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KUrontcle anb Srntfnel.
WEDNESDAY, - - JUNE 27^1877.
London baa mosquitoes. The first on
record.
Dr. John Hall, of New York, ws
allowed $5,000 for a European trip.
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Ohio produces more idiots than any
other State, and Pennsylvania comes
next.
Rothschilds would not touch the
Rnssian loan. They liked not the eo
enrity. g
Belladonna leaves, smoked in a pipe,
are said to be unsurpassed as a cure for
asthma.
Two Parisian doctors have died from
the effects of sacking the windpipes of
cronpy infants.
Queen Victoria has thirty-eight chil
dren and grand children. Luckily, they
are all handsomely provided for at pub
lic expense.
The Judge who presides in Kemper
county, Mississippi, is named Hamm.
He is standing a good deal of smoking
from the press.
Latest advices report that the Bherif
of Mecca will send the Bui tan not less
than 8120,000,000—the treasures of the
holy shrines of Arabia.
A Broadway merchant announces
rather blasphemously in his show win
dow that “In God we trust. All others
are expected to pay cash.”
The Herald, having announced the
death of the Democratic party, has the
gracionsness now to concede that the
Republican party is also defunct.
Grant did not attend Motley’s fun
eral because he was not personally in
vited, and Me Lawd Pierrepawnt did
not go because Grant staid away.—
Precious pair !
Ip Mr. Gladstone is to be chief
monrner for all the atrocities committed
by Turks and Russians, his eyes will be
come water-spouts and his nose as red
as a gobbler’s wattle.
While President MoCohh was on his
way to the Pan-Presbyterian Council,
nearly a hundred students of Princeton
College—the whole class of ’Bo—had
been suspended, and wore given live
hours to leave town.
The exodus of New York ministers to
Europe is said to be unprecedented this
year. This leads some ill-natured pa
pern to ask if the Devil is overcome with
the heat and has temporarily suspended
active operations at the metropolis ?
When Chambkblain was absent from
Houtb Carolina, political roguery seemed
to have unusual vitality at Columbia
among the Radicals. Hampton is away,
but honesty will be the prevailing fash
ion, just as it is when he is at home.
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A descendant of the Swedish Kings
died in New York the other day. When
his body was found it was worn to a
skeleton, and his stomach had nothing
in it but Paris green. The descendant
of the Swedish Kings was buried in
Potter’s field.
The Albany Aryan has somehow got
the idea that General Toombi, of Geor
gia, and General M. C. Butler, of South
Carolina, “projeot the raising of the Old
Line Whig Party and placing it in pos
session of the Republican faction.” We
guess not.
Von Moltke is quoted as saying that
the best Russian plan is to take Varnn,
defeat tho Turks before Shumla, ami
then strike hard at Constantinople.
Just now, the difficulty with Rnssia is
how to cross the Danube; and, after itw
passage, Varna may not fall very easily.
Mu. Foster, at a Grant banquet in
London, complimented Hayes upon Ins
“ reunion policy, which would end by
making the United States what they
were before the war- really united, in
addition to what they have beon evereiueo
the war—free in every respect.” That
was gall to Grant. __
The insane asylums are filling np—if
they are not already full—with unfortu
nate men who honestly tried to under
stand the intricacies of monometallic
and bimetallio curriencies. Pig-Iron
Kelley and John Sherman are the only
men who know anything about “fee
nanoe, ’’according to their own authority.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says
that tho total State and county tax of
Muscogoo county amounts to $58,000.
Of this sum one cotton mill (the Eagle
and Pliosnix) pays SIO,OOO, or more than
one-sixth of the whole. The same com
pany pays ouo-twelfth of all the city
taxes. These figures apeak a whole
volume of the benefits of manufactures.
Milk retails in New Orleans at 00
cents a gallon. We believe it is 80 cents
in Augusta. Yet our climate is most
favorable for cows. In the State of
Maine they have an almost eternal Win
ter and Autumn weather, a poor soil, a
scarcity of grass, and they sell milk at
the cheese factories at a cent a pound,
or abont nine cents a gallon.
Because the “tramps" of New York
have taken possession of the public
squares, the Herald favors strenuous
proceedings against them. Is not the
poor tramp “a man and a brother ?”
Has he not a perfect right to the nsn
frnct of the public squares ? Is he not
“just human?” Mr. Grady has mis
sionary ground as a lecturer in New
York city.
—
Tire Philadelphia Times thinks Bul
lock's trial will never take place, and
adds ; “ His operations iu Georgia
were very much like Tweed’s in New
York; they involved too many prominent
men of both sides to make an exposure
desirable.” Can this be true ? Are the
tin-boxes of Bullock and Blodgett
more formidable than dynamite ? If
there are any guilty Democrats in Geor
gia, let them be exposed.
A Rhode Island paper states that the
offices of the Mayor and the Chief of
Police in Providence have beeu con
nected by the telephone. Not only can
conversation be distinctly beard from
one office to the other, but tho different
voices can be distinguished. The in
strument was attached to the regular
wire connecting the two offices by a
switch, and these officials can aee the
telegraph or telephone at will.
James Gordon Bennett is poming
home again. During his absenoe the
Ht-rahl has tried to get np a Mormon
war, when all was peace, until corre
spondent Stillson went to Salt Lake to
fiirt with the female saints. Failing to
to kill off the Polygamists, the Herald
has written an obituary of the Demo
cratic party, which wan never so lively
and bealtliy. It is abont time for Mr.
_jru to come home, and, according to
the tradition of his baane, send the lead
ing editors to the press room and pro
mote the pressman to the headship of
the literary syndicate. The boy* need
shaking up with a long pole.
The New York Sun thicks the P. M.
General something of a hypocrite, in the
matter of discouraging his subordinates
from political affiliation. The editor
aays : “Why, it is only a little white
ego that a letter from his own hand got
auto print, in which he threatened that
if this project failed, Mr. Hayes would
go to appointing Republicans instead of
Democrats in those States ! And now
be has the temerity to rebuke an humble
individual for offering to unite in a
movement in which he himself has been
appointed to lead.” Perhaps the P. M.
General has had light vouchsafed him
einoe bis first induction into offioe.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE’S CHARLESTON
“ SNUB.”
Charleston (8. C.) (society (snubbed Chief
Joblicj Waite and wife during hie recent stay
in the city, because he presided over the
Uourt that tried the KUcutoo rioters-—Spnr.g
fieil Republican.
“Charleston society” did nothing of
the kind. " Charleston society " recog
nized the fact that Chief Justice Waite
was a gentleman and would have shown
him the attentions due a man occupying
his high position if ho himself had not
barred the way to any such courtesies.
Chief Justice Waite while in Charles
ton chose as his inseparable companions
Judge Bond and D. T. Corbin, two men
who are justly odious to all respectable
Carolinians and who never have re
ceived social recognition in South Caro
lina. Chief Justice Waite would not
separate himself from these men, and
Charleston ladies and gentlemen could
not, without sacrificing self-respect, as
sociate with them. This is all there is
in it. So far from being angry with the
Chief Justice for presiding at the trial
of the Ellenton cases, the people of
South Carolina were delighted to have
him on the Bench on that occasion.
They knew him to be an able lawyer
and upright man, and were glad to have
him as a check to the hated and malig
nant Bond.
PERSONNEL OF THE CONVENTION.
The people have spoken, and a Con
vention has beeu called to frame anew
Constitution for Georgia. In accord
ance with the provisions of the act un
der which the election was held the Con
vention will assemble in Atlanta on the
11th of next month. The body will
number one hundred and ninety mem
bers chosen from the Senatorial Districts
of the State. The list of delegates
shows that some of the ablest and most
distinguished men in Georgia have been
elected and that the body generally will
be composed of admirable material.
Among the statesmen and lawyers we
find Charleh J. Jenkins, Robert
Toombs, Joshua Hill, Augustus
Reese, A. B. Lawton, W. T.
Wofford, Augustus B. Wright,
Wm. M. Reese, L. J. Gartrell, A. H.
Hansell, Hugh Buchanan, T. G. Law
son, W. O. Tuggle and J. B. Brown.
Among the representatives of the busi
ness and commercial interests rf the
State we find John Screven, Nelson
Tift, T. M. Furlow, J. L. Warren, W.
H. Ross, Robert H. May, Geo. R. Sib
ley, B. E. Crane and Adam Johnst >s.
The farmers are represented by a num
ber of highly intelligent and practical
agriculturists, who will see to it that the
interests of that great class nre fully
protected iu the new organic law. The
journalists of the State, who made snch
a faithful fight for tho Convention, and
through whose labors the question was
carried, have able representation in the
person of that talented and veteran jour
nalist, W. T. Thompson, editor of the
.Savannah News. Altogether, the Con
vention is one of which Georgians may
justly feel proud, and from tho delib
erations of which groat good may bo
expected to accrue to the State and to
the people.
TIIR ••.MOI.J.Y MAGUIRES.”
The execution of the condemned
“Molly Maguires” ill Pennsylvania yes
terday is the last act in a most romantic
and dramatio chapter of crime and
retribution. Wliat was tho origin of the
hand is not yet definitely known. What
ever it was, and what ever may have
beon the original purpose, it is very
evident that for the past ten or twelve
years their operations liavo beon re
stricted to tho coal regions of Pennsyl
vania, and their object has been to
establish a reign of terror there which
did infinite mischief to tho owners of
tho mines and to the peaceful and law
abiding among the miners. For
years they pursued their career of vio
lence and murder nndetecteil. Those
not members were panic stricken and
did nothing to bring them to justice.
The hands of tho officers of tho law woro
paralyzed by fear, and tho Mollies did
as they pleased. They dabbled
in public affairs, controlled elections,
and acfijuiied a political influence
which added to their power, and gave
them friends and protection among
men who should have boea tjje first to
hunt them down. At last the time eame
when one bold and resolve man deter
mined to break up the band. He knew
that in so doing ho took his life iu his
hand, but his purpose never wavered.
The Reading Railroad is practically the
only railway outlet from the coal region
of Pennsylvania, SHil it is also the owner
of the most valuable of tfto coal fields.
This corporation had suffered a great
deal from the operations of the Molly
Maguires, and it was the President of
the company who determined to wage
war upon them. Mr. F. B. Gowen, the
President, was formerly a prominent
lawyer of the Philadelphia Bar. When
he was elected he would only consent to
give tip bis profession on condition that
he should held his office for ten years,
at an annual salary of forty thousand
dollars. He has been worth ten times
that amount to tho stockholders. This
was the mss who undertook the extirpa
tion of the murderous gang. Through
a detective ageucy he secured the ser
vices of an intelligent and pliteky young
man, who adopted the disguise et a
miner, worked tor months in the mines
and sought and obtained membership in
the organization. He mads himself ac
quainted with their secrets, mastered
the facts concerning a number of their
crimes and reported to his employer. A
large number of arrests followed and
one of the parties became frightened
ard turned State’s evidence, adding
whatever was lacking from tho detec
tive’s story. Mr. Gowen’s special police
prevented a rescue of f)io prisoners,
and when the trials came os chain
of evidence was oompleto. Conviatisiu;
followed, end though the accused raised
money and fought the cases in all the
Courts, Mr. Gowen followed, as relent
less as Nemesis, until the law’s delays
were exhausted and the day of execution
fixed. It is stated that Mr. Gowen'r
succeed has completely destroyed tho or
ganization of Molly Maguires, which so
long spread terror through the coal re
gions of Pennsylvania, and that the once
formidable gang is now as dead as the
human fruit that dangled from the gal
lows yesterday near the scene of its
crimes.
YAIK AUGUSTA AND KNOXVILLE KAIL
ROAM.
A preliminary ioy of that portion i
of the proposed Augusta and Knoxville
Railroad which lies between Maryville,
Teun., and tho North Carolina line,
shows that the same can be graded and
ironed for $12,000 per mile, or a total of
$144,U0d, By reference to the report of
au interview with Colonel Love, of
Franklin, N. C., printed in another col
umn, it will seen that the eoof of grad
ing tho line ,(73 miles) in North Catena
will be $7,500 pet jpile; il 0811 probably'
be graded and irouca for $12,000 per
; mile, mfdriug a total of A
! very careful recqtejoissance of the thirty
! miles between Rabun Gap find Toccoa
! authorizes the belief that they can be
1 graded and ironed for $17,000 per mile.
The line from Elberton to Augusta,
seventy-five miles, can be graded and
ironed for about SII.OOO per mile. These
facts show the probates cost of the en
tire route, viz:
~a to Elberton $ 826,000
Toccoa to Rabun Gap
, Rabun Gap to Tenaussee line. 876,000
Tennessee line to Maryville .. 444,000
$2,066,000
If we add $5,000 P mile for
ironing what is now known as the
Elberton Air Line, the grand total will
be $2,905,000. There is no doubt that
Tennessee will promptly do her part of
the work, nnaided. This will reduoe
the amount to be provided for to $2,461,-
000. It will be observed that the grand
totalis fully two-thirds less than the
cost as estimated by those who regard
the enterprise as impracticable. The
counties throngh which the road will
run will, of course, contribute their full
share to the work. The figures as to
the total cost of the road are given for
information. It is well known that the
people will not be expected to sabscribe
so large s sum. When the road shall
have been graded, no difficulty will be
experienced in securing tho cross-ties,
iron, etc., etc. The road bed itself will
provide the ways and means for all that
may be necessary to the thorough equip
ment of the route. The Greenwood por
tion of the road may be regarded a
fixed fact. The people along that line
arc in earnest, and will come up to the
full measure of their duty in the prem
ises. A great deal depends on Angnsta
now; indeed, wo may say that, by her
action, the enterprise, the success of
which is so essential to her own welfare,
will stand or fall. We believe that our
people appreciate the importance of this
great work, and that they will do all
that can be reasonably required of them
in connection therewith. Let every oit
izen aid the enterprise to the extent of
his ability, and we shall soon have the
pleasure of announcing that the amount
desired (8150,000) has been subscribed.
A subscription of SIOO,OOO will suffice
for the inauguration of the work.
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THE CHARLESTON WAY.
They certainly have a novel way of
parcelling out the honors in Charleston.
We published yesterday morning the
substance of the proceedings of the
Democratic County Convention, which
met last Tuesday* for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the Legisla
ture. The Committee on Representa-
tion classified the people of the county
according to color, nationality and call
ings. For instance, of the thirteen can
didates from the city, four were to be
lawyers, two Germans, two Irishmen,
two workingmen, two colored men and
one a professional man. It is generally
believed that the law is one of the three
learned professions, but the Charles
tonians decided it was not, and an
editor was finally selected to represent
the professional interests of the city—
though journalism, strictly speaking, is
not regarded as a profession. The formal
announcement that two Germans and
two Irishmen were to be placed on the
delegation was decidedly a novelty in
politics. We had thought that a voter
in this country, no matter where he
happened to bo born, and no matter
where his parents or grandparents hap
pened to be bom, was an American cit
izen, and merged his nationality with
tho country which be made his home.
We should think that citizens of this
country of Irish or German birth or
blood would feel anything but compli
mented at having such distinctions cre
ated and made tho basis of political
action. We are all oitizens of a com
mon country, and the only difference
known should be that caused by merit.
Good men should be put in office every
where, not because they are of Irish or
German, or English, or French, or
American blood, but because they are
good men.
THE FUENCII CRISIS.
The stormy scenes recorded by tele
graph as having taken place in the
French Assembly bode no good for the
Republic. When legislators lose all
control of their passions and conduct
thomselves more like lunatics that ra
tional beings, the people, the exeitable
French people, can hardly be expected
to preserve the peace. We believe that
tho agitations of the infidels and com
munists, like Gambetta and his faction,
will go very far toward precipitating
France into civil war, and civil war
means eithor the reign of disorder or
a restoration of the throne. President
MaoMahon will, most likely, have to
make up his mind to surrender to the
Red Flag and the Revolution, or, by a
coup d'etat, strike the Oommnne down
and re-erect upon its prostrate form the
dynasty of Napoleon or Chambord.—
It is a remarkable fact that as impe
rialism grows strong French se?
eurities advance, and since MaoMahon's
reactionary movemont rentes have beon
higher than they have been in a long
time. This would indicate apparently
that the Republic is a sham or that the
moneyed class at least have no sympathy
with or confidence in the new order of
things, so long as men like Gambetta,
Victor Hugo and Jules Simon keep up
an everlasting discord. The genuine
Republican idea came yery near being
suffocated in the United States and is in
constant peril yet. If this be true of
the very cradle of liberty and the rights
of man, how can anything wonderful
in the way of free government be expect
in a oountry like Franoe ? Franoe wants
stable goyepnipent, fixed institutions, or
der. religion, eopupty qt person and
property. A yisiqnary hope of these
blessings undoubtedly flits through the
brains of Hugo, Simon and Gambetta;
but they are not the men to persuade the
peoplg that these beuefaotious can come
from the of infidels, poetical
communists and aliens to S.O faith of
France. The religious and substantial
elements have tried these men before to
day, and they will not voluntarily give
them power #g§in. They know that de
feat by the man gf the gutter,
the sans culottes, means the Red Re
public, the worship of a harlot, the over
turned altar, the murdered minister, the
war on property, burning Paris, mob
law, the &nd a general pan
demonium. We think Preautept Mac-
Mahon perceives this and will, at aay
saerifrep and by any resort to lawful
force, suppress f&e men are i m P a ‘
tient to summon the r. 7® aDS °*
Paris from the purlieus and uowtrs <4
the capital. While he might be justified
in quany such conspiracy, he
should be careful jbpw he ventures upon
the other dangerous esteeuw? gf imperial
ism. We are not of those who altogether
desnair of the Republic in France, but if
minious a failui'a the empire. If
France is to change her government? the
people should bo allowed to elect a Con-i
Stitfltional Monarch. If they are not
fitted to so a sovereign, their case is
most unfortunate, the Man on
Horseback will come again j cut as he
came after Robespierre.
OF THE CONTENTION.
The Gwinnett Herald wau!y advo
cates the election of ex Governor Jen
kins as Fresident of the Constitutional
Convention. The Herald says : “In
looking over the long list of able and ex
perience*! men who will oompose this
body, the popular minJ naturally turns
to Charles J. jRNjtLSg ai the man pecu
liarly fitted for this position. A skilled
parliamentarian, an aisle judge, an ex
perienced politician and one of the pur
est aud best men Georgia ever had, who
has retired from the politmal arena with
out one blemish upon his fair name,
may well be looked to as the presiding
officer of that Convention. Ten years
ago, ns *he Governor of the State, he re
fused to surrender the trust with which
the people had clothed him at the man
date of a military satrap, and became a
voluntary exile from bis home and his
people to preserve the archives of the
State and its Treasury. Since then he
has bpld no office and sought none,
content to pass f&e remainder of hi®
days as a quiet citisen. It yiR be a
fitting tribute to exalted worth and pa
triotic devotion to his oountry to call
n to Dreside over the deliberations of
a body' assembled to form a Constitu
tion for the people of Georgia, when
worth and intelligence are not
pbised, and when a partisan majority in
Congress does not have to be consult
ed.” The Herald voices the sentiment
of the State on this subject. have
little donbt that Governor Jenkins wild
be elected president of the Convention
by aoolamation.
A committee of New York snobs, ap
pointed for the purpose, have decided
that the shop-girls of Gotham are more
beantifnl than the city belles.
NOT AN ORGAN.
Commenting upon some receut para
graphs about Senator Hill that appear
ed in the Chronicle and Constitution
alist, the Atlanta Constitution says :
** Some time ago Howard Carroll,
“ the truly good correspondent of the
“ New York Times, stated that the Au
“ gusta Chhosiolk was the personal or
“ gan of Hon. B. H. Hill. The fnllow
“ ing will probably dispel tho illusion,
“ etc.”
We are glad to learn that the Consti
tution has discovered Mr. Howard Car
roll's mistake. The Chronicle and
Cohotitutionalist does not aspire to
the doubtful honor of organship. It is
not the organ of any man or any set of
men. It is the property of iis owners
and is rnn in accordance with their
views of men and measures. Instead of
being an organ it strives to be peifectly
free and independent. It has neither
enemies nor favorites. It wishes to do
justice to all men; to censure where cen
sure is needed, to praise where praise is
deserved. When we believe that Mr.
Hill is right we shall be glad to ap
plaud, when we think that Mr. Hill is
wrong we shall not hesitate to condemn. ]
So of all other public men. We do not
pretend to be infallible, bat we shall al
ways do that which we think is best and
let the public decide whether we are
right or wrong. The day of “organs” has
passed away and the sooner Southern
journalists recognize that fact the bet
ter. The people think for themselves
in this day of progress, and they esti
mate a man by his acts, not by what his
newspaper organ says of him.
resisting a liquor law.
A case will be heard in Savannah to
day before Judge Tompkins, which is
of more than local interest. The tax
act of 1876 levies a specific tax of $25
on all dealers “ in patent or intoxicating
bitters, brandy, fruit," etc.; and a fur
ther tax of $25 upon all dealers in spirit
uous or malt liquors. Oue hundred and
eighty-one of the liquor sellers of Chat
ham, who have had taxes to the amount
of thirteen thousand dollars assessed
against them, have filed 8 bill praying
that an injnnction be issued restraining
the Tax Collector from proceeding with
the collection of the tax. The com
plainants say that under the charter
granted by the Legislature to Savannah
in 1871, that city is given “ the sole
power to sell malt, vinous, or spirituous
liquors within its jurisdiction,” and that
the ordinance of the present year
levies a tax of $125 eaeh on every whole
sale and retail liquor dealer. They also
contend that there should not boa
separate tax on dealers in intoxicating
bittors who admix them with vinous
or spiritous liquors, and lhat the net of
1877 does not contemplate a double tax
in such cases. They aver that the act is
unconstitutional because it levies taxes
on property, and even if specific taxes
they are not ad valorem and uniform;
that it is void for want of certainty ;
and that it is a tax to raiso revenue,
whereas the charter of Savannah grants
to the city the exclusive power to raise
revenue from tho sale of vinous, malt
and spiritous liquors. The motion for
an injnnction will be argued to-day.
THE “TAR IIEEL STATE.”
The Presidonts’s now Solicitor of the
Treasury, Mr. Kenneth Rayner, signul
ized his entry into office by making an
ass of himself. It seems that though
Rayner had lived in North Carolina
nearly all of his long life ho somehow
managed to obtain a local habitation
and a name in Mississippi, and was ap
pointed from that State, pretty much as
Caleb Cushing, of “Virginia,” was ap
pointed Minister to Spain by Grant’s
Administration. The Washington Star,
commenting upon the new official, spoke
of him as coming from the “Tar Heel
State,” which is, as every American
knows, the familiar name of North Car
olina. Whereupon Mr. Rayner made
an exhibition of himself by writing the
following note to the offending journal :
I must say I cannot appreciate the wit or hu
mor of your fling at the noble awl honored
old North State. No State has a prouder his
tory, and nobler or hotter people do not exist
than the people of North Carolina. When
hearing or seeing such epithets applied to her
as "Tar Heel State'' I am reminded of tho
words of her own Gaston :
"Though the scorner may laugh at and wit
lings defame her,
My heart swells with gladness whenovor I
name her.”
It is melancholy to think of the hope
less idiocy of a man who could write
such a letter upop su.oh provocation. All
sensible North Carolinians are proud of
the uame so often applied to their State,
just as all sensible Ohioans glory in the
name of “Buokeyes” as applied to the
people of Ohio. Fancy such represen
tative North Carolinians as Governor
Vance and Senator Ransom becoming
angry at the name of “Tar Heel,” and
talking about gpprners, defamers and
witlipgs f Mr. Kenner Banner is over
zealous in defending the honor of his
native State. We fear that Mr. Ken
neth Rayner cares a great deal more
for JTortb Carolina than North Carolina
does for Mr. ftwwpff Rayner.
Pbw rents in Brooklyn were never
higher; house rents never lower.
Ths lawyers get $200,000 for collect
ing $600,000 from the T*BJtp fling.
Arkansas rid herself of $6,000,000 bo
gus bonds, instead of $16,000,000, as
first reported.
Young Napoleon Is said to bp engaged
to the eldest daughter of ex-Qneen
Isabella, of Spain.
Tweed say# tea nfc? jjaid $400,000 in
legal fees. David Dudley" FreLff re
lieved the Boss of $200,000. Aud yet
tfie old man is not happy, though he is
in } ait.
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The Nashville Amet:icqi t pays tie
Turks are looking for the Russians to
cross the Danube at Gladova. Any
prospeteg/ their crossing it auywhere
this century is #o*eiteP£ to be glad
over.
To the conundrum of “What is th 7
si Iyer question ?” Deacon Richard
Smith replies. “flapdoodle—the stuff
they feed to fools.” The Deacon yants
the bondholders paid ten per cent, more
than they are honestly entitled to.
Gen. Qspfpspft has written an article
for the Atlantic Monthly on “A Cen
tury of Cougres3.” He concludes that
“we have not degenerated, but im
proved, and that there is less political
oorrnption than in former times.” If
Garfield & Cos. had continued to rule
the roost, stealing would be going on as
usnal.
Tma is a good year for the human
race, s o far as population is concerned.
A dispatch from Maroa, 111., announces
that, within a week, Mrs. Remm, living
about fifteen miles east of that town,
has given birth to four boys; Mrs.
Guthrie, residing near Mrs. Remm, to
three girls, and Mrs, Kressler, living
only a few miles from the latter, to two
girls and a boy. The three mothers and
ten babies are all doing well. The un
fortunate fathers have not been heard
from.
TVn 1 han v Argus, of a day or two
ago. i< k rnfonrka'.'le exposition of the
political tronblesin France. 7*e writer
shows that the fight is principal
ly against infidelity and radicalism, and
concludes that the attitude of the
Marshal-President is one of remarkable
moral heroism. He prevents each ex
treme from throttling the interests of
Franoe, and appeals With confidence to,
the people. He deserves success,
whether be achieves it or not. It is not
often that men clothed with power have
the stamina spurn tfxe arts and tricks
of schemers, and to rise to the heights,
of statesmanship. MaoMahon has done!
this. It is to be hoped that he will be
sustained-
MONTENEGRO.
The Switzerland at tke Slavic States—What
Oae Man Did—The Laws of Montenegro.
[For the Chronicle and Constitutionalist ]
Somewhat more than twenty years
ago, the late Prmce of Montenegro un
dertook a task which had it been done
on a great scale instead of on a small one,
would have won him a place in the first
rank of legislators. Yet, it must be
said that it was the smallness of the
community for which he had to legislate
which made his legislation at once ne
cessary and possible. The particular
evils that had to be reformed could
hardly have grown np except in a small
and primitive State, and so was the car
rying out of the particular way of re
forming.
Prince Danilo, on his accession as the
first temporal Prinoe of Montenegro,
found his oountry in the state which
was likely to be that of a small district,
almost entirely occupied in defending it
self against the never oeasiug attacks of
a much stronger power. Montenegro
had no definite or acknowledged
frontier. So much territory was
independent as its inhabitants
could keep independent. The con
sequence was that a depredatory
warfare was always going on. Turks
and Montenegrins weie always slaying,
burning and pillaging one another when
ever and wherever either had a favorable
chance. Brave and enterprising, the
Montenegrins made raids at their will,
or levied blackmail when they forbore
to make raids. The independence of
the oountry had practically no guarantee
except that any citizen was ready to
fight for it. Nor was it very wonderful
that, in snch a state of things, wbeu
plunder at the expense of the enemy
was regarded as a legitimate and almost
sacred thing, the rights of property in
general should not have been very
strictly observed. With men who were
always fighting qnarrels often led to
fights at home and a quarrel between
two men would usually lead to a gen
eral battle between the friends of the
two immediate disputants. In case of
murder or homioide, the blood feud was
handed down in the family like the ven
detta in Corsica. In short, the state of
Montenegro in the middle of the present
century must have been not unlike the
state of the Highlands of Sootland two
hundred years ago. Rob Roy must
have had many counterparts in the
Black Mountains whioh look at the blue
Adriatio.
But a people of this kind always have
a natural nobleness of character, which
can be turned to good profit by any one
who knows how to do it, and the way in
which Prince Danilo did turn the char
acter of the Montenegrins speaks as
much for the people as it does for the
Prinoe. It is wonderful how a young
sovereign, with hardly anything of a
precedent to guide him, contrived to do
what was nothiQg short of putting law
in the place of force. Danilo had an
arm of iron, but that arm, inflexible as
it was, was wielded simply to bring the
reign of peace and order into his domin
ion. His first business was to obtain
the acknowledgment of a recognized
frontier between Montenegro and Tur
key, in order to forbid all private in
roads, all levying of blackmail, when
ever tho two countries were not openly
at war. But more interesting than any
dealings with the foreigner is the code
of laws which the Prince, with the con
sent of the chiefs aud elders, put forth
for the internal government of the
country. It must be remembered that
he was the first law giver of a very prim
itive people, and that it was wise not to
do too much at once in the way of put
ting new wine into old bottles.
Thus, duelling is allowed; but it is
forbidden under a heavy fine that any
one besides the principals should join
in the combat. Iu case of murder, it is
forbidden for the kinsfolk of the mur
dered man either to accept money or
any compensation for his blood, or to
slay the murderer or even any of liis
kinsfolk. The murderer is to be tried,
aud, if found guilty, sentenced to bo
shot. If he escapes from the oountry
all his goods are confiscated, and if he
comes back lie wears a wolf’s head;
then only is anything like private vio
lence allowed. Every Montenegrin may
act as the the executioner of the law on
the man who has defied it. The thief,
for the first two offenses, is to be pun
ished by stripes; for the third, by
death. But if the theft takes the form
of sacrilege (for instance, if it has taken
place in a church or within tho house of
a pope, or at his detriment) death is
tho inevitable punishment for the first
offense. A man who kills a burglar in
the act receives a reward in money; but
it is added that great oare must be
taken not to kill an innocent person, as
it must be answered for with one’s life.
Ho again, as in some cases of the ju
risprudence of Rome and Athens,
the convicted traitor, or he who
conceals such a traitor, is put out of
the commou law, and may be slain by
any man. Except in these specified
cases, no odb, even if sentenced by a
competent Judge, cau be put to death
without tho warrant of tho Prince, who
has the illinqiteG power of pardon—al
though ho may bo censured by the Sen
ate, if that body finds out that there was
no sufficient reason for meroy. Till
Danilo’s accession the administration of
justice is said to have been very cor
rupt, and the proceedings in the courts
very disorderly. The Prince had to pnt
a stop to such a disgrace, and his code
contains strict provisions against judi
cial corruption, whioh now-a-days is but
a souvenir of the past, while it is still in
its bloom in our 'carpet-bagged Repub
lic, wjth a fraudulent President instead
of a legitimate Prinpo at its head.
The lpw of H°Ptene<m) ja strict against
a minority of ope. tiff a Judge makes
a point of always differing with his fel
low-judges, he must be removed with in
dignity, as his obstinate singularity may
be thought suspicious.” Among so war
like a people cowardice iu battle is natu
rally one of the greatest of crimes. The
culprit is to stand iu the publie bazaar
witfi an a P roQ on, as being no better
than a wo& a ft—J Punishment which is
said to bp looked qu qa worse than
death.
Any one who resists the police officer
in the discharge of his duties is liable
to death; he who hides a oriminal or
effects his escape, must be punished as
tlie criminal hinjself, and the officer of
justice may lawfully feilj apy que who
draws a weapon on him while enforcing
the law. But the police are warned
that if they take or kill an innocent
person, they are responsible for the aot
and have to expiate severely any
abusive esercige of their authority.
Again, in this provisibu of the Mon
tenegrin law against abuse of authority
by the police officials (our so-called
model Republic) would have much to
learn and imitate from a| semi-barbarous
cqjjptry. In case of adultery, the
husband may kill loth his wife and her
paramour, if he athes them in the
deed; if not so, heoen only have them
tried before the Court, which, on con
viction, sentences them to seclusion for
life, f f they escape they are banished,
and their property confiscated. Adul
tery on the part of tue husband is
pnnished by castration, whioh often re
sults in death.
The father of an illegitimate child
must bring it np, or pay a heavy
sum for its ffiainteoange, besides being
imprisoned for six mouths, on bread and
water. But he is not compelled to
marry the girl, neither to give bis name
to the child. AU persons, of whatever
nation religion, are to be received and
hoapitttbiy'Wkted W Montenegro; bnt
the oountry the^'must cpn
form to“its laws, uu^ r im
mediate expulsion and confiscav.?" 01
their property. On the other hand, any
Montenegrin offending against the laws
of a foreign oountry •fable to politi
cal disability for a cirtain length of time
in his own country. The laws about
property bear many traces of pri
custom. Laud is held in common by
the family. One law seems at first
wholly unintelligibly it runs thus : “The
Montenegrin yho ippears before his
Judge with a store round fits neefe,
whether innocent oi must un
dergo personal punishment. ' Now, the
explanation is this formerly, when a
Montenegrin considered himself ill-used,
it was nsual for bin to appear before
the Judge with a stone round his neck,
a stone so heavy tlat he could hardly
walk, and so cast himself at his feet
and lodge hi® coirjdaint, hoping by
that meaps to obtajt the general pity.
There is no donbf that throngh the
vigorous adminiatrteoP ß both the
late and tke present Ppinoeß, Danijo and
Nicholas, a wonderful ref 9W few been
wrought. Every one who has been there
knows that Montenegro is one of the
safest countries in the world, one of
those where the traveler has the least to
fear from highway robbery or any other
form of wrong. Tie Prince debates gov
ernmental mattes with Pregadi, or
councillors, sumnoned from each dis
trict and submits his decisions to the
Senate, composed of the chiefs of tribes
and a few selectee Elders. If he finds
that the Pregadi have lost his confidence
@r tbj)r of the pecnle, he dismisses them
at once and obP£B*s others. Snch a sys
tem may easily w*rk wejl in a small
country with a go<d Prinoe and an armed
people, always reaiy to fight for their
rights and libertiis. At all events it
illustrates the broid distinction between
representation ani election.
Welfbang.
When yon seSI family always ehar-,
acterized by the most fight and^deli-]
cions bread and pistry, yon needn’t aak ■
if they use Dooley’s Yeast Powder or
not. Assume it to be the troth and
you’ll always hit the mark. Another
prime advantage of this splendid article
is that it cute down the grooer’s billf,
THE MOLLY MAGUIRES.
A BLOODT PICTURE IN THE BOOK
OF CRIME.
Execution of the Northern Ku.Klnx Tester
day—The Gallows and Its Fruit In Pennsyl
vania—No show of Interference—A History
of the .Holly Maguires.
Mauch Chunk, Pa., Jnno 21.— At
10:50 this morning, four Molly Maguires,
confined here, were executed. Nothing
unusual occurred.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 21.—Lana
ban, the Molly Maguire, was executed
at 10:40, a. m.
Potts vi ule. Pa., June 21.—The ex
ecution of Boyle and McOeehan took
place at 11:10 this morning. All the
Molly Maguire executions took place as
programmed without any show of inter
ference.
Who Were the Hally Hasuires—A History of
the flans—lts Origin nnil Workings—lts
Crimes and llow They Were Concealed—
Retribution Comes at T,ast—The Band Bro
ken Up.
If any one had asked two years ago,
“What is Molly Maguireism ?” no one
outside the order could have answered
the question; but withiu the past twelve
months the veil that shrouded its inner
most recesses in mystery has been torn
aside, and the terrible society has been
revealed in all its hideous deformity.
“Molly Maguireism” in the anthraoi'te
coal region of Pennsylvania was, for it
is a thing of the past, what the “Ma
guires,” the “Whiteboys,” “Ribbon
men” and other societies of a kindred
character were in Ireland almost a cen
tury ago, with the difference that in Ire
, land the members of the secret societies
were moved by patriotism and a desire
to free a country they believed to be op
pressed, while in Pennsylvania the
“Mollies” were without a motive for
even banding themselves into a secret
society. The numberless crimes that
have been committed by the latter can
only be attributed to an unnatural thirst
for blood and to a mistaken idea that
through a system of murder and terror
ism they would be enabled to obtain
power and wealth otherwise than through
the usual channels. The term “Molly
Maguire” has only of late years been
applied to the desperadoes of the coal
region. Fifteen years ago they were
known as the “Buckshots,” and during
the draft converted parts of Luzerne and
Carbon conntios into a perfect hell.
Outrages of every description, from ar
son and robbery to murder, were com
mitted, sometimes in open daylight and
in the sight of hundreds, by those who
escaped justice either through the terror
ism they exercised over the peaceable
portion of the community or by well
planned alibis which never failed to con
vince a jury that a verdict of guilty
would be equivalent to signing their
own death warrant.
Our readers have often been told of
the atrocities committed in the anthra
cite coal region of Pennsylvania by this
gang of banded murderers, but without
intimate knowledge of the circumstances
attending these atrocities, could have
but little conception of their magnitude.
Their existence owes its origin to a sim
ilar association which came to life in
Ireland many years ago, and in Penn
sylvania its presence was first made
knowu about ten years ago by the mur
der of a mining “ boss,” who thwarted
some arbitrary rules which they had set
up to work by. Threats, assaults, arson,
and even murder had before been in
dulged iu, evidently by premeditated
plan and concerted action, but it was
not fully ascertained that an organiza
tion existed, having these crimes for its
secret purpose, and having branches
and a large membership at every group
of collieries in the entire district. When
this fact became known public indigua
tiou was aroused to such a state punish
ment without judge or jury would have
been administered could the criminals
have been pointed out to a certainty.
But the gang kept its secret well, ob
serving but one measure of chance for
its victims when they had been selected
for execution. This measure was a
written warning, bearing the drawu
character of a coffin, skull and cross
bones, or pistol, sent by mail to the vic
tim in view, or fastened upon the front
door of his residence. Iu almost every
ease where parties so threatened did not
abandon their position and leave tbe
country, the pistol or knife of the assas
sin removed him.
A close watch was kept for years, and
some men were strongly suspected, but
no proof of their guilt could bo produced.
An organization styled the coal and
iron police, of choice picked men, failed
to obtain evidence against a single per
son. 'At last, Franklyn Qowen, Presi
dent of the Reading Railroad Company,
in 18G3 employod*the Pinkerton agency,
when a man to go into the ranks of the
Mollies was put in the field. The man
who was selected for the ranks was a
young Irishman —James McParlauc—
with a genius for reckless life and ad
venture. A suspicion existed that the
Ancient Order of Hibernians consisted
of a gate through which the Mollies
could bo reached, and to this order Mc-
Parlano applied for admission soon after
his appoarauee in the coal fields. In
due time he was sworn in as a member
of what was represented to him to be the
Ancient Order. Meanwhile ho took a
laborer’s position at mining work, drank
and caroused with the miners, attended
the meetings of the assassins’ order and
participated in their plans for mnrder.
He reported his progress regularly to
the detective, although the two wore
never seen together, and after spending
a whole year in this manner obtained
enough information concerning past
murders and those which were commit
ted during this time to justify the au
thorities in bringing propeefiiqgs against
the actual pefpetffttprg,
Groat consternation seized the Mollies
when some of them were arrested and
charged directly with the murder of
their victims. Contributions were levied
on the ranks to pay the cost of a de
fense, and thus they have for two years
vainly fought the law and the evidence.
Many of them fled the oountry, some to
be captured and brought back, and
otheps to lesd the defepUves inj;o unsuc
cessful chase. In tfie rqnfcs were found
politicians, office holders and profes
sional men, and all who bore a prominent
part in the murders were “spotted.”
Thoso who have not beep arfestpd jet
most lively iyil) foe jgrat(jr£i|.
Tq detail tfoejr qnfi mode of ex
ecution, as was developed at the trials,
would occupy too much space. Their
usual method was for odb division to
select a victim and pronounce judgment,
and then draw upon another division for
men tq e:ppntp tfoe order. Thus John
Jones, Superintendent for the Lehigh
Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, atXiansing,
Carbon county, was shot by a committee
drawn from a division at Mount Saffee,
Schuylkill county, The victims were
waylaid at all hours of the day and
night, and usually by from three to six
men. “Little” Jimmy Kerrigan, “the
squeeler,” wa3 qro of the Jones party of
murderers, but proved so valuable a
witness that he was not brought to trial.
It was shown that men were sworn, by
the foody-masters of the society, to com
mit muVdbf wljgfosyer palled upon to do
80 by Ifoeir _ B4perio in too range, and
that scores of people accepted tbe ven-
geance of the society because they were
fortunate enough not to be so exposed
as the society desired.
The Oath did cfargy and high-toned
members of the Ancient Order denounc
ed the Mollies and denied all connection
with them, and some of the priests is
sued an order for the excommunication
to all members of the church who were
known to be Mopis. Alj ttiia, together
with the threatening attitude of the law,
broken up the active'crime of the
order, in a measure, and as it Seems
to be the determination Cf t,loße who
are engaged against them to extermi
nate the Sfder and stop its primes, it is
not likely that the reigu of teypqr tyjiioh
existed so long' in the anthracite coal
fields will ever again come to'the sur
face.
THE NORTHEASTERN ROAD.
A Bill in Chancery to Determine Its Right (o
State AM.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Last week the Attorney-General was
called to Gainesville to attend Court
and represent the State in the matter of
a bill in equity filed by Morris et al., of
Athens, to determine the right of the
Northeastern Road to the endorsed bonds
of the State.
When tlie Legislature repealed State
aid laws in favor of railroad enterprises
in this State it was stipulated that it
should not affect the relations of rail
roads that h*d acquired a vested title to
to the aid voted in their favor. Govern
or Smith refused to endorse the bonds
of the Northeastern Railroad Company
when they had completed the first sec
tion of their road. The matter was re
ferred to Attorney-General Hammond,
who filed an elaborate and exhaustive
opinion, sustaining the Governor’s ac
tion and against the right of this com
pany to have the State’s credit loaned to
them. When Governor Colquitt went
into office the application was renewed
to him, bat he would not act in the mat
ter. Tfee railroad company was advised
to refer the question to the Legislature,
which was then in session, but this they
preferred not to do. They have rather
chosen to go into Coart and try the
qnesticn of whether or not they have a
vested right to the endorsement by the
State.
On Wednesday last the .rase was call
ed, but Attorney-General Ely, not hav
ing examined the papers, desired farther
time, and the hearing was postponed un
til Friday of this week. Judge Bice
will preside. Attorney-General Ely
represents the State and Hon. B. H. Hill
and the full strength of the Athens bar
champion the side of the railroad. The
case is a most important one to the
State.
i i
A CITY I^ASHES.
SC. Johns, Now Brunswick, Wrapped In
Flume** and Buried in Ashes—Two Hundred
Acres Devastated—Heartrending Scenes on
the Streets—Measures of Relief.
St. Johns, N. 8., June 21.—A fire
commenced at 2 o’clock yesterday eveu
iug, with a strong nortliwesterlv wind,
destroying the Custom House, Victoria
Hotel, Academy of Music, the Dramatic
Lyceum, the Royal Hotel, Bauk of Now
Brunswick, Maritime Bank, Agencies of
Bauk of Montreal and Nova Scotia Sav
ings Bank, Victoria School House,
Grammar School, Trinity Church, St.
Andrew’s Church, Centenary Church,
Germau Street Methodist Church, City
Hall, Water Commissioners’ office,
Banking houses of Simou Jones <fc Cos.,
George Phalps, and MacLellan & Cos.,
a estern Union Telegraph qfficc, Daily
Telegraph newspaper, offices of Daily
Netvs, Globe, Freeman and Watchman
newspapers, news room, all the insurance
offices, Ritchie’s building, law offices,
and a large number of business bouses.
Several vessels were burned to the wa
ter’s edge. Five men and two infants
are known to be lost, while many are
misßiug. The loss is estimated at ten or
fifteen millions. A famine is threaten
ed. The area burned is nearly two hun
dred acres.
Every street square and alley is filled
with furniture. Thousands of people
are without either food or shelter. The
International Company’s steamer New
York sheltered and fed one thousand
persons last night, and the vessels iu
the stream have large numbers of people
on board. Thousands had to get away
from tho lower part of the city by boats.
No regular postal headquarters are in
the oity proper.
Montreal, June 21.—Left for the re
lief of St. Johu’s sufferers: 1,000 barrels
of flour, 100 barrels of beef, car load
of bread and a car load of biscuits.
United States Consul D. B. Warner,
at St. John’s, N. 8., telegraphs to the
Mayor of New York as follows : St.
Johu’s is almost totally destroyed. All
public buildings are bnrned. Few busi
ness houses are left. Fully one-half of
the residences are in ashes. Send all
tho aid yon can. Fifteen thousand peo
ple are homeless.
St John’s, June 21. —Fully half the
city is destroyed; women aud children
iu the streets are crying for bread.
Washington, June 21.—Dispatches
from all quarters show movements for
the relief of St. Johu’s.
Bangor, Mb., Juue 21.—The follow
ing dispatch is received from the Carle
ton side of the river, dated 4 o’clock
this p. m : The Are is now nuder con
trol. Every house south of Kiug street
is burned. Fifteen thousand people
are homeless. No household f fleet of
any account saved. About five hun
dred acres were burned. Over thirty
bodies have been recovered, and as
many more are missing.
Boston, Juue 22.—The loss by the
St. Johns fire is now estimated at
$15,000,000 insurance, $0,000,000 Tho
only American risks are: jEtna, $22,000;
Hartford, $200,000; Phoeuix, of Brook
lyn, $60,000.
HOBSON AND GOLDSMITH.
More of the Wat>hiugtoii Counly Matter—
Card* From the Treasurer and Comptrol-
euernl— How tlie Matter Stand** at
Present.
Some time since the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist published au article
based on one from the Sandersville
Herald, giving an account of the ques
tion at issue between Hon. J. A. Rob
son, formerly Tax Collector of Washing
ton county, and now a member of tho
General Assembly,aud Comptroller-Gen
eral Goldsmith with regard to au execu
tion for $8,900 issued by tho latter
against the former aud the sureties on
his bond. In the Herald, of yesterday,
appeared the following cards from the
Comptroller General and State Treasur
er :
Atlanta, Ga., June 18th, 1877.
My attentirn has been called to an ar
ticle in your last issue headed, “Messrs.
Goldsmith and Robson,” which needs a
reply. On the Bth day of December
last, J. A. Robson, Tax Collector of
Washington county, Ga., expressed to
me fourteen thousand ($14,000) dollars
in money aud papers. For a Collector
to send money to me was unusual, but
as the paokage was sent to me, aud no
one could receipt the Express Company
for said package but me, I did so on tho
9th of December, and turned tho pack
age over to Hon. John W. Renfroe,
State Treasurer, who disposed of tho
remittance contained in said package as
directed by Mr. J. A. Robson, by mak
ing the following payments on said 9th
of December, 1876 :
Closed ac’t 1875, balance $3,285 82
Receipt from ltec’r for Comp.
1870 091 21
Paid on ac’t General Tax, 1870 5,903 30
State Scuool Corn’r Draft, 1876. 1,969 67
Total paynonls $11,850 00
Dednot this amount from tho $14,000
and you havo a balance of $2,150, which
amount was taken out of the package by
tho State Treasurer, as he informs me,
and applied to a loan made by Mr. Rob
son from a third party of ($2,000) two
thousand dollars on June Ist, 1876,
amount he (Mr. Robson) paid
into the Treasury of the State ph that
day. So it %’UI he seen that tlie ($14,-
0Q0) fqurteen tfooqsnnd dollars, less one
hundred and fifty ($150) dollars, inter
est paid to the lender qf the two thous
and ($2,000) dollars,did go to tho cred
it of Mr. Robson.
I am not responsible for any thing going
to show that Mr. J. A. Robson did not
owe the State of Georgia anything in
January, 1877. I have never said so to
any odo, or in any manner gave out or
tried to make any such impression,
I am, respectfully yppps,
‘W.L. Goldsmith.
Atlanta, Ga , June 18th, 1877.
Editors Herald and Georgia^:
While 4 do noit feel qqlled upuu to reply
to your editqrial qf June 14th, yet as I
QtS wilh the Robson matter, and
as the $14,000 in question passed
through my bands, perhaps it is proper
4or me to explain the transaction to thp
pnblic. The package contain
$14,000 was received by tlie Comptroller
and turned over to me. I opened aud
found it contained $11,276 12 in money
$1,969 07 in School (. ommissiouer’s
draft, $63 Wild Land draft, apd s£9l 21
Receiver's draft—making in all sl4, ■
000. I was notified by Mr. Robsou that
part of this was tax money and part re
ceived from other sources, and that he
wished mo to pay out of this money two
thonsand dollars and interest to a party
of whom he had borrowed said amount
in Juno to pay on his tax account twhicb
the books will show was paid then), then
place a sufficient amount to settle in full
his tax account of 1875, and place the
balance to bis tax account of 1876. This
was done, as the books of my offico will
eho¥ ;
?ob state “up to this we have
said nothing in reference to the matter
for the simple reason that we were not
posted.” To this statement I fully agree
with you, and beg to say that yon ap
pear no better posted at your writing
than at any other period. The books of
this and the Comptroller’s office arft al
ways open for inspection.
As to the of Messrs. New
man and Kelly, upon wtiicli you lay so
much 'stress, I only have this to say: I
have no doubt that the former did
count, seal and express the package con
taining the $14;,000 in money and drafts,
as it was' ill his own handwriting (I have
it on file yet) and it was disposed of as
stated. As t<i the latter’s statement, I
know nothing, hat suppose '‘Governor
Smith had reference to former years
when he spoke to Mr.' Kelly, for I know
he would not make an incorrect state
ment. I have not seen him since your
article appeared, but at the time Mr.
Kelly refers to, January, 1877, Mr. Rob
son had not been declared a defaulter,
Respectfully, df. WgNHsoE.
DE VINO VEHETAfc. *
A Case for Mrs. Ifnyes to Confcider— ITemper
ance l.ndifs Snubbed by tlie Mayor of Bos
tttu— II ay*** Will Drink Wine
Neath the Shadow of Bunker Il|l|.
Boston, June 22.--A committee of
ladies, representing tlie Women’s Tem
perance Union, waited on Mayor Prince
to-day, with a petition that no intoxi
cating liquor be used at the banquet to
be given in honor of President Hayes by
the city of Boston. Mrs. Livermore
heads the delegation, The Mayor made
an address, the substance of which was
as follows: “I have been studying the
subject for thirty years, and know that
the desire of the prohibitionists cannot
be accomplished, for the reason that it
is not right that it should be. I ap
prove of the moderate nso of wine and
liquor, and, as Executive of the city of
Boston, I have a duty to perform at the
coming banquet and on simnlar occa
sions. The city of Boston desires that
every courtesy shall be extended to the
President, and J an determined that
nothing shall lie left undone whioh
should contribute to the proper festivi
ties of the banqbet. It is customary on
similar occasions to furnish wine, and I
shall certainly do so in this instance.”
Using Bozodont each day
Will prevent the teeth's Hecay,
Whiteness of the pearl impart,
Far beyond the dentist’s art. *
THE BEARDED GRAIN.
Encouraging Reports From tlie Spriug nntl
Winter Wheat Crop**— A Fall Crop Made
Everywhere—(ieorgiiiN Crop Above the
Average.
Washington, June 22.—The Jane re
port of the Department of Agriculture
indicates a better prospect than usual
for wheat. The report of June, 1876,
made tho average for the country thir
teen per centum below the standard of
normal condition and subsequent returns
of tho condition aud yield were still
lower. Forecasting the scarcity which
has occurred, the average for Winter
aud Spring wheat together is this year
one hundred; Winter wheat being above
that figuro and Spring wheat below it.
There are two huudred aud seveuty
seven counties reporting Winter wheat,
in full normal condition, fonr hundred
and ninety-four above, and one hundred
aud eighty-three below it. Of the
Spring wheat conntios, ninety-two re
port one hundred and seventeen above
and one hundred aud thirty-seven below.
The State averages are as follows:
Maine, onehundred and one; New Hamp
shire, one hundred and two; Vermont,
one hundred and two; Massachusetts,
one hundred; Rhode Island, one huu
dredjConnectieut,onehundred aud three;
New York, one huudred and eight;
New Jersey, one hundred; Pennsylvania,
ninety-eight; Delaware, ninety-seven;
Maryland, ouo hundred and three; Vir
ginia, one hundred and nine;
North Carolina, one hundred; South
Carolina, ninety-seven; Georgia, one
hundred and eight; Florida, one hun
dred; Alabama, ninety-six; Mississippi,
one hundred aud .seven; Louisiana,
one hundred and three; Texas, one hun
dred aud ten; Arkausas, one hundred
and six; Tennessee, ninety-one; West
Virginia, one hundred and seven; Ken
tucky, one hundred and eight; Ohio,
one hundredjand fifteen; Michigan, one
hundred and nice; Indiana, one hun
dred and twelve; Illinois, one hundred
and five; Wisconsin, ninety-seven; Min
nesota, ninety-five; lowa, one hundred
and two; Missouri, onehundred and ten;
Kansas, ninety-nine; Nebraska, one
hundred and three; California, filty;
Oregon, one hundred and nine. Returns
from California indicate half of a full
crop, from a deficiency of Winter rain
fall. Fewer injuries from insects and
rust are reported than usual. Iu the
Ohio Valley nearly every roturn is fa
vorable. In Pennsylvania and Tennes
see the slight depreciation is caused by
the Hessian fly.
NEW YORK RAT CATCHER.
(•one to St. Eoni.s to Hid the Eimlell llou*e
ol* Its Many Rodents.
Richard Toner, a professional rat
catcher of considerable notoriety in New
York city, arrived in Bt. Louis yester
day and has taken a contract to rid the
Lindell House of rats. Hu is accompa
nied by one assistant and has a tho
roughly trained ferret, Mr. Toner says
that rats begin to breed at tho age of
three mouths, aud once every month
thereafter produce a litter of thirteen ;
that tho number of the litter never va
rios, and is always composed of twelve
males aud ouo female; that if the num
ber of females were as great as males,
rats would become a plague that all the
terriers and rat catchers in the conutry
could not keep down.
He began operations at the Lindell
last night, in tho presence of half a
dozen persons. He armed himself with
a dark lantern, a gnuny bug, aud a pe
culiarly constructed pair of tongs or
nippers. The tongs are about two and a
half feet long, and have handles like
shears. Mr. Toner gave the bag to his
assistant, and took the dark lautern iu
his left hand and tho tongs in his right.
Equipped in this manner, ho crept about
the cellars among barrels and boxes,
and every now aud then seized a rat
with the tongs. Tho assistant, who kept
right at his heels, instantly opened the
mouth of the bag and tlie rat was
dropped into it, tlie process of capture
not occupying over ten seconds. He
says that when he throws the strong
light from the lantern upon a rat it does
not run, but simply turns so us to pre
vent tho light from shining in its eyes.
As it turns there is no difficulty in
seizing it with the tongs.
Mr. Toner did not make any use of
his ferret until about 1 o’clock, when
everything was quiet iu tho house. He
first went all over the premises, examin
ing the rat holes to familiarize himself
wilh the rata’ “runaways." Ho says the
rals have certain holes to ruu through
when they are frightened, and that an
experienced rat catcher can soon learn
how those holes lead. After acquiring
this knowledge he seut his ferret into a
rat hole and stationed himself at the
other end of the hole. For instance, ho
found n rat hole in the pantry aud traced
its oourse down into tho cellar, whore it
came out in same corner. Ho started his
ferret into the hole up stairs and station
ed himself below with his tongs. The fer
ret pnshod his wny along the turnings
of the holo and drove the rats ahead of
him. As the rats ran from tho holo in
tho cellar Toner picked them up with
his tongs and dropped them into his
bag. Toner owned the largest rat pit
iu Now York.— St. Louis Times,
A ROYAL SCANDAL.
A story is circulating in London that
the Princess of Wales is going to live at
Copenhagen. She is alleged to be so
outraged by the last public infidelity of
her husband that she can endure the po
sition no longer. I do not believe it,
but I repeat it as a piece of gossip
which lias already traveled far. The
Princes#’ is an her way home from
Greeoe, and tho Prince has gone to meet
her. Her return and his departure are
alike sudden. She was not expected
quite so soon, and this change of plan
has naturally helped to propagate the
rumor of a serious quarrel. But the
world aßks, iu its cynical way, what
there is in this new Jjsson with Lady S.
more publig or more offensive to the
Princess than in any or all the others
with which she has borne. The Prin
cess has been thought to take a philo
sophical—or shall I uay royal s—view of
these matters, A remark is imputed to
her whiqfo, if she made it, would con
firm that theory. “Bertie,” she is re
ported to have said, “has loved many
women, but he has loved me best of all.”
And, in truth, whatever else has been
urged sg iinst tfoe Prince, nobody ever
accused foitn of the lesser domestic sins
—af treating his wife coldly, or failing
in all outward attentions or in constant
kindness of manner. This is wretched
gossip, and I don’t see wh%t entertain
ment the American people can find in it;
if thqy like it, so much the worse for
them, and for mo.
THE WAUA WAI.I.AS.
Jogppli’B Bund Crowing Over the Troop*—
Five Hundred Wauled to Suppress
Them—Killed and Wounded.
San Fbanoisoj, June 22. —Advices from
Walla Walla state the Indians killed
every man on Salmon river bat spared
the women and children. The Indians
have got the best of the soldiers up to
this time. They have killed about 30 and
driven them back from White Bird to
Mt. Idaho. The killed and wounded up to
this time are about 50 troops. It will
take 500 soldiers to whip Joseph’s band.
San Fbanoisoo, Juno 22.—-A dispatch
from Boise City says by an arrival here
last night the previous reports of the
Indian outbreak near Salmon are sub
stantially confirmed. One account says
in contradiction to previous reports that
the troops behaved badly: “Our infor
mant says, by citizens who were
in the fight, he is assured that the
■ troops, though they allowed themselves
to be decoyed into an ambush,displayed
throughout the action the utmost gal
lantry, and fought like tigers, About
twenty-five or thirty soldiers were killed
in about the number of minutes.
The situation in Northern Idaho far ex
ceeds in gravity any Indian outbreak of
, our day, and it will tax the best re
sources of the Government and of the
people. Howard’s official report af the
battle Baturday gives thirty-three men
and Lieutenant ileiler, of the 21st In
fantry, killed.”
Olil Fashioned I.ove.
Ono day recently there arrived at the
Hherman House a newly married conplo.
It was apparent at first sight that they
were unused to oily ways, but the bride
was so radiant with the fresh bloom that
country life and air alone oan give, that
the groom was envied by all the young
men who make that hotel their abiding
place. The morning after their arrival
the chambermaid visited the young
couple's room at the unconsciously early
hour of eight o’clock, A “oome in” an
swered her knock, and on entering the
room she found the bed made np and
the room in the neatest kind of order.
The chambermaid was astonished to find
all her work anticipated, and proposed
to sweep the room while the young
couple wore in the dining room. “Why,”
was her answer, “we had breakfast two
hours ago.” Daring the stay of the
eon pie the ehambermaid had no work to
do in their room. The revelation of the
servant that a woman in a hotel could
do something for herself was a strange
one and was duly reported. The young
men took a deeper interest in the little
lady who knew how and was not afraid
to “do np” her own room, and tho ex
ample becoming contagions infected tho
other ladies in the hotel, much to the
satisfaction of the chambermaids.—
Chicago Journal.
The surface of the Passaic riyer in
New Jersey is covered with aerps of
dead fish, supposed to have been poi
soned.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NEWS LEAVES.
Pickens’ jail is empty.
Corn tassels are appearing.
Anderson closes stores at 6, p. m.
Mad dogs oro plentiful in Pickens.
“Fence or no fence” is tho question.
The mountains are full of whortleber
ries.
Mrs. A. McKenzie, of Winnskoro, is
dead.
Cherries in Greenville $1 50 per
bushel.
Mr. Juo. Montgomery, of Snmter, is
dead.
Mrp. Jno. E. Breazeale, of J Anderson,
is dead.
The br.se ballists in Newberry have
been retired.
Mr, A. Isaacs is spoken of for Mayor
of Greenville.
Robbing bee-hives in Sumter and An
derson continues.
Mrs. Mary Zurcher, of Yorkville, has
gone to Switzerland.
The Sumter Light Infantry havo or
dered their uniforms.
Darlington elects a Senator next Tues
day, vice Whittemore.
Chester now talks about a railroad
from Chester to Union.
Mose Wilson, the notorious Sumter
outlaw, is still at large.
The Spartanburg High School had an
exhibition last evening.
Newberry will soon hold an election to
selects representative.
The Choraw and Chester Koad have
received their locomotives.
Few weeklies gather looal news better
than the Newberry Herald.
Como to think about it, his name was
Daniel Henry Chamberlain.
Anderson county still harbors au oc
casional case of hydrophobia.
The seniors of Wottord College last
week excurted to the mountains.
Mr. H. A. Ciiiblo, of Greenville, acci
dentally shot himself last Saturday.
The Chester Rifles will excurt next
Wednesday aud have a target excursion.
The Newberry Herald is satisfied
with the work of the late Legislature, as
a whole.
Kirk Mauldin, of Pickens oounty, has
been appointed Deputy United States
Marshal. •
One-half interest in the Enterprise
and Mountaineer, of Greeuville, is offer
ed for sale.
A groat deal of wheat has begun to
sprout in Anderson, in consequenoe of
tho wet weather.
Mr. Sim Boozer, of Nowberry, was re
cently tfirown from his wagon and con
siderably bruised.
Mrs. Homer Tarrant, of Augusta, is
on a visit to her father, Col. J. R. Lea
vell, at Newberry.
Gov, Hampton has commissioned
Capt. Joseph H. Earle as aid de camp
of the military of the State.
Hon. R. W. Barnwell, formerly of the
State University, has been appointed
librarian of that institution.
The Barnwell Sentinel notes that T.
B. Golding, Esq., is about to engage iu
the newspaper business iu Beaufort.
A colored woman in Newberry, so
states the Herald, reoently took six and
a half ounces of morphine, and came
very near dying.
SOUNDS FRO ill GOTHAM.
Jnines Gordon Rennet Returns from Ilia
Exile—Governor Hampton Among tlie Bulls
and UeuraorWull Street.
New York, June 22.—James Gordon
Bennett arrived to-day from Europe.
Governor Wade Hamptwu arrived hero
last night and went to a friend's house.
To-morrow he will visit Wall street re
lative to the new South Carolina loan.
He expects to leave this oity Saturday
night.
A Rank In IJquldntion.
At a meeting of the Directors of the
Dry Goods Bank to-day they deoided,
in view of the depression of business
and tho difficulty of procuring safe and
remunerative rates of interest, to recom
mend the .stockholders the advisability
of putting the bank in liquidation. A
circular to that effect was ordered sent
to tho stockholders. Deposits amount
to about $1,500,000. Call loans, dis
counts and other advances amount to
over $1,100,000, and cash on hand and
Government bonds amount to $600,000
at least. The bank holds plenty of
available resources to pay depositors.
The bank started in 1871, with a cash
capital of SIOO,OOO, and the stockhold
ers will realize about eighty couts on
the dollar on liquidation, if no unfore
seen looses are made.
Governor Robinson expresses himself
highly pleased with the interview he had
with Governor Hampton, of South
Carolina. The latter assured him that
South Carolina would repudiate none of
her indebtedness whatever; that the
people were determined to show they
wero worthy citizens, of the United
States iu every respect. The Governor
thinks Hampton’s policy is destined to
prove a great blessing to South Caro
lina, and through that State to the
whole South.
TIIE RUBBERS .SCOTCHED.
Express Robbers Cnnglit, and
Arrested—A During Game anil a Clever
Counterplot.
Toledo, Juno 23.—An attempt was
made last night to rob an Express oar of
train No. 6, bound oast, over the Air
Line division of the Lako Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway. Shortly
after the train left Ligouier, Indiana,
the oar was entered by four men, who
aooosted the messenger and were about
to bind him, when they were confronted
by a force of officers and express men,
headed by Chief of Police Purdy, of this
city, who had been notified that the at
tempt was to be made to rob tbe oar,
aud had concealed himself and men in
oars. A short but most desperate strug
gle ensued, resulting in the capture of
the entire band, who were brought to
this city and lodged iu jail. All are
young men, residents of Noble oounty,
Indiana. The train was not stopped.
None of the passengers were aware that
anything unusual had oeourred during
the trip.
There was a slight frost in this vicini
ty last night.
NOTES FROM NEW YORK.
Governor Hampton Interviewed by Ilia
Friends—Tho Jewish Kabbfs aud tbe Se
ligmau Outrage—Much Ado About Notbiug
—A Purely Personal Matter.
New York, June 23. —At the New
York Hotel this morning a large num
ber of distinguished oitizens paid their
respects to Governor Wade Hampton.
All Jewish synagogues in this city
were filled this morning to an unusual
extent, it being anticipated that the
rabbis would have something to say
concerning the subject of the contro
versy between Judge Henry Hilton and
Mr. Beligman.
In most of the synagogues the subject
was not touched. The exceptions were
the congregations of Bethel, Lexington
avenue and 53d street, Temple Emanuel,
sth avenue and 43.1 street, and Siiear
ith Israel, No. 5, West 19th street. The
pastors of the several churches declared
that the imgortanoo of the subject had
boen greatly magnified, and tbat no
great principle was involved- -the
whole subject being a personal contro
versy between two individuals.
ANOTHER I.IE EXBI.ODKD.
Il.ld Justice Waite on Ibe (‘harleMon
“ Muabhinf.”
Washington, D. C., June 18, 1877.
My Dkab Govkknoji : I have to-day
seen for the first time an article which,
as I understand, has gone the rouuds of
tho press, to tho effect that I was not
satisfied with the special attentions I
received while I was in Charleston.
Most certainly I hope my friends will
not believe me guilty of a.iy such fool
ish complaints. I have never said a
word from whioh any such inference
could be drawn, and no such thought
was in my heart. It has annoyed me
exceedingly. My daughter is as much
annoyed as I am with this newspaper
paragraph.
I am, as ever, very sincerely yours,
M. R. Waite.
Hon. Wm. Aiken.
A Very Vulucky IHaa.
[Naslmlte American.]
The unhappy Kentnekian who bet on
every race during tho week aud lost
every time, illustrates the freaks of for
tune in this respect. He had just SSO
left, and in sheer desperation cried out
in the crowd that assembled at the hotel
after the races: “I’ll bet SSO I can name
two men here with twenty-three fingers.”
When the bet was taken this child of
Fate continued: “Anybody’ll do. Here,
my friend, I’ll take you. I have thirteen
fingers and you have ten, that makes
twenty-three. I knew that was one bet
I conld not lose. ” The stranger gazed
at him a moment with a pitying expres
sion, and then said compassionately :
“Well, I’am sorry for you. Yon have
struck a hard streak of lack. I had
three of my fingers shot off at Chicka
mauga P’
The publisher of “ Andrews’ Bazar ”
believed there was a large demand for a
fashion journal at once cheap and com
plete. The surpassing success of the
“Bazar’l sustained his belief. 'The
Character of its contents is-high as tho
cost of its subscription is loW: Send teh
oants for specimen 'copy to' W. K. Atx J
drews, Cincinnati.
; — w.-. —.t■.
A four-legged guinea is hopping
around in Bandersviile,