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jjpWlN MARTIN, Proprietor.
Devoted to Home Interests and Culture.
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TWO DOLLARS A Y r Cm- in Advanoij
VOLUME IX.
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PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1879.
NUMBER R3.
HOPE.
BI XBTTIN BU88ELL.
jf 0 nutter where we sail,
A storm mi r come to wreck u«—
A bitter wind to check u»
Is the quest for unknown lauds.
And cast ns on the sands,
So matter where we sail:
Dun, when my ship g< es down.
What choice is left to me
froth leaping in the sea—
And willingly forsake
All that the sea can take,
Tien, when my ship goes down?
glili, in spite of storm.
From all wo feel or fear
A recue may be near ;
though tempests blow their host,
A manly heart can rest
ttiU, in spite of storm!
—Scribnef for June.
00* defenceless sea-coast.
General Q. A. Giilmore, perhaps the
b«t artillery officer in our service, has
lately contributed a series of interesting
and important articles to the Army and
Navy Journal, from which we gather
tbe following facts: Oar sea-coast for
tifications, many of them, of the most
expensive and elaborate character, are
altogether out of fashion and practical
ly useless for defensive purposes. The
gnns with which they are armed are so
Bitch inferor to those in use abroad
(hot io case of emergency they would
be of small account. In order to be
prepared for the visit of a foreign ene
my, not only must all the fortifications
along the marinG frontier undergo the
process of reconstruction, but the an
cient smooth bores and mortars with
which they are at present equipped
must be replaced with modern weap
ons. Tbe navy is so small and weak
that it cannot be depended on as a
coast-guard, and the torpedo system, of
which so much is expected, is, accord
ing to Gen. Giilmore, very considera
bly ovorrated. So ingenious are the ap
pliances for finding und picking them
npthftthe thinks not more than one
Tessel ont of ten is injured by these
machines. They are simply scare
crows, rapidly losing their power to
peare. It has been supposed that tbe
irou-clnd fleets of Europe are of such
heavy draught that a majority of onr
harbors could not bo entered by them.
Gen. Giilmore destroys this pleasant
delusion effectually. He says we have
not a single important port that has not
water enough to float half the ships of
the British navy, all of the German ex
cept ono, all of the.Russian except two,
nil of tbe Austrian except three, two-
thirds of the Italian, all of the Dutch
and Turkish, and nearly all of tbe
French and Spanish. Six or eight of
the beat harbors on tbe Atlantic coast,
including those. of Portland,. Boston
and Hampton Bonds, will easily admit
the largest navy, vessel yet built. The
atory, then, briefly told, is this: Our
stacoast fortifications, guns included,
are so far behind the times that they
coula offer no effective resistance to as
sault; our navy is in even worse condi
tion, compared with foreign navies;
our torpedoes will not do the work an
ticipated from them; and, finally, na
ture will not interfere in our behalf,
and in event of war, we should beat the
mercy of an cnterpriiing foe.
The comments of the New York JW-
bune upon this disagreeable exhibit are
quite characteristic:
“Year after year the chief of engi
neers has asked for money to improve
the forts,, and thechief of ordnance has
shown that we are£jdestitute of long-
range heavy artillery. The Secretary of
War has transmitted the reports of these
officers to Congress, with urgent rec
ommendations that appropriations be
made sufficient to begin the work of re
building and rearming the principal
fortifications, but since the Democrats
have been in power it has been impos
sible to get money enongh to keep the
Works in tolerable repair. The party
which holds the public purse is too
busy .with schemes to capture the Presi
dency in I860 by force and fraud to pay
attention to such a subject as the condi
tion oi our harbor defences.”
When the Democrats lost control'of
the Rational Legislature in 1861, onr
seacoast fortifications were as good, as
any in the world, and onr heavy artil
lery confessedly the best. From 1861
to 1875 the Republicans had fall pos
session of Congress. During these fif
teen years all, or nearly all, of the in
ventions and improvements were made
which have reduced ns to the helpless
condition described by Gen. Giilmore.
Whc is to blame for onr not keeping
pace with these inventions and improve
ments? The party in whose hands were
*11 the branches of the government, of
course. Democrats are no. more re
sponsible for it than for the labor trou
bles in England or for the Nihilist troti-
blesin Russia. TheBepubliean major-
li y in the Senate and House treated
with contempt the repeated recommen
dations of the chief of engineers and
fbe chief of ordnance, while throwing
sway at least §300,000,000 upon a navy
Which to-day is not a match for that of
Spain, Not until three months ago did
Congressional power completely return
in the hands which held it in 1861;
l3 ther too short a time for the Demo
crats to reconstruct all the forts, supply
bem all with new guns and build anew
throw this Republican load upon Dem
ocratic shoulders. The Bepubliean par
ty alone is responsible for the state of
affairs so ably presented by Gen. Gill-
more for public contemplation—and
cannot get rid of the awkward harden.
St. Louis Republican.
TROOPS AT THE POLLS.
The constitution declares that ‘ ‘Con
gress shall have the power to make
rales for the government and regula
tion of the land and naval forces,” but
when Congress insists that a display of
these forces shall not be made at the
polls for the purpose of intimidating
voters, the partisan journals declare
that it is a revolutionary attack on the
“Government,” and they spell the word
with a capital initial to mark the in
tensity of the emphasis.
We do not regard this action of Con
gress in the exercise of its legitimate au
thority as a provision against an imagi
nary or unreal danger. The president
in his veto declares that he has no in
tention to make any improper use of
the armed forces of the United States to
control the elections, and holds the re
straint to be wholly unnecessary; but
he is in the hands of a party that re
tained all it has of the National Govern
ment by the unscrupulous use of means
qnite as repugnant to the proper theory
of self government by the majority as
any the proposed law seeks to prevent.
If the perpetuation of this power shall
seem tc depend on a renewal of the
scenes that disgraced the former can
vass, we have no sufficient warrant that
the armed forces of the United States
will not be used to further similar un
righteous schemes and used to protect
the wrong-doers.
The accusation that the Democrats
are “seeking to manipulate the polls ns
partisan exigencies require” comes with
an ill grace from those who. are now
represented in the executive depart
ments at Washington without the en
dorsement of a majority of the people,
and through gigantic election frauds
that have since become patent to the
world.
We have spoken thus plainly, not as
supporters of the Democratic party,
but because we believe the opposition
to this wholesome restraint on Federal
interference with elections to he a sham
and a pretence for dishonest partisan
purposes. If legitimate government in
this country is ever overthrown, it will
not be through the encroachments by
the people upon executive authority,
but through the wanton exercise of that
central power in violation of the most
scared popular rights.—N. Y. Journal
of Commerce.
WHEN
ARE WOMEN
LOVELY?
MOST
The field of the shad’s usefulness has
been widely extended in the last few
years. Before the fisheries commis
sions took him in hand he was known
only to the Atlantic coast rivers between
Florida and Gape Cod. A few yoars
t> go, however, some little shad were
placed in the Ouachita river, that, ris
ing in Arkansas, empties into the Bed
river in Louisiana, and now the people
of that region, as far north as the Hot
Springs, have the fish in large num
bers. Eight years ago Seth Green, as
an experiment, turned a few. hundred
shad loose in Lake Ontario. It was
some time before he heard from them,
but suddenly, in immense schools, the
little fellows appeared at the foot of the
lake, and each succeeding year they
have increased in number. They do
not seem to thrive; however, for, al
though multiplying with great rapidity,
they have not, except in rare cases,
grown to a size large enough to fit them
for the table. These experiments, how
ever, tiro worthy of attention, as indi
cating that the stocking of the many
streams of the Gulf of Mexico and of the
Pacific coast is among the possibilis
ties.
We have received from a yonng lady
a question which is so interesting and
invites our consideration of a theme so
delicate and delightful, that we are fair
ly forced to answer it at length. This
is what she writes:
Sib : Will you be Mnd enongh to tell
me are young ladies considered more
lovely, and thought preferable, at the
ages of from eighteen to twenty-two, or
from twenty-two to twenty-five or six?
Yon will understand me; I mean do men
moBt admire them.
Between eighteen and twenty-two,
tbe changes of a girl, so far as the
charms of her person go, are not likely
to be great; but in that time, by longer
intercourse with society and by natural
development, she may grow more com
panionable for men of maturity, and
her carriage and self-control become
better and greater. These are impor
tant years in a young woman’s life, the
years during which, in our climate, the
majority of the sex are married. And
yet from twenty-two to twenty-fiye or
twenty-six, a maiden may, generally
does, still further advance in attractive
ness and add to the store of her charms
She is still young, but she has outlived
many youthful fancies, aDd feels some
of the dignity of womanhood. No bet
ter ages than those are in a maiden’s
life, and never is she lovelier.
But why stop at twenty-six? What
fairer women are to be found than
many of those between twenty-six and
thirty and even older? Gills of eigh-
teeu may look on them as unsought
old maids, and yet they are in their
womanly prime, and may capture hearts
which have been steeled against girlish
fascinations. Oftentimes they make the
best of wives, and men find a solace
and companionship in their society
which immaturity cannot give. They
have the advantage of experience, and
they have learned the lessons taught by
longer contact with the world, while
still they may not be averse to falling in
love.
No, we assure our friend, it is not
that a woman is eighteen or twenty-six,
or-thirty, which makes her lovely in
the eyes of men. She may be just as
lovely at one age as another; but inas
much as most marriages occur between
the ages she mentinos. it is safe to as
sume that the majority of men prefer to
take wives who are not older. But all
men of taste and discernment admire
feminine beanty and loveliness whether
they show themselves in budding yontb
or riper maturity; and we will dare as
sert that if our correspondent was real
ly charming at eighteen, she will be
more so at twenty-six, or that if she is
now lovely at eighteen she ought to be
lovelier at the greater age. But let her
give no further thought to the subject.
The beanty that is unconscious is the
most alluring, and loveliness which ex
ercises its sway without apparent effort
is sure to make the best conquest.—N.
Y. Sun.
MAKING GEOGRAPHY TO OR
DER.
On on Troubled Waters.—The
idea expressed in this heading, though
it is commonly held to be of sacred or
igin, or as merely .a poetical manner
of expressing a common; occurrence,
may, nevertheless, he taken literally as
well as figuratively, it being, as a mat
ter of fact, a sayiig which has facts.
It was recently stated in evidence be
fore the commissioners appointed to
inquire into the herring fisheries of
Scotland, that the practice of pouring
a quantity oil from a boat on the sur
face of the sea during the heavy weath
er, bad tbe immediate effect of calming
the waters and relieving the boat
fr om the danger of heavy, broken wa
ter.
Sats the Talbotton Standard: "A
yonng farmer near town, whose cattle
have been dying with the disease now
affecting stock in some parts ofTalnot,
made a post mortem examination of a
dead cow the other day. He says he
took from the stomach of the cow about
two bushels and a half of cotton seed,
and that every one of the seed had
sprouted. This is a remarkable story,
bnt the yonng man’s neighbor vouches
for the truth of it.”
Ax editor has one advantage over a
king. When the editor goes out riding
in his open barouche drawn by four
milk-white steeds he is never shot at by
aa vy. The Tribune insulte the intelii- j a socialist. Yon hayeprobably remark-
Eence of its readers when it attempts to e d this youiself.
Mr Thurman, in speaking of the ex
penditure of §227,600 of the §285,999
spent in controlling electionts in 1876,
and the expenditure of .§222,000 in 18-
78 and gains of fourteen congressmen,
all in New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania, remarked that by a singularly
enough coincidence, the gains were all
where the money was expended.
This reminds one of tbe strange elec
tion incident related by Mr. Tony Wel
ler in the “Pickwick Papers.” Mr,
Weller was driving a stage coach, and
his services had been engaged by one-
party to bring over a coach load of vo
ters. One of the supervisors of the
other party, a-non partisan with a spe
cial fnnd in hand, called the attention
of Mr. Weller to a very bad piece of
road where a. coach of legal voters
would be in great danger of being turn
ed over, and at the same time intimated
that in case Providence should so over
rule the affairs of this world he wonld
be entitled to ten pounds. Slid Mr.
Weller to the passengers to whom
he was relating the incident “An’
wonld you believe it sir? By a very
strange coincidence, that stage turned
over at- that very place,.'”—Nashville
American.
Passion.—Intense passion, in its ef
fects upon the soul, may be compared
to intense heat of the sun upon objects
on which its convergent rays may fall.
As the latter,.at the focal point to a
burning glass, will’ set them on fire, so
the former in extreme concentration,
will set the soul on fire, first inflame
and then weaken its energies. It is
fortunate for man that he has no other
qualities of mind to hold passion in
check,—Reason and conscience will in
trude and plant thoughts where pas
sion holds its sceptre. This exposes er
ror and restores to reason its throne
and conscience its sway. Every pas
sion has an edge and when nsed amiss,
leaves a wound behind.
A Two Million Suit Decided.—The
legal contest between Charles Sehlier
aid Thomas Wellwood for the owner
ship of the city of Breslau, a town in
Suffolk county, Long Island, N. Y., was
decided at the general term of the Su
preme Court at Poughkeepsie, Wednes-
In a paper iD Scribner for June, giv
ing the history and romance of the pro
jects for “Piercing the American Isth
mus,” Mr. C. C. Buell writes as follows
ol the great scheme for modifying the
statu quo of-nature in different parts of
the globe:
Within a few years the science of ma
king geography to order has been re
markably developed. Holland almost led
the fashion by giving Haarlem Lake up
to agriculture, and since then has con
structed a ship-canal, under great engi
neering difficulties, from Amsterdam
Harbor direct to the German Ocean,
making the Dutch metropolis independ
ent of the circnitons and difficult coarse
through the Zuyder Zee. De Lesseps
comes next with his Suez Canal, trium
phantly completed in the face of politi
cal opposition and in defiance of politi
cal opposition before regarded as prac
tically insurmountable. Most impor
tant of all for the Darien project, the
Suez Canal has proven a remarkable
financial success, though it cost ninety
millions, about twice the amount first
estimated. After it was opened in
1879, shares whose par value was 500
francs dropped to between 200 and 300
francs, while ten years afterwards they
are quoted between 700 and 800 francs.
This canal shortens the voyage from
England to India by 9,000 miles, yet
the fact that British Oriental trade has
been injured by it to the advantage of
the great commercial cities of the Med
iterranean testifies to ths foresight of
Lard Palmerston when he opposed its
construction. The Darien project, on
the contrary, met with his approval,
and to-day appears to be the only expe
dient which wonld enable England to
compete with France, Italy, Austria
and Constantinople for the Oriental
trade of Northern Europe. The Mont
Cenis and Hoosac tunnels demonstrate
that man may safely drill his way
through the rocky foundations of great
mountain chains, and to this conclu
sion, the St. Gothard tunnel, moving
with unexpected rapidity to comple
tion, adds confirmation. Tunnels are
soberly-being planned to pierce the
Alps under the Simplon Pass and to ad
mit a railway under the English Chan
nel. De Lesseps is maturing his scheme
for flooding the Saharan Deseet, confi
dent tli it a vast inland sea once existed
there and that it can be restored by cut
ting a caDal through the sand barrier
of the coast, thus adding fertility
and internal waier communication
to the French possessions in Africa.—
General Tttrr, president of the Societe
Civile Internationale du Canal Intero-
ceanique pan ’l Isthme du Darien, which
holds a concession of rights in the Da
rien Isthmus for canal purposes and ex
pects to be the nucleus of a new con
struction company, is also connected in
a project to connect the Adriatic and
the Danube by a canal of ordinary ca
pacity. The advisability has also been
considered of a ship-canal across the
Maylayah peninsula,—the long narrow
finger of land extending south from Si
am to the Straits of Malaca. Such a
canal, connecting the Bay of Bengal
from the Gulf of Siam, would subtract
1,175 miles from the .voyage between
India and China. With this and the
Darien project successfully executed,
a voyage around the world could he
made, also via Suez, without crossing
to the south of the equator, keeping, at
the same time, between the eighth and
thirty-seventh parallels.
THE JACK JONES CASE.
The case of the State of Georgia
against ex-tieasurer John Jones and
his bondsmen, closed last Friday by a
verdict for the State for §92,195. We
quote from the Constitution: “The
finding of the jury, as nearly as can
now be stated, was in favor of the State
upon the second, third and fourth con
solidated exceptions, and upon all oth
ers, seven in Dumber, in favor of the
defendants. The round sum found in
favor of the plaintiff was §92,195, made
np of the items as follows:
1. That Jones is liable for the $21.-
500 .of the Smith-Angier bonds re
deemed by the Fourth National Bank
of New York, and which were brought
back to the treasury by Alton Angier
and left in its vault when it and its
contents were turned over to Jenes, and
which said bonds reappeared among
vouchers for which Jones subsequently
obtained a warrant and took credit.—
They also found $6,732.22 as interest
on the same to date,
2. That Jones is liable for the $27,-
500 of like bonds redeemed by the
Fourth National Bank after closing the
accounts with Angier and before the
opening of the account with Jones, and
which were sent to Jones for file as re
quired by law, and which afterwards
appeared among the vouchers, for which
he obtained warrant and credit. Also
1,496 interest on the same to date.
3. That Jones is liable for the $40,-
145 of gold coupons, redeemed by the
Fourth National Bank, sent out to Jones
for file and afterwards used by him to
obtain warran t and credit. Also, 12,591
interest on the same to date.
The other items were found for the
defendant along with $24,780 of inter
est charged against him, but allowed by
the jury to offset the above amounts,
it being the interest paid by Jones on
the “Clews bonds.” The big bond
item of $146,250, it will be seen was
found in favor of the defendant. Ex
actly upon what grounds it was so
found cannot now be ascertained, but
the likelihood is that the jury were un
able from the evidence to find that
Jones had been guilty of fraud, negli
gence or carelessness in paying these
bonds. The auditor had charged them
to his account upon the idea of care
lessness or negligence, holding that he
had sufficient notice to put him on
guard against these bonds. The jury
either thought differently cr adopted
the argument of Senator Hill that Clews
never had really paid them and the
Jones payment was the only and real
payment and found that Jones was not
chargeable. This wvs the most hotly
contested, as it was the largest item in
the bill of charges.”
The. verdict of the jury, according to
the Constitution, seems to be a drawn
fight between those who thonght Honest
John Jones a rascal, and those who did
not so think.
A MENAGERIE DESTROYED BY
FIRE.
New Preservative Agent.—During
some. experiments in separating sugar
from molasses a double salt of borate
of potassium and sodium was found that
proved to have valuable antiseptic prop
erties, this is now manufactured on
commercial scale, and costs about ten
cents a kilogram. It is obtained by
dissolving in water equal quantities of
chloride of potassium, nitrate of sodi
um and boraeacid, filtering and evap
orating to dryness. The salt is said to
be qnite deliqnescent and must be kept
in tight bottles. It is quick in action,
retains its qualities for a long time,
and has no injurious effect on the taste,
smell, or healthfnlness of the substan
ces to which it is applied. It has al
ready found a nse in making sausages,
in preserving meats, in tanniDg and in
butter-making. A small quantity of
the salt added to milk will preserve it
in good condition for a week. It is al
so nsed in preserving beers and wines
and is being made the subject of expe
riment in several other directions.—
The World’s Work.
One of those pathetic scenes that
mark the peculiar life of a fishing vil
lags was witnessed at Glouoester, Mass.,
the other day. The fishing schooner
W. V. Hutchins, arrive'd from a cru’se
with her flag flying at half mast. Two
of the crew were left. They had gone
ont in a dory to take np the trawls, or
set-lines, and having been enveloped
in a fog, got lost and finaHythe schoon
er had to sail a way and leave them to
their fate. Those things often happen
and the first sight of a returning vessel
is always taken witn a bit of apprehen
sion lest she brings with her some to
ken of misfortune that has been met.
Nor is it often that the story of the
Hntohins affair finds itself duplicated;
for two hours after the sorrowing over
of these two lost mea had got under full
headway another schooner came into
port, bringing both the lost fishermen,
having picked them up as they drifted
about.
Duihbg the ten years of work upon
the Sutro tunnel in Nevada, the lives of
the operators have been carefully guard
ed, and bnt five or six deaths by acci
dent have taken place. Dusing the
boring of the Hoosac tunnel one hun
dred and eighty-five men were killed, and
the accidental details -in the St. Goth
ard tunnel have averaged one a day,
and in the Comstock one a week. The
low rate of accident in cutting-the Su
tro is attributed to the strict system un
der which the work has been carried
The contempt which is bred of fa-
day, in favor of the former. The de
cision gives Sehlier property valued at miliarity is the real canse of the explo-
QO AAA nnn *
§2,000,000.
A dubious London benevolent socie
ty is the Kyrle, of which the Princess
Louise and Prince Leopold are presi
dent and vice president. The object is
an exceedingly simple one, The mem
bers are principally tourists, who pledge
themselves to send to the treasurer,
Miss Octavia Hill, all small objects of
interest they may collect on their trav
els. These articles' are. distributed in
ilie hospitals, work-houses and public
schools.
Negotiations for a treaty between
the Spanish and Chinese in regard to
the importation of coolies into Cnba
will commence this week, bntthe Span
ish Government will insist upon the coo
lies paying their own passages. As
soon as the treaty is concluded the
Chinese Envoy will leave for Mexi
co and Pern to establish a commercial
convention and protect their feHow
subjects in those countries.
The Warner silver bill passed
the house Saturday by 114 to 97.
Fifteen republicans and greenbackers
voted aye, and nine democrats and
greenbackers, no.
Rockingham, N. C., has a 313 pound
er. He is 23 years old.
A special dispatch from Detroit gives
the following details of the destruction
of French’s menagerie
At 9 o’clock this morning a fire broke
ont on J. N. French’s premises, known
as the Five-mile House, ashort distance
beyond the city limits, destroying,
among other valuable property a num
ber of wild beasts, constituting the re
mainder of his oDce famous menagerie.
Mr. Frneoh. was once a well known
showman, bnt a few years ago disposed
of his circns interest and removed his
animals to his farm, renting them ont
during the summer months to traveling
menageries. The animal barn was a
large wooden structure, two hundred
feet long, containing a row of strong
iron-barred cages. When the fire was
discovered the whole interior of
tjlis place was in flames, and the air re
sounded with the frantic cries of the
frightened animals which sprang fierce
ly against the bars in vain efforts to es
cape. In one corner of the barn was
securely chained the huge performing
elephant Sultan, for many years a prom
inent attraction at the circns perform
ances. Mr. French, at the risk of his
life, dashed through fhme and smoke,
and endeavored to unloose the great
brute, now almost frantic with fear, and
whose shrill trumpeting rung out load
and clear above the babel of sounds.
But the fastenings were secure, and the
flames compelled Mr. French to beat a
retreat, leaving the poor brute to roast
alive where he stood. Every living in
mate of the shed was soon burned to
death, and all that was left was a mass
of glowing embers and red-hot cages,
The animals destroyed consisted of five
performing lions, once claimed to he
worth $12,000, bnt since depreciated
in value; the elephant, two California
lions, an ibex, tiiree kangaroos, one ti
ger, one zebra that had been trained to
trot in harness, a sacred cow and her
sacred calf, and a Rocky Mountain big-
horned deer. Besides these thero was
stored in the building a collection of
stuffed animals of great value to the
owner, circus paraphernalia upon
which no value can be placed, and
many other things which, while not fig
uring id the proprietor’s estimate of
loss, were, nevertheless, of great value
to him.
The scene during the fire baffled de
scription. Two of the lions fell upon
each other and fought desperately, and
the cries aDd slroggles of other im
prisoned brutes were pitiful. Fears
were entertained that an auimri might
escape alive among the crowd of spec
tators, and a dozen men hastily armed
themselves to shoot down any poor
maddened, howling beast should they
break through the cordon of flames;
bnt these precautions were unnecessary,
every one perishing. Mr French’s loss
is $15,000, and he had about $12,000
insurance, in small lots, on the animals.
The policies were to expire at noon, or
three hours after the fire oecured, as
the animals had b-ien leased to the
managers of the Zoological Garden,
near Chicago, and were to have been
removed to-morrow.
A FOOL’S LUCK IN LEADYILLB:
Value of Fish-Ponds.
The fecundity of fish is something
wonderful. The German naturalist,
Gesner. counted 105,000 eggs in a sin
gle female perch. No nations seems to
have comprehended the capacity of
their waters to prodnee hnman food so
mnch as the Chinese, who have culti
vated their fish as a regular crop for
two thousand years. Every acre of liv
ing; water is capable of being far more
productive and profitable, and con
tributing more to the support of man
kind, than an acre of the best land in
the world. When once fairly stocked,
the acre of water requires no attention
whatever except to prevent thieves from
robbing it and destroying ail finny oc
cupants.
In Europe attention is now being
called to this matter fur more than it
ever was before. There is no reason
why this should not be the case in this
country. In stocking ponds with fish,
all dneks, geese, and other aquatic
fowls should be kept ont of them; and
the growth of vegetable matter should
be encouraged in every possible viay.
Among the Pittsburgers who yielded
to the Leadville craze was one yoting
fellow who was always fond of a roving;
reckless life, free from the restraints of
social- etiquette. He belonged to d
good family, hut was poor. He went
to Leadville stayed there qnite a while;
when he returned home on a visit tha
other day. He was talking about iris
Leadville life the other night, and
among other stories he told the follow
ing:
“After I’d been ont around Lead
ville for several months I got to be tol
erably prosperous. I had eight hun
dred dollars in cash, a three ban tired
dollar horse, a gold watch and chain, si
good pack mule, a rifle, two revolvers
a dog and a meerschaum pipe, One’
day 1 cameinto town and drew all my
money in order to pay for a part of a
claim which I wanted to buy. I met
a couple of fellows I knew just after I
got my cash and we resolved to have d
quiet little game of poker. Well, sir,-
I never struck such a lead of bad lnck ;
since I was bom as I did that afi'emootf.-
It was a square game, bnt if anybody'
won anything they naturally intended
to keep it. Men don’t have mutoh pity
for each other ont' in that .country.-
Well the first thing I done was to*
lose $500 on four qneens. It was itif
deal. I gave another fellow four kings.-
In less than an hour I lost every
cent I had, then I lost my horse, then 1
my watch, then my male, then my rifle,-
my revolvers and my dog. I didn’t-
have money enongh to buy a cigar.-
I went ont of the place and resolved 1
to borrow a revolver and shoot myself.-
I walked off ont of the Jedge of
and without thinking what I was doing
I put my hand into my hip pocket t<y
take ont my revolver. There was 1 ri<S
revolver tnere, of conrse, but my meer--
schanm pipe was there looking like a-
piece of shining coal, it had Been Col
ored so prettily. As soon as I felt that-
pipe I gave a yell of delight and started!
off on a run for the house where the-
boys had won my money. They were*
stiil there. I got twenty dollars on my
pipe and sat down to play again. ' I-
won a little money and then I got my
dog hack, then my revolvers, then my
rifle, my mule, my watch and my
horse. It seemed as though there was*
a perfect revolution in my lack, At-
lasb I won twelve hundred dollars on*
one hand. The fellows who was bet
ting against me- had an ace, king r
queen, jack and eight and four-spot
flash, and I had an ace,- king, queen-,,
jack and five-spot flash. When I got
up from the table it was daylight in the*
morning and I had four thousand and<
eight hundred dollars in cash, besides*
the money and things I started-in with.-
I went down to the hotel, borrowed*
the landlady’s Bible and swore I wonld;
never gamble again as long as I lived;;
and I never have since and never will;”’
An Old Story Retold..
When Gen. Crook released Standing
Bear at Omaha the other day the old
Chief said: “I tnank God that I am a
free man once more, and I shall never
forget those who helped mei , I would
like to find some government tend and
take a home like the white people do.
I am getting old, bat I can commence
anew. The Goverment lias taken all
my property, held me a prisoner a
long time, and now when it is too late
to plant, they say to me, “Go.”
One of the most agreeable signs of the
times is the steady increase of Euro
pean immigration at this port, the arri
vals at this port alone last week reach
ing nearly six thousand. The indica-
tiods are favorable to a large increase
throughout the summer. Most of
the steamship agents, we are told, have
advices from their agents to that effect.
There can be no surer a manifestation
of the retnrning tide of prosperity than
this.—New YarJc Bulletin.
It is hinted that Madame Anderson:
accomplishes her prodigious walking,
feats withont any visible signs of ex.-
bnustion by a simple strategexn. Some
body looking and dressed like her takes,
her place while she rests and sleeps..
A man in Cincinnati walked 1,000 miles*
in 1,000 hours by means of a “double,”'
who finally ‘ ‘undid” him, for he be
trayed him just at the close of the walk.
The trick is a very old one. It is-found;
among Hindoo legends of tbe hedge
hog and the fox, a version of the hare
and tortoise. The fox challenged the
hedge-hog to a race, and the hedge-hog;
agreed. The fox started, bnt when, bet
arrived at the end of the path through,
the woods, there was the hedge-hog.—.
Then he proposed running it right over-
again to the starting-point. The-
hedge-hog agreed, and the fox found
him ahead of him as before. This con--
test was continned until the fox conld
go no more, and paid the forfeit. The-
hedge-hog merely stationed his wife,
who looked so much like her husband
the fox didnot know them apart, at one
end of the route while he stayed at the
other. Neither of them moved, and the
fox ran back and forth from one to the
other until he dropped from fatigue.—.
Detroit Free Press.
Sequel to a Miscegenation Case;—-
The miscegenation case recently report--
ed at Beaver, Pa., has had a singular
sequel. Shortly after her marriage to-
Jones, the negro coal digger. Miss
Moore was removed to her home, and
3fter a careful study by her physicians,
she was pronounced insane, and sent to-
an insane asylum. Her husband has
disappeared. ’
The report that Hayes had advised
Conway to charter boats to take off th*
negro emigrants from the Mississippi
valley and promising him Federal pro
tection in so doing, excited the indigna
tion of the members of the Mississippi
and Louisiana delegations. They called
on Hayes and protested against the use
of his name in the matter. Hayes as
sured them that, he had not advised
Conway to make any such movement.
The spinners and weavers i
er, Massachusetts, have held a meeting
and adopted resolutions favoring an ami
cable arrangement with their employ-
ers, avoiding the inevitable miseries of
a strike.
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