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I. VM SLTW. iMsraatf PSWshsft. MOHENRY, musom. i ' COL. BOBEBT INOEBSOLL good- J ttaturodly contradicts the report that he Is to lecture on Shakespeare* next sea­ son, but half confessed that he may liave given authority for the statement. ^Whatever a man says is not always true," says the Colonel. "We all make Mistakes. No one is infallible," if'THE elegant present of silver (valued v «l $800) presented to the Speaker by a lew Republican friends in the House, lias not yet been seen by its Recipient. Xt awaits him at Covington, his home. Mrs. Carlisle has for four months been in the confidence of its donors. Mr. Burleigh was its projector, and he selected the present in New York. f<; \ , HORACE SMITH, of Salisbury, Conn., • now 92 years of age, was a teacher in that town in 1816--seventy-three years iago. Mr. Smith was born in the first frame house built in Salisbury, and he has lived to see seventy grandchildren *ad four great-grandchildren. He at­ tended a teachers' reunion a few days ago, and in all the throng he could find no one of his contemporaries, not even L *pupil* ' THE ^Sheriff at New Castle, Pa., re­ cently left the door of the jail open and * prisoner escaped. He then offered <ttie of the remaining prisoners $5 if he would capture the fugitive. The crim inal gave chase, but failed to capture the man, and, strange to relate, re­ turned to his prison quarters. He could * easily have .escaped, but he chose to serve out the remainder of his term, only eight days, rather than undergo i|v the fatigue of an exciting flight. I* THE other day a grocery store at Chestertown, Delaware, was besieged by thousands of bees. The attraction was , a box containing twenty-five pounds of honey that was on exhibition outside. A few bees discovered it, and they re­ turned home and brought the whole swarm. They worked diligently and before the sun went down had removed the entire lot of honey. They entirely covered it, and swarmed around it so thickly that the proprietors of the store did not dare attempt to rescue |j jMjeit property. |, ALL New Orleans grocers give to | «very purchaser a lagniappe. If child |, «r servant buys 5 cents' worth lagni­ appe is expected and given rigidly, as though so nominated in the bond. It _ may be sugar, or spice, or candy. If * the purchaser demand quartee (2| cents' \worth) rice and quartee beans two lagniappe are given. There are gro­ ceries in the French quarter where the chief business of the supplemental small boy is the rolling of brown-paper sheets into cornucopias and the filling § of these horns of plenty with lagniappe. I 1 A BAILIFF living near Buena Vista, Ga., who had arrested a negro at mid­ night, took a notion that he would take a nap. He tied the negro's arms be­ hind him with a rope, then tied the end of the rope to his own arm, so that any effort on the part of the negro to get sjvay would wake him, and then laid down to sleep in his front piazza. "While the bailiff was wrestling with the sleepy god the negro waked, untied his arms, tied the arms of his bailiff to­ gether, and then departed. The officer had to call his wife the next morning to liberate him. "A CLERGYMAN who has recently inter- -slewed Cardinals Newman and Manning, describes them as being plain, simple men, with little pomp about them. Cardinal Manning was emaciated, and his face had several bad gashes, as if he had shaved in the dark and in haste. "His fingers were all bone," said the clergyman, "and the ring slipped up and down upon it as he spoke. He would almost frighten you. Cardinal . Newman presented the appearance of a •very old man, with his teeth gone, but his face wore an expression of repose, fie would rather impress yon as a sweet character." THE celebrated Dr. Tanner, who made quite a stir several years ago by a prolonged fast of forty days, is now a member of the community of Faithists at Shalam, N. M. In a recent letter he • lays down the broad proposition that sine-tenths of all the crime and dis­ ease in this world is due to the human stomach. Keep the stomach undefiled -with meat, especially free from the flesh of the swine, and there is hope that man may live up to his highest aspira­ tions. This is the doctrine that the Faithists are trying to enforce practic­ ally in their colony, but the result thus Xur has not been encouraging. The community is rent with jealousies and dissensions, which go far to show that a purely vegetable diet will not eliminate the minor passions, whatever effect jt nay have upon the great ones. 'THE Italian Statistical Societyhaare- -cently published the following interest­ ing figures concerning the number of criminals in every 100,000 inhabitants of the different - European countries. Of criminals condemned for all kinds of homicide the proportions are: In Italy, 8.12; Spain, 7.83; Hungary, 6.09: JLustria, 2.24; Belgium, 1.78; France, 1.56; Germany, 1.11; British Isles, 0.60. Under the heading of "blows and -wounds" we find the following number of persons condemned out of 100,000 inhabitants: Austria, 248; Belgium, 177; Italy, 162; Germany, 129; France, -66; Hungary, 46: British Isles, 7.19. The statistics with regard to "crin|es .against morals" run thus: Belgium, 15.11; Germany, 14.03; France, 9.77; Austria, 9.18; Hungary, 6.26; Italy, 41.77; British Isles, 1.77. Thieving of all kinds is carried on most frequently 1 4^ Germany, which heads the list with ^12 unite. Italy follows immediately wSiritish Isles, wilh «he remark ttnit to the aver­ age of 147 Scotland contributes 222 thieves in every 100,000. inhabitants. Next corns* Belgium with 128, France with 112, Hthgary with 77, Austria with 60, and Spain with 66. THE Court Journal of London tells a very good photographic yarn, which might be true, and probably is. It says a wealthy ironmaster in the North of England, whose house and works are dazzlingly illuminated by the eleo- trio light, has adopted an ingenious contrivance by which he may glean some information as to what goes on during his not infrequent absences from home. In several of his rooms and his offices there is a concealed ap­ paratus in the walls, consisting of a roll of Eastman paper and a train of clock­ work. Every hour a shutter is silently opened by the machinery, and ^*n in­ stantaneous photograph is taken of all that is going on in the room. On the great man's return, he delights to de­ velop these pictures, and it is said that they have furnished some very strange information indeed. One clerk, who- received his dismissal somewhat unex­ pectedly, and boldly wanted to know the reason why, was horrified when showiy a photograph in which he was depicted lolling in an easy chair, with his feet upon the office desk, while the clock on the mantelpiece pointed to an hour at which he ought to have been at his busiest. The servants' party in the best dining-room furnished another thrilling soene. THE restless activity of Great Britain in extending its empire in all quarters of the civilized and uncivilized world, says the New York Times, has been the secret of its wonderful strength in the post, and given it the right to make the proud boast that its Queen ruled over an empire on which the sun never sets. It is still pursuing the same pol­ icy which made the Hudson Bay and East India Companies such tremendous powers years ago, and established them as giant monopolies, through the means of which their incorporators were enriched and the territory of their government was extended. The latest act in pursuance of this policy is the issuing of a charter tb tho National Af­ rican Company, the effect of which in the near future will inevitably be to make the Niger practically an English river. The capital of the new company is authorized at £1,000,000 to begin with, and the possibilities of its exten­ sion are unlimited. The concern is a limited liability joint stock affair, with its principal offices atLudgate Hill, and the stockholders are empowered by the charter to hold and retain all "rights, interests, authorities, and powers for purposes of government, protection of public order, protection of the said ter­ ritories, or otherwise of what nature or kind soever already acquired or yet to be acquired in the basin of the Biver Niger." There is the prospect of a very large experiment in governmental science in Africa in this concession, provided the natives prove open to En­ glish arguments for the disposal of their property in the valley of the Ni­ ger, and the history of the past shows that English arguments, though cheap in kind, are usually of a nature to con­ vince the untutored savage that his only safety lies in the protection of those who offer them. A Miracle. At that time the Abbe Cochin lived in the seminary of St. Sulpice, and he was allowed a double louis a month for pocket-money, by his family, which he spent in charity. Among the recipients of his alms was a poor mother of a fam­ ily, whom the Abbe found on one holi­ day at the gate of the seminary, where she was waiting his coming out to be­ seech his charity, on account of some additional affliction. It was the end of the month, and the Abbe told her she must wait a few days longer, for the good reason that he had no money. The woman upon this urged the impossibility of the thing, and however little he could give her it would save her life; the Abbe looking abashed, protested that he did not possess one farthing! The woman then seemed seized with a fit of inspir­ ation; she exclaimed that he was a Saint, and that it was in his power to work miracles, and if he would only take the trouble to feel in his pocket she was quite assured that he would find something that be did not expect, and which would suffice for her im­ mediate wants. For the sake of peace and quiet, the holy Abbe was going to turn his pocket inside out, but in fumbling what should he find, to his great surprise, but three six-franc pieces! He gave them in­ stantly to the wretched woman; and then, full of joyful humility, ran to throw himself on his knees in the chapel of the Virgin of St. Surplice, where he spent the remainder of the day in thanksgiving for the miraculous gift that had been bestowed on him, and entertaining the holy fear of the power of which he was the depository. On his entering the seminary he heard an exclamation of "There he is! --there he is!" "Let us humble ourselves,n said he; "let us humble ourselves." - "Upon my word, Cochin, you have put me terribly out!" cried the com­ panion who shared his cell with him, and who was waiting for him at the door, "you have left your small clothes here instead of mine, in which I had eighteen francs!" How to Catch Trout A correspondent of the Philadelphia Kews writes: "Let me give you a pointer for an impromptu method of catching trout which has recently come to my notice. It is not only time-sav­ ing but humane and economical. Go off into the solitude of the mountain fastnesses, where there are purling brooks which you have reason to be­ lieve abound in the speckled beauties. Carry with you an old pair of trousers, with the ends of the legs carefully tied with strings, and, having fastened the open end of these over the outlet of one of those deep, mysterious holes in which the trouth loves to bask, whip the stream from twenty feet above down to the trousers, and if you don't bag a mess of the prettiest fish imagin­ able the gentleman who first explained this method to me is unwori^rof m honest man's confidence." > i \ * t\. .* Hblfegraaaftil Eseapads* tfceKri- r ten Capital--The Attagbd tn» . Story Told in Detail. The Half Has Not Been TeU--Mis Be- * <' baach at the Jockey Club and the Hotel Iturbide. The Orgie at a Disreputable House--Ef­ forts of the Envoy and His Friend* to Suppress the Truth. So many conflicting statements have been made concerning the recent escapade of Envoy Sedgwick at the City of Mexico that it has been difficult to arrive at the exact facts in the case. An El Paso letter to the Galveston JTeir#--good Democratic author­ ity--gives the following as the true story of the disgraceful affair: The News' correspondent convened with a number of persona, strangers to each other, who had just arrived from the City of Mexico. They say that th® half has not been told in thi Sedgwick scitndtl. They are all respectable and trustworthy men, whose u&oies can be given when necessary. The stories they tell agree substantially, and one will do for a sample. The News' informant was an eyewitness to part of Hie occurrence related, while he is intimately acquainted with other respectable persons who witnessed other parts of it. The whole City of Mexico is talking tUxmt it, he said, and the Americana feel the national disgrace keenly. There is no question whatever that the main points of the story against SedRwick are true. It is s matter of public knowledge, and the American Consul has officially reported it to Secretary Bayard. "What were the circumstances as yon under­ stood them ?" asked the reporter. The reply was: "I stopped at the Iturbide Hotel, the same at which Mr. Sedgwick staid. The first 1 knew of my own knowledge was Sat­ urday morning about 6 o'clock, when Mr. Seds- wick came in, accompanied by some Mexican dudes, after his night of revel. It is, as I un­ derstand, a matter of common knowledge that almost RS soon as Mr. Sedgwick arrived in the city he became intimate with the Jockey Club, composed of wealthy but rather fast young men. These fast young men invited him to an entertainment at the club bouse Fridav even­ ing. He wont. As said before, it waa 6 o clock in the morning when he returned to the hotel, and then he did not remain, as you will see. My informants say that in the early part of the evening there was a great cordiality shown Mr. Sedgwick, who repeatedly expressed his friend­ ship for the Mexicans and his desire for peace and good-will between the two Republics. As the evening flew on the wine flew faster, and one party became uproarious and the other maudlin. Mr.Sedgwick's protestations of friend­ ship became more ardent. He reads Spanish, but does not speak it well, and was unable to understand what they were saying about him. "When the Mexicans saw that he was drunk they began to guy him and take advantage of his ignorance of the language. There wore no ladies present. "At this time they began to drink toasts, Sedgwick drinking with them. Of course, they mode up the most vile, indecent, and obscene toasts they could think of, applying them to Sedgwick personally, and to the United States Government and to the American people. Sedgwick was either too full or too ignorant of the language to know what the toasts were, so they made him drink to the shame of himself and his country. Amid the roars of boisterous laughter they applied to him and his country­ men the vilest epfthets, and then slapped him on the back approvingly when he drank them with gusto. They kept this up till morning. "There is part of the published story tiiat is not true. They did not festoon him with flowers and put a placard on his back. They did put a flower ip4jis hat; that soon fell out. "As-to what happened at the Iturbide Hotel: It was there that I became an eye-witness. The other things I have related as they are common­ ly reported and believed in Mexico, You know ^the Iturbide is built like a hollow square, with a large courtyard in the center. Mr. and Mrs. D , of Chihuahua, who were stopping there, saw what happened. Sedgwick and a party of Mexicans came in at 6 o'clock Saturday morning to the central court, all very drunk and uproar­ ious. Among them they began dancing in imi­ tation of the cancan. Sedgwick wanted to go to bed, but the otfters would not let him, They proposed to go to a noted disreputable resort of Americans known as the Four Minnies. Mr. Sedgwick appeared to understand only that it was something about women, and was off with them in a moment. They went to Minnie's, and were ushered into a room with some of the abandoned women of the house. It is alleged that while Sedgwick was reclining on the sofa with two of them he suddenly fell forward on the floor in a dead stupor. The Mexicans pulled his legs out straight and turned him over on his back. Two of them then mounted his body, and flapping their arms for wings, emitted tho tri­ umphant crow of a rooster. Turning to the girls, all of whom wore American, they said: 'See what line representatives vour G6verument sends here to investigate the Mexicans. Here is a fair sample of your countrymen.' "After this the proprietors of the house took possession of his watch and money for safe keeping, and had him carried to a room alone and locked in. At half-past ten on Saturday morning two American gentlemen who had heard of the affair went to Minnie's in a closed carriage to take him away. He would not go with them. It is alleged that through the crock of the door he made this reply to their entreat­ ies : 1 You go to h--1; I know what I am about. I can take care of myself, and you will take care of me, won't you, girls?' He did, it is averred, not leave Minnie's until two o'clock that day, and remained in his room at the Itur­ bide until Sunday. "Sunday the American Consul, Geo. Porch, accompanied by two well-known American citi­ zens, asked him what he was going to do about it. Mr. Sedgwick, it is alleged, expressed con­ trition ; said he had only a faint recollection of what had happened, and asked to bo informed of the particulars. They were related to him, and it is alleged that he begged the Consul and the other gentlemen to keep the matter quiet and not let it become public. "One of them replied : ' It has become pub­ lic already, and, more than that, I fear it will get into the papers up North.' " 'My God!' Sedgwick is alleged to have re­ plied, ' has it come to that? ' "He then begged the throe gentlemen to nse their best endeavors to hush tne scandal up, and they promised to do so, Sedgwick promis­ ing, it is claimed, to have nothing more to do with the members of the Jockey Club, against which he had been warned when he first came to the city; but that very evening he dined with some members of the club, and they, it is said, urged him to deny the whole thing and they would back him in it, while money or other pressure would make the proprietor of the hotel do the same. "Monday morning, and this I saw myself," said the Nnvs' informant, "he was walking on the street arm in arm with two of the same men who had got him into trouble. That afternoon a meeting of the American residents was called to consider what was best to do. I was present at this meeting. General Frisbe, a highly honored American resident, was the chairman. I was obliged to leave before the end of the meeting, but while I was there the Consul- General said: 'Gentlemen, I want to read ybu a telegram which I sent to-day to Secretary Bayard. I sent it on my own responsibility as Consul, but if you approve it, so much the better.' He then read, as nearly as I can re­ member, as follows: * 'Crrr or MEXICO, Aug. SO. " "T. F. Bayard, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.: " 'The special representative of the United States, Mr. Sedgwick, has disgraced himself and his country,•bringing shame to the face of every American in this city. The American citizens here ask his immediate recall. It iB sufficient to say that he was found drunk in houses of assignation.' " 'PO^CH, Consul. "Why," said the Ifewt' informant, "some of these old resident Americans in the City of Mexico couldn't speak of it without their eyes filling and their voices faltering, they felt so bad about the national disgrace." . sad with that . . electoral strength oon- teeta thelegislative .power of the United THE SOUTHERN QUESTION. Strong Words by Mr. Blaine, Uttered In His Speech at Etna, He. I spoke a few days since of the determi­ nation of the Democrats in Congress to keep Dakota knocking at the doors of the Union for admission, even after she has ten times the population that certain South­ ern States had when they were admitted. The wrongfulness of this step is made the more marked and more intolerable when it is Remembered that a material proportion of the vote by which the Democrats accom- Elished the exclusion of Dakota is obtained y the disfranchisement of 6,000,000 of the Southern population, thus enabling them to cast from thirty-five to forty votes in Congress to which they have no moral title, nor legal title, nor constitutional title, and no title at all except that which is founded upon force and fraud. I know it is regard­ ed by a large number aB useless, if not un­ wise, to continue the discussion of the Southern vote. Bnt in no feature con­ nected with that vote can the end be so de­ plorable and destructive as that the whole nation shonld acquiesce in the outrage. I have only the voice and influence of a pri­ vate citizen, but as long as I have that I will protest against a wrong which not merely biota out all the rights of the colored men, hat absolutely MUM the votes to sA , i« States. [Cheers and Cjfies of ' Rood."] If tti® involved (rifely the exctafeion of the colored nan from the ballot, and thus from the highest right of citizenship, it Would surely be bad enough, but he is marked with the*posssssion of the ballot and his electoral strength is turned to the support of the party whose success is his lasting injury. A Southern gentleman With whom I have long held personal re­ lations of kindness, said to me, with a candor which was an surprising as his lack of perception of the enorm­ ity which he was apparently indorsing, that in a recent election in Mississippi and also in South Carolina, the colored men, who are in a large majority in both States, Jyere actually well organized for the elec­ tion, and would have carried it but for the great activity and vigilance of the white men at the last moment. I said to him, "Did these colored men intend any violence or fraud?" "Oh! no," says he, "but they would have outvoted us if they had the numbers, and it took great exertion on oar part to outvote them." He was apparently quite unconscious of the magnitude of the crime which was involved in the destruc­ tion of the electoral rights of an entire race, and yet this incident shows the extent to which this disregard of natural and legal rights has proceeded in the South. The refusal to allow the colored men to vote, and the cool appropfUHBan of their elec­ toral strength by the Wilts men. has become the common custom and the common law of the South, and will remain so until some great moral shock shall awaken those people to the enormity of the offense. It will read very strangely in the future history of the United States, that a minority of the white citizens of the country could neu­ tralize and destroy the franchise of 6,000,- 000 colored people, seize their represent­ ative and electoral strength, and control the administration of the National Govern­ ment against a large majority of the un­ doubted legal voters. And yet that is what is going on in the Sonth, and what has gone on in the South ever since 1877. Ac­ quiescence in its practice does not change its character, but only involves others in the moral responsibility attending so grave an oflfonse. It is an extraordinary fact that the wealthiest, the most educated States of the Union quietly acquiesce in the wrong of giving the white men of Mississippi and Carolina double the political power in the country that any equal number of Northern white men possess. Government, by the free suffrage of the people, proceeds upon the assumption that the voting shall be legal and fair. When it becomes corrupted, either under the domination of violence or through the influence of bribery, the whole republican system is impregnated with a deadly poison, which, if long continued, will sap its life. [Applause.] And yet we find many gentlemen in the Northern States justly and keenly alive to the evil influence of bribery, even in the smallest and most indirect manner, setting out to check it by the most stringent legislation, and yet constantly turning a deaf ear when it is suggested to them that the corruption of the ballot in certain Southern States is chronic and universal, working dat results that utterly destroy the principle of a ma­ jority government. Let me state the case in an arithmetical way. If you deprive the colored people of the right of suffrage and exclude them from the basis of representation, the Republican party would have had a majority in Con­ gress at any time within the last ten years, and a majority of the electoral strength of the country; or, if you secure to the color­ ed men perfect freedom of suffrage and in­ clude them in the basis of representation, the Republican party would readily have controlled Congress for the same period. But Democratic success has been attained by including them in the basis of repre­ sentation, and excluding them from the en­ joyment of suffrage, thus appropriating the electoral strength of the colored men for the sole benefit of the Democratic par­ ty. When the old Scotch covenanter was stripped of all power to change the current of events against which he decreed, he still had the power to give his testimony and to enter protest. For myself, I said two years ago, and I say now, regardless of its popu­ larity or its unpopularity, looking only to the injustice which oppresses^ and the wrong%hioh outrages, that I will steadily give my testimony and enter my protest against it as a rank and odious injustice to the colpred and white citizens alike. 1 protest against it as utterly destruc­ tive to republican government. I know that I am thus protesting against con­ solidated power in the North, which gets the advantage, and the profit, and the gain of this unjust aggregation of political pow­ er in the hands of Southern white men. When the Southern States can say: "We are solid; we have the entire white vote of our States, and we have seized the colored vote; we offer you a partnership; we offer to any minority of the Northern States that will join us in the complete government of the country," the temptation, I say, is very strong. It imposes upon the party that en­ tertains a proposition for such an alliance, the duty of canying but three or four States in the North, and, when three or four States in the North find that they can ce­ ment the alliance, the temptation becomes so strong that poor human nature is not equal to resistance. Thus, in addition to the power of the white man of the South, Uiev get a portion of the North committed by all the instincts of self-interest, to per­ petuate the odious destruction of free suf­ frage. I do not assume that my voice will be potential in the correction of a wrong so monstrous, of an evil so gigantic, of an injustice so flagrant; but I can, at least, be one of that great cloud of witnesses certain to arise in time, and of that great host, which in the future will find a remedy for the wrong and redress for the grievance. To doubt that the right will, in the end, prevail, is to despair of human justice, and to distnist the eternal law of God. A Kale That Does Net Work Both Ways. It is announced that four Republican clerks who went np to Vermont during the campaign have been dismissed. This fol­ lows closely on Commissioner Black's reported boast that by December 1 there will not be a Republican in his office ex­ cept those protected by the civil-service rules. The dismissal of the pension clerks for alleged activity in politics is not a politic move, because it draws attention to the activity of Federal officials of Demo­ cratic faith. The President's repetition of the Hayes civil-service order was issued in July, but not a Democratic officeholder has been dismissed for violating it, though the instances are almost innumerable It is likely that when the President gets back he will have to confront some notorious cases. Most of them, though, are in the West, and can be ignored with safety. The In­ diana Civil-Service League has made up a formidable list in that State. It will be laid before the President, but since the Hoosier Democrats have veered around to the support of Mr. Cleveland there is little fear that any official heads will fall into the basket. All the Indiana Democrats who have been re­ nominated owe it to the wire-pulling of Federal officeholders. The Postoffice De- Eartmept has on file complaints made by emocrats at North Vernon, Ind., that the Democratic postmaster had abused his official position to further a Congressional candidate's interests. The charges were made a month before Mr. Vilas took his vacation, but nothing has been since heard of them. More recently charges of the saiqe kind were filed against the postmaster at Viucennes. When a Republican post­ master is accused, the habit of the depart­ ment has been to fire him out and investi­ gate the case afterward. It is said that some civil-service reform­ ers in Wisconsin have written, calling at­ tention to the Bragg-Delaney contest there. If this doesn't violate the President's order they don't know what does. The statement is that, besides one of the lead­ ing candidates holding a Federal office, the rival factions are led by a postmaster and an internal revenue collector respectively. -- Washington iBtervlew With Am AgmB Osun , {Little Book (4*k.) Special.] tfo^dpy I had ftn iqjteryiew with Fran­ cis Hungerford, who is confined in the Arkansas penetintiarr charged with making and passing spurious silver coin. He was arrested on the 8th inst. was bound over at a preliminary examina­ tion in the sum of $1,000, and was com­ mitted to prison upon failing to secure bond. He is said to be the oldest counter­ feiter in the United States. He is in all respects a remarkable character. He is 75 years old. His ap­ pearance is patriarchal. Tall and straight, with blue eyes, and with white hair and beard, he looks anything but a criminal. He is intelligent and a good conversationalist, his talk being characterized by discretion rather than garrulity. Pending his trial or release on bond he is allowed the utmost free­ dom, and rambles about the prisonjn- closure when and where he pleases. "I was born in Oneida County, New York," said he, "in 1811. My parents were reputable and excellent people. My father was a farmer, and the early part of my life was spent on a farm. I often recall the past in memory, and without bitterness, too, for there is nothing in my early years for me to re­ gret. I dream sometimes of the old farm-house. It was a queer-looking building, made of wood and unpainted, with a porch in front, and with big stone chimneys on each side. The land around it was rough and stony, and it took hard work to get a living from it. I remained here until I was grown, when I went to Michigan, where I mar­ ried. Afterward I removed to In­ diana, settling pear Plymouth. I lived near that town for forty years. I am well-known all through that section of country. Ask any farmer or busi­ ness man in or around Plymouth about my record, and I guess the answer will be that my record is straight. I am certain I never wronged any of them in any way. In 1880 I was arrested, charged with counterfeiting. Through the malice of enemies I was made the scapegoat of others, and was railroaded into the penitentiary, where I staid nearly two years. After my discharge I came to Arkansas with my wife. I have been twice married. I bought a farm and settled in Lawrence County, near the town of Walnut Ridge. I hoped to end life in this secluded re­ treat in- peace and contentment. But it was not to be. Hl-luck followed me. I was again arrested, some three weeks ago, on the charge of making and pass­ ing counterfeit money, and this is the reason for my being in prison to-day. Well, I expect to give bond very soon. The bond was sent to my wife weeks since, and I know she Mill not rest un­ til she gets bondsmen for me and gets me out. I have only a few years yet to live, according to the laws of nature, and it seems strange that I should be hounded to death in my old age." - Hungerford claims that when tried he can prove his innocence. His state­ ments have aroused sympathy for him, and he is regarded by many as another Jean Valjean. On the other hand, the detectives claim he is a subtle criminal, and that his career, as traced by theic from point to point, forms a chain of duplicity and lawlessness seldom equaled in the annals of crime. Letters from the secret-service division of the Treasury Department at Washington disclose the fact that he and his son, Andrew J. Hungerford, were arrested near Walkerton, Ind., April 6, 1880, the charge against them being counter­ feiting; that each pleaded "guilty," and that they were sent to the Indiana State prison for a term of two years. It is stated that Hungerford is undoubtedly acting with a gang of counterfeit­ ers that is operating in the Southwest, and that he has been directly or indi­ rectly engaged in the business for sixty years. In fact, he said to an officer that the first bogus money he had ever seen was some sixty years since. When arrested the last time he was found by Deputy United States Marshal Faulkenberg on his farm near Walnut llidge. The land consists of 100 acres. It is laid off in fields, inclosed with stake-and-rider-fences. The house is rough, but comfortable, and is half hidden in trees and shrubbery. Every­ thing about the place is neat and clean. Hungerford was in one of the fields. He was tending some stock. He turned pale when the officer confronted him and explained his business. Recover­ ing himself, he led the way to the house. When he and the Marshal en­ tered, Hungerford's wife ran into an­ other room. Her husband called for his coat. The wife instantly reappeared with the garment thrown across her left arm, and with the right hand in one of the pockets. The Marshal stepped forward and seized her hand just as she drew forth a six- shooter. She struggled hard, but he wrenched the weapon from her. She made no further resistance, submitting in grim silence to her husband's arrest. There was an affecting farewell when the old man left her. She clung to tiim, weeping bitterly; then, rallying, She bade him be of good courage, as she would speedily effect his deliver­ ance. Hungerford was deeply affected. He trembled violently, and when he left the house the officer supported him, hia steps being unsteady. He will be tried at the October term of the United States Court, which will be held in this city. " An Anther's Carls. y ' ̂ In lift autobiography Mr. T^rpe¥ writes: Two queer anecdotes I must give about, another form of author-wor­ ship to which we poor vain mortals are occasionally exposed, namely, what Pope called inPelinda's case "The Rape of the Lock." I can remember (as once by Lady in London) more than one such ravishment attempted if not accomplished; but most especially was I in peril at the Philadelphian exhibi­ tion, when three duennas who guarded some lady exhibitors (too modest to ask for themselves) pursued a certain in- dividul, scissors in hand, like Clotho, Lachesis, and Atrophis, in vain hopaof sheared tresses. Had they been, like many of our American sisters, both juvenile and lovely, very possible Suc­ cess might have crowned their daring; or, instead of the three seductive graces, had they posed as three intel­ lectual muses, I might have succumbed; but a leash of fates obliged a rapid re­ peat. And for a second queer anecdote fake this: A cute negro barber had persuaded me "to have my hair cut, to which suggestion, as it was hissing hot weather, I agreed. He had a neat little shop close to a jeweler's. Next morn- ing I passed that shop and noticed my name placarded there, surrounded by gold lockcts, for that cunning nigger and his gilded friend were making a rich harvest of my shaved curia Sambo can be as sharp as Jonathan, when a* free man, if he likes. SHAVING in China ia quarter of a cent, too bay r̂ m A tew days after this, however, while walking hi the suburbs of the city with the interpreter of the English legation, we Same across a crowd of Arabs and Bedouins who were witnessing some kind of a performance or show that evidently was of intense interest. Push­ ing our way through the crowd as bast we could to see what the attraction was, we found another seance of snake- charming in progress^ this time pre­ sided over by two wild, weird-looking Bedouins, who the interpreter informed me were the most famous snake- charmers in the regency of Tunis. The ground in front of them was literally oovered with snakes, of a larger and evidently of a fiercer species than those of the Ethiopian. Several of them, the interpreter informed me, were very venomous, and one of the Bedouins, in a wild, incoherent speech, was en­ deavoring to impress the fact upon his audience, and also that their poisonous fangs had not been extracted. Picking up one of the largest and most savage- looking, he would hold it at arm's length and tantalize it until it would spring back and fasten its fangs into his face or some part of his body. Dropping it, he would then draw out from under his bernouse a small box of ointment and apply it to the wound, which, he claimed, removed all the poisonous effects. By the time he had finished this part of the entertainment the crowd of Arabs had largely in­ creased, and had so far encroached upon the open space or ring where the show was being held that there was scarcely room for the snake-charmers to move about. To make the crowd fall badk, one of the Bedouins adopted a quick and most effective remedy. Grasping from" the ground the ugly fellow that had just been exhibiting its savage nature and venomous fangs, and which must have measured eight feet in length, he commenced running around the ring, and thrusting its angry head into the frightened faces of the spectators. The snake was stand-' ing out in a horizontal line, and the Bedouin was holding it al>out two- thirds the distance from the head. As it came near the Arabs it would spring at them with its wide, open mouth, and its eyes flashing fire in a most diabolical manner. There was no hesitation in obeying the Bedouin's command to fall back. I never saw a crowd gathered around a street show expand so sud­ denly as this. One tall Arab, who was on his knees leaning forward, intently watching the performance, not getting out of the way in time, was seized by the savage reptile, which fastened its fangs into the hood of his bernouse, in close proximity to his nose. During the excitement that followed, and while the two Bedouins were endeavoring to unfasten the fangs of the serpent from the Arab's hood, to which it was cling­ ing with a deathlike grip, the other serpents on the ground commenced gliding quickly away in 'different direc­ tions. close at the heels of the panic- stricken Arabs, who were running different ways, as if the poiBonoos serpents were in full chase, ready to fasten on to their bare feet. Stories About Somnambulists. Dr. Haycock, the eminent Oxford di­ vine, would often rise from his bed at night, give out his text, and, while sound asleep, deliver an excellent ser­ mon upon it. He was frequently watched, but no amount of tugging, pulling, or punching ever succeeded in rousing him. Dr. Macnish, of Edin­ burgh, gives an account of an Irish gentleman who swam more than two miles down a river, got ashore, and was subsequently discovered sleeping by the roadside, altogether unconscious ol the extraordinary feat he had aecom* plislied. Dr. Pritchard had a patient who was particularly fond of horse exeroise, and used to rise at night, find his way to the stable, saddle his horse, enjoy a gallop, and finally come back knocking at his own door in a som­ nambulist condition. He was cured in a manner sufficiently funny to be worth recording--his servants tickled the soles of his feet. The memory of sleep-walkers is oc­ casionally prodigious, under the in­ fluence of the dominating impulse that moves them. Moritz gives an instance of a poor and illiterate basket maker, who was unable to read or write; yet in a state of sleepy vigil he would preach fluent sermons, which were afterward recognized as having formed portions of discourses he was accus­ tomed to hear in the parish church as a child more than forty years ago. Quite as strange a case of unconscious memory is referred to by the eminent Dr. Aber- crombie. A young girl given to sleep­ talking was in the habit of imitating the violin with her lips, giving the pre­ liminary tuning and scraping and flourishing with the utmost fidelity. It puzzled the physician a good deal until he ascertained that when an infant the girl lived in a room adjoining a fiddler, who often performed upon thia instrument in her hearing. On the other hand, it must be admitted that somnambulists occasionally -do very foolish things and make odd mistakes. A young man--of whom Petrus writes --used to get up in his sleep, climb on his castle battlements, Bet himself astride them and then spur and whip the wall, under the impression that he was mounted on his steed.--London Pottt. Smiling Preparations. jn one of his graphic novels the elder Dumas describes the stratagems of two rival cut-throats who have to pass the night in the same cabin, and We in the enunciations of pious sentiments, while under cover of the blankets each whets a sixteen-inch dirk knife. The Gov­ ernments of France and Prussia have played a similar game for the last eighteen- months. They strengthen their frontier posts, improve their breechloaders, subsidize an army of spies, and strain every nerve to prepare for the more deadly, inevitable scrim­ mage, and yet all the while lubrisate one another with smiling assurances of mutual good-will and respect. A Novel Invention. A hollow steel float, eighty feet square, anchored in mid-ocean and bearing a sixty-foot light tower, is the suggestion of an English inventor. He would have this known as a harbor of refuge in distress, or a place for trans- emission of ship news by telegraph, and as a weather station. The saving of cost in cable telegraphing alone by the use of relay instruments on this light­ ship would, in his opinion, be sufficient to pay its current expenses. He under­ takes to provide secure anchorage, stability, and harmless deflection of waves. WHKN ministers begin to make de­ nominational flops • they never know when to stop/ A han has not necessarily got a oold when he talks hone at the racetrack. V. UAIKOB CTATS --Nearly six hundred scLohurs he Clinton schools. --A large beaver was killed ant Hill a few days ago* - . --Danville has a faith-eve Ella Jensen was the afflicted. --Solomon F. Lewis, a business mut af Clinton, died suddenly, aged sixty years. --The Illinois State Fair was not • financial success, there being a deficit of ! $10,000. ^ --At Jacksonville, Teddy Spain aad Ev­ erett Ellis, aged 11 and 13, were smothefed in a wheat bin. --George Powers, a member at one of . the wealthiest families of Moultrie Ooast-' ty, was shot and killed by a tramp. --A hollow lop was found twenty-eight feet below the surface of the ground by • well-digger at Osco. Inside the log »at a fat and frisky frog. --Jacob Scott, a deaf mute, Was •afttag on the Wabash Railway track at Jackson­ ville, when he was struck by a passingtndh and instantly killed. --Dr. Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis, who has been nominated for Governor of Minnesota by the Demociats» is a native of Illinois, having been bom in •. Boone County in 1842. --Dr. and Mrs. John Lecrone, of Effing­ ham, celebrated their golden wedding a few days ago. Dr. Lacrone is Mayor e§ Effingham, and the oldest resident phy­ sician of Effingham County. Fully a thoo- sand people called to pay their respects. --Dr. Powell, of Kewanee, sleeps wiflt his son in rooms over a clothing store. The young man found his father sitting on the ground in the back yard talking to himself a few nights ago. The old gentleman had gone upon the roof in his night-clothes to get cool, and had tumbled off. --George Meliza, a young farmer wW lived near De Witt, accidentally killed hiss- self with a rifle. He waa.going through a field dragging the gun by his side, when the hammer became entangled in soals weeds and discharged the load into his body. --A young lady of Bethany invited a party of friends to witness private thea­ tricals. During the course of the enter­ tainment a wedding took place on tho stage, the hostess being the bride. Before the guests went home they discovered that the marriage was a real one, and that they had been called in to witness it --Thomas Butkin, Jiving near Jackson*. ' ville, was paid $100 while plowing in i- field. He placed the Imoney in his pocket- book and went on plowing. At time he found that his pocket-book was mimng. He then plowed over again the ground which he had plowed during Q|S forenoon. He finally turned out the poekst> book and money. , ";; --Near l>ecatur, Thomas W. Jacobs aad Miss Alice Glasgow were united in maiw , riage. After the wedding supper, the bride and groom and the fifty guests became deathly siok, with indications of poisoning. All the doctors in the district were sum­ moned, and the sufferers were soon out of danger. Chicken which had been prepared in a copper kettle is bettered to haveoaaBii the trouble. --A virulent epidemic has broken oat among droves of hogs along the Kaskaskia River, in Champaign County. It is pro­ nounced hog cholera in its most contagious form. The scourge makes a clean sweep wherever it goes, and thus far hogs to the value of $12,000 have succumbed to it. Among the heaviest losers are D. H. Camp­ bell, David Rice, William Ellous, Albeit Hixson, H. T. Sadorus, and A. Taboiy The ultimate loss will probably rnsiii $25,000. - . The Qutney Soldiers' Homo. •' The Executive Committee of the Soldiers and Sailors' Home celebration have com­ pleted the programme of exercises as lows: , . -tv.P First day, Tuesday, October 19. Xcm- ing--Arrival of Grand Army posts and go­ ing into camp; reception of guests. After­ noon, two o'clock--Regatta on the Missis­ sippi River, races by professional and amateur oarsmen. Three o'clock--Steam­ boat excursion and entertainment to invited guests by the Mayor and City Council of Quincy. Evening--Reunion and electrio illumination at the Home grounds, voeal and instrumental concert, and fireworks. Second day, Wednesday, October 39. Morning, ten o'clock--Parade of soldiery and review by Governor Oglesby. After* upon, two o'clock--Dedicatory exercises at the Home, under the direction of General P. S. Post, Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic; ad­ dress by Governor Oglesby, followed other distinguished speakers, among whom it is expected will be Gen. William T. Sherman, Gen. John A. Logan, Gen. B. F. Butler, Gen. John C. Black, Gen. John A. McClernand, Gen. John M. Palmer, Gen. Martin Beem, Gen. W. B* Anderson, Gen. James S. Martin, Jesse J. Phillips, Senator Cuiiom, sad' others; chorus and instrumental Evening--7:30 o'clock--Grand] street parade with fancy floats aad i and tableaux illustrating American brilliant flambeaux, and Japanese cluba! and display of pyrotechnics; illustration « the city and Washington Park by electrio and gas lights. 8:30 o'clock--1 Bxhibitien of fireworks fiom barges on the Mississippi River, the high bluffs affording places far many thousands of observers; parade of illuminated koats. Third Day, Thursday, Oct. 21--Regi­ mental and general reunion and camp-firs; music, songs and speeches. Break eamp at 3 o'clock p. m. • , «<' A FMAHM ComIUHH. "Look at the countenance of that said Mrs. Isaac Halleck, of 2718 Wi avenue, as she addressed Justioe lf< and pointed to Richard Williams, her dis­ charged coachman. "Your Honor," she- continued, "I can not tell you how it miliates me to have to appear before yon and ask that a villainous coachman bepon- ished for using abusive language temsasid tny family." I*aac Halleck testHed **•»* bis coachman, Richard Williams, had for­ gotten his place and had used profane *»»»- guage, and when he was 1--* Saturday refused to leave the hoosa, and stole three keys to the doors. Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., appeartnt to prosecute, and little Miss Triekell, a New York belle and a nieee of M s. Hal­ leck, said that Chicago coachmen were very horrid, and that the one in question had called her & little "snip," which was in it­ self a sufficient cause that he be lined. Justice Meech heard all the evidence and imposed a fine of $10 on the too fresh lackey. Mr.Douglas expostulated with the* Court, arguing that the fine as a«*e-sed was too small and that the coachman should be severely punished for ti e lmligni'ies to which he had subjected the aristocrats family. Justice Meech was »nu, and, re­ fusing to disturb his ruling, the JN us TICS# ing witnesses left the court room with* poor opinion of p^fex .voiut. jjsstise.-" CXcoso JtmrmmL , , ' * ' i •