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Affairs in Georgia.
A Macon youth went in bathing last
Sunday, and hut for a timely rescue,
tronld have been drowned. This is a
vntmittc to small boys who break the Sab
bath.
Griffin has no-lack of colored female
fights.
Miss Annie Happ, of Sandersville, was
married in Macon recently to Mr. Louis
Cohen, of Ajnericus.
Augusta is still troubled with burglars.*
Twelve convicts escaped from the place
0 f Mr. Middle in Washington county on
Sunday night. It is said that one of the
“trusties” smothered the guard with a
bucket ofjvater while the prisoners made
their escape. Twelve convicts loose, in
a neighborhood is not a very consoling
fact.
Tint peach tratje between Augusta and
New York is now carried on by means of
Allegretti’s refrigerators.
Griffin Messenger: We have cheering
news from Pike.Upson, Fayette, Monroe,
Clayton, Butts, Henry and Spaulding
counties, in reference to the crop pros
pects. A friend who has recently trav
eled in a portion of all the above named
counties snys be does not remomber to
have ever soeu such a prospect for a corn
crop. 1 fo thinks there will be a plenty
made for home consumption and to spare,
and while the cotton weed is small it
looks well and will likely make a pretty
fair crop.
Sandersville (Washington county) Ga
zette The crops in our county are at this
time without doubt liner than they ovor
were before at the same season of the
year. Mr. T. C. Warthen’s cotton patch
is quite promising. The weed is thirteen
inches higher now than at tho same date
last year, when he made his five bales on
one acre. This year he is trying what he
can do with two. The corn crop is also
god. Judge Youngblood has a field of
between fifteen and twenty acres, which
we understand will make ovor eighty
boaltels to the acre, and Bryant Watkins
has one acre which many think will har
vest over one hundred bushels. This is
certainly tho banner county of Georgia so
fur as cotton is concerned, and we believe
we will lie bard to beat on corn this
year.
Columbus Enquirer: As we stated, a
few days since, the track of the Savannah
aud Memphis ltailroad has been layed to
Kellyton, and tho construction train daily
goes to that point, which- is some fifty-
tliree utiles beyond Opelika. President
Alexander is now in New York, and has
purchased sufficient iron to extend the
road seven miles further, which will make
its length sixty miles. Arrangements are
nearly perfected and the prospect is
bngiit for its success to secure iron jind
means to finish twenty-five more miles,
which will complete the connection to
Ckilderslmrg, ou the Selma, Borne and
Dalton Kailrond. Of these arrangements
we are not permitted at present to speak.
The trains will be running sixty miles by
the first of October. When completed to
Childersburg, connection will be had with
through freight an travel, and means will
then lie secured to push the lino on to
Corinth, Mississippi, on the Mobile and
Ohio ltoad. When this is done a grand
trunk lino, with which no other route can
compete, for it will be the shortest and
most desirable, will have been established
between St. Louis and Savannah. The
road traverses centrally the finest mineral
region in the world.
Augusta Chronicle: The Biscayne Bay
Company, composed of fourteen gentlo-
meu of this city, and of which Mr. J. AY.
Wallace is President, owns perhaps, one
of the most valuable plantations, for its
sire, in the South. It is situated on the
Miami river aud the Atlantic Ocean, in
the State of Florida, and contains G40
teres. The property came into the
possession of the Augusta Company about
twelve months ago, being then known as
the Fort Balias estate, and cost $6,000—
less than $10 per acre. On this magnifi
cent estate, situated in the most fertile
portion qf Florida, boyond the frost line,
the company proposes to cultivate the
banana, orange, pine apple, guava, cocoa-
nut, and other tropical fruits. All of
those mentioned grow to great per
fection on tire place and can be culti-
ratoii with immense profit to the own
trt. A line of vessels for New York
passes within three iuiles of the place and
■sit lie readily roacbed from the planta
tion by schooners and lighters, and the
valuable fruit sent directly to the me-
|tcopolis. The company expects to also
Igather large quantities of anow root,
Which grows spontaneously on the estate
"id is a very valuable article of com-
. It is estimated that 1,000 bunches
0 nnnauas, worth fifty cents per bunch,
ran lie gathered annually from one acre,
.also new plants worth 30 cents
making a total of $1,400 at a total
°f $400, leaving a net profit of
1*1.’OOp. K«v. AV. AV. Hicks, formerly of
|™s city, i s superintendent of the estate.
» gentleman of experience. Lieut,
k (i. Ford, of Augusta, is Secretary
company.
A MrsiEKioun Aitaib.—On the Uith
Santa stranger, a guest at tho Saunders
1 "us,:', m St. Joseph, Mo., died quite
'“demy, and for some time nothing, was
tnwn.of Mis antecedents, except what
’gained from tho hotel register, he
ng put down the name of “Wm.
“tubers, Lincoln, Neb.”
he proprietor of the hotel telegraphed
in r i, n ’ received a reply from
, Downing, atating that Hie de-
was Admiral Sir William AYise-
°f the British navy, and that the
rwas his agent, having come out
nn two years ago from England to
Enel last deceased went
i »“tM °n business, and was on bis
haring stopped in St. Jpseph for
tune, when stricken. down. He
quite corpulent, and about sixty-five
iins aS< "i inquest was held on the
‘ und a letter from his son opened,
a ww lued tbe mysterious sentence:
ot A our whereabouts be known:
umies-pc 0ple are clamorous.” There
sown about the ease, which
tta tloc *' s not seem inclined to dissi-
stmL, 3 ? 0 ’ name of Sir AYilliam
itisl, „' Vas Prominent in the roll of the
“fit nag—St. Louis.Timex.
F o” n turntg m “L.nourishing the
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
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THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE SITUATION IN FRANCE.
Germany Preparing to Extinguish the
Carlists.
ATTEMPTED
INCENDIARISM
CHICAGO.
AT
imoml Mia Miboratory into a
t'Mich he Mne chief material with
1 perfect!Vi 1R . su 8 ar - By exposing
e of 1 mi?. , mrne| l article to a tempera-
rithont „ eB " Fabr ". “ a closed ves-
■uined n c ? ess of air, he has already
cut sW if” cylinder hard enough
is eaconm^, J i i ', tui8 measure of success
ta, ^ f,?iw t °., 00ntinue Mi® experi-
to trans'nrm fthat be y et be
'“notao ? j Produots of tbe beet
if not col-
P the veins of h, 011 that U ^ Illd g ems
“ins is a tIlese ^nnMarine vege-
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>g cropsT CU8aged iuraisin e sngar-
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Mitnself tI last wcek i without
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miam a“f? 6urvive , but Bucb
^Wtkncr 5 ot to shake
Aaacnibling of the Alabama Democracy.
THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.
Paris, July 28.—In the Assembly to
day the snpplementary report of the
Committee of Parliamentary Initiative
,on M. Duval’s motion for a dissolution
was read. It insists that the powerless
ness of the present Assembly has been re
peatedly shown on recent occasions.
At a meeting of the Bureau of the *g-
sembly, to appoint a committee, the state
ment was made on the part of the gov
ernment that it was desirable the recess
should Jbe short. One Brisson, Radi
cal, asked if monarchical intrigues
were to be tolerated during the recess ?
The Duke de la Rocliefoucald declared
the Legitimists reserved the right to pro
mote the Monarchy by r11 legal means.
Staboud' Latour, Minister of the Interior,
replied-evasively to Brisson’s inquiry.
The members of the Left were dissatis
fied, and will reintroduce the subject in
the Assembly to-morrow.
The committee on Mtdatri’s motion for
recess was chosen. It consists of eleven
members of the Bight and four of the
Left.
GERMANY AND THE OABUCST8.
London, July 29.—The Cologne Gazette
says Prince Hohenlake, the German Am
bassador at Paris, has unofficially inform,
ed the Duke de Cozes that if France foils
to act stringently towards the Carlists _
German squadron will be sent to the
.Spanish coast. Germany is resolved to
take measures against the Carlists.
The Morning Post reports that the
German Government is already engaged
in negotiations, aiming at the suppression
of the Carlist insurrection. It has exchang
ed opinions with the Russian Government,
but the Czar is opposed to intervention.
Germany is now trying to bring about
coucurrence.of the great powerriln a re
cognition of the Spanish Republic.
THE ALABAMA DEMOCRATS.
Montgomery, July 29.—The Demo
cratic and Conservative Convention will
assemble at noon. Nearly every delegate
in the State is present, either personally
or by alternate. It is conceded that Hon.
George T. Houston will be nominated on
the first ballot. Nothing is known of the'
rest of the ticket.
CHICAGO INCENDIARIES.
Chicago, July 29.^-Standen, the alleged
incendiary, is held in $14,000 baiL Two
other clearly defined attempts at incen
diarism have been discovered. The sup
posed criminals are arrested.
OAS EXPLOSION.
Coalville, Pa., July 29.—A plumber,
seeking a gas leak, exploded a main in
Robb, Cox & Co.’s shoe factory. Oue
person was killed and two badly burned.
THE CARLISTS.
Bayonne, July 29.—Two Republican
columns marching to the relief of Olet
were repulsed with heavy loss.
FATAL FALL.
New York, July 29.—Harlon, a trapeze
performer, fell twenty-five feet, and is
probably fatally injured.
FROM BAN FRANCISCO.
San Francisco, July 29.—The Alasta
took out three hundred and forty-six pas
sengers and a quarter million of treasure.
THE LIVERPOOL FIRE.
'Liverpool, July 29.—The loss of the
Prince’s Dock is a million.
A Bird’s-Eye View of Europe.—A Ber
lin letter on the approaching Brussels
Congress, speaking of the current Ger
man view of the Conference, says*:
number of little circumstances threw
light on the subject, and the first is the
well known relations between German and
Russian Chancellors. The personal and po
litical intimacy between Prince Bismarck,
and Prince Gortschakoff is one of the most
striking, not to say portentous, facts in
tho European politics of to-day. It is
common to speak of the friendship of the
two emperors as the basis of the harmony
between the two empires, and since this
friendship falls in with the purposes of
the two Chancellors,! it is, of cotnse, an
important factor. But the sovereigns are
minor pieces after all; they are the pawns
of the game. The significant fact is that
the fortunes of Europe are nox% at the
mercy Of these penetrating and ambi
tious politicians. In view of this state
of things it seems morally impossible
that Prince Gortschakoff could have
planned this Brussels Congress without
the concurrence of his German colleague.
It would indeed have been imprudent to
have done so. A Congress under the dis
tinct and exclusive patronage of Russia
would have been important from the
start. France and England would have
controlled it completely, and the reserve
which those Stetes now show prove at
least that they cletect a combination more
or less solid of the three great Eastern
powers. They are the three powers which
support the highest standing armies, and
they are interested in adding to the value
of their armies by paralyzing all other
combatants. One must scrutinize very
closely all humane enterprises that Prince
Gortschakoff and Prince Bismarck under
take.
LETTER FROM CAMDEN COUNTY.
t>nr Coming Nominations and Election
Wholesale Degree of Divorce.—The
Norfolk Landmark says: At the late
June term of the Circuit Court held at
Hampton, Judge George T. Garrison
decided that the act of Assembly passed
at the session of 1865-66, providing that
all colored persons cohabiting together at
the time of the passage of the act, al
though not lawfully married, should be
husband and wife, was null and void.
The ease was a prosecution of two colored
men for bigamy under- that statute. The
prisoners were discharged. H we under
stand the scope and bearing of this im
portant decision, it is to unmarry thou
sands of colored persons whom the act
attempted to make husband and wife.
Bold Attempt at Suicide of a Little
Girl Ten Years of Age.—Yesterday
morning a little girl ten years of ago,
named Cornelia Bingham, whose parents
reside in West Bergen, N. J., was found
lying on the side of the Paterson plank
road suffering with pains. She was con
veyed to her parents’ home and physi
cians sent for, whenshe stated that she had
taken Paris green, and that she wanted
to kill herself because her stepmother
beat her. It was also discovered that she
procured the poison at a certain drug
store without a prescription j Her recovf
ery is said to .be - very doubtful.—jv. X.
Ilerald, 24 th.
Wants $50,000 fob being Imprisoned.-
Edward Lange has commenced a suit
anainst Judge Benedict, of the United
States District Court in New York for
$50,000, for false imprisonment. Plaintiff
was convicted in October last of stealing
United States mail bags, andwassentenced
by Judge J>. to pay a fine of $200, and be
imprisoned one year. Subsequently, he
was resentenced to imprisonment only,
the first sentence being contrary to the
statute. The second sentence was declared
invalid by the U. S. Supreme Coart in
January last, and therefore the prisoner
was discharged. These facts constitute
the basis of action.
Of Theodore Tilton’s statement it may
be said, in the languago of a member of
the Louisville bar, that ‘ it bears upon
its face the persuasive odor of its own
probability. ”—Courier-Journal.
St. Mary’s, Ga., July 25, 1874.
Editor Morning New :
As the time for the fall elections draw
near, increased interest is felt in political
matters. This is as it should be. It is
to be regretted that so-many of the best
men in the countyliold themselves aloof
from the political conflicts of the times,
or, at least, manifest a decided luke
warmness where the issues involved are
so important. The very plea they
urge in justification of their course
is itself the strongest argument against
it. We know intelligent men who pride
themselves on “having nothing to do with
polities,” because of the prevailing cor
ruption and abuses connected therewith.
The allegation of corruption is, unhappi
ly, but too true. But this, so far from
inducing apathy, should awaken in every
virtuous and. patriotic breast profound
solicitude, and open his eyes to the neces
sity laid upon every good citizen to be at
his post, and do what he can, to counter
act these admitted evils, against which he
inveighs. The ignorant and vicious will
generally use the privilege of the suf
frage. It follows, therefore, that if the
enlightened and virtuous classes absent
themselves from the polls, they virtually
surrender the government to incompetent
or dishonest hands.
Though blessed with a white gov
ernment here, municipal, as well as
# State, we are in sight of Florida,
which circumstance affords us some op
portunity of knowing something of the
“beauties” of Radical rule. Being thus
favorably situated for judging, the white
men of Camden prefer to cling to'the old
Democratic idea of government, and will,
it is hoped, so express themselves at the
polls when tin proper time comes.
A county meeting is called to assemble
in Jefferson in a few days, at which time,
we suppose, delegates will be chosen to
the Congressional District Convention.
We are glad the Executive Committee has
rebuked the shameful practice of attend
ance on these conventions by aspirants
for the purpose of urging their own supe
rior claims and qualifications on the at
tention of delegates. Such conduct is
discreditable to the aspirant; and does it
not seem often to involve an insult to
delegates, too? We see that the action
of the Committee has been endorsed by
popular meetings in the up-country. The
abatement of this nuisance would be a
great reform.
It is to be hoped the people
will assert their rights and put a
true and strong man in nomination,
regardless of the bidding of political
tricksters, who seem to regard public
offices as proper subjects of barter and
sale, and not os high and sacred trusts.
A bargain by which one public man agrees
to support another for office, without
regard to his fitness for it and in conside
ration of like services rendered himself,
is such conduct as the people should not
fail to set the seal of reprobation upon
whenever it comes to their knowledge.
Another indelicate and impudent thing
is the flippancy with which some men
discourse of what they are pleased to call
their claims on the party. What ‘ ‘claims, ”
pray? and how did they acquire those
claims? We thought an office in our Re
publican Government was a gift from the
people. But if these gentlemen
have really just claims as they
pretend, then, of course, in their,
cases, office is no longer to be
viewed as a gift; for gift and claim ex
press ideas quite distinct. A gift implies
the denial of a claim. A claim dispenses
with the necessity of a gift. Let those
gentlemen, therefore, who prefer ‘ ‘claims, ”
come forward and state distinctly to the
public the grounds on which they rpst
their “claims,” for, really, some of us'ire
sceptical about the validity of them.
What we want is a good and able man
to represent us in Congress. It does not
matter so much from what locality he
comes, if he is- the right sort of a man.
Have we not claimed that the brood of
shallow politicians who have represented
the South in Congress in these latter days
has been the fruit of Radical ascendancy ?
Let os, then, endeavor to usher in the re
turn of Democratic ascendancy, by the
selection of a man to represent this dis
trict in Congress who. will, in the lan
guage of the gallant and lamented Bar
tow, “illustrate Georgia.”
We have good material at hand. Let
us not fail to utilize it. With snch men
as Jndge Harris, of Glynn, Gen. Jackson
and Hon. Julian Hartridge, of Chatham,
and others that might be named from
which to select, let us not commit the
folly of sending a third or fourth rate
man to Congress because he vainly
imagines he has “claims” or because he
comes from a certain locality. If we
send the right kind of a man he will feel
that he represents nothing less than the
whole district, not merely a particular
locality in it.
Confederate Soldier.
INew Orleans Bulletin, July 15.]
ARMED BLACK PAUPERS.
Louisiana Negroes Overpower the Supply
Agents and Draw their Charity na
tions at the Point of the Bayonet.
As an -evidence of the hurtful effects of
the articles published in the Republican
tending to throw out the idea that the
rations donated by the General Govern
ment were especially for the negro, and of
the statements which have been made by
designing demagogues in relation to the
same matter, we have before us a si
ment from a responsible gentleman who
is now visiting the overflow districts in
the interest of the Relief Committee
which discloses a very serious state of af
fairs in the country parishes.
Our-correspondent writes from the
month of Red river,* under date of the
12th inst., and says he has witnessed
many, things which it were well for the
public to know, and which have at this
time a very peculiar significance.
The government, he writes, is still fur
nishing rations to the sufferers by the
overflow, but when any of the agents run
short the negroes forcibly take what
there is. On Rancourci Island last week,
as Mr. B. F. Miles, who was acting as
disbursing agent, was issuing rations, the
negroes came armed with guns and pis
tols, and coolly informed him that the
rations were sent especially for them, and
they intended to have them, even if they
had to take them by force. It is scarcely
necessary to add that they got them, or
that the suffering white people had to
starve in consequence of this high-handed
outrage on the part of the negroes, who
are represented by the Republican and by
the Chicago Inter-Ocean as the most
guileless, harmless, innocent and inoffen
sive beings in Christendom.
It seems that this remarkable action on
the part of the negroes was brought about
by the fact that there was an insufficient
supply of rations, and the fear that every
darky would not get all he wanted led
them to make an attack in force,- which
enabled them to gobble everything.
Those riotous black robbers are, our in
formant'learns, armed with new Enfield
rifles, of the existence of which, no
doubt, Gen. Street and Mr. Kellogg know
nothing.
It is a curious fact that Radical officials
are usually ignorant of everything that
reflects upon their party, but it is only a
verification of the old adage that none ore
so blind as those who won’t see.
It is very possible that arms have not
been sent either by Kellogg or his Adju
tant General to the country for the ne
groes, but the fact that the negroes have
these arms is undispntable, and we may
all form our own conclusions as to how
they got them.
That these arms are used to overawe
the supply agents is now a recognized
fact, and there would seem to be but one
thing for the white people to do, and that
is to arm in opposition and defend them
selves, since Mr: Kellogg would laugh at
any call for assistance, even as he did in
the Grant parishvaffnir. -
Many of the negroes, it seems, draw
rations for their horses as well as for
themselves, and being supported in idle
ness roam around disdaining to work, bnt
ever ready to talk politics and engage in
political squabbles. .
Our correspondent says that from Texas
landing to Simmsport the country has
been badly overflowed, and many planters
will make but little com or cotton. To
add to the trouble the horses and mules
are dying from that terrible scourge,
ebarbon, many having lost nine-tenths of
their stock.
A Forty Million Lawsuit—The Penn
sylvania Tichborne Case Decided.—The
great forty million dollar coal land lawsuit
of Turnbull vs. Pardee and others, which
has been pending in the courts of Penn
sylvania for two years, was redded at
Mauch Chunk, in that State, on Monday,
in favor of the defendants, under the
provisions of the law of Pennsylva
nia governing the gaining of title
to iand by treasurer’s sale foq, arrears
of taxes. The question at stake was
the title to several thousand acres of
land in lower Luzerne county, rich in
deposits of coal, held by the defendants,
and claimed by James Turnbull, as the
heir of Alexander and James Turnbull,
deceased. Thu land is in the h,eart of the
coal fields, and was the property of the
Turnbull ■ family, - once prominent in
Philadelphia, long before it was known
to contain coah The last Turnbull in
whom toe title rested was James Turnbull,
father of the claimant. He
neglected to keep the taxes on it paid,
and it was sold at treasurer’s sole. The
jroperfy subsequently - came into the
lands of Oris Pardee and other great
capitalists. The father of toe plaintiff
died in Philadelphia about forty years
ago, before toe great value of toe land
was known. He left a divorced wife and
toe plaintiff, then a mere child. Some
time after toe death of his father young
Turnbull went : to sea. His mother, in
1852, believing that her son was the
rightful owner of the land in Luzerne
county, made efforts to have toe claim
substantiated. She.found a friend and
adviser in O. H. Wheeler, Esq., then a
lawyer in this place. He shared her belief
in toe justice of her son’s * claim, and re
commended an ejectment suit to recover.
It being necessary to find toe missing
heir before anything could be done, they
commenced a search for him. For twenty
years they sought and waited anxiously
to hear of his whereabouts. Finally, in
1871, they heard of him in Mazatlan,
Mexico. He was summoned home, and
arrived in Philadelphia early in 1872.
Horse Attacked with Hydrophobia.—■
The Liverpool Daily Albion says: “A re
markable case of hydrophobia has oc
curred at Robert Town, Liverpool, near
Dewsbury. On the lGto of last May a
more, toe property of Edward Walker,
farmer, was bitten by a small black and
tun terrier dog, which was seen to run
into the stable in which the mare was
located. Mr. Walker drove it away, and,
although he followed it, lost .sight of it in
one of toe lanes of toe village. Half an
hour afterwards toe dog returned to the
stable and again snapped at the mare,
whereupon she kicked it. On the 2d
instant the horse’s lower lip became very
much swollen, aud Mr. Sumner, veterina
ry surgeon, having been called in, he
treated it for a disease known as the
straggles.’ On Monday night, however,
the animal became very violent, and
snapped and bit at eveiything within her
reach. Ultimately *she exhibited all the
symptoms of hydrophobia. The veteri
nary surgeon pronounced that she
suffering from this disease, and
quently she was shot.”
Exciting Scene in Auburn—Six Shots
Fired at a Fugitive Convict.
A convict in Auburn prison, named
Andrew MeAlear, working as a stone cut
ter, was engaged with others yesterday
morning in relaying a walk ontside the
prison walls, when suddenly and without
leave he started on a brisk walk down toe
street. Keeper White followed him as
quickly as possible. MeAlear had not
proceeded far before he came to a physi
cian’s horse and buggy, cut toe hitching
strap, jumped in and plying toe whip to
the animal, drove rapidly away. Keeper
White fired four shots from his revolver
after him, two of which took effect,
wounding the convict slightly, but not
serving to bring dowp the game. White
jumped into a carriage with a man named
Pearson and renewed toe chase, followed
by Major Aner and Mr. Bennett, who
took a hand in ther, pursuit. The convict
was a good distance ahead at the start,
but toe pursuers gained upon him, and
on getting within pistol range. Keeper
White fired two more shots, which were
imbedded in 'the back of toe seat of
toe fleeing carriage. The excitement at
this stage was intense. The recapture is
graphically described by the Auburn Ad
vertiser as follows: “When near the
comer of Perrine street toe convict
leaped from the carriage and bit toe dust
unpleasantly, while toe horse was al
lowed to run at random. Gathering him
self up hastily the “vie” leaped over the -
fence into toe yard of E. G. Stroke, Esq.,
and attempted to conceal himself in toe
shrubbery in toe garden, but unsuccess
fully. A teamster by the name of Marks
who bad also joined in toe chase, reached
the premises of Mr. Stroke first and soon
discovered toe flown bird, and he strongly
resisted all attempts at recapture and
dealt his would-be captor a fearful kick.
Keeper 'White'arrived at this stage of .toe
proceedings, when MeAlear assented to
place liimself in his charge and readily
accompanied him back to prison without
further resistance. Major Auer, not
having been a witness to this transaction,
(not being able to see through the hill),
supposed that toe convict was still
in the rapidly disappearing carria
which he descried in the distance. He
drove rapidly after toe running horse and
overtook him at toe toll gate, a mile dis
tant from the city. As toe convict was
not inside the carriage, Maj. Aner con
cluded that he must have jumped ont
unknown to him, and was now in some of
the neighboring fields. He accordingly
aroused all toe inhabitants of that sec
tion, and had soon established a complete
line of skirmishers and an effective
“picket.” He toon returned with the
doctor’s horse and learned of the capture
of the convict and toe consequent use
lessness of his precautionary movements.
It was rather a dear run for toe adven
turous prisoner, costing him not only
.several painful wounds, bnt toe forfeit of
Ins commutation of seven years and eight
months. He is serving ont a sentence of
twenty years for robbery in toe first de
gree. Auburn has a monopoly of events
of this kind, which, however, ore not of
a character to qniet toe feelings of ner
vous people.—Rochester Advertiser.
Caught at Last.—Harrison Hoover
murdered a rival named Wheeler in Ten
nessee in 1872, and after arrest managed
to escape from toe officers. Two detec
tives swore to capture and deliver him
over to justice, and one or the other of
them has been on his trail for nearly two
years. From one portion of the country
to toe other did they follow him, bnt
Hoover’s life was at stake, and with great
cunning he baffled _ them, and finally all
clew to his whereabouts was for toe time
being lost. Wearied and tired of his run
for life, the marked murderer at last
found sanctuary in the precincts of the
quiet little village of Patoka, Indiana,
and settled down to live an honest,
respectable life. A few months since
he married a widow of some means,
firing in toe village; Resting in his
fancied security he imagined himseli
free from all intrusion, when, last Friday
evening, Watson stepped in upon him
while he was engaged in his work, and
said, “Hoover, you tire wanted.” The
hunted down man saw all was up, and
quiety submitted to his fate.
‘Artaxerxes,” said Mr. Morrowfat to
that Attentive and curious child, “there’s
too much gush in this world, and I want
to caution you, never, in a moment of
pious enthusiasm, to make such a fool of
your-;,if as to declare that one hour of
Plain Black and TYIiite.
The evil that men do lives after them.
The soul of Charles Sumner, we may
charitably suppose, unless it has been
vicariously held to account for the sins of
toe heathenish Bostonians who sang a
pagan, ode of Horace about his grave, is
now at peace with toe souls of Wilber-
force and of Buxton. TTia legacy of toe
civil rights hill is breeding curses and
preparing slaughter throughput regions
which bnt for bim and for tin party
wonldl to-day be orderly and happy sec
tions of a prosperous and law-abiding
Union, In toe city of Vicksburg at this
moment toe bill which toe time-serving
partisans who brought it forward into
Congress, after its author’s death, lacked
toe courage to press to an issue, has
stirred np toe baser and duller of the
negroes into demands and demonstrations
which have produced, as it was inevitable
in toe constitution of human nature they
should produce, toe bitterest counter
irritation on toe part of the whites. It
is only too possible that of these things
toe most deplorable consequences may
come.
The local authorities have just notified
toe Federal Government of toe immi
nence of snch consequences, and we seize
this moment, while as yet no such conse
quences have come to shock, and excite
the public mind, to pat a few questions
in plain black and white to toe people of
the North and West. A negro demagogue
in Vicksburg, it appears, got np and pro
claimed in the public streets there the
other day, not only that he has a right to
and could if he would marry any one of a
dozen of toe better class of white ladies
in Vicksburg, bnt that he would maintain
his right to do this against toe fathers or
brothers of snch ladies ‘ ‘revolver in hand. ”
Is there a single town in the North and
West, outside of New England, in which
a negro could hold such language and
advance snch pretensions without being
promptly thrashed? If so, where is it?
In Mississippi, as in several other States
of toe Sonto, negroes have been elected
to fill a number of offices which, when
filled by respectable white men, ore still
thought to confer upon their incumbents
a certain measure of social distinction.
These are negro Senators and negro Rep
resentatives in Congress.
In what city of toe North or West,
even including New England,, wonld any
citizen of recognized social position and
standing not belonging to toe very small
est fraction of a faction of toe Radical
Republican party so much as dream of
inviting one of toese negro Senators or
Representatives to dinner at bis. own.
table ? Here and there some ambitions
politician, bent on winning toe applause
of constituents, wbo are as likely to meet
toe Grand Turk in their Sunday-schools
or the Pope in their pudding as ’to have
any sort of social contact with negroes,
might very possibly make a point jnst
before election, or during a canvass, of
taking a stray negro Senator to drive
with him, just as Georgians, Dnchess of
Devonshire, suffered a Westminster
butcher to kiss her cheek as toe price of
his vote. But toe ambitious politician
would make a point of it and not a prac
tice, precisely os did that noble “lady
nursed in pomp and pleasure.” He would
conceive himself to have conferred
great honor on his negro guest, and,
what is quite as much to toe purpose, his
negro guest would feel that he had re
ceived an unusual compliment.
Such being toe absolute facts of toe
case in those very-sections of the Union
in which toe spirit is domiciled that gave
birth to this odious and ridiculous civil
rights bill, what honest man can affect
to be surprised at or to be angered by toe
mischief which the agitation of the civil
rights bill- is doing in those sections of
toe Unionjin which alone toe civil rights
bill, were ii passed, would be really opera
tive at all, and where it would be opera
tive only to the engendering of toe bitter
est and the most dangerous passions ?
There is a verse of Scripture the force
of which Massachusetts has learned dur
ing toe present year in dismay and tribu
lation to appreciate. It tells us that toe
beginning Of strife is like “the letting out
of waters.” It was by such men as the
late Senator from Massachusetts, and by
such legislation as his posthumous bill,
that the strife was begun at the Sonto,
which now threatens here and there
nothing less than a social cataclysm.
When toe evil day comes and-the ruin
breaks in thunder on the ears of toe
startled country, let it not be forgotten
what hands prepared toe catastrophe and
to what low ends of party gain and of
,—N. X.
sectional advantage.-
World.
A Green Ghost.
Mrs. Eliza Green, aged 30, and “hav
ing a fair English education,’-' resides in
Springfield, Ky. Shftis in a most unsatis
factory acd undeeidtxl condition, for she
is a widow and she is not a widow. Mr.
Green, it is true, is no more. -He ap
peared, at least, to die on toe 18to of
March last; he was properly mourned for
and his remains were properly interred
with the usual religious ceremonies,
while Mrs. Green and six little Greens
together bewailed their bereavement.
Under toese circumstances, unless Mr.
Green could come back to stay perma
nently, it is difficult to see why he should
come back at alL If he could only
return simply to scare Mrs. Green
and the small Greens out of their
senses, why didn’t he stay wherever
he happened to be ? We do not like to
speak ill^ of toe dead, but we must
designate toe course pursued by Green
as truly reprehensible. It is generally in
toe middle of toe night that he revisits
his old residence, and then he wakes np
Mrs. Green by groaning profoundly, and
he frightens all the pretty half dozen of
children—probably into fits—by breath
ing heavily and moaning outrageously.
Occasionally he goes into toe cellar and
imitates “a horse rolling about and paw
ing violently.” We do not say that
Green does this badly; he may even sur
pass any real horse in toe excellence of
his pawing and rolling; but we do say,
without fear of contradiction, that it is
not toe sort of thing to do in any widow’s
cellar at midnight, and with six children
trying to sleep in the house.
But it is not only by his stertorous
breathing and his absnrd equine imita
tions that Greene mokes himself disa-
eable. The other night he came
simply as a Head and Shoulders 1 There
is a ghost for you!' No abdomen! no
legs! Something like Raphael’s much
chromoed cherubs; only he was, though
without the usual pulmonary arrange
ments, able to blow out all toe lights !
Then Green, whose passion for meta-.
morphosis seems to be ltis prominent
trait of character, appeared as “a little
white dog;” and once he came as “a
white gauzy cloud.” At last Mr. Green,
after all his incomprehensible groaning
and moaning, began to talk in toe
English language. He met Mrs.
Green in. toe cellar, this time with
his legs on; for she was stooping
when he arrived, and recognized him
by these well remembered limbs. She
looked up, and there stood Mr. Green,
dressed in his grave clothes and quite
ready for conversation. “Dick, my dear,
what do yon “want ?’ ” said she. Well, he
wanted to tell her that the other world
painful, and to advise her not to
neglect her duty; he wanted prayers of
fered for his soul; and he left his love to
all his relatives by name, and then, with
the observation that he did not intend to
come any more, either in kit-kat or at
full length, Mr. Green was good enough
to exhale, repeating, for some occult rea
son, the word “friend” three times
There has been a good deal of unaccoun
table knocking and groaning in the house
since, but the widow has seen neither the
legs nor toe shoulders of herbelovedsince
the subterranean tete-a-tete.
Mrs. Helen M. L. Millington, of On
tario, N. Y., lias written a defense of
Beecher. She thinks that inasmuch as
Solomon wasn’t blamed for keeping a
whole female seminary in his private resi
dence, Beecher oughtn't to be blamed
for—well, for anything. Mrs. Milling
ton, you had better dry up. Get thee to
a nuunery. Unmuzzled as you are, you
are more dangerous ta the community
than would be a howllfig raccoon of the
T <mrnal.
CJeflerson City Journal.]
A.Hot Night’s Adventure.
Will H. Plummer, of Cole county, re
lates the following incident as illustrative
of the difficulties and dangers attending
an effort of his to get a comfortable
night’s rest during one of toe recent hot
nights. It was useless to think of laying
indoors. The thermometer was some
where np in toe nineties, and not a
breath seemed stirring. The windows
were raised and toe doors opened, and
every invention and allurement known to
genius was employed to coax up a
single zephyr . from the ■ caves.
Bnt all in vain. Will concluded,
therefore, he would abandon toe room
that held his accustomed couch and take
to the open porch, in toe hope that a
stray whiff of fresh air might occasional
ly reach him.. He accordingly wheeled
out big easy chair, and with elevated feet
over toe railing, dropped off into a nap,
which lasted for afew minutes, when half-
stifled with toe oppressiveness of toe heat
he aroused birogelf and began to look
around and study some new method of re
pose. During toe short nap a huge rattle
snake had crawled upon toe porch and
oofled itself close to toe unconscious
sleeper’s chair. In his survey of. toe sur
roundings on awakening this object was
toe first to attract his attention. He was
unable to distinguish it through toe dim
fight of toe shadowy night. His first
impression was to pnt his foot on it and
push it aside. Bnt this required an effort
and was abandoned. He next observed that
at every movement of his toe object wonld
start. This lod him to a closer inspec
tion of it. Suddenly he realized that he
had a shake for a companion. This
brought him to his feet, and as quick os
a flash his snakeship was brushed from
the porch with toe chair legs. This
movement was followed by snch a rattling
from toe grass beneath as made toe night
echo. Will responded by hurling his
chair In toe direction of toe sound.
He then retreated to his room and
brought ont his shot-gun, reap
pearing just as toe serpent was
gliding out of toe yard, and was at a
point directly between two young calves
that were lying within a few feet of each
other, when he fired, halting the retreat
ing intruder with a bullet through bis
head. A club finished toe work. Eight
rattles were toe trophy. But toe balance
of toe night was not a whit toe more
comfortable. The trouble of finding a
cool and comfortable place to sleep was
not in toe least abated
The pretty rice pfiper that looks so pure
and delicate is made in China from toe
pith of a great tree; not at .all, as wo
make paper from poplar wood, but by
simply cutting it into thin slices'. And
thousands of years before Most'S was
bora the Egyptians made paper fronf toe
great papyrus, or paper reed, by care folly
peeling out toe tom layer between the
bark and toe fleshy stem, and pressing'
and drying toe pieces into sheets. Many
a story of ancient times has been fonnd
written on this paper and stored away
among toe linen wrappings of toe Egyp
tian mummies, just as well preserved and
as legible as if it had been written last
year.
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Mrs. Paul Hopkinson, of Groveland,
Mass., held a reception of her relatives a
few days ago. She was eighty-nine years
old, and was married in 1806. Her hus
band died a few years ago. Their chil
dren were thirteen in number, eleven of
whom are still living and were present at
toe birthday gathering, nine of whom are
married and were accompanied by their
wives and husbands. The venerable
lady has had sixty-two grandchildren, of
whom forty-two are now living; fifty-one
great-grandchildren, thirty-seven of whom
are alive, and two great-great-grand
children, also living.
The announcement that toe famous
Colorado potato bug has made its appear
ance among toe fields on Lcng Island, is
well calculated to cause a feeling of un
easiness among our Connecticut farmers.
This destructive pest has been moving
steadily eastward during toe past three or
four years, from toe western region?,
where it originated; and wherever it has
moved, its ravages among the J>0 tat/oe
fields have been serious. It destroys 'the
vines, and it is said to be a poisonous bug
No remedy yet devised appears to fciave
reached toe case.—Hartford Times..
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The New York Commercials Long Branch
correspondent writes:
“President Grant is good.ontoe‘catch. :
Last evening as I drove down Ocean
avenue I saw him amusing toe boys gath
ered on the lawn playing hn.1T The
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It will be strange indeed if this Beecher
scandal is ended without toe discovery of
some astonishing lapses of memory by
toe principal actors. Tho upshot of it
nil will probably be to prove that some
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Great men and women have forgotten be-
foroBeecher or Tilton. There’s the Credit
Mobifier Congressmen. Reflect what a
powerful faculty of forgetfulness one of
them possessed.—Chicago Tribune.
Tragedy in Philadelphia. — George
Washington Hoffman, aged thirty-eight,
a carriage blacksmith by trade, commit
ted suicide in Philadelphia, yesterday
morning, having first .attempted toe mur
der of his wife, who was severely cut
about toe throat and face. Hoffman was
out of work for some time, and this fact
seemed to weigh upon his mind and
cause a depression of spirits. At inter
vals, for several weeks past, he stated to
his wife that he thought he would com
mit suicide.
The Spanish General Concha received
in the heat of tho battle a wound in toe
tho saddle and lifted his foot into toe
stirrup to remount, when he received his
fatal wound, ■ toe ball piercing him
through and through. He spoke only
once afterwards, saying: “Killed in a
guerrilla war.”
It is curious to see in an epigram of
Martial a slang phrase of toe present ex
actly rendering the Latin equivalent. It
is on a coxcomb:
Your nose and eyes your father gave, you say,
Your month your gnmdsire; and yonr mother
meek
Yonr fine expression. Tell me now I pray,
Where in the name of Heaven yon got your
cheek. *"
The house of John Sigler, near Mem
phis, Tenn., was burned Sunday night
ast. Mrs. Sigler, her two children, and
Mrs. Ligor were dangerously burned.
The latter is not expected to live. The fire
is believed to have been the work of a negro
with whom Mrs. Ligor had a difficulty
abont some work. _
The Hartford Courant seems to think
that Chicago will keep on burning - until
there is nothing left of it. - Were there
nothing left of it bnt a Chicago lady’s
foot, it is said that it would take a first-
class conflagration several days to destroy
■‘ 1 Brooklyn Argus.
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of the European brigandage business, a
band of outlaws having recently seized
an English Merchant in the Sierra Mo-
u They are now holding the un
fortunate captive for a high ransom, which
is not forthcoming.
‘•Straw jewelry” is something new. It
comes from Niagara; it can be purchase
from those imitation Modocs who
infest that locality. The earrings are
small baskets, stars, daggers, etc., and
there is a fnnny kind of bracelet, like
stripes of cane-bottom chair.
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