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VOLUME XXXII.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MO
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i . ]ii Haute (.Ind.) Express saj's
I f-“„f the bi<; corn crops on
Sf’"j - t’.is year are almost mar-
{ c iieve that Mr. Whitfield
;p have the largest crop ever
, ne farmer in this county.
h* 3 ;' v '. r hundred acres of Wabash
**'" near Durgas Ferry, that his
X’X think will produce eighty
< t0 the acre. Mr. Smith is him-
® that his crop will not fall short
' ntv bushels to the acre. The
^ j ;* * v is that he will nave fully
^ husheis on the seven hundred
Thc hrrTbiTTory from New York
the descruction of human life by the
.mini! of an extensive piano manu-
lory and other buildings is one that
... be repeated as long as there are
'X Structures with insufficient means
^ 'p n e fifth floor of a buildin:
is being swiftly consumed by fire
X dangerous a place as ingenuity
: "ifi invent. Its occupants are crazed
instant, and unless an outlet is
meedily provided their destruction is
huin. Only good legislation and
^ policing can prevent such hor-
jg this. The only wonder is that
■e'do not have them by scores every
ramuel McDonald, remarkable for
idigacy, died a few days ago near
ietre Haute. At the age of 21 he came
cto possession of an estate worth 8500,-
Xl, and at his death, aged 29, he had
jy little of it left. His father, once
5 owner of Flora Temple, was a Bal
aam millionaire, whose residence,
w the property of editor Abell, of the
Jiimore Sun, was famous for mag-
l.e.nce. A feature of the place was
•nitain that, on great social occa-
cs, spurted champagne. The fath-
extravagance was reputable, and he
hered around him the best people
Baltimore. The sous extravagance
■ disreputable, and his associates
•ereof tiie worst kind. He established
residence at Terre Haute, and made
a disgrace to the city. His relatives
ale strenuuus hut useless efforts to
m him.
Tv,- thousand Boston people—yes,
a: i: ..tonians—went last Sunday
. Me spree to Portland, Maine,
arrived at Portland Sunday night
goo ’. ship Plymouth Ilock, and
eed?'l to "raise Cain” generally in
.r city of the blue noses. Twenty-five
itx were too drank to keep out of
us is of the police, and consequent
ly sent to the lock-up. Three of
fell oil of the wharf, but were res-
i A crowd of them robbed a sa-
a-k-a-f-o, r of seventy dollars. About
f hundred of the two thousand be
lt disgusted and quit the carousal—
other seventeen hunred kept up the
kston is surely an interesting field
: the moral missionary who maybe
ous of hard work and plenty of it.
rerything is quiet at the South, and
might spare a few score of “South-
Ku-klux” to preach civilization to
'■enighted Bostonians. Send us the
if.v to pay expenses, and we can
twanl the men.
T7
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moi knim; at funerals.
There i- not much in Brigham
•’nog's example that can be com-
led, says the New York Herald,
nt the written instructions he left for
’ Ge conduct of his funeral are in sever-
*- respects very sensible, though in
^03 somewhat amusing. He evi-
attached a high importance to
-i body, and as he had always taken
CJ re of -t during life, so he wished
to be comfortable after death. Most
~st have an antipathy to thinking
‘wot their tombs, bnt Brigham was
t: ’ ? particular about his burial, and
specially fastidious as to his coffin.
X was, no doubt, largely due to his
--cf that his body would rise at the
-•)'■ when he naturally desired
At it should present a clean and re
ntable appearance. He therefore
-yoreda cotton bed and soft pillow
’■-.ed m Ids coffin, which was also to
made wide enough to allow him to
‘ e ’ t htT to the right or left as he
d? , --sire. No one can object to this
Csctioaate solicitude for the body, un-
Enable as it may appear; but the
-•“■lions lor the funeral ceremony de-
y *8 general approval. We particu-
c ‘f admire the common sense of his
H 3 that the male members of his fam-
•y J0 'J-T no t weat cra p ej aud that
. ' * e: °ales should buy no black bon-
1 Besses, nor black veils, but if
c'° t ' lcm ^ lejr aro a * i i’-berty to
them." This is excellent advice
ish en ^ os as we ^ as Mormons, for the
a .f wearing black to express
T" ' or the death of relatives ha’’ be-
great social abuse. The expense
“•‘gham A cung’s family would, of
Uave been very great, as he left
wi\ es and forty-four children;
tVen ’ n an ordinary Gentile family
mourn h°g apparel is often a
J burden. Persons who are un-
*° purchase good every-day doth*
_ij re< iuired by this foolish custom
f or X' *h°mselves in sable garments,
Thus • tlley fre( l uen tly cannot pay.
•w'’ la or< Ter to show their sorrow,
E l 0o ran >nto debt and add to the
1,1k p° funeral pecuniary trou-
the are made fantistic by
the h mat '' on 'he undertaker and
‘Wedt 3 ‘? aker - Brigham Young
fly t . 1S( Tom in forbidding his fam-
i: m * n u ' ge in the senseless mockery
ia ^ Un k’ dresses, and his example
R ' 11 to imitate.
‘ C S are i
TIIE CHIEF COTTON PORTS.
A comparison of the cotton receipts of
the year just closed with those of 1875-6
shows some facts worthy of consideration.
While the comparative falling off’ in the
whole crop is probably less than 100,000
bales, the four principal Southern ports
show a decrease in receipts of 229,478
bales. We take these statement from the
papers of the cities named, of Saturday
last:
1SZ6. 1ST7.
Savannah 539,967 486,450 Dec, 43,451
Charleston 3S5,671 447,881 Inc. 62,310
Mobile- 374,672 360,918 Doc. 13,754
Now Orleans.. 1,182,457 1,401,562 “ 224,2S2
These figures show a loss by Savannah
on the Atlantic seaboard, which is more
than compensated by the gain of Char
leston. Wilmington and Norfolk also
show gains in receipts. But the falling
off in the receipts of New Orleans Is quite
large, and is not compensated by increas
ed receipts at Mobile, which also shows a
small decrease—about balanced by the
increase of Galveston. The inference is
unavoidable that New Orleans has lost
heavily by the diversion of a large por
tion of her cotton roceipts to Northern
poits direct. This has been effected
mainly by the extension of roads from St.
Louis and Memphis (where they connect
with Northern lines) to Bed River and
into Texas. There is every reason to fear
that this (liverson will grow instead of di
minishing, especially if Tom Scott’s io-
ealled Southern Pacific Railroad is pushed
through with the connections provided for
in the bill. It is a scheme for di
verting trade from New Orleans,
as well as from the Southren Atlantic
ports, by establishing immediate through
connections with Northern ports, while
the Gulf and Southern Atlantic ports
will be left to make connections as best
they may by the means of Southern peo
ple. Tom Scott’s Southern Pacific Rail
road will prove an iron “Trojan horse”
for the South, aud the diversion of cotton
receipts from New Orleans, already oh
servable, suggests the mode of its opera
tion.
The gain which Charleston has ma.1
compared with the loss of Savannah,
may be in great part accounted for by
the increased crop of North Georgia-
that crop going East by the Georgia and
Air-Line railroads. It is alco possible
that the management of the Central
Railroad had something to do with Sa
vannah’s loss. Whatever may have been
the cause, we hope that it will only be
temporary, and that our Georgia seaport
will not only hold her own but continue
.-.v to hit her irnin in cnftn*. rrrpi-'.t-
vhich has been so encouraging for sever
al years past, with tits exception of the
last.
AN OSSAWATTOMIE JEREMIADE.
The erection of a cheap monument
to John Brown at Ossawattomic, Kan
sas, last week, says the St Louis Re
publican, was the occasion of a loud
lamentation by the orator of the day,
Senator Ingalls—a lamentation over'the
nation’s gradual departure from the
lessons which John Brown taught it
Tho Ossawattomic orator thinks the
country is going to the dogs because it
has grown tired of the Republican
party, and he is constrained to halt
even in his sky-rocket panegyric of the
man of Harper's Ferry to bewail our
recreancy to his principles. “For the
past seven years the path of the nation
has been downward,” said the senato
rial orator; “if either of the constitu
tional amendments were submitted to
the States to-day I do not belieye that
one of them could receive the number
of votes necessary for ratification. It
has become unpopular to speak of dis
loyalty and treason. Public opinion
has grown flabby. A school of political
pigmies whom Providence, for some
inscrutable purpose has pieced in pow
er, are endeavoring to pacify the coun
try by debauching its convictions, by
asserting that those who sought to over
throw and destroy the Government are
more entitled to its favors than those
who sacrificed all to uphold it, by at
tempting to obliterate the distinction
between right and wrong, and to repeal
the laws of God.”
This a deplorable picture of national
decadence, hut when the orator comes
to the Hayes administration and the
Postmaster General his Kansas elo
quence warms up, and he pitches into
Mr. Key in the following energetic
style:
“When a repentant rebel is caged as
a Cabinet Minister and made the chief
attraction of a peripatetic menagerie,
called out at every railroad Btation and
compelled to speak his little declama
tionlike a naughty pupil by his mas
ter, telling the multitude that he has
been very wicked, but means to do bet
ter, and hopes in time to bo a good
Yankee, the spectacle is edifying and
instructive. The emotions of the cap
tive may be imagined, and tho response
of the South is significantly solid. AVe
must be reconciled. AVe must love
each other. We must forget Let us
wash the crimson from our flag, be
cause it is the hue of blood Bhed by
patriots in defense of their country;
the blue from its field because it was
the color of our soldiers’ uniform, and
the gold from its stars becauso they
shone on the epaulets of our heroes!”
Washington Correspondence: j
Washington, T>. C., Sept 3.
It is believed hero that the death of “I and all iny men are resolved to dm
at our post.”. Such is the dispatch which
The city of Paris owes a debt that
might put New York or any other
American city to shame. On the let of
January last it was $380,000,000, con
sisting of nino separate loans, five of
which amounting to $200,000,000 wore
negotiated under the Imperial regime;
the remainder, $180,000,000, has been
contracted since the German war. The
payments for interest and into the
sinking fund that the debt calls for are
$21,000,000 per annum, and the total
taxes collected from the people are
854,000,000 a year.
Brigham Young will rapidly hasten the:
disintegration of tho Mormon system.
Kis hold upon the allegiance of his ig
norant dupes appears to have suffered
its first shock with the influx of Gen
tiles, who have steadily poured into
Utah since the Pacific railroad reached
that Territory en its way across the
continent. Its first contact with outer
civilization appears to have communi
cated a poison that in time must prove
fatal. Tho bogus prophet’s indomita
ble will, coupled, with great executive
ability and a degree of fanaticism that
scrupled at no crime, enabled him to
maintain a show of authority during
all the succeeding years and to keep
within the bonnds of: control, (he scores
of intriguers, who now Thlieved-of his
presence will diyide up the Church
into factions of personal adherents; and
the fabric he reared will grdually
crumble to its fall, propelled thereto by
moral forces rather than physical ones.
It is estimated that Young’s estate will
amount to from six to eight millions of
dollars, and echoes of incipient strife
over its distribution already reach us
from far off Salt Lake City. f;
The commission appointed by Sec
retary Sherman to investigate the affairs
of the Norfolk Custom House have at
tended to that duty and returned home.
It is understood that they have fully
established all the charges made by
Moore after his investigation of that
very rotten institution. The duties
from entire cargoes were stolen, accord
ing to the talk oh tfie street here this
morning’and the vessels were entered
as though arriving in ballast. These
robberies are said to have been traced
through a series of years under Collec
tor Lee, and there appears to have been
a systematic falsification of tho books.
AATiat is to bo done to save the credit of
the special agents stationed there to
protect the Government from just such
robberies, and who reported everythin:
correct month after month, .has not yet
been made public. Their- dismissal
from the service would seem the mini
mum of punishment demanded by the
interests of tho Government, and by
their defective vision, to characterize it
very mildly. - -'U; i : ;
Rumors long afloat of the intended
resignation of Assistant Secretary of tho
Treasury McCormick have assumed
oTinpo, anil HifiThHlBiilPTA^:
appears now accepted without question.
Cause assigned, the very onerous and
exacting charater of the labor required )
if the duties of the position are con
scientiously performed; and his most
bitter personal or political enemy
would hardly venture to suggest they
had not been during his incumbency.
Tho sharp contrast in this respect be
tween him and some of his predeces
sors makes his contemplated resigna
tion all the more regretted. He is one
of our few public men who have been
sought by the'positions they have filled.
He is a politician in tho best accepta
tion of the term. Mr. McPherson is
regarded as having the inside track as
his successor; and if one must be se
lected a designation more generally ac
ceptable to those having business with
the office could hardly be suggested.
The lobby intriguers who have been
operating for a recall of the proclama
tion convening Congress in extra ses
sion on the 15th proximo, have retired,
apparently disconragedj’and every plan
of the army of interested ones is evi
dently laid with the view that thero is
to be no postponement.
Some items of interest are made pub
lic by the Treasurer in his assessment
of national hanks for the cost of assort
ing and redeeming their notes, just now-
engaging his attention. Total amount
assorted during tho last fiscal year,
$214,361,300; unfit for circulation, and
hence destroyed, 862,518,600; fit for
circulation and returned to the banks
for that purpose, $151,842,700; increase
of amount redeemed over year preced
ing, 838,239,445; number of notes as
sorted, 22,745,548; expenses for express-
age, $189,362.05, and for all other
charges, $167,704.05, aggregating $357,-
0G6.10; other than express charges, de
crease of expense, $38,346.42, or a re
duction of nearly 20 per cent, as com
pared with 1875. The assessment for
express expenses is made in proportion
to the amount of notes assorted for each
bank; and all other expenses incurred
in proportion to the number assorted.
On this basis the ratio for express
charges assessed is SS 34-100 cents for
each $1,000, as against 90 36-100 cents
for 1875. Assessments for other ex
penses, S7.37 for each 1,000 notes as
sorted, as against $10.78 for 1875. Not
one cent’s loss has been sustained by
the agency during the two past years,
showing the accuracy of the system.
Knox.
The Fight in the Sehipka Pass.
.-ai— ! lam oeodT
N. Y. World.]
Gen. Derojihsky, the pomman'der.'of the
Russian troops in the Schipka Pass, ‘ia
reported to have sent to the 'Gzaf on the
morning of August 20 at the beginning
of the Turkishrwttaek. — Tho troops at his
disposal-, numbered, pot less than 8,000
men. The attacking force was the whole
of Suleiman Pasha’s army—about 20,-
000. But upon the valor of these 8,000
the whole fate of the Russian campaign
in' Bulgaria depended." - The' Sompks.
Pass .once forced, a junctibn,_between
Suleiman Pasha and Osman Pasha’s
armies could scarcely be prevented, all
the Rpaijan troops echeloned between
Gabrova. Selvi and Timova would be
crushed between the two formidable
forces of the enemy, and ! the western
wing of the Russian army would bo faced
by a Turkish force numbering about JO -!
000 men and elated, by A series of victo-.
ries. Thus the 1 Schipka' 1 Pass 1 for
(General Derojinsky’s corps a post' of
honor, a post of death and its defense be
comes one of the most remarkable
episodes in modern warfare. For three;
days this gallant corps sustained the most
terrific assaults of the overwhelming
Turkish forces without moving an inch
from its positions. Even the night did
not bring any. rest, as the full moon af
forded sufficient light for the deadly,
work to go on. Baring the eclipse there;
was a moment’s rest, bnt as soon as 1 the
moon’s disk, reappeared from under tho
shadow cast over it, the fighting began
anew more desperately tlqm,}>efore. '
- General Deroj insky kept hia wordJ
For three days and' nights he did not
move his post, and on the third day hei
he was killed ai the head of his menJ
In the meanwhile reinforcements were
poured in from the rear, and it is scarce
ly now to be expected that the Turks will
succed in forcing the pass. If their fu
rious attacks were repulsed by the Rus
sian forces originally posted in the pass,
they can hardly hope to master "it now
that fresh troops have arrived on the bat
tlefield’ aud Suleiman Pasha finds him
self face to face with a nearly equal force
occupying most advantageous natural
positions. -
But whatever the Ultimate result of
this great battle may be, the gallant con
duct of General. Derojinsky’s small force
during the first days of the struggle pre-i
sents one of those instances of calm,
steadfast heroism which any nation might
be proud of. Those plain unpretending
words, “We will die at our post,” sealed:
by the heroic death of the General hith-'
self and thousands? of his men, after a
desperate struggle -of forty-eight hours,
will keep tho memory of the commander
and of the regiments.engaged in the strife
sacred for many a future • generation of
tho Russian people.
$4egendeneel 1
W-’owfdMu QitowrpteOfhwW**}
Rowing account of,:
dependence made. m tfiat State m
■ .Tire names signed, tq the paper are
.well knownas'thoseof the prominent
TDefi of their day in the State-, and the
genuineness of their signatures in very
many inattoces cau; he. easily proved
l ■•-j.and.c : — ' r “ : "
Pennsylvania Militia on a War - —-grn-y-xw ^ :
, ■ _ fpo-tias-
paper, ifc may he well to. state, is.
mere." copy.’but ab original, ‘wim the;
sighatures iri the' proper handwritmg of
the signers,'and ini Some instances with
the dates of signing, attached. The
papqr ought to be preserved with the
The 1 paper WaTfound-By Capt? Ap
pleton- Oaksmith, of Carteret county,
on tha,8th ; ^*y 4wt, jirMle
geanfoing mom
the boose of Cicero Green, Ksq., at
Cleat Spring, iri r Craven county, which
honBS was erected : and occupied by. Mr.
Green’s great-grandfather, James GreCn,
Jr., of ^revolutionary* fame. The docu
ment, iKin good preservation, apparent
ly in the handwriting of Richard Cas
well, being first signed bjr him, arid one
hundred 1 and eighty-five prominent
patriots of th« State, of Revolutionary
times, among whom arerAYillio Jones,
Cornelius Harnett, AVilliam .Grehan],
HezeKah' Alexander,, Robert. frwin,
Zacchous AYilsoh, John 'Brevard,
AVaightstill Avery, Joseph Hewes and
John. Sevier. The following is ft ver5e-
tim copy of this precious, document;
if vyuirA ;iT declaBahon.';i* li t-
“ AVe the Subscribers do declare that
we will bear Faith (sic) and true Alle
giance to tho Independent State of
North Carolina, and to the powers and
authorities which 1 may be estabHshed
for the Government thereof; -And we
willj.tQthe almost of our powers, main-:
tain and defend the same against Great
Briton, and all other Powers, Enemies
to the United States of America. And
this we do most Solemnly and Sincere
ly declare without any Equivocation,
Mental* Evasion or Secret reservation
whatever.” ,
awtstaneugJFiIu MfcsH»ior .tehfcMh
(o T.itiifoq - :Prorfet»ti<haJ>mnrt'> rwad
Cor. Cin Esqairer.
!: i - A: gemfiemfln nrisWetihg-'to - ihe.'
-logical cognomen of,-Stone -turned ' jip
here yesterday, in response toan i—
tatiori tendered him by Gen. Dever
resign his place as United states Al___
ney for South Carolina. He brought
his resignation with him. This was'
prudent on the part of the geological
specimen, for he is a carpet-bagger, and;
the same line of financial-conduct that
made hia resignation acceptable to.the
President made him extremely dteft*
greeable to tho now authorities ofSouth
Carolina. He tells me that Help-me-
God Hampton is making it very hot
for the late friends of man (colored) of
that State. The Hi M. G. Governor is
dead in earnest, and his committees
rind grand juries hard at work. itovUsti-,
j the conduct of the late friends of
tosn (colored) put in office there by the
, Jones’.-Chill.;
Hef ‘was dry—-hadn’t been so dry
since the:strike;, but there was-no saloon
close by, and he hod passed the last
drugstore.*. He knew Mrs.,,!, had a
little old Hennesey 'about, the house
that , she put iff puddings arid pies, and
he Fntdaw'n on-the'doOrstepSTmd won
dered haw he spuldisafeerailfiffom .Being
wasted in such fixings, as economy was
'nis miito., 1 . he- -•
He looked up aUthedog-stiir.-the alr
ioth and the milkmaid’slpath,but they
were silent and’, tending stridtiy jjo bus-
Aceording to the Chicago Tribune, this
year’s wheat-drop in tho great-wheat
producing Western States compares
with that of 1875 and 1876 as follows:
1S75. 1S7S. 1877. .
Sutidt. Bushels. ' tisltU.'
Minnesota 27,000,000 16,010,000 38,000,000
Iowa.. MiOOOtf#^ iSfiHfitt 87,000.000
Wiacostain .....35,000,000 15,000JIM 35,000,000
Kansai _...13,0D0,«|6* JO.Oofolop
Total ...Of,000,006 M,06»,OM H7,OOft«M
Here we have an increase Of twenty^
five per cent.-over the crop of. 1875,'iuid
nearly one hundred per cent, rive* that
of 1876. ■ *■..! irrim.-*
, * .I'. 1 j. W ■ > '.rnh
The Marietta-paper mill, which wad
recently partially consumed by fed?
with a loss of abontten thousand dol- ._ „ „ m,
lars, uncovered by insurance, trill be W litter. . The principal call a'for Idw^
built as soon as practicable. priced 1 goods. ■ •- ' 'tenq-.n
Penslyvonia’s blood runs cold at the
expense of keeping up her military ap
pearance, so necessary now for tho pro
tection of her people. Paying two thou
sand privates each S13 a month—$26,-
0001—is quite enough to chill her, but
the cost of officers is positively freezing.
Tho annual pay of a Pennsylvania Brig
adier General is $5,500; of a Colonel,.
$3,500; of a Lieutenant Colenel, $3,000;’
of a Major, 32,500; of a Captain,
mounted, 32,000; of a Captain, not
mounted, §1,800; of an Adjutant, $1,800;
of a Regimental Qartermaster, 81,800;
of a First Lieutenant, mounted, $1,500;
of a First Lieutenant, not mountedj $1,-
400; Second Lieutenants, same; _ Aid to
Brigadier General, $150 a year in addi
tion to pay of his rank; Acting Assistant
Commissary, $100 a year in addition to
pay of his rank; Storekeepers, $2,500.
Then there are the Sergeant Majors
Quartermaster Sergeants, First Sergeants,
Seargeants, Corporals, trumpeters, princi
pal musicians, hospital stewards, and
what not, at from 815 to $23 a month.
Should a Major General be brought out
he will draw $7,500 per annum. All
commissioned officers are allowed extra
rations, and there are allowances for for
age, clothing, blankets, etc. Ah, moan
on, Monongahela I and you, Youghioghe-
ny I Sigh Susquehanna I You shall carry
the wail of the tax-payer with the echo
of the breech-loader, and the peaceful
South will listen with a sympathetic ear
when tho Northern wind shall take up
and bear on the melancholy medley.
Eternal revenue is the price of liberty.—
Courier^Joumal.
The Czar’s Liberality.
The Czar is said to be a child in
money matters. A most intimate
friend, Count Adlerberg, is often in
debt, and the Czar since his ascension to
the throne, has ungrudgingly paid mil
lions to release him from his embar
rassments. One day last winter the
Count appeared at court, coughing vio
lently ana looking very ill.
“AVhat is the matter with you, Al-
derberg ?” asked the Cair.
“Severe bronchitis, sire,” replied, the
Count. “My doctor says that I ought
to go to Nice for a couple of months.”
“Then, why don’t you go ? I will
give you leave.” ■
“I cannot afford the journey, sire.”
“Never mind the expense; I. will de
fray that.”
The Count brightened up. “I will
defray the expense,” in the Emperor’s
mouth, could not mean lees than- ten or
twenty thousand roubles. The next
morning his Majesty sent for the Count,
and graciously handed him a five hun
dred rouble note—less than 8350, at the
present rate of exchange, for a two
months’ trip from St. Petersburg to Nice
and back again. Count Alderberg gdt
rid of his bronchitis in Russia. ;I '
The-New York papers, are jubilant
oyer the prospects of trade reyival and
the inauguration of better times. The
Various hotels, especially thofeV in the
business portion, of the city, are repre
sented as being overflowing with gnosis,
business men from theSonthand West,
who, emboldened by good crops tund a
— outlook, are again venturing
ng deserted marts’’bf trade;
Regarding a -revival of feurateoferesj
the New York Sun, t
ark, NeWi J
rag;dtoinAraerica,«
from the South are send
deifffor all ffrinda -
manufacturers-are i
na
thstNew-.
artwilLliavelaxnorefixteiisiveSouth-
em trade than sfee had bs§jp,th*
™ AVestem ’ '
ordering la)
him, aud he opvflPd vGe door and felt
his way back to the ice cooler, got up in
a chair and fished out a piece of ice,
buttoned up bis coat and turned up the
collar. Then he staggered up stairs, ice
in hand, and met Mrs. Jones.
“AVhat’s the matter Jones—been drill
ing?” “No,’said Jones; witb a sign and
ashiver, “Caucus?” “No, no caucus.”
“Another strike?.” “No-r-chill,” said
Jones, as he sank into a chair and slip
ped the ice into his coat pocket. “Feel
that hand.” Oh, my!” and she shudder
ed. Then she got a blanket and pnt
over him, and said she would make
him soma hot tea... Aaitot started for
the kitchen .Jones called her bank, and,
with a
any all .
better. There wasn’t a bit; she had i
little brandy for cooking, purposes.
Jones gave a shake, and said it would
answer if she had a little hot water and
sugar to make it palatable, They were
on hand in two minutes, and while Bhe
pulled off his boots and wrapped the
blanket around his feet, Jones mixed
his toddy and shivered. He.folt better
afterwards, though he made up a. terri
ble face when he emptied the bottle,
and told Mrs. Jones that she bad saved
his life. He ritired ten mmhtea after
wards singing, - Ihw w*I nl) R u
“Thors'* a lud that is fairer thaq day.’
Effects of Goy._.Tildeii’*L
ttula
icy,
' At the beginning ’of' the ; ‘feral-year
1874-75, and tho close of Gov. Bix’s
administration, the gross,,debt of New
York State was 830,199,456.40. The
gross State debt to-day, as’ stated by
the Albany Argus, is $10,881,660. Of
this amount, 81,880,000'matures within
twelve months, and the neceesaxy funds
are in hand to pay. it at maturity, ao
that in July next, allowing for sinking
fund balances, the net debt will be less
than $8,000,000. Economy in expen
ditures and ability iri financial manage
ment have gono hand in hand in socu-
ring this result, which, as the Argus
justly remarks, “should cause every citi-
cen to be proud of his State. Its debt
is so small that a three mill tax would
extinguish it. Iri addition to the feel
ing of pride, he must have a feeling of
confidence in those whom ho has pieced
in positions gf. trust. The,,people.pt
large- have never, watched .before .so
carefully i
now watching the
results brcraghtabbufTS^- their servants,
the office holders. Profligacy aud the
reckless expenditure of the public mon
ey is and. will be condemned. Economy
and prudent management is and will
be couftbendffi:” 1 •• ‘ • ’
The Georgia new Constitution hnB
one feature that even Northern news
papers are forced to admit the virtue
of—the divorce provision. There, was
a strong' opinion ’iri the convention
against allowing divorces at all; except
for the Scriptural one of infidelity to
the marriage tow ; but this .stem ^feel
ing yielded in favor, of. the ; provision
” Jly agreed upon, whiqh permits di
vorces when accorded by two succes
sive verdicts by different juriee fit dif
ferent terms of court; " The action must
be brought in the county where the de-
nayer
Torce
iiri:sbtne
r. States, an^itds. itXediteblectoj
sthat bq
The sweetest mott& bMbriswnfldda
the one that speaks the legst.scandah
III ,7i
1! !ss Mots .suilLLiia
•ilqlohA BiffcJ Jl
lasuriitattab
and active in his pursuit of
——, late opponent, Chamberlain. Storie
says that if Help-me-God Hampton
jgets hald of said Chamberlain he will
have an opportunity tendered him of
serving the State in a manner more
riSefti than ornamental.
Wkaow comprehend the meaning of
oetipal quotation of the eloquent
' eriain at the Blaine-Bowen
. of July celebration, when be
1 hs&r & foice you cannot boar,
>“ J —I
[ j; h That bockons mo away. v t . ~
1 It was the voice of the sheriff, and
fho heard him complain,” and the
dread hand of the law, \ >
A New-Fashioned Rattlesnake.
Charlotte, (N. G.) Observer.] ^ 1
An inhabitant of Burnt Chimney,
|jy
: j
on the Eastern
WaTr: IHpl
madeiof the arinies of Europe j arid the
-second of his bapera, published in the
September-October number of the North
American iReview, > will be read with
interest.:; His comments; are brought
up to the 14th of August With the
canlpaign movements in Asia General
McClellan occupies the first part of hia
review, and ho expresses the opinion 1
that the BnBsian forces in
were at first much, overrated.
.none hundred and seventy J
as at first estimated, he tbinn
not more than seventy-five thousand, to
which the Turks oppose almost double
the number. To the extension:of the
Russian, forces evex,toalcofta„Hnehe‘
ascribes their repulses in Arminis, but
believes that had the Russians possessed
naval control of the. Black Sea lheir
successes would have been swift arid
complete. Their defeats at Plevna he
attributes to the undervaluation of the
strength of the Turks there, but'he does
not consider (hat it will have a perma
nent effect upon the war. In analyz
ing the strategy of the Russian he finds
that their aranmyuW. plans with cau-
xikes with, decision. Uponl
Gen. McClellan’s study of]
1 war as date krAubfirt 14:
haa led hiin H> the condusion that “the
diaaceirafliitltihiitDrsosetes are skill
in favor of the Russians.”—N.
pectedofpe6plewUtino r h
• ' <;T
It re stated that the. Newport’Manu
facturing Company, p.t Providence, has
called a meeting of creditors. Liabili
ties about 825jQP0j-*Tr
Boston expects fifty thousand visitors
on‘thel7th print to see her netv Army
and Navy mqunmont. H’a time fa begin
toning up the bjgeygan. t . :
“I take my ter dis. momiri
i ij Awful Carriage in Iowa.
•: -v/ vpli VTr.niir.rt---
Burlington H»wkeye,]
qgents and fourteen book agents in
vaded this county one day last week.
I3te Goyemor was immediately
urged; fa Send, itroopsjbut hie: aaid: he
fation, but genuine horns. It was ind<
a most curious sight. The two-headed
calf ami the five-legged pig phenomena
arc completely overshadowed by the
horned snake. The horns project per
pendicularly from the snake’s head, and
are. abont an inch long. They are of a
brownish color, and in shape and general
appearance like those of a deer, with the
difference that they are less crooked, and
larger in proportional the point at which
the emerge j>om the head.-«The possessor
of these horns looks like a snake of abont
eight yekrs’of ago) aud in every other re-
p-rleo-t »-p.-nakei» over get to be.
Niit-only r-o. butrtie ffnr it is said to be
if.th- fciiduiue'guilder), has ft brighter
■itiHorv .re-vhcrrfhl cnuuteiwnee than her
ciitiiphiTiUliiand looks as though she would
he the first, tq volunteer in tbri event of a
call for triiojisi. The owner or the pher
homonal sjuake is Mr. R. P.J5ryson, and
he has started tho exhibitor to New York
for the purpose of disposing of them to
Bantam. This manstntes that thesnakes
were caught on Black Mountain, in Mc
Dowell county (not the one in Buncombe)
about a month ago. Himself and sev
eral others had heard of a famous rat
tlesnake den there and went for the pur
pose of shooting them. AVhen they
found them several hundred were visi
ble, among them the one with horns.
Before they commenced shooting they
captured a half-dozen or more by means
of nooses, taking the homy-headed viper
first
Vi. -. the Last Time.
There is a touch of pathos about do
ing even the simplest thing “for the
test time.” It is not alone kissing the
dead that gives yon this strange pain.
You feel it when you have looked your
last time uprin some scene you have
loved-^-when you stand in some qmet
city street where yon know that' you
will never stand again; the singer whose
voice is cracked hopelessly, and who,
after this once, will never stand before
the sea of upturned faces, disputing the
plaudits with fresher voices - and fairer
farms; , the minister who has preached
hfo. test sermon—these all know the
hjdflen bitterness of the two words
“neveragain.” How they come fous
on our birthdays as we grow older
Never again young—always nearer and
nearer to the very test—tire end which
is universal, “the .last thing” which
shall follpyr all last things, and tom
them, let ire hope, from pain to joy. We
were too old’ to walk any longer on bur
stilts—too tall to play marbles on the
sidewalk. Yet there was a pang when
we thought we had played with oar
merry thoughts for the test time, and
life’s serious, grown-up work was wait
ing for us. May it not be that these,
too, shall seem in the light of some far
off day as tho boyish games seem to our
manhood, and we shall learn that death
is but the opening of the gate into the
new land of promise ?—Thc Acanthus
men aud a'chromo man, Who
onld talk the invaders to death.
Then Burlington just got up and
went over the river and -hid in the
woods until the sounds of carnrge died
away. ' .. , r *.
And as tiie pale moon rose up slow
ly and dimly, she looked down and
saw the cold corpses of seven sewing
machine agentoand-two lightning, roa
men, while the on!/' living creature
that roamed the .awful “ field was a
wi d fierce
de :
uiat roamea mo nwiui.
deaf chroma riten, in the
delirium of the lockjaw! ■'
There is a great deal of religious faith
in the world that will not stand the test
irience. One day a ship was
Ain a severe gale. A woman,
T „jfofied'.beyoned reason because she
was‘very likely to go to’ heaven in h
tew hburs, wait to the captain and said,
“Captain, do: you think we shall weath-
er the storm?” lie replied with great
jravity, “Madam, we must trust in God.
■she threw her hands up iri consterna
tion and exclaimed, “Ob, dear! Are WO
to badly off as that? ” She' was a _ fair
representative of some Christians,
They talk about heavep as though it
wqre the most desirable place in the
universe, but they are not at all amf-
ious to explore its glories. They tqlk
about trust in God; but, a3 in tho above,
when that is all they have to trust to,
they don’t seem to regard it as of any
great account: • ‘ n.'aa
A circuit rider one day met a man
hying iri the road. The exhibition
of piety was not only gratifyirig, but
aroused curiosity and begot inquiry:
ffAVhat are-you doing?” asked the
pmaier.iJs k! i . tps
L (‘Praying for my enemy,” said the
oiii j-fneqato ' bstnlicjj j-j-.u.U.
•si;
._ -I: in/ioiU
li ‘,‘HPtt’fclbeJSible say if ;yi
r ypu can heap coals of firft
.... „. Mili"70 new viito
ti*rd-70l«fflral«p.’ , r/:!.-J r.pi
...
—r season more 1
lsc:-i fe fup.i 51 li lo
ir War/ -::
: The courier fromHelena bearing dis-
jatebes ifrom Gibbon reached Fort
5 haw the following day. As the idtret-
cottagesvnth ayouVff^al^m'herkrmsj
acoosted.bim:
“Have yoti any news from the Com
mand?”
“Yes, madam, I bring dispatches.”
“Tell me the news, quick!”
“A battle was fought on the 9th.
Capt Logan and Lieut. Bradley tree
among the killed.”
The baby dropped from the nerveless
arms and tiie young mother fell back in
6 swoon* 1 .
It was Mrs. Bradley, the wife of the
brave officer first to foil in the battle
of the Big Hole.—Helena (Montana)
HerkUL ’ '. A' " ■ •
• ir !£—;—.frii.. j—rrsiii
A case is in ptodnss in North Caro
liria which is of .juterest to insurance
companies by. way of information and
warning. A-gentleman whn had in
sured in the Sorithem Underwriters’
Association demands the returns of his
premiums on the ground that they were
obtained.’by false representations. The
company published a Statement that it
had a cash capital of one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars arid no liability,
whereas it had noauch capital, but only
a small fraction of it, and the balance
in rioteSufits own stockholders, given
ostensibly for their stock, and had, be
sides, large liabilities; which it had con
cealed. - Jud v ;rsn if : »*'
AVondees; of the Telephone.—On
Satarday ’e at tire Weeteni Union Tele
graph Company's . building, at Bxoad-
way and iDraMwMtttiradrtis foti
of transmitting vocal musicto Hartford,
Ct, and back, over a loop of wire 240
miles long, Was successfully performed
with Professor Edison’s electro-moto-
graph telephone. . By this same instru
ment vocal as well as instrumental
music was transmitted to Long Brandt
on Thursday evening, “-ft isnowpro-
ed to give a concert af Saratoga, wife
several distinguished singers to be sta
tioned in New York.
The Governors must have had an
uncomfortable time at fee exhibition
building in Philadelphia the other day.
T^e Times of that city says that the
vdseemedto regard them as exhibit-
„ themselves, pressingcKjse upon their
heel^ cutting off femr passage, com-
what careless habiliments of one or two
of t^ dignitaries, and ofeerwise^Bhow^
er before hsid : so' foany Governors
been with them at once.
. Monroe county has a method ofitsown
to settle trouMesonfe and expensive liti
gation, as will be seen from, the follow-
ipg cow item from the Adpertu*r ; t , .
“The celebrated cow case has been set-
tied. The Commissioners, to avoid .fee
expense of alengfey tml of riieh a small
ease bought tire cow, paying each con
testant twenty-five dollars. The cow is a
valuable one,-and will soon be add to
the highest bidder.”
. u-mJ. • ‘gp gjfo ^ ■■ 1
The NCW York Times says there are
indications of improvement in business
of every kind. There is a.healthy
growth in trade, and in some_ di
mente it is better than ii
several years. Tho doth”"
tuxes, boat and shoe-mam
Eufaula fine of i
. rdrigh to Jacksonvil
J, for the first time sin
toad' war of last winter.. Y;:’
q The political: pqt wiU. soon be boil
ing, again. Vermont, California and
Main hold elections, on the . 4th,‘ 5th
and 10th of next morith, respectively.
After the battle of Plevna the body
of a famous Circassian chieftain, Prince
Rubaninski, was found.,en- rtbe. field,
with a sabre of solid gold,- hilt and
blade.’. -
The Concord Mills, of Smyrna, Cobb
county,.have presented fee Atlanta Gq-
dets. with enough of .feeir. celebrated
cassimere to make four complete uni
forms. -•- •” -
. An old witch at Honolulu -predicts
feat at the end of another twenty-five
yeara whales will be so numerous that
ships -win have to carry cannon to beat
dwn-effi ■; U T ) hi! 1 . ■ J - :
.. The' diving ofbathers in upper Kings
-riverj CaL, revealed fee fact that the
bed .was richly covered wife gold.
Preparations were at once made to
flume the river and begin mining. •
..pail Hamilton has finally talked
herself out Eveiybody loves Gail
Hamilton, bnt everybody hopes she
will now pat on her sun-bonnet and go
ipto fee country for a few years’ relax
ation.- : -‘i’ '*
AVhen a young woman makes up her
mjnd that a ben shall not set, and the
hen makes up hermind feat she Willi
fee irresistible meets the immovable,
and every tew of nature is broken or per
verted. _ j 7 • • . •
“AVas ithof Brother ?” is fee title of
a new novel Afe think not It is our
impression, feat fee large gentleman, in
a. plaid coat,. who was kicking him
down stairs and calling forth? dog, was
her frrothferi" ~ ~ '
- - The two young cadets, fee.Princo of
"Wales’ eldest sons, have luxurious quar- -
hwWnnutff^fa-atriing-Kbrp Britannia. A
part'fifths Uhip baH*>beeri fitted up for
them and fear suite at a cost of nearly
fifteen feemsand dollars.
‘Martha’s Afineyard’s a darned Yan
kee fraud,” said a Western tourist after
a brief sojourn. “There isn’t a grape
grown on fee whole island, and not a
soul I met had ever seen Martha, ->r
could tell where she lived.”
Mrs. John Drew opened her sixteenth
regular dramatic season at the Arch
Street Theater, Philadelphia, test night
to a crowded house, the attraction being
May Howard, in Bartley Campbell’s
new pl*y, “Hearts." It was- a pro-
u**™n^*^ a ^ c ^ st! ^■ ~ j 'p 1
Brougham, speaking of fee salary at
tached to’the rumored’ appointment of
a new judgeship; said it wa3 all moon
shine. Lyndhurst, in his dry and wag
gish way remarked, “It riiay be so; , but
I have a strong notion that, moonshine
thovgh it be, you would like to Bee the
first quarter of,it” .
An Alabama man refused to - accept
certain bank bills tendered himbwanse
the mules engraved on them were not
properly geared. He laid feat-fee en
graver had put the breeching upon the
lead mule instead of those at the wheels,
which made a-very grave state of af
fairs id going-down grade.
. A from Saybroolc, Ill., says
that Sergeant Bates, fee flag-carrier, at
tempted to destroy his life by taking an
overdose of laudanum. Bates has been
residing at Saybrook tor some time
pastt-andr-tt is known that his family
haveheen utterly destitute for nearly a
year, bei
A legal friend of Gen. Batter is au
thority fortire statement that fee Gen-
eral is preparing to carry on an inves-.
tigafion tbrougb a special House com
mittee of all matters connected wife the
Foster and Matthews letters, and tire
subsequent settlement of the Louisiana
questiodbf the Commission sent thero
by the President .
Mr. Sumrier,whs was fastidiously ex
act in all matters of official etiquette, once
said in fee presence of the writer of this
paragraph feat “the proper address of a
member of Congress is simply ‘Mr.
Smith/ of a Senator, ‘Mr. Senator,’:of a
Cabinet Secretary, ‘Mr. Secretary’«wd
of President, ‘Mr. President/ and the
proper pronoun for them all Is, ‘you;’ ”
There * at East Windsor,Oanriditlour-
iriring apple tree, sixty years old, that
bears good-eized bnt seedless apples.
The seed cells are perfect, but a reed it
self has never been found. The deform
ity « camtd; by fee tree raow-
ingupside down, having been started by
bending fee tip ef a branch into the
ground, and not cutting it from the parent
tree until it had taken root
Aeteriti ofsand which obecrirad the
min’s rays latety foil in Rom% Italy.
The, phenomenon has frequently oc
curred before. The sand rises Into fee
air from African deterts and floats a
long time in tire atmosphere. T&biig-
r — of ships is Often covered wife it at
stance of over a thousand miles
from fee African coast- The particles
areexoeedipglj.fine.saa.of a.reboht.
If -the plateftn bf fea grebritetok par-
ty of Ioirx a torrectly understood by the
Burlington JEwfoye,; it promises an^era
qf high -wages, lDts-"o£.emplpyment,high
price?for for fee fanner, cheap
lour for fee mecKSncV high prices for
^Mt»» for fee stodkvrtshr. cheap beef for
the workingmen, lots 6f money, tew inter-
and times, for everybody but fee
ostanasxju ^^^^pads^d
bankers whoare to beyery poor and have
no money to j«y fee iantfe. - -