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“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”
VOLUME XXYII.
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1873.
NEW SERIES-NO. 47.
mer vacation a month longer than
usual, and intimating that they might
sell their present stock of cotton, as it
seems to be in such demand in New
York, and buy it in at a very much
lower rate on. This letter lias added
another element of weakness to the
market, and altogether the situation at'
present is a little shaky. As legitimate
trade, both in raw material and in goods,
is suffering from the effects of the
present cornering operations, no out
side sympathy is felt for the losing side.
There is a moral to our little story, hut
we think we will defer it
[For the Courier.
4 Bioneer.”
AIB—"LITTLE MAUD,
Ohe, we vas a lcetlo growd of guntry vellers,
Weshust come down to have a lcetlo fun; .
We dot we would come down mit der city,
Sfrast to see dem Hook and Ladder vellers
run.
Ohe, I dell you vat, dey run like de tevil!
And dey put a crate pig ladder mit der vail;
And dat veller he run right np der middle,
By shove I dinks he vas a goin to fall l *
Chorus.
Bioneer, Bioneer, she vas der leetle druck dat
peats dem all.
Bioneer, Bioneer, she vas der leetle druck dat
peats dem all.
Der gomes a crato pig growd of Rome vellers.
And say dot dey would drow sand into our
eyes;
And dey prings along a leetle patent Buckle,
Shust to valk right avay mit dat prize; ■
But I dell you vat is, my old vriends,
You can bet shust so long as you are alive,
Dat ve don't care for patent Buckles,
Shust so long as we can run in fifty-five !
CHORUS.
Fifty-five, fifty-five vas der time dat alvays
takes der prize.
Fifty-five, fifty-five vas der timo dat alvays
takes der prize.
“Well, well, Ida; never mind about
that; You and Kitty run on to play,
I wish to talk to the Father about it,”
answered the lady
The girls ran on, and Madame Del
zons continued, “ I am much pleased
with the little girL She is a gentle,
id hi
sign Farms and Farming. ~ : 1
ring oxtracis from a private
eu by an observing traveler,
•ope, to his friends, will he in-
> many readers. His observa-
been in England, France Ba-
lustria—the first and the last,
iving the richest and best kept
'land the fields are immense ;
is beautifully undulating;
of ground is well kept, and all
>n lines between estates are
well-trimed hedges,
most unfrequented field the
Id be trirned as nicely as in a
i grounds. But in all farming
die English are very clumsy,
thorough. Their tools are
[ awkwardly made, but last
derations. I saw in one in-
m plowing with six horses,
umi auu Pan oeen oneepiow-
SfaHy and using a plow that
Veighed six times, at least, as
faukee plow capable of doing
brk. In fact all the work he
night have easily been done
[of Canada ponies, a Yankee
[ Yankee man to hold it.
ace tho farming operations are
awkwardly performed—and a
of the hardest field labor is
While at Liverdon, a
niles from Paris, I strolled
yliere ten women were spread-
with forks that weighed not
ifteen pounds apiece, and I
k more.
rere evidently made by some
ry blacksmith, and had to
them the single quality of
The French peasant women, I
he nearest approach to brutes
[found iu the ranks of iiunian-
don’t seem half as intelligent
iful French horses, and it is
lently the case that a bright
;en years is sent to superintend
>f them, and keep them from
and quarreling. Some of
hands are fearfully old and
ugly—I feel sure that I saw
! than eighty years old work-
and doing what would be
man’s work in America,
wretched huts and on the
Ik bread and the sourest wine,
ling through France I was
he fact that the roofs of the
11 either thatched or cov-
-bumt to a red celor like
On some of the thatched
quite luxuriant growths of
pugh I did not see any cows
B roof to pasture I did see
instances boys sent on the
’ les to cut the grass, which
[ longer and greener than in
• the journey from Paris to
passed for the first forty or
brough a stretch of country
nd beautifully cultivated , in
i devoted to the raisings of
’1 fruits. Then we came
country, where for miles
: vineyards were to be seen,
here a great deal of the light
ie is made. The vineyards
ally kept, the vines being
two or three feet of each
never allowed to grow more
feet high.. When we came
swere tying up the vines to
they having been laid
• protection in the winter,
proached Munich the country
and uninteresting, and vine-
place to wheat fields. When
Vustria I saw the most beau-
’ all. Sometimes they would
width, and covered for the
nee with young grain of a
iful green. Here, too, were
mg in the fields, but of much
uigence than the French
i Austrta the farms are im-
fiariu houses are likewise
pd invariably builharound a
u Linz I wentinippne. Six-
wptand twenty horses; and
and fifty laborers—men,
nildren live under the one
l farmer or landman being
nee in his own right. You
■ this that erary Austrian
all colony. ■ /
itrance to the -Cfflirt-yard is
archway big enough to drive
of hay, and over it is al-
a picture of the Virgin or
i saint.”
IDA DEL ZON S.
Chapter V—Continued.
The day was a day of delightsome
wonder to Kathleen. The splendors of
the chateau appeared to her childish
fancy like the wonderful scenes she had
read of in the “ Arabian Nights.” She
could hardly realize that the scenes
hrough which she moved were not
conjured into being by some magician’s
hand—that the halls she trod were not
the halls of some fairy palace; and that
the beautiful little lady who so kindly
led her was not a beautiful fairy prin
cess—nay, queen of all the fairies.
Even her own identity was lost in the
golden haze of her childish wonder,
and she could hardly realize that it was
her own self who moved so softly about.
The high walled library almost stupe
fied her with the immensity of its treas
ures. She could not believe that so
many books, golden-lettered back books,
bad ever been made. And then the
pictures! if they had been little win
dows framed into an enchanted palace,
slmwou^otJ^-e^ge^n'fCHhnjhe
sweet child, and has nothing of the
low vulgarity I expected to find in one
of her class. She seems, too, , so de
voted to Ida, that I am almost per
suaded to let her go with her.”
“ She would be of incalculable service
to your daughter,” answered Father
Chalon. “ Her com:
“ Oh, not so much for that!” inter
rupted the lady; “ not her companion
ship, but the little services she could
render Ida. Of course I could not
think of placing her au pied egal with
my daughter.”
The priest smiled, as he gently an
swered,
“No; the little girl would hardly
expect that' She is a modest little
creature, and would much prefer going
as the servant than the companion of
your daughter.”
“ Not servant, Father, 15 quickly an
swered the lady, flushed a little at the
quiet rebuke of the priest “ I would
not wish that; the protege, rather.”
“Yes, protege; that would be better,
that would be excellent,” he answered.
“ There is an imperial grace abont your
daughter that fits her for the dispensa
tion of patronage, and the earnest troth
aud frank sweetness of the little
would not, I am sure, revolt from
appreciation and acknowledgment of
an obligation.”
“ Yes, it would he a pleasant as well
as graceful tiling for Ida to have gome
one to patronize,” acquiesced the lady.
“ Some one to pet and love,” answer
ed the priest.
“ Yes; Ida’s heart is really tender,
and she will so much need something
to pet,” she said.
“It is a beautiful characteristic in
her nature, my daughter, and it is well
to encourage and foster it,” said the
priest.
" And how can we arrange it with
the girl’s people ?” he an-
.’ enough, a Chicago, court has
r, and Mrs. Freelove.
Before the portraits she tiptoed her
way and hushed her breath in wonder
ing awe, and trembled to think that a
too rude gaze from her staring eyes
would startle them from their dignified
pose. Before the portrait of Madame
Delzons she paused and lifted her face
with a reverence amounting to adora
tion. She thought it was up to the
sweet face of the Madonna she was
looking. And when Ida led her into
the parlor, and with that girlish free
dom so characteristic of her generous
nature opened the piano to amuse her
with music, unskilled and impromptu
as it was, she could scarcely restrain
the wildness of her strange delight.
Ida noticed the expression that danced
on her countenance, and she said,
“ Well, Kitty, how do yon like my
music ?”
“Oh, I don't know, Miss Ida; it
cton : t Keemlike raw=io-W ine. Tcseems
like something eise—something I don’t
know what,” she answered.
“ Then you don’t like it, Kitty ?
Well, I don’t wonder,” laughed Ida.-
“ No, no, Miss Ida, I do like it; it is
very nice, much nicer than I have ever
heard before, and that is why it seems
so strange—so much like it came from
I don’t know where,” frankly replied
Kathleen.
“ Oh, j r ou ought to hear mama, Kitty,
or Prof. St. John; then you would
wonder indeed,” and the little lady
unconsciously betrayed a consequential
superiority she would have blushed to
feel. “And the organ, Kitty; let’s run
to the chapel. Mama is there now
playing for Father Chalon. We need
not go in, but can listen through the
window outside.”
Down through the flowery terrace
they ran, and from beneath the green
canopied elms in the chapel yard
Kathleen’s innocent young soul drank
in the strains, which seemed to her no
part of earth, no part of fairy-land, but
breathings fresh from the golden harps
which surround the Throne.
Involuntarily she nestled up to Idtu
and with her head bowed, she whis
pered,
“ Is it the angels singing ?” t
Ida did not laugh. The question
was too earnest, and was asked in a
voice too soft for levity.
“ No, Kitty, not the angels,” she an
swered ; “ ’tis. the organ—only the or
gan. Mama is playing. She will soon
be through, and then we will go in.” : j
“ I would be almost afraid to do that
—to stand there, I mean,” said Kath
leen.
“ Oh, never mind that, Kitty; I un
derstand yon. But you need not mind
that. We all go in there, even the
oes,” answered her friend,
lie music ceased, and the services
were concluded; and the girls had ap
proached the door to enter, when they
were met by Father Chalon and Mad
ame Delzons.
“ You are tardy, my children,” smil
ingly reproved the priest, as he rested
a hand kindly upon each of their
bowed heads.
“Yes, we were tardy, Father,” an
swered Ida; “we only stood by the
window. It was to hear the music we
came. Kitty was almost afraid to en
ter.”
“No, no, my child: never afraid to
enter here. ’Tis a refuge when all else
where fails. When all friends are gone,
all hearts are cold, all homes are deso
late, ’tis here you must come. Will
you always remember this,my child?”
tenderly asked the priest.
“ I’ll never be afraid to come to you,
Father,” answered Kathleen; “ blit the
music sounded so strange and so sweet
that I thought it was the angels!”
“ And it was the angels, my daugh
ter, who opened yonr heart to receive it.
Jesus help you always to heed them!”
solemnly answered the priest.
“And Ida, Father,” spoke Madame
Delzons, as they turned towards the
chateau—“ Ida has been playing truant
again. And only think what she has
done!”
“ Nothing very bad, I hope,” said the
priest.
“ I don’t think it was so very bad,
Father,” quickly replied the girl. “ It
was to fetch Kitty 1 went.”
“ Ah, that was it, was it ?” he smiling
ly answered; “ and I am glad that you
fetched her.”
“ Yes, and I think mama will he
glad too, and then she.wili forgive me.
for running off without. .asking. her,”
said Ida.
yictor acquiesces in Ida’s wishes,
if you can arrange it with her
nds, it is settled that the girl may
go. We will see about her outfit, and
Victor will provide for her mainten
ance.”
“ You are all very generous, and I
bless you for your goodness,” answered-
the priest.
That morning, when the drunken
father of Pat and of the little Kathleen
had slept off the querulous stupi<
cf the last night’s debauch, and Pat
had; as tenderly as he could, helped
him to bathe the drunken flush from
his face, and to cool his fevered eyes,
and had spread the breakfast before
him, and with a half sickened appetite
he had eaten of the frugal cheer, he
looked around for Kathleen and csked,
“Where is Kattie?”
“Yes, father,” answered Pat: “it is
of Kattie I want to speak. Do you
not- think it is wrong to keep, that little
thing hid away down here in the
swamp, like she was a fawn, to grow
up in the wilderness and to see and
know nothing?”
The father looked up. The question
surprised him, and then the quick
shading of his fevered eyes with his
hand told that the surprise was a pain
ful one.
“ To know nothing! ” he repeated the
words of Pat. “To know nothing, it
was you said, Pat? Yes, to know noth
ing! Ah me! yes, it may be the best.
Where ignorance is Miss, 'tis folly to be wise."
Pat could hardly understand; and in
his direct manner he said so.
“No, no, you cannot understand, my
poor children, you cannot understand,
and it is best that you cannot,” answer
ed his father.
“Yes, but I am tired of this life,
father—this life of mine and this life
of Kattie’s. We axe living but little
better than the brutes. I think that
we deserve something better. I amjy
willing to try for something better/ T
and it was for this I wanted to talk to
yon,” said Pat.
The father looked now as if ’twere
Me that did not understand.
“ Why, Pat, what has got the matter
ith you ? I do not know whMt you
tear,” he said, after staring vacantly
at Pat for a moment i
“ I mean, father, that tffis vagabond
life of idle ignorance is getting too bad
for me. I cannot stand it any longer.
I am getting too large and too strong
for such things. I ought to he doing
something better for myself, some
thing for Kattie, and something for you,
father,” answered Pat
“Yon do enough, Pat,” said his fa
ther. “Don’t you feed ns all? And
as for clothes, we don’t need many;
and an occasional bear skin is enough
to get all the small change we need.
No, no, Pat* you have been getting
able to pay it all hack,” cheerfully an
swered the-priest
“ That will be unjust to Pat He has
enough to do to look after his own self/
But it is better for Kattie that she
should go, father,” said Pat “And be
sides, if she was away—that is if she
was provided for, I could do so much
better myself. I could then find work
to do from home, and could make
money for us all. We could put away
this old life, father, and could rise to
something better. You wouldn’t have
to wear such shabby clothes, and I, too,
could sometimes have a new hat”
“ And the.golden opportunities offer
ed your daughter! Think of her, my
son, and put away your opposition.
It will he a fortune in her path that
may never he offered again,” urged the
priest
“ But I cannot spare my little darling.
She is the.light of my wretched life!”
said the father.
“She is a sweet little spirit, a joy to
any household. You must not let your
own selfish wishes • interfere between
her prospects. ‘ It is forfiersake and
not your own convenience that you
should care.”
“Yes, I know. I have always been
too selfish; have always .thought too
little of others, and that is why I am
so wretched.”
“No, never mind that. Let the dead
irt bury its dead. Let us think now
r the living. You can listen to reason.
Your daughter is peculiarly bright; she
evinces intellectual' capabilities that
are really surprising; she needs,culti-
vation only to ripen those promises
into golden fruits. Under .the tho-
rogh culture of the Superior __
her mind will expand to a beautiful,
perfection. The opportunity is offer
ed—not grudgingly, not haughtily, not
even patronizingly, but in a spirit of
kindly interest—an interest mutually
beneficial to all parties. You cannot,
my son, interfere.”
I ought to have been consulted be^
f °/f[4^“ y ^ S H e W4 A on'iry^ter-
-unyThat the matter was thought of,
and this morning is the only time than
T could see you,” gently replied the
priest.
“ Yes, I know; you mean that I was
drunk all night, and drank this morn
ing! Well, it was so, and I am no
more worthy to be the father of my
children. Yon are very good, Father—
have always been so to me and mine.
I wish I was better able to thank yon.
Take my little Kattie and do with her
for the best You are better able to
think for her than I am.”
And the father rose up and hurried
down to the river on his way to old
Gorbeau’s. ’
(To be continued.)
Patent Office Statistics.
To Prindle & Co., solicitors of pat
ents, Washington, D. C., we are indebt
ed for the following statistics of the
Patent Office.
Number of patents issued for.'-the
week ending July 8, 228; extensions
3 Resigns patented, -24; tradc-
marksTegistered 11; re-issues, 7.
Of the original patents, the following
were issued to Southern inventors:
For a safety-valve, William Church
ill, Louis, Mo.
For a ruler, John G. Earnest, Balti
more, Md.
For a railroad tank-feeder, Richard
Johnson Gibbons, St. Louis, Mo.
For a puddling-furnace,Charles Jones.
St. Louis, Mo.
For a running-gear for wagons, Isaac
O. Meddows, Bonham, Tex.
For a potato smasher and strainer,
Rene Sebille, Baltimore, Md.
For a potato-planter, Frederick W.
WorsteU, St Louis, Mo.
For a broom, John D. Bell, Watts-
borough, Va.
For a clothes-line fastener, John G.
Ames and Preston A. Ames, Baltimore,
Md.
For a wash-boiler, Sidney W.
tholomew, Louisburg, N. C.
For a potatcFplow, Hedgemon T.
Basye, Dyersburg, Tenn.
For a chromatacprinting-
. Burridge and James M.-Kershaw,
St. Louis, Mo. " ■ '
■ ■ For a refrigerator for restaurants, &c.,
William Frank Byrne, Vicksburg, Miss.
For piston-packing, John W. Carey,
Baltimore, Md.
For cooking apparatus, Mary Jones
DeLeon, Baltimore, Md.
For a ruffler for sewing > machines,
William H. Lewitt, St Louis, Mo.
For a hemp-brake, James C. Mother
ly, Irvine, Ky.
For a hoe, Elijah W. McLendon,
Griffin, Ga.
For a self-feeding tank for railways,
Benjamin D. Moody, Darksville, Mo.
Foangofa, Jonathan Q. Rand and
JoseoHBficSherxy, Baltimore, Md.
■bridge safety switch and
ia H. Tobey, St Louis, Mo.
Bar-
fool notions buy our head. Puf them
all away; and learn to content yourself
with your lot; humble though it may
be. It is not a grand life that is al
ways best I was once rich—but never
mind, let that all go. Where is Kat
tie?”
“ The little lady, Miss Ida, came for
Kattie, and she went home with her,”
answered Pat
“ And what does she want with her?”
he asked. ^
“ She is going abroad to school, and
she wants Kattie to go with her.”
“Ah, yesh.to be a servant, I sup
pose,” said the tather.
“And to be her servant would he
better than to live here as she is liv-
ig,” answered Pat, with more feeling
i his voice than he intended.
“ My child the servant of another’s I
A McConnell fallen so low as that!
No! I had rather hide her forever than
that I” he replied bitterly. .
“ But Kathleen will not be a servant.
Father Chalon has arranged it. She
goes to keep company -vfitn Miss Ida,
and to he taught at school herself,” an
swered Pat..
“ That is all nonsense. And who is
going to pay for all this?”
“ I will see to that,” interrupted Fa-,
ther Chalon,- surprising them by the
suddenness of his appearance.
“You, Father! how can yon doit?-
I cannot permit a child of mine to be
a pensioner upon the bounty of any
one,” replied flie father.
“-Nor will she be. The sums, ad
vanced will be honestly accounted, and
in the .event Of yonr better- fortune
coming again, you can return it; or if
not, Pat will, I am sure, some day be-
An Ohio man forged a marriag
cense, married a widow; had two fi{
run np a bill Of one hundred dol
and stole a horse^dl the same day;
A curious “Notice to P;
the cars of the Harlem
as follows: “Wanting—Passengers are
warned of the danger of exposing any
part of their person outside' of this
car.” .
Henry Geist was sententious : “Bet
ter end without -itOMtts 1WR). +wviVM a
[hie than trouble
without end. I akn tired-of- life and
prefer to live no hinger.” The.suicide
was only 21, a lithographer, destitute,
and without work.
A Catholic lather of Si Louis has
warned his congregation that he .will
read from the altar each Sunday the
names Of all persons belonging to the
parish who may have been found
drunk during the preceding week.-
The finest-looking class of inen in
Vienna, says a letter from there, are
the; Hungarians.; There are a great
1 regiments here, and
fully five inches more
ie Austrians,
one of the attaches
ion entered a har-
R. I., to get a
_ _ y. shown the
door with the exclamation, “ We don’t
shave ncrttiggefS-hyah.”
Jpse Corresce'and Valeniano Vidan-
sptta, two. of the wealthiest owners of
silver, names in the world, recently
sailed foifjJ ' ’ '
to be absent for sev-
-- . —tey are native-born Mex
icans, oryh-five or; six mines a piece.
ihav^B8sh..an.anni ''
t source, of over ST
Copper Among the Ancients.
The copper operations of the ancients
:e Superior regions still remains
hough there seems every rea-
-e that they were conduct
Aztecs, who left their haunts
and the Ohio Valley, and made
pilgrimages to the e
hi not been found either bones or
implements or any means of identifica
tion whatever, except the tools which are
occasionally picked up in the ancient
pits. And some of these pits and work
ings are so completely covered with drift
and formation, that it is impossible to
forth any estimate in regard to the time
when they were operated. The presence
o£ bismuth, lead,mercury, audarsenie.in
this copper enabled these ancient miners
to mold it into cutting tools, which pos
sessed a finer and tougher edge than pure
metal, and answered to some extent the
place of iron and steel—though the tools
found, qfter bring cleaned of their oxida
tion, do not appear materially harder
than the . copper itself Along the course
of Mpurof the veins, old shafts or sur
face gougings have been found,' which,
5hen_fr^dj)f debris, show ■ ' ' '
methods pursuecTAyTlieir loi
ers in extracting the ore. So for as can
bo judged, the rock was softened and
cracked by means of fire built against it,
and kept going for-days, then the loosen
ed masses were pried, out by poles.
Remains-are found of huge stom
mere,- and copper chisels ana other cutting
tools, and in several cases large masses of
metal hive been found that have been
dug around on all rides and partly under;
neath, and then left as if the miners'had
given up all hopes of detaching, and.
railing it to the surface.
The only reason for inferring that ting ,
was the work of the Aztecs is . the fact
that specimens of this copper, withnative
silver adhering, have been found in; the
mounds of the Ohio Volley, having evi
dently been-iused as ornaments by the
mound builders, and buried with them.
Similar specimens have been- handed
down for many generations" in Mexico,
—» having been possessed by the Aztecs,
who were said to be cognizant of valua
ble mineral the north. It
has been dqnbted by many u...—-j rrr
tools of the ancients really possessedthe
density:'and cutting power usually as
cribed to them. Sir Gardner Wilkinson,
however, remarks that some of the bronze
daggers, found by him in Egyptian tombs,
were so beautifully tempered, that after
having lain buried for 3,000 years, ti
possessed, when dug up, an elasticity
most equal to that of steel. It is {bus
definitely proven that the
ally did" possess an art, wl
lost, of making bronze of a particular
fine temper, capable of taking, and keep
ing a sharp edge.—Marquette'Mining
JoumaL
Eloquence Wasted.
A book, agent entered the open door of
a snug Pittsfield cottage one day last
week, and nodding[to a trim, bright-look
ing little woman who sat sewing'by the
window, commenced volubly to djpeant-
on the merits of a great work which be
was for thejast time giving .mankind an
0 PP^SwE§5n'pnri3iase. Ttwag^a uni-
veraaroiog^aphy, cook-book, dictionary,
family physician, short-hand inrirubtor,
and contained, besides, a detailed history
of every important event that him trans
pired in the world, from tiie apple ind-
lent aril Adam’s foil to Credit Mobilier
and the foil of Congress. The work con
tained-five thousand chapters, all with
rnnningf titles.
The Igent, after talking on the general
excellencies of the volume about five
minuta^commenced on the headings of
those chapters, and, as the woman did
not saya word to interrupt him, he felt,
that he was making a conquest, and be'
rattled away so that she couldn’t have a
chance to say no. It took him nearly
half «n hour, and as he breathlessly
went On the sweat started on his forehead
and he made convulsive grasps at his col
lar, and when he finished he had hardly
strength enough left to put on ahewitch-
ing smile and hand her his ready pen
wherewith to subscribe her name in the
She took the pen, but in-
ting her autograph on his
a scrap of paper from her
and wrote in plain letters,
and dum.” He said not a
word, but the unutterable things that he
looked, a3 he turned to the- door, -would
fill a librray.
Current Jelly and Jail—A writer
says: Currents are swelling rapidly,
and jellying time will soon be here.
This year I shall try a new recipe for
jelly and jaut. Pick the currents from
thestem, press the juice ont of them (I
should use a portable cider-mill for the
purpose if I had one), boil the juice
Twenty minutes, then add a pound of
coarsegrained, granulated su^ar to
every pint of juice: boil three minutes,
and dip into tumblers. The crushed
currents will be good canned.
Auot ter Ocean Steamship Lost.
o TrimoTi steamship City of "Washing-
SpjldshCre on Gull Rock bar, seven-
tyTtnles west of Cape Samhro on the
coast of Nova Scotia, near Cape Sable,
on Saturday afternoon, in a dense fog.
Fortunately, no lives were lost. Had-
this disaster occurred at night, as on the
occasion 'when the ill-fated Atlantic struck
Mar’s-Head, near Cape Sambro, there is
a_ probability that we should have had a
similar tragedy to record. The fogs in
the Bay of Fundy, west of Cape Sable,
are proverbial for their density, .and
” ' vessel has met her-fete
point of land.-
■ *•- ww,
batter as follows: One cup of sweet
cream, half a cup of sweet milk, a little
salt, one teaspoon cream tartar, half
teaspoon- soda; pour over the apples and
bake. It is excellent when eaten with
sweet bream and ’sugar.
The national flag'is to be run up e-
time his birthday comes round, and eacn
of his daughter3'has been voted a pen
sion of ?e.000 while single, and 81,500
after'marriage. <Ehe best biographer of
Juarez will be rewarded
The Cuthhert Appeal r "~
tinues to be considerable
communitv. “Withinthe!
Davis, father of our marshal, a Mrs.’Col
quitt, Miss Ella Elder, apd the yo,
daughter of Capt. hi. L Atkins,
A deacon, residing within an hun
dred miles of Americus, objected to the
organ purchased by the church, and
when called upon to close the service
with prayer he said: “Call on the
machine! If it can sing the praise of
God it can pray too. Call on the ma
chine !”.
The Pennsyvania Editorial Association,
at a recent meeting held at Wilkesbarre,
disapproved in an official manner of
the action of Congress in the change of
the postal laws, whereby'the payment of
e is required on exchanges an ~
lelivered in the county where
The -same view3 haye.
expressed by editorial associations in oth
er States.
Damages for Harder on Street Ballroad.
Mrs. Avery D. Putnam, the widow of
ths victim of the car-hook murderer in
New York, has recovered in the'Sup'e-
rior Court of that , city 85000 against the
Seventh Avenue Railroad Company for
ce of the car driver and con
ductor for not putting Foster off the car
when requested by-Mr. Pntnam; which
ttho oppooioH-fo the general term, in
which court on Saturday the judgment
was affirmed.
^ '
• A Good Omelet.—Take five or six
eggs, one tablespoonfol of flour, one of
melted butter, and a tablespoonful of
milk to eaph egg, Beatthe whites of the
' itoa stiff froth. 7 Mix the yolks, well
“’ .with {He other ingredients,
last,; and.add salt after it/iq in
n. Grease the'frying pan,- and-
e mixture in' a thin layer; turn'
! other as it thick
er rollup."' Gook it to 'a delicate
m—it requires close attention,
fly minced or grated • meat stirred
into this omelet varies the dish.
.King Cholera..
our estimate of the population re-
ling is 1,500. In tins we are sus
tained by the opinions of the citizens.
-The deaths by cholera, strictly within
the corporate Hmits, . to this .writing
' 2), have been an even
r e have, therefore, lost one «fleeted.
in every fifteen; oh six and two-thirds
per cent. This • is, an appalling figure,
Hd shows a larger mortality in Gal-
in. than elsewhere. Rgoes for beyond
"* of Calcutta, where in the sickliest
it is Only -two and a half per cent.
Aj Nashville from 1833 to 1843, after
: advent of cholera, it was €56 per
it. In 1866 it rose to nearly 6 per
it. ' This above is the total mortality,
lusive of cholera. If an inhabitant
Gallatin could have foreseen on the
k day. of Jane last that one person in
ery fifteen would be lying in a grave,
would luivd been' appalled at the
rful picture; and yet it is true. And
aregladthatour absent.friends were
i'here to witness the terrible scenes
the past month, the deserted streets
’closed houses; the general gloom
* iwed the entirt town; tbe-al-
ful sUence that broc
and broken only by the i
s oyer tiie.stony pavements, hr the
tatiohs of the stricken survivors.
GaBathi Examiner.
People Most Subject' to Dyspepsia.
—[Dr. Brigham often said teat in toxica t-
5 — ” produce this- disease,: but,I
astonished to see how many
are free from it. Good-living
is said to cause dyspepsia; but the most
healthy people I 'have ever known have
been among those- who lived well—who
ate freely several times a day of the most
nutritious food. By some it is said that
tobacco, snufl; tea, coffee, butter, and
even bread, cause this complaint;-but
whoever will make inquiries on this sub-
' :t throughout the -community will find
at it is seldom true..
In fact, dyspepsia prevails, according
to my experience, altogether the most
among the temperate add careful—among
those’ who are temperate and careful as
gards what they eat and drink, and the
bar they put upon the stomdeh; l)dt
ceedingly careless how much labor they
Hit upon that morii .'delicate organ, the
irain.
Such people often eat nothing but by
the advice of the doctor, or some treatise
on dyspepsia, or. by weight; nor drink
anything that is not certainly harmless;
they chew , every mouthful until they are
confident, on mature reflection, that it
bnot hurt the stomach.
Why, then, are they dyspeptics ? Bo
use, with all their careftuness, they pay
no regard to the excitation of the Drain.
They continue to write two orShree ser
mons' or essays in a week, besides reading
a volume or two, and magazines, reviews,
newspapers, etc., and attending to much
other business calculated to excite the
Tvrfrfrt • J • - • - - -
Adventure with a-Wildcat*
An unusual and very exciting contest
took place at ranch of Mr. Ramon Feliz,
tne Morro Creek, about fourteen
miles from this place, one morning last
week. It seems that Mr. Feliz in the
orning went out to feed his stock, and
on after was startled by the. cries of
a wife and .family. Running to the
house, he found that a large wildcat had
seized his youngest child, an infant, by
the hack of the neck; .and making off
with it._ Aftera severe struggle he suc
ceeded in rescuing if,.the cat making its
escape. , . ;..o c.
Some tirhe after the- excitement had however
that had been staked out over-
ght some distance from the house:
ehad.been gone but a few minutes
hen the family was again aro
j; who came.
tqward; the- house-yelling like an
man, with the identical cat that had
caused the first disturbance firmly seat
ed upon his back, with his teeth embed-
ed in the hack of his neck.
Another desperate battle ensued, and
resulted in favor of tlie cat, which suc-
essfully defeated, thewhole Feliz fami-
MfcxicO is not' one of the ungrateful ’ fcufuu
republic^ She has voted SoO.OuTfor a g0 ° d ° r ? ert °- & 1 - 10USO ofMr 'A M ‘
monumont to the'late President Juarez.
Howe, under which he ensconced him-'
lefying-all 'efforts'to dislodge him
the night,-when he escaped-nn-
athed. . . ' . . .
The wounds received by the Indian
>oy were quite severe, and the people,
fearing that the cat was mad.
about the premises that would
the purpose. Considering the
iting and singeing
through, he is^doing re
well, and will be all right
in a few weeks.—San Luis Olujo
Tribune.
[From the Financial Chronicle.
Cotton Review or the Week.
Friday, July.il ; 1873.
By special telegrams received to
night from the Southern ports, we are
in possession of the returns showing
the receipts, exports, &c.. of cotton for
the six days ending this evening, Ji *
11. It appears that flip, total receipt
for the. six days have reached 15,181
bales against 12,428 bales last week,
1716S6 bales the previous week and 19,-
672 bales three weeks since, mah'
total-receipts since the first of Septem-
92o’ bales r for the same penod" of Y1-7&
showing an increase- since September
’ "872, of 838,710 bales.
’he exports for the week ending this
evening reach a total of 12,670 hales,
of : which 12,670 were to Great Britain,
none to France, and none to the rest of
the Continent, whilethestockg, asmade
up this evening, are now-195,584 bales.
From the foregoing statement it will
be seen that, compared with the cor
responding week .of last season, there is
jmfirarease in the exports this week of
9,831' bales, while the stocks to-night
aro 91,291 bales more than they were
at this time a year ago.
The week’s business opened on Mon
day, the exchange having been closed
since the previous Wednesday night
Still the opening was dull, very little
being done, outsiders taking but slight
interest in the contest which has been
in | progress of late between the two
cliques in' the market, prices being for
above the export figures, while spinners
appeared to find little attraction in
cotton at present rates with the
marked so unprofitably. On W<
dajr there was more doing, quotations
being reduced.ic; but since then the
old quietness has returned, the market
being dull and prices merely nominal,
but without further change. For future
delivery there has been a very consid
erable decline, principally, however, for
the present crop. This lias been main
ly due to very liberal and unexpected
deliveries on July contracts, disappoint
ing the expectations of those who were
srating for higher rates; on the basis
a comer which they supposed they
en very
Iveries later than October, and the
leading business has been for August
The. decline to-day was Jc. on August
and ic. for the other months, except
November and December, which closed
abont steady. After ’Change there was
some recovery in the earlier months,
the latest prices bulletined at the Cot
ton Exchange being for July, 20 1-16;
August, 191; Septemper, 181; October,
17!; and November and December, 171.
The total sales of this description for
the week are 60,300 bales, including
—i—free on board. For immediate
delivery the total sales foot up this
week 6036 hales, including 100 for ex-
4887 for consumption, 1049 for
lation, and in transit Of
above.150 bales were to arrive.
.The weather during the past week has
An Official Statement of General How
ard’s Case.
The following statement is based on
information derived from several offi
cial sources: . w v“
The accounts of General Howard and
the officers acting under him in the
management of the Freedmen’s Bureau,
which are now being examined by the
accounting officers of the government,
show a deficit of $11,466.17 only, though
but a very small portion of this is in
flie name of General Howard. In his
own account he admits that he has a
balance on hand of 8673, which he is
ready to pay over to the proper officer.
Neariy one-half of the deficit is charged
in the account of a subordinate, former
ly on duty in the West; hot the ac
counting officers do not charge that
there has been fraud. , The disburse
ments were made In various sums,
from one dollar up to higher amounts,
and some of the money may have been
-aid under a misapprehension of the
.w, and may he explained. The de
ficit above mentioned is in the settle
ment of accounts for bounty paid to
colored soldiers alone. The accounts
are on file in the Second Auditor’s Of
fice. Other accounts, for the payment
of bounties to colored sailors, are also
on file and being examined in the .
Fourth Auditor’s Office.
Thus for no fraud has been discover
ed, though a few days ago a letter was
“‘-'ved here' from a colored ninn who
served in the navy stating that he
had never received ins -bounty. The
accounts show to the contrary,' but the'
officials are, of course, unable to say
whether forged entries were made in the
accounts or the statements in the sailor’s
communication are false. It should he
remembered’ that during the war extra
ordinary inducements were held out,
for men to enlist, and it may be possi-'.
ble that some of those who did enlist,
especially among the colored people,
now belive they are entitled to addi
tional pay, while they -have in -reality
received the amounts respectively dhe_
to them, the disbursement on account
of bounty to colored soldiers amount
ing in the aggregate to $8,000,000; and
the old accountants in' the departments
do not think it wonderfnl that: discrep
ancies in the accounts in connection
with that large amount should exist
They, however, believe that General -
Howard conducted business rather
loosely, placing too much confidence
in the integrity of his subordinates, in
stead of holding them to strict account
ability and enforcing the “red tape”
system which prevails at the War De
partment
Numbers of letters have been received
from colored men who served in the
army ; similar to that from the colored
"or above mentioned. It will, as
In most sec-
showers, which
. ly heeded, and consequently
the plant has made good progress, and
" e work of clearing the fields of weeds
id grass has proceeded satisfactorily,
i New Orleans it was showery one
iy. In Mobile they also had rain on
one day the early part of the week, the
’‘tier part being dear and pleasant
msiderable tracts of land had been
andoned on account of the rains and
ISA hut reports'from all that has been
saved, are better now, as good
is being made in getting rid of
Our telegram from Selma reports hut
je’ light rain; weather is propitious
id crop reports are improving. There
s been rain on one day also at Macon:
erbp is developing promisingly.
At Columbus it has been warm and
jy all the week. Heavy showers of
an oh Thursday and Friday are re
nted by our correspondent at Augusta;
le adds that, they were much needed.
Aj; Charleston they had rain the latter
— 1 of the 'week, the earlier portion
j clear and pleasant; crop accounts
are more favorable, as rapid progress is
being made in clearing the fields of
nass. Rain is now wanted at Mem-
ihis; there has been one slight rain
week, but not. enough to do much
l, the balanq^of the week being
sant; the ranr js wanted for the
>n lately cleared of grass. Jit
mile it has been warm and dry
all the week with the exception of one
avy shower; accounts from the in
fer are somewhat conflicting and
rather less favorable. The thermome
ter at Memphis hasavei
is, 90; Macon, 87;
obile, 86; and Sri
Our readers are .
the past few weeks
severe contest going, oh in the cotton
market between the operators for high
er and lower prices. The hulls holda
rge number of contracts for July and
ognst, and believed that there was not
ough deliverable cotton in the conn-
; to fill them. To make the matter
iubly sure they have been shipping to
verpodl considerable lots —in foct it
to tnem. As 201c. here is equivalent
lOld. Bold, including only id. freight
id the usual charges, the loss to the
ipper is over $12 per bale, even pre-
ming that our Low Middlings will go
dcQing there, which is doubtfriL But
peat the loss, the bulls con-
hat it would be more than
Ie good to them in the higher prices
iey would, secure on the maturing con-
theyhold.
becoming known to the
reanized also; first, they
ell no more contracts for
[ust unless they had or.
_ e cotton against it; and
second/thcy agreed to deliver the cotton
on all contracts sold for July,, forcing
"» bulls to store or ship, or sell and
reak the market.
Here was' certainly a square fight,
id which way the scales would, turn
ipeared to outsiders doubtful.'; The
iproving crop reports, however, seem
have given the advantage to the hears.
In view of them, all legitimate demand
for cotton ceased; spinners did not
want it at the ruling prices, and ship
pers could do nothing in the-face of
our higher rates. Hence there was
8 186; Colum-
vannah, 85;
1
that during
> has been a
in order to ascertain whether these fet
ters are true or false. In the Third
Auditor’s Office the accounts of the
Freedmen’s Bureau officers for. quarter
masters’ stores, etc, have been settled.
They were found tabs correct All the
accounts, of whatever character, have to
imdeigo a further examination by the
comptrollers, and some of the figures
may be changed, either for or against
~ ral HbwAfd,' should lfhose officers
-from the’.others in the'eonstroc r
tion of the varions laws bearing upon
the subject AU agree that there has
been some dishonesty on the part of
ordinates, though it is not believed
defalcation will amountto as much
3 generally supposed. These frauds
are principally in the undervaluation
of invoices, and the guilty parties will
not be able to plead ignorance of law
when they are required to answer.
they
Ived to i
. illy or An
could get "
tit lehty. of cotton for delivery, and it
- iumi "
ied in pretty freely; in fact,
street' report says that one of the con
tending parties is now crying “hold,
enough.” ovJasni
Just at : This point appears a letter
from’ Mt. B. F. Nourse, of Boston, advis-
ing'spinners, in view of the unsatisfac
tory condition of the goods trade, to
shut up their mills, making their sum-
Green Lake, one of the handsomest
sheets of waterin the West, situated six
miles from Ripon, in Green Lake coun
ty, was the Scene, on the 4tirinst, of a
most terrible disaster, resulting in the
death of ten persons. The Good Tem
plars of the vicinity had planned a pic
nic, to be held on the cast shore of the
lake, opposite the-viUage.of DartfonL
and people to the number of fifteen
hundred had gathered for the festivities
of the day.
About ten o’clock in the forenoon two
sailboats, Ripon Girl and A. B: Har-
shaw, started from Dartford, carrying a
number of people. The Harshaw had
on board twenty-four persons, and had
in tow a small rowboat. When about
the middle of the lake, which is here
about four miles wide, four of the par
ty went from the Harshaw into the row
boat, .and started for the shore alone.'
Their names were William Bloxham, -
wife and child, and Mrs. John Baird,
all of Dartford. In a. few minutes a
storm, which -had been gathering for
several hours, broke into a perfect hur
ricane.
The boat of the Harshaw had twenty
persons on board, and was so heavily
laden that tHe water was within a few
inches of the-gunwale. So severe the
force of the jvind that the water of the
lakcwas: lifted up indulge masses, [cov
ering the boat. In an instant on. board
the Harshaw the ill-fated crowd were
hanging to her sides in the water. The
small boat was also swamped, and all
on board perished. Shrieks of women
and children filled the air, and were
plainly heard bn the shore. The little
Rustic Belle, plying on the lake, was
about forty rods distant when the storm
struck. She was forced upon the shore
and lost her flagstaff and part of her
smokestack. As soon as she-could-be.
brought-around she was headed fin* the"
scene of the wreck. Several from the
shore also hurried to the rescue of
the unfortunate sufferers.
fqr many years.'. Before the persons '.'
who survived could, recover from the
‘eflefets -nf the -gye,- the'a5p-waffl81e4-
with 'rain, winch came down like
one;solid’mags water,- descending ,
irlto the lakej Thus the boats were de
layed. upwards .of half an Ttbur, btit at
length/they succeeded i !B t fWfaM r im*j[
fourteen persons, six of the Harshaw^
crew having , sunk .to rise no more.
so drowned, one of the bodies beingre-
caTOreeh '•'* ‘ ... y;
i Memphis, .'.July 11 —11ealth of the
city was never better than now. The
few cases of sporadic cholera excite no
apprehension. Many of tho citizens
who left during’the prevalance.of the
" p reports from Arkansas, North
slppi and Tennessee are encour
aging. Reports from North Alabama
aro conflicting; the appearance of the
caterpillar has been reported in several
sections, also in the prairie regions of
Mississippi.