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W. BWINEHL, Proprietor.
Wednesday Corning, Oct. 17, 1877
Mr. J. R. Christian, formerly of the
Sparta Times and Planter, has become
assaciated with Capt. Moseley in the
editorial management of the Bulletin.
We welcome him as a citizen, and wish
him success.
Chicago is trying the plan of “still”
alarms for fires. The chief of the fire
department has allowed no bell-ringing
since the recent riots, and the plan works
well. Great crowds at fires are prevent
ed, and better work is done by the un
hindered firemen.
Mr. Alvin Johnson, publisher of
“Johnson’s Encyclopedia,” who has the
most elegant private residence in New
York, except, perhaps, Mrs. A. T. Stew
art's is entertaining Alexander H.
Stephens. Mr. Stephens is an assistant
editor of the Encyclopaedia.
The rate of taxation in New York
city for the current year has been fixed
at 3.65 per cent. This, with the State
tax, will make probably 5 per cent,
upon the assessed value of property,
and there are complaints that there as
elsewhere property is assessed above its
market value. This is one of the in
gredients of “hard times,” and a con
siderable one. Nearly the whole
country sutlers from it.
The New York Herald very truly
savs : “Although the policy of Presi
dent Hayes is entirely right and wise,
it is nevertheless a bitter pill for his
party. It embodies a different political
doctrine from that on which Republi
cans have been nourished. While is is
consistent enough with their national
platform adopted last year, it is not
consistent with the spirit in which Mr.
Hayes’ canvass was conducted by his
supporters.”
It is expected, says the Nashville Ran-
ncr, that the President will decide this
week who is to be appointed Judge of
the Supreme Court, to fill the place made
vacant by the resignation of Judge Davis,
The appointment seems to lie between
nersehel V. Johnson, of Georgia ; Mr.
Harlan, of Kentucky, Bristow’s law part
ner, and Judge Iluut, of Louisiana. The
latter accompanied the President on his
late New England tour, by special invi
tation, and from this circumstance it is
inferred that his chances are the best.
James T. Fields says that an admirer
of Shakespeare discovered among his
friends a Bostonian who had never read
the plays of the immortal 'William, and
advised him t“ do so at once. Several
months later the giver of the advice
again met his friend, asked him if he had
read any of the plays, and what he
thought oC them. Yew, he had rAnd them,
all, and he added, with effusion, “They
are glorious, sir—far beyond my expec
tations! Why, sir, there are not twenty
men in Boston who could have written
them.”
DEV’OCHATIC CAUCUS AT WASHING
TON.
Last Saturday night the Democratic
members of Congress met in Caucus at
Washington City and proceeded to
make the usual party nominations for
officers of the House.
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, nominated
Hon. Samuel J. Randall of Pennsylva
nia, for speaker,and on the first ballot he
was chosen by the following vote : Ran
dall 107, Sayler, of Ohio 12, and Goode
of Virginia 23. The nomination was
made unanimous.
There were two . nominations for
Clerk : Adams of Kentucky and Cald
well of Alabama. On the first ballot
Mr. Adams was nominated, receiving
79 votes to 69 for Mr. Caldwell.
For Doorkeeper, Mr. Polk of Missou
ri was nominated on the third ballot
Rev. Dr. Poisal of the Southern
Methodist Episcopal Ct urch received
the nomination for Chaplain,
As the Democrats have a sufficient
majority to carry these nominations
through, the selections by the Caucus
are equivalent to an election by the
House.
The nomination of Mr. Randall for
speaker appears to us a happy augury
for the future of the Democratic party,
and as a consequences of the country.
As between him and other gentlemen
we had no personal preference, and
our satisfaction at his re-nomination
arises not from the tact that we thought
him better fitted than all others for the
nosition, but from the fact that he was
speaker of the last House, and as such
was more than once called upon to
act and decide upon questions without
precedent to guide him, in all which
we beleive he was governed by love of
country and right principles.
It will be remembered that he was
the most formidable competitor of the
lamented Kerr for the speakership of
the last House.
Yeihling gracefully to defeat at the
time, he was elected to fill out the va
cancy occasioned by the death of
speaker Kerr, and he has now been
honored by a nomination, with more
than three-fourths of the members
present at the Caucus voting for him
on the first ballot, for speaker of the
present Congress. His opponents were
both good and true men, and either
worthy and well-fitted for the high po
sition in which their friends desired io
place them, and their defeat, we think,
was not so much the result of their
own weakness as the disposition on the
part of the Democrats to show an un
divided front. Hence we hail the
nomination of Mr. Randall as an indi
cation of harmony among the Demo
cratic members of Congress, and of the
whole party.
THE COUNTY CONVENTION. ‘ >
Next Saturday, the 20th, is the day
named by the Democratic Executive
Committee of Floyd county for the ap
pointment of delegates from each mili
tia district to the County Convention
which is to assemble here at Rome on
the succeeding Saturday, the 27th.
\Ve call attention to this fact for the
purpose of urging upon the Democrats
of the county not to let the call pass
unnoticed, but to attend the meeting
in their respective districts, and see to
it that men are selected who will at
tend the convention, and who will
rightly represent the wishes of the peo
ple of their districts.
Let this be done, and the candidates
chcsen will have the satisfaction of
knowing that they are endorsed by the
people, and they can go into the race
with such a feeling of security and cer
tainty of the result as will cause it to
be unnecessary for the race to become
a mere scramble for the office.
We have so strong a love for the
grand old party, and such a veneration
for its achievements in the past, and
hopes so bright for its future, that we
desire to see its phalanx unbroken, its
columns every ready for action, and its
streaming banners kissed by the breezes.
There is work in the future for the
Democratic party. The Government
has to be re established upon the foun
dation of the Constitution, the States
have to he reassured of their lost rights,
and the people satified that the poor
and the rich are equal in the sight of
the law, and the mission of the Demo
cratic party is to do this.
GEORGIA GUMPSES.
Gen. Toombs has returned home.
MR. STEPHENS ON HAYES’ TITLE.
The four planets usually yisihle to
the naked eye may now all he seen "in
the early part of the night, and will
continue tobevisiblenearly all the rema
inder of the present year. Jupiter will
disappear first; he may now be seen in
the southwest. Venus in the west and
Mars and Saturn in the southeastjthelast
named are now about half an hour apart
—Saturn on the left—and will gradu
ally approach each other until the 3d
of November, at about S o'clock, when
the} - will appear to almost occupy the
same place, or Saturn will get behind
Mars, and afterward appear on the
right.
1’rince William of Prussia, now on
a visit to his grandmother in England,
was called, in the nursery, “Water hat
ing Will,” because of a decided dislike
to the tubbing-process; so, at least a
grave doctor, formerly a professor of
His Imperial Highness, tell us in a
work called “Education at the Court of
Berlin.” Water-hating Will was also
fond of being saluted by the sentinels
about the New Schloss. The Crown
Prince, perceiving this, gave general
orders for the guards not to notice the
voung hydropliobist. Nettled at this
neglect, the Queen’s grandson ran to
ask his father for an explanation, and
was told that he, having, of his own
will descended to the unwashed classes)
had lost rank in the eye of the army,
who could not recognize a Prince in a
diriy-lianded boy.
HOME AS A COTTON MARKET.
For the benefit of our readers who
have cotton to sell we have made a
careful comparison of the cotton mar
kets at Rome nnd other cities in this
State and Alabama, so far as we could,
taking our figures from the local papers
of each city, and last Saturday as the
day. We find the markets quoted in
the several papers of Sunday morning
as follows:
. Atlanta 10 cts.
Augusta 10k “
Columbus -—1-OalOl “
Macon 10 “
Selma, Ala 10 s “
Rome lOiialOi “
The figures for Selma, Ala., are those
of Saturday morning, but it is not like
ly there was any difference between
that morning’s quotations and those of
Sunday’ morning, as there was no
change on Saturday at other points.
, It will be seen by a survey of the
above that Rome is paying higher for
cotton than any of the cities above
named, and as the buyers at Rome are
always in the market with orders from
consumers, and do not buy on specula
tion, it is to be presumed they will con
tinue to pay the highest figures for cot
ton. We believe the cotton receipts
here will be largely in excess of those
of last year. Is it unreasonable to ex
pect it to be so when there is so much
to attract cotton here?!
Mr. Alexander H. Stephens is a man
that we admire, but he has always had
something of eccentricity about him.
The affections of the people of Geor
gia entwine around him so closely, and
he is so well assured oftheir faith in him
as_a citizen and statesman that he, no
Ou uot, feels, he can do and say things
with-Impunity that would be the po
litical ruin of other men.
It will he remembered that Mr.
Stephens magnanimously come to the
aid of those who voted for the “back-
salary grab,” by endorsing the act when
it was done at a session of Congress
previous to his election, and there was
no necessity for such public endorse
ment by him. And, again, Mr. Steph
ens constantly kept it before the peo
ple that Gen. Grant was a great man,
and that he had faith in him, while
President Grant was doing what the
Southern people believed was “his very
worst.”
And now it is said Mr. Stephens
goes so far as to say that Mr. Hayes’
title to the office of President is better
than that of any of his predecessors,
giving as a reason for his opinion, that
Ila; yes’ title was settled by a high
court, created and assembled for the
purpose of settling the question of title
to the office, while none of hip prede
cessors ever had their right to the office
adjudicated and settled by so high a
tribunal.
Well, that is strange logic to us. It
is simply this in essence: One man
goes into office, nobody doubting his
right, and another goes in with a ma
jority denying his right to the office,
and goes in, too, with a suspicion of
duplicity on the part of the one man
whose casting vote puts him there, and
still we arc to think his right better
than that of a man whose title was
never disputed. We have never reach
ed that advanced stage of ratiocination
that enables one te grasp such an idea.
White frost was visible in Hart coun
ty on Saturday morning last.
The farmers of Polk County are talk
ing of arranging for a Fair at Cedar-
town.
The Eagle and I’henix Factory at
Columbus is receiving large boxes of
new machinery.
A mail route has been opened from
Franklin via Pearceville and Whites-
burg to Douglassville.
Mark A. Moore announces himself in
the Calhoun Times, as a candidate for
Representative from Gordon county.
Savannah citizens living on the su
burbs have organized a patrol club to
protect the outskirts from depredations.
A bill has been filed in the United
States Circu’t Court by the second mort
gage bondholde.’s praying an order for
the sale of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road.
Mre Moore and Miss Nellie Moore,
the wife and daugter of Mr. Jerry Moore,
the country jailer and well known citi
zen of that place, were buried together
in Lagrange on Thursday.
Rev. Jacob Young, of Irwin County,
has discovered a new variety of oats
which he says will stand freez is, and
weighs several pounds more to the bush
el than the ordinary rust-proof oat. It
is of a red color, will not rust and is
very prolific.
The citizen of West Point have hope of
increasing the prosperity of their town,
at no distant day, by having the Chat
tahoochae dredged. Col. Harris has
promised to use his best efforts to have
an appropriation made by Congress for
that purpose.
The managers of the Greensboro Fair
have made ample and thorough arrange
ments for rendering their approaching
exhibition a success. It commences
Tuesday, October 23, and will continue
four days. A large attendance and much
enjoyment may be expected.
the temporary roof is in an advanced
stage of completion.
Nothing particularly new or interesting
has been received from the Nez Perces
or from the mob of “greasers” who inau
gurated the reign of terror in El Paso
counfy, Texas.
October 12.
Much interest has been awakened in
cultured circles here relative to Stanley,
the African explorer, by two dispatches
received at the State Department, por
traying his destitute condition and that
of his little army on their nearing the
west coast; how ho sent a note to parties
at Imboma, stating that unless sOc-
cor was immediately furnished they must
perish of starvation, and how it reached
them just in the nick of time. When it
is recalled how expedition*, thoroughly
equipped under the auspices of Govern
ment and Geographical Societies have
returned to their starting places baffled
and discouraged, his achievements in
fighting his way against a hundred hostile
tribes, venomous serpents and poisonous
reptiles through the pestilential swamps
of equitorial Africa from the east to the
west coast, seems little short of the mar
vellous; and from a scientific, commercial
and social point of view they are regard
ed as of more importance than the 6UC-
cess of the Howgate Polar Expedition
would be.
The timber thieves all stand a good
chance of couvictivu if the result of
trials already had are to be regarded as
precedents. In the recent trial in Min
nesota, the prayer of defendant’s counsel
that the Jury be instructed to find for
the value of the timber standing (SI per
1,000 feet) was refused; and instead,
dnmages at SO per 1,000 feet were as
sessed. In the many cases on the docket
for trial in several States, the proof is
said to be conclusive; and Mr. Scbuiz
expresses a determination to break up
this system of public plundering.
At a meeting held in New York and
attended by those interested from all
parts of the country, a committee of five
was appointed to urge on the President
and Congress, the great importance to
our commercial interests of accepting the
invitation of France to participate in the
Paris Exposition; and it is believed the
subject will claim early attention at the
extra session. Ksol.
The United States Senate.
The following roll of theSenate, show
ing at a glance the political classifica
tion of that body, will be of interest at
this time, in view of the organization
of the new Congress.
DEMOCRATS.
John T Morgan, Ala,
A H Garland, Ark,
Chas W Joneg, Fla,
S E McDonald, Ind,
LQC Lamar, Miss,
REPUBLICAN.
Geo E Spencer, Ala,
S W D<#rsey, Ark,
8 B Conover, Fla, *
O P Morton, Ind.
B K Bruce. Miss,
Francis Kornan, N Y, Roacoe Cockling, N Y,
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, D. C., Oct. 10.
Republican supportersof the “South-
TI1E RESULT IN OHIO.
The latest news from Ohio assures
us that Bishop, the Democratic nomi
nee for Governor, is elected by a ma
jority of twenty-five thousand, with a
strong probability of it going over thir
ty thousand on a full count of the votes.
ThS best informed are of opinion that
the Legislature will be Democratic by
a majority of forty on joint ballot—fif
teen in the Senate, and twenty-five in
the House.
Somebody says that the Democrats
and anti-Hayes Republicans are all
liappy over this result. We confess that
we are happy as a Democrat, and also
as a friend and advocate of everything
that Mr. Hayes has done, or may here
after do, in the direction and for the
purpose of returning to a constitutional
administration of the Government. The
anti-Hayes Republicans attribute the
defeat of the party to the fact that Mr.
Hayes has virtually let up on the
bloody shirt programme. And we freely
confess that has had much to do with
it. A party built up and held together
by a common feeling of hatred toward
those whom they, themselves, have
wronged, cannot, in the very nature of
things, be expected to huzzah loudly
for one whom they honored and put in
high places because of a supposed sim
ilarity of sentiment, alter the one thus
honored and trusted has allowed him
self to be governed by principles of
justico and right.
ern policy” are much dejected over the
adverse verdict rendered in Ohio yester
day, and Democratic supporters are cor
respondingly elated over their party suc
cess in the President’s own State where
Administration Republicans had insisted
on making Mr. Ilaycs’ endorsements a
feature of the campaign. The signifi
cance of the result caunot be winked out
of sight or disposed of by saying that it
was one of the ordinary vicissitudes of
party politics. Nor do the votes drawn
off by the greenback and workingmen’s
movement, satisfactorily account for the
Republican apathy or the heavy Demo
cratic majority reported, which has equal
ly astonished everybody apparently.
Some Republican growlers insist that Mr.
Stanley Matthews should accept a por
tion of the result as a personal rebuke,
while others claim that Mr. Garfield can
not fail to take a part of it to himself as
implying something of the feeling of dis
trust entertained toward him for consent
ing to sacrifice principle to expediency.
Be that as it may, neither can reflect upon
the result with complacency a?, atone fell
blow, it dissipates the pleasing picture of
Senatorial honors.
It seems to be on the programme to
dismiss Collector Arthur from the New
York Custom House, and to compensate
him for his loss by a foreign appointment,
because he has shown himself faithful
and competent. Now there are a good
many censorious people inquiring why, if
that if that is the character he has earned
in the Custom House, he should be re
moved at all, and give place to an untried
man, who,however honest and competent,,
must spend months in familiarizing him
self with the work of the office; but if
this certificate of character is all a polite
romance, just put out to spare his feelings,
it is stupidly urged that he is not eligible
to any office under our nobly reformed
civil service.
The second storm that came to flood the
unprotected rooms of the 9th andGstreet
wings of the Patent Office, appears to
have aroused Mr. Schurz to the fact that
some sort of a roof or protection to the
valuable records left by the fire might be
desirable before they were wholly destroy
ed by the fall rains. Accordingly he ad-
Allen G Thurmin,
L C Grover, Oregon,
W A Wallace, Penn,
W W Eaton, Conn,
W II Barnum, Conn,
Thos F Bayard. Del,
Eli Saulsbury, Del,
John B Gordom, Ga,
B II Hill.Ga,
Thos C McCreary, Ky,
James B Beck, Kjr,
G R Dennis, Md,
W P Whyte. Md,
— Armstrong, Mo,
F M Cockrell, Mo,
Stanley Matthews, O.
J H Mitchell, Oregon,
Donald Cameron, Fa,
J B Chaffee, Colorado,
HM Teller, Colorado,
W B Allison, Iowa,
S T Kirkwood, Iowa,
John J Ingalli, Kansas,
P B Plumb, Kansas,
Hannibal Hamlin, Mo,
Jus G Blaine, Me,
M L Dawes, Mass,
G P Hoar, Mass,
8.1 H McMillan, Mi
Wm Windom, Minn,
Theo F Randolph. NJ, A S Paddock, Neb,
J R McPherson, N J, Allen Saunders, Neb,
A 8 Merrimon* N ft,
M W Ransom, N C,
J E Bailey, Tenn,
I G Harris, Tenn.
Samuel Mnxoy, Tex,
Richard Ccko. Texas,
John W Johnston, Va,
R E Withers, Va.
H G Davh, W Va,
F Hereford, W Va.
John P Jones, Nev,
Wm Sharon, Nev,
B Wadloigb, N H,
E H Rawlins, N H,
E B Anthony, R I,
A R Burnsides, R I,
Geo F Edmunds, Vt,
J S Morrill, Vt,
T O Howe, Wis,
A Cameron, Wis,
It J Oglesby, Ill.
A A Sargent, Cal,
J J Patterson. S C,
T W Ferry, Mich*
ocrats...~ 31 Republicans 37
INDEPENDENTS.
Newton Booth, California.
David Davis, Illinois.
J P Cbristjanoy, Michigan.
CONTESTED SEATS.
J B Eustis, Louisiana, Dem.
W P Kellogg, Louisiana. Rep.
W T Spoffjrd, Louisiana, Dora
James Lewis, L »uisana, Rep.
M C Butler, South Carolina, Dem.
D T Corbin, Soctli Carolina, Rep.
It will bo observed that, as at pres
ent constituted, the Republicans have a
majority over the Democrats of four
votes. When, however, the Democrat
ic contestants from Louisian and South
Carolina are seated (for their titles can
not now be successfully disputed) the
Republicans will have a majority of one
vote, and the balance of power will be
held by the three Independents.
The terms of the following Republi
can Senators expire iu 1879, and, as
they now misrepresent Democratic
States, will besucceedcdby Democrats:
Spencer, Dorsey, Conover, Bruce, Conk-
ling, Sargent, I’atterson.
Changp of Tune.
Coming from the Cincinnati Gazelle,
the following is very good :
“There are also some that cite Grant
as having maintained Republican gov
ernments in the South by soldiers till
Hayes ordered them off, whereas
Grant had neutralized the soldiers and
permitted the Democratic govern
ments to take possession, and was with
difficulty restrained by his cabinet
from making full recognition of Nich
ols. And the worst is that he was led
to this by proposals from the Nichols
government to elect Brother-in-law
Casey to the United States senate.”
If, six months ago, says the St. Louis
Republican a Democratic journal had
intimated that Grant’s latest move
ments in the Louisiana case were dic
tated by such purely selfish considera
tions as a desire “to elect Brother-in-
law Casey to the United States senate,”
with what alacrity and zeal would the
Gazelle have denounced !‘the base slam
der.”
Resumption of Specie Pay
ments.
In 1S16 an act was passed requiring
the British banks to resume specie pay
ments in 1823. The effect of this act
is thus described by Sir Archibald Al
lison :
“As the memorable 1st of May, 1823,
drew near, the country bankers as well
vs the batik of England, naturally pre
pared themselves by a gradual narrow
ing of their circulation, for the dreaded
hour of gold and silver payments ‘on
demand,’ and the withdrawing of the
small notes. We have already seen the
fall in prices produced by this univer
sal narrowing of the paper circulation.
The effects of the distress produced all
over the country, the consequence of
this fall, we have yet got to see.
“The distress, ruin and bankruptcy
which now took place were universal
affecting both the great interests of land
and trade; but amongst the landlord:
whose estates were burthened by mort
gages, jointures, settlements, legacies,
etc., the effects were most marked and
out of the ordinary course. In hun
dreds of cases, from the tremendous re
duction in price of land which now
(oak place, the estates barely sold for
as much as would pay off the mort
gages; and hence the owners were strip
ped of all and made beggars.
The effects of thisextraordin-ry piece
of legislation were apparent. The in
dustry of the nation was speedily con
gealed, ns a flowing stream is by the
severity of an Arctic winter. The alarm
became as universal and widespread as
confidence and activity had recently
been.
Tto offooio of it.;., ouJjon ana pro
digious contraction of the currency
were soon apparent, and they rendered
the next three years a period of cease
less distress and suffering in the British
Isles.
Three years after, the currency ques
tion, instead of being settled, as it was
hoped, in Great Britan, became again
deranged, and the panic did not stop
until the bank of England again sus
pended specie payments and emitted
notes the amount of $25,000,000.
Are we threatened with the same dif
ficulties as England experienced in her
march toward resumption ? The signs
of the times would seem to indicate it.
We shall pretty soon know how the
popular current acts upon this ques
tion. As the case stands, the country
resembles a blind giant staggering un
der an intolerable load which he can
not throw ofi'or lighten. If there is not
statesmanship enough in the country
to suggest a remedy, which shall be
equitable to all, one of two things must
inevitably happen: The desperate
hurling oil' of the burden of a crushed
giant, or bankruptcy.— Citron, and Con..
How He Found a Wife.
An officer cf the British army who
going out to India to join his regiment,
recently made all his purchases at a
famed London establishment, where
the boast i3 that everything can be had
there, cheap and of the best The cus
tomer was such a large buyer that the
proprietor, contrary to usage, stepped
forward to thank him, and to express
a hope that the officer was perfectly
satisfied, and been able to find every
thing required. The captain thanked
the proprietor, and answered:
“Nearly all.”
“Not all?” was the quick query of
the proprietor. “Not all? I hoped, sir,
we could find you everything.”
“Why, it is out of your line!”
“Out of our line? Not at all sir.”
“Oh, you are quite sure of that, are
you ?”
“Quite certain, sir.”
“Well, then,” continued the captain
laughingly, “I want a wife.”
“Step this way, sir,” and the aston
ished military man followed. He went
through strange labyrinths and up and
down stairs innumerable. En route
the proprietor communicated these
facts; About three or four months
prior a beautiful, highly educated girl,
of good family, who had lost her pa
rents, and with them all resources, ap
plied to him for employment. He
had, after listening to her story, though
she wa3 a novice to business, been
touched by her friendless situation,
given her etn ploy men i, and he had
found her a worthy and exemplary girl.
The captain saw and admired. He
bought of her and introduced himself.
He came often, bought more, and upon
inquiry found ail particulars to have
been truthfully stated. Hi? manners
and appearance pleased the girl and
when he told the story of how his last
want had been mentioned to the pro
prietor of the establishment, it ended
in a hearty laugh on both sides—but
after the laugh they were married with
in three days, and they are now on
their way to India.
“The Lovers’ Leap.”
Tbe Modern Writing up of the Legetd.
Long before the foot of the white
man had trod the valleys west of the
Apelaehe, or tbe Bine Mountains, there
was a noble young chief called, in the
beautiful language of his tribe, Chc-
wonk Bujune, which signifies, “diving
frog,” a surname acquired from his
habit of diving under the water when
pursued by his enemies. He loved
Onaluska, heitess of the Shenanagins, a
rich and powerful tribe dwelling on
the Blue Water, as New River was
called in the Indian tongue. Address
ing the object of his affection in the po
etic vein, natural to the stately aborig
ine, he said: “Chowonk Bujune is
great Chief; he can out-swim the bull
frog, and hi? war-whoop is like the
voice of the long-eared horse with which
the pale face pulls his agricultural im
plements. But Chowonk has neither
lield of maize nor wigwams full of skins
Can the daughter of tlio Shenanagins
love Chowonk Bujune for love alone?
“Alas!” said the maiden, “the shad
ow of Chowonk is dearer to the eye of
Onaluska than the forn itself of any
other man; but there is a proverb in
my tribe that says, “Love don’t make
the pot boil.”
“I’ot boil ?” exclaimed the maddened
youth, staggering back. “False Ona
luska! farewell forever!”
“Don’t!” exclaimed the frightened
maiden, as her lover rushed to the verge
of the precipice; for they were on the
cliff", afterward called the Lover’s
Leap.
The father of Onaluska was sampling
the great medicine fountain, and had
o.uii'ica ills mum guuru or me water,
when a piercing shriek resounded
through the woods. To cast the gourd
down and rush to the mountain side
was the work of a moment; there, lean
ing over the giddy cliff, was his daugh
ter, but no Chowonk Bujune.
Cruel parent, this is your work,” said
tbe daughter, pointing below, where a
quivering mas3 of distorted Indian
corpse marked the last of poor Cho
wonk. “But I will show you the faith
of an Indian maiden.” Saying which
she extended her arms in the air, cast
one long lock down the awful abys:
and before the father could prevent,
had turned and walked off in the other
direction.
Popping the Question.
Good Times Coming Again in
Congress.
The Country to the President.
There is an old story of a traveler
sitting at a Western hotel table. He
ordered beefsteak for his breakfast, and
the waiter presently brought a small
piece on a large plate. The traveler
turned it over, inspected it carefully,
then said to the waiter;
“Yes, that’s the kind; now go and get
me some as soon as you can.”
That is what the country is saying to
the President, It has been looking at
the little dish of civil service reform he
has brought, and it likes it Now it
wants enough for a square meal, and it
would like the President to know that
it has waited a good while, and is
hungry.—N. Y. Herald.
A Richmond criminal who heard
. Wm. M. Evarts speak at Lynchburg,
justed his eye-glasses, and then sat the ga y g be didn’t utter a sentence that was
contractors at work night and day, and I shorter than ten years.
Burlington Ilawkeye.
There is very little news and very
little interesting reading in the papers
now, we know, but do not grumble, do
not be severe upon the over-taxed ed
itor. Be patient, and in a few weeks
we will he able to give you the grand
iloquence, the deepest thought, the
clearest logic, the most dazzling brill
iancy, and brightest scintillations of
wit that can spring from the greatest
minds of the nation. For instance:
Mr. Jeffreys—Will the gentleman al
low mo—
Mr. Dilkes—I will allow nobody
nothing.
Mr. Jeffreys—But if the gentleman—
Mr. Throats—You are a falsifier 1
The Speaker—The gentleman is un
parliamentary.
Mr. Doper—I have here a bill to pro
vide for
tunes of “Order! order!”]
The Speaker—The Sergeant-at arms
will clear tbe floor of the House.
Mr. Flopos—May I ask if the—
[Cries of “Sit down ! sit down !”]
The Speaker—The gentleman from
Ohio will sit down.
Mr. Throaks—What is the special
order for—
The Speaker—The Clerk will read
the—
Mr. Comegar—I rise to a question of
per—
Mr. Scroggins—I appeal to the
Chair. If I am to be called a dog I
have my—
[Cries of “Question ! question !' ]
The Speaker—The House is adjourn
ed—
From the Danbury Nowa.
One of the Danbury young men who
had occasionally escorted a young lady
home en Sunday evenings, and went
in for lunch, after performing both ser
vices last Sunday night, suddenly said
to her:
“Do you talk in your sleep ?”
“Why—no,” she ’answered in sur
prise.
“Do you walk in your sleep?” he
next inquired.
“No, sir.”
He moved his chair an inch closer,
and with increased interest asked:
“Do you snore?”
“No,” she hastily replied looking un
easily at him.
At this reply his eyes fairly sparkled.
His lips eagerly parted, and as he gave
his chair another another hitch, he
briskly inquired.
“Do you throw combings from your
hair in the wash basin ?”
What’s that ?” she asked with a red
face.
He repeated the questson, although
with increased nervousness.
“No. I don’t,” she answered in some
haste.
Again his chair went forward ; while
his agitation grew so great that he could
scarcely maintain his place upon it,
and he further asked :
“Do you clean out the comb when
you are through ?”
“Of course I do,” she said, staring at
him with all her might.
In an instant he was on his knees
before her, his eyes ablaze with flame,
and his hands outstretched.
“Oh, my dear Miss, I love you,” he
passionately cried. “I give my whole
heart up to you. Love me as I love
you and I will do anything on earth
for you. Oh, will you take me for your
lover, your husband, your protector,
your everything ?”
It was a critical movement for a
young woman of her years, but she was
equal to the emergency, as a woman
generally is and she scooped him in.
How Silver was Demonetized.
Queer folks, these protectionists! In
the United States they want a protect
tire tariff to keep out Canadian goods,
and in Canada a protective tariff to
prevent the home market from being
ruined by importations of American
wares. In fact, in Canada they don’t
exactly know what they do want. Sir
John A. Macdonald, leader of the Con
servative faction, which goes in for pro
tection, has made one speech at Co-
bourg in favor of “a moderate and suf-
nwifpiitinn 5 ’ to Canfldi&n indus*
fleient protection" to Canadian indus
try; and another at Nepanee, about for
ty miles away, in favor of “reciprocity
of tariffs.”—IV. Y. World.
Gen. Sherman has left San Francisco
for Washington City.
The demonetization of silver was ens
of the most iniquitous measures that
Congress has ever passed. It deprived
the country of half of its metallic money,
thus “increasing the purchasing power”
of gold; or, in other words, depreciating
the value of property. The measure was
not called for by the country. There was
not a petition in favor of it.
It was huggermuggered through Con
gress, so that a chosen few only were
aware of its passage. Laws deeply af
fecting all interests, from which the crafty
can derive large profits, that are uncalled
for and passed without discussion or no
tice, it is not unfair to presume, owe their
existence to corrupt and sinister influences.
The New York Mercantile Journal has
the following on this subject, which cer
tainly contains significant implications:
In 1873 the English bankers having in
view the intrinsic value of our green
back, its probable speedy return to par,
and the American production cf silver
as opposed to the almost exclusively
English production of gold, raised
purse of half a million of gold coin and
placed it in the hands of Mr. Ernest
Seyd. Mr. Seyd came to this country
In a very mysterious manner a bill pur
porting to be for “the better regulation of
the Mints” was introduced and passed
without discussion. * * * *
This was the bill which demonetized sil
ver coin, after it had been a legal tender
for ninety-seven years. What use,
asked, was made by Seyd of that $500,-
000? The reader bearing in mind the
Credit-Mobilier, can draw his own conclu
sion.”
The facts here given suggest the pro
priety of a Congressional investigation.
The Mercantile Journal is a paper of high
authority and does not deal in groundless
sensation.
Admiral Semmes.
Scenes at His Death-bid—His Mind Wan
dering to Scenes of Battle.
From New Orleans Delta.
Grief, heartrending grief, was de-
picted on the faces of that beloved
group around his bed, and as the old
veteran gazed upon them, and as con
sciousness gradually faded from his
mind, a sob escaped bis murmuring
lips, and a teardrop gathered in his pa
rental eye. Soon his vision became en
tirely obscured. The agonies of death
had taken possession of him—be was
delirious. In the awful solemnity of
the moment, ob'ivious of all around
him, he looked up and ordered every
window closed that the rain might not
be blown in and delnge everything.
Then, after a few moments of silence,
still unconsc : ous, he turned to some
one near him and said: “You will see
the J mice about it; the case has not
been decided properly. 1 ask tor noth
ing but juv.ie ; -houhl I not have it?
Promise me to attend to this matter,
since I cannot do it myself.” Then his
countenance changed from a look of
appeal to one of stern command and
fixed determination. Another sudden
revolution had taken place in his mind.
He imagined that he stood upon the
deck of his gallant ship on the high
seas preparing for battle. His language
clearly indicated the great danger and
importance of the occasion. His com
mands were quick, comprehensive and
positive. He conversed with hi3 offi
cers near him on the appearance of the
enemy, evidently preparing for a deci
sive conflict, yet confidently awaiting
the shock of battle, and elated with the
conviction of victor/. TLo character
istic scene speedily passed away, and a
short period of return to consciousness
followed, during which the brave Ad
miral, thoroughly conscious that this,
indeed, was his last battle, calmly bade
farewell to each member of his family.
Death did not close his eyes or stop his
breath, however, ere he pronounced his
confidence in God. and his hope and
belief in salvation.
Echoes from the East
The most important news from the
war this morning is that of the revictu
alling of Plevna by Chefket Pasha.
This beleaguered town is likely to be
come as famous in the history of the
war as Nicsics, the hungry fortress of
Herzegovina. From Russian official
sources comes the statement that a Tur
kish monitor has been blown up off the
Sulina mouth of the Danube by a. tor
pedo. The bridge thrown across the
Danube by the Turks near Silistra has
been destroyed and the attempt to enter
Roumania abandoned. It was an ill-
timed effort anyhow. From Armenia
comes the news that an indecisive bat
tle was fought eastward of Kars on
Wednesday, both sides losing heavily.
It is evident the Turks have lost some
ground during the past week in the sev
eral engagements reported. The ob
ject of the Russiaus is to outflank the
Turkish left and throw it southeastward
and so cut off Moukhtar Pacha from
Kars. As the fighting will probably
be renewed some bloody battles may
be fought in this region before winter
calls a truce. A correspondent at Buch
arest state that the Russians have now
two hundred and thirty thousand men
in Bulgaria, but that their losses by
sickness and exposure are enormous.—
N. Y. Herald, 12/A.
‘ General Curtet’ BPnne ^
The obsequies of Gen On*
once worthy of his own S'**
services and of the gratS,?®*
country The saying that‘ l
ungrateful is untrue, and w£? llll ' s
the fact that they cannot a Jf natei l
as quickly as monarchies ffi.S
of public servants. But the A S
people never forget a hern ' r: <
has been again proved by th’eH^
toCnjhrtmemory, crowned^]
ably by the last tribute of affect? k-
yesterday in the funeral at
The day was beautiful and
of people assembled to witWi?*
emn event The ceremonial w«l
erly entirely military in iu ZJ*
and was the more impressive £
ofxte dignified simplicity. qC' 1
no oration, nor was there need??'
for the draped flags, the muffled/! 8
tne imposing procession, the
titude of spectators, and, more th 5
the bier upon which laid the
mains of one of the bravest of u
eloquer *
can soldiers, had
great military school where hev-'
ucated for the service of hi* C J
by the side of the stately riverh e i(
in the sepulchre he had chosen f~
al Custer’s remains have f 0U5 /' I
resting place. Fit be dust to dr, I
is consecrated earth where tea
and if ashes to ashes, so it is elr
glory. All that now remains f 0 .
countrymen to do in expression o'-
esteem is to place over bis grave a '
ument that shall commemorau*
worth as a man, the splendor oit
reer and tho otr«n K o «uj tragic qJ
of his death.—N. Herald.
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The Republicans are getting
much worried over the prospects
Democrats obtaining control o'B
Senate. Their papers exhibit a
cessive anxiety to convince peopl
the Democratic Senators are so t
iously virtuous that they won!;
take advantage of an opponnr:--
reorganize that body if the chancel
offered. Every day or so the?
some Senator who says he won : 1
anything to do with “any apppic-J
disaffected Republicans,” but
don't seem to think that diaj.
Republicans may do a great li
the way of making approaches tot
ocrats. There is Booth, of Calif*
for instance, who was elected bv!
ocratic votes, and now manifests
returning consciusness of the dues
owes to his constituents. If ht q
that the Senate go into an elect;
officers, with the avowed pu~.>
ousting Secretary Gorham, is the
imaginable reason why Dec
should not vote for his motioD, eJ
he has persuaded several others
fected Republicans to join hh.
would be absurd to say that «rr
ceivable code of morals would m
the Democratic minority to refrai;;
voting for a reorganization, if theca
i« presented in this way, and then
strong probability that 'this is ec
how it will come about.—Him
publican.
ell
Bravery of the Nez Perces.
Chief Joseph and his band have been
captured, but he exhibited a generalship
and courage in his brief campaign that
is rarely equaled. The oppressions of
whites forced the war on him, and since
it was inaugurated he has proved himself
equal in the art of war to any of the re
cent savage leaders, and far superior to
most of the United States officers who op-
josed him. With a force, never num-
jering over three hundred warriors, he
has killed more than that number of sol
diers and settlers. He defeated Gen.
Gihbon, cleaned out Bureau Howard iu
a pitched battle of two days and cap
tured a number of his cavalry horses,
and has fought several drawn battles
with Generals Sturgis and Miles. The
latter officer finally headed him off in a
defile, surrounded and forced a surrender.
Gen. Howard was as usual behind. Miles
went direct for the Indians, and did not
loiter Howard-like at the telegraph sta
tions to dispatch what he intended to ac
complish. No Indian with the ability of
Joseph should be allowed freedom in the
territories. He made a brill’ant fight
while he was at it.
Here is a chunk of wisdom fai
T Barnum:
“I have seen a good many;*
humbugged during my life, ar.d 1
been humbugged myself, but I
noticed that more persons, on the •
are Lumbugged by believing in nai
than believing in too much.
One Harvard student is payif
way through college by turnip
room into a stationery and book?
and another graduate from Wei
University, is meeting his expos
the law school by working in a
shop.
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The Lizzud.
Hints to Young Husbands-
Love and appreciation are to a wo
man what dew and sunshine are to a
flower. They refresh and brighten her
whole life. They make her strong-
hearted in everything affecting her
home. They enable her to cheer her
husband when the cares of life pas3
heavily upon him, and to be a very
providence to her children. To know
that her husband laves her, and is
proud of her, and believes in her ; that
even her faults are looked upon with
tenderness; that her face, to one at least,
is the fairest face in all the world; that
the heart which to her is the greatest
and the noblest holds her sacred in its
innermost recesses qbove all women,
gives her a strength, and courage, and
sweetness, and vivacity which all the
wealth of the world could not bestow.
Let a woman’s life be pervaded with
such an influence, and her heart and
mind will never grow old, but will blos
som and brighted in perpetual youth.
[Essay on the Lizzud, read before the
Hawkeye Association for the benefit of
cruelty to animals, by a boy of 40.]
Tbe Lizzud is a dry land aligator on
small skale. He is a male and female.
He has four legs aud one tale and two
eyes and can climb a tree. His princi-
ble business is settin on fense rales and
ketchin flize and skerrin horses by run-
nin threw the leves. Wun skeered my
horse yistiddy. Lizzuds is principally
negative animals. The}’ doant go to
skule, doant belong to rcturnin bodes,
doant set on lectorial commisshuns,
and drant be presidents.
Uv all the be&tla that fly io the a*r.
The horse, the cr-w. the buzznd.
The duck, the janny bug. th* bare,
I’d rather be e. Lizzu *.
Ilopin these few lines may find you
all enjovin the same blessin.
Joseph W. Harper, of the publishing
firm of Harper & Brothers, lately mar
ried Mrs. Wands, a lady whose hus
band hail an unsavory reputation, and
from whom about a year ago she
was divorced. Being free, Mrs. Wands
obtained a position ns matron in the
Middletown Insane Asylum. Here
Mr. Harper saw her, becarr e acquaint
ed, and finally proposed marriage. Mr.
Harper is about fifty-five and his wife
thirtv-two.
The Krupp cannon work.? in Ger
many are of immense dimensions. They
send their armaments to all parts of
the world, and employ an enormous
capital. A striking feature of the es
tablishment is a hundred thousand
pound trip-hammer. The Emperor
William recently made a visit of in
spection there, and 6,934 workmen
turned out to receive him.
The Winchester (Ky.) Democrat
finds heavenly consolation thus: When
the Master of tbe Universe permitted
Tilden to be counted out He knew what
He was doing, although some Demo
crats thought He had made n mistake.
His ways are not our ways. Rather
grim consolation for Mr. Tilden, though.
On Monday, at a meeting of the min
ers employed by the Susquehanna Coal
Company at Nauticoek, tb? men, by a
unanimous rate, decided to resume
work. They will receive a slight ad
vance. Operations will begin as scon
as the mines can be put in order.
There is a certain decorum m
grief; for excess of sorrow is as a
as profuse laughter.
Shutting oat the Euein).
It is better to shut out the ecenj,
ease, than to battle with him i::-:
has entered the fortress of the i
Therefore, if health is endangeE
hurtful influences, such as a nut
atmosphere, unhealthy occupii
sedentary pursuits, and those wbia patri
cessitate undue physical or menUl £ Hfl 6
or exposure in rough weather, it >* I® 01
part of wisdom to protect it by the s c:
a reliable preventive. No article
advertised or preventive prescribe:
well adapted for this purpose as lb
ter’s Stomach Bitters, an azzrees:
efficacious tonic, recommended by r<
cians as a medicinal stimulant ant
rective, botanic in its derivation
having for its spirituous basis old?
the purest quality, which perservest
undetcriorating form the potent vegs
juices aud extracts combined r;:
Fortifield with this benign prtV'-
the system may bid defiance to ts
no matter how unfavorable the c-
tions.
BUSINESS notice?.
Notices under this head will bech^fj
regular advertising rates—i. «\, one
month $8.00. etc.
A*£ Yonrseli these CiuestM*-
Are you a despondent sufferer
Headache, Habitual Costiveness, IV* _
of the Heart? Ilnve you I>ic«» Der5
Heal? Is your Nervous Sv
Does your Illood circulate ladlj?
a Cou;!i ? Low Spirits? C*»mini c
food after eating? All 0 * ’* 3 ,!
much more are the dire-’t result*
pepsia. Liver Complaint and I»^
Green's August Flower is >»"* **
edged hy aii Druggists to he a
2,4 0,00 ) Itottles were given a**? 3 '
S through Druggists to the pe°P le *'‘
Two domett will satisfy any person^ ' 1
derful quality in curing all
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Druggist* in tbe United Slates-
A Diseased Pur9**
Are you flush? Where goesy?- r I
Do you practice economy * ^ I
one dollar for an article when J 00 ^
its equal for ha)f the money ?
you can purchase one bottle of * \
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ent in market. For liabitual 1
head&ohea, aoid stomach, heart J
gsstioH, biliousness, etc., it ca3DQl ^
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of soda water,
about it.
A Card.
To all who are suffering 1,00 ft „
and indiscretions of youth, aerW 03 |
water
or f r
See J. G. Y*?' ,
early decay, loss of manhood.
Do little helpful things, and speak
helpful words whenever you can. They
are better than pearls and diamonds to
strew along the roadside of life. They
will yield a far more valuable harvest,
as you will find after many days.
send a recipe that will cure
CHARGE. This great rcIIie "^ tr :„
ered by a missionary in South - a p
a self-addressed envelope to t * ^;
T. Inman, Station D, Btbte
Cit<j.
. Thrash’s Consumptive Cure
storer is becoming as staple
and all diseases of respa« )
quinine In chills and ferer.
Sold by all Druggists.