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fla-Haff aZ the Remalas of tho CeUtoMk
New York Bestaaratear, CaarlM IH
amleo Death freet Exyeevre.
Newark, N. J.. Jan. 14.
The body of Charles Delmoaico, who dis
appeared sereral days ago, was 'found is
the Orange Mountains in the woods near
General McClelland saauaer hoase at ten
o'clock this morning by two boys. There
Vera no marks of violence. He died from
exposure. Nothing was missing from the
body. The boys who tliscorered the body
immediately went for assistance and re
turned with sereral residents of Orange
Valley. Upon their arrival they turned the
body over, for it was lying on theface,
frozen stiff, and immediately recognized
theremainsas those of he missing Charles
Delmonico. Letters found thereon estab
lished the fact at once. Nothing had been
removed from the body and no signs of vio
lence were apparent. The ground around
where the man lay was undisturbed. The
first two days alter he disappeared were
the most severe of the season and unless
Delmonico then obtained shelter he must
urely have perished. The announcement
of the finding of the body produced great
excitement all over town. Northfield
avenue, where the body was tound, is about
a mile and a half to two miles fiom Orange
depot. At intervals along the avenue are
isolated dwellings interspersed with wood
land. The avenue is one of the principal
streets of Orange, oxtending from the main
street for miles over the mountain to St.
' Cloud and L way of the valley between
the first and second mountain thence to
Passaic Valley. It is a very fine drive and
gem-rally frequented by those who own
rarriages and horses in Orange; but Sun
iay, except when the weather is very fine,
the number of travelers by tho road is not
nany.
As General McClellan, John Cropsev
Brown, George B. Hecker and other promi
nent people live along this part of North
field avenue it is thought Delmonico might
have had a dazed idea of reaching one of
their residences, but his strength gave out
before attaining his object.
Delmonico probably died Januarv 6.
About two o'clock that morning John Diet
fen thai, who works for a farmer on Orange
Mountain, while driving from Montclair to
Orange, saw a man leaning wearily against
a fence. It was at the junction of the road
leading from Orange to Montclair. He is
certain now the man was Delmonico. He
hailed Dieffenthal and begged for shelter.
The farmei said the speech of the wayfarer
was so thick be could scarcely understand
him. Delmoniro's speech has been thick
since his trouble came on. The night was
bitterly cold, but the farmer was afraid of
( tramps, and instead of taking 'be man into
his wagon drove on, after directing him to
Orange, a mile. distant The wanderings
of the unfortunate man from this point can
only be conjectured. He probably went
aimlessly along the broad road on the
mountain until overcome with cold, and
laid down and was frozen to death.
The body was taken to New York late
this afternoon and taken to the undertak
'-;
es, where it was placed in a casket, then
taken to the residence of deceased on West
Fourteenth street. The face of the dead
nan looked very natural. No bruises were
risible except a slight wound on the right
tide of the head, probably received in the
fall over the bank at the spot at which he
; was found. The body was in a perfect
itate of preservation, although it must
lave been eight or nine days ago that Del
monico met death. The fact of its normal
'appearance is explained by the cold which
' ''prevailed The remains will be interred in
the Delmonico vault in old St. Patrick's
Cathedral. Mott street.
A TERRIBLE CHARGE.
A Father Suspected of Having Caused the
Death of his Daughter by Admlaistenas
Polaoa. .
Columbia, S. C. Jan. 14.
At Prosperity, 8. C, Laura Kinnard,
. white, was found 'dead in her father's
souse January 8. She had apparently been
sitting in front of the fire place and had
fallen I'orward on her face into the fire.
Her arms were burned nearly off and her
face charred beyond recognition. As toon
as it was known in the community her
, friends and relatives went to perform the
last rites, but the father refused them ad
mission to.the rooms and would allow no
one to enter. The Coroner was driven off
by him on Saturday, but afterward return
rd and forced bis way into the room and
Held the inquest.. Her father refuses to al
low her remains to be interred. At the in
quest Kinnard admitted that he had given
"bis daughter some medicine the day before,
but refused to tell the jury what it
was in the presence of the physicians who
bad been attending at the inquest. After
the physicians had retired he said it was
an Infusion of -barbery, skull-cap and al
der. This created a suspicion iu the minds
nf the jury, and they bad the stomach
taken out and sent to Charleston for analy
sis. The father bears a rathor bad repu
tation in the community as a root doctor
and among the negroes as a "conjurer"
He now permits negroes to enter the room
where the corpse lies, but strictly refuses
white people admission. Laura was Kia
aard's only child, and she was expected to
Mine in possession of a large sum of money
ihortly. hence foul play is suspected.
SWEPT BY FIRE.
Sixteen Batldlags Destroyed at Naples, nil.
boU Lou Estimated at Sj.OOO.
Hannibal, Mo... Jan. 14.
The business portion .of Naples, Scott
County, III., a .town of 500 inhabitants, was
almost entirely- destroyed by fire early
, yesterday morning. The fire originated in
t the storeroom of W. H. Green & Co., from
a defective flue. When the alarm was giv-
1 ea the flames were beyond control, and not
an article in the building was saved. The
. flames spread rapidly, both north and
south, in a row of sixteen buildings, and in
three hours' time all were consumed. A
stiff breeze, added to the fact that the cit
'ceas possessed no means of successfully
combatt ng with the fiery element, gave
the flames full sway. The loas and insur
ance is distributed as follows: S. E. Marsh,
. drags, loss $2,500; insurance, $2,900. John
Harper, -groceries, loss $1,500; insurance,
51.200. H.C. Jeffords, brirkbuilding,loss$6,
000 ; insurance, $1 ,500. Sarah Turner, Spaner
House, loss $1,000; insurance, $400. Henry
'- Abbott, three stores and stock, loss 7,0 W;
no insurance. Avery & Berry, vacant
store and Chapman House, loss $2,500; no
' insurance. George Abrams, store and
stock, furniture store, etc., loss $1,500; in
surance, $400. W. H. Green &r Co., general
store, loss $9,000; insurance, $4,600. Hyren
ger & Graham, general merchandise, store
and stock, loss $7,000; insurance, $5,000.
. .Fraak Quintal, three store-rooms, milli
nery, boots and shoes, "harness, eta, loss
$6,000; light insurance. T.;& F. Ksaas &
.' SoBfluasber and graia dealers, loss $2,500;
.insurance, $351. Totajloss $35,000.
They Thavgat Better of It.
Lxxikqtov, Mo Jan. 14.
Miss Clara Hughe's was 'married yester
day to Charles Talbott, both colored. This
is the couple alluded to in the dispatch of
'tome days 'ago, "who were" not wed at the
time appointed, because one wanted a
-Methodist preacher and tbeother a Baptist
to perform the ceremony, neither being
billing to yield. The bride's mother threw
her trunk out of doors ia a quarrel, which,
so enraged her that she left the paternal
roof and went to her sister's. Talbott was
sent for, and tho ceresaonv took plao twe
canisters officiating.
ANOTHER HOTEL FIRE.
Barataa; ef the Sawaaee Salphar Spriagi
Hotel la Florida Two Urn Supposed U
tee Irfwt All the Quests eape.
Jacksonville, Ful, Jan. U.
News reacbod this city this afternoon
that the Suwanee Sulphur Springs Hotel,
probably the finest structure of the kind in
the State, burned at Suwanee, Fla., early
this morning. The nearest station is at
Live Oak, fully twelve miles from the con
flagration, and accessible only by a car
riage road. The first news at hand reports
that the fire suddenly broke out on the
second floor of the building, directly over
the kitchen, about 4:30 o'clock this morn
ing. Its origin is a mystery. A
strong draft in the halls and high winds
on the outside carried the flames along
with great rapidity, and the whole building,
a magnificent lour-sided, five-turreted
wooden structure, with a great open square
in the center and 125 rooms, was quickly
converted into a roaring furnace. Fully
100 guests were asleep in the bouse when
the flames burst forth. Many of them were
invalids and nearly all from Northern
States. Nearly all the guests were forced
to escape by leaping from the windows and
verandas, and several suffered broken
limbs, but no more serious injuries. A Mr.
Palmer, said to be from New York, was
badly singed by the flames, but
his injuries are not .dangerous. A
colored servant girl and a negro
boy are reported missing, and it is
feared that both perished. No search of
the ruins has yet been possible. None of
the guests saved any of their property, and
the loss to the owners of the hotel was also
total, nothing but a small fraction of the
office furniture being saved. The village
possessed no conveniences for coping with
such an extensive conflagration, and had
other buildings been near the whole town
would undoubtedly have been swept away.
The hotel and its furniture were valued at
$95,000; the insurance aggregates $51,00 J.
The effects of the guests were, of course,
uninsnred,-and their loss is total. A special
train was sent from this city to their relief
this afternoon.
A COSTLY BLAZE.
Buraing of the Montezuma Hotel at tai
Vegas Hot Springs, New Mexico Sixty
two Guests in the House, But all Escape
with the Loss of their Effects Ineffective
Fire Service.
Las Veoas, N. M., Jan. 17.
The Montezuma Hotel, situated at the
springs, six miles from the city of La?
Vegas, one of the grandest hoteleries in
point of furnishing and surroundings, was
completely destroyed by fire ts-day. There
was no loss of life, but there was of course
great excitement amongthe guests and
many narrow escapes to people endeavor
ing to save their property at the risk ol
their lives.
The fire was discovered about noon by a
servant who was cleaning up one of the re
ception-rooms on the second floor to the left
of the main entrance. He saw smoke com
ing through the floor near the steam coil.
He first ran out into the hall and shouted
fire, and then running back into the room,
tore the radiator from its place. As be did
this, the flames burst through and he had
to run for his life.
The fire must have been burning some
time, for almost at the same instant fire
was discovered by one of the guests, who
also shouted fire at the top of his voice.
The panic that ensued was almost inde
scribable, and most fortunate was it that
the fire occurred in the day time and not at
night As it was, the hallways and rooms
quickly filled with a dense volume of black
smoke that enveloped the entire interior of
the building in almost midnight darkness,
and the utmost confusion prevailed as the
guests and employes rushed madly through
the halls and endeavored to drag their
trunks and other posessions from their
rooms. This confusion lasted for only a
short time, owing to the fact that the peo
ple were soon all out of the burning build
ing. The hotel was not half full, there being
only sixty-two guests, but tnere was a full
complement of servants and employes.
Some of the guests probably one-fourth
succeeded in saving a portion of their pos
sessions but the employes lost everything.
Of course while all tnis was coins: on ei-
forts were being made to stop the progress
ot the flames. The fire was so rapid that
the means of fighting fire provided in the
hotel could not be got to work. The fire de
partment of the Springs was unable to do
anything to save tne notei. A special train
lelt Las Vegas in ten minutes atter the
alarm was given with the lire department
The six miles were covered in nine minutes,
and the engiues ready for action. It was
found the plugs were an inch smaller than
the city hose, so no effective connection
was made lor some time. Then the only
hope was to save the boiler-house just com
pleted at a cost of 34O.UO0 and bath-house
that cost $70,0)0. The latter's cornice
blazed up several times, but was saved.
The former escaped only because the build
ing between it and the hotel was torn down.
The Montezuma wa 4 first opened for bus
iness April 7, 1S81, and was considered the
equal of any and the superior of most
places of public entertainment to be found
at an v of the popular resorts in America,
both on account of the completeness of its
appointments and the elegance and taste of
its furnishings. The house could comfort
ably accommodate three hundred, guests.
The building was cf frame. Queen Anna
style, three stories high, gable roofed.
There were 250 rooms, all furnished in a
costly and elegant style. There were la
dies' and gentle sien's reception rooms and
general parlors on all the floors, but the
Srincipal ladies' parlor was on the second
oor. This was lurnished on a scale of ori
ental magnificence. Tne bridal chambers
were elaborately furnished and finished.
They were furnished respectively in blue,
red and ecru, the latter with dark garnet
trimmings. In the upper stories were the
sewing rooms. In the basement were the
billiard-rooms and bowling alleys, all fur
nished in native mountain pine. The ladies'
billiard parlor was in tlie cupola of the
building. All around the front and sides
of the building extended wide balconies.
The fire service was supposed to be per
feet, and complete reliance was placed on
it There were stand-pipes and hose-reels
on every floor, and it was considered al
most impossible for fire to gain any head
way in the building. The servants were
completely drilled in the use of the appar
atus, but all this seems to have been of no
avail waen,the,real test came. J. M. Barr,
manager and his wife, recently married,
lost all their personal affects. He deserves
greatcredit f or his presence of mind and
courage.
The loss is estimated at Siol.OOO; insur
ance, a little over $100,000. The guests, it
is estimated, lose $30,frJ0. E rery thing pos
sible is being done to make them comforta
ble. The hotel was the oronertv of the Atchi
son, Topesa & 8anta Fa ..Bailroad Compa- e
ny, ana iv seems to oe considered as a mat
ter of course that it will be rebuilt.
An Expert's View ia the. Jf art Trial.
Pittsburg. Jan. 17.
In the Nutt trial to-day Dr. Smith Fuller,
the family physician, said Nutt had pre
meditated the killing of Dukes,' and that he
had arranged everything for the acceptance
of the first opportunity to execute his de
sign. But he had become a monomaniac on
the subject He had brooded sd long over
' the death of his father and the dishonor of
hi family that when he carried his inten-
,'tioninto effect he was an irresponsible
j agent; had become in fact an absolute
lunatic on the question of taking Dukes1
life. The killine. was no sudden inspira
tion; it was the acceptance of a chance to
carry out a design -elative to a subject on
which the prisoner was entirely insane.
Tke New "Bleeily Shirt.
A man may have been a "rebel" and.-pro-rided
he is knave enough to be a Southern
Republican politician, he may have anything
in the grift of the party. Is it not about time
for honest Republicans to see that their party
is being eaten up by knavery, hypocrisy,
shoddy pretenders and snobs men who shout
aloud against the enormity of treason one
day, ami tho next reward a man who has been
a "rebel" with place and power because he
has been knave enough to become a repudia
tion Republican: men who clamor to-day of
blood shirts and Southern outrage, and yet
elevate tho very authors of what there Is of
the syRtcm they pretend to condemn? What
party can long stand that sort of hypocrisy
and pretense? Cincinnati .yewit-JuuriiaL
Ignorantly or willfully, it is difficult
to say which, the writer of the above
has distorted recognucd facts to serve
the purpose of his argument. The Re-
Eublican party does not honor "rebels"
ecause "they are knaves enough to be
Republicans, but for the better reason,
that they have ceased to be bull-dozing,
night-riding Democrats and have be
come American citizens. The " bloody
shirt," as signifying the discussion of
the issues of the war, with all its hor
rors and enormities, is a thing of the
past in politics. Arguments arc no
longer made against the Democratic par
ty on account of Andersonvillc and
Belle Isle. The hundreds of thousands
of Union dead are no longer laid anew
at the door of the Democratic party.
The thousands of millions of war debt
are no longer referred to as the legacy
of defeated Democracy. Tiie burden of
one hundred million dollars annually
for pensions is borne by all the people,
and mention is no longer made of the
party that made such a vast outlay nec
essary. The war is over and gone.
Andersonville and Belle Isle are recalled
only as a nightmare is recalled. The
grass is green on the graves of tiiose
who fell lighting on either side, and
often the living blue and gray com
mingle to honor the blue and gray that
arc dead. The National debt lias been
so far liquidated that one of the ques
tions now to be settled is whether it is
advisable to still further reduce it. The
business of pensioning our citizen sol
diery is progressing so satisfactorily
that nobody feels the burden, and
scarcely a thought is given the matter
except to ask if alL deserving men and
women have been found. The war is
over, and the " bloody shirt" is buried.
If cither of them rests heavily upon the
Democratic party, it has onl) itself to
blame. These mighty things have been
dropped; these crimes, for which no ad
equate atonement has been or can be
made, are charitably ignored by the
Republican party in the interest of gen
eral amity and National unit-.
The Republican party has a hearty
welcome for all "rebels ' who abandon
their rcbelism. Such action has a no
ble significance. The Republican party
stands for universal suffrage, North and
South; for a free ballot and an honest
count in every State in the Nation. It
believes that a white Democrat has as
much right to a vote as has a white
Republican, and no more. It believes
that a black Republican has as much
right to vote as has any other citizen of
legal age. It believes that each of
these three classes should be equally
protected with the others. The Demo
cratic party is the negative of all this.
Despairing of coming into power by
honorable means, it unhesitatingly re
sorts to violence and fraud. The
South, once solid for slavery. lias been
made aolid for spoils. No intimidation
has been too flagrant, no violence too
desperate, no fraud too bold, to restrain
Southern Democrats from the work of
destroying Republican majorities. It
is of these fresh wrongs that the Repub
lican party complains, and is met by
the cry of "bloody shirt." There is a
bloody shirt in the solid South whoso
stains are not dry from outrage to out
rage The bulldozers of Louisiana were
imitntad by the red-shirters of South
Carolina and Georgia in the slaughter
at Ellenton. In turn the Chistiblms
were assassinated while in custody be
cause they dared to be Republicans. The
tissue-ballot fraud in elections finally
captured South Carolina. A dozen new
ly slaughtered colored Republicans are
buried at Danville, Va., and the Demo
crat who assassinated the Chairman of
the Copiah County (Miss.) Republican
Committee for daring to vote at tho last
election has been elected Marshal of his
town as a testimonial of appreciation
by fellow-Democrats.
It is a waste of breath to cry "bloody
shirt" when these things are mentioned.
Such outrageous crimes against popular
government can not safely be condoned
until they are abandoned, and their
perpetrators are willing to accord a
tree ballot to every legal voter, white
and black. The Democratic party of
the North, as well as of the South, is
responsible for each and all of these
crimes. A word of condemnation from
the proper source would put a stop to
them. Bui they are not stopped, nor
will they cease so long as the Demo
cratic party upholds them and cries
"hands off!" -when outraged justice
seeks to point out political murderers
and assassins.
The discussion and condemnation of
these grave offenses have properly no
more to do with the issues of the late
war than the emancipation proclamation
of Lincoln had to do with the beheading
of Marie Antoinette, and nobody knows
this more than the fellows who veil
"bloody shirt!" every time public
attention is turned to the matter.
The "rebels" who are welcomed to
a place in the Republican party,
are ' so welcomed because by so
changing their allegiance they unite
their intmence with a party, that ac
cords one free ballot, honestly counted,
to every legal voter without regard to
his. political bias. The Republican
party has no sympathy with the meth
ods of fraud, intimidation and violence
pursued by Southern Democrats and
tacitly, indorsed by the party at large.
It believes in unrestricted freedom in
all things pertaining to honest elections.
Its purpose is to give every man one
vote and only one. 'Its aim is to make
the poor man as potential in elections
as is the man of millions. It is Repub
lican doctrine that the man who labors
with his hands stands on the same po
litical plane with him who uses his
brains to gain a 'livelihood, and that
either is .as much entitled to the
privileges of American citizen
ship as is he who on account
of his possessions is not obliged
to work at all. The Republican party
aolds that in a government of the peo
ple all the people shduld be heard.
This principle is insisted upon and no
amount of howling aoout "bloody
shirts" 'will dissuade or turn aside the
party from its purpose. Indianapolis
Journal.
Giving Away the Whole Case.
The New York Herald was seized
with a spell of frankness the other day,
and the result was an admission on its
part that the Republican party has met
the great political issues of the last
twenty years "gloriousl y and success
fully. ' In the matter of the prosecu
tion of the war, the overthrow of slav
er), the reconstruction of the Union and
the protection of the rights of the f reed
men, the Republican policy has been
thoroughly vindicated, the Herald
grants, and the Republican party has
earned the thanks and gratitude of the
country and of mankind. Such an ad
mission from a paper that has resolute
ly, not to say bitterly, antagonized Re
publican principles and methods at ev
ery step, is somewhat remarkable; and
the natural inference would be that the
Herald had concluded to turn over a
new leaf, and to do its best henceforth
to keep the Republican party in power.
Singularly, however, that is not the
UeraUVs intention; on the contrary, it
makes its praise of Republicanism the
basis of a new argument in favor of lftt
tlng Republicanism slide.
In adjusting tho. grei-t problems of
the last twenty years so "gloriously
and successfully." the Republican, par
ty has exhausted.itself, the Herald con
tinues; its work is done, its mission
ended. New questions are now coming
up, and, according to the Herald's
philosophy, a different party should be
chosen to deal with them. It will be
apt to strike the average reader as a
very curious system of reasoning which
maintains that a party that has com
mended itself to general approval and
gratitude by twenty years of sagacious
and shining devotion to the best inter
ests of the people sjould on that very
account be thrust aside when there are
new questions to be determined. And
when we add to this the fact that the
party which it is proposed to intrust
with" the responsibility of caring for
these new interests is" the part) that
has been uniformly and assiduously
in the wrong during all the time that
the Republican part) has been right
and faithful, the thing becomes self
refuting and (it only for the uses of or
dinary ridicule.
If some strong, aggressive and well
equipped new party had made its ap
pearance, and voters were being asked
to join it because of its pecul.ar sound
ness of faith and purpose as was the
case when the Republican party first
came to the front there might be some
warrant for the Herald's style of logic.
But there are only two parties worth
speaking of in this country now, just as
there have been for twenty- years past,
and choice has to be made between
them. There is no third party, no
middle ground. The Republican party
is to be continued in control of the
Goernment, or things are to be placed
in the hands of the Democratic party.
In other words, the people must decide
whether it is safest and best to commit
the task' of settling new questions to
the party that has met all the quest'ons
of the last twenty years "gloriously
and successfully,"" as the Herald de
clares, or whether they will confide
this undertaking to the" party which
throughout these twenty years has nev
er once been found on the right side of
anything. That is the situation, plainly
sta"ted.
The Herald really gives one of the
best of reasons why all intelligent and
considerate citizens should vote the Re
publican ticket. If the Republican
policy has been a "glorious and success
tul" one through all the stormy and im
portant history of the last twenty years,
does not thai alone justify the con
clusion that we can do no better thing
than. to go on trusting the management
of affairs to a party which has thus
demonstrated its capacity and its
fidelity? In the daily transactions ol
life, faithfulness is the basis of confi
dence, and past good conduct is a
man's best recommendation to favor
for the future. Why should not the
same rule apply in politics, and parties
be judged
:is we judge individuals:1
fact, the correct and sure
That is, in
test. The Republican party has kept
itself in power by being able to stand
such a test whene'ver required and the
Democratic party, on the other hand,
lias just as surely been kept out ol
oower by always failing to make a sat
isfactory showing in that respect.
The mission ot the Republican party
will not be ended, it is safe to say, as
long as the Democratic party is the only
organization that puts it upon trial by
comparison. There are new questions
to be solved, it is true, and new inter
ests to be guarded 'and promoted; but
wuai parry is so wen quauiicu iu ucai
with them as the one which has proved
itself equal to every past emergency?
Certainly it would not bo the part ol i
wisdom or prudence to prefer over such j
a party the one that has persistently
faued for twenty years to do anything
sensible or creditable. The issues that
the Republican party has successively
disposed of since i860 were all new ones,
in turn, as they came up, and most of
them were far more grave and intricate
than any of those which arc now
demanding attention. There is nothing
likely to arise in the next four years, li
ever aain to the end of time, that can
uaii iui muic ui uiiili. wut u -
aa11 f vm. r.t nUilifi AAttmimi ami in. I
tegncyuian tne nepuoiican pany naa
9 '
displayed in adjusting
ous and difficult problc
the manv neril
problems wmen 1: nas
already been obliged to confront at dif
ferent stages of its busy and splendid
career. The Herald admits as much in
allowing that Republicanism has solved
the great issues of the past twenty years
"gloriously and successfully." And
the admission carries with it a practical
surrender of the whole controversy.
There are only two parties to choose
between, and the Herald indicates very
plainly which one should be selected.
iSL Louis Qlobe-Democrat.
The first ice-machino ever made in
the United States was built by an iron
works firm in Columbus, Ga. Thirty '
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one, but before it could be put in opera
tion he died, and it fell through. Chi
cago Times.
After the battle of Kashgate, Sou
dan, the heads of the staff officers were
shown to the prisoners, and then fixed
over the gate of 1 Obeid. Chicago
Journal.
(Jieer Freaks of Watches,
"Decidedly watches are queer
things," said D. H. Hopkinson, of the
Jewellers'' Circular, seated in the easy
chair of his editorial sanctuary. "They
possess some unaccountable peculiari
ties. For instance, some time about
the beginning of last summer, when
there had been a succession of fine
displays of the aurora borealis, it was
estimated that in a single night in tho
city of New York the main spiings of
not less than three thousand watches
broke. This estimate is based on ac
tual inquiries. Fine sensitive watches
are particularly liable to be effected by
electrical atmospheric disturbances.
During the months of June, July and
August, when these phenomena are
most frequent, there are more main
springs broken than during all the re
maining months of the year. They
break in a variety of ways, sometimes
snapping into as many as twenty-seven
pieces.
"It is a fact that since the introduc
tion of the electric light has become so
general a large number of watches,
some of them very line ones, have be
come magnetized. While in this con
dition they are usdess as time keepers.
This defect used to be considered incur
able, and because of it thousands of
watches have been thrown away after
much money had been spent on them
in vain attempts to persuade them to
keep good time. Among the methods
resorted to were washing the parts in
garlic juice, refinishing "and passing
them through the lire. But all theso
devices were entire failures or only in
part effective. . I know of a man who
had a line and valuable movement
which kept excellent time. He trans
ferred it lrom a silver case to a second
hand gold one. Immediately it lost all
its characteristics of steadiness and re
liability, and, in fact, did not keep time
at all. When replaced in the silver case
it kept good time again. The owner, a
jeweler, puzzled himself and experi
mented in vain to discover the cause nf
this strange partiality on the part of
his watch for sdver. At length he sent
it to an expert. He discovered that the
lifting-spring of the gold case had be
come magnetized. On substituting an
other for it, the watch kept as good
time in the gold case as iu the silver
case.
"There are occasions when it is a
very serions matter to have your watch
magnetized. The most striking in
stance in point is one whichjately came
under my notice. Captain W. R. Smith
commands the steamer Delaware, which
plies between New York and New Lon
don. Before putting to sea on a recent
voyage he was invited to inspect an
electric light dynamite machine, and
examined its parts closely. Soon after
getting on board the steamer he ob
served that the compass became
strangely affected when he approached
it. Whether he stood on the right or
the left, or immediately in front of the
compass, the needle would invariably
point to him. The compass was worse
than useless when he came near it. It
was dangerous and might wreck the
ship. You can imagine that this
phenomenon alarmed and puzzled Cap
tain Smith not a little. At length he
recalled his visit to the dynamo ma
chine and the true solution of the eccen
tric behavior of the needle flashed upon
him. His watch had become magnet
ized. When he removed it the needle
resumed its constancy to the po'nr star.
"Watches frequently get magnetized
in iron mines or in machine shops,
where they are incaxitiously brought
near swiftly running belts. I knew a
workman who used to hang his watch
between the parts of a i mining belt. He
expended a small fortune on main
springs.
"It is a well-known fact'among horol
ogists that no watch will keep the same
t me with two people. The causo has
not yet been definitely ascertained, but
it would seem that in some mysterious
way a wa'tch is affected by the tempera
ment of the wearer. The mere physic
al differences in gait and movement be
tween different people is not sufficient
to account for all the variations that
have been observed." iV. I". Tribune.
A Thoughtful Husband.
A Detroit lady who is subject tc heart
disease took tea last Sunday with a
ninrlihnr ;iml wliilo eiHimr if. fiVil toi-
husfiand rushed inwithoutTa hat, ami in !
his shirt sleeves.
" Be calm!" he exclaimed hurriedly
to his wife; " don't excite yourself ; you
know you can't stand excitement, and
it might be worse."
"Good Heavens!" cried his wife;
"the children!" .
"They're all right! Now, Mary, don't
get excited. Keep calm and cool it i
pan't lift liftlnnil nmv: ri- iniif. lo-it- i
these visitations of Providence with j
philosophy!" j
"Then it's mother!" gasped his wife. '
- xour motner s saie; get on your
things, but don't hurry or worry. " It's
too late to be of any use, but I'll ily
back and see what 1 can do. I only
came to tell you not to got excited."
"For mercy sake!" implored the al
most fainting woman, "tell me the
worst!"
Well, if you will have it. the conse
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quences be on your own
head. Mary.
1 ve tried to prepare vou. and if voti I
Will knOW don t PVnitP VmirCflf trv
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anu survive one our cnimney s on lire.
arifl hn lirrtnlA flnnm-tmnnl ! 11 U.
and the whole department and all tho
neighbors are in our front yard!"
She survived. Detroit Free Press.
J. B. Martin, of Sh I .nr? i.tnro.
Jtu the daughter of his employer, Mr. t
Bamberger, she taking six? hundred.
dollars of her father's money to start
out with. They sought for the run
aways far and wide foe four weeks,
without result, and then found them
snugly housed on the same street as Mr.
Bamberger, only three blocks away.
It was time Mr. Hambergcrfound them,
too; his six hundred dollars was all
gone but thirteen, and the, happy pair
would soon have been obliged to return
:oask forgiveness and v-etnals. Rt.
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Louis Post.
In the New Haven Police Court th I " Yon have your revolver and bowio
other day Georgie Allen was arraigned " knife and police-rattle in your pockets,
as a vagrant and sent to V:l. The nfeonrsu?"
Prosecuting Attorney on the occasion
Was a man Who. fifteen VPm--.-.rrt vlinr
. Al , W . 7. "-" "- I
sue was uie ceue ot tne town, was an
unsuccessful suitor for her haml.Jfeto
Uaien Beaister, t
PERSONAL SH LITERARY.
Mrs. Langtry received a gift of a
f l',000 diamond" r ng in Washington,
recently, but has no idea who it came
from. Washington Star.
Samuel L. Clements (Mark Twain),
J. Hammond Trumbull, the philologist,
Charles Dudley Warner and Mrs. Stowe
make quite a galaxy of celebrities when
they aro at home, in Hartford, Conn.
Hartford Post.
Miss Nellie Rossiter, of Philadel
phia, sixteen years of age, is the fore
most authority on tho subject of silk
culture in America. Other young la
dies are well up in the art of wearing
the stuff. Vhiiadelphiu llecord
"Ouida," the novelist, rarely en
courages any one to talk with her. In
deed, she has no hesitation in sayiu
that she despises people generally, and
greatly prefers the company of her dogs
and cats and horses. Indianapolis Jour
nar. SignorLuigi Monti, who is the gen
tleman alluded to by Mr. Longfellow ai
"the young Sicilian," in the "Waysd
Inn" Tales, is about to come to this
country to reside and teach. He was
formerly the American Consul at Pal
ermo.
Mr. Hooker, of Vermont, who was
recently displaced from the office ol
'ergeant-at-Arms of the House of Rep
resentatives is in good financial circumstance-'.
His wife, the sister of the late
James F sk. Jr.. was left 100.000 by
that successful adventurer. Hutlana
Herald.
John Cairns, the oldest newspaper
carrier in Philadelphia, has retired fron
business at the age of seventy-three.
He has sold his route which he held foi
forty-eight year-. In summer and- win
ter he never misled a day in all this,
time, but trudged his twelve or fifteen
rsiles and served his customers punct
ually. Philade'phia Press.
The career of the late Congressman
Haskell, of Kansas, illustrates forcibly
what energy and pluck will do for a
man. Haskell was by no means a brill
iant man. but had very mediocre natur
al abilities; but his resoluteness and
tenacity made up for all other qualifica
tions which he lacked. He was a mer
chant in Kansas, engaged in the hoof
and shoe business in a small town, when
adversity overtook him and left him
completely bankrupt. Nothing dis
mayed, he began lite again, and ended
it with the reputation of being one oJ
the hardest working and most conscien
tious members of Congress. Chicago
Herald.
HUMOROUS.
An amateur prnster informs it
that some houses have wings, and he
has often seen a house fly. We though!
no part of a house save the chimney
flue. Chicago Tribune.
"What," said an inquisitive young
lady, "is the most popular color for e
bride?" We may be a little particulat
on such matters, hut we wouid prefer
a white one. Burlington Hawkeyc.
Of course it was a Hibernian auc
tioneer who said of a set of mourning
jewelry which he was trying to dispose
of that it was "just the sort of article
he would purchase for his wife if she
were a widow." iV. Y. Herald.
"May I have the honor to conduct
your daughter to the supper-table?"
asked a society gentleman of a lady
from the country. "May you lake her
to supper? Why. of course; and you
can take me, too. That's what wc
came here for." Ciiatgo Times.
An aged man, dressed in military
slothes, visited a Western town recent
ly, and registered at a hotel as "Will
iam T. SlTenrnii. Jate U. S. A." His
rval name was l-mith, but he had kissed
all the pretty girls in town before the
fraud was exposed. Norrfctoum Herald,
The Beautiful Snow.
A youn la'ly said to her hemi:
"I'm jrlail the sneau's cominjr coivn seau
Ilccause now. I kiiean,.
We'll a s!cMj;h-ridiiix onu.
So hail to tho beautiful sneuur
The youth shook his liad and ho sighed
" I'm sorry." he sadly renlijrhcd:
I c.iTi't hire a sIcItIi,
For I'm dead broke to-deteh.
And the pleasure to us hHlenkrlicd.'
Snmrrv ie Snurnnt.
Mr. Jones "I wonder why in the
vorld Congress d esn t do something
at once to stump out polygamy?" Mrs'.
Jones " Because Congress is composed
?f me"' a.ml m,e tlou,t know anything.
I could kill polvgamv with one blow.
Mr. Jones "Oh, indeed; and how
would you do it?" Mrs. Jones -"1
would go to Salt Lake City and start a
millinery store there."- P.iXadlphin
Call.
"He began life young." remarks a
writer, speaking of an ind vidual whe
had risen to eminence. That's the wa
with most of us. We hn-m lifn vnnnr
If we could begin life old, wo might be
able to avoid the pain of teething, the
Sanger of mea-des, and other ills tc
-t ?' , . . . , .
which infant flesh is heir. But it seem
to be necessary that we should begin
life young. Somehow, there is no get
tinjr over'it, Excluinae.
I . " So you've come to ask the hand
j af my daughter?" " I adore her," ex
claimed the youth, rapturously; "my
me wouiti oe like a sana barren with
out her." " Bless you," said the old
man. "I regard this as nothing le-s
than nrovidential. Yon am Imre her
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pone it later than Saturday. 1
mg to fail next week, and'it's a
am go-
as mucn
is 1 can ilo to look after the rest 01 the
family."' The impassioned youth
I walked forth beneath the stars, but he
aever came back again. Boston Tran-
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What Conneciicnt Is
Comin-r To.
" Where are you going, Mary ?"
"Across the street to lunch with Nel
lie Blank."
"Are you sure therc are no strange
characters lurking around?"
"I have lookedout of all the windows
nd can not see any one except, of
course, the detectives."
" Have you notified them that you
wished to go out?"
' Yes, and they promised to be on the
Ye, ma."
"Well, vou may go; but
don't stay
and your
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long, for it looks like ram
cartridge might get damp."
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