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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-03-27
Poor Senator Jones.
Buffalo Courier Wash. Special

Buffalo Courier Wash. Special
Senator Vance. Of North Carolina, who
was to bring Senator Jones back from
Detroit with him, failed in his mission.
He saw Jones and demonstrated with him
about his conduct, but 1t did not produce
the slightest effect. Jones told him that
he WIS capable Of attending to his own
private affairs. and his matrimonial sspi-
ratiOns were included In that category.
Vance gave him up as hopeless case.
Senator Fair, of Nevada. says that he YVES
with Jones in Dublin several years ago
and that he had similar adventure there
pursuing beautiful Irish maiden with
his opportunities to such an extent o.
to disgust everybody and to make him
self the common tilk Of the town.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-03-27
Why Not Let The Law
yers Have It.!
New York Times.

The estimable The" Davis, together
wi h one of the claimants to the hOnOrS
and emOluments of being his brothers
widow called on the district attorney
yester lay to demand the money found
upon tine body of Tom They did not
get it as the district attorney had not
made up his mind to whom it belonged.
Five hundred dollars Of it was Hollands
money. This should 60 to the heirs OF
Tom, under the verdict of the jury that
acquitted Holland. The Judge in that
case charged thu Jury that il they be-
lieyed Holland had bought the bag Of
money which Davis pretended to sell him
he was entitled to retain possession OF 1t
even to the shedding of blood. As the
Jury acquitted Holland they must have
taken tn view that there was an actual
sale and delivery. by which Holland be-
came poss ssor Of something like $4,000,
for which he paid $500, and which "The"
Davis subsequently stole and has since
been living on. In this case the heirs
of Tom are undoubtedly entitled to the
$500 but only on condition Of handing
over the $4,000, to Holland. That ell
terprising young Texan ought to sue for
the larger amount an attach his own
$500 impounded by the district attorney.
Since it has judicially determined that
he committed no crime he is clearly en-
titled either to the money which he pail
Davis or to the money which Davis was
to pay him. His suit against the survi-
wing Davisses would be as interesting in
its way as his trial for murder and would
equally excite the sympathy Of Texas.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-03-27

The mugwumps of Boston held large
" attended, meeting last week and cor
daily Endorsed President Clevelands pO-
Icy and record. The most significant
feature of the proceedings was Hon.
Frank W. Birds form Of addressing the
company. He spoke to those present as
fellow Democrats" and insisted that
they could never again be Republicans.
He wanted them to understand that
whether they knew it or not, they had
burned their bridges behind them.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1886-03-27

Get your Flower Seeds from Martial
Bisnvenu. he has . full supply Of fresh
seeds.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-08
The Chestnut Gong.

The chestnut gong" is abroad in
the land, and one cannot travel far
IN any direction without tencountering
Its exasperating tinkle. Illustrative
OF the way the chestnut gong may get
in its work at the wrong time the
Utica Herald has the following:
The alarm or chestnut Indicator
sprang into Immediate popularity,
and no doubt has done much toward
checking the tide OF Improbable repe.
tition, and has encouraged original.
ity and freshness OF ideas. But like
every invention it has its dangers.
The significance OF the little tinkle at
once reaches the mind of the most
obtuse listener. A few SUNDAYS ago
a young man faultlessly attired, hav-
ing put on his best suit of devotion
as well, attended the ministrations
OF well-known divine. The young
man was all attention, and his de.
pertinent was much admired by those
present. just as the clergyman had
closed an eloquent quotation OF scrip
ture. to the effect that we are sinners
and unworthy to be saved, an un-
guarded movement rang the alarm
under the young mans coat. In the
silence that followed the effort of the
preacher, the tiny tintinnab ulation
rang out like the peal of a church
bell. 10 the Mortified young man it
seemed to roar and reverberate
through the arches. To the initiated
OF the congregation it was, to say the
least, startling and profane. The
chesthut alarm is no respecter OF
times or occasions. 1t should lie
used carefully and discreetly. It
should never be worn to church
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margin to 60 on; I'd make you pa.
me 81, 100 instead ofS1, ,OOO."
Gas you wish, I'll take it out in
board" responded the young man.
"Good; it's call, then," eagerly
said the champion player.
"It is"
"Four kings and an ace!" shouted
the colonel, as he reached for the
check.
II have royal straight flush, and
take the pot" calmly remarked the
prince, as he took down the check.
The colonel wilted and finally raised
up in his chair and said:
1--WE only play four aces in Florida. !"
"But, Colonel Gully, you didn't
have four aces, you had four kings
and an ace, "jocosely replied the young
fellow. That young man owns half OF
the hotel now, and has married Miss
Mel. Whether he put up the cards on
the colonel. or whether The check was
genuine are idle questions now. Colo
mel Culpeper Jones says his son-ln-law
can teach him poker.
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Ideal Women.
From the Gentlemen's Magazine.

From the Gentlemen's Magazine.
The women OF fiction form, perhaps,
the most delightful ideal possession of
the civilized races OF the world. In
vention, based upon imitation, has
produced true and lovely images of
the fairest and sweetest creatures that
make the earth divine. To few men
is it given to know and meet in actu-
al life women who rise to the altitude
OF worth and charm of the women OF
the poets, and it is pre-eminently the
happy task OF the poet to embody for
u.s. in suggestions OF deathless lowell.
ness, beings who answer to the highest
conceptions that man can form OF
beauty, Of tenderness, OF purity and
of nobleness. In the magic mirror Of
the poets imagination are fixed to
pelmanence the images of the fair
est and dearest Of Gods fem
mine creatures. He who, profess
ing a high ideal of womanhood,
can yet never find an ideal love, may,
in imagination, be welded to Imogen
or Di Vernon. The greatest poet, who
wears the crown O. the world"
Shakespeare, is the greatest creator of
ideal women. The true ideal is always
based upon thereal; and Shakespeare's
women are so ideal because his idea is
always based upon living types OF alb
stract truth. His women are what
they are because womanhood is, at it's
best, what it is. Imogen, Desdemona,
Rosalind, Portia, are loftiest creatur-
es, and yet are all possible women.
Another mighty poet has given us
Gretchen and Clarchen. Impossible,
in such limited space as we can here
command, to enumerate or even al
lude to all the fair women painted by
noble poets. The large and lovely
constellation of sweet, good women
shines majestically before our enrapt-
ured visions, stirs our ceaseless graft.
tude and awakens our wondering ad-
miration. They excite the fancy and
touch the heart. They animate us to
noble life, and they move us with the
high delight OF fair images OF hon-
orable love.
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He had to Lie. Too.

From the Detroit Free Press.
He climbed three pairs OF stairs to
get to an insurance office on Griswold
street, and as he came face to face
with the occupant, he said:
81 believe you are Mr.. Blank?"
Eyes, sir"
"Iou came down on a Michigan
avenue car about $50 O'Clock this
morning."
81 did, SIR"
$50 did /. We were all talking
about the earthquake. l stated to
the occupants OF the car, and you
were one, that the shock Jared all
the glass chandeliers in my residence
and threw down a bust OF Patrick
Henry which stood on a bracket
81 remember your statement very
clearly"
"And added that my ormolu clock
stopped dead still, and that q S1OO
mirror in my parlor was cracked
across"
"Yes, you did"
Neil SIT, nave come up to tell
you that live in a rented house and
have none of the articles mentioned.
burn kerosene in two old lamps in
place OF glass chandeliers. If Patrick
Henry busts were selling for dime
apiece couldn't buy one, and the
only ormolu clock have came from
the dollar store. The $lOO mirror
was all in nv eye."
sWhat on earth possessed you to
tell such a story2"
"Well, you were all Dragging about
the earthquake and how your pianos
danced around and how your silver
Ware ratified, and $500 vases fell
down, and felt that | must lie or be
degraded In your estimation. l deep
ly regret my weakness, and have come
to beg your forgiveness"
"l'll forgive YOU"
Thanks. After this if cyclone oc-
ours, or we have q flood or earth
quake, be careful about the state
ments you make in a crowd. You
don't know to what you may drive
innocent men,"
He went away with his hat in his
hand and the other fell in deep rev.
erie and failed to hear the knock of
the man who wanted quarter to
help him reach Sandusky and his
dying wife.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-08
For the Coming Winter Even.
ingS.

The evenings are lengthening with
the coming of cold weather, saws a
writer in the Toledo Blade, and wa
beg to remind the young people-and
the older ones, too-that agood book.
nice fire and quiet room are most
precious things when taken in combi-
nation. Society is good in its way.
but one gets talked out and needs 10
refresh the mind. We recall the fol-
lowing concerning the habit of reading
from letter written by Lord
Macaulay to his niece. 1t is worth
perusing and obeying:
- am always glad to make nv little
elrl happy, and nothing pleases me so
much as to see that she likes books.
for when she is as old as am she
VIII find that they are better than ali
the tarts and cakes and TOYS and
plays in the world. Ii any one would
make me the greatest king that ever
lived, with palaces and gardens ana
iine dinners and wines and coacbes
and beautiful clothes ana hundreds Of
servants, On condition that | would
not read books, would not be a kim
would rather be poor man in a GAR
ret with plenty of books than a kinp
VINO dld not love reading
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The Improvidence of Thackeray.
philadelphia New


Thackeray was an improvident
wretch, and his expenses nearly al
ways exceeded his income. His avow-
ed purpose in coming to America the
second time in 1856, was, to use his
own expression, "to lay up pot of
money" for his two daughters, and
yet it shows the impulsiveness and
boyishness OF the man that he return
ed to England in the midst OF a pros
porous engagement and with half of
his lecture dates untitled. Before he
had visited various cities in the west
and in Pennsylvania while in his room
one night in his hotel in New York,
he happened to pick up newspaper,
and there he saw announced that acer-
tain steamer would sail for Liverpool
next morning. A fit of home-sickness
overcame him. Although he was about
retiring and was partly divested OF his
apparel, he rang for his servant, pack
ed his baggage that very night and,
without saying q word TO one of his
friends, sailed for home the next morn
ing.
Even Mr.. Fields, who was certainly
his closest American friend, had no
intimation OF his sudden departure
until ilseveral days after, when the pilot,
who had directed the vessel on its way
to the ocean, handed him card on
which these words were written:
"Good.kye, Fields; goodbye, Mrs.
Feds. God bless everybody, says w.
M. r." This abandonment OF his en-
gagements meant for him large pecu-
mary loss and yet he told Mr.. Fields
in London that il John Jacob Astor
had offered him half his fortune to
permit that particular steamer to sail
without him, no would have declined
"the impossible favor" and gone
aboard. Henever had another chance
to fill those broken engagements. A
few years afterward, on a Christmas
morning, his mother found him dead
in bed.
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Name Your Daughter Properly.
Charles Dudley Warner in Harpers Masa.


Since women write our books, and
teach our schools, and practive our
laws, and ride in gigs, and send our
messages by telegraph, and "hello".
from one end OF the country to the
other through the telephone, and
write alter their names I'M. d." and
GA. b." and ga. NJ" and nearly all
the letters OF the alphabet. and even
"LL. D."-thanks to the Smith college
appreciation OF Miss Amelia B. Ed
wards-it is necessary that women
should have a name that will be in
alienable and her own through life. \
In the first place, give the girl in bap-
tlsm only one name. She will be per-
fectly content with it. Her lover nev-
er says, "Amelia Jane, come to nv
arms!" He simply extends his arms
and cries ''Jane!" nthe second place,
when the girl marries let her ALWAYS
keep her surname. Then, when
ever we see a woman's S name, we shall
know whether she is married or single.
and II she is married we shall know
what her family name is. If she has
earned reputation as a writer or a
doctor or an LII. d. as Mary Brown,
she will carry that with her as Mary
Brown johnson; and in all cases there
will be spared an infinite amount of
talk and inquiry as to who she was
before she was married. This system
is essential to the "cause" Of woman.
1t may be said that it lacks perfec-
tion in two respects; we could not
tell from the three names whether the
bearer OF them might not be a widow,
and 1T makes no provision for a sec.
ond marriage. These are delicate
questions. In regard to the first, it is
nobody's business to know whether
the woman is or is not widow, un.
less she chooses to make that fact
prominent, and then she has ways
enough to emphasize it, And, in the
second place lin case the woman does
not marry her deceased husbands
brother by permission OF Congress),
it does not at all matter what be-
comes ofthe name OF the first husband.
1t is the woman's identity that is to
be preserved. And she cannot be re-
quired to set up mile-stones all along
her line.
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TH1rIovllK

4
Is Nue ~ al other Molaen are IN
sS n 4 my soul III dear;
IL a3 II fsps3OVS fanefeS come from lar, E
sneAth the sil yer evening star,
Ard yst her heart = ever near.
l3fsat lksllns hath she 81 her own,
II Which lesser souls may never know;
4 God Rfveth them to her alone,
Aud sweet they are q any tone
4 Whsrewith the wind may choose to blow.
Yet In herself shs dwsllettl not;
Alkhoush no home were half 90 fair;
I No simplest duty il forgot,
q Lkle haEh no dim and lowly spot
That doth not il her sunshine share.
6hs dosth little kindnesses,
which most leave undone, or despise;
For nAnght that sets one heart at ease,
A And giveth happiness or peace.
Il eloW-esteemed In her eyes.
She hath NO scorn Of common things,
And, though she stem OF other birth,
Round US her heart entwines and clings
And patiently she folds her wings
To tread the humble paths OF earth.
Blessing she 10; God made her so,
Aud deeds Of weekday holiness
Fall from her noiseless as the snow,
Nor hath she ever CHANGED to know
That aught were easier thanto bless. 4
She il most mir, and thereunto
! Her life doth rightly harmoni
Feeling or thought that WAS not true
Meier made less beautiful the blue
gUnclouded heaven OF her eyes.
She IL woman; onein whom
The spring time OF her childish years
Hath never lost it's fresh perfume,
Though knowing we'll that life hath room
For many blights and many tears.
Hove her with love a. still rs
Al 4 broad rivers peaceful might,
Which, by high tower and lowly mill.
Goss wandering at its own will .
And yet doth ever aow Alright.
And, on It's full. deep breast serene
Like quiet 10 as my duties lie;
Il flows around them and between,
And makes them fresh and fair and green,
Sweet homes wherein to live and die.
James Russell Lowell.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-14

The young lady was pet of the Mackays
and Stanfords, and before they would sane
ton the match they made the love-laden
foreigner show his papers of pedigree.
Aquilla Jones, the notorious indianapolis
postmaster, is giving the administration
a good deal of trouble. The Grand Army
men are lodging complaints against him for
he wholesale discharge of crippled Union
soldiers in the indianapolis postoffice. In a
year he has discharged about % Union sol
diers, some of them badly wounded and dis
abled Their places have been filled by
ward heelers of the worst sort
In the heat of the present political cam
paign in Nova Scotia the relations of the
Province to the United States are the sub
ject of frequent discussion. A Tory paper,
in undertaking to prove that the natural
market of Nova Scotia is not in the United
States, shows that in the year 1883 Nova
Scotia's exports to the United States amount
ed to $3,209.00O; to Great Britain $2,276,0O0
to the West Indies and British Guiana, 81,
472,000 and to Newfoundland $60S,000.
For while in Virginia every bar keeper
had to register with bell-punch every drink
he sold This was so that the State might
collect tax of two cents on each drink. The
punches cost the State S. each, and were
sold to the saloon-keepers at $40. The plan
did not work, and the State took the punches
back. Now, after paying storage for while
the old Dominion has realized SIX cents a
piece for them at auction.
Lieutenant Mannix of the United States
Marine Corps has won the appreciation OF
the Emperor of China by teaching Chinese
officers to use torpedoes. Now the Emperor
wants to confer on him the degree OF the
Double Dragon, with the accompanying dec
Grafton in tea chest letters with fre-cracker
ornaments. The Secretary of State made no
objection, neither did the Senate committee
on foreign affairs; but Senator Edmunds and
several Of his colleagues have made objec-
tionsIto the customs.
The Chinese Six Companies, of Sanfrancis
co, offers reward of $1,000 if a case can be
proved where it has contracted to supply
cheap labor. 1t declares that it is beneyo-
lent organization, not unlike many others in
this country. Its object is the protection
and aid of its members, and it has no connec-
ton with China or a pauper labor trade, and
never did have. 1t has existed for nearly
thirty years, and is confederation of the be-
neyolent societies called Wing Yung, Sam
Yup, Kong Chow, Yong Wo, Yen Wo and
Hon Wah
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-14
ANIL JUDGED AclTAT,oN.

The attempt TO settle the eght-hour sys-
TEN promises to be followed in Chicago, at
least, by long train of evils. The tempo
rary Reorganization of business was very
great. at the time leading architects esti-
mated that the amount which would proba-
bly, be expended in building operations dur
ing the year had been diminished at least
$l0,0O0,000 by the labor conflicts. Of this
amount $4,000, GOO would go directly to the
laborers, of whom there are about 10000
employed in the building trades. This
meant an average loss of $3.50 to each of these
laborers, unless he should be so fortunate as
to secure work elsewhere. At the time these
estimates were made, in the heat of the
eight-hour excitement, they seemed of
somewhat doubtful value; but later deyel-
opments tend to confirm, in a measure at
least, the prophecy of great hardship for the
laboring men as a result of the untimely agi-
tation. The number Of chattel mortgages
filed in the recorders Office in Chicago dun
the last month has been so great as to occa-
sion surprise. Within week chattel mort
cages representing a total valuation Of
nearly $4,000 have been recorded, but the
average size of each mortgage has been
about 1925. A loan agent who handles many
of these mortgages says that they came from
mechanics and other laborers who are out Of
both money and work on account of the
strikes One of the commissioners of Cook
county said that the authorities of the coun-
ty are preparing for extraordiny demands
for fuel and food this winter. They esti-
mate that the call for help will be fifty per
cent. greater than last winter
What calamities the strikes have brought
upon capital are not so apparent. The
losses no doubt have been considerable, but
they are not manifested in impoverished
homes as are the losses of the laborers.
Capital has been deprived of its increase;
labor has lost its all. After such an expert
ence the laborers of Chicago will be careful
how they provoke so extensive a strike as
that of last May. They must have learned
that they are putting their all against their
employers surplus. A strike for the rem
edy of grievances is a hazardous undertake
ing it has proved to be positively calam-
itous when undertaken to bring about a
chimerical reform.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-06-14
THE RlpoEFoRp sEPgArERs.

The trial of Clark, Andrews and Velandre,
the three Biddeford men charged with con-
spiracy to carry the recent city election in
Biddeford by fraud, has resulted as most
trials of that nature do, in a disagreement of
the jury. The case is tolerably familiar to
the general public, but perhaps resume of
its salient features may not be amiss at this
time
On the day of the last municipal election
in Biddeford, four men, one named Smith.
another named Charlton, and two others
named ellis, went from Portland to Bidde-
ford, and there voted the Democratic ticket,
without the shadow of right to do so. So
much is established in the strongest manner
possible, namely, by the voluntary confess
sion of these four men. They say that they
were hired to vote by Joseph I'll. Cote, who
at the time was an official in the Portland
custom house, and that Cote and James e.
Carter gave them names to personate. Nei-
ther Cote nor Carter availed themselves of
the opportunity an indictment gave them to
deny this statement, but both of them fled,
thus practically confessing that it was true.
Two facts are established therefore, beyond
all reasonable doubt: First, that four men
Illegally ,YOUeu IHe DelhoOliDio siOhN'' "liH
second, that they were induced to do SO by
Joseph H. Cote and James E. Carter
The question which the Alfred jury was
asked to answer and failed to do was, DID
Clark. Andrews and Velandre instigate the
negotiations between the repeaters and Cote
and Carter?' That somebody stood behind
Cote and Carter there is no reason for doubt.
Neither of these men had anything at stake
in the election, and it is inconceivable that
they would have incurred the risk OF a term
in the penitentiary for no consideration
whatever. They were not present at the
trial. having fed to parts unknown, and
therefore their story could not be obtained.
The statement Of the repeaters implicated
Clark. Andrews and Velandre, but OF course
testimony from such source was viewed
with suspicion and the corroboratlng clrculn-
stances appear not to have been sufficient TO
convince all twelve of the jurymen beyond
reasonable doubt that these men were the
guilty parties.
But that somebody stood behind Cote ana
Carter was as clear as the MONDAY sun. VINO
was that somebody? While it may not be
easy to specify the particular persons, there Is
no difficulty in specifying the kind OF persons
they were. In the first place they must nave
been citizens of Biddeford, for the election
was apurely local affair and no outsider would
have been sufficiently interested in the re-
suit to undertake to control it by fraud. In
the second place they must have been DEM
Gratis for the repeaters were hired to vote the
democratic ticket. In the third place they