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VOLUME XXXII.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21„ 1877.
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» 3 nomination for the Supreme conviction of shaixs.
, v Senator McDonald is going
f a w idow in tbe Treasury De-
Well, what is more natural
propriate than for the active
I carry
irtmsi
Lore approp : .
I , or [ 0 want to take a little hand in
financial affairs of the Government?
K .publicans in Massachusetts
II about exhausted themselves jump-
.. and fro between exultation and
: ‘ They alternate between
' ’ ov r the Republicans carrying
as=actiusetts, and asking who will
•fuse Ren Both*
IThe papers are ail talking about the
’ tbe four planets that are visi-
night. Well, everybody that
■ out at night sees them, and there
. mn king such a fuss about it;
excuses enough already
IfiO U.'"
r-oin? ou
nights.
riauii-
I When the Empress Eugenie visited
Yic.cria first after her flight
France, it is said, she threw ber-
•'iuto the Queen's arms, and cried,
! tears and sobs. “Oh ! it was all
: 't—I.cuis did not want the war
.I would have it!” The Prince
h'.'aits : '-‘t so touched by her grief
. j, e bad to leave the room.
I Gen. Sherman’s official salary, it is
. amounts to about SIS,000 a year
ve of tbe usual commutation for
He lives, at present at the
House, 1.1 Washington Pie is
1 to enjoy Washington gayeties great-
. all( l to feel aggrieved when there is
—to use his own words—“some sort
i fandango” every evening.
Congressmen in Washington
i follows-. Senator Gordon at
is,Senator Hill at the Arlington,
jntatives Stephens, Harris and
the National, and Hartridge,
, Blount and Candler at Willard’s.
s E;i'i''ircr-Sun.
Wonder what has become of Mr.
felon and the Seventh District. Does
Enquirer-Sun propose thus, by his
b>n alone, to expatriate us ail ?
or Keruan, of New York, says
t the Senate of New York just elect-
[. and the members holding over, will
t a successor to Conkling ; but that
lembly just elected will not partici-
; it is only elected for one year,
e says, admitting all that the Republi-
s claim, they have only a Republican
■ in tbe Senate, and that all
Democrats will require to secure a
3 cratic Senate will bo to get a maior-
' ihr." in the General Assembly, to
Ttcd in 1S7S.
Tic- Postmaster General has issued
, ■ : all railroad postal clerks that
importance to the traveling pub-
. No person will hereafter be allow-
; iride in a mail car except he has
; -s from the General Superinten-
if tiie postal service and counter-
by the Division Superintendent,
or,! r shuts out all railroad em-
Iv.-i . nostmasters, post officials, and
fits, everybody except postal clerks
;.line of tbe road on which the
i: runs. The rules are so strict that
case a person rides in this car with
a pass regularly signed, the clerks in
i'.arge of the car are obliged to report
■'the Government that this persoD
: . in their cur, and tho distance. If
v ; -huul 1 happen to step into a postal
.: don't fee! hurt if you are told to go
at. for the clerks are obliged to ask
The mixed jury, consisting of five
whites and seven colored men, have
found Congressman Smalls guilty of re
ceiving a bribe. There was not a flaw
in the testimony, says the Charleston
News and Courier. Yet there wa3 room
to doubt that the jury would agree upon
a verdict, inasmuch as Smalls 13 a col
ored man, and one person of color had
just been convicted. It is evident that
the jury were above prejudice, under
exceedingly trying circumstances. They
did their whole duty. The thorough
ness with which the cases of Cardozo
and Smalls were prepared, and the
ability with which they were piosecuted
by Attorney-General Conner and
Messrs. Miles and Youmans, are exhib
ited in the result. Success is the test
of tlie*r merit. The Attorney-General
directed the proceedings and led in the
examination of witnesses, and in the
contest with the eloquent and learned
counsel for the defense. Only they
who know the inner history of the cases
can appreciate the numberless difficul
ties which were met and overcome. The
line of defense could not be foreseen.
It was not to be expected that the very
evidence on which the defense relied
should he made the means of bringing
out facts which would aggravate the
guilt of the accused, and convict him
before the country, at least, cf system
atic corruption. This was done. The
proof that Cardozo refused a bribe in
one instance enabled Gen. Conner to
prove that Cardozo had paid other cer-
terficates that he knew to be fraudu
lent, and had received from Hardy Sol
omon $13,000 in payment of certifi
cates belonging to the Merriam series,
one of which series, when offered him
by Woodruff, he had rejected and
spurned. In the examination of wit
nesses, in meeting the objections of the
counsel for the defense, and in the ar
gument, Gen. Conner exhibited a read
ness, tact, legal knowledge and fertility
of resource admirable in the eyes of
even those who know him best, and
most fully appreciate his powers.
Smalls will, no doubt, make an ef
fort to obtain his release on habeas
corpus by the grace of Judge Bond.
This will not help him. Nor do we
suppose that Congress will be unwill
ing to dispense with his attendance for
the rest of the session.
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
Lands are cheaper than for yeara in
Stewart county.
Mr. P. Hazleton, aged SO, of Colum
bus, died at Macon the 10th insl.
Col. Ben. C. Yancey, of Clarke coun
ty, is making the race for Representa
tive.
Foster Blodgett died last Monday of
typhoid fever. He was in his fifty-
second year.
Mr. J. H. Wynn, the County Treas
urer of Green county, died at his resi
dence last week.
In Gwinnett county a little girl threw
a rock at a brother three years older
than herself and killed him.
Mr. H. P. Richards, of Rockdale
county, made thirteen bales of cotton
on thirteen acres of land this season.
Married at Athens, Nov. 7th, Mr.
James U. Jackson, of Augusta, and Miss
Marianne Schley Falligant, of Athens.
Bishop Gross dedicated the Catholic
church at Sharon, in Taliaferro county,
with appropriate ceremonies, on the 4th
instant.
Gen. Robet. Tooml>3 and Hon. B. II.
Hill have concurred in the opinion
that Gov. Colquitt can, with all legality,
endorse the bonds of the Northeastern
Railroad.
A colored man named George Butt,
of Marion county, has made this year
twenty-three bales of cotton with two
mules, and corn, etc., in due proportion.
Alluding to this the Columbus Enquir
er says : “George is the right man in
the right place; in fact, ‘George’ is a
good name for a farmer, as it is from
the Greek ‘georgeo,’ meaning to till the
soil.”
i . Cincinnati Commercial says that
2! a meeting of the Board of Directors
el the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Friday, a free interchange of opinion
was entered int 'v. ith reference to the
necessity of an immediate completion
■ the road to the Cumberland river, so
«to secure the trade of four hundred
miles of river extending to Nashville,
Tam., the value the trade being evi
denced bv tiie establishment ol a line
oi steamers to run between the river
crossing and the city of Nashville and
stopping at over one hundred points;
also, to’.he necessity of the completion
of the road to the coal fields beyond
the rive-—a distance of fifteen miles.
The entire cost of the extension has
been estimated at $20,000, which the ° e “_ e J
Common Carrier Company profesb
themselves willing to advance, and to
oo the work themselves if the trustees
cannot provide the necessary funds, as
they anticipate a consequent addition
to their revenue thereby of from $300
to $4> h > p er day.
REPUBLICAN SINCERITY.
John Morrisey, of New. York, whom
the Pharisaical Republican papers of the
east nave been inning up uy me cuat col
lar and exhibiting to the people a3 a
specimen Democrat, was elected the
other clay to the Senate of the btate of
New York, over the regular Democratic
candidate by the combined votes of the
Republicans of the Senatorial District
and of a small per cent, of the Demo
cratic vote that Mr. Morrisey was able to
control.
Mr. Morrisey, we believe, ha3 always
heretofore, acted with the Democratic
party, and while jt was convenient for
the Republicans to denounce him, they
did so unsparingly, and in fact with truth
on their side, for it has never been de
nied that John Morrisey is a gambler,
and that his operations in that line are
upon a large scale ; hut now, when the
Republicans are able to deal a severe
blow against the strength and unity of
Democratic party by voting for him they
do not hesitate to do so, and then a
Democrats are found who are willin
lend the Republicans their aid in this at
tempt to defeat the regular nominee of the
party. There is this consolation in this
particular case, that is, that the best men
of the Republican party in the city of
New York think they are doing well for
themselves, and of course for the coun
try. by voting for ono whom they con
sider one of the worst men of the Demo
cratic party. And we reckon that as to
the several parties to the compact and
combination all things are about even
The Republican Caucus.
Special Telegraphic Correspondence of tho Cou
rier Journal.]
Washington, Nov. 11.—Some Re
publican Senators assert their caucus
of yesterday passed off quite smoothly.
They say that there were no angry
words or recriminations, Quite a num
ber of Senators, including Messrs. Chris-
tiancy, Hoar, Dawes and Matthews, de
clared a friendly feeling fortheAdmin-
tration. Mr. Conkling, however, struck
the key-note, and seems to have been
the master spirit of the gathering. His
speech was more in sorrow than in anger.
He did not condemn the Southern pol
icy of Mr. Hayes, or attack the South,
and he is evidently keeping open his
communications with Democratic Sen
ators. The few Democratic appoint?
hl hit -li/iiAKd
that the removal of competent and faith
ful officers to make room for others did
not accord with President Hayes letter
of acceptance and announced policy.
This position is understood to Jiave
special reference to the New \ ork ap
pointments. At the same time. Mr.
Conkling did not propose antagonizing
tbe President. He said that he believed
that the President wanted to do right,
and that those Senators who were in a
position to do so ought to advise the
President to a right course. Mr. Ed
munds sustained Mr. Conkling; and,
indeed, no one seems to have had the
nerve to oppose him. Mr. Conkling is
undoubtedly moving with great delib
eration, and taking every step carefully.
It seems to be understood that the
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections will hurry up matters, so as
to report in favor of Kellogg. This is
far from indicating that Kellogg will
et the seat, or that hi3 cese will soon
be acted on. There is talk among Sen
iors of sending the case of the Louis
iana Senators back to the Legislature.
It is stated to-night that tiie Senate
Republican caucus of yesterday adopted
by a decided majority, a resolution re
questing the President hereafter not to
make any appointment to office in. the
South by which the interests and rights
of the colored population might be af
fected, from the Democratic party, or
from those who participated in the re-
bell ion. Some curiosity is expressed
touching the President s notice of this
impertinent advice. ...
Butler’s prospect for adminission is
good at writing.
The Courier-Journal says: Senator
Davis is preparing a bill providing for
the reorganization and maintenance of
the militia of the States. There are ac
cording to the books of the Adjutant
General at Washington 115
general officers, S95 general staff officers,
1
The remark i3 often made that we do
sot hear of so many gin-houses being
ournt this fall as have been for several
fear? past in the South. There are
wses where gin-houses are burnt
the careless use of fire around them,
■"'T also by tbe dropping of matchei
•a the piles of seed cotton, and perhaps
a majority of such fires occur in this
-ay ; but then it is known that many
nave been the work of incendia-
• : -’S who did the work to injure the
owners of the gins. We believe that
die removal of the troops from the
'oath, the withdrawal of Government
aid to capet-baggers and scalawags
and the consequent exit of the tribe
from the South has much to do with it.
I* the people of tho Southern States are
allowed their constitutional rights and
liberties it will not be long until the
two races will thoroughly understand
• each other, and, also, their respective
social and political standing and rela
Rons, and all will go on well. White
and black will labor together for the
good of each, and for the common
good.
,175 regimental, field and staff officers,
and 4,356 company officers in the organ
ized militia. Total number of commis
sioned officers, 6,541. Non-commissioned
officers, musicians and privates, 93,826.
The total number of men available for
military service, but at present unorgan
ized, is 2,875,469— apportioned as follows:
Maine, 9S.376; New Hampshire, 36,
394; Vermont, 30,112; Massachusetts,
247,495; Rhode Island, 40,939; Con
necticut, 61,302 ; New York, 483,183
New Jersey. 134,257; Pennsylvania,
356,393; Delaware, not reported ; Mary-
lank, 88,244; Virginia, West Virginia
and North Carolina, not reported; South
Carolina, 79,040; Georgia. Florida and
Alabama, not reported; Mississippi, 135,-
178; Leuisiana, 113,209; Texas, 78,
45S; Arkansas, 95,165; Kentucky, 217,
044; Tennessee, not reported; Ohio, 229,
725; Indiana, Michigan, Illinqis, Mis
souri, Wisconsin and Minnesota, not re
ported; Iowa, 169,11S; Nebraska, 46,-
000; Kansas, 90,000; Nevada and Ore
gon, not repotted; California, 101,937
The New York World has published
a chapter on the treatment of drunk
ards. The New Orleans Picayune says
the best way is to encourage them
swear off and not treat them at all,
An Atlanta woman says that if death
loves a shining mark, it s a wonder it
never aimed at her husband s nose.
The Pope’s Waning Health-
New York Nov., 12—A special to
the Herald, from Rome, says the gravest
fears arc entertained for the life of the
Pope. A short time ago his physicians
feeling anxious about the pontifl’s con
dition summoned some of the mo3t emi
nent men of the medical profession in
Italy, arnoDg others Vanzeld, professor
of surgery at Padua, for consultation.
After the most careful examination the
consulting physicians have given up all
hope of his recovery. His condition is
such now that he may die atany moment,
and if he rallies the recovery will be only
temporary. His lower limbs are paral
yzed, and he cannot live very long.
A London dispatch says : Dispatches
received from Rome to-day state that the
holy father passed a very restless night,
and great fears are entertained for his
life from his fitful slumbers during the
night. He always awaked in full pos
session of his faculties, and was conscious
of all going on around him. Despite his
enfeebled condition, he insists on recciv-
most of those who call upon him,
and to many he gives instructions of a
personal or ecclesiastical character.
Many of the most eminent physicians of
Italy have been summoned to his bedside,
and give it as their opinion that he can
not recover, although they admit he
may linger for many days, if not for a
week or more.
London, Nov. 13.—Th? Times Paris
correspondent says: There is much
anxiety in consequence of the violent
terms to which the motion for inquiry
into the elections censures the Cabinet.
All the great powers have advised Pres
ident Mac Mahon to be conciliatory.
The same correspondent denies em
phatically that President MacMahon
in reply to the allegation from groups
of the Right, which waited upon him
on the night of the 8th inst., said, as
was reported at the time, that he was
right to rely upon the support of the
Senate for a conservative policy, which
was the only one he was able to follow.
Earthquake Incidents-
The following is what the papers have
to say of the earthquake that shook the
North a few days ago:
The Saratogian says that it was felt
most severely on the west side of that
village, and reports are at hand of .dish
es, windows and mirrors being broken.
Quite a number of persons ran out of
their houses, and it was some time af
ter the shock before they summoned
sufficient courage to re-enter their dom
icils and return to bed. One curious
fact in connection with the earthquake
was the peculiar action of the wind.
A few moments previous it had been
blowing almost a gale. Suddenly it
ceased, and for several minutes the si
lence was painful, the quiet being sim
ilar to that that usually precedes a hur
ricane or cyclone. Then came the
shock, and in a few moments the wind
again returned, hut it did not attain
the velocity with which it had traveled
previous to the action of the earth.
The Auburn Advertiser Eays that in
that city the vibrations were of thirty
seconds’ duration, and caused no par
ticular damage, except to window pane3
and china closets. The ceiling was
cracked by the shock in Mrs. Cornell’s
house, on Fort street. Pitchers in wash
bowls were violently rocked, waking
the occupants of rooms in many in
stances.
The Troy Times says that the atmos
phere, after the shock had passed, be
came very close, with a slight sulphu-
rious odor. Along the banks of the
Hudson river, where large quantities of
lumber were piled up, its effects were
plainly visible, as many of the log ends
were rolled from their positions. At
Whitehall a large house, owned by
Hon. H. G. Burlegh, was shaken so that
the timber cracked loudly, and the in
mates feared that it would fall. Many
ceilings were cracked and other damage
inflicted, such as tho toppling over of
chimneys.
The Montreal Herald says that the
night clerk of the Ottawa Hotel was
looking at the clock, when he suddenly
felt the hotel commence to away, and
then settle down to a tremulous move
ment. The St. Lawrence Hall em
ployes also experienced some unpleas
ant sensations, and bells rang, while
one or two carters’ horses started like
maddened Arabs up St. James street,
carrying with them their still more
frightened drivers. The Queen’s statue
in Victoria Square swayed her sceptre
for once, and seemed to the astonished
policeman on duty there beckoning the
Bonaventure block to fall upon him
and wipe him out of existence. He
reached the center of the Victoria
Square and surveyed the statue from a
seat on the curb of the fountain. In
the vicinity of Beaver Hall in many
residences bells were rung, and doors
closed fast were thrown open with a
violent swing, while the church steeples
seemed nodding to the stars good morn
ing. Nelson’s monument swayed, and
thfcCf knjsbfldjiCftrt/i-rur uJSfo -ttcra -h Jo,
under, fearing that the aged hero was
bent upon interviewing them. A vol
unteer officer who keeps the “Sabre dc
mon }icrc” suspended over his couch,
found that the earthquake had turned
the sword upside down. The son of
Mars would have slep on, however, had
not the sword-blade been shaken from
the scabbard, and, falling across his
nose, dented the bridge thereof as clev
erly as if it had been done to order. In
several cases sleepy servants answered
door-bells—too drowsy to feel the yi-
bration, and fancying that the milk
man had come rather early in the
morning. Animals seemed to ha7e a
knowledge that there was something
unusual in progress underneath. There
were several cases mentioned of dogs
having howled and scratched as if try
ing to get out of the house, and of cats
performing all manner of feats in their
attempts to escape by windows.^ One
gentleman, a resident of St. Lrbane
street, was awakened by the maneuvers
of the house cat, which jumped on the
bed and left her trail upon his chin
and forehead. Startled by this occur
rence, he had scarcely time to lift a
boot when the earthquake commenced.
The Montreal Witness reports that a
policeman at the west end of the city
was walking slowly along the stone
pavement, when suddenly he thought
he heard a street-car being driven rap
idly toward him, and was actually
wondering why he could not hear the
tinkling of the bells upon the horses
necks, when he was greatly unnerved
by feeling the ground undulating be
neath him. He ran out from the walk
into the middle of the street, for, said
he, “the block of three-story houses
back of me was all of a shake, and the
pavement was fairly rolling toward me,
like as if you would shake a carppt.
A gentleman on St. Catharine street,
who was roused, went to the window
and perceived a policeman standing in
the middle of tho street, and apparent
ly in a state of terror. In response to
a question the alarmed guardian cf the
peace remarked that “something was
John Kelley on'Morrissey.
The New York San'thus describes it
scene in Tammany Hall Tuesday night.
Mr. Kelley, spoke.as follows : V.
“Fellow citizens:—The returns that,
we bave rjeceived so far assuredly .iqdi*
efite that you have carried the State by- „f complication?, .and .wisi-at length
a.yery large majority, and th,'' you forced to.fold his tent andsjlently'steal
have elected the county ticket by-at
least from 5,000 to 7,000 majority.- [Ap
plause.} Biit itis. well tha t you sho&ld
know—there is no use of keeping any
thing froth yon on an occasion of tliiS.
kind, and I tell you now frankly—that
John Morrissey is elected.” - '’
The wildest confusion ensiled: Ring
ing cheers were given for Mornssey,
mingled with' hisses,' -applause for
Schell and cheers for Mr. Kelley.
After a long pause Mr/Kelley contin;
ued: ' ' -'■■l.e \ -
“The responsibility for this act falls'
upon the Republican-party, i Mr.'Mor
rissey in that district "has- - received
about eighteen»per cent. of'the-Demo-
eratic vote. ! Now, gentleman, I am
astonished that'you here, as Demonra®
would cheer attthe election.of the -.man
who has been elected by Republicans
over tbe Democratic '.party. [Cheers.]
That old TrqjaD, tbat-old Democrat
who has served his party so well ih this
city for forty-five years,' has been beaten:
by John Morrissey. Let the jfriqmy-
aud disgrace rest upon thd6ey to whom,
it belongs!- Let -.your Dodges and
Phelpses ind the other gentlemen who
reside in 'that district, who have' beetr
continually berating the Democratic
party'of thi3 cjty—let them now consid
er the'act they have, done in rending
that man to thp-Legislature -to make
laws for the hohest peonle of .this great
State-. To my mind it is a disgrace to
republican .institutions-. There is an
old maxim, Vox -populi, vox Dei. Is
there any gentleman within hearing of
my voice who can now agree, to that
sentiment?. John Morrissey, the man
who k'eep3 the largest gambling house
in the State of JJewj York,-.'.[Voice—
“They all do it.”} Gentlemen, you have
vou families '•to -took'- after;' yon have
yonr children 4o bring*, op in this com-
munity._ ^pw iet me ask yop-a3 sensi
bid mentis itpihper, jg.it right that a
mga like John- MorrSby-sht^ild ia*e
elected ? . As a member of ; the State
Senate atihe last session he was preset;
when a law whs. passed making.it'ifi
penpl offense to'engage in pool selling.'
Yet Mr?*Morrissey goes .to Saratoga,
and, in-defiance- of ..th£ law officers,
sells po«^-just as-if no law had been
enacted. Now, 'gentlemen;' these are
things for yon to look. at. -,As; Ameri
can citizens you are allequal before the
law. Isn’t it your duty.- unjlef ali cir- ,ae 0
cumstances, to.obey the law.?. Now,'iff
the fajee of all this; the men who live on
Murray Hill, w.ho support the ; New
York Times,>have elected to the Seftaff.
of the State of New Yorkf such a^nraV
as porrissey;..Let tUo. jAvsV' - *■
After announcing the election of Ec-
clesine, IVagstaff, and others, Mr. Kel
ley, referring to the cry of “anything to
beat Tammany Hall and John Kelley,”
said :
“No defeat can scare me; there is
too much pluck in my nature to let it
put me down. I fight better under de
feat than under victory. Drive Tam
many Hall from the country? You
migat as well talk of driving the Gov-
ernnent out. You can never drive
Tanmany Hall from the city or John
Kel'ey from the Democratic party.”
lersonnel of the Khedive.
I.mal Khedive is a man of about forty
eirit years of age, under the middle
heJfht, but heavily and squarely built,
will broad shoulders, wnich, during
thjiast year, seem to have become boved
dorn by the heavy burdens imposed
upn him, under which he has so man-
ftiy struggled. His face is round, cov
er! by a dark brown beard, closely
cliped, and Ehort mustache of the
sale color, shading a firm, but sensual
math. His complexion i3 dark ; his
feiures regular, heavy rather than
mbile in expression. His eyes, which
h keeps habitually half closed, in Tur-
kh fashion, some times closing one
etirely, are dark and usually dull, but
»ry penetrating and dark at times,
hen he shoots a sudden shary glance
ke a flash at his interlocutor. His face
: usually as expressionless as that of
■e Sphinx or the late Napolean III., of
aom in my intercourse with the Khe-
we. I have been frequently reminded
r thep are men much of the some stamp
:character and intellect, with the same
mng and the same weak characteristics
dug constant battle with each other.
1e Khedive’s voice is very character-
ic,—low somewhat thick, yet em-
latic, well modulated giving meaning
the most common-place utterances ;
.s words accompanied by a smile of
tuch attractiveness when he seeks to
_ tease, and his mind is at ease. But
up,” but he could not exactly say ndei the mask of apparent apathy or
Mr. Blackman, a civil service officer eren ;ty the close observer will remark
in Montreal, said that the precise time jj a j -; le ]j neg across the broad brow and
of the vibration there was between lA9 jj on j tUe strongmouth indicate strong
and 1:50 o’clock A. m., and that the mo-, ags j ong ag gtrongly suppressed, and
lion was from eastward to westward, as^ care3 0 f empire intrading over on
a bell in his room, used in connectionjgtp er thoughts,and judge the Khedive
with the storm signal service, was rung, 0 a happy man.—The Khe-
which could not have been done from|jy e > g Egypt—De Leon,
north to south. —
A Long Widow’s Device. Smarts
Advice to an Office-
Seeker.
An amusing story come3 from th( — -
Ardennes, where, according to the tale A young New Yorker called on bec-
an agriculturist recently died leavinietary Evarts the other day with a let-
a wife, a horse and a dog. A few meter form a prominent citizen of New
menia before his death he called h Yorkrecommendiogbimforaconsulate.
wife to him and bade her sell the hor; There were a number of persons present
and give the proceeds of the sale to fc at the time. The Secretary read the
relatives, and to sell the dog and ke letter and they glanced at the young
the money thus gained for herself. man, who presented the appearanced of
—i r J one in the full glow of health. The
Secretary said; “Well, really, I should
Soon after his death, the wife went
the market with the horse and dog, a
exhibited them,with the announcemi
that the price of the dog was five hi
dred francs, and that of the horse 1
francs. The passers-by stopped s
stared, and judged the woman m
more especially as she informed!
would-be purchasers that to buy*
horse it was necessary to buy the
first. At last a curious passer-by
eluded the bargain, after which the
fnl woman handed over five fran
the family of her deceased husl
and retained five hundred frar “
herself, thus contriving at the
time to carry out the letter, if
spirit, of the wishes of her hushanc'-d
to secure the largest sum of monejr
herself.
like to oblige Mr.
but you do
not seem delicate, yon do not look as if
yon needed to go abroad for yonr health.
I do not like to see able-bodied young
A" Modern Cagliostro.
.itis hot long since Brof. Parafbadea
fond farewell to.Ban Francisco. He had
appeared among us: to manufacture tal
low butter. ’•-Bat he came to the - wrong
place for ‘a suressful imposture. The
•—waa that he fell into all sorts-
away. He beaded at once ftr .Chili'
There he appears to be creating a great
That he is doing well 7iaes- from-it began to show themrelves. he
stren:
the fact that he is reported
to Save become thepurchaser of Meiggs’
famogs mansion,-called the Quinta, in 1867,
Santiago. Bat. he is-engaged in a more the sa
important convmSfion.than'that of suet ‘ 3
intd ; buUei ; .'-''He 'is no.w taming,copper
into gold. His method, a3 narrated by
acontemporary,-is a very simple one.. A
toff of copper is assayed by experts—not
wholly outside'of bis confidence, proba
bly. They find-a*small percentage !o£
gold, as’is nsual-r-say four and Uliflrygr.
cent Then Parsif- comes on the . scene
with’ a marvelous powder, which he calls
to ad'vocate the 'payment of the. Gov
ernment bonds in greehbacks,but find-
ingihat tho schema did. not take hold:
of the pnblic mind, supported the pay
ment of them jn gold. A Xajv years. - ,
later hie became the-leader of-the infla- vule n|
tionists in the Senate, and came near
the, cotmtry into the wildest
disorder by the championship
of the measure of paper expansion,
nth a marvelous powder, which he calls the measure o: paper expansion,
‘reactivp,” and throws it on the mags, which Gffp, GrantIffckily vetoed. His
Ini a short time another assay-is made,
and the resalt is thirty-seven and 'a-ltolf
per cent. gold. It is said that thpjJowder
is s u bj acted tolas alyuSed-
to prove that'there is no gold in it. . It
is, probably sooie.petCsi^harffd^^td-
gold dust ?hTtti SurreplitiodS . manner.
Sufth experiments, no doubt, are .cosily
lora good sfight-of-hand-expert;, but then
Pffraf’?. enterprise canstand itfj^Kwjf
reported-to be working off tirastbqfc^af. a
company, for the- conversion of copper,
into gold, with great rapidity. Tbe limit
of the stock is. set - idown, at $8,000,000,
add the-Chilinps are scrambling to. get it
AR thefcopger'minesof the vicinity have
immensely increased in value,seeing that
they are, according to.Paraf,' nearly one-
half gold. But our Cagliostro will not
go to work till tbesew and effective ma
chinery which he has ordered in Eng
land. has arrived. That will give him
plenty of time to wofk off his stock,
raking a general survey of tbe matter,
we should say the.Chilian copper mines
•re what is known in street parlance as;
good “shorts.” The .day will come when
neither Paraf-nor his*“reactivo” will-be
visible'to tfienakedeje.^—S»n;Franfi‘sc<f
Bulletin. * - .
Oakey Hall’s Return.
, The greatest surprise we have bad in a
long time wa3.the return of Oakey-Hall.
Oakey always had-queer ways about him,-
and piobably healways Will.. Politician,
lawyer, journalist,-dramatist, actor and
critic all intone, it would.-hf- one of .the
idilesi xhihgs in ihe worKf if-he was not
ffae ofti-he oldest ffclloWa 'in it himselfl
Aud tfc iv. Iff-buid take a
■jd£ti uflfo.ilM.-ip to' fell all the strange
things Oakey has
j?C0F, uud thereV no telling bt
of'ftrare.'fiAt present-hi
It; doing' nothing.
dark about that and everything else con-
eoncerriiug him, and having touched
Hail Columbia’s shore again at Philadel
phia, whither he came in partial disguise
by steamer from Liverpool he made his
way to New York by night, so that he
might escape recognition, and went at
once to his old home on Forty-second
street. He is identically the same Oakey
that he was a year ago, before the odd
escapade that set the whole country talk
ing about him and gave the World a
chance to work up its fine
theory about midnight murder in the
slums of Brooklyn. The effort was wor
thy of Oakey himself, but, of course, he
had no hand in it, unless, possibly, some
telephonic arrangement enabled him to
Keep up communication with the office
and drop the boys an occasional hint.
The only thing he has done since his re
turn is the perpetration of an obituary
poem on the late John D. Stockton. It
was hardly worth his while to come back
all the way across the Atlantic just to
write obituary poetry, while such blazing
lights in that line as George W. Childs
and the Sweet Singer of Michigan still
illumine our hemisphere.—New York
letter to Detroit Free Prees.
scarcity in the presenl
provision market, and
pose of their prodnet
comes available for shipment It-is a
fighting matter, however, to suggest to any
of Jhem that they may be stimalatafiiaa
in the. last three season?, to advance
prices;'in th? ardor of coinpetitioff, .be
yond the rangh of prudent discretion.
Those vrho have not statted. tbair eBtab-'
lishments anticipate-a farther decline;
Leprosy
New York Horald.
An interview with a leper by a San
Francisco reporter is one of the latest
evidences of the rash spirit of enterprise
that carries the journalist into all the
perils he can find. Leprosy is one of
the most dreaded of all the diseases that
afflict the people in Eastern countries,
and bids fair to become naturalized in
California. Reference is given to three
cases of leprosy in white persons, and
in each cose the malady appears to
have been derived from contact with
the Chinese. It is clear that if the al
legation could be made on substantial
evidence that the immigration of the
Chinese was to result in the introduction
of this scourge it woald become a great
instiumentin the hands of that kind
of grown-up hoodlnmism that memori
alizes Congress against the heathen
Chinee. Statement? that the Chinese
are responsible for the introduction of
a horrible disease would, therefore,
have to be cleared of the suspicion that
they were evilly inspired in that re
spect before they could gain confidence.
At the same time it seems quite credi
ble that these wretched people, coming
from a land where the disease exists
and retaining in some degree the hab
its of their own country, might import
and propagate it here.
The First Greenback.
Nashville Americas.]
The first S5 bill issued by tievernment
known as greenback money, turned up
not long since in a deposit of tbe Third
National Bank of Nashville, being let
ter A, No. 1, dated Washington, March
10,1863. Mr. J. E. Goodwin, the teller
called attention to the fact,and the note
was sent to the Treasury Department
for identification as the original $5
issued. The Dank was answered that
_ it was, and the officers and directors
men go out of the country. There is immediately decided to present it to
such an inviting field here for young —
men of energy and ambition. Mr.
says yon are an engineer. That is a
good profession and offers abundant op
portunities for distinction; why not go
to work at it?” All this was said in a
tone of voice sufficiently lond to be
heard by every one in the room. The
yonng New Yorker showed very pain
ful embarrassment, and with his face
covered with blushes, backed oat of
the room. He will not be apt to impor
tune Mr, Evarts for that consulate.
the Tennessee Historical Society. E.
D. Hicks, Secretary of the Commercial
Insurance Company, had the note put
in an elegant name, with glass on both
sides, showing the beck as well as the
face of the note, and the bill, thus secure
from wind and weather, will be presen
ted to the historical society at their
meeting on Tuesday afternoon.
Good partners at cards—a chimney
sweep and a bugler. One can follow
soot and the other can trnmpet.
Morton’s Political Career/
New Tori Nation,
He was-the advocate, if not.'the au
thor, of President Johnson’s policy of"
reconstruction,gpd afterward was*ready
to impeach him. for 'carrying it oak
He . violently opposed negro suffrage
when it was first proposed;; but assoori
'as it'becanft>Ti’|jarty -necessity eagerly'
advocated'it' When the evil results
which he had predicted would flow
denied theirnxistence, or
sBSs.'wftiir* 28SHJrt‘ffl£SS3S2a-
speeches'on finance d
were snch «r to bring
-the bodjr-lo' which. he belofiged, ndd
which had'listened to them. A year
later, however, he appeared on the
stamp as Asapporier of redemption in
in coin, public opinion- haring veered
.in that direction. For ', reform of the
civil service he always expressed great
contempt Daring the'tronbles attend
ing the. Presidential couqt last winter;
when there was talk of a resold to force
to carry ont the - Republican view of
the law, the extremists turned to.lum
as the one man in' the party vrho was
supposed to have the pluck and deter
mination and kind of. judgment neces
sary for the conduct of such an enter
prise. 'Tnra plan which he.long nursed
for counting the Presidential' vote he
denied the right of the President cf the
Senate to perform that duty, but as soon
as it seetned necessary for the election
of.Mr. Hayes, he maintained it. ”
Pork Packing. :
ting the 4, 41 and 5 per cent.
. ig loans,' payable in the Coin of-
the American people, regardlea3hf the
delicate feelings 5>f the European bond- -
holdersiand 'in contempt of those .di
vine rights .with which John Sherman -
has so laboriously gought to endow the
syndicate.
But;this is not a great accomplish-'
in'ent. It is simply the undoing of a
great wrong. .And, instead of haring
male progresff, we have only succeed- -
ed in getting back where we were five
yearn age-^back to the possibility of
honest resumption. The- fact that we
-find the. hid. stamping ground streWn
with wrecks ahd feeknn; with-bank
ruptcy, is dne partly to - tbe hired
thieves who stole the silver dollar
away from-ns, and* partly to the gratu
itous idiots who tried to replace.'.what
tiie thieves had stolen with waste-pa
peri But now that we-have found our
good old silver dollar, We can afford to
let the resnmptioh act die of its own
inanition. It ia a matter, cf utter indif-.
ference whether it-is repealed- or not
B'itit probably will be. repealed by
Congress, and the President will proba-
bly veto therepeal bilL .. : -
The packers of Louisville have opened
the new season, as we have heretofore
announced, but as yet “the action has
hbgs; Hamilton Bros. & Co. 1715, and
McFerran Shallcross & Go. 1800; total
6115. Those who have commenced op
erations are backed by a very unusual
plies of the
5 able to dis-
crease of the supply of corn and'-hogs
pertfencIftfrW zrsdh -arftw hotSp®iiS
theory is entertained that the undertone
of the provisions and packing interest
daring the season will be more cautious
than for many yeara, and that business
will be conformed more strictly to legiti
mate principles. The disastrous results
of the business for three years, together
with the comparative absence of the
former incentive to bear speculation af
forded by inflated values are retied upon
to secure a more reasonable and consora-
tive basis of prices and dealings.—Louis
ville Courier-Journal, Nov. 5th.
What Killed Morton.
Columbus (Ohio) Correspondence of the Chicago
Tribune.]
Postmaster General Tyner, who was
very intimate with Senator Morton, is
authority for the statement that the lat
ter’s life was very mnch shortened by his
mode of living. Since he lo3t the use of
his limbs of coarse he was unable to take
the exercise which is necessary for health,
bat hi3 appetite and general faculties re
mained unimpaired. He was always a
diligent student, studying, studying until
far into the night. For several years of
the latter portion of his life he was al
most constantly in the habit of partaking
of a hearty meat-snpperjnst before retir
ing. After working until 12 or 1 o’clock
he would order up a regular meal, and
when it came would partake heartily of
it. When the danger of this course was
pointed out to him he wondl say, “Ob,
well, may as well die one way as anoth
er,” or make some lighter remark, aad
continue the practice.
When it is remembered that he was by
no means an old man, and that he was
of noble physique and apparently made
to endure untold hardship, the statement
really has mnch the appearance of troth.
The giant frame which required much
food stimulus was given too much, and
broke down from tho overload.
The Western papers say that their
farmers of long experience generally
favor early selling, believing that on
an average there is more profit in it
than holding crops a long time for an
advance. Borne of the agricultural
journals advise the keeping ofthe wheat,
bnt tbe Prairie Farmer argues that, in
view of the great yield, early prices will
be fully as good as later ones. The
Omaha Bee tells Western farmers not
to put too mnch frith in an extraordi
nary call from Europe. England takes
annually a large amount of wheat and
breadslufis from ns, and will not prob
ably want much more than usual this
year. When lake and canal navigation
closes, freights invariably advance. If
the crops in the spring indicate a gi
yield, the prices will be as low, or low
er than now. A general war in Eu
rope would cause an advance, but there
is only one chance in a hundred of that
It costs to hold grain, to say nothing of
the care and trouble, and the interest
itself is of no small consequence.
The other evening a traveler endeav
ored to walk into a hotel temporarily
closed for repairs, in a town ont West,
but was nnable to effect an entrance.
That house is closed, mister,” said a
pedestrian, as he passed along.
The traveler banned away on the
door, and the pedestrian called out:
“You, theref—that house is closed!”
“The traveler twisted away at the
knob, and once more the pedestrian
called ont:
“I say, that house is closed.”
“Don’t yon suppose I know it, you
idiot?” roared the traveler. “What
I’m trying to do is to open it!”
The University of the Sonth has be
tween 200 and 300 students.
*.•' The Silyer Bill.
Don Piatt, in the Washington Capital
of-SundayJ says:
The passage of the silver bill; at one
stroke, wipes ont the crime-of 18,3,
and scotches the follies qf 1874. It
makes resumption-of specie, pay men',,
in the proper reuse ofthe term, qjrJetj •
cable. It shuts thedpor of the pap-i-
mill and ends the empire of’thffsyixli-
cafe. Moreover,it makesthe resura]■-,
tion act of1875 of -soutittle-j^jhsfqdejririp
that it .doesn’r matter whether 'that
; v -sS*|
Skd Know What it Was.
One of our citizens is blessed (or oth
er,vise i says the New York Evening
Post, -with, a very stubborn 'wife. In
his case he finds that when a woman
will she will, you may depend otft,
and when Ehe won’t she won’t. ^and
that’s an end dn’t., This peculiarity of
disposition in his wife is no secret
among his associates, and one of them
“ W , do yon know why you are
like a donkey?”
“Like a donkey ?” echoed W-
opening his eyes wide. “No, I.don’t.”
“Do-yon give it hp.?” ■ ' .
“Ido.” "
“Because yonr better-half is stnbbor-
“That’s not bad. Ha! ha! I’ll give
that to my wife when I get home.”
“Mrs. W —he asked, as he sat
down to supper, “do yon know why I
am like a donkey?”.
He writeda moment, exp
.wife-togive’it'up. Bnt she didn’t. She
looked at him somewhat.' commiserat-
ingly as she answered: -
i “I suppose because you were horn
“ •-*- ! » ■ - i - w'
There were two of them hanging over
the front gate the other night She was
standing within the yard and he on the
sidewalk ontside, both leaning on the
top rail, and apparently as happy as
two pigs in a cornfield. He was say
ing:
“Now, my own little darling, sweet
idol of my soul, whose image is ever
on my heart,” when he saw the old
man coming down the front walk, and
continued in a different strain: “The
potato bugs haven’t destroyed oar crops
so mnch since we purchased Paris
green; and you will*find also that cab
bages can be raised better on a richer
soil.” .
The old gentleman heard it, and
turned back, saying, as he entered the
house:
“These young people take more in
terest in agricultural affairs than peo
ple generally suppose.”
Oar Western exchances, at least those
which have given attention to the sub
ject, are almost unahimons in reporting
less cholera among the swine this sea
son than last. There is of course more
or less disposition in some quarters
to figure out possible larger loss than
heretofore, but their data will hardly
bear criticism. Beyond doubt there
are many sections; in which the disease
prevails largely, as is the case every
year,bnt taken as a whole its prevalence
appears to be less than for a number of
season past The latest reports do not
materially change the showing made in
the Cincinnati Price Current of Novem
ber 1st—N. Y. Bulletin^
Lady (speaking with difficulty)—
“What have you made it round the
waist Mrs. Price ?”
Dressmaker— “Twenty-one inches,
madam. You couldn’t breathe with
less***
Lady—“What’s Lady Jemima Jones’
waist?”
Dressmaker—^Nineteen and a half
just now, ma’am. Bat her ladyship’s a
head shorter than «-ou are, and she’s
got ever so mnch thioner since her ill
ness last autumn! ’
Lady—“Then make it niu -tsen, Mrs.
Price, and I’ll engage to gei i :ito it!”
Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 14—Gen.
Escobedo having been indicte ! in the
United States Conit for a vi jla.iou of
tbe neutrality laws in organizing a
military expedition in Texas to invade
Mexico in the interest of ex-President
Lerdo, his trial has been set for to-
day.
A rumor prevails here that CoL Vil-
laneal crossed the Rio Grande to-day
about 50 miles .above this place into
Mexico with 100 men, to oppose the
Diaz Government. Unnsnal activity
prevails againet the adherents of Lerdo
on this border.
“Tommy, my son, fetch in a stick of
wood.”
Ah! my dear mother,” responded
the youth, “the grammatical portion of
yonr education has been sadly neglec
ted. Yon 'should, have said: Thomas,
my son, transport from that reenmbent
collection of combustible material npon
the threshold of this edifice one of the
curtailed excresences of a defunct log.”
Miss B. would be a beanty if
her month were a trifle less imposing
in its dimensions.
“Itis a pity,” said a yonng man,
“that her month.is so large.”
“Why not at all,” returned another.
It is a derided advantage,”
“How bo?”
“Why she can whisper in her ear
wishont any trouble.”