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isms are taken'^i
ES'Kill^feHED IN1843.
THE* COURIER has a large and steady clreu-
ntioif in Cherokee Georgia, and Is the beatau-
rertising medium in this section.
ML DWINEIX, Proprietor.
| Wednesday Morning, Feb. 6, 1878
Chronicle & Constitutionalist: TheBal-
(timore Sun rightly justifies the trial of
I the Returning Board rogues on the
broad ground that a 8tate must protect
[its bpnor.
The California Legislature has passed
a law making incendiary language a fel-
J ouy. This has been done to meet the
| cases of the communistic leaders who
are trying to stir up an outbreak in San
Francuco.
j: Justice Clifford, of the Supreme
Court, attended the President’s state
dinner, a few evenings ago—the first time
he has recognized the President either
[ i formally or socially since the inaugura-
! lion.
When the St. Alphonsus Church at
. Wheeling, West Virginia, took fire the
I other day, a wedding was in progress.
£ The witnesses ran from the church, but
’ the couple told the priest to go on, and,
il imid smoke and falling debris the cere
mony was completed.
1 Dr. Chapin, the distinguished Univer-
salist, says he has labored not so much
to get people ont of hell as to get hell
out of people. “It is infinitely better,”
ffi says the Doctor, “to spend one’s en-
■ deavors in a struggle for right living
than in a search for the details of future
punishment."
American palace cars are now to be
found the world over. When
King Oscar opened a railroad ic Norway
last October, he travelled in a carriage
built by Jackson & Sharp, of Wilming
ton, Delaware, on the model of one ex
hibited at Philadelphia, which was
bought by the Emperor of Brazil.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger
U. S. Bonds declined three-quarters of
one per cent, in London on the 29th
ultimore in consequence of the passage
of the silver resolution. Ah, that is
bad ; but the evil is measurable. It
can be conceived; and the bondholders
still live, and the bonds will get over
it. Blessed bonds, we wish you well.
In spite of the long obituaries in the
New York papers, may you live for
ever.
A letter has been received in Wash
ington within a few days, from a friend
cf Gen. Grant, who has been with the
General lately, and who reports that
he entirely approves of President
Hayes’ Southern policy, and thinks it
was both judicious and necessary, and
has no doubt of. its complete success.
There appears to be a good deal of
anxiety at the North, and in fact
throughout the country, as to the ice
crop. Up to the present time there
has been no ice of any consequence
made except in Maine and further
\North; New York has not begun, as
the ice is still too thin. At the West
the pork-packers are casting about to
see where the ice for the next sum
mer’s packing is to come from ; the
brewers are also anxious, the old stocks
left over being small throughout the
country. It appears then likely that
there will be an ice famine, unless we
have soon some steady freezing weather
i at the North and West.
•V Constantinople, January 2, letter
gives an interesting account of the dis
turbed condition of that city, the ap
prehensions of a revolution, and the
new departure of the Turkish women.
The participation of Turkish women in
the care of the wounded is one of the
strange things that has come to pass in
this war. For the first time in the his
tory of the country they have aban
doned their habits of seclusion, shaken
off their prejudices againBt association
with Giaours, and are rendering good
service as nurses, cooks and attendants
in the hospitals. The English volun
teer lady nurses and the French Sisters
of Charity praise their willing disposi
tion and natural intelligence. So, even
in Turkey there seems to be the begin
ning of a new era for women.
We agree with the St. Louis Republi
can that if the Bland bill is amended
so as to charge seignorage in the free
coinage of silver bullion, gold ought to
be placed on the same category. Under
our mint system no charge whatever
was made for the coinage of gold or
silver prior to the act of February 21,
1S53, which provided for a seignorage
charge of one-half of one percentum.
When the so-called demonetizing act
of April 1,1873, was passed, the seig
norage charge for gold dollars was re
duced to one-fifth of one percentum
and finally abolished altogether by the
second section of the act of January 14,
1S75, commonly known as the resump
tion act. Now, if the seignorage charge
is revived, it should be revived for gold
as well as silver.
Hon. John Young Brown publishes
a letter defending and vindicating him
self from charges made by the New
York Sun in the matter of the electoral
commission. The Courier Journal
says:
The evidence in vindication of Mr.
Young is cumulative and overwhelm
ing, both as to the charge with refer
ence to his claim for pay as a member
of the Fortieth Congress and as to a
“bargain” with the Republicans during
the struggle over the Electoral Count
bill, and aB to all other attacks of the
Sun. The refutation is completed by
the letters of Messrs. Hale, Foster, Black,
Blackburn, and other Republicans and
Democrats. Such a vindication was
not needed in Kentucky, where Mr.
Brown is so well known, but those jour
nals which have been giving currency
to the Sun’s gross misrepresentations
should be honorable enough to at least
state the points in the evidence adduced
by Mr. Brown, and upset the Bee which
Wtro originally started on their travels
from Dana’s office.
DB. FELTON’S VIEWS.
In copying an extract from a letter
written by Dr. Felton to a friend, pub
lished in the Express last week, the
Rome Courier attempts to ridicule the
sentiments and earnestness of purpose
expressed thereia. Said Dr. Felton,
“the fight between the money power
and the people, grows hotter every
day,” and that, “God being my helper,
I intend to speak, vote and work for
the masses against an oligarchy of gold
monopolies and all the rest.”
We would suggest to the Courier
that nine tenths oi its readers and of (
the people of this district respond from
the bottom of their hearts to all such
sentiments uttered by whom they may'
be; and it may rest assured that such
utterances from Dr. Felton has won
many friends among those who have
heretofore opposed him.—Carteraville
Express.
Yes, and Dr. Felton knew there was
an overwhelming naojority of the peo
ple of his district already thinking as
he spoke before he spoke. That is the
funny part of the matter. Dr. Felton
can inveigh against the “wreckers”
and “oligarchy of gold monopolies,”
after such men as the Editor of the
Carteraville Express have enlightened
tt e people, and educated the public
mind to a sense of what is right
Long ago the editor of the Carters-
ville Express, and while he was editing
the Rome Courier, advanced the same
ideas in his decent and forcible style,
when they were not so popular as they
are now, or at least when there was not
so much said an the subject; but now
when there i3 scarcely a dissenting
voice in his district, and the election is
near at hand, we cannot help laughing
at the idea of Dr. Felton, all at once
getting so vehement, and taking
and publishing a “modified” oath
that he is not only all right now,
but intends to continue all right on the
money question.
The Express misinterprets the spirit
of our notice of Dr. Felton’s views. We
did not attempt to ridicule the Doctor's
sentiments, for those sentiments, when
moderately expressed, are our own,
and it is far from our nature to tiy to
ridicule the earnestness of a venerable
and forceful clergyman. It was only
the time of the happening of his ear
nestness that put U3 in a sort of jolly
good humor.
BABYLANU FOB JANUARY.
A fine double number, full of tiny
Christmas stories and lovely Christmas
pictures, all in big print, on thick pa
per, just the magazine to teach babies
to read. It is only fifty cents a year.
D. Lothrop & Co., publishers, Boston,
Mass. One of our exchanges says:
“If D. Lothrop & Co., of Boston,
publishers of Babyland, could have
seen the joy the November number car
ried to the ‘little man’ who has the
privilege of ‘taking’ the copy that
comes to this office, they would doubt
less have felt that their magazine for
juvenile readers is the publication of
all publications for little eyes and ears.
It is an ‘institution’ in families where
there are small children.”
EUROPEAN NEWS.
The supplementary supply bill was
not pressed to a vote in the Hoase of
Uomons on Friday night, but final' afc-
tion was adjourned to Saturday night
A Brussels dispatch from Constantino
ple announces the signing of the armis
tice. That at least concludes the war,
as a war between Russia and Turkey
simply; but the elements of discord
seem to increase. A bad complication
is the universal outbreak against Turkey
in her Greek provinces, which refuse to
submit to Turkish domination any
longer. *
The prospect of an agreement of the
powers upon the terms of peace does not
brighten, and the anticipations of peace
at St Petersburg seem to be dim. In
short, iris possible that Great Britain is
going to embark in a war against geogra
phy and civilization in defence of “Brit
ish Interests;’’ but we hope for better
things.
We are indebted to the publishers,
Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York,
for the January-February number of the
International Review, a literary and po
litical magazine of great merit. Among
the contents of this number are the fol
lowing :
Thiers, a sonnet, by John Greenlraf
Whittier.
Elements of national wealth, by David
A. Wells.
The second harvest at Olympia, by
Ernst Curtius, of Berlin.
First impressions of Athens, by Ed
ward A. Freeman, D. C. L.
Sumner’s place in history, by Maj.
Ben. Perly Poore.
Money and its laws, by Prof. W. G.
Sumner.
Imperial Federalism in Germany, by
Baron Von Holtzendorff, of Munich.
Modem Love, by Dr. Samuel Osgood.
The Count of the Electoral Vote, by
Alexander II. Stephens.
Art in Europe, by Philip Gilbert
Hamerton.
And reviews of recent American,
English, French and German books.
Publishsd bi-monthly at 85 per an
num.
The story of the arrest of Ander
son, Kenner and Cassanave, members of
the Louisiana Returning Board, as told
by the New Orleans Picayune of the
27th ult, is full of interest.
It seems that they sought protection in
the Custom House, but Attorney General
Devens telegraphed from Washington
forbidding the Custom House officers to
harbor them. Then, after arrest, they
went before Judge Billings, who was
holding the U. S. Circuit Court, expecting
him to release them, as was the eastern in
the earlier and happier days of the car
pet-bagger, bat he refused to have any
thing to do with them. So they failed
there, and likewise before a U. S. Com
missioner, and had to give up . and go
into the lock up. Wells made his escape
before arnst, and is thought to be in
Washington City. They are all charged
with forgery in altering the election re
turns of last year.
The sensational nows from TSe^BP
leans appears to have produced a deal
Washington, Feb. 1,1878.
It would appear absurd and altogeth
er ridiculous for the distinguished gen
tlemen who formed .he Louisiana Com-
, . . . o ,. mission of last March to pay the slight-
man who went. to aee attention to the “ranting*’ of the
of nervousness among the “visiting Re
publican statesmen” wbotook part in
the Presidential count. Dispatches
from Louisiana state that nearly ery
will be indicted lor participation in the
Wells forgeries Secretary Sherman
and Minister Stoughton—what Jere
Black left of him—are specially men
tioned. It is said the evidence against
them comes of a document, signed by
them, assuring D. A. Webbrfj a super
visor of elections in East Feliciana par- .
iah, UTHUflMt, ri'At 51'WS
turning Board. Is supervisor of Went
Feliciana, of protection and recognition
in case they performed what was re
quired -of them. The task required of
them was to falsify- the returns and
make false affidavits in regard to in
timidation at' .he polls. What a sweet-
scented affair that Louisiana business
will be when properly stirred I
— * • ;
An interesting decision has just been
rendered by the United States Supreme
Court relative, to the rights of colored per.
sous to the same privileges with whites
upon public conveyances. Josephine
De Cuir, a colored woman of property,
wa3 refused admission to the upper
cabin on a Mississippi river steamboat,
on the ground that it wa3 reserved for
whites. She sued the owner of the
boat in the Louisiana courts, and was
awarded S1.000 damages, but the Uni
ted States Supreme Court reverses th<
decision. The court rules that the
laws do not forbid that steamers shall
have separate cabins and dining rooms
for whites and negroes, that equality
does not mean identity, and that steam
boat owners have a right to keep apart
persons who would be disagreeable to
eich other.
Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
alist: In the-official report of thebattle
of Antietam Gen. McClellan statesthat
the Federal forces of all arms,' which
took a part in that engagement number
ed 87,000. Col. Taylor says that the
entire Confederate force is this battle wae
35.355. A the battle of Gettysburg,
according to the telegram pent by Gen
Hooker to Gen. Halleck on the 27th
of June, the Federal army numbered
105.000, exclusive of officers; or about
112,000 all told. Col. Taylor puts the
Confederate array then present at 62.-
000, everything included. In the last
desperate struggle, which ended in tfce
surrender of Lee, the difference between
the combatants was still greater; Gen.
Grant’s army outnumberingthat of his
opponent at least three to one,
During twelve years Albert Meyn, of
Boston, paid the premiums on 825,000
of life insurance. This burden was the
cause of his bankruptcy ; but he strug
gled hard and made the payments, be
lieving that by doing so he was secur
ing his family against poverty after his
death. Within two years one after an
other of the companies in whicn be jvas
insured have gone to pieces, and when
he died, several years ago, all his poli
cies were worthless. His wife and chil
dren are penniless.
The insignificant DominionofCana-
da has spent thirty million and intends to
put twenty million more in the same
work in making a water route to the
sea that is frozen up at least half the
year; while the great United States gov
ernment is appalled at the demand
that as much "money shall be expen
ded on a water-way which will be nav
igable every day in the year.
The Kentucky Senate has repealed
the test oath required of every member
that he has not used money to secure
his election. The ground ot the oppo
nents of the oath was that, besides a
bribery, it forbade the legitimate use of
campaign funds, such as printing
tickets and posters and hiring halls.
One of the saddest things cennected
with the war in the East is the fact
that the warlike Greeks did not perfect
their arrangements to take a hand un
til the trouble wa9 ever. A special war
of some sort, should now be got
ten up for the fierce Greeks whojare exhib
iting a pressure of about one hundred
and sixty pounds to the square
inch.
GEOKI.IA GLIMPSES.
Emory College has 225 students.
Real estate is looking up in Savan
nah.
A large number of Northern people
are spending the winter in Thomasville.
The telephone is said to be in opera
tion between Darien, Jesup and Bruns
wick.
The ground was all Covered with
snow about Atlanta and for some dis
tance this side yesterday morning.
The North Georgia Agricultural As
sociation has appointed Col L. N Tram
mell, H. C. Hamilton and John Black
to attend the session of the State Agri
cultural Society, which convenes in
Americas on the 12th of February.
There are said to be, in Dodge coun
ty, 10,000 head of sheep, yielding on
an average 32,500 pounds yearly. The
turpentine farms are also spreading
throughout that section of the State.
Mr.-Childs, President of the North
eastern Railroad, has stated it to be the
intention of the directors to extend the
road to Rabun Gap, it being aleady
graded three or four miles beyond the
Air Line.
An immense amount of grain has
been planted in Southwest Georgia, and
with favorable seasons the harvest will
be an abundant one in this favored
section of our State.
The emigration, west from Southwest
Georgia this season falls far below the
average of former years, an indication
that the people are beginning to appre
ciate the value of a country as good as
any the sun shines on, says the Albany
News. _ •
It doesn’t aeexn exactly right that a
man should be obliged to walkthrough
life on two bow-tegs just because he in
dulged in the innocent diversion of
sucking his toes in babyhood.
Wasliinjrton UorrSSSndence.
(in their estimation) “insignificant Bill
Chandler,” still a good many here af
fect to believe; that not one of them,
would feel slighted or overlooked if
assured that he (Chandler) had recon-
.-,, V
e means they found so effica-
ardl
islature, and to bold up to public scru
tiny the equities of a derision by which
Packard’s election was held invalid
while that of Mr. Hayes admitted of no
question though his alleged majority
was less by nearly 1,000 than Mr
Packard’s. ButjMr. Chandler seemB to
contemplate no snoh withdrawal from
a controversy that appears to yield him
such a degree of satisfaction; and Maj
Burke’s irrelevant reply to the categor
ical interogatories of Mr. Chandler, has
strengthened rather than weakened the
belief that there was a good deal of
plotting and counter-plotting at the
time of the electoral count Many of
Tilden’s nominal friends in the South
preferring Mr. Hayes manacled and
muzzled rather than their own candi
date under obligations to the proverbi
ally tricky New York politicians. Ev
ery telegram from New Orleans rela
tive to the progress of the trial of the
Louisiana Returning Board is awaited
with great interest certainly, not un
mixed with anxiety and many misgiv
ings, perhaps, by some in high places.
Ws have only the first, perhaps., ex
aggerated reports from the wrecked
steamei, “Metropolis,” on the North
Carolina coast near the theater of the
Huron disaster. She sailfed from Phila
delphia Saturday for Brazil, with about
two buudred and fifty people on board,
principally laborers under contract for
work ou a new railroad enterprise in
that country. The government took
active steps for the relief of the sur
vivors and to rescue the bodies of the
dead, on receipt of the first intelligence
of the disaster.
Francis Murphy, temperance re
former, has njw been here nearly
week. ' His meetings are well atten
ded, but he has hardly had as warm a
reception, or been able to boast as
many signers of the pledge, as
other places. . The truth seems to be
that, frightened by the unprecedented
excesses of the Christmas season, the
people of Washington took reform un
der their own control, and had pretty
thoroughly worked the field before
Murphy’s arrival. Knox.
Silver in Congress.
As a part of the history of the times
we publish the Bland bill and the
Matthews resolution ns they were intro
duced in Congress.
THE BLAND BILL :
An act to authorize the free coinage of
the silver dollar, and to restore its
legal tender character.
Beit enacted by the Senate and
house of Represetatives of the United
States of America in Congress assem
bled. That there shall be coined at the
several mim M TTnWzj Krataa sil
ver dollars of the weight of four hun-
dred and twelve and a half grains troy
or standard silver as provided in the
act of January eighteen, eighteeu hun
dred and thirty-seven, on which shall
be the devices and superscriptions pro
vided by said act: which coins, togeth
er with all silver dollars heretofore,
coined by the United States of like
weight and nominal value, for all debts
and dues, public and private, except
where otherwise provided by contract;
and tbe owner of silver bullion may
deposit the same at any United States
coin ige mint or assay office, to be coined
into such dollar for his benefit, upon
the same terms and conditions as gold
bullion is deposited for coinage nnder
existing laws.
Sec. 2 All acts and parte of sets in
consistent with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed.
THE MATTHEWS RESOLUTION.
Resolved by the Senate, (the House
of Representatives concurring Unrein,)
That all the bonds of the United States
issued or authorized to be issued under
said acts of Congress hereinbefore .reci
ted are payable, principal and interest,
at the option of the guvernmentof the
United States, in silver dollars of the
coinage of the United States, caitain-
ing 4121 grains each of standard silver,
and that to restore to its coinagt such
silver coins as a legal tender id payment
of said bonds, principal and inteiest, is
not in violation of public faith nor in
derogation of rights of the public cred
itor.
This resolution was passed in the
Senate by a vote of 43 to 22, and in the
House by a vote of 189 to 79.
Is Coffee Wholesome!
I know it is palatable, as very few
people dislike it; bat many eschew it
on account of its deleterious effects.
Its odor preparing is delicious, far
more so than the actual drinking of it.
I am os fond of it as any one, but have
not taken a cup in. twenty-five years.
It is more productive of bile, especial
ly to people of sedentary habits, than
any other thing that can be drank or
eaten. Indeed, the most noted physi
cians protest against its use beyond a
single cup at breakfast, in which pro
portion it can be taken with safety.
But where it is profusely indulged in,
it is as injurious to health as an alco
holic stimulant. If one pound of col-
fee should be used as so to last a family
of ten persons for a week, I see it
stated, no hurtful result would ensue.
But here it should stop. I shoqld
think however that by persons accus
tomed to severe out-door exercise or
labor of any kind it' could, to a large
extent be taken with safety. Children
should never touch it, or tea either,
except the lattei'be very weak. The
old-fasboned way of making coffee is
undoubtedly the beet, which is to bay
the coffee in the grain, scorch it until
it is a light brown, grind it as U
is wanted. The water should be boil
ing when poured over the coffee, the
pot of course closed, tightly and then
give it another buiT for a minute or
two, and it will soon be sufficiently
dear to use.
It was at tbe battle df Edge Hilt that
Sir Jacob Ashley made his remarkable
prayer: “Oh, Lord I thou knowest bow
busy I must be this day; if I forget
Thee, do not Thou forget me. March
on, boys.”
Cruelty to Convicts.
Fur Tory Herald-
Trenton, N. J. f Jan. 27,1378,
It is rumored here on good authority
that the Legislature will be called upon
to investigate charges against the State
Prison officials for alleged inhuman
treatment of convicts. Dr. Thomas J.
Corson, of this city, sent a communi
cation to the last Mercer county Grand
Jury setting forth that convicts are pun
ched in-a cruel and unnecessarily se
vere manner, but ou account of the ret
icence of the prison officers it was im
possible to ascertain- the facte until the
fld/orJ^lwlMsAav flr.;W. W H
Phillips, the prison physician informed
j-_ TORTURES INFLICTED.
These are, as he said :—
1st. “The boot heel gag” (a veiy pain
ful instrument).
2nd. “The paddle” (an instrument
used to beat persons on the bare flesh,
inflicting intense suffering)-
3d. “The stretcher” (which is equal
to the rack of olden times. The man’s
feet are fastened to the floor; he is
handcuffed, and by a rope drawn np to
the ceiling as tightly a-i possibly. From
five to twenty minutes of this would
make any one weaken).
4th. Alcohol is poured on the prison-
erVback and set on fire. In one case
a man was twice burned in succession
so that the hair on his body crackled,
and be was twice put in the stretcher.
5th. “Tbe douche” which consists of
□ ring water from hose ou tbe naked
ies of prisoners. This creates
moat agonizing pain, and is apt to pro
duce insanity.
• ’ ■' CHARGES HADE.
The communication concludes:
I charge G-rshom Mott, keeper; Dr.
VV. W. L. Phillips, physician of the
prison; and their associate officers,
with having inflicted cruel and inhu
man punishment upon the prisoners,
and to prove the truth of this charge I
respectfully request that you would
summon before tire Grand Jmy the fol
lowing named persons as witnesses:—
Felix McGuire, Anthony Perry, Mur
phy, now deputy keeper of the prison
Henry Vegte, formerly deputy keeper
Drs. John \V. Ward and Charles P.
Bretton, of the Lunatic Asylum near
Trenton. I hold myselt in readiness
to appear in person before the Grand
Jnry whenever summoned to do so.
The communication was addressed
to Joseph H. Bruere, foreman of the
Jnry, who made known its contents to
parties interested and did not present it
to the Jury until Dr. Corson made per
emptory demand for him to do so. No
action was taken upon it. Dr. Corson
and his associates, Drs. Ribble and
Warmar, intend having the matter
brought before the Legislature.
There is also a difficulty between
Keeper Mott and Coroner Bodine about
the death of convicts of which the lat
ter has not been notified, as he claims
according to law he should be, which
will also receive attention. Other
charges of inhumanity are also rumor-
ed. ‘ ;
Barnum’s Latest Imposture-
Ssrannah New*.
The announcement of the discovery
of tbe petrified remains of some colloe
sal giant near Pueblo, Col., a few
months ago has attracted more or less
attention and elicited general comment
from the newspapers. It was assumed
by some that it most be the remains of
one of the Toltee or Aztec races, who
inhabited that country many centuries
ago and then entirely disappeared, but,
as we supposed it would, it turns out to
be another “Cardiff Giant,” and the
parturition of that humbug was accom
plished by a Dot le3s distinguished per
son than that experienced showman
and eminent statesman, Hon. Phineas
T.’Wnum, Mayor of Bridgeport, Con.
The wnoie .. * f ,u att “ 1 ^ te ’d im
position is told no fully aua - - U ^1^1 v
in a communication to the New York
Tribune from Eikland, Pa., that tbe ex
posure is calculated to arouse suspicion
that tbe revelation itself is but another
adroit advertising dodge. According
to the communication, Mr. Baroum
contracted for the manufacture of the
Colorado stone man with George . Hull,
tbe inventor of the Cardiff Giant. It
was made at Eikland, a little mountain
town in the northern part of Pennsyl
vania, near the New York State line.
Baroum first had the figure brought to
his home at Bridgeport for inspection,
and then taken to Colorado and planted
near his sheep ranche, where it was not
unnaturally, discovered by his agent,
\V A Conant, according to a carefuly ar
ranged plan, daring an opportune visit
of Mr. Barnum on a temperance lec
turing tour to that State. An adroit
deception was practiced in regard to
the results of tbe scientific ‘eat which
it was claimed was made. Ground
stone, ground bones, clay, plaster, blood
eggs and other materials were used in
forming the image, which was then
baked for weeks in n kiln. Hull had
intended for a long time to deceive the
public with this pretended petrifaction
and bad spent much time and sev
eral thousand dollars in experiments
when Baranm came to his aid and sup
plied the necessary capital for him to
complete the work.
The Death of a Gypsy Queen-
From ths Dayton journal.
1 ast night on the midnight train from
Cincinnati, the corpse of Mrs. Matilda
Stanley arrived from Vicksburg. She
died there very suddenly from the ef
fects of a cancer that has been troub
ling her for a long time. Her son, Le
ri Stanley, accompanied the corpse,
having it in charge since leaving Vicks-
burg. Mib. Stanley was known as tbe
Queen of the Gypsies, and her authori
ty as such was recognized by all the
tribes in the United Statss and Canada.
Her family are very wealthy, and own
i great deal of real esst&te in and about
)ayton. They came here first about
treaty years ago. and, liking the neigh-
brhood, settled down, purchasing land
rid adding to their possessions from
yar to year. The Stanley trite, which
zmains with the family, nnmbers ser
ial hundred. In the snmmer they
my in Dayton, but in the winter emi-
(late back to the Sooth, always travel-
bp in wagons. For some years past
hr son, Levi Stanley, has assumed gen-
J tl management of affairs of the tribe,
d be has become knuwn as King of
t|e Gypsies, bat bis mother retained
te actual control. He is a powerful,
file-looking man of about thirty-five,
{■educated, bat shrewd and intelligent,
ad pleasing in his manners. The body
o hie mother has been embalmed, and
it o be placed in a tomb until next
Jhe, when the Gypsies from all “parts
o the country will assemble, and it
a 1 be buried after the easterns of this
p aliar people.
l dentist tried his first operation
w 4 gas on a robust colored woman.
A er she had used up all the gas in the
■oi se, Bne wheeled in tip chair and
si ited: “HiBrry np, boss, and bring
o^utother bag of that sweetened wind.”
compositor in our office never sets
udn ‘union there is strength’, without
— — it read, ‘in onion there is
Eli Sees Beecher. -
Frun the Inter Oeenn [
Oil City, Pa., January 13, 1878.—
This morning as I got into the Erie cars,
after a lecture in Hornellsville, I met my
old friend Henry Ward Beecher. Mr.
Beecher looked rough and rudoy. His
face blushed rosy with health.; and his
eyes glittered in "a way indicating any
thing but a torpid liver.
After til king a few moments, I turned
to the great preacher and asked him this
question:
“ What is this new doctrine yoa are ad
vocating about no everlasting hell for the
wicked and depraved 7 Why did yon an
nounce your belief in no perpetual bell,
Mf Bpw*"*- -
“Well,” replied Mr. Beecher, “I had
particular reasons for doing ft,' but I
don’t want to give them.”
“Don’t you want newspaper men to
know them 7” I asked.
“Yes,” said Mr. Beecher 1 “I do want
newspaper men to know my reason for
declaring no everlasting hell for the
wicked and depraved, but I don’t care
about the churches knowing them.”
“Well, why did yon come ont against
everlasting punishment—tell me, won’t
you?” I said coaxingly.
“Yes, Eli, I will tell you my reason for
doing so, but don’t let it go any farther.
“Yon know,” continued Mr. Beecher,
“that you journalists have been abusing
me a good deal lately 7”
“Yes.”
“Especially Mr. Dana, of the Son 7”
“Yes, I notice Mr. Dana devotes a col
umn or two to yon every day,” I said.
“Well, I announced the idea that
there was no everlasting hell for the
wicked, just to please yon journalists—
to throw a little sop to you, yon know, to
keep you good natnred.” And then Mr.
Beecher shut up both eyes and laughed
all to himself.
A little white afterward, in a more se
rious mood, Mr. Beecher informed me
that he was building a hew 830,000
house on his farm, he says, “where I can
spend my old age in peace and quiet
ness.”
“I reduced my own salary,'’ said Mr.
Beecher, “from 820,000 to 815,000 be
cause I think 815,000 is enough to
me, these times. It is all I earn,
know I lectnre a good deal, and I feel
that my church ought not to .pay me as
much a3 they would if I devoted my
whole time to her interests.”
Talking about lectures, Mr. Beecher
said that he used to lecture in 1850.for
S15 and 820 per night “And ODce,”
he said, “I went from Lawrencebnrg,
Ind., where I was preaching, clear to
Boston, and delivered a lecture before
the Mechanic’s Institute for 825 and ex
penses.” Time has changed things some,
for last night, at Titusville, the receipts
at Mr. Beecher’s lecture were 8600.
Eli Perkins.
Largest Steer ever Baised.
Somerset (Fa.) Democrat.)
Mr. Samuel Barclay, a well known
stock raiser of Somerset township, has
the satisfaction of knowing he has raised
probably the largest steer ever raised in
the United States, and one ont of which
his different owners cleared over seven
thousand dollars. Toe animal in ques
tion was of a mixed breed—about five
eights Short Horn, one-fourth Native,
and one eighth Ayershire stock, and was
sold by Mr. Barclay to Peter Phillippi,
when four years old, for 8102.59. Mr.
Phillippi sold him to Tobias Seitz, who
fed him several years and kept him on
exhibition one year, dnrteg which time
he realized bis owner 81,678. Mr. Seitz
sold him to Wm. Hummersick, of Car
lisle, Pennsylvania, in February, 1876
for $1,450. Mr. Hummersick took him
to the Centennial and at the close sold
him to a Jersey butcher on private
terms. Mr. Hummersick, when be pur
chased the animal, invested in him all
the mpney he could raise, 84,500; by
placing him on exhibition at the Centen
nial, and by sate, be realized money
enough to buy a farm for 87,000 cash.
.tear at the time of his removal
to Philadelphia weighed 4,9C0 pounds,
bnt lost considerable in weight before the
close of the Centennial, on account of
hard o'age. The hide weighed 500
pounds when be was slaughtered. He
was said to have been tbe largest steer
ever raised in the country.
Drank on the Sapreme Bench
The Washington Post of Thursday
says: “A sad spectaele was presented to
the audience in attendance upon the
session of the District General Court at
the City Hall on yesterday, it being no
more nor less than a Judge of the said
Supreme Court in a state of in
toxication. While occnpyiDg his seat
upon the bench in the general terms
this Judge has frequently been guilty
of flagrant abuses ot his important trust,
and it is now high time for him either
to resign or break the flowing bowl.
The sight of a Supreme Court Judge
swaying in his chair in a mandlin state,
sentencing a sneak-thief to eight years
in the penitentiary, white a fiend found
guilty of rape is let off with a month,
is hardly calculated to inspire vast res
pect in the mind of the average behol
der.”
Married, at Virginia, Nev., on the
4th inst., by the Rev. Father McGrath,
Ah Wan, esq, and Miss Nan Ying.
The following was the ceremony: “Ah
Wan, yon likee this one piece woman
much good ?’ “You bet I” “Nan Ying,
you like this one piece man way np
good?” “Me like this piece.” “Ah Wan,
you never catchee no more woman but
this one piece d’ye moind that?” “No
more catchee.” “Nan Ying, you catchee
no more man bat Ah Wan, d’ye un-
dersthand that?” “All lightee.” “Then,
in in the name of the Almighty, I
callee you all samee one piece meat.”
The groom paid 8600 for the bride to
the company that had imported her,
and when he learned that if he had
married her tbe law would have given
him possession of her without paying
a cent a gloom was cost over the com
munity. 1
The Baigning Sovereign
The People of Massachusetts show a
great deal of silly sensitiveness about a
few ugly facts in their State’s history,
to which the refined taste of the cul
tured Maine Senator has called public
attention. True, it isn’t pleasant to
have the public sins and short-comings
of one’s ancestors paraded on grave
State questions; bnt, in this instance,
there was such discretion shown in the
selection of the faults and follies dis
played, that the blue Bay State blood
lias slight provocation for a vehement
and prolonged howl. Had the belliger
ent Blaine gone back to the Colonial
period, to the selling of Indians and
Quakers into slavery, the hanging of
witches and heretics—had he cited a
few of the hundred “acts for the -pun
ishment of heresy” in that great ‘“cen
tre- of religions liberty”—there might
have been some excuse for a slight
show of temper, not to say a pronounc
ed and altogether abnormal vertebral
exaltation. Opposition to the war of
1812 was a mere peccadillo compared
with the darker deeds of the fathers of
that proud old Commonwealth.
John Holmes, of Rush county, Ind.,
fed ninety hogs of his own raising that
averaged five hundred and ^fourteen
pounds gross. ,
' •Hie Segal caste.
Pill Mall Gazette,]
There are at present moment 36 reign
ing soverigns in Christendom, from the
Queen of England, to whom 257,000,000
of human beings owe allegiance, to the
Prince of Monaco, whom 5,741 subjects
acknowledge as tbeir liege lurd. Oi
these princes, ten are nominally Ro
man Catholics, namely the Emperors cl
Austria and Brazil, the Kings of Italy
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Bavaria, Sax
ony, tbe prince of Lichtenstein and
Monaco. At least three of these mon
archs, however, are very far from being
' Pope, tbe
King of Italy actually lying under sen
tence of excummauicaiioA'; while the
King of Saxony, himself a Catholic,
rales over a population almost exclusm-
ly Protestant.
The old maxim of. German jnriau
“Cnjus domino eju-i rel’gio,” has long
wanted a touuoa,.. i. ii, ucl. Of the re
maining 26 princes, two belong to the
Greek church, thongu the Czar and the
King of the Helenes belong to different
branches of ite The other 24-are - Pro
testant 16 bring Lutherans, four (includ
ing the German Emperor) belonging to
the “Evangelica.”confeseioD, three to the
“Reformed” Church, and one being the
“supreme head on earth” of the Church
of England. But the vast majority of.
Qqeen Victoria’s subjects (139,000.000)
are neither Protestants nor Catholics, bnt
Hindoos, while the Mohammedans, 40 -
000,000 in number, are themselves more
numerous than the Protestants of all de
nominations in the Empire.
The oldest reigning sovereign 's Wil
liam, German Emperor and King of
Prussia, who completed his eightieth
year on the 22d of March, 1877; the
youngest is Alphonzo XII, of Spain who
was twenty last birthday (28th of Nov
ember, 1877). Iuthis’ list we do not
count the Pope, because his holiness can
scarcely be considered any longer as a
sovereign, and in any case does not be
long to the royal cast or coosinhood of
reigning families. The average age of the
sovereigns now reigning is 481 years. It
may be added that five out of the thirty-
six to-wit; tbe Kings of Spain and Bava
ria, the Duke_of Brunswick, and the
Princes of Scbwaraburg-Rudolsiadt and
Lichensteiu—are bachelors, though all
happily provided with heirs presumptive
The titles borne by the illustrious per
sonages are many and various. Five
have in modern times assumed the impe
rial style, the oldest of existing imperial
titles being that of the Czar, whose prede
cessor, Peter the Great, dubbed himself
Emperor in 1792, and was soon after
generally acknowledged as such. The
Emperors of Austria, as euch, date from
1806; the title of Emperor of Brazil
from 1822. Tbe King of Prussia, baa
been styled “German Emperor” since
1871; and tbe Queen of England has
been proclaimed Empress of India.
Tbe title of Dom Pedro II, by tbe way,
which is that of "‘Constitutional Emperor
and Perpetual Protector of Brazil,” is
worth something as one of the rare in
stances in modern times in which the lan
guage of heralily has made an effort to be
in accordance with fact. So the two Na
poleons styled themselves emperors by
the will of the people as well as by tbe
grace of God, and tbe first Napoleon
even took at one time the curious designa
tion of “Emperor by tbe constitution of
tbe republic.” The old Kings of Frauce
bad several cen'uries before designated
themselves “Kings by the grace of God
and the will of the nobles.”
Tbe sovereigns not being emperors are
eleven in number, eeven dating their ti
ties from the present century. It is diffi
cult to say which of these kingly titles in
existence is tbe oldest Those of Den
mark and Norway seem to ran each other
closely. On the other band our own
sovereigns, though in diplomatic docu
ments they bear a title which ODly dates
from 1801, are cal'ed by the people they
gurern and by tixc ro* «f tiio wwiiJ
kings ot qneens of England, a title
dating from 828, when it was first assumed
by Egbert Down to the reign of Hen
ry II, however, the sovereign seems to
have been mere commonly called the
King of tbe English Harold II was
“King of the English and Lord of the
Island of Britain.”
Four of tbe sovereigns above mention
ed bear titles originally bestowed by the
Pope, the Emperor Franceis Joseph beirg
“Atmospheric” King of Hungary, what
ever tbat may mean, Alphonso XII, tbe
“Catholic” King, and the King of Por
tugal “the Most Faithful” King. Tbe
Queen’s title of “Defender of tbe Faith”
was conferred on Henry VII for an in
different theological treatise agatest
“one Martinus Elutheros,” who was offi
cially proclaimed by the privy conncil
te have “erred sore.” Those princes
who are not emperors and kings are
“princes,” “dukes” or “grand dukes.” A
majority of them will probably have
ceased .o exist as sovereigns before very-
long. Indeed, he rial.n f some of the
German priocee ro bi -e^ar-ted as inde
pendent sovereign- i- somewhat doubtful.
The various conventions concluded by
Prussia with the various States which
form the empire have been coarsely
termed treaties between a dog and its
fleas.”
fek.
Too- Clock
Reading (Fa.) Eagle
In Mengtd’s building JOt*. ^
bitten in all probability the Z W ' exllf * J
deriul clock in the world tf ,0st Wct >-
by Stephen D. Et.gie, a
yeare of age and was about re® *
yeara in perfecting the clock l
paid Engle five .housand dollars
Eugte never saw the Stntsbnrg
In tact he has never traveled more tK
two hundred miles from home at^
ume. Tow clock stands eleven fef,
high. At its base it is about four iZ
wide and at the top about two It;.
about three feet deep in the base erLl
The Strashurg clock is thirty f...
high, yet its tneehamsnr is not so into
£te, nor has it as many figures as Z
Hazleton ctock. The Stnaburg clock’!
figures are about three feet hath
the American clock about niue inch!.
Three minutes before tbe hour a bm
organ inside the clock pla J8 an anther
It has five tunes. Bells ire then run*
and the hour is i-truck; double doon
in an alcove opeu and a figure 0 f j ™
appears. Doub.e doors to the left then
open, and the Apostles appear slowlv
one by one, in procession. As they ire
pear and pass Jesus they tun. toward!
him, Jesus bows; the Apostle turn!
again ard proceeds through the double
doors in an*alcove on the right Ai
Peter approaches, Sawn looks out oft
window above and tempts him. Fits
times the devil appears, and when Pe
ter passes,' denying Christ, Ut e cock
flaps its wings and crows.. When Judas
appears Satan cornea down front hi»
window and follows Judas out in the
procession, and then goes buck up to
bis place to watch Juda.-, app-artug on
both sides. As the procession has
passed, Jadas and the three M»rys dig-
appear and the door are dosed.
. The_ scene can be repeated seven
times in. an hour if nrceesary, and the
natural motion of the clock produces
it four times per hour, whereas the
Straaburg procession is made but once
a day, at 12 oY-lock. B- low the pisn*
is the main dial, ate.ut thirteen tucaej
in diameter. To its'right is a figure cf
Time with an honr-glus- Above, itia
a window, at which appear figures rep
resent! ig youth, manhood ai-d old age.
To the ieti of the dial is a skeleton rep
resenting Death. When the boor-band
approaches the first quarter, Time re
verses his hour glass and strikes one oc
a bell with his scythe, when another
bell inside responds; then Chilhood ap
pears instantly. When the hour batuf
approaches the second quarter or halt
hour, there are heard the strokes of two
bells. Then Youth appears and the or
gan plays a hymn. After this Time
strikes two and reverses his hour-glue,
when two bells respond ineide. One
minute after this a chime of belle is
heard, when a folding-door opens in
tbe upper porch and one at the right
of the court, when the Saviour comes
walking out. Then the Apostles ap
pear io procession.
The clock also tells of the moon’a
changes, the tides, the seasons, day, and
days of the month and year, and tbe
signs of the zodiac; and on the top a
soldier in armor is constantly on guard,
walking back and forward*. As the
hours advance. Manhood, Old Age and
Death take part in the panorama.
Muscogee County, Ga., ' 1
January 21,1878. j
Editors Courier : From the sighing
pine forests of this beloved and once
prosperous old country, a few liaes for
the readers of the Courier may be of
some interest. A reflecting mind can
scarcely keep np a brave and cheerlul
spirit, even by “whistling,” as one looks
ont npon the sad wrecks of the once
happy and prosperous homes of the
old-time planters. While tbe manufac-
tring interests of the city of Columbus
are hopefully looking up. a- d real pro
gress is certainly moving onward to
wards a brighter and a better day, half
of the private dwellings in both city
and country sadly need capital to build
them up again. There is some pros
perity in tpoti in this section of cur
good old State, and the time will come
when all this region will be a very land
of Eden, bnt at present there are SO
many idlers (and thfe is the class ou: of
which thieves are made) that stray hoga
and calves, and even penned animals,
are “appreciated” by this floating class
of gentry, (?) that many boneet citizen*
are so much discouraged they have
ceased struggling ageinei foie in tbw
line of husbandry, nod tii-coirequ-noe
is, they go in debt to ;be merchant,
whose source of supply i - in me-West,
for their bacon, lar-i and ,’iutter. that it
keeps this imporiatu «-l-»— of what
should be producers r - ar teles
named, poor and in deb, -I the time.
But there is a bright- r sun to 'his ugly
picture. a> u it i eed- oi.)y- t-ioe orii.g
An Open Letter—It Speaks for
Itself
it out m -.- h- - -t luii;
gulden colors IV i ,
tern amt t>i-u* to r <-n
come a fixed tact, - >
will, then iu.migro :-
this fine region <>’ -
of thefionei v n-ril-. - r-
ing heard over
heet pine fores'- vie
O! ll.e lie. til- mono
«til i Wake 'll- echo--
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Rock port. Mass. . p- 1877.
Mr. Editor- H < t •>
paperreporrs.n' ;t>- -
of catarrh. 1 are
I know atioo-
“snuff’ nrui - .
(mere dollar .uibb* •
if the- ooui.t
ill the p«p.-r- '
with omit • ■
camecun
“ashe~.~ '
Wouldn't i-.m
WOUM si ff ,
snuff until I u
for such io-:d;. i
worse, and no one c.. • t u
I suffered or what a un-.: .ro beii g I
was. My head actn-d <>v. r my ey--
that I was confined co x<y bed for many
successive days, suffering tbe most in
tense pain, which at one time lasted
continuously for 168 hours. All sense
of smell and taste gone, sight and hear
ing impaired, body shrunken and weak
ened, nervous system shattered, and
constitution broken, and l was hawk
ing and spitting Beven-eightbs of the
time. I prayed for death to relieve me
of my suffering. A favorable notice in
your paper of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh reme
dy induced me to purchase a package
and use it with Dr. Pierce’s Nasal
Douche, which applies the remedy by
hydrostatic pressure, the only way com-
] tetible with common sense. Well, Mr.
Editor, it did not cure me in three-
fourths of a second, nor in one hour or
month, but in less than eight minutes
I was relieved, and in three months
entirely cured, and haye remained so
for qver sixteen months. While
tee Catarrh Remedy, I used Dr. Pierce?
Golden Medical Discovery to purify
my blood and strengthen my stomach
I also kept my liver active and bowels
by the use of his Pleasant Por-
fative Pellets. If my experience will
induce other sufferers to seek the same
means of relief, this letter will have
answered its purpose. Yonrs truly,
S, D, Remick,
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Length of w hales.
Mr. Scoreabv, a v< ry high aulborilj
on this subject declares that the cun 1 ® 1 ? 1
wham seldom exce.<ls seventy fe t . u j
length, and is mine f requently under a*'
ty. Out of three hundred and tweD J t
two whales, which he assisted P craon r;,
in oapturing, nut une exceeded eixiy-^P
feet, and the largest of which he SB
the reported measurement tobeautton
came up to only sixty-seven feet f
specimens of the rorqual or razor-w
whale have been observed of one n«
dred and five feet in length. One
these was found floating lifeless to P* .
Straits, and tbe skeletou of the other
seen in Columbia river, and m*>*»
and all, when alive, have measured,
hundred and twelve feet. Other *1^
mens have measured a huadrtfl,.
many others from eigh'y to nine j
One cast on shore at North Be^
Scotland and preserv.d by Vt. ^
wae eighty-three feet in
instances seem to establish we ^
and extreme length- of these hjwjjjg.
mate. But, with considerable
m earlier account, BaronTmv'eL^ g
inent naturalist,says «l°utlj:
no doubt that whales have tar
certain epochs and
ward of three hundred Wt *
hundred yards in length.
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