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The Daily Herald.
SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1873.
TBK HERALD PURUSH1IO COHPAET,
ALEX. *T. (LAIR-AKHAKI,
HKJRT W. GRADT,
R. A. ALSTON,
Edltan MaMfcn.
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TO ADVERTISERS.
The bona fide elrealstloa of the Dally
Herald Is larger than that ef the Consti
tution.
The bona tide circulation of the Dally
Herald is note tnan dosbie that of the
We are pi rl >ared to verify this claim
from our hooks.
iln old and wealthy citizen of Pennsylvania
partook of some meat which was sprinkled
with arsenic, and leit on a kitchen table for
rats. If he had not been “old and wealthy,”
this accident would not have been remarka
ble; but as the case stands, we are carious to
know if he was one of the rats whose destruc
tion was sought. He is dead.
THE DOG LAW.
The Council at its last meeting passed a law
taxing the dogs in the city two dollars and a
half a head. With a delicate appreciation of
aristocracy, they exempted from the slaughter
ous provisions of the bill “ all rat terriers with
brass collars on. ” w» are glad to see that
one Alderman, at least, believing that “ all
dogs are born free and'eqnal,” will move to re
consider the matter at the next meeting. At
any rate, we earnestly hope that, whether the
law is repealed or not, Atlanta will never
again witness such an indiscriminate and in-
hnman shooting of the poor canines as we
had here a year or two ago.
Oar special correspondent who witnessed
the execation of Susan Eb.rhart, telegraphed
ns that her neck was not broken by the fall,
and that her straggles were painful to wit
ness. Th, correspondent .f oar probing co
temporary reported that she scarcely strag
gled. He, howeTer, admits that she did not
die for fifteen minutes, and consequently her
death must have been from strangulation. We
are, therefore, inclined te the opinion that onr
correspondent's report was correct, and that
her straggles were long and her sufferings in
tense. Probably onr eotemporary'a man did
net think fifteen minutes of choking anything
very remarkable.
OFFICIAL. STAMPS.
Under the law abolishing the frankling
privilege after the 1st of July next, special
postage stamps have been ordered to be is
sued only for official mail matter. Designs
have been submitted which will probably be
adopted. The medallion heads on the
new stamps will remain the same as en ordi
nary stamps, bnt the color and border and let
tering will be different for the different de
partments. Although the color of the stamps
have not as yet been officially selected, they
will probably be as follows: For the Execu
tive Department, chocolate; Post-office, black;
Navy, bine; War, carmine; Interior, vermill-
lion; State, green; Treasury, velvet brown;
Justice, purple; Agricultural, orange. In
several classes of stamps the designs will be
emblematic. On the Navy stamp there is a
cable which runs entirely aronnd the border,
and a star in each comer; and in tbs War
Department, stamp representations of a shield
ere plated below, and to the tight and left of
the central head. There are eleven denomi
nations of stamps for each department, rang
ing from one cent to ninety cents on the dol
lar.
GE.VTLE HIK’D TO THOSE WHOM
THE CAP FITS.
W. trust that with th. hangjag of Susan
Eberhart, ended for ever public executions in
Georgia. Judge Hopkins of this Circuit, with
admirable good tasto, has already set the ex
ample of ordering the law carried ont pri
vately, and we sincerely hope, for the sake of
humanity and civilization, that all the other
Jadges of the State will imitate him.
Of the three or four handled persons who
witnessed the strangling of Susan Eberhart,
-how many were present who did not leave the
ground feeling lees of awe for death and for
the majesty of the law, than before the con
vict ascended the gallows ? The first thrill of
horror over, bow many were there who did
not grow accustomed to the fearful sight and
learn to look npon it with a calm indifference?
It was not to witness tba vindication of law
and the administration of justioe, that they
assembled aronnd the scaffold. It was merely
to gratify a brutal and morbid appetite for the
horrible; to feast their eyes awhile upon the
spectacle of a gnilty wretch dangling in mid
air, and to have it in their power in lime to
come, to say that they saw her die. They
want just as they would have gone to a circus
Who can tell how many jokes were cracked
and what ribald language was indulged in
If these pablic executions tended to strike
terror in the hearts of the spectators, they
would be, perhaps, excusable. But they do
not restrain a single murderous arm. Nay,
their effect is the reverse of salutory. Famil
iarized, with the scene, men cease to hold it
in terror. All the mystery and horror which
arise from private executions are wanting.
All the latent savagery of the bnman heart,
prone to sin, trader tbo most favorable cir
cumstances, is aroused to activity. To see a
fellow being strangled; to feast their eyes
upon bis or her struggles; to listen to tb.
rhapsody of words from the condemned
which ooaverta the gallows from a frightful
instrument of punishment to a short and racy
road to Heaven—these are alL Nothing bnt
a temporary shrinking; a moments bating of
the breath, and th.n to calmly discuss the
hideous spectacle, as if it were an exhibition
given by the State for the special delectation
of the multitude.
In th. name of God, in the name of that
Christian religion which has made civilization
all that it can boast of, we pray for the abo
lition of this "relic of barbarism" in our
State. Who can think ot Susan Eberhart
convulsively struggling for breath, with the
pitiless rope choking the life out of her
body; who can picture to his mind the spec
tacle of frantio, though unavailing. efforts to
free herself, to rest her feet upon one inch of
earth; who, in short, can think of this hide-
ous administration of justice, without feel
ing that the crowd below were sadly out of
place?
It is repugnant to humanity, it is a libel
upon Christianity. Shocking when a man is
the victim, it becomes barbarous when the
victim is a woman. We believe capital pun
ishment a sad necessity; we believe further
that, as an act of justice, Susan Eberhart de
served to die; but we must condemn the prac
tice which choked her to death in the pres
ence of a gaping multitude gathered aronnd
her gallows from motives of mere curiosity.
Public executions are revolting to all the
higher, tenderer and civilizing inflaences of
the mind. They do not serve to repress
crime; they cannot aid justice and law in any
manner. They are not attended by humane
and tender-hearted persons, except in the
discharge of duty. But the motley hordes
of blacks and whites who stare upwards
with scarcely a shiver at the ghoshy scene,
are for the most part composed of the heartless
and the reckless, who would not hesitate a mo
ment, if their baser passions were aroused, to
commit the very crime of mnrder, which
they will walk miles to witness punished.
It is a duty we owe to religion and to civil
ization to put an end to this barbarism. In
future 1st capital punishment be inflicted in
private. Aronnd the gallows let ns throw a
veil of secrecy. The mystery will add to the
terror, and no opportunity will be given to
the brutal and morbid minded to gratify tbeir
depraved appetites.
THE MODOC WAR,
During the past two weeks the circulation
of the daily Herald has been increasing
with marked rapidity, and wa have been
compelled to add to the number of qnires
printed every morning. This is quite unusu
al for this time of the year, 03 from April to
August a newspaper here does well if it holds
its own. We are, therefore, more than grat
ified by the present exhibit of continued
popularity. Since April 25th alone onr daily
subscription list has been swelled by over
two hundred names, while our agent reports
many mere awaiting the expiration of their
subscriptions to other papers to take the
Herald.
The subscription list of a paper, however,
cannot alone support it We must look to
advertisers also for support, and while the
patronage we have received has been liberal,
and the majority of our patrons have been
prompt paying, we have been embarrassed by
the deley of some in settling their accounts.
Our collectors have bills, some of them dating
back from November, which we trust will be
promptly paid daring tbs present week, as we
shall place all unpaid in the hands of an attor
ney for collection on Saturday next Our ex
penses are very heavy, and we need all the
money owing to ns to keep up the Herald to
its present standard and add new fea
tures of interest to the public. We are
compelled to pay cash for everything
we purchase, and as our bank ac
count is neither as deep as a well nor as
wide as the ocean, we must look to our pat
rons to pay ns promptly to enable ns to meet
tbe demands upon ns without inconvenience.
In this connection we would remark that
there prevails in the minds of some persons a
rather loose notion of the obligation of a debt
doe to a newspaper. Minister* of the Gospel
and physicians have, we believe, experienced
this sort of laxity of morels, bnt if they can
appreciate the friendship displayed towards
them by men who patronize, bnt never think
ol paying, we eannob It is certainly not
calculated to preserve the placidity of one's
temper to aee a man investing fifty or a hun
dred dollar* in *n article of luxury, twenty
minutes after he has dismissed your Collector
with the serious am ranee that he was unable
to pay n bill ef twenty dollars for contracted
advertising.
What with the mismanagement of the mili
tary and the pseudo philanthropy of the
peace men, the contractors and Indian agents
are likely to reap a harvest now. That the
extermination of the Modocs has become a
necessity must ba attributed less to the
treachery and barbarity of these savages,
than to the shameful manner in which they
have been treated. It was not they who set
the example of mas6acreeing the nusnspect-
ing. Their present slender number is the
result of a fearful massacres in which their
fathers were the victims, and in murdering
General Canby and others they have merely
avenged a wanton wrong perpetrated npon
them.
It will not do for white men now to hold
np their hands in horror over the atrocities of
the Modocs. The Indiana ore, after all, only
making one despoiling effort to retain their
homes and their property. If they have re
belled, it has been because of the perfidy of
the men appointed to carry ont the promises
of solemn trusts made with them by tbe
Government One cannot read tbe story of
their ill-treatment by dishonest white men;
of the shameful manner in which they have
been driven from their lands, without feeling
that if their atrocities have been great, their
provocations have also been great.
After thousands of dollars hare been ex
pended and net e few lives sacrificed, tba last
of the Modpcs win Bleep in Id* Woody grave,
and the great war of thoOaan* agdinat thirty-
five warriors will be ended. But it will be a
triumph in which there will not be any honor
whatsoever for the United States government.
Upon the heads of tbe men entrusted with the
dnly of attending to the Indians must rest the
responsibility for the brutal murders of Gen
eral Qonby and Ike other breve m*n whose
lives have been and will be sacrificed. And
as for tbe Modocs, who are now, with all the
heroism of despair, defying the power of tbe
government, history wift record of them that
they merely hastened, by a bloody straggle,
that extermination to which the rapacity, the
cruelty and the brutality of white men had
already condemned them.
Bon. W. P. Price has donated 14,300 to the North
Georgia Agricultural College.
Americas makes a lovely bow aud informa the Freta
Convention that she is going to treat tbe members la
handsome style. We presume there will be no objec
tions raised to this. Harris, ot tbe Newt, speaking on
this subject, lays : ■■ Tba Americas Republican in
vites tbe Georgia editors to come to that city ' without
money and without price.' We copy this in order that
,y meet the eyee ot some of tbe editors,
and thus prevent them from trsvsting in their usual
reckless alyls with their carpet-bags stuffed with
greenbacks,”
Items from the Talbott en standard:
Bees have began to swarm and the sound of tin
pens, bells, etc., is frequent.
Last Sunday night, about 10 o'clock, two or three
negro women alarmed this entire community with
their yelling, shouting end ecremmlng. We have never
heard th# like. They commenced tbeir squalling be-
fore they left the colored church, end kept it up on
tbe streets for at least a half hour. Such as this la
enough to frighten our ladies sod children, and dis
turb the peace and quiet of the town.
Albany has a negro printer. The New* disclaims
the woolly-headed honor, and hints that the Central
City ia the paper that fosters him. Spit him out Mr.
Russell.
Augusta will excurse to A’ken, South Carolina, on
the 8th.
A singular theft occnrred at Mrs. Perrymau's one
day last week. Just slter the dinner pot hsd been
put on, some hungry individual took advantage of the
oook, and alipped the supply of meat from the pot.
OcL Andrews, of the Washington Gazette, must be
getting better of his carbuncle, if we muy judge from
the following lively allusion to Capt. Jack, the emi-
ment Modoc. Says he:
Tbe Modocs are what are known as the Digger In-
dians, a race which has always been considered the
very lowest and most worthless of all the human
family They live on roots and insects, and a hole in
the gronnd filled with roasted grasshoppers or cater-
pillars is a feaat for the tribe. The tribe numbers
sixty-seven, mil told, men, women and children 1 This
handful of poor eavagea has kept the army of the
United States at bay for mouths 1 These poor crea
tures, with a few guns, have bravely stood np and bid
defiance to thousands of soldiers thoroughly equipped
with artillery, horees. amunltion, the finest breech*
loading and repeating firearms sad everything neces
sary for a finely appointed army 1
Captain Jack ia onr model of a hero, and we cannot
refrain from according him our fullest sympathy, and
shall feel no joy when we hear that the United States
government has conquered and butchered his gmltant
little band and Phil Sherldaned the hopeless women
and children. We admire snch gallantry ss these
Iod.ana have displayed.
The Angnstx Constitutionalist says, quite Intelli
gently : Xu the Patrons of Husbandry ia the germ of
a great Reform Parly which will, under the Democrat
ic banner, march to victory in the next general elec
tion. This organization has for its basis the great
principle of free trade and equal rights, which la
cardinal tenet of Democracy. The occasion is oppor
tune for bringing together, under the folds of the old
Democratic banner, all the elements of opposition to
Grant's usurpations and his imperial sway, and te
Radicalism and all its revolutionary aims, its corrupt
tendencies and Its fraudulent scheme*.
The proposed convention of Southern and Western
Congressmen st St. Louis on tho 13th of May, though
called in the Interest of trade and intercourse between
the sections solely, tends to s cryetaUzation of opinion
in this direction.
The Convention of Southern sod Western Governors
and Mayors of cities and prominent citiizens, though
nominally celled and though really intended to devise
cheep water transportation between the Mississippi
Valley and the Sonth Atlantic, cannot bnt serve to con
tribute to the same great political results. The great
fanning interest of the South and West will combine
to govern the country and to restore to the States and
to the people some of the rights of which they have
been robbed.
Colonel Sawyer, of the Rome Courier, has invented
a printing presa of great merit. Sawyer is a merchant,
a farmer, an inventor, a poet, a novelist, a mechanic,
an editor, in fact anything yon may mention.
Americas baa a company of Babcock aUngere called
"The Extinguishers.''
The Cuthbert Appeal hoists as its motto: " For the
Lord, tell tbs truth and maka money.” We consider
it impossible for an editor to accomplish the lest two
items honorably.
The Albany Kewa aaya:
Grr-cp iSD-GEr.—We learn that an old negio wo-
man, residing in this county, aged 104 years, walked
the other day a distance of twelve mllee In fonr hours
Let it be recorded.
Brother Baker, of the Blacksheir Georgian, makes
these sensible remarks:
"The two young ladies at chnrch last Snndsy
morning, did look Interesting. A white hat, the
neat handiwork of home-made skill, gracefully rested
on the head of one, and a little chapeau tastefully
adorned the head of the other. How becoming the
colors ot the dresses I not glaring and fiashy, but rival-
log the soft, cheerful, rosy light of the eerly morning
—a grace and beanty in the Spring. And then the fit.
What neat eleganco of proportion and graceful sim
plicity of flowing outline i The fair, whose skill and
taste are thus evinced, are guarantees of order and
neatness in the sanctuary of home.”
Ihish Potatoes vs. AdoLDunx-Last year I made
on a piece of ground six feot square, fonr bushels of
Irish potatoes. I dug and measured them with my
own hands. B. Srim-i.i.vG.
We all know Mr. Stripling. What he says may be
relied on with confidence. At the rate of Mr. Strip
ling’s crop as above stated, one acre of ground will
yield 4840 bushels of potatoes. By selling the potatoes
at one dollar per bushel (aud that ia a reasonable
price) would make the yield of $4340 for one acre of
ground. That basts King Cotton. Pretty good for
Cobb county.
AsoTHEtt Factor! at Columbus.—Tho Columbus
Sun aays a number of prominent bankers, merchants,
real estate owner*, nnder the direction and manage
ment of Mr. J. Rhodes Browne, a practical manufac
turer of long and wide experience end great Judg
ment, propose to get op a company with $360,000,
with which to erect a cotton factory on the Bite of the
Palace Mills, and have an ample floating capital. The
site is perhaps the beat in Colombu', and the water
power unequaled.
The same paper has these additional Items
Apalachicola.—The three lumber mills now In
operation cut 70,00# feet of lumber per day. Three
others will be bnilt thla fall. A charier for a railroad
ha* been granted from St. Josoph to Quincy, and a
party is now at the latter place engaged in making sur
vey*. Bo river men inform us.
A Blonde for a Brunette.
A SERIES or STRINGS ADVENTURE*—BOW TWO
ENGLISHMEN EXCHANGED PICTURES
AND WIYE8—A ROMAN
TIC 8TOBT.
E. Barodet
From the New York World.
In 1849 he wa* a schoolmaster in Bontaoge,
Saone-and-Loir* county. He loot his place
From the Bestoa Globe.
There ia a little romance going tha round*
about Bichard Farquahr Dingle and his wife
Phosbo, and Bobert Moore and hi* wife Mary.
The account of the strange fortune that hap
pened those couples ia so circumstantial that it
must be in the maim true. All the parties ware
English, and ware aowly married aa above ia
England before they came to the New 'World to
court the goddess fortune. Dick Dingle and hia
wife were both blondes, and Bob Moore and his
brunettes, and both women ware beauties of
thair respective types, and all were young and
adventurous. The two couples didn’t come
over in the same ship, but they came about
the same time, and they did not know each
other. Dick Dingle, together with hia pretty
wife, proceeded to Petroleum Centre, Pa,,
with a capital of 810,000, which wa* Boon sunk
in oil wells—all but $400. Dick divided this
sum with Phoebe, and started out alone tor
the Argentine Bepublic to retrive hia lost for
tune and make another. He struck a good
streak of mining luck, and cleared $9,000 in
the first two years, which he sent to Phoebe,
and which she dnly received. This recon
ciled her to her husband's absence for the
time, but she heard no more from him for
some years, and she began to regard him as
dead. The fact is ho was living a wild sort of
life in South America, and had almost forgot
ten hi* blonde ,wife, though he carried her
picture.
GOLDEN VISIONS.
Bob Moere and his brunette wife had also
a comfortable capital when they arrived in
this country, and lost some of it in unfortu
nate speculations. Bob left Mary in Boches-
ter, N. Y., and went to South America full of
golden visions. He promised to write to his
wife soon, bat never did, and was not lucky
in the Argentine country. Finally, Dick
Dingle and Bob Moore met, and both were
vagabonds—in a strange country and with
out money or friends. They joined their
fortunes and fold each other the story
of tbeir lives. There was a remarakable sim
ilarity beaween them. They both had pictures
of their wives, and each went in raptures
over the other's picture, and cared very little
for his own. In a mad freak vagabond Dick
and vagabond Bob exchanged the pictures of
their wives, and Borne luck appeared to come
to them afterward. They were fast friends,
and accumulated seme money and began to
behave themselves better. It was seven years
since Dick Dingle had written to hie wife,
and ene day, in a fit of repentance, he wrote
her a letter enclosing $1,000, and asking her
to join him in South America as soon as pos
sible. In the mean time she had removed
from Petroleum Centre to Philadelphia, bnt
the letter and the money found her after
long delay.
ON THE WRONG TRACK.
As Dick had waited the proper time, and
heard nothing from his wife, be began to feel
uneasy, and one day resolved to return to the
United States to hunt her up. He started
from Panama on the English steamer George
Watts for the United States on Friday, the 7th
day of June last, while bis wife sailed from
Nevr York for the Argentine Bepublic the
next day, Saturday, June 8th. Dick went to
Petroleum Centre; thence to Philadelphia, bnt
could not find his wife or hear anything of
her. Ha then went to New York, resolved to
take the next packet for South America to join
Bob Moore. But something occurred to pre
vent tho voyage. He got on a little bit of a
spree in New York and happened to stumble
into a store on Broadway to bay some trifling
article. There, behind the counter, he saw a
handsome brunette, whose face looked charm
ingly familiar. He was not mistaken—it was
she, and the picture he carried proved it
The acquaintance ripened. Mary had sought
and obtained a divorce from Bob Moore for
desertion, and was free and lovely, and still
young Dick Dingle told the story of his wife’i
disappearance, and the couple resolved that
she must be dead; so these two got married,
and are now living happily in Brooklyn.
FINDING HER PICTURE.
Phoebe Dingle pleughed the deep to join
her recreant bnt repentant huBband in the
Argentine Bepublic. She was doomed to die
appointment, but she found Bob Moore, and
Bob showed her the picture which he had
received from the hands of Dick Dingle him
self, but be did not tell her the whole story.
In fact, it ia uncertain what Bob did say to
tbe beantifnl woman who had come so far to
find her husband and failed, bnt it is quite
certain that those two got married in a very
short time, and now live in good style in Cor
dova City, Agenline Bepublic. A real blonde
is quite a variety down there, and she makes
a sensation when she rides out every evening
on a beautiful palfrey. It is, perhaps, just as
well as it has fallen out These two singular
couples are too far apart ever to interfere
with each other's happiness, and are much
better satisfied as they are than as they were.
because be grossly insulted the Mayor and
curate of that town. He went to Lyons,
where be staved off starvation by keeping
shopkeepers’ book*, and writing letters for
the illiterate. When the revolution of the
fourth of September occurred, he was one ot
the ringleaders of the mob which invaded the
City Hall and took possession of it. He was
a member of the Committee of Pablic Safety
end ot the Committee of War. He wan elected
a member of the Municipal Council by Lyons
on the 17th of September, 1870. He distin
guished himself in the Municipal Council by
proposing the arrest of General Max a re by
tbe National Guard; by apposing the re
establishment of the municipal customs' du
ties; by insisting on the dismissal of the clergy
from tha public schools and the appointment
of lay free-thinker* in their alead; ha was a
zealous admirer of the red flag, “the flag of the
commune and federation;” he protested
against its removal from tbe flag-post of the
City Hall; he protested against the treaty of
peace with Germany, "that ignoble treaty
which the monarchical condition has forced
on the National Assembly.” He was re-elect
ed a member of tho Municipal Council, his
competitor being Judge de Bocbefontaine, of
the Lyons Coart of Appeals. He has since
then governed Lyons, and npon M. Heoon's
death he became Mayor. He presided over
the disgraceful School Festival. He has since
be became Mayor tried to pursue tbe same
policy M. Thiers has followed—to run with
the bare and hold with the hounds; to please
tbe Government in Versailles and not to of-
Bev. George Bowers, late dead of Manches
ter, has bequeathed to hi* nephew, Mr. Ad-
diogton, the gold ring know* ea originally be-
UmgivgtoJoinBwn.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
Hon. Hugh Buchanan, Judge of the Superior Court,
Tutlftpoon Circuit, and Albert H. Cor, Solicitor Gen*-
ral, same circuit, *ro in the city. Hi* Honor le regis
tered at the National, while hi* right bower honor*
the H. I. K. with hi* hand*ono faoo.
R. 8. Bust, of Albany, wa* at the National. Gao. G.
Wolch, Macon; O. T. Rogers, Covington; C. H. Cam
field, and Cecil Gabbeti, of Albany; Frank G. Su ad.
Savannah; Geo. J. Jones, Griffin, and H. W. Crane, ot
Augusta, ware alao at the National.
Prominent among the numerous arrival* at the
Kimball Houee, were the fallowing Georgians: Geo.
X. Bartlett, Monticello; C. J. McClellan, Macon; D.
M. Duration and Charles J. White, Savannah; Hon. J.
W. H. Underwood and C. Row#! af Rome.
A Story from Crooked Lake.
AN OLD MAN’S WANDERINGS—TRAMPING OUT
HIS MISERY AND BIB HATE.
Correspondence of Tha N. Y. Sun.
Bath, N. Y., April 26.
Yean ago there lived over the mountain,
south of this Tillage, an ocoentric character
* Newell Kimball. He sold Yankee no
tions for a living, carrying them from house
to house in a tin box. He was over seventy
years old, and used on hit tramps a peculiar
and very crooked staff He had been a sailor
in his younger days. He was married, his
wife being many years his junior. One night
five years ago he left Bath for his home.
Weeks and months passed sway and he was
not sgsin heard of.
His wife knew nothing about his mysterious
disappearance. Humors became rife that tbe
old men had been murdered for his money, as
he nasally carried quite a sum with him.' It
was said that a portion of his clothing had
been found on the shores of Crooked Lake,
near Bath.
Tha old tramp was forgotten in a year or
so, and hia wife went away, and it u believed
re-married. The house in which Kimball
had lived gradually fell into decay, and was
occupied by a straggler now and then who
wanted lodging.
The old sailor turned np last week, much
to tbe astonishment of everybody. His hair
and beard had grown long, and hung about
hia braast and shoulders white as snow. He
carried the same crooked staff, and evidently
had on the same suit of clothes.
In reply to inquiries, he said that the night
he left Bath he heard voices inside his house
fend tbe Vigilance Committee in Ene Grolec. ■ as he was about to enter. He stepped to the
Daring the last six years LaSecurite Generals 1 —— v 1 - ! - 3
(an insurance against accidents company) had
been insisting that be Lyons firemen should
take ont a policy in it. The annual premium
was $3 a bead. Tbe municipal authorities
had invariably declined to do any snch thing,
as the burden was too great for the treasnry.
In 1871 tbe directors of tbo insurance com-
E any elected M. Barodet manager of the
yons office. The following day all the
Lyons firemen were insured at the city'i ex
pense.
Railroads in Peru—Some Big;
Fares.
New York Sun Interview.
Reporter— Is there any coni in Bolivia or
Pern ?
Mr. Evans—There is no coal in Bolivia nor
in Peru that I know about. They have dis
covered petroleum in Paru, and there is good
coal in Chili.
Reporter—Are they not payin g $30 a ton
for Chilian coal in Peru ?
Mr. Evans—Yes, I suppose they have paid
as much as that.
Reporter—How can they run the railroads
profitably and pay that much for coal ?
Mr. Evans—How can they run the Panama
road and make it pay, when everything they
have rots out in a year? Why, by charging
high rates. They charge $27 in gold for car
rying a passenger forty-seven miles, and in
Chill $10 for fifty miles.
Reporter—Don't yon think that such a high
tariff will keep th* people from using th* rail
way*?
Mr. Evans—The people there are accus
tomed to pay well lor accommodations. I
have given $3 there for watering my horse.
I dined ones in Peru with some gentlemen
who owned mines. I said, “I don’t see how
yon can afford to workyonr mines at so much
expense." “Expense,” they replied, "don’t
matter much when you find things like that
lying aronnd,” and they showed me several
lumps of silver.
With regard to the valae of the guano yet
remaining, Mr. Evans declined to give any
opinion. He also refused to say anything as
to the way in which the Peruvian government
is carried on. Of th# prospects of Peru, ke
eaid, “Too much prosperity will hurt a peo
ple as much aa adversity. Gold and silver
will rain people quicker than anything in the
world. My belief is that there is eternal
wealth is Peru. When I was building the
Tagna road, an Indian nsed to com* down
from tho mountains once a year with a lamp
of gold worth $5,000. He would sell it, buy
goods for bis village and depart. Attempts
to discover where he obtained tbe gold were
vain. Iu .another instance, an Indian lady
was found wrapped in a shawl of beaten gold.
There are mines of silver and gold in Peru
only waiting for Yankee ingenuity and Yan
kee pluck to work them.”
window. The curtain was raised. He looked
in, and saw his wife in company with another
man. He 6aw enough to disgust him with
the partner of his bosom. Depositing on the
steps some little household purchases he had
made, he took up hia staff and started off,
not knowing where he was going. He walked
south, through this State and Pennsylvania,
eating at farm houses and sleeping wherever
night overtook him. He went to Delaware,
through Maryland, and visited the capital cf
the nation. Prom there he went to Virginia.
Thence back through Pennsylvania to Ohio.
Then down through Kentucky he bent his
footsteps. Passing through Tennessee be
came to the Mississippi river. He crossed the
Father of Water*, and westward took his way.
Through Arkansas and on over tbe Ozark
mountains. He went to Fort Smith, where
he tarried awhile, and then entered tha Cher
okee country. Then he took his course up
through Kansas and Missouri. At St. Louis
he recrossed the Mississippi and went to Illi
nois. Through that State into Indiana, up
into Michigan, across the Lake country into
Canada. Then he turned his steps homeward
again, and after a tramp of 3,000 miles artma
back in Batb, whence he started five years
ago.
The old man says he has walked bis misery
and hate to death. He ia now nearly eighty
years of ago. He thinks of again starting
out for a walk, this time making lor the Pa
cific coast
Length of Whales.
Ought the Date Not to Be Uni
form.
Aa a matter of uniformity, would it not be
well for the ladies of tbe South generally to
adopt May 10th, the date of the death of
Stonewall Jackson, as the time for decorating
the graves of the Confederate dead. It seems
to ns that it would be better to have one Me
morial Day throughout the South. All first
tried the 26th of April. This admirably snita
all claimants like ours, but|in Atlanta,-Nash
ville, Richmond, and latitudes further North
than onrs, it is impossible to decorate the
f ares at that date for the want of flowers.
ence, they had to delay it Now, we have
plenty of floral offerings throughout the
Spring and Summer. We believe in a uni
formity of date* aa regards National customs,
aud aa certain portions of the Southern States
cannot eecure sufficient flowere for the 26tb.
we hope their day, May 10th, will be adopted
throughout the once Confederacy. What say
the ladies ?—Oolumbus Sun, ifay 1, 1873.
We are authorized to say that tbe "Ladies'
Memorial Association " at their meeting yes
terday indorsed and approved tbe suggestion
of the Columbus Sun. Let the 10th of May be
known as “ Dixie Day.”
Mr. Scoresby, a very high authority on thi3
subject, declares the common whale seldom
exceed* seventy feet in length, and is much j o T#r tfie border by the hundreds, and the em-
After what bes been done by the Govern
ment of Quebec t# induce Freaeh Canadians,
who have left that Province during the past
few years, to return from pleasant homes in
the United States, it must be particularly dis
couraging to find that the "exodos of infants
du soT is greater this season than at any
period within ten years. They are coming
A Michigan man has invented a unique,
poetical, and to hia mind eminently practical
mode of traveling rapidly on horseback. Hia
idea is to construct a cone-shaped balloon,
which is to be laid lengthwise npon (he hone'a
back. Th* animal and rider are to be weighed
and the balloon filled with just gas enough to
lift all but a few pounds ot weight of horse
and rider from th* earth, in order that the
frisky Pegasus may hare nothing to do bnt go
abend. The possible speed of such a contriv
ance is as yet beyond ooajeetnre.
Gen. John B. Gordon’s Speech
at Austin, Texas.
Stateu&an Reporter.
According to arrangement, General Gordon
spoke last night, in tbe Bepresenatative hall,
to a very large audience, composed of the
member* of tbe Ligislatnre ana the intelli
gence of Austin. His subject was the educa
tion of the youth of tbs South, and he han
died the subject in a most patriotic manner.
He referred particularly to the style of books
adopted by our officials for use iu tbe public
schools, and by reading passages from them
Rhowed that they were intended by the au
thors, and by those who adopted them, to
bring the ancestry of the risiDg generation
into disrepnte among those who shonld hold
them in respect and reverence: that many of
these books were calculated to deprave the
mind of th* youth, and to destroy the divine
sentiment of love for one’s kindred and home.
He claimed that theso books were suited for
no other purpose than to keep aliTS prejudi
ces and create strife; that tbe Southern peo
ple did not desire this, but that they wished
to have their children educated in a love, not
alone toward their own section, but the whole
country. He claimed that the text-books
truest to history were contributed to by
Southern writers and published in the South,
and should bo encouraged to find their way
into the schools, that such a decision was
necessary to the honor and integrity of the
rising generation, and that it wns the duty of
our legislators to take this important matter
in baud and t* bring tho remedy into proper
farm. His speech was too comprehensive tor
us to notice fully in the abort space of time
we have. Wo hope, however, to be able to
give it in a more satisfactory shape in a short
time. The effort was a noble one, and com
manded the earnest attention of every one
upon the floor.
A clergyman of this city recently received
by express from the county a box, which,
when opened, was fonnd to contain a large
trout, neatly surrounded with moss. Highly
gratified at this token of appreciation from
some absent admirer, ho determined to foast*
few select friends therewith. He sent invita
tions to a few of hia Fifth sTenue friends, and
there was a joyous gathering around his hos
pitable board; bnt, while each took his foil
share of the fish, no ont ate more than a
mouthful, n circumstance which pozcled him
exceedingly until ns received a letter from a
brother clergyman in the rural districts,
stating that its author had obtained the fish
two years previous, and bad preserved it in
alcohol on account of its monstrous size.
Hearing, however, of the establishment of
the Museum of Natural History In the Central
Dark, he now sent it to fats friend, asking
him to have it pat back into alcohol and pre
sented to the Museum.—-X T. Tribune.
more frequently under sixty. Out of three
hundred and twenty-two whales, which ho
assisted personally in capturing, not one ex
ceeded fifty-eight feet, and the largest of
which he knew the reported measurement to
be authentic came up to only sixty-seven feet
Two specimens of the rorqual or razor-back
whale have been observed of one hundred and
five feet in length. One of these was fonnd
floating lifeless in Davis Straits, and the
skeleton of the other was seen by
Clarke in the Columbia river,J and must
tail and all, when alive, have measured one
hundred and twenty feet. Other specimens
have measured a hundred, and many others
from eighty to ninety feet. One cast on shore
at North Berwick, Scotland, and preserved by
Dr. Knox, was eighty-three feet in length.
These instances seem to establish the average
and extreme length of these animals. But
with considerable credulity in earlier ac
counts, Baron Cuvier, the eminent naturalist,
says stoutly, there is no doubt that whales
have been seen at certain epochs and in cer
tain seas upward of three hundred feet long
or one hundred yards in length.
Bavished and Murdered.
Pittsburgh, April 29, 1873.
A young girl named Lizzie Ness was brutal
ly outraged and mnrdered yesterday forenoon
in a grove near Soltsborg, Pennsylvania, four
teen miles from Pittsburgh, oa the Pittsburgh,
Washington and Baltimore railroad. Her
skull was fractured in two places, and her
hair matted with blood. Two tramping pain
ters named Pohl* and Hyndymen, who
claimed to have worked recently in
Cumberland, Maryland, and who passed
through SaKsburg Monday forenoon, were
arrested here to-day charged with the fiend
ish murder. The girl was fourteen years old,
an adopted daughter of Mrs. Christian Kline,
residing near Stdtsburg, and is said to have
a lather living somewhere iu Ohio. The cor
oner held an inquest on the remains of the
mnrdored child, and a verdict of death caused
igration promises to continue thus briskly un
til the end of the Summer. Several month s
ago, ike Quebec Government appointed the
Abbs Chartier chief of a commission to come
to this country and labor earnestly with the
French Canadians for the pnrpose of convinc
ing them that it would be greatly to tbeir ad
vantage to sell out and go back to their for
mer dwelling places. At this foolish work
some $7,799 in gold, were spent, only $150
of which, however, went to p»y transporta
tion for the converts—the fares and hotel
expenses, probsbly, of one “homesick" family.
Instead, therefore, of stopping the emigra
tion, the experiment of the Government has
had the opposite effect.
By one of those amusing mistakes by which
the druggist’s clerk enlivens the monotomv ot
business, a Chicago lady was recently supplied
with poison instead of tbe innocuous medi
cine which she desired. As a consequence
the iady died, and her husband, who is un
doubtedly a prosaic person who cannot appre
ciate a joke, has sued the druggist for $25,000
damages. Probably he will recover a much
smaller sum, both because the average jury
man is incapable of giving a deserved verdict,
and because the Chicago juiyman will doubt
less regard $25,000 as a sum altogether in
excess of the current market price of wives.
The husband, however, has our beet wnn s
for his success, and it is only to be regretted
that th* clerk who furnished' the poison can
not be made to expiate his criminal itupidity
by a few years iu the penitentiary.
Th* little Dog-owner's National Primer has
this pretty story: "In Nashua, New Hamp
shire, a Newfoundland dog was left for a few
minutes in a room with an open grate in
which wns a child just old enough to creep.
The child crept toward tbe fire, and the dog,
which apparently saw ahd understood the
danger at once lay down between the child and
the fire and remained there until the mother
came to the rescue. Th* hair was burned
from the dog’s side, and bis body was blis
tered. and yet, noble dog that b* was; he did
by some petty or parties unknown to the jury , not budge. A wicked policemen afterwards
filed at 3 o’clook. * “ ! v “‘* — ‘
Pittsburgh, Pa., Apiil 29.
There is still great excitement in regard to
the horrible mnrder of the little girl Ness yes
terday forenoon near McKeesport, Pa. Tbe
shoes worn by th* two men, Pohl* and
Hyndoman, Swedes, arrested on the charge
of oommiMing the crime, were taken this af
ternoon to the scene of the murder and com
pared with the perpetrator*. They fitted
exactly.
Th* occurrence of a freeze at aa lot* a peri
od as the 26th of April it something almost
unprecedented ia the history of the low
oountry of South Carolina. The latest froat
of which w* have knowledge in a period of a
half a century occurred on the 19th of April,
1849, on which day than wan a killing front,
and in conaeqncno* of which th* price of
cotton rapidly advanced. Tb# cotton crop of
that year wa* very short—Charleston News.
S oisoned this noble brute, and the baby’s
ear mamma had to buy another good dog to
keep her sweet child from clawing the coals
while she wa* gone.”
Ia the Chicago Inter-Ocean of Friday hist
occurs the following ludicrous paragraph:
Married—In Chicago, April 20, by Kev. L.
F. Chamberlain, Bev. Edward H. Smith, pas
tor ol the First Congirgatioaal Chnrch, Mor-
ristan, UL, and Jennie G. Woodward, of
Chioago. No cards. Contractors for harbor
improvements will find it to thsix interest to
occasionally glance at the government adver
tisements in the Inter-Ocean.
A Maine paper tells thia: FredfCownsend,
of Fast Wilton, a lad of 8, raahv'l into a
swift stream fire teet deep to rescue tbs sister,
4 years old. Clinging to the ice and holding
hi* sister above th* water, be refused to be
helped out himself till hit sister was cafe.
Fred Butterfield, a lad of 10, saved them both-