stick-out. If ever a poor rack of a girl suffered for the sake of looking well it was that un- fortunate Jennie. When we got what there was of her out of that harness she sat down in a thin wru{)per to cool her bones by the open window, and we could hear them rattle as the wind blew in. Craia BELLE, i 2 Jay Gould and Jobn: L. Sullivan, Bill Nye: Jay Gould is* also a living illustration of what a yonng man may do with nothing but his :bare hands in America. John L. Sullivan and Gould are both that wav. Mr. Gould and Coio- nel Sullivan could go in Siberia to-mor- row—Ilittle as they are kmown there—and with a small Gordon press, a quire of bond paper and a pair of three penny- weight gloves they would soon own Si- beria, with a night of way across the rest of Europe and a first: morl;zrlnze on the Russian throne. A¢ fast as Colonel Suliivan knocked out & dynasty. Jay could come in and adminwter on the estate. T'his would be a powerful com- bination. It would afford us an oppor- tunity also to get some of those Russian hay-fever names and chilblains by red message. Mr. Gould would get a” good deal of money out of the transaction and Sullivan would get ozone. The Hotels Complain, r: The hotels com- plain that since the inter-state commerce aw became operative their patronage has fallen off twenty-five per cent. Emi- nent politicians who never paid a cent of railroad fare used to visit the city ut least once each week and patronize the hotels. Since the inter.state bill became a law these great statesmen have been so conspicuously absent as to render them sozial curiositics. Observation suggests that the seductive pass has gone for good, but just wait until the next legisla- | ture convenes. A Oountry Boy Who Has Developed Won- derful Power as a Medium, THE GHOST OF HEISER'S HILL. Tho Spirit of Mrs. Druse—He Gave Him a Great Scare—The Spirit World=Facts and Fancies. A Wonderful Medinm, Rutland correspondence of the Cincin- nati Enauirer: Meigs county, and this vicinity in particular, has been more or less excited for the past year and a half over the extraordinary spiritualistic abili- ties of & youny man inour midst. He is the son of a well-to-do farmer living in this township, whose honesty and integ- rity are vouched for by all who know him, This young man is twenty-seven years old, and has but an ordinary com- mon-school education. His health has been poor all his hife, and his mental condition 1s not generally regarded asup to the average. This is what makes his powers more wonderful. Mr. Forrest. the father, did not fora long time allow the publicto visit his son Presly as a spiritual medium; that is, he wished to be satisfied in lis own mind that the boy—for such heis mentally and ally s not laboring under some on. The young man’s mother was a medium at his birth, but she [ost what- ever power of the kind she had at that time. The father, however, has been somewhat of a skeptic until now. More than a year ago this young man began fo show signs of hav- ing power to see '“bevond the veil.” In the language of spiritunlists, he became “trance medium,”, and could convey messages from the de- parted ones “heyond dark Jordan's chilling waves” to those in the flesh. The descriptions given by spirits through him of the beauties of the “Great Beyond” were marvelous, and almost incompre- hensible to the ordinary haman mind. His reputation soon spr woad, and people from far and near came to see iim and learn what he could do. They were simply astonished, and went away fied. W mle under the control of a n Indian spirit he could dance and sing and tell the number of persons oun the opposite side of a solid wall of masonry and give minute deseriptions of articles of apparel and pocket picces of such persons. = The dancing feat is mos! remarkable, he can ‘scarcely walk when in his natural condition, both feet being deformed. His articulation 1s also very poor when not under the influ- ence, as it is termed. As to how he can see through a solid wall is simply unex- plamable. He is controlled by spirits, so claimed, who inhabitated all” parts of the earth when in life, and from all classes in so- ciety, Naturally he can hardly talk at all, but when under the intluence of the spirits of such men as W. H. Vanderbilt, late of New York, and our ¢ lamented Gartield, his appearance is altogether changed’. his flow of language 1s remark- able, and he assumes the bearing of one used to the higher associations of so- ciety. ‘This has been ket up from time to time, until the people think there is something in him., He does not make the usual loud professions of the travel- ing mediums, of whom the people about here have become suspicious. Being & country bey and not up to the tricks of the world, people regarded his ac- tions as honest, without any possibility of fraud. He is being more fully developed from day to day, and against the protest of his friends is'going out into the world this fall and winter to show the people what he can do. His father being rich, nat- jects to his going on exhibition, 2, bat the buy seems to be deter- mined to do so. So the spiritual believers of this coun- trv may expect to see something in that line in the near future that will” astonish them, to say the least. Spooks in Boston, Ghosts are yery much in style just at present, It is quite the fashion to be- ve them, and things supernatural fur- nish the chief topic of conversation in society. Nearly every person you meet is equipped with at least a half a dozen blood curdling yarns of spectral adven- ture, and the young women have srewsome experiences of their own to re- ate. For the growth of this extraordi- niry mania the Society for Spookical Research, as it is jocularly called, is chiefly responsible. The circulars it has distributed broadcast, calling tor testi- mony from private sources regarding metaphysical phenomena, have drawn popular attention to the subject, and the very children have given ub marbles and jack-stones for experiments in through transference and mind-reading. The most lmgortuut of several committes ap- pointed by the society is that which has for its object the investigation of appari- tions and haunted houses. This com- mittee has advertised extensively in the public prints for a house in or near Boston thatis guaranteed to be haunted, but so far not a single ghost has heen di: covered to supply the enthusiastic ge tlemen with instruction and amusement. Either there are no spooks whatever in the neighborhood, or else the people are unwilling to trot them out. At a little dinner party, given the other night by a member of the committee on apparitions, I chanced to be a guest. The conversation turned upon the usual topic, and a Mrs, G—— told a hair-cle- vating anecdote of a ghost she fell n with while visiting at a country house zs summer. There was a pressure for room and she was given a little chamber away up toward the roof, from which a door opened on a tlight of stairs that led to an empty attic above. About mid- night she was startled, half awake, by a distinet footfall on the steps. Another followed, and then another, as person were coming down from the loit slowlytand steathily, Presently they came to the bottom,and, by the light of a moon- beam that struggled through the window curtins, the terrified woman beheld the door slowly open, not wide, but until it stood. partially ajor. She could see noth- ing, and fearing to m‘*/ out, she bnried her head beneath the bed clothes, Again the door creaked, and the footfalls sounded lightly on the tloor,approaching the bed on tip-toe, 8o it seemed to her. They reached the side of her couch, and she felt a hand laid upon the sheet above her. It was lifted and replaced in another spot, as it to ascertain the shape of the person concealed beneath, and so on for two or three minutes. At length this ceased, and the footfalls turned, ap- parently to retreat. Then Mrs. G N rendered desperate by sheer terror, sat up suddenly i bed and looked to see who or what the intruder was. To her horror, rather than relief, there was no living thing visible. She still heard the steps crossing the floor, saw ‘the door open slightly and listened while the something de its way up, with caveful tread, to attie, but nothing whatever could be . though the moonbeam afores rave sufficient illumination. The ran shrieking from the room, and scending to the corridor below, fell faint- ing intothe arms of her benightzowned hostess. ‘The affair not_explained until the next morning, when it was dis- covered that the youthful heir of the es- tablishment had quartered a pet flying- squirrel in the loft, whence the httle ani- mal, by natare fond of human soeiety, bad descended to the chamber below. _ GREAT SPECIAL SALE of 20c and 25¢ DressGoods at ¢ Per Yard. On Thursday morning, July 21, 1887, we will place on sale the following special bargains in DRESS GOODS: Ten pieces Juliard's plainall-wool Buntings, in black, brown, navy blue, wine and green, worth andsold by all at 20¢ or 25¢ a yard, at 5c. Thirteen pieces Pacific and Arlington half-wool Brocades, in good assortment of shades, worth 25¢ at 5¢ per yard. Eight pieces half-wool Shepherd Plaids,cheap at 25¢, for 50 per yard, Eight pieces Etamine Half-Wool Suitings, good value at 20c, at 5¢ per yard. These goods are the best value we have ever offered in any special sale. Do not fail to be onhand at the date mentioned. If you wish to see quality and colors, send for samples, None of these goods will be sold until day of sale. THOMPSON, BELDEN & €0, 1319 Farnam Street. OFFICE DESKS! $10 to $7s. HOWE & KERR 1510 Douglas Street. (Opposite Leaping from step to step and across the floor or the room, it had jumped upon the bed, hopping from one place to another, until, frightened by some cause, it re- treated to 1is nest in the atlic. The Ghost of Heiser's Hill Globe-Democrat: *“Did you ever hear tell of the ghost of Heiser's hilly” * The question was asked b{) a g haired guard to whom a Globe-Democrat correspondent was talking about the ghostly inhabitants of the park. He had already tola the newspaper man of the peacock lady, the spectral man and the ghostly lion-tamer. In answer to his question the newspa- per man said he had not, and asked to lear the story. “‘No? Whr I thought n every one had heard about him. 's Hill § r's Hill is on the park near Ninetieth e, ser lived there in shanty long befol the vark was ht'of. They say he was a miser, had a big hoard of buried gold some e r his cabin, However that ¢ be, and I never heard that any one ever found any of it. Old Heiser lived entirely alone, never did a day’s work, yet always seemed to have money enough to buy groceries. One night he took poi- son, ~and besides, cut his throat from car to ear with a razor. Sev- eral days after a horrnid odor called the attention of some passers-by, and they went to the cabin door which they found unlocked,and after knocking some- time in_vain they found the old man's corpse_in the first stages of decomposi- tion with the worms crawling in and out of his nose and mouth. In his hand, still held tight witha death grip, was a lock of golden wavy hair, and an old fashioned silk mitten lay on the floor beside him. The mitten was made for a very small hand, and did not scem to have been worn much. No one at the time could explain where these things came from, but J'l1 tell you a story about them I've heard presently. Be that as it may, they were all the same; and what was still more strange, they were stoien the day they were found. Old Heiser was taken away and buried, but for some reason he can't rest in his grave, Nearly every night he can be seen up around the place where he used to live, hunting about for so hing he hasn't found yet, and don't scem likely to. Whether it is his buried gold, or the the little mitten and lock of blonde hair, is more than any one can say. have seen him often myself, but not of late, as I am uot assigned to that part of the park. But other men tell me he issii be seen hunting for something every night. ’ “Now and then a green man is put on the Heiser Hill beat; and it is tw y to one he comes in vefore long looking pale, and reports sick. The old men, like my- self, are used to Heiser, and some say he's good company, but I'd rather be alone formy part. Several years ago, while I was'on the Heiser Hill beat, a woman”asked me to point out to her the location of the old Heiser shanty. She was about seventy years old, I'should say, and well dressed, and seemed to be an ' out and out lady. She was tall, and, in spite of her age, walked with a great deal of style.” When I showed her the spot she sat down on a settee close by, and asked me to tell her all 1 knew about the old man. After telling her, she was very still tor a time, could see tears rolling out of her I asked her if she knew anything about the old man, and she said yes. She had known him many y when he was young; that he had dentally committed pslaughter an fled from his country, which was Ger- many, to escape the consequences. She had heard of the ghost and come to sce the spot. This was all 1 ever heard of the matter. 1 suppose she was the an who once owned the mitten and she did not b to the and h Mrs, Druse's Ghost, - ¢ ghost of Mrs. Roxalana Druse, the Herkimer (N, Y.) county woman who waa hanged for the murder of her b band, now pays nightly visits to the in which she was confined and frightens lers by moaning from miduight till dawn. Or 50 the jailers suy. He Gave Him a Great Scare, Wasminarox C. H., 0., July 1.—A story el | falcone of a genuine ghost is told by some of our citizens, and they say there is one man at least in'this world who knows he was ursued in a most hair-standing manner ard speeter on his white > Evans, who has long sinca passed away from earth, lost his wife a number of years ago and the remains were interred in Sugar Grove church _miles south of this said that Harve im- bibed somewhat freely of the intoxicating cup, 1 1t w his custom to visit his wife's grave almost every night, One dark and gloomy night he mounted a large white mare and started on his accustomed journey to the silent city of the dead. He reached the place, and tying his horse, he clambered upon the fence, where he sat for some time smok- ing his pipe. Presently a man on horse- back approached and just as he eame up to the graveyard where Evans and his white mare were, he saw the white ob: jeet through the darkr of the night, id the 1den of & _ghost at onco flashed nto his mind. With fright the terrifi and the way down the road through the iuky darkness was a cantion. Evans perceived that the fellow was flee- ing from a ‘ghost”” and he sprang upon the old white m and pur- sued the flymg ho Closer and closer he drew toward the stranger, who was making for Greentield ‘at a two-minute gait. The shouts of the man as he urged his horse to fl ven faster than before, were dis- tinctly heard. Now the frightened man hears the patter of the hoofs of the rapid- Iy pursuing steed _His position becomes appalling, and it is impossible even to imagine the terrors which crept through his very being. Finally the lights of the village of Greenficld appeared in sight, and the horrified man prayed that he might reach the town before his pursuer should overtake him. ans did not slacken his speed until the village sub- urbs were reached, when he was but a few paces behind the stranger, whose horse as well as himself were alinost ready to fall in the road. Evans said he gave him a great scare. AW The following story is Mrs. Lucy H. Hooper in the ’h Telegraph: Since we are on the of the supernatural, [ will here the very singular adventure of a who is a resident of the interior of Penn- sylyania. She was travelling in Europe, and while staying n London she dreamed one night that she was visiting prominent points of interest in that city in regular tourist fashion. But where- ever she went she was met by a peculiar looking man who invariably asked her the same question, *Are ¥ Go where she would, and do as she d, in every scene in her dream she met a8 true by adelphia the same man, and he always asked her his ever-recurring question. She was con- siderably impressed by this dream, and remarked to the ludy to whom she re- lated it that she never should forget the face of the man that had so persistently appeared before her. Time went on, she returned to the United States, and went to pay a visit to one of the large cities, stopping at the most noted hotel of th Sh lodged on one of the i vent down stairs to by after her arrival, Att ast she wentto the elevator and with the purpose of returning to her room. She was the only person in the elevator, and the man in charge of it, before startingt, turned to her with the question: “Are you ready”” Struck by these words ‘the looked at the man, and instantly panized the hero of her singular dream. She was siezed at once with a vague and causcless ter ror, and eric me out—you must Jet me out!” The elevator heing already in motion, no release wis ssible till had reached the fivst floor. She hur ried out of it and closed the door, the man started it to descend, and instuntly the elevator and its unfortunate gnide fell with a crash to the cellar. The poor man was instantly killed, and the strange dream had probably saved the dreswmes from a similur fate, W in| of her re entered i