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< H THE OMAHA DAILY BEETUESDAY. . MAY 3. 1887. TITE DAILY BEE , .PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. op BunscuipTtox s Dally ( Mornlnir Edition ) Including Sunday HEP , Onn Vimr . $10 05 ForSlx.Montlm . . r , W ForTtirenMontM . 'A W flio Onmlm Hxnday HKI : , mallol to liny udJicsj , Ono Vonr. . . . SCO OFFICE , No. nil AVD tnr. F4JtvA Frnnrr. Kr.tv VOIIK npKiric , KOOM iJi , TnmiTSR Nt'ii.niNn. 1VA8IIIMJTOX CmiCK , .NO. 5)1 ) KuUIITEEXTII SrHklSr. All communication * relating to novrs fin J edi torial matter should bo uddressod to the Kut- roic or TUB IFr ) , iiu.oixnfig METIER * , t All Im-lncM lottorn anilromlttaneoidbouldbe tl < lros , o < l to TfiK HER 1'uiiMsmmi COMPANY , DM MIA. Drafts , checks ami po tofll < ; o onlori to bu m ado payublu to tlio ordtrof the company , THE BEE PUBLISKHTcOMPmY , PEOPRIETOHS , E. noSEWATEU. KniTOit. THE PAIMT nEIJ. Sworn HtfUeinent of Circulation. Btato of Nebraska , I _ County of DotiKlni. ( a' " ' ( ! t'o. 1J. 'IVschiicK , sccretnrv or The Hco 1'uhllshlng company , does solemnly swe , r that the actual circulation of tlui Daily Iieo for tliu week ending April ! K > , 1S37 , was as follows : Saturday , April W . 14,420 Sunday , April ! J . H.cxx ) Monday , April ST. . H.TM Tuesday , Aprll'Jfi . 11,100 WwlnoMlay. Anril27 . 1 ,100 Thursday , April 'JS . 11,100 , Friday , April yy . 14,100 , Averaec . . . 14.201 ( Jno. U. T/.sritrcK. Subscribed nml sworn to before 1110 this BOth dny of April , 1T. N. P. FKIL. [ SEAL. ] Notary I'ubllc. Oco. U. T/schuck , belli : ; first duly sworn , deposes mid says that ho Is sccrctaiy ol The Jleo Publishing comp.iny , that the actual avcUKo dally circulation of the Dally Hue for the month of April , IbN ! , 12,1111 copies ; for May , 18Sfi , 12-M9 copies ; for June , Ibhii , li.2ys ! copies : for July , JbSO , 12il4 : copies ; for August , 18M5 , 12,1H ( copies : for Septem ber , 11W5 , 13.0W ) copies ; for October , Ibsfl , 12.WJ copies ; for Noember. . IbWl , ii"ia : copies ; for December , IbV , . livjirr copies ; for Januaiy , 18S > 7 , Hi,2GO copies ; for 1-ebruarv. 1BS7 , llOd copies ; for March , l i > 7 , 11,400 copies. Or.o. U. T/Ariirric. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 1Mb day of April , A. I ) . , 1KH7. | SKAI , . | X. P. Fnir , , Notary Public. that the polls close at 0 p. in , , and not tit 7 as at former city elec tions. KKKV the boodlors and corporation cappers out of the city council by all means. KAIN or shine republicans should dc their duty , not only to the party , but to the city. Tin : principal topics in the London papers just now arc Coercion Bill and Bullalo Bill. Knr.i1 a sharp look out for repeaters , nnd let no man bo allowed to swear in his vote who is not cldarly entitled to it. Mil. ADAMS , of the Union Pacific , is being pumped dry by the national com mission. Lot the good work go on unmo lested. SC'IINYIUKUS : , a dispatch informs us , will at the end of two months retire. II is to be regretted that ho did not retire two weeks ago , before ho brought on the war clouds. THE republican city committee have employed a number of detectives to ar rest repeaters and non-residents who at tempt to vote fraudulently. This is n stop in the right direction. WOUKINGMEN are cautioned to look out for spurious tickets. Garneau's name has been printed on "working- men's" nnd "citizens" tickets. Vote for Broatch. Sea that his name head ; your ticket. Tun Illinois legislature has passed c law prohibiting base ball playing on Sunday. This new feature , together with the Sucker state's gallon law , shows how rapidly the "great west" is becom ing civiU/.cd. Coi'iKs of the letter known as the "Par- neil Forgery" have been brought acrosa the Atlantic and Now York papers have ' printo'd fac-similes of the epistle which caused such furor in England. Compared - pared with the genuine signature of Par- neil , it is a bungling piece of work. THE workingiuoii of Omaha hold the balance of power , and it is with them tc say who shall' bo mayor of Omaha and who shall represent them in the city council. If the laboring men act intel ligently in their own interest , Oinalu will have good government for the no.\l three years. SAM SMALI , was criticised by the cditoi of the Minneapolis Trib line for slinging along. Mr. Small remarked that he would rather bo the poorest rovivalisi thai over spoke the word of God thai the best newspaper man that over sat era a throe-legged stool in a Minuoapolii newspaper ofllco. ON general principles , the voting o franchises promiscuously to cable roads , horse railroads and .motors , is not to be commended unless there are propel guarantees of good faith which assure the construction of the roads within reasonable sonablo time. But if any one of the hall dozen franchise ) propositions are to bo supported , they should all have the saint privilege. t TIIK Omaha Cable railway company of which S. U. Johnson is president , pre souls its statement to the voters o Omaha in this issue of the BKK. Thi : corporation has given substantial evidence denco of its good faitli by having doni largo amount of work , nnd if an : proposition is to bo voted that of tin Omaha oablo company is as much cntitloi to endorsement as any other. THE Omaha Southwestern street rail way company publishes in to-day's UKI a statement in regard to the franchise i asks at the hands of the voters. It i worthy of careful perusal as it show what the company proposes to do. ant will convince any one tha the enterprise it a substantia project , and that its promoters ineui business. The company is under bom ot $10,000 , with the county to build am operate the road for ton years. The ordinance dinanco provides that one mile must b < built this year and two miles withii twenty months. The members of tin company are old and well-known real dents of Omaha , -who nave the capital t < tarry out < t ? enterprise. M' > > Iloelstrntlon Still Itcntttrcd. The question having been raised as to wliathcr any law was passed by the last legislature authorising the registration of voters in cities of the metropolitan clus ? , a telegram was sent to the secre tary of stale , asking information. A reply was received to the effect that the amendments to the registration law had no application to Omaha , but related only to cities of first and second class. Such being the law , the question romalns whether any ordinances are in force , ap plicable to city elections , which would be authorized by the charter providing for the registration of voters. Tlicro seems to by no doubt but what the now charter and the ordinances now in force fully cover the requirements and author ize and require such registration. The charter expressly grants to the mayor and council the power to provide by ordinance for the election of city of ficers antl prescribes the manner of con ducting the same , and the returns and registration thereof. . It also provides that all city ordinances now in force shall remain and continue in force until alterctl or repealed. The ordinances now in force , and which have been in existence for several years past , provide for the appointment of rcgistrars/and the registration of voters ers , and the manner of conducting city elections. Under thc e ordinances , after the extension - tension of the city limits and rcdistrict- ing of the city , Mayor Boyd appointed registrars for the several voting districts , who qualified and have made registra tion lists as required by the ordinances. So far as municipal elections are con cerned , there can bo .10 question as to tlio fact that such registration is author- i/.etl and required by law. A Tjast Word With. Workluginc ! ! . The wage-workers of Omaha constitute a very large majority of her citizenship. Nine-tenths of them have invested their scanty savings in little homes or lots which they intend to improve as soon as they can save up money enough to build a home. For them the prosperity of Omaha and her continued growth are more essential than for the millionaires who own the mort gages that cover their properly. They have a vital interest in keeping up public improvements and keeping down taxes. In common with all classes they want our city affairs administered honestly and economically. There never was an election hold in Omaha in which the wage-worker had more at stake than in the contest to be fought out to-day. Will they march to the polls like voting cattle or will they go there like freemen exercising their sovereign will regardless of the lash of the party bosses or tlio dictation of cor porate employers ? Will they vote to make a man mayor of Omaha who imported brick layers from St. Louis to build his factory ? Will they vote for an aristocrat who prides himself above the common mechanic ? Will they vote for any candidate who wears the brass collar of a corporate mon opoly V Will they support for any position men who have heretofore been elected by workingmen to positions of profit and trust merely to enrioh them selves at the expense of the taxuayurs. The workingmen of Omaha have too and to barter much self-respect intelligence ter away their privileges as American citizens or turn traitors to the principles by which their liberties and rights can be upheld and maintained. City Hall Bonds. The proposition to authorize the city to issue $75,000 in bonds this year and $125,000 in 1888 for the completion of the city hall building should receive universal support. A contract for the basement ol the city hall building was made last fall and that part of the structure is to bo completed by the first of July. Unless the bonds are voted at this election the construction of the building will bo de layed fully one year. The city is now paying over live thousand dollars a year for office , exclusive of the rent paid for board of education ollices , and the public library. Unless the contract with the county commissioners is oxtondtul the city will have to vacate the basement ol the court house , now occupied by the city treasurer , clerk and engineer , next year. As a matter of economy if not ol absolute necessitj' , the city hall build ing should bo completed within the next eighteen.months. There are other reasons why the city halls bonds should be voted without op- position. Contracts for half a dozen business blocks on Upper Farnam , ranging from $50,000 to $300,000 , are held back until after the city hall building bonds have carried. At a very low estimate tncsc projected - jected buildings will cost over ono mil lion dollars , and two-thirds of them will bo erectetl with foreign capital. The increased receipts of taxes on those buildings alouo will pay the interest on the city hall bonds and a sinking fund tc redeem the bonds at maturity. A million dollars plautetl permanently on our soil in stone , brick and mortar , enhances the value of every foot of real estate in Omaha oven in the remotest parts of tin city. Every proporty'ownor in Omaha is therefore interested in expediting the con1 struction of the city hall building. Oui builders and workingmen are manifestly interested oven if they do not own a fool of ground in Omaha. The Natural Gas Supply. The very important part that natural gas is playing in the manufacturing in dustries of the country , with immediatt and prospective results of the greatest significance , gives great interest to in quiries relating to the future of this ne\\ source of heat and light , the area benoatl which gas in considerable quantities maj bo found , and the probable duration o : the supply may be found , and the proba ble duration of the supply in the known Holds and in these yet to bo explored Trustworthy and valuable Information upon these several heads maybe expected from the report of the United States geological logical survey of the investigations it ii now making. Meantime , scientino in quiry and study are being given to this new f.ictor in the industrial problem i : other quarters whoso opinions are en titled , to high consideration. Professor N. S. Sha'er is among those who have devoted careful fcttcnliot to this very Interesting subject , with conclusions not entirely favor able to the theory of ft per' mancnt supply of the natural fuel. While the gaseous rocks are undoubtedly of wide extent , it is only in limited area that the retention of tlio gas has been sulllcicnt to yield valuable results. Thus the Appalachlon section , on the eastern shore , and the Cordillcran division of the continent from the Kooky mountains westward , and to a great extent excluded from the possible Held of supply by the extensive disturbance to which their rocks have been subjected , as well as by their meta morphosed condition. The Mississippi valley is believed to bo a section from which natural gas may bo obtained in largo quantities , but within that region probably only a small portion of tlio total area contains rock gases in quanti- titics economically important. The quantity of rock gas seems steadily to diminish as progress is made westward from tlie Holds whore petroleum is found in abundance , still it is probable that throughout tlio Mississippi valley and per haps In occasional small areas of undis turbed and unmotaniorphosed rocks within tlio limit of the mountain systems on the east and west of that valley , a .supply may bo found considerable enough to have some economic import ance. The evidence in hand , in the opinion of Professor Shalor , does not warrant tlio expectation of a long continuance of a largo supply from any one Held , except , perhaps , in the ease of certain wells in thu oil district of Pennsylvania. On this point , however , it is obvious' that any opinion must bo largely assumption. The extent of tlio earth's storage of gaseous matter , antl the rapidity ot llio produc tion of gas , are problems which tlio wis dom and researcli of man cannot solve. There are certain facts which the .scien tific observer relies upon for his conclu sions , as , lor example , that the greater part of the borings which have yielded cas steadily diminish in their outllow from the time when they arc Hratoponcd , but experience lias shown that bomo of these arc not infallible indi cations of assumed conditions. It certainly does seem even to the unscientific judgment , that the multiplication of wells in certaia dis tricts , every one of which is supposed to drain a wide territory , and the consequent quent vast production of gas would speedily exhaust the supply , but both scientific and unscientific opinion must be equally at sea in this matter. But whether the supply shall be of longer or shorter duration , tli ore is en couragement in the assurance that America is the country most fully favored by the possession of this great economic resource , and that while wo continue to enjoy the monopoly of it wo ought to be able to very greatly extend our commercial power in every quarter of the globe. A Good Kxumi > le. In the Michigan legislating corrupt members are expelled. Milo II. Dakin was charged with attempting to procure money for the purpose of inlluencing members , and , to the credit of the inves tigating committee , let it be said the charges were sustained and the bribe so licitor , by a vote of 83 to 11 , was imme diately expelled. In the case of Dakin it was proven tint ho solicited anil re ceived money ostensibly for the purpose of "influencing" members , but really for his own use. His testimony was that he expected to pet about $125 from the city of Saginaw or sotno of its lobbyists for the purpose of giving a feast and a dance for fifteen influential members of tlio house antl their wives or lady friends. These festivities were to influence the votes of these members in the matter of tlio Saginaw charter. If this pre cedent established by the Michi gan legislature is not forgotten in Nebraska , if in our next body of law makers there is a majority of honest men there will no doubt bo several Uakans expelled. It will bo remembered that in the Nebraska legislature when almost conclusive proof was offered that members of the judiciary com mittee of the house had solicited bribes , so corrupt was the majority of the body that the proposition to investi gate was promptly and emphatically voted down. It would be an interesting list if the namesof all the boodling members of the last Nebraska legislature was published. And while it would bo interesting it would also be lengthy. While Mr. Dakan proposed to entertain members with a feast and dance it was a weak ness of the Nebraska legislators to ignore dancing altogether. However , the din ners given the members were numerous and expensive. A MEMOIR of her distinguished father from the pen of Mrs. Kato Chase would undoubtedly bo a meritorious work. She cannot lack the attainments necessary to Its accomplishment , and there is reason to believe that she would give such a work special attributes that would render it particularly attractive and interesting. To the lady herself it would bo an emin ently creditable task , giving her a claim to the popular regard in a direction from which she has boon estranged by the misfortunes and mistakes of her married and social life. No Ufa of Salmon P. Cliiiso that is a worthy record of the car eer of that great man has yet been written - ton , though two attempts have boon made by incompetent biographers. His public services , thought by some to have been more valuable to the nation than that ol any other man of his time , dosorvn to have the best literary monument that can bo given them. His accomplished daughter , now in the mature years ol life , is said to bo engaged upon the pre liminary work to puch a biography , which will bo a labor of years , THE decline of population and mate rial prosperity of many eastern towns is a fact which carries with it some curious and interesting suggestions. The census report of Massachusetts , just issued , makes some remarkable disclosures. It is found that during the last decade 14E towns out of 348 show a loss of popula tion , with of course a decadence in all other respects. What were once thriving communities , full of hopeful promise , are now given over to dilapidation , hav ing scarcely a vestige of thu character istics of thrift and comfort they formerly possessed. The people whose energy and enterprise gave them industrial life and activity have transferred these qualities to localities whore they could thorn to better advantage to the largo nnd better favored cities and to the West , nnd hone having taken their places , the old towns are tumbling Into ruin. What is true in thlg respect of the towns of Massachusetts finds its complement in most of tlio other Now England states , aud of course for similar reasons. Ono of these , it may bo remarked , has in certain states been an adverse railroad policy , which lias fa vored the competing points andsqucczod the non-competing. Many towns in New York and Pennsylvania , also , have suf fered decline from this course. Tlicro is a probability that seine of these may re cover under the now order of tilings , but for a great many of the towns of Now Knglaud that have gene to decay there will be no recovery. They are not needed , and if the lands they occupy wore re stored to farms and cultivated it would bo better for the wcltaro of tlio states in which they exist. TIIEUE appears to bo n remarkable growth of protection Ideas in Kuropo , anil it is noteworthy that they are chiefly directed against the United States. Our foreign dispatches recently recorded the action of the Italian parliament in pass- n law raising duties on certain American products , and also the fact that the high- tariff advocates of the Belgium parlia ment referred as a part of their argu ment to the damaging effects of the im portation of American cattle upon the homo industry. Tlio Hour merchants of Dublin have recently petitioned the government for a duty on American Hour , and the chamber of commerce of Glasgow a little while ago adopted a resolution elution , evidently aimed at American importations , in favor of a revision of tlio Hsc.il relations of Great Britain in in tlio interest of trade , which has boon impaired by the systems of bounties and protection adopted by other countries. This striking evidenceof the be fogged intollgence of American protec tionists that they should find in these evidences of hostility to the trade policy of this country something to commend , but such is the remarkable fact. Only n very blind anil narrow prejudice could lead people to welcome the efforts of other nations to erect fiscal barriers against the commerce of their own country. THE roportctl conflict of authority be tween the secretary of war and the lieu tenant general appears to hnd warrant in a decision of the power , which ap peared in the March circular of the war department , relative to the privilege of a regimental commander in his choice ol stalf otlicers , wliicli the secretary says is restricted to those lieutenants of the regi ment who are on duty with it and who are not at a school of instruction or with the light batteries. This is understood to directly contravene an order approved by the lieutenant general for the detail of an officer serving with a light battery for staff duty. It i. very much to the credit of General Sheridan that the re- poatcd efforts of the nocretary of war tc evidently aggravate a conflict have boon permitted to pass without serious notice , Undoubtedly in such cases a dignified silence is the wiser course. It is observed that whenever the secretary of war leaves Washington tholicutonantgencrai also goea away , the object being to avoid taking orders from a subordinate olliecr who is always designated as acting secre tary. This must greatly annoy the gen eral , but ho may find comfort in the re flection that it will continue less than twc years more. STATE AND TUHK1TOUY. Nebraska Jottings. A canning factory in Bloomington is a settled fact. Chadron has voted bonds for a $20OOC school house. The census shows there arc 5,400 school children in Custer county. The North Nebraska sports will shoo ! for a prize modal in Norfolk this week. With the proposed railroads completed Adams county would have 300 miles ol track. The Hon. Richard Thompson , Duke ol Adams , proposes to launch a Daily Dem ocrat in Hastings on or about tho'2od. Crawford complains that trains on the Elkhorn Vallov road in that vicinity arc run on thedonrt-caro-a-contincntal-when- we-gct-thero plan. Beatrice capitalists have subscribed $50UOO to start a coffin and woodonwtire factory. Kival towns will bo supplied with jeweled mortuary caskets free ol cost. The Fremont Tribune is shouting itsell hoarse "against Omaha and urging' the residents to boycott this city. Sublime folly. Tlio "pretest" is fashionable and Omaha is the fashion. The valuation of the property of Has tings , exclusive of railroads , is $1,200,539 , That of the entire county , inclitdinc railroads , is $ a,820,831.85. The railroad valuation in the county is over $400,000 , The Bachelors club of Nebraska City is suffering with "spring" fover. The members display such agility in spring ing at an oiler that eligible young ladies dare not "shoot a glance" at tnocluL rooms. Tlio Grand Island Independent is now snugly quartered in a building of its own , ono of the finest printing ollices in the state. Mr. Heddo deserves congrutula tions on his now move. His success as r publisher is thu monument of a grateful people of whoso cause ho has b ecu an un flinching advocate. The Hushvillo tar and feather party which treated C. C. Akin to a check suit last fall , will bo called into court in Chad ron this month to show cause why thoj should not pay $35,000 , for their verdancy , Akin has first-class counsel and promise ! to roast the mobersc in good shape. Ii may bo fortunate for thorn that they hat their laugh first. Senator Casper , of Butler county , is o ] tlio opinion that female beauty and bliin tiers aio insoDurablo in public ollico Hear him : "Connoistuirsof female beautj remarked concerning the number 01 pretty girls to bo found on the pay-roll 01 the cnrolleit and engrossing committees of the last legislature'.0 Ic now appear : that many of the most important bills arc in danger of being sot aside by the supreme promo court on account of blunder ! made in bills that are to become laws. " Iowa Item * . A boot and shoo factory is to bo startec at Fort Dodge. A DCS Moinci county woman wont to jail to servo out a' $10 line for trospast rather than pay the cash. Fruit trees , fences and outbuilding * suffered great damage from the wind storm at Now London , Henry county. The captain of the Salvation army al Atlantic says ho is in love with the place , The people of the place are considering what to do about it. Potty thieves are reported to bo terror izing hen roosts nnd smoke houses over in Hancock countv. A detective has been summoned from Kcokuk. The Ottumwa waterworks and watoi power has been sold to the Iowa watoi company , which has been orgnnlr.od by oaotorn capitalists to buy and build waterworks in this state and the west. A Conturvillu young lady , in an in quisitive mood , watched some boys per form tlio dlfllcult feat of Placing their heels around their nock. Then , with a look of suppressed knowledge , she sneaked off into her bedroom. The hours rolled by until the sun bcpan to blink nnd the chickens were climbing in the trco tops for the night , when her absence was noted , Golnij to her chamber a human-shaped ball was found upon the Hoer , rolling and groaning. She had not carried her observations quito far enough. Her No. 2's locked around her nock all right , but the experiment of getting out of the feat was an incident quite im portant. _ Mrs. Harm Frcriolis , supposed to have died at Lincoln Center , near ( Grimily Center , on the 31th tilt. , is still held above ground for more positive evidence of death. She was about twenty-throe years old , had never known sickness , and weighed about 175 pounds. Hot present appearance is that of a sleeping woman. On the collin being opened af the grave the cars and cheeks were red and lifelike. Through the nostrils came n How of light colored blood and the body was perfectly limber. After five days of supposed death the warm weathoi made no mortifying impression on the body. Friends are confident she is uol dead , although medical experts pro nounce otherwise. Meantime the sup posed corpse is again at homo autl at tended by anxious watchers. Dakota. The Indian school at Flandrau has fortj pupils. It is cheaper to buy a horse than horse feed at Dcadwood. Miner county crop reports are on t ref of all former records in advancement anil piospect. Sing Lee , n Deadwootl Chinaman , fakcd $5 from a till and paid $100 and costs for turning the trick. Deadwood thieves are no respcclors ol power or persons. A court ollicial then was deftly relieved of $100 while watch * ing the manipulations of justice. Wheat in Dakoto this spring is , gen erally speaking , in line condition and tlio crop prospects are excellent. Ol over twenty counties from which reports have been received twelve show an in creased acreage overlSSiJ. In Casscounty from 5 to 10 per cent more will bo sown than in 188(1. ( The live Black Hills coun ties also show an increase. Only one county ( Beadle ) reports a decrease , and hero barley , rye and oats have been largely increased , the latter by 50 per cent. Grant is the only Dakota county re ported to be as much as ten days late in seeding. The others have boon rather earlier than usual. BILL NYE ON NEWSPAPER MEN , lie Relates Some al' the Romance ol n .Journalistic Ijlfo. New York World : I know that there are men who have been connected will journalism for years , who maintain that it is not a habit , but that with them it i. ' absolutely necessary. I1 or this reason 1 consulted Mr. James Miggleson , of Ashe ville , who edited the Daily Jimplocuto , n morning paper of this place , and learned from him that it is not necessary to .sel up nights in order to run a morning paper. So the wives and mothers of morning journalists and printers should not longei bo tlei-oiyed by this time-honored franc ! upon tneir trusting natures. Mr. Miggleson says that a rattling good morning paper can bo worked oft the press by supper time , and the evening re * served tor social intercourse. And yet 1 know n pale , studious news paper manwith silver in his hair , a man in whoso mouth butter would scarcely molt , who has. for twenty years and more , bamboo/led his trusting wife and grown-up son with this transparent Iraud. Ho told mo only a short time ago , will : genuine pathos , that the first time ho hail seen his own son by daylight was lasl full. He said that his son came of agt last October , and through the courtesy ol a mutual friend ( the young man's mother' ho had the pleasure of meeting him on election day and forming an acquaintance which ho says may ripen into a strong friendship. I have another acquaintance who as sists in editing a morning paper , but he does not boiievo in allowing his children to utterly forgot him. Ho does not wanl his boys to thfnk they are orphans iusi because ho is not always at home. Ho is a man of very strong will and a strict dis * ciplmarian. So he gets a holiday ovor.v two weeks in order to go homo and dc up his punishing. Ono time he found that his oldest 01 oldest son I do not know which , because I am away from home without my library had violated the rules ot the house in u satl manner. As near as I am able to como at the facts , the boy had taken a quart of corn and sewed a long thread through oacli kernel , showing great patience and per severance in so doing , lie had then tied tlio ends of the thread together into one knot and scattered tlio corn where a large Hock of geese had been in the habit ol associating antl pooling for mutual prolil and improvement. A man who came along that way aboul dusk , said that lie saw about thirty geese standing around in a circle looking re proachfully at each other and trying tc agree on some method by which the could all go homo together without turn ing a part of their crowd wrong side out , while behind a high board fence there was a boy who seemed to bo enjoying himself in a small way. The incident was reported to the boy' * father , who came homo and placed nic son under a largo dry goods box in the cellar , after which ho piled three or foui hundred pounds of coal on top of the inverted box. lie then made a few re marks for the boy's good , which were followed by the smothered remark "Hats ! " from the insitlo of the bov , After ordering that the box should not be disturbed till his return , my friend put on his coat and went back to hi : work. This was just as the returns began te return in the autumn of 1881. My friend did not go homo for two weeks ; and for got all about the boy till it came time tc do ui ) his punishing for tlio fortnight. Wlioii the truth flashed over him he was filled with the keenest remorse am wont home as soon as ho had sent in the last proof , but when ho went down inte the cellar he found the box empty and the following note written on it with c ncncil : "Dear Paw do not woap for mo i have went away from my happy homo whare i was onct so gay and free do Not ussas- inato maw been/ she Pride up the box with a stick Of cord-wood yesterday ami fed Mo she left the box So i could Bust 4th i am gone Far Far Away do not weaj for mo it is bettor for you and mo to be Apart , cnnyhow it is better for Mo to be apart i like being Apart a Good deal bet ter i think i will take a ham and a gar of Preserves of which 1 am passlonalolv fond but i will Remunerate you some Day as heaven Is my jug so No moar at Present from your prodttigio Son Henry.1 BILL Ni'K. Asheville , N. C. . March 8th. Mrs. Mary Savaite , of Greenwood , Mass , is eighty-four years old , and has t daughter aged fifty-nix , a granddaughtoi aged thirty-six , a great-granddaughtoi aged seventeen , and a groat-grcat-grand daughter aged eight months. It Is an unbroken line of females of five genera- tions. * * Confidentialadvice.toelthoi sex , on delicate disoaaes. Book 10 cent ; in stamps. Address , World's Dispensarj Medical Association , 603 Main St. , Buf falo , N. Y. Sixteen Hundred Lives Lost in tlio Er- plosion and Tire , THE CHIEF HORROR OF ThEWAR. A Xlirktllntj Story Told by One of the Survivors. A letter to tlio Chicago News from Brazil , Ind. , says : Perry Summervlllo , late private company 1C , Forly-flrst Indi ana cavalry volunteers , now nn unobtru sive farmer residing near this city , isono § of the 780 survivors of tlio Sultana , the ill-stnrrcd steamer whoso tragic fate forms ono of the saddest chapters in the history of the late war. Mr.Summorvtllo has been granted a pension of $1 per month and $1,010 arrearages. On the morning of April 21 , 1S03 , the Sultana , whoso capacity , according to the Hon. John Covode , chairman of the war committee was U70 passengers , ar rived at Vicksbnrg from Now Orleans , haying on board passenger and crow to the number of 110 , Her boiler was leak ing badly , although examined at St. Louis on her last trip and pronounced all right , and thcengineer refused to proceed further without repairs. The repairing was done by competent mechanics , whoso workmanship was praised by the engi neer. The steamer remained at Vicksburg - burg thirty-three hours. While there she was boarded by lltj ( | } federal soldiers and thirty-live officers , just released from An- dersonvillo ami Cahawbti prisons , mak ing a total of 2,111 six times her capac ity. ' The soldiers wore mostly from Ohio and Indiana regiments. It is needless to say that they were huddled together like sheep in the shambles. Many of the sol diers were yet suffering from wounds re ceived in battle , nnd most of tiicm were sadly emaciated from starvation in prison pens , as all conversant with Anderson- ville can testify. But now tliuy were en route home , the cruel war being over , and their cause triumphant , and the Vision of loved ones greeting their return , and of dear , familiar seenes , r.ntl the quiet , peaceful life they wore again to pursue- all this lillcd their hearts with joy. Memphis was reached on April 20. After coaling the steamer proceeded northward. At 2:30 : a. m. , just opposite Tagleman's Landing , anil without any warning , the .steamer's boilers exploded with terrific force , anil in a few minutes the vessel had burned to the water's etlgc. No adequate cause has ever been assigned for the explosion. The steamer carried proper certificates of worthiness and was running at the usual rate of speed nine or ten miles an hour. The scene that followed was horrible beyond tlio pow or ofwords to depict ; but it was of short duration , as the glare of tbo burning steamer that illuminated the skv and made visible the despair of the hour soon dicti away , while darkness , mom intense than ever , settled tlown on the floating hulk , and 2,111 victims of the disaster , who. maimed or scalded , in ad dition to battle woundswore , bornn down by theunpit.ying flood , whoso rapid cur rent was strewn with the bodies of the dead and dying and of but a few appar ently uninjured. Mr. Summerville tells his experience in thpsi ) words. "My quarters were on the cabin deck on the guard to the left over anil opposite the boilers. Wo got to Memphis on the evening of the 2ith ( of April. There the steamer unloaded a largo amount of .sugar , after which she ran up to a coal barge and was taking on coal , and that was the last 1 knew tifi I found mvholf in the water. In the ex plosion 1 must have been thrown 100 feet. I sank only once. My first thought was that the steamer was running : close to sjioro and that I had been dragged oil' by a limb. I was very much excited fern n few moments , not knowing what to do ; then 1 .struck out for the steamer. I had no sooner done so than I found some thing was wrong on board. 1 could see steam and lire and hear screams and groans proceeding from the steamer and her passengers , so 1 began to swim down stream. I hud not gone far till the stenniejr was wrapped in flames. The scene that follows beggars description. Scores of passengers , suddenly roused fromslcop | , were killed outright : others bruised or scalded from the explosion , or bcarcely able to crawl from wounds or starvation in prison , were throwing or dragging themselves into the rivcrmany of tnem to find watery graves. "In swimming tlown the river , holding on to a rail , 1 could sec the timber on cither bank , but 1 could not make it into shore. About two miles above Memphis 1 succeeded iu adding a largo plank to my rail , which I drew across the front end , holding to the rail with my feet aud the plank with my hands. I lay so near the surface 1 suffered extremely from the cold. 1 was picketl up at Memphis , my rescuer being a colored man , anil placeil on boartl n vessel. I had been in the water two hour * , and was so chilled and numbed > vhon taken out that I could not stand. Besides I had been scalded on the back and bruised on the breast in the ex plosion. " 1 have never learned what became of Isaiah Brown , the man who occupied the berth with mo on that fearful night. I have never heard of him , though ho was from tlio same county as myselt , and it scorns nobody else lias. "I had not been in the vessel where I was taken when picked up but a short time till a man was brought in who was so badly scalded that the skin slipped from his shoulders and arms. Ho was wrapped up in oil , but walked the floor in ugonv a short time only , and was dead. A mother who had floated the entire - tire distance with a babe in her arms was picked up , but tlio babe was dead. "Tho explosion was hoard in Memphis , and the light of the burning steamer , ru- llnctotl on the sky , plainly discerned. The cause was apprehendod. At various points above , anil especially at Memphis , the river was full of skill's and canoes , and occasionally larger vessels , to render assistance , if possible , to any of the vic tims of the disaster who might bo alive , and to pick up the charred and scalded and maimed remains of the dead , all HO plentifully scattered along the surface of the river. At Bostona a soldier was over taken who , with the aid of a plank , was endeavoring to save two little girls. A rope was thrown him , in attempting to catch which the children slipped Irom his exhausted arms. All , thought of the rope seemed to escape him , and ho beat about wildly to regain his helpless charges , which were borne from him in the darkness by the current. Ho was finally rescued , but was nearly dead from exhaustion. "A newly married couplewhoso names I have since learned as Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hardin , of Chicago , were passengers on tlio steamer. They wore on route homo on their honeymoon trip. They lingered on the wreck till compelled to jump overboard. At the same instant the cabin full in with a crash , and all who had lingered thim late , wildly jumped into the river. The husband was res cued , but the wife was drowned. Nearly fourteen hundred were either killed by the explosion or drowned , while of these rescued 300 died in hospitals in Memphis alonu. "I well remember my oxporioneo in the water. Two miles below the scene of the explosion a gunboat passed us going up the river , but it did not stop to pick up any of the victims. A little later on I hoard a horse coming down the river. Wliem ho came near enough I could dis tinguish a dozen men clinging to him. i kept clear of him , or rathtr the men , for fear of losing my rail. I have no moans of knowing whether the poor horse saved the poorer men clinging to him or not. 1 was finally overtaken by Jerry Pcrkcr , of the Second Michigan cavalry , who fet quite a distance ewnin by my sldu , 01 rather floated , for ho wn ! > iistrldo n bar rel. All KHOW Jerry , for ho was a grci : favorite. Ho strotlo ills barrel a.s good humored as over , the circumstances con sidered. Wo woutil have cheered him- his prcjiune'o and hopeful , buoyant dispo sition so inspired us , had It not been that cheering was altogether impractical , At times our company Increased to quito a number. Jerry told us all to bu o good cheer ; that wo would bo rescued. am glad to say ho wad among the number picked up. A man named Klbbo floated near mo for quite a ills- la ne o. "After the rescue we spent a short tlmo in the hospital at Memphis , when wo were started for Camp Chase , O.tAt Indianapolis wo wore stopped as Indiana solilicrs by tlio great war governor , Morton. Their kind treatment , and the presence of loved ones soon nursed us back to health and caused us. In a meas ure , to forget ono of the darkest and most terrible disasters of war times in which , unfortunately , wo were partial * pants. " _ _ Notes About Old Folk * ) . Mrs. Susan 11. llussoy , of Great Falls , N. U. , died n few days ago aged ninety- four. four.Henry Henry A. Brood , the oldest Free Mason in Lynn , Mass. , died , u few days ago , in the ninetieth year of his ago. Joseph Gegan , a well Known inuMa teacher of Baltimore , Mil. , is dead at thu ago of eighty-two years. Ho was a native of Ireland. The death of ono Joseph Kinder , 107 years old , is reported from Ischborg , in the Tyrol. He entered tlio Austrian army in 1707. Uobert Simpson , ono of the oldest drap ers of Glasgow , Scotland , died recently , aged eighty years' He had been In busi ness Hftv-nino years. "Uncle Sam' Rogers , ono of the oldest inhabitants of Monmouih county , N. .1. . died ot paralysis at his homo in lied Bank yesterday , aged ninety. Captain Sotii Nickorson , of Chatham , Mass. , the founder of the religious sect known as the "Coiuo-oulers , " is dead , at the age of eighty-eight years anil six months. Mrs. Marie Latighlin died recently nt Akron , N. Y , , at the age of 101 years. She enjoyed gootl health until within u few weeks of her demise. Martha Koasc , for seventy-two years In the Shaker family at Kiilicld Conn. , aud fifty-two years in an ollicial capacity among them , died a few days ago at the ago of eighty-two years. Mrs. Susan B. , widow of the late lion , William Pickering , who was state treas urer for New Hampshire a number ol years , died in Portsmouth , N. II. , April 17 , aged eighty-six years. Mrs. Sallie F. Baldwin , of Kfninghiun , 111. , visited the camp-lire at that city , re cently. She walked about two miles.aml said she felt very little fatigued. Mrs. Baldwin is eighty-three years old. Joseph W. Hall , who was postmaster of the old District of Kensington , Phila delphia , from 1811 to 1852 , died April 15 , nt his residence , 180 ! ) Germantown ave nue , at the ago of ninety-two years. Mr. Homer Morgan , a native of West- Hold , Mass. , but Hinco 18" ( ) a prominent resident of New York , died recently.ovoi eighty-six years of age. Ho was in the dry goods and afterwards the real estate business. Henry Ihmer , tlio olddst locomotive engineer in the United States , died n few days ago in Whistler , Ala. Ho ran the first engine over the Charleston & Ham burg road , the third railroad built in this country. The drivers of the engine weru of hard wood. Sarah Hoadley , Bucks county's ( Pa. ) en ergetic octogenarian tarmur is doud. Snu rtl had tor more than sixty years u farm ol nearly ono hundred acres in Bristol town ship , and died at the advanced age ol eighty-six years. In her long term ol widowhood she acquired a great reputa tion throughout the lower portion of Bucks county lor the enterprising man agement of her farm. Gainesville ( Ga. ) Eagle : A friend in forms us that he attended church at Laurel Hill , two miles west of town , last SundaYantlmct there old Granny Scrog- gins , as she is called , 107 years old , who had walked a mile with her daughter , Mrs. Mabry , who is seventy-seven , from homo about a mile away , to the meeting. In the congregation of thirty or forty persons , there were some tune or ten octogenarians , most of whom had walked : i considerable distance to the church , and all appeared in good health nnd sur prising vigor. Tlnsspeiiks well for the he silthfulness of our Piedmont region. Washington county , Pa. , has a veteran of three wars in Isham White , who says that he was born in southern Georgia in 1770 Ho was one of those who fought behind the cotton bales under General Jackson at Now Orleans , and thinks it was n bullet from his musk el , that killed General Packonham , the commander of the British forces on that occasion. He served against the Indians in Florida in 1830 , and was n volunteer under General Wmlield Scott in Mexico His love for "Old Hickory" amounts almost to rever ence , and he says that lip voted for him at every presidential election. There w ere interred in Ditisbury , Eng land , recently a mother and her daugh ter , whoso united ages totalled If55 ! years. The old lady , Mrs. Mary Bihell , a widow having attained to the patriarchal ago of ninety-two , and her daughter Hannah to sixty-one. For many years past the two have lived together , occupying ouo cot- for over half a century , and Mrs. Bitholl was by far the oldest resident in tlio village. They wore united in their lives , their deaths having occurred within twenty-four hours of each othoi , on Friday and Saturday hist. The dit- ceased husband of Mrs. Bithcllformerly occupied the Didsbury hotel. In the lower part ot Cofloo county , Ga. lives Mr. Stafford Davis , u relative of the ox-president of the Southern Confederacy. who is now 100 years old. Ho served through the war ol 1812 and the Mexican war , but bus never rcceivcil a pension for his services and has never a. ° kiiil for one. When twenty-nine years of ago ho married a Miss Lot , and now has chil dren. grandchildren and great-grand- children to the number of 275. In 1872 his wife died after sixty you of married life , aud recently ho led to the altar a blushing bride of fifty summoi.s. Air. Davis has been strong nnd hearty until this year , but Is now qultnfoohlo. Mrs. Anne Pennlopu lloaro died re cently in London at thu ago of 101 years. She was the daughter of General Sir George Ainslie ; was born In the your of Warren Hastings' impeachment , seven years before the French revolution and twelve before * the battle of the Nilo. Slit was already a widow and thirty-live years old when , in the first year of George IV. , slit ) married Mr. Henry Charles lloaro , of Fleet street. She was twenty. nine when Waterloo was fought , anil alnmdy "out" when Nelson fell at Tra falgar. Mrs. lloaro was probably the oldwt woman In thu whole metropolis. Mrs. Christiana Knnbo , w'dow of Mr. Wm. Knahc , and mother of Ernest anil William ICtiabo , the piano manufacturers , died in BalMmoro ld. , April 21 , where who resided with her POIIB , She had arrived at the iigo of eighty-two yenrH. fifty-font of which she hail pusgod in Baltimore , to which Klin emmo with heir husband in l&U ) , from Saxu Meinmgon , Germany , her na- tivu plauo. Mrs. Kmibu's kindly and warm hnurted disposition , and the inter est which she continued to thu last to .show in the workmen attached to the piano factory under tlio direction of her husbands and HOIIS , won for her a largo nirclo of devoted friends. Her health began to fail a v ar ago. Her appear- unco at the annual picnic of the factory workmen was always ' an interesting event. .