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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-10-11
FRIDAY ..OCTOBER II, 1895.

STREET
Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-27
The Green EmiRrant.

The attaches of the Broad Street station,
in the daily handling Of thousands of pas
sengers have some curious experiences,
but it remained for young man of the
Emerald Isle to break all previous records
in that direction. This young man was
one of several hundred immigrants who
arrived at this port on Wednesday on tho
Indiana of the American line. His desti-
nation was. New York, and his first real
American experience was received when he
reached the Broad Street station. He got
through the gate all right and then pro-
ceeded toward the New York train. AS he
passed alongside of the train he oncoun-
tered Assistant Station Master J. L. John
son.
Approaching him, the young man in
quired if that was the New York train,
and being answered in the affirmative ad-
vanced toward the step leading to the car
platform. There- he stood gazing for
awhile at the car, making no effort to
board it, and finally turned to johnson
again with the query whether the train
would soon start Again he was answered
in the affirmative and told to get on board.
Walking leisurely up to one of the open
windows Of the car he hurled his grlpsack
in through the window and then proceeded
to follow after it through the same open
ing, when Johnson caught him, led him
to the front of the car and initiated him
into the mysteries of entering an Amer
lean railway coach. -Philadelphia Record.
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TALES OF THE TIMES.
A Kansas Statesman and His Love Oi
Sleep.

Last evening people passing S. Bar
NUNS store, on the west side of Kansas
avenue, noticed large man sleeping
soundly in largo covered spring wagon
near the street curb. He was stretched
across the seat, and while his position was
not a comfortable one the man did not
care. His broad chest rose and fell at reg
ular periods, which indicated deep slum-
Der. Occasionally a whirring noise like
the suppressed grunt of pig escaped the
sleeper. 1t was a snore but not the cell
ing destroying kind.
A close inspection would have revealed
the chubby face of a man well advanced
in years. His cheeks were covered with u
thick growth of short gray hair and his
head with an old SLOUGH hat. Then tho
observer would have been startled to find
q strong resemblance to a man who was
well known in public life in Kansas not
long ago. Tho man looked like eX-Con-
gresham Ben Clover, and in truth it was
he.
Ex- Congressman Clover now drives the
reform school wagon and may be seen on
the streets of Topeka every day. He got
the place as q reward for political services
rendered in the last campaign. He dOesn t
know anything about training boys, but
Governor Morrill's business adlninistra-
ton gave him job.
When Mr.. Clover was in congress, he
contracted the sleeping habit, and it made
him famous. When an important measure
was being considered, he was wont to steal
out into the anteroom and stretch his
portly form on the luxurious cushions of \
government sofa, and while his colleagues
wrestled with Some intricate question af-
fecting their constituency Congressman
Clover of Kansas slept, and, it is said,
snored, not softly or gently, but loud
enough to be heard in the adjoining legis
lative hall.
Then Mr.. Clovcr's constituency got
angry and elected some one else, and since
then he has been compelled to take his
maps in less convenient places. Other peo-
pie have contracted habits in congress,
but it remained for Congressman Glover
to make a departure and become, like
Dickens fat boy, confirmed sleeper
Topeka State Journal.
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Bee Hunters, Luck.

Several Cambridge young men recently
went on bee hunt, which, in some re-
spects, was n remarkable affair. After a
long tramp and much patient waiting they
located what they thought was n swarm of
bees in hollow tree. Axes were procured
the tree fell, but investigation revealed
nothing but hornets nest. They were
sure there were some bees somewhere, not
far off, and the next day went again. This
time they found a big birch tree that
showed all the signs of containing the
much looked for prize. With renewed
courage they went TO work, the tree fell,
large piece was cut out where the honey
was supposed to be, and they found an
other hornets nest. There were at least
three quarts of the buzzing, Infatuated yell
low jackets, and the would be honey gath
erers beat hasty retreat.-Bangor News.
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Robbers Aided by a Horse.

"When l was in Nebraska, near the
Snake river, north Of the Great Sand hill
in 1852" said Lewiston citizen, 1--WE
had four camps situated about IS miles
apart, and to go from Thorne's camp to
Durham camp it was necessary to go
through long piece of pine woods. For n
number Of months every one who had
gone through the woods alone never came
back. One day it was necessary that /
should 90 through with lot of money
and no escort, and l set out on horse
that 1 got from stable keeper near
Thornes camp.
"When l had nearly reached tho woods
five miles out, my horse was taken i'll and
refused to go on. Clearly to my medical
eye it had been poisoned slightly by some
one Soon what looked like hunter came
along on horse and offered to swap, tax
ing mine back to the stable if l would
leave his near Durham camp with trap
per. 1 ought to have seen through this,
but did not. got on the powerful horse
of the stranger and started through the
five miles of woods. Half way through,
without any apparent reason, the horse
broke into trot, n gallop and finally
run, and dashing off the trail through the
woods picked his way among trees as nice
ly as if he had gone that way a hundred
times. Pull as would at the bride, he
paid no attention, but ran the fastor.
When he had leaped a brook and landed on
the sand beyond, the marks of footprints
alarmed me, and 1 slipped off at the risk
Of my life. He ran on up ravine, and 1
hid, fearing that it was trap, as it after
ward proved In little while three men
armed with rifles came back on the trail,
one riding the horse, now as calm as II
lamb. picked my way to the road and
got out to the camp.
1.-Two weeks later 10 Of us followed a
man who hired horse at the same place
did. 1t was taken i'll, and the same trap
per came along on the same horse. When
the horse dashed into the woods, as he had
been trained to do, 10 of us dashed after
him and finally arrived at mountain
camp of the robbers. We took every man,
seven Of them, and-well, law was not
well supported out there then, and no
court sat nearer than 200 miles, We didn't
carry the rascals away from their own
campfire. The trained horse met the fate
of its owners. Lewiston Journal.
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Wanted to Fight Locomotives.

Frank Gilhooley, a journeyman halter
of Orange, n. j., got heavily charged with
Jersey lightning the other afternoon and
nothing would do but he must fight loco
motives on the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad. Gilhooley said Cor
bett and Fitzsimmons were too easy for
him. He wanted something more danger
Gus, SO selected the Orange drill engine.
Gilhooley laid plans to tackle the engine
near the Hickory street crossing He stood
in the middle of the track, rolled up his
sleeves, and shouted for the engine to
come on. Employees in the nearby fac
tories saw the mad halter and went to his
rescue and dragged him out Of the way.
When the engine whizzed by, Gilhooley
shouted: "You better sneak You were
afraid to stand your ground"
Gilhooley was finally persuaded to go
home and not bother railroad locomotives,
because they did not care to have trouble
with him. Tho crowd admitted that Gil
hooley was the better man. and he left the
scene in a satisfied frame of .mind.-New
York Sun.
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THE BOWERY OPERA.
TO FoRESTALL Mr.. ROOSEVELT THE
THOROUGHFARE HAS A NOVELTY.

The Title of the Opera, Which Is an
Original OlIe, Is "Fortuna; or, The Prin-
cess Tough" and the Scene Is Laid a
Thousand Years BacIS-The Plot.
1t is one of the traditions of the Bowery
to take no liberties with an amusement
audience. The concert halls and dives
have been reluctantly compelled to sue
cumb to Millionaire Roosevelt's edict and
conform with as many statutes as he finds
it convenient and possible to enforce.
This thoroughfare might have become
somewhat thing of the past if Congress-
man Harry Miner had not been awake to
the situation and foresccn the possibility
of his Bowery theater being an object Of
the vigorous police commissioners atten-
ton. To stop legitimate Bowery variety
performances is ABOUT tho last opportunity
the authorities have to carry out their
ideas of reform.
Anticipating such move the Bowery
burlesque purveyor chartered legitimate
opera company for his Bowery theater
and with the assistance of Impresario
Louis Roble produced for the first time in
any of his variety theaters comic opera
The opera is an entirely new one and had
not even been "tried on the dog" before
being cut loose on an unsuspecting Bow
cry audience. 1t is entitled Fortuna; Or
The Princess Tough"
The author and composer, John Strom-
berg, has initiated another famous COM
poser, Mascagni, he of "Cavalloria Rus
ticana" fame, and built his opera short
and quick. Mascagni's composition need
ed the famous instrumental intermeZzo to
make it sufficiently long to be successful
and entertaining while his imitator found
1t more convenient to stretch his compost
tion out by the introduction Of an ohio be-
tween the two short parts.
The plot of Fortuna" has about rs
much foundation as the ordinary comic
opera plot. A thousand years ago King
Eye loved Fortuna, maiden, one of the
tenants on his estate. Young Prince Bat
tenhall son of the king, also loved the
maiden. She shows her appreciation of
both royal advances by clipping with the
kings ooachman. In his rage at this turn
Of affairs the sovereign instructs his ma
gicians to turn the faithless girl into q
statue. The kings love is still warm, and
he has the statue removed to q secluded
bower and guarded by his whole army
The young prince takes advantage of the
kings absence ard orders the army away,
while he compels the magicians to bring
the statue to life again. He then disguises
Fortuna and introduces her to his father
as the Princess Tough.
The king Immediately has reversal OF
his former prosperity, and everything goes
wrong, and finally he Is dcthroned. His
son, the prince, succeeds him and rallies
the army Tho new KING IL nc ciIncnccful
in all his enterprises as his father was I'M
successful, but one day he displeases Prin-
cess Tough. She leaves him, seeks out his
disgraced father and joins him. Fortune
smiles on the old king again, and his for
mer subjects begin to clamor for his res
toration to the throne He is successful
and lives happily because of the presence
of Fortuna-New York World.
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HERE'S A QUEER GIRL.
She !, Srries the Man Who Tried to Kill
Her and Her Parents.


Her and Her Parents.
Mis- i!ugenie Bethancourt and Louis
Gervais we're married at New Orleans re-
Gently. Geryais had courted her for sew
eral years and had built a house in which
to take his bride, but at the last moment
she broke off the engagement Just a
month ago he visited her house to demand
a final answer in his suit. She again re.
fused him and said she never wished to
see him again.
He left the house furious over the reiec-
ton and returned few minutes afterward
armed with a revolver. There was some
lively shooting in the next few minutes.
Miss BethancOurt received two wounds,
one in the cheek, the other in the Shout
der, both serious Her father, who arose
from his sick bed to come to her assist
ance, was shot in the eye and has been
confined to the Charity hospital ever since.
Gervais shot at the mother but missed
her, and dubbed younger sister over the
head with the stock of his pistol telling
her to the ground and seriously injuring
her. He then ran to the river and threw
himself in with the intention of commit
ting suicide He was rescued and arrested.
1t was thought at first that at least one
of his victims would die. When it was
guaranteed by the doctor that the girl was
out of danger, he was released on bond,
and at the first opportunity offered he ran
off with her and married her. The father
still insists on prosecution and says that
If he can send Gervais to the penitentiary
he is satisfied his daughter will return to
him.-New York Sun.
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The PuDpv FaInted.

Speaking of dogs, said Superintend-
ent John Horne of the Mount Washing
ton railway, "did you ever see q dog faint
away2' No one had. "Well, have, Z"
said the veteran railroad official, and then
he proceeded to tell of very young pup
which was taken from its mother and re-
manned at the signal station on Mount
Washington all winter, several years ago.
When taken down the mountain in the
spring he met another dog, who undertook
to make his acquaintance "You will OBJ
serve" said Mr.. Horne, "the young fellow
didn't remember ever having seen dog,
and doubtless thought the one before him
was the only other dog in the world; so he
keeled over in a dead faint. Among the
Clouds.
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Tho Dog Knew His Business.

The steamer Forest Queen recently had
an excursion party from Biddeford on
board, and at the request Of some of the
excursionists Captain Oliver ran out by
Wood island. AS he passed the light he
saluted it with the customary three whis-
ties. Scarcely had the echoes died away
when dog dashed out of the lighthouse
and ran at full speed toward the fog bell.
He was followed by man. 1t is needless
to say that the dog arrived at the bell first,
and he Immediately began to jump into
the air as though trying to reach some.
thing.
When the man arrived on the spot, It
was readily seen what the trouble was
The bell rope was hung upon nail, and
the dog could not reach it. However, as
soon as the man removed the rope from
the nail the dog seized it in his teeth, and
with great deal of apparent satisfaction
answered the steamers salute. The dog
knows his business and never fails to re-
turn steamers salute.-Eastern Argus.
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Wedding and Funeral Together.

John A. Chittenden of Ashley, Mich,
on his deathbed requested that his sister
Louise and her betrothed, Charles A
HOlmdon, be married over his coffin. The
wedding originally was to have taken
place Sept. 25, but the date was changed TO
comply with the wish of the dying man,
and while he lay in his coffin on the 10Th
his sister and her sweetheart joined hands
over the coffin while the Rev. John Glase
performed the marriage ceremony. Then
he delivered the funeral grafton, and the
newly married couple occupied the first
carriage behind the hearse.- Cleveland
Leader
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Curinp a Snake Bite.

The fact that w. R. Collins of West
Palm Beach, Fla, the victim of rattle
snakes bite, is still alive is either due to
the strap that he put around his leg just
above the wound or to the gunpowder
poultice he made from one of his gun
shells. The swelling has almost left his
foot, and DR.. Potter says that he will be
all right in few days. DR.. Potter admin
istered One-twentieth of grain of strych-
nine about every hour to drive the poison
from around his heart. He gave him digi-
tails in order to quicken the working of
that organ.-Florida Citizen.
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The Dean of the Navy Department.

Tho Oldest employee in the navy depart
ment is Mr.. William H. Moran. AS boy
and man he has been in the service since
he was 16 years of age. He sits now at his
desk, a silver haired old man, with an in
teresting store of sea memories. His first
voyage was made as a ship captains clerk
it would be "private secretary" he says,
nowadays-and after sailing the deep dur
ing part Of his life he cast anchor in the
navy department. There he is still faith
full worker having held his place through
the chances and changes of nearly half a
century. His present Office is in the bureau
of navigation and not even Secretary
Herbert himself is better known in the de-
partment where they make ships and sail
ors than Mr.. william Moran Washing
ton Post,
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ONE OF DEPEW's LATEST.
1t Shows the Minnesota Reporter In His
Relation to the Editor.

Relation to the Editor.
If you were to discover DIR. Chauncey
NJ. Depew scaling the Pyrenees-he was
doing it recently, by the way-your APP
pearance would remind him of a little
story.
So the other night, when 90 reporters
who had reached the steamer Paris off
quarantine in 90 different ways, confront
ed the returning traveller, it reminded him
of an occasion. when he was travelling in
the west.
81 was approaching Duluth" he said
land happened to pick up paper printed
in that town. 1t contained an editorial
warming the inhabitants of my approach
The editor said was the most unmitigat-
cd nuisance at large, that contrived to
get myself interviewed by the use of VIC
lence, or strategy or bribery or anything
else; that, in fact the only relief for a
Depew ridden community lay in a combi-
nation of newspapers looking to my sup
preston.
"The plan, he said, was to drop me,
omit my name on all occasions and indeed
refuse to recognize me. Then he said
would perforce drop into the obscurity
where belonged.
AS we neared Duluth young man en-
tered my car, hustled down the aisle, nod
ded to me, and said in n most businesslike
way, Good morning, Mr.. Depew. Ire
turned the greeting, and he said at once,
Now l want a column and half of good
stuff and want it in hurry
What paper do you representa- asked.
"'That one you have in your hand, he
said.
"'How about this editorial9' 1 asked,
holding it up
"'Oh, hang the editorsp he replied.
They don't know anything. The report
ers mako the newspapers in Duluth.
"He got his column and half in hur-
ry," Dr.. Depew concluded.-New York
Hnrnll
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A Plague of Snails.

DIR. Unkefer, health officer of Piqua, O.,
was in consultation with Secretary Probst
of the state board of health recently in re.
gard to nuisance which is becoming un.
bearably annoying to the residents of a
portion of Piqua. 1t consists of the pres
ence of large number of snails from four
to six inches in length, which crawl into
the houses at night and down into wells
and clsterns, polluting the water. The
snails come out at night and almost cover
the ground in places. Cleveland Leader.
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Does British royalty Speak EnglIshq

The discussion in the English papers as
to how far the royal family is English has
led to another question-namely, Do the
royalties speak English? During tho
queens youth German was her family Ian
guage, her mother knowing little English.
. Upon the queens marriage to the prince
consort the use Of German as the language
of the royal family in private personal in
tercourse was confirmed. The Prince of
Wales has made English the language of
his household, but he does not insist upon
its exclusive use. In the Duke of York s
household English only is spoken.
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This Beats Fowls, Eye.

Natures prodigality in the great banana
belt is matter of common knowledge,
and every one knows how year after year
the crops increase in variety, quality and
quantity. Last week there was hail
storm Mt Brainerd, Mimi, and hailstones
as large as BASEBALL fell in great profu-
sion. Human life would have been a
Bacriflce before them, for they were solid
ice," but there wasn't any human life
outside the cyclone cellars while the bonn
bardment lasted.
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,ransmiohigan Ocean Ship Canal.

There is considerable talk again in the
Michigan peninsula about the proposed
canal to connect the southeast end of Lake
Michigan with the west end of Lake Erie
that is, to connect Chicago and Toledo
and thus save the several days of transit
through the length of Lake Michigan and
Lake Huron. 1t is said Chicago capitalists
have recently been making investigations
in connection with the scheme. The I'M
dertaking is spoken of as the "Transmich-
igan Ocean Ship canal" 1t looks fasci-
Mating ON the map.-New York Sun.
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A Montana Bear Story.

A story is told in Butte, Mon, of 49,
year-old girl named Alice jackson, who
lives or. her fathers ranch, II miles south
of Butte. She was out on horseback in
the mountains, unarmed and accompanied
only by dog. She came across a large
black bear and headed it toward home.
With the help of the dog she managed to
keep it going in the right direction until
she reached the cattle corral, where her
brother came up and shot and killed the
bear. 1t weighed 600 pounds, and there
are the hide and the girl to show for it,
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A Good Suggestion.

Rochester, N. Y.-John Davis of this
city, took severe cold and suffered pain
through the back aid kidneys. Hi
physician pronounced his case gravel
and failed to help him. DR.. David Ken
nedy's Favorite Remedy was recommend
ed, and after taking two bottles he was
cured. 1t has never failed in gravel or
urinary troubles.
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The oil fever is spreading rapidly and
increasing in virulence in California and
other far western states, and all the Incl
dents of specializing in options and pros
poets that characterized the craze in the
eastern fields years ago are being repro
duced there. Oil prospecting is going on
all over the coast country, and some nota-
BILE strikes have been made, particularly in
California. The oilfields of Fullerton
Orange county, are said to be especially
nrOdnctiYe.
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INTERNATIONAL YACHTING.

Another cup race in 1896 gives us the
desired prospect. We present our compli-
ments to Captain Rose, the expected chal-
lenger, and we respectfully congratulate
the English people that a champion has
arisen so promptly to raise the flag of
craftsmanship so ridiculously thrown
down by the disappointed and departing
earl. The haste and hustle of getting
ready for this last abortive campaign
show that ten months notice Is by no
means too long for preparation. Fortu-
nately, there is plenty Of time to arrange
for this welcome contest, and we sincerely
hope it will eventuate. And New York,
off Sandy Hook, is the place for it.-New
York Sun.
The Americas cup has become the sign
Of supremacy on the seas for one great
phase Of sport, If not even a sign of su-
premacy in the more serious sphere of ma
val architecture, and there will always be
Britons enough to see that to abandon
this chivalric competition on small points
of etiquette or pique is only to find pre-
texts for sitting down quietly in the face
of defeat. There will be plenty of races
yet, and all Challengers will be welcome
New York World.
1t is gratifying to find that Lord Dun
.aven does not set the English standard Of
international yacht racing. New York
Tribune.
Mr.. Rose has risen to the yachting occa-
sion.-New York Recorder.