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-'"Cf <K <^-£C COBTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING. 5 n>^ n, ‘ S 1 ■he tri-weekly. $4 00 2 »w „ 1 00 ,1 strictly in advance, the price of wirier will be $2 50 a year, and the ■ more, one copy will he fur- The* di , within the Memphis dristrict “w hie Urg^t that wss ever made. Pcneral Sherman only wants ’ :,rent? recruited up to full stan- ,^ h U f ill five 25,000 effective ■r.te.l 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 fins is being W 1 ’ 1 I Kerosene. Exm Sd a | jje makes Senate. ,— superceded by ilri-tol and other “iZ,.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 ...... 6.. ... 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.” One square one month 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. 4 00 .... 8 00 .... 12 00 ... 20 00 ... 10 00 — 20 00 .... 30 00 ... 60 00 ... 20 00 .... 32 00 60 00 .10100 36 00 One column throe months 1.. 60 00 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.