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, prc( ] people of South Carolina
haraing all their twin-boys Hayes
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l )fl ]> r ince?s Demidoff puts on
r - 3 uniform and rides at the head
I Russian cavalry regiment which is
J t up at her father's expense.
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' , the I'nited States. Think of G
|g U d his little hatchet, and then
[,k of the above fact and weep. 3
Stale of California has 190,000
miles, while New York has only
The divisio., of California into
, 0 r more States is now beingjagita-
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>-Prei.
A P'Ot.
. Krancis Train finds Boston
1 with the midnight livery of
|.le gloom.” “Livery of unut-
|,.„m ?” Why the only kind
Huston has anything to with
cry of a liunkey.
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irejt,
■thin
11 exchange speaks of Grant as hav-
at one time been “drunk with sue
Success, Success? That is a
it brand. Liquor dealers ought to
ke 11 memorandum of this brand. It
be a "good article,” as Grant is a
J judge of all such.
Just
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iTlie Cuiirier-.Journal wants to know if
Lgiug lessens crime. Perhaps not
: it lessens the Democratic majority in
part of the country.—St. Louis Globe-
IS
Very natural. So many Radicals are
lung that the Democrats haven’t enough
■jijiosiiiou to induct them to come out to
|:c polls.
We learn from tne London World
lint when only 20‘ Abdul Kerim, now
immander-in-chief of the Turkish
Irmv, eloped with a pretty Moldavian
1S9, the vivandiero of his regiment;
Ind the lovers withdrew into a remote
tillage, where they were discovered a
■rear after. He was degraded and re
tinas] to the ranks.
The newspapt rs and correspondents
Ire keeping up the discussion of the
huo warranto plan of settling the right
f Hayes to the Presidency, but appear
lor the most part to be grouping in the
lark. It may lie stated, says a Wash
ington special to the N. O. Picayune,
■that the subject lias, since last winter,
iren throughly investigated by the ab-
est professional minds, and that forms
of proceeding have been suggested in
esc conferences so simple and cousti-
Itutional tl a‘ nil the publiemento whom
they have been submitted say that no
possible objection can be made to them.
Among these are some of the most
intlucntial of Republican Congressmen.
If the Administration shall pursue a
partisan course, or go into the outrage
line of business, as now appears pro
bable, it may have this issue to lace at
the next session of Congress.
It is estimated that the famine in
India will cost the British Indian
(■O'-ernment not less than 830,1100,000
The distress has been greatest in the
Hoinbar and Madras district. In the
latter district it is reported that rains
have tallen, which may somewhat al
leviate the suffering, but the Govern
ment will have to continue the system
ot relief works, hv which hundreds of
thousands of people are kept from ac
tual starvation. Before the British
Government had complete control of In
ilia, it is recorded that one famine
swept away about ten millions of peo
ple. The Government spent $40,000,-
!im a few years ago, giving timely re
lief to the natives in Behar, who were
threatened with extinction by a famine.
Thus it appears that these frequent fa
mines area terrible drain on the In
dian Government, and, if war should
break out between England and Russia,
India would be called upon to expend
her financial strength still fuither.
M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR.
‘wisdom, justice: axr> ; moderation.”
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
VOLUME XXXI.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1877.
NEW SERIES-NO. 40
of peace are becoming maro clearly
defined. It is reported that negotia
tions are actually on foot in Berlin for
a cessation of hostilities.
Notwithstanding that the Turkish for
eign minister has telegraphed the Porte’s
representatives abroad that the Turks
have recaptured Ardahan, yet the Russi
ans still persist in denying it.
The Russians have not yet crossed
the Danube, which river is still rising.
One of the Turkish Generals is report
ed being in favor of crossing the Dan
ube and attacking the Russians, but
such a wild goose move will hardly be
made.
On the 30th of May the Russians made
an attack upon Batourn. Batourn is a
city on the cast coast of the Black Sea.
The Russians brought a very heavy force
to the attack. The fight lasted ten hours.
The Russians were repulsed, leaving great
numbers of dead and wounded on the
field.
A dispatch dated Erzeroum May
29th, says, three days ago, reinforce
ments were sent to Ardahan to effect a
junction with a portion of its former
garrison. We have just received news
here that the combined force by a coup
demain succeeded in recapturing the
town. The Turks numbered 8,000.
The fall of Ardahan and Bayazid
has enabled the Russians to march in
town converging lines to wards Etze-
roum. They have turned Erzeroum
and Mukhtar Pasha must either accept
battle against a vastly superior force or
capitulate. If he is beaten Erzeroum
must fall, for it is without fortifications
and the force in it is verv small.
TFLECH \I*’I1 tXA.
Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, ha?
signal 17 death warrants within four
weeks.
Tenbroeck, the celebrated racer, made,
at Lcuisville, two miles in 3 minutes 271
secouds—the fastest time recorded by 3
econds.
The revenue raiders in West Virginia
report having destroyed fourteen distil
leries and nine copper stills, and had sev
eral conflicts. The party traveled 524
miles in nineteen days on horseback.
Dispatches state that a battle with the
Indians at Little Muddy has been fought;
Silting Bull led the Indians. They were
routed ami pursued five miiesover a rough
couutry oj foot. Fnurte u dead Indians
were counted on the field.
The cabinet has instructed Evarts to
address a letter tn Minister Foster at
Mexico, to communicate the determina
tion of this government to stop preda
tory incursions into Texas. Mexico must
restrain her people, or General Ord will
be instructed to follow and punish mar
auders on Mexican soil.
The commission appointed to examine
into the affairs of- the New York Custom
House suggests that the force there em
ployed be reduced by about 20 per cent.
The commission says the appointment ol
employees is made on political influence,
and tiiat some fraudulently accept money
ervices rendered.
It is semi-officially announced at Wash
ington that the administration is pleased
with Hampton and Nicholls. It appears
that Mr. Evarts has abandoned his pur
pose of writing a letter to Governor
Stone, of Mississippi, in reference to the
arrest of the men who killed Chisolm.
Mr. Evarts has been advised that it i.; his
business to look after Pierrepnnt at the
court of St. James and other matters
ahroad. and to give passports to Amer-
an citizens who wish to travel.
LEHMAN IXODI S FROM RUSSIA,
It is stated that over two hundred thou
sand Germans, mostly in independent
circumstances, living in the south of Rus
sia, are preparing to emigrate to the
l nited States to avoid being drafted into
the r rmy. Taking the usual estimate that
every adult emigrant is worth a thousand
dollars to the State where he locates, this
Russio-German host will add two hundred
millions to the productive industry cf the
States which they may select for their
homes in this country.— Chronicle and
Constitutionalist.
We call the attention of our Chamber
of Commerce to the above, and ask that
a note be made of it and some action be
taken toward turning tbji tide of immi
gration toward this part of Georgia. By
writing to some attache of the foreign
legation at Washington, all necessary in
formation as how to get at these two hun
dred thousand Germans might he ob
tained.
Two hundred millions of dollars invest-
ed by these immigrants in and about
Rome would beget a delightful state of
“git-up and gitness” on the progressive
route toward permanent prosperity.
»ak NEWS.
The German papers continue to publish
semi-official intimations that the end of
the war draweth nigh.
Some Bashi Bazouke crossed the Dan
ube, and capturing some Roumanian
militia, cut of the calves of their legs.
A Constatinople telegram says, no
news confirming the reported recapture
by the Turks of Ardahan has been re
ceived there.
A Bucharest dispatch says; Rumors
The second day’s session of the Board
of Delegates of the American Israelites
was held Tuesday in New York. Com
mittee of Statistics made a lengthy report.
Four secret Hebrew societies were men
tioned, showing a membership oi 50,000.
Secretary Evans, in reply to a latter in
reference to the persecutions of the He
brews in the Turkish provinces, says; In
furtherance to your wishes the depart
ment will refer a copy of your letter to
our minister at Constantinople, with in
structions to take such action in the mat
ter as will, in his judgment,he best cal
culated to secure an amelioration of the
condition of the oppressed people.
Ben Battler “Going West.
Slicep It a I mu gon a Seventy Thousand Acre
Farm.
Special to tte >'e* York Herald 1 :
Washington, May 26. G-.nB. F. But
ler always has a surprise of tome kind
in store for the public, and now he is
“going West.” It is said to-night that
he intends emigrating to Colorado, turn
sheep farmer, and come to Congress as
Senator of the Centennial State It will
be remembered that the Surpreme
Court recently awarded to Col. Craig
the patent or title of an extensive tract
of and in Colorado, which had long
been in dispute' The story runs that
Gen. Butler has purchased from Col.
Craig 73,000 acres of this estate, and
that as soon as he can arrange some of
his private business he intends to settle
upon it and engage in cattle raising.
Bankrupt Turkey.—Whoever comes
here with the idea of putting money in
his pocket by serving the Turks will
have his travel for his pains. What
payments are doled out to the army are
in paper money. This is now at a dis
count of 50 per cent. ; and is daily sink
ing in value. The time is not for off
when it will be comparatively worthless.
An attempt is to be made to negotiate
a foreign loan, but its chances of success
are not flattering- People will hardly
be disposed to lend money to a Govern
ment that has long since ceased paying
the interest on what it has already bor
rowed.—Constantinople correspondence
of the Philadelphia Press.
Georgiacs.
Atlanta has poisoned 112 impounded
dogs.
Wool is twenty to twenty-two cents in
Albany.
Wilkes county will send Gen. Toombs
to the Constitutional Convention.
One hundred thousand more shad have
been deposited in the Ocmulgee river.
It requires about four years to develop
the full results of an exponent.
Bibb county supports one hundred
and forty-three paupera—fifty-four whites
and eighty-nine colored—who consume
ninety-four bushels of meal per month.
Mr. H. W. Grady will deliver a lec
ture at the Opera House, in Atlanta, for
the benefit of the Young Men’s Christian
Association, during the latter part of this
month.
Beauregard on the War.
Bow the Old Confederate Leader would Con
duct Operations Against Rnrsla.
Mr. John D. Edmundson notifies his
one-armed Confederate comrades, of
Troup county, that on the second day of
June he will dine them at his residence
in that countv.
Mrs. Anna Smith, who lives in Rabun
county, has just entered her one hundred
and fourth birthday. She is the mother
of sixteen children, all but three of whom
are now living.
Georgia can furnish a huge rattlesnake
on occasion. One was killed in Dade
county a few days ago tha t had attained
the respectable length of nine feet, size
in diameter twenty-one inches, and it had
thirty-six rattles.
Boh Cade, an old colored ferryman in
Lincoln county, died recently, leaving
two buckets of money, which he directed
to be dug up three days after he was
dead. One had been planted in 1837,
and contained 84G0.25.
M. E. Thornton, of Atlanta, announces
himself as a candidate for the Conven
tion. Thornton is the man who eat
thirty quails in thirty days, and if one
who performed this feat can’t frame *
Constitution, what can he do ?
Sheep raising is on the increase in
Southwestern Georgia. Henry Randall,
•he great sheep raiser of Western New
York, says, in one of his namphlets, that
Southwest and Southern Georgia are the
Greatest sheep-raising sections of the
United States. Last week a whole drove
of sheep were sold in Augusta.
Says the Hawkinsville Dispatch: Mr.
Mitch Akin and little George Reid went
down to Bowen’s Mills one day last week,
and with hooks and lines caught one
hundred and ten bream, red-breast perch,
etc., in two hours. Mitch is one of the
best fishcruen in his county, and it had
been so long since he had been to the
milk, (owing to severe illness), that the
fish were all glad to see him, and they
took his hook with avidity.
General News Items.
A bottle of whiskey, 132 years old,
recentlv sold at Edinburg for about
$200. '
In Sing-Sing prison fifty sewing ma
chines, run by steam, keep the female
convicts busy.
There are 16.48G soldiers interred in
the National Military Cemetery at
Nashville, Tcdd.
A recent census of Nashville gives
that city a population of 17,503 whites,
and 9,592 colored.
Sixty shingle-nails were found in the
stomach of a “valuable” Boston dog
that, died suddenly.
From Danville, Virginia, and other
parts of the State, comes intelligence
of armies of seventeen-year locusts.
A million Buffalo have been killed
in Western Texas alone for their hides.
Buffalo t eef would sell well in Eng
land.
The thermometer rose to 96 degrees
in Philadelphia on Sunday—the hot
test 20th of May in that city for 52
years.
The Yankee town of Gorman, Me.,
is now engaged in furnishing an order
from the Russian government for $250,-
000 worth of the best powder.
The jewels in Queen Victoria’s crown
weie estimated at £111.900 forty years
ago—at the time of her coronation.
Since then they have much increased
in value; four diamonds at the top of
the crown are worth £10,000 each.
Flaming head-lines announce the
birth, in St. Louis, of a brood of four
to Mrs. Anthony Dean. Od1_v one of
the quartet is a girl. So great was the
crowd about the house just after the
catastrophe, that policemen were de
tailed to preserve order. Mr. Dean,
the father, is a one-armed private watch
man, and very poor.
'Often, often,” says Mrs. Van Cott,
“even now the Devil comes to me and
tempts me to evil thoughts.” Well its
natural; she isn’t to blame for it.
When she stands on the platform in
the blaze of the chandelier, and a
scrawny sinner lopes up the center
aisle, she can’t help saying to herself:
If—I—looked—like—that—woman—
I'd pad.”
Hayes would be taken for a good old
country mam who didn’t put too many
potatoes on the top of the measure, but
who did not skimp the measure any.
Secretary Evarts always looks like
your grandmother when she has for-
gotton to take her false teethout of the
goblet in the morning and plant them
where they will do the most good.—
New Yorl: Herald.
The Galveston News, in regard to a
sheep grower in Neuces county, who
has made his fortune in the business
within a few years, says.- “Ho was
worth, all told, when he commenced
the wool business, about $1,500. He
has no income from any other source
than sheep, and to-day he is the owner
of 15,000 acres of as fine pasturage as
there is in the State, valued at $15,000
gold. The improvements on his rancho
are worth $15,000, consisting of a fine
stoue residence, good substantial out
buildings, pasture fence, eta, and 8,-
000 head of highly improved sheep.
Putting his 8,000 sheep at $3 per head,
they will turn out 828,000. To this
may be added the value of his ranche,
and we find him to be worth $54,000
clear of all incumbrances, and his
spring clip of wool, his spring crop of
lambs which will probably exceed 3,-
000 bead, and a splendid and ample
lice of miscellaneous property not tak
en into account.”
It has just come to light that in 1S66
the newly inducted Charles of Hohen-
zollem, Domnitor Prince of Roumania,
tendered to Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard,
then living in Paris, the command of
his armies, with the rank of field mar
shal, a complete outfit and S100,000 a
year pay. Gen. Beauregard wtis to he
at liberty to select his own st; ffand cer
tain other officers, and to designate their
rank. It was promised that the army
should be kept at a minimum of 100,-
000 men. The General, however, de
clined the offer and returned to New
Orleans, where he now is. He has writ
ten a letter, under date of May 10, in
which he refers to this off er, and expres
ses his warm sympathy with the Turks,
“because they are the weaker party and
are defendingtheir homes and firesides.”
As to the pretext of war—“the protec
tion of the Christain”—he says: “It
reminds me of the complaint of the
wolf drinking at the same spring with
the lamb.” General Beauregard adds:
“Turkey offers magnificent lines of de
fence—the Danube and the Balkan
Mountains. With two or three hun
dred thousand Confederate troops I
would guarantee to hold them against
any number of Russians. If I were in
command there I would fortify those
lines well, and with my iron-clad gun
boats I would prevent the construction
of any bridges across the Danube. I
would send General Forrest with twen
ty-five or thirty thousand cavalry to
destroy all the depots of supplies, rail
roads aud bridges from the Danube to
Russia, thence to some port of the Black
Sea, where I would transport his com
mand to some other favorable point, say
in the rear of the Russian forces oper
ating in Asia, South of the Black Sea.
Forrest would be provided with camels
to transport his light field artillery,
baggage and light pontoon trains. He
would have also a full supply of car
rier-pigeons to keep me posted as to his
movements. My fleet in the Black Sea
would keep it free'of the enemy’s ship.
I would destroy their supplies at Odes
sa and any other ports on the Black
Sea. In other words, I would bring
starvation to ay assistance. How long
do yon think Russia could stand such a
defensive war? Moreover, I am confi
dent that the other powers of Europe
will never allow Russia to get any nearer
to Constantinople than the Balken
Mountains, if even she gets theie.
Yoila man plan de campagnc, But I am
a man of peace, now that Louisiana is
freee.”
Life in a Russian Country House.
Gen Jackson Made Him Fay.
From the Hartford Courant.]
The keeper of a hoarding house here,
when Andrew Jackson was President,
waited on him one day and complain
ed that a Tennesseean, who had been
appointed by him to a clerkship in
one of the departments, would not pay
a board bill. “Get; his note,” said old
Hickory, “for the full amount, interest
included, payable in sixty days, aDd
bring it to me.” “That will be of no
use.” replied the boarding-house keeper,
‘for he neyer pays his notes.” “Do as
tell you, sir,” said Jackson, as he
turned away.
The next day the boarding house
keeper reappeared at the White House
and handed the note to the President
He took it, read it, wrote “Andrew
Jackson” across the back in his well-
konwn autograph, and hnnded it back,
saying: “Take that to the Bank of the
Metropolis and tell them from me that
at its maturity it will be paid by either
the drawer or the endorser. They will
discount it for you.”
A few days afterward the man who
had given the note met his creditor and
and tauntingly said: “Well, I don’t
suppose you have been able to negotiate
my paper?” “Yes,” replied the board
ing-house keeper, *‘I had no trouble in
getting it discounted at legal rates of
interest.” “Who in thunder is willing
to discount my notes?” asked the Ten
nesseean. “The Bank of the Metropolis
discounted the one you gave me, upon
the assurance that if you did not pay it
the endorser would.” i‘But who would
endorse my note?” “Gen Jackson, and
he sent word to the bank that if you
did not pay the note hewould,” It is
hardly necessary to add that the note
was promptly paid by the maker.
The Coming Man in Russia.
StPetersburg correspondence N. T. Herald.]
The rising man is Ignatieff, who, be
yond being a trained diplomat, is a
distinctively Russian official after the
true Russian heart. Capable of grand
ideas, of generous impulses and of en
ormous self sacrifice, his altar contains
beyond self only one god, that of an
ambition to see his country dictate ev-
erthing to Europe and a—perfect wil
lingness that the United States should
dictate everything to America. He is
a grand centralizer, and his apparent
concessions to England in the late con
ferences and joint action toward arrang
ing the vexed Eastern question were
simply to give the Disraeli-Derby party
the rope he felt assured would be used
to tie their usefulness and power to a
floating wreck of misspent opportunity.
In this his judgment has proved correct,
for whatever issue the present difficulty
may have, England’s force as a mentor
guide and arbitrator in the affairs of
Europe is weakened past repair.
Thedaily lifa of this worthy couple
is singularly regular and monotonous,
varying only with the changing sea
sons. In summer Ivan Ivan’itch gets
up about seven o’clock, and puts on,
with the assitance of his valet de cham-
bre, a simple costume, consisting chief
ly of a faded, plentifully-stained dress
ing gown. Having nothing particular
to do, he sits down at. the opeD window
and looks into the yard. As the ser
vants pass he stoop and questions them
and then gives them orders, or scolds
them, as circumstances demand.
Toward nine o’clock tea is announced,
and he goes iuto the dining-room—a
long, narrow apartment, with bare
wooden floor and no furniture buta
table and chairs, all in a more or less
rickety condition. Here he finds his
wife with the tea-urn before her. In a
few moments the younger children
come in, kiss their papa’s hand, and
take their places round the table, As
this morning meal consists merely of
breadtond tea, does not last long; and
all dispersti to their several occupations.
;ad of the house begins the
f the day by resuming his seat
indow, and having the Turk-
filled and lighted by a boy
whosd special function is to keep his
master’s pipes in order When he has
smokdd two or three pipes aud
dulgedin a proportionate amount of
silent contemplations, he goes ont with
the intention of visiting the stables and
farm-yard; but generally, before he has
crossed the court, he finds the heat un
bearable and returns to his former
position by the open window. Here
he site tranquilly till the sun has so
far moved round that the veranda at
the back of the house is completely in
the shade; then he has his arm-chair
removed thither, and sits there tils din
ner time.
Maria Petrovna spends her mornings
in a more active way. As Boon as the
breakfast table has been cleared she
goes to the larder, takes stock of the
provisions, arranges the menu au jour
and gives to the cook the necessary
materials, with detailed instructions
as to how they are to be prepared.
The rest of the morning she devotes to
her other household duties. Toward
one o’clock dinner is announced, and
Ivan Ivan’itch prepares his appetite by
swallowing at a gulp a wine-glassful
of home-made bitters. Dinner is the
great event of the day.—Travels in Rus
sia.
The Funniest of Marriages.
Row Buffalo Bill Performed tbe Ceremony
for a Couple.
Chicago Times.]
A good stery is told of how he per
formed the ceremony of marriage while
he was Justice of the Peace. It was his
first lAtempt, and tbe applicants were oi
the true Western type. They called upon
Cody in the Jog cabin where be held his
justice office. Bill bad a book of forms,
which he took down and studied atten
tively to get some idea of how he should
tie the kuot. There were forms for near
ly every transaction of life, but he failed
to find what he was looking for, and final
ly slammed the book down and observed
to the parties:
“You two fellers join bands;” and the
“two fellers” did so.
Then he said to the groom:
“Are you willing to take this woman
to be your lawful wedded wife, to love
her, honor her, and obey her?”
“You bet your butes.” was the response
of the bashful hair-lifter.
“And you, Miss, are you willing to take
this here man to be your wedded hus
band, to lore him, honor him, and sup
port him ?”
She giggled, aud nodded in the affirm
ative; but this didn’t suit Bill, who said:
“See here, Miss, we’ve got to have this
thing on a dead square, and we can’t
marry folks by halves in this country.
We are bound to go the whole hog. If
you want this here man for a husband
you must speak out aDd say so, as though
you meant it sure. I’ll ask you again.
Will you take this here man to be your
lawful wedded husband, to love him,
honor him and support him ?”
This time the lady responded bravely,
“Yes, sir, I will.”
This satisfied his honor, and he re
marked :
“That settles it Now look here yon
two; you are man and wife, and whoever
Bill Cody and God Almighty have join
ed together, let no man put asunder.”
“And now,” added Bill, “let’s take
another sip of tarantula juice, and drink
to the happiness of the happy couple,”
which everybody with true Western un
animity proceeded to do.
Mosby the Guerrilla, at Home.
Planting White Skin on a Ne
gro Man.
There is a coal-black negro man in our
vicinity who will soon have a beautiful
white stomach—a stomach covered with
as pure white Democratic skin as ever
grew in Edgefield. This no doubt sounds
both ridiculous and alarming, but we will
explain.
Some weeks back, Dr. Walter Hill
and Dr. Wallace Bland cut off frem the
stomach of this negro a huge tumor
weighing many pounds, and upon the
large hare spot left by the operation they
have planted numberless little stars of
skin nipped from thair own arms. These
stars have taken root and are fast spread
ing out to meet each other, so that, as we
have already said, the black man will
soon have abeautiful white Democratic
stomach—at all events on the outside.
Science is wonderful, and in this case
noble. Skin is about all the Radicals
and negroes have left us, and to be thus
generous with it is certainly very mag
nanimous.—Abbeville Medium.
The following incident serves to show
that Colonel Mosby is around the
While House a good deal of his leisure
hours. It is a good reading for the
Western Reserve. There is nearly al
ways a row of carriages in front of the
White House when the President is at
home, Among the turn-outs waiting
this morning was a regular old Virgin
ia team—a couple of dust covered, trav
el-stained mules,with drooping ears and
worn-out tails, hitched to an old-fashion
ed carriage all covered with dusk In
the carriage was a hardy specimen oi
a Virginia Ranger. He wore a broad-
brimmed straw hat and old-fashioned
clothes, and carried a heavy switch in
his hand. He was waiting for his “wo
men folks” to view the White House.
In the meantime Col. Mosby stepped
out on the portico, and recognizing a
Virginian friend came briskly up to him
and with a cordial salute said: “How
are you, old man?” But he wasn’t re-
coginized. “Yon don’t know me, do
do you?” said Mosby. “No sir,” was
the response. “Why; I’m Mosby the
gnerrilfia.” The weatherbrown features
lit up immediately, and grasping Mos-
bp’s hand he cried: “Mosby, how de
do? Many a cup of coffee have we had
together.” They remained talking over
old times for a few minutes, when the
women folks came out, and with a
“cluck” the old man started his mules
languidly down the carriage-way.—Cm-
cirnati Enquirer.
The contest for the candidacy for t
Governorship of Vigina is waxing
warm. General Mahone excites much
attention. General Fitzhugh Lee. John
W. Daniel, of Lynchburg, the most elo-
S \ man in Viginia, and Major
day, of Fredericksburg, are the
most prominent candidates.
The Will of Peter the Great.
In the course of a leading article
on the policy of Russia a Cincinnati
Exchange has tbe following:
Now let us go back to the question:
“What is the mission of Russia?”
There is extant a document often quo
ted called. “The Will of Peter the
Great” It is said to he genuine, but
doubted by others. It is apparently
genuine, for it points out the policy
Russia has pursued and things to be
done not yet accomplished. It points
to the weakening of Sweeden, the neu
tralizing of Poland (which was done
by destroying and absorbing it) to the
aquisition oi the Crimea and Territo
ries round tbe Black Sea, to the mar
riage with German princesses, to push
ing on to tbe Persian Gulf, and to re
suming commerce with the Levant
through Syria. This, the reader sees,
points directly to the march of the army
of the Caucasus to Aleppo. This pas-
sage^isjso interesting that we give it en-
entire:
9. We must progress as much as pos
sible in the direction of Constantinople
and India. He wno can once get pos
session of those points is the real ruler
of the world. With this view we must
provoke quarrels as one time with Tur
key and at another with Persia. We
must establish wharves andjdocks in the
Euxine, and by degrees make ourselves
masters of that sea as woll as of the Bal
tic, which is a doubly important ele
ment in the success of our plan. We
must hasten the downfall of Persia,
push on to the Persian Gulf; If possible,
re-establish the ancient commercial in
tercourse with the Levant through Syr
ia and force our way into the Indies,
which are the storehouses of the world:
once there, we can dispense with Eng
lish gold.
10. Moreover, we must take pains to
establish and maintain an intimate
union with Austria, apparently counte
nancing her schemes for future aggran
dizements in Germany and all the
while secretly rousing the jealousy of
the United States against her. In this
way we must bring it to pass that one
or the other party shall seek aid from
Russia, aud thus we shall exercise a
sort of protectorate over the country,
which will pay the way to future su
premacy.
11. We must make the house of
Austria interested in the expulsion of
the Turks from Europe, and we must
neutralize its jealousy of the capture of
Constantinople, either by pre-occupy-
ing it with a war with the old Euro
pean States, or by allowing it a share
of the spoils, which we can afterwards
resume at our leisure.
12. We must collect around Jour
houses, ns a centre, all the detached
sections of Greeks which are scattered
abroad in Hungary, Turkey and South
Poland; we must make them look to
us for support and thus by establishing
beforehand a sort of ecclesiastical su
premacy, we shall pave the way for
universal sovereignty.
How far Will Greenback Go?
Mr. Brown kept boarders. Around
his table sat Mr. Brown, Mrs Brown
Mrs. Andrews, the village milliner, Mr.
Black, the baker, Mr. Jordan, a carpen
ter, and Mr. Hadley, a flour, feed and
lumber merchant.
Brown took out of his pocket-book a
ten-dollar note, and handed it to Mrs.
Brown saying;
“Here, my dear, are ten dollars to
wards the twenty I promised you.”
Mrs. Brown banded it to Mrs. Andrews,
the milliner, saying:
“That pays for my new bonnet.’,
Mrs. Andrws said to Jordan, as she
danded him the note:
That will pay you for the work on
my counter.”
Jordan handed it to Hadley, the flour
feed and lumber merchant, requesting
his lumber bill.
Hadley gave the note hack to Brown
saying:
“That pays ten dollars on my
Board,’,
Brown passed it to his wife, with the
remark that that paid her twenty dol
lars he had promised. She in turn
paid it to Black, to settle her bread and
pastry account, who banded it to Had
ley, wishing credit for the amount on
his flour bill, be again returning it to
Brown with the remark that that settle
my montb’shoard. Whereupon Brown
put it backinto his pocked-book, ex-
clamingtbathe “never thought a ten dol
lar bill would go so far.”
Thus a ten dollar greenback was
made to pay ninety dollars indebted
ness, inside of five minutes. Who sayB
greenback are worthless?
Killed the Devil.—The town of
Maple Grove, Wis., is excited .over a re
cent Sunday occurrence there. Thepeo-
ffe were mostly at chuicb,and in one
louse a 12 year old boy was the only
occupant During the absence of the
family, a man came to the house com-
iletely enveloped in a beef hide, with
lorns, tail, and all complete, and so fitted
that nothing else could be seen. It was
known in the neighborhood that the oc
cupants of this house bad money, and
there was there at the time about two hun
dred dollars. The object disguised in the
hide told the boy that he was the devil,
and that he had come alter his money,
and he must give it to him. The boy an
swered that he could not have the money.
The devil then told the boy that he
would have him and kill him if he did
not bring out the money. The boy
then stepped into the bouse as if be
was about to comply, but instead of
bringing the money he brought a gun
and shot the man dead in his tracks.
The boy then ran to tbe nearest neigh
bor, and, finding only a woman there,
told her he bad shot the devil at his
bonse. The woman went with the boy,
and found that the devil whom the boy
bad shot was ber husband.
Meaux Grass.—An Illinois farmer who
has within the past few years purchased
a farm in Alabama that had been con
sidered worthless, because it had been
runawy with the Meaux grass, (known
in Alabama as the Johnston grass, be
cause carried there from Monucello,
Fairfield County, South Carolina, by
CoL Johnston, in 1854,)is now selling
bay at $20 per ton, from what he calls
the “best etock grass in the world.”
This farm has 450 acres in it, and the
present owner hopes soon to have tbe
entire farm set in Meaux grass. He
says the cotton planters in Alabama
curse this grass, but he tells them it is
the best friend theSonth eyer had.
Harder Will Oat.
One tquire on* months.
'tee iqa»re three months......
Tdo cqa&re six month
One square twelve months..,,.
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On»-fourth column three months,....".
One-fourth column months..,.
One-fourth column twelve months,.,..
One-half column one month ....
One-half oolumn three months.
One-half column six months,
One-hall column twelve months,!™.!
One oolumn one month,,,,.....,.
One oolumn three months.,, ........
One column six months,
“ne column twelve months.!*..*!.
aw Tb. .orejtoin* fete* are for cither
ar Tri-Wrekly. When publtihM in betb
R par e-a*. additional upon table raree.
A Confession After Twenty.Tbrec Years’
Successful Concealment.
From the Charlotte Observer, Hay 27.]
* .The courtroom was packed yesterday
morning by an anxious crowd, including
many of our oldest and best citizens, to
witness the arraignment and trial of Mr.
James Patton Wilson for the murder of
Nathan C. Clayland in August, 1854,
twenty-three years ago. The high esti
mation in which the family of Mr. Wil
son is held in the community, together
with the time that had elapsed since the
killing was done, invested the case with
a peculiar interest. Added to this, too,
was the remarkable fact that there are
now no living eye witnesses to the un
fortunate occurrence. Mr. Wilson re
turned a few days ago to his old home,
the place of his nativity, which he had
not seen in twenty-three years, for die
purpose of surrendering himself to the
law.
On the trial Jas, Fox, colored, and
Jas. Alexander were sworn. The former
was pat upon the stand and testified that
he saw the deceased and the prisoner enter
the room of William Quinn (the store
on Trade street now occupied by Nisblt
& Bro.), and in a short time thereafter
heard the report of a pistol. He next
saw the prisoner come out, get on his
horse, and ride off. James Alexander
testified that he was with the deceased
daring his last illness. He had heard
him say the prisoner shot him, and that
he did not wish him prosecuted for it.
The prisoner’s own stery was that he
was sixteen years old at the time of the
killing, and that himself and the de
ceased had been fast friends, although
the latter was several years the senior
of the prisoner. They were riding to
gether when the dispute arose as to the
relative speed of their respective horses.
The deceased struck the defendant Sub
sequently he went to him and demand
ed an apology for the insult. The de
ceased refused to make it A quarrel
ensued during which one drew his fist,
and the other his pistol and fired.
The judge sentenced Wilson to five
years in the Penitentiary for homicide.
Mr. Wilson returns to his home shat
tered in mind and body, hnt with the
sympathy of the entire community.
He has led a temperate and industrious
life. He fought through the whole war
in a Texas regiment, and distinguished
himself on many fields (if battle. Fer
deeds of bravery he was raised from a
private to the captaincy of a company,
and received other marks of favor from
his commanders. He is now 40 years
f age.
A Mao With a Marriage License
in His Pocket at the Hang
ing of His First Wife’s
Murderer.
We published some time ago an ac
count of the murder of Mrs. Caraway—
we think the lady resided near Americas
instead of Atlanta—and now we copy the
following from the Charleston News and
Courier of the haste with which the be
reaved husband sought another wife:
The saying of Hamlet that “The funer
al baked meats did coldly furnish forth
the marriage table,” was practically il
lustrated a few days ago in Georgia,
although in this case the man, not the
woman, offended the proprieties. In April
last the wife of a Mr. Caraway, a farmer,
near Atlanta, in that State, was found
lying in her own home, brutally murder
ed. Suspicion was directed against Chas.
Tommey, a negro, and on his being arrest
ed he confessed to having committed the
crime. The husband of the murdered
woman was apparently overcome by grief,
but prevailed upon the populace not to
lynch the murderer, who was safely
lodged in jail, tried, convicted, sentenced
to death and executed on Friday last.
And now comes the curious part of the
story. On that morning Mr. Caraway,
the bereaved husband, bought a license
for a second marriage, put it in his pocket,
witnessed the hanging, and then quietly
went off and got married. It is not every
man who can thus crowd a double amount
of enjoyment into a single day, and Mr.
Caraway may be congratulated on the
nerve acd coolness be displayed. Xer
xes is said to have wished that some ooe
would invent a new pleasure, acd cer
tainly the idea of witnessing the banging
of your first wife’s murderer, with a mar
riage license to unite you to a second paid
for and carefully stowed away in your
vest pocket, ought, we should think, to be
sufficient to satisfy the most epicurean
old barbarian, either ancient or modern.
Personal Jottings.
Queen Victoria is 58.
Pendleton is looming up as the t’eir-
ocratic candidate for Ohio Senate-.
Bishop Lee’s mnltitudiroi s soiis are
said to be on a gurning exp< ditiou for
Brigham Young.
Rev. J.T. Leftwich, D. D . of Atlanta
will preach the commencement sermon
at Emory College, July 15th.
The ostensible object of Grant’s visit
to Europe is to dislay his general’s uni
form and his two swords. His real ob
ject, perhaps, is to inspect the tanneries
of the old world. There’s nothing like
reather.
When “Bishop” Lee was sitting on
his coffin and about to be shot, a photo
grapher approached, said he was ready
to take his picture, and begged the
doomed man to “assume a cheerful ex
pression of countenance.”
Loring Pasha, of the Egvptain army,
fomerly of the Confederate army, it is
said, will accompany Egypt's contin
gent to Turkey. The other American
officers in the Khedive’s army have
agreed not to fight against Russia.
The Secretary of the Navy has ad
dressed a letter of instuctoins to the
commander .of foreign stations, stating
that ex-President Grant was now mak
ing a tour of the world and that when
he reaches their vicinity they will
show him proper attention and facili
tate his means of observation abroad,
' Rev. A. M. Newman, a colored Bap
tist minister, occupied a seat in the
Sonthem Baptist Convention, and when
the report on missions among the col
ored people was under consideration
he was invited to speak. His speech
was sensible and well received. Indeed
it produced a real sensation; and when
his time expired, he was, by a united
vote, requested to go on with his ad
dress.
General Iiadeau, the United State
Consul General at London; the Vice
Consul at Liverpool, representing Mr.
Fairchild, and a number of prominent
London and Liverpool merchants, do
ing business with the United States,
went ont in three tenders and met the
steamer in which was Grant a short dis
tance down the Mersey. As the India
na neared the docks General Grant was
seen standing on bridge with the Cap
tain, acknowledging the cheers of the
immense crowds which lined the water
front ane every pier and vessel along
the river.
Charley Ross.
Barnnm’a Offer to the Father of the Missing
Child—Hr. Boss’ Despair,
Philadelphia, May 24,1877.—Chris
tian K. Ross, the father of Charlie Rosa
the stolen child, reached his home in
this city yesterday, after his visit to P.
T. Baroum, the snowman, who telegra
phed Mr. Ross to meet him at Spring-
field, Mass., last Saturday. As there
seems to be a popular misunderstand
ing regarding Mr. Barnum’s offer'of
$10,000 for the return of the child it
may be well to explain that Mr. Ross
has not entered into an arrangement
with Mr. Barnum by which the latter
is to have the control of the stolen child
if he is recovered for the purposes of ex
hibiting him and enabling Mr. Ross and
himself to make money by charging so
much a head to see the unfortunate lit
tle fellow. The arrangement simply is
that Mr. Bamum is to retain the boy
until Mr. Roes repays the $10,000, which
he will do as soon os he can raise tbe
money. He has already spent $50,000
in the unava ling search, and impover
ished himself completely, and if the
child was suddenly discovered he might
not be able to immediately reclaim him
on the payment of so large a sum as
810,000, in which event it would be nec
essary to allow Mr. Barnum to reim
burse himself by exhibiting the boy.
The afflicted father is almost in des
pair of ever seeing his child again, and
is rapidly growing old under the terrible
strain to which he is subjected. He
accepts Mr. Barnum’s offer as a last re
sort only, having tried every other
means.
Bnried Alive.
Special Telegram tbo Cincinnati Commercial.]
Baltimore, May 20.—A sensation has
been produced in the Fifth District of
Baltimore county by a widely-circulated
rumor that a young girl has been buried
alive.
It appeals that about two weeks ago a
man named Staples called on the State’s
Attorney and said the grave of a yonng
•irl who died while in his employ, had
icen desecrated, and asked for the prose
cution of the parties who ban exhumed
the body. A few days later Messrs.
Zouck and Boiler, of the same district,
informed the State’s Attorney that they
believed Staples had buried the girl
alive.
The coffin was a rough pine box, made
by Staples, and as it was being lowered
ip the grave in the presence of several
persons, two ladies present heard the ex
clamation : “Ob, Lord.” from the grave.
They protested against tbe burial, bnt
Staples bnried the body. The next day
it was exhumed and the body found to be
tnrned over in tho coffin, ana the flesh of
the arms lacerated and the hands clutch
ed in her hair, and her sbroud and cof
fin covered with blood from her month
and nose.
These are the rumors in brief. An of
ficial investigation will be made by the
•rand jury to-morrow. The girl had
>een an inmate of a charitable institu
tion before she went to Staples’ house.
“It wss at that critical moment of
the battle,’’said a Dubuque minister
in in impassioned burst of eloquence
last Sabbath, “when the Wuke of Dil-
lington—Imean the Delk of Welling
ton—I should say, when the Welk of
Dullington—that is, when the Dole of
Welk ini ton at the wattle of Batterloo
—er—um” And then somehow the pas
sage appeared to he so badly mangled
that he didn’t think it would pay to
repair it, so he said, “And seventhly
and lastly,” and went on.—Hawkey.
Another Rumor that Mr. Hayes
is to he Brought Before the
Courts.
The Washington Republican ofThurs-
day, in a double-leaded editorial, again
insists that there is not the slightest
doubt that the friends of Tilden are
seeking to put the question of title to
present term of the Presidency before
the courts for detetmination, or that the
purpose will be pushed to success or de
feat in the next Congress. Nor, in its
opinion, is there any donbt that there
has been an understanding effected be
tween the leaders of the Tilden interest
and those of the Republican dissenters
on the snbject. But the latter have no
desire, it says, to oust the President and
and srat Tilden. They only thirk to
to alarm Hayes and bring !»h««n i it> *-r
an abandonment of his mi" ures of re
form of such concessions «f place and
power as they wish, or botl i A Wasbing-
ton special says: “No Democrat _ here
seems to know of any eut b coalition,
and they doubt the Repvbliccn's story.
Montgomery Blair, Merrick and ex-
Speaker Randall and other leading
Democrats profess utter ignorance of
any such movement.
Hard to Believe.—At the last ses
sion of the Sazerac Lying Club, a mod
est, unassuming member closed the
tournament with one about grasshop
pers. His remarks, as reported by The
Reveille, were: “What I am about to
relate ain’t no lie; it’s true and actual,
positive fact Once when I was in Salt
Lake, daring one of the grasshopper
years, they had br’iled chicken marked r ■
on the bill of fare at the restaurant I ®.
boarded at I’m sorter partial to ®
yeller-legs, and I told the waiter to bring
me half a br’iled chicken, which he did
as soon as the cook had fixed it np in
shape. I proceeded to eat tiie bird, but
noticed a peculiar taste to it; and,gen
tlemen, what do yon suppose I had
been eatin?” “Grasshoppers!” cried
the entire clnb in charm. “Not much;
it was just chichen. Yon age it was so
long since I had eaten chicken that it
tasted kinder peculiar to me.”
tv
Scotch and Irish residents of Terre
Hante, who expect a general European , e
war, are sending money across the At- .ber’-
lantic to bring their relatives to this |u.
country. ltd