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Curin' and <tx>mmewaL CONSOLIDATED APRIL lO, 1870. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. Six months - FOB THE TRI-WEEKLY. ’hr™ Month- If not paid strictly ,.$4 00 .. 2 00 . 1 00 C0RTBACT OF ADTCRTISINfi the Tri* W k To clubs » uishod Fsai i advance, tbe pr.< 11 be $2 50 a year, and ft 00. k or more, one copy vrill be fur 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. ‘WISDOM, JUSTICE -AND 1 , * '*U MdDERATIOK.” TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOLUME XXXI. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY I • r ; . 1-1%.-: ayiM • - }* , APRIL 4, 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 31 On* >10.1* an* month $ On* ttjusr* thro* month....... On«MW*Aj*W<!?iUi, ns to* *qw> tretre monOu une-xonria column on* month Ow-laurth.eolnmn thro* month,,.'.. unMounn column «x month*..,,. to*-fonrth column twelve month,.. to*-h*U column one month. ton-hnlf colnmn three month,. One-half column fix month, One-half colnmn twelve month*... One column one month , One colnmn three month■... /*/*’ One column eix month*.. ~~ "ae column twelve month*...//....1A0 00 Th ® foregoing rate* are for either Weekly or Tri-Weekly. When published in both paper*, 50 per cent, additional upon table rata*. 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.” 4 oo 8 00 iz oo zo oo to 00 30 00 30 00 so oo 30 00 33 00 60 00 104 00 35 00 50 00 104 00 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.