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ESTABLISHED IN 1843.
THE COURIER lias a large and steady circu
lation in Clierokee Georgia, and is the ocst ad
vertising medium in this section.
M. DWDTELI, Proprietor.
Wednesday Morning, Dec. 5,1877
Democratic Nominations. Fioyd
County.
FOK REPRESENTATIVES,
S. C. TROUT,
JOEL BRANHAM.
( Election on Wednesday, Dec. 5.)
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are authorized to announce the name
of Judge Samuel Hawkins as candidate for
the Senate from the 42d District—composed
of the counties of Chattooga, Floyd and
Bartow.
We are authorized to announce Hon. D. B.
Hamilton as a candidate for Senator from
the 42d District—composed of Bartow, Floyd
and Chattooga counties.
We are authorized to announce Col. A. J.
King as a candidate for Representative from
Floyd county.
The Greenback and Labor candidate
for Suprerr-e Judge of Pennsylvania
received 51,582 votes.
College young ladies, they say, have
discarded “old salt” when speaking of
a sailor. They say “ antiquated chlo
ride of sodium.”
The New York Sun makes fun cf
Secretary Evarts styling Diaz the defacto
President of Mexico. It says that
Diaz’s title is better than Hayes’.
Florida experienced the coldest
weather kriown for ten years, at the
same season, last Thursday and Fri
day. Ice formed a half inch thick at
Jacksonville, and all fear of yellow
fever, for this season, has vanished.
Moses H. Grinnell, one of the most
prominent of the old citizens of New
York, died on Monday, at the age of 74.
The Sun says that no man in New York,
of like means, ever bestowed so much in
public and private as Moses II. Grinnell.
The phrase “to die in the last ditch”
was first employed, we believe, by Will
iam of Orange. “Do you not see your
country is lost,” said the Duke of Buck
ingham, who had been sent to negotiate
at the Hague, when England and France
leagued against Holland. “There is a
sure way never to see it lost,” replied
William, “and that is—to die in the
last ditch.”
Robert Bacon, of Chicago, is an in
ventor. One of his devices is a fan-
wheel, to be placed in a hat and run by
clock-work. His idea is that such a
machine would keep the head cool in
the hottest weather, and prevent brain
diseases. He set one of them going in
his own hat, and the first thing he knew
his hair was being wound up in the
machinery. The Bpring was very stiff,
and before he could release himself a
large part of his hair was pulled out by
the roots.
The Atlanta Constitution of a recent
date publishes an article written by
Hon. J. tV. H. Underwood, of our city,
upon the question of National Finan
ces. The article gives evidence of a
thorough acquaintance with, and a full
appreciation of the magnitude and im
portance of the subject, and is written
in the vigorous and comprehensive
style for which Judge Underwood is
noted. It will interest those whose
tastes incline them to the study of po
litical economy.
Jimmy Todd, one of Lee’s favorite
scouts in the West Virginia campaign,
was killed last week in a dispute with a
hunter on the mountain near Staunton,
Va. The Vindicator says of him : He
was the most remarkable hnnter in the
Valley of Virginia, havinc killed over
2,700 deer up to 1860, with one old muz
zle-loading rifle, which he had had bored
so often you could get your thumb in it.
He had killed bears without number.
He was a dead shot, and could perform
tlie feat of putting a bullet through a hat
on the opposite side of a tree by placing
an ax-blade for the ball to glance.
Bishop Marvin, of the M. E. Church,
South, died at St. Louis, Mo , on Mon
day last of pleuro-pneumonia. The
Knoxville Tribune, in announcing the
fact, says that the news of his death
will be received with sad surprise by
the members of the denomination of
which he was so shining a light. He
was born in Warren county, Missouri,
June 12th, 1823, and entered the itin
erant ministry in 1841. He was elect
ed to the Episcopal office in 1866. He
recently completed a tour around the
world, having been commissioned by
his Church to visit the various fields of
missionary labor. His letters of travel
were of a very high order, and attract
ed wide attention. During the greater
portion ot his ministerial life he was a
member of the St. Louis Conference.
Archibald Forbes, the brilliant Non-
3 News’ correspondent from the
ssian camp, has written a magazine
icle for the Nineteenth Century, se-
ely criticising the Russian officers
1 managing men. Mr. Forbes says
mlation and corruption are univer-
in the management of their affairs,
lether a man has ordnance, shoes,
:rcoats, or flour to provide, the con
st must be raised to a figure that al-
r s a per cent, for all the officials con
ned. When the stores are once
ight, they are piled in an open field
hout shelter, so that still others may
bought. These are the evils which
encountered in our own war, and
ich ruined France. They spring
n imperialism and inexperience,
Russia will be driven by them to
ndon bureaucratic government, and
take refuge in parliamentary insti-
ons. Several other causes are in
ration to necessitate this result, as
approaching financial exigencies of
he Government, and popular dis
tent at the hardships and the email
ipensations of the war,
TUB VICE-PBHSIDEHr.
The challenging of the vote of the
Vice-President'by Democratic members
of the Senate was, no doubt, thought to
be the height of absurdity by Mr
Wheeler and, doubtless, also by his po
litical friends generally, but a careful
examination into the powers, privileges
and duties of the two houses of Con
gress and of the Vice-President satisfies
us that the objection was well founded,
and that in the decision of the main
question then under consideration, Mr.
Wheeler was no more entitled to a
voice than was the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court, who in a certain con
tingency presides over the Senate.
By the Constitution the Senate is com
posed of two Senators from each State,
and the Senate is the sole judge of the
elections, returns and qualifications of
it members. True, the Vice-President’s
duty, by the same authority, is to pre
side over the Senate, and he has the
right to vote in case of a tie; but be
fore his right to vote even in case of tie
can he exercised there must be a Sen
ate to preside over; and as to who shall
compose this body the Senators, two
from each State and no more, must de-
decide for themselves. Suppose the
Senate was meeting for the first timOj
would anybody think for a moment
that the Vice-President had any right
to vote at all until an organization had
been effected, and there was a Senate
for him to preside over? The assem
blage of men with proper certificates of
election would not constitute a Senate
until they had organized as a Senate,
and then the Vice-President’s duty
begins, and not till then. The
same rules that apply to the organiza
tion of the body in the first instance ap
ply with equal force to the admission
of new members. The same persons
are the judges in each case, and to the
Senate, composed of two members from
paeh State, is committed the preroga
tive of deciding who is properly elected
and qualified to sit with them. If Mr.
Wheeler’s vote puts any man into the
Senate we hope to see the day that the
Senate will put the seal of righteous
disapproval upon the act by declaring
such Senator illegally admitted.
George Alfred Townsend, writing
from Washington to the Cincin
nati Enquirer, has this interesting
paragraph : “Specking to one of the
most prominent men of Georgia yester
day on the physical growth of the Sta'e,
he said: ‘We are less restless than the
North, because we suffered such pains
and penalties during the war and fol
lowing it that ever since our benefits
seem to e< me in regular ratio. Blessed
are they that expect little! Yes, we
lest thirty thousand of our people last
year who emigrated to Texas. But in
stead of constructing a piece of dema
goguery out of that and using it for
statistics to explain everything, as they
do in the North, we merely reasoned
that it was a benfit. That class of em
igrants generally had never acquired a
farmstead with us, which only costs
S500 to 81,000. We reflected that peo
ple who were thirty-five years old and
had saved nothing—not a cabin nor a
field—were no loss, that they must
have sold what they had to some one
who would be a better neighbor;
and that in Texa3 they would do what
never was done uefore by them—work
or die. I can see,’ resumed this gentle
man, ‘one of the existing distresses of
the North : the effort to maintain aloDg
general prosperity and indulgences.
You are slowly suffering what came to
us like a thunderbolt. In Georgia,
only a few miles from Atlanta, one can
buy a hundred acres of good land, with
an improvement on it, for §2,500. Here
is Gen. Gordon, our Senator, living in
that region in that quiet way. Now,
one hundred such acres will give a
family subsistance, feed the stock, and
send the children to college. We have
ceased to he a State of planters, and
have become a Commonwealth of farm
ers. At present there is but one party
substantially. The South will vote
Democratic solidly in 1880; but after
ihat a general division is inevitable.’ ”
TheNew York 2W6unc calls Mr. Bland
a repudiator, because of his silver bill,
and the Day-Booh comes back in this
way : Repudiation is a hard word, but it
would astonish the Tribune to know many
millions of voters in the United States
are whispering that word to-day. When
men, in the terrible struggle now taking
place in the business world, are driven in
sane over their troubles, produced by the
great load of debt the nation is struggling
under, and which load is more than hu
man nature can carry and prosper, life
becomes insufferable, and the future
hopeless. Those who keep their reason
ing faculties in a normal state, make up
their mind that debts which cannot be
worked out must be shaken off some how,
and “repudiation,” shocking as it is to
the man of honor, is grasped at, rather
than eternal slavery. A debt that can
be worked out should be thus worked out,
but the advocates of “repudiation” will
tell you that history never recorded the
paying of any national debt that
amounted to §2,000,000,000 since the
world was created. It is a terrible ordeal
to pass, and no Republic on earth could
it. Humanity, in shape of a Republic,
with a free ballot would be more than
humanity—would be gods—if, finding
the debt could not be paid, did not wipe
it out by the ballot. Stand from under
bondholders.
The Democrats are taking good care
to let the Republicans underslard that
they mean to call for a reckoning of all
past delinquencies on the 4th of March,
1879. Nothing can preventthem having
a majority then and several Democratic
Senators have plainly stated that what
ever wrongs may be done now will quick
ly be undone then. Of the 52 Senators
who hold over on the4th of March, 1879,
28 will be Democrats without counting
Mr. Davis or either of the three claim
ants from Louisiana and South Carolina,
while 12 States, Alabama, Arkansas,
California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North
Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina are
certain to send Democrats back, so that
the Democrats are sure of a majority of
four and likely to have more than that.
KEXLOUU'a ADMISSION,
The admission of Mr. Kellogg to a
seat in the United States Senate by the
vote of the Radicals of that body shows
that the entire disregard of right and
justice that has marked the course of
that party for the last twelve years, and
more, has not forsaken them, and thai
they are ready still to vote for the su
premacy of the party regardless of th«
requirements of truth and justice.
Judge Davis, Senator from Illinois,
who is jocularly termed the third party
in the Senate, who has been trained by
his habits of thought as a Judge on the
bench of the Supreme Court to look
upon all questions he is called on to de
cide in the light of truth, did not hesi
tate to vote against Kellogg’s admission.
But Patterson and Conover, who it was
hoped might do right for ooce in their
lives, failed to do so, and voted foi
seating Kellogg.
Judge Spoffordis a gentleman worthy
of the honor Louieina conferred on
him when he was elected to the Senate,
and we hate see him deprived of a place
he is justly entitled to, and a man whi
has no legal or valid claim upon it fill
ing his seat. But he can do no harm
fuither than to draw a salary he is not
entitled to and keep the man who is
entitled to it out of his seat.
The present House is Democratic by
a majority sufficient to save us from all
danger from the Radical majority in
the Senate, and the next Congress will
find a good Democratic majority in the
Senate.
(.OK CRESS,
The House was not in session the 29th
but the Senate kept pegging away on the
contested election cases without reaching
any final action.
Our Senators, Messra. Gordon and Hill
are constantly at their posts, occasional
ly putting in a word in the right place
and always voting in favor of right am
justice.
GEOatlA LDIP-ES.
The State Grange will meet in Macoi
on the 12th of December.
We learn there is a new daily pape
started in Atlanta, yclept the Evenin;
Tribune.
The Elherton Gazette thinks that th
next crop raised in that county will hr
carried to market by rail.
Two Columbus policemen named
Hackney and Jackson engaged in a
shooting affray last Friday.
The latest sensation in Dalton is a
female blacksmith, and all the young
colts are anxious to be shod.
Married, at Athens last Thursday
Mr. George W. Calvin, of Augusta, and
Miss Amy Buesse, o f Athens.
Rev. W. A. Candler, of the North
Georgia, Conference, was recently mar
ried to Miss Curtright, of LaGrange.
The whistle of the st-rn-wheel steam
boat will soon greet the ears of the peo
ple who.live on either side of the Flint
The Supreme Court affirmed the judg
ment of the court in the case of Moses
Green, of Upson county, found guilty
of murder. Moses will now be hanged
Four negroes were severely burned at
Mr. J. H. Jackson’s, Greene county, on
last Friday night. They were in the
lint-room of the gin-housp, and the
cotton caught fire from a lantern.
Mr. W. F. Darden, tax collector of
Monroe county, was recently halted on
the road to bis home by three masked
meD and ordered to give them all his
pocket change, eighty cents, and went
on his way in peace.
A gold mine has been recently dis
covered by W. H. L. Clay on the prop
erty of Mary A. Win, three miles from
Acworth, Coho, county, there being
thirteen leads of gold-bearing quanz.
An assay yielded one hundred and
thirteen dollars to the ton.
The election for anniversarian in the
Demosthenian and Phi Kappa socie
ties, of the University of Georgia, re
sulted in the choice of Messrs. P. W.
Davis, of Lexington, Ga., and J. Gor
don Russell, of Dalton, Ga., respect
ively.
No member of the North Georgia
Conference has died during the year
just past. Just before adjournment
Bishop Pierce addressed the Confer
ence, calling for transfers from among
the younger men to the Florida and
some of the Western Conferences. He
stated that Rev. S. H. Babcock, who
was transferred to one of the Arkansas
Conferences from the North Georgia
several years ago, and who was quite a
young man when he went West, is now
a Presiding Elder—is the leading man
among his brethren, and heads the list
of delegates to the General Conference
from his Conference. Five preachers
of the body are named Quillan.
Correspondence from Kentucky
Louisville, Nov. 27.
SpeakiDg of telephones, my .dear
Courier, I call to mind a prophecy ut
tered by George D. Prentice many
years ago. It was after Morse’s de
monstration of 1844 had thrilled the
world with electric wonder, and the
more intelligent minds were trying to
follow the grand gleam of light then
projected into the futnre’s darkness.
Prentice said that the day would
come when the words of the orator,
while he spoke them to the people,
would be coined into a legible record
without any human intervention or
agency. As the words of eloquence fell
from the lips, warm with passionate
life, they would crystalize on paper be
fore him, and remain in registered
thought. No pen, no pencil, no me
chanical appliance to receive the lan
guage like baker’s dongh, mould it
into loaves, bake it, and then turn it
out a tangible thing that can be cut,
consumed or laid away; but the great
editor’s idea was that the words them
selves should, while yet in sound, be
laid uoon the paper, and there cool
into fixed intelligence that would last
as long as human records last. We
need not hunt far for Illustration of tH6
he idea. Down in Mammoth Cave
may be seen the stalagmites dotting
the subterranean floor likfi Cypress-
knees in a Louisiana bayou. There’s
the precise pattern. Limstone water
drips from the arches; it crystalizes on
ihe floor, and ages of dripping piles the
sediment in a slim heap. No human
hand Interferes to' direct, prevent or
mm aside the work of nature, but it
goes on forever. First, the water, which
is formless, like the breathed word;
then the fall, which is like the utter
ance of the word, a direction being giv
en it; and then the change from the
volatility of water to the stony perma-
uence that must wait for Gabriel.
But what I wished to say is, that the
great paragrapher’s bones have hardly
had time to mingle with the common
-lust of earth before we are told that his
prophecy is fulfilled. You may have
read, a few days ago, of Mr. Edison’s
contrivance, called the phonograph,
Should he succeed in perfecting it, as
seems very likely from his progress so
tar, we shall be able to reproduce the
it reel so words and tones of fhe human
voice once spoken into, at, through, or
around the machine, no matter how
many years or ages afterward, as faith
fully as lines of light record the photo
graphic image. The uses to which this
new thing could be applied would fill
a barrel to mention. In schools, for
instance, it might take the place of
nooks, and oral instruction might be
dispensed from one of these machines
set in the middle of the room, the full-
eared pupils standing around. The
voices of the past, thus preserved and
produced at will might substitute or at
least supplement in a valuable way the
present ix ethods of teaching.
Then again, there's the telephone—
getting so common now as to be ro
longer a curiosity. Walk down Jeffer
son street on any sunny day, and near
the corner ot Fourth you may see a
curbstone Professor of acoustics telling
a knot of idlers about the thing; and he
will hand you a little pasteboard cup
about the size of a mustard box, and
invite you to send a message along the
string to the boy in a window on the
opposite side ot the street, or on top of
Masonic Temple—a direction which
'he man gracefully indicates with a
flourish of his arm if he see you have
not eyes enough to follow the twine till
it ends at the boy. You talk into the
cup, and ask a question or two; the boy
hears you perfectly and answers. If
you want it to amuse the children at
home, buy one; ten cents. A wire can
be used, as ordinary telegraph connec
tions. I suggest that we ought to com
p-1 tomcats and tabbies to use it at their
courting concerts on the back shed and
across the dividing fences of the kitch
en area, thus allowing us nervous ones
to sleep while they have as much fun
as usual.
About the “Dizzy Blondes.’’ Rome
is morally so sweet a place—so Eden-'
like when compared with the crime
centers of population—that when the
Devil obtrudes in the shape of illegiti
mate drama, or puts on the ravishing
disguise of musical extravaganza, vour
people have but to assume a frowD and
he vanishes. Such is the blessedness
of a well-ordered community where
churches have reasonable sway. But
the horns and the hoofs and the forked
rail will not down at our indignant bid
ding here—because the Old Boy thinks
tie sees an inviting twinkle in our eyes,
however we pretend to be severe. We
have a very fine organization of Y. M,
C. A. here, and I’ll tell you what they
fid. Madam D’Enclos came with her
“blondes” to Library Hall last week,
and there was excitement among the
bald-headed ones and the youth un
curbed, for the blondes’ bad moials and
performance had been sniffed from afar.
So much, so very much of the people
m large cities are devil-prompted, and
always on the keen scent for dirt.
The blondes showed, and Louisville
Mu-fied. The Courier-Journal had pre
viously printed an indignant warning,
which had the usual effect of keeping
good folks away, and jamming the the
ater from pit to dome with the loose,
the vile, and the well-dressed but care
less. Next day the Y. M. C. A. pro
cured an interference of the police, and
the blimdes were squelched. They
went over the river to Jeffersonville and
finished the week there, but were
toned down somewhat from the broad
ness of their exhibition here. You
should have heard the howl of in
dignation set up by the loose moraled
at being thus checkmated by the Young
Men; and you would have to sit down
and reflect pretty heavy after listening
to some opinions expressed by people
whom you had thought might be fiiBt
cousins to angels.
We are having some weather, and it
is very ugly weather, too. There seems
to be a general rain overspreading this
latitude; and the terrible disasters in
Virginia make us pray for less of a
flood here. Yet it is an ill wind that
blows nobody away. The rains which
to-day cause Virginia to sit in desola-
cion are the same which have raised
our Ohio and sent down the coal fleets
from Pittsburgh—and the price of fuel
will return to within the reach of the
filden on Hayes* Policy.
Ha Think* Hi* Reception South “ Wa* *11
Humbug.”
poor.
Next month we have onr municipal
election, and the nsual squalls pf that
teething period. The Workingmen’s
party is pretty strong, and almost swept
the field last August I cannot say
whether lately it has gathered strength
or not; but some time since I formed
the opinion that it is a very complete
humbug, and will only last until the
politicians get ready to sit down upon
Old Pick.
How Sbe Mizes ’em-
A New York Herald interviewer re
ports to that jonrnal the following in.
terview, said to have been held between
him and ex-Gov. Tilden. It opens with
the inquiry:
“Governor, how do you feel?”
“Never felt better in my life,” re
sponded Mr. Tilden. His appearance
indicated that he was in the best of
health and spirit", and he was commu
nicative in an unusual degree.
AN OPINION OF HAYES.
‘iWhat do you think. Governor,’
continued his interlocutor, “of the pol
icy Hayes is pursuing ?”
“I think he is chilling some of the fa
naticism in the Republican party.”
“Is he breaking up the party, in your
opinion?”
“He will have no party very soon,”
replied Mr. Tilden; “he will, in three
years from now, have no more support
than a corporal’8 guard.”
“Then yon think, Gov. Tilden, that
he will alienate from his snpport both
Democrats and Republicans?”
“I think so. The South appears to
be disposed to pat him on the back and
uige him forward in his work of re
conciliation; but will they stand by
him ?”
“What do you think they will do,
(aavemor ?”
■ “Well, they will do as they always
Aid, snpport none but a true-blooded
I^mocrat that will represent them.’’
THE SOUTHERN TRIP.
‘•Then you think that these ovations
to President Hayes in the different
Southern States were assumed for a
purpose? Were insincere, in fact?”
“It was all humbug,” replied Mr.
Tilden, with emphasis. “It can’t be
that these Southern Democrats will ac
cept an administration which they
must know is founded on fraud, and
which is Republican in spite of every
thing.”
“But they do accept it Mr. Tilden.”
“Yes, they do accept it, hut you know
the present administration is falling to
pieces, and where it will end Heaven
only knows.”
MR. TILDEN WILL CONTEST.
“Do you purpose prosecuting your
tight to the Presidential chair?”
“Certainly, I do,” answered Mr. Til
den spiritedly. “The country knows
that I was legally elected President,
and thu American people is top intel
ligent to forget that one glaring and
paramount fact On that fact tbe very
foundations of the Republic rest If
jhe voice of a Eation he not realized in
the serious question of electing its su
preme ruler, then you may calculate
bn bitterness of feeling that will not be
assuaged until the wrong is righted.
The people who supported me feel to
day that their votes were given in vain.
They feel that they might as well haye
cast tneir suffrages for a dummy, and
they number so large a portion of the
population of the whole country that
it is an unwise experiment to trifle with
their rights. As far as I am concerned,
it is of little consequence, but I tell you
one of the gravest principles in repre
sentative government is involved, arid
if the people do not see to it the mat
ter will be-a subject of deep regret to
coming generations.”
A PARTY GOING TO PIECES.
“What do you think of the action of
the Senate in the case of the Southern
Senators ?”
“Well, as I said before, the adminis
tration and the Repnblican party are
going to pieces. Mr. Hayes has no
color, and the Republican party has no
policy.”
“You appear, Governor, to feel a
distrust of the Southern support of
Hayes ?”
“Humbug/’ responded the Governor
sententiously, “you can’t mix oil and
water,” and then he looked around,
saw what astonished him, and walked
briskly off, entered a Broadway stage
and drove up town.”
News Items.
R. Whitader’s Cotton Mills, the lar
gest in Oldham, Eng., containing 50,000
splindles, have been destroyed by fire,
and many persons thrown out of em
ployment.
Germany has informed Switzerland
that, subject to ratification by the Ger
man Parliament, it will contribute a
further sum of two million dollars to
ward the St. Gothard railway.
Nathaniel Greene postmaster at Bos
ton from 1829 to 1841, .died recntly,
aged SO years. He was an active jour
nalist in New Hampshire in early life,
and was one of the founders of the Bos
ton Statesman.
At Sedalia, Mo., Thursday night the
house of Eliza M. Orz., colored, was
burned during her temporary absence
and her two children perished in the
flames. The fire iB believed to have
been started by a Voudoo doctor, named
Eddy.
At San Francisco on November 28
there were about seven thousand in t
procession of workingmen. It was en
tirely quiet. The parade was admitted
to be in the highest degree creditable
to the good sense and moderation of
the laboring classes.
David Stillman and his wife, an in
firm couple, aged about 70, have been
found murdered at their home at Shef
field, Mass. The weapon employed
was an axe. John Teneyck, a colored
man, who went to the house to buy but
ter, has been arressed on suspicion of
the murder.
Marsh Polk, treasurer, and James P.
Gaines, comptroller of Tennessee, are
en route home from New York, where
they made a final settlement with the
Mississippi Central Railroad Company
receiving one million two hundred
thousand dollars in State bonds in full
discharge of all debte due the State.
Antiquity of the Turkey.
An old colored lady of one of the back
counties siDgs all the good old Methodist
hymns, but she gets them mixed some?
times. She sings,
‘Sweet preipeet*. sweet bird* and sweet flower*
Here ell loot their (weetau* tut me."
An another:
11 Am I ■ boulder of e hoM,
A quarter of a lamb.”
She means all right, though, bless her
good heart.—Aehland (Ay.) Repent,
Turkeys were introduced into England
from America by William Strickland,
Lieutenant to Sebastian Cabot, in the
time of Henry VII. B. Franklin re
marked once upon a t;ms that the wild
turkey should have been the emblem
of the United States, the log cabin pf
the pioneer being in his day snrroanded
by these birds. The first turkey seen
in France was served up at the wedding
feast of Charles IX., in 1564, af, which
feast Craddock and Susan B- Anthony
was present, Since that day turkeys
have always formed the nucleus for wed
ding feasts and Thgnksgivipg dinners,
which is about all we know concerning
the bird, unless we shonld say that
newspaper men have always held that
a cut from the forward part of a roast
turkey’s carcass, smothered in gravy
and surrounded by a pound and a half
of artificial intensities, is a dish not in
the least detrimental to health, and one
which no newspaper man ever hesitated
to tackle when favorable opportunity
offered.—Ovcemboro (Ky) Examiner.
It was a man in Missouri who walked
123 milee to get wedded.
Fdfty-Fiitll Congress-
Extra Session.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 1.
SENATE. j
The-first vote last night was on Hill’s
substitute to seat Spofford on bis prima
fade case, which was rejected, 27 to 29 ;
Patterson and Conover voting nay; Da
vis, of HI., aye. On the direct vote to
seat Kellogg, Patterson and Conover
voted aye; Davis, no. On the vote to
seat Bntler, Conover and Patterson voted
aye; Davis did not vote. Kellogg and
Bntler were then sworn in.
In executive session the following were
confirmed: Given, of Fla., Consul to
Leghorn; G. C. Wharton, District At
torney for Ky.; Norton, of New Orleans,
Inspecting Supervisor of Steamboats.
Wadleigh from the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, reported a reso
lution declaring J. B. Eustis entitled to a
seat as Senator from Louisiana, for the
term ending March 4, 1879. The report
was spstained in Committee, 6 to 3. A
minority report was presented, and the
matter went over.
Butler and Kellogg and in their seats.
The Deficiency bill was amended in
several important respects and passed.
The Senate went into executive session
and took a recess to 10 A. H Mouday.
Fitzsimmons was confirmed as Marshal
of Georgia.
HOUSE.
The House adapted a resolution in
structing the Committee on Patents to re
port a bill prohibiting the bringing of
suits for damages for infringements of
patents against persons who may pur
chase said patents without the knowledge
of such infringements.
A resolution foi final adjournment at
3 P. m. to-day, was adopted.
The House to-day passed a bill for the
relief of the survivors of the wrecked
steamship Huron, and the families of the
lost. It gives one thousand dollars in
the cases of officers, aDd oae hundred
dollars in the cases of the men. The bill
also applies to the crew of the swamped
wrecking boat It was introduced
by Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, aid passed
unanimously.
A motion to suspend the rules and pass
a bill to remove all political disabilities
was made by Goode, of Virginia, and
was defeated for want of the necessary
two thirds majority.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, moved to suspend
the rules and adopt a resolution iostruci-
ing the Committe on Ways and Means to
report a revenue tariff; rejected.
The House took a recess till 10 a. m.
Monday.
Origin of Some Famons Leg
ends.
Not among the different members of
the great Aryan family only, are the
germs of many of our best-known stories
discoverable. They see-n to belong to
humanity. Prof. Fiske, of Harvard
University, noticing how the “ William
Tell” legend (for it is a legend), and that
which among the We’ah celebrates the
death of Gelert’s faithful hound, and
good many otners besides, are found
everywhere, says: “We must admit, then,
that these fireside tales have beeu handed
down from parent to child for more than
a hundred generations; that the primi
tive Aryan cottager,os he took his evening
meal of yava and sipped his fermeoted
mead, listened with bis children to the
Boots and Cinderella and the Master
Thief, in the days when the squat Lap
lander was still master of Europe and
the dark-skinned Sundra was as yet un
molested in the Punjab.” True; but
may we not go farther, and say that,
finding these tales, or counterparts, among
Zulus aDd Mongols, and Malays, and
Red Indians, we must either pronounce
them to be “innate ideas,” or else bold
that men had invented them io the old
old time when the differences between
Aryans and non-Aryans had not grown
up ? Sir H. Rawlinson seems to prove,
from the earliest Assyrian remains, that
“in the biginning,” Hamite and Shemite
and Japbetian were all one—that even
what afterwards became the Aryan
tongues were then “agglutinative,” like
the Red Indian of to-day. S >me one.
too. has just proved that the old Peruvian
was a kindred speech to the Sanskrit
No wonder, then, that the same stories
are current all the world over.
Minister Hilliard.
Oar Minister to Brazil arrived safely
at Rio de Janeiro,on he 14th day of Oc
tober.' In a private letter from that
splendid capital, dated October 15th,
the day after bis arrival, he writes:
“I arrived yesterday morniDg, by the
blessing of a good Providence, quite
well and with grateful heart The voy-
ago was pleasant from the day we sailed
from Bordeaux. The Consul and some
fifteen American gentlemen came to
the ship to receive me, in a boat from
which the United States flag floats
and I found a very handsome and ele
gant carriage awaiting me. Apartments
had been secured for me at the Hotel of
Strangers, kept by English people. It
is somewhat singular that upon the
walls of my parlor are hung the por
traits of General Washington and of the
King of the Belgians, the Queen and
the three children, the little girl beiDg
Curlotta. So I seem to have taken up
diplomatic life where I left if off, having
been Minister to Belgium formerly. It
is of course
design in it.”
He says also that “Rio is a magnifi
cent city, but unlike any I ever saw,
The sea and mountains surround it.
Thejbay.is very beautiful,and rocksfrom
twelve to twenty-five hundred feet in
height rise to view.
“The Emperor yesterday in full state
adjourned the Congress. He wore his
imperial robes, his crown, etc., etc.
driven to the Chamber in a coach drawn
by eight horses, the Empress also in an
other drawn by eight horses.”
mete coincidence—no ness for office. I voted for Felton &
his record and his capacity with^ 4
nomination. I shall vote for Braah '
with a nomination.for the SumpZr*
—Bulletin of the 29th ull.
Telephonic Experiments.
Some very successful telephonic ex
periments have been made recently upon
a short line between the Maryland Agri
cultural College and the college station
a distance of nearly a mile. Prof. War-
field and others of the college staff have
transmitted messages, even though
spoken in a whisper. Singing is even a
greater success. Whistling, laughing,
drum beating, guitar playing, and even
the beating of a watch can be clearly
heard. Speeches can be as clearly heard
as though in the presence of the speaker.
Visitors coming unexpectedly can by this
means have a carriage at the depot in a
few moments.—Baltimore Gazette.
London, Dec. 1.—The Times' corres
pondent at Berlin telegraphs the follow
ing: There seems to be no doubt that
the German Government has endeavor
ed to obtain Austria’s acquiescence in
the Russian plan of direct negotiation
with Turkey, by promising her friend
ly support if any of Austria’s vital in
terests are imperilled.
The Times’Vienna correspondent says
it ip announced from Bucharest that
the general bombardment of Plevna
commenced Thursday.
London, Dec. I.—The city was vis
ited by the heaviest fog of the season
to-day. At 10:30 o’clock this morning
it was as dark as midnight, but the
darkness only lasted a short time.
The British Government has con
tracted with the owners of the Bell
telephone for its use as a part of the
British telegraph system.
Between two and throe thousand
cotton operatives are now on a strike
at Mossley. The employers threaten
a general lock-out
The Rural Home tells us that “the
Hessian fly has been very numerous
and destructive in autumn.” It is be
lieved that George Washington was re
sponsible for the introduction of the
Hessian fly into this country. At any
rate, it was never heard of.in this coun
try until we were suddenly told ibat he
had made (he Hessian fly at Trenton.
“I wish I was sbort-sigbted,” said a
little boy his mother the other day.
“Why, my dear ?” said the fond pa
rent
“Because,” replied the precocious six-
year-old, “I should not then be blamed
lor always taking the largest plums off
the dish) for, of oourse, I should not be
able to see the small ones.”
“With regard to these gentlemen
helps,” said a respectable maiden lady
to a very witty matron (with daughters)
“you may depend upon it that they will
never stoop to low menial work.”
“My dear madam,” wag the reply, “it
is the hymeneal work that I am afraid
of their rising to.”
The rice crop of South Carolina for
the year is estimated at 44,000 tierces,
and that of Georgia at 26.000 tierces.
London, Dec. 1.—A Constantinople
correspondent sends the following:
“The Turks having seized two Ital
ian vessels in the Bosphorus, although
they had passed the blockade in the
Black Sea, Count Corti, the Italian Am
bassador, has formally declared that if
they are not released he will proclaim
the blockade ineffectual and invite
Italian ship owners to send their ves
sels into the Black Sea. He has also
declared that it the Porte insists on
maintaining an ineffectual blockade,
Italy will resort to extreme measures.
Unless the Porte yields there will be
rupture with Italy.”
A later dispatch from Rome, how
ever, anticipates no serious difficulty be
tween Turkey and Italy about the
seizure of two merchant ships on the
Bosphorus. Count Corti, the Ambas
sador at Constantinople, protested
against the seizure, and the Porte offer
ed full satisfaction.
Risings are apprehended in Epirus,
Thessaly and Albania. The Greeks
have sent a strong note to the Porte
concerning their grievances, and the
Porte has replied that it is inclined to
meet the danger half way by sending
both the Servian and Greek represent-
tatives their passports. As the note is
evidently intended to provoke an an
gry reply which could be used as
pretext for a rupture at a favorable op
portunity, the situation is very critical.
The following passage between Sena
tors Edmunds and Davis occurred on
Wednesday, in the debate on contested
seats:
Mr. Edmunds—Mr. President, I be
lieve my honorable friend from Illinois
(Mr. Davi-0 is partly correct in speak
ing of the evenly balanced state of
parties in fee Senate. Whether he re
ferred to all the parties in tne Senate or
not I do not know. [Laughter.] There
are two parties in the Senate that are
very evenly matched ; how it is with
the third I do not know. [Laughter.]
Mr. Davis—The third is unanimous.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Edmunds—I assume that the
third party is unanimous, as my friend
has just stated. [Laughter.] I hope
we shall have order, Mr. President;
cannot go on.
The Vice President—That rests with
the Senator from Vermont. [Laugh
ter.]
Mr. Edmunds—Then we shall have
order.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
decided in the case of Stafford, Rla-
lock & Co. vs. Elliott, in a claim case
from Pike county, that “A general
waiver of the right of homestead to all
the property of a debtor, in esse and to
be acquired, in a promissory note witn-
out words which create any lien or de
scribe any particular property, will not
estop the debtor from taking a home
stead, though he may have owned and
possessed the property set apart at the
time he gave the note.”
The official returns of the vote of
New York in the late election show a
considerable range of the majorities.
While Mr. Olcott, the Democratic can
didate for Comptroller, has a majority
of 36,389, Mr. Beach, the Democratic
nominee for Secretary of State, has only
11.280 majority. About 12,500 of this
difference is to be found in the vote of
New York city, and is doubtless due to
the fact that the German organizations
supported Olcott and opposed Beach.
New York, Nov. 28.—The Sound
steamer O. H. Northam, lying at the
foot of East 7th street, was burned yes
terday, with three negroes who were
asleep aboard. The origin of the fire
is supposed to be a spark which drop
ped from a tobacco pipe. The vessel
was insured far §120,000,
London, Nov. 29.—The Telegraph has
informatioa that Kars fell througn the
treachery of a Pa.-ha who admitted the
Russians to the commanding fort and
was paid for it.
It is reported that Warsaw and other
parts of Poland are about being declar
ed in a state of siege.
Savannah, Dec. 1.—The store of Na
than Cornwell, near Bartow, Ga , was
ourned last night, and Corn we 1 IV
charred remains were found in ll e
ruins. It is thought ha wag murdered
and the store burnt by the robbers.
Washingtoii, Dec. 1.—The bridges
recently washed away by flood on the
Virginia and Tennessee road haviug
been replaced, trains via the Kenne-
saw route resume the regular through
trips to day.
A Buffalo man dreamed that he was
goiog^ over the falls, and he had
his wi‘ e by the throat when he woke up.
Next night she bad a dream, and broke
his nose as she struck at an Indian.
Some men’s only stock-in-trade are
their misfortunes. These they are al
ways trying to force upon the market,
but they rarely ever Sod a purchaser.
The law makes a witness swear he
will tt-11 the whole truth, so help him,
and then it imposes rules of evidence
by which he is not permitted to tell it.
JudgeA.B.Wrighdt^Uj’
We called up Hon AR w •
terday andsubmit the r c s u i t ,,? ?hk J»
terview. 1 uf <toi p I
It is said yon are for Branham r ,
House of Representatives i, f.®A
“Notwithstanding all that L t0?
[ainst Wm. G. Browrdow th^ bt(t
against
that stood at tbe bead of theT Ia< *o
Whig was essentially righi- B
in nothing; on one side or the *
all questions.” I ghali tt <(
Branham for the house.”
. “What are your reasons for 5nr ,_
ing him.” en PPcut
“I answer unhesitatingly bee,
elected, I believe he will he’
leader sof the house. I am
fact that he is the nominee of a ^‘ l!i
non ana that a good many of ° j
pendent friends think that for that
son alone, we are bound to vntl. !*
him. Not so. His uominati. t,^
nim. iNot so. ms nomination
opinion, ought to make no maw1**
difference for or against him. I*/?
man stand upon his capacity and o
ness for office. I voted fo. a *
A statement comes from Bus!
headquarters that the story shunto!
anticipated surrei der of the Turfa *
Plevna is all a myth, and that Tnrti*
prisoners report abundant food snpcE
Within the fortifications there.
London, Dec. 1.—A special from Be
lin to the Times says the German TA.
graph Department is organizing rJ-
phonic commnnication for distant-
not exceeding fifty miles. 001
England has imported 396.000 Inna
of apples from the United State si-,
last October.
Boston, Dec. 1.—CommodoreCdi
well, of the United States States Xm
is dead.
Lord & Taylor,
NEW YORK.
WE INFORM THE LADIES OF ROME Gl
THAT OUR MAIL AND KXP8KFS DEPaKTMFtm?
NOW SO THOROUGHLY ORGAN IZED. TRETCum
THEIR SHOPPING IS NEW YORK WITHOUT?S
EXPENSE OF TRAVELING THERE.
PLE3 OF PIECE GOODS WITH PRICES PUlm
MARKED, AND CATALOGUES OP LADDS' inni
AND CHILDREN'S FURNISHING GOODS H®
TO APPLICANTS WHO SEND US TUm
ADDRESS, FREE OF CHARGE, AND IP THCTrr
PLAIN CLEARLY THE KIND OF GOODS WaJtt?
WE .-EL DOM FAIL IN SUITING THEM. FROMnf
PRINTED CATALOGUE THEY CAN ALWAYS mg
SELECTION OP GARMENTS THAT WILL cm
SATISFACTION, AND IT IS ONLY NECBSAIIM
GIVE THE PROPER MEASUREMENTS TO KB'S
SUCCESS.
OUR IMPORTATIONS
CF THIS SEASON Cl U US AN UNEQUALED «TG(T
OF GOOES. ‘
BLACK SILKS, hnniisnine &r.d durable El wvH*
• 1.0 to ♦3.50. Tbe GREAT AMERICAN lSMUm?
TIBLE SILK, *1.20, $1.2*. and
PLAIN COLORED SILKS
> low as 75c. per yard, and at $l.lu, same as qairrf
t season at $ I 25.
Fancy_ firoche and I>ama?StS_ngure3 cf thenerfca
io? S*Oaj*t|m
u.rie?, from $2.00 upward*. Tn
orth $1.25.
IHE PRICES AT WHICH WE OFFER OCR fUB
>:-TllIRD LES
NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS
give a richer display rt ei
this season than for maev;
lug bj every European Sie
stock.
The mixed COSTUME CLOTnS ranjre in prir • f*
COc. a yard to $3.0t», am! on loir-priced DRLSd wk,
liic. a.yard up, many of them bring ai t
tose
eat f
and
infbi
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s the heavier fabrics.
SHAWLS, MANTLES and WRAPS
India Valley Ca*bracre Shawl* from $100.00 na hh
Filled Craters at ♦50.00 and up.
Real Drcca, Chedda ai.d Striped India Elavil xr
designs, from $10.00 upwards. Also, full Rues Ed*
French and German ShawU in beautiful new
the best and most reliable manufacture. Piria Re
ties a d Cloaks of the latest modes from $15.10 sp, of
Berlin from $3.00.
Ladies’ and Children’s Sails al
Fine Under Clothia;
These department* embrace everything periahiafU
Female Cos-turnf, suited to all ages a ‘
For full particulars see catalogue*.
HOSIERY.
Ladies', Misses’, and Children'* Hosiery from J1J*
dozen, uo to the finest good- All the newest and;»
tie*t designs la Hosiery iae represented in oar Met a
r considered an lodjpo
GL VES.
Kid, SIk, Lisle Thread and Merino Gloves of tte a
color* and ehapes. In great variety.
Lord t Taylor’s Kid Glove*, 2 buttons, warranted,
$1.00 per pair, price last season $1.10.
ALSO,
Lace, Cambric, Linen and S'Ik Handkerchief*, tod ba>
tiful Neckerchiefs, all prices from 25c. upward, art-’
kinds Dress Trimmings to match ocr goods.
MOURNING DEPARTMENT.
French and English Crapes, Grenadines and Orps-
dies. Bombazines, Henrietta Cloth, $1 .i>» np. Trod
Cashmere, 50c. up, Biarrii* Cloth, Serges, AastnB*
Crape* and other desirable fabric* at very low prat,
\\ e make up full suits of MOURNING from nmet
at short notice. Mourning Jet Jewelry, sad alisd
articles of Mourning in variety.
DOMESTIC and HOUSEKEEPING
GOODS
Sheeting!. PQloir Cloths, Bhnkets, Quite, Ocefcte
bles, flannels, and, in fact, every article required is te
line, we always eeil at tnannfacturers’ pricr*.
White Goods ar»d Liaeas, from the finest White ^Or
FURS.
Alaska Seal S icqn*». from $65.00 up.
Al*3k|t Seal Mufls f.cm$6.oo up.
Alaska Beal * o a s. frem *6.00 cp.
JKpk Muffs and Lo.« . from §:2_'0 a 'et, cp-rori
EQk Far-lined Garments, fro-a $ 5.00.
Alaska S .Me Seta, f. cm $7.5*'.
A good set tf 1 urs :.s low a* $5.00,
. 55F” Our Goods an
to fill all orders ex-u t
We guarantee all put
and stand reqdy t
f rat-diM
convinced that a fir,’, tru.
tom hereafter.
All orders for Goods
cr where parties i
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with * steemboet lending m lew *» U
of e mile from the dwelling. “ n ,r
The other day a train 60 the Canada
Southern Railroad ran 111 miles in 109
minute 0 . One mile was ran in 55
seconds.
E. N. FRESHMAN
Failure after a long perseverance is Advertising *
' 190 W. Fourth St., CINCINHAW'
much grander than never to have a striv
ing good enongh to be called a failure.
In Denmark a barber i& required to
know the ^idiments of surgery, and
pass an examination thereon.
hammock and p no lend, nni
■pie did orange grore. T, noeeJJ
«nd has on it a good house with
«id*f ont buUdiBRS. The ” tool*.
cnltivaion, end the Block, let®-»
cen be bought with the place- . .fat^
be bought low for cash nr in
anle town property in Borne. E'fli.wistit
on *—«- F-'BD
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