The Sully County watchman., December 08, 1883, Image 3

About The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894

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Slat
ved a few months as porter on a Pull
man palace car.
The Egyptians drank beer 2,000
years before the Christian era. But
because they started it so early is no
reason why the American people
should keep it tfp until 3 o'clock in
the morning.
A Cincinnati street
has given
present of
services. These conductors must
have packed in the passengers with
street pavers' rammers.
Swoct Mary Ann lml a mimical tongue
By «lav niul
hy
AJQ«1
is
uikrnt forwr «he sorurue.
Ant! oft h«*r nnU's her any frifiicis hongUf*
But one (lav, alas' Mx- rupture*! lonjrnt'.
Her nitric away to tlx* winds was soon (tongue,
in jY lar near neiyhbur hud all the bulls
rougua
"No," said the High School girl, "I
don't think Miss Adolphie is very
pretty her barbigerous upper lip de
tracts from her beauty." And then
the rest of the girls scattered to hunt
a dictionary.
"Are you going to play the piccolo
to-nightasked one member of the
orchestra to another. "Yes." "Then
I hope you'll piccolo note to begin
with." The piccolo player was
none
carried
out on a shutter.
"Did you give Johnny the medi
cine, Mrs. Brown asked the doctor.
"Oh, yes, doctor," replied the loving
mother and then she added, inno
cently, "and it don't seem to have
done^iim the least harm."
Miss Alice Freeman, President of
Welleslcv College is described as
slight and girlish in figure, with a
youthful face. She is a doctor of phil
osophy.
The Crown Prince of Germany,
who is now visiting Madrid, will
probably visit Lisbon, the Portuguese
capital, and then return home by way
of France.
During the coming session of Con
gress, Senator Don Cameron, of Pen
sylvanit*. who will spend the winter
in Europe, will be "paired" with Sen
ator Butler, of South Carolina, 011 all
questions of a political character.
The health of the Princess of Wales
is not good. She contracted a cold at
Denmark by dancing at a birthday
ball. Her deafness has so increased
that her companions talking to her in
a theater can be heard all over the
house.
A lawyer was summoned as a wit
tess in a certain case. The Judge,
finding that the witness was lying
badly, interrupted him, saying: "I
beg of you to forget your profession
for a moment and tell us the truth."
A New York man who had been out
of employment for several months, ob
tained a job, and the next day he
killed himself while in a lit of tempo
rary insanity. If you want to drive
a New York man crazy, set him to
work.
Foot-ball has been dropped from the
curriculum of studies at Harvard, and
the students have been
too much." So it was entered
up #4io damage for four blights.
burst of tears, and I expecting the
rest every minute.
A Connecticut man claims to have
a cut that eats cucumbers. This is
something that ought to be encoura
ged in the cat family as much as pos
sible.
"I've got the thing down fine, now,
Mildred,''
said
What has become of
and the short-tailed sorrel horse"
which chased Guiteau. He shot
bad enough to be punished. But then
he scared nis man which counted for
something.
EIWAIU R. BUCKLAND, who visited
General Sherman's house in St. Louis
Tuesday and requested the baud of
one of his daughters in marriage,
was driven off by th«i General, was
locked up Wednesday as a lunatic,
having attempted
house by fore
cleaver to batte
does not give satisfaction to Pkiladel
iphians. Among the things enumer-
An old lady down in Maine savslatedin which we should give thanks.
her daughter has just bought an efe- is not included the great victory
ftnt "cabin organ," and she thinks won by the Athletic Baseball Club.
the "nux vomica" stop is just! Fashion intelligence: First party—
lovely- ''Wliat's the thing in ',»„ur X'rwa^"
A young colored man of Illinois is Second party—"Give it up, old boy.
said to have made a fortune of $150,- Really, you know, I haven't had ai One of the principal graces of Sa
000 within a year. We suspect he ser- pair nnule for quite two weeks. rah, Duchess of Marlborough, was a
1- i I'm therefor* not at all posted on the prodigious abundance of hue hair,
fashions. Inform me/' First i.artv
Flersays,
«r
each" ofTs" c^ductors"a I
that if she would hang up
stocking on Hallow E'en he would
fill it to the brim with something nice
W^en
1
"What are you crying about? ask-
eda kind-hearted stranger of a lad who im,m
was standing in front of a newspaper
oflice weeping as if his heart would
break. "O, dad's gone up stairs to
lick the editor." "Well, lias he come
down yet.'" pursued the gentle Samar
itan. "Pieces of him have," explaiu-
ed the boy, indulging in a fresh out-j
V y pot even tnen, out we
ed to enter a school-
•e using a butchers
DR. J. II. MACCREAUV, of Lancas
ter, Pa., suggests that each public
school pupil in that state should con
tribute one cent for the erection, in
the Capitol grounds at Harrisburg, of
a monument to Thaddeus Stevens—
"the father of the common-school sys
tem of Pennsylvania.
(llikMANV
luui
live hundred mills for
the manufacture of wood-pulp. Such
a degree of perfection has been attain
ed in the treatment that even for the
better qualities of paper the wood-pulp
is substituted for pulp made from rags.
It constitutes 75 per cent, of the paper
stock used throughout Germany.
Smith rufiled: "Hello Jones I'm
glad to see you." Jones, pretending
not to know Smith for fear he'd tap
him for a loan--"My dear sir, you
have the advantage of me. "Yes,
most any one has who possesses ordi
nary intelligence."
It is understood that the Presi
dent's Thanksgiving proclamation
he saw her stocking he was un- 'u' "_1S
#100 for one ye ir's faithful I decided whether to get into it the dwor they w
Tl, n self or buy her a sewWrnaehmo. 1
ingmach
The damage done by the recent
great Hoods, caused by heavy rains, in
Southern Missouri, Southern Illinois
and Indiana is computed at hundreds
of thousands of dollars. The railroad
companies and the farmers are the
principal sutl'erers. It will be some
days before some of the railroads will
be able to restore their bridges, cul
verts and washed embankments.
SERGEANT MASON, now basking
the sunshine of "Betty and the baby,"
is doubly luippy, delighted that he
has been pardoned ami that he need
ed pardon. He has no regret for
having shot at Guiteau, his only sor
row being that he missed his mark.
And it must be admitted that, had he
been as good at the trigger as uiteau
himself was, the petition for his par
don, instead of having been signeu by
2,000.000 people, would have liad at
least another cipher added to it.
Technically a great crimiual,
ho was never heartily condemned by
public sentiment. Right or wrong,
the American people felt like treating
Garfield's assassin just as they would
a mad dog.
Man Against Horse*
Auburn iN. Y. Iinintoh.
Mervine Thompson, tho champion
Canadian wrestler, gave an outdoor
exhibition of his great strength near
the Central Hudson freight-house last
evening between the hours of 5 and 0
o'clock. The Sunday Dispatch stated
that he would pull against any team
of horses in the city or county, and
would give $100 to the owner of tho
team if the horses succeeded in pull
ing him from a ladder. Yesterday
the Canadian athlete made arrange
ments with Mr. B. F. Webster. The
latter is engaged in the work and ex
press business, and is the owner of
several large and strong teams. Five
o'clock was the hour appointed, and
the yard in front of the above-men
tioned freight-house was the place
agreed upon by the interested parties.
A girl called at a lawyer's ollice and of the l.tdder with both hands and
wanted suit entered for "breach of I his feet hrmly against another
promise.', Says she, "He promised to
lawyer, "How much damage do you!
When the hour arrived quite a large
crowd were in attendance, many of
them exacted to see the man pulled
in twain when he attempted to resist
the strength of two of Mr. Webster's
large horses.
Within a few minutes Thompson
made his appearance, and quickly
removed his coat, vest, and hat. A
harness greatly resembling a pair of
shoulder-braces, only a great deal
stronger, was thrown over his should
ers and around his waist, with two
large straps left dangling from tho
forbidden to small of his back. Then lying face
plav it. The new order creates a great! downward upon the ladder, fixed in a
deal of excitement and indignation horizontal nosition, securely lashed
but will save any number of legs. to a telegraph-pole, he grasped a round
ruu,lt*
marrv me four times. Mv affections team was hitched to these straps,
have'been blighted." Savs the polite I «»d
estimate?" "Well, I was blighted i strained, and tugged But in vain,
four times, and I think *100 a blight!
at the foot of the ladder,
1 1-11
cunmierc(:d
,the
lhe. la"i8®
tu-
of
lja,r
wul'-
of
After
started,
making three or four futiles at-
tempts, this team was removed and a
lu'av.v
P"'1'
of
ej SMapped
Amy to the High
School girl, "Don't say 'got it down
line,' Amy, there's a dear say 'reduc
ed it to extreme tenuity."
sorrels attached U) the
man. Ihej', like their predecessors,
couitl II1!lke
no impression, and the
of musde djJ not oxhiinl the
faintest sign of weakening. Finally
Mr.
took the animals hy their head, and
they again exerted their well-trained
muscle. This time the large evener
to which the whillletrees were attach­
in swain like a pipe stem,
This Uu, contest.
The crowd
in attendance wer! well satisfied that
the boast of the stranger had been
made good, and cheered kim hearti
ly.
A Practical Ilreatn.
HurliiiK'ton Huwkeye.
Bertha Crowley, of Deposit, Penn.,
dreamed three nights in succession
that her uncle was dead. Then she
fler'hat
fot a letter from his lawyers telling
the old gentleman was sure
enough dead and had left her an est
tate worth $.*0,000, and Bertha has
ff
one to Galveston to take hold of it.
we could dream like that girl we
would go to sleep right in the middle
of this paragraph, and we wouldn't
wake up until we had dreamed out
the very lsist cent tliero is in the
whole family uncles, cousins,
nephews, and grandsires. There
wouldn't le more than flHO in the
even then, but we'd "move to rake
just
,us
shy st(HJ^
some kimi of a wav
down the door. iipoom Tiim**i
dream. Bessie Turner
a snore alongside of
dreamer.
Why, that'r
to sleep and
couldn't hold
this beautiful
"How long have yon been mar
ried asked the cleric at the hotwl
desk, as the elderly bridegroom regis
tered
Two weeks." renlied the
man.
"Front," cried the clerk "show the
gentleman to parlor $15 a day,
sir."
"Third wife," calmly said the guest.
"Oh, excuse me. Front, show the
gentleman to 824, back. Take the el
evator a week, sir."
A Loudon paper says the Princess
of Wales wore a high dress at the ball
on Friday, as II. K. it. was suffering
Seven Stories of Noted Women.
Two ladies contended for precedence
n tlie court [of Charles V. They ap
pealed to the monarch, who, like Sol
omon, awarded, ""Let the eldest go
)ne
Such a ..dispute was never
!lt ,her
—"Why'man'is the latest thing in heroic low!, she cut.off her command
pants."
A Chicago young man in a rash
moment t«)ld his gin, a St. Louis pa
lo
in i Hamilton smiled.
an^r h«:r
ing tresses and Jiang than In hi.
face.
Nollekins, tlie sculptor, was a para
gon of parsimony. In his own house
v
candles were never lighted at the com-[ attendance was particularly strong,
mencement of the evening,and when- General Fremont's eyes flashed as
ever he and his wife heard a knock at brightly as in the early days when
mid wait until they lie ran away with Benton's daughter.
rap before they lit the
candle, lest the first should have been
a "runaway'' and their candles should
be wasted.
When the Princess Charlotte of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz came over to be
married to George III. she was ten
days at sea, but Kent gay the whole
voyage, sung to Uer harpsiehord, and
left the cabin door open. When she
first caught sight of Sj.. James' Palace
she turned pale
.— The Duchess of
"MV dear Duchess"
said the Princess, "yo* may laugh.
You have been married twice,"but it is
no joke to me."
While Frederick Morel, the great
scholar and eminent printer, was em
ployed on his edition of Labanius
one day, lie was told that his wife was
suddenly taken ill. "I have only two
or three sentences to translate and
then I will come and lxk at her." A
second message informed him that she
was dying. "I have only two words
to write, and I will be there as soon
as you," replied the philosopher. At
length lie was told that she was dead.
"I am vary sorry for it indeed," said
he, going on with his work, "she was
a very honest woman."
T1k- marriage of Racine was an act
of penance—neither love nor interest
had any share .n the union. His wife
was a good sort of woman, but }er
haps the most insensible of her sex,
and the most proper person in the
world to mortify the passion for liter
ature glory and the momentary exul
tation of literary vanity. Itisscarce
ly credible, but most certainly true,
i i
she had never seen acted, nor ever
read, nor desired to read, the tragedies
which rendered her husband so cele
brated throughout Europe. She had
only learned some of their titles in
conversation.
i
Didn't you have
any scrub nogs or lean cattle to sell?"
"No."
"No baled hay for the army
"Not a pound."
"Can't you get a contract for sup
plying the army with something or
other
"I don't think so."
"Got a farm, haven't you
"Yes, but it's almost all lake.
"Lake^ Hurrah! you're saved 1 Never
mind an army contract! Come with
me to a map publisher, and before
twenty-four hours have passed we
of the lake and a cut of a steamboat
going fourteen miles an hour! Saved
—saved—vhere's my hat!**
Always Ask for the Editor.
Pliilatlelphia Call.
Above all things remember v.at the
only way to get a thing printed is to
see the editor personally. Kditors don't
go by the matter in a manuscript.
They go by the looks of the writer.
Besides that, time hangs very heavily
on the hands of people around news
paper offices, and it is difficult to see
what would become of them if would
be contributors did not call once in a
while to talk about their articles, or
play checkers. Be careful, however,
in ascending to the editorial rooms to
skip the double-acting spring step
which is always somewhere along the
stairs, and turns over, lauding victims
in the cellar. This is not meant forcon
tributors, but for peddlers, and noth-
ha»DVaminul
mg so worries an editor as to find I
some contributor's bones among those
l*ie
when it comes to the! „e|s -,0
annual cellar cleaning.
Fremont uu'.! His Son.
New V«rk letter.
from a severe oold: but she was look- General Fremont was .also present, thinks it will take the place iu time of
ing as pretty as usual and when she looking remarkably well considering the old plan. The machinery,he says,
selected Prince Albert Victor for her his years and the variety of his ser- will cost a little more for the new pro
partner in one waltze it was dillicult vices*. 1 think his wife, Jessie Ben- cess, but he thinks the advantage
to believe that the tall young man i ton, was also present, but am not gained far more than pays tht difl'er
was her own son. sure. His son, tne
groom, is a hand- ettce.
some man. rather of the inches and
outlines of his grandfather Benton.
He is black-haired, shows his Gallic
descent, and seemed to be a high-bred
young man. The bride is rather a
blonde, and comes of a large family of
Townsends from Long Island, who
were originally settlers in Massachu
setts, but had to leave in the (Quaker
time. Their town, called Oyster
Buy, on Long Island, became" the
dividing settlement between the
Dutch and English. The. parlors
were crowded with distinguished peo
ple, who have attended the receptions
every Saturday night of the»bride's
father for many years. The army
His last ollice has been to be Gover
nor of one of the Territories carved
out of the huge domain which ho first
explored and described to the world
under the guidance of Kit Carson.
Arizona grew under General Fre
mont's mild sway from the leanest of
our territories to contain at present
probably 75,000 inhabitants, and its
mining resources and railroads are
very well developed. Its capital
town bears the name of Prescott,
which may be taken from the name
of the historian of Mexico.
Animal Intelligence.
From Nature.
At the north side of Dublin there
!s at Clontarf a sea inlet where the.
water at several times of tide is very
shallow. A little stream flows under
the road into the sea at this place.
The bridge beneath which it passes
has pretty high parapets. A huge
dog. a frequent companion during my
student days, used to mount one of
the parapets, employing it as a look
out when he happened for the mo
ment to lose sight of me. Mrs. Come
ford, widow of a distinguished barris
ter, was my landlady. This dog,
aided by an accomplice named Bran,
slew Mr. Comeford's red cat, a great
favorite, and buried him, all but the
point of his tail, in the garden. The
accomplices demeaned themselves in
the most innocent manner, but
betrayed censiderable confusion when
their delinquency was detected. It
did not seem to occur to their canine
minds that the mere tip of the poor
since her own son relates the fact,that jcat'sj tail, when the body itself was
Maria and Elizabeth Gunning, who
appeared at the court of George III
one at the age of 18 and the other at
19—were two portionless girls of sur
passing beauty. "They are declared,"
writes Walpole, "to be the handsom
est women alive. They can't walk in
the park, or go to Vauxhall, but such
crowds follow them that they are gen
erally driven away." One day they
went to see Hampton Court. As they
were going into the Beauty-room an
other company arrived. The house
keeper said: "This way, ladies here
are the beauties." The Gunnings
flew into a passion, and asked what
she meant. The younger of the fair
sisters became the Duchess of Hamil
ton the other became Lady Coven
try.
Something was Done.
Wall Stm-t News.
In the last davs of the war a citizen
of Indiana maile his way to Boston,
and had an interview with a former
acquaintance, who had left his Hos
ier home for the "Hub" and got rich,.
"Daniel, the war incoming to a close
and I haven't made a dollar out of
it"
"Is that possible
I e l.i :ui—
out of sight, could possibly incrimin
ate them. But to return to Clontarf.
It was the practice among the lads
about when the depth of water suited,
to wade out and catch little llat-fish.
These abound in great numbers, and
lie commonly on the sea-lied. The
waders went in bare-legged, and when
they happened to tread upon a fish,
kept the foot in position until they
could stoop down and secure their
prey. One of the fishsrbovs was one
day attended by his dog, and when
the intelligent creature saw the work
in which his master was engaged pro
ceeded to help him by plunging
about, and whenever he felt a fish
kept his paw u]on it until his master
should come up and place it in his
creel. This curious method of catch
ing flat-lish is not confined to Clon
tarf. I was walking one day along
Con's Water, called after the old
chieftain of the name, Con or Con
stantine O'Neil, when I observed a
bare-footed lad wading in the shallow
water—for ttie tide was out
on the bank. He was catching tlut
fish with his feet. I did not detect
his occupation, in which he seemed
pretty successful, until I went close
up in order to see what he was about.
Sorghum Sugar.
The experiments in the mauufac
tues of sugar from sorghum have been
closed by exhaustion of the appropri
ation. During the season there have
been produced 11,000 pounds of sugar
and ."00 gallons of syrup from 2.12
tons of sorghum cane. The expendit
ures were $11.000, making the cost of
the sugar $1 jer pound. This the ex
perimenters claim is a great advance,
as the cost per pound three years ago
was #10, while last year it was $3. A
considerable part of the money used
xpended for the experimental
shall have organized the 'Great Inland Benjamin Butterworth, commissioner Washington, has been making experi
Navigation Company,' elect you as of patents. It has six rollers, and i nients with a process which has
president, and I will have »he stock I bears a strong resemblance to the pad
Ion the market! All we want is a map die of a stern-wheel steamer. Butter
worth's machine expressed 62i ier results.
cent of juice from the reeds.
The commissioner of agriculture
will not ask for any further appropri
ations for department experiments.
He will recommend an appropriation
of $l.otK for each state, to be expended
by the irtate agricultural associations
in the purchase or leasing of ten acres tacles and
of land
for experimental planting of
Prof. Wiley, of the agricultural
department, has been making experi
ments with a new process which had
beeu little tried in the manufacture of
sajrUP
sufta.
which promises astonishing re-
It is what is technically known
tiK
diffusion process, and by it he
,erice„t.
I attended a very large wedding re
ception this afternoon of a son of passing hot water through them by a
General Fremont, an army ofllcer, pressure carries away the sugar in the
and a daughter of John G. Townsend, cane, leaving the starch and gums,
the counsellor, who was Tweed's law- i which is obtained by the old process,
yer. He lives in West Thirty-fourth and making a belter and purer sugar
street, and has been very friendly to and much more of it. The process is
General Fremont for many years. quite a simple one, and the professor
nimy i i .r i .. U .* 1
cane than by the old process of pres
sing the cane between rollers. By this
process he cuts the cane into pieces an
eighth of an inch thick, and putting
it into a series of iron receptacles and
HE WANTED TO WED.
A Vonns .TI*n Thoucht One of Cien.
Mhrrmait'ft Dau-flitera Would Suit
111* i'auc)r.
St. Louis Glotx* Democrat.
A man recently from Chicago, go
ing under the name of E. R. Buck
land, has been creating something of for
To bring matters to a focus Buck
land came to St. Louis for the pur
pose, he says, of asking Gen. Sherman
personally to give him one of his
daughters for a wife. Immediately
after his arrival he went to the home
of Gen. Sherman, on Garrison
avenue.
THROWN OUT.
a rumpus in the family of Gen. Slier- deprive an enemy of cover or to
man within the last week, the details create an obstruction to his advance,
of which were secured to night. Buck- They are effective in removing
stumps
lank labors under the impression that! from fields and from the channels of
he is a great man. lie seems to have rivers. The gigantic operations of
had a somewhat intimateacquaintance- blasting which have opened lines of
ship with the late Senator Morton, of communication by land and by water
Indiana, and John A. Lagan, of IIIin-: would probably never have been
ois. He also claims that for several undertaken but for the discoverr of
years past he has been a warm personal quick explosives. For unlawful uses,
friend of Gen. W T. Sherman. to serve the purpose of assassination
In response to his ring the servant
came to the door.
"Is the General in?" asked Buck
land.
"Yes," replied the servant.
"Tell him there is a gentleman at
the door who wants to see him on very
urgent business."
In a few moments the General enter
ed.
"Gen. Sherman, I believe."
"Yes, sir what do you want?"
"My name is E. R. Buck la mi, and
I've come to see about marrying your
daughter. Did you get my letters
from time to time casting something! hitter said to-day that Mrs.
Several weeks ago Buckland wan- and destruction of property, they can
dered into Chicago and called at the be applied only upon a limited scale
residence of Gen. Logan, where, ac- and with nearly fruitless results, as
cording to his account, he was receiv- experience has already fully delimit
ed with great civility. He says he told strated. Attempts in this way, mado
Mrs. Logan that he desired to marry, on a large scale, to force social changes
and suggested that she should choose and overturn Governments, would
for him a good match. "Your friend. require both time and money "and an
Gen. Sherman, has some eligible elaborate plan of operations, which
daughters, it is said the lady replied,
Tne General at once grew wrathy.
fand
lushed by the irate General. As Buck
neared the door lie raised his
hand as if to strike back at the Gen
eral. saving: "If you'll give me a few
men I eau whip you ana Gen. Grant
put together."
any journalist and that the reported
interviews with her are incorrect.
machinery. Among the apparatus) Professor V\ illcy, of the United
used was a crusher sent for trial by'States Agricultural Department, at
little
sugar
tneu
which
It is
them by a
pressure
sorghum, these ten acres to be com-1 sugar the cane, leaving the staren
pos«d of sections of two acres in dif- am* gums, which are retained by
ferent parts of the state, so that cli- old process, and making a better
matie and topographic influence can I purer sugar
be studied and reported. Of the pop
ularity of this scheme, ti e commis
sioner has no doubt, as it will be, in
his opinion, a miniature river ami har
bor bill, where all the state delega
tions are equally interested.
Explosives.
U«n. Kewtoo. in tL North Ain«rican Retrlaw.
Rapid aad strong explosives are
very useful in hasty operations for
the destruction of abatis, palisades,
more sugar from the stockades, barriers, and other mili
masses of cast or wrought iron which
accumulate below the tap-holes of
cupolas or form in the crucibles of
blast furnaces. They have torn up
ice-dams interfering with navigation
and producing inundations. They
have sometimes been used in fallino
trees, but this is not expedient, except
hasty military operations to
could
jokingly. Buckland took this in dead suppression, unless favored bv organ
earnest, ana thanked his hostess. He
(jzed
forthwith sat down and wrote a letter number and power to initiate revolu
to Gen. Sherman asking the hand of tion and war.
a daughter in marriage.
"So you are the scoundrel who has i to get our money and found the cup
been writing improper proposals to board was bare.
mv family/ Get out of here or I'll "Yes, the paymaster was on hand,
call the ollicers." but he had no greenbacks. When
Buckland stood amazed for a mo-'
ment, and then began to back out.
Buckland is thought to be crazy,
and lias been acting very curiously at
the hotels. He has letters that prove
his intimacy with the late Oliver P.
Morton, and is said to come from a
very prominent Ohio family. Letters
have been sent to the Logan family
asking for particulars concerning
him.
Mrs. O'Donuell.
Philadelphia Time*.
Mrs. Margaret O'Donnell, the wife
of Carey's slayer, lives in seclusion in
this city, her actual residence being
known only to
Father Filan, the
and Pr'est of the Church of the Assump- confederate was glued while the ganie
not pass without detection and
masses of people sulli'cient in
GENERAL SHERMAN'SST0RT.
Trickery by Gambler* at Draw Poker
"How a Pajm«ktrr Lout a Fortune.
.Ww Y'.ri IM rtai'K Journal.
General Sherman told a gambling
story when he was here a few days
ago which has never been printed,
although it was based upon happen
ings of several months ago. Among
the listeners were General Graham,
General Baruum and other old war
horses, who had been prodding the
old commander for half an hour to
give them a story:
"Now, boys, I hate to carry you
back to war, but this thing occured in
Augu
sta, Ga.. in those hot times in
the sixties. My paymaster was a
young fellow belonging to a g*od
New York family and backed by three
solid namee on his bond. We were
pretty poor in these days and always
for pay day
eager tor pay day to come around.
One day we went to the strong-room
asked where they were he renlied:
'Gone up the flue,' which, being
literally translated, means that In*
had lost it by gambling. You must
know that gamblers follow the army
around and make a big thing for a
short while after pay-day. It scemfl
that a few of this gentry tot tired of
picking up the money by driblets, and
put up a job to capture the whole pot.
And this is how they did it.
"The paymaster was very fond Of
draw-poker, and was not slow
revealing his weakness to the f.}iar|
eyed gamblers. Little by little they
drew him in. until he drew upon the
Government's money, (300,000, to try
to redeem his own. The room in
which the games were played was in
the principal hotel of the town, tlie
gamblers also occupying the room
above. Through the ceiling a hoi©
was bored which commanded a full
view of the paymaster and the hamte
he held. To this hole the eye of a
waBon,
1 S Y uttll'i I llttfr ill oi I i «.« i i i i
O Donnell was not unwilling to at- gamblers' telegraph enlightened oue
tend the trial of h*r husband, which
t)f
begins nday. but, on the contrary, tents of the iay master's hand, as
for weeks she lias held herself in t'ead-j by i}1(. telephone upstairs.
iness to go to England, and to give "The arm v paymaster carried his
her evidence on behalf of her husband
and an elaborate system of
,he men at the table as to the con-
monev—or
if it would be admitted, father 1? ilau _i,lto this den of thieves. He stood
adds that she is ready now to go, and
will do so as soon as circumstances!
permit. She asserts that never at any
time was she waited upon by any
newspaper reporter in reference to her
husband's trial or about the slaying!
of Carey that she never gave her:
views about either of those matters to i
1 -houid say. our money
no show whatever against this ccmbi*
nation of circumstances formed by his
attentive friend. They Jet him win
once in a while to keep his courage
ui, but it was only a question of time
When he should owe the Government
$300,000. That time came just two
davs before our pav-dav. The gam-
h^.rii u.ft in a
]lun.v:
I a k e
eonclusion she says that the dntereu- fences of their fraud. Our men were
ces between herself and her husband
majenough
were not caused by unv of her iriends they remained, and that would have
and that none ot her friends at any been their fate had I caught them,
time kept them apart.
We
1
been
tl.e manufacture of i
promises astonishing!
what is technically
i
ir
known as the diffusion process, and
by it he gets 50 per cent, more sugar -Certainly, sir," replied Mr. She**
from the cane thau bv the old process
of pressing the cane between rollers, invulnerable
By this process he cuts the cane into i "General, why didn't the paymaster
pieces an eight of an inch thick, and,
putting it into a series of iron r«cep-1 "Sir," indignantly replied the ex
tacles and passing hot water through
the
tary obstructions, and they form a
regular part of the material in
foreign armies. They serve, like wise,
to it-move walls, houses, and other,
cover for an enemy to destroy with
celerity bridges, particularly iron
trussed railroad viaducts, and in vari
ous ways not necessary to mention,
are useful in attack and defense. In
industrial uses they bare preforated
mountain ranges to open rapid com
munications between nations, have
removed rocks and other hard wbstruc
tions from the channels of rivers, and
destroyed submarine wrecks. They
have been used to break up the sub
soil to depths of six to ten leet to aid
growth of trees. They have removed
ana didn-t even
the trouble to remove the evi-
to have hanged them had
had to wait a week without mon-
ey, not having the fine expressing
peace. The pay-
facilities of time of peace. The
master was locked up until his back
ers paid the bill, when he was dis
honorably discharged."
"Now, General, let me ask you a
question." mildly spoke a little e*-
paymaster, Asa Hjit, a land broker
^jne
st
man w)10
believed that his story WM
jCijan(re seat?"
corilluanaer,
carries away
"you should not question
history too closejy."
the
ind
and much more of it.
•the process is quiet a simple one, and
tho professor thinks it will take the
place in time of the old plan. The
machinery, he says, will cost a little
more for the new process, but he
thinks the advanuige guiaed fur more
than pays the difference.
Arkansaw Corn Bread.
Arkuiiaaw Traveler.
A writer iu a Northern newspaper
says he can throw a piece of Atkan
saw corn bread thiougli a brick wall
ten feet thick. This stoiy is greatly
exngerated, as nine feet slid a half is
the thickest wall tlircugh which a
piece of the brtad can Ve ihiown.
Such reckless writers tend to bri»g a
state into contempt.
The following compound will prove
to be very effectual in rt moving grease
and soiled spots fum clothes. 1
he cost
of the materials is but a tritle, being
mostly water: Aqua Amonia, o0drops
Alcohol, 1 ounce Transparent Soap,
10 grains*. Water, 1(5 ounces. Mix ana
apply with a stiff brush.
The recent blccdy news from Egypt
has for the time being thrown tne
France-China coniioversy into the
shade. Shoul Egypt's False Pit phet
succeed iu marching his aimed host
to the lied and the Mediterranean
seas, both Frig hind and Fiance would
have their ban dsfull of a new war of
very large dinunsitm.—France in
Mofiajnmcdait Tripoli, Algirs and
Tunis, and Engl #ud in Fgjpt and the
East Indies.
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