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I ^"fnaU Strictly In advance, tne price of
1 * °tlr courier will be $2 58 a year, and the
_«*HV S5 00. ; ' .
I ciuts of n ro or more ’ OQe “Py 11111 •** for-
I Wflshington dispatches indicate that
cjejator Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
Kj bs appointed Consul-General at,
jiris- _ * .
& n Pasha, who it was said had
ojAtpd suic'de a few days ago rather
f “ ...ffer amputation of his leg, is now
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I £ja but admire his dash add military
,,e ! aid w ;sh him better luck than
E:t Go v Dinplcy of Maine, presents.
Ielaborate statistics to show that there is
U-proportionately e-tenth of the
Loi sold and used in that State that
there was forty years ago, and that
drunkenness, pauperism, and crimes
Lf Violence hr.ving their origin tn the
b=o of liquor have largely decreased.
4 relative of Gen. Grant is reported
a saying that the ex-President will re-
laain abroad indefinitely, and adding:
Kamsurehe will not come back while
.quarrel between the party and
iHayea goes on. He doesn’t want to be
] up in it. You may make up
r mind that while there is conflict
Ljdeof the Republican party here
(jrant will keep abroad. * * I sus-
L he is studying civil service admin
istration on the other side.”
Bis thought probable that the per-
s who preside over New York life in
duce -companies will next month
Usent annual statements upon which
may rely with confidence,
site-conviction of President Case for
(forgery, which is likely to be followed
L the conviction of President Lambert,
|i» is now on trial for the same of-
s, may be expected to have a whole-
e effect,- and to induce officers of
Itorporations to ascertain for themselves
whether the figures of their subordi
nates are false or true. The puhlic
nay soon, therefore, get some idea as to
rial companies are sound by their
athebming annual statements,
VOLUME XXXU.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1877.
NEW SERIES-NO. 17
In
ON dangeroi sground.
The Tennessee Legislature seems de-
Itomined to repudiate fifty per cent, of
State debt, a bill to that effect hav-
igbeen advanced the first legislative
lep. It is an easy and approved way
|h pay old debts in the South.—N. Y.
\ltmld.
Tepnsssee ought to pay her just debts,
tt if her creditors agree to take fifty
cent, instead of the whole, am 1
'Tennessee aefcepts the proposition, is
fiat repudiation ? But suppose it is
ipuliutiou, can not the people of Ten-
nee, or of any other State of the
Union, point to the Fourteenth Amende
nit of .he Constituting of the United*
States for precedent and justification?
By that amendment the Southern
ctates were compelled to repudiate
teas just, as honorable, and asbind-
*5 in conscience as auy it is possible
for a State to o*"e.
Scarcely a youth of 17 is to be found
among the Sanummns who is not elab-
rately tattooed. Candleout ashes and
T i’er are used for coloring matter,
that par! of the body from the waist
to the knee is covered with a variegated
pattern that at a short distance resetn-
iacework. The operation con-
t-mes two or three months, and the
operator is very exacting about his pay.
‘'- r - r -a he gets half through he demands
-‘recompense, and if it is not forth-
tonung he refuses to finish the work,
rang man is in deep disgrace if he
about half tattooed. The girls
-ra.'b at him, and the men scorn him
the process is very painful, and the
:;a:m = are dieted while undergoing it.
!: aie become mere skeletons before
they are completed, but it is the fash-
s ni they are repaid oy the admir-
mgglances of the women. The gentler
SfI ar “ rarely tattooed. Sometimes a
ielicate garter is seen twining around
4e H’> ‘ometimi s an armlet, or a straw
■::y design in the middle of the back,
‘tech instances are rare.
U>e difficulty between Senators
ff'lon and Coiikling occurred in
!s Mntive session of the Senate, when
'•erybody except Senators was excluded,
-wee it is difficut to get an exact version
- - affair, as there was no one present
, “° 5e Business it was to report the pro-
•~iu,gs, and, of course, the parties
“Selves and all other Senators have
••Se hi.it mev about going into details
If the silver dollar dispute shall pass
thestrict bounds that ought to limit it,
says the Missouri Republican, and ex
pand into a re-investigation of the
whole subject of the public indebted
ness—how it was contracted, how much
real money it represents, what it was
payable in originally, and what it is be-
in paid in now—the Eastern creditor
class will have none but themselves to
upbraid for it. There are some signs
perceptible already of the dispute drift
ing into this dangerous realm. Senator
Hereford, of West Virginia, reminded
the Senate last Friday that. the public
debt was originally payable in lawful
money, or greenbacks, as all other debts
contracted daring the, war were; that
Thaddeas SteVegis, chairman of the
Housp^jpqipaigee on Ways and Means,
expressly .declared this when he re
ported. the bills for the issue of the
bonds, and that Secretary Sherman
himself, in a letter written in 1S68,
avowed the same thing. Yet a Repub
lican Congress in 1S69 enacted that the
puhlic debt should be payable in coin,
although at that time coin was worth
35 per cent, more than lawful money,
or greenbacks, and from that day to
this the semi-annual interest on the
bonds has been paid in coin—and gold
coin at that
These facts are old; they are part of
the financial history of the'country,
and have been repeatedly mentioned.
It were better that they be permitted to
pass out the arena of active politics
into the silence of history, for, to bring
them up now, will surely inflame the
public temper, already betraying symp
toms of impatience at the attempt to
make all indebtedness payable in gold,
and impart to the present controversy
elements that were better left out. The
Eastern creditor classes are doing their
unjust cause no good when they de
nounce the people and their Congress
as repudiators and knaves for insisting
that the United States bonds shall be
paid at the rate of OLe hundred cents
on the dollar, and no more; and Mr.
Hayes and Secretary Sherman are not
wisely defending the public credit
when they imply that a just and right
eous popular demand will destroy it.
The very least that the minority can do
in this matter is to concede that the
majority are as honest aB themselves—
that the people who are to pay the pub
lic debt are as effective custodians of
the public credit as the bondholders to
whom the debt is paid.
Li — SteNmd iHsulceFs?^^^?^
Our WaSDlngton correspondent gives «• v(h«gjg3|Sjk~' 0 v (
he X c
York Herald's Washington
tepwi.-U-nt gives the following history
- j > which is, doubtless, substantially
frrtct:
. hi tiecutive session, after the case of
Georgia Internal Revenue Collector
.' S L had been confirmed. General Gor-
'; J proposed to move that Mr. Spencer,
j .ilsbama, report the ease of Mr.
'-‘ph who was nominated for Collector
-iotiiie-. in which case there had been
j- diverse report which had been as-
---'I ui Spencer’s charge. Spencer was
the report back while Gordon
I' 11 :l; - of the speaking, and while
b this motion, Coukliug called out
] on with the calendar
;,i Jj rdon immediately said: “Mr. Pres-
:‘ 6a h the Senator from New York is not
Chair but he orders the Chair to go
*'* the calendar.”
^ Several names had been called for ac-
£ when Gordon made this remark,
tetor Conkling sprang to his feet after
ion I s remar ks and asked what Gor-
tjj j sa 'd about h m. Gordon imme-
u T re peated the language
r.Loukling then said, “If the Seua-
tj-U’® Georgia says that I ordered the
»pl f° S u on with the calendar he states
„ 'a not true.”
Settle 11 re p'ied, “Very well; we will
/l e ^thereafter.”
We i] lu .o rel orted, “ We will settle it
Gort re peMed what he said before,
settle tlleu a gaiu said, “We will not
1 here, but elsewhere.”
a versiotfof the Gordon-Conkling af
fair, which we omit, as it is substan
tially the same as that pu 1 liahed else
where in our paper this morning, and
continuing upon the same subject he
says:
“The subject of Conkling’s victory
over the Administration in the defeat
of Roosevelt and Prince as successors to
Arthur and Cornell in the New York
Custom-house, which has been the
staple subject of conversation since its
occurrence, gave way for the time to the
newer sensation; and speculation was
rife as to what was likely to grow out
of the rencounter, about all agreeing
that the import of Gordon’s threat was
a challenge to the New Yorker. From
responses received from points, near
and remote, whence the intelligence has
been telegraphed, party feeling appears
to have been aroused as it has not been
before for months. The matter was
discussed at the hotels here, and other
resorts of the politicians, in all its bear
ings, and not always temperately ; and
not a few, judging from the sentiments
expressed, were made unhappy this
morning that the matter had been am
icably adjusted through the interven
tion of mutual friends.
“No occurrence for many months
has created a more profound sensation
as first reported, and as embellished,
according to the fancy of those retail
ing it from one to another. But now,
that time has been allowed for “qpol-
ing off,” a large majority, irrespective
of party bias, are happy that a peacea
ble way out of the ugly complication
has been found by the gentlemen who
patiently wrought out the method, hon
orable to both alike, and humiliating
to neither.
Congress has adjourned for a good
long holiday recess. Many of the mem
bers, even those living in the far West,
have gone to their homes and constit
uents to extract wbat of enjoyment
they may during the recess. Others
remain and will materially add, by
their participation, to the social pleas
ures of the next twenty-five day.
The supply of holiday goods brought
to this market for the Christmas and
New Year’s trade is said to exceed that
of any previous year, even during the
flush times preceding the crash of Sep
tember, 1873; and one can readily be
lieve the statement by a leisurely in
spection of the shops along our princi
pal streets and avenues. Pennsylvania
avenue and 7th street are not, I believe,
excelled even in Boston, New York or
Philadelphia for plenty and brilliancy.
Knox.
The Next Assembly.
SENATORS. j
1st District, Chatham, Bryan and Ef
fingham—RofnsE Lester.* V
2d Dist, Liberty, Tatnall and McIn
tosh—J H Clifton.*
3d Dist, Wayne, Pierce and Appling
-—G J Holton.
4th Diet, Glynn, Camden and Charl
ton—J M Tison.
5th Dist, Coffee, Ware and Clinch—
W B Folks.
6th Dist, Echols, Lowndes and Ber
rien—J W Staten.*
7th Dist, Brooks, Thomas and Col
quitt—J P Turner.
8tb Dist, Decatur, Miller and Mitch
ell—D A Russell.
9th Dist, Early, Calhoun and Baker
—E C Bower.
10th Diet, Dougherty, Lee and Worth
—J P Tison. ; L- .
11th Dist, Clay, Randolph and Ter
rell—J T Clarke.
12th Dist, Stewart, Webster and Quit-
man—W H Harrison.*
13th Dist, Sumter, Schley and Macon
—J N Hudson.
14th Diet, Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge and
Pulaski—J J Hamilton.
15th Dist, Montgomery, Telfair and
Irwin—J C Clements.
16th Dist, Lawrence, Johnson and
Emanuel—Neil McLeod.*
17th Dist, Bulloch, Screven and
Burke—H H Perry.
18th Dist, Richmond, Glascock and
Jefferson—Joseph B Cummings.
19th Dist, Taliaferro, Warren and
Greene—John A Stephens.
20th Dist, Baldwin, Hancock and
Washington—C W DuBose.
21st Dist, Twiggs, Wilkinson aod
Jones—A S Hamilton.
22d Dist, Bibb, Monroe and Pike—
T B Cabaniss.*
23d Dist, Houston, Crawford and
Taylor—John F Troutman.
24th Dist, Muscogee, Marion and
Chattahoochee—T W Grimes.
25th Dist, Harris, UpBon and Tal
bot—Dr J C Drake.
26th Dist, Spalding, Butts and Fay
ette—Seaton Grantland.
27th Dist, Newton, Walton, Clarke,
Rockdale and Ononee—H D McDan
iel*
2Sth Dist, Jasper, Putnam and Mor
gan—J W Preston.
29th Dist, Wilkes, Lincoln, McDuf
fie and Columbia—H R Casey.
30th Dist, Oglethorpe, Madison and
Elbert—Sam Lumpkin.
31st Dht, Hart, Franklin and Hab
ersham—B F Hodges.
32d Dist White, Lumpkin and Daw
son—M G Boyd.
33d Dist, Hall, Banks and Jackson—
Allen D Candler.
34th Dist, Gwinnett, DeKalb and
Henry—Geo W Bryan.*
35th Dist, Fulton, Clayton and Cobb
—Evan P Howell.*
36th Dist, Coweta, Merri wether, Dong-
lass and Campbell—F M Duncan.
37th Dist, Troup, Heard and Carroll
—John A^pf.er.
Mr. Conkling’s Mexican committee
has begun operations by calling Gen.
Sherman, who repeated the story he
has been telling a dozen different com
mittees since Congress met He must
wish by this time, says the New York
Herald, be were on the border or in the
canyons of the Rocky Mountains—any
where beyond the reach of a commit
tee.
erokee, Milton and For
syth—A ‘WHolcotnbe.
40th Dist, Union, Towns and Rabun
—C J Wellborn.
41st Dist, Fannin, Gilmer and Pick
ens—W T Simmons.
42d Dist, Bartow, Floyd and Chat
tooga—Samuel Hawkins.
43d Dist, Murray, Whitfield and Gor
don—J C Fain.
44th Dist, Dade, Catoosa and Walk
er—J C Clements.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Appling—Michael Branch.
Baldwin—James A Greene.*
Banks—D COliver.
Berrien—J H Kirby.
Bartow—T W Milner and R H Can
non.
Bibb—A 0 Bacon ,* C J Harris and
R A Nisbett.
Baker—P D Davis. 9
Brooks—H G Turner.
Bryan—J M BranDan.
Bulloch—R W DeLoach.
Butts—S T Smith.
Burke—E A Perkins,* W F Walton*
and S A Corker*
Chatham—W W Paine,* A Pratt
Adams* and P M Russell.*
Clinch—Lewis Strickland.*'
Clay—W J Johnson.
Cherokee—W B C Puckett.
Claike—Ben C Yancy.
Calhoun—O H Paul.
Colquitt—Jas Vick.
Charlton—Felder Lang.
Coffee—James Pearson.
Camden—Thomas Butler
Columbia—J P Williams
Clayton—J L McConnell
Cobb—C D Phillips and George
Roberts.
Campbell—J M Wilson.*
Carroll—H Hogan and E Phillips.
Coweta—J D Simms and W A Tur
ner.
Chattooga—W T Irvine
Chattahoochee—Lafayette Harp
Catoosa—Arthur H Gray
Crawford—J F Jordan
Decatur—W W Ilarrell'and J O
Farnell.
Dougherty—A C Webstbrook and J
W Walters.
DeKalb—R A Alston
Douglas*:—VY M McGourk
Dade—M A B Tatem
Dodge—Jas M Buchan
Dooley—Isaac L Toole
Dawson—J McAfee
Elbert—R F Tate
Effingham—J F Berry
Early—W C Sheffield
Emanuel—John Bell
Forsyth Willingham
Fannin—B C Dugger*
Fayette—D A McLucas
Franklin—J H Shannon
Fulton—W H Hulsey, N J Ham
mond and P L Mynatfcl
Floyd A J King and John H Reece*
Glasscock—E G Scruggs
Glynn—T W Lamb
Greene—R L McWhorter and J B
Purks
Gwinnett—N L Hutchins* and W J
Born*
Houston—A L Miller,* B M Davis*
and J F Sikes*
Hart—A G McCuriy
Heard—H W Daniel
Hancock—W J Northern, A Millar
DuBose.
Harris—W J Hudson and Jesse Cox
Habersham—John H Grant*
Hall—J E Redwine
Haralson—Chas Taliaferro.
Henry—W T Dicken
Irwin—James B Fletcher
■ Jones—R H Barron
Jasper—E C Pope
Jackson—WI Pike and A T Ben
nett .
Jefferson—J L Polhill* and E A
Tarver •
Johnson—W L Johnson
Lowndea—G H M Howell
Liberty—EP Miller
Laurens—H M Burch
Lincoln—J E Strother
Lee—J A Clegg
Lumpkin—Eli Weehnnt
Macon—J M DuPree and David
Gam mage.
Madison—J A Green
Montgomery—D J McRae
Monroe—J G Phinazy and B H Zell-
ner.
McIntosh—A R Rogers
Muscogee—L F Garrard and Reese
T Crawford
Murray—Wm Luffin
Milton—H L Cunningham
Marion—H T Hollis
Morgan—L G Anderson'
McDuffie—Dr J S Jones
Mitchell—C W Collins
Merriwethei—F J Williams and C
VV Williams
Miller—H C Sheffield
Newton—L F Livingston and Lem
Anderson (Rep.) J
Oconee—W Y Elder
Oglethorpe—J M Smith* and W M
Willingham »
Pulaski—R W Anderson
Putnam—R C Humber
Polk—C G Janes
Pickens—R R Howell
Pirce—D P Patterson
Pike—S K Cook
Paulding—0 T Bimtle
Quitman—L P Dozier*
. Randolph—J J McDonald. (To be
contested by W M Tntnlin)
Richmond—H G Wright, Geo R
Sibley and L D Duval
Rockdale—B F Carr
Rabun—John M Bleckley
Spalding—John D Stewart*
Stewart—W W Fitzgerald and W H
Harrison
Screven—W M Henderson
Schlev—M J Wall
Sumter—Allen Fort and W H Davi
son
Thomas—W M Hammond 0 and Dr
D H Wilmot
Telfair—J J Wilcox*
Talbot—John C Maund* and J M
Matthews*
Troup—A H Cox* aDd J F Awtrey*
Towns—S Y Jarnson*
Taliaferro—J T Chapman
Terrell—EG Hill
Twiggs—James T Glover
Taylor—J D Mitchell
Tatnall—Elbert Bird
Upson—0 C Sbarman
Union—T J Butt
Ware—T J Ivey
Warren—Robert T Barksdale
Washington—Green Brantly and J
W Peacock*
Wilkinson—Frank Chambers
Walton—W R Smith*
.Wilkes—F H Colley* and B F Jor
dan'
WhitfieTd—J A R Hanks .
T. V-~-* 1 .
Wayne—J A Poppell
Webster—Dr W C Kendrick
Worth—G G Ford
White—J J Kimsey
Wilzox—Samuel D Fuller
I^*A11 those marked with an * are
members of the last Legislature, now
re-elected.
The Rovised Statutes.
Special *o the Courier Journal-]
Washington, Dec. 19.—Secretary
Boutwell has completed the first volume
of the new edition of the Revised Stat
utes, under a late act of Congress; and,
as he is not a regular lawyer, there is a
possibility th..t the work may be done
better than the carebss revision of 1873.
The plan of the work is as follows :
First—Where Congress has enacted
verbal alterations of the Revised Stat
utes, the addition or alteration is insert
ed verbally in its proper place, but in a
type different from the body of the work ;
and he has added in each case a marginal
note referring to the statute authorizing
the change. There are about oue thou
sand such changes.
Second—He has a reference in the
margin against every section which has
been amended by Congress since the
Revised Statutes were adopted in De
cember, 1873. The reference points
to the statute by which the amendment
has been made, giving the date. Where
no reference is made, the reader knows
that the statute remains uncharged
Third—He has given marginal refer
ences to all the decisions of the Supreme
and Circuit Courts of the United States
beating on any section of the Revised
Statutes which has been interpreted by
any of these courts.
Finally, he has revised the Index.
New York Losing Her Prestige.
New York, December 13.—To-day’s
Times says: Business men assert that
the dry goods jobbing trade is fast being
taken away from New York city by the
establishment of jobbing houses in Chica
go, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville.^ To
ledo, Buffalo, and other interior cities.
The sales of Field, Lieter & Co., of Chi
cago, last year amounted to over $17,-
000,000, an increase over the previous
year of $7,000,000, and those of other
houses in the cities mentioned have been
in like proportion. Many new houses
have recently sprung up in those places,
are doing well, and A. T. Stewart & Co.
have thought it worth their while to es
tablish a branch in Chicago. A large
proportion of this business is drawn from
New York city. It has been made possi
ble by the course of the trunk railroads,
whose through freight tariff for several
years has discriminated largely in favor
of the interior. On the other hand, since
January 1st no less than eight important
New York concerns have gone out of
business.
Mexican Border*
Washington, Dec. 19.—The War
Department has the following advices:
Chicago dispatches received at Lieut.
General Sheridan’s headquarters late
last night from Capt. Blair, in command
at Fort Bliss, report that the Texas ran
gers at San Eliza Rio surrendered yester
day morning. Judge Howard, agent for
the salt mines, and Atkinson and Mc
Bride, rangers, were shot and the rest of
theRangersdisarmedandliberated. The
rangers now at Fart Bliss, opposite El
Paso, Mexico,, and the mob was dis
persed. No help was given the mob
from the Mexican side of the river.
The mob is composed entirely of native
born citizens of Texas.
Kain Truths for Western Read
ers.
To intelligent men at the East,it seems
a most amazing thing that there is so
great an indifference at the West as to
the public credit For the South there
is.some excuse. The debt was created
e suppressing rebellion. But the
Ifestern States were intensely and vig
orously loyal. They gave without stint
of their best blood to sustain the Union.
How can it be that the people of those
States care bo little for the honor of the
Nation preserved so largely by Western
fidelity and heroism ? Yet Pendleton-
ism suddenly became so strong in that
region,Jit one time, that few Republican
statesmen bad the manhood to combat
it Inflation swept over the section
like a prairie fire in 1874. The demand
fqr repeal of the Resumption Act was
Hoisted with difficulty in any Western
stkte in 1875 and 1876. Now the sil
ver delusion, coming swiftly like a
nightmare, has driven crazy Dearly
6jjefy public mao and journal at the
\Yest. An yet the people of that region
are personally not devoid of honesty
o?r of common-sense. How it is that
every sort of raid upon the public honor
prevails there so easily ?
- Is it in part because the people of
le West do not comprehend how pub-
urosperity depends upon cridit?
y experience has not familiarized
iem with the effects of credit upon
(pimerce and'indusiry. Crops can be
j6ed, whether capital is alarmed or
^ But merchants know that crops
cannot be moved unless money can be
barro ved to cover the cost while mov-
iqj; from the farm to the consumer. If
capital is alarmed, if banks are in trou
ble the movement is instantly checked;
_ le producer has to sell at lower rate,
in order to sell at all. The Iosb in price
he feels; the disorder of the credit sys-
tein, which is often the true cause, be
rarely perceives. Why is capital alarm
ed, and why are the banks in trouble?
,The most necessary reserves of banks,
savings banks, insurance and trusts
companies, and active capitalists, are
kept in government bonds. Danger to
tfem, or a decline in their prices, in
stantly brings disorder to the whole
money market, causes corporations and
lenders to call in loans and refuse renew
al!, prevents the free employment of
capital which is necessary for active
business, and thus checks purchases
and shtpmeuts. The producer suffers.
WithiD the last two months, movement
of crops has been checked by uncertain
ties in the money market, and Western
aDd Southern producers have already
lost millions of dollars because of the
silver agitation.
The instant effect of public credit
upon private prosperity is constantly
felt at the East. Mines employing an
hundred thodsand men must stop work
if the borrowing of money is checked
by alarm of capital. Mills and factories
employing workers by the hundred
thousand are obliged to borrow constant-
i by the thousand- result from
every new raid upon the public credit.
The alarm is not unreasonable. Not
only the National banks, by which the
greater part of commercial loans are
made, but nearly all financial corpora
tions wisely hold in public securities
as large a part as possible of their sur
plus or reserve fund. Short loans are
drawn in at once when there is alarm,
and Government bonds cannot be ad-
van ageonsly sold. In New-England
mo'e than one person to each family is
a depositor in a savings bank, and the
least danger to these hanks causes many
to withdraw deposits. But these de
posits amount to twelve hundred mill
ions, and are largely employed in mov
ing machinery, paying wages and car
rying crops and other products to con
sumers. An alarm instantly checks
the vast commerce and industry which
depend upon freedom of borrowing.
The West and South have to pay a
large share of the cost of all uncertain
ty or alarm in business. In part, be
cause unemployed bands cannot buy
so freely of Western products; in part,
because in times of uncertainty Eastern
mills or merchants do not venture to
carry as large Btock of cotton or wool or
grain ; in part, because the cost of ar
ticles imported or manufactured here
is increased by uncertainty and string
ency in the money market; and in part
because the West and South are always
borrowing largely at the East, and have
to pay more for money when there is
fear of trouble. In these, and in many
other ways, the great burdens which
Western repudiators cause inevitably
roil back in great part upon Western
producers. Many millions, no man
can tell bow many, the agitation this
Fall has already cost. The West has
assailed the public credit, and has
thereby fleeced itself. The sale of bonds
was stopped, and lowered; thousands
of depositors were alarmed ; hundreds
of banks tried to protect themselves,
and some failed; (he money market was
made uncertain and feverish. The
cost is heavy, and the West pays its
full share.—N. Y. Tribune.
We publish the foregoing at the re
quest of a friend, whose views on the
money question we cannot endorse.
God’s Alarm Clock-
Now, conscience is God’s alarm-
clock. God has wound it up so that
it may warn us whenever we are temp
ted to do that which is wrong. It gives
the alarm. It seems to say: “Take
care, God sees you. Stop!” How im
portant it is to have a conscience that
will always warn us of the danger of
sin! But if we desire such a conscience,
we must be willing to listen to it. If
we stop when it says “stop,” if we do
wbat it tells U3 to do, then we shall al
ways bear it But if we get into the
habit of not heeding its warning, and
not doing what it tells us to do, then,
by and by, we shall cease to hear it
Our conscience will Bleep, its voice of
warning will be hushed, and we shall
then be like a ehip at sea that has no
compass to point out the right way,
and no rudder to keep it in that way.
Chicago. Dec. 20.—Official dispatches
from El Paso, received this morning at
Gen. Sheridan’s headquarters, state that
nothing important has occurred there
during the last twenty-lour hours. The
United States treopsj began to arrivp
there from New Mexfto ryesterday, and
it is expected that by-to-day or to-mor
row a sufficient force will bqthere to ren
der farther disturbance of t]ie peace .un
likely.
“Goodnight, Papa.”
A Sad Case ot Hydrophobia in Philadel
phia.
Philadelphia Times.
Another death from that hotrible
and mysterious disease, hydrophobia,
has occurred, the victim in this instance
being a child of tender years, and the
cause a bite by one of that villainous
breed of dogs whose presence in a city
in which they literally swarm is almost
as dangerous as that of so many cobras.
Mr. Charles Leibrick, a salesman in
tne hardware store of Shields & Bro.,
119 North Third street, resides with his
family at No. 1,541 North Twenty-
fourth street, and it is his youngest
child, Charles Edward Leibrick, un
usually bright for his only two years
and eight months of life, who is the
victim of the terrible calamity. Last
evening Mr. Leibrick was called upon
and related the story of the child’s suf
ferings and death, as follows:
“Six weeks ago to-day Charlie was
playing with other children on the
pavement in front of the beer saloon of
Joseph Eichman, on the southwest
corner ot Twenty-third and Bulton,
about two squares away from here.
Eichraan’s child was playing with a
Spitzer dog belonging to him, and the
dog afterward jomped in an apparent
ly playful manner Lorn one child to
another, when suddenly my boy cried
out that he was bitten. He was takeD
into Eichman’a house and then brought
home. He was then at once sent to
my family doctor, and word was
brought back that the doctor did not
think it was a dog bite. I saw the
marks when I came home that night;
one was on the left eye-brow and the
other on the left cheek just below the
eye. Both together were not as big as
the head of a tenpenD/ naiL I did
not think them the result of a dog bite,
because a woman who saw the child
fall, as the dog jumped at it. said they
were caused by his face striking against
the wheel of a baby carriage. The
marks disappeared in twelve hours.
“I had been for a long while in the
habit of carrying my boy after he had
awakened every morning down stairs
‘piggy back,’ a practice he enjoyed very
much, but on last Saturday morning,
for the first time, he showed a fear of
falling so marked and unnatural as to
excite my notice. He played all that
day with his sisters, as usual, but his
mother noticed h6 was drooping. Sun
day morning he was still evidently out
of sorts, but nothing happened of note
until the afternoon. Then his mother
stripped him for the purpose of wash
ing him all over and dressing him. The
instant the water came in contact with
his body he gave a veil unlike any
s mud she ever heard before. I came
Dome about six o’clock, and she report
ed to me what had happened. I took
him up stairs and sat with him on my
knee for an hour and a half I theD
asked him to lie down with me. He
consented, hut when I laid him down
anything likeTn life~ " heard
“From that time he would never lie
down, and it was then his convulsions
began. These were from seven to ten
minutes apart, lasting a minute at a
time. The sight and touch of water
caused them the worst; a tear that
dropped from my eye upon his cheek
threw him into a convulsion. The
convulsions lasted all Sunday night and
Monday until ten minutes past six
o’clock in the evening, when he died
very easily. He was sensible all through
his sickness, and just before his death
he said to his little sisters, who were
crying beside him: ‘Oh, don’t cry. I
will pray for you all when I get to
heaven.’ His last woids were: ‘Good
night, papa.’ ”
A Lone Empress.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes from St. Petersburg:
“The Empress is regent of the Em
pire in the absence of the Emperor at
the seat of war. Her Majesty is a wo
man of stroDg understanding and fine
education. She was reared with the
expectation of being married into the
reigniDg family of Russia. She is dis
tinguished for kindness of heart, benev
olence and amiability of character. Her
gay and cheerful disposition is in
marked contrast with the habitual mel
ancholy of Alexander. His Majesty
would have avoided the war had not
the Panslavist party been too powerful
for him to resist. Since he has been
forced into it, he has been oppressed
with sorrow at the immense sacrifice of
life it has occasioned, the unikillful
manner in which it has been conduct
ed, and the corrupt practices which
have characterized every branch of the
military administration. As I wrote
in a previous letter, he is not willing to
return to St. Petersburg until the honor
of his arms has been redeemed by
successses which will oblitera:e the
memory of past reverses. All the Im
perial Princes are with him. He lives
in a Bulgarian hovel, in the midst of
all kinds of discomforts, and his sons
are housed in tents, which, in rainy
weather, are enveloped by a sea of mud.
The great palaces at the capital with
their luxurious equipments are, for the
most part, closed, the Empress dining
in her own apartments. There are no
receptions, no balls and no court enter
tainments of any kind. Some of the
large rooms are occupied by the Red’
Cross Society, who, under the superin
tendence of the Empress, daily meet
there to prepare lint, bandages and
stores of different kinds for the relief
of the Russian wounded. Her Majesty
plies the needle as dextrously as the
noble dames under her orders, and sets
an example of Christian charity that
all seek to emulate. Regent though
she be, she rarely presides over a coun
ci 1 , and leaves everything to Count
Milinutin, the Minister of War.
London, Dec. 20.—The Daily News,
in a leading article, says: We think
Parliament is summoned to approve
war preparations.
A Paris dispatch to the Pall Mall
Gazette says the Marquis of Harconrt,
French Ambassador to London, is to
be removed. The Marquis of Bonne
ville goes as Ambassador to Constan
tinople.
Portsmouth, N. H., Dec- 20.—The
City Hotel, a large fonr-story building,
hnrned this morning, with most of the
furniture. The guests lost most of
their private effects. Loss heavy. The
btrildifig was owned by Hon. Frank
Jone% and . ftirnitnre by John York.
Insurance small.
Appropriations.
The military telegraph line around
the Texas frontier to El Paso and np
to Misola, New Mexico, has been com
pleted.
The City of Peking, on her last voy
age, brought 100 packages of silk-worm
eggs from Japan to Son Francisco, con
signed to a firm in Italy.
The Congregational Chnrch of Wal
cott decided that the use of wine at the
communion table tends to promote in
temperance. Water is hereafter to be
used.
By the new route from Portpatrick
to Stranraer the sea passage ’twixt En
gland and Scotland is but twenty-two
miles, and Belfast is within nine houre
rf Glasgow.
Of forty-three varieties of apples
tested by M. Truelle of the Chemical
Society of Paris, the American renette
was found to contain the largest
amount of sugar.
A woman fifty-nine years old, with
her son arrived in La Grange, Oregon,
recently, having walked thither from
her home in Indiana. She carried a
pack weighing seventy-five pounds.
The London Gardner’s Chronicle
says that a bnnch of grapes from Lady
Cbarleville’s, King county, Ireland, 24
feet long and 23 pounds 5 ounces in
weight, is the heaviest ever grown.
The Bank of Russia is supposed to
hold a metallic reserve of $125,000,000,
to be tonebed only as a last recourse;
but now insinuations are thrown ont
that this great Bum is not really there.
The young women of Orion, Mich.,
have adopted the fashion of wearing
their hair cropped cloee. They look
odd, especially when their smooth
heads are gathered in chnrch; bnt they
are gainers in pocket money, for they
sold their hair at good prices.
In order to prevent mistake and
frand, it is said that every season ticket
holder at the French Exhibition next
year will be required to carry his pho
tograph. The ordinary ticket will cost
oue franc, and will have to be procured
beforehand at postoffices, railroad of
fices, eta
The Fate of a Noted Deiperado.
Atoka, Choctaw Nation, Independent.
Charlie Jones, the McAlester desper
ado, will never again terrorize his neigh
bors or “bulldoze” his family. He was
captured last Sunday evening and shot
dead while attempting to escape.
The Jones family were a hard lot—
as the slang phrase has it, “a bad
crowd.” Charlie, the subject of this
sketch, was a big, bony fellow, about
30 years of age, 6 feet 3 inches high,
and weighed about 180 pounds.
In 1871 he and his brother Alick
killed a discharged soldier at Fort
by strikmg’lilm witHlfn !xc wffile"ffe I
was sitting at the sapper table. The
object was robbery, and the Joneses got
8600, a span of moles and a shot-gun.
After they were tried and acquitted,
they openly boasted of their success.
In 1873 Charlie way-laid arid shot a
negro, for which he had to leave the
Nation. He went to Georgia, and from
there to Texas, returning to the Nation
as soon as he learned of his brother
Ben’s death, which occurred at McAl
ester about one vear ago—the particu
lars of whose “taking off” are familiar
to many of our readers.
Alick Joues was killed at Whites-
boro, Texas, in 1873. Another broth
er, Joe we believe, is now under sen
tence of death at Atlanta, Ga., for kill
ing a negro.
Charlie’s latest crimes—and those
leading to his death—were committed
recently at Old Perryville, where he
stabbed Mr. Johnson; and later in the
evening, brutally assaulted his family,
at McAlester.
The “Solid South.”
A Little Common-Sense Talk about it
H V- Redfialu in Cincinnati Commercial.]
The solid South, with its immense
power, and n oved by a controlling im
pulse, is not a pleasant thing to have in
the country, but I have never conceived
that it was as gigantic an evil as some
people paint it Living in the midst
of the solid South, perhaps I am not as
afraid of it as I would be it iacated in
Beu Wade’s neighborhood. You may
suggest that “familiarity breeds con
tempt” Be this as it may, I have
never spent sleepless nights because all
tne Southern States were arraying them
selves in one party. For some years I
have thought it inevitable in the nature
of things. It has come. Let ns refrain
form fright until we see what it will do.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil there
of. I do not believe it is the policy of
a controlling portion of the Southern
people to attempt to saddle the confeder
ate debt upon the Government, or to
claim pay for slaves, or pension for con
federates. One sees more of this in
Northern newspapers in a week than
he bears of in the South in a year.
When the united Sonth makes the at
tempt it will be time enough to sound
the alarm. I do not believe the attempt
wiU be made, for I dont believe the
South will unite upon any such proposi
tion, and unless the whole section is a
unit nothing can be accomplished, and
indeed nothing in that drection can be
accomplished any way or at any time,
without very considerable Northern
support.
His Occupation.
What do yon do for a living, sir?”
asked the Judge of a stout, rough
looking young man, charged with steal
ing a handcart.
“I’m a hair dresser, your honor,”
“What! you a hair dresser? Why,
I always thought hair dressers were
delicate, dainty and effeminate per
sons, and here you are as strong, coarse
and able-bodied as almost—”
“Horse hair dresser, Judge,” inter
rupted the prisoner.
“Oh! ah! am I” muttered the mag
istrate. “That explains it.”
Country gentleman, (to foreign
friend)—“Hi, there; fire, man! Don’t
yon see that hare back there?” Foreign
er—“Vat? Shoot ze poor ting down
as it retreat? No, no, my good saire;
vaittiU he turn about and face me;
then I will—zing I”—[Judy.
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Hayea* National University-
Hew York Snn.
The faculty of Mr. Hayes’ proposed
p-at National University at Washing
ton has not yet been fully arranged.
Several important chairs, including
thoeeof Greek, Political Economy, and
“ 6 Use of the Blackboard, remain to
oe rilled. So far as determined opon,
the Board of Instruction and Govern
ment is constituted as follows :
President and Emeritus Professor of
Eight-to-Seven Law, Joeeph P. Brad
ley, Ph. D.
Professor of Applied Theology, Donn
Piatt, A. M. by Rrevet
Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence,
Hiram Ulysses Grant, L1..D, (Harv.
Oxon.)
Professor of Obituary Literature and
Steward of Commoner, G. Washington
Childs, A. M., (Princt)
Tom Paine Professor of Natural and
Revealed Religion, Rev. Robert J. In-
Professor of Political Ethics, Zachariah
Chandler, D N.
Emeritus Lecturer on Antediluvian
Literature, Johannes A Dix, CCC.
Joint Hayes Professors of Pure Math
ematics, J. Madison Wells, R. B., Thos.
C. Anderson, R. B.
Jay Gould Professor of Journalism,-
Whitelaw Reid, DP.
Professor of German and Instructor
on the Pianoforte, Carl Schurz, (Bonn.)
Professor of the French Language
and Literature, M. Edouin F, Noyes.
Purio Professor of Philanthropic
Slaveholding, Johannes Welsh.
Instructor of Esthetic Botany and
English Composition, William K. Rog
ers, A. S. 8.
Tutors in Practical Mathematics, C.
Casenave, L. Kenner.
Director of the Gymnasium, William
M. Everts, LL.D., (Yale.)
Janitor, Stanley Matthews.*
*To whom candidates for admission
should apply for rooms, fuel, text
books, and board and washing.
Conkling and Hayes.
The desperation of the game which
Conkling is playing against the Ad
ministration is best indicated by the
unnatural and incongruous alliances to
which he finds himself forced to report.
The New Y6rk Herald, discussing this
subject, says.
“The reconciliation of Senator Blaine
with Senator Conkling is almost as
touching in itB way as the reconcilia
tion of Mr. Pickwick with Mr. Tupman.
But it is not nearly so interesting as the
alliance of Senator Conkling and Sen-
frhoug na_oue in theiR-paaeion for the
bloody shirt and their hatred of a poli
cy of peace and reconciliation, should
agree to sink their personal differences
in a common hostility to the President
who took the nomination of 1876 away
from both of them at Cincinnati. These
are personal matters with which the
public has really no more concern than
it chooses to give itself abont them. -
But Senator Conkling represents in
part the greatState of New York, which
is deeply interested in the maintenance
of the public faith and the stability of
the currency. When a Senator from
New York puts himself into the hands
of Nevada Jones, the leader in the Sen
ate of the silver swindle, it is time for
sensible people to ask themselves
whether the fall of one per cent, in oar
securities in the London markets, upon
which the Economist sharply com
ments as the cable to-day informs ns,
is likely in the end to lead ns.
Decline of the Quakers.
Mr. Barclay informs ns that there are
at present only 17,000 Quakers in Eng
land and Wales, while : n 1700 they num
bered 60,000, and that their greatest loss
es took place in the period of theirgreat-
est moral triumphs. Was Coleridge right,
as Maurice seemed to think, in supposing
that the life is out of the tree and only
its bark is left? Various causes have
been assigned for its decline, .such as
birthright membership—not an original
ormciple of the system—which 'ed to the
wholesale admission of nominal mem
bers, either careless abont religion or hos
tile to Quaker ideas and traditions; the
system of disowning members for alight
deviations from “the unwritten law”, in.
such trifling matters as dress and lan-:
gnage, but, more important still, for mar
rying outside the Friends, the silent
meetings, which were very rare in the
■early history of the sect, and the absence
of singing ard reading the Scriptures in
public. It is bard to conceive, indeed,
bow a Christian body can exist without
someregular provision for religious teach
ings ; and tne fact that one of the rr'st-
est secessions from its ranks ari.se out of
the persistent refusal-to supply a larger
religious instruction seems to |>oint to the
inevitable extinction of Quakerism at no
distant day.—British Quarterly Beuieie.
The Trustees of the British Museum
have secured a copy of very rare Chi-
neso encyclopaedia entitled: “Koo kin
too shoo tsehiebiog; or, “A Complete
Collection of Ancient and Modern Books,
with Illustrations.” During the reign
of the Emperor Kang he (1661-1721), it
occurred to that monarch that, in view of
the alterations which were being intro
duced into the text of works of value, it
would be advisable to reprint such from
the old editions. He therefore appointed
a commission and directed them to re
print, in one large collection, all such ’
worthy as they might deem worthy of
preservation. A complete set of copper
type was cast for the undertaking, and
the commissioners were able to lay before
the Emperor a compilation consisting of
6109 volumes. The contents they d -
v’ided under thirty-four heads, em racing
works on every subject contained in the
national literatufe. Only a small edi-
tkn was printed, and before long the
Government, jtielding to the necessities.
of a severe crisis, ordered the copper type'
employed to print it to be melted down
for cash. Thus only a copies few of the
first edition are in existence, and it is but
rarely that one finds its way into tbe^
market. m >
Lawbenceville, Ills., Dec. 20.—The
Connty Treasurer of Coffee county was
.it a nnn Kn aIha