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Little Falls transcript., 1883-10-19

her head about were most amusing. Is
this tlieend OF our detention? we thous hit !;
Dur no! ths wydullatHmes smiling forward
and escorted us to mis- house, where in 8
back room WAS an estrade covered with
beautiful white cocoa nut mating, and
here rat in state fWn Of the most extraor-
binary iigHrrs posslble---a woman whose
ftce WAS one mass OF nchre with fan,as
tically painted eyehro ws, her head, neck,
arms and tnnic covered with enormous
diamonds: her companion man painted
in Ii manner anu we ring a tall hat
encireled with diamonds an} his esrs
covered witht arge pointed ass's ears of
gold, also heavily enriched with dia-
mOnus. :.% s:GS Ef -.
Behind this angular pair were two
women, half-naked and pa nted yellow,
holding peacocks' tails In tht ir hands,
while behind them again were two
dummy figures similarly painted. The
room was crammed with natives, and
you may imagine nur feelings when our
self remaining behind. Alter many
signs and much hesitation We i,aG to get
up, and with our travel-stained boots to
advance to those personages. who then
rose and held out their
hands to us. The wy.aono. evident
~ pitying our uncertainty, then
lnotioned tt, us to come away, and soon
We found ourselves in room where q
comfortable luncheon was prepared.
After this repast, to our great relief, we
were allowed te depart, our host giving
me his arm most politely to the carriage.
It was not until the evening that we
learned that the ceremony we nad wit
messed WAS tho marriage Of regents or
prlnce's daughter with sene Javanese
tunctionary and that we happened on
all the show by mere chance, the Resi-
dent of Dyocka having desired the ay.
d"no OF thar village to entertain US at
tiffin. If we had only knownp'
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Entertaining f. Rnrggar.

"A burglar can be gentleman in
manner as we'll as any one else, and the
majority ofthem are men Of refinement.
WAS at Saratoga q couple Of years ago,
and srolling into the dining room Of q
prominent hotel une day | espled one
Of the most notorious "knucks" in the
business seated Ivy the side Of a wealthy
banker. | was curious to see how the
fellow would behave himself, and sitting
close by, observed him. 1t wasn't long
before his engaging manner completely
won the OLD banker, and / laughed to
myself when saw the latter introduce
him to member Of his family. I kept
my eye on him, and later on actually
heard the fellow invite him to drive.
could scarcely believe the evidence of
my senses. When the party returned
took the crook to one side and asked
what law he was on. "for heaven
sake" said he, ''don't give me away,
I'm indulging in little respectful ity,
and the atmosphere is improving my
health" Cracksman though he was
had never known him to tell a lie, and
when he pledged me his word never to
take advantage of the old mans hospi-
talitv | WAS willing to believe him.
''Hss any harm come Of tie thing
SINGER"
''On the contrary, good has come Of it
for whe an attempt was to he made
about six months ago, to break into the
bankers residence, this man gave no.
tice to the department., and the thieves
were thwarted. So you see there is
something in the old saying alter all,
''its better to have the good will Of a
dog"
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WHEN YOU SEE BOYS.
The Young America in Various Sit
uatiOns.

The Young America in Various Sit
uatiOns.
From the Burl,n ECO h,wk eye.
When you SEQ boy coming down
the street with ball of cord in his hand
and 81 look on his serious face like that
worn by the picture OF an early Chris.
tian father standing in the arena wait
ing for the new lion to be called out to
dinner, It il a sign that if you cast your
eyes upward you can see tn It boys kite
dancing nimbly in the air to the lasciv-
ious pleasing of whole colony Of teie-
Graph wires.
When yon see a boy goinn along in
the merry, merry sunshine with his hat
in his hand, shaking his hair with
pine stick to get it dry, now
and then leaning his head on
one side, pounding the other
side with his hand and practically kick.
Ing his feet in the air, in desperate ef-
forts to get the water out OF his ears; or
when you SEQ him holding a warm stone
TO his ears for the same purpose, it is q
true sign that you may think 'f that boy,
ny and by, stan'liEg speecilless when his
mother asks hln how his shirt came to
be wrong side out. You must not run
down the street in the direction Of his
home under the impression that the
boy is being murdered. You can't kill g.
noes you will know that boy has beeL
in swimming when he should have been
at school learning that twenty six
propositions are followed by the accusa-
tive. all the way from ad to ultra.
"When you see boy with the pock--
ets Of his pantaloons buIgiog out until
he looks like great bumble bee laden
for the hive, while he walks along try
ing t. look as thin as split lath and
wearing profound expression Of su-
pernatural innocence, you know with.
out referring to this code Of signals that
boy has be IN lingering in somebody's
orchard and doesn't care to have undue
publicity given to facts that only concern
him personally.
And wherever. and whenever you see
him In mischief or out Of it-that is just
coming out of it or just ready to get in
some more; awfully bad, or with many
fearful failures and disgraceful stumbles
trying to be good; forgetting your COM
mandments which thunder upon him
by the hundred, well nigh as readily
and repeatedly as YOU forget the ten that
tnanlCe wisdom mas talu upon you; IN all
his noise, his poor little struggles. temp
tations, triumphs and failures, his pite-
GUS little troubles and his fearful, honest
penitence, in all the ljghtness Of q boys
life. your heart must grow mellow and
tender for the little germ of manhood,
50 full OF wonderful possibilities, so rich
with seeds of strength that will ripen
bye and bye, for good or for evil, as you
walk and live before the boy; even as
you look at him. remember what yon
were thirty or forty years ago, and say,
God bless the boy"
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RITH :OF TILE NEWS.
Washington News Notes.

The following are recent postoffica
. Shas ges:--P Postordces Ests sbiished-W Wiscon-
sin, Leadmine. La ayetts county. Postuas
tes's Crmn.issioued-A Archie n. Shepard,
Maprs, Oak; Dallas M. Perdue. Rose Hill
lows: ark Hargreaves, Hokah. Mum;
Alex Turner, st. Henry, MINI. The
president has appointed the following
post masters: Wilt m N. Cha dler at Graf
ton, OAK, and LIE. Sampson at New Ia.
aosia. Mont. @.. =.
'Bx-CoMmander Gerringe says that he Is
pyesaring bill for introduction at the
coming session of congress relating to the
settlement of the condition tfour merchant
marlne. He has given much time to a
careful and exhaustive study of the whole
sutieet, aud the result of MS labors will de-
serve treatment equally thoughtful and con-
scientious.
It is ssid positively that there is no law
on the statute books which will authorize
tAe dropping OF Mai Nickerson frons the
rolls OF the army, and before this act can
be performed by tha president, congress, il
IN said, wiil have TO enaes some provision
which will cover such Cases as Maj. Nicker-
son's.
The president has designated Col. David
l. Hunti. gton to act as surgeon general
and to take charge OF the office until an ap-
peintnenE shali be ma se.
The sentence of Col I!ges to be dismissed
; Rens the army has been appro we'd by lhe
president.
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FlOatiDg.

The human body weighs pound in
the water, and chair will carry two
grown persons: that Is, it will keep the
head above water, which is all that is
necessary when it is question Of life
o. death. One Enger placed upon a
chair or stool, small box, or piece of
board, will easily keep the head above
water, while the two feet and other
hand may be used as paddles to propel
toward the shore. 1t is not at all necas-
sary 10 know how to swim to be able to
keep from drowning in this way. A lit
tie experience with the buoyant power
of water, and faith in it, are all that is
required. When pleasure boats capsxe,
everyone struggles to get on top CT the
the overturned or haif-fiued boat, and
all are drowned, except those whom the
wrecked craft would wholly bear up. If
they would simply trust the water to
sus ain ninety-nine hundredths Of the
weight OF their bodies, and the disabled
boat the other hundredth, they might
all be saved, under lnrst circumstances.
An overturned or water filed wooden
boat will sustain more people in this
way than it will carry. It would keep
the heads above water of as many peo-
pie as could get their hands ON the gun
vale. These are simple fscts, easily
learned, and may some day save your
lie
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walk brought us to him, but the
scene around HI the tree battles
description. With bark after
bark tho dogs circled around,
now shifting, and trying in vain 20 climb
up the sap,ing. AieW blows from the
az brought the tree down, and the next
moment the possum was ii the Jaws Of
the dogs forty feet away. He had start
ed to run as soon 5as tie tree fell, but
the dogs ran too quickly. AS soon as
they had q taste Of III they were salts.
fed. It is remarkable, but q possum
dog will never eat a possum or the
bones of one. The same scene was re-
heated twice more, varied by long
tramps though swamps, Gotten and
corn fields. The small hours OF the
morning hal arrived when We went to
bed, but we consoled ourselves with the
thought o the feast we would have the
next day, and such feast it was!
On big dish in the center of the
table, brown and fat, the possum looked
like it was good, but it WAS better than
it looked It was meal fit Tor kings,
but which anybody could have for the
trouble of the hunt. It WAS the first pos
sum we ever ate but if our legs hold out
will not be the last.
Joe Roney was right. There is n9th-
ing that will beat the possum.
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General NoWs GOSSIP.

a special telegr stu FROM Chicago say
that she PAGER Johnston wss sold the IL b
to Cpmmodore Littson otrSf. Paul for $25.-
,5SS CASH. 1eter johnson his Or ver, says
he has driven the horse to the quarter pole
On several occasions in so secunds, and
oRee went there in 80. He thinks that,
with good day sud a good track, the
horse will beat 2:i0.
The new Guion line steamer, Oregon, ar
rived at NewrY 'rs trom Liverpool on the
34th, making the trip in seven days eight
hours and thiriy-rhree ninuies.
AT the jersey cattle sales few days age
the COW Saragossa sold for $4,000. and the
. cow Wit eyse. for 81, 500.
Wcrk began at onca upon the Cape Cod
Canal. Five hundred men will saon he EN-.
ployed.
Ohio cast 40O,GJG votes In 1875. Th
year it " i'll he close to 700, 600.
It is believed Plunger Walton lost $500
600 by tie defeat OF Girofe.
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RIA i1road~ and River News

The earnings o. sixty-nine railroads for
the past month were s27, Ss2, Os2.. against
SIS $50 o9! for septen,b Der, 1882 Since Jan.
I, six'y i've roads have earned 1903 633 S23.
agaiust S1oO 861, 1897 for the same eros fl
last ,ar, Oil lAcr-asa Of t17, ,772, l31
This Has earned on 57,73O miles ut road
this year against Al 259 miles in 1882. The
statement includes the eLeratiuns of the
South Westerns Grangers No rthern Paci fic,
Manitoba, Grand Trunk and other leading
sonipanies.
The E abroad Conductors Life Insurance
association holds its next annual meeting
I'm Toronto. The officers elected were:
President, Ward Nichols, New Haven &
Hartford r,sd; vice presidents, Joseph H.
Redmond. Missouri Pacific, and J. ,Mul.
igan, Grand Trunk; secretary and treas
nxer, FL. ID. Fellow; executive committee,
full ter, Rufus j. SAiyley; vacancy, William
Sense, Colum pus.
The trial OF ex~treasurer Haven, Of the
Rut'aad rsi|road company, charged with, it,
sning false certificates or st. ck OF that COM
pany, kes ended IN verdict of acquittai on
tschnical gruunds, This legalizss the Issue
o. alleged fraudulent stock amounting to
$4,000 issued to Clermont Low, president
. of the road.
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Changes i'm the Army Department.

Changes i'm the Army Department.
Washington Speciai:--As result OF the
further deiibsratien on the subject and in
accordance with the prefer ences of Gen.
Hancock and other officers, it
has to-day been decided that
Hancock shall remain in co mmand of the
division of the Atlantic with Headquarters
at New York, and that Gen. Scboteld shall
take command of the division of the Mis-
souri,. with headquarters at Chicago, and
Cen. Pope will succeed the last named in
command of the Pacific division
cisco. Brig. Gen: Argur sue
ceeds Maj Gen. Pope in command of the
department., with headquarters at Leayen.
worth. The official order making the above
changes was promulgated at the war depart.
ment this afternoon. Gen. Sherman will, on
Nov. l, repair to his home in St. Louis and
await his retirement The general will be
attended prior to his retirement by those
Of bis aid-de-camp whom he may designate
to the adjutant general. Maj. Gen. Hancock
was offered the command of the division of
the Missouri, but declined, pre- erring to re-
tain his present command. His letter of de-
cllnation was received at the war depart.
ment to-day. Brig. Gen.. r. S. Macker zie
will succeed Gen. Augur id command of the
department. Of Texas. The department OF
the south has been consolidated with the
department. of the east, Maj. Gen. Hancock
in command. - :
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The New French War Naiaister.

When the Fallieres cabinet was ON it's
last legs, the 3eth of January, 1888, it was
officially announced that Casnpenon had
accepted the wsc office, but succeeding
events falsified the statement. The retire
naent of the rich, royal, and aristocratic
Orleanist officers, Was a JOB rather hard 60 let
out, and Only Thibauain, who was gener-
ally deGested for sunrsndering at Metz with
Bazaine. was found Willing to accent the
task. Taihaudin has now served the pur-
pose for which he was needed by the anti
Earle anists Gen. Campenon is believed to
be a staunch republican. When Napoleon
III strangled the republic, Campenon was
arrested and exiled, he then being staff
officer He betook himself to Tunis and
devoted his sttention toathe reorganization
of the boys little ! !. army. Bat
he soon returaed to France, rejoined the
army, and served in a Algaria, in Italy and
IN China. Id 1870 Campenon was chief sf
Gen Legrande's staff, taxing part in the
celebrated charge in which that officer was
/ killed. He vas Houaded and made PRISON.
er, and spent so.ne time at AiE-la- Chapelle.
Y Ia 1875 Caulpenou was promoted to the
rank 0t brlgadier general, and foar years
later to that OF general of division with
the command OF the Filth division Of M In.
fantry, garrispned Id Paris. The 14ih Of
November. 1851. he became nlinis.er Of MAR
ia Gambetta's cabinet, but resigned With
Gam beta u January, 1882. 81 He became 81
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"A JAVANESE WEDDING.
A Recent ''Swell'' Event in Antipc
dean Society,"

A Recent "Swell" Event in Antipo-
dean Society.
From the London Standard.
caThe following is, from a. private letter
just received from Java: 1.-THE village
through which We passed was en- fete--
garlands of leaves and flowers hung
acress the road, while broad avenue
leading off to the right was mass ol
| whitened earthly pots set upright on
smaller pots. To our astonishment we
were whisked down this avenue, and
found ourselves in an immense court
yard filled withnatives--there must have
been hundreds Of them. Before we had
time to think what it all meant the car
riage stopped and very dapper Javan-
ese approached, bowing and smiling and
holding out his hand. Our salutations ex-
changed, he beckoned usto 90 with him
to the Pan-doppo, a raised place, Gov
cred over, in the middle of the square
turned out to be the wydono, or chief
man Of the village. . .,
s'On this dias were sofa, chairs and
tables; and after we had been placed in
the seat of honor we were presented
with wine, tea, brandy and the inevita-
be gin and bitters, while our amiable
host and some half-dozen native chiefs
talked away in Malay, of. which we
knew nota word. Imagine our position!
tired--very hungry and seeing no pros
pect of getting out of this affair. The
court was gradually filing with natives,
while the gammelong, the national mus
ical instrument, was kept going in deaf
enIng manner. Evidently there was
something expected; and at last, after
an eternity Of waiting, procession fled
IL, consisting of many mounted wydonos
ard about half dozen men naked to
the waist, painted over with yellow
paste-la raost hideous sight-and carry
ing immense red and yellow banners.
B. Then followed people carrying offer
ings of fruit and flowers; and finally two
closed carriages followed by two men
hideously painted with ochre and pranc-
ng on enormous paste board horses.
They looked too comIeai with the long
sticks between their le15. They were
accompanied ny an old haggard woman,
Idecked out with flowers, paper tassels
dc. Naked to the waist, with her gray
hair loose, the contortions of this old
lady and the pride with which size threW
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Personal News Paragraphs.

The newspaper discussion rega,d ding Miss
Mary Anderson 's'reusa' to meet the Prince
OF Wales WAKES hot. The Catholic Times
says that the prince sought an Interview
with Miss Anderson aud that she re'u-ed
the proposition point blank. This paper
says tlnt Miss Anderson upon bting ,qnes-
uoned aeout The matter said: 'I was Ted
10 meet the Prince OF Wales, hu perfect
~ understand t. light in whic he regards
actresses as rule, and 7 refused. I have
always managed my dignity and self re
spect, and I would not place myself in a
position where i might have been COM
PEELED to forget them."
General Sherman has selected Col. Teur-
eiotte and Col. Bacon as members of his
stiff Ts remain with aim in st. Louis.
After being retired from the command o;
the army, and until he is placed on ti,e re-
tired list. Gen. Lee of his staff will resume
his duties in the engineer co, ps and Gen.
Tlball, another aid dc Camp, has been ss-
signed to the Command of artillery at Fort
Tess Monroe.
The wife of ex-senator James Harlan OF
Iowa is seriously i'll at the home OF her SIS
trr in Greenfield, Ind. Mr. Harlan and
Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln, her daughter, have
been summoned to her bedside.
Victor Mellor Howells, was given way
at her wedding at g 'chiand Courthouse,
Va, on the 18th, to John Mulholiand,
Parkdale, Toronto, bV her brother
W. D. HowelIs. the novelist
Dr. William Shelton, who died at Bridge
port, n Y, on e,11th inst, was eighty
tve y ears old, ann the eldest Episcopal
clergyman in rhe state.
Gen. Longstreet gave away Miss Este'la
Lswshu al her runaway marriage, recently,
in Atlanta.
A young Cincinnatian claims that from
$500 De made $at>, GOO on the Chicago board
OK trade.
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Fore .gn News Gossip.

tits stated that Prince Bismarck is pre-
pari1yg bill, which he will PRESENT 80 tine
reic'seag at an early day, to regulate ane
restrict emigration from Germany. The
bill aims to prevent the departare OF yonng
me- liable to military vice To America
and elsewhere, and is result OF fear Oh
the part Of Bismarck that the available
alilirary strength o, the empire msy be too
seriously lessened by the present rate of
emigration.
At the Irish National league meeting
held at Charlesville, County Cork, on the
l4th inst, 10000 persons were present, in-
Guiding O'Brien and Harrington, members
Ut parliament. While the latter were diu-
ing number of peice entered the h,tel
and took the names OF those at dinner,
The parish priest refused 10 ellow the
priests under his charge tn attend the meet
ing.
num Der Of Rournanian soldiers crossed the
frontier and took possession of Austrian
barracks commanding the Vulcan pass OF
the Southern Carpathian mouatalns, the
Roamanians asserting that the barracks
were in Romanisn territory. A company
of fAustrisu inf.Dtry recaptured the barracks
and took sixty Roumanian prisoners.
An Indignation meetinglwas held in Paris
recently attended by. 500 persons, and over
which LaisaDt, member of the chamber of
deputies, presided, to protest against The
retirement OF Gen. Thibaudin from the Of
fice of minister Of war. A resolution, de.
ciaring that Thibaudin deserved we'll of his
country, was passed unanimously.
During services in the Jewish synagogue
at z,evenka in the government Padolia,
Russia, false alarm of fire was raised in
the women's gallery, which caused panic.
The people rushed for tt door, where there
was q terrible crash. forty women were
killed and thirty others injured.
The polsr steamer Dymphna got clear OF
ice the I'd OF August. The vesssl afterward
lost its propeller and became ice bound in
the straits of Kara. until the 10th Of Sep
tember, when it was released and proceed
ed to>Vardoe, where her arrival was greeted
with great rejoicing.
DR.. Koch, of the German, commission
which went to Egypt to investigate the
cholera epidemic, reports that they discov.
cred cholera is due to living thread like
microscopic organism, resembling that
seen in cases of phthisis. @
Irving Bishop, the mind reader, at an
exhibition in Dublin ON the 18th, failed
four times to give the number of bank
note snd- then tainted, and has since been
dangerously i'll Of congestion of the brain.
An alleged plot has been discovered by
which disguised Ghilian soldiers are to
seize Kalakau's kingdom and turn it into g
republic.
Leading Canadian lumber nasn are seek
ing to obtain bounty on manufactured
humber to the>United States.
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POSSUM AND POTATOES.
Two Nights Experience With til

Two Nights Experience With the
Possum-A Feast Fit for King.
From the Amerjcus (Ga.) Recorder
In barber-shop one day last week,
| while several gentlemen were waiting
for shave, the conversation turned on
good things to eat: After discussing Vs.
rio1s dishes, Joe ROney, who ls consid-
an active part in the discussion, said:
''Well boys, you can all talk about good
things to eat, but the best thing in the
world ever tasted was possum, hedged
in with brown gravy and sweet potatoes
with. sugar on them" It struck
US that Joe knew what he
was talking about and we deter
mined to investigate the first time we
had an opportunity. We soon bad the
chance. Mr.. Walt Furlow extended an
invitation soon after to go out to his
plantation and assist in genuine, old
fashioned possum hunt, with an hour or
two for squirrels thrown iE. We sup.
pose there is hardly man in southwest
Georgia who has not experienced the
glories of a possum hunt. It is not for
their benefit, therefore, that we write
these lines. Possibly the ladies may not
feel particularly interested in them, but
we must beg the excuse that some one
will, for we are full to overfowing with
the good of the hunt, and must tell
some one. On every plantation there is
one or more darkies who do the pos
sum and coon huntino; who can tell
you to a hairs breadth where
to find them. Mr.. Furlow's
plantation Is no exception. There is
negro there named Jim that knows all
about it, and what..he don't know his
dogs do. His dogs are his life and soul:
he would rather you would steal his
wife than his dogs, for that he reasons
that another wife he could get, but an
other dog as good as Rock, Jack or Pup,
never. Rock is his "boss dog" and
when his deep bay is beard you can lay
your last dollar and wager it that possum
will be freed. The first nights expe-
rienee was tame one; we got into dry
piece of woods and struck but one pos
sum track, but we got that possum.
FL next night We had everything in
fine shape, and between and 9 o'clock
we started out. Down the road to the
woods we went, stopping long enough
to get several handfuls of good lighter,
and then into the forest we went.
Scarcely fifteen minutes had passed be-
fore bark was heard, succeeded few
moments later By another and then an
other. A trail had been struck. The
voices of the dogs grew more frequent
until at length a long continuous bay
from the leader announced that the
'possHm was treed. q few moments