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William?, of Indiana, has ap’
TJnI , ]) W. Vorhees United
"I-. - to fill the vacancy occa-
v the death of Senator Morton,
liirtv-foorth Democrat in
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superceded by
ilri-tol and other
“iZ,. cities in England have declined
;‘;“ n 7w contracts with gas companies
have ordered experiments with
la-rminatins fluids and electric light,
■ tie latr. r hpine deemed still the cheap-
r of the t ff0 - „
T | je i.oui.-ville Courier-Journal of the
5 j V «, it was just a year ago to-
I if- 'tint Z-'ich. Chandler, two days be-
1 "• ‘ ;l ^tjnupe of the election returns
Ijnf! ;ii,i T be made, wrote that dis-
' c i r ‘ “Haves has 185 votes and is
fitted.” To-dav, however, Zach. re-
I mains Without a reward.
Mr. Effing was successful in rescuing
| v- bill for the repeal of the resumption
Ir from the clutches of “the morning
|hour.” and having it made the special
I order for Thursday next. We hope it
1,01 encounter no more ill luck. It is
I believed it will pass the Senate. Its
I opponents hope lor a veto from Hayes.
I The London Committee on Trade
■Marks!, believing that their action will
I be greatly strengthened if the government
Lai mercantile community of the United
Ifates co-operate, invite American mer-
I chants and manufacturers to transmit par-
Iticulars of piracies of trade marks and
I difficulties in connection with registration
I in Europe to Edmund Johnson, honora-
Irv secretary of the Trade Marks Com-
Icittee, No. 3 Castle street, Holborn,
I London, with a view to their being re-
I ferret! to in the representations in course
I of preparation, to be submitted to the
I British Foreign Office for communication
I to the governments concerned.
I There is a suspicion, says our Wasli-
I irgton correspondent, Knox, among
lanti-administrationists, that theresolu-
I lion looking to the boss Commissioner
Is!the Paris Exposition, at a salary of
I t\Wi. squints strongly toward a reward
I to Gen. liawiy for his services on the
I I/aisiana Commission. Certainly the
I di-proportion between the Chief and
I hi? subordinates at $1,000 each, and
II :v their own expense?, is a very mark-
I i ■ xatr.pl- of Congressional economy.
I The first is intended to play gentleman
I or - v " ; 1 and free passes likely, while
I e.ol.ittrr will he permitted to do the
I .iri l-cry at a rate of compensation that
C l barely suflice to keep them respect-
M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR.
“WISDOM,
VOLUME XXXII.
JUSTICE
■ i
AND MODERATION.’
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1877.
This is a very bad time, says the
Knoxville Tribune, for “Independent”
candidates against the-Democracy. Two
gentlemen recently concluded to try
the experiment in Virginia. Mr. Da
vid Miller, of Lee county, thought the
times were favorable for defeating Col.
Holliday, the Democratic nominee for
Governor of Virginia. He took the
field and “ran weli for a season,” but
the following brief note to the Wythe-
ville Dispatch tells the end of the whole
matter:
JoNESVILLE, Va., Oct, 24.
Editor Dispatch—Having failed to
get up the necessary organization I am
no longer a candidate for Governor.
Yours, etc.,
David Miller.
Also Mr. Robert A. Richardson was
induced to think that, as an “Inde-
pendent”xandidate, he might become
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, but a
change soon came o’er the spirit of his
dreams, and hence this card appears:
Fallow-citizens—I am no longer a
candidate for the office of Lieutenant
Governor of Virginia in opposition to
Gen. James A. Walker. The necessity
for opposition has, in my hunble opin
ion, ceased to exist, and therefore my
candidacy ceases.
Very respectfully,
Robt. A. Richardson - .
Marion, Va., Oct, 26, 1S77.
And so dies away the little tempest
against the regular Democratic, or Con-
ser7ative, ticket in Virginia.
K-vnirg to the decision of Sitting
FT;., remain in British territory, the
> I 'lii.i Globe administers a well-mer-
: • 1 r Luke of our Indian policy by
smarting: ‘"Secretary Schurz, while
■:i-s.-i:ig- in the arrangement, has
■ '}' r, as. .rsai'ly < xpressed his hope that
' Indians will not be permitted to
’ British territory a base for hostile
;-rations against the authorities and
r.s ot ti.° United States. Due care
he taken to prevent any such in-
"ur-ons; hut our neighbors ought to re-
rrrrmber, while they are -atura’ly sen-
about the peace of their own
Orders, the*, it j ? a pcor rule that ap-
as only one way, and that it would
Jlve . not so long ago, saved some valu-
i ' ie lives at d much precious treasure,
m say nothing of bitter feelings, if the
1 ted States Government had been as
f "‘ re - ,J l to prevent its territory being
l2 <ie a base for hostile incursions
against a friendly State, as it now ex-
'* that that of Canada will take care
show itself.’’
^ is reported from Washington, says
York Herald, that a conflict
■ jurisdiction is likely to arise between
■Ffe committees of the House in regard
‘-'the right to investigate the Navy De-
lartment. The Committee on Expen-
--tures of tiie Navy, of which Mr. Wil-
"• r, f New York, is chairnr an; the Com-
on Naval Affairs, which has Mr.
'■ Thorne, of Tennessee, at its head,
J " 'the Comn ittee on Appropriations
• iy all claim the privilege of making
-e investigation. Mr. Willis’ commit-
; rt appears to have taken the lead, hav-
rotun d Secretary Thompson of its
e-tose to make a thorough examina-
■ ■■ of the- accounts of the department
■ Jer Secretary Robeson, and especi-
’■ into the transfer of funds appro-
’ lor the pay - of the navy into
" r char.nek. But Mr. Whitthorne’s
" ( had several days ago voted
;y-to a similar examination, and
- ,,r - W illis is also a member of the
committee it looks as if he de-
steal a march on Mr. Whit-
- oi with the committee of which he
‘-■nan. It will be a pity if such
1 Cor ‘fiict of jurisdiction as is foreshad
• "' ,J should really occur,especially as it
“-necessary, not required in the pub-
ln - r£ ' s ts, and m f give rise to the
Pi-‘ion which . ir attaches to an
•eranxiety to cont.rn such an invest!
i t j g p ro p er ti, a t the Navy De-
• wtme-nt should be overhauled, if only
^ Put astop to the scandals which have
circulated in regard to its past
nnagement. But one committee is
^•°Ugh for the business, and certainly
6r e ought to he no indecent scramble
an!t' T ' lat must at ^ est an un P^ eas "
Probably, says the Charleston News,
the most ludicrous spectacle on the
Continent last Wednesday was afford
ed by the swell young men from New
York who constitute the “Queen’s
County Hunt.” They met in a nour-
ing rain and raced over hedges and
ditches for some ten miles after a sup
positious fox, in supposed imitation of
the English nobs. All of the riders but
two sustained one or more falls, and the
only one of the party that had a really
enjoyable time was the aforementioned
fox. One of the riders was near-sight
ed, and the rain so obscured his glasses
that he could not see the fences until
he was upon them, and so he tumbled
over them all in succession but did it
so easily and gracefully that he was
enabled to keep on to the end. Finally
it was voted that the rain had destroy
ed the scent, and the soaked, mud-cov
ered and bruised hunters rode back to
the starting point and decided that they
hud had a glorious day’s sport.
National bank notes are steadily en
croaching on the greenbacks. During
the month of October, under that pro
vision of the resumption acc which
provides for the retirement of $S0 green
backs for every $100 new national bank
notes issued, there were issued S3,030,-
050 of the latter, and there were retired
$2,424,040 of the former; and last week
there were applications for $2 415,000
additional hank notes whose issue will
require the withdrawal of $l,io8,000
greenbacks.
CEOBtiU GLIMPSES*
Major C. H. Smith, on his Bartow
county farm, gathered more .than 125
bushels of corn from one acre.
Hon. VV. A. Turner and John D.
Simms are the Democratic nominees
in Coweta for Representatives.
The young ladies of Marietta Female
College will soon commence issuing a
monthly paper, the Calliopean Critique.
Mr. W. I.. Barnes, living near Mari
etta, was seriously hurt recently by
jumping from his buggy while his herse
was running.
Hon. I. D. Cabaniss, of Marion, wa3
was nominated for Senator from the
22d District by a Democratic conven
tion last Thursday.
Mr. Powell Bullard, of Pike,, was
murdered last Friday night by two ne
groes. The negroes had been riding in
his wagon with him.
The Albany News says the horse
traders are attracting much attention.
All the city stables are full. Prices are
about ordinary, and sales likewise.
Mr. Hollis Belk. from his orchards in
Marion county, will make $1,000 this
season on the sale of apples. Besides
he has manufactured three thousand
gallons of wine.
Dirt Town District,” Chattooga
county, calls on Capt. \V. T. Irvine to
run for Representative. The Gazette
says of him: “He is already well
known as a gentleman of ability, refine
ment, and qualifications adapted for a
legislator.”
A farmer in the upper portion of
Hart county bought a sack of guano to
try it. He paid freight, paid for scat
ring, etc., picked out nearly all the cot
ton that was raised on the land where
he put the guano, sold it, and lacked
one dollar and a quarter of paying for
the guano.
A horrible accident occurred on Mr.
Roland Steiner’s place, in Burke coun
ty, near Waynesboro, last Thursday.
A little colored girl, about two years
old, daughter of the engineer who had
charge of the gin, was caught in the
hafting, jerked up and repeatedly
hurled against the side of the house
until her skull was fractured and her
face fearfully bruised and cut. Her
father, hearing something knocking
against the boards, stopped the machin
ery,'-went outside and found his child
fatally injured. She died in a short
time. It is supposed that, seeing the
shafting going around, she got on it to
take a ride.
The Philadelphia Times says that
things are going badly for the Republi
cans at home; the old house smokes;
the walls are soiled ; the windows are
broken; the doors creak on their hinges',
the gates are ajar ; the family are
smashing the dishes to spite each oth
er, and they will scatter off in by-paths
to sulk or frolic by themselves, intend
ing to come back in better days to gath
er up the purified fragments and start
a new Republican household.
A Charleston dispatch announces the
finding of another indictment againtst
Senator Patterson. A pretty “Senator”
the man makes who dare not set foot
in the State he represents for fear of
incarceration in a felon’s cell. And,
asks the Missouri Republican, what
must be said of the sense of decency or
of self-respect of an august parliament
ary body which tolerates the presence
of such a man in its midst ?
The wife of A h Fat was the belie of
Chinatown, in Carson, Nevada. Quon
Hing coveted her; and to get her he
hired five Chinamen to make a pretense
of fighting in thu.slreet when Ah Fat
was close by and to kill him in a way
that would seem merely, aocidental.
The plan was successful, and the husband
was fatally wounded by what seemed to
be a stray bullet.
The Chattanooga Times speaking of
Georgia says: She has been called the
Empire State of the South, and justly,
She is imperial in intellectual and ma
terial power.and at no period of history
has her greatness been so splendidly
manifested as during the years when
the bayonet was at her breast and the
hand of the thief was in her treasury.
Theodore Roosevelt, nominated for
collector of New York, is the richest
man ever anpointed to that position
He is a retired merchant of great
wealth and great liberality, whose name
has been associated with all the great
charities and philanthropic institutions
in the city, and is esteemed and
spected by all parties.
II. D. Duncan, who was well and fa
vorably known here as a merchant many
years ago, died recently at his home in
South Carolina. He had many friends
here then, and many are yet here who
will regret to hear of his death.
The Richmond Dispatch says it is
well understood that the President will
visit South Carolina and Louisiana be
fore Christmas.
There is a pretty loud demand for
the cowhide of the fathers in South
Carolina, Virginia and some other
States.
NEW SERIES-NO. IT
A Historic Mystery.
Waab. Cor. Chicago Time*.
AmoDg the more prominent of. the
National’s late arrivals are Senator Ben
Hill and wife, of Georgia. They occu
py the suite of rooms known as the
Presidential parlors. If the walls btfcl
tongues they might discourse of people
prominent in the past, and, perchance,
tell tales of private life never sus
pected. But the tall mantel looks
blankrunder its modern ornament, the
brass mountings of the fender reflect
new faces, the heavy cnrtain3 shut jn
the secrets never voiced, and in 'the
room sit- a little, dark-eyed, prim wo!"
man and a blue-eyed man, “from awa-V
down south in Georgia”—a man nrilK
as May, velvety, broad-faced, and un:
suming as a field, dandelion. These
rooms where Senator Hill now lives, on
that fat&yfig^h.of March, which wit
nessed Buchanan’s inauguration, were
occupied by the new President. Twelvj
hundred guests were crowded in the
house. In the evening nearly all weij.
seized by similar symptoms of poison
ing, and thirty or more died. The
dead bodies lay in rows in the parlors,'
the sick and dying were moaningjin the
halls ; a gloom hung over the city, and
extended to distant homes, from whence
had come guests to witness the inaugu
ration. The house had just previous to
this been entirely refurnished. It was
the grand hotel of the capital, and built
in a style of magnificence rare in those
times. The hotel poisoning is remem
bered with horror by old people, but
many of the younger ones have never
heard of it. The affair was investigated
and the house examined. No positive
clue has ever been found. Some said
Washincton Correspondence.
Washington, Nov. 7,1S77.
The failure of Mr. Evarts to comply
with the recommendations of the Penn
sylvania delegation after inviting its
members to name Mr. Pierrepont’s suc
cessor to the Court of St. James, and
the substitution of Mr. Welsh for Mr.
Cameron, are cited as the immediate
causes of the reverse in Pennsylvania.
The large majority in favor of the re
monetization bill passed on Monday on
motion of Mr. Bland, surprised a good
many, even among its friends, the ratio
being almost as six to one in its favor;
but no one who has watched the devel
opment of public sentiment relative to
this matter since it was first agitated
two years ago, as reflected by members
of Congress, could fail to have seen the
remarkable revolution wrought in these
few months, after public attention was
once fairly directed to it, and the seem,
ingly covert method by which demone
tization was slyly effected. By con
senting to free debate and to entertain
amendments, Mr. Ewing has finally got
his bill out of the morning hour, where
it was hopelessly stranded. Had he at
first gracefully consented to what he
was ultimately obliged to yield, there is
no doubt the purposes of the commit
tee could have been promptly brought
about. Kxox.
Indiana's New Senator.-
Daniel W. Voorhees was bom in But
ler county, Ohio, September 23, 1827,
and consequently is fifty years old.
When about two months old his parents
removed to Fountain county, Indiana,
and brought up the subject of this
sketch on a farm. In 1845 young
Voorhees was admitted to college in the
Asbury University, at Greencastle, Ind.,
where he graduated in 1849. Immedi
ately thereafter he entered into a course
of reading preparing himself for his
chosen profession, that of the law.
While in college he displayed the qual
ifications of a natural orator, which
brought him into prominence after he
left his alma mater. In April, 1852,
:he formed a partnership with the la
mented E. A. Hannegan, formerly
United States Senator from Indiana.
His first political office was that of
Prosecuting Attorney of the Criminal
Court, to which position he was ap
pointed by Gov. Joseph A. Wright He
made a fine reputation as a criminal
lawyer. In 1856 he was the Democrat
ic nominee for-Congress in his district,
but was defeated by a majority of only
230 votes; two years before that the dis
trict gave a Republican majority of
nearly 3,000 votes. Th>s splendid race
young Voorhees gave him a position
;in the State as one of the popular Dem
ocratic leaders, which he has ever since
held. November, 1857, Dan removed
to Terre Haute, his present home. In
1858 he received the appointment as
United States District Attorney from
Piesident Buchanan, in which position
he added fresh laurels to his brow as a
lawyer and orator. In the Congression
al elections of the fall of 1859, ’61 and
defective drainage, some poisoned rats 163 Mr. Voorhees, as the Democratic
The New York Journal of Commerce,
in announcing the death of Mr. James
Brown, banker, states that during the
crisis of 1837 the firm of Brown Bros. &
Co., held American bills for a very large
amount, including nearly £800,000 of
protested paper, and had at the same time
to meet engagements in England amount
ing to nearly $10,000,000. Their own
resources were to a considerable extent
locked up in American securities, not im
mediately available, and during the panic
prevailing on both sides of the Atlantic
it was imposible to draw bills or to remit
specie to England. But as the suspen
sion of the firm even for a limited time
would have greatly aggravated the com
mercial embarrassment of the period, the
English house succeeded in affecting a
loan from the Bank cf England for the
whole amount of its engagements in that
country, depositing securities for the ad
vance to the amount of $25,000,000.
The whole sum borrowed from the bank
wa3 repaid in six months, and the firm en
joyed thenceforth an unsurpassed reputa
tion for business integrity both in Europe
and America.
Our intelligence from Turkey in Asia
indicates an early collapse of the Sul
tan’s army in that locality. Hassan
Kaleh was evacuated Tuesday, night,
and only one strong position is now
held east of Erzeroum. Unless rein
forcements are sent to the Turks in a
few days, the army in Asiatic Turkey
must suffer disastrous defeat, if not an
nihilation. And the prospect in Eu
rope is not much belter for the Turks.
Osman Pasha, if our dispatches be cor
rect, is in a very critical position.
About the only hope left for him is the
bad generalship on the part of the
Russians, which has relieved the Turks
on so many former occasions.
Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd
Garrison have never pled for their prin
ciples.
in the wells, some that the sugar was
noisoned to ruin the business of the
hotel. It is generally, I think, believed
now that the poison was mineral pois
on, and was in the sugar—for the reason
that persons not stopping at the house,
who took fancy drinks at the bar, were
also seized by cramps. Doubtless the
new President’s death was meditated,
but Mr. Buchanan never touched sugar,
nor ate it in anything, so *hat he almost
alone escaped the peril. Some of tnose
beside his excellency, who escaped,
have been interrogated, and all those
whose address could be found after the
lapse of years, replied that they did not
partake of sugar, even in coffee.' The
house was closed, the splendid furni
ture was sold at auction. Forvearsthe
hotel was uninhabited. People looked
at the barred windows something as
visitors now pause before Ford’s thea
ter, where President Lincoln was assas
sinated. Strangers stood in front of it
and related to each other sad incidents
of the inexplicable death which had
overtaken thirty persons in a night
Twenty years ago a gentleman from
New Hampshire, visiting-ja Washing
ton asked to go through the house.
People had been afraid to enter the
walls after the panic. The gentleman,
upon examination, immediately leased
the building, threw open the windows,
had the house cleaned, one hundred
and fifty loads of dirtstaken from the
cellar, put $100,000 worth of furniture
in the hotel, and was called crazy by
his friends. In December every corner
was filled by guests, and the quaint,
low rooms, where had danced the belies
of a quarter of a century before, were
again filled with life and beauty.
The Dead Senator.
The funeral services of Senator O. P.
Morton took place yesterday. We give
extract from the report as tele
graphed :
At 1 o’clock the remains were brought
into the church, preceded by the offi
ciating clergyman and followed by the
pall-bearers, Hon. E. B. Martinale, Hon.
J. N. Tyner, Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral; Dr. W. C. Thompson, ex-Governor
Conrad Baker, Gen. James A. Eakin,
Assistant Quartermaster General; Hon.
John F. Kibby, Hon. Henry Taylor,
Hon. A. G. Porter, followed by the
family and relations. The came Sena
tors Davis, Bayard, Burnside, McDon
ald, Cameron of Pennsylvania, and
Booth, and Representatives Banks,
Cobb, Townsend, Burchard, Davidson
and Hanna. Then followed the Secre
tary of War, Secretary of the Navy,
Attorney-General and Burchard Hayes,
son of the President, ex-Gov. Hendricks,
Gov. Williams. Hon. Ben Bristow,
Gen. John M. Harlan, Gov. Young of
Ohio, Gov. Cullom of Illinois, Col.
Ingersol, Murat Halstead,Mayor Moore,
Theodore Cook, Judge Cox of Cincin
nati, and many other distinguished vis
itors from abroad and every section of
this State. Then came the Indiana
State officers, the Mayor and City
Council.
standard-bearer of his district, trium
phantly carried the district, although
tiie latter race wa3 successfully contest
ed by his opponent, and Voorhees, by
tie most glaring frauds, was deprived
a seat in the National House of Rep
resentatives for the following term. In
1866 he refused to accept the nomina
tion, but in 1868 and 1870 he was elect-
and daring those four years was the
.rless representative of his. constitu-
at a time, too, when patriots were
tried. In 1872 Mr. Voorhees
defeated . by the coalitiop of the
mocracy and the Greeley- reform
dabvement. Since then Mr, Voorhees
attended to his practice.' His career
Defaulted State Bonds.
8t Lcni* Republicm.
A syndicate is being organized at
New York, it is said, for the purpose of
buying up the defaulted bonds of South
ern and Western States and bringing
suit on them to compel payment. Ex-
Secretary McCulloch, Drexel, Morgan
& Co, L. Von Hoffman & Co., Wins
low, Lanier & Co., and others are men
tioned as participants in the scheme.
The syndicate will have $200,000,000
State bonds a:.d about $300,000,000
county, and city township bonds to se
cure payment of. Its name is to be
the “Funding Association of the United
States.” Its first effort will be to in
duce the Legislatures of the defaulting
States to enact laws to facilitate pay
ment. A bill has already been drawn
up which provides for the conversion
of 8 and 10 per cent bonds into 4 and
6 per cent, and makes it the duty of
the State Auditor to annually levy a
special tax sufficient to pay the inter
est on them.
These details of the scheme are some
what vague, and do not clearly indi
cate the syndicate’s programme. How
they are to briDg suit and compel the
payment of the defaulted bonds is not
revealed. There is no law in the States
to authorize them to be sued, and the
bringing of a suit in the Federal Court
against a State and forcing it to pay a
debt by Federal process has never been
tried, and would fail if it were tried.
Eight Southern States are mentioned
as ones against which the syndicate
proposes to act. but the Western States
included are not named. Minnesota is
the only Western State that has default
ed on its bonds, but there are county,
township and other municipal bonds
defaulted on to a Urge amount in Illi
nois, Missouri. Kansas and Iowa, and
we presume it is these the syndicate
have charge of. The scheme is evi
dently a big one’; it would be worth
so mething to secure the payment of
$500,000,000 defaulted bonds, and it
may be that a portion of the bonds are
to be placed “where they will do most
: jood” in ..securing the desired legisla
tion. Georgia has disowned S8,000,000
bonds issued in its name on the ground
oFftaud; North Carolina has refused to
in for the payment of $20,-
000,000 cf’ its-idebt, and the iffterest
thereon fs constantly accumulating;
Vhrgipia and Tennessee are very much
le in.Congress is well known,' and behintitin thptinterest on their debts;
..wonderful oratorical powers, ac- South Carolina, Louisiana and Ala-
owledged throughout the country., b'auia. have repudiated portions of their
” - 1 - * Yts. ahd Arkansas courts have, dir,
ed several miliicns of its debt'to be
udulent. ' Ir' the.; New York syndi-
' ' ' ~ f ‘ al. of
Massachusetts a Tas-Ridden
State-
A short time ago an item appeared in
the Call stating that the debt of Massa
chusetts was larger than that of any other
State in the Union, but no figures in de
tail were given. A comparison of State
finances shows a deficit of $17,487,000
in twenty year3. Twenty years ago the
State had a surplus of $1,790,000 of pro
ductive resources and assets over and
above its debts. A large item in the
debt is that of $11,000,000 for warloans;
but of this amount $3,500,000 has been
repaid by Uncle Sam, leaving $7,500,-
000 as the amount for this extraordinary
expenditure. It is also shown that dar
ing the twenty years past the State has
borrowed the enormous sum of $40,000,-
000 and owes to-day $33,500,000. Since
1857 the direct tax has aggregated $40,-
959,955, end duringtbesame period there
has been collected bank taxes to the
amount of $24,334,834, and insurance
taxes aggregating $3,260,566. Thus it
appears that the total amount paid by
the people in directand indirect taxation,
in twenty years, has been nearly $70,-
000,000; and besides this, $27,000,000
more has been borrowed and is still owed;
thus making the aggregate expenditures
since 1857 some $93,400,000.
An old negro cook says: “Sass js
powerful good in every ting but chil
dren. Dey needs some oder kind ob
dressin.”
_ A lady has just been appointed prin
cipal of a high school in Delaware.
From which it is fair to assume that the
motto of the trustees is “principals, not
men.”
..Voorhees is about six feet one inch
,*and weighs over 200 pounds. He
of fair complexion; dark hazel eyes,
hdy hair, carries hipoself-very ereci.
d whenever and wherever announce'*
address the people invariably speaks
aousands, and hence-his 'great ii>-
ence:*ci, .
Mexican Items.
The Judge of first instance in Mata-
moras has declared that he will obey
no other orders from the Federal Gov
ernment for the delivery of prisoners to
the American authorities.
The wife of the Governor of Chihua
hua has been collecting donations for
the payment of the American debt
among the Indies of that State. .
It has been discovered that the per
sons in charge of the Belem prison have
been drawing rations for 222 more pris
oners than have been confined in that
prison.
Persons recently arriving from Vera
Cruz state that the vomito has never
been ktiown to be worse in that port
than during last August; but the recent
northers have improved the health of
the city very much.
The members of Congress have sub
scribed S2.000 out of their salary for the
month of October toward the payment
of the American debt
The Bandera Nacional asserts that
the Mexican people aae unanimously in
favor of a dictatorship.
Savage Indians have recently been
raiding in the State of Chihuahua.
The Tiglio reports that a body of
armed Mexicans were, at last accounts,
marching on Eagle Pass, Texas.
From present indications the much
abused Senate will probably continue
to exist.
A man called Alejo Esparza is said
to he organizing a band of revolution
ists in Michoacan.
The drouth on the Pacific coast, from
Tepic to Colorado river, has been very
severe.
Thirty-six persons died of the vom
ito in Papantla on the 10th of October.
Items of Interest
Strawberry plants are in blossom in
New Brunswick.
Chestnuts are selling in Eastern
Pennsylvania at $2.50 per bushel.
Some California farmers are actually
raising figs to fatten hogs od.
Six dollars a barrell is'about the fig
ure for cider in Southern Vermont
Apple-cutting parties are the season
able method of rural flirtation.
Tough—A North Carolina gander
which is sixty-five years of age.
The San Francisco Alta estimates
that the drought has cost California
$20,000,000.
The Snow Prayer.
A little girl went out to play one
day in the fresh, new snow, and, when
she came in, she said:
“Mamma, I couldn’t help praying
when I was out at play.”
“What did you pray for, my dear?”
asked her mother.
“I prayed the Snow Prayer, mamma,
that i heard in the Sdnday-achool.”
“The Snow Prayer! what do you
mean, little one?”
“I mean that beautiful Snow Prayer,
in the Bible, mamma; you know it,
‘Wash me, and I shall lie whiter than
snow.’"
debts, a'tid Arkansas courts have
cided
m5~
cate proposejt- Sfcufe'ifie .-pay
ill t.'K-spdisowned.and -repMil
ligations thev will have a' liveljr^time;
of hajaB J - H
acVraniT of Sir^dav, says the
Macon Telegraph it Meienger, bring the
inn lligence of an earthquake extending
throughout someof the Middle and New
England States, reaching into Canada.
The messages from varions points fix
the at about two o’clock Saturday
morning, with one exception. This
may be explained either by an actual
variation of time, or that the sl'.bck be
gan towards the south and tarvelcd
northward, The variation i3 only four
minutes. The most southern point yet
heard from is Hartford, Connecticut,
and the most northern Montreal, Cana
da. Between these points, the reports
are numerous.
The shock was severe at some places,
and seems to have been strongest in
New Hampshire. In Ledanon, in that
State, bells were rung, buildings shaken
up, and the people, doubtless, bronght
pellmell in dishabille into the streets.
The shock lasted forty seconds, and
large amounts of crockeryware were
broken, and other damage incident to
an earthquake resulted.
It is thought that the recently report
ed almost unprecedently severe wind
storms which prevailed through this lo
cality way have been a premonitory
symptom of approaching natural com
motion. If this is so the connection be
tween the two has not been traced and
found sufficiently connected to form
the basis of any decided opinion. Al
together, it must have made things
quite lively for the time being.
“When my pa wouldn’t let me go t»
the ball,” said a merry young lady, “I
just set to and had a bawl at home.”
An Immense Library.
A discussion in the convention of
librarians, at London, brought out some
curious facts concerning the British
museum. Several speakers advocated
the compiling of a complete catalogue
of the books in the museum, which, it
is estimated, would cost not less than
$1,500,000. It would have to contain
3,000,000 titles. A. quarter of a centu
ry would be taken up in the printing
of the catalogue, and by that time there
would be an accumulation of 300,000 to
400,000 hew titles,
A Grand Jnry on Lynch Law-
The following is an extract from the
general presentments of the grand jury
of Stewart county, Ga. We cepy it not
only because of its reference to a late
event in that county, but because of-its
pertinence to a similar case in Russell
county, Ala.:
‘ Before closing our presentments we
deem it our duty to say that we most
sincerely deplore the fact that a large
number of our fellow-citizens, who were
impelled thereto by feelings and im
pulses almost beyond the power of Ira
nian nature to control, did recently ar
rest, condemn and execute, in a most
summary manner, the perpetrators of
the most diabolical crime that ever
darkened the annals of our county. A
crime too dark to contemplate without
the profoundest feelings of horror; one
that would but very naturally arouse a
spirit of vengeance even in the most
law-abiding of men. A wife murdered
and outraged by fiends in human shape,
at a time when no friendly hand was
near to defend; a husband made fran
tic by the cruel blow; a gray-haired
father prostrated with grief at the, vio
lent death of his lovely daughter; and
the loving, doting mother suddenly
summoned to give up beridolized child.
A community star!led.-and outraged by
the dreadful deed. All of this was well
calculated to impel men forward and
for the time cause them to forget the
solemn requirements of the law; and
while we, with one accord, are fully
satisfied that they did but anticipate
the law and its penalties, yet in this
their acts were wrong, and we exceed
ingly regret that they did not leave it
to the courts and the officers appointed
for the purpose, to have meted out to
the guilty wretches the punishment
they so richly deserved. We endorse
the able and exhaustive charge "of his
Honor Judge Crawford on this, and
thank him for his effort to protect so
ciety in this behalf. And we do most
earnestly call upon all good a law-loving
citizens to avoid a recurrence of such
acts of violence, and we trust that the
scenes about which we speak may nev
er again be witnessed in our county.
Senator Morton’s Religious Con-
fictions.
Cincinnati Gazette.
Senator Morton was not connected
with any church, nor was he u » pro
fessing Christian,” as this phrase is
usually .understood by orthodox Christ
ians. The' Governor’s uipthek was a.
Presbyterian; a woman of a mild and
-benevolent disposition, a correct under
standing, ahd hndf* £ atine probity. His
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vernor has nevfer expressed any es-
A maker of artificial, or “oleomarga
rine,” butter was fined in New York,
on Tuesday, for not marking his tubs
as required by law. One dealer in real
butter asserted that makers of the arti
ficial sometimes evaded the law by put
ting the mark on the bottom of the
firkin. Another dealer said that they
could not sell any butter for the South
ern market (the genuine kind) unless
of a yellow color, and that the coloring
was very easily effected by the use of
annato. which is a perfectly harmless
vegetable preparation. He also said
that the white butter was just as good
as i he other.
A dealer in oleomargarine said : “It
is mada from bovine oil, churned in
cream, precisely as other butter is
churned, and I have considerable de
mand for the oil from farmers, who put
it into the churn when making butter.
It is just as good as the best butter,
tastes as well, is as healthy, and only
an expert can tell one from the other.”
He also said that it could be sold for
half the price of genuine butter, and
that the principal demand for it in thi:
country was from New England.
I trust every thing under God,”
said Lord Biougham, “to habit, upon
which, in all ages, the law-giver, as well
as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed
his reliance; habit, which makes every
thing easy, and casts all difficulties
upon the deviations from a wonted
course. Make sobriety a habit, and
reckless profligacy will be as contrary
to the nature of a child grown or adult,
as the most atrocious crimes are to any
of your lordships. Give a child the
habit of sacredly regarding the truth
of carefully respecting the property ot
others, scrupulously abstaining from
all improvidence that can involve him
in distress, and he-will just as likely
think of rushing into a element in
wLich he cannot breathe as of lying or
cheating or swearing.”
The Kentuckians say that where they
made their mistake in the great race
was inpnttingBeckin thejudge’sstand
instead of Joe Bradley. They saw it
as soon as the result was announced.
A Wisconsin clergyman has been
found guilty by a church council of
“not always handling the truth with
sufficient carefulness to meet the de
mands of veracity.”
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One square three month*
One square six months.'. ;.™l..l
One square twelve months ... :
One-toorth column one month
One-fourth column three months ........
One-fourth column six months
One-fourth column twelve months
One-half colnnin one month I. .....
One-half column three months
One-half column six months.
One-half colnm-i twelve:
One column one month.
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One column six months. 10100
One column twelve months 160 00
The foregoing rates are fbr either 'Weekly o
Trt-Weekly. When published in both papers,
per cent, additional upon table rates.
General Notes.
Ap Ohio shoemaker manufactures
medicated boots. The peculiar virtue is
in the heal.
E. H. Heywood, a leader of the Mas
sachusetts free lovers, has been arrested
in Boston for circulating obscene liter
ature.
The man who said he had just got i nt
°f a tight place, had boen seen a few
minutes before wiping his mruih*' in a
drinking saloon.
A musquito is a very free and easy
sort, of creature. He visits you at all
hours of the night and generally makes
himself to hum.
The Swiss Government announces
that the St. Gofltard tunnel will be fin
ished by 1881, folly a year in advance
of the period originally set
A Mississippi Granger is opposed to
railroads. He says when he goes to town
they “bring him home so quick he hasn’t
time to get sober before he arrives.”
Cork is coming into use in Germany
as a filling for winter bed coverlets, in
place of feathers. It is said to be not
only lighter and cheaper, but decidedly
warmer.
The Inter-Ocean states that Stanley
Matthews’ motto is: “He serves the
country best who serves Matthews best.”
Stanley has plenty of company in that'
respect
Three daughters ot a Kentuckian de
termined to be married' the other day,
and their fathers refusing to approve,,
they all eloped with men of their choice
the same night.
It is proposed in Germany to make
a wall paper which will adapt itself to
the degree of illumination of the room,
becoming darker as the room grows
lighter, and vice versa.
The English papers state that young
ladies who wear what are sometimes
called deer stalker hats are beginning
to raise them in acklowledgment of the
salutations of their male friends.
In Breslau a successful, attempt has
been made to erect a paper- chimney
about fifty feet high. _ By a chemical
preparation the paper is rendered im
pervious to the action of fire or water.
A Madrid paper states thal a tifa&3
lady of that city is collecting. photo-
. graphs of the prettiest women she can
-find, to Be sent toathe Paris ‘•Exhibition
of 1878 as specimens of-Spanish beauty.
Thematives of Cape Pqiape of Wales,
on the.NoHl*.Pacific, recently hoarded
aHonQlulu whaling brigand demanded
liquor.-On b^ifig refused they attacked
the'ciew, who obtained arms from^tRe
cabin arid beat them pff afte
social preference ibr either, and since
lis sickness in 1865 he has been unable
to attend church at all. “The seats are
too uncomfortable,” he often remarked,
“and it is too annoying as well as jn-
convenient to take one’s chair with
him.” But the great principles which
lie at the base of the Christian faith he
has always accepted. In bis boyhood
and young manhood his grandfather
was very careful of his religious train
ing, placing in his hands such books as
would impress their teachings favora
bly upon a mind that was even then
reaching out and inquring for a reason
for the faith that was in him. In later
years, and especially since his first at
tack of paralysis. Dr. Thompson has
had frequent conversations with him
upon the subject of religion, and he has
found him clear in his conceptions of
the truth as formulated in the Gospels.
During the progress of the Oregon Sen
atorial investigation he surprised as
well as edified those who happened to
be in his company, by showing an un
common familiarity with the different
religions of the world, ancient and
modern. After weighing their merits
and demerits he spoke of theChristian
faith as the fruit of all religions which
men were now plucking and eating,
because it satisfied a natural craving
after a true and reasonable belief in an
unseen Power who ruled the universe.
The following is special to the Louis
ville Courier-Journal:
Washington, Nov. 7.—The Demo
cratic Senators will probably vote for
Stevens, who has been nominated to be
Minister to Sweden, vice Snowden re
moved, this probably insuring his con
firmation. This case will be very im
portant, as the Republican enemies of
the President propose to defeat all nomi
nees in place of persons remove 1, so as
to take advantage of the tenure of office
act, which in such cases would reinstate
the persons removed.
Nothing definite has been decided by
the Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections in regard to the Louisi
ana Senator, but it is understood that it
will to-morrow decide upon the limit
of the investigation in the case of Spof-
ford or Kellogg.
The meeting of the Senate Judiciary
Committee is delayed, awaiting the re
turn of Senator Conkling from New
York, so that no action on the nomina
tion of Gen. Harlan wilt be had until
then. There is no reason to doubt fa
vorable action.
The probabilities are that John Bax
ter will be confirmed as Circuit Judge.
Buell, telegraphing to the New Orleans
Democrat on the 3rd inst., thus explains
the course of Hon. A. H. Stephens on
the reference of the bill for the remone
tization of silver:
Aleck Stephens helped the Republi
cans a little to-day by getting the silver
bill out of tho Banking and Currency
Committee and taking it over to bis
Committee on Coinage, and yet so bull
headed are the majority of the Repub
licans that they at first fought Stephens’
motion vigorously, and would have de
feated it had they not been informed
that it was designed to keep them out
of a scrape. Stephens, as I understand
favors both the repeal of the resumption
act and the remonetization of silver, and
his action to-day was really a stretch of
jurisdiction of his committee to help
his friends ont of the trouble into which
they were getting.
The results i3 that Stephens, if his
strength holds ont will take charge of
the silver bill and will be able to put
it through.
An Englishman,for a wager of $250,000
has begun a walk through France Ger
many, northern Russia and Siberia to
China, and thence through India, Persia,
southern Rnssia, Greece and Italy to
France. The time allowed for the walk
is six years.
If you love others they will love you.
If you speak kindly to them they will
speak kindly to you. Love is repaid with
love, and hatred is always repaid with
hatred. Would you hear sweet and
pleasant echoes, speak sweetly and pleas
antly yourself.
Rev. Wm. Wyckoff, LL. B., Secreta
ry of tiie American Bible Union, died
suddenly, while taking a bath at his
residence in Brooklyn, last Friday
morning. He was seyenty years of a.qe
and had filled many prominent posi
tions in the Baptist Church.
The Italian army is thoroughly equip
ped and prepared for mobilization, and
the coasts and fortresses are in a state of
defence. These preparations have been
completed during the present year, owing
to urgent military advice forwarded to
Rome by the Berlin Cabinet.
The will of Henry Meiggs, the South
American railroad king, has been made
public. He directs that all his contracts
shall be carried on by a directory, com
posed of two of his sons, a son-in-law and
three others, and the profits arising there
from shall be divided among his heirs.
The funeral services of Mr. Meiggs were
very imposing.
A clergyman of South Norwalk,
Conn., who had been annoyed by the
noise made by the late comers to his
church, announced a fornight ago that
at precisely 10:30 A. m. every Sunday
the church doors would be locked and
no person would be admitted after that
time to the morning service. Last Sun
day he was detained at home by some
thing till near the moment for the be
ginning of the service. He discovered
his dangerous position, however, and
ran with all bis speed toward the church,
which he succeeded in entering just
before the doors were closed. His wife,
one of the church deacons and many of
the congregation were, however, locked
out
Murfreesboro News: MuHV . - ! ~ro
was the scene of one Ger. N. i$. t r-
rest’s most brilliant exph !«. On the
13th of July, 1862, he Maidenly ap
peared with his command in this vicin
ity, add almost before 'ie Federal
forces stationed here could r. cover from
their surprise at his appearance, wl u-h
was as unexpected as would be a clap
of thunder in an unclouded sky, he had
with his handful of men captured the
whole garrison. There are many bul
let marks on our court-house, which
give evidence of the desperate struggle
his gallant men engaged in in dislodg
ing the Federal force, which took refuge
in that building. The door-facings
and the iron pillars on the east side are
scarred by bullets from the guns of
Forrest’s men.
Within the last eighteen years twelve
falls of meteoric stones have occnrred
in the United States, of which speci
mens have been collected. Eight of
these falls took place in the prairie re
gion of the West, extending from Ohio
to Kansas, and from Kentncky to Wis
consin, inclusive. Prof. J. L. Smith, of
Louisville, gives a map of this region
in the American Journal of Science and
Arts, showing the locality of each fall,
and states that the aggregate estimated
weight of the eight was 1,000 kilo
grammes, eqnal to more than 2,300
ponnds. Going back farther, and tak
ing a peried of sixty years, Prof Smith
finds that there have been twenty well
Bucks county, Pa.,has a smoker who noted fills in the United States, ten of
claims to have averaged seven cigars which were in the s. me region, and
per day during thelastfifty seven years those ten weighed twenty times as
which would aggregate 145.000 cigars much as the ten which occnrred out-
worth, at five centsgaci—SZ^ffl __ side its limits.