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the above head the Milledge-
: a ,id Recorder says:
I eccentric '‘new light’’ traveling
1 . t,v the name of Blake, from
■ . I, = a vs), spent a day or two
f itetweek. He travels in a
vehicle—his carriage and
Avert'd with Scripture mottoes
pjered to paint inscriptions,
t charge, on any man’s house
|, u . jeeired to announce himself
, Lord's side.”
r;to eat meat and drink tea
tec—living on bread and fruit,
tjtation of some of our citizen
Lched at the court room on
L-jav n ight. A large crowd was
Si thither by curiosity.
l=ermon was interesting, and con-
I =ome plain truths in regard to
Eden rule, temperance, free gospel,
K'ides many new tilings that he
prove to the satisfaction of his
■ especially his “ new dispen
.’doctrine. .
■claims that .Tesus C hrist did come
Idas predicted by .Miller, but He
Iconic as Miller and his disciples
led.’and that they, like the Jews,
,sie and acknowledge iris holy
..•itual visit to the earth—He be
tjv visible 10 Christian eyes.
[further claims that as Christ by
L coming added the New Testa-
Itn the Old, lie lias in like man-
li this his second visit, added some
aw; to Holy Writ—which addi
hi; strange old man claimed to
■id proceeded to read a chapter,
being asked to read and ex
itin' last verse of Revelations, he
that a curse was pronounced
| any man who should take from
the Holy Scriptures. Man
[t done this—God had done it by
m. and Cod certainly had the
rid to his own book.
iuk? he claims as being a part
[ Bible arc entitled, to the best of
Collection. “The Sacred Roll,
iBook of Eternal Wisdom,” and
llslJ-d-3-t. Blake seems to be
p, 1 ess old man, says his life is
1 io the work, and lie is trav-
loward the West.
the gospel is free, lie don’t
valid the millennium has be-
IL lie crazy ?
“WISDOM. JUSTICE AND MODERATION."
VOLUME XXVIII.
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ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY MOBMNG. SEPTEMBER 24, 187S. NEW SERIES--NO. 4
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Babies.—The babies of Ger-
|are not allowed as large a liberty
America. They are, for the
I part of the first year of their
pilgrimage, tightly wound up
Milling clothes with both arms
pinioned, and carried about
|illmv especially made for the
|r they escape from their wrap-
i hag of feathers is tied on their
i that when they tumble over
we something to fall upon.
|of the poor classes are laid in a
, with a little bag of sugar in
I mouths, and are expected to
motiic “bi^iflfifees.' -
“oo'ses on the streets generally
■ l>:il>ies in their arms on a pil-
*d they arc tied to it with pink
I;. lying as still and motionless as
l w, re little mummies. They
I kick nr use their arms, and ev-
f they are not allowed to know
I their puling days what their
pi arms are intended for. We
puik that our babies would stand
P' observe that German ladie:
i icy buy babies in America
pi I tern pit to practice any such tvr-
p them. — C. C. Fulton in the Bal-
American.
Innocence.
She roso from her untroubled sleep
And put away her soft brown hair,
And in a tone ns low and deep
As love’s first whisper, breathed a prayer;
Her snow-white hands together pressed,
Her blue eyes sheltered in tho lid,
Tho folded linen on hor breast
Just swelling with the charm it hid,
And from her long and Bowing dress
Escaped a bare and slender foot.
Whose shape upon the earth did press
Like a new snow flake, white and mute;
And there, from elnmbor puro and sweet,
Bike a young spirit fresh from heaven,
She bowed her slight and graceful form,
And humbly prayed to bo forgiven.
O God, if souls unsoilod as those
Need daily mercy from tby throne—
If she, upon hor bended knees—
Our loveliest and our purest one—
She, with her faco so clear and bright,
Wo deem her some stray child of light—
If sho, with those Eolt oyes in tonrs,
Lay after day, in her first years,
Mast kneel and pray for grace from Thoo—
What far, far deeper need have we ?
How hardly, if sho wins not heaven.
Will oar wild errors be forgiven ?
—IV. 1*. Wiitis.
ulation, as if it were an amazing act of I Let me call cousin Gilbert—he is such
IDA DELZONS.
Chap. X—Confirming tiieir Faith.
“Ida,” said Madame Delzons that
evening after supper, and the party had
been gathered on the broad veranda
that overlooked the moonlit lawn, “ kiss
your uucle bon soir, and come to my
room: I wish to speak with vou, mv
darling.”
Ida affectionately kissed her uncle,
and then followed her mother. *
“Ida, my child,” she said, seating
herself on a lounge and drawing her
daughter close in her arms. “ you are
young yet, and I do not wish to fill
four mind with unseemly fancies. But
1 want to talk to you about a matter
that will, after awhile, when you come
to be a woman, nearly concern you.”
“ What is it, my dear mama ?”
“ It is best that you know now, that
hi iiia}’ pleasantly cultivate the
thought.”
“ Well, mama ?’’
“ It is about your cousin Gilbert.”
“Well?”
“How do you like him, darling?”
“ Very much, dear mama.”
“ He is very pleasant. - ’
“ Yes, mama.”
“ And handsome.”
“ Very.”
“ And has a good heart.”
“ He was very good to-day, mama.”
“ Then listen, darling; this is what I
have to say to you.”
And then, in a cooing murmur, as if
she was trying to lull her daughter to
sleep, the mother broke to lier the mat
ter of her affiance with her cousin Gil
bert.
“And now, darling,"she added “you
must not let this idea fill your glad
young heart with sober thoughts—nor
with unmaidenly ones. You are vet a
child, and have much to see and feel
and think before all this great happiness
is ready for you.”
“Oh, I am glad that it is not now,
mama,”answered Ida, through hertears;
I am glad that it is yet afar off. And
shall not let it disturb me at all.
condescending humanity she had per
formed.
“ And I am sure that cousin Ida is
very fortunate in having such a sweet
companion,” he said; “ and I was also
pleased with the gentleman—le perc.
His manners are really elegant, and his
conversation delightfully entertaining.
How came it that he is so reduced in
fortune ?”
“ I know nothing of his history,”
answered Major Delzons, to whom this
later question was directed. “ He has
evidently known better days. But for
an artist I know he would want to
paint you!”
“ No, no; please not, Miss Ida—not
in this dress. It would be wrong. I
don’t want to look pretty in this dress!”
blushingly cried Kathleen, drawing the
white veil that covered her dress clt
around her.
“ Yes, Ida—Kitty is right The robes
are sacrasaind—not worn for human
admiration. Still, Kitty, you are very
beautiful. It is a gladness to see you!”
And a motherly kiss confirmed the in
voluntary homage. “And you, my
darling, are beautiful too—my own
HSl^B‘ .’“'J'ving figures will show the
:D 5 iH’ in what numbers the women of
arc engaged in the difl’er-
"""■wvssions;
•ta^Blturul laborers 373,332
Tilers and raisers 7.5
*’^■'1! 1
5 find hair dressers 1179
’ 07
- 2-1
2
- find trappers 2
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,nU^/ fclbiCk( "P CrS -~ 11
find surgeons 525
- 391
R and Brokers - 15
^ - ----- 70
- 30
.'fit hands 10
niwr;, teamsters, etc I”. 196
,J PCT carriers 7
^—^—■fikvrs nr\
■ ^“Wndry operatives 4
'finders. 102
“fibers .I”'"”"" 74
trimmers. 09
'fil and lime burnenL"" 5
“‘bers 1S4 A
- 75
1 find tanners g0
£
‘S^mjr—r 35
11 ““Ployees 4
.locksmiths 33
i* ar( ,v;r —IIIII 1495
r . a ‘ a lathe makers—.... 84
and carvers 44
__ xtfjfiu,}■■-^mwentiug upon
->?' ut h' r at W orcestcr yester-
«*’?' I It t j M d vert her says:
and j “Down yet whether Gen.
larm v “’.ffnampions were a squad
. " , cu they started out ou
[ U , ' 1 lc y ban a fine time; for
Iv, ,eyerything their own way ;
Sir “? Jook| ng out for them. They
!tel'>£ l5< i l to '“be Massachusetts,
ia„. that they had captured
'3 ^°rk, Long Branch,
intJIH ftailv 1 I 1< i out 'ying provinces,
looked something like it
iv onveiiuon yesterday not only
,-p, . , e j^Pl® °f Massachusetts in
but we trust the Federal Ad-
S*l, ConCdenc<i has been
inttoSv4g. er08,ty has ’ ,een
the contractors
oni °n of TMladcga countjt S0Utl1 "
the past few years he has thrown him
self away, and been nothing but a I precious daughter!” she added, turning
drunken vagabond. Recently, howev- I to Ida and folding her to her heart
or, lie has reformed, and Father Chalon I “There, now: let Cosette undress
lias hopes that his future may be more I you, and lay the precious robes by;
profitable.” ’ ’ ’ * ....
“ For the sake of his interesting
children, I do hope that it may,” ar
dently answered the young man.
“ Did you witness the interview be
tween the boy and my daughter?” asked
Madame Delzons.
“ I did not Cousin Ida, with a del-
icacj r that was really charming, man
aged to speak to him alone. I know
not what she said to him, only that
when they rejoined 113—the little Kitty
and me—they both wore on their coun
tenances the stamp of a deep and pite
ous emotion. My sweet cousin looked
really lovely in the hcrowne of her sac
rifice ; for it was a sacrifice to renounce
the companionship of one who had so
often and so bravely served her.”
“Yes, Ida has told me of her pro
ceedings, and she lias acquitted herself
well. I am glad that it is all over,”
said the lady.
The next morning tho quick loving
eye of the mother fancied that she
le pr
and in after days, when you feel trouV
led with wicked thoughts, take them
out and look at them, and think of the
innocence and purity and joy of this
day.”
And the consecrated garments were
carefully folded away, as the beautiful
bride puts away her bridal vestments,
among the lares and penciled of the’
household.
“ Now, Kitty, we will have some
thing to eat,” said Ido, after the dress
had been changed.
“ Oh no, Miss Ida; I thank you. I
haven’t time. Father is waiting for
me. I must go,” replied Kathleen.
“ No, no; not yet, Kitty. Stay, have
something, if it is only a tart and some
cream.”
“ Yes, you must take some refresh
ment, fatty. Cosette, sec that they
have something,” said Madame Del
zons.
Cosette hurried out, and soon return
ed with a tray of refreshments, which
could detect a change in the appearance were relished with a hoarty zest by the
of her daughter. Her gaiety was chast- two maiden friends,
ened and subdued; her step was more | “ Now, Kitty, tell me about going
Ida,
am content to be a child always. But
mama, I do not feel so much a child to
night as I felt this inormnc- ; I feel ten thn=°„‘C
Hltftna.”
“ Ah wliat has happened—where have
you been?” earnestly asked the mother,
for Ida’s voice had a touching sadness
in its tone that alarmed hor.
“ I went to see Pat."
“Ida—Ida!”
“ Yes, mama. I went to tell him good
bvc, and to tell him how much I thanked
him for his goodness to me.”
“ Oh. Ida! how could you so outrage
my wishes?’’
“ Wait a moment, mama—and to tell
him that we must never speak to one
another again ; that much as 11 hanked
him for saving my life, our path in life
were too far apart—my station was too
high for him to look up to, and his was
too low for me ever to stoop down to
again.”
“My daughter, that was rude.”
“ No, it was not, mama; it was hon
est. It was right. Pat’s good heart
ought not to be fooled. And besides, I
could not have fooled him no way. His
own sense told him why it was I had
to renounce him; and he spoke of it so
manly—so bravely, that I really’ felt
that it was I that was humbled and not
he.”
“Ida, y’ou astonish me!”
“Yes, mama, I did feel little—only
he was so good, so thoughtful of my
feelings, that lie kept back his scorn,
and tried to relieve me. But I could
see the quiver on his lips, and was
humbled in the dust. But never nrind,
it is all over now, and you will never
hear another word from me about Pat.”
“ You are a sweet girl, my darling
So now call Cosette, and go to your
sleep,” answered the mother, kissing
her daughter good-night. And then
she hurried out on the veranda to re
join tho family.
“ Gilbert,” she said, “ Ida tells me
that you have been playing truant this
afternoon, and hunted up this garcon
Pat”
“ I must plead guilty to the arraign
ment, my dear aunt. But I must pro
test against y’our opinion of the boy,”
smilingly answered Gilbert
“You really saw him, then?” askeil
his aunt.
“Oh, yes ; and I must confess to one
of the most pleasant surprises of my
life when I did see him,” answered the
young man. “ Instead of the rude un
couth lout I expected to see, I found
quite an interesting youth, almost a
young man—quiet, genteel, almost dig
nified in his politeness. I am sure,
aunt, that you misapprehend the char
acter of the boy r .”
“ Oh, I am glad, Gilbert, that you
did not meet with a terrible shock. I
feared that you would despise my giddy
girl for ever noticing the low fellow.”
“ Not at all, aunt. Cousin Ida lias
demeaned herself in the matter like a
true hearted lady. You cannot re
proach her in this, I am sure. And
thelittlegirl, his sister—she is a charm
ing little maiden. Her beauty is sur
prising—classic, almost angelic in its
softness and sweetness. It haunts one’s
thoughts like the memory’ of some soft
evening melody.”
_ “ Ah, Ida lias made quite an enthu
siastic convert of you,” laughed the
lady.
“Oh no; my dear cousin had her
self rather depreciated the excellencies
of her young friends. But you have
seen the little girl ?”
“ Oh yes, and she is indeed a lovely
little creature, so lovely and so win
ning, that I have adopted her as the
companion of my daughter,” answered
Madame Delzons, in a tone of self grat-
sedate; and her manner wore an air of
restraint that was altogether new and
unnatural. The near presence of that
parting whose shadow had at first be
clouded the sunniness of her life,
weighed heavily upon the heart of the
girl, and she was no longer the wild lit
tle hoyden that had gladdened the
chateau with her merry’ song and laugh.
The summer passed, and tjie fall
came; and yvith it came the time for
the Marquis to return, and for Ida to
EL-
It was a solemn day, and to fit her
for it the day before had been appoint
ed for the celebration of Ida’s first com
munion.
Her first communion—all! what
solemn, what a touchingly beautiful
epoch is that in the life of a pure heart
ed girl! How it affixes the impress of
its beatific solemnities indellibly in the
heart; how it’s memories come up in
after years to warm the soul and to
soothe with it’s balm the sore tried and
fluttering spirit. What a golden vista
of joy—of hope, of faith and of love—
it’s exercises open up to the eye of the
oul!
Kneeling there at the altar, in the
white robes of girlish innocence, feeling
on her glowing cheek the soft breath of
the angel presenco, listening in her yv*
hiiD®J oowl to tl*o — i,e r', TirnsIC—if it
mi oe possime lor stainless purity
dwell upon earth, for human nature to
assimilate to tlie nature of an angel—
for the shekinah of glory’ to halo the
mortal—it must be then, as the maiden
head is bowed in prayer at the altar of
her first communion.
To the heart of this lovely girl, al
ready softened by the first touch of a
maidenly sorrow, this her first com
munion came with a peculiar sanctity.
Saddened by the thought of leaving her
own beautiful home, her gentle spirit
was tenderly susceptible to the soothing
influences of the sacred rite. Tlie per
formance of the preparatory decoirs the
evening before—when, first to her par
ents on lier knees she asked their for
giveness for all the offences she had ever
offered them, and then in like manner
to each member of the household, even
to tlie most humble negro—had en
thused lier thoughts with the sweet
consciousness of peace and good will
towards all tlie world. And now, when
the morning of “1c grande jour” had
come, she hailed its dawning with an
innocent gladness and a pure adoration.
Kathleen, too, had been prepared for
the solemn rite, and to her innocent
heart it was also fraught with sweet
and endearing emotions.
The sacrament was celebrated in the
away,” said Ida, as she drew her arm
through Kitty’s on the way back to the
chapel.
“ Oh, it is a sad thing to think of I”
“ Have you quite—I mean are you
ready ?”
“Yes, I had but little to do.”
“ Mama has arranged our trunks, and
everything is all packed and strapped
and marked, and ready to be hauled
down to the landing,” said Ida in
childish gossip.
“ And yve really go to-morrow ?” ask
ed Kathleen, in a dreary tone.
“ Yes, to-morrow. The boat will be
down in the morning. The carriage
will go up after you soon. Will you
be ready?”
“ Yes; but Pat will row me down4n
the boat It will be our last ride 1” .
There was a bleak dreariness iiFthe
tone that chilled them both.
“ Will Pat come yvith you, Kitty.
“Yes, he wifi come with me to the
boat. He wants to see me as long as he
can,” answered Kitty.
“And what will he do when you are
gone, Kitty—I mean, what will
of him?”
“He is going yvith father to Baton
Rouge to live. He, too, is going to the
school.” . *
t> j uJ 1 anti*, ftuu Ido. «
“Yes. Luther,you know, has a place
11.^ college, and Pat is going to school.
He wants to study to be an engineer.
He has been studying all the summer,
and father says he can survey first rate
already. He has surveyed all Col,
Fletcher’s land, and he has marked it
all doyvn on a map with blue and red
lines, and a great green margin for the
river, just like the other map lines. I
was quite proud of his work, Miss Ida.”
“ I saw him to-day, Kitty,” said Ida.
“ Yes, he came with father.”
“And do you know, Kitty, that I
would have been glad for him to have
gone to the altar with us? When cous
in Gilbert came, I felt that he ought to
have been there too. Why didn’t he,
Kitty?”
“ Oh, Miss Ida, he said that he wasn’t
near good enough for that,” answered
Kitty, sorroyvfully.
“But don’t you think, Kitty, that he
is as good as cousin Gilbert?”
“ My brother is very good to me, Miss
Ida; but still we are not to judge of his
goodness, nor of cousin Gilbert’s either.”
“True, Kitty; but still it looked sad
that he had to sit away back there
among the negroes while there was so
much room at the altar, and we were so
glad.”
“ Yes, but in my heart I blessed him.
and prayed for the blessed Mother to
.■»«»., sir,”—seeing the flush mount-
! to McConnell’s cheek. “ please do
. offices abtfu-.
I-mearrfhem kindly.”
ind as such I accept them,” frank-
■ ered McConnell, .holding out
itoiheyotaigriah.
“ ."hank you, sir. And your son—al
low ms to predict for him in this grand
worjd of yotus. with its broad, capabil-
itiei, a successful and brilliant career.”
“Thank you. The opportunities of
preferment are indeed encouraging in
this nagnificent land; and my boy is
not vholly without spirit and some
degfe of capacity.”
f-i^pnld you kindly permit me to en-
'luii • vthat particular profession you
esilnhim for?”
“certainly; I feel grateful for your
intopet He evinces a talent for math
ematical studies, and himself desires
to become an engineer. The military
offers an honorable field, and I some-
si cans city for that* Should each a ca-
lacit develop Itself, I shall endeavor
io secure him an appointment to West
tPcnm.”
“A .d should you fail to secure it,
and l e would accept servico.in France,
I cat- romise him an 1
St Ctr. My father fei ,
appe -tment of a cadet”
(2b be continued.)
A P#et'» Plea tor PUIn F.ngHsh. J ,. 'fasm.p EXPLOSION.—A boiler ex-
Th# strong, bold words of former dtp I plosion occurred on Thursday at the
Fo?J5j^h , £dE£.*u,.. steam saw mill of Mr. James Moseley,
And even 1sterner».ufT; I about two miles from Enfield, Halifax
tb«y c&ngLt the thoeght, tbs breath divine, I county, North Carolina, on the line of
A^a*^^': 1 iiJht n .h.r tbioo— I ^Weldon IteUroad
which resulted in killing one white and
two colored men outright and mortally
wounding two other colored men.
The white man killed was a cousin
Bat in tke«e moathiog, ranting Use*,
When bpeeoh oonoeale oar thoaght,
We have false proee and wanding rhyme*,
And nothing else if sought;
The glory of oar English tonga©
le hold in utter foora—
No longer read, no longer rang,
It droops and dtagf forlorn.
German and French, Latin and Greek—
Wo borrow from *be&e four,
And still we hunt and still we seek
For words and nothing more;
When Bound and Sense shall wed again.
And rale ear latter speech,
A golden are, a golden reign.
Will nobler lessons teach.
In spite of modern tongue and pen.
Plain English still survives—
The current coin of common men,
With them it ever thrives;
And never shall a name be won,
By verses short or long,
That is not formed and based upon
This cornerstone of song!
—Wallace Putnam Pud.
to Mr. Moseley, the proprietor of the
mill. The explosion is said to have
expl
been the result of carelessness in allow
ing too much water to accumulate
the boilers. The loss will not fall short
[of 8200a
A negro mechanic named Fifer, who
went on the excursion to Talladega, was
killed Friday evening on the way home.
It appears that he got on the top of £
box car and was standing np and hold
ing to the brake.
He was in this posture when the
train moved onto the Coosa.bridge,
and not seeing the danger was struck
in the head And almost instantaneous
ly killed. He vras knocked off the
train, which was stopped immediately
afterward. His body was brought
caucuses furnish tile rigging and polls I * “ * ___ 7
John Culligan, of San Francisco, lost
his dog the other day, and while he was
of
little cliapel, and in the presence of bless him,” softly answered Kathleen,
the entire Delzons’ plantation, ombra- | “And so did I, fatty,” said Ida. .'
cing the hundreds of negroes, each one
of whose hearts reached out kindly to
wards the lovely young lady. McCon
nell and Pat were also present, for to
them the occasion was a household joy.
It was a touching and beautiful sight:
and as the two innocent girls moved
softly up the aisle, arrayed in robes of
spotless white, the fair young heads
veiled and bowed in sacred awe, there
was not a heart in the house but felt
as if the scene were a part of heaven.
The benign light beamed more bright
ly than ever upon the countenance of
tlie good old priest; the motherly soul
of Madtime Delzons was full ; the eyes
of Major Delzons were beaming with
tender tears; but it was the heart of
Maurice McConnell that was stirred to
the deepest depths as there, in the sanc
tity of that holy presence, he renewed
his vow of repentance, and prayed for
strength to sustain this human endeav
or.
The eyes of Pat, and his heart, too,
were full—full of the beatified presence
of that girl who had woven around the
dreary waste of his life, the only joys
it had ever tasted; and long years after,
when bruised and sore, his fainting
heart would have called for death,
would that beautiful vision come to
“Did you, Miss Ida? That was so
ood in you I And if Pat only knew it
e would be so glad, and it would make
him love you so dearly 1” answered the
girl.
“You need not. tell him, Kitty,”
thoughtfully replied Ida.
“ Oh, no; but poor Pat, I am so sorry
to leave him 1 He has been such a
brother to me. You don’t know,
Ida, what a good brother he is.”
“ And don’t ho want you to go, Kitty ?”
“ He says, Miss Ida, that if it wasn’t
for you I shouldn’t go at all.”
“ Docs he say that?”
“Yes, he says that you will be so
lonely away there by yourself^ that he
is sorry for you, and that I must go and
be a comfort to you.”
“ And I will love you, dear fatty,
just for that!” cried Ida, putting her
arms around her neck and passionately
kissing her.
They had now reached the chapel,
and in a moment were joined by Mc
Connell, who pleasantly greeted the lit
tle lady; ana after commending his
precious little Kattie to her gentle pro
tection in that long absence beyond the
seas, he took his daughter’s Hand and
the two started homeward.
They had proceeded bnt a short way
him again, and whisper the same glad before they were joined by Gilbert, who
thoughts which then made it quiver apologized for his intrusion by.express-
willi'an undefined joy. With a yearn- ing his friendly wish to see them home
ing in his soul, deep and tender enough and to spend a parting hour with Pat
to have befitted a man. he whispering- | “I am peculiarly intereste
ly blessed her—blessed her as he w .
have blessed the embodied presence of I Connell had acknowli
an angel 1 But that secret whispered I offices. “I cannot let
blessing vras all; and when the services pass without payi
were ended, and the benediction of spectsto’-' 3
Father Chalon had rested on their | friendly
hearts, he softly withdrew from the con
ga ti on and hurried away.
McConnell declined the cordial hos
pitalities of Major Delzons, and waited
in the sacristy with Father Chalon until
Kathleen could return from the house,
whither she had accompanied Ida to
lay aside her sacramental dress.
« There, fatty, wait a moment. Stand
just as you are in that light—I want
"rnnma to see you 1” cried Ida, as the
soft light through the curtains played
around her beautiful form like an aure
ole. “Oh, mama! isn’t she lovely?
“You are very kind, M. Gilbert," re
plied McConnell; " and I feel honored
by the interest yon take in my eon: I
thank yon most sincerely for the honor
yon do me.”
“I will be really glad to serve him”
said Gilbert
“ I appreciate your kindness, sir;
and my son will also gratefully
you for it. For the present, however.
his few wants are amply t
answered McConnell, wxt£
not repulsive courtesy.
"Iam glad to know it.
ridedfor.
a grave bnt
I beg your
by Escaped
Monroe, La., Sept. 10.
On Saturday last Judge T. J. Craw-
ford .idjournea the District Court at
Wimftboro’, Franklin Parish, till he ac
companied the District Attorney, Ar
thur 3. Harris, to Columbia, Caldwell
Parish; and spent the Sabbath at that
place.
Thjj.:' ‘ tod from Columbia, on their
tunc, to Winnsboro’, on Monday
morning. When twelve miles south
west cf Winnsboro’, they were waylaid
by for* men lying in ambush, in the
midsi*'-ff a dense thicket Of several
mil£st> extent, and murdered in cold
bloodi-
Juffge Crawford was shot in five
places', in the head and body, and it is
thougutjto struggled with his-i —*
as hfcTiiead was badly bra
mangkd. Mr. Harris was shot in the
back the head and in the thigh, and
his horse was shot under him.
Thabodies were discovered Monday
evenisg by Tlios. <T. Hough, who was
on hfe way to Winnsboro’, to court.
It is tf iught the murders were com-
mittedby a party of desperadoes known
as Tata Winn’s gang. The leader of
thp party was tried last term of the
court Before Judge Crawford at Colum
bia, for murder, and convicted, being
at Pleasant fall, in this county on for a refonn government. The taxes
u Saturday. W. J. Bass, president;I are already heavy, and an increase in
- - , District Attorney Hams. W. G. Moms, vice president; T. H. them ^ toncb t J he feelings of the in .
e m**e his escape from jail before Owen, treasurer; and I. W. McAdory, [ habitants verv unpleasantly.
secretary. The regular meetings of the 1 -
society will be held .in the first Satur-
sentence, and has made Repeated threats
that tef would kill the Judge and pro6-
ecntitg attorney.
The people of the parish are indig
nant, and a large number of men ore
in ho: pursuit It is thought that the
will be overtaken within
was about fifty years
of age, a fine lawyet ana judge.
He is a brother of Senator Crawford,
of Madison Parish, and leaves a large
family. He will be buried at Columbia
to-day.
Mr. Harris was about forty-two years
old, and universally esteemed for his
genial social qualities. He has been at
the bar in North Louisiana for twenty
C :s, and was Master of the Columbia
ge of Free Masons. His body was
brought to this place, and his funeral
will take place this afternoon, the ser
vices being conducted by the Masonic
fratenity.
The District Court at this place has
adjourned in respect to the memory of
the deceased.
The assassination of these gentlemen
has no political signification whatever.
Judge Crawford was a Republican, and
Mr. Harris a Democrat, and they were
murdered by desperadoes, whose en
mity they had incurred in the disoliorge
of their official duty.
Eos.
The world is indebted to tlie Colum
bus Enquirer for the following impor
tant definition
“Los” is a word that we cannot
fathom, and therefore it must mean
something terrible. When Daniel
O’Connell had his fuss with a fish wo
man and demolished her bv saying
“She was a hypothenuse and i
lelogram in petticoats,” he could have
settled her hash in on instant by telling
her Bhe was “ lost to Los.”
Our philological editor has scratched
himself bald trying to find this word.
We saw him .last night diving into dic
tionaries and encyclopedias that rose
about him as be read like a block
honse. He thinks the word is Modoc,
and means the same as “Keno,” but
this is not satisfactory, for it explains
one hard word by another. Who knows
the meaning of “ Keno” in this land?
A dispatch received per cable an
hour ago from the. celebrated philolo
gist, Max Mneller, reads, as follows:
Limburg, State of Nassau. Germany,
September 17, Midnight
“ Los” is a Gaelic word, or rather Erse.
It is now nearly obsolete, and means a
man without any tail to his coat It
was once used in Ireland, when fight
ing. was more in vogue, it bring the
custom of those impetuous people who
were always anxious to'fight anybody,
to wear long coat tails, whieh dragged
behind them for several yards on the
ground, and the person stepping on the
coat tail challenged as it were, the coat-
tailec, and the coat-tailee atones turned
and belted the coat-tailor over the head
with a complicated weapon known as a
ehiOalah. -
Some of the people, under the in
fluence of Christianity and a dread of
sore heads, abbreviated their coat tails
so as to avoid being insulted, and there
at the long-coat-tan-men became indig
nant and called them “ Los.” Bnt why
they called them “Loe” I am at this
moment at a “ Los” to state.
The “ Los” people are now legally in
the majority, and men wear emit tails
far convenience and. not as the means
of kicking up a rumpus.
Collect If96J4. Max Mueller.
the masts.
American ship-building is reviving. | brooding over the uncertain tenure
Seventy-five thousand tons were added at I canine possession, a man drove by with
the registry between June 1st and August I his identical deg in his wagon.
9th, of the present year. I John pursued, and boarding the craft
I from the rear, commenced a furious as-
The Ohio brings thirty cabin and one sault urain the occupant Afterhehad
hundred and thirty steerage passengers. I pounded him into pulp, he turned to
The run from Queenstown to^Cape Hen- do S and discovered that it was not
lopen was ten days and three hours. I hut one closely resem-
1 bling him.
. T j* _ v i The unfortunate driver is under the
An Indiana woman whose suit for di- L^ of ^ physicians, and John
vorce had lingered along until she was brood3 the eraor, for he is in jail,
completely out of patience, burst into her r
lawyer’s office last week, her face radiant. _ . _ _ ,
with joy, she exclaimed: “ ’Squire, the I . 0F Absence. The Secretary
old man’s dead!” I °* ^h e Treasury has directed the Collec-
^ ^ » I tore of Customs at Galveston, Key West
a Tenennao • v D I and Pensacola to grant leave of absence
f« (.tog * tab. to ™k 121/X,tj; nM. hnMhA-lliifi!
at the doings of a disorderly character
How fortunate that American civiliza
tion is more advanced!
points who have not had the yellow
West and the Dry Tortugas are to the
effect that the fever is very severe in
The wages of freedmen in Virginia, as I those places,
farm laborers, range from 812 to 815 per 1
month and board, or 25 per cent more | According to the report of Comp-
to board themselves. For haying, 81.501 trailer Green, the finances of New York
per day, and work from sun to sun; har- city are in a bad condition. The re
vesting, 82.00 to 82.25, work from six to I cc iptg from all sources during the past
***• m t | year were 832,250,000, and the amount
a agric
ized at Plea
xpended 852,390,000.
Obviously this is not a good showing
day of each month.—Birmingham. In-1 “ ^“ WEK °!' '5 0LY §. PI £F-” J*’
dcjxhvlent. ;Mr- Winne, of West Troy, N. Y, has a
1 # • ^ [ beautiful tropical flower in his passes-
A duel with small swords was fought [rion, which 13 railed the “ Flower of
. in New Orleans on the 29th nit., between the Holy Spirit” The flower itself is _.
Mr Andre L. Roman of the New Or- (quite large, and m the comer the leaves ism, which, thoughnarrowandignorant,
; leans b™ r «ie la 'biauu, editor | are snow white, nnd present the perfcetjds above' nil tilings essentially and
of the Sun. Mr. Roman was twice of a bird with outspread wings,
wounded in the right arm, when the | etc.
surgeon declared that the fight could There are a number of persons in
not go on. Thus terminated the afiair. | the Indies who worship the flower as a
god.
ipoi
to have cleared some 860,000 during jp reach ing for a Unitarian church in
the first six months of the present year, fonnectirat for two years, and now
which is at the rate of 16 per cent, per I that she is taking her vacation some of
annum on the price of the latest sharea I the young ladies have been conducting
SO tv r. v , v lbt I the services. Whereupon one of the
Eight shares of the New Y ork Time* old rema rked:
“ The Rev. Celia Burleigh” has been
stock have just been sold at 812,000
each.
The SL Augustine (Fla.) Press tells a
horrible story of the suffering of a little
Italian boy who was thrown overboard
at sea in a cask, by one Capt. Cum
mings, of the schooner Eliza D.
mcr/w.
The boy was picked up at Matanzas
Inlet by a kind '
carried to St Aui
old ladies remarked:
! “ Well, first we had a woman’s meet-
in’ : now we’ve got a gal’s meetin’; but
I’d like to see a man’s meetin’ ag’in.”
The people of St Paul, Minn., have
hit upon a novel method of treating the
Ham-1 “social evil,” and one that will proba
bly do more real good in chocking it
where tried than any that has yet been
_ fisherman and | adopted. They propose to institute
ine where he is measures to discover the names of all
kindly being cared for by the people, persons visiting houses of ill-fame, and
, m r I then display them in a conspicious place
Prosperous. — The Opelika (Ala.) | in 1116 public papcrs
Locomotive gives the following concern
ing the success of the Good Templars
at that place:
The '
On the occasion of one of the most re
cent French religious pilgrimages a se-
tion at | rious disturbance occurred at St. Ar-
this place, we are gratified to announce, mand in the department of the Nord.
is in a prosperous condition. The past | A. band of workmen and children are
several meetings have been largely at- [ said to have insulted and assaulted the
tended and an interest manifested that pilgrims, and a priest was seriously in
leaks well for the offort and work of jured. The gendarmes were compelled
ie memberehip of tlie order. to use force to put down the rioters.
New York, Sept 11.—The trans-At- Wendell Phillips, who is all the time
lantic balloon party have made arrange-1 saying unkind things about the man
ments with an experienced aironaut to | k e Helped to make President, recently
take personal charge of the inflntinn intimated that General Grant wanted
The departure is expected to-morrow. | third term only to make another mil-
Wise complains that the managers I bon.. Nobody knows Grant better than
entirely disregarded his advice with re-1 Phillips,
gard to material for the balloon, and
employed on incompetent superintend
ent. Wise doubts thoir ability to repair
the balloon.
Awkward*
' “ Are there any Episcopalians in this
vicinity, madam?” asked a tall, thin
stranger of Mrs. Artemus, as she stood
A young man, Charles Boyce, while I “ ** open door > in Bering to his
out shooting near Yarmouth, England, I K
on Sunday morning, August I^wm |
KlfiLS ffllsiuS! n 4>',V "sr b *ir
The gun was lent, and the gentleman *!*“ she would never admit that
shot a bird. He then reloaded, went “^d wxssiMy beignorantof any-
forward a short distance, as if in search Jfe**
of birds, and was suddenly seen todis- BU ^ t . mentioned. So she answered:
chargethe gun at hb h^h bto^ingoTt I n
his brains. The suicide is supposed to
have been a Mr. Gardiner, of London. I S
...... .what it was, bnt I told him I thought it
The coal question is agitating Mont-1 was a chipmonk. But now you speak
gomery considerably. The State Journal on’t. I’ll bet it was a Episkerpalium 1
of Sunday says: I And my - next neighbor, Fanner Haw-
Is it possible that the poor people 1 kins, he said he shot at something the
of our city are subject to another “ coal | same day that John see hi» strange crit-
coroer” or monopoly. It seems so, as f tur, and Hawkins, he thought it was
the dealere have already raised the some wild crittur that had got out of
price to 810 per ton. ^ | some menageiy somewhere. Anyhow,
_.* t s ** * . . Episcopaling, too. ~
, dupmonk?”
- - , You misunderstand me, madam.’
be delivered at 85 per ton, and pay “Wall, you needn’t feel oneasy. Ef
well at that price. | there’s any ’Piscomaliums in f ma here
neighborhood, yon can just make up
Mixed schools are
as sorely as mixed t
theBoetonians.
First lessor ini
man should be a little
should have a dean f~ ~
mouth fail of i
tobacco. •
The gentle-
tallest. He
.and
ion, instead ’of
A Good Load.—The Euiaula Times | your mind that they’ll get shot!
gives the following: [tur too feeling a community to let
We saw an old gentleman receive a | things run at luge which moat destroy
“bag frill of gold”from the express of-1 and devour somebody. Come in, won’t
fioe, _ yesterday, which was ahont as|ye?"
much as.he seemed able to cony con-1 * m
veniently. An Omaha woman committed sui-
We woe informed that the package cide the other-day because her husband
contained nine thousand four hundred! remonstrated in profane terms when he
dollars, all gold, which had beensehip-ij found a dead horse fly in a wheat cake,
to him by express from Galveston,
on which the. charges were over one | The government of Brazil has issued
) hard times!
Eat don’t lqok much a decree declaring Protestant marriages
I indissoluble, except by the courts.
sisters op charity.
“ A * A SgTr or .V'&.th 0 "'” the
The Iielief is inbred in this part of
the State that all the Protestants go to
heaven and the Catholics take through
passage for a hot hereafter We confess
to a very decided leaning on the side of
Protestantism atrrsdvet. Wc 'have
been in the habit of ootidangiik: relig
ion which we thought inculcated a more
fervent worship of images and saints
than of the Savior.
A little thing sometimes opens a
man’s eye. We are « Protestant still,
but we have raised on the Catholics.
For why? The cholera has been raging
in Lancaster. The horrible disaster
was chiefly confined to the poor and
humble classes. The citizens fled, the
doctors got out of the way, and the
poor helpless victims died like sheep
with the rot for a few days.
The Sisters of Charity, in Louisville,
heard of the epidemic. They heard of
the panic, the hegira, and the suffering.
This was enongn. Without standing
upon the order of their going, they
went—went without solicitation, with
out importunity, without fee or expec
tation of reward.
In the loathsome hovel of sickness
they administered to the sick and dying.
As angels of mercy they softened tne
rigor of scenes of death.
When physicians tremble in the pres
ence of a scourge, when neighbors and
friends flee as in the path of an invad
ing army, it is almost a heaven!
to witness these messengers of
mercy alone discharging that high duty
given from the month of Divinity:
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as
thyself.”—Standard Interior Journal.
fleet and Brains.
There is a tradition, probably derived
from monkish times, that a student or
learned man is also, of necessity, a
sickly and sallow man, "who despise?
the vain cues of eating am' drink.
’his is a grave popnlu error. The
very reverse comes neuer the truth.
Scholars and savants are not always
[esthetic feeders, but, unless prevented
by sheer poverty, they ue usually right
hearty feeders—the principle being as
true in the study as elsewhere, that
good work requires good eating.
A senior wrangler may not He able to
stow away quite so large a plate of beef
as a coal-heaver, but lie can dispose of
a portion large enough to terrify any
one in the habit of dining with Dio
Lewis—which I take to be the Ameri
can for dining with Duke Humphrey.
“ By their fruits ye shall know them.”
In all the literature bom of American
asceticism we see a thinness, a lack of
color, produced by a lack of learning
beyond what the rest of our literature
shows, inferior as that may be when
judged by a European standard.
Nor is the matter mended when the
writer or speaker endeavors to supply
this want by a display of sonorous and
incoherent bosh, which he and a por
tion of his public have the fatuity to
take for poetical sentiment and orato
rical ornament Butstill more striking
is the vulgarity of our ascetic litera
ture, from the highest, in point of rep
utation and pretention, to the lowest
A large number of the Old World
saints used to derive in former times—
nay, some of them still-derive at the
present day—much of their odor of
sanctity from very positive dirt. The
holy friar is pretty sure to be also tlie
dirty friar; his very name seems to con
note filth. In like manner there ie a
largely circulating ascetic or semi-ascet
ic literature among us, permeated by
tHat most offensive kind of Philistian-
hopekssly vulgar.
That some amount of sensuousness
is necessary in art, all bnt a very few
of the most erratic critics and artists ore
constrained, however reluctantly in
some cases, to admit. A long and sad
series of proof points to a similar con
clusion in literature, and shows that an
attempt to remove the pure intellect
entirely from the religious sense will
end by degrading rather than elevating
it—Carl Benson, in September Galaxy.
Power of Example.
In a town in Bavaria there was a lit
tle tumble-down church building,where
the duke, as often as he came tHat way,
used to go in and pray. If, on coming
out of tne chapel, lie happened to meet
any of the peasants in the field, he
loved to converse with them in a friend-.
ly way.
One day he met an old man, with
whom" lie fell into conversation on va
rious things; and, taking a liking to
the man, he asked him, in parting,
whether he could do anything for him.
Tlie peasant replied,
“ Noble sir, you cannot do anything
better for me than you have done al
ready.”
How so?” answered he. “I do not
know that I have done anything for
you.”
“But /know it,” said the old man ;
for liow can I ever forget that you
have saved my son? He traveled so
long in the ways of sin, that for a long
time he would have nothing to do with
the church or prayer; and he sank ev
ery day deeper in wickedness. Some
time ago he was here, and saw yon, no
ble sir, enter the chapel. ‘I should
like to see what he does there,’ said the
oung man, scornfully, to himself, and
e glided in after you. But when he
saw vou pray so devoutly, he was so
deeply impressed that he also began to
pray; ana from that moment he be
came a new man. I thank yon for it
And that is why I said you can never
do me a greater favor than yon have
done me already.”—From the German.
Portland, Me., Sept 11. — Asliur
Wayne, for 44 years Judge of the U nited
States District Court, is dead; aged 91.
A St. Paul woman used to keep three
•Is. she now does her work cheerfully.
;e found her husband throwing kisses
them.
Blackwood dares to assert that every
man who is not a monster, a mathe
matician, or a mad philosopher, is a
slave of some woman or other.
During the past fourteen years there
have been received at the Chicago stock
ards over 27,000,000 beef cattle and
and over 15,000,000 have been
shipped during the same time.
If you want to have your head orna
mented on the shortest notice in this
section now, tell a man bigger than
yourself that be is “ nidering, and tho
chances are he will go for you with tho
energy of a hungry rooster after a June
Pretty well,” remarked the doctor’s
daughter, wHo took an interest in her
father’s purse and profession, when
some one asked her how things were
going. “Plenty of colds, some bron
chitis, and a little typhos fever, but, as
father said yesterday, what we want to
make things lively is a nice little epi
demic 1”