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The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-12-08
TENNESSEE.

Rev. DR., w. f. Boggs has announced
to the representatives of his congregation
at Memphis, his acceptance of the chancel-
lorship of the University of Georgia, sub
ject to the action of his presbytery.
An attempt was made by unknown
parties to wreck a passenger train be
tween South Pittsburg and Bridgeport.
Some ties were put on the track, but
were found by one of the section men
and removed before the trains time.
The officers discovered another link
in the line of evidence, which is being
worked to show, that the recent European
Hotel fire in Chattanooga, where several
people lost their lives, was inccndiary.
On Monday Detective Frank Papenian
found three witnesses who saw the hotel
set on fire and the officers are looking
for additional testimony. They believe
several persons are implicated. Thus far
only one arrest has been made.
VIRGINIA.
The total sales of leaf tobacco by auc-
ton in the Danville market in November
was l, 751, 96S pounds; sales from Octo.
Der LIST to November Both, inclusive,
2,875, sol pounds. Sale of tobacco
stamps one week aggregates s., 749.
News has been received of the destruc'
ton by fire of about one-hali
of the entire town Of Jonesville, the
county site of Lee Total loss $50, 900.
After the fire was over Ii. 0. Ballou shot
and killed Dan Craig and mortally
wounded Berry Craig, a brother of Dan.
Ballou in some way intimated that the
Craigs had possibly set fire to the town,
and the difficulty and killing was the
result.
The Baptist Congress, consisting of the
leading ministers and laymen, began its
seventh annual session at Richmond last
Tuesday. DR.. P. Puryear read a paper
on ''How Far the Safe Should Educate"
A paper on Common vs. Parochial
Schools" by Rev. DR.. Phillip Moxum
was presented. Rev. Walter Raunsc en-
bausch, of New York, then addressed
the congress-. The night session was
taken up with addre> ses on Prohibition
and high license by Dr. Wayland Hoyt
and H. A. DeLane.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
A TROUT-STEALING BEAR.
She Meets Her Fate at the Hands of
an Angry Fisherman.

COSTELLO, PENN.-A. l.. Barton of
this place went trout fishing q few days
ago on Derrin's run, one of the trlbuta-
ries of the famous Sinnemahoning. He
camped along the creek at big spring.
He captured 200 fine trout the first day,
and at night placed them in the cold
water of the spring to keep them nice
and fresh. When Barton went out to
the spring next morning only O dozen of
the smallest of his fish were there. There
was no way for them to get out of the
spring without help, and Barton sus-
pected that some fishermen who were
camped mile or so up the creek had
carried off his trout. He made up his
mind to watch the spring the next night,
believing that the thief or thieves would
pay it another visit. He placed his sec
ond days catch in the spring, and when
night came, he wrapped himself up in q
blanket and lay down near the spot be-
hind some bushes, to watch his fish, armed
with shotgun. He lay there for an
hour without any thief making his ap-
pearance, and was about dropping off to
Sleep when he heard the noise of some
thing approaching the spring, He
grasped his gun and waited. In few
seconds he was surprised to see, not
thieving fellow fisherman approaching
to purloin the trophies of his skill,
but the dark and ponderous form of
BEAR accompanied by two cubs, stealing
toward the spring.
Barton is man of courage and some
thing of hunter, and he resolved to
bag all three of the bears. He waited
out of curiosity to see if they were really
responsible for the loss of his trout. The
old bear went straight to the spring,
thrust her paw in the water and dipped
out trout, which she divided between
her cubs. That was all Barton cared to
see, and before the bear fshed out
another trout he blazed away at her with
both barrels of his gun. They were
loaded with duckshot, Barton having
gone out prepared to shoot wood-duck,
which are plentiful along the creek. He
was but few feet away from the bear,
and the charges struck her with good
effect. She fell bowling to the ground,
while the cubs ran confusedly about,
whining like puppies. Barton rushed
up to where the bear lay but was not
dead and jumped to her feet, she at once
attacked him. He retreated to his tent,
the wounded bear following him closely.
Entering his tent, he found his axe, and
meeting the bear at the door, killed her
with two blows of the axe. The cubs he
captured alive, and has them now in
his yard. The old bear weighed 800
pounds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
A Sailor Spins a Yarn.

A man attired in the picturesque blue
uniform and jaunty cap of the sailor of
the United States Navy, was among the
passengers who strolled along the plat
form. He was to meet his mother in
Washington. Each had thought that
the other had been dead for over quart
er of century. He gave his name as
Benjamin Cooper, and said: eyes, I
was but Is years of age L was living
with mother on a little farm in Mich
igan. Father had died, and had left us
the farm. When the war fever was in
tense [ became enthusiastic, and in
1862 left home to become a sailor and
have been one ever since. [ went to sea
on the Cumberland, the vessel that was
afterward sunk by the Merrimac. was
transferred to the Mississippi River fleet
and went to Vicksburg and New Orleans.
I was on Admiral Farraguts flagship
on the memorable occasion when he was
lashed to the masthead and gave his Or
ders. I shall never forget that exciting
time, and how Farragut's bravery made
his men more enthusiastic than they
had ever been before. After the war L
started for my home In Michigan. While
in Chicago l learned that my mother
was dead, md under tuS Impulse OF Ine
moment re enlisted in the navy, where
[ have been ever since. [ have been
around the world three times. A short
time ago, when [ was in San Francisco,
my time expired. While there, unde-
cided what to do or where to go, heard
that mother was still alive and well, and
that she was living in Washington. [
learned, too, that she thought I had
been dead for years. 1 have saved a
good portion of my earnings and nearly
all of the prize money that 1 received
war, and have now a snug
little estate that will keep mother and
myself comfortable for the rest of our
lives. [ left San Francisco as soon as
heard that she was still living. Tonight
1 expect to see her for the first time
since 1862"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
A WESTERN WOMAN'S SCHEME.

Cleveland, Ohio, has always been no.
ted, if her citizens are truthful, for The
most talented and sensible women in the
State. There must be some truth in
that assertion, for here is one of them,
whose story is told in that breezy town:
An ingenious girl has hit upon an in
genious method of self-support. Some
time ago she was bitten by an amateur
Photographic mania and became an
adept at catching picturesque views.
With one of those clever little detective
cameras she amused herself whenever
her fancy led her about the city, picking
up here an old apple woman, with skirts
futtering and cape bonnet blown back
by an unkindly breeze, there q ragged
news girl, with her bundle of papers,
yOn group of babies tumbling on the
grass in the park, and somewhere else
an italian woman with huge bag of
stale crusts balanced on her head, full of
artistic possibilities. The girl had some
thing of an artists temperament, and
though she could neither paint nor draw
she had an eye for the essential features
and for what would or would not com
pose well. Many of her photographs
were really pictures, and, being caught
1nsGhnlhneOuSly, preserved all the spirit,
and action, and freshness of life. An
artist friend saw them one day, and to
her surprise offered to buy half a dozen
of the best for suggestions for studio
work. Two or three days dwelling upon
the idea thus given her bore fruit. She
was in want of money and resolved to
turn what had been play into work She
and her camera are out every sunny
morning from ten o'clock until three
nowadays, and an hour in the "darlz
room" of an evening brings out some of
the characteristic scenes of city life
transferred to her negatives and ready to
be transformed into cash.
Her work has quite a vogue among the
studios and clever suggestions are often
taken fromit. She finds her best market
for figure pieces, AN attitude, a smile, anex-
preston often serving MS q revelation of
some queer phase of humanity, and sup
plying the missing somewhat that some
body wanted to incorporate into pic
ture. Sometimes an artist gives her q
commission, naming the subject he is
at work upon and asking her to bring in
all the hints upon it that she can find.
--Ne1o York Graphic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
Now THAT DIR. De Bausset has be

Now THAT DIR. De Bausset has been
refused a patent on his proposed air
ship it will be in order for others to
take up the idea and test its value or
wortElessness, as the case may be. The
opinion of the examiners seems to be
that the gentleman proposes to take
the one step which goes beyond the
sublime, his scheme being too big to
be practical. But nothing has yet been
advanced to prove that the partial
vacuum plan does not offer great adj
rantages over the method of obtaining
The desired buoyancy by means of in
lation. Perhaps it will be found pos
ible to successfully harness the balloon
made on a smaller scale to the moving
railroad car, relieving tho latter of
portion of its weight, but permitting
sufficient hold of the track for steadi-
ness of motion, while the undiminished
weight of the locomotive furnishes all
he power required to draw much
greater quantity of freight than can ut
present be moved by the one engine.
Something like this was suggested a
few weeks ago by Edison, and there are
few who will dare to pronounce any
thing impossible or impracticable that
has received his Endorsement.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
How Miss Riyes AstOniShed Two Youths.

A couple of Washington's gilded youth
were down in Albemarle county not long
ago on q hunting expedition, and, being
properly endorsed, they concluded to
call on the Ovidian novelist. They went,
and were ushered into the parlor, where
they waited an hour, and then the young
woman entered, and the two youngsters
scarcely old enough to vote, either
of them-were almost scared out OF their
wits. She came in attired in q pure white
gown, with an immensely long train, and
with great angel sleeves reaching to
the floor, and bearing in her two hands,
like some weird priestess, huge lamp,
emitting the softest rays of shaded light
The boys at once thought of "She, and
were on the point of falling out the back
window, but they recovered rs she sat
down the lamp, and by the time she had
talked awhile and invited them to supper
they were calm enough for all practical
purposes At the supper table one sat
by Miss Rivess side and the other one
Immediately opposite, and was talking to
some one on his side of the table, while
Miss r., devoted herself to the other.
They were talking of people, psychical-
ly and otherwise, and Miss R., remarked
with nod toward her companions
friend:
"Now there's man I never could get
along with. Look at his face; there is
nothing in it; he is absolutely stupid"
The young man was embarrassed. He
felt that it was not gallant to differ with
his hostess, and he felt that it was not
kind to acknowledge that his friend was
a fool, SO he maintained a discreet sill
ence and let the eccentric being talk
on.
The boys held q conference later, and
the one across the table confessed he had
heard all that had been going on on the
other -PhiladeJphjG NetcS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
No Rear to that Army.

Reasoning dictated by fear is seldom
logical. When man becomes panic
stricken he recognizes but one principle
for his guidance, that self preservation
is the first law of nature, and is ready to
repeat the cry 81 would give all my
fame for pot of ale and safety" The
instincts of fear do not always guide him
to a safe place. In his confusion he
often rushes into more danger, and be-
comes q Iudicrous object to watch. In
one of our prominent battles, n soldier
belonging to a command which was sup
porting battery, was lying down with
the rest of his regiment to obtain some
cover afforded by bit of rolling ground.
The fire soon became 50 hot that his
nerves could no longer stand the strain
upon them, and he sprang to his feet
and started for the rear. He soon found
himself in a level field that was being
plowed by the shot and shell, which re-
crochetted over the rolling ground in
front, and saw that he had got out of the
frying pan into the fire.
"What are you doing there2" cried an
officer.
"WelI, said the man. 'I'm looking for
the rear Of this army, but it don't seem
to have any. y."-Centmy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
Advertising Rates.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
(Wethout ary Apology

(Wethout ary apology)
got to thinkin' of him-as sometimes feIe
will
OF the night he give Iectur' to the folks il
Shelbyville,
An we set up ontil daylight, as them lecterer
sometimes do
A-talkin of hundred things that mightn'
int'rest you;
mind the things he ratified off that night, il
boyish glee.
Recitations he recited to audience of me;
How laughed ontil the landlord come an as
us to be still
So I got to thinkin' of him, an that night a
Shelbyville.
Then he'd kind O. quit his nonsense an we'd
settle down spell,
Tell Jim 'ud turn upon me and begin agin-
'Dev' tell
Bout the time went to Franklin for the Bah
tist College folks?"
An I'd stretch my mouth acrost my face, all
TNady for the jokes;
49, Pc he'd branch on in a story bout the ''Mer-
ryworkers" band,
That 'nless you knowed the workers you cd
hardly understand;
I ed hear myselfa swaIlerin,' the room 'ud
seem so still
So got to thinkin of him an that night at
Shelbyville.
got to thinkin' of him-ike twas jest year
ago
Fer time, that flies so fast in dreams, in alma
nicks is slow;
He was workin' like beaver, Iecturin' here an
lecturin' there,
An writin' on the railroad cars, in ta7erns-
everywhere,
Printin' poems in the papers, speaking pieces
at the fairs,
An him an me a travelin' now an then, round
in pairs;
An he seemed to think at he was no account
at alI-but still,
got to thinkin' of him an that night at Shell
byvilIe,
got to thinkin' of him-an' the happy "Days
gone by
Tell the sweet ''Old fashioned Roses seemed
to bloom agin-and die;
An hear him talk agin about my bride that
is to be-
hutn lie u COille 10 'UElSSDy station jest TO
have night weth me;
kin see him settin' down agin, to give the
Prince a rock,
When The frost was on the pumpkin an the
corn was in the shock
An hear a laughing voice loved, with music
in its triIl-S
So I got to thinkin' of him, an that night in
Shelbyville.
So I set here an wonder eff know jest what
it means,
When see EN- print his poetry in all the mag
azines;
An see him on the platform with the James
and Howells set,
An hear the people sayin', ''He's the best one
of 'em YETI
An keep winkin back the tears that make
my fool eyes shine,
Fer couldn't feel no prouder cf he'd been a
boy of mine,
Fer he's jest the same old Riley, an he'll be the
,-=-saGss~Iim still,
At he was the night at him an me set up at
Shelbyville.
ROBERT J. BURDETTE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
His Nerve Did Not Save Him.

Early last week a young farmer,
Joseph Silva, while cutting hay in n
field near Centreville, encountered a
large rattlesnake, which he struck with
his scythe and stunned. Silva supposed
he had killed the reptile, and picked it
up by the tail to cut off the rattles.
Holding the snake almost at arms leng-
tn, he hacked Mt the cartilage connect
ing the rattle with the tail several times
without severing it. He then gripped
the snake by the body, and as the knife
penetrated it, rs last effort the ven
omous creature doubled and struck him
on the little finger. burying its fangs deep
in the flesh. The boy shook the snake
off. and without an instant's hesitation
cut the finger off Mt the middle Joint
above the place where the reptiles teeth
had entered Even then his nerve did
not desert him, and he made his way
homeward, considerable distance.
Here he drank n large quantity of whis-
key, and had his bleeding finger bandag-
ed.
He felt no i'll effects from the bite and
three days later his curiosity led him to
search for the piece of his finger which
he had left in the field. He found the
finger black with the poison it had
absorbed, and without consideration of
the consequences, handled it. The vlrul-
ent poison came in contact with his
wound, and that night he died in ter
rible agony.-PoytJaud Oyeg0njan.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
Then Outspake the Small Boy.

The trick contribution box, about
which SO much was written in the days
that are gone, has been outdone COM
pletely by the precocious small boy.
This small boy is about 4 years of age,
and was taken last Sunday evening to
church by his father. When man
puts a silver cart wheel in the cOntri-
button box he don't care who sees it.
Even when it is half, quarter, ten
cents, or even nickel, he does not ex-
ercise much care in dropping it, but
when it drops in the scale of value to n
penny the fingers and hand are apt to
hide it as much as possible from view.
On the night in question the deacons
were taking up the usual collection and
presently reached the man and his son.
AS the father deity deposited his coin
in the box with an audible jingle, the
small boy, watching everything like a
lynx, spoke up with a briskness and
rapidity impossible to check, looking
the collector straight in the eye, saying:
"That's my penny; papa took it from
my bank"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02
The Pool of Bethesda.

A letter from James Glaisher, of the
Palestine Exploration Fund, to the Lon
don Times says: | have great pleasure
made in Jerusalem by Herr Conrad
Schick. 1t appears to be nothing less
than the "PoOl called in the Hebrew
tongue Bethesda" (Bethsaida or Beth
zatha, st John v, 81. An apparently
uninterrupted chain of evidence frora
the years A. D. 333 to the year 11S0
speaks of the Pr0batjca Piscin6 as near
the Church of st. Anne. The place
spoken of is said by the earliest writer's
to have formerly had five porches, then
in ruins. Nothing was known of the
pool described by those writer's until
quite recently, when certain works car
ried on by the Algerian monks laid bare
large tank or cistern cut in the rock to
a depth of 80 feet. It lies under, but
not Immediately under, q later building,
a church with an apse at the east end.
The cistern is 55 feet long from east to
west; north and south it measures 129
feet in breadth. A flight of q steps
leads down into the pool from the east
ern scarp of rock. Now, the first re-
Quisite for the site of the pool of
Bethesda is that it should be possible to
have five porches. The only way in
which this requisite could be satisfied is
that the pool should be what is called q
twin pool, such as that discovered close
to the Convent of the Sisters of Sion
that is to say, two pools lying side by
side, having one portico on each of the
four sides thus formed, and one between
them on the wall of separation. Herr
Schick now reports that he has found
continuation of the pool, or rather
sister pool, 60 feet long, and of the same
breadth as the first. We are, therefore,
able to make out reasonably strong
case for identifying the newly-discover-
ed twin pool with the Pool of Bethesda.
The historical evidence in favor of this
site as that which connects the Holy
with the site adopted by Con-
stantine. In the minds of most, I think,
it will be acknowled ged that we have
here the ancient Pool of Bethesda.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-02

to earn my own living. After good
deal of inquiry and travelling about,
fixed upon the quiet little market town OF
Barton in which to begin operations,
and, having taken an Office and engaged
an Office boy, notified the inhabitants
that 1 was ready to render them any
legal assistance they might require, 10y
affixing brass plate on the door with
my name and description inscribed
thereon.
But the good people of Barton seemed
to be either peaceably inclined, or to be
shy of strangers, for six months elapsed,
and the business had transacted had
been practically nH. Meantime, the
balance [ had placed at the bank on
settling at Barton, was rapidly decreas-
ing.
Twas sitting in my Office one afternoon
meditating on these things. 1t was a
hot, drowsy afternoon, which seemed to
have impaired its influence to the in
habitants, for business appeared to be
almost at standstill. / had Just made
ND my mind to leave the Office for the
afternoon, and have a little fishing be-
fore tea, when the door opened and my
office boy entered again. ''Please, sir,
Mr.. Thomas Jackson wishes to see you, u
he said.
''Nlr. Thomas Jackson % exclaimed
in surprise. "DO you mean Mr.. Jack
son of Oakfelds Farm?'
"Yes, sir-Farmer Jackson, " answered
the boy.
"Oh, well, ask him in, - I said, unlock
ing my drawer and pulling out my
papers and pens. Mr.. jackson was a
we'll farmer, and was aware that
he entertained a strong prejudice against
lawyers, he having had q disagreeable
transaction with rather sharp firm of
attorneys some years ago.
Mr.. Jackson entered the room rather
hesitatingly, thought. After exchang
ing greetings / motioned him to q chair
and waited for him to inform me as to
the nature of his business. After fun
bling about in his breast coat pocket he
drew out narrow strip of paper and
handed it to me. I found it to be a writ
issued by Mr.. Sharper Flint, a money
lender at Barton, against Mr.. Jackson,
to recover the sum of 81 600 with inter
est, on a bond given by Mr.. William
Jackson Gather of Thomas Jackson) to
the said Sharper Flint for money lent
by him, and was issued against Thomas
Jackson, as executor of his father, who
had died some two years before.
''Well, Mr.. Jackson" [ said, looking
up, 'this is rather disagreeable docu-
ment. What is the meaning of it?"
''Well, that's just what I want to
know" sa;d Mr.. Jackson. 81 never
heard word of any such claim before.
1 suppose it is some dodge of that ras-
cally Flint to try and get money out of
me-"
''You never heard of any such claim
before, [ asked, ''although the writ
states that the bond was given six years
ago"
''Not word, sir" answered Mr.. Jack
son. 81 never dreamed of there being
any such claim until yesterday, when the
writ was served on me"
81 suppose you were acquainted with
your fathers affairs?" | asked.
eyes, sir; we discussed business affairs
together constantly, and it was very sci.
dom he did anything without consulting
me. Indeed, now / remember he die
speak to me some years ago about bor
rowing $4,000 which he wanted for {
temporary purpose, from Sharper Flint
but I advised him not to do so, as / hat