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M DWINEIL, Proprietor.
Wednesday Morning,—Nov. 28,1877
Tae Kerning Xcics is the name of a
new daily paper published- in Augusta.
Surely there is room enough in Augusta
for as good an evening paper as the
Xeuv.
Bob Ingersoll has declined the mission
to Berlin, to which he has nominated by
Hayes. Boh displays better sense and
clearer knowledge of the people than Mr.
Hayes. ^ _
The resignation of the French minis
try is officially announced. The mem
bers of the cabinet will, however, retain
their portfolios until their successors have
<iualified. ■
The Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta News is responsible for the report
that Dr. Janes, Commissioner of Agri
culture, advises young men to go to
she-praising.
Some of the New Jersey Methodist
preachers are discussing how far they can
go in the amusement line for the purpose
of raising money without infringing upon
the moral law.
The nomination of Col. Fitzsimmons
a3 United States Marshal for Georgia
still hangs fire. Radical Senators seem
to be dumbfounded by the decency cf
the nomination. Continue to give ’em
fits, Mr. Hayes.
The Missouri Republican concludes
that when Er/.eroum yields there is noth
ing except the distance to hinder the
Russians from reaching Scutari and look
ing across tho Bosphorus at Constan-
tinple—“so near and yet so far.”
A severe storm prevailed along the
Atlantic coast last Saturday, extending
inland as far as West Virginia. The
United States man-of-war Huron wa3
wrecked on the Virginia coast, and out
of a crew of one hundred and thirty
only about thirty were saved.
Senator Thurman announces himself
ready to support the nresent silver bill,
unlimited coinage and legal tender in
cluded, if it is so amended as to place
the coinage exclusively in the hand3 of
the government instead of letting it be
a matter of private speculation.
At the late fair in Union county,
South Carolina, the premium for the
best yield of cotton on one acre was
taken bp 2,191 pounds. On five acress
9,207 pounds. On three acres by 4,348
pounds. Corn on one acre was taken
by 02 bushels. On five acres by 209
bushels. The best acre of wheat yield
ed 40 bushels.
The CoDyers Courier calls for an in
dependent candidate to run against the
nominee in that district for Senator.
The Atlanta Independent, a Republican
paper, says : “ This is right. Give the
ppnplo a fliiinw anit linruJii^ oanni.o
Forever/ 1 Wonder if the Independent
didn’t mean to say, give the Radicals a
chance to run in a man.
The bottom of the Turkish exchequer
is scraped occasionally in the quest of
funds. The whole empire found itself
unable the other day to meet a demand
for 820,000, and an offer of arms had to
be rejected on that account. These little
evidences of financial leanness are cheer
ing to the British bondholder who is
waiting for his last year’s interest.
The Committee on Elections in the
Senate reported in favor of seating
Kellogg, of Louisiana. We do not be
lieve that the Senate will adopt thc-
report. Would it not be counting as
worthless all the doings of the Louis
iana commission? And can Stanley
Matthews and all the other friends of
tiie President tn the Senate stand that ?
■UR. BELL’S SPEECH.
We have read the speech of Mr. Bell,
Representative from the Ninth District
of Georgia, on the bill to repeal the re
sumption act. It is a clear statement of
facts and figures, and as such is worthy
of perusal by all, and we would gladly
publish it, but for its length, and the fur
ther fact that we have published the
speech of our own Representative, Mr.
Felton, upon the same subject, delivered
just subsequent to that of Mr. Bell.
HELP FOR ISDEPESDESTS.
Last Monday night the Radicals of
Clarke county held a meeting at the
Town Hall in Athens, and after much
speaking in favor of independent Dem
ocrats, they adopted a series of resolu
tions, of which we publish the last two.
taken from the Georgiau of yesterday
morning, which give the gist, aim and
purpose of the party at present:
Resolved, That we endorse the move
ments ot the Independents everywhere
in the South, as wc believe it means
justice to all men, and especially to the
negro race.
Resolved, That we, the colored citi
zens of Clarke county, in meeting as
sembled, do pledge the unanimous sup
port of the Republicans of Clarke coun
ty to strengthen the arms of the Inde
pendents in county and State.
COL. HRASIIAM’S CHOICE HOUSE
SPEECH.
We have been banded a copy of the
Rome CommercialOl November Sth, 1874,
containing a report of Col. Joel Bran
ham’s Choice House speech, from which
it is clear he took up as a separate ques
tion the civil rights bill, and his remarks
made on that occasion had reference only
to the question of social equality and not
to the supporters of Dr. Felton. The
printed report of the speech made at the
time is better evidence of what was then
said, than the memory of men. Judge
Joseph Henry Lumpkin says in one of
his decisions ‘‘many memories are mere
selves, and I wouldsooner trust thesmall-
estslip of paper for truth than thestrong-
est and most retentive memory ever be
stowed on mortal man.”
RESUMPTION REPEAL HILL.
The House of Representatives has
passed the bill repealing the act fixing
the 1st of January, 1879, as the date of
resumption of specie payments by the
Federal Government. The bill now
goes to the Senate, where we much fear
it will meet with defeat, and if it pa6S
the Senate, it will probably receive the
veto of ihe President. There has been
a very great change in public opinion
in the North and West upon this sub
ject within the last few months, but we
do not think that the Senate has be
come fully aware of it yet
Much has been said on both sides of
the question, says the Augusta Chroni
cle and Sentinel, but “we have never
seen anything that is better illustra
tive of its true merit than a huge cut
in the Graphic teaching the New York
newspaper boys how to copy the en
dorsement upon the United States
bonds. ‘This bond is redeemable at
the pleasure of the United States after,
etc-., in coin.’ The boys, gathered be
fore the great blackboard, are thus ad
dressed by Uncle Sam : ‘Boys,. I am
ashamed of every one of you. You
know better than to copy that way.
You, Georgr, stop throwing spit-balls.
Whitelaw, look up, here. Don’t you
see those words in coin in big letters,
and you keep writing in gold. The coin
mentioned is both silver and gold ; re
member that, now.’
“Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, in his great
speech in the House, fastened upon the
Resumption act the blame for the enor
mous depreciation of values. He char
acterized the resumption law as the
practical confiscation of 83,500,000,000
property. Three-fourths of all classes
of the people of this country were
debtors, and it was their hard-earned
accumulations that were wrested from
them by this robber law. He spoke of
the loss of the laboring classes ps
amounting to S3,000,000 a day or 8900,-
000,000 a year, and mentioned the
statement made to him recently by the
President of the Dayton and South
eastern Railroad Company, in Ohio, to
the effect that hundreds of men had
been offering to work on the road for
bread and meat. ‘Nothing,’ said he,
‘for clothes; nothing for wives and
children: nothing to lay up in store for
Winter—merely enough to keep the
poor human body, that was doing the
labor, able to exercise the necessary
force. Oh, God! that bread should be
so dear and fiesh and blood so cheap.”’
The greater compartive mortality
among blacks than among whites, as
exhibited in the mortuary reports of
Southern cities, has been referred to be
fore now. The fact is strikingly illus
trated in the city of Charleston. The
population, as presented by a recent
approximate enumaration, is 59,569
souls—25,9S2 whites and 26,587 blacks.
The proportions, therefore, are about
equal, and the deaths ought to be equal,
too. But from June 1st to November
5th of the present year ofa total of 1,4S1
deaths, 1,029 were colored, and only
452—more than twice as many of the
former as of the latter. And this dif
ference is uot wholly attributable to the
unia uieuicai uuenuance which the
whites receive in sickness, for the hos
pital reports exhibit the general fact in
a different form. Thus, the deaths per
1,000 white patients treated in the city
hospital during the year 1S76 was 35,
and among the colored patients 75—al
though they had equal treatment. If,
as these facts seem to show, the colored
race cannot hold its own in compel!
tion with the whites in the State of
South Carolina, where the conditions
are peculiarly favorable to them, it is
probable the day of its greatest natural
growth is over. The Charleston News
and Courier thinks the next census in
that State “will show that the colored
population has decreased since 1S70,
and the white population, excluding
losses by emigration, has increased fas
ter than in any time during the last
fifty years.” ,
SILVER REMOXET17. \TIO V.
In his advocacy of the passage of the
hill to remonetize silver Mr. Bland used
some vigorous and forcible language.
The plain truth of the matter is that we
have reached a point where it will re
quire not only true statesmanship to
manage the finances of the government,
hut it will also require conservative law
makers, who will give heed to the voice
of the people, and Mr. Bland was but
speaking as a man of the people when he
predicted that if the enemies of the sil
ver bill “put on the screws much further,
and reduce the people yet further to ne
cessities, when the uprising comes again
there is no power in this Government to
put it down; and the interest of bonds
being paid in gold, they still be wiped
out as with a sponge.” lie added : “ I
stand here as a conservative man when I
say so. I am willing to pay it as de
manded in the bond, and for svhat the
contract calls, but unlers, this measure is
adopted, you will see men in tho next
Congress that will place you were in 1S69,
making your debt payable in paper. I
speak to you as a friend and not as an
enemy, as a friend to my country, and I
warn you now sincerely and honestly;
and take care of that warning. You had
better not oppose thi3 bill.”
COMBINATIONS AMD COALITIONS.
The Philadelphia Times is an inde
pendent paper, and for some time has
shown a spirit of conservatism worthy
of approval. The following, from its
Washington .correspondent, shows the
drift of opinion upon the resumption or
greenback question. There is no donbt
that political parties, or partyism,
now in a transition state in the North
east, and such being the fact, it is im
portant that Southern leaders should
act with prudence and wisdom, and
this being our honest conviction, we
deprecate all such ill-timed speech
es as that delivered by Mr. Felton
the House of Representatives on the
14th instant The financial and eco
nomical affaiis cf a State or Govern
ment are not matters to be controlled by
figures of rhetoric or emotional views,
but require calm consideration and
cool reason :
“It is the intention of the sincere
greenback advocates in Congress to push
their policy to a direct i-sue and to
force the Northern and Eastern Demo
crats to take position for or against
The raoid progress of the Independent
organization and the strength it has al
ready shown alarms the politicians, too,
and induces them to join the present
crusade in order to pacify the restless
ness of the people. It is, therefore,
freely discussed in political circles that
the breach in the Democratic rauks
will grow wider, and the Western and
Southern Democrats will coalesce
shape the policy of the party, which
will be exactly the opposite of the views
of the Democrats of Baltimore, Phila
delphia, Delaware, New Jersey, New
York, and the New England States, be
sides many even in Ohio, Illinois and
Wisconsin. A canvass of the Senate
by the prominent friends of repeal
the resumption act only elicits the find
ing of three Republicans likely to sup
port the bill—Jones, of Nevada, Ingalls
and Plumb. On the other band,'
seems to be conce J ed that Connecticut
New York, New Jersey and Delaware
w : ”. furnish seven Democratic Senators,
and Maryland and Oregon two, who
will vote against the repeal. It is be
lieved that if the financial question '
made the leading issue, as seems prob
able, there will be a direct split carry
ing the hard-money and national bank
Democrats into a combination with the
Republicans, and rendering equally
certain a coalition between the soft-mon
ey Democrats and the greenback-labor
party.
Rumor has it that Theodore and Eliz-
beth Tilton are about to become recon
ciled. Well, we hope so.
The New York Evening Post has the
following: “The President, in conver
sation with a prominent officer within
forty-eight hours, declared unhesita
tingly that he would veto any silver
bill which does not expressly except
the public debt from its operations.
He will not approve any measure
which has the slightest tendency to im
pair the national credit, or cause the
holders of national securities to think
that they will bo paid in currency of
less value than gold.”
GEORGIA I LIJ1PSES.
The “spelling bee” is buzzing in Thom
as county.
Cuthbert is t-rreting more buildings
than for ten years past.
Corn and sorghum crops have turned
out well in Dade county.
Newnan is about to nominate a re
form ticket for Mayor and Aldermen,
There are at present iu Dade county
six candidates running for the office of
Representative.
Frank H. Colley and Benj. F. Jordan
are the Democratic nominees in Wilkes
tor Representatives.
Rev. Sol. Cross, of Rising Fawn, Dade
S o untv. lost. £830. which wm criv.n Li
y the tax collector for safe keeping.
Daltou claims more churches and
more church-going people than any
town of 4,000 population in Georgia.
Tennessee and Kentucky mules and
horses are plentiful in the market at
Augusta. Sales have been dull, but are
improving.
Seaborn Callaway, an old and highly
respected citizen of Wilkes county, died
on the 21st. He was eighty-one years
old.
The Cherokee and Van Wert road is
to be sold, and Messrs. D. S. Priotup,
of Rome, and Wm. T. Drake, of New
York, are commissioners for the sale.
A horse and buggy, lo3t by a gentle
man in Cartersville, were found fas
tened in a thicket near the town, where
the horse had been for seven days with
out food or water.
Robt. R. Reid accidentally putawhole
load of bird shot in the face of Judge
H. W. Hopkins the other day, near
Thomasville. They were out bird hunt
ing. Judge II. is recoving.
Says the Dalton Citizen : Atlanta, it
is said, is full of tramps from the North
and West who say they are willing to
work. They are “willing” up this way
until work is offered them, and then
they-are not.
Judge Hall’s decision, in Henry
couuty, that the marshal and police of
a city have no authority to imprison a
citizen until he ha3 been taken before a
magistrate, and adjudged guilty, is ere
ating considerable comment
Mr. Alexander Jeeras, living on Brier
creek, Lincoln county, cut down a tree
near his house which, falling across the
dwelling, crushed the roof, instantly kill
ing his little child, about four mouths
old, nud narrowly missiDg Ihe mother of
the babe.
Thomas Grimaldi, a citizen of Knox
ville, Tenn., died recently at the ad
vanced age of one hundred and six
years. The Tribune says he was ad
dicted from early youth to the inordi
nate use of tobacco. The question
now is, hpw long would he have
lived if he had not used the weed ?
On Monday of last week there was a
delivery of the jail of Gwionett county.
Spencer Brown and W. Wallace, two ne
groes under sentence to the penitentiary,
by the use of an augur bored through
the ceiling, which is two-inch oak plank,
made a hole, through which they es
caped.
The Covington Star says: “Walter
Hill, son of Hon. Joshua Hill, was run
over by the night passenger train, No
vember 20, at Madison, and his head was
almost severed from his body. Wheth
er he was killed and his body placed
upon the track, or was killed by the cars,
we have not learned.”
Alfred Merricks, a colored fireman on
the Macon and Augusta Railroad, was,
perhaps, fatally hurt by an accidental
discharge of his pistol, which fell from
his pocket while washing last Saturday
morning at Augusta. If men will carry
pistols, let them carry them empty.
They are dangerous when loaded.
A Sunday school class in Wilmington
was asked who was the author of the
Psalms. Silence qt first,then a little hand
was held up." “I know.” “Who?”—
"Sam.”
t’or the Rome Courier.
Letter from Kentucky.
Louisville, Ky., November 17.
You wouldn’t imagine, my dear
Courier, how many years seem to have
slipped by since I was in the habit of
picking yon np from a Howard-street
front yard, and sitting comfortably
down to read what you had tri-weekly
to say on politics and thing3 in general.
A compliment to your worth as a good
old home paper coaid be inserted right
here, before I go any farther; but yon
and I, like old folks, won’t stop for that.
I may poke you in the typographic
ribs with my jien-haudle, and we’ll
take it out in grins, bat we love each
other all the same as if I wasted a col
umn or so in telling you before folks
how good you are. Better than Thomp
son’s eye-water to a poor fellow off from
home and sick to know the happenings
of his old neighborhood.
When I think of the intervening
years, and count them on my figures,
the action in mathematics is apt to sug
gest, through their skinny appearance,
that I’m getting old. I lay the back of
my wrist od the desk before me, and
spread fonr pieces of attenuation in
what young poets call “the circumam
bient” air. One, two, three, four of
’em, and a battered thumb, make five
years. It ain’t enough, and it is enough.
and think—shall I ever dwell in Rome
again ? No, I sadly say to the fellow,
within me, don’t paste up any more
hope’s programmes; the scenes
shifted permanently, and set for the
closing long act; a gray wig, a staff,
querulous voice and a limp can be the
only telling make-up, and I’ll have no
trouble in the part—for it will act it
self, and I cannot help it. So let the
pretty Rome jog along to glory and
commercial renown, her proper desti
ny. I will love her and praise her
from my own commercial exile, and
freshen old memories by the faithfnl
Courier’s aid.
Gen. Harlan, you know, is our fel
low-citizen here. He is a Republican,
and has reached for the Kentucky Gov
ernorship two or three times; but such
grapes hang high in this latitude, and
the General has a notion they are sour.
We had begun to think that his nom
ination to a sit-down on the Supreme
bench would take him off the bills as
candidate for the Frankfort White-'
house; but yesterday we heard that he
may not be handed a gown and wig,
and instead thereof he may remain
liberty to deliver profane opinions off
the bench and of the bench, and cuss
his lack in a general way. That is an
ever-glorious American privilege, and
though I, as you will subscribe, am
quiet old fellow and a steady-going
piece of moral clock-work, yet I mud
get up and holler sometimes when,
things get snarled. It eases one, and
seems a sort of sweetener to my tem
per. That is, afterwards. Editors are
a people too select in goodness to ever
know the luxury of a rip-snorter flare-
up, and cuss out balancing of account”
couples of times a month. It is a re
finer in its resulting effects, a purifier,
soothing balm. Like Frazer’s axle
grease, it limbers up things.
But I was alluding to Harlan. Be
neath his ample waistcoat there is
heart, of good size and by no means
bad, which for two weeks has thumped
in anxious hoping for a confirmation of
his name to be an Associate Justice in
place of the now Senator Davis. Some
obstinate Senators, however, are busy
hunting uo a way to choke Mr. Hayes’
policy, and his valiancy the General
shall not sit to judge America. Ed
munds, of Vermont, it is thought has or
will cause the name to be not reported
from his Senate committee. Harlan
loved Bristow’s honesty too well, and
Morton’s partisanship not enough; so
he does not have sound flavor in the
nostrils of Radicalism. Our State would
have felt complimented in the promo
tion of Gen. Harlan, for he is substan
rial in body and purse, well liked,
good lawyer, and a good specimen of
Kentucky. Bar his politics, of course.
He haB a brother here, a Vice-Chancel
lor, of opposite politics to the General,
and said to be much the superior of the
two as a lawyer.
If the horse Ten Broeck could talk,
he might repeat an observation made
once by Frederick the Great after a
disastrous campaign : “All is lo3t save
honor.” Bourbon opinion strewed the
path with roses which conducted him
(the horse, I am talking about) to Bal
timore, and triumphal arches were
reared in rhetoric, for his return, by all
the Kentucky editors; but the journey
back he found to be a worse than Jor
dan. And the money of Kentucky
went the same way of the horse’s luck,
Well, another year may tune up his
reputation, and the noble animal lift
tho rag from the Eastern racing bush,
Its in him, you may bet your entire re
monetized possessions on it. Lay low
for the matches to be run in 1878. Mr.
Lorillard may then, on Ten Broeck’s
suggestion, take a view of some snakes,
as it were.
You know, we had a first-rate Expo
sition last summer, and now the Expo
sition building is occupied for the win
ter by a circus and menagerie—Queen’s,
of California. Good place for the ele
phants to roost, and gives ns a show
always ready to our hand. To-day the
menagerie was exhibited for the benefit
of the Presbyterian Orphan Asylum,
and of course it captured nearly all
the school children of the city. I com
mend snch a use of it, especially. The
children receive practical lessons in
natural history, the monkeys are doubt
less gratified by the admiring attention
sorts of amateur entertainments, church
fairs, soirees, balls, concerts and what
not give us fun and frolic enough. But
these ancient pedals of mine have
danced their last, though oft they timed
the music in other days. Let the
ybugsiere take onr places, but we will
retail our youth in thought—hey, old
Courier ?
Black on Stoughton.
The Indian Basket Trick.
Judge Black’s reply to Mr. Stoughton 01 iT * in Harper’s for Norembsr.
is terrible. Speaking of the action of Ever since the capture of the strangp
Secretary Sherman and the other visi- » by ‘he English, or for
tors to New Orleans he eaye: lhai ? * hundred years, the cml-
They could have crashed the fraud ' zed P*>ple* have been hearing of the
with a word; merely by saving that ar, “ arvell “? 3 fea ? Performed by tbejng-
honest count most be made. Their re- S ler8 ' Naturally, Houdin s announce-
fusal to do this when pressed by the me - t of the Indian basket tnck made a
' ThTdeath of Rev Dr Lowrv last I D^mic committee needs some bet- P? eat *“sat»on. The curtain aros ? and
^The death of Rev. Dr. Lowry, last ter excuse than that gi ven _ that ^ disclosed- a wicker basket of oblong
week, was asadand notable occurrence. were unw5 ilingto offend the returning shape standing upon wbat appeared to
He was the head of a Presbyterian con- officers. They encourage the fraud, in- be a “fi" 1 table, without any cl sth cov-
gregation whose place of worship (they tentionaliy or unintentionally, by telling e f *t. The juggler entered, drag
having no church building) was in Li- ke conspirators that the board might f J ia a n “ wLT D g a Xof white
hr*™ TTnll „ coDstitutionallv exeTCiso the dtsfraneb- ln “ lan pnnee, wearing a rone or wmte
brary Hall. Called here from Selma a j - a £ d that so lone as they «**hwere embroidered with gold, while
year or so ago, Dr. Lowry made at once put t h e fraud into “forms of law” it u P° n “ la ,, head waved .a peacock’s
and maintained one of the most en- could never he questioned. And they P'“J e hfcld b 7 a diamond star,
bearing impressions upon this comma- pronounced the fraudulent alteration Mercy . mercy . cried the child,
mty that ever flattered a Christian Unvote. afterUw^ done.arighteouslH^---n Ind.an
i«- thing. A member of the committee is ana ,l P rlnce - ana rausl aie . ™
m,mster. He was very popular. His now B SecretaIy of ^ Treasury, Wells is r * 8 !’ ou3s - , * ., . . .. .
remains were carried to his old Ala- Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans, lam only a child, cried the l
bama parish for interment, bnt previ- and Anderson Deputy Collector. These I ce ?JLf’°;' ... „ .....
onsto their departure most beautiful ore moral circumstances. I you” * nl ‘ uut{Ttv,ulm 7 kIlling
and imposing funeral services were The “political advantage,” which Mr. y vvjth pierc : D g ghriefcg t j ie cb ild broke
conducted by the Presbyterian church- Stoughton says his party got by the cer- away and rushed to the side wing, only
es here, tenderly assisted by ministers tificate of the Returning Board, Judge to be seized there by his executioner,
and people of other denominations. I Black likens to the “advantage” a debtor I who, lifting him jn hia arms, plunged
He was in the prime of his useful life, has when he can produce in court a The^he
Cancer, developed within a year past, I forged receipt. This is a decisive ad-1 drew his sword, and having tested its
took him suddenly and remorselessly vantage” if the court is willing to accept sharpness by striking it in the floor, he
from a field where his magnificent tal- the false paper, but it scarcely deter- thrust it in the basket again and agaiD,
ents were finding their best play mines the right of the case, legally or while the victim inside gave the most
of the Ohio river. Anyhow, it is close Judge Black defends the admimstra- wa8 6een t0 be covered w ; t h blood,
,by here, and we have a big bridge over tion of Buchanan from Mr. Stoughton’s I while the sobs and groans from the in-
However, I forget the connting in con- ft. It is an iron bridge. Also some ‘‘abuse as difficult to analyze as the side of the basket grew fainter, till at
templation of that bony hand and its. -atone. Lots of stone and iron It spans scolding of a fisb-womaD,” and after length they ceased, and a ghostly silence
reminder of coming age. And I think, the falls, and is set diagonally across answering the charges made shakes ^ntl'meng™! JStoMiSSZ
thestream, so that although its Ken- their maker. Ladies hid their faces behind their
end jams into Fourteenth street, Apart from the palpable falsehoods I tans; some wept alond; men shouted
hem terminus seems opposite °f. th^e accusations, your attempt to hoarsely, “Enough-” The smiling jog-
u street about a mile ferther to cntlcis ? a “ an llke Mr - Buchanan i« gler bored, and proceeded to unstrap
_ et, about a mile ferther to unpardonably presumptuous. Your the basket, which he turned mouth up-
i'.urops ttan the tiret named judgment upon his character and con- ward to the audience. In the midst of
street. You might bring the Etowah duct, even if honestly expressed, is not the applause which followed from the
bridge here and set it npon this one, I worth a straw. Doubtless he had his I amused and relieved audience, the lit-
and it would require a telescope tQ share of imperfections; but how could tie Indian prince was seen to be seated
., l:fP . . _ yon tell his faults from his virtues? in a box in the center of the anditori-
measure the difference between them. \ ou believe that the fraudulent altera- U m, kissing his tiny hand to those about
the disparity of their looks might also tion of election returns is “the exercise him, as well as to his friend, the execu-
be noted. Rome bestrides her rivers of a wise discretion;” you believe the tioner on the stage,
with rough covered things like elon- Lous; 81111 Returning law to be just and This trick was performed with the
gated cow sheds; but the Ohio ripples constitutional; you believe it ng.-it to aid of looking-glasses inserted between
. e * , . . j quote a judicial decision fora principle I the table legs—a contrivance now com-
under a piece of architectural grandeur. which the case doe8 not contain . * * monIy U3ed in pantotnimeg and other
About twenty stone piers are the step- Nobody expects the scurvy politician show pieces upon onr stage. But it
ping-stones upon which the graceful who busies himself with fixing up false was a new thing then, and the scene
and airy path of iron rests. At a dis- e J ect *° n returns to understand the was remarkably well played by Hon-
tance it looks like lengthened beauty “onghta mouves or acts of the incor- din and the child. As soon as the boy
tance it iooks iik lengtneneu oeau y l rU p tlt( le Magistrate whose walk is on got in the basket he opened a trap door
reaching over the sea. (Too poetic do the mountain ranges of the law. in the botton of it, which was placed
you think th-,3—hey?) I Judge Black further suggests that Mr. over a corresponding opening in the
Like all large cities, this city is Stoughton considered it “a wise discre- table - Hidden by the looking-glass, he
wicked—but not so bad, I beg to say, tion” to garble Buchanan’s message to cr, ' nch “ d . b *dow between the table legs,
as Cincinnati or Chicago. Lawyers are make it a secession document. • proper moment Mme for him to dracend
of the consistency ot flies around the The trick, to be 6ure, is perfectly trans- through a trap in the stage, and so pass
bung-hole ofa molasses barrel, but there parent, but yon mental calibre is just around to the box in frent of the thea-
is enough of work furnised by wicked 3tna ll enough to let you think that even ter. A sponge full of red liquid was
folks to keep them in grub and toggerv. a ducted falsehood is better than none, placed at a certain spot inside the has-
rw ofronv WAMn » T>. m „ no : c u™' ^ or wou ^ ^ advise you to cease youi ket,and the sword, passing through this
One of your youn 0 Romans is here, a vituperation of the dead President. His seemed to be dripping with blood. It
law disciple, and progressing finely. I memory is intensely hated by many was imperative that the juggler should
allude to Walter L. Mitchell. Occa- powerful persons to whom his dignified not pass in front of the table, else his
sionally I see or hear of others from the and v ' rtU0U9 was a .constant re-I legs would have been reflected there,
hpantiful Hill Citv stonnint, »t the P roacb . To slander him is the sorest and that would have disclosed the en-
beantiful Hill City stopping^ at the I t0 curry favor with tbem , and Lire secret. Houdin became dissatisfied
hotels or pacing throu 0 h. And still I they can assist you to get a foreign mis with this trick, and made many im
am yours, Old Pick. | Eion or some other office for which you I provements in it, which the jugglers of
are equally unfit. Lose no opportunity, our day have still further perfected.
Latest War News. I tben i of being superviceable. Take It is palpable that this cannot be the
every occasion to load up as much dirt I way in which the Indian jugglers per-
Loxdojj, Nov. 24.—A special from 33 y° ur Bttle cart can carry, and, how- form the trick in tie market places or
Vienna says: So far from being weak- ® v ? r far !t t3kes J°? out ? f y°“ r wa I’' “ther public squares in broad daylight
ened, the Czarowitch’e army now con- I around and dump it on the grave I They have no looking-glass, table, no
sists of eight infantry and four cavalry I Buchanan. Jt will not disturbe his traps through the earth,
divisions, numbering eighty thousand I ra P°® e > and doubt it will increse your I Houdin’s theory concerning tbem was
to ninety thousand men, and, though I chances of promotion very much. I that th* ir basket had an opening in it
it must cover a line from the Danube Judge Black in conclusion takes Mr. either at its front or its back, and that
to the vir.mitv of Tirnova. it would not I Stoughton’s abase of Mr. Tilden and I wb ile hackling and strapping down the
be easy for the Turks to make much “monstrous falsehood about- mm—^-see-1 lifted np and
swings serenely on his airy perch, and
the Doll-parrots stamp around the den
on heavy legs while they chew bay and
swap naughty words with the boys.
Of theatricals there is never a lack
here in fall and winter. Macanley’s
Theater, Masonic Hall and Library
Hall are tenanted almost nightly. All
“BDs!
We are indebted to a fg
good taste and literary ^*4
well known to need appJ'^J
for the following K rieg ,
lain embalmed in his L* It
twenty ye rs: l
Th« opraing row in 8nmm-, «
Ii heaauful t*. me, r "»•
Aid glorious the msnr
That glimmer os the e:T?
Bat gectfa wordf end Jowini t,
Aid heeds to cls»p mr
Are better then .he P tri- T hoV’.
Or sure that ever sh-ie.
The ran may warm the er»« u,.,
Bot ward, that ££ih! oi L'rf ■
And smiles aeh» JS>
Are warm..- than the sum^ ’
And brighter than the deej
It is not much the world can
With all iu tnbtie an; * 1Ti ’
And gold and gems are ’not ih» .v
To safely the hurt : “ ,1C P
Bar, oh! if those whoelnittra.- ,
The nit r and the he*nh*
Hare gentle words end iovi n .
s Hot- heaotunl is Berth • *
Airs. Julia A. Moore,derisive],,
ed by irreverent paragraphs mo
Sweet Singer of Michigan,”^® ^
like ram from the cloudr oft Q nl ( 0y
tears from the eyelsds stars,”andrLi
cold-blooded, premeditated wear J
fine fancies and tuneful rhyniM 0 ■
has ia-ned a pair of explanatory
lets, showing how it came about:
And now. kiod friends, what I hiw _ a
I hope yon will pats ore I
And net criticise as some hare A-„.
Huherto heretofore.
It may seem strange to yon—
It teems very strange tj m,
It was netural for me to compo,e ^1
And pat words in rhtmo. B
impression upon it, since the Russians • „ , , , , . , pressed on the basket as if to tighten
can, by forced marches, concentrate I lng th ? lar g e > >°° se and , lav;sh menda- th? i eatber 8trap more securely, the
three or four divisions on any given C1 ^ your charges against myself’ I child crept ont under the lient knee,
point. as strong proof that Mr. Tilden is np- and hid beneath the voluminous robes
A Ce'.tinge dispatch says: Wounded right and honorable: of the juggler. Then, while the sword
Montenegrins arriving here report that But if I am called upon to show the is P iercin S th ® basket, and the child’s
on Sunday night a division of Plam- grounds of his title to general respect I Eob , 4 are . most heartrenamg, the crowd
er.as, moving toward Scutari, found the and admiration I need not describ the ? . f 3 ln a compact mass about it, and
Turkish forces entrenched near Anam- irreproachable walk of his private lifeor ,n . t ° the f rowd the chlld €as,1 > escapes
alite, between three lines of breastworks his 'high public career—his brilliant I 'y uhout beID S seen > and runs awa 7- At
extending from the hills to the Bayana. eloquence or his solid judgment—his |he proper moment he comes running
An assault was made by 600 volun- tireless struggle against corruption in t,a ck as it from a distance, and of course
teers, who carried the first two lines, the city of New York or his beneficent the “Wnishment of the crowd is un-
bnt on attacking the third found them- administration of the State government; P :,ral ”! led . for the basket has in the
selves opposed by a much superior h t i 3 enough that I simply show your “ eantlme been opened and shown to
force of Turks, and were beaten back attempt to defame him; for that itself be erapty '
with a loss of between twenty and I jg a decoration of his cbarocter.
thirty killed and a hundred wounded, — . r SextdS V.
when the attsck was abandoned. This ‘‘Colonels ”
affair shows that the statement.that the ‘ This was the Pope who astonished
right bank of the river is entirely in Washington Capital. the Cardinals who had elected him, un
possession of the Montenegrins is on-1 The Colonels and Judges havecometo j der Ihe impression that he was a totter-
founded. The loeslity of the battle town . The rotundaof the Enbitt House j D ”> bent old man, by throwing away
is about half way between Antivira and fgyffherates with the din of debate I h* 3 crutch, raising himself to his full
and clinking of glasses. Knots of bar- height, and “intoning” a hymn in a
.Mehemet Ah telegraphs from Orcha- room statesmen, from the points of I 3tr °ng bass voice as soon as he was
nie, Thursday, as follows: We arrived I van tage commanding the bar doors, | elected. His reoly to some one who
here to-day.. The Russians sent .one I wrestle in wordy wrangle over the j ventured to speak to bim of his grpatly
1 * - c : - f > f 7 ’ - -- - - - -e a appearance from the days
was a cardinal is well known:
boy flies around with un-1 “ A y ! tben I wa3 looking for the keys
airy regiment, except six men, was de- won ted alacrity, in hope of the illusive of Paradise, and sought them wi.h bent
strayed. We also captured two guns quarter; the beguiling hackman charges hack and downward look. But now,
and a number of prisoners. . I y p a }[ wtio even look across the I that I have found them, I look heav-
A special correspondent at Giurgevo I avenue, shoutirg out, “Here’s your old enward, and have no more need of any-
eends the following under date of Thura-1 driver. Colonel!’’ and drives tne annoy- j thing on eaith.” And on that same
day: “I have been shown a telegram ed “Colonel” into a street car, for the I da 7 of his elevation, when it had been
from the'Russian headquarters, request- f are 0 f w hich he has borrowed a nickel th e hahit of previous Popes to throw
ing contractors to furnish 70,000 hags f ron i the “Judge;” the vigilan* barber, °P en the prisons ho refused to do so,
of biscuit instantly for the besieged in j soapy, scented and smiling, hails tach j saving that there were more than
Plevna, as Osman Pasha has opened I unshaven face that passes, “Walk right enough malefactors at large, and caused
negotiations for the surrender of that ; Dj Colonel, you’re next.” The pave- two brothers, caught in doing a little
place.” ments in troDt of Willard’s in the highway robbery a- they returned from
Constantinople, Nov. 24.—General morning resemble a parterre of gav Borne, where they had been to see the
Melikoff, when summoning Muhkter flowers. Clusters of “Colonels,’’hedge's I ceremony of liis intnlhition, to he fnrii-
Pasha to evacuate Erzerontr, informed of “Judges” fringe the sidewalk, with ' T ' tb hanged, in a very short time he
bim of the capture of Kars, and that flaming countenances, like sunflowers. ,nade it safe to walk the streets of
if he resisted be t _. . .
80,000 men, with
lery. Muhktar Pasha replied that he I rival the boutonnieres of those lovely
would hold Erzeroum to the last. | graceful geraniums, the Treasury clerks, I “f every sort that robbery in the streets
who, rising from their Sevres vases, ' be c 'jy was a dailv occurrence. He
Definitions hv an Old Maid. I called boarding-houses, wend their way I made himself respected, if not loved.
Denniticns oy an Uia maia. | to their daily £ iL Sp ^ of rash> thog ^ by the Romans and the Sacred College,
Man—A conglomerated mass of hair, crimsoned guests, pour their pinky | ;‘ u<1 rau3t always h=, reckoned ns one of
tobacco smoke, confusion, conceit and blossoms over the judicial physiogno- t,le -’ Mt 1 °P- g -
5 00 t s# ' my of the “Judges,” and the air is la* I ~
Woman—The waiter, perforce, on the den wi,n the seductive ordors of the Jake was he iid calling across the
aforesaid animal. distillery. Well may this be called the fence to lus neighbor s son, a colored
Husband—An* instrument construct- 8 a y Esason in Washington. It is with youth, who goes to school at the Altan-
ed to growl over shirt buttons that a moumfui regret we chronicle their ta University:
“aren’t there ” accession to office, for then we lose Look hyar, boy. you goes tir school,
Wife—A machine made for darning , the “- True, more come; a vast army don’t yer?”
stockings, making puddings and sewing J 3 always ready to rush in the. breach. 81 , r ’ ,J e r le ? tbe hoy.
on shirt buttons hut it requires months of tippling and Gatin’ eddykashun, am t yer? •
Father-A bring who thrashes the I hotel letter-writing to ripen and color “Yes, sir.”
boys, and won’t “fork over” as his fair them. Here goes, Colonel. We Larnin nthmetick and figgenn
olive branches desire would never be without a Colonel tn a slate, en r
Mother—A pleasant song—a sweet ? ur button-hole or a Judge in onr hat, | “Yes, sir;
vision of childhood. | we could help it.
Child—A compound of delightful *“'*“*' ~ ' _
and distressing elements. A South Carolina. Election.
Baby—An invention for keeping peo-
pie awake at night, and for the aggran- Columbia, Nov. 20,1S77.
dizement of washerwomen. | An election was held here to-day for
“Well, it don’t take two whole days
to make a hour, does it?”
Wy no!” exclaimed the boy.
“Yon was gwine ter bring dat hatch
et back in an hour, warn't von ?”
“Y»-s, sir.,, *
An’ its bin two days sense yer bor-
It is related of Napoleon that when i «■j £^*3* wYnnT I ®hum gwine to do you thick-skulled nig- he has made.
Marshal Duroc, an avowed infidel was resignation ef Nash and Minort, colored & ’ . . . . * ““
ooce telling a very improbable story, Republicans, who were compelled to yield | nd den how i on _ tak{ | t0
giving his opinion that it was true, the to the pressnre on account of the discov- . . , . 9” 8
emperior remarked: “There are some | ery of their rascalities. A significant |
of thousands, old folks reach for the men who are capable of believing every fact in this election is that one year ago ~ ~ ", “ *
head of the giraffe, the rhinoceros thin 8 hut the Bible.” This remark the Republicans polled a vote of 2,000 Suddenly, and without a moment s
b finds abundant illustrations in every majority, while to-day there are not twen- warning, says an exchange, the plank
There are men all about us at ty-five voting the ticket Both candi- broke and the unfortunate carpenter
dates are Democrats John H. Iviosier, foil to the ground below.” Well, now,
State Senator and Representative, to fill J S-vT
the vacancies occasioned by the recent
age.
this day who say they cannot believe, - ., ...
the Bible; but their capacities for be- like a second Cincinnatus, received bin what would you expect it to give warn-
lieving all that opposes the Bible are nomination while following the plough, ing, “Lookout, everybody; can’t stand
1 John C. Haskell, fir Representative's a -the pressure much longer, and, if this
prominent lawyer here and well known I blamed carpenter don’t get ofTen me
A man in Louisianna married five throughout the State. Both are elected, he’ll get bis head busted.” Would yon
times in eleven months, and swapped I Not a single fight or disturbance of any expect a common two-inch plank to do
his last wife for a shot-gun. I kind has occurred, I that ? The thine’s absurd.
The New York Society for IomJ
the Condition of the Poor, in it/„
says that while acknowledging the &
results of the expenditure of mono,
propriated to the society by the citrf.
the excise fund, it canci.t reinin' (
expressing the conviction that the i
tice of appropriating the city’s moot
charitable purposes results in mojiJ
jury than benefit, the tendency bein. k
evitably to make pauperism re- '
and permanent.”
“ Pa i will you get me a pair of s
if I prove to you that a
tails?”
“Yes, my son.”
“Well, one dog has one mare |
than no dog, hasn't he?”
“Yes.”
“Well, no dog has nine tails; aejil
one dog has one more tail than no d -j
then one dog must have ten tails.” ”
He got the skates.
The days of darkness come, audit,
are many, but our eye takes in only h.
first. One wave bides another, and tb
effort to encounter the foremost will
our thought from evils which arep.
on. If we could see them all at oncsel
might lie down, like Elijah, under tlJ
juniper tree, and say: “It is cnongb-ls
me not live!” Bat patience attains !a|
perfect work while trials enfold.
London, Nov. 24.—It is annoaiai
from Koine that an attempt to enp a'
Pope has failed and has produced an t
flux of humors to the chest. Cardin!
■Simeoni, in view of the condition of tit
Pope’s health, has asked the cardinika
confer with him on the general intena
of the papacy, and it is pobable thin
species of cunncil of regency will beiy
pointed.
There is nothins so very astonistiiij
about I. He'bert Browne, the Rbodi
Island man who is alive with twobd-
lets in b«> On. editov-h**!
daughter alive whose head is full if
balls and parties all the time.
• Atanindiganation meetingoftheciti-
zens of Chattanooga Tuesday night is
olations were adopted denouncing ii
the severest terms the unknown Vo-
dab who defaced the Confederate mm-
ament
A Kentucky man who went to the BUd
Hilb wrote back to a local paper, lay
ing. “Offer a premium at your comhj
fair for the biggest fool in the cou&Sy
and I’ll try and get there in time.”
Mrs. J. K. E. F of Detroit, ostd ti
attend auction room to the tune of tie
“Sweet Buy and Buy,” and now Jt.
Jones has been forced into bankrupt-
°y- <
Some connoisseurs wonld give a hun
dred pounds for tho head of a begsar,
in painting, who would threaten tie
living mendicant with the prison.
Zimmerman (on solitude) says:
‘■Those beings are only fit for solitude
who like nobody, are like nobody,
are liked by nobody.”
The Republican majority in the Sen
ate is nearly over thrown. They hate
held that body for over sixteen years-
since March 3, 1S61.
A New York tramp applied to tie
Richmond authorities to be senttothe
penitentiary as a means of getting *
livelihood.
'otiklihg wants a “holy alliance’’ M
the Senate; that is, he would like th*
hole Senate tlln d to the Republican
machine.
A t-oqu-tte to t, i <• compared totf*
ler, which 'a If ■ u: to systff. b*
does not nlw •} i u- cei d in lightingap
match.
Confession is good for the soul. “Jh-
Tweed ninst have n healthy old sod
by this time,” suggistc-d the Chicago
Journal.
An eminent philologist, when atifi
what “in ulus opcrandV’ meant, replied
that it was Latin for how the old thiip
works.
Vanderbilt—“There’s millions fa it
Vanderbilt’s sister—“Where there s »
will there’s a way”—to break it.
The famous “Keegan tunnel’’ on the
Cinrinnatti Southern' near Kingston,
Tenn., was completed the 16tb.
Test of good humor—Wake a mao fa
the middle t f night and ask him w
lend you five dollars.
The Rochester Democrat think® fa**
Charley Roes was deposited in • Chica
go savings Dank.
It b only after the moth fa
that man sees what a great mis
I that ? The thing’s absurd.
“Hurry, mamma,” said a little
cent with hb cut finger, “hurry— 1
leaking.”
Vanity makes men ridiculous,
odious, and ambition terrible.—!stee
Augustus Schell will now retire
hb ditto-—Chicago Times.
Newspaper eUrertising is tbs
vigilant of aalaames; addro»riog .
mob day t always in the adrtrfi***'* 10 ^
and ceaselessly at work seaking 1
all classes