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Fort Worth Daily Democrat-Advance.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1882
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Books and Stationery
Toys, Musical Instruments of all Kinds. -
PROFESSIONAL.
GAYESTON.
printer’s
Fixtures,
Stationery,
Blank Books,
Etc.
pianos and Organs,
At Prices That Cannot be Competed With,
JUS! RECEIVED,
J. C. TERRELL,
Attorney at Law.
Office: Up stairs, corner Main and
First street.
Sturt-rooms, offices and residences to
rent, anti lots to sell or lease. Agent for
for College Hill Addition. 1-22-tf
VVm. Stedman, N. A. Stedman.
IStedinan & Sou, and
W. H. Pope,
Attorneys and Counsellors tat Law.
Office: Corner First and Main, over
Bairadall's Drug Store.
1-11-tf FORI WORTH, TEXAS.
Fayette Kirk,;
R. S. Tarver.
IQRK & TARVER,
Attorneys % Law,
BREN HA Vi,
TEXAS.
A. P. McKinnon.
E. O. Cail.
A Car load of smooth and excellent eating
Potatoes in Sacks.
ALSO THE
lew York Early Hose for Seed.
Yud a <ar load of Choice Apples. Also a big shipment of Oranges, at
BATEMAN & BRO.3’
union ciu,
Attorney-at-Lai and Land Agents,
HILLSBORO TEXAS.
We have a complete and perfect ab-
stract ot titles to all surveys of land in
Hill County.
Special attention given to Commercial
and Land Litigation. 35-tf.
John D. Templeton, A. M. Carter.
JTEMPLETON & CARTER,
LAWYERS,
Rear Office—Over Tidball, “VanZandt &
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Nos. 27 and 29 Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas.
Co’s Bank.
FORT WORTH,
TEXAS.
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Agents for Anheuser’s Bottled Beer,
NO. 15. HOUSTON STREET.
PORT WORTH, TEXAS.
JULIA A. BRADY, M D.,
110 MCE PATH.
Office and residence Rusk and Four-
teen th streets.
Consultation free. Special atten
paid to ladies and children’s diseases, tioc
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W. W. ROUTH.
? H0MCE0PATHIST
Frank Crosby Lost in tks Gulf—Suicide
a of Prominent Citizen.
Special to the Democrat-Advance .
Galveston, To;., Feb. 1,1882.
At noon, Sunday, Fi.uik Crosby, a well
known ship carpenter, employed by A.
Aiiison, contractor for getting oft the
schooner Perry, which lies stranded on
the Pelican spit. left the city with a com-
panion in a small Doat for work. the
wind was blowing a stiff gale from east-
ward at the time, and the water ot the
bay was quire rough. In order to reach
the place where the Perry lies the botr
had to be at the windward. The last
seen of the boat; was about six o’clock
Sunday evening, when she was still buf-
fets iog with the wind and waves, and had
not reached the wreck. Mr. A. Aiiison
visited the wreck last evening, when the
man in charge informed him that neither
Crosby or his companion had put in an
appealance. Nothing has been heard of
their hoar, and it is feared the boat w as
capsized and its occupants drowned.
Hopes are entertained that the wind ma>
have forced it into the upper bay, aud the
erew may yet turn up ail right. Mr.
Crosby is a native ot Boston, but for the
past five years has been a resident ot Gal-
veston; is married and has three children.
The name of the companion has not yet
been ascertained.
Between five and six o’clock this morn-
ing Thos. O. Shearer, a native of Selma.
Alabama, aged fifty-three years, Secretary
•if the Wharf Company, and a resident oi
Galveston for more than a quarter t-f a
century, committed suicide in the dining
room of his residence on Winn street, be-
tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-filth
streets, by shootiug himself w ith a re-
volver through the left nipple. No cause
can he assigned for the act. Mr. Shearer
had a fine position, and his personal ana
social relations were of the most pleasant
■haraeter. He has been much depressed
in spirits for several months past, and ex-
pressed a fear ot becoming incapacitated
for business, and thus become unable to
provide for his family. He had also ex-
pressed the conviction that his depression
might cause him to commit suicide. Mr.
Shearer was a member of the Masonic
order and will be buried by that orgauiza-
uou. He leaves a wile and a daughter
just grown, and a son about twenty years
of age, and several other children.
LAREDO.
General Trevino Arrives in the City, and is
Heartily Welcomed.
CONGRESSIONAL.
ENNIS.
Detective Joe Forsythe Fatally Shot by
Charles Moore.
Office, No. 13 Main street. Residence, Wes*
Teird street, second door west of Burnett.
Fort Worth., Texas.
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CINCINNATI OFFICE,
120 Second Street.
First National Bank j, y, WILKES
Corner Houston and Second Streets,
LIVERY STABLES.
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Cor. JJusI* tiu(I Second Sts.,;
FORT WORTH,
TEXAS.
CAPITAL.......................................................-...............$100,000
STTPUPLTTS.........:.............................................................. 20,000
M B LOYD. PRKSIDAKT,
OFFICERS:
D. C, BENNETT, Vice-V&imdknt,
GEORGE JACKSON, Cashisi
DIRECTORS:
J S Godwin,
M B Loyd,
Jus. D. Read,
■Jas. Wails Ins ,
D.C. Bennett,
Geo. Jackson,
J. Q. Sandidge.
.Transact a General Banking Business.
.
JOHN NICHOLS,
Vice-President.
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A. M. S3.ITTON,
President
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B. VT. LOMAX,
Cashier
ITY
Bank
N ational
OF FORT WORTH,
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $162,500.00.
DIRECTORS
JOHN NICHOLS.
J. T. WILKES l CO.,
Cor. ItusSs and Fourth Sts,
The best Horses, Carriages, Bug
gies and Phaetons in the City.
Careful Drivers and Qsod Offilers
7-8- tx
J. i. HARRISON & SON
Special to the Dkmochat-Advance.
Ennis, Texas, Feb. 1,1882.
A.most sensational shooting affair oc-
curred hereabout nine o’clock tonight,
m which Joe Forsythe, one of the most
vvideiy known detectives, and recently a
deputy United States Marshal,was fatailj
siiot by Charles Moore. Both had been
Winking, and an old feud was revived
early in the day. To-night the parties
met in a saloon and commenced, a vio-
lent quarrel. They were ordered out. For
-lythe called to Moore to ‘ come out and
fight me like a rnan on the streets.”
Moore fired two pistol shots, and For-
sythe three, without effect. Moore-
stepped in the saloon and gave
iris pistol to his brother Benjamin. The
ratter fired two shots, and received three
n exchange, none taking effect. By this
rime Charles Moore returned with a shot-
gun, and discharged one barrel, the load
of buck-shot taking effect in the right hip,
'.high and lower part of Forsythe’s body,
breaking the hip bone and literally tear-
ing His private part* out. Moore was ar-
rested, and taken to the county jail at
Yaxahachie. Physicians say that For-
sythe cannot recover.
AUSTIN.
Special to the Democrat-Ad /anok.
Laredo, Tex., Feb. 1,1882.
General Trevino and staff arrived by
pnyate conveyance at the terminus of the
Mexican Central Railroad yesterday even-
ing, and was there met by the geueral
manager ot the road, accompanied by a
large delegation of the civil and military
authorities of Laredo, and escorted him
on a special train to the city. At night
ue was serenaded by the Laredo band, and
called upon by the citizens generally.
Morgan Matters.
Yesterday was another one of the bad
days of 1882. The mud is terrible, and
business is consequently bad, so the mer-
chants say. It is nard on our sheep men.
Tne late freeze caught many of them witti-
>ut sufficient feed.
O. P. Yates, of the house of Orr &
Lindsley, St. Louis, was in town yester-
day. Yates is an old man in Texas, and
promises me to visit the Democrat-
Adyance on his arriyal in Fort Worth.
H. C. Ford passed through to Meridian
to-day, to attend court. The courts bring
people from everywhere.
Messrs. Anderson & Peterson have com-
pleted and filled their house with elegant
furniture of all kinds, and at all prices.
The late tire did not seem to hurt them
much. Fort Worth would do well to
took to other trade.
Mrs. Wintz is preparing to add to her
house. From the plan and the amount of
lumber, she is determined to make it a
home for the weary.
The boys sold their last copy of the
Democrat-Advance this morning, aud
were hungry for more. Wa failed to get
Sunday’s paper, it is ahead of any daily
we get it put on the train in time, and our
people want it on time. It ought to reach
us at 9 a. m. daily.
Morgan wants a mill and gin. The
finest site for one in the state is on Steel
creek opposite to and within two hundred
and fit’ y yards of the S. C. depot. The
ground wont cost a cent. Our liberal fel-
low townsman will give the site to any-
one who will build.
Look out for a marriage notice or two
in my next. The prospect of good crops
is encouraging the boys.
To-morrow local option goes into effect,
and long faces wtll be the order of the
day. No more “wont you take some-
rbing” will be heard for many a long day.
Orders to Fort Worth and Waco will be
filled as usual.
I have just had a conversation whii one
of our wheat growers and he prophesies
one of the best yields this year for many
years past.
The G. C. & S. F. railroad have put
tickets so low to Mardi-Gras, that every-
body is preparing to go. Irsdell, Kop-
perf, Morgan, Kimball and Meridian will
look on at the merry makers.
Morgan.
P. S.—Saturday’s paper sold like hot
cakes.
Tobacco and Barley.
Petersburg, Va., Feb. 1.—The board of
trade of tobacco manufacturers in this
olace, held a meeting yesterday, at the
Tobacco Exchange, for the purpose of
framing and adopting an address to the
tobacco planters of Virginia and North
Carolina, urging tne importance of culti-
vating barleyjnstead of tobacco in places
where the latter fails to prosper. Ten
Washington, Feb. 1.—The President
pro. tern, submitted a report fr m the
committee on internal revenue in respect
to the resolution ot December 14* h, in re-
lation to the sale ot farms or plantations
in South Carolina under the a :t ot 1862
for the collection or direct taxes in the in-
surrectionary districts.
On motion of Windom a resolution was
adopted requesting die President to com-
municate the correspondence between
the exeeu ive department and the diplo-
matic agents of the United State-’, relating
o the proposed congress or American nu-
lionsj or any of them, in 1882.
Vahce
asked consideration of
his resolution calling for
information concerning irregularities
of International revenue officials in the
sixth district of North Carolina.
Hoar objected, as be regarded the reso-
lution as a reflection upon the Treasury
Department, and the motion was uot
pressed.
The senate then took up Morgan’s pend
ing resoluiion calling lor tin authentic
statement of all tests made by the commit-
tee in reference to heavy ordinance being
built by the United States, and also for
the printing of the testimony taken in the
last Congress on the subject" of heavy or-1
diuance and projectiles, as to the test to
which they have been subjected.
Hawley suggested that the amount of
printing required by the resolution, if it
was to cover the subject matter oi the or-
dinance bureau as he supposed it would,
would be illimitable.
A discussion followed, in which Morgan
explained that his motion was to have
published matters which the ordinance
bureau has suppressed. He had been in-
formed that the bureau was in the hands
of a ring interested iu certain inventions,
and that its chief officer held patents upon
inventions which the ring had caused to
be patented. He wanted to have the
whole matter sifted to the bottom, and an
opportunity given to American inventors
to compete with the favorites of th e
bureau.
Haw ly thought the charge of the Senator
from Alabama was based upon the repre
sentatioas of disatisfied inventors who had
not received the rewards tirey expected.
He suggested a direct and less expensive
means of obtaining the object of the reso-
lution: The selection of a committee of
the Senate to go over what he called the
mass of rubbish and ascertain what pro-
portion ought to be printed. He believed
the ordnance bureau, like every govern-
ment dep irtment, was conducted by hon-
orable men.
A discussion ful’owed oceupjing time
beyond tne morning hour, and was par-
ticipated m by Allison and Hoar, ti e latter
observing that the estimated cost of print
ing would be $500,000. Morgan reiterated
his charges, and Aiiison explained tijat
Congress provided at the last session for
an efficient supply ot ordinance. Toe
resolution was finally laid aside inform-
ally without action.
Morrill reported from the finance com-
mittee a bill proposing amendments to
the revised statues so as to authorize col-
lectors, nayal officers, surveyors
aud inspectors who may have cause to
suspect jcoucealment of merchandise in
any particular store or dwelling, to search
for and seize same.
Senate at 1:20 took up the 34 per cent,
bond bill.
Morgan advocated as an additional sec-
ond on amendments as follows : That on
agreement made with holders of bonds of
the United States since’ the adjournment
of the forty-sixth Congress, by which the
rate of interest on such bonds is reduced
to per cent, per annum, is hereby fully
thousand copies of the addres’s will be 1 related and confirmed according to the
printed and distributed throughout the j terms and intent of said agreement,
above named States, Tfie press of Yir- ! Upon the suggestion of Ingalls the
ginia aud North Carolina is requested to j amendment was modified by mention of
give the letter favorable consideration and 1 an express recognition of the agreement
a wide circulation. ! as valid and binding upon the Guvern-
a _________ | ment.
,,n" ----------*■ ---- *l— adopted
Since the frauds which has existed, a»
was alleged, in the Star Route service had
bien discontinued, there had been a dis-
continuance of service on steam boats on
the Mississippi river, which amounted to
an almo|t absolute prohibition of the mail
service. The object of his amendment
was to prevent the discretion on the part
oi a head of a department to interpose and
lecome the law ot the land rather than
the cexpress legislation of Congress.
King, «ff Louisiana, advocated Hooker’s
amendment.
Hiscock. of New York. in response to
some criticism made by Hooker upon the
action of the Fostmaster-General in dis-
continuing service on steam boats, quoted
the reasons advanced by that officer tor
his action to show that such service had
been discontinued in some eases because
it had been superseded by the star service,
and its continuance amounted to nothing
but a subsidy to the steam boat com-
panies.
The committee, without further action,
arose.
The speaker laid before the House a
message from the President, transmitting
letters from the Commissioner ot Pen-
nons, giving an estimate of the amounts
tnat will be required annually to pay pen-
sions tor the next tweuty-five years. Un-
der certain conditions referred.
Adjourned at 4:40 p. m.
ALL SORTS.
DE A - ERS IN
HARDWARE
Edged Tools and Tinware
QUBSiSNSWARE,
GLASSWARE AND LAMPS.
W. J BOAZ.
A. M BBI1TON.
J. MARKLEE. C. B. DAGGETT, Jr.
Regular Banking Business in all its Branches Transacted.
Exchacfr*. Bought and Sold and Collection
, ------made on ail Accessible Points.
caange on England, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Italy!
Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
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CORREBPOK'DElSrTS :
Draw Sight Kx-
They have a full set ol machinery and
are prepared to execute all kinds of tin
and sheet iron work, with dispatch. Gal-
vanized iron cornice’ a specialty. All
work guaranteed. Prices moderate. Or-
ders solicited.
Ho. 26 Houston St.
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HOWARD & Co.
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Citizen’s Bank of Louisiana. New Orleans.
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tidball, vanzandt & CO.
bankers,
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A General Banking Business Transacted
^ Elections made and promptly remitted.
Exchange Drawn on all the Principal Cities of Europe,
LLOYD live of steamers, from
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ft»d
Jw ekrs,
Dealers in
Clocks Jewelry & Spectacles.
Watts,
No. 32 Houston St.,
Band Signed—May Prove an Alibi—Three
Years ia the Penitentiary.
(Special to Democrat-Advanck.)
Austin, Feb. 1, 1882.
The Capitol contractors telegraph that
r,he bond signed by Mr. Worth is over two
million dollars, and they will he here-
Saturday. Work began on the excava-
tion this a. m. Lively times are looked
tor now.
The R mbe Boyce case is attracting at-
tention. The Judge allowed Allitoi, a
convict, t* testify yesterday, and is se-
verely ciitieizcd. Boyce will probably
prove an alibi.
Andrew Lewis was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary for an assault
and attempt to murder.
Track laying on the Austin and North-
western is progressing rapidly.
A party in Anderson county offers to
compromise with the Mercer colony
claimants by paying fifty cents an acre- fur
his land, they to give him a good title.
Debt Statement.
Washington, Feb. 1.—The debt state-
ment to-day shows the decrease ot the
public debt during the month of January
to be $12,978,536.36; cash in Treasury
$246,025,468.59; gold certificates $51,881,-
200; silver certificates outstanding $68,-
999,670; certificates of department out-
standing $11,400,000; refunding certificates
outstanding $55,910,000; legal tender out-
standing $34,66S.101.600; fractional cur-
rency outstanding $7,089,493.67; cash bal-
ance available $143,907,663.29.
MERIDIAN.
NoiMag Strong to Brink—Five Years
the Penitentiary.
FORT WORTH,
tep&iriiig done oromptlv.
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TEXAS
Work warranted.
R. P. TACKABEKY,
Manufacturer and dealer in
saddlery, harness, etc., etc.
Prof. IM ii. F. Gruendler,
TEACHERS OF
PIANO AND SINGING.
Residence corner Third and Burnet. Oi
ders left at Max Elser’s music store will
receive prompt attention. H. F. Gruend-
ler, Graduate of Leipzig Conservatory ;
Mrs. 11. F. Gruendler, Pupil of Henry
Movers. New York. 12.L -ft
Bice, Baulard & Co.,
Manufacturer of the
t4-Okabery thee,
Am]
sole
^ agent ior STILL BftO’S. IKON FOLK TREES
8pE0[AL INDUCEMENTS TO STOCKMEN.
a«gy Harness
a specialty.
ahsLWS?t Weatherford Street, Fort Worth, Texas.
-DEALERS TN-—
Paints, Oils Glass.
Also Noble ol Hoar’s Valentines,
Murphy & Dsvoe’s
"Va/rn. Ialh.es,
Artists’ Colors a nd Tools, Wall Paper,
Window Shades, and
MIXED PAINTS-
7,7 Trembtit. St u Galvustoit,' Texas.
Nov. 24-W12 nj/rfr
Speslal to the Da.woctAT-ADVAXos.
Meridian, Feb. 1,1882.
Local option takes charge of liquor to-
morrow. Nearly every prohibitionist we
meet has the little brown jug.
W. W. Pearce & Bros, will sell their
family grocery to T. T. Angel. Angel ia
a retired liquor dealer.
District Court is in session.
Lnm Roberts plead guilty to a charge
oi horse theft and goes to the penitentiary
for five years. Roberts is said to be of a
respectable family.
vi r. Brown, Sheriff of Johnsor. county,
was in town to-day.
The Democrat-Advance is a welcome
visitor when on time.
More About the Union General.
Paris, Feb. 1.—It is believed that iegal
proceedings will be commenced against
the Union General estate. Its suspension
was caused by the refusal of the Lander
bank to pay 170,000 francs, for which they
drew upon it, to enable the Union General
co meet its liabilities. Thirty-one strong
boxes in the Union General’s vaults were
found empty, and an examination of its
books proves that, when M. Balraux
stated its profits were 170,000 francs, there
was reaily a defect ol 930,000 francs.
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Fire Record.
Knoxville, Tenn., Feb. l.—A fire broke
out in Davis & Co’s, collar factory last
night. In half an hour the brick build-
ing and aii its contents were destroyed.
Loss $3,500. The fire was communicated
to a block of frame buildings on Gay
Street in the old part ot the city, and in a
short time three buildings were consumed.
The fire was then got under control and
the remainder of tne block sated. Total
loss $10,000
Felton 0pen3 the Campaign.
New York, Feb. 1.—An Augusta, Geor-
gia special says : W. Li. Felton, leader of
the Independents in Georgia, opened the
campaign here to-night in a speech of
two hours. He is in favor of the abolition
of tax and national banks, for unlimited
currency, for gold and silver coinage, for
s'ivAr f<>r the a^°^t‘0D proceeds of sale shall be paid into the
of the convict system. 1 - 1
The amendment was then
without votes, as also the provision offer-
ed by Davis, of West Virginia, declaring
that nothing in the act shall bn so con-
strued as to authorize an increase of the
public debt.
It wrs then, reported to the Senate from
the committee on the whole, and the
question being upon agreeing to the
amendments as a whole, Sherman asked
tor a seperate vote upon Plumb’s amend-
ment, applying the surplus revenues over
$100,000,000 to the reduction oi the public
debt. He said that it this proposition was
not stricken out, he and others who had
acted with him would be compelled to
vote against the bill. He urged upon the
Senate to appreciate the importance of
maintaining a sufficient revenue in the
treasury as heretofore, in order that sudden
emergencies might be provided against,
and urged that in the proposed reduc-
tion as now made, it would open the door
to further attempts in the same direction.
Bayard took the floor but yielded foPa
motion for an executive session.
Pending action on the motion the House
concurrent resolution fixing the 27th of
February as the day for the Garfield me-
morial services, was concurred in.
Adjourned.
House —Mclvinly, of Ohio, offered a
resolution setting apart Monday, the 27th
of February, 1882, for memorial services
in memory ot the iate President James A.
Garfield. Adopted.
Hill, of New Jersey, introduced a bill
reducing the postag; on letters and sealed
packages to two cents per half ounce or
under; four cent3 for over half an ounce
and under two ounces, aud for each ad-
ditional two ounces or fractional part
thereof two cents. Referred.
Under the call of committees the bills
for the erection of public buildings, etc-,
were referred to the committee of the
whole.
Harris, from the committee on epidemic
diseases, reported farorablv. with amend
ments, a bid for the distribution of pure
vaccine to people. The amendment ap-
propriates $15,000 to enable the National
Board of Health to supply the pure arti-
cle at cost price, and requires that the
TEXARKANA.
Track-Laying on the Texas and St. Louis.
Special to the Democrat-Advance.
Texarkana, Feb. 1, 133*2.
Track-laying was commenced o.i toe |
i Texas and St. Louis, east from this place j
i to-day, and will be finished to Red River j
] in twenty days.
Maritime.
New York, Feb. 1,—The steamship,
j Richmond, from West Point, Virginia,
[ went ashore on Bedloe Island at 3:30
o’clock yesterday afternoon. It was
snowing heavy at the time and the pilot
fr<
Parisian Billiard Matcli.
New York, Feb. 1.—Private advices
from Paris state that a billiard match.took
place last night. Vigneaux, iu tne’ sec-
ond innings, scored 391 points, beating
the best score on record at the champion
game—that of Schaeffer, at 342.
Discount Rate Raised.
Berlin, Feb. 1.—The Imperial bank has
raised the rate of discount to six, and
rates and advances to seven cents.
treasury quarterly.
At the conclusion of the morning hour,
the House, at 11:10, went into committee
ot the whole, Calkins in the chair, on the
post office appropriation bill.
Upon this amendment a long discussion
followed.
Oasswell, of Wisconsin, explained the
provisions of the bill. The amount ap-
propriated was $43,529,300, ol which only
$784,544 would come out of the general
fund in the treasury, since the estimated
revenue of the Postoffice department
.amounted to $42,741,722. The committee j
on appropriations had cut down the esti- j
mates of the department in several partic- I
1 nl.irc! nrinmnol vorlnnHrtn In flm
Oscar wears knee-breeches.
And Anna wears pants;
But the giddy things are older
Than your uncles and your aunts.
^Esthetic editors have their paste
made from sun flour now.—Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
There is prevailing superstitions
terror of the number 13. That’s
probably the reason that folks
don’t admire the Chicago shoe.—
Boston Post.
General Sherman ought to be
happy. Ten deserters were cap-
tured last week. This increases
the regular army 15 per cent.—
Barlingtou Hawkeye.
“ I see that John Kelly wants
to know what a coup d’etat is. A
coup d’etat is for revenue only.”
—Attributed to Geu. Hancock by
the Chicago Tribune.
A young journalist out Wes t de-
clares the object of his new paper
(subscription 50 cents per annum)
to be “to restore to the republic
its wonted grandeur and prosper-
ity.” Good enough.
The editor of the New York
Times says Oscar Wilde’s rhymes
are lit only for the reading of ec-
static milliners. The milliners
will endeavor to get even by sell-
ing the editor’s wife a new bonnet.
—Courier-Chronicle.
Things one would rather have
left unsaid. — Proud mamma :
“Don’t you think dear baby’s the
image of his papiU?” Dull but
well-meaning family friend: “Well,
perhaps he is—but I dare say he’ll
outgrow it in time.”—Punch.
A writer in a Chicago paper
asks: “Can a young man marry
on a salary of #2,000 a year?” A
great many of them marry on less
than #300 a year, but their wives
make shirts for seveuty-nve cents
a tfozen.—Norristown Herald.
A Lowell firm recently sent a
lot of bills West for collection.
The list came back with the result
noted against each name, one be-
ing marked dead. Three months
after the same bill got into a
new lot that was forwarded, and
the list came back the name was
marked “still dead.”
A hotel proprietor iu Canada, ill
a business letter to this office, in-
vites the editor to make his home
at h;8 house free of charge at any
time, as long as he wants. That
hotel man has got himself into a
terirble scrape in case there
shcfuld be another war ia this coun-
try.—Boston Post.
A newspaper item says: “It is
horrible taste to have mirrors iu
the parlor.” Just eo; arid it has
taken a great many years to mike
the discovery. The space occu-
pied by a $200 or $300 mirror
should be devoted to two or three
old china plates, worth about 25
cents apiece, and about as beauti-
ful as a pine-board fence.—Norris-
town Herald.
Narrow escape: “Stole any
chickens di& week, Brudder
Jones?” said a searching class
leader to a member of suspicious-
ly thieving proclivities. “No, sah
—tank do Lor’.” “You’se (lone
well,” said the leader, and passed
on, whiie Brudder Jones turns to
Brudder Brown and whispers:
“Lucky he said chickens; if he’d a
said ducks he’d a had me shuah! ”
English women are rarely treated
in a very complimentary manner
by Freneh writers, and a curious
description of their habits was
given by the late Xavior Aubryet.
He declared that, “English women
live on an average of sixty years.
Up to thirty they drink water;
after that age they drink brandy.”
Equitable Life insurance Co.
—Just received, the best of two-ply and
three-ply, as also Brussels, carpet to be
seen in the city. Also ruVber mats and
Brussel rugs.
Netw 1’oux Store.
got out ol his course. The tug boat from j —We offer lor th© week only our stock
Richmond wept to their assignee aud i of cloaks and dollmans at remarkably low
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ulars, the principal reduction being in the ! The only Life Insurance companv that
refusal to appropriate more than $50 000 issues incontestable policies,
for the purpose of extending the Iree let- j Assets, - ’ - - - $40,500,000
ter earner system, the department asking i Surplus, .... 9.500,000
tor $150,000. - j New policies issued in 1881, 45)000.000
At the conclusion of Caswell’s remarks j Arn’t paid policyholders in ’81, 5^000.000
general debate on the bill was limited to . Policies issued on all approved plans,
three hours. | Robert Grterlk,
Several nonces of intention to offer ; General Agent,
amendments were given, among the n One j Refers by permission to the First
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