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BEAUTIES OF BOLOGNA. "VENERABLE MONUMENTS AND RARE TREASURES. The Leaning ToweM-Its Memora ble Churches—Some of the Works of the Old Masters—Ouido Ra phacl—The Sampler! Gallery and Other Objects of Interest. Bologna, April 15.—Editor Morning News: 1 fltid that the famous author of "'The Inno cents Abroad” gives the following cursory comment on Bologna: “I find no mention of Bologna in my memorandum book, except that we arrived there in good season, but saw none of the suasages for which the place is so justly celebrated.” If Mark Twain ever visits Bologna at an un seasonable time, lam sure he will appreciate more highly the blessing which was ones his of arriving there “in good season.” For of all Italian cities this is certainly the coldest in winter, the hottest in summer, and at other times with weather to the last degree uncer tain and capricious. Thus, in the spring time, we have left the sunniest of skies, the balmiest of breezes behind us at Pisa and Florence, and find in Bologna a blustering March wind using its utmost en deavors to persuade a bleak and sullen winter that it is not time to leave. As for the sausages, our experience is in flat contradiction of that of our gifted writer. The veritable eau de cologne is perhaps made an object of more prominent attention to the un happy visitor of that givat city of the Rhine, butonlv because the appeal is directly to one’s olfactories, whereas the Bologna sausage is to be gazed at from a respectful distance, and oaten with care. Bologna boasts, as perhaps its greatesi curiosities, two leaning towers. They are also curiosities of ugliness, and, standing close together, seem to vie with ouch other in the exhibition of this quality. They are of perfectly plain brick and mortar, and rise up, square aud uncouth, like nothing more famous tbau the chimneys of some large manufactur ing establishment, which had burnt down and left them standing, knocked awry. Os course no comparison can be instituted between the Tower of liadiont Beauty at Pisa and these brick piles of Bologna ; except as possessing in common th3 single quality of “leaning.” The Torre Asinelli, the tallest of ail, has of ne cessity the least incline; it is about twice the ’ heighth of its companion, the Torre Garisen da, which is some fifteen feet lower than Pisa’s Tower, while the latter, by the excess over ail in its incline, asserts its right to be called, par excellence, the Penning Tower. The fact that the Garisenda Tower was built intentionally to be a leaning tower, and yet defied its builders to rear it higher, whereas that at Pisa is of greater altitude and more out of the perpendicular, should afford a weighty argument (if it were needed) to the many others advanced in support of the propo sition that Pisa’s Campanile does not lean by design. * * * St Petronto, the largest church edifice in Bologna, was begun with a grand flourish of trumpets and proud proclamation that it should outdo the famous Cathedral of Flor ence. The spacious nave gives evidence of the ambitious design thus contemplated—a design that has never been consummated. So that it is not surprising to find that my most enduring remembrance of St. Petronio will be a* of a grand series of chords from a full organ, which, by a sudden collapse in the 1 ollows, terminate with a few spasmodic gasps. The Church of St. James the Greater we found very bleak looking and barren of attrac tion. I cannot except the chapel behind the choir, containing the masterpiece of Francia, whose merits as a painter we made another careful effort to appreciate here, and then gave it up in despair. The custodian of this church, who had ren dered us literally no service beyond removing the drop curtain from Francia’s Madonna (it might well seem to have been painted for the sole benefit of a custodian’s pocket) flew into a violent passion at the smallness of the fee we presented to him. We thereupon suggested that if it did not please him he could return it; which, acting upon the impulse, he very foolishly did. Then he got nothiug, and cut a remarkably sorry figure as he followed us down the nave and out or the door of this house of Divine Worship with blatant imprecations. We have met his like before, but he must be written down as the worst of an altogether contemptible class. We shall remember the church of St. Domen ico, not so much as containing the ashes of the founder of the Inquisition, or for the hand some sarcophagus that enshrines them; al though we shall not forget the two marble angels that kneel above it, one designed by Michael Angelo. Os these angels one is far more attractive than the other and great is one’s chagrin to bo informed that that great master, who ought of course to have designed the attractive angel, designed the other. No; our interest in this edifice centres in the fact that it is the last resting place of the great painter, Guido Reni. At that master’s name what visions of beauty pars before the enraptured mind, as by the waving of a magician’s wand! His reputed masterpiece, the Aurora, proud est ornament of the Rospigliosi Palace; the Beatrice Cenci, in the Palace Barberini, a face that appeals, as does none other on canvass, to the deepest sympathiesef the human heart; the triumphant beauty of the conquering Archangel, in his painting for the Capuchin Church; the wonderful crucifixion, that rivets the gaze to the high dtar, in the church of —Lorenzo in be graqd fresco gif the martyrdom PISu. -raw opposite theyjamp subject by his rival Do.uinichino in St. rv’s Church; the majesty of the dSteruar Father, loftiest ornament of St. PeterSrflome. These ahd countless others, that would cover pages in the mere recital, appeal to our re membrance of Guido, from his works in Rome. And here in Bologna, his home, we have studied many of his important and elaborate works, bearing the impress of great thought and skill and evidently the pro duct! of his mature effort. We have seen many unworthy paintings from this master’s brush in the course of our travels; many the outcome of that greed of gain, born of the besetting passion for gaming that clouded with shame his later years. It Is not for us to judge him in the matter of human frailty and error; and as for those unworthy productions, he would be the first to join in the censure given them, and to blot them out if he could. His ashes repose here in a church to whose adornment his brush has largely con tributed ; and the altar of the chapel of his rest supports a painting whose frame is a series of panel pictures by him and others. The memorial tablet gives us the date of his birth and death, and so reminds us of the mor tality of human genius. But the paintings there bid us know that the master lives, and straightway the magic wand is waved, and there pass before the mind those great works-some of which I have cited—that shall continue to instruct and enliven the souls of men; works that can never die. 1 have spnken of our study of Guido’s paintings in Bologna; the most important and interesting are to be found in the Academy of Fine Arts. They are all large paintings. One, of the Crucifixion, with the Magdalene and another at the foot of the cross, did not impress me as forcibly as his smaller picture of the same subject, in the Lorenzo in-Lucina Church, in Rome, where there is but the solita ry cross with its Divine burden, after the expir ing “It is finished” had passed away amid the convulsion of the elements. In both paintings the background of lurid tempest is in grand accord with the subject. Os greater dramatic power is his Massacre of the Innocents, a subject as favorite with the painters as that of The Chaste Susanna, if not as frequent as Sf. Sebastian. The hgure of the dead infant in the foreground (it has the flesh tints peculiar to death, and the inactivity of death, as distinct from that of sleep as life itself could be,) is in strik ing contrast with the terrible despair the distracted fury of the mother beyond. Those figures of the agonized mothers, con tending with the slayers of their babes, who will out them down audstab or strangle them before their very eyes and at their very breasts, have been criticised as exaggerated in this and in every other presentation of the scene, not excepting that in Raphael’s tapes try-cartoons. If the critics would just stop a moment and imagine the scene enacted before them ; their own wives or mothers or sisters or daughters the despairing actors, their own flesh ana blood the innocent victims, I think they would feel the horror of that scene could never be exaggerated. I rank Guido’s con ception of It here wi h Raphael’s, and I have seen no finer. The Madonna della Pieta is one of the most important by Guido in this collection. It is thus mentioned by Mr. Hillard: “A noble pic ture of some twenty-five or thirty feet high, nearly filling the end of the hall. It is in two parts. Below are the patron saints of Bologna, and the city in the background; above, the Saviour is lying on a bier, partially draped, the Madonna standing on the farther side, facing the spectator, her face raised to heaven and filled with the deepest grief and the most trusting resignation.” I must confess to having wished this paint ing bad not been in two parts; and that the beauty of the upper subject had not been dis turbed by the incongruous conjunction of the saints and the city of Bologna. Paul Potter’s “Bull” and Paul Veronese’s “Feast at the House of Levi,” are each master pieces. What -would they look like taeked to gether? And, yet, the Bull would be just as appropriate an adjunct to the Feast, as are the collection of Patron Saints in Bologna, as spec tators of the grief of the Madonna over her Divine Son. I have not touched on half of Guido’s works in this one room; I cannot even dweiionhis Sampson Triumphant; “not so much a strong man as a seraph,” who has “slain his foes by an effort of the will, and not by strength of a *No; the adjoining room draws us to Bolog na’s greatest art treasure—to a treasure for which the world is grateful—Raphael’s St. Cecilia. Let us pause for a moment to think of the subject Raphael had to conceive and portray; and so contrast the blank canvas with the fin ished work of art. His subject is to be a saint, whose legendary history is intertwined with the spirit of music in its highest and truest type He is to present her as the Patron Saint of Music, and the painting is to adorn a church of the Living God, whose praises she had chanted below, and for whose Faith she suf fered a Martyr’s death. This is the subject upon which all the facul ties of the great artist are concentrated. What will he do with it? He places as the central figure of a group of five a maiden whose hands are clasped about an organ, with the fingers upon some of its keys, and whose countenance is up turned. Nearest this figure, on the one hand is Bt. John the Evangelist; and on the other, and nearer the spectator, Mary Magda lene bearing in her hands an alabaster box es ointment. In front of Bt. John, and nearest us, is St. Paul, who leans upon his sword: while beyond the Magdalene and to the left of Cecilia appears the figure of St. Augustine. “The youthful and beautiful patron saint of music has just ceased playing the organ to her friends, and a heavenly echo falls upon their ears. Six angels, resting on the edge of a cloud, have caught up the melody and con tinue it oy singing. Raphael’s painting depicts the impression produced by the celestial music The saints on earth are silent in presence of the heavenly choir. St, Cecilia lets her hands rest mechanically upon the organ, but, with head and eyes turned upwards, listens entranced to the song. St. Paul, to her left, is differently affected. Sunk in deep meditation, he also seems completely oblivious of the actual world. In pleasing contrast to these two figures, Mary Magdalene * * * * shows her delight simply and openly.” I think the Magdalene manifests something more than delight. The echo from the heaven ly choir must bring to her soul the memory of the angels’ joy over one sinner repentant, and to her in very fact “How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Os that new life when sin shall be no more.” The presence of John, the Disciple of Love, who doth not recognize its perfect fitness? His gaze is fixed upon Saint Cecilia, as though the Harmonies of Love she had awakened had carried him back to a blessed time when there walked, witii the Master, the disci ple whom Jesus loved; and as the heavenly strain began, the largest measure of surprise it brought him was not so much that angels were singing as that the gentle Saviour of all was himself not visibly present again. And as the anthem swelled on in its divine beauty, there came to him, perchance, the thought he has given us in the precept, “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God.” Sff. Paul is the apostle of intellectual prow ess, of elevated tastes, of the culture, refine ment and courtesy of the perfect gen tleman. He represents in this scene that intellectual grandeur in music which I may illustrate by some of Bach’s fugue move ments or Beethoven’s symphonies. St. Paul is well placed in this group, and the meditation into which he is so deeply sunk: may it not also partake of his words to us, “For we know in part; but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.” Surely his utterance was realized in the scene before him; that which was imperfect had been lost in the harmony of the perfect which had come. And then of this surrounding group finally Saint Augustine—he who with Saint Ambrose gave inspired utterance to the Te Deum Landa mus. “To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim continual ly do cry’’—this was the prime meaning of the celestial anthem to tha apostle of Praise. And of St. Cecilia herself, to whom these four figures (appropriate ns is each one of them) are but adjuncts, I cannot find many words to speak. The author from whom I have quoted al ludes to her upturned countenance as en raptured; it ismore.it is seraphic, and the seraphs knew how near herspirit.was to theirs when they gave echo to her strains. Thus, then, the entire group of Raphael’s Symyhony, the queen of all music divinely pure; about her tne types of praise-music, of intellectual harmonies; of the melodies of de votional love, and of repentant gratitude. It was a sublime conception, and is perfectly presented. Its chords ring out from the dumb canvas, as from no other of its kind; and they will resound forever. We were much interested in the ceiling fres coes, by the Caracci and Guercino, that adorn the rooms of the Sampieri gallery. They repre sent different adventures of Hercules, and in their remarkable boldness and vigor (notably the contest with An taeus by Guercino), were suggestive of Michael Angelo’s own productions. I believe the Church of St. Stephen here exceeds in in terest that of St. Clemente, in Rome, with which alone it may be perhaps compared. Think of a spot of ground on which had flourished a temple of Isis from the dim ages, without a date, to the fifth century of the Christian era. Tnereafter no less than seven churches sprung up about the temple’s site (one of which is modeled after the Holy Sepulchre); and they constitute a very honeycomb for Christian worship. The same blustering cold wind that greeted us prevented our lingering, as we should have wished, about the beautiful courts of Bo logna’s Campo Santo. But it could not pre vent our appreciation of the justice of its claim to be considered one of the finest, if not the finest, in Italy. Very striking is the system of burial, observ able here, into recesses in the walls numbered for future purchase, excavation and occupa tion; and, when already appropriated, bearing the usual inscription on the slab within the corridors. Except that they are not amid un derground passages, these resting places of the dead are exactly as those in the catacombs of old. The wind blew even more strongly at us as we took our leave of Bologna, and it seems to have lingered with me for a continuous infla tion of this my record. But it is spent at last; as possibly has been sometime since the pa tience of my readers. Haply, less prolix next time will be your, Scythian. Mrs. Louisa G. Allan and Edgar A. Poe. New York Times. .Mrs. Louisa G. Allan, who has just died at 83, iu Richmond, and whom the dispatches declare to have been the fos ter-mother of Edgar Allan Poe, was not the first wife of Mr, AUan, but the sec ond, and appears to -la great deal to do with the ' *- rupture between, whom he had, 1 -most of his biographers have in saying that when she uieTl v a turning point in his fortunes had been reached. She loved him more than her husband did, who seems to have been proud ather than fond of him. The public will probably never obtain a satisfactory explanation of that unfortunate quarrel; but If Mrs. Allan, who died the other day, had always remained Miss Patter son, and Mr. Allan had remained a widower to the end of the few years then left to him, Poe’s fortune and career would beyond doubt have been very different from what they were. When he was adopted by the Allans they were childless, and their ample fortune was gener ously drawn upon to educate, amuse, and pamper the brilliant boy. He grew up with the notion that he was to be John Allan’s heir, and had the first Mrs. Allan lived five years longer he probably would have been. She died in 1829, and her husband in 1834. The second marriage took place about 1830, and Poe’s troubles then grew apace. The new Mrs. Allan did not like him—if not from the start, especially after her first child was born—and the sensitive Poe naturally resented her un just treatment. Three children came of this marriage, all boys, who, while mere babies, found themselves heirs to John Allan’s estate. Poe was cut off without a dollar. One of the many recent writers on Poe —Mrs. Weiss —who knew him in his last days at Richmond, has declared that the quarrel wa3 simply a family affair, which was not in the first instance the fault of Poe; that “he received extreme pro vocation and insult, and that of all the parties concerned it appears that he was the least culpable and the most wronged.” It is generally believed that Poe left the house and never returned to it as a mem ber of the family or a guest. When Mr. Allan was on his deathbed Poe learned that his foster-father had spoken kindly of him and expressed a desire to see him, and accordingly went to the house. But he sought an interview in vain. Mr. Allan, Mrs. Weiss says, was not even informed of his call, and died without seeing him. H ■ A Fight Between Army Officers. Arizona Democrat. A duel was fought at Fort Douglas, Utah, on March 20, in which Captain Western and Surgeon Lecompte were principals. The duel arose over a lady—the pretty, high-tempered wife of one of the officers ot the post. While the officers and their ladies were dining one day Dr. Lecompte awkwardly stepped on her dress and re ceived a sharp rebuke for it, whereupon he apologized. Captain Western was drawn into the quarrel which ensued, and he and the surgeon were placed in antagonism, and it became noised about that a challenge to fight a duel had been issued, and that shooting would grow out of the affair the first time that they met. After matters had reached this stage both went armed and on their guard, and after a word or two, while both were at close quarters, revolvers were drawn and fired. The Captain’s shot passed through the Doctor’s right hand and entered his side, while the surgeon’s bullet missed its mark. At the next fire the surgeon’s shot shattered the Captain’s arm, and the next entered the Captain’s side. The Captain fell, and the Doctor, whose pis tol hand was wounded, discontinued the duel. Since that time Capt. Western has been practically incapacitated for duty HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE 111 Depression from Overwork, I find Horsford’s Acid Phosphats bene ficial in nervous depression and anxiety re sulting from overwork. W. R. Pace, M. D. Sandusky , 0. A TALK WITII COLONEL COLE. Wliat tlie Great Railroad Builder and Developer Says of tlie Southern System, Louisville Courier Journal. Colonel Cole is as busily engaged in building up railroads as ever he was. He is now in New York looking after the in terest of some of his lines. It is surmised that be is anxious to secure control of the Cincinnati Southern. Colonel Cole is a very reticent man, difficult to inter view, but when he is comfortably seated in a Pullman sleeper he talks more freely than elsewhere. On his way to New York Tuesday Colonel Cede talked freely concerning railroads in the South, and he spoke hopefully of their future. “Af ter the war,” said Colonel Cole, “through no fault of the managers, most of the Southern roads were ruined. They had no rolling stock, no credit—nothing much except their charters. The work of reconstruction was necessarily slow, and the difficulties great, but they have been overcome. The Louisville and Nashville _suffered less than others by the war, but more by the panic; yet to day it is one of the best pieces of rail road property in the country. When I took hold of the Nashville and Chat tanooga the stock was selling at 15, stock dividends having several times been declared, and the stock is now in neighborhood of 85. The East Tennessee and Virginia Road has had a similar experience during the past year. We are steadily improving its road bed, replacing iron with steel rails, increasing its rolling stock and paying good divi dends all the while. So with the Mem phis Slid Charleston; that property is steadily improving, and the stock is ad vancing. We are using a gravel ballast found in Mississippi, absolutely free from dust, aud it makes the best ballast in the world.” Referring to the recent combinations in Georgia, Colonel Cole said it had long been a favorite idea with Mr. Wad ley, and steps looking toward such a combination were taken before the pur chase of the Nashville and Chattanooga by the Louisville and Nashville. He thought it would result satisfactorily to all parties concerned. At Knoxville, said Col. Cole, we are actively at work building a road to the Kentucky line to meet the Louisville and Nashville. We also expect to reach Asheville, via Morristown, by Septem ber, and so open a short route to that section of the coast country. This is of interest to Louisville, but your city is in terested more in a Texas connection than in anything else. There in the South west lies an empire fiom which St. Louis excludes both Memphis and Louisville. Your citizens must give their earnest at tention to this matter. They should secure a Texas connection, and secure it now. Concerning the future of railroads, Colonel Cole said their prosperity de pended on the prosperity of the country. Railroad companies should concern themselvess less about the price of stook iu Wall street and more about improv ing their physical condition, increasing their earnings and decreasing their ex penses. The danger is, the boom has made money easy, and managers are apt to give less attention to expenses than they did when times were hard. Ex penses should be watched at all points. When asked if he wished to secure the Cincinnati Southern, Colonel Cole was non-committal. He said he was not very hopeful concerning its earning capaci ties —at any rate, he would rather un derstand something more about the size of the elephent before he purchased. The De Lesseps Canal. Washington Correspondence N. Y. Tribune. “How is work on the De Lesseps canal advancing?” asked a Tribune 'cones pondent to-day of John M. Wilson, United States Consul at Panama, who has lately arrived in Washington. “It is making very little progress,” was the reply. “How many men are employed, and what are they doing ?” “There are about forty Frenchmen down there, about half of whom appear w ’-•••rious directions, ■'missaries, ||V .iAj —. s about _a| hundred Jamaica negroes engaged ins cutting brush. Wyse has returned to France ” “Then nothing like serious work has yet been attempted?” “None whatever. Six stations have been established on the proposed line across the isthmus; but no houses have ■been built, ttys men are living in tents. The'rainy season has begun, and the men will soon be driven out of their tents by the storms. The truth is, it does not look to me as though De Lesseps ever intends to dig a canal there. He estimates that it will cost 90,000,000, when everybody else who knows anything about such matters, says it will cost nearer ten times that sum; that the canal will be finished in ten years, and that in the meantime people who buy stock shall receive 5 per cent, interest upon its par value. Thus interest alone will add from 5 to 40 per cent, to the cost of the canal. But I don’t believe any canal will be built there. De Lesseps is a great diplomat, but a poor financier; and if he really in tends in good faith to dig a canal, I think he will fail. ” ► .-» »< Beaconsfleld’s Home Life. London Standard, April 21. Lord Beaconsfield lived so thoroughly in politics that little remains to be said of his private or domestic life. He was a man of very kind and genial nature; particularly fond of children, and though addicted to silence, was not remarkable for reserve. At bis own table he desired others to talk rather than himself, and if he caught a remark which seemed to possess any merit he would immediately call attention to it, and take care that it was properly appreciated. His style of living was comparatively simple, and at Hughenden, though he and Lady Beaconsfield took grea delight in the beautiful woods which surrounded them, there were no appliances for field sports. Lord Beaconsfield neither kept hunters nor preserved game, leaving it toTiis ten ants to supply him at their own discre tion. But he felt all a politician’s interest in the Chiltern Hills, and was fond of driving among them with an appreciative stranger, showing him Great Hampden and Chequers Court, and repeating anecdotes of the Great Rebellion, which, as he used to say, was hatched in these re cesses. The Chiltern Hills are rich in natural beauty and historic associations. But neither their green glades nor their ancient mansions will yield anything in future more attractive or interesting to the tourist than the picturesque old Manor House henceforth and forever to be associated with the name of Beacons field. Mr. Edwin Cowles, of the Cleveland (Ohio) Leader, is the victim of a singu lar infirmity of hearing. He says that it partakes somewhat of the nature of color-blindness as that affects the eye, he being unable to hear certain sounds at all. For example, he has never heard the sound of a bird’s song in his life. A whole room full of canaries might be in full song, and yet he could not hear a note, hut the rustling of their wings would be distinctly heard by him. He can hear all the vowels, but there are many consonant sounds which he has never heard. He can hear a man whisper, hut could not hear him whistle. The upper notes of a piano, violin, or other musical instrument he never hears, but the lower notes he hears without dif ficulty. Ten years of experience has firmly rooted Tutt’s Pills in public estimation. Their wonderful adaptability to the various forms of disease is a marvel to medical men of all schools. They are largely used in hospitals in Europe and America, as well as in the army and navy. Cuba and other countries where yellow fever prevails, consume mil lions of boxes annually. THE SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY H, 1881. SCINTILLATIONS OF SCIENCE. Cariosities and Discoveries in the World of Progress. Prepared Specially for the Weekly News. The deepest known worked mine is in Australia—a shaft having been sunk 3,200 feet. A very successful experiment with the electric light was lately made in a Paris theatre. So manifest were the advan tages secured that the subject of com pelling all the theatres in the city to adopt some electric light is being con sidered. Experiments at Woolwich have de monstrated that the transmission of de tonation from one mass of gun cotton to another not in contact is so rapid that a row of gun cotton reaching from Lon don to Edinburgh could be fired in two minutes. Replying to the question whether or not our ancestors were acquainted with the peculiar physical condition known to us as somnambulism, Dr. Regnard, of Paris, said in a recent lecture that one of the most accurate descriptions of som nambulism in existence was that in the sleep-walking scene of Macbeth. In a communication to the St. Peters burg Technical Society, Prof. Beilstein recommends the use of sulphate of alumina as the best practical disinfectant. He states that the best method of mak ing the salt for disinfecting purposes is to mix red clay with four per cent, of sulphuric acid, and to add to the mixture some carbolic acid for destroying the smell of the matter to be disinfected. A model of a'proposed electric railway for mail service was recently exhibited in Vienna. According to the plan suggested miniature lines of rail way would be built along the passenger lines, and on them, at a very high • rate of speed, would be run small electric engines and cars to take up letters. It would have the ad vantage of being entirely independent of the regular passenger road, and could be used at any time. M. Alfred Dumesnil claims to have made an interesting and useful discovery —how to preserve plants in a perfectly vigorous state without any earth. Dur ing a constant trial for several months he has never found the least interruption or disturbance of the vegetative functions of the plants treated by him; but, on the contrary, many of the plants have blos somed with a vigor which, as an experi enced horticulturist, he has never seen in his garden. Further particulars con cerning this alleged discovery will be awaited with interest. Late researches are showing an aston ishing vitality of disease germ 3. Pas teur has investigated a case in which cattle died of carbuncular fever twelve years ago, and were buried at a certain spoting a walled garden. Guinea pigs have been inoculated with the matter secured by washing samples of the soil, and died quickly with well marked symp toms of carbuncle. Os seven sheep allow ed experimentally to pass a few hours daily on this spot, two died of the same disease in the course,of six weeks, the rest of the flock remaining unaffected. This seems to prove beyond a doubt the existence of disease germs for a space of twelve years. Says a recent writer: “What has been the ultimate fate of the Egyptian mum mies stored with care iu the rocky vaults and pyramids on the banks of the Nile? They have in these later times been dragged from their recesses and ground into powder, as an article of commerce to be exported to Europe. The cereal crops of England are partly produced from the mummified remains of human beings who walked about the streets of Thebes ‘three thousand years ago.’ The bodies of venerable Thebans —swells in their time—laid to rest in fond anticipa tion of securing a mortal immortality, sold at so much a ton to fertilize the ex hausted soil of an island in the German Ocean! That is what the ancient Egyp tians have got by all their skill in pro tracting the dissolution of mortal re mains. Their marvelous preparations have ended in a favorably quoted—ma nure!" There is one thing ir 'jHafiptish lei. :■ | unalloyed pie V*uie »ulo a.- W?' can editor dues it * nun cl-U pet light, and that is in the discoveries and theories of Brother Jonathan. A lIH London journal—an authority in its 1 special field —indulges in considerable editorial ridicule of certain partially de veloped Yankee projects. On another page of the same sheet a local correspon dent seriously declares it to be his belief that the time will come when individu als will be transmitted by telegraph! He argues that in certain electrical and vital processes molecules are by gradual depo sition made to build up bodies of con siderable proportions—certain kinds of molecules tending to produce certain in avariable forms. He would apply this principle to man. He would * first get the “elementary molecule” of a man, and then build him up from it by the ad dition of other like molecules, as a pyra mid is produced by the piling up of can non balls. Success having been achieved thus far, the man might be dissolved by electrical means in London, sent by cable to New York, and then rebuilt from the solution by the successive deposition of his molecules at the New York end of the electric circuit. This somewhat novel scheme—not a “Yankee nqji but a plan for which Johnny Bull be held fully responsible—is ntfijLjfT mainly to show the beam in the eyeC our contemporary across the water* bSt partly for the benefit of the traveling public, as the suggestion of this means of traveling with the velocity of thought must produce such a panic among rail road monopolies as shall result in a ma terial reduction of their tariff. Nihilist Bombs. —The bomb that kill ed the Czar, according to the Gavlais which publishes a “sac-simile, natural size,” showing the internal arrangements of the explosives, was a tin cylinder, six inches long by three broad. Down the centre was a copper tube, filled with Bertholet’s salt and antimony, and through this ran a glass tube, hejweii cally sealed, containing sulphtiffc acid. A leaden weight was so placed as to break the glass tube when the bomb struck. The flame occasioned by the contact of the sulphuric acid with Ber tholet’s salt passed by a small channel to a cartridge with a fulminating composi tion at the head and pyroxyline below. The fulminate fired the”pyroxyline, and the explosion of the pyroxyline ignited the nitro-glycerine with which the cylin der was charged. If one of the tubes had been choked, the future of Europe and Asia might have been altogether different from that which is now in course of development.— London Truth. >-<♦>< - ■ Society Notes. —Miss Diffenback, the accomplished and beautiful cantatrice of West Hill, slapped her old mother over the head with the dish rag last Tuesday evening because the old lad/ wouldn’t let her go down and sing in a Dutch chorus at the masquerade in Bogus Hol low. Miss Diffenback has the true temper of a lyric artist, and our city will yet be proud of her. —Burlington Hawk eye. ►«- The Chicago ladies have organized tramp clubs, and an exchange says “they frequently take walks into the suburbs, covering twelve miles or more.” We have heard some pretty big stories of the Chicago ladies’ understanding, hut when they talk of • ‘covering twelve miles or more,” we really must draw the line be tween credulity and unbelief. —Boston Transcript. Although winter, that hoary old monarch, with his crown of snow, and his sceptre gemmed with icicles, affects mankind with such evils as coughs and colds, happily they can be cured by Coussens’ Honey gs Tar, a most excellent remedy for diseases of the Throat and Lungs, Bronchitis, Croup and Hoarseness. my6-F,M,W&wlt SILK CULTURE IN LOUISIANA. Tlie Industry Reviving and Prom ising to be ot Consequence In the State. A New Orleans dispatch says silk culture was first introduced in Louisiana by the “Company of the West” in 1718, and in Georgia about the same time. The first export of silk from the South was eight pounds in 1734. Soon after a silk house was erected in Savannah. In 1760 the cocoons amounted to 15,000 pounds. This house is supposed to have received all the silk from the Gulf States. The product in 1760 was 20,000 pounds, but then Parliament reduced the price from 3s. to Is. 6d., and the product fell off so rapidly that the total amount in 1770 was only 290 pounds. South Carolina had also made commend able progress in the art, but the revolu tionary war put a stop to the culture of silk in the South. The reports of this spring’s hatching in Louisiana are encouraging. Interest in the industry is growing here, and in ducements are offered to silk workers to come from France and engage in the silk business. Mr. L. S. Crozier, of Bayou Sara, one of the most energetic silk growers in the State, says, in speak ing of pebrine, a disease of the silk worm: “This plague and philloxera have reduced the ci-devant rich farmers of Provence so much that they begin to emigrate. It depends upon us to at tract this new current of emigration to Louisiana. Here is no disease, and the mulberry tree grows so rapidly that, in stead of waiting five years to get a crop of cocoons, the careful planter can begin the first year after planting.” The frosts did not hurt the mulberry trees, and the worms are in various stages of growth. Some are nearing the last moult, and others are not yet hatch ed. All are healthy. One good tree will feed enough worms to produce seven pounds of silk, and ten pounds of leaves will&roduce one pound of silk. One ounce of good eggs will produce enough worms to eat 1,200 pounds of leaves. They cost from fifty cents to $6 per ounce. Thus at $5 per pound for silk, the allowance for labor and expense is very large. The secrets of silk culture are pure air, warmth, dryness, and proper food. That the climate is warm enough is proved by the fact that a lot of 1,500 silk worm eggs were wintered here at the outside tempe rature by Mrs. Laywaud, aud are now hatched. The mulberry tree flourishes and the workers are careful. When it is wet they keep a fire in the house of the silk worms, and dry the leaves on the branches cut from the tree before they spread them on the worms. They avoid the dew, and it is a rule to have two meals of leaves in advance. This State has great advantages over European countries in the matter of raising the mulberry. ►■■*... YU) More Scotts at Abbotsford. London News. Everyone will be glad to hear that the new occupation of Abbotsford will not interfere with the admission of visitors as before to the rooms where Sir Walter Scott worked, and the curiosities which he gathered together. Romantic, pictu resque, delightful, is the spot in which Abbotsford stands; the associations of> the house endear it to every heart, and yet there is always something intensely melancholy and depressing about the place, it speaks of such dreams and such disappointments. “ Unmindful of the , sepulchre, you lay out houses,” says the Roman poet. “Why dost thou build the hall, son ot .the winged days?” is Ossian’s way of puMfag'it. _To have a great house, to found a great family, was the ambition to wiliek in Scott’s breast all thought,for the farfuqof his works played but a very secondary part. The house helped to ruin ittaMmer, and the family was not foundefUftnd for such short time as there r***jfchead of the family there of late yellßhe ’ representative of the de voted tHSEBant Sir Walter Scott was a RomanflHßflic. The very portrait of son > in As brilliant uni form, ■BPwith his charger, carried with it. sc P asses away into the /Smt ,L: . M' V su pi v * ?*.•}!?;it ■ f m .fc®> t,j-va ‘ # as well aa^he *Jrn U'om every Australians are m®n tnore anxious, it is said, about Abbotsford and Newstead than sight seers from any other part of the world, even fjv '•Uygland, Ireland or Scotland herse!ff‘“ s glad to hear that the new occupant of Sir Walter Scott’s house is nog going to close his gates against those I who would fain stand in the rooms where the Border Minstrel worked and played. CiuiNms Effects of an Earthquake. -yap <Cal.\ Independent, April 11. Th ; most curious circumstance con nectqj with yesterday morning’s earth quake' was the stoppage of all the pendu lum cfoeks hanging against eastern walls, showing that the vibration was north and south. Clocks hanging against were not affected. In the of Charles Haas there is a calendar clock, which, on Saturday night, was about five hours fast. It was impossible to put the hands back with out disarranging the gearing, and the only way in which it could be regulated hands forward until JS remartbiiiftie right time. As this Ijfvocess required about fifteen minutes, id was exceedingly tedious, Mr. Haas, ben he left at nine o’clock, stopped . J) pendulum, intending to regulate the ofock on the following day. The earth quake saved him the trouble. When he came to his store yesterday morning tl#q timepiece was ticking away like a pawnbroker, and, what is still more remarkable, it was correct to a second. The town clock is propelled by and tackle, and consequently suttr a mild convulsion as that of yes terday morning did not disturb the se renity of its equanimity. The final cataclysm will probably set the old Janus-faced chronometer back a few moments, but earthquakes never will. No material damage was effected by the trembler, as far as we can learn, except the shattering of a few nerves and the loss of sleep attendant upon the excitement. The plastering of ceilings in several houses was badly cracked, crockery thrown from shelves, chimneys toppled from lamps, besides numberless unimportant occurrences of a similar character. At the jail, Officer Fields thought, on awaking from a sound sleep, that the prisoners were trying to break out. The prisoners thought some body was trying to break in. ■ An old woman, picked up in the street in Louisville, in the most wretched and filthy condition, and apparently dying of starvation, was taken to the hospital, where, her daughter coming to see her, it was discovered that she was wealthy and owned considerable real estate in the city. But she was a veritable miser, and made her home, all alone, in the garret of one of her empty houses. Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, is nearly done with the settlement of the riot losses. Up to this time $2,750,000 have been paid—sloo,ooo in cash and $2,650,000 for which bonds have been issued. The unsettled claims amount to about $15,000. To the Liebig Company: Hospital fob Ruptubed and Cbippled, i 42d St. and Lexington Aye., N. Y. j Your “Witch Hazel” has afforded many of our suffering patients most decided re lief, for which I am truly grateful. James Knight, M. D., Surgeon-ln-Chief. Beware cheap of imitations. Ask for Lie big Co’s Arnieated Extract of Witch Hazel. Invaluable in Spinal Irritation and all pains of Ruptured, Paralyzed and Crippled. Gives rapid relief. Sold In fifty cents and dollar sizes. For sale by O. Butler, Savannah, Ga. Fashion Dots. Dark greens are evidently very popular. Dresses and suits contiuue to be tight fitting. A gay little novelty in round hats is the Olivette. The new ginghams are colored and plaid ed with rare taste. The newest nun’s veiling has its edge wrought in open-work designs. There is more satin manufactured at pres ent than any other goods made of silk. The new purple is not heliotrope but iris, and is taken from the fieur-de-lys. Carmelite, or old silver, is a favorite color with English girls for spring dresses. A sunshade adorned with the romantic name of Robinson has fifteen ribs and is embroidered with flowers. The shirts of all short dresses, though very narrow, are much more elaborately trimmed than last season. The handles of some of the new sun shades are very elegant and entitled to be classed among works of art. Eight big roses are worn as a belt bunch by New York girls. Daisies and Capucine roses are combined for breast knots. A Philadelphia shopkeeper remarks in his advertisement that some persons know nothing of beauty or of propriety, and buy like Modoes. Shirring is the capital feature of all dresses at present. Dressmakers seem to have shirring on the brain. To plait is hu man, but to shirr divine. A “concatenation of detached wings of birds” is the pattern of a new style of surah, according to an advertisement published in another city. Chenille embroidery is recommended as possessing the great advantage of being very easily and quickly worked, while producing a handsome effect. The Kate Greenaway is the name of a new juvenile hat which has a brim of fine kilt plaiting bordered with cream lace and is very soft and becoming. Some of the narrow pokes projecting very far above the face, worn by little girls, give demure children an old-fashioned look which is both comical and winning. Some manufacturers are trying to intro duce sunshades with two (lowers instead of the tassels on the handles, but they will try in vain, we venture to predict. The gradual disappearance of kelt plait ing from fashionable gowns is a thing for which women should be thankful, but they seem determined to use it as long as they can. The button of 1881 is in no way extrava gant either in size or shape. I is of modest proportions and a simple circle, the ovals, squares and hexagons having been quite dis carded. The London World, speaking of Mother Hubbard cloaks, says that it prefers the tight-fitting costumes of last season, to the style of draping the figure so as to make It 'ike a barrel. The perfection attained by American manufacturers of satin is especially notice able in the goods exhibited this season. The satins equal in lustre those imported, and being all silk are soft and pliable, and therefore do not crush nor rumple easily. One of the things over-decorated nowa days says Harper's Bazer, is the tidy, which, made ostensibly to protect lounges and chairs, is so elaborately done that if time and eyesight be worth anything, it is far eostilier than the upholstery it is meant to cover. The new black grenadines are of the most modest armure patterns, or else with square meshes, or perhaps the smooth-faced sew ing silk grenadines, but are made up over red, olive or green satin, or perhaps black, and are trimmed with Spanish lace, and with the gayest striped satin surah. The old autograph alb? n has become ob solete, and in its place ha» been introduced a new social instrument of torture —an au tograph fan. It Is of plain white parch ment, handsomely mounted, and on it, says a French paper, “the ladies ask celebrities and nonentities to write their names and a few applicable lines.” It Is difficult to account for the present rage with ladies for the details of military costumes. First came passementerie epau lettes and tags, followed by velvet collars and cuffs embroidered with gold. This year the officer’s collar is indispensable. It must match the remainder of the toilet and be worked with jet, steel, gold or silver beads. Simple and pretty combination dresses for young ladies to wear in the soring have pleated skirts of the inexpensive Louisine silks that cost 90 cents or $1 a yard, with the basque and overskirt of cashmere. The new refined dahlia shades of purplish red, the cinnamon colors —both brown and red— and the various olive greens, are chosen for these suits. Striped watered silk Is a novelty for lower skirts. This is not the"satin striped moke ■ but is watered all over, with naking the ' -" £t not This comes m ombre s ripes of one color, and in contrasts as well, of the latter, one of the prettiest has dark,red, olive and creitfen stripes, and is made up Svitb golden brown cashmere for the overdress. A new popular fabric is French gingham and it is being made into elaborate summer toilets. It is fine, 60ft and delicately col ored. Blue is the prevailing hue, but it is combined with others, and usually the bor der of something brighter. Some have ecru grounds with borders. There are also stripes and plaid 6, and they can be kilted with good effect by turning the kilt to show one stripe or the other in the alternate flounces. Additional variety is given in the cheap laces and wide cotton trimmings which are so generally used with them. These ging hams are almost a yard wide, and sell for thirty to forty cents. Coarser qualities come lower yet, and are good enough for children’s clothes. At the large furnishing stores are shown new white muslins with the designs like em broidery woven in to represent dots amid hem-stitching, Greek squares and stripes. These will be much used for graduating dresses, and also forbrldesmalds’toilettes at summer weddings. They are being made up very simply as far as the waist is con cerned, with a belt to which the full surplice waist is gathered. The skirts, however, are elaborate beyond description, with pyra midal rows of embroidered flounces on the left side, or else across the front and sides, with wrinkled aprons above that are scarcely more than panlers. The back is bouffant, and the skirt may be short or demi-trained, but not with full train of great length. The sleeves reach to the elbow, where they have cuffs turned back 'made of the embroidery. Handsome suits for the summer are be ing made of black velvet grenadine over underskirts of black surah. The Imported costumes shown in the toniest establish ments this week in New York are daring in combinations and intricate in designs. A striking thing is a light olive satin, with a tile pattern brocade of olive and white hues, in which the two materials are com bined in a deep kilted flounce. Another is a wine colored satin surah, mingled with pink and wine colored brocade. An em broidered pongee has drapings of red sou lard, whose surface is 6trewn with red ap ples. A black satin has drapery of net em broidered with steel, and is flecked with steel tassels among the draperies. A gray satin with brown velvet Is trimmed with Irish point lace over the velvet, while the lace over a shirred front is gathered in three festoons by cut steel clasps. >■♦»■« A University Chancellor as Forger. Count Iluming Hamilton, Chancellor of the University of Lund and Upsala in Sweden, and director of a num ber of public institutions, has been peremptorily dismissed from all his of fices and deprived of his dignities, on account of forgery and embezzlement to the amount of 700,000 crowns, which had been collected in the country for a national monument. One lady of the aristocracy has also lost her whole fortune of 200,000 crowns, which she had entrusted to the Count’s manage ment. The affair has caused the most painful impression at Stockholm, more especially as the names of the King and Queen have been abused. Count Huming Hamilton belongs to one of the first noble families in Sweden, and is related to the Hamiltons of Scottish fame. He was at one time Councillor of State, head of the ecclesiastical de partment, and later on Swedish Minister at Copenhagen, where, in 18G3, he endeavored to bring about an alliance between Denmark and Scandinavian countries. It is remarked that the elephant is one of the few travelers who succeeds in going through the country without get ting his trunk pasted all over with hotel cards. Trickling past the delighted palate, Hub Punch, with hot or cold water or milk, is very agreeable, and diffuses an ecstatic glow through the system. Punches brewed at request are far behind it ‘in flavor. Sold by grocers, wine merchants and druggists, myll-lt&wlt BUflictoal. ||||U ItIDNEGEJi is highly recommended and unsurpassed for WEAK or FOUL KIDNEYS, DROPSY, BRIGHT’S DISEASE, LOSS of ENERGY, NERVOUS DEBILITY, or any OBSTRUCT TIONS arising from KIDNEY or BLADDER DISEASES. Also for YELLOW FEVER, BLOOD and KIDNEY POISONING, in infected malarial sections. tW~ By the distillation of a FOREST LEAF with JUNIPER BERRIES and BARLEY MALT we have discovered KIDNEGEN, which acts specifically on the Kidneys and Urinary Organs, re moving deposits in the bladder and any straining, smarting, heat or irritation in the water passages, giving them strength, vigor, and causing a healthy color and easy flow of urine. It can be taken at all times, in all climates, without injury to the system. Unlike any other preparation for Kidney difficulties, it has a very pleasant and agreeable taste and flavor. It con tains positive diuretic properties and will not nauseate. Ladies especially will like it, and Gen tlemen will find KIDNEGEN the best Kidney Touie ever used 1 NOTICE.—Each bottle bears the signature of LAWRENCE & MARTIN, also a Proprietary Government Stamp, which permits KIDNEGEN to be sold (without license) by Druggists, Gro cers and Other Persons everywhere. PUT UP IN QUART SIZE BOTTLES FOR GENERAL AND FAMILY USE. If not found at your Druggist’s or Grocer’s, we will send a bottle prepaid to the nearest ex press office to you. LAWRENCE & MARTIN, Proprietors, Chicago, IU. 3E3C. IVEyei*® <r So Bros., Sole Agents for Savannah and the State of Florida. Sold by Druggists, Grocers and Dealers everywhere. For sale by SOLOMONS * CO., am' LIPPMAN BROS., who will supply the trade at manufacturers’ prices. janls-weowly grtf ffoofls. OUR Sc. LACS AND 10c. EMBROIDERY SALES FOR THE PAST WEEK HAVING MET WITB SUCH A DECIDED SUCCESS, WE HAVE DETERMINED TO OFFER THIS WEEK: 50,001) YARDS OF YERY FIE LACES, Ranging in value from 15c. to 50c„ andfcomprising all the fashionable, desirable and latest styles, at the umroßfys price of id cents! We will also place the bilance of our EMBROIDERY, which we sold last week at our Special Sale at 10c., with a great many new styles added thereto, on a Special Counter, and sell the entire lot at the UNIFORM PRICE OF 7c. ! We guarantee that these goods are good value at 10c. to 30c. Our reputation for advertising the Truth and Facts only, without the slightest bombast is an established fact, and that is why our House is always thronged with Customers. ’ 25 Dozen 40 Inches Long Towels, Pure Linen! We will sell at the low price of 15c. each. As we have only this small lot, those interested are advised to call early. 40 NEW STYLES OF SUMMER SILKS Just received and marked down exceedingly low. 3PeATTI<3L Weisbein Pineal Wat*r. BUFFALO LITHIA wJI.T FOR Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys, the Gouty Diathesis, Nervous Dyspepsia, Etc, DF. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, OF NEW YORK, Surgeon General TJ. S. Army {retired)' Professor of Diseases of the Mind andJfermus System in the V nicmiMrof New York, etc. ' “I have for made use of yI** 1 ** ' «lor ninnv • -vrs lieen a -A ..if..' I—M * . .( - A case stated by Dr. DAVID F-. SMITH, oS>*y!SrSSt ',®Kew York: l-gfilSgJl from BRIGHT’S DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYYS, coiSfSSlEied with hereditary GOUT and STONE** of the BLADDER. The limbs were very oOdernatous and would pit on pressure with the finger, leaving an indentation after its removal. The urine was loaded with the URATES twenty-five per cent. ALBUMEN, and the Microscope revealed CASTS I prescribed Buffalo Lithia Water, four goblets a day. In a short time the patient passed a STONE five-eighths of an inch long bu one-fourth inch in diameter. Under the continued use of the Water there has been continued improvement, until the urine is now in a condition nearly normal, no, CASTS can be discovered, and there is but little trouble from the GOUTY AFFECTIONS.” Springs open for guests JUNE FIRST. Water in cases of one dozen half gallon bottles $5 00 per case at the Springs. Springs Pamphlet sent to aDy address. THOS. F. GOODE, Proprietor,. Buffalo Lithia Springs, Va. Resident Physician—Dß. WM. H. DOUGHTY, of Augusta, Ga., Member Medical Association of Georgia, American Medical Association, late Professor Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical College of Georgia. . apßo-w3m £toW*. EXCELSIOR COOK STOVES! fjjglflliy THE BEST IN THE MARKET. jUjjp. • * LEADING FEATURES: Centers, Heavy Ring Covers, Illuminated Fire !”sepll-wly m\u. ~ THE above Tools, with our Rust Well Augur and Sand Tools, Gas Pipe Shafting and Couplings, forms the most successful well boring and prospecting outfit now manufac tured. Guaranteed to make good wells any- , where. Send for circulars. O. RUST, sep4-wly St. Joseph, Mo. ffilotftinfl. A RARE CHANCE! DO NOT LOSE IT! BUT MAKE USE OF IT IT IS A FACT! 8. H, LEVY, THE CLOTHIER IS selling out his entire stock, consisting of Ready-Made Clothing of all descriptions— Shirts, Underwear, Linen Collars and Cuffs, Hats, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Umbrellas, etc.— j at New York cost, in order to made room for his extensive Spring and Summer stock. This J is no newspaper talk, but real facts. Mr. LEVY is well known to the trade as one who always says what he means and does as he says. Par ties visiting Savannah should not fail to call and be convinced of the above. Remember the place, 191 and 193 Congress Savannah, Ga. jan39-wtf T. P. BOND. W. D. SIMEJNS. BOND & SIMKINS, TYTHOLESALE DEALERS in FLORIDA VV ORANGES, Nos. 15% 153 and 155 Bay st„ Savannah, Ga. Consignments solicited. Refer ences—H. L. Hart, Palatka, Fla.; Jno. Clark, Jacksonville, Fla.; G. W. Lyle, San Mateo,Fla.; T. Hartridge, Jacksonville, Fla.; R. G. Cole, Orange Mills, Fla.; G. W. Wyliy, Fort Reid,Fla. sep9B-lt&wtf ffaqqtarg, jrarnggs, E.L.NEIDLIEGER DEALER IN Saddles, Bridles and Harness. Buggy Harness Os all descriptions. SADDLES, English and American, Northern and Home manufacture. Trunks and Traveling Bags, RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING. Prices as low as the lowest. C. O. D. orders carefully filled. E. L. NEIDLINGEIt, 150 St. Julian and 153 Bryan streets, sepl Savannah, Ga. Cgri&t~juug. GREENE & THOMAS’ Improved Vertical Grist Mills. THOMAsfIW Sa febPJ-w3m a ' >f%EL6!N WATCHES. uL > sjaAU style*, Gold, Silver and Nickel, $G to $l5O. HSLaX Chains, etc., sent C. O. D. to be examined. Write for Catalogue to STANDAKD AMER ICAN WATCH CO., PITTSBURG U, PA. Rifle., Shot Gunj, Kevobei., teat c. Ml, for examination, sepl-wtf 7