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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28
TO CHINA FOR A WIFE.

A Chinese Laundryman Returns Home to
Marry a Woman He Never Saw.
On the oath day of September, 1888,
John Long Zip, Chinese laundryman,
of Oil City, becoming afflicted with the
matrimonial fever at that time preva-
lent in that place, started for China to
get wife. Of course he had never
seen the prospective Mrs. Zip. nor had
he correspondent with her. His Celestial
mother had, however, arranged all the
little preliminaries. She selected the
wife, and Mr.. Zip first saw her when
they were married.
He returned to Oil City Saturday,
December Is, having been absent about
one year and three months. He relates
many interesting incidents of his trip,
and says emphatically that he prefers
to reside in America and will now re-
main here. This trip cost him about
$4,000, and as he had been in America
only four years when he left it would
seem that there is some profit in the
laundry business as conducted by the
economical, Acknowledged Celestials.
He says that before taking passage on
the outward-bound trip he secured the
necessary papers to enable him to re-
turn. Before he could get the neces-
sary documents he had to undergo an
examination. His height, weight, color
of hair, ETC., were all entered in book,
and a note made of scar between the
eyes. This was done to identify him
when he returned. He says the Govern
ment officials were very particular about
this and got so good a description of
him that no trouble whatever was expe-
rienced in identifying him when he re-
turned.
While in China he witnessed, from q
safe distance, one of the battles between
his countrymen and the French. He
says the Chinese can fight ''pletty good"
on the land, but on the water they are
mo goodee," because their boats are of
inferior quality. While he was gone it
was reported here that he had been i'm
pressed into the Chinese army, but he
says this was untrue.
He did not bring his wife home with
him. He left her with her parents, at
Hong Kong. 1t seems that the laws of
that country would not permit her to
come.
When on his way home the hotel at
which he was stopping in San Francisco
was burned, and he lost quite a large
quantity of curiosities of various kinds
which he was bringing home to his
friends in this country, together with
his clothing and all his personal effects.
Oh CITY PA Blizzard.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28
THE LIME KILN CLUB.
Elder Toots Meets With an Accident, and
Brother Gardner PHILOSOPHERS.

Elder Toots Meets With an Accident, and
Brother Gardner PHILOSOPHERS.
As the meeting opened there was
strong smell of burning meat in the hall.
aud the echoes of the triangle had
scarcely died away when Elder Toots
made break for the door in a way to
upset half a dozen different members and
bring down another large piece of plas-
ter from the ceiling. He had gone to
sleep with his foot on the hot stove to
thaw out the chilblains. They had
thawed, and the heat had worked down
through five years layers of cement and
got at the real flesh. When the excite
ment had been allayed, and the keeper
of the outer door had reported that the
Elder was down in the alley with both
feet in barrel of ice water, Brother
Gardner said:
when l find a sober. industrious
working man who am out o work l am
gwine to reason dat it am de material
consequence of de gineral depression in
business. When find dat same pusson
in want o. bread 1 am gwine to AK him
sartin que shuns. want to know what
he did wild his wages. If he libed as be-
came a man airnin two dollars per day
want to know why he hasn't suthin'
laid up. If he Armed two dollars per
day and libed at de rate of twenty
five dollars per week has no furder use
fur him.
each winter we h'ar dis cry of
II. L.. Laa
managed to save up leetle am told
dat it am his solemn dooty TO hand
part of it ober to charity. We am not
to AK men an women whether they
worked or idled de summer away;
whether DER airnin's went for luxuries
or necessities; whether they spent wild
free hand or denied demselves single
thing. If de sales of beer an tobacco
depended on de rich an moderately
well-off, de bizness would decrease two
thirds. If our summer excursion boats
depended On de same classes dey
couldn't run. If our street cars had no
other patrons dey would stop DER trips.
Our circuses an theaters am supported
by de workin' classes. Our toy stores
an bazaars make few sales to de rich.
nineteen out of twenty of our work.
ing men use cherry dollar of DER wages
from week to week, an not one laborer
in fifty am satisfied to lib on his airnin s.
De rich practice economy; de poor waste
an destroy. In my humble cabin we
practice economy. We remake and re-
model. We color old clothes, an peal
de Eaters close. If arm seben dollars
week we stop when we hev spent six.
When de fall eands an winter comes we
has sunthin' laid up. Does dat sunthin'
belong to us, who have pinched an
planned an saved, or to charity-which
means de man who has idled half his
time away, an had his tobacco and beer
regularly-which means de woman who
has dressed in cashmere when she orter
hev dressed in caliker-which means de
family who has had oysters on Sundays
whenI had con beef. AK no man to
close his heart or purse agin honest
people who hev met wild bad luck, but
de so-called charity of to-day am pre-
MUM on idleness and extravagance-an
aid in maintainin' a class of leeches
who have neither shame, industry nor
gratitude. Detroit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28

The Washington monument will
not long enjoy its pre-eminence as the
highest structure in the world. An iron
tower of the astonishing height of 1000
feet is to be erected in the grounds of
the French Exhibition in 1889. An
elevator, the safety of which is guaran-
teed, will communicate with the sum-
nit, and visitors to the exhibition will
be taken to the top for small fee.-N.
Y. Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28

Frederick X. Klemm, says q dis
patch from Boston, died at Dedham a
few nights ago of pleurisy, just two
weeks after the death of his wife, upon
whose demise he said, though then in
apparently good health: 'Iwill follow
her in two weeks"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28

The young journalist is known by
the fact that he always keeps a die
tionary handy. The old journalist does
not bother with dictionaries. If not
quite sure of word he gives a dab at
it, and lets the printer figure it out
for himself. - PHILADELPHIA CoU.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28

Fifteen orange trees near Plant CITY.
Fla. yield this year 10000 oranges
10000 to the tree. These trees are
about forty years old, and furnish an
other illustration of the vitality of the
orange tree in Florida.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28

The term ''demarried'' is becoming
very popular as much pleasanter word
than divorced. ~ Chicago Herald,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28

I'm certain counties in Eastern Ken
lucky scores of girls are said to marry
at the age of twelve and thirteen years,
and by the time they should first be
thinking of sweethearts are often
mothers of large families. A recent
traveller who went through much of the
country on foot says that men, too, as
soon as they can raise cash enough to
put up cabin and buy stuff enough to
make living in it possible, are ready to
assume the duties and trials and cares
of married life, and many of them find
wives before their boards begin to
sprout or before they know where the
money is to come from to buy food for
the wedding feast. Chicago Journal.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28
FUN OF CITY LIFE.
Fun for tho Boys, but Not for the Young
Man Who Has Rooms Under Them.

Fun for tho Boys, but Not for the Young
Man Who Has Rooms Under Them.
In second story window of an up
town residence, fronting on q cross
street, dignified young man sat read
ing one warm Sunday morning not
long ago. The rising sun was preparing
to ride high in the heavens, and people
were going to church. The smoke of a
cigar curled upward from the young
mans lips. and he leaned idly from his
window, watching the people passing
along the sidewalk below him. A
stately citizen, clad in conscious virtue,
white waistcoat and some other gar
ments, came walking along. When the
citizen arrived at a point directly under
the window where the young man sat,
he suddenly clapped his hand to his
ear, stopped short and looked up at the
young man. The latter looked calmly
down and the citizen moved on.
A thin gentleman passed moment
afterward, twirling cane as he passed
along. Below the window he, too,
stopped, rubbed his nose violently, and
looked up. The young man again
looked down calmly, but with little
surprise on his features. The thin gen
tleman looked at him suspiciously and
moved on, aud an angular person of
the female sex soon followed. She. too,
abruptly stopped, famed her left ear
with her hand and looked up. The
young man blushed and half retired
into the room.
"Wretchr' Kissed the angular female,
and passed on.
The young man looked at himself in
the mirror, but saw nothing in his APP
pearance which should impede traffic
in the street below. He returned to the
window just in time to find a fat woman
shaking her fist at him and hear her
threaten to call police. The driver of
a cab sawed at the bits to keep his
horse from starting on run when it
reached point opposite the window,
and an aged newsman dropped his
stock, put his hand to his eyes and
danced up and down with rage.
The horror-stricken young man closed
the window, drew the curtain and
wondered if he or the, populace were
going mad. while in the room directly
over his head two boys Rugged two pea
shooters to their breasts and voted that
they were having more fun than one
could shake stick at.--M Y. Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-03-28

up III Sucn q matter, anu look mere,
you'll have to work it pretty slick if you
get yourself out The man will be
caught as sure as fate; then knowingly
or through fright he'll incriminate
YOU"
what would you do if you were in
my placer
my dear sir, don't put it that way.
It's reflection on both my judgment
and my legal knowledge. 1 couldn't
be in such scrape. But as a lawyer
minus the fee-rll tell you what you
should do. l would give the man up
before witnesses-before witnesses. I'll
be one of them myself, Get as many
OF the cabin passengers as you like out
here, to-day, and let the officers search.
Ii he charges you with what the law
terms support, deny it, and call atten-
ton to the fact that you have given
information. BY the way, would give
written information and keep a copy"
IL gave the man my word not to in
form on him and so / can't do it to-day,
but I'll tell him of it tonight"
And have him commit suicide or
give himself up first and incriminate
you? Nonsense. Just release yourself
from your promise. That's all. He'll
trust you"
YES. poor wretch, I'm afraid he
will"
About ten o'clock that night / re-
solved to make another appeal to Rodger
Cupples to at least stand off and hear
the man talk. Cupples' stateroom. No.
80, was in the forward part of the
steamer down long passage and of
a short side passage. Nine was aft the
cabin. The door Of 96was partly open,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

THE firm of Marshall g. Co., extensive
manufacturers of linen thread in Leeds,
England, has decided to establish fac
tory near Newark, N. j.
STEPHEN G. ODER, weil-to-do business
man of st. Paul, Mimi, was discovered on
the night of the 21st insane from excessive
drinking.
The Forty ninth Congress, which dates
its existence from the 4th of last March,
will convene its first session on the 18th of
next month.
On the night of the 21st Rit Barefeld and
his son William, of Boston, Tex, while
riding home in wagon, were both shot
dead by unknown parties in ambush.
THE issue of standard silver dollars dur
ing the week ending on the 23d was
$578, SlS; during the corresponding period
last year, $iS1, 407.
CHRISTIAN PULBI, who arrived recently
from the West Indies, died in New York
on the 23d of yellow fever.
OK the night of the 22d C. A. Thorpe and
j. White took rooms at hotel in Balti-
more, and upon retiring blew out the gas.
/ The next day the room was entered by the
hotel people and both men were found
dead from suffocation.
SPECIAL prayers were again offered on
the odd in all the churches in Galveston
! in behalf of the sufferers by the fire, and
blessings were invoked on those who came
to the relief of Galveston's homeless.
THE Austrian government will not send
a new ambassador to Washington until
the successor of Mr.. Kelly shall be APP
pointed in Vienna.
THE total receipts from internal revenue
taxation for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1885, were SIP, 421, 1913, as compared with
1921, 50O,O59 in the previous year.
ELIzUR WRIGHT, the well-known aboli
zionist of years ago, died at Medford,
Mass, on the 22d, aged 81.
IT rained almost steadily throughout
California for five days of last week.
DURING the month of October, 25,9lS
immigrants arrived in this country,a de.
crease of G, 119 compared with October, 1884
REPORTS Of the oath from the mountain
districts of Pennsylvania, are to the effect
that 1G inches of snow have fallen. The
snow at Penobscot was reported to be .:
inches deep.
REPORTS received at the Treasury De.
partment indicate a growing scarcity Of
Decent silver pieces.
SUBSCRIPTIONS to the relief of the GAL
| vaston fra sufferars reached S1O6 600 on tbf
oath. The subscriptions received from
Chicago foot up $500.
AN earthquake wave in the bay at Fal
River, Mass, on the oath, caused the tide
! to rise three feet above mean high-watel
mark.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.

The Forthcoming Report of the Bureau of
Educstion--Universal Teaching of Indus
trial Drawing to BE Warmly Recon-
mended.
WASHINGTON, d. c., November o.
The Bureau of Education is preparing a
report on art and industry in institu-
tons Of training. 1t is replete with prac-
teal knowledge which will form basis
for those studies in public schools. The
work has been in preparation since 1874,
and although some parts of it have been
published the major portion OF the con-
tents is new, and has been collected and
edited with considerable trouble and care.
Much delay has been experienced in Sc
curing its publication, owing to INSULT
cientcy of appropriations or its use in
other branches of the Interior Depart
ment, under which the Bureau Education
is placed. The fundamental idea of the
work is that universal teaching in all public
schools of the elements of industrial draw
ing is an essential part Of any general sys-
TEN of public education. The work con-
tains a report of the system followed in
English institutions and those in other
countries relating to technical instruction
and the history of the progress of indus
trial and fine arts. There are several orig
inal papers in the work dealing with the
advance of this science and its probable
effect as a textbook for school uses.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

In an election letter the Marquis of Sails
bury says: snake the support of the
church a test question above all Others"
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR's son Allan has
won fame as match maker at Washing
ton.
JOSEPH McCoNNAUGUTY, Town Marshal
of Bridgeport, o., was fatally shot on the
2lst by Silas Conway.
MAGIvE, a town of Burmah, has been
captured by the British, and three Italian
officers serving in the Burmese army were
taken prisoners.
MASKED robbers at Marion, Pa, poured
coal oil on an old man and set him on fire
to extort money
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in a speech at Dalkeith
Scotland, said the dependence OF the Tories
on the Irish voters was unsafe and was dis
honorable to the country.
TROUBLE is reported at the Tongue
River Indian Agency, and troops have
been ordered to the scene.
THE Centre party in the German Reich
stag are dissatisfied with the explanation
of the Government that it would tolerate
Catholic missions in German colonies.
SECRETARY WHITNEY will give a grand
Christmas dinner TO the Cabinet members
and their families.
II is reported that Turkey has notified
the Servians that unless they get out of
Bulgaria Turkish troops will drive them
aut.
WAGES of employees of the National Tube
Works at McKeesport, Pa, will be ad-
vanced and a strike prevented.
THE officers accompanying General
Briere de L'Isle to Paris say that his dis
grace is unjust and that his removal has
caused discomfort in the army.
THE trade and labor council at Toronto,
| Ont, condemns the Government for en-
couraging emigration to that country
while there is not work enough for those
already there.
MOST of the Liberal newspapers have
passed by the Parnellite manifesto without
comment, while the Conservative press
criticise it slightingly.
THE social season at Washington is to be
brilliant one. The President promises to
contribute his full share.
IT is reported that if King Milan refuses
immediate peace under the terms of the
Balkan conferences final protocol two Of
the signatory powers viii enforce his de-
position.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD has started for
England to confer with the home govern
ment in regard to the fisheries, reciprocity
with the United States and other ques-
tions.
REV. DIR. S. SronRs has just entered
upon the fortieth year of his pastorate O.
the Congregational Church of the Pilgrims
at Brooklyn, N. Y.
MRS. JULIA SMITH PARKER, who gained
fame in New England by refusing to pay
taxes because she was not allowed to vote
is at deaths door.
THE anti silver men are working hard Il
have the House committees SO arranged
that Mr. Bland win not be at the head o.
the committee that win hakdle the silver
bill. -aeA ~
A ooSvrcs1Sh tapssBFaskkS pehitontiar!
confeses to the murder of Colonel Watson
B. Smith, Clerk Of the United States Distric
Court, at Omaha, whose death has been
mystery since 1881.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

AN improvement in the Bessemer steel
process is announced which is TO make it
the equal of crucible steel and materially
reduce the cost.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

THE Secretary of State received informa
ton from the Vice-Consul at Charlotte
town, Prince Edwards Island, on the 18th
that an epidemic of smallpox broke out in
that town last week. About thirty cases
had been reported to date. The authorities
were taking energetic steps to suppress the
disorder.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

AN examination of the brain Of John
Mccullough confirmed the diagnosis made
by Dr. Engle after the actors return from
the Roomingdale Asylum. The disease
was Thrombosis, or blood-clot of the ar
ferries leading to the brain.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

TURKISH troops and batteries of artillery
continue TO arrive at Salonica, and the
authorities maintain the greatest secrecy
in regard to the numerical strength of the
forces and material concentrated at that
noint
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

CANADA, 1t is thought, will excel all the
Sr:tish dependencies in her exhibit at the
London colonial exhibition.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over the
Philippine Islands on the 21st. Eight thou
sand buildings, including numerous
churches and schoolhouses, were destroy
ed and twenty two persons were killed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

In the imperial speech in the German
Reichstag on the 10Th the reference to the
Caroline Islands and Balkan troubles was
loudly applauded.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

Mr.. PARNELL has issued a manifesto to
the electors, signed by several Irish Rem-
bers Of Parliament, severely denOuncing
the Liberal party.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

Jay Gou..D 10 rrodited With Tie sbare-
ment that the present bullish movement in
stocks is speculative craze that must end
in disaster, there being nothing in the sit
duation to warrant the present high prices.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

The Servian General Govanovitch has
been dismissed from his command for fail
ure to execute an oSder given him previous
to the repulse of the Servians before Sliv-
,nitza
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

PRINCE ALEXANDER complains to the
powers that the Servian agent in Bulgaria
withheld for eight hours Servias declara-
lion Of war.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

Al the meeting of the Cabinet on the
10th each of the members submitted a
statement of affairs in his department
deemed of sufficient consequence to be
brought to the attention of Congress in the
Presidents forthcoming message.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

VIooRIA's papa has weakened. Moro
SIM says il Huelscamp will quit driving
street-car and Victoria will abandon the
stage he will set Huelscamp up in business
Thus true love wins.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

BOOKSELLERS at Monmouth Park races
nave been indicted by the Monmouth
County IN. J.) Grand Jury, and in one
case fine of $3.50 was imposed.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

The President has designated Captain
IS. NJ. Mills of the Fifth Artillery to accom-
pany Lieutenant Colonel LaSalle to India
as representative of the United States
army to witness the manouvers of the
Britieh army in January.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

THE Servians have raised the siege of
Widdin, and at last accounts General
Leschjany was marching with his army
to the assistance of King Milan.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

lis rumored that the Duke Of Con-
.naught is to be made chief of Her Maj
esty's forces, vice the Duke Of Cambridge
who will shortly retire.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

CONSUL CARROLL at Palermo telegraphs
TO the Secretary of State that cholera is
virtually ended, and quarantine from Pa
lermo is suspended.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

TIE defeat of the Bulgarians at Drag
oman Pass and the advance of the Servian
army in the direction of Sofia have Great
ed panic in the Bulgarian capital. Many
people have fed with their valuables, while
others apparently know not what to do.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

GENERAL PRENDERGAsT, in charge of the
British expedition to Burmah, expected to
reach Mandalay by the oath.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

THE failures in the United States during
the seven days ended the goth numbered
234; during the year up to date, 1851.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

THE Excise Commissioners have recently
had their eyes opened to the fact that the
rice liquor sold by the Chinese in New
York is alcoholic, and they are beginning
to inquire If the slant-eyed Mongolians
have been evading he lawful payments of
taxes
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1885-11-28

THE SerVians are becoming somewhat
discouraged over the recent successful re-
sistance to their advance by the Bulgari-
ans. The latter are correspondingly stimu-
lated by their victories, and are steadily
pushing the Servians back to where they
came from.