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M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR.
“WISDOM, JUSTICE 'AND MODERATION.”
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
VOLUME XXXII.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY
, SEPTEMBER 19, 1877.
NEW SERIES-NO. 3
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i name is Crawford, and
^ born in Kentucky.-Exchange.
jjehcmet All's name is Mulligan. He
Pennsylvania Correspondence.
“let us Have Peace”—Grant in Europe.
that Russia ia
The writer
that
' born in New Jersey, and early in his
L " ie( j nfe silenced the batteries of his
itbcr-in-law. This fact coming to the
oi the Sultan, Mulligan was deco-
d wil h the order of Howmenli and
rcted to silence the Russian batteries.
Richmond Enquirer.
] The London Times has along article
Irrocting the impression
i the verge of bankruptcy.
the debt of Rus-
0 n -ay unmanageable,
1,1 that her resources are such
III enable her to carry on a second and
|ird campaign without exhaustion.
I The present temporary successor of
L„i ian Young is John Taylor, Presi-
tjt of the twelve Mormon Apostles,
Lj ac ting President of the Mormon
• a h. which position he will retain
L.n a new President is elected. He
.hot at N'auvoo at the time Joseph
s ith was killed, and is a bitter Mor-
3TB
like Chicago Advocate says that Dea-
ln Bathfel asked his family physician
t week: “ Doctor, you have had such
1) extended experince at deathbeds, and
fcve seen so many people go hence, that
[would like to ask you what class are
lost resigned, and die the happiest?”
e aged man cleared his throat and said:
llVell, Deacon, I have not seen so very
iany deaths, but, so far as I have been
lie to learn, the people who die the hap-
test are those who are hanged.”
| A letter received recently in New York
a Lieut. Cooper, at Fort Con-
Texas, who was with the
Lrty of soldiers who not long ago
ue lost in the Staked Plains
the Northwestern region, and nearly
[erislted from thirst, recounts that when
c horses gave out the men fought to
Irirk their blood. This only intensified
r thirst o ad the Boldiers suffered symp-
ms of the blind staggers, from which
e horses, whose blood they drank, had
lied.
I It seems that Bishop Haven, who
tr many years lias been a sort of rav-
|g monomaniac, has got a surfeit of
pica at last. While in Liberia re-
pritly he caught a malarial fever which
e thus describes:
[ "An African forest was growing np
.ia me,tops wUereo? wcio ui«a.
(siMc. When the scrapings, from the
- of the longue were placed under
l microscope, their roots were in the
-• n and liver. Black specks mov-
frm swiftly up and down these ferns
1 cross trunks and branches were
drably monkeys leaping from tree to
v of this inward African forest.”
The following extract from a letter
Mr. W, K. James, of the Mysore
EevenuoSurvey Service, gives a glimpse
f : the awful picture presented by the
pane strickened district of India:
Already the sufferings of the people
re awful; there is a regular service or-
xized, in addition to the police, to
r f P the streets of Bangalore clear of
be dead and dying, but outside the
municipal limits dead bodies are lying
'■ "ij directions; the lower castes are
::d ? and eating the bodies; two
■ "ere caught doing so, and have
: or o“ght before the magistrate this
*■ 1 ' TO days ago, when riding past
f W^ar stables, I saw a crowd of
r.tea.d women and children routing
aco dung-heap, and picking out the
Indigested grains of corn to eat.
I dysore is still under British admin-
ptation, and half its population will
fl’cnsh.
fbe lullowing, clipped- from the Co-
-fflbus Enquire, should impress upon
: '«y one the importance of speaking
F : before shooting once:
V F :‘ J ? y n 'sht, August 31st, Mr. Bert
|c°. r, ot ^ith a pistol at his sister,
t', Maggie, and came in a hair’s
KT?th of killing her. The young lady
p been out with Mr. Geo. Folsome,
‘ '“™y, Ga., to an entertainment at
„.;j® denc e of Mr. Rabun Hood. Mrs.
“ad placed a chair against the
|d 'A wliirli she left unlocked, that her
f'ittr might find easy entrance on
* min =. The young lady (Miss Mag-
nVp,l CC0ril ' n S 1 y Pushed the door open,
In I? causing the chair to fall upon
J“ aeor and awoke her brother, who
I.T.J ' om his bed in a dark room and
lc,,’ V 16 ball taking effect in the door-
Ij-J? above her head. Mr. Cook
|t-, ,' w b°’s there” as his sister en-
Iheard L- e room > hut she, not having
I Jr? bun, gave no answer, and the shot
I 15 immediately fired.
r ; m ono of our California exchanges,
j ! ‘ ^kton Indpendent, we clip the
account of the way in which
I ~*j a ' 3 heated. We don’t know ex-
,.. y ff hat alfalfa is, though it seems
j v ," a re markably fine grazing crop—
enae-iy popular in California—and
. 5 t prove equally as profitable in
] ■ section. The account above al-
Jjj: to i is as f 0 ij 0WB .
Can-ip way . alfalfa is treated on the
liter. tm ds Made yield ten or fif-
log , a ,year. The farm is divided
substw-i separated by the most
it nrt. / encea . When the alfalfa
about ti , has attained a height of
it anri'tv * eet a h er< i of cattle is tured
it a fJx ey browse it down to the roots
to„ ,ys. They are then removed
ia. »? t ext held and sheep are turned
tie sn P ,! r t v tae y have eaten every visi-
br.d js . X are taken off, and the
'AdtMgf W . lrn e ate(J - In two weeks,
bopicat ® Btl paulus of the water and
other h “, n ’ h ‘ s again ready for an-
manner tv hungry cattle. In this
head , m su PPorts about 3,000
he beiru. cattle constantly. The herds
cattl e vLAnally shifted, the fat
tzrkr.f removed and driven to
Li i e ,’ ‘ e their places are taken by
feculent u 0t ? ot ber sections. The
A.d thi s „r/ a Fa ^ ^be cattle rapidly,
Ligonieb Valley, Pa., 1
Sept 11,1877. j
2b the Editor of the Courier:
We don’t just remember the date of the
above patriotic remark, but it was made
on a certain occasion by his Majesty,
Ulysses the Great. It was perhaps made
about the time he entered upon his career
as President—at least, the country was
in a splendid condition at that time for
such a remark. The peace of which he
so fondly dreamed was not forthcoming
under his administration. He said
“Let us have peace,” and then inaugu
rated and carried out a policy flatly at
war with such a principle. The bloody-
shirt flaunted from the headquarters of
every Jacobin rendezvous in the land
with the Presidential sanction. His
party leaders revived the passions of the
late war with fiendish relish, and Ulysses
smiled and bid them presevere.
The vilo carpet-bagger of the South
robbed the brave psople of that section
with impunity, and the President encour
aged it. He said “Let us have peace,”
and then inaugurated a war of extermi
nation upon the rights of the people of
the South. The crowning glory of victo
ry in battle is magnanimity to a fallen
foe. In Grant’s case this principle seems
to be absent.
But these things are all pa9t, and the
present seems to offer a much more hope
ful view. President Hayes seems to be
equal to the emergency. He did not Bay,
in the language of his illustrious ? pred
ecessor, “Let us have peace,” hut he is
pursuing a policy that will bring it, which
is much better. What the country now
demands is permanent peace and recon
ciliation. We want the passions of the
war the bloody-shirt, the carpet-bagger,
club law, and all kindred enrses buried
forever, and perfect confidence in the peo
ple of both sections of Union fully re
stored.
This is one of the imperative demands
of the hour. And wherever a majority of
a free people make a popular demand,
that demand mnst be heeded. We are
happy to announce to-day that we are
able to see the beginning cf a new era in
our history. The people of the South
are entitled to extravagant praise for their
Christian forbearance during the last de
cade of oppression imposed upon them
by the extreme men of the Radical par
ty. As a matter of course, we helped to
“s'-* *Ln neople of the Ouuin, mu wneu
the war was over, tnSFiBoment we were
in favor of permanent peace. And we
are free to say, that without perfect peace,
tranquility, and implicit confidence, be
tween the sections, a perfect Union is out
of question. The Southern policy of the
President will bring about this happy re
sult, and is, therefore entitled to the sup
port of every- patriot ia the country.
We did not help to put Hayes in the
Presidential chair; on the contrary, we
opposed it with all our might, and yet we
endorse, with our heart and sold, the pol
icy he has thus far pursued towards the
people of the South. And not only is
such action endorsed by the Democratic
party, but by every patriot of aU par
ties.
GRANT IN EUROPE.
“His Excellency” is now being “lion
ized” across the waters. We pity the
fawning sycophants, of any nation, who
would make asses of themselves by pay
ing homage to such a little thing as Grant.
He is paving the way, it has been inti
mated, to the Presidency in 1880—a nice
little arrangement, truly. It is said he
is the only man tho party can trust H
this be so, God pity the party; for the
country is in no danger, as he will never
be elected. The arrangement, however,
seems to be this: He is to sojonm in Eu
rope for two years and then return. It
is supposed (by Grant) that the American
people will be so glad to see him return
safely after so long an absence that they
will at once make preparation for his
nomination. This is a very nice little ar
rangement, yon discover, but nothing
could be more ridiculous than to entertain
serious thought concerning it. The
people of Europe may lavish all the
honors upon him they choose. He is en
titled to none here ; neither will he re
ceive any. No sooner will he return here
than he will be promptly consigned to
the political oblivion he so richly merits,
and for which he is so admirably fitted.
Key-Stone.
Toombs for Governor,
Columbus Enquirer.
Already the journals are speaking of
candidates for the position of Governor
of Georgia. Hon. Thomas Hardeman
appears to be adopting the mode pur
sued by Gov. Colquitt, by becoming
President of the Georgia Agricultural
Society. Hon. J. H. James takes the
example of Gov. Smith, and is reaching
for the high position through a legisla
tive reputation. We have thought it
would show a proud and just apprecia
tion of Gen. Toombs to elevate him to
the chief executorehip, that he might
carry out the provisions of the Consti
tution, the most important features of
which are of his own framing. In point
of intellect he has not a peer in the
State, and though often rash in speech,
in counsel his actions are governed by
wisdom, justice and moderation. It
would be a fitting and appropriate tri
bute to make him the first Governor
under the new Constitution.
in San Francisco mar-
A Chicago paper tells us that, “Darwin
says that a woman’s feet may blnsh in
stead of her face.” Certainly they may.
Why, one night last winter the feet of a
Chicago woman, standing bare-footed on
a sixth-story verandah, suddenly took it
into heads to blush at their own size, and
hanged if people forty miles south of
there didn’t mistake it for an aurora
boralis.—Courier-Jodmal.
What the Constitutional Con
vention has Done.
From tho Eatonton Messenger.
It has stricken from the bill of rights
everything that was offensive to the
people of Georgia.
It has made the term of office of the
Governor two years, and declared that
he shall not be eligible to re-election,
after the expiration of a second term,
for the period of four years.
It has taken from the Governor the
power of appointment of (Judges, At
torney General, Solicitors, Notaries
Public and other officers, savo in cases
of vacancies.
It has reduced^ia salary from four
thousand to three thousand dollars per
annum.
It has reduced the pay of his clerical
force from the eum of ten thousand to
six thousand dollars.
It has given the election of Treasurer,
Comptroller General and Secretary of
State to the people.
It has forbid them receiving for them
selves any fees or perquisites, and com
pels them to pay these into the treasury
of the State.
It has limited the pay of their cler
ical force.
It has made it penal for the Treasur
er to receive any fees, interest or reward
from any bank, corporation or person
for the use of the money of the State.
It has reduced the term of the Su
preme Court Judges from twelye to six
years; the Superior^Court Judges from
eight to four years.
It has reduced the pay of these offi
cers for the present, but authorizes the
Legislature, by a two-thirds vote, to
change their salaries.
It has giyen the election of Judges
and Solicitors-General to the Legisla
ture.
It has given the election of Attorney-
General to the people.
It has restored the Grand Jury sys
tem.
It has restored the right of appeal
from one jury to another.
It has made the session of the Legis
lature biennial, and limited its duration
to forty days.
It has reduced the pay of members
from seven to four dollars a day; mile
age from twenty-five cents to ten cents.
It has reduced the term of Senators
from four to two years.
It has ordered, that the public print
ing shall be given to the lowest bid
der.
It has limited the pay of the Clerk
of the House and the Secretary of the
Senate.
It has forbid .railroad corporations
buying up competing roads, or to take
stock in other roads, thus preventing
them from involving themselves ruin
ously in debt, and utterly impoverish
ing the hoqest owners of stock.
It has forbid their making rpinous
or unjust disSfmination against any
town, cuy or oommuuliy.
It has made their property subject
to taxation, as the property of individ
uals.
And, better than all, it has limited
the powers of taxation to certain speci
fied purposes; it has forbid the creating
of any debt, except to pay existing
debt, to supply actual deficiency in
revenue, and to repel invasion or sup
press insurrection.
It forbids the State lending her credit
to any individual, company, corpora
tion or association, or becoming an
owner or stockholder in any company,
association or corporation.
It also forbids the General Assembly
from authorizing any county, city or
town to do the same, except for schools
or charitable purposes.
It forbids the State assuming the debt
of any county, municipal corporation
or political division, except in cases of
invasion, insurrection or war.
It makes it a felony for any officer of
the government to receive interest,
profit or perquisites from the use or
loan of public monies.
It declares forever null and void all
bonds so pronounced by the people in
their vote on the 1st of May last.
It authorizes the sale of the interest
the State owns in railroads, the pro
ceeds to go to the payment of the bond
ed debt of the State, and no other pur
poses.
In the language of Gen. Toombs, it
has “locked up the treasury and put the
key in the pocket of the people.”
It has given the people the right to
locate their capital, and to choose either
the “old” or the “new” homestead.
And, if ratified, it will save to the
people of Georgia, who are burdened
with debt and oppressed with taxation
the following amount of money annu
ally :
In the Executive Departments 3,400
In the Judiciary Department- 14,425
In one session of the Legisla
ture annually 111,000
In pay of members and clerk
hire of one biennial session- 55,000
Total $188,925
Burning a Faithless Wife at
the Stake.
About three weeks ago an Indian
known as Sam lost his squaw Mary,
through the blandishments of an Indian
named Jim, with whom she eloped,
taknig some of his household goods.
The loss of these goods added much to
the wrath of Sam, and he raised such a
commotion among the Piute braves that
they determined to teach the frail Mary,
id, by her example, the rest of the wo
men of the tribe, a lasting lesson. Jim
tried to screen her from the gathering
storm by hiding her, but they soon
found her, and about fifty of the tribe,
including Jim and several squaws, es
corted her to the hills, just back of
Washoe lake, on Saturday evening last,
and there, safe from Caucassian intru
sion, they made a great pile of sage
brush, and after tying her firmly in the
middle of it, set it on fire. Then they
began a war dance around the scene of
cremation, in which all joined, and Jim
Sam being very fierce in their yells. The
screams of Mary added to the zest of
the dance: Jim meantime sat quietly
by, and semed an indifferent spectator.
After the body of the unfortunate Mary
lhad been reduced to ashes, Sam Ex
pressed his satisfaction, and they dis
persed.—Reno Journal.
The failure-of the Newport Manufac
turing Company will be a severe blow
to that city, particularly if, as is feared,
it shall involve another large establish
ment in its ruin. Depression in busi
ness seems to haye been the sole cause
of the disaster.
General News Items.
Tell not your secrets in a corn-field;
it has a thousand ears.
When grief leaves its traces, what be
comes of the rest of tho harness?
“ John, you said Sally kissed you.
Did you kiss her back ?” “ No; I
kissed her face.”
Soft words are said to cost nothing,
but the old fellow who has just paid
$20,000 to settle a breach of promise
case thinks differently.
It was a Vassar girl who, when a
sailor of forty years’ voyagings had been
pointed out to her as an “old salt,” sub
sequently alluded to him as “ancient
chloride of sodium.”
A Michigan farmer writes to the fac
ulty of Yale: “What are your terms
for a year? And does it cost anything
extra if my son wants to learn to read
and write as well as row a boat ?”
“ My brains are on fire I” exclaimed
an excited ladjr to her husband. “Well,
my dear,” said the unfeeling man,
taking a revolver from a drawer, “just
hold still a moment, and I’ll blow them
out.”
The meanest man has just been found
at Foster, Ohio. He sent one of his
children over to a neighbor for a share
of his neighbor’s honey, claiming that
the bees had collected most of their
honey from his choice flowers.
We overheard the following conver
sation between two darkies the other
day: “ Sam, which am de best way to
dive?” “ Feet foremost.” “Why am
dat?” “ ’Cause dey ken hold da bref
de longest.” “ Yah, yah, go away from
here, nigger!”
He was making a call, and they were
talking of literature. “The Pilgrim’s
Progress,” she remarked, “always seems
to me pailful. Of course you are fa
miliar with Bunyan ?” He said he had
one on each foot; and they troubled
him a good deal.
A gentleman committed suicide the
other day, and left a paper stating that
he did so because his wife was a great
deal too good for him. That is why the
jury returned a bill recording their
opinion that the deceased was in an
unsound state of mind.
“ Is this the place,” she asked, os she
wandered down on the barren sands,
“where a young lady—a beautiful
young lady—fell into the water last
season, and was rescued by a gallant
young man whom she afterwards mar
ried ?” He looked at her carefully, es
timated her at a square 47, with false
teeth, and said: “ Yes, ma’am, but
don’t know how to swim 1”
It is thought that B. Young ought to
liavo rjf/worerl from his cholera mor
bus, but when it came to ngmrng wun
twenty-seven women, each one with a
different kind of mustard plaster for
her dear husband, and a new kind, of
herb tea, it was too much for him. Ev
ery woman laid her plaster where there
was room, and the prophet went down
to his grave like a sandwich.—Burling
ton Haickeye.
Y’ou boys ought to be very kind to
your little sisters. I once knew a little
boy who struck his sister a blow over
the eye. Although she didn’t slowly
pine away and die in the early sum
mer time, when the June roses were
blowing, with words of sweet forgive
ness on her pallid lips, she rose up and
hit him over the head with the rolling-
pin, so that he couldn’t go to Sunday-
school for more than a month, on ac
count of not being able to put his best
hat on.
The following love idyl is translated
from the columns of Le Progres, de
Saone et Loire: “Two closely entwined
bodies of a young man and a young
girl were fished out of the river Saone
at Verjus the other day. They were
encircled by two pocket handkerchiefs
tied together; the young girl’s right arm
was tied with her scarf to the left arm
of the youth, and with her left arm
passed over the right shoulder of her
lover, the girl held him dose to her.
The unfortunate pair were lovers; the
youth, who was twenty-one years of
age, had drawn an unlucky number
and was about to be conscripted into
the army for a term of five years. The
sad thought of their approaching sepa
ration pushed the lovers on to the fatal
act. They went to Verjus, and there,
after tying themselves, walked slowly
and deliberately into the Saone until
the waters of the river flowed over and
buried them alive. When they were
found they were taken to the shore
and interred in one grave in the Veijus
cemetery.
Two Reports from Georgia.
N. Y. Evening Poet, Republican.
Georgia just now is attracting a good
deal of attention, not only by her brand
new Constitution, the latest organic law
in the Union, but the unusual activity
of her statesmen and politicians. Mr.
Robert Toombs, not at all discouraged
by the indefinite postponement of his
promised roll call at Bunker Hill, is
trying in various ways to make himself
eminent and usefuL A good deal of
the credit for what is good and what is
bad in the new Constitution belongs to
him; and the report that he is to make
a run for the United States Senate upon
the end of Mr. Gordon’s term, and that
the run will be a strong one is not im
probable. Outside of Georgia satisfac
tion would be felt at the success of some
body who iB a less conspicuous repre
sentative of old and stubborn notions.
A report of a different kind is that
which brings Senator Benjamin H. Hill
forward as the next Republican candi
date for President Improbable as such
a result now seems to bo, its mere sug
gestion shows how loosely party lines
are drawn, and how uncertain is the
future of parties. It shows, too, the
swiftness with which time has worked
political changes. It is not long_since
Mr. Hill was chosen by Mr. Blaine as
theobjeotof an attack which was'inr
tended to revive the dying 'bittemesalbe-
t ween Northerners aha Southerners. Yet
there is scarcely any Southerner toward
whom there is now a better feeling at
North; and while he may not haye
been tJhoughtmf seriously ns _8. Repub
lican candidate for President, certainly
he has.been trusted laigelyto strength
en and make good the later and con
servative Republican policy. ’ Many
Republicans would rather, see Hill
President than Toombs Senator.
Personal Jottings.
There is a young lady in Omaha
named Hittie Maginn.
A thousand Smiths were present at a
‘ebration in New Jersey for the benefit
the family.
Among Brigham Young’s probable
i there is no question but that
. Q. Cannon is a big gun.
t Advices from Rome represent the
Ripe’s health as not so good, and it
stated that his limbs are paralyzed.
The Mormon apostles decide that a
quorum of their number shall rale the
church. This makes Apostle Taylor,
their head, virtually Brigham Young’s
successor.
Gen. B. F. Butler, when fighting his
battles o’er again, always alludes re-
‘ * Yy to the Southern soldiers as
lerates,” and not as “rebels.”
The Milwaukee Wisconsin, an influ
ential Republican newspapers of the
Northwest, mentions Gov. Hampton
favorably as a possible candidate for
President 1SS0.
Ann Eliza, the discarded wife of the
late lamented Brigham Young, is cred
ited with believing that her old lord
and master is now enjoying an atmos
phere of 210 in the shade.
The Englishman DeTourville, who is
under sentence of death for pushing his
wife over a precipice in the Tyrol last
summer, receives by her will, lately
proved in London, a fortune of $200,000.
That was what he did the murder for,
but little good will it do him.
A son of the late Hon. JohnY. Mason,
of Virginia, is a captain in the French
army. At thirteen years of age he was
the hearer of dispatches from Napoleon’s
Court to the Confederate government
and subsequently served on Gen. Hamp
ton’s staff during the civil war.
The heirs of John C. Heenan are
about to erect a monument to his mem
ory. The design of the work is one of
simple, touching beauty. It contem
plates a plain marble shaft, surmount
ed with the appropriate figure of an
angel in pugilistic attitude, with
bloody nose and a black eye.
John Anderson, the Englishman who
accused himself in Philadelphia of
committing a murder near Colchester,
England, last January, now says his
confession was false, and that his only
object in making it was to obtain a free
passage to England.
Five sons and seven daughters of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Parker, of
Nantucket, are now living, whose ages
are respectively 78,76,73,70,68,65,63,
59,57,55, 58, fit These twelve consti-
*AflrwyrW'AtrhTiT)inif Kill 'Tlftiii
cept one. -which died in infancy. The
lafnerwas, at the time of his death, 88,
and the mother died at the age of 77.
The Houston Telegram has inter
viewed Mr. Robt. Kidd, now in that
city, who resides at San Felipe, on the
Brazos, Texas. He is a native of Am
herst county, Va., and is now in his
lOfth year. His father died at the age
of 104. He has used tobacco, says the
reporter, since his 20th year. Never
used spectacles, and never weighed over
154 pounds. He made 200 bushels of
com and one bale of cotton, without
any assistance, in his 99th year. He
was a bachelor till his 64th year.
Georeiacs.
Companies ore already organized to
build two new hotels at Milledgeville,
should it be elected capital of the State.
Mr. J&s. Bennett, of Fayette county,
has ten acres of Shockley apples that
have paid him SG0Q net profit in the
last two years.
The Lawrenceville Herald says there
is a man in that county who hasn’t
on a chan shirt in six months,
wife ought to sow a turnip patch on
his back.
The value of meat annually brought
into the State of Georgia is about $18,-
000,000. This array does not dismay
those farmers who have their smoke
houses at home.
Dr. S. C. Brown, of Forsyth county,
has dried this year 1,400 pounds of
peaches and apples from an orchard of
two acres, making about one hundred
dollars clear profit
Milledgeville has appointed fonr
guards, who nightly patrol the Capitol
square, lest some vile scamp should
torch tire building. Now let Atlanta
environ the Opera House.
A Spalding county farmer says that
frost never comes until the cockle-burrs
were fully ripe, and as these have just
begun to grow in indications pointed
to a late season and the fall maturity of
all cotton bolls.
Hon. J. H. Blount member of Con
gress from the Sixth Dsstrict, last Tues
day appointed Mr. G. Simmons, son of
Hon.T. J. Simmons, ex-President of
the State Senate, as cadet to West Point
from stud district
Col. Jones, in his “editorial corre
spondence” of the Macon Telegraph,
tolls the following snake story : “The
wife of a farmer residing near Hines-
ville, recently hearing one of her chil
dren ciy out, while bringing water from
the spring hard by, ran to its assistance.
Bat imagine her terror at finding a
huge rattlesnake twined around the
legs of 3he child, and with sounding
rattles vainly endeavoring to bite it A
rapid inspection showed that the mon-
storis laws were distended to the ut
most by the protruding legs of a half
gorged rabbit Of course it was quickly
slain; and the child rescued from her
perilous condition.”
A Spunky Old Lady*
S There was a very spunky old lady at
e White House last Friday. She is
ntChadesFlodd, ofCohjinbus, Ohidl
and as she was; going about with ^er
party visiting the public rooms, an ob-
sequious ! doar-keeper came up and of
fered Ids services to show them about.
“If you come with me,” said he, “I
will show you the President”
Mis. Flood shinned her shoulders
and turned her tack .titpon the young
man,saying: 4
1 “I have seen him too often in Colum
bus; He 'is old~6lioes to me. I never
would demean myself by going to See
him is an pffiw he has stolen.”
A Confederate Torpedo.
An Incident of the War Without a Far-
alleL
Letter to Richmond Whig.
* * * But of all the boats
in all the tide of time, and of all the
daring deeds of mankind in the history
of wars, that of Lieutenant Dixon, of
the Twenty-first Alabama Volunteers,
in the submariue torpedo boat in the
Charleston harbor, in 1864, stands un
paralleled.
This boat operated under water. She
could take tho bearing of her enemy
more than a mile away, then settle
down under the surface of the water,
head for the hostile ship and strike her
at any depth below the water-line. She
required a crew of nine men, all told—
a captain or pilot, and eight men to
propel her.
She was built in Mobile, by Hund
ley & McClintock, who took her by rail
to Beauregard at Charleston. He called
for volunteers from the fleet to man her
and use her against the ironsides. Lieut
Payne, of the Confederate navy, (a Vir
ginian) and eight seamen volunteered
to take her out. She was made ready
one evening, and lying alongside a
steamer. The crew were all at their
posts inside the boat. Payne was stand
ing in the round hatchway, just about
to stoop down into his place and fasten
the hatch down, when the waves of a
passing steamboat swept over and into
her, sinking her instantly. Payne
caught by the guards of the steamer
and sprang out; the other eight men
went down with the boat and perished.
In a few days she was raised and
again made ready. Payne again vol
unteered, and eight sailors with him.
This time they were lying by the wharf
at Fort Sumter, Payne standing as be
fore, in the hatch to give his final or
ders, when the boat creened, filled and
sank. Payne and two men sprang out,
the other six men went down in her
and perished.
In a few days she was again raised,
and Hundley and crew toc-k her into
Stone river, where she dived and swam
on the water and under it, showing all
her powers, until presently she dive I
and carried her hapless owner and crew
with her to the bottom. When they
were found a week after her nozzle was
down deep into the mud of the bottom,
and the boat was inclining forty-five
degrees to the surface. Her ballast had
shifted, and her crew were unable to re
lieve her, and they all perished.
Again she was made ready for action,
and though they had seen the fate of
the three crews; a fourth, led by Uent.
Dixon, of the 21st Alabama infantry,
volunteered to take her put and attack
the Housatonic, a new corvette, which
had just arrived on the station, and was
lying outside a few miles off Charleston
harbor. . .. - ;
’ Brave Dixon steered his boat with
the certainty of fate, struck .the Housa
tonic fairly, and blew her whole stem
off. The ship sank in two and a half
minutes, and the torpedo boat disap
peared for ever. Six years afteward
men in submarine armor went down to
the wreck of the Housatonic, and they
report the Torpedian lying on the bot
tom, 100 feet from where her great vic
tim lies. Undoubtedly the concussion
produced by the explosion of the tor
pedo destroyed instantly the lives of
Dixon and his crew.
Sitting Bull.
He says Ills Name is Charles Jacob, and
that he is an Alumnus oi St, John’s.
We make the following extract from
a letter written by a correspondent of
the New York World from “Fort
Walsh, Cypress Hills, British North
west Territories
The mystery that has hitherto
shrouded the person of the great Sioux
warrior has been removed. In conver
sation after dinner with one of the po
lice officers the other day he said that
he was a native of Fort Garry, and an
Alnmnus of St John’s College there—
statements which he himself afterward
confirmed. Several old traders who
have had a look at him declare that
they remember him well as Charlie
Jacobs, a half-breed who attended the
college in its infancy thirty years ago.
This young Jacobs was of Objibway
birth, and was a remarkably intelligent
lad, with ambition to become a “big
Injun." He disappeared from Fort
Garry about 1853. When asked by the
police officer if he recollected anything
about Fort Garry Sitting Bull laughed
heartily, and said he knew the princi
pal people there, among others Donald
A. Smith, the Hudson Bay factor; Jas.
Sutherland, Father Vary, now a mis
sionary at the Sault. He was also well
acquainted with the late James Ross,
Chief Justice of the Riel-Lepine Goy-
erament in 1869-70; indeed, he says
they were boys together. Roes was a
half-breed, who after graduating at St
John’s College went to Toronto Univer
sity, where he was a gold medalist
Sitting Bull says his father, Henry
Jacobs, was at one time employed as
interpreter by Father Proulx on Man
Islandj but whether the old gentleman
or not he does not know. Sit
ting Bull is thoroughly familiar with
French and English and several Indian
languages. He is about forty-two or
forty-tnree years of age, a medium
sized, athletic built man, of no distin-
ing traits beyond those always
ound in the half-breed. He is an ex
cellent conversationalist, and will talk
on every subject but his plans for the
future.
Georgia Looking Up*
Boitan Herald.
The Empire State of the South is
looking np. Gen. Bob Toombs, having
been assured that his political disabil
ities will be removed by Congress this
winter, is intending to ran for Senator
Gordon’s place. Hon. Benjamin Hill,
the amber-haired statesman, is already
talked of in Georgia as the next Demo
ocratic candidate for the Presidency.
Longstreet, now a citizen of Geor-
The Crops in Georgia and the
South.
The following report for the month
of August has been issued by the State
Department of Agriculture:
CORN.
The average condition and prospect
of com in North Georgia is reported at
103—exactly the same as reported for
June and July. This is the only sec
tion of the State in which over an aver
age crop has been produced. In Middle,
Southwest and East Georgia there has
been a very decided falling off since
first of August—amounting to 9 per
cent., or 80 against 89 one - month ago,
in Middle Georgia; 5 per cent,, or 67
against 72, in Southwest Georgia; and
9 per cent., or 79 against 88, in East
Georgia. In Southeast Georgia the pros
pect is unchanged. The general aver
age prospect for the State, on the 1st
September was 81.7 against 89.8 pi
cent. 1st August The prospect Sep
tember 1st, 1876, was 106, and Sep
tember 15th, 1875, 85 per cent of an
average.
It is evident from these estimates
that the supply of
will be deficient
corn for next year
There has been a general falling off
in the prospect throughout the State,
varying greatly in the different sections,
viz: In North Georgia 2 per cent, or
91 against 93; in Middle Georgia, 4 per
cent., or 86 against 80; in Southwest
Georgia, 7 per cent, or 73 against 80;
in East Georgia, 12.4 per cent, or 76.6
against 88; in Southeast Georgia, 1 per
cent, or 91 against 92. The general
average for the State was 79 on the 1st
September, against 68.6 on 1st August
In North Georgia the complaint is com
mon that cotton is “late, Borne rust;” in
Middle Georgia, “drouth, and some
rnst;” in Southwest Georgia, almost uni
versally, “rust and drouth;” and in
Thomas, Decatur, Early and Dougherty
counties, in addition, “caterpillars.”
The crop will certainly be short Any
difference between the estimates now
and the final yield must be attributed
chiefly to error in the former, since it
is too late in the season for the recent
rains—which perhaps have been gen
eral—to effect more than secure the
present estimates. During the preva
lence of a long drouth and under its
discouraging influence farmers general
ly over estimated the injury to the cot
ton crop. Still, the complaint of in
jury from rust and drouth are so gen
eral—well-nigh universal in large cot
ton producing sections of the State—
and the cotton being generally late in
North Georgia, the final yield will
probably, not exceed thre^fourths of
ah average crop- T ~ .
■’BtigRam'Yff&iig’sirstate.'
Silt Lika diipaJcK to cEieago ‘
1 The estate of-Brii.
mated at from $6,000,000 to
but it would be difficult to put any ap
proximate value upon it, as it is very
widely scattered. He owns large tracts
of real estate in many of the settle
ments, and mills, buildings, live stock,
and a great variety of improvements.
He owns nearly all the stock in the
street railroads in this city, and large
amounts of Utah Central and Utah
Southern Railroad bonds, is a large
owner in the Deseret Bank, the Deseret
Telegraph Company, the controlling
proprietor of the great Zion’s Co-opera
tive Mercantile Institution, etc. In
Ann Eliza’s bill for divorce she estima
ted his monthly income at 860,000,
which he denied in his reply, and
stated that his monthly income would
not exceed $6,000. He had already
distributed a considerable amount of
property among his children, and as he
was very punctilious in regard to his
affairs, it is probable that his will has
been drawn to preclude, if possible, any
legal complication. Through life he
was averse to lawyers and the settle
ment of disputes through the courts. It
is doubtful whether it will be possible
to avoid complications and law suits in
the settlement of this vast estate, and it
is more than likely that the lawyers
may have many a fat fee before the will
disposed of.
A clause in the will directs that Brig
ham shall be buried in a rosewood cof
fin three inches wider than his body,
so that if he had a disposition to turn
over he might do so; that he be laid on
a cotton mattress; that his body be
borne to the grave on a bier, and he he
buried in a stone vault, a stone slab to
be placed over the top. He requests
that none of the male members of the
family should wear crape or emblems
of mourning, and that the females
should not purchase mourning dresses,
though they might wear such if they
had them.
Political Notes.
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, has
written a letter on CoL Scott’s proposi
tion to increase to regular army as one
means of solvinh the labor question.
Judge Black thinks this would not be
a remedy, bnt an aggravation of the
disease, and with grim humor suggests
that it would be better and cheaper to
charge the national treasury with fair
wages to employees and let the corpor
ations have the fruits of their labor as
clear gain.
A despiser of the President and all
bis policies proposed the following res
olution in the Pennsylvania Republican
State Convention, but hadn’t tne cour-
;e to insist on its being read. The
tairman suppressed it, bnt the wicked
reporters fonnd it ont:
Resolved, That this convention regards
with admiration the President’s faithful
attention to his Christian duties, and
we cordially recommend that to the
morning and evening service at the
White House be added the little hymn,
“When I can Read my Title Clear.”
The Mayor of Hot Springs, Ark,
dispenses impartial justice. A few
days ago, having committed an offense
f against the peace and dignity of the
ifTtalked offor United States Mar- city, he opened his court in the mom-
shal. Georgia intends to be a live mem
ber of the Union.
“The funeral was all that could be
expected,” says an aged lady who looks
~— these events with an artistic eye.
display of flowers was grand, and
e widow wept like a bom angel.”
At Richmond, Va., pedestrians axe
crossing the James river without wet
ting the soles of their shoes, so loir is
the water.
ihg by arraigning himself for violation
of “ordinance number ten,’ and pro-
Donnded the Query,
“Gmltyjor not guilty ?”
“Guilty, your honor,” was hisprompt
response in the capacity of culprit to
himself in the capacity of Mayor.
“This prisoner is: fined five dollars
and oosts,” said the Mayor to himself
as prisoned and.-it .Wia so'entered on
record.' Having4hns disposed of his
owhichBehe'paBsedj withrRbman dig
nity to the consideration of .others; c--
CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING.
One«quMeon» month— $ <00
toe squeio three months- - S M
One square iix n— T - 12 00
One aquare twelve M 00
One-fourth column one mnpfrh 10 00
One-fourth edlnmRfliwa manftfL 20 00
One-fourth column SmoSS-!™... SO 00
toeAonrlh column twelve month!
One-half column one
2*«-JaIf column three montha
On e-half column fix month*..™.,
One-hall column twelve month!.....
One oolumn one inneiv „ M ,
One column three months. 60 00
One column six moatha 104 00
One column twelve montha, , , 100 00
pm* Tha foregoing rates are tor either Weeklj
Tri-Weekly. When published In both papers^
50 per cent, additional upon table rates.
The Had Stone.
Courier- Journal.
I Saw a genuine mad stone to-day,
the only one to my knowledge in Har-
rodsbrirg, Ky. It is in the possession
of a farmer of this county, one W. F.
Clarkspn, who proved its virtues, for the
fifty-ninth time since he has owned it,
this morning by applying it to a wound
thought to have contain 2d virus from
the saliva of a mad dog. The stone
actually stuck—adhered to the wound
for over one hour, absorbing the poison,
its owner said.
Mr. Clarkson,(who resides near Pleas
ant Hill postoffice, h«a had thin stone
in his possession for twenty-three years,
and during this period has successfully
treated fifty-nine cases of bites of dogs,
cats, snakes, and poisonous insects, as
many persons redding in Marion,
Washington, and Casey counties ™
testify, including physicians, who were
skeptics in regard to its curative quali
ties before witnessing experiments with
the stone.
Peter Saunders, of Washington coun
ty, wo3 badly bitten four years ago by
a mad dog, and it is said by reliable
persons, was entirely relieved by the
application of this identical stone, and
several hogs and horses, bitten at the
same time by the same deg that bit
Saunders, died of hydrophobia. The
particulars of this affair, including a
communication from Dr. Yandell, of
Louisville, who ridiculed the idea of a
curative powers, were published about
that time in the Springfield Kentuck
ian, and the article was extensively
copied and commented upon.
Mr. Clarkson claims to have procured
this stone of an Italian, who brought it
from Switzerland. It ia about one inch
long, and perhaps weighs about two
ounces. It resembles somewhat a piece
of bone, being very porus, the pores
running in one pirection and a parallel,
though it is much harder than bone.
After being applied to a wound con
taining virus, until it ceases to adhere,
it requires to be soaked in a mixture of
warm milk and water, when it may be
again applied, and so on until all the
poison has been absorbed or drawn out.
Clarkson was once offered a handsome
price for it by parties in Canada, bnt
refused to part with it. It has afforded
considerable revenue to its present poe-
An Important Invention.
Sin Antonio Expnu.
An Express reporter while wander
ing about the city yesterday wad end-
daily, and Co his surprise, tenderly em
braced by Mr. Jake Marshall, and in
vited to that 1 gentleman’s residence to
inspect a contrivance for the loading of
— v-”- — -notion. A
chanced to
he upon a west-hound train with Mr.
-vJ.An'ttio nrohabilify ofaVOilJ-
. to “taking in”
(food was discussed. Mr. Marshall,
having been in the days of his earlier
life a man of no mean mechanical
ability, declared that he could invent
a means for loading the wood without
stopping the train, and upon reaching
his home he at once set his mihd to
work to invent a machine for such a
purpose. It was to show the reporter
the result of his labor that Mr. Marshall
invited him to his residence yesterday.
Beyond doubt, he has achieved success.
The machine consists of a flexible plat
form elevated a few inches above tire
height of the tender, upon which the
cord wood is piled. As the train pass
es, by the use of a lever the engineer
throws out a catoh which takes the
course of a groove in which a band that
revolves the rollere underneath the
platform is passed around the rollers,
moving toward the tender, into Which
the wood is thrown. After the wood is
discharged the platform recedes and
escapes the cars, which fly by, and no
time is lost
An Astonished Dutchman-
Misers’ Journal.
A Dutchman in the Pennsylvania
oil regions let his lands to an oil com
pany last spring on condition of receiv
ing one-eighth of the oil procured. The
well proved to be a pretty good one,
and the former began to think the oil
men should give him a better chance,
and ventured to tell them so. He said
they ought to give him one-twelfth. The
arrangement was finally made, with
the understanding -: that the Dutchman
was not to toll any one. All went
smoothly until the division day came,
when onr friend was early at hand to
see how much better he would be off
under the new bargain. Eleven bar
rels were rolled to one aide for the oil
men and one for him.
“How’s dish?” said he. “I dink I
I was to get more as before. You haf
made some mistakes.”
The matter was explained to him
that he formerly got one barrel out of
eight, but it was his proposition to take
one out of every twelve. This revela
tion took him aback. He scratched
his head, looked crass and relieved hi9
breast of feelings of self-re
proach by indignantly remarking:
“Well, dat ish de first time as I ever
knowed eight was more as dwelve.”
From the report of the Commission
er of the General Land Office it appeals
tfat the Southern States have received
the following donations of land for the
purpose of internal improvements:
Acres.
Alabama- — 3,579,e20
Florida
Louisiana 1,577,840
Arkansas
Missouri- — —-—2,894,160
Total to Southern States—15^91,483;
The donations .to Northern States
have been as foRom:' ....
Wisconsin 5,236,797-
Minnesota -—— —9,664,042
Oregon —1,888,600
Illinois 3,249,968
Iowa 6,795,259
Michigan 5,062,480 .
‘ —8^40,000 -
Ohio- -1A0Q.361 .
Tnijlap* —- —.t 1>439,279:;)
Total to Northern States—-
Curran was once defending a Miss
Tickle befbre a Judge whcioduld take a
joke. Saiftimfeiwert.izT
“Tickle, ^my client, the defendant,
the Judge cynically replied i
“Tickle her youraelf, Curran, you die
£M well able to do it as I am.”