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gffjromcle and Smtfnel.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1877.
CROP NKWM.
The friends of the Chronicle and
Constitutionalist in Georgia and
Sontli Carolina will greatly oblige us by j
sanding, from time to time, brief let- J
ters showing the condition of the crops.
We wonld like to have a letter once a '
week from every locality where the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist cir
culates,
The Rochester Democrat says: “It is
time that General Howard threw aside
his foolish scruples and eallcd for the
police.” _
Public sentiment seems to be crystal
izing in favor of the creation of a Board
of Police Commissioners for Augusta, to
be elected by the City Council.
Mr. Gradt is mistaken in bis state ]
ment to the Cincinnati Enquirer (con
cerning General Toombi’ candidacy for
the Senate) that General Toombs had
never been beaten. He was defeated
for the Confederate Senate in 1863 by
Hersuhel V. Johnson.
The Cincinnati Enquirer arithmetic
man figures Brioham Young insolvent,
ne left eighteen widows and 86,000,000
worth of property. Each widow is enti
tled to a third of his estate as dower.
Eighteen thirds of six millions would be
thirty-six millions. Ho his estate will
only pay about sixteen per cent, on the
dower. m t m -
A special dispatch from Richmond,
Indiana, to the New York Herald, indi
cates that Senator Morton’s health is
not improving, as was supposed. When
the Senator’s age, liis physical infirmi
ties and the nature of his disease are
taken into consideration it would seem
that thechances aro against his recevery.
We publish Ibis morning extracts
from the editorial columns of the New
York Tribune and Washington Rational
Republican, commenting oa the invita
tion to visit Augusta extended by the
City Council to the President. They
are couched in the kindest terms and
show that the courtesy, so far from be
ing wasted, is highly appreciated. We
hope the President will find it con
venient to accept.
The late Secretary of State of Louis
iana has sued ex-Governor Kellogg for
something over eight thousand dollars,
which the Secretary of State insists is
dne him from the Governor for affixing
the Louisiana seal to certain State docu
ments. It will not snrprise anybody to
hear that there are charges of a job in
this matter, and that Kellooo was the
jobber,
The New York theatre managers have
organized an association to build a mon
ument to Ben. Deßar, the veteran actor
who died in St. Louis last week. This
is an age of monumental intentions, but
so many of them have been used for
paving purposes that the cemeteries are
dotted with unfinished piles, and the
graves of distinguished dead are over
grown with weeds.
The New Bedford and Billerica,
Mas*., two feet gauge railroad, the first
of the kind in this country, has beou
completed, und the first trips, which
were made Saturday, showed that the
road is inferior to none in speed, smooth
ness and safety. The road, which is
eight miles long, has cost but $*50,000,
including buildings, bridges and equip
ments. The latter consists of two loco
motives and eleven cars, the former
weighing but eleven tons each, while
the passenger cars, carrying half the
number of the standard cars, cost but
one-quarter as.much.
Senator Dawes long ago openly took
side with President Hates in his
new departure for tlio beuefit of the
country. But in a recent talk he
went beyond the record, and said he
w< uldn’t have even sent a commission
as Haves did to let down the Louisiana
Republicans easily, but would have
withdrawn the troops promptly, ss
Orant came near doing, and let the
people of the State take the responsibil
ity of what followed. Anyway, the Sen
ator meaus to stand by the President in
his Southern policy, and thinks the
Republican party should do so, openly,
heartily and effectively.
Alvin Adams, the founder of the
Adams Express Company, died at his
residence in Watertown, Mass., on Sun
day, nged 73. His career shows what
can bo done by a poor person, in this
country, with the exercise of thrift and
perseverence. Mr. Adams' parents were
very poor, and he remained so himself
nutil he was nearly 40 years of age. In
1840 ho opened an express office in Bos
ton, and at first met with very indiffer
ent success. He persevered, however,
and the result is known to everybody to
day. Mr. Adams, at his death, was one
of the richest meu in New England. In
1854, after his express business had only
been going on for fourteen years, he re
tired, the possessor of great wealth, and
purchased a splendid estate in Water
town, upon which ho erected an elegant
Italian villa. In his art collection,
■which is said to be ono of the finest in
the country, is the “Greek Slave” of
Powers.
The President and a part of his Cabi
net are to be in Ohio this week. He
will attend the soldiers’ reunion at
Marietta. This is an annual affair in
Ohio, and it is managed by privates and
non-commissioned officers. It was for
merly local, but as the occasion has
grown in interest the niche has widened
to take in a more general interest. This
year Federal and Confederate officers
are invited, and many have accepted.
The celebration will be significant of the
return of good feeling between the dif
ferent sections of the country. Marietta
is distinctively a Yankee town, and was
settled by families of Revolutionary
officers and soldiers. The town was
named after Marie Antoinette, who, it
was believed, had been instrumental in
the recognition of the Republic by
France. The Queen was much pleased,
and sent the settlers a bell, which was
lost at sea. Marietta gave to Ohio the
New England Town System, afterwards
adopted in all the West, as opposed to
the Virginia County System. The Presi
dent has decided that he will accept no
public receptions except at Marietta, at
Fremont, his home, and at Dayton,
where there is to be a meeting of the
Managers of the Soldiers and Sailors’
Asylum. m t *
The fresh, clar breezes of September
bring with them something even better
than cool and pleasant days. On every
side there is an indication of a good
Fall trade. Not a trade, indeed, based
upon fictitious values and unsound
credit, but a trade that will be substan
tial in volume, and, avoiding the shoals
of undue confidence, bring us back to
the old days of commercial prosperity.
The indications are that the turniDg
poiot has been reached and that we are
n *>w to progress onward to the goal for
whic ti all have so earnestly longed. One
of the l opeful and significant signs is
the enormous shipment of grain, which
has not been paralleled in many years.
So great, indeeu, is t ‘hat tlle l* an >
White Star and Other line* have been
compelled to put on oxtra ship*, while
the first named line is pushing forward
to speedy completion a vessel as large
ss the Bothnia. The crop of cereals is
almost unprecedented, aud, what is bet
ter, is finding a ready market abroad.
Thiß must, naturally, make a greater in
flux of money to this eonntry and pnt
trade in general in healthy circulation.
Already the manufacturing towns of New
England echo to the hum of the looms,
and in every way there is cause for
thankfulness for an abundant harvest
and a revival of the drooping energies
of the commercial body.
THE ELECTION FOR SENATOR.
Mr. Henry W. Grady, in liis letter
from Atlanta to the Cincinnati Enquir
er, copied in the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist yesterday, maps ont a
very lively contest for the United States
Seuate. He gives ns no less than six
cmdidates—General Gordon, General
Toombs, ex Governor Smith, General
P. M. B. Young, ex-Governor Brown
and Congressman Ha/.tbidge. Mr.
Grady writes from Atlanta, the centre
of political gossip and intrigue in this
State, and doubtless bad good reason
for believing the correctness of his in
formation, bnt we think he has named
some men who will not be candidates
and has left unnamed some who will
be. We think it highly improb
able that ex Governor Brown will enter
tie race. He has a large personal fol
lowing and is a very strong man in
Georgia, but we do not hink he cares
for the position of United States Sena
tor, and that his bad health and the dn
ties of the office which he now holds
will prevent him from becoming a can
didate. We think it equally certain
that he will oppose the re-election of
General Gordon to the extent of bis
ability. It is an open secret that the
two men are far from friendly, and the
fight will come over the splendid prize
of the Senatorship. It has been
stated frequently of late that General
Toonbs was not averse to the position
and wonld accept an election. His dis
abilities have not been removed, but it
is said that he is certain his friends in
Congress will talie care that he is not
prevented from occupying his seat. It
h also rumored, strange as the state
ment may sound, that Governor Brown
is favorable to the election of his former
enemy. Backed by Governor Bbown,
General Toombs might prove a formid
able candidate. It is quite likely that
General P. M. B. Young and General L.
J. Gartrell will both be in the field,
and will make a strong raee. Ex-Gov
ernor Smith has personal friends all
over the State, and will stand a fair
chance of success in fhe event of a pro
tracted contest. We have seen nothing
that would indicate the candidacy of
Mr. Hartbidoe. He seems to be satis
fied with his present position, is very
popular in his District and will be able
to hold his own as long as he cares for a
seat in Congas, We think it more
likely that Southern Georgia will be
represented in the fight by General A.
R. Lawtoj* or ey-Senator Norwood, o\
both. General Lawton is very popular
in the State, and has strengthened him
self by his consistent and conservative
course in the General Assembly and in
the Constitutional Convention. Mr.
Norwood’s friends capie so near re
electing him last Wiuter that they will
in all probability enter him again. Of
course it is understood that Gen
eral Gordon desires to be bis own
successor, and it is not too muob to say
that he is at present the strongest can
didate in tho field. His course gener
ally in tho Senate has given satis
faction ; lie is personally very
popular ; he is strong among the
soldiers by reason of his army record ;
and he will have the whole influence of
the State administration exerted in his
behalf. This list by no means exhausts
the number of possible candidates. Hon.
Thomas Hardeman may bo brought for
ward if liis friends regard tho outlook as
favorable. Hon. Wm. E. Smith, themem
ber of Congress from the Second Dis
trict, is a strong man in Southwestern
Georgia, and covered himself with glory
by bis opposition to tho creation of the
Electoral Commission. General W. T.
Wofford may be pressed by his numer
ous friends in the Northern portion of
the State. Aud there is a chance that
Mr. Htei-hbns muy be brought into the
contest before a decision is reached. Be
sides his great reputation and extended
personal popularity ho would have the
same element of strength that contrib
uted so much to the success of Mr. Fill
last Winter—namely, the dosire of all
the l ongressioual aspirants in his Dis
trict to translate him from the House to
the Senate. As the Legislature which
is to be elected next December will have
the selection of a Senator, the campaign
will begin a year earlier than it other
wise would. The indications point to
numerous candidates and a well con
tested field.
UNSPOILED CHILDREN.
The Baltimore American says: That
the child is father to the man is an
aphoriam often quoted, and almost uni
versally believed iu. There are so many
possibilities hidden in a young life, so
much constantly developing itself even
iu a crude and feeble manner, which af
terwards becomes part and parcel of ex
istence, that there is little wonder we
watch with care the gradual growth of
the infant faculties, and often see in
them a foreshadowing of what will hap
pen iu the future wheu they have fully
ripened and moulded. Hence philan
thropy constantly recognizes tho neces
sity of caring to* tfce children. Tho lit
tle waifs who run about pur streets are
the objects of much solicitude.on the
part of social reformers. Homes and
asylums have been erected for them, re
formatory institutions have been estab
lished, and an education has been at
tempted to be giveu W them which
would fit them for taking a ptaaa jn the
industrial world. We are all familiar
with the good which haa thus resulted,
and with the amount of incipient crime
which has thus been checked.
And yet the fault has often been that
all onr efforts have simply been directed
towards a certain class, and that the
evils which we try to eradicate are simply
what are supposed to spring from
poverty and ignorance. There is no
doubt but that the children of the pres
ent day have advantages which their
fathers and mothers did not possess.
The whole world of civilization has been
taxed to supply their wants. Bystenus
of education have been devised by
which knowledge might be the more
easily imparted to them. Ingenious
brains have invented toys which wonld
amuse them, artiats have painted for
them, and a literature has sprung up
exclusively for them and fitted for the
range of their comprehension. This
has naturally resulted in an increased
deference being paid to children, and a
feeling of importance taking possession
ot them which leads them sometimes to
forges their own weakness and imagine
that they etp capable of aoting and
judging in all things for themselves.
Tbe literature which is lsened for them is
devoted principally to storiea of chil
dren. Instead of pointing ont what has
been accomplished by earnest and strug
gling men and women, the heroes and
heroines whose adventures are related
are not ont of their teens, and yet they
rnn their important careers, are geni
uses, benefactors, martyrs and wronged
and blighted beings by turns and at an
age when their fathers and mothers had
co idea above the playground or the
nursery. The little girl wanting to be a
nun because the world was hollow and
her doll was filled with saw duet is not
so verv extravagant a conception after
all. How often do we find children
when every feeling in their young hearts
ought to lie as sweet ami tender as e
rose, and when every faculty sbon’d
gradually be unfolding itself to the
light and gathering fresh strength and
beauty, become blase and discontented.
There is nothing sweeter than the hu
nfiWty of nnspoiled children. Their
imaginative leads them to weave fairy
romances of whet their lives will be
when they have groan, up and become
meu and women. But the contempla
tion of such things does not unfit them
from retaining their guilelessneas and;
simplicity. They have not discovered
that they are worth thinking about, they
do not sit down to analyze their char
acters and watch themselves grow, but
go about their daily taaka and amuse
ments in natural insignificance. They
do not take credit todhemselvee for be
ing so sweet and pretty and forbearing,
but practioe their goodness and their
modesty unconsciously, and indulge
only in those aspirations which spring
from childish innooence. Society is
much to blame for the precocity and
abnormal development so much display
ed by its children. It has tanght them
to look upon themselves as personages
invested with self-importance, whose
wishes must be consulted and whose J
whims ought to be gratified. The ideal i
which we set up to their view is a high
one. They are told that it is in the
power of the weakest amongst them to
gain the most exalted position. And ;
although it is perhaps better to point
out such a future, yet there is a danger
that constant looking at and dwelling j
upon it will unfit the mind for the infe
rior duties of life aud cause it to idealize i
its little self.
And the same thing holds good of the
amassment* and pleasures which chil
dren are allowed to indulge in. It is
not conducive to the happy freedom of
childhood to place it on a pedestal
where it may be admired, where instead
of the unrestrained and natural grace of
movement which belongs to it, every
motion and step shall be regulated by a
due regard to social proprieties. In an
artistic point of view the rioh exotic,
even without any fragrance, may com
mand admiration, bat the true poetic
spirit can learn a better lesson from the
clambering and the sweet scented wild
flower. And so with our children. It
may be pleasant to note their gracefal
attitudes, their acquaintance with social
forms and their fast ripening knowledge
of the world, but when this is gained at
the sacrifice of that simplicity which
ought to surround youth aud childhood,
and when little ones become meu and
women before their time, then we may
well question if our kindness has not
been misplaoed. The world with its
toils and burdens, life with all its shift
ing changes, its trials, its mockeries
and its deceits, will oome soon enough
upon them without plunging them into
the vortex and the whirlpool when no
thing but peaoe and happiness should
fill their harts. If our ohildren are put
through a constant round of [enjoyment,
exposed to the glare aud glitter of fash
ion, and allowed to dwell constantly in
an artificial atmosphere, the bloom and
the buoyancy of youth will soon leave
them. The fruits and the flowers of
life are easily enough displaced by “the
worm, the canker and the grief,” with
out hastening that time. Let our chil
dren believe that there is still some en
joyment for them, that it has not all
been absorbed like the juioe of an
orange, but that it is perennial aud
never ending, and they will be better
able to take their true positions in life
and retain the freshness of youth, even
amid the hurry of trade and the struggle
for existence.
NORTH AND SOPTII.
From the report of the Commissioner
of the General Laud Office it appears
that the Southern States have received
the following donations of land for the
purpose of internal improvements :
Acres.
Alabama 3,579,120
Florida 2,360.114
Louisiana 1,577,840
Arkansas 4(879.149
Missouri 2,895,160
Total to Southern States.. .15,291,483
The donations to Northern States
have been as follows :
Wisconsin 5,236,797
Minnesota 9,664,042
Oregon*. 1,888,600
Illinois 3,249,068
lowa 6,79-5,259
Michigan 5,962,480
Kansas 8,840,000
Ohio 1,100,361
Indiana 1,439,279
Total to Northern States,, ,44,376,783
Again, in the report of the Seoretary
of the Treasury made to the Senate
January 7, 1875, it is shown that from
1789 to 1878 the appropriations of
money in aid of the construction of
wagonroads, railroads and canals were
as follows :
For the sixteen Southern
and border States $ 6,981,982 90
For the Northern States
and Territories 97,025,762 70
During the same period the Secre
tary’s report shows that for other public
works the disproportion was nearly as
great, being $11,612,086 56 for the bor
der and Southern States, against $76,-
859,609 50 for the Northern States and
Territories,
IIRIUHAM YOUNU'S FUNERAL-
The funeral of the Mormon President,
Brigham Young, took place at the tab
ernacle, in Salt Lake City, on Sunday.
It appears that in 1873 he made tho ar
rangements for his funeral services and
burial, and tho written directions, made
by himself, were read to tbe congrega
tion of 18,000 people. Of oourse these
arrangements were carried out. The
body was dressed in the temple robes of
Young, and it was buried in his private
burial ground, about half a mile from
the tabernacle, George Q. Cannon, the
delegate in Congress from Utah, was the
master of oeremonies. Ten tiers of seats
in the tabernacle were ooonpied by the
wives, children and grandchildren of
Bbiaram and his immediate relatives.
A choir of 220 sang the funeral hymns.
The first wife of Brigham stood at the
grave, leaning on the arm of Awblia
Folsom, the favorite wife ot the de
ceased. There were no signs of grief at
tiie death of the Mormon leader. The
saints were well prepared for the event,
and looked upon it #s a sort of transla
tion, wbieb would be of benefit rather
than harm to tbe eburcb. His passing
away, in their opinion, will hardly make
a ripple upon the wave of Mormon pro
gress. His place is, in fact, already
supplied by the pre-arraDged appoint
ment of fiis son. The bishops and
prophets, and secret oounoils, all live,
and are, under tbe system, perpetual.
Polygamy will be practiced s hereto
fore; the Mormons will hate the Gen.-
til.es as formerly, and cling to their
faith, a a mp only hope of their future
salvation; for they generally believe
that God reveals to the proph
ets, day by day, His will and wishes,
aud coming direct from Him they have
only to ohey, whatever the obligation or
duty imposed, wen to a Mountain
Meadow massacre. But, uiief all, we
think the death of the stern, cunning,
unyielding old leader will make some
difference ia the fcftnre affairs of the
Mormons. Bat time Mopg £9# tell what
tbe changes are to be.
Complaint is made that the indict
ment of so many of the late statesmen
of South Carolina “will destroy the rem
nant of Republicanism in that ’.State.”
If Republicanism in South Carolina is
reduced to sack a remnant as this it
isn’t worth while to saye it,
The following, from the Chicago fn
ter-Ocean of Saturday, is but an epitome
of like statements that are coming from
the other business centres in that sec
tion: “The jobbing trade is active in
every department, and we have never
before seen the Autumn months inaugu
rated with such an aetive trade, or with
such flattering prospects for a large and
healthy business. Each day brings a
large increase of business, and buyers
are also composed of the beet class of
merchants from every section of the
West and South,”
Tee funeral of M. Thiers took place
yesterday, and all that was mortal of
the great French statesman was laid ber
neath the dust of Pena la Chaise. There
was an immense concourse present, and
the authorities had to take every precau
tion to prevent a disturbance. The
route of the funeral procession was two
leagues in length, and this was densely
crowded with Parisians aud people from
the provinces, who braved a fearful
storm of rain. The shops were general
ly closed, and bore upon them the
words “National mourning.” The flag
on the State Department at Washington
was pat at half mast in honor of the
illustrious dead.
THE CROP PROSPECT.
Condition of the Crops in Wilkea County.
| ('orresponhenee Chronicle arvl ConstMionalisi ]
Hog’s Fork, Wilkes County, Sept. 5.
—I have j net traveled over the northern
portion of Wilkes county and will give
my opinion of the crops. I have been
fanning twenty-five years and think I
ought to know a little about farming. I
don’t think I ever saw as poor crops of
cotton but once before and that was in
the year 1866. In many portions of the
county there has been very little rain
since the middle of Jane; occasionally a
few partial showers have fell and even
where they fell it seems to have done
little good. I pnt the cotton crop down
as half a erop in that part of the connty
where I have traveled. The corn where
planted early and well cultivated is a
tolerable fair crop, but all late corn is
cut short at least half. After guano
bills are paid there will be but little left
to pay taxes and other bills. But few
people can raise cotton at a cost of ten
cents a pound in this county. We need
to learn lessons in economy. While I think
we have economized to some extent this
year, there is yet room for improvement
in that line.
Not much said about the new Consti
tution as yet, but I think it will be rati
fied by a large majority in this county.
Of course there are some objectionable
features in it, but it is far better than
the old one, aud then this is ours, made
by our own people, free and untram
meled by bayonets and carpet-baggers
—in fact the good that is in it over
comes every objectionable feature.
Cotton Planter.
LOUIS NAPOLEON’S FRIEND.
Dr. Conneau's Devotion to the Emperor—. The
Escape From the Castle ol'lTani.
[Pall Mall Gazette.]
A remarkable man has just passed
away, in the person of Dr. Conneau, the
private physician and most intimate
friend of Napoleon 111. Few men have
in their day enjoyed so much occult in
fluence as he did, or used it with greater
discretion. Dr. Conneau was born at
Milan in 1803, and when a very young
man became Secretary to Louis Bona
parte, the deposed King of Holland.
Afterward he graduated in medicine,
and was appointed physician to the
household of Queen Hortense. He was
thus, from the outset of his career,
closely identified with the family of the
future Emperor, and being the latter’s
senior by five years, he was in a position
to assume toward him somewliat the
position of a tutor. The young Prince
from the first took kindly to him
as a companion. As long as Prince
Louis’ elder brother was alive, Queen
Hortense’s favorite son dreamed hope
fully indeed, but rather lazily, of the
prospects that might be in store for his
family. No sooner, however, did he find
himself heir to the Bonapartist dynasty
than his energies were aroused with
electric suddeuness, and the raid upon
Strasburg in 1836 testified to the new
spirit that had been kindled in bim. It
is well known now what great alarm the
Strasburg affair oast into the family of
Louis Phillippe, and how very near it
was to succeeding. However, it (ailed,
and Dr. Conneau counseled to try again.
The result was that, four years later, a
new expedition was attempted upon
Boulogne, but this time the failure was
more complete and disastrous than the
first time, and Prince Louis, tried by the
Chamber of Peers, was sentenced to im
prisonment for life. Dr. Conneau had
not been actually implicated in the sedi
tion, but bo begged to share his friend’s
prison, and was admitted to tho Castle
of Ham on the understanding that he
must submit to confinement and"prison
rules exactly as though he were himself
under sentence.
It was a magnanimous act on Louis
Philippe’s part to allow Dr. Conneau to
continue tho prisoner’s companion; but
it was equally generous and touching in
the Doctor to submit to a captivity
which be must have found at times wo
fully tedious. Cortainly.wbeu he
shut up in the fortress, Dr. Conneau
must have reckoned that,with tho money
and influences which were set at work,
it would be easy to effect tho prisoner’s
escape; but he was not long in discov
ering his mistake, and the joint cap
tivity of the Prince and himself lasted
six years.
When Napoleon 111 subsequently al
luded to this period—which he did
more often than might be supposed—he
often said that he should have despair
ed if it had not been for Dr. Connean’s
constant cheerfulness. The Doctor
spurred him on to study history and po
litical economy, “just as though lie
wire to-walk straight from the prison to
the throne.” He acted as his Secretary,
writing from dictation the numerous
articles which the Prince was suffered
to contribute to the Journal du Pas de
Calais, and day after day, hour after
hour, his master found in him those
most precious of consolations, an im
perturably even temper and a hopeful
ness which nothing could dash. It has
often been rumored that when the
Prince at length escaped, the authorities
had connived at the fact; but M. Gui
zot to the last denied this, and said that
the Government had intended keeping
the Prince in confinement till Louis
Philippe was dead and the Crown had
passed to his heir; so that the Prince’s
flight caused tho Court muoh uneasi
ness. It was Dr. Conneau who acted as
chief instrument in the escape, procur
ing for the Prince the clothes of the
workman Badinguet, ixho was effecting
some repairs ip the castle, and afterward
making up the dummy of a sleeping
figure in the Prince's bed, so that when
the Governor came on his nightly
rounds he believed, as the Doctor af
firmed, that the prisoner had gone to
bed early, being unwell. For this gal
lant act of devotion the Doctor was put
upon his trial, and sentenced to two
years' imprisonment—a part of which
sentence was, however, remitted.
Napoleon 111,, havipg ascended the
throne could not fail to prove his grati
tude toward one whose friendship had
stood the most severe tests; and if Dr.
Conueau was not loaded with honors, it
was because lie wisely declined being
made a too signal object of favor. He
was offered tfje title of Count and a seat
in the Senate; bnt he preferred to sit as
an official Deputy in the Corps Legis
late; and it was not until after fifteen
years of loyal legislative service (during
which he never once made a speech nor
voted against a Ministry) that he accept
ed his promotion to the more august
House, without however, to
be ennobled, in the meantime he had
married, and his son, Louis Conneau,
who is of about the same age as the
Prince Imperial, had become the com
panion of the latter’s studies and sports,
insomuch that the two were always seen
together in public and private, and the
lad’s good humored brown face and dark
eyes were as well knoyn to the people of
Paris as the Prince's own. f>r. Conneau
continued to be the Emperor’s private
doctor, but he did not pride himself
much on his medical science, and never
undertook the responsibility of treating
his patient in serious cases.
•M ■ ■
gEXr.ON’S PERQUISITES.
Saered Crpei-i Hi/Jt for the Men Who
Hoard Fashionable Churches.
[From ike Court Circular.]
A marriage was celebrated a few days
ago in St. Augnstine’s Church, Shaw
street, Liverpool, and as a part of the
preparations 'Wm. gteyenson, uphol
sterer, received orders troci- tiie bride’s
mother to lay down a roll of crimson
baize from the door of the church along
the aisle to the place where the impor
tant pud interesting proceedings of the
day were to take place. After the cere
mony Mr. Stevenson weat t.o pick up his
crimson cloth from the aisle with a view
of carrying it away. He succeeded in
aettiM” it into a roll, which he shoul
xZJT and i*4 uot the length of the
Jsw&Tfo as 4 "p
by the sextoß, who seized the and
told him to leave it in the chnrph. The
owner naturally asked the reason of this
stoppage, and the answer was to the
effect that thh cloth having been brougnt
into the church and uaed there had been
made holy according to bis theory, and
having thus been consecrated could not
again be removed without ad SO* P*
sacrilege being committed. An ecclesi
astical “tug of war” then began between
the representative of the church mili
tant and the rightful owner of the goods.
Each managed to seize the baize a few
yards apart and began palling it with
might and main—the sexton to get it in
side and Mr. Stevenson to get it outside
of the sacred edifice. The “tug” took
place just at the door of the church, and
a large crowd of people soon gathered
to witness the novel contest of right
versus might. The people cheered and
laughed; some cried “Shame;” but
meanwhile the two combatants continued
to pull with all their strength, until it
became evident that very soon there
would be nothing but shreds and patch
es to fight about. Mr. Steyensoa, after
employing his powers of persuasion and
other means to no purpose for a long
time, at length left his cloth under pro
test, and it was deposited in the vestry
to await further steps which he will take.
.. i
Tfef Queen nf the Oreji
A breakfast-biscuit or tea-foil made
with Doolev’s Yeast Powder is certainly
the queen of the oven—so light, white
and delicious. You lift it tenderly,
break it open gently, spread it darntly
With fresh, sweet butter, waiting to be
gracious. After breakfasting on bis
cuits made with Dooley’s Yeast Powder,
what mas would contemplate suicide or
grumble because his wife asked him for
money ?
AUGUSTA- SPARTANBURG.
THE RAILROAD MEETING AT LA.U
RENSVILLE.
What Was Done—Spartanburg's Investment
—Observations—An- the Times Better *
Etc., Etc.
[ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist. |
On the Wing, September 4. —It was a
matter of very general regret that Au
gusta was unrepresented at the railroad
meeting held at Laurensville, S. C., on
yesterday. Greenwood, Greenville,
Ninety-Six, Spartanburg and Union were
fully represented, and the meeting
proved to be quite interesting. The
delegates from Greenville and Spartan
burg pressed the claims of their respec
tive towns as the starting point, while
Greenwood and Ninety-Six endeavored to
show that a right line to Augusta could be
found only by passing through their re
spective towns. The people of Laurens
favor direct connection with Spartan
burg, and are anxious to reach Augusta
by the most available route.. The ques
tions at issue are still under advisement.
Another meeting will be held next
month, and it is hoped that yonr city
will send over a good, strong delegation.
These people are desperately in earnest;
they are determined, if possible, to re
establish the trade relations which sub
sisted between their sections and Au
gusta in the days when heavily laden
wagons from the Carolinas thronged
your streets.
It is believed that Laurens will sub
scribe $300,000 to the Augusta and
Spartanburg Bailroad. Spartanburg
will probably vote SIOO,OOO or $150,000
in support of the enterprise. It is possi
ble that both communities may improve
on these figures. The route from Spar
tanburg to Laurensville will traverse
the richest portion of Spartanburg
county, no point of which is nearer a
railroad than twenty miles. Asa crow
flies, Spartanburg is distant from Au
gusta about one hundred miles. The
route via Laurensville and Greenwood
will make it about one hundred
and fifteen miles. The citizens
of Augusta should cultivate in
the good people of whom I have
made mention the desire they have
evinced for a closer communication with
their old time trading point. As sure
as you live, “there is life in the old land
yet.” Proof is not wanting that man
after man has surmounted, with com
parative ease, obstacles which had been
adjudged insuperable. An extra tax
upon his resources has oft-times served
to develop greater strength and put him
an the high road to prosperity. It is
the sluggard that folds his arms. He, who
buries his talent lest by a venture he
should lose it, caanot expect to have a
future in which present lack shall be
supplanted by plenty—plenty of money,
prosperous business connections, etc.
See what Spartanburg has done. She
subscribed (town and county) $250,000
to the Air Line Bailroad, SIOO,OOO to
the Spartanburg and Asheville, and has
just voted a subscription of $3,000 for
the construction in town of the work
shops of the S. ani A. Boad. Was this
investment of $350,000 a good one ?
Spartanburg annually ships 20,000 bales
of cotton. Previous to the completion
of the Air Line Road, she paid $5 50 on
each bale of cotton shipped to the great
trade centres of this country. She now
pays $3 50 per bale—an annual saving,
on this one item, of $40,000. Put the
saving at $35,000 aud you have 100 per
cent, upon the interest on her invest
ment in the two roads named. But
that is not.all. On flour and bacon,
the savings amount to $50,000 per an
num. Her railroad bonds are worth
70 cents on the dollar, and are gradual
ly passing into the hands of her own
people.
The Spartanburg and Asheville Road
is rapidly approaching completion. The
trains run to Tryon City, and the entire
route has been paid for in the bonds of
the oompany. As division after divis
ion is graded, no difficulty is expe
rienced in ironing the route. A first
mortgage bond does the work quickly.
Beyond Asheville the prospect has
brightened, since the suit for the recov
ery of $500,000, of what is denominated
“Swepson money,” has resulted favor
ably for the company interested.
Recently I reported how the land lay
toward the delta of the Mississippi.
The outlook in that direction was en
couraging. How is it throughout the
hill country of Georgia and the Caro
linas? More fruit, bettor orops, bright
er prospects than for years past. A
wiso economy rules, and the people—
their faces suffused with smiles which by
aud by break into one of those good
natured guffaws that follow quickly
upon the “kow’re you, neighbor?” of a
farmer whose storehouses are filled
to repletion—have begun to say,
“Well, really, I have no cause to
complain.” Make a circuit of the
watering plaoes from the Indian Spring
in Georgia to the Warm Springs in
North Carolina, and you find great
crowds of people whiling away the
Summer hours. They are representative
assemblages, not composed solely of the
sous and daughters of fortune. The
skies are not cloudless, but ho that re
gards the clouds shall not reap. A won
derful change for the better has taken
place. Faith in God, the putting forth
of our best energies, the exercise of true
economy— i. e., a vigorous use of the
means at command and the cultivation
of a cheerful disposition—will make the
change more marked and gladsome.
These reflections are the outcome of ob
servations taken in the presence of mer
chants, farmers, professional men, in a
word, labqrers of all classes, May the
full frqitipp of these reasonable antici
pations early cojpe to the people !
Martin V. Calvin.
TIIE PRESIDENT’S VISIT.
Tlie Invitation to tbe President to Visit
Augusta.
[New York Tribune.]
President Hayes has a first olass en
dorsement frprp the South at last for
his Southern poliey. The City Coun
ciltnen of Angusta, Ga., all Democrats,
have passed a series of resolutions
unanimously approving of the course of
tho Administration, and inviting the
President to call at that place during
his proposed Southern tour. If this is
a political straw if points quite signifi
cantly how the popular wipfl is blpwing,
and it certainly shows that some of the
Southern people desire to be thought
sincere in their protestations of patri
otism.
[ Washington National Republican.]
Another eyidenep of the popularity of
the President throughout the South is
afforded by the fact that be has been in
vited to the city of Augusta, Georgia,
by the unanimous vote of the City Coun
cil, a body composed entirely of Demo
crats. The compliment will be highly
appreciated by the President, who hap
pily considers hipiself the President of
the entire country, North as well as
Sopth. Spch piarkp of confidence in
Mr. Hayes as the people ol Augusta
display ought to convince even the most
extreme anti-Hayes men of the North
that the President’s policy of concilia
tion is a success.
[ Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald.]
We had hoped that the President
would visit this Fall all the Southern
States. Hp has fee'eji £jnd and just to
the South in his management of nation
al affiirs, but still we think a trip of
this character would be mutually bene
ficial to tbe Administration and to the
South. The men who are charged with
conducting national affairs need to know
more abopt tjie Southern people, and
the Southern people nped to bo better
acquainted with them. Certainly the
South has nothing to lose and every
thing to gain by the visits of leading
Northern men. The South has suffered
much from political lies and slanders,
and these visits go far to lessen the
effect.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The people of Augusta, Ga., are very
de*ipons of receiving President Hayes
as a guest, pud they have, through
their Comnion Counoil, extended an in
vitation at once so cordjal and pompli
mentary that it ought not to go unheed
ed. The Common Council is composed
exclusively of Democrats, but their ap
proval of the President's course and
‘heir assurance of a hearty welcome by
all citizens wU nl< * ever suggest political
partisanship.
Onr Dried Frail Abroad.
American beef is finding a formidable
European rival in American fruit. The
Pall Mall Budged says that “the for
eign demand for American fruit is now
so great that Europe and Australia will
take nearly all the fruit, fresh and dried
(dried peaches excepted) which the
United States can land in their market
in good condition.” Since last October
England has taken 396,006 barrels of
apples from this country, and ilia esti
mated that she will take an average of
15,000 barrels per week. The Budget
also says: “The working classes of Ger
many and the workingmen and miners
ol Australia are the chief customers lor
American dried fruit abroad, but the
poor people of England and Russia buy
to a limited extent. As long as dried"
apples can be exported from New York
at fire or even at seven cents a pound,
the workingmen of Europe and Aus
tralia will buy ail mttj can be spared.
The business of exporting fruit ia one
that has been chiefly built up since
1865. In the eleven months ending
July 1 the fruit exported amounted in
value to $2,831,000.”
Captain James Eads thinks he might
bridge the Bosphorus at a cost not to
exceed $25,000,000.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
A DUSKY MINISTER TAKEN DOWN
A PEG.
Prof. Langston Withdrawn From Ohio—Col
ored Men Chnnge no Totes at the North—
The Presidential Party Out on a New
Jaunt—Chicago Colleetorship Carolina’s
Dead Senator.
Washington, September 7.—The Pres
ident has advised Prof. Langston that
political speeches in Ohio are incompati
ble with his position as Minister to
Hayti. It is considered that this strict
construction of the President’s order is
in accordance with the wishes of the Re
publican managers of the Ohio election,
as it has been found that colored orators
do not make Republican votes in North
ern States.
The Presidential party made a safe
start last night. It consists of Hayes,
McCreary, DeveDS and Key, besides tho
President’s family.
The Cabinet have taken the papers in
the Chicago Colleotorship case of Jones
vs. Smith. Decision is reserved.
The clerk of the Howard House, Bal
timore, holds Owens’ effects, including
842,000 in money and securities, subject
to adverse claims from Owens’ heirs and
the State of South Carolina. Owens’ re
mains leave to-day for interment in
South Carolina.
The Social Science Convention at Sar
atoga discussed the South last night at
great length. The views of the orators
were so divergent that, pending their
convergence, it is hoped the Southern
people will have settled their own affairs
in their own way.
The Presidential Party On Their Jaunt—A
Housing Welcome On an Exaggerated
Scale—Hayes Speaks.
Marietta, September 7.—The Presi
dential party arrived safely* and were
received with military, civil and special
honor on an exaggerated scale. Evarts
will join the Presidential party at Cin
cinnati on the 15th. McCreary has gone
to Fortress Monroe instead of with the
Presidential party, which he will join at
Dayton. After an address of welcome
by "Mayor Palmer, of Marietta, Hayes
stepped forward and was greeted with
great cheers and waving of handker
chiefs. He said : “ Ladies, Fellow-
Citizens and Survivors of the Great
War: I wish that I was pre
pared to speak suitably upon this
occasion. My friend, Mayor Palmer, in
bis address informs me that in every
speech made at this great national re
union encouragement has been given to
that spirit of fraternity which it is the
desire of those associated with me in the
Administration to do something during
our term of service to advance. We do
not, in meeting the people, propose to
discuss any of the great party questions
which divide the people who honor us
with their attention. [Cheers.] We
leave these to be discussed before the
people by those who may be appointed
by the respective parties to car
ry on those debates, but we
do feel that if, in visiting our fellow-cit
izens in different States, we can add
anything to strengthen the sentiment
alluded to by the Mayor, it is right and
proper that we should doit. [Applause.]
All whg are familiar with the history of
our country know that an hundred years
ago there was no North or South. The
fathers were one throughout the whole
country. Washington and Jeffer
son ' were side by side with
Franklin ana Adams. Daniel Morgan
and bis Virginians marched from Vir
ginia to Boston. They were at Saratoga
and Nathaniel Greene and his Continen
tals were in the Carolinas. The whole
country belonged to the fathers. It
is to that state of harmony, of fra
ternal friendship, that we desire our
country to return. [A voice, “Good for
you!” and cheers.] We are for [the
Union as it iu. [Cheers.] We are for
the Constitution as it is. [Cheers.]
With all its amendments. [A voice,
“That’s it !” Great cheers.] We want
the citizens of everv State to feel at
home iu every other State. [Amen and
cheers.] If a citizen of Vermont travels
to Georgia or Texas, for business or
pleasure, we want him to feel at home
in those States. [Cheers.] If a citizen
of Texas or Georgia travels North, we
want that citizen to feel at home every
where throughout the Union. Now, my
friends, I do not propose to detain you.
I have made a much longer speech al
ready than I intended when I entered
your town, but you understand tho
purpose. We may make mistakes in
method, mistakes in meaures, but the
sentiment we would encourago is a sen
timent of nationality throughout the
Union. [Applause.] We all regard the
service of that four years’ war, we re
gard that period of four years as the
most interesting of our lives. We
fought them, those of ns who were in
the Union army, fought, as we believed,
to make this forever hereafter a united
people, forever hereafter a free people,
and we rejoico to-day to believe that
those who wore against us in that strug
gle now are with us on both of these
questions. [Cheers, loud and long.]
And now, my friends, you will desire to
hear from some of those who are asso
ciated with me in the Government.
Two members of the Cabinet are here—
Postmaster-General Judge Key, of Ten
nessee, and General Devons, Attorney-
General. They fought on opposite
sides during these lour years, but to
day and here they are prepared to fight,
if need be, on the same side. [Groat
cheers. ] And now I will introduce to you
Judge Key. I am sure he is an able
man, I am sure he is an honest man, I
am sure he is a patriotic man. [Cheers.]
Judge Key
Spoke as follows :
Fellow-Citizens— I appear before
you under peculiar oircumstanocs. You
are assembled here to recite the vic
tories which you have won in former
days, to recount the triumphant results
which you achieved. 1 appear before
you as one of the soldiery from whom
your victories wore won—your tri
umphs achieved. But my friends
The cordiality with which I have been
received makes me forget that we have
ever beep enemies, and I assure you
that I would much rather meet you, as
I meet you here to-day, as friends, than
in the conflict of arms, as yon have
been met heretofore. [Applause.] My
friends, the flag I fought for four years
has disappeared from the face of the
earth. The Government I attempted,
with my compeers, to establish, is no
more. We have but one flag, and
that floats ‘over every foot of our
territory. We have but one Constitu
tion, and that is the Constitution as it
is. [Cheers.] Our quarrel, my friends,
was inherited,. Slavery was established
by onr fathers, It was established by
the men of the North as well as the of
the South. Jt was a relic of a termer
age. As the ages progressed, as
the country progressed, the free
States became profoundly impress
ed with the idea that slavery
was wrong—that it was a great national
crime—that it was the sin of tho age,
that it was a sin against Heaven and
liberty. [A voice, “And it was.”] The
peop]e of thp Soath had been educated
under different ideas. Their statesmen
upon their platforms defended it, and
their ministers before holy altars
tanght the people that it was right and
the people of the Southern States
believed it was right. A con
flict from time to time, a con
flict of opinion grew up, We had
adjustments, we had the Missouria com
promise, the pojapfomise of ]$5Q. but
yet it would not suit. At last, free ideas
so far prevailed that Lincoln was elect
ed to the Presidency of the United
States,” aDd Mr. Key proceeded in the
same strain at great length.
Washington, September J. —The Post
Office Department has received letters
from a number of principal newspapers j
refusing to publish advertisements at j
the rates allowed by law.
Tlie Struggle for the Kpeakeratyp— I The
Wavering Between Itamlall, Hay
lep and Cox.
WashincjTQN, September 6. To
night’s Star has the following to say
with reference to the Speakership of the
Forty-fifth Congress : “ There has been
a good deal of idle speculation indulged
in concerning the Speakership of the
next House, and the possibilities of
each candidate who aims to preside over
it. ‘Speculation,’ we say, because no
one, even the candidates themßelves,
can assume to say how the votes of the
new members who come into the Forty
fifth Congress will be given. Those of
the candidates, and oat of which a pos
sible selection may be made, are Sayler,
Randall and Cox. Then there are hosts
of small flyers who have no honest be
lief that they can be elected, but who
want to injeot their candidacy into the
canvass with the hope that they may
thus successfully make a good trade in
the way of Committee Chairmanships.
Thus it is that Morrison, of Illinois ;
Blackburn, of Kentucky ; Goode, of
Virginia ; Bnckner, of Missouri, and
others thrust themselveß into the breach
as candidates. No one of the last
has any idea of success ; hut
they want it to be'assumed that they
have a sufficient following to transfer it
to either of the prominent candidates
who will pnt up most for it. It Is a
source of regret that it is necessary to
elect a Speaker by means of combina
tions. In the iterr-Rapdall contest it
reached the acme of degradation, inas
much as Kerr had to name the Pacific
Railroad ''Committee in advance of his
election to save the influence of a pow
erful corporation, and Randall, in turn,
agreed to appoint five different members
Chairman of the Committee on Missis
sippi Levees. At the present writing it
is impossible to predict who will gain
the gavel. Randall has that prestige of
success which his acceptable filling of
the chair last Winter gave him, but he
had to contend with the Texas Paoific
Railroad Company, and it is safe to say |
he will be antagonized by that interest, l
inasmuch as he has never yet cast a vote |
iu its favor. Sayler will have to suffi
ciently explain tbe letter be wrote con
cerning Southern claims during the last
canvass, and Cox will have to dodge
cleverly the financial issue to get votes
West or South. Hence it is that all
candidates, will come here about evenly
balanced, and the winning man will be
the one who can stir np the greatest en
thusiasm on the ground, and make de
luded hnman nature believe in his
promises.”
JUDGE LYNCH AT WORK.
Four murderers Treated to a Summary Dose
of Kentucky Justice.
Cincinnati, September 4. Henry
county, Kentucky, is in a state of great
excitement over the lynching of four
men who were confined in the jail at
New Castle. For seven years the oonn
ties of Owen and Henry, situated in the
southeastern part of the State, have
been terrorized by a gang of banditti
who have shot, burned and stolen al
most without fear of law. The roads in
much of the region are narrow, rocky
bridle paths that run along the sides
of the mountain streams. Travel is
almost entirely on horseback or on foot,
and the familiarity of the outlaws with
every turn in the roads and dark corners
in the thickets enabled them to pnt
travelers out of the way with very little
inconvenience, and without fear of de
tection. During the war many of their
murders were charged to rebel soldiers,
and at one time General Burbridgo
caused a number of Confederates
to be shot in retaliation. A few
weeks ago one of the band,
named Shuck, was hung at Owenton.
He protested to the last his innocenoe,
and made a statement implicating sev
eral of his comrades. Soon after anoth
er member of the gang, named Carter,
made a full confession, and on the
strength of this four men were arrested
and lodged in New Castle jail. Three
of them were brothers, named Good
rich; the other was James Simmons.
At half-past one o’clock this morning a
mob, numbering fifty men, surrounded
the jail, took the four men out of their
cells. Lurried them a short distance
from the building and hung them in a
ghastly row. The victims before the
hanging confessed to the murders and
other depredations with which they
were charged. Nobody seemed to know
whence the lynchers came or whither
they went. The officers were powerless
to offer resistance, aDd the people, if
they know anything, are afraid to give
information. The bodies were taken
down this evening and an inquest held,
but no further facts were developed.
M ■ i
HORRORS OF THE WAR IN ROUMEI.IA.
The Christian* Incited to Revolt by the Pres
ence of Hussinn Troop*—Old Score* Pnid
(lll—Rloody Reprisal* by tbe TnrKs—K*kt
Naglira (liven Up to Plunder Ainerlrnn
Missionaries Respected.
Constantinople, August B. As the
Turkish troops approached the city, the
Moslem inhabitants began to issue forth
from their hiding place. They hardly
paused, however, to greet the troops who
had delivered them. In fact, before the
troops had fairly entered the place, the
Moslem citizens brought out axes and be
gan to break in the doors of all Bulgarian
houses. Now was the opportunity to satis
fy the covctings of years. Now was the
time to revel in riches of the proud old
patricians. There was no order to pillage
issued. It was its if the understanding was
general by an intuition. The Bulgarians
had played their hand, and lost, and Hie
instant this was evident the Moslems had
their turn. It took hardly ten minutes to
break in the doors of 500 houses. A rush
was made for the residences of the richest
nabobs, which were cleared out before the
rabble undertook the systematic spoliation
of every house which followed. There was
a continuous and rapid fire of musketry
going on all over the city at the same time.
'l'lie Turks say that the Bulgarians fired
from houses and churches upon the troops.
There arc no Bulgarians left to give their
side of the story. All Bulgarian men seemed
to be killed at sight, as if by arrangement.
Women and children were spared as a gen
eral thing. But the hideous pillage, and
the firing and the shrieks and the shouts
continued all night, and great districtsof the
city was hunting, as if all the other horrors
were not enough. At daylight Sulieman
Pasha ordered all Moslems and Jews—
whom the Turks protected as if they were
their own people—to leave tlje place, since
his contemplated operations did not include
any such thing as tbe defense of Eski
Saghra. So the Turks loaded up tlieir loot
and tlieir women and children on wagons,
and went to the nearest railway station,
followed by what seemed an endless train
of Bulgarian women and children who had
lost all. These could see, iti the Turkish
wagons, goods stolen from tlieir homes, but
they might not dare ask for them. Eski
Saghra was left to the flames, and in its
streets and in the surrounding villages the
rattle of rifles was constant for three or
four days. There seemed to he a purpose
to lull every Bulgarian male over ten years
of age. The fair city, set on a hill, used to
look out over a plain" which teemed with a
busy peasantry in fertile fields. Now, from
the seared and blistered hill, you look over
the plain, and its forty villages arc blacken
ed ash-liecps, foul from the hand of death.
The attempt to ameliorate the condition
of the Christians of this part of Turkey by
war is not a brilliant success, and the mis
management which armed these Bulgarians,
and encouraged them to desperate lighting
against tlieir rulers, and then deserted them
in their hour of sore,need, was a tcrrilble
crime. No one will ever know the exact
loss of life at Eski Saghra. Seven thousand
women and children of its Christian popula
tion are dependent on charity in Adrianople
to day. These people believe all of tlieir
male relatives to have been killed. This,
however, is hardly so, since many Bulga
rian men escaped until the Russians. But
the City of Eski Saghra is entirely wiped
out of existence.
(SUMMER LIFE AT NEWPORT.
The Delicate Distinction Between tho Hotel
mid the Villa People.
[Newport letter inthe St. Louis Olobe-Lemooral.]
The villa folks are more and more dis
inclined to associate with the hotel
folks. A few years since they were wont
to commingle freely; now they resolute
ly remain apart.
The other evening there was a hop at
the Ocean House, and near a hundred
of the villa swells must have been in
vited. Only three attended, I under
stand, all the others sending politely
worded regrets that they were unhappi
ly obliged to be absent by reason of im
perative engagements. This season the
Avenue has nnquestionably set its face
against, or rather
Turned Us Back
Upon, the Oceanites and Aquidneokers,
and these so resent the obvious coldness
that an eternal gulf is likely to open be
tween them.
Recently a young Now Yorker was ask
ing the daughter of a wealthy manufac
turer of Providence if she knew Miss
vard.
“Oh, I don’t know her. We do not
move in the same set. I have heard of
her; she usually goes to the Ocean, I
think, and we never go to any of the
hotels. Both mamma and papa have
forbidden me going, although I dare say
some of the persons at the hotels may
be nice.”
This preoious little girl is not too old
to remember when her father was an in
dustrious mechanic, but ill eduoated,
and sprung from the soil. He went into
manufacturing about 1860; got a Gov
ernment conteact, and grew rioh by it.
And now
IIIn Iliiu filter in Iniro<|nce<l
From visiting cultured and high-bred
young ladies because they stay at hotels.
Sbe must have misrepresented her
I father, a sensible m u, without the
smallest pretense. He married the
daughter of a poor, ignorant fisherman
on Gape Cod, her good health and fresh
looks being her chief matrimonial recom
mendations. And she, since her change
of fortune, says Mrs, John Jacob As
tor's grandfather was nothing but a vul
gar Dntoh adventurer, and she has al
ready put a coat of arms (it ought to be
a shirt-sleeve rolled np, the hand hold
ing a huge hammer) on her carriage,
her furniture and her plate.
Such inoidents of snobbery are not
uncommon here, where there is less of it
than at most watering places. A young
woman from Worcester, possessed of a
sharp tongue and a disposition to use
it, called on a Mrs. Brown, wife of
A Notoriously I)i*lionet Speculator)
Who turned his dishonesty to a good
pecuniary account. She inquired in
nocently if she were related to the
Browns, the noted bankers in Wall
street? “Indeed we are not. They
spell their name without an e,” was the
reply, with an indignant toss of the
head.
“O, that makes no difference, my
dear; it is quite probable that Mr.
Browne’s grandfather conld not spell his
name at all; and yet, if all reports are
trne, he must have been more upright
and honorable than his grandson.”
THE CAUFRH'NIA fICTQRY.
Democrats Have* Sweeping Majority In the
General Assembly—-Senator Sargent to be
Decapitated.
San Francisco, September 7.—The
latest election retnrns indicate that the
Democrats have elected ten Senators
and fifty-seven 4 sse ] bl J'B ieD > an(i
Republicans fen Senators and twenty
three Assemblymen. Including hold
overs, the Democrats will have thirty
eight majority on a joint ballot. 1
Washington, September 7.—Sargent’s
defeat as United States Senator is re
ceived with very great patience by oiti- '
zeus of the District of Colombia.
THE STATE.
THU PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Geneva’s tobacco crop is fine.
Forsyth wants a cavalry company.
Rust appears in Pike county cotton.
Bartow county speaks of a barbecne.
Warrenton is to have a livery stable.
Amerious is to have a big fair this
Fall.
Miss Anna Darden, of Warrenton, is
dead.
The Georgia Road is energetically lay
ing steel rails.
The Brazil mission pays Mr. Hilliard
812,000 a year.
There will probably be no racing at
the State Fair.
Illicit distillers aro being captured in
Berrien county.
Atlanta claims to have 10,000 surplus,
idle population.
Charles E. Harmon, Esq , becomes
Atlanta librarian.
Fulton county’s tax this year will be
274 cents per SIOO.
Eggs and chickens have entirely de
serted Barnesville.
The Dalonega gold mines aro coining
money, so to speak.
The McDuffie Journal goes in for tho
“ Halls of onr Fathers.”
Columbus had a big Are Tuesday
morning. Loss, $7,000.
The incendiary is now having his
washing done in Macon.
Milledgeville begs the State to “pour
it back into the old jug.”
And now they have it that Mrs. Col
quitt favors Milledgeville.
Meriwether county is out of debt and
Las 81,800 in the treasury.
Mrs. Lawrence Battlo died at her
home, in Barnett, recently.
Houston county has raised enough
hogs to supply her own meat.
“The most magnificent hearse in the
South” has arrived in Atlanta.
Governor Colquitt delivered a sensible
address in Columbus Saturday.
Talbotton has within her corporate
limits several self-sustaining farms.
The Athens Georgian comes out sen
sibly and manfully for the new Constitu
tion.
Col. B. W. Wrefnn’sKeunesaw coaches
get about at the rate of forty miles per
hour.
Dr. Scruggs, of Glascock, has plump
ed the first bale of new cotton into War
renton.
Tbe residence of Dr. H. H. Freal, at
Kingston, was totally destroyed by fire
Wednesday.
Mr. Robert Langford, of Madison
county, was killed recently by a kick
from a mule.
Tbe Cherokee people seem determin
ed to build the Marietta and North
Georgia Road.
Mr. Stephons is in Athens attending
the session of the Revisory Committee
of the State University.
A religious revival at Jewell’s Mills
has added twenty to the Baptist aud six
teen to the Methodist Church.
Mr. Amherst Griffeth, of Athens, re
ceived tho U. S. Naval appointment to
Annapolis, from the Ninth District.
The Talbotton Standard man is riled
because his obituary of Senator Morton
is crowded out. Patience, fond heart.
The Hammer remarks that veracity
is a jewel, but many a man has lost his
hold on it by clinging to snake stories.
Dr. R. C Johnson, of Thomson, was
recently thrown to the ground from his
buggy, and sustained several painful in
juries.
The Warrenton Clipper throws a
musquitonet over its virtuous form and
declines to be subsidized on tbe capital
question.
An epileptic negro boy was crushed
under the wheels of the Georgia Road
shifting engine, in Atlanta, Wednesday
afternoon.
Brier Creek Church, in Warren coun
ty, commenced a series of meetings on
last Friday celebrating its one hundreth
anniversary.
Colonel Humber, who plants in Put
nam county, on tho edge of Baldwin,
will make eight thousand bushels of
corn this year.
The Barnesville Gazette regrets to
see the young editors of the Old Capital
over-zealous in their disenssion of the
capital question.
Havauimh marksmen aro anxious to
hear if Macon, Augusta or Atlanta in
tend entering teams for the prize at the
Thomasville Fair.
A negro woman of Waynesboro,whilst
violently whipping her child last Tues
day evening, bursted a blood vessel and
died soon afterward.
Messrs. Massenburg and Colbert, of
Butts county, shot and killed a sturgeon
in the Ocmulgee river the other day that
weighed 155 pounds, net.
Among the stock burned at McPher
son Barracks, Atlanta, were the two lit
tle gray mules which once belonged to
ex President Jefferson Davis.
The girls call in the sanctum of the
McDuffie Journal so frequently that the
editor has hardly had time to make up
his mind on the new Constitution.
The Talbotton Standard thinks that
every patriotic Georgian ought to thank
God for this Constitution. It is a model
of perfection, so far as human govern
ment can go.
Mrs. Laura J. Tumlin, the widow of
Rev. George W. Tnmlin, deceased, died
Tuesday evening in Cartersville, after a
painful and protracted illness of about
two years.
The ablest'of the Western newspaper
men, says the Constitution, are just be
ginning to get a glimpse of the fact that
the Georgia]mule is born with his heels
in the air.
Mr. Fitzsimmons, of Augusta, and M.
P. Reese, Esq., of Washington, left the
city Wednesday evening for Massachu
setts, where Misses Fitzsimmons and
Reese, who accompany them, return to
school.
At the sale of the North and South
Narrow Gauge in Columbus, there ap
peared to be three sets of bidders—one
for the North Georgia and Marietta
Railroad Company, the other for the
Central. Railroad Company and the
third a Columbus company.
Mrs. Nancy Hutcherson, who lives
near Gibson, in Glascock county, com
pleted the one hundredth year of her
age on Saturday last. She has more
than two hundred descendants, now liv
ing, of whom about one hundred and
fifty, including a number of the fifth
generation, were present.
The McDuffie Journal thinks that the
Convention should have petitioned
Congress to remove the political dis
ablitiea of Gen. Toombs. “ His coun
try has an inalienable right to his ser
vices,” says the Journil, “ and, from
present indications, the day is not dis
tant when his wisdom, experience and
patriotism will be demanded in the
oounoils of the Republic.”
Of the Augusta Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist, the Sanderville Herald
says: “This sterling journal is lacking
in no olement essential to a popular
and successful paper. Unsurpassed in
its news department, ably and disoreetly
edited, and withal eminently conserva
tive, we admire and heartily com
mend our Augusta cotemporary to nil
desiring a paper from this railway and
manufacturing centre of the South.”
Gov. Colquitt has been to Milledge
ville.
There will be fine raoing at the State
Fair.
Chicken pox prevails in Lumpkin
county.
Decatur is the city of churches in
Georgia.
Brunswick did not report a death dar
ing August.
Griffin’s receipts overtop last year’s
by 332 bales.
Snmter county has had a grand ratifi
cation meeting.
The negroes aro a camp meeting in
Newton county.
The Echo says that Oglethorpe will
vote for Atlanta.
The first barrel of new syrup has
reached Covington.
A case of meningitis is reported in
Oglethorpe county.
Savannah negroes have caught the
Liberian exodus fever.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
meets next week in Dalton.
Atlanta and Athens foster their Lite
rary Clubs with tender care.
Mr. George D, Guinn died at Rut
ledge, Wednesday afternoon.
A large number of free scholarships
remain in the State University.
F. B. Hodges, Esq., of Hart, is an
nounced as Senator from the 31st.
Samnel Barnett, Jr., of Washington,
has departed for an European trip.
The Athens Commercial Reporter
has bloomed into a vigorous weekly.
One steamer carried 379 packages of
dried fruit from Savannah Thursday.
The Manganese mines near Cave
Spring are being worked with fair suc
cess.
Some Oglethorpe farmers think that
not more than half a cotton crop will be
made there.
At the Savannah Court House sales
last Tuesday, State of Georgia sevens
sold at $lO7.
Atlanta seems inclined to look upon
the capital campaign as a slanderous
fight against her,
Athens, Augusta and Atlanta threaten
to be considerably mixed np matri
monially this Fall.
The Hartwell Sun wants Judge Wm.
Gibson, of Augusta, to go to Congress
next from the Eighth.
Atlanta expects thirty or forty fine
race horses from Tennessee and Ken
tucky at the State Fair.
The value of meat annually brought
into the State of Georgia is about eigh
teen millions of dollars.
The Dalton Citizen don’t want any
compromise candidates for President in
1880, Ben Hill or no Ben.
Mr. Steve Elliot Moore, a prominent
Granger of Twiggs county, is taking in
his supplies from Athens,
Four new churches are to be built in
Hart county soon ; one Presbyterian,
one Baptist, and two Methodist.
The report that Crittenton Goolsby
shot and killed Charley Ridley, n Jas
per county, last week, proved to be un
true.
The local of the Athens Georgian de
clines to “ponr it back in tho jug” while
the warm weather glows and the straws
hold out to draw.
VVe aro apprised by Hugh Taylor,
Efq., that Ebenezer, Morgan county,
will not bid for the capital. This clears
the matter somewhat.
“ Carolynn,” the Macon Telegraph's
Atlanta correspondent, is said to pen
many letters to that place which never
appear in print. How is this ?
Atlanta thinks that she will now ex
perience some benefit from tbe North
and South Railroad, which will be
continued by its purchasers.
The presiding genius of the Warren
ton Clipper and copartner of the An
cient Capital wears a beaver made of
Lookout Mountain chamois hide.
The Central Georgia Weekly will be
published henceforth in Macon, edited
by Messrs. A. A. & A. O. Mnrphey,
gentlemen of ability, culture and energy.
The youthful strawberry blonde of
tbe Atlanta Constitution continues to
have his washing done in Cartersville,
but bis literary flirtations are “done up”
in Atlanta.
It is not true, as msny people along
tbe Georgia Road seem to think, that
“Nez Perces” is the French for Ned
Purcell. It is simply a pet name for
Chief Joseph’s clan.
Mr. Mary Barber, an old lady of
Washington county, 57 years of age and
weighing only 80 pounds, alone nnd un
assisted, killed recently a huge rattle
snake five feet long, and having eleven
rattles.
Tho Macon Telegraph notes that Mil
ledgeville has appointed four guards,
who nightly patrol the Capitol square
less some vile scamp should toroh the
building. Now let Atlanta environ the
Opera House.
A cyclone visited Elbert county last
week, aDd among other places struok
was the house of Mr. Beasley, where it
lifted a Mrs. Tibbitts off her feet and
carried her about eighty yards without
injury, and leveled the house to the
ground.
Onr ever sprightly contemporary, the
Oglethorpe Echo, speaking of the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist, says:
“For almost a century it has been iden
tified with and treasured by tbe people
of our county. Like wine, it has im
proved with age; but we think it lias
lately attaiued such a degree of perfec
tion that no possible room is left for
further advancement. The C. &0. has
a solid, substantial look, while at the
same time it combines the spice, vim
and enterprise of modern journalism.
Its tone is elevating aud dignified; its
course conservative, unchanging and
ever right. It is an honor to its editors;
to the press of Georgia; to onr Htate;
yea, to the American continent.”
A CURIOUS CASK.
All Unrorliiiialo Dilemma Resulting From
Divorce, Remarriage and Dcalli.
[From the Albany Times.]
Samuel Rose was killed by the burst
ing of a grindstone on the 29th of June,
1877, in the premises attached to Sulli
van & Rice’s iron works. Ou the 9th of
July William Hagaman was appointed
administrator of the estate and guardian
of Isabella Rose, the supposed widow,
who is under twenty-one years of age,
and who has borne a child, which is still
living. Surrogate Rogers to day re
ceived a petition, of which the following
is the substance:
Mary Jane Rose, of Brooklyn, alleges
that she is the widow of Samuel Rose,
late of Albany, deceased; that she was
married to him in Brooklyn, and lived
with him until shortly before the com
mencement of the divorce proceedings
hereinafter mentioned ; that a child,
William Rose, now in his eleventh year,
was born, the issue of said marriage,
and said child is now living with the
petitioner in Brooklyn. Ou or about the
21 of July, 1877, Samuel Rose died in
Albany, and on the 9th of July William
Hagaman was appointed administrator
of the (state aud guardian of Isabella
Rose, tbe alleged widow. The petition
er further shows that in September,
1868, she oommenoed an action ngaiDSt
him in the Superior Court at
Connecticut, for an absolute divorce ;
that on the 3d of November,
1869, the said Court granted to the peti
tioner a deoree of divorce ; that, the
petitioner, Mary J. Rose, is the person
described in the decree, and that it has
never been reversed, vacated, or set
aside. Subsequent to the grauting of
the decree, and while tho same was in
full force aud effect, Samuel Rose mar
ried a girl residing in this city, who is
the person described herein as Isabella
Rose, for whom William Hagaman was
appointed guardian. The petitioner
further shows that the marrioge took
place in this State, and as tho petitioner
is advised and believes, the same is void
under the laws of the State of New
York. The petitioner therefore prays
that the administrator, William Haga
maD, bo restrained from paying out any
money to or from setting aside any per
sonal property for any person claiming
to be the widow of said Samuel Rose,
deceased, except the petitioner.
Surrogate Rogers ordered William
Hagaman, administrator, to appear be
fore him on the Bth of September.
The decree of divorce granted by the
Court in Connecticut is attached to the
papers in this case, aud does not con
tain the clause usually included in the
decree and order of the Justices of the
Supreme Court of the Stato of New
York, namely, prohibiting the party
from whom a divorce is obtained from
marrying again. If it should be held
that the last marriage is void it would
make illegitimate the child born to
Isabella Rose, and render the child
born during Rose’s first marriage, and
now in Brooklyn, his only legitimate
heir.
Price of n Freedom.
Tom Ballard, the famous counter
feiter, who is now serving tho third year
of his thirty years’ term at Albany,has re
newed the offer ho made in 1875 with
out its receiving any attention from Sec
retary Bristow. He proposed to reveal
to the Government without promise of
reward or release, unless it should be
voluntarily offered him after testing its
process, a secret which would render
counterfeiting impossible. Tho greatest
secret, Ballard says, in the making of
our present paper money is the weaving
in of the blue and red fibres; but this
kind of paper is now too easily made by
hand. His remedy is a machine, which
would cost $30,000, and which would
make paper of so superior a quality that
it could not be imitated by hand. At
present when the ink is washed from the
face and back of a SI,OOO bill, it does
not differ in appearance from a $1 bill.
Ballard’s idea is to have numerous de
signs worked in, in place of the red ink,
and in plaoe of the blue localized fibre
to insert a line or stripe -of stars of a
peculiar metalio substance and in the
center of each star to insert in minute
figures the denomination of tho note, so
that in case the ink is erased, or the
note reduced to pulp even, its value
could still be told. All these secrets,
together with one in relation to en
graving, which he says will excel any
thing now known in lithography, Ballard
offers the'Government if it will accept
them. Ho also promises to make a
quantity of the paper without cost to
the Government to experiment upon.
CHEATING THE PENITENTIARY.
A Carolina Ex-*enator and Delimiter to
the State i)le in Hnltiinore— Death An*
ticipute* a Ke<jui*itiofi—laU*t Dent Act of
V. J. P. Owen**) of CaureuM.
Washington, September 6.—Ex-Sen
ator Owens, of Lanrens county, South
Carolina, died at the Howard House,
Baltimore, last night. A large sum of
money was found among his personal
effects.
Later.
Columbia, S. C., September 6.—A
notice was served on the Carolina Na
tional Bank, of this city, to attach the
funds payable on certificates of deposit
issued to Y. J. P. Owens, amounting to
over $20,000. Owens is surety on the
bond of Niles G. Parker, ex-State Treas
urer, and largely indebted to the State.
Owens is now North and may attempt
to negotiate these papers. [Note. —
This is no doubt ex-Senator Owens who
died in Baltimore last night.]
Judge Gibson for Congress.
[Hartwell Sun.]
If in the course of hnman events it
shonld become necessary to elect a mem
ber to Congress from this district, we
hope Hon. William Gibson, of Augusta,
will be the man, having good, hard Com
mon sense, with all the ability and quali
fications for making “A No. I” Con
gressman. This district needs a live,
energetic, bold, working man, who will
attend to any of the numerous little
wants of constituents, which we know
Gibson would take pleasure in attend
ing to for the rich or the poor. We have
no doubt that one week spent in Hart
by him would secure every vote iu it.
Hqw Infinitely Superior
Is the fragrant and wholesome Sozo
dont to the gritty tooth powders and
chemical fluids formerly used upon
teeth, bat which abraded and corroded
the enamel and induced decay. The
Sozodont, on the contrary, preserves,
at the same time that it beautifies, the
teeth, *