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Owing to Hayes’ lack of “back-bone
in the management of Louisiana and
South Carolina, he is spoken of a? an
“invertebrate animal.'’
“I’m Sitting on the Stile, Mary,” is
Hayes’ favorite ballad. - Courier-Journal.
“I’m Sitting on Two Chairs Merry/' is
Hayes’ favorite policy.
Rooky-by Hayes’ oo two chairp’tnp—
When both parties “hi .w” the.two chairs Will
rook;
When both parties seize them the two chairs
will fall;
And down coine H.ayee, two chairs and all!!
Should Hayes be successful in car
rying out his compromises and a new
party be formed, h t that part be com-
promisingly styled, the “Demorepubli-
cratic partv. - ’
Since the 4th of March, upwards of
five thousand applications for offices,
j other than postmaster, have been filed
with Postmaster-General Key, of which
one-half are said to he from Tennessee.
M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR.
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VOLUME XXXI.
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When you scratch a great man you
nearly always find a printer or editor.
—hul. Journal.
Humph ! when you sctratch a great
man these days.you find nothing but
itching—ior office.
There is too much irony in the fol
lowing paragraph from the Washing
ton .S7ar.- “As far as heard from, none
of the 10,ISO Ohio office-seekers who
recently left have ns yet found the
walking bad, though some of them ex
pect to encounter s.now fctonrs on the
mountains.'’
Tun President didn’t make a mis
take when he appointed the Secretary
f War. McCrary is married and
therefore knows something about war.
.. —Exchange,
b We hope Thompson. Secretary of
Navy, is also married, and has nursed
at least a dozen of his “responsibili-
iies” through the whooping cough and
easle period, thus acquiring experi-
ental knowledge of severe “squalls.”
What changes have been made in the
Jhe English language, may he ascer -
ained from the following title of a hook
printed in the fifteenth century :
“The Polycronycon conteyning the
Berynges and Dedes of many Tymes
eygln Bokes. Imprinted by Wil
iam Caxton after having somewhat
baunge the rude and olde Englisslie,
bat is to wete certayne words which
S these Dayc-s be neither usyd ne un-
ijerstanden. Ended the second Day of
jauyll at Westmestre the xxij yere of
3 ]Regr\e of Kyoge Edward the fourth,
spad of Incarnacion of oure Lord a
to ousanb lour hundred four Score and
Wveyne.”
J. I re ST INIERESTING .NKVI!..
Syuopsiitol Telegrams.
Chamberlain and Hampton are in
Washington.
England and Russia seem to be some
what “out” on the Turkish question.
Ignatitff is reported as saying that
the negotiations between Russia and
England are not interrupted.
Gen. Gordon has no doubt but that
Hampton, will in a few days, be in
unopposed possersion of the Govern
ment of South Carolina.
The town of Stafford Connecticut
has been deluged by the water from a
broken dam. Not less than thirty
houses were destroyed.
Gov. Hampton in Washington. He,
Senator Gordon, and Attorney-General
Conner called upon and lunched with
Hayes’ day-btfore yesterday. A dele
gation from Baltimore is at the Capi.
tal to invite Hampton to visit that
city. In the interview, President
Hayes assured Hampton that he
would carry out the promises of his
inaugural address Hampton and
friend.- say that they are greatly pleased
by the interview.
The Commission wit’ leave early
next week. They will have no writ
ten instructions. Hayes insists that
Commission to Louisiana has been it,
his mind from the hrst and that he
never promts .-d anything else. The
impression gathered by his visitors of
all parties and complexions is that he
locks for the immediate establishment
of Hampton’s government in South
Curo'tna, and that of Nichcllsin Lou
isiana very shortly'.
A special to the Constitution states
that a negro, Sam Smith, attempted to
outrage Miss Brown, in Monroe county
near Baruesville last Wednesday night.
Her cries for help attracted the atten
tion of a colored man passing by who
caused the infernal scoundrel to flee
Being arrested and brought up for
trial, he was obstinate, defiant, cutsed
the court and confessed the crime.
Nothing can better illustrate the law
abiding spirit of Southern men than
the fact that this black devil was
not lynched.
IRS,
jL.
Sunset Cox who lectured last Satui-
ly night in this city is an author of
So mean reputation. In one of his
looks, “Why We Laugh" he devotes a
lapter to “Southern Humcrs—Legis
lative end Otherwise,” ax.d pays a
.Ktlendid tribute to some of Georgia's
fimed sons, such as Troup, Dooly,
Cobb, Toombs, Stephens, Colquitt etc.
etc. In speaking of Walter Colquitt,
Atlier of our Governor, and who as a
gtuni|i orator and wit was unrivelled
in his day, he quotes an aged "sister
iif the church” as saying: “Ah! talk
0J your great men ! None of ’em’s
apual to Brother C, Iquitt. Why, in
Sir coui.try. he tried a man for his life.
Hpteneed him to he hung, preached a
l, mustered all the tnen in the
luntry, married two couple, and held
prayer meeting, ail in one day.”
What our English cousins, residing on
: other side of the hig pond, think of
! ‘'situation” may be learned from the
Blowing which we clip from the Louden
Eng.) Telegraph:
Mr. Tilden has the melancholy conso-
lion of being the first man in American
ptory who. having at his back a clear
solute majority of the popular vote,
not won the Presidency. Nay, more,
i electors chosen to nominate him se-
‘d success at the polls, yet were ig-
ted by State officials resolved that a
Jmocrat should not win. We have long
K&rd from American statesmen that the
supremacy of the majority was the guid
ing principle of their institutions, but iu
this case it has been deliberately set aside,
le people, rather than risk civil strife
J prolonged uncertainty, have decided
it now to submit; but the preceded is
filous and this “one more victory” of
Republicans will probably he their
GT
The Man and the Opportunity,
here they ere. Mr. Hayrs is tft
an up to whose very feet the Angel
■Good Luck has rolled that “tide in
l affairs of men” upon which gently
rdbks a spendidly equipped boat rnark-
the “Golden Opportunity.” Its pi-
Patriotiem ; its chart and compass,
s Constitution. Step right into that
[it Mr. Hayes, and be quick about it.
Id when you are in it, grasp the
s—on the handle of one of which
Irkles the motto, Be Firm; on that of
the other, Be Right—and row it stiaight
[“to fortune and to fame” Just let
our Pilot guide, and the boat will
felv glide on between the Scylla and
Charybdis of political factions,
lit hurry up Mr. Hayes ; as that tide
111 not linger much longer, for ebb
|me is fast approaching, when the
^ndsome boat will be carried out on
t-k wide and stormy seas and wrecked
^^jhe reefs of Political Partizanship.
And then will you, to whom is granted
are c ^ ance °f being almost a sec
ond W ashington, he on history’s page
btff a sad illustration of Political Maud
Mullerism.
So hurry up Mr. Hayes—jump into
tbs boat and then—fair wtather and
favorable breezes I
Political Notes.
Joe Bradley is reading all the soap
advertisements, with a view to some
thing that will clean that ermine.
For thirty days the troops have been
moving out of town by forced marches
of an inch in twenty four hours.—New
Orleans Tunes.
A little half-penny London paper,
called" the Echo, is the onlj English jour
nal that has spoken favorably of the
Electoral Tribunal swindle.
The uams of the decretory of the in
terior, dehurz, should be pronounced
"dhoorts”—justjis if you were driving
a cow out of im front yard, you know.
The portrait of John Lee, n the
Graphic, who was recently executed at
Mountain Meadow, Utah, hears a stri
king resemblance to Vice-President
Wheeler.
The most reliable advices from
Washington report that there is no
doubt of a clear D.eno -r itic majority
in the next House of R •oreseutatives,
<-r of ths cleoctioii of a Democratic
.'■'peaks'.
"It bus been tv. il known for the past
two months in the best lortnc’ polit
ical circles in Washington that 1: -vi-r-
nor < diamlii rknu himself has consul
hi d his case as an almost hopeless oue,”
so says the Washington correspondent
of the New York Tribune.
Red field writes from Washington as
follows: “dei tor Gordon, of Geor
gia, says he has never sworn an oath in
his life, but that the tempation has
been greater the past few days than at
any time. And what think you is the
cause? The demand for office. Hois
beset irout morning till night.”
Buell says: “I t Link 1 can lull you
what is the matter with Mo Hayes. He
wants to pk-a-e too many people. lie
wants to give peace and good government
to the Southern States witlvut disturbing
the serenity or hurting the feelings of the
carpet-baggers. He wants to make a re-
pectable administration wi: bout incurring
the eumitvof Jim Blaine.”
General News Items.
Fred Douglass has appointed a son
qne of his deputy marshals.
Tbe Sheriff of Kings county, New
York, makes SS0.00O a year.
In the next Congress there will be
about eighteen contested seats.
During the year 1876 the United
States yielded 420,000,000 pounds of
rosin. . \!
A Virginia woman of 28 is grand
mother. She was married at the age
of 13 years.
The real name of George Eliot is
Marian C. Evans, the authoress of
“Adam Bede.”
One hundred thousand French sui
cides have “cast a gloom” over the
present century.
Philadelphia turned loose upon the
world last winter five hundred and
eighty-seven M. D.’s.
The mania increases, “Blue glass
whiskey” is tbe alluring sign displayed
in front of a Broad Street saloon.
Out of 200,000 adult females of the
human family in this city, not over
2,000 kn w how deccntlv to cook a
breakfast.—New York Mail.
Two nephews of John Randolph, of
Roanoke, are members of congress, viz:
John Randolph Tucker, of Virginia,
and Richard P. Bland, of Missouri.
At the sale of the effects of the bank
rupt Washington Club House, the pho
tographs of Grant and Boss Shepherd
were bought up by negroes for SI and
$2.
It is said if Chang and Eng were
still living, Mr. Hayes would have ap
pointed them Postmaster General.
One could have looked after the North
ern postoffices, while the other attend
ed to the South.
The best crops of com raised in
Western Texas, between the years 1863
and 1871, were planted from tbe mid
die to the last of April, realizing seven
to eight barrels per acre for several
years on upland.
Texarkana occupies a part of Miller
county, in Arkansas, and a part of
Bowie county, in Texas, and is, it
seems, the county seat of both counties,
for an exchange says that the circuit
courts under both jurisdictions were
held in the town at the same time.
EDMUND KEAN’S SUCCESS!
An Eventfnl Night in the Histo-;
ry of Drury Lane.
Temple Bar.]
Frederick Douglass.
As the name of ibb colored man and
ex-slave has become very notorious of
late, and especially as Hayes has jhst
mpl „ given him a 812,000 place, it may inter-
From the endof November to the eat onr readers to know something about
end of the following January, Kean. liSnrfffis ^father wa^a wMW'tjfansfcd
existed, Heaven alone kn ~ *"
the management of Drury Lane ret used yuiuu™. xjioju,
to pay a shilling. All that he had ever under the slave code, the ofiigrmg also
suffered could not have equaled the were owned by him. Fred Douglass w»s
misery of those two months o’" uscilla-‘ born at Tuckahoe, Md., about 1817.
tion between hope and despair, amid hence he is now $ome sixty yea^ 3 of age.
hunger and wretchedness. Arnold now! AVhen some nine yeare old, ht3 master
as a pis alter, made up his mind to give’ “lent” him to one of his (master s) rela-
him a trial. But the troubles were not AA’i-s, by whom he was kindly treated
yet over. Now arose a dispute as to and-taught to feud. write and calculate,
the opening part; Arnold wanted Rich- .In-1832 he .Was purchased by a Baltt-
ard, but Kean knew the disadvantage more shipbuilder, and employed firetag*
alone knows how, for' his mother’a negro slave, belonging to there has been a considerable decline
of Drury Lane refused- Colcuel, Lleyd, of hlarjlandj.andtence in rents, and that the prices of clothing
waiter add then as a ship caulker.
Finally, he was allowed to hire his own
time at 'three, dollars a week, a very
small sum for an intelligent negro .in
those days.': He “ran a'way” in Septem-
ber, 1838,-and reached New Bedford.
MassacfitlsittS, pH ere he obtained work
fcbanmd hra bathe‘to Douglass, and came
tinder the. patronage of Wm. Lloyd Gar-
ristiri, ’who furtheKedncated him. -He
Personal Jottings.
The Prince of Walt s will wear a low
crown hat this season.
Grant will be dead-headed to Europe
cn one of the American line of steam
ers, front Philadelphia.
John D. Lee, recently executed in
Utah for the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre, leaves sixty-four children.
Dickens, will forbade a monument
to himself, and the one proposed at
Portsmouth will not he raised.
The slumbers of Mr. Sboop. of Yea-
gerstown, Pa., are disturbed by the
fresh young shriek of his twenty-third
child.
An Iowa idiot put a silverquarter on
the railroad track, hat the train convey
ing the sainttd Beecher might run
over it and render it forever precious.
Lieutenant George de Kalands, of
the Russian fleet, has eloped with Miss
Burdick, of San Francisco. The father
' of the young woman chased the car
riage of the runaway pair, firing his
revolver as he went, but noue of the
parental bullets took effect,
It is told of the President’s son, Mr.
Webb Hayes, that when he returned
from college it occured to him that he
might be a more muscular Christian
than was bis distinguished father. Ac
cordingly he gaye a good humored
challenge to a wrestling match to that
kindly person, and it was instantly ac
cepted. There was a picturesque strug
gle for a few minutes, and somebody
emphatically measured his length upon
the floor. The young gentleman has
nevdr challenged his venerable father
since.
The Roman Catholic Peers of Eng
land now muster exactly three dozen,
including one Duke, two Marquises,
seven Earls, four Viscounts, twenty-one
Bcro r 's, and one Countess in her own
right; in addition to which there are
forty-seven Roman Catholic Baronets.
Poor’s Manual, a railway journal pub
lished in New York, states that only
one hundred and sixty-five out of six
hundred and ninety-one railways in
this country -paid any dividends last
year, the aggregate being only fifteen
of grasshoppers, which were about
ready to hatch.
A use has been discovered for tbe
hitherto purely ornamental polecat. A
Nebraska farmer noticed one of the
tribe busily eating from the ground in
bis field, and on examination—made
after the pretty creature had retired—
showed that it had stripped the ground
over which it had passed of the deposit
millions, or less than four per cent, on
their capital stock.
Isaac Marks, recently hanged in
London for murder, is said to have
been the first Israelite legally put to
death in England in two hundred
years. It has been noted, also, that
Jews rarely fall victims to alcoholic
indulgence. Is there a connection in
these tnings ? Ot is there a character
istic back of both that will explain
them ?—Exchange.
Some distinguished Chinese mer
chants of San Francisco banqueted
some distinguished Attuericans the
other day. At table the natives wen
astonished, it. a drinking etib. to heat
» celestial remind the board that, “you
know what the Governor of North
Carolina said to the Governor of South
Carolina: It’s a long time between
drinks.” Thus doth Ann rican civiliza
tion impress itself on foreigners.
Georgiacs.
For police positions in Atlanta there
are 304 applicants.
The tirdinary’s office in Fulton is
worth SI5,000 a year.
Mrs. Fewclothes, of New York City
waB registered at the Augusta Hote^
last Friday.
Hon John B. Mallard a distinguished
Citizen of Liberty County, and who
represented it in the Legislature for
many years, is dead.
The Griffen News in speakiug of
tramps in that town says: “He was so
dirty that be ‘looked as if he ought to
havebeen officially surveyed and fenced
in.”
Union Point, Green county, must
rival Rome in “odoriferous sweetness.”
From that place fifty thousand pounds
of “Joanna” were hauled into the
country last Thursday.
Col. G. W. Adair, well and favorably
known as the principal real estate
agent in Atlanta, has suspended. His
liabilities are stated at 8140,000, but it
is belived that his assets can be made
to pay them in full.
Says the Columbus Times: One of
our doctors recently gave the following
prescription to a sick lady: “A new
bonnet, a cashmere shawl and a silk
dress.” The lady, it is needless to say,
entirely recovered.
The following is the official report.of
the Ninth Congressional District, as
sent in to the office of Secretary of
State: Bell, 5,173 ; Speer, 3,734; Ar
cher, 1/614; Lvttle, 130; Turnbull, 14.
It is thought the last few votes were
designed to be charged up to Mr. J. J.
Turnbull, of Banks.
Attention, young men of Rome!—
and old men, too—and read what a
sixteen-year old farmer down in Eman
uel county did last year: He raised
nearly lour bales of cottoh, 130 bushels
of com, 1,200 lbs fodder, 250 bushels
of oats, 80 bushels of potatoes, 5 bush
els of rye, and 6 bushels of peas, and
five dollars’ worth of melons, all of
which netted him $511.40. He only
used 818 worth of guano, and hired
help only one month.
his small figure would be at, when com
pared with the majestic Kemble, and
answered, “Shylock or nothing.”
There was marvelous resoluteness in
this determination, considering all hie
had passed through,' wnich was suffi
cient to crush the strongest spirit: But
it succeeded, and the 26th of January,
1814, was decided for his appearance.
—- -»*“■“ tsS
“ ‘ ' ‘ models constantly before
iliehett bis aotobio
_ 0 . and My Freedom!,'
some truth, buVihajn
The latter wonderfully
uauqs^ad Sooth haters oi
jse fathejs, insteadif tree-'
they iiirinerlv owned when
r^found them unprofitable, sold them
id t£e Southern planter. He was, on
of his mind. As the church clocks gooff evidence, supposedI to be implicated
were striking six, he sallied forth fro® “
his lodgings in Cecil street. His part' ## w >’’ ch
ing words to his wife were: “I wish h oi the^l^es and the massacre ot
wtS going to be shot.” J *>?« r ow “ era - Governor. Wtse of Vtr-
In his hand he tarried a small bun,
die, containing his shoes stocking^ Dougla33 c fled ^ England, where Exeter
wig and other trifles of costume. The fia ,f received bim open arm3> and
night was very cold and foggy ; there ■ a fum , m ds (S750)> abont
had been a heavy snow, and a thaWl 33 ^ ^ '
by coat, with the capes, at his uusiness, , ■ .
declared it would not do, and prophe- A e “ad
sied certain failure. He wen: home’, to™-
“I must dine to-day,” he s.Ad; and for E™!™.
the first time in maty days indulged
nr the luxury of meat. Tnen all he eepS® 1
had to do was to wait as patiently as he
could for tbe night. “My God J” he .
exclaimed, “if I succeed, I shall go In S th ®
mad I” Terrible prophecy. Volumes
could not better describe the agitatiop
jalf what he was worth, paid it to his
had set in; the streets were almost t^ d thus Becarecl jjTlegal eman-
Returning to this ^Tntry, he
through his worn >ots and “hilled LT u ‘ b j iahed a week i y " paper at Rochester,
pupation. Returning
*l im ^ th L b0De ' I 1 ® dart £ d qU ? ckl * iLY^na/'e.TKred D^glass' Paper, and
through the stage door, wishing to es- f nb ’ uentl n . Oi course
cape observation and repaired to his wU1 f the No rth in the late
dressing-room*- There the feelings of t b£ 80n3 served in iL
war,
the actors were shocked by another in
novation; he was actually going to play
Shylock in a black wig, instead of the
traditional red one. They smiled
among themselves, shrugged their
shoulders, but made no remark; such a
man was beyond remonstrance—be
sides, what did it matter? he would
never be allowed to appear a second
time. Jack Bannister and Oxberry
were the only ones who offered . him a
friendly word. When thecurcain rose
the house was miserably bad, but by
and by the overflow of Convent Gar
den, wnich was doing .well at that time
began to drop in and make up a toler
able audience. His reception was en
couraging. Even as the curtain fell
upon the first act success was almost
insured, and already the actors who
had treated him se supercilliously be
gan to gather round him with congrat
ulations.
But he shrank from them and wan
dered about in the darkness attheback
of the stage. The promise of the first
act was well sustained in the second.
But the great triumph was reserved for
his scene with Salanio and Salarino.
in the third, where the flight of his
daughter Jessica with a Christian is
told him; there so terrible was his en
ergy, su magnificent his acting, that a
whirlwind of applauee shook the house.
Then came the trial scene, grander still
in its complex emotions and its larger
scope for great powers, and all was so
novel, so strange, so opposed to old tra
ditions. When the curtain finally fell
upon tbe wild enthusiasm of the audi
ence, the stage manager who nail snub
bed him oflered him oranges; Arnold,
who had bullied ami “young-man’d
him. gave him m gus. Drui.K with
el’e .t. he rushed home, and, witr
half-trenzied ircoherency. pound foril
the story of his triumph. "Tne pit
rose at me,” he' cried. “Mary, you
shall ride in j’our-carriage yet, Charley
shall go to Eton.” Then his voice fal
tert-d, and he murmured : “If Howard
had hut lived to see it.”
Grant’s Great Speeeh.
To an anxious crowd, in a western
town, in answer to a call for a speech,
as the train was moving off from
dinner station Grant said, “I like your
gravy.” Now, there was much in little.
"I”—there iB the distinct personality,
the individuality of a born cuqueror
“I like,”—not, “we like,—your gravy.”
“Likz,”—some one would have said
ljve; but loving is not liking, and be
sides it would have been too effusive
and gushing. “Your”—there was a
recognition of the rights of the people
in a republican goverement—not the
gravy of the landlady, nor of landlord,
not the gravy of the guest, but your
gravy—a brewage of the people, one
of the products of a part of our com
mon country. Perhaps not one in fifty
of the crowd bad tasted or had any pro
prietary right in that gravy, but the
President recognized that every man
has some rights which attach to his or
her neighbor’s gravy, in a country
where all are to some extent interested
as joint proprietors per my ct per lout.
“Gravy,"—the climax, and at once the
indication of remarkable political-eco
nomical powers, which, busied with
generalities, could.embrace the partic
ulars of a people’s wealth and means
of enjoying life, and a distinct semi
official recognition of gravy as a con
stitutional means of engaging in '‘pur
suits of happiness.” The conquering
warrior and the statesman at the helm
of government, pausing to take in the
people’s gravy and to recognize i. in a
speech like that is a spectacle for the
effete monarchies of Europe to pause
and consider.—Nashville American.
J. Clarke Swayze S'hot-
Topeka, Kansas, March 28.—At six
o’clock this evening a shooting affray oc
curred between J. Clarke Swayze, editor
of the Blade, and John W. Wilson,
formerly of the Topeka Times, in which
Mr. Swayze was killed.
The testimony before the coroner’s jury
shows that Swayze drew his revolver first,
but that both fired simultaneously.
Wilson rppgised only a slight flesh
wound in oiie.pheelt.f
Wilson was arres.ed and is now in jail.
Swayze was shot through the heart.
Strange Phenomenon.
1 -t- -jr-7?- t, : :. a •- . .
There u something extremely curions
in the crops of,the east and west- banks
of the Mississippi—. It has been noticed
for Borne fist'that these two banks
enjoyed apparently wholly different wea
thers and climates; that a frost on one
side of tbe river'seldom traveled across
-ltj that while the right bank -might be
enjoying a rain, the left was ju3t as apt
to be suffering from a-drought; and, in
fact, that the thousand yards of the Miss
issippi produced the same effect, as far as
climate and weather were concerned, as a
thousand miles of ocean. The last few
yeare have shown a wonderful difference
in the sugar crops of the! plantations on
the east and west banks of the river, and
greatly in favor of tbe latter, a difference
that is increasing every year. For in
stance, the crop ot the west bank planta
tions this year was 56,350 hogsheads to
34,901 hogsheads produced by east bank
plantations, showing that the farmer are
61 per cent, more productive than the
latter.
There was a time, and not long ago,
when this was different. As compared
even with the crop of 1875-6, the increase
in the production of plantations on the
west side of the Mississippi was 22 per
cent.; that of the east side plantations
only 7 per cent. The latter enjoyed
much the better weather the past season
which explains the difference. It is cer
tainly quter; another version of “West
ward the course of Empire takes its way.”
Meteorologists ami planters will probably
in time, understand the tree greatness
and importance of our Mother Mississippi,
and explain, perhaps, how the plan'
lions on oue side of the river ra’se 20,000
more hogsltr "-0- that: the same number ot
acres cn the other side.
Eutiermania.
Bishop Whipple, writing the Church
man, says that soou alter Alaska come
into possess.on of the United States,
in a certain Greek church there was
a beautiful jewelled copy o) the Gos
pels lyiug on the altar. An officer of
i he army, happening to enter the
church the day before the transfer,
saw the beautiful copy of the Gospels.
Knowing there was no law in our In
dian country, he call'd on the Bishop
aodsaid; ‘Your Grace, Alasxa is to be
turned over »o us to-morrow, and 1
called to say I think you had better re
move that Gospel from yonr altar.
The Bishop replied : ‘It has lain there
seventy years; it was the gilt of the
former Empress of Russia; why should
I remove it ?’ My friend very meekly
said : ‘It is a beautiful jewelled copy,
and I was afraid it might be stolen.’
The Bishop, with surprise, said :
hope you have no one who will steal
from God. I shall leave it on the altar.*
It was left, and it was stolen.”
Desperate Gambling in Europe
Paris has again been Scandalized by
a gentleman at a club losing S100,000
at the card table in a single night. The
police summarily closed the establish
ment next day, from which it is evi-
dent that the club in question was not
the Cercle de la Rne Royale, nor the
Jockey Club, nor the Imperial—all of
which, with others of equal standing,
continue to flourish at tbe present mo
ment. Enormous sums continue to be
lost all the year round at respectable
clubs like those-above mentioned, and
at the. Cercle'de IaFediterranee of Nice
which seems to have been established
for the convenience of gentlemen who
are too lazy to go every day to Monaco.
It was not so very long ago that the
son of a Roumanian banker lost 8200,-
000 within a month at this charming
place of recreation.
Cabinet Coincidence.—It is noticed
by the Chicago Tune* that all the mem
bers of the new Cabinet save one present
a remarkable similarity in their party an
tecedents. Mr. Evarts was a Whig.
Mr. Sherman was a Whig. Mr. Devens
was a Whig. Mr. Key was a Whig.
Mr. Thompson was a Whig. Mr.. Mc
Crary was a Whig. The Times also ob
serves another remarkable coincidence:
That Morton was a Locofoco. Cameron
was a LocofoCo. Butler was a Locofoco.
Logan was a Locofoco. Grant was a
Locofoco.
The Cost of Living.
toe average citizen, who has on his
hands the care of a home and a family,
listens with indifference, if not witii
incredulity, to statements showing a
reduction in the cost of living during
the. last few years. He realizes that
and dry goods are lower than formerly;
but he does not find that his butcher’s
bill, or bis grocer’s bill, or his milk
bill, shows any special diminution, and
he will tell yon with much earnestness
that the talk about a reduced cost of
li ving is very well as a matter of theo
ry artd statistics, brt as a matter of fact
most of the staples of household con
sumption are as high as ever, while the
money to get them with is more diffi
cult to obtain. Very few families
which maintain the same style of liv
ing now as in 1373, and have made no
special or conscious efforts at retrench
ment, can show any marked reduction
in the size of their tradesmen’s account,
occasioned by a natural and general
decline of prices. And yet there are
figures which seem to show that there
has been a decline, however difficult it
may be to realize it Altogether, if
paterfamilias and materfamitias find that
their house-keeping costs them just as
much now as in 1873, they may be
sure that the fault lies partly with
themselves, and the remedy, to a cer
tain extent, is in their own hands.
The Dark Side of Public Life-
A Washington correspondent illus
trates this text a6 follows:
Some sad scenes attend the death of
a Congress. Said one of the ex-mem-
oers the other day, oue who has had
an honorable though uneventful and
unimportant careen I have now been
in pnblic life for twelve years. By the
redistricting of my State my district
has been abolished. I am almost glad
to get ont of the public service, and yet
I do not know wbat to do. They have
called us all thieves, but I have scarce
ly money enough to support my fami
ly in respectability for six months. I
was bred a lawyer, and have had my
old shingle for the last ten years creak
ing upon its rusty hinges before my
office door in my native town. It is a
little town. The business is small and
has greatly changed, and the people
have almost forgotten me as a lawyer,
and I doubt, if I commence life there
again, if I could earn my salt The
young men have got all the clients,
and need and deserve them, because
they know the modern ways of the
Courts. The truth is like beginning
life over again and the prospects are
pretty blue. I tell you, young men, if
von ever have any ambition for public
life, don’t do it. It is a pretty sorrow
ful spectacle to see a man three score
years of age in my condition.”
A Brave Lady-
A few evenings ago a little incident
occurred in the charming suburb of
West End, which illustrates the spirit
of our noble Southern women, and
which reminds ns of the woman of “76”
Nancy Hart, the terror of Tories and
centennial carpet-baggers.
Mrs. Smith, the wife of onr late Gov
ernor, was at home alone the other
evening, the Governor having business
in tbe city. During tbe evening a
poor woman rushed in, crying that a
Federal soldier was pursuing her to
kill her.
Mrs. Smith bade her to be assured of
protection. The good lady then reach
ed down the Governor’s double-barrel
and when the scoundrel attempted to
enter, he found himself confronted by
brown tubes in a way that probably re
called to his memory the experience of
Bull Run, for he beat a retreat of more
lecrily than order, or as Xenophon
would scy. in his lerse directness, “he
remi.tcd himself with n uch energy.”
We rearet to say that the rascal was
tiot caught and punished, as he dtserv-
d.—Atlanta Corretpondeut Macon Tele
graph.
Fannie Hayes.
W;«*hir.g»on Correspondence of the Cincii
Gazette.]
Some enterprising letter-writers pic
tured to their unsuspicious readers Miss
Fannie Hayes as a beautiful young ladv
of ninteen years, accomplished to an
unprecedented degree, aDd so lovely
and fascinating in manners that tbe
Washington youth were warned to lay
orotecting hands on their heart. (I
speak in the singular number advisedly,
as there is only enough material in the
whole fashionable masculinity to form
one good-bized healthy organ.)
smiled rather amusedly when I saw a
real little girl, somewhere in the vicini
ty of her teens, perhaps, but not very
near them, who, dressed in a simply
white dress prettily trimmed with em
broidered frills, and bound at tbe waist
with a broad pink sasb, answered to
the name of Fannie Hayes. The child
had a pretty face, and seemed free from
the young lady isms so prevalent among
the modem infant world, where old-
fashioned, innocent, natural, winsome,
credulous, kissable children are as un
known as is the megatherium to the
animal kingdom of to-day !
Fortunes of Flayers,
New York Graphic.j
Nearly all the actors and actresses of
this couBtiy of any prominence or abil
ity can show a fair bank account and
manifest a fondness for solid invest
ments. Curiously enough, their invest
ments generally run towards farms and
homes. Barney Williams left a hand
some estate, which is prudently guard
ed by his widow. Charlotte Cushman
died worth neary half a million, which
she bad accumulated. Florence owns
fine honse on Park avenue in this
City. Miss Charlotte Thompson pos
sesses a rich farm in Oran3e county,
besides other valuable property. Joe
Jefferson ownsuland in several cities of
the Union. Forrest, as is well known,
left an immense estate. Long Branch
is the headquarters for a score of actore
who have valuable landed property
there. Lotta (Miss Crabtree) is said to
be worth more the 8400,000, and only
lest ’week she sold 875,000 worth of
property to John Jacob Astor. In
j act nearly all the leading actore of the
country, and many who do not by any
means claim that eminence, have some
things laid by for a rainy day.
Enforcing the Bine Laws.
A Town in Wbieb People are forbidden to
Enjoy Themselre* on Sunday.
South Norwalk, Conn., March 29.—
For the past two weeks tbe authorities
of this place have been endeavoring to
revive the old “Blue Laws,” with re
gard to the observance of tbe Sabbath,
which were enacted 1D0 years ago, and
have never been repealed. On Sunday
barbers are forbidden to open their
shops for the accommodation of their
customers, newsmen are not permitted
to sell the New York ^tzpere, and the
hotels are obliged to exercise consider
able precaution in order to obtain them.
Milkmen cannot serve their customers
with their morning supply of milk,and
thereby great inconvenience is caused.
It is impossible on that day to hire a
carriage for a, pleasure .drive, as the
stablemen are commanded to let their
conveyances only to persons wishing to
drive to church; ’ The street cars also
are ordered to atop running on Sun
day, but, in a measure, this order is
disobeyed, and a few cars are running
dnring the day. Policemen patrol the
streetB, and whenever a number of
boys who do not appear to be bent on
any particular business are found to
gether, they are immediately ordered
to go home, under penalty of being
lucked up should they disobey.
»»■-• —
Ib Charlie Boss Found?
New York, March 25—‘The World of
to-day has the following;
“Is Charlie Roes found at last ? John
Horford, of Wyalusing, Wisconsin, took
a boy strongly resembling the lost child
from some half-breed Indians last week,
and sent a photograph of him to Mr.
Ross, who telegraphed back if the boy
bad a scar on his right aide, to bring
him to Philadelphia. A subsequent
telegram ordered him to be brought on
at Mr. Ross’ expense, so Mr. Horford
started with him. The child’s hair is
brawn, not fair, the only difference ob
servable.
Is He a Lord?
A Jersey City Captain’s Aristocratic Dis
tressed Visitor*.
Among the tramps and paupers who
applied for lodging in the First pre
cinct station house, Jersey City, on
Wednesday night were two English
men, one an apparently respectable
man in reduced circumstances, and the
other acting the part of valet. Captain
Dickson remarked thatjit was aBtrange
place for a lord and his servant to seek
an abode, and suggested that they
should put up in a hotel. The aristo
cratic individual who was reduced to
such extremities said that he travelled
under the name of Captain Henry, but
that his real name was Lord Buford.
He said that he came with his valet
from England on a lark and stopped at
the American Hotel in Jersey City.
His money soon ran out and he sent
to his mother in England for assist
ance. Meanwhile his bill in the Amer
ican hotel accumulated, and he was
thrown on the street in default of pay
ment, the landolrd keeping his bag
gage as security. Captain Dickson fur
nished Lord Bnford and bis valet with
comfortable apartments for the night,
and yesterday morning they were ob
liged to leave in company wf^a gang
of tramps.—N. Y. Herald.
A Vicksburg Lady a Duchess.
Says the Vicksburg Herald: The
New Orleans Picayune gives the fol
lowing account of the marriage of a
Vicksburg lady to an Italian Duke.
Miss Cobb was the daughter of J. D.
Cobb, of the well-known and very
wealthy firm of Cobb & Manlove.
This firm, before the war, was one of
the largest in this city :
At Naples, Italy, on February 15th,
in the Catholic Church, was celebrated
the marriage of Mis3 Emilie M. Cobb,
daughter of our well-known citizen, J.
D. Cobb, to Alfonso Darincola, Duke
di Perizzi and Baron di Soverato.
The nuptial ceremony was perform
ed in the presence of a large and brill
iant company—the witness assisting
being Marquis Sartasilia and Baron
Labonia, also Prince Piedimonte, god
father to the bride—at the close of
which the bridal couple took leaye of
their many friends for their beautiful
bon e in the province of Petrizzi, in
Calabria.
Parenthetical Praise.
Republican journalist, writing: “In
tbe formation of his Cabinet, President
Hayes [cuss his weakness] has won tbe
admiration of the country. [Wbat a
fool be is!] The appointment of Mr.
Schurz [cuss that cussed Dutchman!] is
oue that the people will bail with especial
plasure. [Gosh, this is tough !] In the
appointment of Mr. Key, [conhlast that
infernal old rebel—he’s a nice specimen!]
too, there is a fitness which must be high
ly appreciated at this time. Mr. Blaine
[God bles3 him!] is, we fear, making a
mistake in opposing the policy of the
President. [I wish he’d blister him just
once more!] What the country needs now
is qniet. [I wish there was another
war.]”
Editor of the Journal of Commerce—
Where can the following quotation be
found:
“God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb ”
Truly yours, T. & T.
Reply. — In Sterne’s “Sentimental
Journey,” in the story of Maria, is the
line, so often quoted as a text of Scrip
ture, “God tempers the wW to the
shorn lamb;” but as we have heretofore
explained in these columns, the senti
ment is not original with this author.
George Herbert, in his Jaevld Preden-
tum, or Outlandish Proverbs, published
in 1640, quoted, as old in' his day, “To
a close shorn sheep God gives wind by
measure.”
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Clippies.
Over in Ohio, the other day, they
got the defendant in a will-case to swear
that, at the tirpe he executed the in
strument in dispute, he was “idiotic anti
of weak and unsound mind."
“Bridget, I told you to let nte have
my hot water the first thing in the
morning.” “Shore, sir,” said Bridget,
“didn’t I bring it up and lave it at the
dure last night, so as to have it in
time!”
A friar when preaching in a female
nunnery observed to his female audit
ors:
“Be not too proud that our blessed
Lord paid your sex the distinguished
honor of appearing first to a female
after the resurrection; for it was done
that the glad tidings might spread the
sooner.”
Scene in an Iowa court Judge—
“That point has been decided against
you by every court in Christendom,
sir. and there is no use of further argu
ment” Lawyer—“Very true, but your
Honor frequently decides against every
court in Christendom.”
“Madam, did you ever lift a dog by
the tail ?” “Why, no, you cruel thing,
yon.” “I didn’t know, because I just
saw you carry your little child across
the gutter by one arm. A dog’s tail is
a good deal stronger than the ligaments
of a baby’s shoulder.”
“Young man,” said a lugubrious in
dividual in a white choker to a profane
youth on a Western train the other day
—“Young man, do you know that you
are on the road to hell ?” “Just my
blasted luck,” replied the unregenerate
person; “I bought a ticket for Chi
cago !”
IS you pass through the hen-roo3t
with careful eye, just now, you will
notice a sadness creeping over the
connlenance of the old hens. It is
not simply the knowledge that they
may die, but the thought that they
must be sold for spring chickens after
they’re “laid” out.
He was praising her beautifnl hair,
and begging for one cnrl, when her lit
tle brother said: “O, my! ’taint
nothin’ now. You just ought to have
seen hew long it hangs on the side of
the table to comb it.” Then they
laughed, and when the young man was
going away and heard that boy yelling,
he the lad was taken suddenly and
dangerously ill.
“ I had to stand up all the way home
in the street cars,” said a Chicago wife
to her husband, as she came into the
house the other day- “You did?”
said he, “well that’s a shame.” “Oh, I
didn’t care—I enjoyed it,” declared
she, as Bhe pulled off a glove; “ever
since you gave me these handsome bra
celets I like to stand up and hang to a
strap, the gold filigree work show off
so beautifully.”
The Oldest Poem
The oldest known poem on spring
was written by a person name Solomon,
who belonged to a family of poets, his
father, David, having written several
volumes of the most sublime poetry
that ever emanated from man. Solo
mon’s short poem on spring is a model
for all onr ambitious young poetasters,
and as such we commend it to them.
If any of them can write anything as
good, we will be delighted to publish it.
For their benefit we print this old
poem, which we came across in a much
neglected vnlurae the other day:
—Lo, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth ;
The time ot the singing of birfl3 is come.
And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land:
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
And tbe vines with the tender grape give a good
smell,
Arise, my lovo, my fair one, and come awey.
A Pretty Slave.—Emanuel Hen-
riques, a Spaniard, from the island of
Porto Rico, applied to Justice Mathews,
in the Bergen District of Jersey City,
yesterday, to confirm the manumission of
a young mulatto girl who had been his
slave. He was about to return to his own
country and desired-to give tbe girl away.
A colored woman named Barrister, living
in Comm unipaw avenue, appeared, and
asked that she be allowed to adopt the
girl, who is remarkably pretty. Hen-
riques consented, and, after signing tbe
necessary papers, be kissed the girl and
left.—Nero York Herald.
Deal Gently with the Stomach
Do not rack it with violent purgatives,
or permanently impair its tone with
indigestible drugs of any kind; but, if
your digestion is impaired, ycur liver
out of order, your frame debilitated, or
nervous system unstrung, use that
wholesome and agreeable alterative
and tonic, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters,
which will certainly afford you the de
sired relief. None of the officinal
remedies can compare with it in restor-
tive efficacy, and as a medicinal stim
ulant it is by far the most desirable as
well as popular article of its class. Its
basis, the essntial principle of sound
rye, is the best possibla agent for
hastening tbe action of the botanic in-
gedients which it holds in solution,
and those ingredients are the most ef
ficacious which chemistry extracts
from the vegetable kingdom, and med
ical science applies to the cure of dis
ease.
As Bad as Burning.—The Hindoo
widow, though no longer burnt on the
funeral pyre of her husband. i« ; r *ct-
ed to a process for the a rtst ul liti le
which may sometimes i- iuse her i >
doubt wbetor her latter note is really
any better than that wlii- h British law
terminated. No matter i ns beanlifti!
the young widow’s tressi--. they are
cropped off, all her ornament-, arr taken
away, the very notion a of second mar
riage regarded as worse than murder,
and the poor thing never permitted to
leave her room. This is simply the
substitution of imprisonment for life
in place of death.
There is a woman in Brooklyn, a
Mrs. Spratt, who applies for a divorce,
apparently with good ground. It seems
that only four years after the wedding
Mr. Spratt hit her in the left eye with
a pumpkin pie. Later in their mar
ried life he flung a pitcher at her, hit
her with a lighted kerosene lamp, threw
glass bottles at her, drew a knife across
her neck and threatened to cut her
throat, stuck a fork in her leg, poured
hot tea over her, and finally hit her_ in
the back with a boot-jack. Believing
this thing had gone far enough, Mrs.
Spratt then left him.
Political Reform.—The new Secre
tary of the Navy having been informed
that there were buoys belonging to his
Department in New York harbor, im
mediately issued an order commanding
them to report to their ships without
delay. “Disipline is disipline,” says
the old salt, “if I have to skin every
boy in the navy.”—Burlington Hatch-
Eye.