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Newspaper Page TextT l ■ 1 /■) / L l ^ounci’ and Comtucvcial. CONSOLIDATED APRIL IQ. 1876. HATES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. FOR THE WEEKLY. ^ '* months 7..77™. I 80 three month * — —* FOR THE TRI-WEEKLY, e jo&t „..|4 00 200 r montOB . qq roc Months * f If not paid strictly in advance, . f If not paid strictly in ' , 'hb Wxekly Cockier will be $2 50 a y o Tri-Webbly $5 00. , f To clubs of five or more, one ( P7 bed Fbkb. |now and then we hear of something Lite creditable to Hayes. We see that ktterson doesn’t think as much of him > he used to. Truly the prospect is Brightening. In yiew of the Louisiana problem, Jaye’s favorite song just now is said to “How happy I'd ho with either Were t’other dear ’Guvnor away.” The Commission to Louisiana has ho warrant in law; it is simply a sugges tion of the President. When it shall pave performed its mission, the Presi dent must take tin- responsibility of |cting. _ The new Chinese coin is the fiftieth part of a cant in value; and when the Basket is passed around in a church in pis country,some men skirmish around _i their pockets for a nickel and ; regret Dat it is not a new Chinese coin. . Herald. JThe advice, “go to the ant, thou slug gard” should be changed into “go to hp snail,” that is if you wish to learn low te get along in these hard times, fhe American Faiioi.alisC tells of a bail that lived from 1859 to 1865 witb- ut eating anything. Besides, he car- feed his boarding-house on his back a bod deal of the time. ! Ben Wade is quoted assaying, allud- hg to the policy of Mr. Hayes, that HI ell is paved with rood intentions.” ^Exchange. I We would most politely and with the Endest motive suggest to Ben Wade lathe have written, as a perpetua naming, upon the tablets of his mind be following lines, to which he should! pfer whenever he thinks of “Hell”: M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. “WISDOM, JUSTICE iS|' MODERATION.” TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOLUME XXXI. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1877. NEW SERIES—NO; 34 A Virginia paper nominates “Blue Jeans” Williams, present Governor of Indiana, for President in 1880, and Gov. Wade Hampton, of South Caiolina, for Vice President. General Fitz Lee says he was three years at West Point with Gov. Nicholls. He says Nicholls “was popular, strong- willed, amiable and audacious. If Pack ard and his friends think they can ‘bull-doz» General NichollB out of the rights conferred upon him by a major ity of some ten thousand votes they will lose time, and, if they shoot, life.” General News Items, Last year the New York Times cleared nearly S13,000 a month. Indians have begun to go to Nevada newspaper offices for their news, and are much less impudent than white sub scribers. Of all sad words of tonguoor pen, The saddest are these: It may yet ha-e Ben ! So long and so uninterruptedly have Radicals, with a sublime self-com- icency, contemplated the patiently suf- ring and tyranized South, that the ist evidence of justice toward a South- tier or a Southerner’s State acts upon em like an electrical shock of surprise, race Greenwood, writing from Washing- n to the New York Times, and rather iggered at Wade Hampton’s reception ere, says she would not be surprised encounter any day his Excellency the -President of !' the ex-Confederacy piling in front of Sanderson’s with a St crowd of adorers'about him, peH- ely contemplating 'the dome of the pitol, or rather, his own monstrous iception thereon, the figure of Liberty, the genius of secession, her skirts thered up ready to wade into the red of rebellion, and her head crowned the national eagle — disembow- lur Northern “brudderin and sister- would have it their way—notwith- inding they know nothing about the ro, and many of them had never Sn one—they would have it their iy,that the negro was simply a “white in with a black skin”—the difference ly being skin deep—and hence the to was as well qualified to vote as re the “pale-faces.” The following bn the.New York Tribune would seem indicate that, though formerly “these >ple,” as Lee used to call them, liav- eyes saw not and having ears heard jt, yet the scales are now dropping ipping from their eyes, and their ears recovering their “ear-sight.” The h'bnue thuses thusly: Universal suffrage would be an ab- rditv except upon the theory that it jnerally results in tlie advancement of [e intelligent and respectable. A tan- rity of tne voters, whether virtuous not, are supposed to understand that If-interest requires them to entrust ie Government only to those who are He to control it. lint the Grant policy based upon a different principle, assumed that the great secret of re- instruction was to take the negro out the cotton field and put him in the tte-house, send him a company of Idlers to hold him fast to his seat, (d trust to luck for the rest. The itural results have followed. | From Calhoun to Patterson ! Fuel ed desetutus Atcrni! The former oke at the Nation’s Capital, and the jlio of those speeches still ring down |e corridors of time. The latter also “indulged in a free observation,” f which the following short extract 6th parentliical explanatory notes, is Iveri as a sample: [“You see,” said Patterson,in speaking f the removal of troops at Columbia, fou see, our party down there isn’t ke the party you fellows have been feed to at the North” (and, for the sake j suffering humanity, Heaven grant it say be unlike any party the world per). “We,that is the Republican par- t in the South, were created by an act Congress” (at the instigation of the evil), “and the negroes associated the overnment” (mis-Govemment he bans) “and the troops with the party ow, if you take the troops away, the Irty goes up,” (up on the gallows)“for pe negroes theie think the Govern ment has deserted them. The Repub- Icans of the South have shed blood or the party.” (shed the blood of hogs nd sheep, Ac., on the dark of the aoon). “Why this fellow Hampton |ould put me in the penitentiary if he fmld”—(could enforce the demands of pslice.) “They have been saying in olumbia that they will have to build |e or two more penitentiaries to ac- nmodate the carpet-baggers.” (one two, indeed! Why, Patterson, it puld, at the lowest calculation,require i or two dozen more penitentiaries ■ your crowd of scoundrels. Faugh! at with you and your crew)! A Virginian has lived thirt-six years on potatoes and oat-meal, with no other drink than water. Gov. Hampton lias called an extra session of the South Carolina Legisla ture, to commence Tuesday, April 24. After mourning only six weeks for his fourth wife, a Philadelphian of seventy-three years has taken a fifth mate, and he happens to be her fourth husband. A widow in Iowa, whose husband was burned to death while under im prisonment for drunkenness, has ob tained a judgment for $6,000 against the man who sold him liquor. A New York milkmaD has been fined fifty dollars and sent to jail for thirty days, in the hope that he will come to show his pump some mercy. The wood that will make the best Cabinet — Hayes’U.— Graphic. Chorus by the Cabinet: “Down in the Hayes’ll dell, my Danny’s sleeping; Packard’s lost and gone.” Grant’s St. Louis farm is called “Wishton-Wish.” And Grant has wish- ton-wish-ed that he had not. spent so much money on it, for it has been a drain on him for years. There is to be a large excursion from Washington to the Gettysburg battle field some time during the approaching sum mer. It is expected that President Hayes and other government officials will par ticipate in the excursion. A girl in Reading, Pa., “has gradual ly increased in size to an alarming ex tent. From her head to her feet her limbs are swollen, and she appears twice as heavy as she was three weeks ago, when the fact is she is much light er, Her skin is drawn tightly over her flesh, and it more resembles an inflated bladder than anything else. The'poor child suffers little pain, but she is great ly mortified ather shocking appearance. She says She feels as light as a feather.” Dr. Muhlenberg’s Love Story. The Sad Romance With Which President Buchanan \Vas Also Connected—One Sis ter lVho Commits Suicide and Another W ho Died of a Brolren H*»art. Personal Jottings- Mrs. Hayes’ nasie is Lucy. Nicholls’ hair is dashed with gra£. In Turkey, John Spsjtivis known as Yoe Seef. Old Simon Cameron will'accompany Grant to Europe next month. Such of the Ohioans as are intimate with Hayes, address him as “Rud.” Dr. Mary Walker carries a little black cane, and her crosses limbs like a man. Jimmy Bennett has sent for his yacht and horses, and will hereaiter bury his slain in continental Europe. Hayes can remember a newspaper man’s face seven years after he has seen that intellectual front for the first time. The King of Siam, only twenty-four years old, has nine wives already, though he has never so much as heard of tne Rev. Coliyer. And now the New York Democrats propose to put Samuel J. Tilden in the Senate in the place of Roscoe Conkl- , whose term expires in March, 1879. That Mormon Bible. Model Texas Courtship! From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The title-page reads: BOOK OF MORMON. An account written by the .hand of Grant is to be utilized when hegoes to Europe next month. He will bear important dispatches to the United States loreign ministers and receive pay for his services as courier. Speaking of the great men that con stitute the Hayes Cabinet,the Indepen dent says: “Every one l as great big mouths, noses and ears. The size of the fourteen ears and seven noses of the Cabinet is something remarkable. Mr. Evarts’ ears and nose, compared with his body, are immense.” Richard King, of Texas, the largest cattle owner in the world, is a New Yorker. In 1843 he was second cook on a steamboat on the Chattahoochee river. In 1846 he was a pilot on the Rio Grande. His wealth is estimated at from two to seven million dollars, and his stock are counted by the hun dreds of thousands. Charles Bergot, the aged ne vspaper carrier of San Francisco, is dead. The Post says of him: “Year in and year out he peddled papers at the ferry landing, and accumulated between $12,000 and $15,000. The old man made but few friendships, but found himself constantly pestered by people who were anxious to give him a home- This so worried him that during Mayor Alvord’s term of office he applied for admission to the alms-house, stating that he would pay his board and leave his property to the State.” Where Grant Wooed Julia Dent and Chopped Wood.—Gen. Grant has been visiting his Missouri homestead, which is about five miles out of St. Louis. It was the home of the Dent family, and it was there that Lieut. Grant, when on duty at Jefferson bar racks, not many miles distant, wooed and won Julia B. Dent, who has made him such a devoted wife. After be re signed his commission old Mr. Dent gave the young couple eighty acres of timber land, and the future General and President used to chop wood, pile it up in cords and haul it to St. Louis, where he would drive about the streets until he could find a customer. He found it hard, however, to make both ends meet, and endeavored in 1855 to get appointed county-surveyor, but the justices of the Superior Court preferr ed anotheif candidate.—Charleston News & Courier. Vice President Wheeler- Remarkable Revelation — He Washes Ills Hands of the Louisiana Commission Humbug. Newark Daily Journal.] The Malone (N. Y.) Gazette, a paper published at Mr. Wheeler’s home, makes the very remarkable statement that not only has Mr. Wheeler washed hiB hands entirely of that Louisiana commission hnmbug, contrary to the rep.rts heretofore circulated, but that “no man in the country was more sur prised that Louisiana’s vote was count ed for Hayes than William A. Whee ler.” The Gazette adds, with empha sis : “He expected and predicted that the Electoral Commission would throw it out entirely. This statement will not be disputed.” Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates ef Nephi. Wherefore, it is an abridgement of the Record of the Peo ple of Nephi, &c.. * * * * Also, a record of the People of Jaree, which were scattered at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people when they were building a toW' er to get to heaven, Ac. * * 11 By JOSEPH SMITH, Jun., Author and proprietor. Printed by E. B. Grandin, for the Author. Palmyra, New York, 1830. The book contains 58S pages, plain print, and is prefaced by Smith’s blun dering excuse concerning the 116 pages which Mrs. Harris burned up, and which are, of course, not found in this body of Smith’s divinity, At the end of the book the testimony of the “Three Witnesses,” Cowdery, Whitmer and Harris, is appended; also a certificate to the same purpose, signed by four Whitmers, one Page and three Smiths! These testimonials are a mere blind, bad in grammer, irrevelant in fact— and evidently written by the same hand. Joe was a notorious loafer, spending his time about the saloons or along the creeks, in the woods digging out wood chuck, reading bad novels, joining a Methodist church occasionally, and in yanking a quarter whenever he could by telling fortunes. At the age of twenty-five he was according to old man Smith, the genus of the family, long, lank, limber and lazy; his face the color of a brick-yard, and a con science that enabled him to achieve the reputation of the most facile liar in Palmyra. He kept his sacred documents at home, covered up in a box. To keep off some of the credulous and prevent meddling. Joe affirmed that instant death would end the days of any one who should dare to look upon the plates from which he was translating. This answered the purpose very well until Hussey *and Van Draver offered to run the risk and loolc at the mysterious book. Joe objected; but, before he conld prevent, Hussey snatched off the cover, saying: “Egad! 111 see the crit ter, live or die!” Joe’s Bible proved to be a large tile ! Joe said the joke was on them, and, all taking a drink, the affair passed off with a laugh. In the summer of 1S30 the first edition came - from the press, and Harris was happy. Smith had a revelation that the Bibles should be sold'at $1 25 each. From New Yoxk World.] The fact of an interesting but sad romance connected -vith the early life of the late Dr. William A. Muhlenberg has often been hinted at, but its full de tails had never before been published until they appeared in the obituary no tice of the distinguished clergyman and philanthropist as published in the last number of the Lancaster (Pa.) In telligencer. The engagementof marriage between James Buchanan—then a young lawyer of Lancaster—and the beautiful Miss Ann Coleman, of that place, was terminated by the suicide of the hapless young lady, ^because, it is said, her parents objected to the mar- raige. A similar attachment existed between her sister, Miss Sarah H. Cole man, and Mr. Muhlenberg, at that time —fifty years ago—rector of St. James' Church in Lancaster. Her father, Robert Coleman, a proud and wealthy citizen of the town, also objeced to this marriage, although he had been main ly instrumental in calling the young rector to his charge. His course pro duced an unpleasant feeling in the church and the congregation divided into two parties, espousing the cause of the rector and the haughty father re spectively. While partisanship was still running high Miss Coleman died —of consumption, as her parents said, but of a broken heart as believed by most people of the town. This event but intensified the division in the church, of which Mr. Coleman was a leading member, and on June 19th 1826, Mr. Muhlenberg communicated to the vestry his intention to resign on account of reasons which it was unnec essary for him to slate. A committee of five was appointed to confer with him with a view to get him to reconsid er his detemination, but with thanks for their kindness he declined to do so in a more lengthy letter, in which he stated that his course was taken after due de liberation and that it was not necessary for him to enter into details regarding his motives; he trusted they were pure and such as he could think of with complacency “in reference to the great day of accounts.” At the same meeting a communica tion was received from Mr. Edward Coleman, brother of Miss Sarah Cole man, the reading of which was deferred until a future meeting. On June 26, 1826, the vestry received the more pe remptory resignation of their rector, dated New York, June 16, and asking that it be received at once. It was ac cepted, and the wardens were instruct ed to draft a reply expressing the sor row of the church at his resignation. Afterwards, at this same meeting, the letter of Edward Coleman, previously m, ** announced to ! gfjjj2mmp(mnd of the the vestry that in the event of all con- * . nection between the Rev. -Mr. Muhlen- burg and St. James’ Church being dis solved, absolutely and forever, on or before July 1, and not thereafter, the sum of $5,000 (which, but for circum stances not necessary now to dwell upon, would have been left to the church by our departed sister, Sarah H. Coleman,) will be placed in the hands of the trustees for the benefit of the church by her heirs and legal rep resentatives.” The offer was signed by Edward Coleman, for himself and the other heirs of his deceased sister. A committee was appointed to in form Mr. Coleman that such a dissolu- toin of the connection between Mr. Muhlenberg and the church had taken place, and the trustees of the church were ready to receive the money. Mr. James Hopkins protested against the appointment of such a committee, and before the resolution to answer Cole man’s letter passed he withdrew from the meeting. At a vestry meeting, held June 30, a memorial was presented, signe.1 by Sarah Yeates, Margaret Yea- tes and Catharine Yeates, requesting the vestry to pas a resolution that Mr. Muhlenberg should always be invited to preach in St. James’ pulpit when ever it was unoccupied. They said in their letter that they had not had lime to procure other signers, but they had no doubt this was the wish of a major ity of the congregation. To this the vestry resolved to respectfully answer that Air. Muhlenberg would always have the courtesy shown him that other protestant Episcopal clergymen receiv ed, but they did not think it necessary to pass such an unusual motion. Against such treatment of Mrs. and the Misses Yeates Mr. Hopkins again pro tested, as disrespectful to the memorial ists and discourteous to Mr. Muhlen berg. So the matter seems to have rested; but although Mr. Muhlenburg often af terward preached in the church, he always stood in the chancel and never again occupied the pulpit. The $5,000 gift was accepted and paid, the com mittee, appointed to confer wish Mr. Coleman reporting that in the prosecu tion of their labors they had encoun tered grave difficulties, “busy-bodies and tale-bearers had infused an acrimo ny into the unfortunate business, which otherwise it would not have partaken of.” The committee had endeavored to assuage this and hoped that its as perities would be softened, but they had only measurably succeeded, and a condition of strife prevailed which was much to be deplored. With Dr. Muhlenberg’s death the last of the actors in this hapless drama has passed away. In the rectorship of St. James’Church Mr. Muhlenburg was succeeded in Oc tober, 1826, by Rev. Levi T. Ives, of Trinity Church, Southwark, Philadel phia. who resigned in about a year to accept a call to a church in this city. He^at on one side the room in a big white oak rocking chair. She on the other i^e in a little white oak rocking chair.- A long-eared deer hound snap ping aflgfties was by hiB side; a basket of nnitf in, by hem - BothiroCktd iliwjn ’ santiy—that is the young pepple—not Wild Horses—How They are Captured in Colorado. Sto ry, Old Testament and "New, Watt’s Hy ms, Shakespeare, Robinson Crusoe, and John Smith. It is beneath all sholarly criticism, and if the reading of it were not attended by harmless stupefaction of the mental faculties,the sale of it would be an indicatable of fense—obtaining money under false representations. As a curiosity in the department of human credulity, no one can object to the Mormon Bible. Capital Punishment—Ancient and Modern. Crucifixion was a very ancient pun ishment The Syrian, Jews, Egyptians, Persians, and especially the Carthagi nians, used it But in no part of the ancient world was this punishment so generally resorted to as in the Roman Empire, where it was regarded as the most infamous of deaths. By the Ro man law the culprit was scourged pre viously to the crucifixion, either in the prretorian or on the way to the place of execution. On his arrival there he was stripped of his garments, and then either nailed or tied by the hands and feet to the cross, or, as sometimes hap pened, only fastened to it, by ropes. In order to hasten death, it was the practice to Ireak the legs, or to pierce the body of the sufferer with a spear. By the Jewish law it was ordained that the body of the culprit should be re moved from the cross on the day of his execution ; but the Romans frequently allowed it to hang until it dropped piece-meal to the ground. Among the Greeks capital punish ment was inflicted by the regular kill ing, or as in the case of Socrates, by or dering that the victim should drink a bowl of hemlock, which is poisonous. The ancient Isrealites stoned their cul prits to death, and in Rome certain criminals weie destroyed by throning them from the Tarpeian Rock. In England, during the middle ages, death was the ordinary punishment for all felonies; but if the culprit could read, he escaped with life on a first conviction. In the British army and navy, within the present century, boI- diers and sailors haye been literally Hogged to death with a cat o-nine-tails. Sometimes 1,000 lashes were ordered. The infliction, though much mitigated, is still continued in the British military and naval service. In the American it has been humanely abolished within ihe last thirty years. During the first French revolution what was facetiously called “Republi can marriages” (where two persons of different sexes, bound together by strong cords, were cast into the river Rhone at Lyons and left to drown) were outrages upon humanity. Formerly, in Scotland, culprits’ heads were chopped off by the maiden. It was an old contrivance revived, having been used in Persia in early times. In Italy its name was manuaja, and cul prit-nobles had the privilege of being decapitated by it, and a similar instru ment had been previously used in Ger many. In France, in 1632, a Due De Montmorenci had been executed by a similar intrument at Toulouse, and a century back the Dutch employed it in executions. Therefore in October, 1790, when Joseph Ignace Guillotin, a physi cian of Paris, proposed to the National Assembly there the use of the behead ing instrument which perpetuates his name, he only improved bn an old idea. —Troy'Times. j d basket,- out the west window at'a' 7e tree; she sighs lightly out the east window at a tnr- At last he remarks: is mighty good weather topiqk ;—if we' only had any to king continUES. - ,iLl our dogXoame : 5 i, M of ( who good fur?” skid y. & '■ ’•■ tnq j-L J log, Coony.”; . . ■ - [c^half’an’h'Snr' . ' j H like a deer dog?” like a deer dog?” J .'V “He a—hut he’s kinder bellowsed an’ gitfrn’ an’ slow now. An’ he ain’t no cju t on a cold trail.” In the quiet ten minutes that ensued she took two stitches in her quilt; -it was a girgeous affair; that quilt was 1 made I r the pattern called “Rose Sharon ” She is very particular ab the nomenclature of her quilts, a frequently walked fifteen miles to ge new pattern with a “real purty name. “Your ma raising many chickens ?” “Forty odd.” Then inore rocking, and 'somehow; 1. after awhile the big rocking chair and the little chair ’ were jammed side b; side. I don’t know how it happened lave been caused by some pe- in the floor, or by the natural •. attraction one chair bad for. 1 >ui strange to Bay, the basket of wortf had followed the little chair and the little chair had traveled as fast as the big one! Coony had not moved; he lay in the same place sound asleep, and he was talkink in his sleep—that is, giving faint irregular barks at the possums he beheld in his dreams. ■ Af ter a wLile.’ the cenversation is re sumed. : : • '•* “j “Howmany has your ma got?” “How many what?”o*t.;«iff Iaac*s ‘filla » Denver Tiitraoc.} The Tribune yesterday published! a short notice of the capture of wild horees iii. Northern Colorado. The Laramie County Express has a longer notice, and as the article is an interesting one, 'we publish the facts; Sheriff Coou, ’ W. F. Scribner, \V. P. Morgan, Thomas! Ernest, and Steve and Charley George, were.the parties inter ested, and they were out last week. They went some’twenty-five miles north east of Fort Collins, and a few miles saafcof-PieroeBiiatjbD, on the Denver and railroads. Hwe they made their tha campaign.,..Within Itefe, failed to finally sue. ring'twj fiead. A r wo of these, qweveiyhive thetbfand * IJcClel- ythd} • f ha.-f'.v i. L d A great.: OTH..-, «**>, Borne of them woe very valuable ones, and were fleet of.foot. They had attract ed the a ttention-and; challenged thejad- miration pfitber entire party. One was a black. vareplmtg^wfeU proportioned ** ’ 'jWJhSJTMn,-«w» ; over.* oould not catchher. With r a* coif, which seemed, to fall-blooded 'Norman. These two are liable stock, if they could be The Other horse was a dark .t wpuld not weigh much o< “ pounds. -His mane, reat ‘ rees and his fnretop to resembles ’ a Shetland saiddto be a: beauty. ..One .which,seemed; btedly contained many . magnel anothi ‘•Chi. “Nigh on to a hundred.” By this time the chairs are so close together that rocking is impossible. “The ininks has eat most all of ours-” Then**, long silence reigns. At last he observes: low Rose of the Paraiy ?” “No.” More silence; then he says: “Do you like cabbage ?” “I do that” Presently his hand is accidentally placed on hers. She does not know .'it; at least, doesnot seem aware ofit Then after a half hour spent in sighs, cough ing and clearing of throats, he suddenly says: “I’se great mind to bite you.” “What you great a-mind to bite me fur?” “Kase you won’t have me.” “Kase you ain’t axed me.” “Well, now I ax yon.” “Then, now, I has you.” Then Coony dreams he hears a sound of kissing. The next day the young man goes to Tigerville after a marriage license. Wednesday the following week. No cards. A Slight Mistake. The’ Russian Consols are all leaving Turkey; the Russian officials are ready to embark for Odessa, at Constantinople; the Forte “trusts in God” to help it, ana the gates of Janus Quirinus are open. War can not be averted in southeastern Europe.—Courier-Journal. The present Archbishop of Dublin, the gifted author of the work so wide ly known on the “Study of Words,” is not in very robust health, and has been for many years apprehensive of paraly sis. At a recent dinner in Dublin, riven by the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, his grace sat on the right of his hostess, the Duchess of Abercom. In the midst of the dinner the company was startled by seeing the Archbishop rise from bis seat, and still more star tled to hear him exclaim, in a dismal and sepulchral tone, “It has come! it has come!” “What has come, your Grace?” eagerly cried half a dozen voices from different parts of the table. “What I have been expecting fer. twenty years,” solemnly answered the Archbishop—“a stroke of paralysis. I have been pinching myself for the last twenty minutes and find myself entire ly without sensation.” “Pardon me, my dear Archbishop,” said Duchess, looking up to him with a somewhat quizzical smile—“ on me for contradicting, but •* ' . that you have been, piixhir-- " A Logical Puzzle. A law student, just ready to gradu ate, agreed to give his instructor the proceeds of his first successful case. The young lawyer evaded the prom ise by refnsing to plead a case. The old lawyer sued the young law yer for a breach of contract, and each one managed his own case in court. Said the old lawyer to the judge.: “It you allow my claim to be a good one, then the moDey becomes mine by your decision. If you refuse my claim then my young friend has won his first suc cessful case, and the money becomes mine by previous agreement I am, therefore, sore of the money in either event” The young man said to the lawyer: “If you sustain my defense, then you decide that I need pay nothing. If, on the other hand, your ruling is against me, then I have not won my first, suc cessful case, and therefore nave no debt to pay. I am therefore secure against payment, however this suit be deci ded.” Where now is the flaw in these ar guments and which lawyer is the Saw yer? caused ai _ vertised In a -tWO.: yey, lit TJkyl elopement of 1 decided to leave - 1 _ ^parpoaffc ttepxJeaahPsnacttowj i the" direction as wild as antelope, ff to get near the lat- _ ed -with the former, conceal himaelf behind a as near to the herd like lightning, in of it tiaie must be lost, or-the wild animals scape. His companions, however, .ssist in the mad ride back to camp, rhich is an attempt to drive the game a to a corral. If successful, then the fork of roping the animals is commenced, nd a right lively little job it generally! ropstto hfc -afc a The wildest of the horses were lie weakest, and thus all were d own without much trouble. The same -ariies have in contemplation’ another' antere long. te;-Bg| Painless Surgery .Described. MgfewWFlarirggteo a■■ fo t Removed by tie‘•Bloodless Proienrv ' and-Kot a Drop of BlotdSpUt. j5 *« + • mmtm _ ‘ Minneapolis T*lV«n»] That many wonderful achievements in surgery have been accomplished ol late oar readers are well aware. Min neapolis surgeons are not behind the times, by any means. They are a wide awake body of men, who are ever on the alert for new and improved meth ods of performing the work falling to their lot, and some of them are always trying to perfect the facilities at band. ScrgeTy has been perfected to such an extent that a limb may be amputated without the large loss of blood and con sequent danger that formerly made the thought anything but pleasant to con template. The process now becoming very popular is that technically known as toe “bloodless process.” Its advan tages have been spoken of before, and now another case comes to our notice whereby a very delicate operation has been performed without the loss of a single drop of blood. It will be remembered that a lad of- thirteen years of age, named William Dunn, and a son of Frank Dnnn, en gineer on the C. M. St. P. and M. Rail road, was sg unfortunate as to have bis heel crushed beneath the wheels of a train. Mortification set in and ampu tation became necessary. The opera tion was performed last evening. The “bloodless bandage” was used, and with most astonishing result. Drs. Ames, Salisbury and Webb performed the operation of taking off the right foot During the cutting process not a drop of blood was seen. The little fellow is now doing remarkably well, and the doctora are jubilant over their success. It certainly is a most wonderful achievement. This process has been emploved by these physicians for some time past, but this is the greatest success yet per formed by its use. Grant’s Third Term Again. How Wade Won the Heiress. Lna. ISffr -. • corpus case of peculiar ic- tetost came before D. J. Brewer, Asso rts Justice of the Kansas Supreme Unurt at Leavenworth. last week. Four mother, 1 and' marryingia ”yoiia& named Walter Wade. The happy groom, who ; extracts, made ... - - fdp fin- thistclewi thel: coupis-aTgtjptiiaiioa CONTRACT RATES OF AJV^riSING ...* 4 00 8 06 .. 12 C3 .. 20 00 .. 16 00 _ 20 00 i column twelve month*.,. Oae square one cacnth._ Oae square three months.™™ Oae square six months Oae square tvalve month. , - Oae-fourth column one month™.™ .column three month. 38 10 Oo»>li*lf column liimufti,,,,,,,-,,,,,,,, m co Ono-huU column twahroi montha— 104 09 One columa 01mmonth.M 00 On* column three month* . 6QQQ One column uz monthly £ *ae column twelve month* JJq JJ f 2®"^” io "g°re* ratee are for either We,hi, ,«WlAd la both pavers, »• percent, additional epee table rates. Strngglii g for a Baby. * Beoher’e Wife In Texas Before tie Bench -Salomon’s Judgment Implored. From the He* York,Hern».I. Mbs Oara Xavkr, daui late William Taylor,- fi' wealthy tin smith, who resided 'at’No. r *204 Bedford avenue, and an henoB in her own right of $100,000 r bss caused, a-flutter-of citement in fashionable circlss; by,Jt to^secured.aj)a'by from the Kansas L^xpe £or the Friendless and palmed it k• * ’, Her reason for adopt- of a congressional Sandaischool-anq;* if^ihe child was that being childleU TnAnnfflPinMIt AT flow/tmn* awtimsUa Rno Wants J 1 : - mi . . I. r she wanted an heir. The story runs effect that her husband’s’ father -ho is very wealthy, offered 85,000 ‘ «>,npk) upon , the birth of a ice ..the deception .was eiudm^d her .husband ■ [kas 'he? hwn,' .’ was not right/- 1 *8*r umnutoYaquiries inAitnted or - ■for ti-divorce" which is now '.pehd*v: fear the child iqjghl be spirited a Writ was issued, Hester A. ’ .claims :Jfltbe its mother also. , mmni mm -in court', and the ; enacted were-very affeCtihg i . , ' Hull implored tiie judge to give the'ibaby,-protestingthat it would.:! ' handed over to strangers. She teously— The ablest counsel of -anil Missouri have been tetain: E pip Ex-Gov. Brown health, and his-fnends siyeas to-the final result* bus service during thewar i Btotfrtfac, "Tk is® strain. . am. h ■variea .. have profjan tcr-be too 'for hidi ifwhlwinpdi overworked4: ithj which!, is huge' (the jaw is" as’, broad as a man’s)- and conspicuously -- --...filled with strong .white teeth. The upa- lips, are particularly firm- and full, with r the jaw indicating decision of charatSK ^ ’anjardjmt'temperament Thefopi- . Dead! is broad aqd smooth, and ej»- ri browaxe'reguter. The eyes are' large but: deeply set,' and are of that ge-D culisr gray which does not mean. a r ’ } twilight depth of blue, or an azure light , ef gray; Tfiigr. ate a,decided gray, ad-;. mittini’.ofall.the steel tints from that- 1 of cola metal to the gleam and glitter' of the polished ore; Hr-the glow of California ere this but -far- the'desire of hisl father toimvejiim reasrinrhere and take charg- -* ’ ”— in the event’he health. Modesty Under Difficulties, -The heroism of Cliff SaundeiB, at the SL* Louis fire, a Globe-Democrat reporter, Mr. Milesjpraises in the highest degree. He succeeded, at imminent risk Of his life, in throwing a rope from a ladder to a man in a window in a wing, of the honse, who threw it to the story above, where seven servant girls were huddled in terror. The girls caught the rope, and were thus enabled to draw a ladder to their window, and by its aid escaped from the burning rain. One of the girls in descending the ladder had her night dress blown- over her head, dis closing more of her anatomy than was consistent with modesty. She at once climbed back into the window again, and did not come down again until several of her companions had pro ceeded her. When she reached the ground she was asked why Bhe had acted so singularly. She replied that she felt so ashamed that she went back in the belief that by getting some of the other girls to descend ahead of her, the crowd wonld be unable to tell which of them had been exposed by the rnde wind. Snch incomparable modesty is truly wonderful. A Nice Legislature in Sonth “ Carolina. .. • t-v This certainly promises to be a good year for fools.- The Washington cor respondent of the Boston Journal say a: “A clique of office-holders under Presi dent Grant, who did all in their power to secure his renomination at Cincin nati last June, and who had some hopes that a state of affairs would arise which would prolong his term of office after the 4th of March last, have commenced organized efforts for a third term for Grant They are cautiously sounding all.(Republicans who were friendly to Grant, and enlisting them by promises of office- Meanwhile the General is to go’ abroad, and they will be able to make all sorts of promises without his being called upon to indorse them. This may seem visionary, but it is nevertheless true.” Kentucky stock raisers will now have the felicity of exhibiting their stock to the Commissioners from the Japenese Government, Messrs. D. W. Ap-Jones, Oku, Okada and Haseewaga, who are abont to purchase thoroughbred horses, Durham and Ayrshire cattie for breeding purposes in Japan. Six Thousand Dollars on a Body.— Officer Hogan found the body of James Howie bf 144 Mulberry street floating under the wharf at the foot of Gold street, Brooklyn, yesterday morning, and removed it to the Morgue. A belt of chamois leather next the skin con tained a bladder in which was $6,000 in Unitecf States Government bonds. In the vest pocket were a silver watch, $44,62 in money, and’an old clay pipe. Howie was a slater. He went from his boarding house on Saturday night. He was a Scotchman and had, it is skid, no Relatives in this country.—N. YTSun: The President’s Mail.—The Presi dent’s mail is something Burprising. Usually the lettere for the Executive mansion are carried from postoffice by a messenger on hoiseback, an orderly who waits at ihe President’s door to do his errands* hut, since the 4th of March, has beep necessary to send it down 'mja^ragMi specially detailed from the postoffice department for that purpose. You may break and scatter tb* Rad* aa yea will, But the odor iTAfirique will linger there still; t The following extract from Hamp ton’s Columbia speech ’will show there is very much more of truth than poe try in the above couplet: I requested of the President that the troops should not be removed until I got here. When that order comes, let nobody go to that State-house. Just let it stand until I wantit, and ! will tell you when I want it. I carried a letter to the President from' a Federal soldier who had been stationed -in - the State- house. He said tfce place was so filthy, and so fall of vermin, that he wanted to get away from there. I want the fire-engines to play their streams through it for awnile, and to have the penitentiary convicts scour and|fumi- gute it, and then we will have a nice Legislature and all will go on peacea bly. ... He Takes His Place With the Goats Hayes evaded a -duty torday which will shake Methodism from its center to circumference - In company with Mrs. Hayes he went to Church as usual, joined in the singing and gave vent fo one or two fervent amens when the brother brought in a good point When divine service was over commu nion was announced, and all in good standing in the Church wer*’ invited to remain and partake of the solemn sym bols. The wicked and worldly got up and left, and Rutherford and bis wife, instead of remaining with the lambs of the fold, marched out whih the goats. This circumstance, quite a small one with men of -the world, has created quite a flutter £snd the question which now agitates the dominie and the lay men is, “What shall he do to be saved?” —Cincinnati Enquirer. Expecting a Vassal and Seeing a Peer.—-The Indianapolis Sentinel says some of the Republican paper* are mad with Hampton for Ma “indiscretion.”! It adds: “His trip to Washington was as unlooked for as the eccentric movements of comets. They were looking for a vassal and the first they'knew-.a peer walked along. If he wbeldha+b dhtf omaested to a “Commission,” and kept perfectly quiet wMIe they swindled him ont of Ms election, then he would have been once more the “brave” and “patriotic Hamp ton.” , — case being con. ~ I j How Mrg Hayes Lookf* llZ - «”sH I firs. Bayes is of medium height and - - sly built Her head'and matures l fkr is her waist, and her a-'fisel-arr in proportion. Bhe i magnificent suit of ha 5 ante black, and is zo Itis>so r such as animated her i Inauguration-Day and at her first iblic reception,-her- eyes looked as ack as night, and they had such a - ‘ i as is rarely seen. She made r no. Tweed and His “Pals.” The “Boss” Goes Bock Upon the Stares of the Ring. New York, April 17.—Tweed has made a confession going back to 1867. Oakey Hall’s name figures in the nar rative. Many names and corrupt ex penditure of much money are mention ed. The names include Woodin, Frost, Ell wood, Brand, Winslow, Wood, Blood Morgan, all members of tne Senate. It gives the circumstances of the division of the spoils between himself, Hall, Sweeney, Connolly and Woodward. It implicates Garvey, Ingersoll, Davidson Watson and a majority of the members - of the board of supervisors, among them John Fox, James Hayes, Henry Smith and Isaac J. Oliver. Mayor Hall’s proportion was ten per cent He shared throughout in all the profits, was in full collusion with the various details of the fraud, and was fully awareof the fraudulent nature of the contracts presented for his signature. The New Comet.—The Rochester Union prints the following: A new comet was discovered in Europe yes terday morning, but when or by whom is unknown to me. It was immediate ly cabled to Professor Henry, who in great kindness telegraphed the same to me. Armed with this intelligence, I commenced search for it at 2:30 o’clock this morning, or as soon as it was above the horizen, and succeeded in finding it in a few minutes. It is a beautiful comet, and I think is going to be brighter. It is jast visible to the naked eye, and will show well in an opera-glass. Its motion is almost ex actly toward or from ns; consequently its apparent motion is very slow. Dur ing the hour and a half that I watched it it had moved a hardly perceptible amount toward Alpha Cygni. ItB po sition at discovery was: Right aseen- sion, 28h. 8m.; declination, 15h. 6m.— or in the Constellation Pegasns. It lias a short, wide tail, and beam magnifying well. It will show better to-morrow, morning as the moon wille bless bright and rise later. Lewis Rwtft. . Rochester, April, 7, 1877. A Bit of Judicial History. The Washington National R-j Mean gives Judge Mackey, of South Carolina, as authority for this interesting little h i of secret thisory: Aftei the fciq itine Court of South Carolina had rendered decision in the case that virtually recognized Gen. Wade Hamilton as Governor of the State, Judge Wright, colored, one f the two members of the court (the third being sick) was induc ed to reverse his action upon the assur ances of Senator Patterson that if he did so he wonld be rewarded^ by the appointment of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United ’ States. Judge Wright, firmly crediting Senator Patterson’s representations, forthwith recalled his assent to the decision in question, and came to Washington pre- paren to don his black gown and warm the seat vacated by Jndge Davis. He failed to connect Damages for an Accident Eighteen Years ago.—The Griffin News says: “Eighteen years ago Anna Chambers, of Bamesville, then a child five years It of age, while playing on a turn table of the Thomaston and Bamesville Rail- rail Company, located at Bamesville, with other childem, had one of her limbs crushed in the revolving of the table upon which she was riding. The result was the loss of the limbs by am putation. A years or two ago Miss Chambers attained her majority, and has brought suit against the compray for $20,000 damages for the injury.” sotblvythat in the day time B locks! - ■k and precise in contrast with her ’ 'olive complexion. The most- ’ crominenf feature of her face is the’-*

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, April 25, 1877, Image 1