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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15
Grants PremonitIon /.

The Century.
Gen. Grants reticencV in talking
about himself has always been one of
his marked characteristics. The one
occasion known to many well inform
ed persons when Gen. Grant was ever
heard to express an opinion of bis
own qualifications was at a dinner he
gave at the White House in March,
1874 There were but few guests.
among them Roscoe Conkling, Simon
Cameron and Senator j: w. John
ston, of Virginia. The last named
gentleman sat next TO Gen Grant at
the table. The talk turned on the
war and while the others were dis
cussing it Senator Johnston turned
to Gen. Grant and said to him:
'Mr. President, will you permit
me to ask on a question which has
always been of great interest to me 7
Did you at the beginning Of the war
have any premonition that you were
to be the man of the struggle 7"
Il had not the least idea Of it, (" re-
piled Gen. Grant. "I saw q lot Of
very ordinary fellows pitching 10 and
getting commissions / knew could,
do as well and better than they could
so | applied for commission and got
it,
Then p asked Senator Johnston,
"when did .ou know that yon were
the man of destiny 7"
Gen. Grant looked straight ahead
of him, with an expression on his in
scrutable face that Senator Johnston
had never seen there before.
After the fall of Vicksbnrg,' be
said, after pause. when Vicks-
bsarg capitulatcd i know chen was
to be the man of the war that /
should command the armies of the
United States and bring the war to a
Close
But" said Senator Johnston,
l'.you had had great aud notable sue
cesses before the days of Vicksburg
You had fought Shiloh and captured
Fort Donelson.n
This is true" responded Gen.
Grant, 'but while they gave me con-
idence in myself, could not sec what
was coming until Vicksburg fell
Then | saw it as plainly as now do.
| knew | should be commander-in-
chiefaDd cad the war =
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15
Hog VS.. Man.

To known the American you must
see ell sides of him On train be-
tween Jersey City and Paterson
poorly-dressed woman, carrying
baby in her arms, walked through two
coaches and was unable to find seat.
The railroad Hog was there. In
dozen cases he had whole seat to
himself, and he meant to keep it.
The woman finally found refuge in the
smoking-car, and by and by the Hog
went forward to enjoy a Havana aud
found her crying.
Whats the matterf"
Baby is very i'll sir"
"And where are you goingn
"To my sisters. My husband Is
dead and | have no home.~
leave you any money!"
" Not dollar, sir"
"Umph! Sorry for you Let me
hand you this /"
The Hog has been robbed Of his
bristIes. Woman's tears have melted
his seI6shness He returned to his
car, gathered the other Hogs about
him, and said:4
"Come down. Poor widow-sick
baby-no home. Gomez
The Hogs went down for their
wallets, and 10 ten minutes the sum
of $40 was put in the woman's hand,
and the Boss Hog observed:
"There -there-it's all right-not
word! Now come back here'
And as she followed him into the
coach dozen Hogs rose up and ~
sisted that she take their seais, and
all gathered round ber to voice the
sentiment:
"Po0r womanl 'oOr Da0y! Isn't
here something canI 90 Tor your"
The railr0ss he s msl,ed Ieds 0s crowd
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15
FfmerS National Bank.

!. dina6oGs. Sept. 80. 1886.
alS BANK has declared . dividend
! o. -Four pr cent. clear uf State tax.
i ne six months ending this day. pay
.s = On and after Monday Get. 9th.
;SS9unty taxes paid for stockholders
Y oe deducted.
- L. G. GASSAWkYs
slseA daaahier
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15
estern poet, il is said. tbinka

estern poet, il is said, thinks
9of bis wife than be does Of bis
SENS. So does every one that ever
read bis poems.
The ruling price Of gold mines ii
North Carolina is SIS. This gives Gle
poor man . chance to become . capi-
tnlist.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15
aeW advertisements.


We scigI insert tn this column GdCertise-
ments Of Wants, For Renf, For Sale. Lost,
Found, de-, not erceeding four lines One
Week, Or less, for % Cents.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15

4 crQss-eyed weman has the ad
vanfbe " Of Der fsmenine friends. They
can't tell whether she is looking 81
the minister il church or At their pT
bonnet.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15

Summer Shoes. II have on hand. for
sale cheap, lot of Ladies and children's
easy shoes and slippers for Summer wear.
VIM. E. Brooks, Main street. jy15 If.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15

EOR SALE CHEAP.-A lot of Win
J. dow Sash, (ready-glazed) Frames
and old Mantels, all in good order
Will be sold very cheap. Apply at the
Capital" .ffica iy21-ts.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15

WANTED OYsTERMEN to call at
+. E. Stevens, on Prince, George street
and get their OYSTER RAKEs. The best in
the market aug21&
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15

FOR SALE.-On reasonable terms, q
comfortable, convenient and desirable
residence, containing eleven rooms and
Bathroom, centrally located. For par
ticulars apply at the Capital office. 24tf
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15
-e% MUSIC-& 81 3
MS. COWMAN.

Theory-Organ, Piano, Guitar and
a;noino. Church Music and Chorus prac-
tica. Private and Glass Lessons. In
struction IN Solo Singing. Ladies and
Geutlemen in classes Of two or more.
SneciaI evening classes formed for pri-
mary instruction in the elementary pfln-
ciDlcs OF playing and singing.
For terms apply to Mrs. Cowman, IL
Main Street. from 10 to II q. m. sim.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15
Notice to Trespassers,

r HEREBY notify all persons not to
L trespass ON my farm near Best's Sta
tation, A. and E. Railroad. with dog or
gun, or otherwise, under penalty of the
law. JOHN l. BENJAMIN.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-10-15

Travelling statesmen rev
improving
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
GABLEGRAMS s.

RICHARD LAwLRR, member of Pdrlia-
ment for Queens country, Ireland, is
about to retire from public life on ac-
count of i'll, heath. He is a Nationalist.
The Indian government has decided
to permanently increase the number of
British and Indian troops on the Afghan
frontier to 10, 900 men, and to construct
a telegraph line to Cabal.
U. S. MINISTER S. S. Cox, has con-
vened a meeting of American residents
of Con stantinople to express coincidence
with Mrs. Grant over the death OF her
husband.
IT is stated that Vecei and his wife
have teen arrested with Editor ID rides
Of the Moniteur de Rome for selling to
foreign powers plans of Italian mara
time defenses.
A DISPATCH from Cairo sta ties that the
Egyptian minister is compiling q proc
lamati0n TO the Arabs urging the neces-
sity of q conquest of the soudan of
Egypt.
GGkMANY's supremacy in the posses
siens claimed by its subjects in Zinzi-
bar has been conceded by the sultan,
under the potent influence of a formid-
able squadron which had taken a posi-
ton IN front of his m~ajesty's palace.
The Conservative and Established
Church press are reported as decrying
the agitation started by the expose of
London vice, while the Radicals and
Wesleyan and associated religious bod
les are pushing it and endeayoIing to
enlist popular sympathy, by means of
great public demonstrations.
NJ OLIVER PAIN, whose supposed
murder In the S ,udaE NJ Rochefort de-
mands shall be Ieveeged upon Lord
Lyons, British amOa~sador at Paris, if
the British government refuses salts
faction, is now reported to be under ar
rest at Bombay, India, on suspicion of
being a Russian spy.
THE Italian government desires to
send troops into the Soudan to take
possession of bhe Red sea coast from
Suakim to Assab bay, and an interview
OF the subject viii shortly take pace at
COntrexville, in Vosges, between Prem
iers Salisbury and Depretis. 1t is be-
lieved that il Sir Henry Drummond
VOLTS mission TO Csnstantinople
proves unsuccessful, Enslaad will con.
sent to an Italian occupation Of the
eastern Soudan.
The cholera epidemic in Spain is con-
fined mainly to the poor classes, the
only wealthy persons attacked being
public officials who have exposed them
selves in the infected districts, Many
who fed from Madrid are returning, as
they consider the city safer than the
provinces. 1t is alleged that the num-
Der of deaths az Marseilles has been al
most doubts that officially announced.
The sanitary coalition of the city /;
alarming, and the epidemic is spreading
northward.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
Kinfelks.
Merchant Traveller.

A very hard looking specimen Of
seedy geutility was standing at a
pawnbroker's counter when a. swell
young clerk came IN and laid a watch
down, remarking:
uncle, I'd like to have ten on that
till next week"
The seedy man looked closely at the
swell, and going up to him stuck out
his hand and said in a gushing zone:
my dear cousin, how do you dor
Get out" was the energetic reply,
''Im no cousin of yours"
Amt you2 Well, why not young
feller2 Didn't you call the proprietor
uncle and amt he your uncle2 OF
course he is, and he's NINE, too, and
has been for a long time. If he's your
uncle and mine, I'd like to know why
we amt cousins2'
The swell broke away from his kins-
man and came back in the afternoon
for his advance.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
A Useful Dog.
Chicago Herald.

Expect they had some fine pups up
at the Chicago dog show" remarked
a passenger from Ohio, "but ! have a
dog at home l wouldn't trade for the
best of 'em."
"What breed is her.
Don't know, exactly, but call him
coaly.n
"Collie, you mean"
"No, Imean just what | say-coaly.
Money wouldn't buy that dog. He's
a cur, but we couldn't keep house
without him. You see, several years
ago | trained him to bark at the rail
way trains as they passed III house.
That's his sole DEMONSTRATING at
trains. He does just whoop her up,
especially at coal trains. Well, ne
annoys the railroad men so that every
fireman and brakeman OF the road
has sworn to kill him. Oh, he is a
valuable dog"
81 can't see where the value comes
in"
"You can'tg Well, you could if
you was in my place and had all the
coal you could burn, and some to sell,
thrown right off at your back door,
free of cost"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
LATEST "TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

SIX gas-wells are now in operation at
Findlay, Ohio, yielding a total average
of 1000 600 feet daily.
MALCOLM HAY, late first assistant
postmaster general, is reported 10 be
dying at Creston Springs, Pa.
PASSENGER rates on the New York
Central and West Shore roads have
been restored To 2 cents a mile.
T~oRNADoEs prevail to such an extent
in the east that it is feared the means
contemplated will not be sufficient to
keep the statue Of Liberty from blow
ing down.
A GOLD find has been made eight
/ miles northwest of IshpemiHg, Mich,
four feet wide and go feet long, and
the specimens arc said to be very rich.
THE Chicago, Wisconsin and Mime
.ots railroad company, with a capital of
SO, 800, 600, has filed articles of incorp9r-
alton AZ Madison.
Pittsburg is highly encouraging. Or
ders are increasing, and many mills are
running double time.
ERIE was selected az the location for
the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailers'
Home, the Marine Hospital property in
that city TO be converted to that pur-
pose.
The English bondholders Of the Wa
bash railway have determined to insti-
tute proceedings under the general and
collateral mortgages, and to form a new
corporation, paying the debenture with
new bonde.
WHILE Coles circus was going
through a tunnel near Parkersburg, w.
Va, Monday night three cages were
completely demolished by striking the
roof, and a number OF animals liberated
but they were finally recaptured and
Gagged.
AT Utah, New York, a large number
Of corsets, struggled from Canada, have
been confiscated by revenue officials.
The smuggling operations have been
carried on for some time in an ingenious
manner through tho agency of women.
THE census of Nebraska shows a pop
u alton of 740,645. The population in
1880 was 452, 400. The most rapid in
crease has been in the western counties,
some showing gains of 1000 psr cent in
five years. Lincoln's population is 90
O04, against Is. 003 in 1880.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
Couldn't Work for a Chinaman.
Portland oregonIan

A day or two since an advertisement
appeared in a city paper for a girl to
do homework in a small family. A
girl applied for the situation, and after
being informed as to the number of
persons in the family, the work she
would be expected to do, etc, express
ed herself as satisfied with the situa-
ton and willing to go to work.
perhaps" said the lady of the
house. "you may not be satisfied with
my husband"
''Why, what is the matter with
him2n asked the girl.
He is a Chinaman." was the res
ply.
The girl did not stop to think twice
over the matter, but left at once. She
could not work for a Chinaman, even
if he had a white wife and the place
was an easy one. She would have
been disgraced with her associates.
This seems hard on the servant girl
when lawyers and doctors work for
Cinnamon, and when any kind of
business people are ready to serve
Cinnamon IA their line with the
same alacrity they do white people.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
WASHINGTON

THE superintendent of the Office of
foreign mails has been informed by the
Mexican postal authorities that a recip-
rocal exchange of closed mails, via New
York, Will shortly be put in operation
hetween Paso del Norte upon the Lorth.
ern border of Mexico and Spain.
a VACANCY VIII occur in the lnspec
tor General Department of the army on
Sept. 90, through the retirement of
General Nelson H.. Davis, the Senior
Inspector General. Colonel Roger Jones
is the Senior Colonel and will probably
succeed to the head of the corps.
THE attorney general has decided that
pension agents are not entitled to q zee
for paying pension attorneys their dues
The law passed last winter liking the
| compensation of pension agents repeats
the laws previously in force which al
lowed them a fee of 80 cents il each
case.
ACTING COMMISSIONER UPsHAw of the
Indian Bureau has awarded the con-
tract for furnishing 225,000 pounds Of
beef and 10, 900 pounds of flour to the
Northern Cheyenne Indians to ThorAas
c. Powell, of Chicago, the former at
S3.47 and the latter at $2.70 per hundred
pouIhhb
THE Central Iowa Railway Company
has filed a suit in the Court of Claims
against the United States for damages
to the sum of "a ,0S5, for balance alleged
to be due under a contract. for carrying
the mails from Abba to Northweod,
Iowa, for a period of four years begin
ming July l, 1915.
AN evening paper says that over POO
replies have been received at the Treas
ury Department to the circular letter
calling for expressions of opinion from
manufacturers and importers on the
subject of tariff revision As a rule
the contributions have contained more
complaint of the ad valorem system
than suggestions for its improvement.
SECRETARY BAYARD has directed
United States Minister Boyd Winchester
to attend the International Copyright
Conference in Berne, Switzerland to be
held September z, it being understood
that Ris presence does not bind the
government. The stipulation is made
because the matter of international
copyright is now pending before con
gress,
THE secretary of the interior has an
tnorized the Indian office to pay out
SIS, 600, the proceeds of the sale of GER
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27

ing a ride on his train. The murderer
escaped,
JOIN MORRIS, Sheriff of Reeves Ccun-
ty, Texas, got on a epree at Toyah
Wednesday night, and when an at.
temps was made to arres5 him he open
ed fire, killing G. p. Nigh and seriously
w%ounding another man. The Sheriff
was then shot and killed.
MARTIN Fox was released Wednesday
from the Joliet Penitenti Ary, where he
had served a two years sentence for
hog stealing, and as he stepped out of
the institution was arrested for the
murder Of E. II Nordyke, in Upton,
Ind, in 1881, and lodged in the Bloom.
ingten jail.
JOEL HIGH, a prominent broker of
Reading, was convicted Monday ef tax
ing 5000 from a farmer by setting up a
dummy purchaser for his farm ard TAX
ing the money as a fee, and sentenced
to make restitution and undergo nine
months ina prisonment.
The Safety Deposit Bank at San
Jose, CAL, was robbed Wednesday Of a
tray containing $40. 900 ingold by a mar
who entered to obtain a billo Of exchange
for a small amount. The cashier aud
manager were in the bank at the time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
CRIME,

WILL CLARK stabbed and killed ia
cob b. Varis early Tuesday morning at
Vincennes, Ind. IN a quarrel about a
woman,
MRS. ANNA HALL seriously shot her
husband, Robert Hall, at Carmi, Ill,
Wednesday. 1t is said both had been
drinking.
AT Dover Plains. N. Y, Deputy
Sheriff rheo. H.. Boyce shot and killed
VIVA. Degarmo, a carpenter. Tho men
had quarreled about a boundary line
between their property.
THOMAS HARTIGAN, of Aurora, H..
shot aud killed his wife and then HIM
self, Quarreling, growing out Of her
eXtravagant habits, was the OF
the tragedy.
IL the Chickasaw Nation, /. T., We'd
nesday, David Hunter shot and killed
Samnel Smiley ia a quarrel about some
horses. Hunter fled, but was pursued
w Smiley's friends and slain.
Fritz FIEN and julius Wolff, sailors
from Hamburg, fought with knives
aboard their ship at New York. FIen be.
ing instantly Killed and Wolf mortal.
ly wounded.
l. ,, LUDDING, a brakeman on the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, was
shot and killed at Edgefeld Junction
by q negro hoodlum who had been steal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
A Town of Mrs.

A stranger came into the little town
Of Bartlett not long since. Standing
On the platform he began to look
around and inquire ABOUT the place,
who lived in it, etc. First pointing
over 20 a cottage in a grove opposite
the depot, he said:
who lives there2'
Answer: MRS. Brooks"
"And," said he, who lives in that
house down the railroads"
Answer. Mrs. Wright"
And who lives in that house be-
yond this churchY"
Answer: Mrs. Cochran"
"ARd who in the large house upon
the hill2'
Mrs. Miller"
"And in this house up this ways"
Mrs Barteau."
And now will you tell me who
lives up this street still further over
the hill2"
Answer: MRS. Crenshaw, Mrs.
Means and others"
Great heavensl" he exclaimed,
chow many widowsl" This must be
a good place TO stop
mo, no." replied this respondent,
''those women all have husbands"
The stranger walked off a little
with a puzzled air, then he turned and
said:
"Ah, ha, I see But can you tell
me what names these poor husbands
all had before they were married to
those ladies2'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
FIRES AND

BURTON BINFoRD, II years of age, was
drowned in the Cumberland at Nash
vile, Sunday, while bathing.
THE Roman Catholic Church at
Unionville, CT, was destroyed by fire
Monday. Loss, $25, 900; insurance, $13,.
900.
A FIRE at Montreal damaged the Bell
Telephone works and the premises of
the Bank Note company to the extent
of $4,000.
urnia, at New York, damaged her cargo
extent OF $4,000.
RICHAAD WILLIAMS & Co.'S worsted
mills, at Camden, N. j., were partially
destroyed by fire early Thursday morn
ing, at an estimated loss of between
$40, 900 and 800, 900.
THE British vessel Haddingtonshire,
bound for Liverpool with a cargo of
flour, has been wrecked ON the Pacific
coast, forty miles from San Francisco,
all on board except one sailor and a
cabin-boy being drowned. The ship and
caigc are a total loss.
JOHN GATE, an aged farmer, living
near Missouri City, Missouri, was found
dead in bed, with his hands and feet
bound, and several wounds on his head.
There is no clue to the ~nAurderers or
their motives.
EIGHT men were out fishing in the
Illinois River about three miles above
Peoria Tuesday morning, when light
ming struck the boat. instantly killing
three of the party, the names of two of
whom are Sahotield and Murphy.
THE wife and three children of Emile
Lirett, of Terre Bonne parish, louisiana
were killed, and himself and two other
children badly wounded, by an explo.
sion of gunpowder in the house.
O'CoNNoR's warehouse, at the corner
of North Water and Rush streets. Chi.
cage, vas completely destroyed We'd
nesday afternoon, n the stock in
Dickson's marble works which is ada
cent to the warehouse on the east, was
also badly damaged. The total loss is
estimated at SO, 600.
AT Lumberton, Newaygo County,
Mich, a fire that started IN a store oc-
cupied by Ganson & Campbell. spread
until six buildings, including the West
Michigan Railroad depot and 80, coo feet
of lumber owned by George Daley,
were destroyed.
SIXTEEN persons were injured at
Philadelphia, Monday, by an explosi. n
of dynamite in the steamer, S.. M. Fell
ton, which had just left her dock with
over 200 passengers on board. A fright
full panic followed the report, which was
with difficulty allayed. 1t is believed
that the explosive was placed under the
head of the boiler maliciously.
MISUNDERSTOOD broke over Erie, Pa,
Tuesday night, and a bolt struck the
electric light plant, denolishing the dy-
namo and plunging the business part of
the city into darkness. A dwelling
house was wrecked, ond its occupants
found unconscious in the debris. Barns,
with crops and horses, were burned.
and orchards and vineyards were de-
stToycd.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
The Washburn Family Cradle.
Lewiston (N1e.) Journal.

One of the relics in the Norlands
library at which l looked with unus-
ual interest was the Washburn cradle
the cradle in which all of the seven
Washburn brothers were rocked. 1t
looks like a picture / had seen OF a
cradle imported in the Mayhower. IL
is a homemade piece of furniture con
structed of pine boards an inch thick,
rudely dovetailed together. 1t has a
buggy top and solid pine rockers,
shaped like half-moons, with no twists
or scrolls to decorate them, but nu-
merous scars where chips apparently
had been knocked out of them by the
paternal cewhide boot. A crack had
necessitatea the mailing of a large
cleat on the inside. The outside is
painted a dark green tint. The inside
never was painted; but is well brown
cd by age. It's associations make TINS
one of the most remarkable cradles ]
existence. -Four congressman have
rocked in it. Two ministers plenlPo~
Tertiary to foreign countries have
been lnlled TO sleep within It's pine
boards. It's ~soporihc influence mas
been grateful to two governors. IL
has held a secretary of state, whom l
saw looking at it with 9 smile, the
other day.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-27
The Conversation stopped There.
Cincinnati Enquirer

A couple of gentlemen stood on
Vine street talking about one thing OF
another when q beggar made a plea
for aims, showing that his right hand
was gone as an inducement to contri-
butte. One of the gentlemen gave the
fellow a dime, but the other refused to
ante up.
How did you lose your handl" he
was asked.
81 was coupling cars, and got my
hand so badly mashed that | had TO
have it cut off,"
"Oh, no, you didn't do anything of
the kind" said the gentleman who
had declined to give the beggar any
money.
How do you know, was you therel'
retorted the tramp.
yes, l was there" replied the gem
tleman. Your hand was blown off
while you were trying to steal a watch
from my pocket, and | am the very
one that did it. The only mistake /
made was in shooting at your hand
instead Of your heart"
The beggar did not stop to parley,
but sneaked off with celebrity.