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= Clock in a BustIe.
all Mall Gazette

all Mall Gazette.
An amusing story reaches us from Paris On
Friday last lady, having paid her hotel bill.
sent away her boxes on a cab and salhed forth
on foot No sooner had she departed than the
landlord discovered that the clock had disap-
peared from the mantelpiece of the room which
his late lodger had been occupying, though he
remembered to nave seen it there subsequent to
her trunks being dispatched. Convinced that
she must be the thief he rushed out in hot pur-
suit, and overtaking her, he charged her with
the robbery and gave her iuto custody, the
lady meanwhile protesting loudly against
the indignity offered her and vowing
Vengeance against the traducer She
was. however, taken before the Judge dinstruC-
ton. to whom she resumed her torrent of in
dignant denial with the extraordinary v0lubility
peculiar TO the daughters Of Gaul Her indig-
nation was at its height when lo IL O'Clock rang
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Grand Hotel: F. j. Campron, New York; j.
P, Hoyt, Nashville, Tenn; E. I. Simonds, To
ledo; A. McGreeor and son, Columbus; J. NJ.
Wayne; F. NJ. SPEAKER and wife, Logansport; D.
L. Anderson Greencastle; J. E, Gibson, Logans-
port; G. N. Rouse, Detroit; w. E. Carter, Nash
vile, Tenn.
Bates House; c. Fairbanks and John E. Lamb,
Terre Haute; j. II. Evans, j. F. Grant, Column
bus; George S. Newhouse and wife, Richmond;
Hon. Charles L. Jewett New Albany; George
Ross, Isaac E. May, Anderson; Will A. Thomp-
son, Charlottesville; Mrs. S. P. FISHER and Miss
Ella Matthews, Franklin; J. G. Fish Decatur,
Ill; W. H. McCauley Kansas City; O. s. Brum-
bach. Toledo J. NJ. Thompson, New York; G.
o. Rogers agent Minnie Palmer 1. j. c. Shoe
maker Tifiiu.
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BLOOD POISONING.
DR.. George II. Atkinson Completely Para
lyzed in Body, Limb and Tongue.

New YORK, Dec. 27.-Dr. George H. Akin
son, of Brooklyn, instructor in genito-urinary
surgery at Long Island College Hospital, and
house surgeon of that institution, has been com
pletely paralyzed in body, limb and tongue
His case is a most extraordinary one. In
August last he attended three patients afflicted
with certain poisonous disease, and performed
operations upon them. He did not notice while
he was doing this that he had very small
scratch above the knuckle of the second finger of
his right hand A few weeks later, however this
scratch attracted his attention by developing
into sore and spreading Then he began to
treat it but did not recognize its origin even
then, for there were many causes from any of
which it might have sprung About two weeks
ago he began to feel loss of power in the right
leg This spread to the right arm. He feared
paralysis was coming on HIM, and tried to fight
it off but one morning a tie more than week
ago he awoke bereft of power to move his limbs
Since that time he has been steadily visited by
some of the best physicians of New York and
Brooklyn, but all their efforts have been in vain
The seat of the trouble is in the brain, and
that it has resulted from blood poisoning there
is no doubt. Three days ago the unfortunate
patients tongue was paralyzed. He is conscious
however, and communicates with his wife by
signals. such as moving his eyelids or opening
closing his left hand, which he can yet move
There is no case precisely like this in the annals
of medicine. Blood poison of this nature has
never taken effect till from three to twenty years
after its incubation.
LATER.-Dr. Atkinson died to night,
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In Kansas CitV
Extract from a Private Letter.

Extract from Private Letter.
Last summer, for the first time in several years
extended my annual vacation trip beyond the Mssis
sippi. What saw surprised me- The recent growth
and progress OF that part of the country is amazing
Twas especially interested in Kansas City. To find an
elegant brownsone and plategla city almost in the
middle of the continent in the very hearJ of what
not long ago the wild West is bewdering to East
ern ideas. Yet there it stands, the bank of the
Missouri child of the railroads, great town in fact
and greater still in destiny. They have q cable road
there too ahead of New York. How does shat strike
you cid fogy New Englanders who think city must
grow slowly, as a rock a turtlel
kansas City is full Of business activity, also
Don't let that fact escape you Eastern sharpness and
Western breadth here meet together IA tho drug
store of +. p. Dickinson, corner Twelfth and Main
Streets met Mr. c. d. Auruger, with whom l got
talking about plasters as wanted something in that
line for my
Said "If you want the best plaster earth you
want Bensons Capcne."
'How do you knowl" said I.
II know in this way" he replied: about three
years ago l was all doubled up with infammatory
rheumatism. Understand ALL DOUBLED UP WITH
IT. | lay in bed six weeks grooming with pain; had y
terrible time. II all mein my back and Joints
and had to think would be of to
| myself to anybody else The physicians did all
they could and used end of lotions, liniments and
ointments But they didn't touch me. When l
couldn't think of anything else to do olapped Ben
sons plasters and used them freely. It was a big
contract but they did the business 1t wasn't long
before could sit ups then could get about. haven't
| had the rheumatism since"
Don't you think"
| mo don't think KNOW Benson 8 plasters will
! cure the worst kind Of rheumatism"
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An Immense Estate.

HuNrINGDoN, Pa. Dec. 27--In 1885 young
man named james Hanawalt, who was linden
tured to a ieweler by the name of Buoy, in this
city, ran away from his employer and went to
Philadelphia, where, after he had remained sew
eral months, he left for SPAIN taking passage
on vessel as cabin boy. Nothing was heard of
him until yesterday, when word was received
by his relatives, now living at Mount Union,
this county, that he had just died in Spain,
leaving fortune estimated at S., 00e 0O0 He
died intestate and, as he was never married, an
effort is now being made to find the legal repre-
sentatives at Mount Union, who are entitled to
the vast estate
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DIR, DarIiu@'s VIII.

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 Prof. William Darling
will was filed yesterday. Heleaves all his proper.
ty to Mrs Amelia Delaeroix, of Yonkers She is
an English woman fat and forty but not fair.
She met DR.. Darling in England, and cared for
him when he was ill., She afterward was his
housekeeper in Yonkers, where she lives with
her sixteen year old son. She says that the Pro
fessor told her a couple of years ago that he
should make her his heir, and that was all they
ever said on the subject He owns real estate
here and in Yopkers worth 100000 Mrs.
Delacroix says the story that the Professor was
disappointed in love early in life was nonsense.
HE never was in love with woman or any
thing else but his profession. His profession
WAS his wife,
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The War on the Lotteries.

Ten additional warrants for the arrest of the
agents of Grays lottery were issued yesterday
upon the complaint of Patrolman Hines, and it
is announced that arrests will continue to be
made until the operations of the concern have
ceased 1t is said that John T. Woodward who
represents the interests of the Louisiana State
lottery in this city, will sell more tickets I'M
til the cases now pending against Gray's agents
have been settled.
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Her style of Man.
st. Paul Day.


Hattie C. Cummings, of Dixie, ". T., has ad-
dressed the following to the Waitsburg Times:
Il want a man Of the following description: Red
dress good, bat not above his means. He must
be tall or Short thick or heavy-set man; small
feet; one that doesn't wear fine shirts much. He
must be good-featured, of light complexion, and
one who is not afraid to cut too much wood for
the cook l don't want one that will go to sleep
while at work | want one that likes to hoe po-
tatoes, work in the garden, and won't play base
ball. If there is any one of this description,
please answer through the Waitsburg Times
No dainty store clerks need apply"
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The Acacia as a Perrume.

Now York Mail and Express.
In the manufacture of perfume the acacia is
the favorte flower with the New Orleans max
ers. 1t grows wild, is inexhaustible, costs moth
ing, and gives results more nearly approaching
the delcacy of the violet perfume than that
created from any other flower, except, of course
the violet ITSELF which is consi lerably more diff
cult to get in sufficient quantities. and which is
expensive, comparatively In extracting or dis
tilling the scents; the flowers are laid in layers
Of grease and it becomes necessary, in produc-
ing the finer perfumes to change them as often
as twenty times, twenty-four hours being given
to each installment The flowers are placed in
the grease in a perfectly dry condition, and gain
cred after the 3ow is dried
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from her and for some time Miss Fanny's soup
has been put up in cans, bearing her name. and
sent all over the country The late DR.. Willard
Parker was firm friend of her and her soup.
and with her soup she the friendship of old
William Niblo and General Hancock. When
the latter was nominated for President she sent
him large ornamented can of her turtle soup
with her best wishes for his success The bon
vivants mourn her loss
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AM Internal Nrachine for Coms1onl,

New York, Dec pa paper box containing
Cd internal machine was brought by a bow to
Inc office of the American Tract Society, this af
ternoon and one of the clerks sent for Anthony
Comstock, whose Office is in the building. Mr..
Comstock broke open the box from the bottom.
and found that It contained half.a pound of pow
der a bottle of nitric acid. and some broken
glass. The working spring, which the removal
VI the top would have freed was rubber band
attached to piece of sand raner. :r.ne how mes.
senger said man had given hin the box and di.
: ,', HIM to the .trae. company It was evil
tently Tor the ntIIrder of Anthony Comstock No
srresl' ave been made.
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The Stone win Contest.

BosToN, Dec. 2Z-In the Supreme Court at
Cambridge, the jury in the Stone will case re
turned verdict to the effect that the win was
drawn in proper shape and that Mrs, Stone was
Of unsound mind. On the question of undue in
auence over Mrs, Stone on tie part of Rev. DR.
Wilcox, one Of the executors the jury disagreed,
standing to 6. TIC amount involved in the
contest is 81 GU 600 If the will is sustained the
entire estate will be given to educational fnsti-
tutions. .-.. . ..,.. .....,
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Death of a Famous Cook.

VIEW YORK. Dec. 27-Miss Fanny McGovern,
bf much local fame kere IS . scal., died Thurs,
isy night at the Sinclair House. eyed seyeaty
For many years she was well known to epIqgres.
particularly for the excellence of her green tur-
tie soup. For thirty years, fro4a 1919 she was
head cook of the house. Five years ago she was
retired on pension with the privilege of max
ng all the turtle soup Well-known families all
Wer the city have ordered their soup regularly
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr.. Lew S. Tiff, well known in the city, 50
long connecten with Bowen, Stewart & Co. and
who went to New York to take service with
Messrs. Koch, Sons & Co., has decided to return
to Indianapolis, and will represent Messrs
James D. Whitmore & Co., New Yorkimanufact-
urers of fine stationery, making his headquarters
in this citv
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What a Louisiana Woman Does.

New Orleans Times Democrat
One of the most energetic and Woodworking
beings In the State Is little mother-editor who
lives over in Gretna, and who edits and owns
the Gretna Courier. Mrs, Eva Hildenbrand
writes her own editorials, fixes up most of her
own local copy, does composition work on her
paper, solicits subscribers, is her own mailing
clerk, Keeps her house tidy and is devoted
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forth in clear tones from the region of Madame's
ton depicted upon the fair piferer's countenance,
together with the appositeness of the quaint
phenomenon, were too much for the gravity of
the officials, who hurst into fit of uncontrolla-
BILE laughter Five minutes later female warder
returned the telltale timepieee to its owner
Will Mr. Oscar Wilde still insist upon "the utter
uselessness of that lideous monstrosity-the
bustlnlY
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mother to three lovely little children. Her ex-
ample should serve as an everlasting inspiration
to the women who go through the world howl
ing for a mission, but which is often with them
only another way of spelling the to them, syn
onymous words, man ana husband.
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OK Wednesday next, on Wednesday only, you
can take your choice of our finest childrens
overcoats, ages four to nine, for s.. These over
coats are worth 81, 49, SO and $40.
MODEL, CLOTHING Co.
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The Thought To-Day.

All, Christ that it were possible
For one short hour to see
The souls we loved, that they might tell US
What and where they be.
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DreWS Dime MNeQn--Week Of Monday Dee g.
ENGAGEMENT EXTRAORDINARY!
NJ ERIDIAN RINK

rY7Open Every Day and Evening. 81
Come and watch the old year Wednesday
evening, Dec. 81. Skating till IL: dancing till ?.
Saturday, Jan. 3-Chidren's Prize and Costume
Carnival.
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An Official Outraye.

Peter Witwer, Of New Haven, has been
reappoiuted tax collector OF this township,
at s4S.-Lititz Epress
He has been, has he ? He was not the
lowest bidder. The attention of the
county commissioners was called to this
fact long ago. Tie lowest TWO bids for
the collection of the tax in Warwick
were jeremiah Achey, Si5; Peter Wit.
wer, SiS. The township school direct
ors-Ot ,chOm Wit,Cer is oae-and two of
the Lititz board, nevertheless, petitioned
the commissioners to award the tax col
lection to Witwer. They gave no reason
for preferring the highest bidder. Their
reason was that Achey was a Democrat
and his competitor Republican. In a
similar case in Leacock township, Com
missioner Sunny and Myers awarded
the collection to the highest bidder
they prostituted their offices in botl
cases to serve a spirit of narrow minded
miserable, partisan greed. Mr.. Myers /,
a candidate for reelection. He should
receive no consideration VIII atever. 4
man who is capable Of doing what h,
has done in these two cases is capable
Of doing worse, and is not Gt for publ,
position.
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PERSONAL.

| MODJEsKA means to spend her declining
years on California soil
| GRANT has written letter OF sympa,hy
with the movement to build a home for
disabled ex-Confederate soldiers.
Rev. DANIEL LYNCH, a venerable Cath.
olic priest, and we'll known scholar, died
suddenly in Washington yesterday.
Pope Leo has appointed Rov. Denis VI.
Bradley, of Manchester, n. H., first bishop
OF the new Episcopal see created in that
city.
SENATOR MILLER, of California, has
joined the innumerable caravan that are
declining the presidency before 1t is offer
cd them.
PRINCE BIsMARK, Premier Ferry and
other ministers have addressed notes Of
remonstrance 10 Italy concerning the con.
tiSoation of the Propaganda property.
HENRY WARD BEECHER compares a
tariff with moderate incidental protection
to beefsteak with Incidental strychnine.
Every single particle of protection that
goes in is poison.
ALFRED W. BURNETT, humorst and
caricaturist, died of apoplexy Friday in
Cincinnati, aged 60 he had appeared as
actor. lecturer and mimic in every part OF
the United States.
LORD GEORGE HAMILTON said ia the
House Of Commons, Thursday, that the
experience of America, aud especially the
recent riots in Cincinnati. were q sufficient
warning against the system of popular
| election. George should coutiue himself
to something on which he is not dcusely ig
nOraut.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is described
as looking charming az Sandown Parl
races the other day. She wore black
cloth coat, trimmed with long bands OF
black braidiug, with a field glass sluug
across her shoulders in true sporting fash
ion, Her hat was also black, and she was
full of animation.
CHAMBERS w. STEVENS, a promisiu.
young astronomer, ak years ago went Z
South America TO help DR.. Gould in tn,
great Argentine observatory. Ga the lGtl
OF February thunderbot struck tn,
house 10 which he was. "A fash passec
along a metal rod aud lamp chain abov,
head OF Mr.. Stevens and passing theret,
killed him Instantly. At the time of hi,
death he was engaged in the importan
work Of photographiug the southern
| heavens
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-05
A Temperance Fight Ia wnke,pa,,.

Ira n. Marcy, tho editor of the Vauey
sentinel OF Pittston, and the leader of a
temperance organization, petitioned the
Luzerne court Friday to allow him to
inspect petitions for saloon licenses and
for peremptory order on the clerk of the
court to allow it. Judge Wood ward issued
the order as desired, holding that the records
OF the quarter sessions are public records,
open to the inspection OF citizens at ali
proper times. The clerk now proposes TO
charge fifteen cents for search in each
case, which will be paid under protest aud
the clerk prosecuted for receiving illegal
fees, as the foe bill will not warrant such
a charge. Judge Woodward's opinion is
held as sensible and sound by all but the
injured,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-05
MAS NEyIN's WORK.

Ths Mohlcnpcrg statue for tho capitol.
Tho statute of Con, Potter Muhleuberg,
executed IN marble IN Florenos by Miss
Blnucho Noviu, for plaOo IN the capitol
at Washington, under commission vi tho
state uG PENNSYLVANIA, has reached Wash.
ing ton aud will soon be uupacked aud
placed upon it's pedestal III the gallery,
which is tho repository of such memorial
gifts from tho states. Miss Neviu herself,
after several years ahsoucc devoted to Eor
art, will return to this country aud to her
homo IN Lancaster about the lst of Juno.
Meantime her many friends Ia this
city and elsewhere will be- gratiied
tn learn that her work has met with the
highest oommendation from the most
critical foreign journals A fair sample of
their notices of the Muhleuberg statue In
tho following extract from la NasiOas,
Florence, Italy, March 10, 1884, translated
for the lNTELLIGENCER
The name Of Miss Blanche Novin, OF
| Lancaster, Pa, in the Uuitod States of
| America, will be new one to most of our
| citizens, but not To those who have had
the opportunity to admire her artistic
| talent aud appreciate tho devotion, not to
| say passion, with which for several years
she has given herself tn tho pursuit of
sculpture, 80 successfully that We are
| spoahAuk III llb WlSe tNlTANAgAutlY III pIO
nouucing her crodit aud ornament To- art
aud To her profession. Those who have
not seen her statue OF Muhleuberg Just
finished, after years of patient modelling
and remodeling, can have no idea of the
strength of her genius.
| " Charged by n commission of the state
of Pennsylvania t. model and cut in mar.
bic a statue of General Muhlonberg, a
leading PENNSYLVANIA hero of the Ameri
can War of Independence, she has suo
cceded In u manner which has surpassed
expectation both in the matter of senti-
mcnt and expression
" Tho statue 50 admirably treated /:
destined to place in the capitol at Wash
ington. IL stands over feet high upon a
symmetrical ps iostal, both 'tltuo aud
pedestal Of the finest Carrara marble. The
work of Miss Neyin is giving lifo aud mo
tion to so heroic character aud incident
in the history OF acr country deserves the
applause Of All intelligent minds, and Il
enough Of itself to introduce her reputa
ton into her own country as favorable "
il has been made III Floreucs whe 70 he
chisel has 50 faithfully reproduced oue o
her couutry's heroes"
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RACING ruREsr FIRES.
Farm House Destroyed ana Families II,

Farm House Destroyed ana Families Home
lees In SOrth Carolina.
For three days aud nights the most
destructive fires ever known 10 that section
have been devastating the southern bOrde er
Of North CarOlua, extending into six or
seven cOuuties. Vast forests of long leaf
pine have been attacked. They formed
the chief source Of the timber supply. The
high winds famed the flames into fury.
and hundreds of thousands Of trees were
burned and some Of the largest turpontiuc
orchards ia the state were ruined MANY
farm houses were destroyed. The people
have been bravely fighting the fire. A
number Of towns narrowly escaped des
tructiOn. At Manley, on the Raleigh and
Augusta railway, a humber OF houses were
burned. Large stores OF lumber aud rail.
road sllls Ou the line of the road were also
destroyed and dozen turpentine distil-
leries were ruined.
The country 10 great stretches is but a
blackened wilderness, The extent of the
disaster is not yet known. Many families
have been rendered homeless. The fire
has swept here and there, some fifty miles
IN one direction and thirty in another.
Few places, 1t is reported, escaped. The
fires were caused by burning brush The
high wind drove the sparks into the tur-
pentiDe woods so that they went in many
directions at once. The fires extended far
into south Carolina. On the lines of the
| Charlotte, Columbia Il Augusta railroad
the trains have been running through
miles Of fire. Two dwellings and eight OF
| ten barns were burned in that district. So
far as known no lives were lost.
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A mob ana a FaitnI.-Lo

" 4. NJ. Sweet, bogus duck, git, git, OF
-, was the label on an efligy hung OF
telephone pole in Florence, Mass.
Thursday night. Sweet is the son of a
minister IN Plaindeld, is 25 years old, and
has lived in Florence about two years lie
became attentive to a young woman EN-.
ployed in the silk mills about q year ago,
and became engaged 30 her. The expect :
ant bride had prepared her wedding ont
tit, and the young man had engaged a
tenement and furnished it. The first in
timation that he did not intend to fulfill
his contract was the discovery that he had
been silly disposng Of portion of his fur
hiture, When the lady demanded an ex
plahston he said that he had changed his
| a great crowd. ~