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WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 17^1877.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Gen. N. B. Forrest is get Ling well.
Xow for Pennsylvania and New York.
They call it the savings bank epizooly.
Onto certainly repudiated Sherman and
all his works. _______
Patterson would like to postpone l.is
trial till 1900.
There is a “ snaky smell ” in all Ohio
Republican sanctums.
The Cincinnati Enquirer'* rooster is life
size, and a Shanghai at that.
The Sioux Indians call Senator Patter
son “Old-man-withoui.-a-State."
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The Graphic man says that “the blarney
stone is the same as the sham rock."
Augusta will be glad to see Gentleman
Georoe in the United States Senate.
If Morton can stand the returns from
Ohio his chances of recovery are excellent.
A female correspondent writes that she
“liked Si'Otted Tail from the first.” No
cards.
Both papers in Washington, I). 0., are
National. There may be a Federal Union
after 1880.
Koscoe Conklino was disgusted with
Paris because he had to pay $1 20 for bit
of chicken.
The Republican papers of Wednesday
look its if they had taken an extra dose of
“ cold pizen."
Don Cameron and Robcoe Conklino
bad I tetter look out. Another tidal wave is
on the march.
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“ I have no desire to dodge,” said Pat
terson, and then he crawled under Boss
Hhefherh’s lasl.
It is now generally conceded that Mr.
Randall will tie re-elected Bjieakeron the
first or second ballot.
Lvman Tremaine’s reference to milk
lor jbabes is supposed to refer to Govern
ment pap for himself.
The monster recently in the Mississippi
river is scientifically known as a Ilippocy
nophidorn icli thyoides.
New York wants the other needle of
Cleopatra —probably for the purpose of
advertising patent medicines.
The New York Tribune now spells ala
Worcester. Mr. Greelkv used to swear
by Wf.bster. The world moves.
—
The St. Louis Journal declines a poem
on “Autumn," because an attempt was
made to rhyme piano with guano.
In 1872 the free-horn citizens of the best
Government the world ever saw spent
$735,090,000 for intoxicating drinks.
The theatrical profession may take the
palm for generosity. No appeal for aid
from a suffering brother overcomes in vain.
Chlorine water, diluted with the addi
tion of from two to four times the volume
of water, is said to he a specific for diph
theria.
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Gen. Taylor thought that no woman
could have her husband in the army and be
happy. And yet a good deal depends upon
the kind of woman.
The Richmond Enquirer ventures to ob
serve that “ there is no sympathy felt for
John J. Patterson.” The Enquirer does
not read the National Uepubtiean.
Ain. Stephens’ statement as to the Elec
toral Commission decision is boiled down
thus: The horse is in the stable, the doer
is locked aud the key thrown away.
The New York Tribune warns Mr. Joe
Blackburn, of Kentucky, that he cannot
defeat Air. Randall for the Speakership
by charging him witli favoring subsidies.
A disgusted military critic thinks the
Russians had better embrace Islamism and
exchange religion with the Turks. What a
calamity that would be for Turkey 1
The Chicago Time* says in 1880 the Demo
crats will, of course, nominate Hayes and
Hampton, if the Republicans don’t get the
start of them by nominating Hampton and
Hayrs.
Lowing Pasiia, late commander of the
Egyptian army, is expected to meet with
his old Confederate regiment, the First
Tennessee, at Nashville, Tenn., on the
“Sth of this month. ,
At the Edwin Adams auction for seats
it is recorded that 1,500 people sat by and
saw a handful of actors spend over $2,000
in the cause of charity while they would
not loosen their purse-strings for a cent.
The Indians of Alaska have an inge
nious way of evading the recent restriction
of the sale of rum at the military and tra
ding posts. They buy molasses in quanti
ties, and have teamed to distill therefrom a
potent drink.
According to the World, “a man of
wealth, of leisure and of refinement finds
no interest to keep him in New York Com
part'd to that which allures him to Euro
pean capitals.” Great snakes ! What must
a fellow do who cannot even live in New
York ? m
Before leaving New York Mr. Ste
phens was solicited to lie one of the Vice-
Presidents of the meeting to support the
policy of the Administration, this week,
but he declined, as it might atfortl tlio ene
mies of the President an opportunity to say
things which were belter left unsaid.
Thk solid South, if Democratic, is called
by “ stalwart Republicans ’’ disloyai and
reliellioos. If that solid South were Re
publican, these same men would change
their tune. Blaine, Conklins & Cos.
seem to be mad )>ecause the “ five years
more of good stealing " have been brought
to an ignominious end.
The centre of population of the fnited
States is said to have traveled westward,
keeping curiously near the thirty-ninth par
allel of latitude, never getting more than
twenty miles north or two miles south of it
In eighty years it has travetai only four
hundred miles, and is still found nearly
fifty miles eastward of Cincinnati.
Thk New York Tints criticises thus:
“A Kentucky Democratic paper that lately
said many complimentary things of Gov.
Colquitt, of Georgia, because he some
tifL'es preaches, sneers at Secretary Thomp
son tor doing the same wise thing. We
prefer Jo think it was sincere in the first i
ease,'’
It is lieneath Uu' dignity of a really stvl
isit church to make a “ call ” for a minister
unless for his life. Yet it sometimes hap
pens that they get tired of the incumbent.
Then its the thing to buy him off. Within
the last six months a Fifth avenue, S£ew
York, preacher, who had become objec
tionable, received *20.000 as a consideration
for retiring. He had received sß,oo* a year
far ten years,
The Columbus Time* believe* General
Gordon will be his own successor, and
have no opposition. He has been tried and
never found wanting. He is the true metal
that has been submitted to the severest
tests, which only proved its purity and
value. 11c has been faithful te trust
committed to Uis charge, and all acts
stand forth prominently and shine brightly.
Instead of having been erratic his path has
been in the suu't line of duty. Tbate is no
danger that Georgia will throw aside such
an able, tried and chwxlric representative.
Me Master, of the FretmhEs Journal,
apropos of the Democratic Convention and
John Kell Vs triumph, thus jubilates:
** Political life, in the State of New York,
is once more respectable. The tod Demo
cratic party is on its feet, and in fighting
trim. There are, no more, to be the “ still
hunt*, 1 ’ that saw an imbecile, working him
self into the position of leader of,rite Demo
cratic party, by desertion of its real leaders,
and intriguing alliances with its enemies-,
and then, by a cowardice and incapacity
marvellous, even in a* age of failures, hav
ing Uis prizt taken out of his hands, when
had he been a mua-lie would liave asserted
bis rights, and secured the object of bis
overweening ambition. '
emigration.
The people of the South have kmg
felt a deep interest in this subject, and
yet the politiesl condition of the conn
try, during the past tea or twelve years,
was so muettiad;snd discouraging they
have never developed any policy in re
lation thereto. We shall look for a de
parture in the right direction now.—
There are thousands of acres of eligibly
located land in Georgia whioh can be
purchased at a moderate rate and on
satisfactory terms. Not only ia thia
true, but a warm welcome awaits every
emigrant who cornea to make thia State
his home, aud to work shoulder to
shoulder with her sons, native and
adopted,for her advancement and welfare.
This is an oft made declaration; let ns
set about illustrating it. In order to
indnee emigration to this State, it is ne
cessary that the facts referred to by
Hod. Mr. Folet, in the extracts printed
in another column, from a letter written
by him to Dr. H. R. Casey, should be
made public, invite attention to
those extracts, and trust that some of
our public spirited citizens will take
hold of this important subject and press
it upon the attention of cur people.
ANGELS OF MERCY.
The Sisters of Charity have been most
beautifully and truly called “Angels of
Mercy.” For the love of God, and out
of commiseration for the wretchedness
of man, these devoted women are found,
trie world over, engaged in lessening the
woes of humanity, whether they be on
the battle field, in the hospital, upon
the streets, or where the deadly breath
of pestilence poisons the air of towns
and cities. It is safe to say that no form
of human infirmity has ever escaped this
ministering band of women whose mis
sion is to heal and help, and who count
it even a glorions privilege to offer np
their own precious lives that even the
most worthless life shall be saved from
destruction. Among the chosen Twelve
there was found one who betrayed the
Master, bnt the annals of mankind may
be searched in vain for a Sister of
Charity who ever shrank from her
doty and fled from the abode of death
and desolation. We thank God that in
such a world of misery there are such
“Angels," and that whete so many, even
the nearest and the dearest, sometimes
prove faithless or unkind, there is
a confraternity which is ever faithful,
and never anght but tender and affec
tionate. We have deemed it not im
proper to say this much of these heroic
creatures, when several of them have
just left onr city for an infected neigh
borhood, to risk their very existence;
perchance, like their companions at Fer
nandina and a thousand other places, to
surrender their pure souls to Heaven a
willing and beautiful sacrifice. In the
presence of such a sisterhood all creeds
may noite in respect and veneiation, for
their careers are coterminous with the
globe itself. Thoir charities are bound
ed only by their means and abilities,
and their glorions deeds fall about them,
wherever they go, like the dews of
Heaven—Bilent and fructifying.
•‘For forms of faith let zealous bigots fight,
Thoy can’t be wrong whose lives are in the
right."
THE OHIO ELECTION.
El sewhere we reproduce some opinions
of the press concerning the Ohio elec
tion aud its possible results. The
greatest curiosity very naturally ex
ists 38 to what Mr. Hates himself
thinks about it. His most intimate
friends, we are informed, declare that
be was not surprised at the Republican
defeat. In fact, it was anticipated, on
the ground, mainly, that the State for
several years has been gradually becom
ing more and more friendly to the doc
trine of inflation. Hard times also had
an influence, and the Workingmen’s
ticket inured to the benefit of the Dem
ocrats, and this being an off year, there
was much indifference on the part of
Republicans. Tlio election could not be
called a rebuke to the Administration,
because the Democrats,themselves claim
to be in favor of civil service reform and
the Southern policy.
The President lias not been rebuked
by the Democrats, but an attempt was
made to rebuke him by the "stalwarts”
in the Western reserve, who probably
remained at home with a first-class case
of sulks and hoped to cut off their noses
to spite their faces. In this they suc
ceeded. As Mr. Hayes has risen above
party he need not particularly oare how
any State may go, especially bb the
Democratic party concedes the validity
of his title and will strenuously uphold
him in all Constitutional measures.
The people of Ohio no doubt in
tended to repudiate Radicalism and
its peculiar methods—notably the Elec
toral Commission proceedings—but the
censure need not fall upon the President,
since he wse fin early missionary in that
field himself.
It would seem a matter at certainty
that Pennsylvania and New York can
not avoid Democratic victories, next
month. It may tw that the scalps of
Don Cameron and Roaeos Conklino
will dangle from the belts of the “Dn
terrifled." And then there is no formi
dable obstacle in the way of a tremen
dous Democratic triumph in 1880, un
less Grant’s prediction should come
true that our party can always be relied
npon tor a first-class blunder in the
very heyday at its glory.
NAPOLEON’S PKOFHJif V.
The firet Napoleon has been subjeet
ed to many trying tests, both of flattery
and ceusure, from friend and foe, and
he has nevertheless emerged in all the
grand proportions of a here, f)t rather
we should say a monumental man, flis
life was not what can be called a “good”
one. He did many evil things and com
mitted enormous blunders, aspamaily
when he betrayed the true cause of the
people for personal ambition, and deem
ed that his own conceptions were inde
pendent of the supernatural power
white, soon or late, teaches the might
iest that tttey are as nothing oom pared
with that EterMd Wisdom which be
held Solomos the slav* ei 4 folly and
made Babylon a whisper of the wind. Set ,
Njpoleon's impress on the world was a
tremendous, if not a pure, one, whether
we consider him as the intellectual
product of a ripe n&y or the scourge of
Goo. That impress remaws, not only
in Frauw and Europe, but everywhere
that the priattog press has sent winged
words. In proof of tern, behave occa
sion. a* this time, simply w ragtjr to
what the eaitod jEmperor said to pr. a
O'Meara, eouoerma* eyeota which then
w ere mere prediction aad*ie**iwgrowing
into history. Hear this; “la the go*re
of a few years Russia will have Coostaa
tinople, the greatest part of Turkey. and
at! of Greece. This I hold to be as cer-1
tain as if it had already taken place.
Almost all the cajoling and flattering
which Alexander practiced toward me
wm to gain my consent te this
object. £ would not consent, foreseeing,
that the equflibris* l in Europe would
be destroyed. In the atetnral oourse of
things, in a few years Turkey post fall
to Russia. The greatest part o t h-r
population are Greeks, who, you may
say, are Russians. The pH wm it would
injure, and who oould oppaav N®
Engird, France, Prussia and Austria,
Now, as tp Austria, it will be very easy
for Russia tp engage her assistance by
giving her Servia aud other provinces
bordering ©* the Austrian
reaching near to 42o.nstxutytolfi®*-“ i
The only hypothesis that France
and England will ever be allied
with sincerity, will be in order to pre
vent this. Rtet even this alliance would
not avail. France, England and Prus
sia united cannot prevent jt Russia
and Austria can at any time effect
Onoe mistress of Constantinople, Rus
sia gets all the commerce of the Medi
terranean, becomes a great naval power,
and God knows what may happen. She
quarrels with you, marches off to India
an army of seventy thousand good sol
diers, which to Russia is nothing, and a
{hundred thousand canaille, Cossacks
and others, rad England loses India.
Above other pgprers Russia is most
to be feared, np. Her.
soldiers are braver than the Austrians,
anishe has the means of raising as
many as she pleases. Lin brafery, the
French and English soldiers are the
only ones to be compared to them. All
this 1 foresaw. I see into futurity
farther than others, and I wanted to es
tablish a barrier against those barbari
ans, by re-estsblishing the kingdom of
Polrad, and patting Posiatowbd at the
head at it a* king. Bat year xmbesties
of ministers would not oonaent. A hun
dred years hence I shall be applauded
(encenoe), and Europe, especially Eng
land, will lament that I did not snooeed.
When they see the finest countries in
Europe overcome, ands prey to those
Northern barbarians, they will say:
‘Napoleon was right.' ”
YELLOW FEVER.
Up to a few days past, not s single
case of yellow fever had made its ap
pearance, this season, among the people
of New Orleans. The sanitary con
dition of the city was never better. Dr.
Choppin, President of the Board of
Health, ascribed the absenoe of the
fever to the strict enforcement of the
quarantine laws, which have not per
mitted a single case from abroad to
reach the city. We think Dr. Choppin
entirely right The beet and only pro
tection of a city against the scourge is
absolute quarantine. All other pre
cautions are merely subsidiary and this
seems to be the opinion of all men who
combine science with common-sense.
THE GALLANT NIX HUNDRED.
We are informed that in London, on
the 25th instant, the survivors of the
Balakava “Six Hundred,” about a hun
dred in number, will have a private ban
quet given them by Lady Cardigan, the
widow of their old commander. Every
body has beard of the famons charge,
bnt few persons know exactly what it
cost in British blood. Here’are the offi
cial figures; The Fourth Light Dragoons
lost 79 oat of 118 men; the Eighth Has
ears, 66 ont of 104; Eleventh Hnssars,
85 ont of 110; Thirteenth Dragoons, 69
oat of 130; Seventh Lancers, 110 ont
145. Total loss, 409 out of 607 men.
The French commander, witnessing that
heroic charge, is said to have exclaimed,
(Test beau main e’est ne pas la guerre.
It was rash and fool-hardy, bnt it will
live in song and story. We have in Au
gusta at least two men who survived that
glorions feat of arms.-
WUAT IT MEANS.
Mr. A. G. Buell writes to the New
Orleans Democrat that John Kelly’s
victory in the New York Democratic
Convention was one which has much
true inwardness not visible to the naked
eye of all people. The first object was
to ntterly displace Mr. Tilden as the
Democratic nominee in 1880, and the
substitution in his place of Thomas A.
Hendricks. We learn that one of the
dearest objects of Kelly’s political life
is to send a unanimous Hendricks dele
gation from New York to the next Na
tional Convention. But three years is
proverbially a long time to nnrse Presi
dential candidates, and we have Tom
Corwin’s authority fur the statement
that those candidates usually ran best
who are weaned youngest.
The more immediate object of Mr.
Kelly is to make New York Democratic
beyond a peradventnre, that is, repeat
the Ohio victory on a grand soale. Mr.
Buell thinks this will bo accomplished,
and gives a rongh guess of 40,000 ma
jority on the State ticket, with one to
two majority in the Senate and six to
ten in the lower House of the Legisla
tors. This would roqnd ont the tri
umph completely, and replaoe Mr.
Conklino with a Democratic Senator.
ffiURRDIAN AT A DISCOUNT.
Secretary Sherman has a grievous
harden to carry. He has been fairly
condemned in Ohio, his own State, and
must see the handwriting on the wall
elsewhere. In addition to this, his four
per cent, loan is as good as killed. The
Sun says it can be bought in Wall street
for cash at from one to one and a half
per cent, below par in gold, and, on con
tracts for future deliyery, at one-half of
one per cent, below par in onrrency.
The law authorizing the loan limits the
price at whioh it may be issued to par
in gold, with an allowance of one-half
of one per cent, for the expense of print
ing and negotiation. It being demon
stated that investors will not take at this
rate the $76,000,000 already ont, the re
maining $934,000,000 yet to be put out
evidently stands no chance whatever.
This is bad enough, bnt it is mnch
worse when Cppgjress is told to have an
eye npon him in this matter, since there
is every reason to snppose that he has a
pecuniary interest in the operations of
the syndicate whioh fias undertaken to
market the loan, and these profits, if
the loan suacc.ed ß . W >'l be between $4,-
000,000 and $5,000,000.
We know not how mnch truth there is
in these hints of a silent partnership be
tween the Secretary and the syndicate,
bnt they are growing in popular belief,
the more so, gs Honest John went into
Congress poor and has become a mil
lionaire on a salary of $5,000 per annum,
It may be a good idea for Congress to
watch Sherman and for the people to
watch Congress. __
GENERAL LEE AGAIN.
Gar read ms jijj remember the touch
ing letter we published 4 fey days ago
written by General Lu on the eve .of
departure from Texas in 1861. His
phief pang throughout his glorious ca
reer <w §■ {Southern commander was that
any supposed necessity should have
arisen to make the tight outside the
fining op tup field of battle, ipatpap of
inside the fl nipp, jn the forum of reason.
One of onr exchanges atgtes that on his
arrival in Richmond, after a
commission in the Confederate array, p
lady who had known Wm for many years
and whose two sons had shouldered
muskets in the same army, said to him:
■.‘funeral Lee, how long do you think
the war Jlast ?” “Ah, my little
madama," was the uapjy, tfy m afraid
it will last until we are all dr lien into
the hills and mountains.’* This- feeling
of the hopelessness of the struggle,
peopled with the vast responsibilities of
his aged Lee very fast. The
same lady met Wm fte street just
after the surrender, looked him ah in e
hw end did not recognize him until he
spoke jto feiy. Every vestige of his
former self had
That Lee would hays ordered things
differently we .believe; but nothing in
his ohumW go peculiarly pathetic as
his devotion tp ¥ftfr he felt that
every struggle was boptotep.
he could do was to preserve 4he primary
honor of his Southern countrymen and
his own grand ideal of perfect manhood
aspd the storms of fate. He did
both. Tru*. the events following the
war in .the Meld Ws noble
heart, but time.has made all things eyen
His oountrymeu have emerged
from the of their enemies and
wrung fropi *thqm pi97, er never
dreamed of possessing to ?rom
his J>jrqnfi .the stars Robert E.
Lag MW IfiS and w ®
who followed bis banpey **
down, in honor thong*
God that he lived and was cop of ns,
ypd millions everywhere prefer the grave
at to the holiday prooession
to England- '&>& npe that Lee fought
for—loeal self -goyfimpmW—yS not a
vain one. It still lives, spd wiU be eii
the more respected, to these and futnre
ages, because it was cemented by the
blood of the brave.
A Paris paper ftp the following: “Rus
sian to Turk, who receives a baronet thrust
—‘But, my poor Turk, yen don’t seem Ip
object V Turk—‘lt is the first time in'
eight days that anything has gone into my
stomach.’ ”
THE CAMPAIGN.
Joseph B. Cummins.
Editors (jk-ortifete and Constitutionaitist:
I desire to make no invidions oom
pJnsons. iJjCvaiy man doubtless has hts
peculiar reasons for prefering the candi
date of hp choice. I hope I may be
pardoned, therefore, for giving at least
those which actuate me in endorsing the
distinguished gentleman whose name
heads this article.
1. First and foremost, he is a well de
fined Democrat. Yon are never in doubt
as to where to find him; when personal
advancement is on the one side and the
public wellfare or principle en the other,
y always know that he will sacrifice
the former in order to esponse the lat
ter. And in times that try men’s sonls,
When one after another we sadly witness
some straying to the right and to the
left and some of them even into the
very camp of the enemy, the friends of
Major Camming know precisely where
to find him and where not to find him.
2.. No temptation has ever been great
enough or can be to seduce him from
the faith of bis fathers and decoy him
into affiliation with the enemies of his
people. To me the noblest exhibition
of courage, the loftiest exercise of ha
man power is to remain unswervingly
true in the honr of a great and raging
conflict between self and dnty.
3. He is a tried Democrat. He does
not seek to disorganize or demolish.
On the contrary, no matter what his
personal preference may be or however
mnch he may differ from his party in
matters of policy, he is ever ready to
make personal sacrifices. And never
under any circumstances withdraws his
hearty support from the Democratic
party and its nominees. I never loved
Major Camming, bnt when I am asked
for my reasons for supporting him as
Senator it gives me pleasure always to
answer promptly and to furnish my
reasons in their regular order: Ist. Be
cause he is a well defined Democrat.
2d. Because he is an unswerving Demo
crat. 3d. Because he is a tried Demo
crat. ' “Simon Puke.”
I>lr. Lewis R. Collins.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Several worthy gentlemen have been
proposed for the Democratic nomina
tions to represent Richmond county in
the Lower Honse in the next Legisla
ture. The county outside of the city of
Augusta, by general consent, has one
name on the ticket. Let me suggest for
the nomination Mr. Lewis R. Collins, a
farmer, a property owner, a man every
way qualified to represent an intelligent
constituency. Mr. Collins is a practical
man, a true exponent of the laboring
and farming masses of the county. The
city of Augusta will take care to have
such men as will properly and truly rep
resent her. The agricultural interest
should be represented. Mr. Collins is
certainly a good man for the place. Let
our citizens consider his claims. By all
means let us harmonize aud put forward
our best men. We merely suggest; the
people in Convention, we feel, will act
wisely and discreetly. Yours, M. A. B.
Mr. Lewis D. Duval.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
In the selection of gentlemen to rep
resent Richmond in the State Legisla
ture, it has been an honored onstom to
to allow the county at least one of the
three representatives apportioned to the
county. The justice of this oause is at
once apparent, and hence it is taken for
granted that in the coming election all
fair-minded men will cast a vote for the
county candidate so-called ; provided a
gentleman is pnt forward who deserves
their support. There is quite a iaree
number from which to choose. Mr. W.
E. Johnson, Mr. Walter Clark, Mr. J.
M. Seago, Mr. M. J. Carswell, Dr. Bar
ton, Major McLaws, Mr. Deas and oth
ers would bo acceptable. But there is
a strong and a daily increasing desire
among his many friends to see the honor
conferred upon Mr. L. D. Duval. He
is in every way worthy of the good will
and support of his fellow-citizens. He
is a self-made man. He has surmount
ed many formidable obstacles. He is
bound to succeed at whatever he under
takes. He has the true grit iu him. He
is self-reliant, energetie and sober. He
is gifted with a sound judgment and
good, hard, old-fashioned common
sense, which is the rarest and best sort
of sense. He has an extended legal
knowledge, which will give him an ad
vantage over many who might otherwise
be his peers. He is emphatically one of
the people. He is thoroughly identified
with us. Of strong intellect, warm
heart and unimpeachable integrity, he
would make the very man to complete
the ticket; and then we will all vote for
Sibley, Wright and Duval.
Countryman.
IJON. 11. CLAY FOSTER.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
I have read with deep interest the ar
ticles which have appeared from day to
day in your columns op the Senatorial
oanvass. With no one of them was I
more pleased than that in which atten
tention was directed to the manly and
out-spoken position taken by Maj.
Joseph B. Gumming on the question of
pnblio education. We have all had the
privilege of reading the excellent ad
dress which he delivered on that sub
ject at Toccoa last Summer; every true
friend of education should rejoice that
the cause has won so wise and so elo
quent a champion. It was proper that
his position on the important question
referred to should be made known.
Right cheerfully dp I accord Major
Gumming the full meed of praise due
him on this and other accounts. Bat
he does not stand alone. Duty to a
friend and schoolmate prompts me to
say, in response to questions repeatedly
asked in private, that no man has been
or is more pronounced in his views in
favor of an enlightened system of public
instruction than the Hon. H. Clay Fos
ter. At one time (1871), a member of
the Board of Trustees of the First Ward,
his thorough identification with the
cause, more than aught else, secured
his nomination for and election to the
Lower House of the General Assembly
a few years ago. Asa member of the
House he performed no small part in
securing the setting apart of half the
annual rental of the Western and Atlan
tic Railroad as a portion of the State
educational fund. This increased that
fund slso,oofi per annum. With Pea
body, of Colnmbus, and others, Mr.
Foster contributed largely tq legislation
which has done much toward preserving,
strengthening and firmly establishing
the system throughout the State. He
has constantly exhibited a lively interest
in the progress of the cause, and his pen
has not been idle—albeit it has done its
work under the nom dc plume of its
master.
she office to be filled is an important
one, and reuuiyes in its occupant a high
order, as well as great yersatility, of tal
ent. It is true that the interests of this
constituency and State wonld be safe in
the hands of either of the gentlemen
named, but I am satisfied that, should
the phoice of the people fall upon Mr.
Foster, nojt #pe of the gentlemen who
will occupy seats the Senate will
exoel, if indeed equal, him to watchful
ness and devotion to the interests of all
classes of our citizens. Justice.
TO THE VOTER* 0? ?IfE EIGHTEENTH
SENATORIAL DISTRICT?
Augusta, October 14, 1877.
Being assured that the emergency in
the politics of the Stats which justified
nominating conventions and primary
elections has passed, and that a large
majority tSf'te.Y people of the District
desire to exercise WA of the
elective franchise JU the coming eWetlop
untrammelled by tle aatien of nomi
nating conventions or similar expedi
ents and to vote directly for candidates
of their own selection, I hereby an
no drifts myifcjl? as a candidate for the
Senate frdrn the Senatorial
District, composed of tee eounjups of
Jefferson and Glascock, at
the approaching election in December.
I therefore request my friends to take
no part to tee primary meetings in this
county called for theswtb, current, so
far as relates to the Senatorial race.
1 H. Clax Foster.
Maaanry in Indiana.
“•* . in !•, ini 1
[From the St. Joseph BerauL}
A Masonic Lodge in Indiana was pre
sided over by a Master who had anlex
aggerated notion of discipline. One
eight he met his lodge in called meeting
fdfet a member absent) to instruct them
in the terfkV Tessin- them the use of
the gavel, he W jW them up
with three knocks, when he TcanUa too
far back, fell through a window to the
eronzi four stories — and broke Ills
nßdT’Pilwid S” next morning, he was
buried g*ntl/,W.tef r came
to teefhneral: Ijtetestringatitt, at**
Mc.a.-n appeared any more in that vil
lage ItVas ihexplieabfe.' Forty women
left widows, aaffitilßwn left orphans
eighty-four merohant§l#f ic the larch
with unpaid biils. Twenty years after
that somebody went up into the fourth
story, broke open the door, and beheld
the lodge, a lodge of skeletons ! Strange,
bat iyap. teej hkd atricfly obeyed the
orders of the W- ¥•* and * waiting for
the knocks to seat teem, to
death. Each was standing to an attitude
of respectful attention, booking to the
East;’’and had no pitying citizens taken
thAm down, they wonld have been stand
tog there still.
Endorsed by the people as a safe, re
liable, harmless and cheap remedy. Dr.
Ball’s Cough Syrap.
THE OHIO ELECTION.
WHAT THffSAPERS BAY
■ djk ■ A, Jk
ACartau FwWon. tfpjf
[XeW York WorVt, | ■
As for the Administration in the con
test, such it the CUrioawpoßfßoh of both
parties that President Hayes finds him
self at one and the same time approved
by the Democratic victory and con
demned by the Republican defeat! The
effect of the election on the cor tost in
Pennsylvania next month cannot fail to
be decisive, and it will be favorably felt
in our own State also.
Tiidea AveafoA. -
[Charleston News and Courier, Hem.]
The Democratic star in in the ascend
ent. Mr. Tilden is avenged. The Brad
leys and Mortons are branded by the
popular voice as cheats and demagogues.
As the Democracy grow stronger their
reeponbilitiee increase. The Southern
Congressmen, however, can moderate
and temper the headlong zeal of their
Norther colleagues, and make the South
the great conservative force, the balance
wheel, of the Union.
Not Mach of a Shower.
[A r . I’. Tribune, Tnd. Rep.]
The direct bearing of this election
npon national politics, as we explained
yesterday, is very slight, national issues
having been avoided in the contest by
both sides. But, indirectly, it may have
an excellent effect upon the Western Re
publicans. Two years ago they met
their adversaries in Ohio on the high
gronnd of-national honesty, and, after a
bard fight, they beat them gloriously.
This year they have fallen back from the
noble position which they then con
quered, and they are overwhelmed. An
other year they will perhaps understand
that honesty is the best policy.
Mam’s the Word.
[Washington Union, Adm, Hep.}
The Republicans were snffering from
extreme lethargy, owing to their want
of confidence in the wisdom and effioaoy
of the new-born policy of President
Hayes. It was JJien evident that many
who had become dissatisfied would go
with the workingmen—while others were
being diverted by the money question
and thus the Republican party was be
ing sapped of its power. Another class
of Republicans, who could not and would
not ally themselves to these outside or
ganizations, remained at home, and their
votes were lost. In this way defeat has
probably come to the Republican party
in the President’s own State. Neither
the Republican party nor the Adminis
tration will burn any powder over this
achievement. The least said about it
tbe better.
Tlie (loose Hangs High.
[Richmond Dispatch , Deni.]
Another faot worthy of attention is
that Bishop gained largely in the West
ern Reserve—the old abolitionist strong
bold, where the people have always
largely mixed up moral questions with
their polities. These old abolitionists
are a headstrong people. They sent
Joshua Giddings to Congress thirty
years ago, and re-elected him after he
had been expelled by the House of
Representatives. They vote as they
please. Perhaps they are not satisfied
with Mr. Hayes’ course. Perhaps they
had their sympathies aroused in behalf
of Bishop.' We state the fact, and leave
the reader to draw his own inference.
Everything promises well for the Demo
crats and for the country. Let ns not
by any act of ours throw away victory
in 1880.
Tlie Policy Did It.
LA T . 7. Times, Rep.]
The estimates from Columbus from
Democratic sources claim 25,000, whioh
is not impossible. With such a result
on the State ticket, it is not to be won
dered at that the Legislature is Demo
cratic also. This is reported as insuring
the election of George H. Pendleton to
the United States Senate. The Labor
Party’s vote has been larger than it was
supposed it would be, and has cost the
Republicans heavily among the miners
aud the Germans. As both the main
parties were equally evasive on all live
questions of the day, the result in Ohio
can only be said to be significant of tbe
way in which the President’s “Southern
policy” is regarded. It is evident that
it has displeased a good many Republi
cans, and tbe number of Democrats won
by it does not appear to be large.
A Tremendous Revolution.
[Philadelphia Times, Ind.\
The stunning Democratic viotory in
Ohio surpasses the highest hopes of the
successful party and strikes the van
quished dumb with amazement. It is
not a mere defeat; it is a revolution, and
it leaves the Republicanism that has
woven the greenest chaplets of onr his
tory in our bettor days in the starless
midnight of hopelessness. It is idle to
explain that Greenback, Labor and Pro
hibition diversions decimated the Re
publican party while the Democracy
stood in solid ranks when the decisive
battle came upon them. Republicanism
was disintegrated, not beoause its voters
loved Greenback, Labor or Prohibition
doctrines better, but because they de
manded some channel of egreßS from
the befouled Republican temple; and
the Democracy stood to their guns be
cause they were out of power; because
they wanted to win power, and because
Republicanism opened its own gates for
the enemy to enter and overwhelm it.
The verdict of Ohio is unmistakable.
It is a crushing defeat for President
Hayes, and it pomes from those who
shquld haye been friends as well as from
consistent foe3. It copies from incon
gruous elements which foupd unity
without arrangement to strike the fatal
blow. He was hated for his to the
peace of the nation; he was smitten by
thousands who felt that he wears an
other’s crowD, and he was deserted by
many becanse of the distrusted leaders
who gave him half-hearted support aud
yet loaded him with their friendship.
Judge West opened the campaign by a
fatql directed at his own vitals, and
the party floundered tinder his awkward
efforts to retrieve his irretrievable blun
der. Stanley Matthews was a double
millstone about the neck of the Presi
dent, and a deadweight upon the totter
ing party, while cross purposes and a
general spirit of vengeance within the
Republican household, made it an easy
conquest for the practically united De
moof^cy.
Whether the majority for Bishop shall
foot up twenty or thirty thousand mat
ters little. It is not less than twenty,
and morp is needless, for it carries the
Legislature and a United States Sena
tor, and dates the final destruction of the
debanohed Republicanism that was first
arraigned at Cincinnati iu JB?4. It will
sweep down the last vestige f hopeful
opposition to Democratic success in
Pennsylvania, and even Philadelphia
will swing from her Republican moor
ings in November.
THE TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Please allow me room in your columns
for a few words in regard to the ap
proaching election for Senator from the
Twenty-ninth Distriot. I know that a
meeting has been held in Colombia
oountv and that the delegates who were
elected go pledged to a candidate who
if elected, will not be the choice of the
people by any means, bnt who, if elect
ed, w>ll be from the simple faet that
he was nominated fty this Tjistrict
Oonvenvion of gig lit ojr fen men.
Now, I thiLk the time has eoiae when
this District can safely do away
with nominations. There is only
one party in this District. Then why
a nomination ? Is it fair that seven or
eight men shonld say who should be our
Senator 0 I think not; therefore lam
in fayojr of t ( ue most popular man and
the best man Wtft'esjitoriet. The ques
tion which now presents itself is,‘‘who
is the best man ? The writer is very
well acquainted with the sentiment of
the people throughout the entire Dis
trict, and is honestly satisfied that the
Ssople of the Twenty-ninth Senatorial
istriet Colonel W. D. Tutt
to represent them to' the next
Senate; and the reason is, that with
the exception of Jndge Reese (who re
fuses to fill the office), and General
Toombs who,too. wonld not have it),he
is the ablest man in the District. Not
only ia Colonel Tutt an able lawyer, an
eloquent speaker, a- man of mind, an
Jiorieet man, bnt he is a man who has
nce represented the good old oonnty of
Lincbln to the Legislature, and did
ably, too. Col.' r *'ntt%as considered one
of the first men in the House, if not the
peer of any of them. What has been
his record since? His present po
sition will tell for itself. Col. Tutt
ought, and I hope will, in justice to the
Disfitot; aQ d in joatioe to his friends, to
rtm trUtepenoeahn’ Althongn there
are a tew enemies (whom <m kite never
wronged), still his <** P°-
merons than they, and they, knowing
hia atondard as a statesman, and as a
man, tii be muse Reproach, do urgently
request him to give no notiee to the
Convention, bat to make an indepen
dent run. “* Many Friends.
Augusta. Ga., October It
“It ia Perfectly Splendid."
“There’s nothing like it.” “Never
could use baking powder till tried
yonra.” “Can’t speak too highly of it.”
That-a what they say of Pooley’s Yeast
Powder.
Bishop’s majority in Ohio will not
reach 25,000.
The schooner Thistle, from Wilming
ton, N. 0., is at Queenstown leaky, hav
ing lost her rudder.
THAT RIVER MONSTER.
ITS APPEARANCJ? UPOH DRY
'• %
Terriße Enconter ia a Field Near CAhakla
Witnessed Ttuouakont k; a Member ef a
WeHiKnawt' F.inilLv—“Beware the Jab
berwoclc, W Soul Beware the Frtunioua
Bandersnatch !”
[Sf. Louis Republican.]
Mr. Jabez Smith is a veil to do farmer
on a small scale, whose place is situated
in the American Bottom at a point six
or seven miles southeast of Cahokia.
Mr. Smith is a gentleman well known
ab his locality as an upright and thor
oughly reliable citizen, one who would
soorn to utter an untruth or to give cir
culation to a report having about it even
the air of an exaggeration. So marked,
in fact, is his peculiarity in this respect,
and so generally understood in his anti
pathy to anything sensational or not
fully corroborated in every particular
that he is more widely known among his
friends by the name of “Truthful Jabez”
than by the one which is credited to
him in the family Bible.
It was from Mr. Jabez Smith that a
startling account came, and came so di
rectly as to leave no doubt in the mind
of any one knowing Mr. Smith’s charac
ter as to its complete reliability. Mr.
Smith recounted the story to a neighbor,
who told it to a man on a steamer which
stopped at East Oarondelet on its way
up, and this man in turn brought the
nefws to St. Louis. Mr. Smith’s exoiting
account is neither more nor less than to
the effect that the strange river monster
which has lately caused such a commo
tion on the Mississippi was on Friday af
ternoon
Seen Again.
Not near Memphis this time, but near
Cahokia, and not in the water, but on
land ! The hideous saurian was ob
served by but one person—Mr. Smith’s
little boy Johnny, about twelve years of
age—bnt was seen under such circum
stances as to afford by far the best idea
yet obtainable of the monster’s charac
ter. From the boy’s aocount, as given
to his father and subsequently trans
mitted as described, the details of a
most remarkable event are derived. It
appears that at about four o’clock on
Friday afternoon the boy was sent by
his father to a pasture near a piece of
woodland, about half a mile from the
house, to drive home a brindle bull
there confined. The bull, though small,
is an extremely vicious animal, and
young Smith, who appears endowed
with a discretion beyond his age, took
occasion to enter the pasture at a point
some distance from the animal, in order
to test the bull’s probable humor by
shaking a stick at him, while leaving a
margin for safe retreat, should the bull
prove ugly. This, as subsequently ap
peared, was a very fortunate circum
stance for young Smith. He had just
entered the pasture, and was flourishing
his stiok and shouting to the bull to
“come on,” an invitation which the ani
mal seemed notunlikely to accept, when
the attention of both bull and boy was
suddenly diverted from the matter in
hand to something else. There emenat
ed from the adjoining pieoe of woods a
bellowing so deep, so dismal and so un
earthly that, seized with an awful
fright, the boy hurried over the fence
on the opposite side of the field, and
there crouched behind the rails, while
the bull, though too plucky to retreat,
stood braced in his position with his
short tail erect, head lowered, and his
hair literally turned forward in the
wrong direction from the sudden alarm.
Scarcely a moment had elapsed before
the boy saw from his place of conceal
ment the
Horrible Solution
Of the mystery of the sound. From the
edge of the woodland there upreared a
head upon a swaying neck at least twen
ty feet in length. The head was that of
a wolf or dog, save that there was a pro
longation into a huge bill or horny jaws.
This bill the monster opened at inter
vals, displaying a row of immense fangs
upon each division, while as he opened
it on each occasion there was emitted a
hissing noise loud enough to be heard
for a great distance. From the back of
the head and adawn the neck depended
a mane of coarse reddish hair. The
monster retained its position for a mo
ment or two, swaying its head gently
back and forth, when its eyes fell upon
the bull; then it at once showed signs
of great excitement. It snorted fiercely,
the hissing sound became almost con
tinuous, and it would repeatedly open its
immense jaws and snap them together
with a sound like the report of a rifle.
Its hesitation did not long continue.
Maddened by the sight of the bull the
nioaster advanced at once and
.Swiftly to the Attack.
Raising its head still higher, it shot for
ward over the fence and thence came
over in swift, billowy undulations, the
fence seeming no obstaole at all. As the
animal entered the field its whole body
could be distinctly seen. The great neck
terminated in a body of somewhat less
length, supported upon four short legs
armed with immense claws, though the
motions of the animal seemed to resem
ble rather those of a snake than of a
thing with legs. To the body was join
ed a tail quite as long as the neck and
terminating in a huge barb, hard appa
rently as iron, and having the bright
red color of a boiled lobster. Ihe neck
and entire body were sheathed in scales
of a dark blue color and as large as din
ner plates. Most remarkable of all was
a pair of hqge membranous wings which
were folded along the body on either
sjde. The appearance of the great rep
tile was indescribably fearful and repul
sive. It ffloyed toward the bull, hissing
loudly and sweeping about the apparent
ly doomed animals in circles of decreas
ing extent.
The bull meanwhile retained his po
sition with lowered head and an occa
sional response to the hissing by a
short bellow. He was alarmed, but
evidently
Full of Fight.
His whole body was quivering, and
his stump of a tail stood out like the
limb of k sturdy oak. As the monster
swept about in circles the bull turned
slowly, always keeping his front toward
the enemy. Suddenly the reptile raised
its head to an immense height, opened
its huge jaws and darted forward.
The boy in the fence corner saw the
shock of the encounter and nothing
more. Instantly there arose such a
cloud of dust as almost to concpal the
powerful comhatatauts from sight. The
ground shook as with some internal con
vulsion. The air quaked with a com
mingled bellowing and roaring. Dimly
discerned through the dirst-cloud could
be seen portions of hhH and reptile and
tufts of flying hair and chips qf shatter
ed scales. There could he heard the
snap of the monster's jaws aud the rat
tle of the bull’s horns upon its mailed
sides. Flashing here and there through
the diugy nimbus could be seen the
blood-red dart upon the reptile’s tail
as it sought to transfix its active antago
nist. It was a panorama of desperate
battle ; a volume of sound, of fierce en
counter. The tide of battle shjftgd in
sensibly to The vicinity a huge oak
stump which was near the centre of the
field. Then the boy saw the tail of the
strange monster snddenly whip
Outward and Upward
And dart the ba'b downward witty
the spaed ol a' ttyFpdertyolt. was
a crack like ttye report of a cannon, 'the
barb had again missed the bull, and
this time had encountered a harder sub
stance. The boy peering through the
fence gaye a Vila y®)l or aaiiaiaetion.
The barb had ’ buried” itself in the
stump !
The monster was at a disadvantage.
It was fastened at one end to the stump
and bad remaining only its claws and
teeth, terrible indeed, but less so since
the movement of the creature was neces
sarily restricted by its remarkable posi
tion.' The ball 'haS ttondwfhlij escaped
all fatal injury, and its horns now dashed
upon the sides of its adversary like a
forge hammer upon an anvil. The fight
swung around the stump as a pivot, and
the pandemonium of sounds and clouds
of dust continued. Closer and closer to
the stump the combatß drew oontihnally,
for, with eaeb reoltipp another turn
of the monsters tail was taken about
the object, and its freedom of action be
came more and more impaired. The
struggle was terminating oddly.
The bull was getting the advantage !
The rattfe of the horns upon scaly
sides became more continuous and the
bellowing of the bull loader, but the
roar of the monster reptile became less
fear-inapirinc- A gust Of wind swept
across tb’e Add and lifted the utoud of
dost. Then the boy saw 1 the fight end
strangely. The unknown animal, in its
last great strait, made one last fierce ef
fort, tore its barbed tail from the wood
and unwound its sinuous folds about
the stump with the celerity of lightning.
Then suddenly rearing its head again it
unfolded iot the tyr?t time the
Great Wioga
Folded along its sides, and rose in the
air like a gigantic bat. With a wild,
hoarse cry it parted upward to the
height of huu&reds ol feet, and took a
southwesterly direction toward the Mis
sissippi. A few moments later, frogs the
direction of toe distant river, came the
sound of a tremendous spjashand awash
of waters, as though some heavy Body
had fallen into the river from a great
height. The baffled monster had reached
again bis native element.
Cautiously the boy in the fence corn
er emerged from his retreat and ap
proached the scene of the late encoun
ter. The ball, nearly skinned, with bat
one ear and one horn remaining, stood
there, weak, bat fearless still, stamping,
lashing its sides with what little remain
ed of its tail, and gazing in the direction
where his antagonist had disappeared
over the wood. Tfore was it air enough
on the ground to sfjkff a mattress with
and fragmafcta <bf gfeat scale* were scat
tered about otter an area of half an acre,
while the grew oak stuep Was absolute
ly riven in twain in the effort of the
monster to release its forked tailed from
the tough wood. The boy flourished the
stick and the bull started home quietly.
It had been engaging in too grand a
straggle to fool with boys any more, and
besides it didn’t seem to be feeling quite
well. Twenty minntes later the father,
“Truthful Jabez,” knew all abont the
remarkable occurrence.
Mr. Jabez Smith Interviewed.
As soon as the news of the advent of
the remarkable river monster in the
American Bottom had reached St. Lonis
a reporter was dispatch to interview Mr.
Jabez Smith upon the subject, and gain,
if possible, farther details of interest.
Mr. Smith was found iu the yard back
of his house, engaged in soraping a dead
and lately scalded pig, having, as he
said, just killed one or two very likely
shoats for the St. Lonis market.
“Where is your son Johnny, Mr.
Smith ?” said the reporter.
Mr. Smith explained that the boy,
armed with the family mnsket, was out
killing turtles, np the slough.
“And how is yonr bull getting along ?”
was the next query.
“Purty well, considerin’, bnt he was
nearly skinned and awfnlly tuckered ont
fightin’ that doggone wild* beast yester
day.”
“He must be a pretty good animal.”
“Wa’al, he’s a tollable sizeable bull,
for his age.”
“Have you visited the scene of the en
counter, Mr. Smith ?”
“You mean the plaoe whar they fit ?
Yes, I was thar.”
“Did you notioe anything in particular
about the ground ?”
“Wa’al, there was most of the bull’s
bar an’ fish-scales bigger’n the top o’
yer hat.”
“Anything else ?”
“No, ’ceptin’ a kind o’ snaky smell
roun’ the place whar they fit most.”
“What do you imagine the monster to
have been which attacked the buU ?”
“I dunno.”
“Did your son tell yon anything about
the reptile’s actions further than has
already been made public ?”
“Wa’al, be mentioned that as the
thing flew off over the trees its tail dan
gled down au' hit the branches, an’ that
then the tail curled up an’ tied itself in
a double bow knot, so’s twonldn’t hit
the limbs any more, just as easy !”
“Is your son a reliable boy, sir ?”
“Ef he told a lie I’d skin ’im !”
By Telegraph.
Cahokia, October 6, 11, p. m.—Prof.
McHonser, President of the Cahokia
Archaeological and Zoological Society,
has just returned from a visit to the farm
of Mr. Jabez Smith, about seven miles
back in the country, where he has been
engaged all day in taking notes regard
ing the unknown monßter reported as
attacking a bull there on yesterday eve
ning. Upon the “snaky smell” men
tioned by Mr. Jabez Smith as remaining
after the monster’s departure, the Pro
fessor places little stress, recognizing
the odor, as soon as he reached the spot,
as that emitted, when the animal is
piqued at any thing, by the familiar
mephitis Americana. From the claw
marks upon the bull’s back, however,
the Professor was enabled not only to
assure himself that the reported mon-
Bter had actually been in the neighbor
hood, but to determine its order and
structure. He unhesitatingly pronounces
the strange visitor one of the gigantic
prehistoric reptiles of which only the
skeletons have heretofore been found,
but, singularly enough, a hybrid, being
evidently a cross between the pterodac
tyl and the pleiosaurus. From this
evidence the Professor is satisfied that
both these great reptiles still remain in
existence, having their home in waters
yet unexplored. The monster which has
made its appearance here, the Profes
sor'thinks, is but one which has by ac
cident ascended the Mississippi from
the depths of the unsounded seas. The
most tremendous excitement prevails
over the discovery, and the Cahokia
Brass Band—if the trombone man, who
has gone oatfishing, can be found—will
shortly serenade the Professor at his
residence, when he will be called upon
to make a speech.
THE NEW YORK FIKEIIIEN.
How They Are Housed, Where They Bleep*
aud the Appurtenauces aud Appliances
With Which They Work.
As interesting to our fire laddies, we
reproduce the following account of the
way they “run with the machine” in
New York city. August x has not pro
gressed sufficiently to do these things
up as quickly. The article we clip from
Harper's Magazine for October : “The
firemen spring ont of their bed simul
taneously, without losing a tenth of a
second in hesitation or surprise; ten
pairs of legs are simultaneously thrust
into the trousers by the bedside, and
two hitches pull on both trousers and
boot. The trousers close upon the hips,
so that no time is lost with suspenders
or belts, and the miraculous toilet is
complete, while I stand confused by the
distressing suddenness of things. The
noise iu the lower room is as though the
foundations of the building were beiDg
blasted by dynamite. The bell is still
striking, repeating the signal five times
over, aud the last fireman is half way
down stairs before I oan recover myself
and hastily follow him. Below stairs
the horses are hitched to the engine, the
driver is on the box, the furnace
is lighted, the men have taken their
precarious positions on the tender, the
doors leading to the street are wide
open, and one minute has not expired
since the first stroke of the bell!
Tho engineer taps me on the shoul
der and orders mo into a place
on the narrow platform behind the
engine. “Hold on for yonr life 1” The
advice is scarcely in my ear when the
horses plunge forward and the machine
rolls off the smooth floor of the station
on to the cobble stones of the street,
which seem to fly ont of their beds in
the rebound of the wheels. The excite
ment bewilders; the stores and houses
along the route are indistinct; for a mo
ment our feet are shaken from under us
its we sharply turn a corner; then a
greater ease in (notion tells us that we
haye left the oobble stone or Belgian
pavement for asphalt or macadam; the
tremulous finger of the steam gauge in
dicates a higher and higher pressure;
tbe furnace blazes with increasing vehe
mence, and the syaoke-siack emits dense
wreattys p t mingled smoke and sparks,
which are blown back upon us and in
close us in their suffocating blackness.
The experience is thrilling beyond mea
sure to a novice, and the absorbed ex
pression of the men who have been used
to the thing for years shows that it also
has some effect upon them. The engine
steps abruptly in front of the building
out of which some smoke is drifting; the
hose is uncoiled from the tender, a
hydrant is tapped, and ip less than five
minutes after the tyrst stroke of alarm at
the station a stream of water is thrown
upon the fire by the engine, whioh gasps
for breath, apparently, at the haste. —
Within these five minutes twelve or
thirteen men haye beep aroused from a
sound sleep and haye dressed themselves,
three horses haye been taken ont of
a stable and attached to vehioles, and
the vehicles and men have traveled five
blocks. tylut if one should speak tp the
men about it, they fiepreca’te ad
-35 thmng the first' visit of the
Gfrand Tluke Alexis to New York an
alarm of fire was sounded at the Claren
don Hotel, in Fourth avenue, and a
stream of water was turned upon
the building by an engine with
in two minutes and thirty-five
seconds, the engine having been
manned and brought four blocks in the
meantime. Jt ig not nnpß(jal for the
engine to be o\xt a*d on its way to a fire
within forty seoonds of the moment
when the bell first striked. As soon as
they return to the station, no matter
how tired they may be, the engine is re
stored to its original condition of bril
liancy, the horses are groomed, the har
ness is washed with castile soap, the
hose js readjusted on the tender, and an
hour afterward, or les, the company is
fully prepared to answer another alarm.
Each man places his hat and coat in hie
seat on the tender, and puts them on
after he has started for the fire; he also
has a particular place and a partionlar
duty assigned to him in hitching np the
Horses, which' is dotie by elecfric soaps,
and in’ getting ttye engityp of the
house, the entity perforfuauce often con
suming no more than ten seoonds.”
EXPLOSION IN A .VINK.
Terrible I,o* of life in an English Colliery.
London, October 11.—An explosion
of a colliery occurred at Ij’emberton,
near Wigan, Lancaster, and of over for
ty miners wh6 were in the pit only five,
so far, have beeii rescued. Three of
the rescuers were suffocated.
Joy and happinepa has been brought
to the hearic of aotherf, and the .bloom
of health restored to the cheeks and
many little' darlings, by TyrnTpiiiA
(Teething powders).
Mothers, sleep sweetly tp-night by
giving your child Teethina (Teethißg
Powders) to-day.
m W • -rear
The North Georgia Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Chnrch South,
composed ol all tbe traveling preachers
within its boundary, and of lay delegates
from every district, will meet at Gaines
ville Wednesday, the 28th of November.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PARERS.
1 * '
Dalton wishes her streets paved. ™ t
Griffin is having a sort of a fair. *
Oartemtille has thirty-one lawyers.
Hart eoiinty women outlive the men.
Madison county counts on half a crop.
Malarial fevers are gradually lifting.
Mr. Frank Reynolds, of Macon, is
dead.
Heard oounty gives np her pauper’s
farm.
The Elberton Guards show signs of
reviving.
Ten cotton buyers are operating in
Newman. - ' , '****' ,J
Elberton’s cornet band numbers 15
instruments.
’Pears like Elberton is bound to string
np that Air line.
The Greenesboro fair commences on
the 24th of October.
A species of hog cholera seems to pre
vail in Madison county.
There are six negroes and one white
man in Upson county jail.
Last year Atlanta received 12,000
males; and in 1875, 15,000.
Elberton cows are allowed afternoon
strolls through the cemetery.
The Elberton colored school had a
creditable exhibition last week.
Thomas oonnty sends four boys to
Athens and three to Meroer this session.
A little frost npon the musquitoe’s
tail causeth him to reverse his little bill.
Levison Isabell, Esq., and Mrs. Eliza
beth Nelson, of Hart county, died re
cently.
Dalton is to have a riding matoh on
the 18th, in which ladies will be the
contestants.
Dr. Walker, near Monticello, had his
gin house and about twenty bales of cot
ton burned recently.
A little negro, the other day, near
Milner, became entangled in some gin
gear and was killed.
The compensation of teachers by the
Board of Education of Floyd county is
3J cents per day, more or less.
"Miss Maggie Gresham, after a pro
tracted illness of typhoid fever, died in
Bnrke county Sunday morning.
. The Athens Georgian thinks that the
price of admission to the State Fair
Grounds, 50 cents, is exorbitant.
Rev. G. A. Nunnally has been elected
to the pastoral charge of the Rome Bap
tist Church for an indefinite time.
Savannah citizens living on the su
burbs have organized a patrol club to
protect the outskirts from depredations.
The Cartersvillo Express this week
has a capital review of tjie mineral, agri
cultural and other resources of Bartow
county.
Dan Flewellyn, colored thief in
Warrenton, managed to get off the other
day with a little small change, but he
didn’t keep it long.
Two tramps stole a ride between Ha
vanuah and Macon recently in a tightly
sealed freight car, and were sixteen
hours without bread or water.
A loving couple from LaGrange left
their respective spouses at home, and
eloped to Atlanta with matrimonial in
tents. They were arrested, however.
The Warrenton Methodist are hold
ing a protracted meeting. Bishop Camp
bell, the colored Methodist Bishop of
Pennsyvania, preached there Sunday
night,
A woman in Georgia, who has been
married only a little over six months,
has been separated from her husband
three times, so says the Covington En
terprise.
A Mr. Richardson, who has been
canvassing Elbert county in tho inter
est of a Nashville nursery, lias been ar
rested obarged with an assault to com
mit rape.
Dr. E. Dorsette Newton, of New York,
is on a Winter’s to his Athens friends.
The Doctor speaks hopeful of the ulti
mate immigration of Cleopatra’s needle
to this country.
A young man named Ansley, in Mc-
Duffie county, shot and killed a horse
and a mule, while they were depredat
ing his field. The stock belonged to
Mrs. Effie Johnson.
An old negro died in Burke county
last week who claimed to remember all
about the war of ’76. A son of his, said
to be over 70, was at his bnrial, and he
was the third child.
The Hartwell “rebel reunion” was an
enjoyable glorification notwithstanding
a shortness of rations. Speeches were
made by A. G. MoCurry, Esq., Captain
Craft, J. T. W. Vernon and Maj. Skel
ton.
An exchange says: “The Rev. George
Bull baptized forty persons by immer
sion in twenty-seven minutes in Savan
nah, and he is eighty years old, too. He
is a ‘star’ baptizer—in faot, Ja Great
Dipper.”
The Savannah News thinks that two
of the military prizes at the State Fair
should be offered for the best and sec
ond best, and then the Dahlonga Ca
dets could be let iu without unfairness
to the volunteer organizations.
The Greenesboro Herald notes that
Miss Anna Horton, of Augusta, is spend
ing a short time with Miss Emma Hart.
Thus Augusta contributes another of
her handsome and accomplished yonng
ladies to enhance the pleasures of Union
Point society.
THE PRESIDENT SUSTAINED.
Further Remarks in Meeting (rum the Anll-
Conklingltes.
New Yobk, October 11.—Tho anti-
Conkling meeting adopted the following
resolutions :
Resolved, That we rejoice in the re
cent and unquestionable evidences that
every clause of the Constitution, as it is
now established, is to-day accepted by
an overwhelming majority of oitizens of
the United States.
Resolved, That we recognize and ap
prove the firmness and fidelity with
which the President hns kept his public
pledges and those of his party as to the
reform of our oivil service, There is
no preoedent in the political history of
our country for this voluntary act of
self-reformation by a party in power.
We tender to the President and to his
able and patriotic advisers our heartiest
sympathy and support.
THE DARK HIDE,
.Sombre Glimpses at tbe Criminal Record—
Pepit£ns< Just Too laate—Written Coufes-
Mion of the New York B<*ript Forger.
New Yobk, October 12.—Gilman, the
forger of insurance sorip, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to five years.
His confession, read by his counsel, is
touching, and concludes as follows:
‘•To sum up briefly, I would say that de
cline in business, bad investments,
heavy expenses, both business aud do
mestic, and personal extravaganoe, have
[betrayed me.” In a probable exculpa
tion of his crime, the prisoner says that
he loved better to give money away than
to spend it on himself, that his thoughts
and interests were more with charitable
works. Suicide had been much in his
thoughts for many years.
A Mexican Desperado Killed—<;reat K*clte
ment at £lpato, Texans
San Francisco, October 12.—A dis
patch from Messila, New Mexioo, says
that Judge Howard killed Louis Oardis
at Elpaao, Texas. Oardis was the leader
of a mob that arrested the county offi
cers of Elpaso county. Great excitement
prevails.
YEUUttW FEVER.
The Feyer DlfiilniMiin* at Port Royal—
Scarcity of Proviitlonw.
Port Royal, October lfi.-™Tbe yellow
fever is on the decrease. Twenty-one
cases are under treatment; ail convalesc
ing. Yellow fever at this place in no
way interferes with railroad connections
between Augusta, Savannah and Charles
ton. The passenger trains run between
Augusta anfi B&aufort. There is no in
tercourse with the infected district. Pro
■ visions are scarce.
Five New Cases In Fernandiua—Physicians
Among tbe Mck.
Jacksonville, October 12. Two
deaths at Fernandina and five new cases.
Colonel Liberty Billings is dead. Dtrs.
Herndon, of Savannah; Simmons, of
Charleston; and Teryl, of Jackson
ville, are among the sick at Fernandina.
Dr. Whitehurst, of Key West arrived
Wfday-
THE APPROACHING STRUGGLE,
Deßroglle Recomsunlt SunpMiaslss of Agi-
Fiat—Tbe (Joining Elee-
Paris, October 12.—Duke De Brog
lie, President of the Council and Minis
ter of Justice, has addressed a circular
to Procureurs Generau*. It instructs
them to prosecute tbe disseminators of
false reports relative to negotiations and
alliances between foreign powers in view
of the possible consequences of the
coming elections.
[Note. —This is in consequence of a
current xumoi of an anti-clerical alli
ance between Germany and Italy.]
Gambetta has been sentenced to, three
months’ imprisonment and a fine of SBOO
for placarding his recent address to the
electors of hisarrodisserqeqt. The print
er of the address has neen sentenced to
fifteen days’ imprisonment and a fine of
POO. _
Columbus, Ga., August 24th, 18T7.
Dr. C.J. Moffett;
Dear Dootob— We gave your “Teothi
na” (Teething Powders) to our little
grandchild with the happiest results.
The effects were almost magical, and
certainly more satisfactory than from
anything we ever used.
Yours very truly,
Joseph S. Key,
Pastor of St. Paul Ghuroh.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
NEWS LEAVES.
Anderson frosted on the 6th.
Senator Maxwell has resigned.
Newberry College is prospering.
Greenville has a Methodist revival.
Greenville is putting np elevated stone
walks.
Chester is improving her Presbyterian
Church.
The Sumter Guards will send a team
to Columbia.
Port Royal has petitioned Governor
Hampton for aid.
Smalls, Rainey and Cain, it seems,
will share the forger’s fate.
Orangeburg is spilling milky tears
oyer freight discriminations.
The will of Mrs. Mary May, late of
Charleston, will be contested."
The Butler Riflemen, of Hedges, will
contest for the military prize.
There are 364 Granges of the Patrons
of Husbandry in South Carolina.
Gieenville wishes Judge Kershaw to
hold Judge Northrop’s Conrts this
Fall.
The Presbyterian Synod of South
Carolina will meet in Columbia the 17th
instant.
A Charleston painter slipped from a
ladder, Tuesday, and painfully iDinred
himself.
Mr. Asa W. Southern, a very promis
ing young man, died in Greenville a few
days since.
Mr. Emmet Howard has taken charge
of the Western Union Telegraph Offloe
in Columbia.
John N. Reed, of Chester, died last
Friday night, after a very violent illness
of a few hours.
Rev. J. B. Seabrook, late Rector of
St. Mark’s Church, was buried iu Char
leston, Tuesday.
Another John Patterson is jailed in
Lancaster for murder. The devil’s in a
name, Bare enough.
Newberry has built twenty-five houses
this Summer, and yet she wants a Build
ing aud Loan Association.
Two cows in Greenville county, with
in a fow miles of each other, gave birth
to twin calves the other day.
The youug ladies of Johnston propose
giving a bazar and hot supper, iu behalf
of the Johnston Baptist Church,Boon.
The Lutheran Synod of Honth Caro
lina will meet at St. Mathew’s Church,
Orangeburg county, the 16th of this
month.
Tho Governor has appointed Tilman
Watson, of Edgefield, an aid de-camp,
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of
Infantry.
A News and Courier correspondent
argues that Circuit Judges should be
elected by ballot in the General Assem
bly and not viva voce.
The Edgefield Advertiser, one of our
most interesting txchauges, glides into
thirty-six columns, becoming tho mam
moth sheet of the State.
The surviving members of the poison
ed family are doing better. It has been
suggested that tho fowls oaten had
probably been fed upon nux vomica.
The Herald proposes that Newberry
county hold a tax payers’ convention to
determine whether the property holders
are willing to be taxed for the new rail
road.
The Governor appointed Capt. D.
Werner, H. A. DeSaussnre and H. Law
rence Toomer, Commissioners of Elec
tion for tho coming city oleotion in
Charleston.
Two negro jnrvmen, after agreoiug to
a verdict in a Williamsburg Court
against the County Commissioners, de
nied, on being polled, that they had
done any such thing. They were ar
rested for perjury.
The Newberry Herald thinks that Gen.
W. H. Wallace, of Union, the Speaker
of the House, will very probably be
Judge Northrop’s successor. He would
make a splendid Judge.
The Pin mix says: “The South Caro
lina Railroad has, with commendablo
public spirit, offered to transport any
articles intended for the State Fair to
and from Columbia free.”
Governor Hampton will petition the
General Government for the following
ordinance stores : Six batteries of light
artillery, with harness, (quipmeuts and
fixed ammunition; 3,000 Springfield
rifles, calibre 45, with equipments; 3,000
Springfield carbine rifles, oalibro 46,
with equipments; 2,000 sabres, with
belts; 100,000, oalibre 45,cartridges.
WHY JACOB WEPT AFTER KIHBINU
RACHEL.
The following are tho “opinions of
the English press” npon the snbieot of
the text which tells us that Jaoob "kissed
Rachel, and lifted np his voico and
wept:
If Rachel was a pretty girl and kept
her face clean, we can’t see what Jacob
had to ory about.— Daily Telegraph.
How do you know but that she slap
ped his faoe for him ?— Ladies' 7\eas
ury.
Weeping is often produced by exces
sive happiness ; it might have"been so
in Jacob’s case.— Hardwick's Science
Gossip.
The cause of Jaoob’s weeping was the
refusal of Rachel to allow him to kiss
her again.— Noncomformist,
It is our opinion Jacob wept because
he had not kissed Rachel before, and he
wept for the time lost.— City Press.
Tho fellow wept because the girl did
not kiss him.— Pall Mall Gazette.
Jaoob wept because Rachel told him
to “do it twice more,” anti he was afraid.
—Methodist Recorder.
Jacob cried because Rachel threatened
to tell her mamma.— Sunday Gazette.
He wept because there was only ono
Rachel to kiss.— Clerkenwell News.
He wept for joy because it tasted so
good.— Jewish Chronicle.
We reckon Jac >b cried because Rachel
had been eating onions.— British Stand
ard,,
Our opinion is that Jacob wept bo
cause he found after all “it was not what
it was cracked up tojbe.”—-JVfew Haland
Examiner.
A mistake, not his eyes but his month
watered.— Ladies' Chronicle,
He thought it was a fast color, but
wept because tho paint came off.— Fine
Art Gazette.
He remembered he was her uuole, and
reoolleoted what the prayer book says.—
Church Journal.
He was a fool, and did nol know what
was good for himself.— Englishwoman's
Advertiser.
He knew there was a time to weep—it
had come, aud he dared not put it off. —
Methodist News.
He thought she might have a big
brother.— Sporting Chronicle. ,
Because there was no time for another.
— Express.
When he lifted up his voice he found
it was heavy, and he could not get it so
high as he expected.— Musical Notes.
Ho tried to impose on her feelings,
because he wanted her to lend him five
shillings.—Hapfis* Guide.
IJIS HONESTY’S OWN.
The Friseo Bank Frencoeii Its Immnrulato
Walla With Depositors’ Voaejr— A German
Institution Goes Up.
New York, October 13.— The commit
tee of the Pioneer Bank, San Francisco,
reports that, with good management of
the assets, depositors may get eleven
per cent.
London, October 13.—A Berl n dis
patch says: “The failure of the Rittera
ehaftliche Rank of Stettin has oansed a
general depression. It is stated that tbe
managing director has oommitted sui
cide. Tho embarrassments of the bank
date from ten years back, when two
managing directors first began to dis
count doubtful bills, keeping the coun
cil of directors entirely in tbe dark. Tbe
bank, which has a capital of nine mil
lions marks, has discounted bills to the
amount of forty million marks, half of
which would require to be prolonged on
falling due.”
A Steamer Charged With Kantgglfug.
Boston, October 13.—The steamship
England, which was seized on her arri
val here last Monday on acoount of
alleged smuggling by some of the erew,
has been released on a bond of $325,000,
that being the amount at which she had
been appraised after her seizure.
THE SICKLE KEEN.
A Vail C'oatrnctor Stamped. With Death—An
Editor’* Form i.-ked Up.
New York, October 13.—C01. Jesse L.
Heiskell, originally of Albemarle coun
ty, Va., one of the oldest and formerly
one of the most extensive mail contract
ors in the United Slates, died in Harri
sonburg, Va., yesterday.
Port Tobacco, Mik, October 13.
Captain Elijah Wells, editor and pro
prietor of the Port Tobacco Times, died
yesterday ol congestion of tbe brain,
aged 00 years. He was one ol the oldest
journalists in the State, haring estab
lished the Times more than thirty years
ago.
Ta Ike Limbo of Thing* Lout
On earth, the course tooth powders and
corrosive tooth washes are rapidly de
parting as SOZQDONT, fortunately for
the teeth of this generation, is supplant
ing them. That universally popular
article is aa wholesome as it is beautify
ing. f
There is no sight so agreeable as that
of a beautiful, well-dressed woman.
Any lady can make a fashionable dress
from tbe patterns and illustrations of
the “Bazar.” No lady desirous of ap
pearing well-dressed should be without
one ou her table. Send ten oents to W.
It. Andrews, Cincinnati, for specimen
oopy.