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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-12
THE WONDERFUL WOOD HEATER !
1T IS THE POOR MANS FRIEND!
TIIE RICH MAN,S ECNNOMIZERl


A BASE-BURNER in the fullest meaning of the
term. Retains fire from ONE to THREE DAYS.
1t consumes equally well all kinds of wood-rough,
green dry. Two to three cords of 4foot wood cut
once in two, is sufficient for ordinary winter It
building but retains the heat in the room 1t is clean;
no dirt, gas dust to annoy. Requires no kindlng
of mornings. always having plenty of fire and warm
ROOM 1t is well adapted for school Office rooms
for the family. AS fact, it is the grandest stove
of TIE age aud any having used this stove cannot
be int uced to 10 without it.
will delive. this stove at any freight depot in the
United States c. o. D. Price, $50 and freight. Or
ders by mail promptly filled.
This stove is protected by letters patent. Parties
desiring to manufacture and sell the obtain
territory any of the States by counties greater
quantities. favorable terms. Send for circulars.
(Cut this out.) A. c. BOSWELL,
General Agent, Fowler, Indiana.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, Nov 11.-There was the usual good
movement of all classes of goods in the execution of
orders but the request is very mild in character
Wide sheetings show feverish and prices higher.
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,ading futures ranged as follows:

Receipts-Flour, a. 600 brls; wheat 112 900 bu;
corn. 10000 blu; oats, $1,000 blu; rye, 5000 bu
barley, $4,000 bu. Shipments--Flour, $4,000
hrs; wheat, Is 900 bu; corn, 136, 900 bu; oats
96, 600 Blu; rye, 1000 bu; barley As, 600 bu.
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Cincinnati, Hamilton & indianapolis.
Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan.
Evansville & Tore Haute.

1veIndPs 7sosm p ,I9o0a 4 asl s'lo445pa
Via L e. st. L. Ry.l
1--we Indpls. "1o:50pm t5:30pm "ll:55am 71Oam
AR Tndpis 345am i10OOam 3:35pm 625pm
*Daily, fdaly except Sunday. parlor car, Sleep
ing car.
These trains carry the magnificent Monarch parlorA
sleeping and buffet ears the finest run in America.
between indianapolis and Evansville. Cars are open
for passengers at $50 p. IA. Train does not leays
until 10:45 D. m
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Chicauo. St. Louis & Plttsburq.

Chicago st. Louis PutSburg.
Disqualification Mail and Express daily. 400 art
New Yo k, Philadelphia. Washing
ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Ex-
press daily, s..--.......-..---.. 4;3O am
Sunday HOO an, {
Richmond Accommodation. -.....- 4:00Pmssn
n. Y, Philadelphia Washg'n, Bal
tmore Pittsbg Exp daily, s., h. 4:55 PM
Arrive-Richmond Accom-. except Sunday $40 am
n. Y, Philadelphia, Washington
Baltimore & Pittsburg Exp, daily 11:45 am
Columbus and Dayton Exp, except
Sunday. .................... 4:35 pm
Western Mail and Express. daily 9;40 PM
n. " Philadelphia. Washington,
Baltimore & Pttsb'g Exp, daily 1920 PM
CHICAGO DIVISION. KoKoMo p, c. & ST. L.. r.
charlottesville g. Chicago Exp, p c...1115 ann J.
Louisville s. Chicago Fast Exp,
daily, 1l:OO pn2
Arrive-Chcago 81 Louisville Fast Exp
Chicago g. Louisville Exp p. c.. 3;50pm
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Yesterdays Quotations on Produce at the Two
Great centers.
NEW YORK, Nov lL-Flour-Receipts, 81
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Hoes = Receipts. $500; shipments 1890
Quality fair; only about fifty cars on SALE RE-
ceipts, shown above, include hogs received by
our packers bought in Chicago, St Louis, Kan
sas City and Peoria) Owing to the extreme
light supply the market opened active and high
er, closing quiet, with part of the advance lost;
all sold.
Heavy packing and shipping ...-........$ So 900400
Light and mixed packing. -.-.....-... 3.75039O
Common to good light. ............... 3.6OQ39O
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WABASH. ST. Louis & Pacific.

WABASH, 81. LOUIS & FacIHCs
INDIANAPOLIS Peru & Chicago Divison.l
Depart-Michigan City and Toledo Mail. 7:15 ann
Detroit Toledo aud Mich City Elk. 215 pni
*Detroit and Toledo Ex.. daily, S. 700 PM
Arrive-Detroit Toledo & Mich. City Ex., LAB arm
tDetroit and Toledo Ex., daily S.. 10:45 arm
Detroit Toledo & Mich. City Mail 645 PM
Sleeper daily to Detroit.
tSleeper daily from Detroit.
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CONDITION OF TIE MARKETS
Signs Which Are Thought to Indicate a
Speedy Improvement on Change.

Wheat Opens Active. and Better Feeling
Prevails During the Day-COrn Very Slow,
with Tendency Toward Lower Prices.
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LIVE STOCK.

Cattle Steady and in Fair Supply-Hogs
Active and Higher-sheep Steady.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. IL.
CATTLE-Receipts. 400; shipments. $50. Fair
supply of shippers for Thursday; market steady
at yesterdays prices; 1913 head of exports aver
aged 1620 pounds and sold for 81. So, and II aver
aged l, APO pounds, at 81 3d. about everything
changed hands at the close; stockers and feeders
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Cincinnati. indianapolis, st. Louis Chicago.
CINCINNATI DIVISION.
Depart-Cncinnati and Florida Fast Line,
daily s. and c. c............ $50 ans
st. Louis Express daily .-.--..... 4:30 am
Cincinnati Accommodation. 11:33 ana
Cincinnati Mail, p. e...-.-.-...-- 1858 pm
Rock Island and Peoria Ex., daily. 6:55 pm
Arrive-Indianapos Accommodation. ---- 10:45 and
Chicago and st. Louis Mail p. C. d'y- l Las ana
Lafayette Accommodation 4:45 pnH
ST. Louis Express, daily 1855 prn
Chicago Fast Line daily, $. and c. c.1 lilo pnHr
CHICAGO DIVISION
Depart-Chcago Peoria and Omaha Ex--.. 71O anN
indianapolis and Logansport Ex..- 10 ana
Chicago Fast Mail D. c.......12:05 pM
Lafayette Accommodation. .--..... 500 prn
indianapolis and South Bend Ex... 500 pm
Chicago, Peoria and Burlington
Fast Line daily. s., r. c.-...--...l130 pm
Arrive-Circinnati and Florida Fast Line,
daily, G. c. and s. .-......-..:--.- BIO ana
Cincinnati Accommodation. ....--.11:15 ann
South Bend ard indianapolis Ex.- 11:15 am
Cincinnati and Louisville Mail, p. 3:35 pm
Rock Island and Peoria Ex---.--.- GAO pm
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LOUISVILLE, New Albany & Chicago.

Monon Route)
Denart-Cbicaco and Michigan City Mail :. 11:50 ana
Frankfort Accommodation. 500 pm
Chicago Night Express daily s.--.11:15 pm
Local Massachusetts, avenue. $50 ann
Acknowledgements Night Ex, daily $50 ana
indianapolis Accommodation. 955 ann
Indianapolis Mail. 3:45 PM
Local. Massachusetts avenue. 6:25 pnk
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Ind;ananoIis pecatur & Springfield.

nouou+ Dooo+nr and Peoria Through Mail. $50 AM
Dcp"i' Wontez,nna Accommodation $50 pm.
Foet Exnress daily r. c. and s.. 1850 PM
A. Fast E~nress daily r. c. and So. $50 ana
0ii' Monteznma Accommodation. DIS aud
Through Mail 5:55 pm
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Tomatoes-two-pound cans, 8O085c; 3-pound. 81
01.2O. Peaches-Standard 3-pound, $1.65 az; g.
pound seconds, $1.2O01.5O; 2-pound standard,
81. 2001.30. Corn-Revere $1.1O; McMurray,
$1.1O01.20; Yarmouth, $1.30. Miscellaneous
ST. CLOS; pineapple standard, 2pound $E400
1.5O; seconds, 2-pound, $1.1O01.2O; cove oysters,
1-ponnd, full-weieht 90c0$1; light, 6O07Oc 2
pound, full. $1.7O01.S0; light, 90c0$1; string
beans 8O090c: Lima beans, 80c0$1.4O: peas. mar
rowfat 75c0$1 40; small 81. 5002; Holsters 81 95
az. 10; red cherries 81 050120; gooseberries, 500
90c strawberries $1O110.
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Indiana, Bloomington Western.
PEORIA DIVISION.
Depart-Pacifc Elk. and Mail. daily, andre. ESQ am
Express 1900 m
Kansas and Texas Fast Line re. s. AGO pm
Burlington and Rock Island FIX
press, daily, c. and s.--..----. 1880 pnA
daily' r. C. and s................. 400 ana
Express. 1O:4O am
Express and Mail daily $. and re. 3:45 pm
Day Express, daily. r. C. and s-.-.. $50 n a
EASTERN DIVISION
Disqualification Express Mail, daily, 4:2O ana
Atlantic Express, s. and r. c.----.. 400 pm
Night Express daily, and r. Co. 300 pm
Arrive-Pacifc Express. daily, s. and re- 7:20 am
Western Express s. and I. c.. 400 pm
Burlington and Rock Island Ex-
press daily, $. andr c... 1920 pm
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TIME TABLE,

TRAINS RUN By CENTRAL STANDARD TTME1
Trains marked thus, r. c.. reclining chair; thus, e.
sleeper thus, p, parlor car; thus h.. hotel car.
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NEW YORK ANp cnIcAao.

ounce.
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B Loo Us tom M1s ms $S % tom Jasks9n
1915 ~ tor; Winifrede, 1915 % ton; Campbell
Greek, 1915 ~ ton; Hooking $3. SO " ton: Island
and Blossburg $5 " ton; Duggar (Peacock) lump
1915 - ton; nut 1925 ~ ton; chestnut No. 4 and
stove anthracite, $3.50 " ton egg aad CRATE anthra
cite, So 25 ~ TOM gas coke Toe ~ bu or So. SO ~
load crushed coke, 12c y bu or So 4Rload All soft
COAL nut size SOC R ton less than the above prices
the nnalitu IF hmm
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GAME-Shippers PAYING Quals. $3.50 ~ doz
Ducks-Maards, $24O Teal $l500l.75. Rab
bits. 81 " doz. Squirrels 9Oc0$1 - doz. Ducks
small 81 2501.50 P doz.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
G. ECKENRoTH. ". ECKESROTH
ECKENRoTH BROS.
ESTABLISHED 1856.

Manufacturers and dealers in bugg.es,
carriages, ambulances and spring
wagons, also repairing OF all kinds
done promptly, No. 2l2 and pa Market
street. near bridge, San Antonio,
Texas.
Among the many branches OF business
carried on in this city, there are none
which contribute more to the general
welfare and convenience Of the general
public, than that OF wagon ana carriage
making. But few of our commercial in
dustries could transact their business
without them, the convenience and
facilities afforded by the handiwOrk Of
the wagon or carriage maker, would
move but slowly. 1t is therefore one Of
the most useful of trades, and As IN
every other pursuit of life, some men ont
do each other and are more successful.
This is the result of industry. more
practical knowledge OF the trade and
honest pride in Their work: The tirm
that establishes q reputation for first
class work with fair, honorable dealing
need have no fear for success. prosperity
being only matter of little time; to
no firm in San Antonio do these remarks
more aptly than to that of ECkenrOth
Bros. This business was established in
1885 with a very limited capital, tiuan-
cially, but thorough practical knOwl-
edge OF the business, together with de-
termination and industry, made 1t sue
oessful from the start, until today the
firm is one of the most extensive in vest
Texas. The firm of EckenrOth Bros,
manufactures OF buggies, carriages and
wagons in all the most desirable
styles, giving each department their
personal supervision. In material they
use nothing but the best seasoned hlGk-
DRY, oak, etc., and in ironing their work
has reputation for positive merit No
sighted or half done work is ever permit
ted to leave their shop, being practical
mechanics themselves they cannot be in
posed upon by inferior or dishonest
workmen. AS horse shOers they have
gained an enviable reputation, no shop
in the city having such an amount OF
custom. The Eckenroth Bros. are
among the progressive young men OF
our city, always willing to contribute
literally to any enterprise that will
benefit the city. Their shop, at Nos.
212 and 2l4 Market street, covers an area
of 75xl5O feet, doing the largest business
in their line in the city. Their future
prosperity Is assured.
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Carrara Marble Works.

The artistic designing and faultless
workmanship of these works, No. 3l3
East Houston street, are challenging
public attention. Mr.. Frank Teich. the
proprietor, is an excellent free hand
draughtsman. a designer of merit and a
real artist with the chisel. Since he has
established in this city, his decorative
and monumental marble work has COM
mended him to the confidence and
patronage of those who appreciate art
and have an eye to the beautiful. The
design for Governor Pease's monument
at Austin, by his hand, has won golden
opinions from all who have examined it.
A large monument for Corpus Christi
was a gem in marble, and some fine
specimens of statuary can be seen at his
yard in this city. All marble work for
garden and landscape adornment, vases,
statuary, ETC., is executed at this estab-
lishment In the most artistic manner.
There is no necessity for sending abroad
for euch work, and all San Antonisns
who have orders in marble to place
should visit the Carrara Marble Works
before going farther and faring worse.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
What to Teach Our Daughters.

At a social gathering some one
proposed this question: What
shall | teach my daughter" The
following replies were handed III:
Teach her that 100 cents makes
-.
Teach her how to arrange the
parlOr and the library.
Teach her to say No" and
mean it. or Yes" and stick to it.
Teach her how to wear calico
dress. and to wear it like a queen.
Teach her how to sew Oh but
tons. darn stockings and mend
gloves.
Teach her to dress for health
and comfort. as well a. for ap-
pearamCe.
Teach her to cultivate flowers
and to keep the kitchen garden.
Teach her to make the neatest
room i'll the house.
Teach her to have nothing to do
with Incorporate or diSsOlute
young men.
Teach her that tight lacing is
uncOmely. rs well as injurious 10
health.
Teach her to regard the morals
and habits, and not money in
selecting her associates.
Teach her to observe the old
rule: "A place for everything, and
everything in its place.
Teach her that music. drawing
and painting are real accomplish
ments in the home. and are not to
be neglected if there be time and
money for their use.
Teach her the important trulsm:
THAT the more she lives within
her income the more she will
save and the further she will get
away from the pOOr.hOuse.'
Teach her that a good, steady,
church going mechanic, farmer,
clerk. or teacher without a cent is
worth more than forty lOafers or
producers in brOadclOth.
Teach her to embrace every OPP
pOrtunity for reading, and to Sc
lect such books as will give her
the most useful and practical in
formation in order to make the
best progress in earlier as well as
later home and social life.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-20
The Misses Kirchner.

The above firm name is familiar to
most every lady in the city. Their es-
tsblishment is located at 22S Commerce
street, and their stock consists of the
latests styles in millinery, hats, bonnets
and all the specialties necessary to a
first class and complete store. Ladies
are especially invited to call and ex-
anime the samples Of embroidery, which
cannot be sXcelled In the CITY.
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tate. speculation is one form OF
gambling. Men who pride them
selves on being tip-tOp gentlemen
own and run race horses and risk
their money on horse races
rarely lose their social caste in
consequence of their addiction to
the turf. Fashion brands one
thing as gambling, while it pats on
the back those that indulge in
another kind of gambling, but
there is no such elasticity in moral
principle. The supreme court of
Texas decided a good many years
ago that money lost on a horse
race could not be recovered back
( nor the payment of it be avoided,
upon the ground that it was gam
! bling.
Gambling in grain, pork and
cotton futures has grown to be a
/ gigantic evil-it has drawn
thousands of men into its vortex,
and is the fruitful cause of nine
tenths of the defalcatiOns and en-
beZZlements with which the
country is cursed, yet hundreds
of church members indulge in this
kind of gambling. Gambling in
grain, -four and pork serve to put
a facticious price on these neces-
saries of life, and in this way
seriously Injuries the class of con-
sumers who constitute pretty
much the entire population of the
union. To poor men corners"
in breadstuffs and pork, by which
the prices of those articles are in
HANGED for speculative purposes
are downright robbery.
The Express lately contained an
editorial advocating the policy of
licensing gambling houses in
Texas and of exacting high licen-
ses from them in order to curtail
their number. The sole result of
demanding a considerable sum of
money for the licenses would be
to create monopoly of gambling
in favor of a few houses, and for
this reasons would be open to
grave objections. If the legisla-
ture is to legalize gambling, as the
Express recommends, the wisest
plan would be to fling the door
wide open and let all embark in
the business, as this would cut
down the profits arising from it..
1t should also enact that no Joint
stock company or partnership
should be formed to prosecute
the business, and that the prOprie-
tor of each and every gambling
house shall file an affidavit stating
that he is the sole owner and man.
ager thereof. The law should
also prohibit a gambling house to
be kept within fifty yards of any
saloon, or to sell or give away any
malt, vinOus or spurious liquor
upon the premises. Drunken men
should not be allowed to risk
their money at the gaming table
and III order to prevent them from
doing so, no liquor should be al
lowed on the premises and no
saloon nearer than fifty yards.
Men would hardly walk a hundred
yards away to obtain liquor many
times whilst they were engaged in
betting at game. ALLONS.
Carrara Marble Works.
The artistic designing and faultless
workmanship of these works, No. 3l3
East Houston street, are challenging
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San Antonio Light.
ABOUT GAMBLING.

than tnat or camping, anu al
though statute upon statute has
been enacted at every session, the
problem is still unsOlved and the
end is not in sight. Like BanquO's
ghost, gambling will not down: it
hops up in most unaccOuntable
manner at the very moment we
are ready to attend its funeral.
1t seems to have more lives than
a cat, and to hold on by its tail
better than an OpOssUm. 1t out
lives a pensioned soldier, or rich
widow with lot of poor kinfOlks.
who wish to handle her cash and
give he first-class funeral, with
all the appendages and belong
ings.
People have an ingrained pro-
pensity for realizing sudden riches.
They are always sure of winning
there is no such word as fall in
the lexicon of the man who is
burning up to get rich, suddenly.
by venturing few dollars on the
turn of card or the drawing of a
lottery. Men will take the
chances. The god of chance has
myriads upon myriads of ardent
devOtees at his SHRINE, and hard
ly any run of i'll luck will wean
them from their intatuatiOn. They
seem to be under a spell-tO be the
victims of facinatiOn. 1t is COM
pound passion, made up of love of
money and love of excitement,
and this passion is not of modern
origin nor the outcome of civiliza-
ton. The Scriptures speak of
casting lots-which was leaving
things to the arbitration of chance.
The Romans were passiOnately
addicted to gambling, and bet
very high, though cards were I'M
known to them, as were the gam
bling games of the present day.
The ancient Germans, according
to Tacitus, were not only brave to
fOOlhardiness-the other German
tribes were wont to say that, mot
even the gods themselves were a
match for the Suevi in battIe". but
they were passiOnately fond of
liberty, more so than any other
people, yet the historian GibbOn
describes them as passiOnately
addicted to gambling, while still
immersed in barbarism. He re-
lates that when they had staked
and lost every article of value
owned by them, they would stake
even their freedom against so
much property and if they lost
this last stake they became the
slave of the winner and served
him cheerfully. The Indians are
welded to gambling and will bet
everything they have i'll the world
and never murmur when they
lose. The writer has been a spec
tatOr of a game of ball among the
ChOctaws and has been amused at
the way in which they would bet.
the squaws would bet as eagerly
as the men. but the losers never
kicked.
The universally of the passion
for games of chance would seem
to indicate that it is a sort of fever
in the blood of men which is born
with them. The writer knew
wealthy man who declared he
would play poker, even if he knew
before hand he would lose a
thousand dollars in the course of
year, and he generally was out
of pocket $500 a year. With
him it was purely love of excite
ment that prompted him to play
poker, as he was free from love of
filthy lucre. But with the gener-
ality of men love of money, along
MD T. tbo hama 80 ,,,oI,;, :. .:I.-
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tempting minnOw bangles so in
willingly. neither does the green
horn see the hook baited and set
for him and gudgeOns like him.
Once a taste for gambling is form
ed, it is well nigh ineradicable as
well as uncomfortable and the vic
Tins of this strange facinatiOn re-
pine for the frantic excitement of
the gaming table, and they are so
sure of winning even i'll the face
of repeated losses that they will
stake money that does not be-
long to them. and even embezzle
money to stake. The passion be-
comes the ruling passion and men
sink into its absolute slaves. This
sort of facinatiOn is a phenomenon
in human nature. They are per-
fectly sanguine that they will win
a fOrtune-they are morally GER
tain luck will change after a while
and run in their favor as strongly
as it has against them. and it is
this hopeful feeling that leads
them to stake their money as long
as they have dollar. If men
happen to win it is almost impOs-
sible for them to pocket their win
nings and withdraw from the game.
They must press their luck;
whether men win or lose they
rarely are able to shake off the
facinatiOn that has seized upon
them and they wind up by being
stripped of all their plumage.
Gambling is profitable to the
dealer, but not to such as stake
their money against him, but this
notorious fact has scarcely any
influence as deterrent from gam
bling.
tits not the ignorant and sup
erstitiOus alone who worship at
the shrine of the god of chance.
Charles James Fox, one of the
greatest parliamentary debaters
of England and one of the firmest
friends of liberty, was an inveter-
ate gambler, even while he was the
acknowledged leader of the whig
party and having a seat in the cab
met. His passion for gambling
kept him poor, and diminished his
political influence. FOX'S gam
bling was done at the club. Oil
yer Goldsmith. the 'sweet, attrac-
tive grace of whose style is
warmly admired by every person
of scholarly taste. nOtwithstand-
ing his pen was his sole means of
support, was an incOrrigible gam
bier. in spite of his constant i'll
success. The narrowness of his
income was narrowed still more by
his losses at the gaming table.
In our own country some of our
most distinguished public men
have been passiOnately addicted
to gambling. Henry Clay never
missed an opportunity TO play at
brag. but it was love of excite
ment and not a desire to grow
rich suddenly that led him to
gamble. Andrew Jackson bet OH
horse races aud chicken fights.
but never hazzarded large
amounts. President Pierce was a
splendid poker player and was
pretty successful. | have heard
an anecdOte to this effect. that
after the close of the war with
Mexico, when the troops reached
New Orleans. the respective
friends of General Franklin Pierce
and General John Bankhead Ma
gruder made up a purse and in.
sisted on these two champion
players having a match game-a
Scrug's battle at poker. The
game lasted three days, with only
hriaf intervals Of raSt uhap for