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‘•WrSDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.'
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volume xxiy-
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1869.
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gATUBDAY MORNING, October 23.
f’lre Engine Contest.
The tiro excellent engines of this city
lad i trial on the gronnds yesterday.
The firemen woro done np in elc.ant uni-
Sonus, and looked vehemently handsome—
J gtllaut a set of men as ever drew breath.
The engines, rejoicing in all the glory of
burnished brass and glittering ornament,
'lookedjaunty and pleasant. The Band of
the Mountain City discoursed pleasing mu*
sic.
The contest resulted in favor of the
Saiaboir, she throwing 245 feet, and the
Mountain City 223.
While *« J, r t‘ a Rainbow—a full pledged
htnibow—re}, e{,augo, yellow, green, blue,
Sadlgo audviulet—a radiant Rainbow, and
* lisiubow forever, K$(jt4ist say that bad
she dew of the Mountain Olity beei. sound,
she result might have beau .different.
H'jtli the eugises are first rate gad we
wish them success.
Fights—Robberies, .Shooting*
A sable sou of Africa was tickled by n
feci t from the pistol of Col. Sam Stewart
—cause he struck Col. Stewart. Another
African was periujated in four places,
through the urni and shoulder by A lead,
messenger from Col. Stewart—cause un-'
known.
A Mr. Noph was robbed of five hun
dred dollars in money, and a thousand dol-
E« cheek, list night, by a thief who enter
ed his roues, and abstracted the same there
from. He rot me at the Choice Hotel. ,
A fen episodical, but very interesting
fights took place last .night among “the
buys.’’ No serious damage gepoyted.
Mr. C. W. Nowlin was robbed of his
watch and chain on Wednesday night.
There were many other fights, robberies
ud drunks, which happened around loose,
tkft we know not of, and that deserve not
mention vs this paper. Xerily, Rome is
gcttifl#>v he as nice a city as Atlanta.
The Prize Rldei a.
Master Geo. Ramey, won the prize for
the beet boy rider, under fifteen years old.
He stuck to his horse with a careless jaun-
tj aad graceful ease that was charming,
tod that deservedly gave him pre-emi
nence.
Bill Arp, the veritable, took off the
Julia as best burlesque rider. He ^oomsid-
oiably eclipsed the “Hoh; January.” Bill
tould make a fortune in the saw dost ring.
Svae Clotiiibg House will be opened
this morning. New and brilliant stock of
goods—a complete assortment of Men’s,
Boys and Youths clothing, gent’s tarnish*
tog goods—go and get the first choice.
Every artiela marked in plain fignros
aodaold at strietly one prise. Don’t flail
to visit this establishment.
A Puzzled Aborigine*.
A drunken Indian, on visiting the city,
toving Btrayed from his hotel, found him-
«ir loftcp trying to return to it. After look
ed • ?. Bfc “ st,a °g« lodges here .and there,
n*® claimed in .dismay, “Injur?
fo«cfen te ?j erins andunwiH-
Wg toacknowkdgs such shortsightedness,
drawing himsqlfnp:—“No.Injiin
oatvv-wjgwam loat—Injun here.” Not
m ? n vBo are not Indians have lo6t
-' r * 1 8 w “ns in the s*me fashion—but,
m .fellows they are- here.
Unlucky.
tmJT** to*? *“ Auburn, New York, re-
rjT? her sweetbaurt nnjesn fey
tfeJjj- Wln * tobacco. He agreed, and
turn! » 1D 8 t00 * t plac® in due season. Be-
^ ro 'P ‘be bridal tour in the oars the
fri.~v- y ’'^. e PoBcd a roll of something
- Pooltet. She thought it was tobac*
»iiido. 0 “ I toh . ed tt “d threw it out of the M Veal’s.
m Alas,it was a rt 11 of money, 82,500 Mr< V ‘
i and it has not been recovered.
The •
Has the Fair heen a Success*
The Fair is over. The streets are quiet.
The crowd has gone—the ladies (bless their
tired little soles) are housed np closely—the
men are clearing up the debris and coun
ting tfieir gains and, losses—and everybody
is wondering whether or not the Fair was
a success.
It was emphatically a great success.
The stockholders have found it to ben
success. It has been an honor to the Chero
kee country—it has been productive of much
fun and great benefit. The managers are
jubilant, the Romans complacent and every,
body in good humor abont the Fair.
Bat the incalculable advantages that are
to be reaped from the Fur are not yet ap{
parent—they will be palpably and delight
fully manifest however by one year from
date.
The managers were limited in their, efforts
in regard to the first Fair by the fear that
the people would not take an interest in it
and that it would be a drag—hence they
did not offer a very rich or comprehensive
premium list
No such fear will possess them while
they make arrangements for the Fair for
1870.
In the last few days it has been fnlly de
monstrated that this section of country will
annually support a first-class Fur.
Hence in the future the premium lists
will be such that farmers and stock grow
ers, from all sections of the South, will be
empted to send in their goods for exhibi
tion. Already premiums have been offered
for the beet ten acre lot- of wheat, to be
grown for the Fair of 1870. The vnanagers
now in Convention, will doubUess offer
handsome premiums for all kinds of crops,
grown daring the coming year—-our form
ers almost without exception will contend
for one or all of these prizes—the conse
quence will be that immediately agriculture
and all accompanying departments will have
tremendous impulses given them, and that
this country will “bloom and blossom like
the rose.”
In onr next issne we will bo able to talk
more freely upon this subject, we shall ooa-
tinue to urge our farmers to put more at
tention and care to their crops. Upon an
advanced system of agriculture the welfare
of the country depends. This advanced sys
tem our Fair has commenced to establish.
Then dlseardjpg all the other benefits de
rived from It, we repeat with emphasis,
THAT THE FAIR WAB A SUCCESS.
TrsaMe Auoagtlu little FUks.
There is a hubbub bang kicked np by
Tom Thumb & Ca. Tommy, you know,
was bought out by Barnaul, as tha smal
lest man in the world, aud enjoyed the
smiles and moneys of a wondering public
fora long time.
At length he met a little woman about
twe feet and one, and he—eimceptiUe lit
tle raseal—ww struck with an attachment
for the female Titbit, courted her after the
mo6t approved style, gained the consent of
papa Bantam, and monied her.
He now revelled in ' the mot qomp'ete
monopoly ever enjoyed by any poor mortal,
aad when at length, Mrs, Thumb give
her lord anether little Thumb, An world
actually went frantic with delight, and good
was showered plentifully on the li|tit folks.
Bnt alas, Tom having in fortune grown so
great it is announced that there is a little
fellow named MeKibben by 4 inches Tom’s
superior inferior. Botha being from North
Carolina, and a tar-stained and ill-mannered
little cuss, Tom tried to laugh him down,
as not being worthy the survey of deomt
people. Bnt lo 1 a woman Jittler than Tom’s
wife, is now dissevered, and littjs Kibby is
vigorously poshing for the tiny q>4j; in
tending towed bar if wed she oau be, and
Tom is in agony, he bang, already bond
by ties matrimonial to« woman bigger than
Kilby’s intended.
Four only course Tommy, is to get. a di-
Veres—go to Chicago and try this. If you
sucoeed, then make trash for the new little
woman and take Ribby’s plaw. If you
can’t then sit down aud console yourself
with the hope that Kibby’i wife went
sent him with an heir, andlet joa bold the
championship in that department, at any
rate.
The Atlanta papers have been amusing
for sometime, and the Intelligencer, in a
late issne, says that while it has the largest
circulation and bruinem, that there is real
ly not enough support given all three to
justify the running of one. Send two or
three to Rome, and we’ll take care of them.
Tho Savannah Republican is bravely ex
posing the shameless frauds and tyrannies
practiced ty the carpet-beg government' on
Florida. Onr sister will have her flowers
turned to cypress if Reed, 8wepson,& Co.,
are left in power maeh longer.
The Macon Messenger is heartily dis
gusted with the sycophancy shown by onr
embassador to Russia. We don’t blame
Grant Mms4ffor being an idiot, bnt why
does he send each men as Sickles and Cur
tis fe foreign eonrts—they are such asses.
Papers in nil parts of the country are
beginning to discuss the futare of New
York newsptperdom—Raymond dead, and
Bonnett aad Greely soon to follow, already
As qusry is stated who will bo the coming
editor!
The editor of the Colnmbhs Enquirer
pronounces the East Alabama Fair a suc
cess, end baeeballs failure
The Gutitbeit Appeal uiges the farmers
to cash advances on their eofton, and hold
it till remunerative prigm «na be f
Cotton cannot, under Ac preamt labor
system, be raised for 20 cents a pound.”—
Say* the Appeal.
The Chronicle ft Sentinel has a frantic
oorrospondent called Hnnibal, who is prob
ably writing A* liveliest letters on record.
He go** for RuUoak, Blodgett ft Co., fierce
ly, aud bandies Aea with bis gloves off.
Important Decision.
The Supreme Court has confirmed Ae
decision in the ease of Dean vs. Harvey,
rendered by the Circuit Court sometime
since.
Property had been bought during the late
war, by one party from anotner— and paid
for is Confederate money.
The question to be decided was, whether
tho Confederate money payment was suffi
cient consideration to entitle the purobsse
to half the property bought, It being argued
that the Confederate money being in rebel
lion against Ae General Government, all
notes issued by that government were ille
gal. The Supreme Court decided in favor
of purchasers. As there is mnch property
which was bought and paid for in this man
ner, and as this settles Ae question' finally,
Ae (fosisiau sriH ifi ^/interest Jp our /end-,
era, _
Is the State Koad Jn.splvent !
This question is travelling around ex
tensively, and nobody answers it. The
Georgia Road paid 259,000 dollars as the
earnings of that Road for 2 months, and
Ae State Road only pud in $50,008, and
did not pay A* wood cutter* and hands on
Ae Road. They are clamoring lustily for
pay, but it seems to be not forthcoming.—
Whftt is Ae matter 7 We have a great
confidence in Hulbert as a manager, but
with Foster Blodgett to manipulate Ae
funds, no man can own a paying Railroad
lt least, that is onr opinipn. Poor Bol
lock, everything you .put yopy Fostering
care over goes to As bad.
The Fair Directors.
We should be yadly derelict, if we did
not in Aename of onr readers, return sin-
oere thajks to Aose gentlemen whe have 1
so ably conducted Ae mausgement of Ae
late Fair.
The board of Directors, besides assum
ing a pecuniary risk in As Inoipienoy of
the design, have been absolutely untiring
jn their efforts to make Ae Fair, what it
should be and wbnt is bos been.
They have at the expense of all other
business, given valuable time to Ae ad
vancement of tho pommon grpgi, agd in the
name of onr subscribers and of the Romany
in general, we render these hearty acknowl
edgements, and appreciation of their aetion.
MoBbide, RffJNLRY and Premiums.—
We need not state that McBride & Oo.,
and King Brinley, took preminmS-r^y
always do—their names are synonyms of
premiums.
Rny Brinley’s plows, and when you are
enriched by their use, sand to McBride &
Co., and got your stiver-plated Ware, unless
yon want to get solid silver; if you do, why
J. E. Teal’s is as good a place for that A
Aero is in Ae State of Georgia.
Success to McBride and Brinley,
Piano fob Sale.—By reference to our
advertising columns, it will b_6 seen that a
piano is advertised iorsale at half price. It
is an excellent one, and Aose wishing oae
would do well to look at Ais pisBo beforp
purchasing elsewhere. It oen be seen at
fat bog at the Mexico, Mo.,
*j *’ ei shteen months old, aud weieh-
ver seteu hundred pounds.
there Madi “ n count »’ *•>
Oia c hun | EV j !1 “! e,s who8 . e t®*® 1 weight is
4.r£$ and eiuhty-nine pounds.
‘ItoVeekly^sW 111 * " ‘° be CaUed
Good Hoas.—There were two hogs on
exhibition at the Fair that are ahead of
anything-we have ever seen. They would
have taken a prize ia Brobdiguqg, mnch
more in this country. They will probably
go to Ae Macon For. One of them would
Weigh 600 poauds, we think, and
enongh pork on him to last a nation of
Jews six menths.
Cass County took nearly all Ae premiums
on blooded and fast horses. With rash
as Waring, Milam, tha Stile* Bro*. Tomlin
and other* of that ilk this is not surprising.
We congratulate Bartow upon Ae punas
ion of snoh men a3 these.
Her record at Ae State Fair will be good
we venture to say.
Will not our people pay attention to this
subject and help captain May to keep some
stock premiums at home f
The Printers Uaios U|
Oh j Goodness Gracious 1)—Rom* has
got it and got ia badly—an agpuyufed at
tack of Printers Union. What shall we do?
We are opposed to Print—no we are aot—
we think they are rumors—so Massif Prin
ters we begyour pardon we don’t know what
W* think—we’re glad we don’t own S news
paper—we’ll say we aint n printer, we wish
editors had a Union. The Rome Duly
Printers have stmek—struck tefrpr to oar
hearts—we deeply sympsAUe with our
Bothers of the Daily—oh my eye ! A foil
grown Printers Union right here among
ns—we’re afraid we’re a “rat”—or a tnoute -
eh my—a Union—oh I oh 1 a Un—oh.
Onr office hasn’t oanght it yet.
liberal Action.
The Managers of Ae Fair ia Aeir meet
ing to-day voted to defray the burial expan
ses of Ae men who were killed by Ae fall
ing of Ae balloon pole, and besides this to
vote fifty dollars apiece to the families of
the deceased. In addition to this 75 doll
ars was raised by private contributions.—
The accident was a sad one—the families,
have oar warmest sympathies, and oomaend-
ing Ae generaiqy aetion of Meeers Managers
we would bp glad to see something more
dpne for Aese unfortunate people.
Dana is a red hot Rudfot) if Afffj,;
practically, his politics are aematiouEem.
For instance he Jruns Grant fiercely as
Radical nominee, aad then pitches into
him after he ia aleeted, and give* him aev-
eral aevare aurryiaga—all fo* sensation.—
So when Greeley waa nominated for Comp
troller, Dana seeing noAtng lively or sen
sational in Ae nee after Greeley had re
fused to stamp Ae State with Oakey H*U
he did not advocate Greeley’s olaims at aU.
Bnt Ae old philosopher was notto be
thrown off that way. H* caught Dasm one
night"in *ij£tet car, lectured him soundly,
and on Aa nN^byi' evaqr article in Ae
Sun eondaded wiA the advice to *'vi»to for
Greeley.” The eonvenation in tha ear
must have bean spicy. -We mill warrant
that th* tmrbulent Dana ffid not take Ibe
scoldinas of Greeley very quietly, although,
os Ae sequel showed, “he was brought to
his milk.” .
Always Correct
The inevitable aoenraeyof newspaper* is
gndy evidenoed by A* repofta wbieh dif
ferent paper* published of th* Rome Fair,
For instanoe on* paper stated that 10,000
people were here on find day—another gjre*
us one thousand, awother 4000 and another
7,000. They say thing! often Aat we did
pot do, and those thing* we did, Aey men
tion not. Qne paper aaya we bore only a few
hogs sheep, and hoi see, and ipotbwr awear*
that there were no sheep but pleaty of o A-
er atook. One paper Bays that Hart was
killed by foiling fro* a pole- There were
many Jftartt aumskodwa Wpptafo bnt we
hsTt heard of none fiSing from a pole. One
paper had it raining severely on Aeaeooud
-day. That reporter Wtariet
Yet though all Ae report* varied, if ah
most all reports there wa* non* which Ad
>unpe
FAIR ASUPOESR
Row* Iron Masu»aotwu» Wo***-
,We have upon onr table a bar ef iron
from these work*. It is good, tough aad
mallibleiron. The to)* about * q«t*rt*r
of an inch thiok, and Ubqat and twlatod
double. The bending was don* while the
iron cold, and we donbt not bat that n knot
oqnjd be tied in It, while it was in the
same state. We believe that no,bettor
iron ran be made anjwhere. Sneeaae, **J
we to Ae Rome Ia» Mannfieturin* Com-
W
tutorial Drerlt|ej.
Dr. LivingBtoue—that indefatigable los
er of himself aad A* 33rd discoverer of
he Nile, now announoes that he has done
Ae dung np completely, and Aat Ae Nile
la Ae largest river, by far, in Ae world
Andy Johnson is nominated by Ae
Greenville people as delegate to Ae Con
vention to remove the Constitution. That
tailor it a marvel
Expense* of Ae Alabama State Govern
ment will exoeed income by half a million
dollars. So say* Ae Advertiser.
Savannah is having Aeatres and circuses
in nhundaaoe.
Dextep is eleven yean old—Bonner is
older.
Eleven divorcee a day in St.-Louis.
Asheville N. C., has had a first-class snow
atom).
General Grant ia developing a new char
acteristic. He is a vigorous, kissut. He
kissed 300 ladies j n Philadelphia. A sly
dojis Gr^nt.
Mr. Roberson lectures to night to prove
that “woman is not an angeL”—Ex.
Women have proved that by lectures long,
before Roberson was born.
A woman his heen put in jail in Harris
burg for getting drank in pablio. The poor
ianooento—they most be protected!
The young men of Washington H’ilkes
Co. have had a gorgeous tournament. A
horse and the privilege of crowning a
■Queen of Love and Beauty, was Ae prize
contended for—our old College mate and
friend Tom Hill (“Ae clever fellow”) was
Ae victor. In all Ae tourneys of life Tom,
wish yon an equal success!
A Suoouss.—Mr. B. L. Goulding, show
ed os yesterday a pen of late invention,
whieh will hold enongh ink to write 30
page*. The pea containing Ae ink can be
«§§£ ff ft* ft?? wi «* In -
fimihtni, without an approach to ink bottles.
They are a sueoeae—with I|. L. Goulding
to invent such pans, and his &Aer to write
aqdb books a* Ae Young Maroonere, etc.,
what also dm* the world need. Try Aese
Faurr Tuxxa.—Dr. Beickmaa’s of An-
had on exhibition at the Fair a fine
lot of ftvt frees, vines and ahroba. When
the people shall have heen persuaded by
Dr. Berokmsn'a letters, to plant orchards
and vineyards plentifully, and. shall buy
Aair shoots and plants from this accom
plished Dr. Barckmans, of Augusta, Aon
w* ahall be ernteut, and Borne will flourish
beyond computation.
BottubDooks-—We saw, and were
•■rapturedby some ButterDncks 'at Ae
Fair. . Rich yellow butter moulded into tbo
beautiful and perfect little docks that
can be imagined. Mrs. Whitehead, of
Folk,' was the maker. Young ladles, turn
your attention to three things. Half Ae
young man iqGeorgi* had rather have a
wifo who sould took well and bonsekeop
well than one who could only rimper French
German and Italian, and murder operatic
yqjMQ- Beauty alone wont carry you far.
Then learn to make your hnsband’s house
happy. Oh 1 Aoae dear delightful ducks I
>Bom* ia in as agony oyer Ae Cher
okee Fair, which is now being held in that
burg.—Chronicle 4 Sentinel.
Bgrg 1 Do you hear Aat, fellow citizens 1
Boom, tho etaraal city of the hills, called
■ “burg,” and you proud Roman citizens
called burglar*.
Burg 1 Rome « burg. The Gbronlole
man iaa burg—• hum-burg. Burg, in
deed I vre'ro a aity.
New f auilt Gbooset a*d Proyt-
qios Sroqs.—Moors. Sawris k Spa
late of Naahvilla, are opening a large and
ooaplete steak of family groceries and pro
visions, in Myerhardt’s new building, 2d
door below Gammons. They are Ae right
sort of men, aad we tender them a t eordial
wslcoma to cur thnving city, hoping that
Aeir suseam may be commensurate with
great deserts.
. ■ ~ ■ ■» «» *—
Jacksonville is rapidly improving, says
Ifre Bepstbca*.
A HwicUe In unatteaga Coanty by Ueg-
ulators.
- A murder was committed in Summer
ville on Ae night of Monday, Ae 1st inst,
of which the following are Ae particulars,
as related by a responsible gentleman :
1 [Mr. Joseph L. Boss, who lived ncar Aat
place, bad been charged with maltreating
his wife, and about* week previous she
had left him.
At about nine o’clock of the night' cf
Ais sad affair, eight or ten men In disguise,
called on Mr. Ross, at his residence, and
gave him a pretty plain lecture : upon Ae
■object of abasing his wife, informing him
that that was one of Ae Aings that would
not be tolerated in that community, bnt
made no threat unless it was implied in
.the order thafhe most not leave the honse
until they had been gone two hours.
They departed in Ae direction of Sum
merville. He immediately got h>S home
and followed them. At the town he come
np with them, aad rode into Aeir midst.—
They twice or three times ordered him to
halt. He was determined to find ant who
Aey were, and that he snapped his pistol
several times, but it failed to fire. A sin
gle shot was fired at him, which took ef
fect, and caused his death last Wednesday.
The party of disguised men were last seen
some ton miles from Summerville, riding
in Ae direction of Alabama,
j One informant states that he has been
told that Mr. Boas said Aat he recognized
no one of Ae party.
He was a staunch democrat, and always
has been, and neiAer his friends nor any
one else in that community attribute politi
cal motives to Ae party of disguised men.
There is no coanty in Ae State that has
abetter citizenship of law-abiding men
than Chattooga, and Ae civil officers Acre
wiUde all Aey possibly can to ferret out
Ae facts of Ao case, and make such dispo
sition of Ae matter as will secure Ae
Mr. W. B. Wamble gives the following
notice to Ae Ordinaries of Georgia; “You
are hereby notified not to-freqe any license
for matrimony to or for Wamble,or, in foil,
Daniel Barton ;Wamble, until after Ae
1st of March, 1873, he being a minor. 1
Tbe Thelrlag Rat.
One of the most remarkable animals of
Ae Rocky Monotaios is Ae Rocky Moon-
tain rat, the Neoloma Cmered of Beard,
also known as Ae Neoloma Oecidentatit,
and called in Oregon Ae w»d rat. A foil
grown rat is often nine inches in lengA
from tip of nose to base of tail, while Ae
tail adds abont as muoh more to its'IengA.
Its hair is soft, gray on Ae back and
whitish on Ae belly, ears short but broad,
and round tail bushy at Ae tip. It is Ae
worst thief ia Ae animal creation, not ex*
cepting man, for it always steals and does
not stop to consider whether what be steals
is valuable or not. Many strange stories
are told concerning its stealing noils, can
dles, etc., and bringing baek in return ma
nure and all sorts of offals. Its operations
often have Ae appearance more of having
been Ae result of a desire to be employed
than anything else. On oneoucation J.
Alden Smith, of this office, says he bad
standing in his office in clear Creek ooun-
ty, half a keg of nails, containing three ris
es, and daring m single night these rets
took out all Ae nails qnd piled them upon
the floor in three pile*, each size by them
selves. 'The same animals night after
night, brought in heaps of manure from an
outhouse. But even a stranger trick than
this was performed in Ae honse of Mr.
Hale on Tuesday night. On going to bed
he placed his false tee A on the bureau. In
Ae morning Ae teeth were gone and a
raw potato left, in Aeir place. After a
long search, tearing off Ae weaAer-board-
ing in several places, Aey were found in Ae
nest of one of these rats. The rat had
started to carry off the potato, bnt finding
Ae teeth took them and left Ae potato.
HYMEN IN 1760.
To begin with Ae lady: Her locks
were strained upward over an immense
eoshion that sat Uke incubus on her head,
and plastered over wi A pomatum, and Aen
sprinkled over with a shower of white pow
der. The bright of tide tower was some
what over a foot. One single White rosebud
lay on its top like an eagle on a haystack.
Over her neck and bosom was folded a
lace handkerohief, fastened in front by a
bosom-pin rather huger than a copper cent
containing her grandfaAer’s miniature
set in virgin gold- Her airy form was brac
ed np in a satin dress, Ae sleeves as tight
i- Ae natural skin of the arm, with a wrist
formod by a bodice, worn outside, whenoe
the skirt flowed off, and was distended at
Ae top of an ample hood- Shore of white
kid, wiA peaked toes, and heels of two or
Aree inches elevation, inclosed her feet,
and glittered wiA apmgl*s>*» her little
' il members peeped curiously out. Now
the swain: his hair was sleeked back
and plentifully beflowered, while his qvoue
projected like Ae handle of a skillet. His
coat was a sky-bine silk, fined wifo yellow;
his long vest of white satin,-embroidered
with gold lace ; his breeches of Ae same
material, and tied at the knee wiA pink
ribbon. White silk stockings and pumps
wiA bees and tie* Of foe s*me< hue, .com-
‘ ted the habiliments of Ms neAer limbs.
ce raffles clustered around his wrist,
and a portentous frill, worked in correspon
dence, and bearing Ae miniature of his
beloved, finished bu (roly genteel appear-
NEWft JOTTINGS,
The New Orleans Picayune says Aat all
Ae hand* that can possibly he procared ia
Louisiana are busily engaged in picking
cotton. Eveiy planter ia so busy picking
he has no time to sMp.
There will be six edijwre next year, but
none of them will be visible in Ae United
States.
Louisiana makes 15.000 barrels of flour
a day and 2,460,000 gallons of whisky a
ye*?-
A North Carolina clergyman has invent
ed a moose-trap, sold his patent for $11,
OOfl^-and qnit preaching.
The Revolution heads an article “Some-
ing better Aan Ae ballot for Woman.”
Wc know what it is its—a B—by.
JohnShortgnta, Gentleman, writes to
the London Times complaining that Ae
Herald’s College won’t change his name (o
Brown. He says his sons are teased by
their schoolmates and nobody will marry
his danghters. Poor John.
A black bear, weighing over two hun
dred-pounds, was killed near Mobile, Ala.’
a few days ago.
A live immigrant has appeared in Tan-
nessce .wiA 1,500; sheep and 806 mules.
The papers brag on bimj
The chairman of a Dent meeting, at
Jackson, Mississippi, introduced a colored
Democrat, John F. Harris, of Memphis, as
ah orator, and a gen tlemen as for as poli
ties are concerned."
My ■riarwre* Pipe.
My Briarwood pipe' is my wannest of friends;
Its heart is aglow, and its excellence lends,
A solace and joy to my innermost soul,
'As the incense floats off from its ash cinct
ured bowl. "L.-(.v-4,5
And- through the Ain weft of that vapory
blue,
That bo gracefully curie and Aen fades
from my view
Bright virions of life seem to come and to go
Live wavelets that breakiu the tide’s- ebb
and flow. ’ 1 .V Ti : ui
Reported far th# TrtoWeekty Conner.
Not sweeter to earth is Ae eopions rain,
Nor land to Ae ehip-WTeeked adrift on Ae
DOES IT FAT TO KEEP HENS.
TMs question is ofteu asked and very of
ten answered in the negative. Let me tell
Ae readers of Ae Whig my experience. -1
have twenty hepe. They nave Ae range
an upper and lower room is my barn. They
roost above and eat in Ae room below. On
Ae South aide of tha lower room I have a
largo .window to let in Ae sou light, aud
Ae room is as warm as rawdust and boards
can make it. Hess must have a warm
room aad plenty of sunlight *r Aey will not
lay in Ae winter. Commenting wiA the
first day of May, I kept an aeaurat* account
of tho expanse aad profit of the hens for
oae year, except six weeks of August aad
Septembre-, whom I was absent from lows.
The eggs laid in that time are not taken in
theaoeount. These twenty hens laid in Ae
time above named, one hundred aid twen-
en dozen and tight eggs. Thirty-five
of Aese were laid in January and
February. Adding up the market priee
for each month of those eggs, [ find they
amount to $40,30. Some of Aese twenty
were Spring chickens and of course did not
lay until January. Tho crowers of three
broods were dressed for table and at the
market priee came to $45,50. These hens
had foe benefit of foe Waste food of two
family for 3 months, and of one fomily the
rest of the year. I paid out for meal, com
and barley, $10,50,which leaves me a dear
profit of 836,00.—S. P. F. in Bangor Whig
Fifteen tons of tracts hare beeh sent from
Dnbfin to 'foe Chisago Ghristain Associa
tion.
A reason why a piano was not saved at
a fire was because nane of foe firemen oould
play oa it.
says; “Truth” is
out by more impor-
Importasce of Deainaqe.—Thorough
drainage of land is necessary to success in
fiuming, bnt the operation is too often neg
lected. When land is wet in Spring Ae
soil cannot be prewed for crops in proper
time, and even after the seed in pat into
Ae ground, it does aot vegetate .until after
Ae stagnant water has been evaporated
sndAe soil warmed by tha son. When
Spring crops are planted er sewn late, they
do not cover the ground until Ae sun’s rays
have dried np all Ae unnecessary moisture.
Lands naturally or artificially drained can
ho tilled early in Spring and seed can b*
got into the. ground at A* right .time, and
Ae crops will have covered the grouad be
fore tha great host of Sommer commences,
and Ae roots will be protected from Ae
rays of Ae sun. The Fallis thehestseason
for oonitructing drains.
Pope Pins IX. is now 77 years of age;
and he has been Pope 23 years. Ha is de
scribed ss a vigorous old man, *f moet be
nevolent and vanerahle aspect. Personally
he is extremely popular wiA almost afi
classes of hispsople. Ho is raid to he a
man of blameless lift and tha. bast possible
intentions, bathe adheres to Ae ideas of
used by Benjamin
to be in 176 different
American printing offices.
The following appears in a. duly ; pspar:
Wanted, Girls for Cooking.” Have we
a can n ibal among u* ?
A eotomporary says of a rival editor Aat
he strain eating meat and vegetables—this
tles are his proper food.
The editor of a Texas paper offers his pa
ter for rix months to.Ae man that brings
rim Ae largest watermelon.
Corrected: official returns of Ae vote of
OMo for Governor give Ae following result:
For Hayes, 236,082; Pendleton, 228,581;
Republican majority, 7,501.
A. R. Casdy, editor of Ae Urbans Un
ion, married a Miss Armstrong, of Gallon,
OMo, a few days ago. It was no miracle,
he thought that his sweetheart should be
turned into candy.
The Empress Engenie fainted when she
first heard of Ae aaaaasinttiqn of the Kinck
Patin, and raw foe photographs
that had been taken of foe victims.
Ae past, both political and theologioal, wiA * t ?S£ I *! le .v
a tenacity most wonderful to witness, espe- ^hy not guilty? asked Ae
oially to hispoweras s temporal sovereign. **tae.
It has been computed that a young lady
dancing at a fashionable ball trill travel
out forty miles daring Ae evening.
An Irishman dropped a letter into foe
postoffice the other day, wifo foe following
memorandum on foe corner, for the benefit
of all indolent postmasters into whose hands
it might fall:—“Pieate hasten foe delay
?ffois.
Dr. Mary Walker has been lecturing in
St- Louis on Ae necessity of a law compel
ling man to marry before Aey reach the
age of forty.
Canes, wMch assist rapid locomotion
should be called hurrycance.
Iowa has just abolished A* use of tho
lash in her State Prison.
A Ginoinnati goat eats th* newspapers
from doorstops before the subs crib era can
get them.
The New York Leader rays thoRoA-
•ehilds have been.nipped in Russian specu
lations, and are now Wrothschildfl.
According to Professor Goldwin SmiA
Canadians are physically superior to Ameri
cans.
Ben Wade is in Washington. Ho advo
cates strongly Ae recognition of Cuban inde
mnity to hi* jMwerls a temporal sovereign.
He unman of Ae simplest mailers and
habits.
Thb Laeoxst English FASM.-Tha lar
gest form in England eostista of for** thous
and seres, and bdangi to a man wiA Aa
Yankee nama of Samual Jonea. Ia its cul
tivation he fallows A* “four cost**” system,
the whole extent of tha fans hung divided
into four, great srops—750 acre* of wheat,
750 barley aad oats,750 to areda, pres, he.,
and 656 to roots. His liv# stock is^valued
as follows: Sheep $36,000, honse $5,600,
bullock* $12,800, pigi $2,006. Th* oil sales
and corn purchased annually unseat to
$20,000, and artificial fertilizers about $8,-
00. Th* entire oost of manors, in various
forma used annually arata about $15,000.
Sheep ere claimed as th* meat profitable
stock he keep*, from whieh are realised
• year. Hit iaeem* from
the whole fariu, Aongk set tested, esa he
little lira Aan $20,000 per amm: >
Of Caaras they Have.
An i
boring i
alarmed at Ae 'gradual
Ae fair sex, singB foody:
They took our coats—at first w* hap
And then they aped our dickey* and
crafots: They stole our seeks—we only
laughed and kueed ’em—
Emboldened” Aen Asy stole cyr very
tie; Until by alow and sure degrees, Ae
itohee Have taken all—our essta, hats,
bieeohed
On Thursday last Mr. Davis attended a
banquet at Ae rooms of the “Life Associa
tion of America,” in Naw Orleans. Gsn.
Hood presided. The Picayune rays: “Af
ter Ae guetea had assembled around the
board, Gen. H. proposed foe health of Mr.
Daria, which wak drank in moat i 1 ‘ - - 1
silence. The latter repUed with a
compliment to Ae fidelity and fa
of Gen. Hood, who aud, would teand upon
his crutches to the late, defeading home
interests and contending flu Aat h* believ
ed to be right.
The evidence against Tranpmaaa, who
' ‘ Weft'
AS seated apart at foe dose of the'day,
A whiff off my pipe drives all care away.
Let others delight in their Powhattan pipe;
Thar com cob, so sweet when the harvest
i»rip«S' ...
Of Meerschaum born of the foam of foe sea,
My Briarwood pipe is Ae pipe, sir , for me.
TRIFLES.
Good little bnoys—Corks.
Spirit wrappers—bottles.
r maids.
yarns.
Mammoth caves—huge failures.
Mockingbirds—whistle venders. ”
Golden fruit—California products.
Criminal acts—tbe labor of convicts.
Take it Coolie—th* Chinese question.
One Connecticut firm makes up, 30,000
pounds of brass a year into shoe string
tips.
Important to Tobacconists.—A Den
ver store has t sign up: “FyNe KUT 2
hit Oh.”
Chicago reoently seat to California/ on
a single train, 15,
ter.
. pound* of mail mat-
A Funch Story—In 1869 a gentle
man was pasting, latest night, over Pont
Neat, Paris, with a lantern. A man came
up to him.and said: !
“Bead Aispaper.”
Ha held hu lantern and read as fol
lows:
“Speak not a word when you read this.
Or in an instant jouTlbedead;
Give me your money, watch and rings,
WiA other valuable things— -
Then quick, in silence, you depart,
Or with a knife I’ll cleave your heart.”
Not being a man of much pluck, Ae af
frighted gentleman gave up ku watch and
money and ran off. He soon gave Ae
alarm, and Ae highwayman was arrested.
'“What have you to aay foryouraelfT” in
quired the magistrate before whom Ae
manwas arraigned.
“That! km Not'gaily of robbery, though
magis*
“Simply because I can neiAer read or
write. I picked up that paper just at the
moment I met this gentleman wiA a lam-
tern. Thinking it might be something
was arrested as A* author *Tth* terrible
Patin tragedy, ia aaeumulatiag so raj
thatkmiuL coi'
oomfwuoa is •oifidontly
ipidly
:ty ax-
read it to me. He complied wiA my re
quest, and presently handed me Ma watch
and purse and ran. I supposed Ae paper
to be of great value to him, and he thus lib
erally rewarded me for _ finding it. He gave
oi6 no tiw to him, which tot of po-
litreeu I was ready to perform.”
The gentleman aooepted the plea of tbe
robber and withdrew his complaint
Tbavilisq bt Boat.—“Hallo, Aere,
Capting !” said a brother Jonathan to a
il packet boat, on Ae Erie
canal. “What do you charge for a pas
sage V’ V,
“Three cento per mile and board,” said
“WaSlfl guess I’ll take presage eaj
soring as how I am kinder gin out,
(O for.”
Accordingly he got on hoard just as foe
•toward was nngimg Ae bell for dinner.—
Jonathan drew np to Ae table, ret down,
aad began demolishing Ae “fixins,” to the
nation of foe captain, until he
had oleaned Ae table of all that was eata
ble, when he got np and went on deck,
picking bis teeth very comforabty.
“Hew for is it, capting’ from here to
where I got on boird.
“Nearly one and a half miles,” raid Ae
captain.
“Lefa aee,” arid Jonathan, “that would
be just four and a half eenta; but never
mind, oapting, I won’t b# small, here’s five
cents, which pays my fore to here, I guess
I’ll go ashore now; I’m kinder rested
•out.
tity railway companies of Phil-
adelphia have forbidden Ae sale of new*
papers upon Aeir ears. They did’at mind
the traffic, hut Ae local paper* got ■> dull
that paraengen fell asleep while reading
Asm, and wan carried so much farther
than they wanted to go that A* companies
began to loose money. Hence Aeir aetion.
The newsboys have hdd an indignation
meeting and are going to appeal to Ae ed-
tors to make more readable paper*.
An OMo oonnty fair promisee a marriage
on horseback as one of the “— a —'—
the second day.
London, Nov. 5—Midnight.—Peabody
dead.
New York, Nov. 5.—Later returns more
unfavorable. Bepublieans estimate 16
Democratic majority in the General As
sembly. The Times pots the Assembly
70 Democrat, 78 Republican.
Treasurer detectives have captured big
tobacco stamp oounterfeiting establishment.
Prisoner’* statement indieatee a wide
range of accomplices.
San Frafcisco, Nor. 5.—The Ameri.
can from Hong Cong, arrived wiA one
thoneand Chinese and over a million treas
ure.
Madrid Nov. 5.—The Cortes adjourn*
ed. The government wifi endeavor to fill
vacant seats wiA partizsns.
.■Washington, Nov. 5.—The report of
the Comptroller of currency will urge a
a radbal change in Ae banking laws,
■'hereby :be system be open to all who cna
lurnish necessary security.
Washington, Nov. 5.—The Post
master General ordered* new building to
be selected for the postoffiee in Nashville,
the present one being unequal to Ae de
mand.
The Contingent Fond of Ae Honae be
ing exhausted, the Sob-Committee on
Elections decline visiting ^SquA Carolina.
The eleotion in that State *ril) he jpypstj-
gated soon after the meeting of Goqgrp**.
Revenue to-day over half a million.
Rogers appointed Collector «f Customs
at St Marks, Fla.
Customs from 25th to 30A inclusive,
over 3,000,000.
London, Nov. 3.—Tha death of the
philanthropist, Geo. Peabody, creates a
profound sensation. Nearly all the morn
ing papers have obituary articles. The
Times says Aa news of Mr. Peabody’s
death will he received with no common sor
row. on boA lidos of Ae Atiautic. The
sentiment of grief will he a mere pasting
tribute to * munificent benefactor.
Mr. Peabody, through a long life accu
mulated eminent righto to be lamented. He
was an ardent patriot, and was loved
abroadas mnch as at home. He was %
New Englander who, when Ae South w<H*
bowed down to the dust, stepped forwai^
and claimed a right to succor her. He fas
no courtier, but he was honored by sover
eigns and princes. Ho.ism profuse in his
charities, wMch pauperised nobody. He
was a philanthropist, who was liked as well
honored. There was nothing hard
or narrow abont his philanthropy—he rim-
ply did whatever good came in Ms way.
New Orleans, Nor. 5.—Galveston,
Provisional Governor applying for author?
ity to enforce ordinances, adopted by re
construction convention. Reynolds de
cides them not valid and says that ratifica
tion of Ae constitution will pot in'any m an?
ner and degree validate and make of fore*
these ordinances.
Richmond, Nor. 5.—State Fair closed
serving 8,000 dollars in premiums award
ed—Dr. S. R. Waring,prominent Physician
died suddenly this mprnipg.
Nxw York, Nor. 5.—Cotton heavy at
i lower; sales 3100 bales at 25}. Flour,
superfine, $5 20a 5 35; common to fair ex T
tra Southern, $6a6 60. Wheat, winter
red Western $1 37al 41; Hlinoia$l 20a
1 35; white Michigan, $1 45al*55; choice
$1 60. Com 1 to 2 cents lower; mixed
Western } lower. Fork $40; lard heavy,
kettle 17fal8. Whiaky lower $1 11}.—
Groceries quiet and dull.
Gold active at 27}.
Igberpool, Nov. 5.—Cotton steady;
sales 12,000 biles; exports aad speeolationB
3,000 bales.
Cinoinwatti, Nov. 5.—Com firmer.—
Whisky unsettled. Sales at a dollar. Ba- -
con,shoulders 16}-}.' - .f '.'- <1 ' '
Louisville, Nov. 5.—Provisions qniat.
Mess pork, $31; shoulders 16}; clear sides
20. Lard 18. Whisky, $1 05.
Baltimore, Nov. 5.—Cotton heavy at
25}. Flour dull and lower exoepi for ft-
vorite brands; Howard street laperfihs, 5}*
58; wheat dull and lower; good choice rod
$1 32al 49. Cora dol!; new 85*90. Rice
dulL Oats 55*57. Pork quiet at $33;
shoulders 16. Lard 18*18}. Whisky
$1 11*1 11}; Old Virginia, 44}; bid 47a
49.
Mobile, Nov. 5.—Cotton receipts fo
the week 11,852 bales; reports
to Groat Britain, 3,144; coastwise 1,3}%
stocks shipboard, 27,489; sales for the week
6100; to-day 700; middling, - 24e; closed
quiet hut firm; holders generally .-unwilling
to accept. i r { ,
Nxw Orleans, Nov. 5.—Cotton receipt*
today 7,664 bales; week, gross, 36,106; net
34,435; exporta to Liverpool, 3,989; Hav
re 3,860; Bremen, 2,046; eoastwise, 2,506;
stock-89,244,
New Orleans, Nov. 5.—Cotton easier
24} to }; Bales 2,700; sales for Ae week
30,450, Coffee firm, fair 15a}; prime 16}
to 17}; whisky dull 1 20 to 22, afi other*
unchanged. Gold 27; sterling 37}.
Wilmington, Nov. 5.—Cotton droop
ing 23 to 24.
Charleston, Nov. 5.—Cotton quit?
and less firm; sales 400; middling 24}; re
ceipts 1,909; exports eosatwise 5 6
Augusta, Nov. 5.—Market active and
unchanged; sale* 986; receipts 1084; mid
dling 23} fo }.
Savannah, Nov. 5.-Cotton roaripta
2,576 hales; reports 376; Middling 24}i
market lull.
N
•:
Th* personal appearance of the
of Anrtria oomapsads wiA bar
loving high-strung natnro. Hsvtattformta
beautifully moulded, her «ye* are large and
expressive, and ipeak often things whieh,
correctly, etiquette forbids her tongue to
utter. Her compUxion is exquisitely trans
parent. Her rioh brown hair sweeps Aa
nd when Ae lets it fell over her shoal?
to dry in issuing from Ae both.