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Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

On the 18th Hon. Richard Vaux was
nominated for Congress by the Third
pa district Democratic convention to
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
Hon. Samuel J. Randall.
A BODY found at Willsborough Bay,
n. Y, on the night of the 9th, has been
identified as that of Miss Catherine
Moffitt, sister of Congressman John ii.
Moffitt, of New York, who disappeared
from home December % last
A DENIAL is made by Senator ingalls,
that he knowingly plagiarized Mas
sillon's Sermons, copy OF which he
never possessed, in his eulogy of the
late Representative Burns, of Missouri.
PHILIP BRIGHT, the youngest son OF
the late John Bright, has been elected
member of the London Eighty Club.
Hitherto Mr.. Bright has been reckoned
as a Liberal Unionist, but he will
henceforth take rank amongst the ad-
vocates of the policy of Home Rule.
Mrs. COOPER, wife of j. III. Cooper,
the cashier of the Old Dominion Steam
ship Company of New York, who ar
rived at Richmond, Va, on the 18th
with party of friends, fell dead while
sitting in the Capitol grounds. Apo
plexy is supposed to have been the
cause.
SENATOR EDMUNDs had sufficiently
recovered from his late illness so as to
be able to attend meeting of the judi
ciary committee on the 18th.
On the 18th Messrs. Lacey, Bergen
and Maish, of the Congressional COM
mittee to investigate the Clayton
Breckinridge contested-election case,
returned to Washington from Arkansas.
While in Arkansas the committee ex-
amined about l, 100 witnesses.
THE Vermont Republican State con-
yention will be held at Montpelier,
Thursday, June 10. A spirited canvass
for the goyernorship nomination is be-
ing made between Governor U. A.
Woodbury., of Burlington, and Carroll S.
Page, of Hyde Park.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
AN AWFUL SMASH.
Fatal Accident on the st. Louis, Kansas
City g. Colorado Road-The Engineer
and Conductor Killed and the Fireman
Crushed Under the Locomotive.


City & Colorado Road-The Engineer
and Conductor Killed and the Fireman
Crushed Under the Locomotive.
CLAYTON, Mo-. May 13.-An awful ac-
cident which resulted in the loss of tW 0
lives and one of the most graphic pict-
nres of destruction ever witnessed in
this vicinity occurred on the east-bound
freight on the ST. Louis, Kansas City Sc
Colorado railroad at treStle a milo
east of this place yesterday morning
Just before reaching a high trestle
the track, and after humping over
the ties for some distance, plunged
over the side of the trestle just in time
to strike upon the eastern abutment of
solid masonary which was demolished
as if it had been the object of a con-
tinuous bonn bardment from heavy artil
lery.
The engine in making the descent
turned completely over, finally resting
upon its wheels but completely dis
mantled, and at considerable distance
from the tender, which went crashing
to the center of the creek at the high
est part of the trestle.
Engineer R. 1. Jones, Of st. Louis
was instantly killed. He leaves a life
in delicate health and one child.
Conductor R. W. Shellcross, of Union,
was fatally injured internally, and died
four hours after the accident He
leaves a wife and several children.
Fireman A. Greifeld, of Union, was
seriously injured internally, but it is
thought he may recover. He is mar
-ied. hs
Several cars were wrecked and the
track for some distance was torn up.
East and west-bound trains were com
peeled to transfer passengers at the
wreck all day yesterday, but the wreck
ers are at work and the track will sooT
be cleared and repaired, and regular
traffic resumed.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the London News says that the Rus
nan Government has resolved that the
lelegates to the Prison Congress shall
pledge themselves not to raise ques-
non regarding political prisons and
prisoners in Siberia, all of which goes
10 show that Russia is willing to have
every othor country's prison system
ventilated, while its own must remain
o sealed book to the outside world.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

A YEAR and quarter ago General
Boulanger swept Paris by a large ma
ority in his canvass tor member of the
Chamber of Deputies. In the elections
Just held for municipal officers in the
same city his supporters elected only
one out Of about eighty who were
chosen. 50 far as regards his chances
for again becoming power in France
the Jersey exile is apparently as dead
as Louis NVIII.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

rvlovFRyoE ROBERT LOWRY and
,olorel Wm. II. Cardle are engaged IN
.ta r-onaration of "a History of Mis-
'I.,;ani ". from the Earliest Period of Its
settlement by the French to the Death
= 1oaerson Davis" The volume will
,.,,,;n from five hundred to six hun
J,oJ races, and will be ready for the
nress about October |.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

In fightin La Crosse (Wis.) saloon,
on the 18th, between William Rewey.
an engineer. and Oliver Olson, the lat
ter was instantly killed by blow from
the fist of the former.
A QUARTER of the business portion OF
Ellicottville, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire on the 11th. Loss. about $50, 900;
insurance not stated.
On the 10th John Mccall, a miner,
who was stealing ride, was killed;
Harry Turner, civil engineer of the
road, was fatally hurt, and three train
men were slightly injured by collision
on the Louisville & Nashville railroad,
twenty-eight miles south of Birming-
ham, Ala, caused by disregard of sig
nails.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

HORRORS usually come in groups. The
'moerS OF the Tongue Pointe Lunatic
asylum IN the Province of Quebec were
AO' yet cold when the country was
I 'saln shocked by the intelligence of
UT ,rt burning Of the Chenango County On.
/ poor-house and the incineration of
uozen inmates of the idiotic ward.
sucn casualties are of altogether too
age.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

ACCORDING to French experts sent
out to look over the ground. it would
cost 900, OOO 600 francs, or $50, 600, 900, to
finish the Panama canal This means
that it never will be finished, as the
Nicaragua canal, which is now under
way, can be built for less than half of
this sum, and will serve the purpose Of
waterway between the two oceans at
least as we'll as the other could.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

,,ruorGu the days are over in Eu-
Al-, .,ben a monarch could command,
'JPo ~ be suspected a minister's loyalty,
VIII VIZ LIN his head," it is never theless
w .,, that a number of the leading
..,osmen -+o Of Europe, of the present
s'a'' s and of recent times, have been
3o, u.i sentence Of death for political
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

TuryD STATES COMMISSIONER FITZ-
zrp,Lp at Buffalo, n. Y, has given his
adrment in the case of the three China
Men recently arrested for smuggling,
and held for coming into the country in
relation of the Exclusion act. He de-
,des that they must be sent back to
.snada, whence they came, and they
viii be conveyed across the river by a
anntv United States marshal.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
VOLUME XI.

.,dicjarv committee of the New
TIE :o"ate has postponed indefinitely
YORK s corsideration of the bill to
flf,ly. ~ canital punishment, thus prac-
ll,,lJr 'ooiI'- killing the measure. While the ne
iieally nanv advocates, the weight OF
OIL laI .1 nninion is opposed to its enact
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

nostion OF British participation
lhh worlds Fair at Chicago was
ID a. IN the House of Commons recent
r'l's- "a tbe Secretary of the Foreign
y 1D animated that the sending OF
Ol% avbibits to the fair would de-
Hl.3I considerably upon the kind OF
Fls sbin Congress shall pass.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

sr .af Uhlahoma agony has ended for a
ssai., g' Ihe President has appointed the
win 'a-S ~ lor the new Territory, and they
s,,a p'Voaoly De confirmed and ready to
MI upon their duties in few days.
NJ ia !. are Governor, George w. Steele,
d niIi, lana' Secretary, Robert Martin,
W.. ~'auoma; United States Marshal,
s..ao oI D Lurty, Of Virginia; United
som.. mi =, cn,'Vorney, Horace Speed, of Okla
Of nI1 Vnlei-Justices, Edward B. Greene,
4 S. MUS, AsSociate-Justice, Abraham
d w oi Missouri, and John J. Clark.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

sa1i continues throughout the
have VI VI Oaoa. Lately strong wind S
aaps aeen =. blowing. Many fires con-
ssds ~ ! oe reported, not only on cane
p,ss And ~. ~ also on cattle-breeding past
q1s NJ. -u larms, and even in the woods.
eest II,al'ty among the cattle is very
an,,i y may be said that there is not
aas M, =. Plantation OF the island that
h naru sqHered more or less from fire.
ha7e ~. iocaIlties the ponds and brooks
i he .; .;pie'ely dried up and the water
The sug.r etS mas fallen considerably.
'setsd. SAT crop will be materially al.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
OfFour Years Standing.

Colonel William Fl. Ross, of Macon,
Ga, received the following letter from
Mrs. Jefferson Davis announcing the
engagement of her daughter, Winnie, to
Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson, of Syracuse,
n. ":
DEAR COLONEL RosS-Not that you have
not probably heard it, but my kind regard
for you causes me to announce my daugh-
ter's engagement to Mr.. Alfred Wilkinson,
of Syracuse, n. Y. think the young couple
have every chance of happiness together.
My husband knew and liked him, and APP
preciated that a regard which had existed
nearly four years could not be uprooted.
Send your good wishes for her here, as she
sails on her return home on the 10th of May.
/ hoped to join her there, but find can not
do so. With kind regards to Mrs. Ross and
a large portion for yourself, am, faithfully
yours, V. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Beauvoir House, May, /, $780,
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

AL thls moment William II. is de-
,lue'Iy the most interesting figure on
@ 'ne political stage of Europe. The next
!ear or two will show whether he is
Sfong' clear-headed statesman who
aas .%S studied out the possible and prob
a. aVig effects Of the policy of social i'm
t'u'elnent OF the condition of his sub
4 sSS winch he had entered upon, and
'nO Is willing to follow it to its logical
r... sa1lasIon, Or weak and visionary man,
,-'OA'ated with his newly-obtained
.''e' ana ignorant or unmindful of the
''s0''S which may flow from his crusade.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
An Ancient Wedding.

A remarkable wedding took place re-
Gently near Laurel Fork, Boone County,
w. Va. The contracting parties were
James Sevall and Mrs. Amy Torrance.
The groom, who was widower, but who
had outlived his children, was one hun
dred and one years old, and the bride, a
widow, also without incumbrance, was
eighty-three. The best man was eighty
one, and the bridesmaid seventy-eight
The bride and groom are still quite
sprightly. The affair was largely at.
tended and is;the talk of the entire
State. The bride was dressed in a
handsome silk gown made sixty-four
years ago on the occasion of her former
marriage
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17

al ana M, ~ oe no war between Portu-
Son, desnitssi siand Al on the African ques.
leads IN tl,e tbe = .he attempts of the hot
se hostiTippdlo former country to precipi-
%tled, IN ,'leS' sa The dispute will be
Y arbitratina-i q Its features at least,
"a, sspecia1- .'Un- This is better than
'4'ly for the weaker nation.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.
Colonel SlOss Dead.

Colonel j. w. Sloss, the pioneer iron
developer, died at Birmingham, Ala, OF
heart failure, aged seventy years. He
had been for years at the head of
ndmbe of the largest furnaces and roll
ing mills in the Alabama mineral re-
piOn.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
A Deputy Found Guilty.

William w. Workman, a deputy re-
Gently appointed from Wyoming Coun-
ty, w. ", by United States Marshal
White, was tried in the Federal Court
at Charleston and found guilty of sell
ing liquor illicitly. He was prominent
in prosecuting moonshiners.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
A Professor Given a Chair.

Prof. A. P. Bowlapd, of the South
western Presbyterian University al
j ackson, Tenn, has been elected to the
chair of the department of English lit
erature in the Peabody Normal College
at Nashville. Miss E. Il, Clark, late Of
the Genesee On. W Normal School, has
been elected librarian.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
A Big Milling Company.

The Union Mill Company, with cap.
ital stock of 81, 900, 900, has been formed
at Nashville, Tenn. This company
will control all the flour mills in the
city, and manufacture 5000 barrels per
day This makes Nashville one of the
foremost cities in the United States as
a milling point. 1t is reported that
John Ii. Inman, of New York, is large
ly infareSted in the cOmnanY.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
A Doctor Dies,

DIR. J. c. MCGEE, of Texarkana, Ark,
formerly Of Mississippi and New Or.
leans, died few days ago.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
Paid the Death Penalty.

William Davis was hanged in Union, $.
c., the other day for the murder, last
December, Of Susan Fernandez. The
murder was one of the most atroeious
In the criminal records of the State.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
She will Garry the Mail

Miss Sadie Belle Holmes, handsome
and attractive young lady Of Kyle, Hays
County, Tex, has been awarded the
contract by the Government to carry the
mail from Kyle to Science Hall, that
State 1t is believed that she is the only
female mail contractor in the United
States
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
The Line Located.

The line of the proposed extension Of
the Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis
railway in the Sequatehie Valley, from
Dunlap to Pikeville, Tenn, has been
located, and the work of building will
be commenced June l.. 1t is proposed
to complete the road by January 1, 1891.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
Tennessee Republicans.

y Captain H. S. Cham berlain, chairman
Of the Tennessee Republican State ex-
ecutive committee, has written a call for
State convention and sent it to the
secretary, ii. c. Napier, at Nashville,
for official promulgation. The conven-
tion is called to meet at Nashville,
June IS, and the basis of representa-
ton is fixed at one for every 200 votes
cast for Harrison. This will give the
convention 695 members, of which East
Tennessee will have 300, Middle Ten
nessee 225 and West Tennessee no.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
Bonds Sold.

jackson, Tenn, recently sold S75, 900
in improvement bonds to G. M. Huston
& Co., of St. Louis. The bonds bear 5
per cent, and were sold at slight
premium, allowing 2 IL per cent COM
mission for placing the same. The net
amount received by the city was $73,701
Natchez (Miss.) Masonic Temple.
The ceremonies of laying the corner.
stone of the new Masonic temple and
opera-house at Natchez, Miss, were
held few days ago. The building will
cost $4,000, and will replace the oldest
Masonic building in the State, which
was erected in 1897 by the Grand Lodge
of Mississippi. Many prominent Ma
sons were present.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-05-17
Fast SculIiDg.

Fred Plaisted won the second Of tho
series of one-mile sculling races for the
worlds championship and 81, 600, at
Bridgeport, Tenn, in the remarkable
time of 4:45M. The race was very ex
citing.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
The Smokers Revenge.
Illustrated .imericdn.

A Partisan recently chronicled thi'
true tale of THE Smokers Revenge "
Scene: A railway compartment.
"Madame, do you object to smoking:
No reply. The question is repeated
with similar result Thinking the
lady deaf, the male passenger made
pretence of lighting his cigar.
500 it if you dare.'' exclaimed
Madame Pottin, with an unearthly
CLEAN in her eye.
"Just to see what II happen, here
goes. he said, stung by the lady's tone
And he applied the match.
The lady bounced from the seat, and
snatching the cigar from his lips, threw
il out of the window.
"There is compartment for smok'
ers.r she Kissed.
The gentleman, quite taken back,
thought it best to be quiet, while Sc
cretly bemoaning his lost Havana.
Five minutes silence. Madame Petln
flushed with her triumph. Suddenly
the lady's muff appeared to become In
stinct with life, and presently little
poodle put out its head to take breath
of air. The gentleman rose, smiling
affably, seized the little dog by the tail,
and tenderly dropped it out OF the car
riagewindow, saying, in dulcet tones
madame, there is compartment FOL
dogsr
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

Everybody Likes Her.

There is type of girl that everybody
likes. Nobody can tell exactly why,
but after you have met her you turn
away TO some other woman and you
say: Don't you like Miss GroSvenor?'
Now. the reason you like her is a sub.
tie one: without knowing all about her
you feel just the sort of girl she is.
She is the girl who is not "too bright
and good" to be able to find JOY and
pleasure all over the world.
She is the girl who appreciates the
fact that she cannot always have the
first choice of everything in the world.
She is the girl who is not aggressive
and does not find JOY in melting aggres-
Sive people.
She is the girl who has tact enough
not to say the very thing that will
cause the skeleton in her friends closet
to rattle his bones.
She is the girl who. whether it is
warm or cold, clear or stormy, finds no
fault with the weather
She is the girl who, when you invite
her to any place. compliments you by
looking her best.
She is the girl who is sweet and
wonanlv to look at and listen to, and who
doesn't strike you as poor imitation OF
a demimondaine.
She is the girl who makes this world
a pleasant place because she is so pleas
ant herself.
And. by the by, when you come TO
think of it, isn't she the girl who makes
YOU feel she likes you. and, therefore,
Won like herr
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

balls, no matter how light, were con-
slant and serious menace to her
choicest bits of bric-a-brac.
This season the difficulty was finally
overcome by the invention of a game of
table tennis.
The inspiration for this game came
through the revival a few months ago
of an ancient English game known as
''tiddedy winks" which has created al
most as great a Juror as the pigs-in-
clover, or 13-14-15 puzzles did in their
day. "Tiddledy wnks" is simplicity
itself. In fact it is so very easy that
one Of the greatest houses in the trade,
to whom the idea was first submitted Il
year ago by a clever employe, declined
to handle it because they did not be-
lieve the public would take to such an
absurdly simple thing. The parapher-
MALTA consists of two dozen or more diff
ferent colored bone chips of the size and
shape of an ordinary copper cent: half
dozen larger chips like those used in
poker: a cup of bone, wood or glass, as
large as medium-Sized whisky tum-
bier and a heavy WOODEN mat or, better
still, n heavy table cover. The little
chips are divided among any number OF
players up TO six, and the scheme Is to
Jump them into the cup "wink pot,
as it is known, by laying them flat on
the mat or table cover and then press
their edges with the larger disk.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

In the tennis game that has grown
out of 'tiddledy uwinks," and which
is known by the rather trying name OF
"tiddledy winks tennis" a green felt
mat about eighteen inches long and
nine inches wide is ruled off exactly like
a lawn tennis court. In the center Is
stretched the ''net" made Of pasteboard,
and about two inches high, and the lit
tie ''tddledy wink" counters are
..served" over this net. the poker chips
doing duty as racquets. The game is
scored as in ordinary tennis, and can be
played in '.singles" or ''doubles."
Another summer pastime that has
been arranged to do winter service In
the parlor is angling. A false bottom
painted to initiate fish pond is arranged
in the box in which the game comes,
and through holes in this false bottom
Ash are sunk into the pond until nothing
but their heads stick up above the
..water.- These fish are substantially
made of pasteboard, and are colored IN
the most artistic manner to represent
about every species generally known 10
the ordinary fisherman. Through their
noses they have metal eyelets, and on
their submerged tails are printed num-
bers- supposed to represent their
weight. After the fish have all been
nroperly arranged so that nc
one knows where the 'big fellows are
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21
He hid Not Blow Out the Gas.


A recently-elected farmers candidate
for Congress has been in town Tor two
or three days past looking over his field
of future greatness. He is stopping at
an uptown hotel, where style is not
neglected, and where gas is used Tor
Illuminating purposes. The first night
Mfr. spent at the hotel the watch
man noticed the gas burning long past
midnight, and so long past that ne rat
tied at the door.
"Hello, there" he yelled two or three
times. and then turned the knob and the
door came open.
"Here, you," he said, shaking the
sleeper until he awoke.
"What's the natter" he inquired,
rubbing his eyes. 90,
what you got this gas burning for?'
asked the Waterman, in no very pleas
ant voice.
"Danged if l know why" was the
puileless answer; "but the sign there
said Don't blow out the gas, and
didn't low to do anything agin the rules
if it never got put out, That's what
left the door open for, SOS you could
come in and do yourself whenever you
was ready"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-12-21

a party is formed and the fishing begins,
the perch, haddock, etc, being hauled
out of their native element by means of
a short pole and line on the end of
which is a hook that, after you become
an expert in angling" you can hook
through the eyelets in the protruding
nose. After all the fish have been land
ed except one for each member of the
party. the anglers count up their catch
and the one who has made the largest
haul in point of weight, wins the pot.
The seductiveness of this sport which
can be made to combine the joys of an
Cling with the fascination of jack
pot for fisherman can be better i'm
agined than described.
A variation OF the game known as
progressive angling" has become quite
society fad. These progressive sets
have metal instead of pasteboard fish
and the ponds" are constructed by
means of ,contractable hoops of brass,
sufficiently large TO go entirely around
an ordinary card or parlor table. With
in this pond" the fish, after being
thoroughly mixed up, are laid, number
WI Siut dOn tHt hsHti htH
and fsherwomen cast their lines. The
progressive feature is the same as in
euchre.
A more robust, if not more interest
ing, sport for the house is furnished by
the ''parlor ball game" a cross between
bowling, Switchboard and bagatelle.
An elevated platform generally about
four feet square al d eight or ten inches
high, connected with the floor at the
front by means of an inclined plane, is
placed at one end of the room. The
platform contains either nine or twelve
wooden pockets, with different num-
bers, and the idea is to roll ball
along the carpet into one of the pockets,
the person making the biggest score
winning the game. 1t requires quite
fine touch to land the ball in one Of the
upper pockets. A somewhat similar
game is an improved form of ''parlor"
or table billiards." In this the plat
form, which Is considerably smaller and
lined with green cloth, is put on the
table in place of the floor. Three balls
are used as in billiards, and they are
played with cue instead of by hand.