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VOL. XIII* —NO. 10. SNOW HILL. WORCESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1881. >LOO PER ANNUM.
The Democratic Messenger,
Pmi ISBID Erzxr SaTCSD4T ST
LITTLETON DENNIS, Proprietor
AT SM9W KILL, WORCESTER •., Ml.
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ll:e county.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A DIAL P. BARNES,
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Offle* opposite Court House, Snow Hill. 11 1. |
Will visit Fooomoke City Tery Saturday.
Strict attention given to the collection ci
elairne.
p LAYTON J. PURNELIT”
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office opposite Court House, Snow Hill], Md.
Strict attention given to the collection of
elalms. Will visit Berlin on the eeoocd Satur
day of every month.
IP DWARD D. MARTIN, -
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Offioe opposite Town Hall. Berllr, Md.
Special attention given to the eolleetios of
e'alme.
P'DWARI) B. BATES, '
-*~- d (Late of Baltimore Bar.)
ATTORNEY AND COUN9ELOR-AT-I.AW,
Snow Hill. Md.
Office opposite Court Home, adjoining the
Rost Office.
rjEOBOE M. UPBHUR,
v ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office, Court House Bquere, Suow Hill, Md.
Prompt attention given to the collection of
claims.
A'IEORO* W. PURNELL,
w ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office,opposite Court House. Snow Hill. Md. j
Claims promptly collected. Will visit Pir-i
--raoke City on the second Saturday of each
month.
rjEORGE W. COVINGTON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Office, Court House Square. Snow Hill. Md.
Prompt attention given to the collection > f
claims.
GASIUEL H. TOWNSEND,
ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW.
Office, opposite Court Honst , Suotv Kill, M I.
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elalms.
VI7M. SIDNEY WILSON,
* " ATTORNEY- V l'-I,AW.
Office on Washington Kirr.t u.r <• door*
above Poet Office, Snow Hill. Md.
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of claim*.
T\R. E. E. DASHIELL.
DEN i IST.
Office, opposite Franklin House, Hno x ft
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Saturday of each week. Al> oporatlo::, , i
the teeth performed in the most eXIVf.;’ ;ns>-
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and Livery Stable attached.
Free H'.cks at Depot to meet all trains.
Passengers conveyed to any part of the
Peninsula upon the most favorable terms.
TEEMS, $1.50 PER DAY.
First-class accommodations and home com
forts.
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POCOMOKE CITY, MD,
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Accommodations Unsurpassed
• FIRST-CLASS BAR ATTACHED.
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this House.
ATLANTIC HOTEL'
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CHI.VCOTBAOUE ISLAND, VA.
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Tho undersigned beg leave to Inform theii
friend* and the general public that they hove
leased a d refuiuisned the above elegant and i
e tinraodlou* house, and are now prepared to ;
at -OHinjodahi permanent end transient guest*-
in firn-cla's style.
Lnrge airy room*. K<-me comforts.
Fine R- rai d Its-- Findm;. Gunning sud
Baliiirz, cfr. Tie ;eb!i-i-piov'd-d with WiM
F**l. Tmspiv, Fist-, Oysters, C-a'is, and oil
the lavtirlct of th-* ?< s*,n.
Pd-a. uic boats < f all kind*, guides, fi-hing
decoys, ponies, etc., always r-ady for
ih- use of gucsie.
First-class Bar aitaei.ed. Choice winta,
iqu.rrs, ales, beers and cigars.
PdMHCsngen for Chiucoteague connect with
steamer for the fsitnd at Franklin City, the
terminns of the Wo caster Railroad, ssaraleg
•d evening. Cor.ceetlon may also be made
filly at Na.-hvil!e. Alt who visit tha AttanM*
rnvy rest eesor- d that they will reeehvs soar
t- <as treatment and exeeitaat fare.
TllE STORY OF THE CATE.
Across the pathway, myrtle-fringed,
Under the maple, it was hinged—
The little wooden gate.
’Twan there, withiu the quiet gloam.
When f had strolled witli Nelly home,
1 used to pause and wait.
Before I raid to her “Good night."
Yet loth to leave the winsome sprite
Within the girdcu pale ;
And there, tin- gate between tin two,
We'd linger, as ull lovers do, 1,
And lean upon the rail.
We'd talk—in fitful style I ween—
Willi many a meeting glance between
’i l;e tender words ami low.
We'd Wilis per some dear, sweet conceit,
Some idle gossip we’d rejicat,
And then I'd move to go.
“Good night," I'd say; “good night—good
hve !’’
“Good night,”—from her. with half a sigh—
“ Goodnight!” “Good night!” And then—
And then I do not go, but stand.
Again lean on tin- railing, and
Begin it all again !
Ah ! that was many a day ago—
That pleasant summer time—although
The gate is standing yet;
A little cranky, it may lie,
A little weather-worn—like me—
Wlio never can forget!
The happy—“ End V” My cyuic friend.
Pray save your sneer* —there was uo “end.’
Watch yonder chubby thing !
That is our youngest, hers and mine ;
See how he climbs, bis legs to twino
About the gate and swing.
— Scrilmir'M. j
Poor Little Kit.
A Story From Lift*.
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
It was a gala ilay on the avenue. All !
the fast horses iu town were out show- j
ing their pace and the merry sleigh- J
riders shouted with mirth and enjoy
ment as they racial neck-and-ueck, live
teams deep, and when they came to a
dead-lock it was stiU more fun. At one
juncture, however, there were shouts I
that did not aonud mirthful, a wild
plnnge among the thoroughbreds, and
some policemen ran out from the side
walk and talked in authoritative tones,
hut the crowd was so dense no one
could see what was going on among the
noisy drivers and their plunging horses.
“It’s only a couple of boys,” said the
lrcautifnl Felicia Hautton, settling back
among the Insurious white robes; “two
of those horrid newsboys. They ought
not to be allowed on the avenue at all.
They’re always getting under foot and
frightening the horses—such good time
as we are making, too—how disagree
able.”
“Anybody killed?” asked one fine
gentleman of another as they passed.
“ Naw, two boys mixed up, that’s all,
one started to cross the street and fell,
and tollier got ruu over trying to save
him, stwee-t Awabs, yon know, can
up ware a few—ta-ta.”
“Got nndcr the feet of a highllyer
and spoiled his time,” said another iu a
disgusted tone.
Then the avenue was cleared and the
tide of enjoyment went on, and uo more ]
Arabs were so foolish as to sacrifice :
themselves by obstructing the triumphs
of the fashionable throng.
At sundown of that same day two
poorly dressed boys applied for admis
sion at the doors of Harjter’s Hospital
and inquired for one of their number,
who bad l*ecn brought thither that
same afternoon. They were permitted
to see him for a few moments, and on
tip toe they entered the long, clean
ward and sought out the narrow bed on
which he lay. When they had awk
wardly greeted him, they sat down upon
the edge of the cot, and were much em
barrassed with the strangeness of the
scene, and painfully conscious of their
i own hands and feet; they ware also
rather shocked at their comrade's clean
face ; it looked so unnaturally white,
with a dab of red on either cheek.
Their eyes roved stealthily nbont over
the other sick beds and their occupants.
“Say, old feller,” began the biggest
of the two lmys, addressing his sick
comrade, “ain’t you puttin’ on a heap ‘
j of stile?”
‘ 'Where's Kit ?” asked the sick boy,
fretfully; “why ain't he along of yon?”
The two visitors looked at each other,
and their facc-s grew downcast and
troubled; they dug the toes of their
boots into the clean floor at the bedside
and shuffled uneasily, while both cough
! cd violently in concert, then the big
| imy blurted out:
“ Kit went on a errant, and he told
me to tell you he would be up to-mor
i rcr, sure—he sez, sez he, tell .Tim it’s j
all right.”
“You ain't gasein, be you? Kit
didn’t git hurt, uor nothin’ ?”
“ He couldn’t go errants ef he was
hurt, could he ?” asked the other, dog- ;
godly; “an’ here,” improvising a lie for |
the occflssion, “lie sent xer this.”
The sick and injured boy smiled as he !
i took the big orange in his feverish
hands, and tnraed it over.
“ I knew Kit wasn’t ike boy to forgit
me—hero, yon fois, take a bite—it’s
! many a orange, and stick of candy, and j
bit of pjr we’ve divided atweeu us afore j
this. Pore little Kit! He knowed as
how I liked ’em; here, you take a
squeeze,” as he handed it back.
Rut the boys wouldn’t touch it, and
- the sick patient put it uudtr his pillow, i
! Then he said in a strange, quavering
! voice:
“I want you fels to look after Kit,
and don’t you forger it; when I gets
well I’ll pay back every cent; but it’ll
he a long lime, fer I’m all mashed iu ;
lie’s n little fel, and needs lookin’ arter.
Now, boys, don't go back on me, will
von ? ’
“You needn’t worry altout Kit,” said
the spokesman of the two, looking
awny and digging violently ut the floor,
“ he’s all rite.
“ Lord, I am so tired,” said the sick
boy. “If it wasn’t for Kit I-*is as leve
die as get well; Tint I promised mother
os how I’d allns take core of_*the little
chsp, and T a done it; and he wasn’t
cut up nor i mised uor nuthiu’ whn
they pulled him oot’n from undeh the
hose's hoofs?”
| I
“Wasn’t cut up uor bruised nor
nutliin’” echoed the visitor, with his back
to tho bed.
“ Good ! .Jes’ yon look arter him till
I get outer this and I’ll work my fingers
off for ye. Lord, how dead tired I
am.”
He drifted away to sleep and the two
boys left without waking him, but be
fore they went one of them slipped a
little leather bag of marbles iu his hand
' and the other put a few pennies wrapped
i iu a dirty bit of newspaper close by,
j .where ho could see them on waking,
j “ He’ll think Kit sent ’em,” said one,
; as they softly retreated ; “ they were in
Kit's pocket when the policeman found
‘ him—to think he doesn’t know.”
That night when the hospital doctor
j went his rounds he found the new boy
wide awake but very still. To the fa
miliar eye of the physician his symp
toms were clearly defined.
“ Well, my boy,” he said kindly,
“wliat can I do for you?”
The boy’s face lighted up. “ I want
to see Kit—send for Kit.”
“ Yes, yes,” answered the doctor
i hastily; “but you must wait until
i morning.”
“I don’t—think—l—can sir. I
guess I’m—booked—for— totlier—place.
It would be all right—ef it wasn't for
Kit. Rut I promised mother I'd take
| care of him, and what’ll he do without
; me? I can’t leave Kit.”
The death-dew was on his forehead.
Ho beat bis hands helplessly on tho j
white spread, while Lis pale lips con
tinued to murmur, “I can’t leave Kit!”
The physician sat down by him. It
is against the rules of a hospital to hold
i much converse with the dying, or even
: to notify those who are in extremes of
! the approach of death ; but this was a
1 child—the doctor assumed the respousi
' bility.
“ My boy, if you knew that you could
uot get well, would you feel very sorry ?”
“Not for myself; only for Kit.”
“But if I told you that Kit was well
taken care of—that a rich and kind
father hail sent for him and given him
a beautiful Lome—”
“Now your gasein,” said the dying
boy, with his old fervor. “Dad ain’t
that sort, besides lie broke mother's
heart and Kit wouldn’t speak to him ef
he cum back.”
“Noearthly father, dear boy, but a
heavenly one—the priest lias told you
of him, and the home lie gives his chil
dren. He it is who has sent for Kit.”
The sick boy made up liis parched
lips to whistle. “W-h-e-w,” he said,
brokenly, “Kit's dead —killed alter all,
when l tried so hard to save him !”
“He was dead when they took him
up,” said the doctor, “and not a bruise,
nor a broken limb—the shock killed
him, and lie is safe now with hi* Master
—don’t you believe that?”
Rut the boy did not heed him ; his
lips moved faintly, and the doctor,
llending down, heard him say again,
“Kit’s dead!” Then there was along
silence, and liefore he left the doctor
turned the white sheet over the tran
quil face, and Kit aud his brother were
together again.
SOMETHING LIKE A FLASH.
The Movements of Men ami Horses
When the Fire Ciong Sounds.
Engine Company 24, in Morton street,
is said to lie the quickest in the world.
Capt. William McLaughlin was found
in his room on the second floor. He
said, when asked how long it took him
to hitch up : “ Excuse mo, I decline to
; state. Why? Bicause you’d think me
a liar. Do yon know how to use a stop
watch ?”
“ I do.”
The Captain walked down stairs to
the first floor, where his men were
standing about in little groups. The
floor was as clean as could be. Every
little bit of metal work on the engine
and tender was glistening like polished
glass. Within fourteen feet from the
head of the shaft of the engine were two
horses in stalls, directly beside the
wheels of the apparatus. Formerly the
| horses had to run from the rear of the
building. Twenty-four's horses are i
magnificent animals. They are perfect
ly matched eiglit-year-old grays, nearly
: fifteen hands high, with clean, tapering
legs, perfectly arched necks, small heads
and fiery eyes. Lately, when waiting
; for the stroke of the gong, ready to
jump forward under the harness, they
were pictures of animation. Their im
mense strength and rigidity seemed to
melt away, aud they became as lithe and
agile as kittens, pawing the door, throw
ing ti eir beautiful heads high in the air.
“They know there’s something in the
wind,” muttered the Captain ; “mighty
clever beasts.”
The Captain handed a watch to the
reporter, saying: “That watch belongs
ito Capt. Kustes, the. oarsman. It was >
used by Win. B. Curtis to time Conrt
; ney and Hanlan at Washington. It
registers an eighth of a second. When
I strike the gong, you push that little
, knob. When the driver shouts ‘Ready!'
j you push that one. If you hear a click
| or see any part of the outfit unclasped,
don’t stop the watch until it's remedied.
I am going to hitch up ten times.”
The reporter stepptd withiu a little
enclosure on a line with the end of the
! pole. The harness, already attached to
! the engine by a system of pulleys over
i the places where the horses were to
' stand. The collars were hinged at the
! top, but were open at the bottom, and
| they hung like a pair of open scissors.
When the horse’s neck is beneath this
1 collar it is only necessary to let it drop
; and close around his neck when it cl asps
automatically. With the same move
ment the reins are clasped to the bit.
which the horse always has in his
mouth, and as the whole harness fails ;
upon the animal, at the clasp of the
collar he stands completely harnessed.
The Captain approached the gong.
The firemen were all on the floor. The
horses were on the alert.
“ Clang!”
The watch was started; the horses,
whose halters were unhitched by tho
same current of electricity that rang the
bell, leaped forward, and stood like
rocks under the harness, with their
necks held up ready for the collars,
which two firemen sprang forward and
seized. There was a quick click, d :
the driver vaulted into his seat
the reius, and shouted “ Re?' 1
The watch was stopped. Tlio horses t
were examined, and found to be per- j
feetly harnessed and ready to start. The ;
Captain asked the reporter :
“ How much ?”
“ One second and five-eighths.”
“If I’d said that I'd been called a
liar,” said the Captain.
The horses were released. They ran
back again to their stalls and were hal
tered. There was another trial, and
the team was hitched and harnessed in
one and one-lialf seconds. This made
the Captain smile. The time occupied
bv each of the other eight trials was ex
pressed in seconds, as follows : 2,2, 2,
I{, 2, 14, 14 and li.
Fire Commissioner Gorman, who has
l*een connected with the tiro service
since/1846, was found in his office in
Mercer street. He said :
“The New’ York Fire Department
doesn’t hitch up for boasting, rivalry,
or wagers, but for business. Their in
genuity is taxed to the utmost to get to
tires as early as possible. We know, in
fighting a fire in a dry goods district,
that one second earlier is often worth
ono million dollars. Our companies
are classed and timed, mid if they are
late they are reprimanded. We have a
| perfect system, and carry it out to the
letter. Take, for instance, a fire in
Greene street near Grand. The alarm
is sent from box 166, on the corner of
the streets named. Now we open this
little book, aiul see that the engines
should arrive at this point with No. 13
first. No. 20 second, No. 30 third, and
No. 31 fourth. If No. 20 arrives before
13 vre want to know why. If 13 ran
iuto a car, was blocked or rau over
somebody, all right; but if 13 was
slow, then she must learn to lie faster.
The morning after every fire we receive
the reports of the Captoius of the differ
ent engines. These reports tell who
was first on the scene of the fire, what
they did, how much pressure of water
, they used, how long they were there,
and who was in charge.”
The reporter then went to the house
j of Engine No. 32, and asked Captain
McGill how long it takes him to start.
“ Biff! Bull a lever, and away we go.
Our engine’s a self-propeller. Wo keep
about eighty pounds of steam on her,
and the instant the gong sounds she’s
off.”
Assistant Captain Montania of No. 3
saitl :
“There are lots of engines that hitch
under three seconds. Every company
has two men near the pole of the engine
all night long. The instant the gong
rings the horses are loosened and they
jump forward. The firemen are there,
and they clasp the harness while the
driver is running down stairs. The en
gine is all ready in three seconds at any :
hour of the night.”
Lieut. Dusenbury of No. 33, iu Mer
cer street, lias charge during the illness
of Capt. Golding. He hitched up twice,
making two and three-quarters the first
time and three seconds the next.
Capt. John Sullivan of Hook and
Ladder Truck No. 5 was away. His
lieutenant, John Dwyer, said that they
had made two and a quarter, and were
on record at Headquarters at seven and
thr- e-quarter seconds for three hitches.
“We are sure,” he said, “that we can
hitch inside of two and a half seconds.”
-- .V. )' Sun.
Scientific Studies.
CURIOUS ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS.
, !
Some curious astronomical calcula- j
tions have been presented by Mr. C. B.
Warring before the Poughkeepsie Soci
ety of Natural Science, a few of which
possess general interest. If we suppose
the distance between the earth and the
sun (about ninety-two and one-third
millions of miles) to tie reduced to a
dozen rods or more, the size of the two j
globes to be reduced in tlic same pro- i
portion, the distance from the earth to j
the nearest fixed star would still be, on !
the same scale, about 6,000 miles, and •
to the more distant ones it would be not i
le s than 18,000,000 <>f miles. Erom I
those more distant stars the light must !
travel for sixty centuries before it reaches j
i us—and yet light travels so fast that it j
would circle round the earth more than 1
seven times in a single second of time, j
If the sun could be reduced, in imagi- i
nation, to 1-100 of an inch in diameter, i
the earth would then be of microscopic 1
size, about 1-10,000 of an inch, but the !
distance between it and the nearest star i
would not be less than three, miles. If!
the sun were a hollow’ sphere and the j
earth were placed at its centre, with the
moon revolving around it in its estnb- j
, lislicd orbit, there would still boa dis- |
t cie i of 200,000 miles from the luna i
orbit to the surface of the solar sphere
If these relations of size and distance I
are inconceivable, the forces which com- |
pel the planets to move in their elliptical j
orbits are quite as much beyond our I
comprehension. A l>nr of steel three j
inches square will sustain a weight of j
510 tons, but a bar having n section of;
144 square inches, would sustain 8,640 !
tons, which upon a railroad would re- !
quire 864 cars to support it and 23 loco- 1
motives to transport it. To deflect the j
moon from a straight course iuto its '
present orbit, or what is the same thing, ’
to retain it in its present course, would
require the united strength of not less
than eight steel bars, each 1(H) miles i
, square, or, more accurately, a siuglo bar 1
whose section is 87,500 square miles —
more than large enough to cover the
States of New York and Ohio together.
If this force were represented by a web
of steel wires, each one-quarter of an
inch in diameter, stretched from the
earth to the moon, they would be dis
tributed over our earth on the moou
side only six inches apart, and if a simi
lar web were stretched from the cnrtli
: to the sun, the force exerted between
these two bodies would require the wires
to cover one side of the earth as close
together as bladt s-qf grass upon a lawn.
The night editor of a Nova Scotia
journal wrote the following head lino to
one of his cable dispatches: “The
British Lion Shaking his Mane." He
was uuable to eat his breakfast next
* morning when he found the printer’s
version of the matter staring him in the
face thus • "The British Lion Skating
in Maine.”
• is attributed to
helling out more
INAUGURATION DAY.
! 100,000 Persons at the Capital.
_____
Notwithstanding the severe snow and ;
1 rain storm of Thursday night and Fri
day morning, Washington presented a
lively appearance on Inauguration day.
It is estimated that over 100,000 stran
gers visited the city to take part in or
look upon the festivities.
During the whole of Thursday aud
Thursday night and Friday morning,
trains loaded down with people were ar
riving. Thirty stands, with seats, were
erected in all the public squares front
ing on Pennsylvania avenue, aud there '
were numerous other stands in front of
stores, etc. These stands were capable
of seating 25,000 persons, and every
seat was sold.
At 10:30 a. m. on Friday the sun com
menced to shine quite brightly, with n
chilly March wind blowing from the
northwest.
The First Division formed on Penn
sylvania and New York avennes between
6 and 10 o’clock, on the north side, fac
ing south, with right resting on Seven
teenth street. The carriages for the
Presidential party and the Cleveland
Troop (tlio President’s special escort),
assembled inside the grounds of the ‘
Executive Mansion shortly before 10 j
o’clock. At 10:15 the Presidential
party, consisting of President R. B.
Hayes, President-elect Garfield, Vice- .
President W. A. Wheeler, Vice-Presi
dent-elect Arthur, Senator George H.
Pendleton, Senator H. B. Anthony, aud
Senator Thomas F. Bayard, entered
three carriages that were in waiting, !,
and, preceded by the Cleveland Troop, j
moved through the west gate to Penn
sylvania avenue, and halted.
A signal gun was then fired by a de
tachment of the District of Columbia j'
Artillery, which was stationed on the ;
mall south of the Treasury Department. '
The Marino Baud played “ Hail to the ' j
Chief,” the troops presented arms, re- !
covered, and the column broke from j
tlio right, marched to the left, moved j
dow n Pennsylvania avenue, and halted ; 1
when the head of the column had reached I
the Treasury Department. The Presi
dential party anil special escort took !'
their places in line and the First Division j ]
resumed the march;
The remaiuder of the long procession I 1
then fell in and moved along the ave- !
nue, where it was greeted by prolonged j
and tumultuous applause.
On arrival at the Capitol the proces- j 1
sion moved around the building by the '
south side and formed line on the east '
front, facing the Capitol. The Presi- j
deutial party then drove to the Senate ’ 1
entrance.
The Presidential carriage was driven i 1
j to the lower entrance of the Senate j
wing, and the President-elect, accom- : '
panied by the Vice President-elect and ; !
Senators Pendleton and Thurman, en- j
tered the building and proceeded to I !
the Vico President's room, where they
remained until 12 o’clock.
As early as 10 o’clock crowds began
to assemble in front of the platform ;
erected over the steps leading to the j i
main entrance, and at 12 o’clock it was
estimated that 50,000 people were mass- \ i
cd in front of the building.
At 12 o’clock General Garfield, ac- I
eompanied by Chief Justice Waite, ap- j
peared on the platform. The oath of 1
ollice was administered, and at its close, ;
stepping forward, bareheaded, the .
President delivered his inaugural ad- j
j dress.
THE PROCESSION.
The procession was under command
of Gen. Sherman. The first division, !
Gen. Ayres, of the U. S. Army, com- j
manding, was composed of regular j
troops, Militia from distant parts,
Knights Templar, Boys in Bine, Grand
Army of the Republic, N aval cadets, etc.
The second division was composed
j of Militia from all sections of the conn
| try, anil was under command of Gen.
j llartranft, of Pennsylvania.
The third division, under command
jof Gen. Fletcher, was composed of
j Military.
The fourth Division, under command
j of Gen. Field, was made up of State j
: organizations,
| The fifth division, under command !
I of Col. Boyd, of Washington, was made t
j up of civii societies.
When the head of the column reached ;
| Fifteenth street aud New York avenue,
i there was a short pause to allow the
! Presidential party to reach the review- j
I ing stand. The march was then re- j
| siimed, guides were shifted and the :
i whole column passed the President iu 1
| review, each Division Commander nc
; eompanied by two aids taking a position
| near the President while his own troops i
' were passing. Olficors commanding di
j visions, brigades, regiments and separate |
] battalions sainted, aud the band of eaeli
! organization played while passing in re
i view before the President.
On arrival at the Capitol the proces- j
i sion moved around the building by the
I south side and formed line on the east
| front facing the Capitol. The Presi- j
; deutial party then drove to the Senate
| entrance.
IN THE SENATE CHAMBER.
The Presidential procession, headed
by President Hayes and President-elect
: Garfield, finally’ entered tlio Senate
! Chamber under escort of Senators j
: Pendleton, Anthony, Bayard and others
| of the Committee of Arrangements, and
two minutes later by A’ice-President
elect Arthur, in charge of a sub-com
mittee composed of the above named
j Senators, all present in the chamber
; rising upon each occasion,
i Vice President elect Arthur was then j
introduced to the Senate by Vice-Presi- j
; dent Wheeler, and delivered the usual :
j formal address as follows :
Senators : 1 come as your presiding
i officer with genuine solicitude. Re
! memberiug my’ inexperience in parlia- !
! meutary proceedings, I cannot forget
i how important, intricate aud often cm
, j bar raising are the duties of the Chair. ]
, : On the threshold of our official associa
tion I invoke that courtesy aud kindness
. i with which yon have been wont to aid
j your presiding officer. I shall need
i your constant encouragement and snp
. ! port, aud I rely w ith your
• j lenient judgment of any errors into
which I may fall.
In return be assured of my earnest
i; purpose to administer your rules in a
> ! ’it of absolute fair-ess, to treat every
etor at all times ith that courtesy
I
ami just consideration due to the rep
resentatives of equal States, and to do
lav part, as assuredly each of you will
do his, to maintain the order, decorum,
and dignity of the Senate.
I trust that the official and personal
relations upon which we now enter will
I>e marked with mutual confidence and
regard and that all our obligations will
he so fulfilled as to redound to our own
honor, to the glory of our common
country and the prosperity of all its
people. (Applause.) lam now ready
to take the oath of office prescribed by
the Constitution.
The oath of office was here adminis- ,
tered to the Vice-President elect.
Chief Justice Waite then adminis
tered the usual oath, to which Garfield
responded with reverential fervor. Ex-
President Hayes immediately pressed
forward and congratulated his succes
sor, and, after him, the President’s
mother and wife, both of whom ho i
saluted with a kiss.
A general scene of congratulation and i
handshaking ensued, after which the ;
Presidential party descended from the .
platform by a private staircase and pro
ceeded to the President’s room in the j
rear of the Senate Chamber, where an |
informal reception took place.
I
THE BALL.
The Inauguration Ball in the evening
was a success, the large building being
crowded. At 0:30 o’clock the President
and Mrs. Garfield entered the room with
Mr. aud Mrs. Hayes. The first person
to shake the new President by the hand
was General Hancock. We note a few
of the toilettes worn by the ladies j
present.
Mrs. J. A. Garfield wore a heliotrope j
satin, with the front draped with three j
deep flounces of point lace and around ;
the bottom of the front was a delicate ;
knife-plaiting. Mrs. Hayes wore white !
satin eu train, with the front richly em
broidered." The corsage was square and
filled in with tulle. Miss Maggie Blaine
wore creme toilc religieuse , with white
satin trimmings.
Mrs. Miller, wife of Justice Miller,
wore a sea-foam satin and crepe du
chene—a present from the Chinese Am
bassador. The bnttous were smoked
topaz. Miss Miller, her daughter, wore
a combination of white satin aud white
silk en princcaac, with the corsage cut ;
in a deep square, and trimmed with
lace. Mrs. General Hazen wore a pink
moire antique silk combined with cream !
colored brocade, the front being of the j
last named material and embroidered ,
with gold, over which was a veil of j
round point lace. Mrs. Senator Logan j
wore black silk, en train, with passe- j
menterie aud point lace trimmings, j
Mrs. Hiester Clymer wore black satin, :
en train. Mrs. John H. Starin wore j
black satin with black velvet trimmings.
Miss Carrio Starin wore white brocaded j
satin with trimmings of pearls.
Cruelty to Cuttle on Shipboard.
The Loudon Telegraph says that if!
certain rumors respecting the intolera- j
ble sufferings to which horned cattle are j
subjected during their transport from ;
this country to England Ire founded on ;
fact, it is high time that the Board of
Trade she old turn its serious attention j
to the subject. In all probability stren
uous efforts will be. if they have not
already been, made by the Society for
the Prevention of Crnelty to Animals
to obtain official protection for the uu
fortiinate creatures doomed to endure
the horrors of a long sea voyage with
the shambles as its goal, in order that
English tables may be plentifully sup
plied with fresh beef. Under favorable
weather conditions a bullock passes its
time ou board ship iu a condition of
fear aud misery ; but “when the stormy
winds do blow,” and the vessel rolls
heavily, the agonies it suffers are such
that their mere contemplation for a few
seconds might melt a heart of stone.
That willful torture should be permitted
to aggravate the already unbearable!
torments to which a severe gale con- ;
demus these wretched beasts, appears ;
incredible; yet we have been assured J
that expedients of such dire cruelty that ;
we forbear from shocking the public by !
describing them are mercilessly put in j
practice iu order to compel oxen, moil- !
dened by sheer physical pain, to lend ’
overboard when the movement of the !
vessel is so violent as to preclude the j
possibility of their being dealt with by
the crew. It is a significant fact that, j
within the last few days, a vessel which ;
left the shores of America with a cargo i
of 591 live bullocks should have arrived J
iu the port of London with only 45 of j
its horned passengers, the other 549 |
having perished during the voyage “in |
consequence of heavv weather.”
j:
An Insurance Case.
A case of no little importance to
those who are insured agaiust accident
is reported. The Hartford Accident
Insiirarce Company insured the life of
a physician and surgeon in the sum of
two thousand dollars, payable to his
wife. The policy provided for the pay
ment of that amount to her after proof
of her husband's death in consequence
' of “ bodily injuries effected through ex
| termd, violent aiul accidental means,
i within the intent and meaning of this
j contract.” There was a further pro
viso that the insurance should not ex
; tend to any bodily injury of which there
should be no external aud visible sign,
nor to any death caused by the taking
of poison.
The insured doctor accidently killed
; himself bv taking poison which he mis
| took for pure drinking water. He had
S no intention of committing suicide, and
i did not know that there was poison in
the glass from which he drank.
Iu an action to recover the insurance
: money, the company defended success
| fully on the ground, first, that the in
jury which occasioned death was not
effected through external and violent
means ; and, second, that the death of
the insured was caused by the taking of
poison, and was therefore excepted
from the operation of the policy. The
verdict was in favor of the eomi>auy,
mid the estate of fhedeceased failed to
recover.
The time has arrived \*hen an invita
tion to a -veddicgis equivalent to lend
ing a groom $lO and feeling thankful
that he didn’t ask for more,
WIT AM) WISDOM.
T ih often silent, but a tea party is
the noisiest thing on record,
i It was a Connecticut minister whose
salary was $25 a year and half the
j he caught.
It is not possible for three people to
keep the same secret unless two of them
are dead.
The fool hath said in his heart, “Any
■ one can write for the paper.” Try it,
O fool, try it.
An apologist for
j holds that the more men fame the less
they free.
When an editor with a cold in hi*
head writes an article he punctuates i t
with blows. >t
“ One good turn deserves another,”,
os the man said when lie turned tiHf
organ grinder out of the front yard.
Bt a wise provision of Providence,
' close lieside the little treei an which nut
megs grow often stands a greater.
Every man has threo
that which he exhibits, that which he T
j has and that which he thinks he lias.—
j A. Karr. - I
The seat of knowledge is in the head;
.of wisdom in the heart. We are .sure
to judge wrong if we do not feel right.
—Hazlitt.
Let wickedness escape as it may at
the bar, it never fails of doing justice
unto itself, for every guilty person is bis
own hangmau.— Seneca.
A female spider eats her husbands
If Mormon women lived ou husbands
j there never would be enough left to
1 warm up in hash.
It was one of the ancient sages who
' said : ‘ 8 The goodness of gold is tried by
i fire, the goodness of women by gold,
: anil the goodness of men by women. ”
“ MANAOEMENr of the world’s fair,”
is troubling New Yorkers just now. It
is a problem Adam struggled with when
there was only one world’s fair, and she
got the best of him.
All things are comparative. To a
nervous woman the problem of how to
get a caterpillar off her new bonnet is a
matter of greater moment than the
passage of the Rubicon was to Caesar.
“ Will you have the anilacitv to move'
a little further forward?” is the way a
conductor on the Boston street 'cars \
i puts it when he wants to make room e
| for more passengers in his already ,
crowded car. /
Jones’s boy lias had a leg so lama *
• that he couldn't walk to school for a
1 week, and after two doctors failed to*“
! euro it the old man had to get the lad a'
; pair of club skates to fix him right.—
! Boston Post.
Peck s Sun lias been looking np the
millinery business, and it finds that
thirty cents’ worth of velvet, three
i cents’ worth of wire and forty cents
worth of feathers can lie stirred up ao£..
sold for $25.
We are always more disposed to laugh
iat nonsense than at genuine wit, be*
j cause the nonsense is more agreeable tc
i us, being more conformable to our ns
I tures ; fools love folly and wise mots
; wisdom. —Marguerite de Valois.
Last summer she was eating gree
corn by gnawing it from a cob, wbe
■ ner teeth suddenly became entangh
with a corn silk. “ Ob, dear,” said sb
impatiently, “I wish when they get tl
corn made they would pull out bastir
threads!”
The pretty daughter of a Unit*
States Senator desires ns to withdr
our influence in favor of reducing t-.
army. She says that in Washington
society real good partners are vir
scarce, even now, as few of the civilii
know anything about dancing.
After a recent lecture in One'
Connty.an elderly gentleman approac'
the llawkeye man aud said : “ Air. r
dette, I am very much pleased wi£^
‘Rise and Fall of the Mustache,’
haven't I read somewhere that
sometimes deliver a fuuny lecture ■
A Maryland man was kicked
j mule just in time to get him out o*
! way of a stroke of lightning.
! men would have seen a special
| deuce for this. But ho didfi _
j cursed that the lightning didu't
1 him in time to get him out of t‘
| of the mule.
“ Yor are always kicking np
said a gentleman to a negri
a ife who were having a 8 8 mils
! is there no harmony iu yo
‘ “ Dat’s jess what I was te’
wufless nigga,” said the worn
| ain’t no hominy in de hoy
: meat, an’ de bacon’s all eat
| meal bar’l is empty. He is d
; iu de house wat’s full all de *
A Terror to Compos
Carlyle was a terror to <
He nsed to revise and retor
so much that the labor
aud overrunning was gr
first work of setting up.
j London publisher's forei
! “Why, sir, you really a
• ns with your correcti
so much time, yon sec.’
Carlyle urged in rer
ought to be accustome
anees, and that in Sc
no fnss made over thci
“ Ah, well, sir,” ref
man, “ we have a mar.
burgh. He took up a
the other day, and di
hail burned liis fing
us!’ he cried, ‘have j
print for? Lord knows
get done, with all his c< riv v
The author nsed to laugh
this story when he told it of J
An Interruption.— A rej
from New Orleans that a m'
roony in a church in that ci
denly interrupted by a x
f who hurriedly laid a chil
f at the feet of the groom ai
l is yonr child. You are it
, am lawfully your vn 1
, not marry this w.
> carried the infuriah
church by main fore
proceeded to a close.
• created the disturbance
- groom had led her to
1 past four years that sh
wedded life.