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The Evening Sentinel. WEDNESDAY EVENING, - - ■ - OCTOBER 2, 1878. SIGNALS BY THE WAY. Macon. Macon is in better health than she has been in many days. The Brown House will have forty rooms ready for the accommodation of transient customers on Tuesday next. Out of a voting population of about 5,200 in Bibb there are only about 1,700 who have settled up with the tax-collector. 'J o-day the Fall session of Mercer University commences. Students have been arriving for several days, and the attendance will be large. Charleston and Carolina. There is due the city over SIOO,- 000 past due taxes. Charleston will give an unprece dentedly grand ovation .to Hampton to-day. Romeo and Juliet will be given by an amateur company next Thurs day night. A number of respectable Demo crats have been nominated on the Radical ticket of Georgetown. In Lancaster county, S. C.,the Re publicans see that, as such, they have no chance, and want to get up a Labor Reform and Greenback party. Governor Hampton has been in formed that the Government cannot entertain his offer to hold himself responsible for whatever sum it might be decided should be paid by South Carolina on account of the In ternal Revenue or whisky tax. Atlanta. The Hook and Ladder boys have received their new truck. Mr. Perry Chisolm had the mis fortune to again fracture his leg. Mr. Marion L. Roberts of the Southern Express Company, left Tuesday for Augusta. The military authorities intend making Atlanta their headquarters from hygienic considerations. A party of children in Atlanta took a fifteen mile promenade on the Macon ana Western Railroad. They were brought back to the city. The bottom is dropping out of Farmer Arnold’s campaign. This should impress the farmers with the grand idea of having plenty of room at the top. The “Constitution” appeared yes terday in new livery and bright, cheery countenance. The type is dear, soft and beautiful, ano the “Constitution’s” mechanical make up is more in keeping with its ad mirable editorial management. It is a joy to Atlanta and a pride to the South. Savannah. The receipts of cotton from the Ist of September to the 30th inclu sive, have been 104,409 bales. The Screven House is now being put in thorough order, and will be opened for the reception of guests under the new management about the 15th. The State at Large. An Atlanta correspondent of the Chicago “Tribune” (Rad.) says that the Radicals of the Fourth District will nominate Judge Bigby for Con gress, and that Bigby has consented to run. The Wayesboro Expositor records the fact that the planters are settling their accounts with promptness this year. These are not as large as last year, and promise to be beautifully less next year. A fire occurred at Columbus last Saturday morning in the residence of Mr. B. K. Edgar, which was en tirely consumed. All the inmates were asleep, and would have been burned but for the house cat, which, it is stated, went from room to room pulling the bed clothes, and keeping up a terrible squalling. The friends of Judge George N. Lester have decided to close the campaign at Cartersville, on Satur day, the second of November, with a rousing barbecue and mass meeting. Governor Colquitt, General Gordon and General Gartrell have been in vited to be present, and Judge Lester himself will be on hand. In the early part of last week two United States Deputy Marshals, Henry Robison and Tom Smith, were sent to execute a warrant against an old gentleman by the name of Long, residing in Fannin county, whom they arrested, and were on their way back to Dahlon ega. when the sons of the prisoner confronted them in the public road, and, with leveled guns, commanded the officers to “stop right thar” and release their man. Messrs. Smith and Robinson seeing that the par- lies who emerged suddenly from the woods, had the “drop” on them, de livered up their man as the only al ternative, when they proceeded on their way without further molesta tion. FACT AND FANCIES Missing men—Bad marksmen. A sham-poo—Affected contempt. Squashes are cut gourd this sea son. Green pairs—Young unmarried folks. Men of sound principles—Musi cians. _ Strange beha viour—A vessel “hug ging” the coast. “Don’t give it a whey” is a paral lel expression to “cheese it.” A speech from the thrown —“I’ll never ride horseback again.” Most of the poetry mills are run ning full time on Autumn styles. Chinese actors differ from all others in not following their queues. "Patrick, do you think the Turk will be driven out of Europe?” “Yes, by the powers !” “I fear that you do not quite ap prehend me,” as the jail bird said to his baffled pursuers. “I want to get at the true inward ness of this thing,” as the worm re marked to the apple. When Thomas gets to Cincinnati he will be expected to turn all the pigs’ tails into whistles. A New York shirt store has th s sign: “Society for the engagement of wearing clean shirts.” “Whither thou goest, I ghost,” is what Hamlet said to the materiali zation of his deceased progenetor. There is a man in Virginia who says he has not slept for fifteen years, and that he lies and thinks all night. We cannot vouch for his thinking, but he evidently keeps on lying all day, too. An up-country paper chronicles a big church collection, and wants to know who can beat it. There are men in Augusta who 'can beat any church collection. They attend only the evening service. The longest night in Norway lasts three months, and when a young man goes to see his girl, her mother, before retiring, tells h»r not to ruin her health by sitting up more than two months. Blanton Duncan wants Congress to assemble and mike a national do nation to the yellow fever sufferers. We beg Blanton to pause. Having partially got rid of one epidemic, let us not hasten to invite another. He Didn’t Know. [From the Hackensack Republican. | It was on a ball ground. He was a young man, and hail a memoran dum book in his hand. He was working away with a pencil, and presently a man leaned over and said: “ What’s the score ?” “ I don’t know !” was the reply. Then there were a few moments of silence, during which time Hie young man figured away until another man approached and asked: “ What inning is this ?” “Don’t know'” was the sullen re ply. “Oh, you don’t” said the querist, sarcastically, “ well, you needn’t be putting on airs over it, as if I were asking you the secrets of Free Masonry.” He had no more than recovered from the shock than another man walked over to him and inquired: “ Was that last a two or three base hit?” This made the young man mad, and he replied not. The inquirer passed, and he en joyed five minutes’ peace when a ragged little gamin stepped up to him and yelled: “ Say, mister, how many runs ahead are the Jerseys?” Then a man asked him which pa per he represented, and while he was simmering with rage another fellow walked up to him to make some inquiry, but before he could open his mouth to do so the man with the memorandum book cut him short, by jumping up and screaming, “ I don’t know the score; I don’t know what inning it is; I don’t know a curve-pitcher from a history of Paraguay ; I am not con nected with any paper ; now don’t ask me any more questions. It’s a pity if a man can’t sit down to com pose a few verses for a lady’s auto graph album without being bored to death about a game of ball!” Then he resumed his seat, red in the face, and was allowed ta continue his verses in peace. When a young couple are seen vis iting a “furniture mart,” you may interpret it into a pretty fair sign that “th» happy day” is not far dis tant. THE EX-EMPRESS. EUGENIE AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1869 AND AT EMS IN 1878. An Interesting Sketch by a Well Known French Journalist. [Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.] Paris, August 20. —Os the large and brilliant staff of the “Figaro” no name is better known than that of Albert Wolff. He has just returned from a flying trip to the German mountains, and, in his “Courrier •d’un Touriste,” gives the following graphic reminiscences of the former Empress of the French, whose name was on all Europe’s lips during the eighteen years of the second empire, now passed into history. Eugenie at Constantinople. If the Parisian tourist has gone through the North, it is because he has a good reason for taking so roundabont a route. He wishes, by stopping at Ems, to see once again a woman about whom for eighteen years revolved Parisian elegance. I had not seen her s-since 1869. At Constantinople I met her for the last time. It will soon be nine years since then. Her arrival there made a great sensation. The two banks of the Bosphorus were covered with curious people. Hundreds of tiny steam yachts and thousands of boats were to be seen at the entrance to the Sea of Marmora,before the point of the Seraglio. The preceding day the grand vizier, accompansed by a flotilla, had gone to meet the tourist as far as the Dardanelles; the foreign colonies had chartered steamers which joined the official flotilla. To ward inid-day the batteries placed at the Seraglio point gave the signal of the entrance. Immediately the Turk ish iron-clad fleet, gathered for the occasion, replied by formidable sa lutes. An elegant yacht, escorted by more than half a hundred steam boats, arrived from the sun-lit Sea of Marmora. It was the Aigle, bearing the Empress Eugenie. It may be said that this journey was the anotheosis of a woman whose beauty had put her on a throne on which so many illustrious princesses had preceded her. That day the Empress was really a sov ereign ; for the first time she truly represented France in those distant lands. It was the first and last time. At Paris the Empress Eugenie had found adulators and courtiers, but it is certain that the French people did not look upon her as a sovereign. They could not pardon this pretty woman for her antecedents. She was not born on the steps of a throne. If now she was at the Tui leries, it was because the Princesses of the blood had disdained the high situation she occupied by chance. Napoleon 111., in a proclamation that has long been famous, had marked his wife in the forehead by a careless word; he had qualified him self before the crowd by the term “parvenue,” in order to explain how a simple Countess could sit upon the throne of France, formerly so envied by the most illustrious houses in Europe. The Parisian multitude kept this word, for its Empress Eu genie Was Never But a “Parvenue.” The word is historic. It can then be written without fear of adding a wound to the heart of a woman who now has fallen back to the.rank of a simple tourist. But it is certain that the word set down the Empress Eu genie as an exception. “Parvenue” she was by her origin; she remained “parvenue” on the pinnacle. From the moment that a womgn is placed on a throne, it pleases the crowd that that woman be a true Princess. If not, she may in vain show all the qualities of spirit and courage; to the electors of universal suffrage she will always remain a contraband sovereign. The Empress showed herself more than once worthy of her high position. She was espe cially a true Princess on two occa sions—at Amiens, by her courage and feeling; at Constantinople,where, surrounded by honors, she repre sented France, great and powerful. The day of her entrance into Con stantinople, the Countess of Montijo really wore the imperial crown with more brilliancy than on the occa sion of her marriage at Notre Dame. These two bright dates, which are between the debuts of the Countess of Montijo and the travels of the Countess of Pierrelonds, ought to compensate for many bitternesses. The tourist whom, denuded of pres tige, I have just seen upon the prome nade at Ems, can find a consolation in them. No Princess of the blood would have shown more feeling during the famous visit to the cholera stricken population of Amiens; no sovereign would have represented her country with more majesty than this “parve nue” on the day of her entrance into Constantinople. Eugenie at Ems. I have just returned from seeing once again the former Empress at Ems. Unless from absolute necessi ty, one cannot understand this choice. The pretty watering-place upon the Lahn is like the funeral monument of the Napoleonic dynas ty. The entrance that the countess of Pierrefonds has just made into Ems cannot be compared to the tri umphal entrance of the Empress into the Bosphorus. A small; station, a public composed of idle bathers, an ordinary carriage—nojmore. Dressed in black, the countess of Pierrafond descended, accompanied by the duchess of Monchy and the marquie of Piennes. Chance has cruel ironies. Every body knows that in the German watering towns each house has its sign. The one at which the Countess of Pierrefonds alighted is called the Elysee, like the palace from which the future Emperor pre ceded to his marriage. The depth ■ of the fall can be measured by the* two facades—in Paris, a magnificent palace; in Ems, a modest cottage. The furnished hotel at Ems is an Elysee in the same degree that the Countess of Pierrefonds is the Em press of the French. I was not present at this modest entry, but an occurrence took place which I willingly mention because it ought to have given a moment’s happiness to a woman whom I pity. On the arrival of the ex-Empress the crown that, taken as a whole, repre sented all nations, Spontaneously Uncovered. All heads were bent forward on the passage of this unfortuate woman. I do not believe the Empress was ever saluted with more entire deference and more profound sympathy. Years, sadness, exile, have done their work. She, who a little while ago, passed on the promenade has shared the common destiny. For merly I saw her at the beach of Tourville, with one of those large canes she has made so fashionable and which gave the elegantes of the second empire such a manly appear ance. The Countess oi Pierrefonds always carries a walking stick ; but it is not the one of former days, not the one of the Empress. She now carries a true staff—a man’s cane — upon which she leans when walk ing. At her aspect, I thought, in spite of myself, of the ruins of the Tuileries —majestic yet in their de cay. Thanks to the solitude of Piince George of Prussia, the Countess ofj Pierrefonds has found at Ems a sort of Souvenir of Her Former Splendor. The “authoritlies and functionaries have had a thousand cares for her. The director of the post office has detailed a special postman with the service of the former Empress, charged with the delivery of her letters to her immediately on their arrival. The telegraph manage ment have shown a like courtesy. A commissary of the Government was placed at her disposal with the utmost dispatch. The crowd, al ready predisposed in favor of an un fortunate woman, has given an ex ample of even greater deference. On the promenade, people respectfully stand aside to give free passage to the ex-Empr.ss of the French, who appears greatly moved by this at tention. I once again see on her lips that graceful smile of happier days. 1 do not remember having bowed to the Empress at Paris. Towards the close ot the empire it wasbon-ton to appear to disdain the Government. The countess Montijo was not prince ly enough for us tradesmen’s sons, born in the back-shop! On the pinnacle, site remained for the po pulace what she originally was —a “parvenue.” On findftig her again, after nine long years, in exile, far from that Parisian life which she ruled as an undisputed sovereign, with her little court of faithful adhearers, walking, leaning on a stick, 1 felt my heart weighted down involuntarily as I saluted the ill-starred woman My thoughts carried me back to the time when the Good Fairy escorted the Empress Eugenie. Is not, any way, the life of this woman A Real Fairy Tale, With the difference that the tradi tonal apotheosis is placed in the middle not at the end of the story? Putting politics aside, the denoune ment is saddening. Destiny seems only to have carried the Countess of Montijo so high to demonstrate to her the hollowness of all things hu man. It costs me nothing to avow that 1 have partaken of the painful im pression of the crowd which flocked to the station to give a last tribute of respectful sympathy to a great and unfortunate woman. Men who have hearts, no matter what may be their opinions, and for whom I write, will understand me. If for the others this frank avowal ought to close for me forever the road to the Presdency of the Republic, you perceive me abundantly consoled for it. MchednleH CHANGE OP SCHEDULE. Ohablottb. Columbia <t Augusta R. R. C 0.,) Genebal Passengeb Depabtment, > Columbia, 8- C., September 22, 1878. J r riHE following Passenger Schedule will be 1 operated on and after Sunday, the 22d instant: CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA GOING NORTH. BTATIOM. TBAIN NO. 4. TBAIN NO. 2. Leave Augusta. . ....7:00, a. m. 6:40 p. m. Leave Graniteville....7:Bß, a. m. 7:24 p. m. Arrive Columbia... .10:58, a. m. 11:15 p. m. Leave Columbia 4:05, a. m. Leave Chester 1:43, p. m. Arrive Charlotte.... 3:50, p. m. CHARLOTTE, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA- SOUTH. STATIONS. TBAIN NO. 3. TBAIN NO. 1. Leave Charlotte 1:10, p. m. Leave Chester 2:58, p. m. Arrive at Columbia.. 5:45, p. m. Leave Columbia 5:50, p. m. 3:21 a. m. Leave Graniteville 9:06, p. m. 6:21 a. m. Arrive at, Augusta.... 9:55, p. m. 7:00 a.m. WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA -GOING NORTH. DAY TBAIN. NIGHT TBAIN. Leave Columbia 11:50 p. m. Leave Junction Leave Sumter Leave Florence 2:30 p. m. Arrive a Wilmington. 7:30 p. m. 8:30 a. m. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA -GOING SOUTH. DAY TBAIN. NIGHT TBAIN. Leave Wilmington.... 10:25 a. m. 7:25 p. m. Leave Florence 3:20 p. m. 11:47 p. m. Leave Sumter 1:30 a. m. Arrive Junction 3:15 a.m. Arrive at Columbia... 3:22 a.m. Train No. 3 runs daily, and o< nnects at Au gusta with Port Royal train for Savannah. Through Pullman sleeper via Lynchburg and Charlotte, between Washington and Augusta, daily. Train No. 4—Through Pullman sleeper on this tram between Augusta and Washington, via Charlotte and Lynchburg, daily, reaching Washington at 8:00, a. m., and New York at 4:05, p m., by limited express, and 5:10, p. m. by mail. Train No. 1 runs daily, via Wilmington and connects at Augusta for ail points South and West. Sleeping Cars from Wilmington to Augusta on this train. Train No. 2 runs daily, makes close connec tions at Wilmington, Columbia and Augusts for all points North, via Wilmington and Rich mond. via Wilmington and Bay Lines, and via Old Dominion Line. Passengers by this Train arrive in New York at 9:35, a. m., of second day after leaving Au gusta. Sleeping Oars on this Train between Augusta and Wilmington. Trains 1 and 2 connect only via Wilmington, and trains 3 and 4 only via Charlotte. Through Tickets sold and Baggage checked to all Principal Points. JNO. R. MACMURDO, Gen’l Pas’ger and Ticket Agt., C., C. & A. R.R. A. POPE, Gen'l Pas’ger and Ticket Agt., W., C. A A. R,R, T. D. KLINE, Superintendent C., C. A A. R. B. J. F. DIVINE. sep22-tf Superintendent W.. C. AA.R. R. THE .MAGNOLIA PASSENGER ROUTE. Pobt Royal Railboad, 1 Augusta. Ga., June Ist, 1878. f qVHE FOLLOWING PASSENGER SCHED JL ULE will be operated on and after June 2d: NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. GOING SOUTH — NO. 1, DAILY. Leave Augusta, via P. R. R. B 10:00 p. m. Arrive at Yemassee, via P. R. R. R 2:50 a. m. Leave Yemassee, via S. AC. K R. . 3:20 a. m. Arrive at Charleston, via 8. A C. R. R 8:20 a. m. Arrive at Savannah, via 8. A O. R. R. 8:00 a. m. Leave Savannah 4:10 p. m. Arrive at Jacksonville, via Fla CKR 9:25 a. m. Leave Yemassee, via P. R. R. R.... 3:35 a. m. Arrive at Beaufort, via P. R. R. R.. 4:58 a. m. Arrive at Port Royal, via P. B. B. B. 5:15 a. m. GOING NOBTH —No. 2. DAILY. Leave Port Boyal, via P. B. B. 8.. 11:00 p. m. Leave Beaufort, via P. B. B. B 11:23 p. m. Arrive at Yemassee, via P. B. B. R 1:00 a, m. Leave Jacksonville, via Fla. O. B. R 3:45 p. m. Arrive at Savannah, via A. A G. B. B. 8:40 a. m. Leave Savannah, via 8. A C. B. 8... 8:30 p. m. Arrive at Yem ssoe.via 8. A O. B. R. 1:20 a. m. Leave Yemassee, via P. B. B. R.... 2:00 a. m. Arrive at Augusta, via P. R. R.. 6:40 a. m. Elegant LUCAS SLEEPING CABS between Augusta and Savannah without change SPECIAL ATTENTION INVITED TO CON NECTIONS BETWEEN CHABLESTON AND AUGUSTA. THIS ROUTE PLACES PAS SENGERS IN THE CENTRE OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON. Street Railroad Cars con nect depot with all principal parts of the city. Baggage Checked Through. O’Through Tickets for sale at Planters Hotel and Union Depot Ticket Office, Augus ta. •Ga., and at all Principal Ticket Offices. Diagram of LUCAS SLEEPING CARS at Planters Hotel. ROBT. G. FLEMING J. 8. Davant, G. P. A. Superintendent. jn2-tf THE UNEQuAIUD"J)IS, EEFFEL DOUBLE ■ SAW/rwuROu GRiStMILLK ** Address, PO OLE & HUNT, Debtors and creditors’ notice.—Geor gia, RICHMOND COUNTY.—AII persons debted to the estate of Francis O’Connor, late of> said county, deceased, are hereby notified and re • qiies cd to make immediate payment to'the under signed. and tlgxo having claims agalust the same to I present thorn, duly anth ntioatod, according to law. ■ aepS-tf SAMUEL LEVY, Administrator.