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Show THE SALT LAKK TIMES. MONDAY. AUGUST 25. 1890 . EMPIRE : MEAT : MARKET. ED.TlillUOBOP. Afllor.KSALK ano retail dealer In Choirn V Hpef, IVirk. Veal, Lamb and Kansws nt all kinds. All orders delivered from No. 31 8. West Ternplu. GREAT BARGAINS A T THE FAIR t ... THIS MONTH: V : - - V,- ':" . ' Umt - $ .75 worth $1.25 Yen Hpi Tea, per lb $.51 win. iancii 1.80 " 2.M 3 gt. Ice Greana Freezers . " j total Japan Tea, per 11 .44 " .75 - 4 Slice Cream Freezers 1.50 total Japan Tea, " .75 ". . 1.25 6 t. Ice.Cream IMbb 2.00 " i. Green Jap Tea .30 . " - .51 Ice Talipes .10 " TVincA CrCiCfcdr6FirstQuatity-- Call and examine them and j.lit?at; numerous other Bargains we offer our customers. THE FAIR. 13 west First South St. SALT LAKE MEAT CO. Wholesulce Dealers in Dregurd Beef hx, Mutton, Veal, Smoked Meats and Swift's Hams. Bacon & Lard KOLAKD k SAMPSON. Cor Third Huutli unit Fifth Wett Streets. KELLY & COMPANY Printers, Blank-Boo- h Makers and Stationers. No. 4 0 W. Hccoiicl fcioutri St. Bait Lake, - Utali Our facilities for dolug Mrsl-Clas- s Job Print-ing are of tlie ntiweat and beat. Books Killed. Printed and Bound to Order. Samples of Kailrotul, Mining, Hank and Mer-cantile Wnrk always on hand. Complete line of Otttco Huppliex, embracing the most approved Jahor-Savln- and Kcouoinical Inventions. Prices Low. Call on Us. 0. VAN BUSKIRK. OFFICK Of T. C, STEB3M3 TliiifiiiiEiislirlliiFPsteiitfiii. GENERAL REAL ESTAlE BUSINESS TRANSACTED. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO TBS FORMING OF SYNDICATES. AGENTS FOR EASTERN CAPITAL We do not handle SNAPS, but GOOD BAKGAINSJ EXPEIilKNCKD OI'BICATOfiS and Menibyrs of the RKAt Estate EXCHANGl I79 MAIN STREET, corner Second South. Pabst Brewing Coif (Formerly PHILIP BEST) MILWATJBEB, WIS. Export, Bohemian, Hoffbrau and Select Blue Ribbo Keg and Bottled Beers shipped immediately upon order. THE FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED FREE DELIVERYI TELEPHONE 355 B. K. BLOG H anD Co., ST. Agenta GEORGE A. LOWE, Dealer in All Kindi of First-Clas- s -- Agricultural Implement- s,- 6CHUTTLER FAFM AND FIIEIGIIS WAGONS, ColmlsInto. Mm aidMCarls of every description. ' Steam Engines, Leffel Wheels. ..... WAREHOUSES ' STATE R0A1) BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND SOUTH. .DEALEBSI- N- ' . Sole Agents for James Means' $3.00 Sill Spencer & Kimball, 160 Main Street. J. M. STULL & COMPANY, PIIE INSURANCE AGENTS First-Cla- ss Board Companies Represented. No. 22 East First South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. E. SELLS, J. TUCKER. H. W. SELLS Sells & Corripany, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Lumber. First South street, opposite 14th Ward Assembly Rooms. P. O. Hox 1078. Old Pioneer 1'arU of Armstrong & Bagley. -::- -W. J. KING-::- - Dealer In TINWARE & HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. 279 Sontn Main Street, ; Salt Lake City, UtaS, U TO --AT .fj PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH .and SOUTH THE CITY TICKET OFFICE. Union Pa SYSTEM. MOUNTAIN DIVISION The Only Line carrying tho UnttM Stii Overland Mail. Direct Connsctioat all Points North and u NEWT) ME CARD Ullill CENTRAL DISTRICT. THE JE16LE MMX iiVD MACHINE COMPANY TilHmo 311; : . : 424 1VBT FIRST SOUTH, r : V. 0. Box 185, nssenger l rains Arrive and leave at SaU Lake City as follow: HtOM TD KOBTH. NORTH. GOING ' UNleUu--- : . j and Utst, Sorttem local t Ji 10:o0a.m- r.xpross... - PanawdBtwkstMiii f?r Atlantic and Portland & Butt? m from the Local Express. south - goiso SOUTH. MilfordExpress Juab. Frovo. Irontin'aridFn" SM,,a-In- . Juah. Provo. Lehi,- itrontou and M r.,n . rt'ka Express r?ka Express - i u : r......4M.p.rn. M.lford Express Totals, a-- a. XTeVada "iDistaist. GOING WEST. - , For Garfield Beaca, duily FROU T:jB.,,rESt- - ,va From Garfield B.-ja-, " " iv.Ujl.u - 3:?m - " .. v . 4:4op.m " S' WKCpLES' C.T. RESSEGUIE, Ajsnt. ,.;..'. . General Utah ai Montana MacMnery Company C. P. MASON, Manager Headquarters for all Classes of Maclto, Eock BreakcrOVaU's Rolls, 'ingersoll Air Cbmif"' eating Oils, Mine, MilUnd Smeller Supplies, SilL, Gold and Conceat Ig Mills erected and delivered in running ordur. Mail Glee and farcroma 259 S. Main. Street, Salt Late U. S. AGENCY, BUTTE, MONTANA.. ' ' NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT, If you're told to do a th Inff, And mean to do it really, Jiever let it be by lmlvos; Do it fully, finely. ' Da not make a poor excuse, ' Waiting, weak, nrahwdr; jj AU obedleuce worth the name ' Must be prompt and ready. i Jf you're toM to learn a task, ' And you Hhould berin it, , Do not tell your teacher, "Yes, I'm coming in a minute." . , not moments nor your word f In telling what you could do f i.no other time; the present is . . ' for doing what you should do. r. Boot do right uuwillinxly, i And stop to plan and measure; Tin wort-in- with the heart and Soul Tit makes our duty-pieeiure. pjboabe Carjr; fessor of hick, the'race has been ierpct-nate- d and can still be found at Monaco, but it was then abundant in Paris. What will never be Been again, it is to be hoped, is a criminal trial like that of the blind man whom the baronne cursed. The Mardi Grns which followed Feb. 15 that poor devil bundled up his little traps at nightfall and prepared t regain the Hospice deg Quinjse-Vingt.f- i. For mom than twenty years he had occupied his place on the Pont an Change, which he had come to consider his personal property. Jin was between 50 mid GO, still straight and vigorous. Blind at, birth ho had commenced life by begging in the street. Later he had succeeded in getting admitted to tho Qninze-Vingl- s, and thanks to some municipal protection he bad acquired the privilege of occupy-ing the oomor of tho Pont au Change ' A CELEBRATED CASE.. ' - The yonthof the present know nothing of the fine tiroes of the Royal lottery. One must be vwy near tho sixties to re-member the (meets of white pasteboard, cm which the drawn numbers appeared in enormous figures, the cries of tho ticket sellers tho day before the drawing iud the serenades executed tli" day after .beneath the windows of the winners. This institution of anwther age disap-peared in 1357 with tho public games, ,mt in 180!t it was in operation in all the largo cities of France, and in Paris tho line where the lottery had ite headquarters, presented three times a month the 5th, 15th and 85th a emiooH spectacle. The 15th of February of that meuiora-hl- e year which was to finish with the battle of Anaterlitz tlw crowd, as usual, besieged the door of the hotel in which the drawings were made. Noon hud Inst struck, and tho late comers who Lad been unable to get in were impa-tiently awaiting the decree of fortune 5 n the street. At 12:15 the door opened and the official criers began to shont the , live nnmbors which the innocent band ' of a child had drawn from tho urn 50, 86, 44, 85, 11. Tho player received with groans and hisses, for fate fliad not favored a single ono among , poor people. For some jninntea ' iMre was a frightful din. Then tho r throng began to scatter into all the streets, and the quarter gradually F resumed its customary aspect. and the Quai des Lunettes. Every morn-ing he installed himself there, returning to tho hospital only in tho evening; The Hevolntion had not changed his habits, lie had been indifferent to the riots and the executions. Daily, during tho terrible years 1793 and 17M, the carts loaded with victims emerged from tho eonciergerio ten paces from where he lat. Th grinding of the wheels, the shouts of the soldiers and the vocifera-tions of the crowd warned him of "the pasnngo of the condemned without caus-ing him to suspend the piercing music of his clarionet. It is true that the ex-citement of the spectacle had no existence for him. He heard the Terror, but did not see it, This man, whom all Paris knew, called himself Philippe Bellimger. With time be got together a little competency and led an eay life. Begging was not his sole resource. He carved wood with much skill and made trifling objects, which he sold to jiafr-cr- by. But (lie major part of his revenue was gained by less avowablo means. He was reputed to be gifted with the precious faculty of divining the winning numbers in tho lottery. Bellanger hail many customers to whom he sold infallible combinations. Two or three drawings in which chance favored him had given him vogue, and in iHOU the blind man of good lurk, as he was styled, excited tho envy of all his confreres in blindness. In the rarly days of his prosperity P.ellanger had employed a certain Widow ( 'apulet, who served as his guide, and a of his dungeon he sold millions of num-bers. Everybody bought them. The gendarmes, the jailers, and even the judges demanded combinations from the unfortunate man whom the scaffold was about to render infallible. Bollanger applied for a new trial, but bis application was rejected on the 7th of June. The baronne tripled . her in-vestment in the lottery drawing of the 15th. On the morning of the 10th criers spread about tho streets, shouting, ac-cording to the wretched custom of the period: "The decree condemning to the penalty of death a certain individual well known in Paris, Philippe Bellanger b- - name, will be executed today upon the Place do Greve, etc." The time fixed was 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Already the prisoner had arrived at the conciergerie and commenced to suffer tho anguish of the last day of a con-demned man. The Place (le Greve was packed with the curious. The guillotin-- j was erected. Meanwhile Maitre Leboil and Maitro Colin had conceived ths idea of endeavoring to obtain b reprirTO for the blind man. The etupeior alone had the power to pardon and, two months liefore he bad quitted Paris with the em-pre-for Milan, there to be crowned k'ng of Italy, but in his absence the chief justice could suspend the exec-ution. A retired actor named Beaulicu bore a petition drawn up by the two lawyers to him, and his excellency con-- I scnted to submit tho case to his majesty. It was time. The clock showed a (juarter past 3. The toilet of the con-- i deinned man was finished. Old Sanson, the executioner, hud given the signal to his assistants, and tlie proceasion was about to start for the Place de Greve, whtiii the order to stop proceedings ar- - rived at tho conciergerie. Bellanger fainted from joy on hearing the news. He was taken back to Bicetre and the crowd dispersed on seeing the scaffold pulled down. The baronne soon learned what had happened and was terribly enraged. The drawing of the 15th of June, which was not favorable to her, put ths finish-ing touch to her exasperation, and she declared that she had renounced the lot-tery. At that period it took nearly fifteen days to hear from Milan. Tho public, persuaded that the reprieve was equiva-lent to a pardon, paid no further atten-tion to Bellanger. People thought so lit tin about him that on the morning of June 2H the passers who saw that the guillotine had been erected during the night, on the Place de Greve asked them-selves what criminal was about to die. They did not remain long in uncertain-ty. A few minutes before 9 the- cart rattled np and the crowd cried out, "It's the blind man! It's Bellanger!" It was he, indeed The pardon had been refused at Milan, and tho chief justice, severely reprimanded for having granted a reprieve, had hastened to fin" ish matters. Bellanger reached the foot of th scaf-fold. A shiver ran through the crowd when he mounted the steps with the hes-itating and heavy tread of the blind. His pale face and sightless eyes appeared for an instant above the knife, which came down rapidly. They heard a lond cry, a hollow sound and all was over. Thus died the blind man of good luck, and this is one of the singularities of this strango history his sad fate in-spired very little sympathy, if we may judge from the newspapers of the time, which unanimously approved the execu-tion. Perhaps the deceived lottery gamblers were bitter against him. (Certain it i3 that by dint of cursing him tho baronne fell ill. Hhe remained nearly a month in bed, inveighing against pardoned blind men and against the lottery, and, as she never read anything but the offi-cial list of the drawings, she was ignor-ant of Bellanger's death. On the 5th of July, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, she was up for the first time when some one knocked violently at tho door. She opened it herself, for she had no servant, and Marseelle Pere, the pro-fessor of luck, threw himself upon her neck, shouting: "Victory! You are rich! As I told you it would , your combination came out at the drawing which followed the exe-cution!" Ho showed her a paper on which were five numbers: "Unfortunate wretch that I am," mur-mured the baronne, "I forgot to buy my tickets!" She stretched out her anv.g, her lips stammered tho three numburs which would have enriched her 13, 87, 88 her limns stiffened and her face grew ghast-ly pale. Tho professor of luck sprang forward to support Is.lt, but ahe fell backward. She was dead. The combi-- , nation of throe had killed her. Fortune du Boisgobey; translated for The Phila--, deiphia News. youth nnmed rinson, who drew the little wagon loaded with the trifles ho fabri-cated. Tho widow and the lad fell in love with each other and got married. After five years of faithful service they had abandoned the blind man to go to housekeeping, and tho poor devil, re-duced to the company of his dog, had experienced n considerable diminution of his receipts. A bitter animosity was engendered in the blind man by this. Ho did not show it, however, and re-mained on terms of intimacy with tho Pinsons. On the evening of Feb, 25, 1803, tho Mardi C4ras already mentioned, as ho was making his way to- the hospital, ho stopped at the Faubourg Saint Antoim,, where his former servants lived. He en-tered the house, saying that he had come to warm himself for an instant and drink a few drops with his friends. He took from his groat coat different objects which he placed on the flcxr besido tho stove, among them a bottle of brandy. After drinking, the blind roan took up his property and went away, remarking that he wa in a hurry. , After his departure Mmo. Pinson was about to put in the fire a bit of wood which was besido the stove when she saw fall from it some black grains which seemed suspicious to her. Her husband, on closely examining it, discovered thut the bit of wood was hollow and filled with gunpowder. The opening had been very deftly concealed by stopping it np with a big plug. The couple uttered cries of fright which attracted the neighbors. They talked the matter over and decided that the infernal machine could have been brought only by the blind man. He alone had been thore and, no doubt, had hiildim it under his coat. The Pinsons had no great love for him and did not hesitate to deneunco him without delay to the commissary of police. An hour later, Bellanger, who was sleeping tran-quilly in his chamber, wus arrested, thrown into a fiacre, taken to the forco and jailed on the charge of attempted assassination. This might bring him to the guillotine. The chances of the bar-onno-'s combination were looking up. Two months afterward the blind man of good luck was still in prison and was preparing for his trial at tho court of assizes. His surname had become bitter-ly derisory. The authorities had been minute and malevolent in thoir investi-gations. They had discovered the causes which led Bellnuger to take vongeauco ou the Pinsons, had noted his skill in carving wood, had established tlie sin-gular basic with which ho bad shortened his visit on Feb. 2" and had got together quitt) a respectable collection of proofs against him. Bellanger expkunod nothing, contested nothing. Ho contented himself with g that he was incapable of doing ill to any one. Besides, his lot did not seem to torment him much. The regimo of tho force greatly resembled that of yuinze-Vingt- Prison or hospital, it is ail tho samo for a man who cannot see, and as ho continued his little trade in lottery numbers he did not lack comforts. Bellanger appeared before the jury of the Seino May 10, 1805. His (rial at-tracted a vast attendance, and it will readily be helieved that his clients did not. fail to be present. Tlie Baronne do Molden figured in the first row of tho rosorvul places. The accused was de-fended by a lawyer named by the court,. Maitro Lebon, ono of the celebrities of the bar of that time. The proui':i of the crime imputed to the blind man were not abundant, and not one of them was divisive. Unfortunately, a fireworks maker, summoned as an expert, boldly declared that tho bit of wood contained enough gunpowder to Mow np the en-tire quarter. The effect of this testi- - niony was terrible. Vainly Maitre Le-bo- n strove to demonstrate that, even supposing his client capable of having prepared the infernal machine, there was no evidence to show he had brought it to the Pinsons' house. A verdict of guilty was rendered and the court pro- - nounced the sentence of death. Bel-lang- er grew white as marble, but, rising to his feet and turning his sightless orbs toward his judges, said in a firm voice: "I am innocent!" Tho gendarmes re-moved him, and that very evening bo was transferred to the prison of Bicetre, where those condemned to the death penalty were then confined. The news of the sentence spread im-mediately and excited the lottery gam-blers to the highest degree. The trade of the blind man of good luck at once became verjtirreaLand from the .deaths Among tho victims of this unlucky dra wing was a woman of middle age whose attire announced competence and whnen fenfrnr did not lack distinction. She held In ono hand a huge wicker bas-ket and in the other an enormous ran-brel-which she brandished as she strode aJong talking aloud, althongh she was entirely alone. Hhe turned to the right, went down the front steps of the . Palais Royal, entered the garden and threw herself npon a bench in tho alley which runs parallel with the Koo do Valoig. "Brigand of a blind man!" said she, between her teeth, "rascal of a beggar! lie promised me my three in the drawing of tho 15th without fail and yet my purabers did not cmne out!" This vehement monologue tteemed to , calm her a little. She opened her bosket and took from it a book which she fell to reading attentively. It was a yellow overed volume and bore this seductive title: "The Lock of the True Key of tho Imperial Lotteries of France. Tho Cer-tain Way to Win Annually 42,000 Francs and More with Very Littlo Money." While the nnlnoky gamester was ab-sorbed in this attractive reading a spruce little (old man, who had preserved the queue and pigeon wings of the old regime, came and seated himself on tho ame bench. He glanced at his neighbor out of the corner of hiB eye and smiled with a wicked air. A discreet cough revealed his presence to the lady, who at onco moved as if to arise. Tho old man re-strained her with a polite gesture and said Ui her in n very Boft voice: "Kindly excuse me, beautiful lady, for permitting myself to address you without having the honor to be known by you. Perhaps you will pardon my indiscretion when you know that I am the author of the book now claiming your attention." "What! Vou am" "Marseille Pere, uiathomaticiun and professor of luck, Cun-efou- r de la Van-jiori- e, 51, third tioor, and I shall bo chaimed, beautiful lady, to put at your service the fruits of my long experience." "Ah! yes!" cried tho woman with the basket, "I adviso you to brag of your ex-perience! Yours is 11 fine book! It put ili into my head to ask numbers of blind men, and for three years I've been play-ing a triple combination given me by that old rogue Bellanger, the blind mmi o Ihe Pont an Change, but never have I seen two of my 11 umbers come out simul-taneously, and yet they cull that animal the blind man of good luck!" ' "Pardon, beautiful lady," said the' professor of luck in an insinuating tone; "it is true that on page 125 of my little work I recommend blind' men, but on page 21S I point out another class of cit-izens whose advice never fails." "A famous class, indeed guillotined persons!" Where do yon expect mo to find tliom? How shonld I know any guillot ined persons?" "But, dear lady," rewiiar.il M. Mar-seille Pere, not in the loast disconcerted, "may it not happen tlcit a person who has given you numbers might incur cap-ital punishment and ascend the scaffold? In that caso my system is infallible the numbers will come out, it tho drawing which follows the day of execution. "If I was only suro of it!" muttered the iraHC.iblo gamester, already a trifle softened; "but I shiill have no such good fortune. That scoundrel Bollanger will never ascend the scaffold. A blind man! Who ever heard of a blind man being guillotined?' "The fact is that such a thing is hardly probable, and it's very sad, for success would be curtain. But you might go sine where. Persons sentenced to death aro not rare, and with influence one can visit them at Bicetre." "Oh, yes! and abandon my triple com-bination which is to bring me nearly a million! And what numlxirs! 13 S7 8. The eighty-eigh- t has not crvme out for eighteen months. I will put my last en os the combination; it shall never bo said that the Baronne de Molden drew ack!" With this heroic speech the "woman threw her book into the basket, seized her umbrella, suddenly arose and went eff without even Baying good-b- y to M, Marseille Pere, mathematician. This strange dialogue Beemed wholly natural in 1805. Tho Baronne do Mol-den, an old maid whom the emigration had not corrected of the habit of gam-bling, represented a type very widely spread at that epoch when the lottery had replaced, lanyuenej. As to tlie pro-- A Female laventnr. Miss Jessie Mcintosh, daughter of Judge McQueen Mcintosh, of '(ieoryhi, about two years ago invented an appa- ratus for the presen ution of fruit dur-ing transportation by rail. She sold the patent for a handsome sum, which. In-judicious investment, has almost trebled itself within the two years. It is said that Miss Mclntohh, who has a great talent for mechanics, has just perfected another inventiou more remarkable than her first, but its nature is as yet a secret, Exchange. llei-- e are a. few amusing blunders that have just, occurred iu examinations in Boston public, schools': Ono littlo girl said th.'it "in IIV.'O the Pilgrims came to Massachusetts for the purpose of fight-ing thn batt le of Bunker Hill." Another said: "m 3BS3 William Penn explored Pennsylvania with a crew of Quakers." In another paper a small boy, who hud evidently heard that the English people were fond of meats, said that of all tlie countries he had rather visit England, because he would like to see the Thames river and tho beef eaters. A painter arrested in Litchfield, Conn.. while a,t work, walked along quietly for a few minntes. when ho suddenly turned and dashed his paint brush into tho iheriffs eyes. Ho then escaped. Thy sheriff is badly injured. This yew's caterpillar stones are noi quite so large as those of two years ago. but they say that a train ou the Bangor and Piscataquis railroad was nearly stopped by tho bugs the other day, u'.:d that some of tho white birch trees in that region are fairly alive with them. A prize of $100 was offered by TLo Washington Post to the person guessing nearaH the population of that tiiy, and, remarkable to say, three poriorji hit exactly the number, 229,790. They have agreed to divide the iaaaa-- . j |