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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31
THE TERROR.

l had an ugly, unruly boy in my
room, and he gave more trouble than all
the rest of the class. All through the
different grades OF the large grammar
school he had been terror to his teach
ers, and he was hurried on to the next
teacher with surprising slacrity. When
inherited him / felt as if Nemesis had
overtaken me, and just how to control
him was problem I long wrestled with.
For several weeks he was the terror of
the room, and my reputation for good
order, was, felt, fast disappearing. The
boy would not obey unless he felt like il,
and punishments had no effect on him.
1t is unnecessary to relate his pranks.
Every plan l evolved for his regenera-
ton proved abortive. He wouldn't reform.
Finally by accident 1 stumbled on the
cure. 1 discovered that he was interested
in drawing, or rather was interested in
sketching odd bits of scenery, or objects
in the room, not even emitting his re-
spected teacher. who was typical school
marin and wore glasses. 1 resolved to
make the most of this one talent-if tai
emit it was-and so one day, when L was
in my best and sweetest mood, asked
the Terror if he would draw a plan for
some shelves wanted in my closet. He
assented and the sketch was neatly and
accurately made. There was new look
in his eyes and a new expression on his
face when he gave me the paper.
Then advanced slowly and cautious
ly. needed some maps made, and again
employed the Terror, and again the re-
suit was encouraging. The maps were
models of neatness and precision. ju-
diciously praised him, and exhibited the
maps to the class and called for copies.
None ever equaled his.
We were studying the continent of
Asia, and the Terror never had his geog-
raphy lesson learned; but when 1 sug-
gested that if he we're to keep up his rep
utation in drawing he must draw the
details of the country he was sketch
ing, geography became a new study to
him and he easily made excellent prog
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31
LORD TIMOTHY DEXTER.

The following is an old story, of course,
yet it will be new to many of our young
er readers, and all will appreciate the
fresh re-telling by Henry B. Stanton in
his Random Recollections."
About fifty years ago was riding with
Whittier in the westerly suburbs of New
buryport, when we came upon the old
mansion once occupied by that eccentric
shipping merchant known as Lord limo
thy Dexter. Though he had then been
dead thirty years, his celebrity, as one Of
the oldest of Yankees, still fingered in
New England. The former lordly dwell
ling had. l think, degenerated into an
inn, but it yet bore the Dexter impress.
A wide piazza ran along the front, whose
roof bore up life-size statues Of Wash
ington, Franklin, Adams, Hancock, and
other revolutionary heroes, arrsyed in
gaudy and fantastic costumes. In his
youth Dexter was very poor; in later
years he became quite rich. In my boy
hood heard many queer stories about
this strange person, whom some called
a dupe and some a devil. He was about to
send vessel to the West Indies, and was
searching for freight. A practical joker
advised him to load her with warming
pans. He did, and when the cargo
reached the tropics, it sold for an en-
ormous price. The sugar-planteTs took
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31
MISS MARIA MITCHELL.

Miss Maria Mitchell, many years pro-
lessor of astronomy at Vassar College,
New York, and the first incumbent Of
that position, has resigned the professor
ship. For twenty-five years she has
taught astronomy in that institution.
She was born in Nantucket, Mass, Aug.
], 1918, and there began her astronomical
work at the age Of eleven years, by as
sisting her father in observing lunar
eclipse. In 1847 she discovered a comet,
and this made her fame, the King of Den
mark giving her gold medal in honor
of the achievement. She has since added
seven other comets to her list, being the
first discoverer of all of them. She visited
Europe shortly after 1847, and was there
the guest of Sir John Herschel and Sir
George Airy, then Astronomer Royal at
Greenwich. She holds the degree of
LII. ID. from three institutions, the last
being granted by Columbia College. She
is one of the glories of Nantucket, the
natives Of that island being very proud
of its distinguished daughter. Her reslg-
nation was prompted solely by a desire
for rest, which was needed on account of
her advanced age. - Scientific Ameri
can.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31
The Hone Paoe.
THE TABLES TURNED.

Up, upl my friend, and quit your books,
Or surely you'll grow double;
Up, url my friend, anc clear your looks
Why all this toll and trouble?
The sun above the mountains hid.
A freshening luster mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first, sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'Tis dull and endless strife;
Come hear the woodland linnet;
How sweet his musicl on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it,
And bark how blithe the throstle sings?
He, too, is no mean preacher;
Come forth into the light of things,
Let nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless.
Spontaneous wisdom, breathed by health.
Truth breathed BY cheerfulness.
One impulse from vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
OF moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which nature brings;
Our NEEDING intellect
NIisshapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.
Enough of science and of art;
Close up these barren leaves.
Come forth, and bring with you heart
That watches and It ceives.
-Vilidm Wordsworth.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31
ALASKA AND ITS TUNDRA.

IL we look at map of Alaska, we will
see that fully third OF it is above the
Arctic circle, and the climate and other
characteristics of this part are truly Arc
tic. The thermometer falls so low in
winter-time that even the short, squatty
Eskimo does not have to crane his neck
to read the scale; the ground is frozen for
numberless feet below the surface, while
nothing grows on that surface except the
hardy polar MOSES that form the marshy
covering for the vast tundra for which
the Arctic fatlands are SO well known.
This marshy condition is produced every
summer by the deeply-frozen ground
thawing but a foot or two under the
never-setting sun of that season, the
deeper strata of ice remaining to act as
an impervious shield to prevent the water
from draining through, and on the prair-
les it remains as ice water, surrounding
the hardy moses that thrive in it, and
into which traveller will sink up to his
knees in the worst parts A few stunted
willows grow along the sluggish streams,
but otherwise everything is bare of all
except the moss. On this moss Craze
many herds of reindeer, that roam with
the wind and migrate backward and
forward with the seasons. These rein
deer furnish the Eskimos of the North
and the Indians OF the Yukon River with
their meat and warm clothing.-Popular
Science.
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ress In this branch. To do this he had to
forego some of his "fooling business"
and it was given up simply because he
had something more to his liking to
do.
In fine, and to the point, the Terror
came out of his chrysalis state new
creature. His old ways were left, and
readily adopted the better method of
doing and living. From a slouching
unkempt, uncoutb, shambling, horr d
boy, he emerged into being respectable
neat, tidy, order-loving, painstaking
and industrious young man. I found
that there was something he could do
and something he liked to do, and that
was all there was to it. Winthrop Amer
lean Teacher.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31

SAYS Rev. DIR. Theodore l.. Cuyler
"One great secret of the rapid growth of
Wesleyan Methodism was its methodical
system of money raising. Romanism IN
derstands systematic giving. We Pres
bYterians are beginning to find it out. If
we were as systematic in our money con-
tributions as we are in our theology, we
would not be haunted with the specters
of boards cursed with debt and churches
crushed with mortgages and missionaries
living from hand to mouth"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-03-31

-Forbearance and self-oontroI smooth the
road of life and open many ways which
would otherwise remain closed.
The Washington critic., 1888-04-17
Alexandria News.

ALEXANDRIA, VA, April 1.-THE City
Council held a special meeting last night
to consider the proposition Of Mr.. Moody
of the Iron shipbuilding Company in re-
gard to settling up the taxes on the COM
pany's property.
Charles II. Stuart, Louis Brill, Leonard
Marbury, J, g. DE Putron, J. s. Beach, S.
i. Monroe and ]. T. Harrison, the retep-
ton committee Of the knights of Pythias
Fair, met the board of managers last
night at the armory of the Light Infantry
and completed arrangements for opening
the fair Tomorrow night.
Major Henry Newly, City Surveyor, has
been rendered the position of city en-
glneer of Roanoke, Va.
Judge l.. w. Clarke is confined to his
house by Illness.
Governor Fitzhugh Lee attended the
funeral of his brother, Captain s. s. Lee
in this city to-day.
During the recent term of the Corpora
tion Court forty-eght licenses were
granted to liquor dealers.
The arrivals of fish at Fishtown yester-
day were as follows 125,000 herring
which sold at from $3.50 to 1915 per
thousand, and 800 shad, which sold at
from 80 to $l5 per hundred.
The vestry of Christ Church have elect
ed Mr.. l.. NJ. Blaokford, principal of the
Episcopal High School, delegate to the
Episcopal Convention, which meets in
Staunton in May.
Mr.. Van Davis, well-known farmer of
Fairfax County committed suicide on
Saturday last by hanging himself to q
tree with plow line
The Washington critic., 1888-04-17
TURF NOTES.

There was quite lot of good strong
work done at the track this morning and
some few owners sent their charges
along right fast. The best mile worked
was about 1:49, three-quartcrs in 1:202 and
half, by 2-year-old in 522.
Two stables leave New York for Wash
ington tomorrow morning and several
others, including Roth & Co., with Rich
mond will start ON the 10th.
For the first time In n long while the
holes IN the steeplechase course have
been filled and hardened and now the
course is'one of the safest and certainly
the best in the country.
Messers. Jennings and Burch say they
don't expect to win much at our meeting,
but will wait and try to get in their fine
work later in the season.
After the Memphis meeting NJ. T.
Danaher will bring eight horses to Ivy
City; Eugene Leigh, four, and John Nor
ris, fifteen,
I. #. Crowley, n. ]. Douglas, and the
Chickasaw stables have not yet decided
positively where they will CO.
The New York Star insists that Han
over has gone up, or at least is very lame
Just now, while the other New York
son of Hindoo is all right. One thing Is
certain, if he is lame, 1t is not the result
of the race here last fall, when he went to
the stable with slight sprain, and all the
turf writers howled Broken down; too
much work. A well known race-horse
owner who saw the colt yesterday assures
me he is as good as he ever was about his
legs,
Captain Samuel Brown, in an inter
view in Pittsburg, says Of his horses,
which are expected here this afternoon:
"Blue Wing, who showed up well Just
before leaving Mobile and made good
trial for me, has developed two splints on
the left foreleg Stuyvesant is in bad
condition. A tendon in the left foreeg,
where he struck himself some weeks ago
has given way, and he may never start
again. Bob Fisher and Rightaway are of
no consequence for racing, and intend
TO dispose of them for stud purposes
Rightaway is the only horse of my string
at Mobile. Nearly all of the horses at La
tonia are coughing. Torchlight has the
worst cold of the inyallds, and has not
gallopcd better than three minutes.
don't think have a good 3year-old in
the stable Blue Garter, i, Is true, is fast,
but very delicate"
Harry Dlaylock Green Morriss first
jockey, said, Sunday, that since the trouble
had overtallen the Brown stable there
was not good one in it, unless among
the youngsters.
There will be a meeting of the Execu.
tive Committee of the National Jockey
Club tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
Secretary Mcintyre IS expected from
New York tomorrow morning.
Kcokul has been declared out of the
Army and Navy Stakes.
The Washington critic., 1888-04-17
THOMAS REIDY's DEATH.
Fitzgerald, His Assailant, Held for the
Grand Jury's Action.

Fitzgerald, His Assaiiant, Held for the
Grand Jury's Action.
An inquest was held at the Sixth Pre-
cinct Station-House yesterday afternoon
in the case of Thomas Reidy of 100 Third
street, who was killed by being struck on
the head by a brick thrown by Thomas
Fitzgerald on Sunday morning. Coroner
Patterson swore in as Jurors, Charles
Houck, James H.. Anderson [colored,)
Charles III. Garfield, Noah A.. Spalding,
William #. Reid and William Holmes.
Mr.. Campbell Darlington was present
in the interest of the defendant
William j. Armstrong of Third and III
streets saw the prisoner lying on the side
walk and the deceased lying IN the street
with two knives by his sides. He did
not see the blows. Fitzgerald's face was
covered with blood.
W. A. Ferguson of 2ls Massachusetts,
avenue heard Reidy cursing Fitzgerald
and another man. lie did not see the
cutting or the brick thrown, but he saw
the deceased following Fitzgerald in q
threatening manner.
Miss Kate Powell of 230 Massachusetts
avenue witnessed the tragedy from a
third.story window. She stated that she
saw Reidy run across the street with the
accused following, and Just before Reidy
reached the sidewalk Fitzgerald threw
the brick.
James O'Neill of 73l Third street said
the deceased started for his house, saying,
81 am going to load my rifle and shoot
the - ~
Thomas Curry of 206 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. witnessed the quarreling and cursing,
but did not see the blows.
George Taylor, an 11-year. old boy, gave
the clearest statement of the case of any
of the witnesses. He said he saw the old
man running after the young man. The
old man had something in his hands that
glittered. The young man picked up q
brick and threw it. When the old man
fell two,kniyes were found by his side
Thomas Fitzgerald, the prisoner, stated
that he was talking about baseball when
he was told that Reidy was about to shoot
him. He looked behind him and was
stabbed in the face by the deceased He
ran and was spurs ued, and when he could
do nothing else to save himself from
further violence he threw the brick
His brother, John Fitzgerald, corrobo-
rated him.
A verdict was rendered to the effect
that the death of Reidy was due to blow
received from brick thrown by Fitz-
gerald.
The prisoner was held.
The Washington critic., 1888-04-17
THE LAFAYETTE STATUE.
A Suggestion That It be Placed In
Judiciary square.

Judiciary Square.
EDITOR Critic: The proposition TO re-
move the bronze equestrian statue of An
drew Jackson from Lafayette Square and
set it up in an out-ofthe-way place, back
ofthe White House, for the purpose of
replacing 1t with the proposed statue of
Lafayette, must meet with indignant re-
monstrance from the breasts of all true
Americans. And it is no disparagement
to the fame of the illustrious Frenchman
that this is the case. Jackson stands next
to Washington in the list of great Presi-
dents-the one whipped the British in the
first, the other in the second, OF our wars
with the foreign foe, and each was called
twice to the Presidential chair. The one
occupies as large n page as the other in
American history and each was foremost
in his day and generation. To place
Jackson in back lot and place any for
eigner, no matter how great his services
and claims, in the front lot is PROPOSE
ton that, II is surmised, will not pass an
American, House of Representatives, lift
should the Senate, for, of course, the per-
mission of these bodies will have to be
obtained.
Let the statue of Lafayette be set up in
the centre of the large park called
Judiciary Square, in the place occupied
by small frame office, and change the
name to Lafayette Square. This is a fine
statues, and the change of name would be
great improvement. If this location is
not approved the city abounds in suit
able places for monument to the dis
tipguished foreigner. j. d. p.
Washington, April IL
The Washington critic., 1888-04-17
A LAWYERS ACTIONS.
A Motion Made TO Punish Ross Perry
for Contempt.

n MOtiOn mNuo 10 IuntSn ltONA IeFFy
for Contempt.
A very remarkable motion was offered
yesterday in Justice Hagners court, its
object being nothing less than to have
the prominent lawyer, II. Ross Perry
fined for contempt of court Judge Hag-
ner postponed the hearing of the motion
until next Saturday
The trouble grew out of q suit for $780,
GOO brought by Anastasla Patten, with
Congressman ]. NJ. Glover and ]. II. Ora.
ham MS counsel, against Robert /. Flem-
lng,- who is represented by @. Carlisle and
X. Ross Perry. Testimony in the case
was ordered to be taken before Examiner
Albert A. Harper and while the parties
were in his Office on last Thursday, IL is
stated on the part of the defense,
Mr.. Glover conducted his examination
of Mr.. Fleming in manner that proved
extremely disagreeable to him. Atlength
Mr.. Glover made use of some especially
offensive language and Mr.. Perry inter
fered in behalf Of his client, saying that
the examination had gone far enough.
He told Mr.. Fleming to take his books
and papers and come away. 1t was found
that they had left some papers behind in
Mr.. Harper's room, and on returning they
found the gentlemen on the other side
putting them into valise. They inter
fered, and scufle ensued. The valise
was finally taken in custody by Mr.. Har-
per and locked up in his safe. The
motion to punish Mr.. Perry for contempt
is based ON the charge that he broke UP
the proceedings before Mr.. Harper.
Mr. Glover states that on making COM
parsons he discovered some gross dis
crepancies, and that when he began to
question Mr.. Fleming about them Mr..
Perry advised him to withdraw. He
claims that they were impeled to take
the documents by force because they
were afraid to leave such damaging testi-
mony in the hands Of the examiner.
His suit, brought for Mrs. Patten
against Mr.. Fleming, is based on the allie
CATION that the latter defrauded Mrs Pat
ten out of $4,000 on house which he
contracted to build for her by making ex-
orbitant charges for labor, ETC., which he
secured at nominal rates.
The Washington critic., 1888-04-17
SLAVERY STILL EXISTS.
Hon. Frederick Douglass Arraigns the
Southern White Mon.


The Emancipation anniversary cele-
bration was concluded last night by exer-
cises at the Fourth Baptist and the AS
bury churches. At the former place
Hon. Frederick Douglass the most famous
colored man of the age, delivered the ora
ton. He began by remarking that on no
occasion of the kind had he felt deeper
solicitude for the future welfare of the
emancipated people than now. lie con-
tinued: "The chief cause ofanxiety is not
in the condition of the colored people of
the District Of Columbia, though there is
much that is wrong and unsatisfactory
here, but the deplorable condition of the
negro in the Southern States AT no time
since the abolition of slavery has there
been more cause for alarm on this account
than at tins .juncture in our history"
He spoke of his experience in recent
trip through the South where he had OBJ
tanned this unfavorable impression. IL
was sad message to bring them, but he
believed it to be his duty.
'Do you ask me why the negro of the
plantation has made so little progress,
why. his cupboard IS empty, why he tlut.
ters in rugs, why his children run naked,
and why his wife hides herself behind the
hut when q stranger is passing2 | will
tell you. II is because he is systemati-
cally and universally cheated out of his
hard earnings"
In speaking of the exclusion of the
negro from the free use of his franchise
in the South, he said "Tell me not
that people who have lived by the
sweat Of other mems faces, and thought
themselves Christian gentlemen while
doing it, will feel themselves bound by
principles of justice to their former vic
tins in their weakness. Such pretonse
in face of the facts Is shameful, shocking
and sickeniDg."
Mr. Douglass went on TO discuss the law
of landlord and tenant III the South,
which particularly oppressed the colored
man, and continued: ITO my mind these
landlord and tenant laws are q disgrace
and scandal TO American civilization.
a more skillfully contrived device than
these laws to crush out all aspiration, all
hope ofprogress in the landless negro
could not well be devised"
Mr. Douglass then spoke at length on
the great opportunity that lay before the
Republican party. The supreme moment
in the life of the party is at hand.
Atthe Asbury Church, District Suffrage
and the Blair bill were favored, Senator
Sherman for President and Hon. John NJ.
Langston for Congressman from the
Fourth Virginia district were Endorsed
and street parades on Emancipation Day
were condemned. Professor Langston
was the orator of the evening. He made
a stirring appeal to the colored people to
be true to themselves, to do their duty
and 10 fit themselves for the duties of the
positions to which they may aspire,
The Washington critic., 1888-04-17
WASHINGTON CRITIC
THEY WILL STICK.
rhe East Washington People Refuse TO
Leave the Citizens Committee.

The East Washington People Refuse to
Leave the Citizens Committee.
Citizens Association, No. 2, met at 1898
Pennsylvania avenue southeast last
night. The designations of George Fran
els Dawson and Richard W. Tyler, dele
gates to the Central Committee, and
Adam Gaddis, an alternate, were re-
ceived and accepted Mr.. Benjamin was
present and rendered his resignation as
an alternate. Mr.. Dawson, in his letter
of resignation stated that he resigned be-
cause he considered that the committee
had outlived its usefulness.
A member stated that, judging from
newspaper accounts, there must have
been other designations. Chairman s. A.
IL. McKim said that the gentlemen who
sent their designations to the Central
Committee were still members of the as
sociation until the designations were sent
to him.
Mr. Wm. McGinnis moved that as
Colonel $. Taylor Suits name was
printed among the Withdrawals, that his
place be declared vacant. The motion
was carried, and the following were APP
pointed to fill the vacancies on the com
mittee Il. A. Lehman, Thomas B.
Marche and u. b. Stocking, delegates,
and DIR. HaZen, q. A. Shields and VIM.
McGinnis, alternates.
Mr.. M. ]. Weller made speech in rela-
ton to the railroad bill reported by Mr..
Church at the last meeting of the Central
Committee claiming that the bill was
against all instructions to the committee.
He criticised the action of Colonel S. 4.
Suit for allowing the bill TO be framed in
its present form.
He said he would show at the next
meeting of the Central Committee, with
the aid of the tax Office records that GER
tain parties were acting under personal
motives in preparing this bill. He
claimed that IL would be an outrage to
tunnel Capitol Hill at Third street. and
was confident that IL will never be done.
He said he would make charges against
the Railroad Committee, and especially
its chairman, Mr. G., b. Church.
1t was decided to ask the Commission.
ers to have the chain gang improve Ken
tucky avenue, from the new bridge
across the Eastern Branch as far north as
possihln