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KANSAS NEWS.
Emporia reports a $250 burglary.
Wichita is to have a new flouring
mill.
. "Wellington has put in her first street
lamps.
A company has been formed inTopeka
for the purpose of manufacturing
matches.
Flagstone sidewalks are a new fashion
at Wichita.
The Emporia Library recently received
350 new books.
The Independence water-works will
soon be in operation.
An addition is being added to the Ho
tel Coolidge, at Emporia.
Charles Rutledge suicided at Wichita
for some reason unknown.
A town has been established in King
man county named Cleveland.
Peter Hampton, a colored rag picker,
is the oldest citizen in Wyandotte.
Ninety students were enrolled in the
Sumner county Normal Institute.
The Lyon County Horticultural So
ciety has been in session at Emporia.
The Arkansas City Water Power Com
pany has expended $100,000 on a canal.
The Pottawatomie County Institute
has an enrollment of forty-one teachers.
An attempt is being made to estab
lish a colored lodge of Masons at Wichita-Clark
City is the name of a new town
which has just been established in Clark
county.
A voudoo doctor is practicing upon the
credulity of the colored people of Osage
county.
A new and very large pram elevator
is to be built shortly in Bull City, by a
new firm.
The newspapers over the State protest
against theweed3 growing along the
sidewalks. .
The business men of Clay Center have
agreed to close their places of business
at 8 o'clock.
The ""New Era" is the name of a secret
society which has just been organized at
McPherson.
The recent storm of wind, rain and
hail was the severest ever known in Ed
wards county.
Louisburg has secured the Harrison
plow manufacture and will proceed at
once to business.
Longton reports a $250 safe robbery.
A merchant named Rainbo living at Elk
City is the victim.
Caldwell parties have secured the
contracts to supply the new military dis
trict of Oklahoma.
Oskaloosa has medecinal mineral
springs. They are said to have cured
numerous diseases.
A. Mercet, a wealthy citizen of Flor
ence, shot himself through the head and
was instantly killed.
The Kingman Courier reports a large
number of temporary bachelors as being
residents of that city.
Kingman, Kingman county, is clamor
ing for an elevator. A good opening for
some enterprising grain dealer.
The postoffice building at Emporia has
sunk half an inch. Fears are exercised
as to the safety of the building.
McPherson is complaining of insuffi
cient eating hotel accommodations, al
though it has eight regular hotels.
A young man has been arrested in
Leavenworth charged with stealing a
horse from a party in Wyandotte.
Osborne had a case of poisoning last
week, the victims beinsr Hawver Heron
and sister, who ate canned salmon.
Bayne is the name of a new station on
the Fort Scott road near Wichita. It
was named after the late Judge Bayne.
A boy named Alzono Meyers, fifteen
years of age, has been arrested at Meri
den, charged with attempted train-wrecking.
F. G. Wilson, a prominent business
man of Arkansas City, was drowned near
a. 1 a : . ; ii A 1 i. : i
luai uny in iuu AiKausaa river, wiiiie
bathing.
A boy fell accidently to the bottom of
a well, in Leavenworth, forty-five feet
deep. He was comparatively injured by
the accident.
Joseph Maddox, a fifteen year old boy
was drowned in the Kansas river at
Lawrence while bathing. The body was
not recovered.
Two hundred persons assembled last
week to see the opening of a night
blooming cereus belonging to Mr. Mil
ler, of McPherson.
Peter Lafalia, a Miami Indian, who re
sided in Miami village, Miami county?
from 1840 to 1870, died in the Miami
reservation, June 10, 18S4.
Two cattle men named Edwards and
Burdette were drowned while crossing
the Arkansas river, near Rock Ford, Sum
ner county. They were driving a herd
to market.
Paola Spirit: The Committee in Rich
land township in the matter of poison
ing Jas. Caton's cattle, has been dis
solved. They do not cast suspicion on
any one in the neighborhood.
The town&ite of Necodemus has been
taken up as a timberclaim. It is thought
that a flaw was lound in the title there
by causing the land which now com
prises that city to revert to the Govern
ment. Fredonia has had a gasoline famine for
the past week. There are at least sixty
families in the city that use gasoline for
cooking in the Summer, an4 not a gallon
of the article can he had lor love or
money. N
Emporia News? "Atchinson ha3 a He
club, and organization composed of fam
ily men who are guarding their hearth
stones while their wives are enjoying a
respite irom household cares in a more
inviting latitudes."
State Veterinary Surgeon Holcombe
recently inspected the twenty-five livery
stables of Leavenworth and found twen
v.fivft eases of danders. He ordered
five of the horses shot. Their value was
estimated at $1,000.
Richard McDermott, a laborer, and
resident of Leavenworth county, was
found in a lifeless condition. He died
standing, and when life was extinct failed
to fall, and it was some time before his
death was discovered.
A policeman named Losse while at
tempting to arrest a man named Joseph
Hartman in Leavenworth shot and in
stantly killed him. The coroner's jury
recommended that the shooter be ar
rested and tried lor the crime.
At a sheep shearing exhibition at Le
nora seven men sheared 531 sheep in
the highest average made by one man
was 120. Average fleece six pounds. In
halt a day one man sheared 78 sheep
and a buck, or 79 in all. Very good.
Pittsburg Smelter: Fred Fanger has
been quietly drilling in the northeast
corner of his land, just west and north
of the bridge, for a week past, and
Thursday struck the first vein of coal at
a depth of forty-six feet, four feet thick.
Arkansas City Traveler: The business
men of that cowboy's paradise, Caldwell,
have petitioned Commissioner Price to
reverse his decision that all freight for
the Indian Territory should come to Ar
kansas City in the future, instead of to
Caldwell.
Lyndon Journal: Mr. E. D. Tiffany's
barn was burned recently; a plow and a
few other articles were destroyed. A val
uable mare, w hich was tied in the barn,
was saved by prompt and cool-headed
work. The conflagration is supposed to
have been caused by the stub oi a cigar
being carelessly thrown on the road side.
Peabody Graphic: Wm. G. Zurhars, in
East Branch, lost a child recently by a
singular and most distressing accident.
A little eight-year-old son, while at play
in the yard, fell head first into a swill
barrel, and before he was discovered life
was almost extinct. All efforts to restore
him proved fruitless, and the little fel
low lived but a short time after being ex
tricated from the barrel.
Lenora Leader: Wa-keeny has organ
ized an anti-horse and cattle thief asso
ciation. Now let Lenora and other towns
north and south follow suit, until the
chain is complete from the Nebraska
line, or as much further as they please
tocarry it, to the southern line of the
State. If this had been done a few years
ago the country might happily be rid of
some worthless characters, and the pos
sessor of more valuable horses.
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
of the State.
Ottawa county's wheat crop this year
will reach 1,000,000 bushels.
El Dorado Times: A hail storm nearly-
annihilated an extra fine wheat crop for
Hon. J. H. 1 ulhn wider, on Whitewater
last week. The hail fell only in a nar
row space, so that surrounding crops
were uninjured.
Belle Plaine Neivs: We noticed last
week a field where the wheat had been
cut, and corn planted in the stubble by
merely plowing a furrow for the row of
corn. This looks like crowding the soil
a little too hard.
Halstead Independent: A. S. Pownell, of
this township, handed us a few stalks of
tniothy grown on his farm this year,
whose heads measured 10 inches in
length. Where is the man who says
timothy won't grow in Kansas?
La Cygne Journal : J. J. Lepeman, of
Lincoln township, harvested twenty-five
acres of wheat in twenty-four hours this
week, with a twine binder machine. He
began one morning, and completed the
work without interruption, keeping the
harvester running day and night.
Hiawatha World: Mr. Sam'l Moyer
has shown us the largest radish we ever
saw. The seed was planted twTo months
ago, in his garden m Schilling's Addition.
The radish is twenty inches long and
weighs four pounds. It is as pleasant
and good to eat as an ordinary small rad
ish. Clay Center Times: The wheat crop all
over this portion of Kansas is simply im
mense. It is beinsr cut now. and in Qual
ity and yield wili be not inferior to the
best ever produced in the State. There
are hundreds or pieces we know oi
which will make 35 bushels per acre in
this county.
Oberlin Herald : C. S. Brown informs
us that he has about 20,000 one year old
cottonwood trees on his timber claim
that will average two inches in diameter,
and seven feet in highth. He also has
1000 coffee bean trees and 4000 peach
trees three years old that are thrifty and
growing nicely.
Clay Center Times: Now is the time
to save samples of wheat, rye, grasses,
etc. Pull up your best specimens and
let them dry in the shade. Then tie
them in about four places and lay them
away until next Fall, them bring them
in to the County Fair, and show the
people what you can raise.
Lincoln Banner: We were shown sev
eral nice specimens of crab apple that
grows iu ' clusters like cherries, a few
days ago. His trees are young but he
says he will have several bushels of ap
ples this y ear. It only requires care to
raise good fruit here. Mr. H. has his
trees protected by timber and they are
doing well.
Manhattan Mercury: Here is a bit of
experience that is worthy of considera
tion : In hoeing weeds trom about your
fruit trees, pile them around the tree
and cover with four or five inches of dirt.
These weeds will hold moisture much
longer than the earth itself, and will in
sure a constant and steady growth of the
trees. This was tried by one of our
townsmen in the dry year of 1874.
Caldwell Journal: Farmer Gilmore
brought in a sample bunch of White
Russian oats, taken from a field of ten
acres he has grown on his farm adjoining
the town site. The bunch measured five
feet in height. Two heads measured sev
enteen and a half inches each, and the
balance of the bunch fourteen inches. It
does not appear to have attained half its
regular size, but then this statement will
hardly be believed as it is.
Garden City Cultivator: Alfalfa won't
"go slow" no how. We sowed a small
patch of it May 10th, and it came up as
promptly as turnip seed, in six days, and
on June 20th, just forty days from the
sowing, we pulled up an average stalk of
it which Otis Potter measured with his
carpenter's pocket rule, and pronounced
it precisely 20J inches high above
ground, while the root measured 6i
inches below ground, and the ground
is shaded by two big walnut trees be
side. Pleasanton Observer: Mr. Alfred Bla-
ker has a couple of sweet chestnut trees
that have been thrifty till this year,
when it was noticed that something was
at work on the leaves. Investigation
disclosed a peculiar kind of fly, not very
large, but of enormous capacity for chest
nut leaves. A few were boxed up and
sent to the State Entomologist, for his
opinion regarding the species, partly in
the interests of science, but more partic
ularly with a view to . learning some
method of extermination. The insects
were sent on Monday and an answer
maybe expected soon. In the mean
time Mr. Blaker has whitewashed the
trunks and branches of his trees, hoping
to arrest the ravages of the pests.
Council Grove Republican: Who said
"Red clover won't grow in Kansas?" W.
H. White has just harvested twelve acres
of red clover on bottom land on his farm,
which yielded over 40 tons of hay. It
was hard to find room on the ground to
cure the hay. The seed was sown a year
ago this Spring. Mr. W. is more than
pleased with his experiment, but says
that the next time, he will mix timothy
or orchard grass with the clover, as the
hay will cure more easily and better than
the unmixed suculent clover. We are
glad to record such experiments and
trust many other of our wide awake
farmers will imitate Mr. White's com
mendable enterprise.
Topeka Commoniwa: Dr.M. R. Leon
ard, of Dover, has constructed an incu
bator that will hold 300 eggs. It consists
of a box about four feet square, and an
other box inside of that about three feet
square, the space between the two boxes
being filled with saw-dust. The inside
box has a canvas bottom and a zinc plate
at the top, and two lamps furnish the
heat, keeping it at about 102 degrees. It
takes five gallons of oil and twenty days
time to hatch. Four weeks ago the incu
bator hatched out 121 chickens from a
setting of 175 eggs. The cost of this
home-made incubator was about 3. In
cubators that will accommodate 1,300
cost from the manufactories from 75 to
$100.
STOCK. SQUII33.
Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
The Live Stock Sanitary Commission
executed an order to the Sheriff of Shaw
nee county, authorizing him to kill a
horse belonging to D. Wyatt, which he
did at once.
Chetopa Advane: Mr. A. J. Lotz sold
some wool to the DeJarnette Bros., aH
few days ago. The wool from 6o rams
averaged 17 lbs. each, and that taken
from 50 yearlings of mixed stock averaged
10 lbs. each.
Peabody Gazette: We saw at the depot
a comely Berkshire sow weighing 325
pounds, on her way to Washington
county, Kansas one of the northern tier
of counties. She was from the Elmwood
heard and cost the buyer $50.
Sterling Gazette: E. D. Case sheared
his sheep last week. He had a flock of
one hundred' and fifty head. The wool
sheared from them weighed 1,700 lbs.
They are the fine Merino sheep. One
ram three years old sheared 25 lbs. Six
one year old rams averaged 18 lbs. per
head.
Dodge City Cowboy: Embryo cowboys
who started in last year on high prices,
writh a corral and shepherd dog, a large
white hat with rattlesnake band, are of
fering to sell the remainder or remnant
of their herds, claiming that the cattle
business is not the thing they took it
to be.
Dodge City Cowboy: There have been
a tew bunches changing hands this Sum
mes. Yearling steers selling for $21,
twos, $30. S. W. Missouri cows and
calves, $30. Native yearling heifers $20,
twos $26 to $30. Prices are not so strong
as last season, and in order to realize
parties are forced to concede at least $2
from last year's figures.
Peabody Gazette: A large, thorough
bred Short-horn cow of the Arabella
family, raised near Peabody, has been
publicly pitted against any full-blood
Jersey in the State of Kansas as a milker
and butter maker. The owner is waiting
for some Jersey breeder to take up the
glove. Whoever does will have to trot
out a cowr that will make twenty pounds
of butter per week.
Eldorado Times: "Duke of Richland"
is the name of a thoroughbred Short
horn calf, brought this week Jrom Illinois
by Mr. S. E. Horsey, of Richland. The
calf is a perfect representative of his fam
ily a cubin body, small neck, small
muzzle, (he can drink out of a quart
measure), age seventeen months, weight
iMO pounds. Mr. Horsey is justly proud
of his acquisition, and the blood of this
calf will make an improvement upon the
already well bred stock of Richland and
vicinity.
W. G. McCandless, Chase county,
writes the Kansas Farmer: Our shearing
was so satisfactory I subjoin a little ac
count of it. Our Cotswolds (45) averaged
15 lbs., running from 11 lbs. up to 23.
Capt. Snell, a 3 year old clipped 23J lbs.,
a 14 months' clip ; Chess Wilson, 3 years,
21? lbs., 14 month's clip; Young Chess, 2
years 18 lbs., 12 month's clip ; Young
Snell, 1 year 18 lbs., 14 month's clip ;
Lady Kepple, 5 years, 18J lbs., 12
month's clip ; Snowflake 4 years 18 lbs.,
12 month's clip ; Young Queen, 1 year 2
months, 18 lbs., 14 month's clip. These
sheep were shorn June 13th, 1884, and,
except the two three-year-old rams were
shorn between the 12th and 18th of June
last year.
Peabody Gazette: The best horse in the
State (as a roadster), Joe Young, is
owned in Marion county. The best
Short-horn bull in the State, imported
Grand Duke of Barrington, and the most
valuable Short-hon cow in the State,
imported Aconite, are owned in Marion
county. The best Berkshire, Shriven
ham II, is owned in Marion county, and
the best Poland China in the State, Fre
linghuysen, is owned in Marion county.
And the best poultry yard in Kansas is
in Marion county, and owned by the
President of the Marion County Agri
cultural Society. Now, if any man in the
State of Kansas has hardihood enough to
deny the above statement, let him waltz
up and give his name, if he wants to get
into trouble.
GRAND ARMY GLEANINGS.
Particulars Pertaining: to the Posts.
A Women's Relief Corps has been or
ganized at Hiawatha.
The Post at Westmoreland reports mus
tering in recruits at every meeting.
There are thirty-eight divisions of the
women's Relief Corps which have been
organized in this State.
McCook Post nf Trvla l,oo
meinbershiD of 140.
numbers at every meeting
Benton Post No. 61, of Anthony, was
presented with a hananmo floo. iw ho.
Ladies' Relief Corps of that p'ace.
Sumpter Post No. 168, of Winchester,
haS adODted resnlntinna innKirrr Vi
recommendations of the Pension Com
mittee oi tne urand Army.
The Women's Relief Corps, of Wich
ita, is reported in a good and thriving
condition. A number of recruits were
mustered in at the last meeting.
The G. A. R., Building which has been
erected by the Post at Seneca, is a beau
tiful building and a credit to the work
done by that Post. It cost $7,000.
A member of Gen. Rice Post, of To
peka, named Coates, died recently, and
the Post had the remains shipped to
Bradford Junction, where they were in
terred. Louisville Republican : John A. Dutch
er is a very enthusiastic in his efforts to
work, up a G. A. R. Post at this place.
Wake up old soldiers, and assist Mr.
Dutcher in this much needed enterprise.
Howard, E. M. Stanton Post No. 23, is
booming, having a membership of 150;
also, a Woman's Relief Corps has been
organized in conjunction with Stanton
Post, which has eighteen charter mem
bers. Topeka Lance: We are informed by a
comrade of Ellis that George Ellis Post
No. 171, of that place, is in a prosperous
condition, having sixty members and a
good Post room 30x60, twelve stands of
arms, and a good drum corps.
Topeka Commonwealth: Capt. L. J.
Webb and Lieut. Langston, of .Old Abs
Camp Sons of Veterans were elected del
egates to the Third Grand Division En
campment, which met on the 8th day of
July, at Chicago. Capt. AY ebb stated
that it was his intention of himself and
Lieut. Langston to attend the encamp
ment. Burrton Monitor: Farragut Post, No.
37. G. A. R., of our city has been the re
cipient of a handsome flag from A. Per
ry, former Adjt. of the Post, and a gavel
made from one of the door posts of Li bby
prison, by Capt. J. C. Johnston, of New
ton. The members prize them highly
and are under many obligations to the
doners.
Minneapolis Call: The headquarters of
the G. A. K. in the syndicate block have
been carpeted and adorned with flags
and streamers. Between 40,000 and 50,
000 veterans are now expected to be in
this city during the Encampment of the
G. A. R. The Sons ofWeterans will pa
rade with the G. A. R. as a society, and
not as a military organization. Mr. Geo.
Knowlton was chosen as a delegate to
the convention of the Sons of Veterans
at Chicago.
KANSAS CH.UKCHJ2S.
Items of all Kinds Concerning Tlieui.
The Baptist society of Humboldt is al
most entirely free from debt.
A Christian church was dedicated at
Valley Falls a few Sundays ago.
The new Methodist church at Clay
Center is fast reaching completion. .
The Baptists of Wamego are y-oing to
improve and enlarge their house of wor
ship.
The State Sunday School Convention
has been in session at Ottawa, 1? ranklin
county.
A son of Rev. Peter Wager, of J Sa-
lina, was drowned near that place a short
time ago.
Rev. W. Ward, of the Presbyterian
church of Lincoln, was formally ordained
a minister of the gospel recently.
A large number of children were con
firmed by the Bishop of the Catholic
church at Clay Center a few Sundays
ago.
Marysville Nevjs: The Catholic church
organization of this city has purchased
lots and will proceed at once to erect a
fine brick church.
The leaders of the M. E. church of
Vallev Falls are raising money for the
purpose of buvincr an orjran to adorn
their house of worship.
Rev. Tennev, of Junction City, has
iust hail completed a $2,500 church in
Davis county, and now has another edi
flee nearly ready for use in town.
Rev. Robert Killip has resigned the
pastorate of the Congregational church
of Vallev Falls. Lmrincr the two vears
of his work in that city he has preached
226 sermons and converted to Christian
ity forty-one persons.
Marvsville News: The Baptist church
organization of this city has purchased
lots and will proceed at once to erect
church. It has not yet been decided
whether the Ptructure will be lrame or
brick. This will depend somewhat on
the amount of financial assistance the
organization receives.
The Girard Press wishes that ministers
were "as careful to report interesting
items of news to the newspapers as they
are to advertine (free of charge) their fes
tivals, fairs, lectures, etc. The newspap
ers are always giad to assist tne cnurcnes
and their work, and a little return of the
courtesy would nor hurt the churches oi
the papers.
Emporia Republican: We are informed
that the First Baptist congregation is
about to commence canvassing for sub
scriptions for the erection of a new and
elegant church edifice. If the proper
encouragement is met with, and we have
no doubt but that it will be, a building to
cost from $12,000 to $15,000 will be gotten
under wav as soon as possible, lne con
gregation includes some of our best citi
zens, whose determination seems to be
not to allow this project to go by default.
CAPITOL TOPICS.
The Arkansas Valley Land and De
partment Association, of Fort Scott
capital stock $100,000, and the United
Presbyterian Church, of Rich
mond, Franklin county, have filed char
ters with the Secretary of State.
C. D. Otis, an agricultural implement
dealer at Independence, sends a long
list of complaints to the Board of Rail
road Commissioners, in which he alleges
art sorts of rrossnes3 to the bouthern
Kansas road.
At Weatherford, Tex., John Hudson
and Mrs. Leave were married by tele
phone.
COMMODORE GAKKISON.
Tne Kemarkable Career of tlie Orti?e-
narian. Finaucier llovr He lirongnt Jay
Gould to Terms.
Commodore C. K. Garrison's career has
been a remarkable one. From poverty'
he arose step-by-step to a position of
wealth and pow er seldom achieved even
by great capitalists. He Avas born near
what is ndW known as Garrisons, on the
Hudson river, about 1S00. Some of his
biographers have erroneously put the
date oi ms oirtn at a later period. His
father, Oliver Garrison, was at one time
quith wealthy, but he lost his entire for
tune when Cornelius was onlv a child.
Young Garrison was an enereetic lad.
and went to work, at odd jobs on the riv
er, boats at the age of 13 years. At the
age of 16 he came to this city, at the de
sire of his mother, studied architecture
tor three years, lie then went to Canada
and spent five years in the active busi
ness of a builder of houses and steam
boats. It was during this period that he
married a lady from Buffalo.
Mr. Oarrison went from Canada to St.
Louis, where he became largely interest
ed in matters connected with the navi
gation of the Mississippi river. He was
captain of a steamboat on that river, and
hence his title of commodore. It is said
that he was for a while engaged in mer
cantile business in St Louis. When gold
was discovered in California Mr. Garrison
went to Panama and established a bank
ing house which was very successful.
Subsequently he accepted the agency of
the Nicaragua Steamship line, in San
Francisco. His extraordinary business
achievements on the Pacific slope from
Iqo6 to 1850 form part of the history of
ban irancisco itself. As aeent of the
steamship company he received a salary
of about $60,000 a year, and he got about
$25,000 additional as the Representative
oi various insurance companies, xie put
a great amount of energy and executive
ability into his work and effected a com
plete reorganization of the steamship
company. He acquired public popularity
and was elected mavor of San Francisco
within six months after his arrival there.
His administration wTas one of vigorous
and effective reform. Meanwhile he
started the movement that led to the or
ganization of the Padfic Mail Steamship
company, and urged the exploration of a
route lor the Pacific railroad. His benevo
lence and public spirit at that time are
said to have been great. To D. O. Mills,
and other capitalists owe much of their
success.
Upon his return to New York, in I860,
commodore damson emoarKed in a
number of extensive enterprises, all of
which were financially successful. His
fortune w as then reputed to be several
millions of dollars. During the war of
the rebellion Mr. Garrison fitted out,
principally by his own exertions, what
was known as Butler sfemp island expe
dition."
Among the great enterprises 'with
which Mr. Garrison has been prominent
ly identified is the one now known as
the Missouri Pacific railway. He had in
vested quite largely in the securities of
the road, which wa"s originallv known as
the Pacific Railroad of Missouri, and was
the principal owner of the third mort
gage bonds. After the panic of 1873 the
company became embarrassed, and in
1876 was sold under the forclosure of the
mortgage secured by the bonds held by
the Commodore. Hie road was reorgan
ized, with the Commodore as President,
and out of this reorganization has grown
the Marie-Garrison suit. Peter Marie
claims that he would have prevented the
foieclosure, and consented to waive his
objections on the promise oi a bonus ol
36,000 shares of stock in the new com
pany, which were never delivered to mm.
This suit, it is said by the Commodore's
friends, has been the occasion of incalcul
able worry and anxiety to him, which
has been greatly intensified by tne de
cision of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the suit brought by the Pacific
Railway of Missouri to set aside the de
cree oi ioreciosure in ioo. vvnen tne
old road was sold it was bought by a syn
dicate which included Commodore Garri
son and Russell Sage. Upon the reor
ganization, this syndicate sold a control
ling interest to Jay Gould, with,it is said,
the personal guarantee ol the Commo
dore to the validity of the title. The
stockholders of the old road claimed than
the foreclosure proceedings were fradu
lent and the recent decision allows the
suit to be tried on its me i its.
This transaction with Jay Gould was
characteristic of the bluff old Commodore.
When Mr. Gould found that it was abso
lutely necessary for him to secure the
Missouri .Pacific to complete his south
western system, he approached Mr. Gar
rison and asked him how much he would
take for his interest. Mr. Garrison nam
ed a price, which Mr. Gould eaid was too
high. Mr. Garrison refused to come
down a dollar, and Mr. Gould went away
in a huff. The next day, however, Mr.
Gould called on the Commodore and said
he had concluded to take the property.
"But I won't sell it to you at the price
I named yesterdav," said Garrison.
"Why not?" said Mr. Gould.
"Because it is worth $500,000 more to
day." "Pooh, pooh!" said Mr. Gould, and
again went awav. The next day he re
turned and said that he would pay the
increased price.
"Well, the property is worth $500,000
more to-day than it was yesterday," said
Garrison.
"I won't pay it," said Mr. Gould angrily.
"All right,-'was the reply. "The price
will advance $500,000 a day while you
are making up your mind." Mr. Gould
bought the road then and there.
Among the other enterprises in which
Commodore Garrison became heavily in
volved was the Wheeling and Lake Erie
railroad, which was started to afford an
outlet from the coal-fields of western Vir
ginia and northeastern Ohio to the north
west. According to the statement of his
counsel he has locked up in this enter
prise very nearly $3,000,000, which, as
the road is earning little or nothing, is
entirelv unproductive.
Mr. Garrison has for years been large
ly identified with the manufacture of gas
in the principal cities of the United States.
He was the founder of the People's Gas-L-'ght
company of Chicago, which for a
lonsr time was unprontaDie and wmcn
fierured in the Courts for several years,
Many of the bonds which were issued to
relieve its embarrassment were sold in
Europe and received no interest for a
loDg time. It was saved from wreck
only by the personal efforts of the Com
modore, who paid the coupons alter a
Ion-? reriod of litigation and carried it
along until the growth of the city enabled
it to become self-sustaining. lie was al
so the prime mover in the Equitable
Gas company of Baltimore, which has
been attended with the curse of litigation
I which has marked all hi3 ventures for
the past lew years. There is now a suit
pending against himself and the company
brought by Henry Y. Attiell, of No. 35
Broadway, to recover $160,000, though it
is c'aimed that a dec si on against him
will involve the payment of a much
greater sum.
The old Commodore's roal rtatp in
this city is estimated to be worth 500 -
000. "Tie has been supposed to be the
owner of several mill-ons of dollars worth
of gas stock, but some of it is tied up in
litigation, and most of ihe remainder has
been put upas collateral for loans obtain-
at the banks.
Mr. Garrison became a widower many
years ago, and was married a second time
in lb8, his second wife being Miss Ran
dall, of St Louis. By his first wi!e he had
seven children, but the only one now
living is Mrs. B. H. Van Aukin, of ibis
city. Melville C. Day, the Commodore's
confidential legal adviser, married one of
his daughters, who died some years ago.
The old gentleman has lived in comfort
able style of late years in a handsome
house in Park avenue. In the same block
are the residences of John C. Eno and
Rnfus Hatch. The Coruinol ore's Sum
mer residence at Elberon, Long Branch,
is a very handsome one and was built at
a cost of about $150,000.
Wit and. Hunior.
He: "In America, you know, we have
no standing army." "What I are they
all mounted ?"
"What is wanted in this country," said
the bride, as she examined the wedding
presents, "is silver service reform ; that
set is plated."
A little girl of 3 explains the golden
rule to her sister: "It means you must
do everything I want you to, and you
mustn't do anything I don't want you
to."
"Yes," sighed a broken-down man,
w ho had given his pignature to oblige a
friend, "the most foolish thing I ever
did in my life was to learn to write my
own name."
"Yes, Mrs. Veraphine is a very highly
cultured ladj I don't th nk I ever
knew her to express satisfaction with
anytning she ever saw. Nothing comes
up to her high standard."
In Iceland the nights are six months
long, and when a young man ' hears his
girl's father go down and whangs the fur
nace at about half-past ten weeks, he be
gins to think it is about time to go.
"Johnie," said the editor to his hope
ful, are you in the first class at school ?"
"No," replied the youngster, who had
studied the paternal sheet, "I am regis
tered as second-class male matter."
A Georgia man has built a house over
a hailstone which recently fell on his
farm, and has a Summer's supply of ice.
Oleomargarine is meeting with attacks
everywhere. It must learn to suffer. It
learned to be strong long ago.
"Genius," said Anthony Trollope to Dr.
Donald McLeod one day, " is but another
name fcr the length of time a man can
sit."
A Dakota farmer says that the only
thing a cyclone cannot lift from a farm is
the mortgage.
Queen Victoria is the richest woman
in the world and growing richer. What
a picnic her children and poor relations
will have spending it.
Professor-r-"Mr. Jackson do you know
the monistic theory of the universe?"
Mr. J. "Yes," Pause. Professor.
"Why don't you tell me then?" Mr. J.
"Well you see, there is no telling what I
know. Professor dismisses the class.
"How fresh and green everything
looks," murmured Claribel, as they wan
dered along the road. "Everything?"
questioned Adolphus, looking down into
her violet eyes. "Yes, everything," she
replied, abstractedly. He wanders with
another girl now.
He "In what respect does billiards
change my usual disposition?" She
(naively) "Does it change your disposi
tion?" He "Yes; in billiards I never
kiss if I can help it, whereas ordinarily
" She "You never kiss if anyLody
else can help it."
Pension Agent "On what grounds do
you demand a pension?" Veteran "1
lost an arm in the service." Pension
Agent "Lost an arm! Why, man, you've
got two arms!" Veteran "Oh, I don't
mean these. The arm I lost was of the
Springfield pattern."
Moses, the fat girl's widower, is mak
ing love to the armless woman in Balti
more. Now he is coming to his senses.
An armless woman cannot keep a man
dodging household bric-a-brac duringhis
waking hours. However, she may poss
ess kicking proficiency sufficient to keep
up her end of the house.
There died a few days ago in England
a woman named Sutton, a native of Ire
land, who was a master of Greek, Latin,
French, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic and
Chaldaic. Just think how a woman
with all those languages at her command
would address the congregation on a
wash day when the kitchen chimney
wouldn't draw.
The young man at South Yonkers who
spent five regular-sized hours with his
"best girl" on a recent Sunday night and
never offered to kiss her "red, red
cheeks," gave as an excuse that he had.
seen a placard on the stoop as he came
in, which warned visitors to beware
of the paint. He was a cautious young
man.
Scientists say that the reason kissing
is so pleasant is because the teeth, iaw
bones and lips are full of nerves, and
when the lips meet an electric current is
generated. We are glad to be set right
in this matter. Heretofore we have sup
posed that a kiss was pleasant on ac
count of a pretty girl being at the other
end of it.
Brute "Well, Ethel, how did you
make out?" Angel (under treatment for
her voice) "I didn't like it at all, and I
don't see why the doctor finds it neces
sary to run an instrument down my
throat so far far that it seems as if he
would touch my heart." Brute "Oh,
he was probably trying to find the end
of your tongue, my dear!"
A Sunday school teacher, says an ex
change, had grown eloquent in pictur
ing to his little pupils the beauties of
heaven, and he finally asked; "What
kind of little boys go to heaven?" A
lively little four old boy with kicking
boots, flourished his fist "Well, you may
answer," said his teacher. "Dead ones!"
Rhnntpd the little fellow at the extent of
his lungs.
A drunken man's "guiding starj' is very
often worn on the lapel of a policeman's
coat.