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United States commissioner in New York,
was made supervisor OF elections by Prcsi-
dent Grant. He organized the bureau over
which he continued to preside for more
than twenty years.
1t is on; three or four years ago since
he had an iron cage built in the postoffice
building in New York to hold the prisoners
arrested by his men for alleged fraudu-
lent voting. No man was ever more cor
daily hated by Tammany Hall, or perhaps
with better reason, but he ut least did some
thing to bring about fair elections.
But Davenport is out of office now, and
IL anybody wants the latest brand of che w
Ing gum he can get it. John l. Davenport
is the agent.
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were those of her parents, and as they
were in the South they were naturally
opposed to the freeing OF the slaves.
However her father was Il foreigner
and her mother Philadelphian, SO IT
was perfectly natural to welcome the
prospect of peace without any rancor-
Gus feeling against the victors. Rich-
Inond at the time WAS almost solely the
abode of women and 4 I, " old men, The
! gaiety of the capital having long since
died out, and many OF the gallant men
who had worn The shoulder straps en-
broidered by the semon sisters had fallen
In bloody battles.
Madam Louis gave vent for moment
10 her partiality for the. South when size
advised the reporter to visit Kentucky ana
AIabama aud see the luxurant plantations,
and, above all, the beautiful girls.
"The way the folks celebrate Ea.er
here nuts me in mind OF the way we
used 10 dress up the cOlored people in
new dresses and bonnets ut Christmas
tide In the South observed Madlm
Iouis as she watched the Easter parade
from the windows.
FEEDING LIBBY PRISONERS.
Among memories OF the war times re-
counted was how she ami her sisters would
visit Libby prison. We would get ciose
20 the graf tings and insult the prisoners In
the accustomed style to cover our actions,
and ha nd 10 them from beneath our cioiSs
something good to eat. This was asalhss
the rules, but we couldn't see tue poor lei
lows starving on hard tack"
Nine Louis is now over sixty years cii'
and vigorous, hearty woman Among her
treasures is letter from Gen. RooerJ
E. Lee, thanking her for set OF shouiier
straps she had embroidered for him. The
Union nag that first greeted tue Union sol
di..s has been sold to Chicago millionaire
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said Good-by and Was Killed.

Philadelphia, April 7.-Michael Duier,
living in South Gloucester. was struck by
the second section of the Atlantic City ex-
press train near the Gloucester station Sun
day evening. and was instantly killed. He
had been visiting his sister. whose house
faces the railroad tracks north OF the sta
ton. He had just bid her good-by and
started across the tracks rs the train
approached and struck him.
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DIGGING FOR MURDERED MEN.
Sheriff's Force ut Work on Suicide
Bastian's Farm.

Bastian's Farm.
Rock Island, ILL.,, April Ten men,
under the direction of Sheriff Heminway,
dug all day yesterday on the farm OF Henry
Bastian, the suicide and alleged murderer,
without unearthing anything but coat, a
jacket and pair of trousers. They were
six feet under ground and very near the
place where Louderbach's body was discov-
cred. The sheriffs force is still at work.
Three murders are now conclusiveiy
traced to Bastlan, according to neighbors,
and many think four other cases OF mys-
.erious disappearance are in reality muir
ders committed by him. One OF the crimes
charged against Bastian by his neighbors is
the killing of a two-days' old child five years
ago. Other supposed victims are two farm
hands, Louderbach and Kreinsen, and col
ored nurse named Parish, who disa ppeared
about the time Bastian's baby died.
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Death Of n Court Reporter.

nnapolis, Nd, April; III. schaaf
stockett, for twenty years official reporter
of the Maryland court of appeals, and
well-known Democratic politician, died
at his home here last night, aged seventy
five years.
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His Courtesy Cost His Neck.


When the sheriff went over 10 Golden
llill to Luckey valley after Jim Sanders,
who was wanted for shooting Dan Will
Jams in quarrel over a game of cards, he
didn't even take gun along. He found
his man in a saloon, and asked him to step
up and take a drink Jim complied, but
kept a hand his gun. When they had
drank they sat down, and the sheriff told
three or tour funny stories. By-and-by
the puzzled jim broke out with:
SEQ here, Joe, did you come over after
me?'
wall. l thought YOU might want to jog
aIong back with me- was the reply.
Not much. I'll never he taken alive
Then that settles it. Let's hev another
drink"
They drank again, and the official told a
very funny story about tenderfOots ex-
perience in Golden City Jim laughed as
loudly as the others, but presently grew
serious end said:
Say, Joe, ye can't take me alive
Wall. We won't worry about thar, Jim,''
was the reply. Lets hey another nip and
then a game of cards.
The game lasted until the sheriff had lost
about $50. Then ne ordered drinks and
sang a song. When the song was finished
he said to Sanders:
Jim. heven't l made things pleasant fur
you today?'
You hey. Joe. and 10 mistake"
Treated you like a gentleman. heven't
~
You certainly hev.'
That's my way of doing things. Now.
want you to treat me- like gentleman. Go
back to Golden city with me-"
But shot Dan Williams over thar"
'Of course you Hid
And they want TO hang me-
'Of course they do. but that's nothin to
me. don't make the laws l was sent
out arter you, and l want to take you back.
l could hev sneaXed in and got the drop on
We, but l knowed twould hurt yer pride.
Heven't bin tender with We, JIM
You hev, Joe. but I don't want to be
hung"
Il s'pose not. but see how nice I've used
We. Would any other sheriff hev done it?"
mo, l reckon not
of course not, and If you are hung,
won't boss the job and make 1t as easy
as possible? Just come right along to
obleege me. JIM.
would 1t be great favor to your
1t would, and it would show me that
you was gentleman to boot. I'm a gentle
man myself, and I kin appreciate a gen.
tleman."
wall, joe said Jim. after a moment
thought. Il did say I wouldn't go. and 1
did think didn't want to he hung. but to
obleege you and to show these critters that
know what good manners is, I'll go along
with ye'
And ten days later Mr. Sanders attended
a necktle social. and was left behind when
the others started for home.
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Bugs Tell the Time.
From the Portland oreson!an.

FROM The fori land preCon!an.
A jcweler near the junction has novel
clock in his show window. 1t puzzles and
amuses crowds every day. There is simply
a dial foot and a half square apparently
lying on a box an inch in depth There are
no hands and no holes in the dial. In spite
OF this the clock tells time perfectly There
are two little Mexican beetles of the green
bronze variety that have been more or less
popular as scarf pins, etc, and they crawl
about and mark the minutes and hours ac-
curately. one of them rests on the outer
circle of the dial and moves from one fig
ure 10 smother each hour. The other bug
marches on the dlars inner circle and
moves one fifth of the space between the
figures every minute. What tells the bugs
when and how far to move is a mystery
that ~ out OF every 100 who look at them
give up in despair.
The bugs are plainly enough alive else
how could they walk? And there are no
strings on them. so why do they not walk
OF about their own affairs as any ordi-
nary bug would do i'm no time?
The things simple enough said the
man who knows IL ali. after CHANGING al
the clock yesterday. The bugs are dead
as Julius Caesar. Each OF them is merely a
shell. and has bit of shell set into its
base. The clock has hands. only they are
underneath instead of above the dial, and
they are magnetiZed Every time the
hand FORCES ahead its attraction carries
the steel and the little green bug shell
along. Put a couple of steel pins on
sheet of pSper and move magnet around
underneath and you'll see just how it
works It's too easy"
The man who knew vent on to say that
the jeweler was a shrewd fellow
See he said, ''he thought he'd head OF
all suspicion of magnets by setting those
line watches on the four corners Of his
magnetic, will you" oh, it's cinch how
the thing MOI ks
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gg that some thoughtful subscriber lays

egg that some thoughtful subscriber lays
on his table.
Although the land lies but little above
tide. the health of the section is good.
There may have been some malaria in tho
past. but sir ce the water supply has come
from artesian wells. that is to say within
peared. These wells vary in depth from
200 to 300 feet, and they reach water
wherever sunk. Everybody, nearly, has
such we'll now, end they are the most
modern institutions along the river.
Wharf Architecture.
At first blush one would hardly think
there could be much Of difference in
wharf architecture anywhere, and espe-
cially among people so closely allied as
are those along the Potomac and the Rap
paha1 Lock. but there is noticeable diff
ference Wharves along the Potomac, par
ticularly on the Maryland shore, carry
only one building at their outer end, and
mat Is usually store, while wharves along
the Rappahannock always have two or
mo more buildings. and l don't recall ever hay
ing seen store en- a wharf. Why this
popularity should exist is a problem
don't try to solve
When we reached Tappahannock the doc
!or wanted to go ashore and remain over
indefinitely. So did I. This was owing to
the Tact that Tappahannock is the kind of
town which invites the man from the
turmoil or the great world to come to it's
piacid bosom and rest Old ard quaint and
quiet 1t sleeps the whole day long as the
gentle breezes blow its leafy tresses and
one may grow his lotus there and find it
always afternoon.
Hunting and Fishing
We were assured by several very reputa-
tlc citizens that Tappahanuock could make
tetter showing of wild fowl and fish than
ary town in Virginia, Maryland. or any
other place. One man confidently asserted
tfat over in the bottoms opposite town he
had seen two shots kill 80 ducks; another
man said that reed birds were SO thick in
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could thrive III. for the old residents are
so slow that the new thrifties never need
bother about them at all, but go right
ahead making a barrel of money. The ca
pacity of the falls Of the river is about
1000 horse power. only six hundred of
which has been utilized in -four, silk, wool
en- and sumach mills. Just think for mo-
ment, that for two hundred years this
town has thrown away every day the pow
err of three Thousand horses!
And she is still at it. Yet Fredericksburg
has quite variety of industries. ana most
of them have been fairly prosperous She
them diversified and to have MANY moder
ate factories rather thar che big one to
paralyZe everything when it shut down.
Fredericksburg must be a remarkably
temperate town. for one man told me that
he had run q saloon and pool room for two
years and his profits in that time We're just
thirteen cents. which Is not SO unlucky as
if it had been thirteen cents the other way.
Its Lost Opportunities.
In churches and schools the town is well
appointed-in fact, the town is all right
every way except in the matter of git-up-
and-git. Its location is fine. it's transporta-
ton facilities unsurpassed, its nearnesS to
markets quite enough. its health good. its
society excellent, its advantages as manu-
featuring center numerous its surrounding
country beautiful and fertile. and so on
through Sucn Il flSl OF BOOQ qualities as
should make their possessor step proudly
to the front and stay there.
I might refer in passing to the fact that
George Washington'S mother lived and died
in Fredericksburg. that George himself was
there often. and became Mason there. and
much more of that sort, but Fredericksburg
would be a very much better town today if
she had never seen any member of that
illustriOuS family.
There are two newspapers in town-one
the Star. daily and semi-weekly: the
other, the Free Lance. a tri-Weekly-and the
oldest part of it is that all the editors hold
official positions. Editor White and Editor
Embrey of the Star being mayor and city
attorney. and Editor Rowe of h. Lance be-
ing tax collector. The power of the press
i'll Fredericksburg is forty-hoss and no mis-
take.
AS the best is kept to the last | want to
say in conclusion that Fredericksburg wo-
men are reputed to be the handsomeSt in
the state.
Leaving Fredericksburg at . pm. the
train rolled into Washington two hours
later. making absence in all of forty
eight hours and Il distance travelled of 240
miles by water and 100 by land every foot
of which teven the forty miles to Balti-
more) was interesting. and the whole con-
shutting an outing hundreds of people in
Washington could take at a reasonable
cost and greatly to the benefit of their
knowledge, their pleasure and their health
W I I. A NIPPON
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ing through my whiskers. Nor was great
ly surprised that he should. because when
/ was il. Fredericksburg some years ago
ard in my wanderings / across fine
large steamboat in the little narrow river
alongside of the town. I sure that she
had got in there during Il fresEet and would
never get out again alive. That was owing
10 the fact that 1 did not know the Ra ppa-
hammock river was navigabe and had nice
steamers going back and forth between
Fredericksburg and baltimore
From that time 10 last week / have been
wanting to run round the Rappahannock.
and last week / braCed up and went. But
Tot from Washington TO baltimore. as did
or the Potomac not long ago. No no: for
calves and lambs go that way. and calves
and lambs are worse than babies at night.
On the contrary. | reversed the proceeding,
going from Baltimore 10 Washington via
Fredericksburg, and the trip was a dream
and delight.
/ took a man alCng. whom L shall call
the doctor. because he is a doctor. and we
left Washington al : in the afternoon of
Tuesday over the 3. and o.. as its station
is near the wharf and within an hour we
We're on the deck of the Westmoreland, one
of the only two steamboats, that ever get
to Fredericksburg At l;}o we sailed away.
and the doctor sat out on deck and told me
the points in the panorama of Baltimore's
least attractive part of the trip
The Doctors story.
Vow. that" said the doctor with the air
OF man who knew what he was talking
about lis Federal Hill, which Is as pretty
sirce IT has been sodded and shaped up
"a 1t was ugly before. Down there to
left is Locust Point, and over the way Is
Sparrow Point, and out yonde- Is where
my hospital was. And that reminds me of
a temperance story. One Christmas eve
they brought us a man with his leg broken.
After had taken care OF him We heard
his story. to the effect that all hands on
lis vessel were drunk IN celebration of
Christmas. except himself. and thar he was
on deck in charge of things. BY some
means anchor chain slipped and ne was
caught in ii and dragged into the water.
where he hung between life and death yell
Ing for help. After a long. long time the
cook. who was the sobercst man in the
party below. heard MIN. and came 10 his
rescue. He was So nearly frozen when he
got out that he went GCwn the hatch
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way with the cook he slipped and. failing
across beam. broke his leg. I told him
that temperance wasn't much Of a virtue
on on ~ sJ,r pCngy. and that he ought to
kEow better, and two days later to fur
tier indorse my temperance views. he was
taken win pneumonia as result OF expo
sure In the water Ho"'ver. We were get
ting him well as nicely as could he expect
ed. when one morning | noticed n little red
plmple on the forehead of the man in the
cot next to our oyster boat chap. and
hustled him off to the pest house. and
yaCcinated everybody in sight, including
first. my patient with pneumonia and the
broken leg. BuC ii didn't do any good, and
within two weeks he had a nice case of
smallpox and j had him sent down to the
InZarett6 with the Contagious contingent.
There he got along nicely with his pneu-
raoRia, his broken leg and his smallpox that
he was able 10 be around before great
while. and one day I sent down to get some
news of him. for l was interested ard
thought he had very nearly atoned for be-
ing sober on a Christmas eve going out OF
Baltimore harbor in an oyster pungy.
when / was dreadfully shocked by a reply
TO the effect that hs had been carried on
by oedemia of the glottis.''
On the Chesapeake.
BY o'clock. that Is, within two hours
from the time of starting from Washing
ton. We were sailing out upon the broad
and placid bosom of the Chesapeake, with
the fresh breezes tanning our erstwhile
heated brows and the earth and the hot
ness thereof fading away on the horizon,
where sea and sky were coming together.
Then came the night and the moonlight
and the music OF the waters and the muir
uurou5 whisperings Of happy sweethearts
In coZy hooks and corners Of the deck. and
the doctor. being q bachelor and strang-
er, almost had a spasm because there was
no girls Gsr handy for him to whisper
unanimously into. Capt. Burroughs Of the
steamboat kindly offered his ear to the
yeernins doctor. but the Doctor sighed and
would not.
Tho mouth Of the Rappshannock 10 TWEEN.
ty-1ve miles south Of the Potomac's mouth.
and az the steamer passes this broad OK.
makes her subsequent quiet q great relief.
However. this occurs at o'clock In the
morning, whom II passenger isn't sound
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above the head. to he parted again with
ai.Cther circular motion, which brings the
arms beside the body, similar to the first
position taken.
The motions OF the lower limbs consist
in series of kicks of more or less com
plicated order. There is also a motion Of
the head. which consists in lifting II as
nigh as possible from the rug and of keep
ing IL up as many seconds as possible with
out feeling strain. Another motion for
the right arm is to extend il at a right
angle TO the body until ii touches the OBJ
posite shoulder. This is repeated with
4 l.. l.f,
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X.
At u Kappa hammock Wharf.

asleep in his little bed he ought to be sea
sick.
At II RnppnhnnnOck Wharf.
At > o'clock in the morning of the next
day ] stuck my head out of the window TO
see what there was i'll sight and l actually
thought l had landed in Florida. We were
at a wharf and on the bank above US in
the sweet, cool air of the morning the
trees and grasses waved in the wind. and
SHINING i'll and out among the groves We're
white cottages with green shutters and red
roofs, and up 20 Il door in the gable of
each one was a pair of stairs. thus en-
Aiding man to come i'll at any hour of the
night and get to his room without having
to climb the stairs in his stocking feet.
This really charming spot was Irvington-
on-Carter s-Creek, and Carriers creek Is an
estuary of the Rappahannock. 1t was
named for that Carter who came over
from England as the kings chancellor, and
he was known. and is yet known. az
king Carter. He owned all the land in
the neishborhood that the king didn't own.
and was what in these days of populism
would be called bloated monopoist. be-
sides being called several things not fit for
publication.
\ TOwnless River.
Unlike the Potomac, the Rappahannock
does not run much to estuares. and after
we had done Carters creek ami made the
run up into Cur-itoman river. where we
found pretty little bits of scenery and
hotel on the bank with most inviting ham
mocks under the trees. we came out on to
the main stem of the river and confined our
subsequent attention to that kind of navi-
cation. A feature. however. in common
with the Potomac is the townIessness of
the entire section along the river. The dis
lance from the mouth to Fredericksburg is
100 miles, and in that stretch Of coun-
try the only town which may be called
town is TappahannCck. though Port Royal
with her departed glory makes somewhat
of SHOW on the river bank.
I called the attention OF an old Virginia
gentleman to the townlessness of this part
of his state and he explained it fully and
to my entire satisfaction.
why. SIR he said with the true baron
ial manner. why should we wish to have
towns to live in? We lived on our places
sir. as gentlemen should. If We had lived