Public Ledger from Memphis, Tennessee • 1

The Ledger is the only paper ia Memphis receiving the combined Telegraphic Service the Associated Press United Woas ah4JJle Southern Afternoon Press Bureau The Ledger furnishes the Latest Telegraphic News from all Quarters of the globe Tull Market Be ports and Local Nows of the city and surrounding country TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR MEMPIIIS TENN: MONDAY EVENING AUGUST 17 1891 TEN CENTS PEE WEEK ENGINE COT IN TP A PEEPING TOIL JOHNSON TAILOR Surmounting all is another that of tbe American eagle with out-stretched wings and open beak tiie talooe buried in a rennded glob which rezta noon th flag The carving of thia eagle alone ia stud to have coat $500 The mechanical exeentiou is faultless yet work of high art it is plainly defective to the conception and pose On the eastern face of tiie monument -there is a marble scroll upon which are carved the words Constitution of th United Below is an open book upon which rests a hand A leaf of tbe book appears to be turned down but there ia nothing to indicate the character of the hook except tbe words above Still below are the carved lines Asdekw Johssos i Seventeenth President ot the United States j' Hia faith in the people never wavered -J orovided for two cousins These relatives now old and poor are Hiss Harriet Hubbard and Mrs Jane bra it Their mother Abbie Sherweod was the sister of Wm Bherwood Mrs father For many years these woman supported themselves by sewing but wtien they became too old to work Mrs Hopkins granted them an annual allowance of $300 a year Since Mra Hopkins' deaih she hut failed to provide for Mias Hubbard and Mrs Smith and they are left without income of ahy kind aud the poor-honae stares them in the face They live in Delaware Coonty 00 miles from Ceiskilh Murderous Row Among Boys ShelbyviUe lad Aug Three boys became involved in a row last evening at Mr bouse three milesfrom this eity and two are bow in a dying condition as result Charlie Castner a 20-year-old son of James Castner used a knife on Dick and Bunk Pharea cutting them to pieces end leaving them in dving condition Castner waa arrested and placed ia jail He claims that the Phare boy were the aggressors while eye witnesses aaaert that tie was tbe aggressor irom the start Danger of War ia Samoa San Francisco Cal Ang A private latter from Samoa data July 16 said there was great danger of renewed war among tbe natives Some of the residents bad made arrangement! to aeod the women end children to Laonta at the first outbreak of trouble A strenuous appeal bat been made for a United States wer-abip Tbe only man-of-war there at the tune was a German vessel cited where tbe victim wm the wife of life-long bleed and colabarer ia politic When the vile end painful slander became publicly known th woman in the endeavor to escape the disgrace and sliame bronght to her own bouMhoid ended her career in a sudds and horrible suicide But her eeducar the distinguished man appeared utterly indifferent to the ehamefnl and tragic event which produced profound and shocking sensation in East Tennessee where the parties are known Thera are many facte going io prove the charge against Andrew Johnson that he hated among hie many ether even society ilself Outside of mere political trickeries or theories there is nothing (bowing him to be of th uqe in pur ejmpaihy with toe bondstof exalted character Hu Whole history urplete itb endencaHfnowing his indifference and his contempt for morals tor religion and to all public measures even unless they were connected in some way with po ltical trickery ureanvillt people ill tell yoa that in their eemmuaity where Jchoson lived tor tome forty years ha wm never known to give a dollar to the ciuse of charity to the support of the gospel to the building of a Chrmtiau church or to the erection of uv public work He would contribute fact to nothing except his ewn in-nrdmate to self aa I have heretofore iu I mated It is told of hint that (ini' in tiie pressure of political emipaign when his own reputation was at stake and wtien lie thought he could serve hiaouii selfish ends in the act he subscribed $5(U to a pnhiie improvement Hia action induced others to a a iar anharnnitoo lint when pay day cmiie Johnson refused to honor hut o-digutiiiu bmt was brought against ii-in in court for tiie amount of the tub-scrip I to lie hul pledged and judgment fiually ohtaiued Tue debt wm murium by Mr Johnson's heira indulging in wir humor or the eiegaocias of boa mot He was at home chiefly on historical or poltical schemes or something allied thereto Tbsre was the suggestion constantly recurring of intense selfish interest in ali bit knowledge io all hia attainments Ha teemed to have litti or no us for any pereon or for anything that could not mad h-'o a stepping tona for th feet of hia own ambition This prinopi i well illustrated in that famoua remark of bis that no ammnmtion on the dead He was if I may mpiov the crude metaphor in politic! He was not the sportamaa enjoying the frolic nfter the game lie fired the coot remorseless still shot for maai and what could not loro occupied no middle ground for it waa most frequently retegated to the realm of deepest bate II wm sometimes apparently generous and forgave or played the part of conciliator But no man of his eminence in official position var nourished more bate and jealousies than Andrew Johnson and as I have heretofore said even society itself came in tor a share of his agnosticism Hi contempt for that will be more fully illustrated in a tnceeediug paragraph Let ns zee bow he weal into th mills of the iato that ol Nsmeti especially Th avenging angel visited not once limply but th acoorg cam to Mr Johnson time and again It is a sorrowful history that of his family Of th three bright promising tons born to him all died tiie victim of th same enemy that earned tbe illustrious father th bottle Oua of tbe yonng men wm dear fallow whom I kaew and loved weli On day during ilia war ha topp ed from hi bore on th streets of Nashville Tenn He wm picked ap with a broken skull Andrew JobMoa himself went off on a He had been in the habit of getting bis balance (to use th milder pbraae) shutting himself up in bis room attended alone by faithful servant When iu this condition if roused or approached by others ha would swear like a maniac hurling huge anathemas upon friend and foe alike Doubtless no man ever lived and died having filled many high atations in public life wbo wm followed to his grave by aa faw reallv sorrowing friends Certainly no ax-president ever want off less regretted teas mourned by the public that public (or that which the man in life professed to have loved ao well The small squad attending hia bnriai in Greenville showed in what estimation be was held by tha people who Knew him One now looks in vam about his tomb for any manifestation of hdman losa outside the mere family tie Nor ia thara about bis grave anything suggestive of spiritual faith mercy or immortality Above tba grave of bia daughter Mrs Stover there ia a beautiful rustic cross in pore white marble tha memento of a love daughter now buried elsewhere Behind that grave there is another aad and melancholy history But it ia alt a sorrowful history this history ol Andrew family They are all gone Johnson his wife and all their children rave one and she is ia dreary exile and aolitnde from society shut up in the great gloomy old honrealead in Greenville were informed that the people of Walnut Hill would be given an oar-hue of the story without mentioning names which would not be harmiut inasmuch so many persons already knew of the affair would merely be a matter of time before everybody on tue bill knew the etory This perforce they agreed to This is tbe etory: Tbe house in which the old man hvea ia modern and furnished with exquisite lute and laxuri-ouauess Tbe daughter a lovely young woman brnnelisaome aud hiab-apirited returned tut June from a fashionable New York boarding school In Ibis school she became with a handsome New York girl and three girls from Memphis Teuu These young Lad iea were all eordsUv invited to visit her during Jane and July They came They enjoyed their trip and visit immensely for they were entertained lavishly Parties were given in their honor there were moonlight buckboard excurstont to Kennedy Heights and Ft Thomas end Tuesday end Friday nights they were alwave tbe center of a group of admiring yonng men at the Zto con certs One of th hottest afternoons of the third week in July one of tit young girls the New York mias retired to th bath-room to take a retreabiog dip in the big marble tab She remained ia the tub a half-hour and a a she frequently did before auconactotul admired the rich famishing of the apartment tbe marble tab tbe silver faucets and shower oyex-topped dressing table littered with costly silver toiiet accessories the frescoed ceilings the white tiled walla and tbe great cbeval glass that gilt-framed retched from the floor to within three feet of th high ceiling While enjoying the bath eh heard a noise overhead and looking upward she saw a tine beam of light come through the bronze ventilator in the ceiling directly over tha tub 3 he marveled that aha observed this before sod marveling she saw the beam of light abut off Tuen bs heard a noise asot some on moving overhead and then where the light had been she saw the glisten of a human eye Then she screamed and throwing a batn robe about herself she rushed nto her boudoir Tbe young lady ot tbe bonze wu in the tooai-oBa She listened to tbe story and (flirted oat in search of her father He waOiot to be foupd Then ah want upstair passing tbe coachman and the housemaid coming down Nobody wm on tbe third floor and coming down stairs she found her tether in the library Sbe told him of what had happened to her visitor lie poohooed the story and langbed it otL bite believed that it was a fancy of bar visitor and to told her but that spirited young New Yorkgr would not listen to her sod tbst night packed up her effects and took tha morning train lor home Before she went sli told the young ladies from Memphis and they loft tbe next afternoon The coachman end -housemaid had heard ibe scream and made an investigation They found an unused little room just the size of the bathroom directly over that apartment It was locked bnt the coachman knew a thing or two about keys and human nature and be quickly opened the room He at once uw the purpose of the ventilator That night he had a conference with tbe gray -hatred master of the house When be left tba library he waa smiting After he cam out tbe housemaid went in She too Boon came ont amtling Not many day after that they told tha rest of tha servants that they were going home for a vacation They went the one to England and the other to Then tbe young Irishman and departed smiling and the old man ia in constant terror of Other This ia tbe story that is hidden in Walnut Hill Just how long tbe old man wiil continue to allow himaeif to be blackmailed ie one of those things that time alone will determine For reasons that may be understood from the relation of this story nature are not mentioned In a certain neighborhood in Walnut Hills there is ao necesaitto mention them They are well known already Wiscensie Crop Injured Milwaukee Aug In the central anR southeastern counties the continued drought has rendered the prospects tor the fail harvest extremely discouraging In tiost of tbe counties the pasturage is burned Up potatoes snd garden trnck are seared by the warm dry winds and the ground is ao baked that it ia almost impossible fora team to pull a plow One correspondent says: lived tor forty years on tbe farm and it is the firat summer that I aver was compelled to feed bay and pnmp water tor my In th west and northwest counties the moisture that wm ao fortunately stored in the toil during the early part of the seaspn and whicit carried through the spiing crop to a sue-ceesful maturity ia now pretty wall exhausted The corn and potatoes have greatly felt tbs drought during th last week aud all fall crops have been rendered mnch lees promising Michigan Suffering for Rain Lansing Mtcb Aug 17 The bulletin of the Micbipah service shows that the weather conditions for the last seven days have been generally unfavorable to corn potatoes and beans the parched condition of th sod aud the warm wave has materially injured these crops Ia tbe eastern and northern portion of the Stats heavy rain falls have don much to revive the crops and will greatly belp potatoes in the northern section where the rain wm badly needed In the western part of the State no rain has fallen and corn ia curling up to some extent All section need more rain Tbe Curtain Raises and Delusions as to His REAL CHARACTER DISPELLED Sever Waa Ia Sympathy With The People or Anybody Phase Hi Private Life Sever Before Scandals Well Knawn In Washington and Greenville Th delusions known to exist in the life and character of soma of tha so called great and good men of America present curious problems to the philosophic student ot history No man has gone into history with a greater delusion fol lowing him then Andrew Johnson bad In fact no man ever had a stranger or nun duplex life and character for tiie orld tbsu the famona Taonesaeun Titer wu a certain duplt-x-ty if not what tit world ealla duplicity iu ii-t whole life By those who did not know Mr Jolinsoa intimately aud tbotoughlv he i usually accepted as of the tha common people one who lived in par and foil sympathy and chosen companionship with the vulgar masses one who hobnobed with di-iy and greasy plebeians and the rough uu washed gentry generally and one who moreover looked with pure contempt a pan all forms of social aristocracy Yet litti aa it is known no more arialocrattc disciple of reputed Democracy ever lived in any community than Andrew Johnson wm in th community where had hi home Tba inner life oi tha man wu one ot singular solitariness aud isolation lie Waa unfitted by nature and education tor th dose sympathy companionahip ef any great e-as By bwth he wm among- the lowly in life in one view of th ease Thar wm a cloud over hia birth wltteh wm a constant thorn in hi proud spirit a cloud winch tbe ex-prasldent delicately yet pointedly referred to in his speech at the dedication of a mouumeut in Raleigh a monument which he then characterised as1 being to the memory ef a man Mid to have been my father The young man trudged for year at a trade or vocation wmet offered little or no advantage tor preferment and honor until ha married a woman of some education and above hia level in society But ha wm from the beginning a bold and ambitious spirit c- From bis natural father about whom many stories bare been Andrew Johnson appears to have inherited bis genius bit ambition and intellectual fire generally It will be remembered that tba man went np the ladder of fame gradually by going steauily from tha lowest rung of promotion to tbs very earnout Ha wm no swift meteor that shot into tha political sky iika a rocket The trump of fame startled him not by a sudden blast in tbe morning From a town aldarmaa be arose tbrongu a succession of honors by tbe dint of hia own industry and ambition and singular fortune to th highest niche in American honor In his own seif lay the central moving power in every turn of the political perhaps on event alone wm an exception to tha rule and that wm the move which brought to him tbe presidency of the nation Another popular delusion lies ia ibe belief that Andrew Johnson' wife was of high intellectual acccmplishmentz and of great ambition in life on wbo taught her husband all he knew ol letters aud books generally ia hut early career and who was th prodding instiument behind or tbe vizihl guiding (pint in front fetching tbe husband along th highway of fame Mr Johnson deserves the honor of beint self-taught self willed self-guided The great directing spint of hia -whole career wm with a big 8 ando this fact I shall allude in a future paragraph for in tbia I desire to make a fuller reference to Air Johnson's good wile Hhe wm really a good woman ct great humility and nnpretent'ouauee every way She waa gentle and unambitious Abe was never the power behind the throne which the world ha believed her to have been- Sbe wm never te intellectual superior and yet with her accomplishments site mar have been of some slight assistance to her busnand in his early struggles alter mairiage But she was always plain end unassuming and hence when she became by right ttie mistress of tbe presidential mansion wife of the president she refused to even appear in Washington society her daughter Mis Patterson assuming tbe dunes of mistress of the hite House Tnera was in th reported a canker in the good a canker fed or created as the gossips have said by tbs marital infidelity of her graceless lord Andrew private life Afforded stock and store not alone for the scandal monger of WMlnngton but many Ten-neueeans are painfully familiar witn it In fact there appears to 'have been less secrecy touching some ot the iia-suns of the man elsewhere than there was about tbcSs in Washington A stranger visiting Greenville Teun tbs old home of Mr Johnson and investigating facta will be surprised to find in wbatopea and pronounced detestation the morals and memory of the mao ate held there 1 knew Mr Johnson personally quite weli for a number of years but in the meantime I had imbibed eo many of tbe popular delusions about him and I had kept eo aloof from discussion of bis private life that I was not at ali prepared to hear and believe all that has been told me during a recent sojourn of a few days ia Greenville and surrounding aelghborhood since Mr death One soon learns there that the man had no regard whatever for moral ity or religion lie is even charged with violating tbe chastity of hia own neigh tor's wife A notorious iuataucs wu The Wicked Ways of a Cincin-' nati Sinner A BATH-ROOM VENTILATOR A Social Scandal That Stirred Up Walnut II ilia Why a New York Girl and Three Yeung Ladies From Memphis Abruptly Terminated a Visit The Cineinati Commercial Gazette of yesterday says: "Just three weeks ago yesterday there sailed Irom New York on a Cumrder a smog-faced deep-chested Englishman who for eighteen months past bad been tbs ooscbmsn of a wealthy old widower who with fais strikingly beautiful brunette daughter lives in a picturesque bouse in one of the most exclusive streets ef Walnut II ilia Two days before tbe coachman tailed tor a three vacation hi tbe little English village in which be had spent bis youth one of the boose maids left the Grand Central Station for San Francisco the borne of her girlhood As neither of these bumble domes! i servants ia this bigWalnut Hills had been been particularly saving or bad accutn-mulatod any large at dr of money tba rest ot the servants in the bouse mai-veledwhere they had obtained the money for the expensive trip they were making and marveling goeaiped The gossip gradually took definite for at and quickly spread beyond the house and Irom servant to servant in the ad-joinings bonse percolated uniil it obtained a hearing in regions that are not designated aa below As thagoesip spread the bouse servants of the old man slowly bat surely picked up hreds oi the information These were confirmed aad patched together A confers of the coachman shrewd young Irishman quietly gathered together tbe th tkreua of information and made a story Tbia story he repeated to tbe master of the house with a demand that he has tbe coachman and tbe houae-maid be given a vacation of three mooths wits all hia expenses paid and hi salary for three mouths in advance He succeeded ao influential was tbe story he told sad when be journeyed away from Walnut Hills in fine style tbe rest of tbe servants were amazed They wondered what was th cause of the liberality before that he had a reputation among hie belp ol being so niggardly that be was called Tbe yonng Irishman before he went away told in confidence to a smart-looking young woman the laundress how it was that th old man nad down" and provided for his vacation Tue lanodrea told her best friend and her friend told her friend and so it waa that the story was made semi-public end became a scandal in this particular part of picturesque Walnut Hills The old man who became so observed that be was looked upon with suspicion and abhorrence by hie neigh-bora and it was not long before he became very uncomfortable whenever he board as he frequently did bit beighbore talking about but liberality in sending Lis help to all quarter of the world on a vacation This he beard while coming down town one morning on the cable car He was not the only one whs heard it for one of tbe member of tbe same fashionable Walnut Hills Church in which the old man and hia daughter worship heard too Ha not only heard it but be waa at the pains to mass inquiries and confirm tba truth of what be beard Then th old tronbie began tor it very long before a meeting of the church authorities was called They gathered at the house of tbe amateor detective who had overheard the story on tbe cable car They discussed it thoroughly and aaeured themselves of tha tfuih They held soother meeting last Tuesday nighk To it they sum-mooed the old man He is tall sleDder and stooped with years of bending over desk tn bis counting room His hair ia white and a long beard whiter even than his hair hangs from bis face and lias over bis Header chest in a patriarchal iaabion that is very fetching The story waa put point blank at tiie old man He denied it firat with mum indignation Proof was quoted names of witnesses who had beard the story directly from tbe coachman and the stablemen-were mentioned and then the old man broke down and- with tears in his eyes confeised the truth of the scandal He pleaded that no formal action be taken against him that charges be not preferred to expel him from his church and hia cravmgi tor mercy became piteous when be told how pub lieity would break his heart and drive him and her from the city The men who were listening to th trembling tearful confessing old sinner weighed this plea for mercy on account of the daughter and after a consultation agreed that no charger should be preferred to expelhitn from tbe ebdreb This action they took because as one of the gentlemen a big manufacturer in the bottom said will be impossible to keep the story out of thq He waa a wise man lot it would bava been even with the pledge of secrecy they all took A reporter picked np the threads of th story early last week and slowly gathered them together He approached one of tbs men who had beard the old confession and bluntly told him of his information Then there wu excitement A messenger wu hastily dispatched for two other men who had been at tba meeting But one of them could be found and be came in burry in a cab Tuen the reporter wu bluffed threatened and bulldozed aud be finally agreed to take the via of it which had bean taken by tbe churchmen at the meeting That wu that it would ruin a voting life This waa the poiat and he humanely accepted it They told him that they did not want anything published about thescandaibut Another Railroad Horror Ia Switzerland TWELVE BODIES RECOVERED An Excursion Train Itunlntoby The Paris Express Express Loaded With Foreign Tonr-ists Shot Through Like a Meteor And AH Wm Over Berne Aug The people of this republic have hardly recovered from tiie railroad scare caused by the terrible accident at Jdoencheostein one day last week by which thirteen people on an excursion lost their lives and about thirty were wounded were again atartled by another wholesale loss of life by reason of a railroad accident This last disaster occurred on the Jura Simplon P-silroad line near the village ol Zolli-koffen not iar irom this eity The details ot the accident as reported here up to present writing are trust A train carrying a large number of exeur-stongiats irom the country districts to this dty was on its way here fthe passenger to take in the fetes which are now in progress here and elsewhere throughout Switzerland This excursion train was stopped at ZoilikoHen in order to enable it to be shunted into a siding so as to let tbs Pans express by Home gross negligence apparently upon the part of the railroad officials the Pane train laoea with foreign travelers wag not warned to look out for tue excursion train while passing ZoilikoUen and the result was that the express crashed into the excursion tram Luckily the engineer of the express had caught sight of the excursion train la time to put down thd brutes and to the damage done and the loss of Ufa was not so great as it might have been As it was the engine "hi the express ent in two and almost entirely demolished the guard van at the rear of the excursion tram which were empty and then crashed to the rearmost oar completely wrecking it and causing considerable loes of life At this hour the exact lose of life is not known but twelve corpses have already been recovered from the ruina and it is known that many people have been eenousiy injured by the collision No lose of iife baa been reported in connection with the passengers of the Paris expreas and therefore it is lieUeved here that they all escaped 4 i'll" 1 Til El' FORKED IT OVER A Chattanooga Gambler Creates iTSensv tiou in Dayton 0 Dayton August During the past three or four days a stranger who claimed Chattanooga ai bis borne has been playing faro at thegambilng rooms attached to palaual saloon No 10 South Main Street and lost large sums of money About noon yesterday be entered the Moms Steve and Bill Lecompte well-known gamblers and Wagner Sr were tbe onlt occupants of the room Polling out his revolver be ordered Wagner to band over the bank roll will kill two of you and then shoot my grimly said the rohbar The roll amounting to $103 was handed oat and he coolly made his escape 'presenting his revolver at several persona who attempted to detain him No trace of him has yet been found He had called on Wafener earlier in the day asking for $20 to get oat of town This money was given him and be tigned the name Paling to the receipt and said be waa irom Chattanooga Tenn where his business bad been burned out and the money be lost playing faro yesterday waa part of tbe insurance money be had received The sen itien has temporarily caused the closing of all the gambling Louses in the city There will probably be no great effort made to arrest the man BAD WELL WATER Kills Two Persons and Twenty-Foar Others Seriously lit Milwaukee Wis Ang As a result of drinking water front a foul well two persons bava died and twenty-four are ill some of them so critically that the doctors have given up ail hope of their recovery Tbe well is on tbe premises of Jacob Baesai living at tbe corner of Bnrleigh and Sixth Streets and beyond the reach of the water eyatem For a long time tbe well baa furnished the drinking supplv of a half dozen families in the neighborhood Last week about all tbe members of tbs families parts a ing of tbe well water became ill and their ailment soon developed into typhoid fever John Eugal a married man died Thursday and a daughter of Jacob asset on whose premises tbe well is located ia also dead Bat a short distance from premises is marsb the water from which ia supposed to have worked itself into the well and tlins contaminated the water Tea Chinamen to Be Returned Port Townsend Wash Aug Ten Chinamen were arrested on Wnidb Island Saturday and taken before United States commissioner who ordered them returned to China Tbe raid was planned several weeks ago numbers ol Chinamen having appeared on the island recently which caused the residents to complain Inspector Mann who was stationed on the island called Agent Mulkey of the treasury to his aid and the raid was made baturdav Tire Chinamen were found scattered about tbe bland working on farm leased by Chinese farmers A Millionaire Pear Kia New York Aug The World says: Daring her lifetime the widow of the California millionaire Mark Hopkins Tbe date of birth (1808) and death (1875) are also given but there ia something aingularly enigmatic in th epitaph for no one ever knew precisely what ie meant by faith in the people never Above the vault of Mr Johnson are these words in addition to date birth and death Eliza Johnsox Erected to the memory of onr It ia to be supposed from this that tbe monument wm erected by tbe tomriog children of tbe ex-preaident two of whom died since the'death oi th Mr Stover and Andrew Johnson Jr Tbe latter died leaving a beautiful young widow who married aoon afterward sbe selecting a Northern man greatly her anponor in age and fortune tbs party leaving immediately tor Europe Andrew Johnson died leaving a for In ae of more than $100000 ao it in claimed The heira expended some $10000 on the monnment to the memory It is (opposed that they were wall ratiafled that thair work would be the only monnment ever erected to )ha man Of one thing we may feel quite sure unless there ia great change in the feelings of the American people Andrew Johnson ie one dead American to whose memory no public monument of any great value Will ever be reared He is not how sufficiently embalmed in the hearts of his countrymen for them to ever trouble themselves either in puree or feeling for any further public manifestation ovor his name Titers is no political party now ia the United State which cares to perpetuate his memory snd you rauuot find st his old home in Greenville Tenn hall a dozen men or women who knew him who would give a copper were it necessary to rescue his name from oblivion There is curious and interesting bit ef Andrew Johnson's history which I have never seen in print Tbe man selected bis burying ground many yrars before death com to him the selection indicating even then the proud aristocratic isolated spirit He made efforts to bean'tfv the spot On tit little area where he expected to rest after trie filul fever of life wm over he planted some willows from sprigs brought from the grave of Napoleon tiie Great st 8u Helena The willow trees were grow ing beautifully when the civil war broke out bnt tbey were ali destroved by the homes of some cavalrymen while Johnson wm refugee from Greenville I have thought that there was something singularly prophetic and areuging in the destruction of those willojra it was the hand of tbe Confederacy which destroyed BIr Johnson's reminders of glory and sorrow from tns firat grave of the greatest Napoleon It was Andrew attitude toward the Confederaev which brought him aecidentnly and perhaps nufortuuately for the Booth sad the whole to the presidency And the fall of the willows was symbolical of tbs fall of Andrew Johnson Moose Philadelphia Weekly Times LOCAL BREVITIES Memphis 233 fc2l2 2i St The best $300 shoes on earth are sold by Zelloer A Co A writ of lunacy was issned this morning in th Probate Court tor Mary Simmons A Mrs Pag and a parly of friends who made tbe round trip fo Rk Louts on an Anchor Liner returned thia morning A horse and haroess stolen from tiaou of La Rose Street last week was taken np this morning by a neighbor and turned over to tbe authorities No clew to the thief bas been obtained The harness wm found on the horae -Blemphis is to hav another military compauy It will bs organized next month and will be composed of quondam members of the Montgomery' Guards who are chiefly members of the Amateur Athletic Association It is expected that the company wilt be organized snd nsmed on September 15 Tha meeting of the Tennesss Diviion of tbe Protective Association Saturday night wrs sparsely attended but there was much business transacted Tbe SDplicstion tor a local post st Jack-son Tenn by traveling man from that place wu granted The post will be opened th second Saturday in September Mr Wooten was robbed Sunday morning about 2:30 on Missis- sippi Avenue of $50 by two burly negroes who sprang opon him and with drawn revolvers demanded money As soon they secured their booty tbey moved off bolding tbeir pistols noon Mr Wootsn until tliev disappeared No clew to them Um yet been obtained Johnston A Co Jewelers 413 Main Street between BlcCsil and Beal in the City EJ Saltmarsh of Chicago arrived in the city this morning and will-remain here several days on a visit He is tiie son of ex-Station-lIonse Keeper Salt-marali who ia wanted hora iormb-zlement He formerly lived in Msm-phu i Crept Damaged in Illinois Belvidere III' Aug 17 The burning sun has baked theground until it is bard as a rock Thaeora is in th milk and the drv weather ia shriveling up both the ears and (talks It it donbtful li there will be one quarter ef a erop Carried Out to Sea He Pinnies Into the Adriatic Drowned In Sight of a Hsrrifiei Crowd At the Bailees Shot Out of Sight In Empty Space Borne Ang Balloon ascenatons corns of them resulting in loss of lit have recently been reported from vari-ous parts of Europe in fact such cidsnts seem to be becoming quite common and thty tend to indicate that tbe passion for aerial experiments ia increasing to sn alarming extent The latest aerial disaster is reported from Macsrts capital of tbe Italian province of the same name about twenty mile from Ancona Macerata ia situated on ao eminence above tbe Potenzs small river emptying into the Adrtarie and la situated midway between tboAppenmes and the sea It will thus be seen tost Macerate was conveniently situated for balloon ascensions end its neighborhood afforded good sight-seeking spots for the peasantry and others of lb neighborhood who gathered there in large numbers yesterday to witness tbs exploits of dariog balloonist who bad acquired fame by frequent previous aud successful ascents All went well at the commencement of the exhibition snd the balloon i tsonded amid much applause and enthusiasm snd sweot grandly toward tbe bine waters of tbe Adriatic It waa not tbe intention of tbs aeronaut to be earned out to sea so be attempted to descend and was seen to be vigorously pulling at tbe exhaust or safety valve Tbe rope of tbe latter however seem to work properly snd tbe balloon and its occupant were slowly butstsadily carried outward Finally tbe balloon was seen hovering ovr tbe Adriatic and a cry of horror arose (rim the crowds who had followed the cruise of the balloon when the aeronaut was so suddenly seen to fall headlong from the car and after whirling headlong over twice or three times in the air he fell into the tea and was drowned before some fishermen who pat out to reacoe him had lime to reach tbe nnfortuuate man Tbe balloon relieved of its human ballast shot opward into tbe slouds aad was eventually lost to view Will Bs Held for Better Prices Fort Dodge lo Ang The farm erg of Northwestern Iowa are besieged by an army of agents of Eastern sieve tors commission houses etc who wish to contract tor all threshed snd un threshed crops for September and October delivery Lower prices than those of last year are offered on tbe strength of tbe general bountiful bar vest Many of tbe farmers have tbns sold their crops in advance but tba majority have heard of tbe shortage in European conn men and will bold their grain for higher prices It is tbonglit that the bulk of the crop in this viem ity Will not bs marketed until a month later than nsoal this rear Additional River News Cairo Iff Ang 17 Arrived: City of Providence St Lome 11 pm Departed: City of Providence Natchez 6 am River 1 2 feet 3 inches and falling Cloudy and warm Louisville Kv Ang River falling with 2 ieet II inches ea tbe falls and 5 feet inches in the canal Clear and warm Freight Brakemrn Strike Lafayette Lid Aug 17 Tbs freight brakrmen on tbe Lake Erie Western Railroad struck last night on a qneation of pay for over-time Between 15d and 230 men are involved in it and no trains left tna city last night A Krw Yicar-General to Be Appointed New York Ang Archbishop Corrigan bas announced that owing to the iH-bealth of Vicar-General Preston be win early in September appoint a new vicar-general Tbe British Bank Suspends Melbourne Ang The tnspension of the British Bank of Australia ia announced The liabilities are $300000 half of which is owing to creditors in after bis detth and th events of there two paragraphs are now mattera of public history in Greene Countv Icnn Let ns tarn from their contemplation to hia public career and aee how it is marked by delusions From th word Andrew Johnson pandered to a low demigoguiag spirit and finding it popular he always affected to espouse cause of tbe as ba wm pleased to terra the matter It was however the cause of self that he nourished so assiduously ia heart and practice He never hod any sympathy with tha common psopltonly be could um them at the ballot-box If anyone in search of troth or of fteta in support of these assertion goes tothe village oi Greenville where th man had hit home and where he wm thoroughly known and understood that one will soon learn if inquiries are mad touch iug the matter that the wily politician rcaily never had those warm end cordial feelings toward the populace that inspire and actuate those who in reality carry th common people close to the heart Andrew Johnson wm so sublimely aad completely indifferent to bis neighbors even that ha would never onlv on rare occaaioua speak word of politeness to bis own country or townspeople on the streets of the village If he met a special old one with whom be thought might be useful to him in a campaign-ha would taka him by the fingers and chat with him a bare moment anj than he would burry on to hia home or to some ether objective point Tbe man however bad a certain cod -thodiuai politeness which ha me ed out to all alike he would bow half stiffly touch bis bat with a finger and then pas on in a speed that waa characteristic ot hia tiVeiess energy His salaam hi courtesy forced through politeness wm not nnlrequeotly attended with a smile half obsequiousness that in the lorn of back to back would soon change into on of aupercilions acorn or contempt the man knowing that there waa a greit chasm between his mind sod purpose and tliosd oi Ibe individual just passed Old tuners about Greenvin will remember Andrew snear sneer ohe-i given friend as weli as foe Washington Ciiy people also have vivid recollections of Us picinre th caribatonttt oi his tim bav given some strong and quant illustrations especially at tha urn he waa swinging around th circle with Gen Grant I was in Naw York City at the time the cavalcade paraded np Broadway One of th very largest and most conspicuous ot tha banners displayed on the street in honor of tbe occasion was covered with an immense caricature of Mr Johnson showing tint zueer while close by were tbe famous words of tbe Southerner uttered before he bail reached tbe White House: I were president of these United Slates I would bang Jeff Davis and Bob Lee higher than The man hod then reached the presidency but Davis and Lee had not been huag The world knows how Mr Johnson could carry trump in any game which he wished to play But the man he had taken under his wing at that time ia the swing around the circle would not play into th presidential hand and it wm he who had Mid so plainly: bang Lee not any one else protected with my Ibe world now tenders tbe rest also For the intellectually great and the suave gentleman of society Andre Johnnon had a positive and irrepressible hatred and contempt- Tins feeling was foundel on boh jealousy and envy Whenever li wu compelled by forced circumstance to associate with such people he would as is weli known hegmle the time and biz scorn aa mack as was possible with conversation of political character in which his own hobbies or isms Were uppermost in which his own self often played both hero and valet Although he had atronly-storad mini) he was not tha geuisl convaraationalret Who plays in vivacity with hgut passing subject while bar husband lives some seven miles away in another residence he a pitiful palsied old man a physical wreck once an honored brilliant judge and a senator of the UniteJ States now fallen before tbe Mine terrific curse which swept stay the head -ot the family and three talented boyz two of these going at S3 and ooe- 26 They all aleep now on aingularly beautiful emintnoe about a mile away from tbe county court-bout iu-Green-h 7 Andrew contempt for the test of the world never bad a more striking expression than in his selection of his ewn burying place Thia is on the summit ot a high point of land a gracefully elevated mound almost eons wu just enough level surface at the apex for the dr cent disposal of the remains of himself sod his immediate household It away from tiie cannot be aeea from any of its principal thoroughfares But tiie passenger on tiie East Tennessee Riilwar train gets a good view of the hill and ita monument from a near-by point a mile west of town Tbe glimpse after all ia only momentary It is a fleeting bali-ahadowy vision Tbe whole thing embracing Mr entire history ia aomething that one does not care to linger over iu loving respectful memory Tbe solitariness and aristocracy oi the character is folly i lastrated bv the spot where reel tbe family remains There were other places just beaut i foil aad just ai desirable for the private cemetery and overlooking th main street of the village But it appears as though the mau did nut car to be buried among the rest of the common herd of hnmaoity certainly he would cot permit hia bones to be interred where the monument to his memory could be seen by the people wbo walk tbs streets of hia old Greenville hoin And this is the man wbo in life desired to create the impression and did create it where he was not known that he wm the lover of the common people History certainly presents no more striking delusions than are revealed in the donble life of Andrew Johnson There la a splendid and besuiifu ly wrought monument over the remains oi Mr Johnson aud hit wife The twain he there side by aide in death A para white marble shaft rises above them some thirty feet high It rest upon an unique granite base with two pedestals The main shaft ia a gracefully tapering square monolith upon the summit ot which there is the effigy oi tbe American flag with stars aud stripes iu graceful festoons carved happily in the mar Great Crop Cedar Rapids Io Ang Never before has Iowa harvested such a crop of cereals as it will thia year The oat crop is immense It will average easily 63 to 70 bushols and in many places will go io 100 bushels to the acre In addition to thia oata will weigh from 30 to 40 ponnds to tbe bnsbe) This great crop ia causing railroad officials no little trouble All the railroadyar bringing a large number of grain care in order to be prepared for the haziness when the movement of grain sets in Sam Jones says all tbe devils in hell cannot atop him from speaking There are times when it would aeera proper tor the devils to interfere Tihkkssee Iron A Wire Worts 415 Second 8 mfra beat lencea and acres ns.