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Affairs iu Georgia.
The Christmas half-sheets aro still com
ing in.
The Lumpkin Independent is the only
Georgia weekly, as far as heard from, that
didn’t get split in twain by Christmas. This
statement may seem to be an exaggeration,
but it is not.
An Atlanta man who had his head and
face badly scalded by a premature sky
rocket, is endeavoring to fix the crime on
his mother-in-law.
A citizen of M&con, who kept up his New
Year's calls until after dark, says that a dog
on the front stoop is a very poor substitute
for a door-mat. He doesn’t remember
whether he sat down on the substitute or
not, but his pantaloons seem to be somewhat
worn behind.
A friend of Senator Norwood approached
him iho other day, and said : “Colonel, I
would like very much to have some soft po
sition in Washington.” “The softest place
I know of,” said the Senator, “is on the
roof of the ex-Attorney-General's head.
Would you like the place ?” The friend
didn’t think he would.
This is said to be leap-year, which ought
to ha very comforting to frogs and circus
men.
The Augusta Chronicle says that the store
of Mr. S. Morris, at Munnerlyn, on the Cen
tral Itailroad, was destroyed by fire last Sun
day night, together with its contents. Sup
posed to have been incendiary. Mr. Morris
was absent at the time.
The Macon Telegraph understands that
the friends of Mr. Robert U. Hardeman, of
that city, will present him to the General
Assembly as a candidate for State Treas
urer. Wo doubt whether a more honorable
or competent gentleman could be found in
the State, or one who would perform the
duties of the office more promptly and more
satisfactorily.
Geneva has shipped this season 2,734
bales of cotton, against 2,744 up to the same
time last year.
Twenty-six estimates made by members
of the Augusta Exchange, in regard to the
cotton crop for 1875-7C, average 4,155,769
bales. The lowest estimate is 4,000,000 and
the highest 4,350,000.
A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph
writing from Baker county, says that J. J.
Musgrovo, a white scalawag of this county,
was murderod by Jim and Sam Tillman, col
ored, who lived on Colonel H. A. Tarver’s
Notchaway plantation. Musgrovo had
caught them stealing sheep of Hon. James
George, and had informed. J. J. Mus-
grove went on Monday to borrow a foot adze
of the negroes, Jim and Sam, when they
had somo difficulty, and the negroes knocked
him on the head and then cat his throat and
buried him in a manure pile on the premi
ses. Jim fled after the deed, but Sam was
arrested and is now in jail, and confesses
the ffiurdor.
Dick Pounds, of Lowndes county, was
killed in a melee the other day.
The M&con Telegraph says that another
man “which lives in Jones,” and a farmer
of moderate means, sold about two thou
sand pounds of pork this season, and raised
cotton also. Wliat a commentary on the
almost universal cry of “Can’t raise no
hogs; niggers steal ’em so bad!” As the
American German says, “Dot ish blayed
out.” With the proper care and attention
by tho so-called farmers, hogs would be
plentiful, and an abundance of sound,
wholosome meat, home raised, would be
found upon their tables. But upon the
miserable and expensive plan of looking to
the West for our bacon—yon have nobody to
blame but yourselves.
It is currently reported that as many as
six hundred negroes will leave Talbot and
Harris counties for Texas and Mississippi
this month. Many have already gone.
An Augusta negro killed another the other
day. We chronicle this with no disrespect
to the dead nigger.
JeromS Tuttle, the acrobat, is teaching a
class in Athens. As we said before, th is is
leap year.
The Atlanta Herald says that on last
Wednesday noon, a Mr. John W. Bramley,
living nine miles east of Carnesville, Ga.,
committed suicide by cutting his throat.
Mrs. Bramley, at dinner time, found him
sitting on the fronT dooF steps, and asked
him to come to dinner. He told her to go
on and eat, bB*did not want any; but on ber
telling him she would not eat unless he did,
he went in and sat down at the table,
but, after eating only a mouthful or
two, got up and went out. In a mo
ment or two Mrs. Bramley hoard a noise
like water pouring out, and ran
to the door to see what was the matter, and
found him seated in his former position
with the blood gushing from his throat!
She grasped it with her hand, trying to stop
the blood, fcnt ho put up both hauds and
pushed her away 1 She caught at him the
second time, but he died almost instantly,
having cut his throat clear to the back bone!
The act seems to have been caused by men
tal depression, though Mr. B. was in good
circumstances, is said to have b.*en a sober,
industrious man, a member of the Methodist
Church, and esteemed by his neighbors.
He leaves a wife with four little children.
Thus the Macon Telegraph: Ex-Comptrol
ler General Peterson Thweatt begins his
annual campaign before the Legislature in
advance by the issue of a voluminous memo
rial, massing all the evidence and argnment
that can be brought to bear, and really
making out a very strong case. We think
the old gentleman’s claim is strictly just,
and a great and magnanimous Common
wealth should not continue to give a long-
tried and faithful pubic servant the cold
shoulder. And we tell our Legislators there
is no use dodging this conclusion. As long
as the ex-Comptroller lives he will fight
the same battle over every year, and, if not
Successful, bequeath the quarrel to his pos-
I terity after him. Our solons must always
expect to be in the predicament of old Tom
I Benton, who was so annoyed with Long
John Wentworth’s railroad bill,which he was
| ever advocating, that he was wont to ex
claim, whenever John rose in his seat;
“Great heavens, now for the clatter of
Wentworth’s eternal railroad engine.” So,
not only for the sake of justice, but in self-
j defense, they will eventually be forced to al
low the claim of this sturdy and irrepressi
ble gentleman, and the sooner the bettor.
General William M. Browne in Athens
I Georgian: Knowing the interest yon feei
In all that relates to tho Georgia Agricul-
, tor&l Society, I ask the favor of sufficient
space in your valuable paper to announce to
the county agricnltnral societies and clubs
1 of the Ninth Congressional District that the
spring convention of the State Agricultural
I opcioty will take place at Brunswick on
; Tuesday, February 8th. Tho railroad com-
[ paniee, with commendable liberality, furnish
; free transportation, going and returning', to
three delegates from a county. Where mere
are two or more societies or clubs in any
county, it will be necessary, therefore, for
those societies to arrange among themselves
as to the three delegates whom they will
I elect to represent the county, and forward
their names to Mr. Malcolm Johnston, Sec
retary, Atlanta, on or before the 25th of Jao-
* l * r y- Life members who propose to attend
W convention will algo notify the Secretary
vf* y °5th ot T —
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE KHEDIVE ANDGKEAT
BRITAIN.
Political Notes from France.
; ‘.Shooi-IIiui-on-the-Spot” Uix Speaks a
Piece.
FRENCH NOTES.
Paris, January 4.—Great prostration has
followed Queen Isabella’s attack of measles
and continues.
The Due de Brogli will be a candidate for
the Senate in the Department of Eure.
Marshal Canrobert is a government candi
date for the Senate.
AN ASSIGNMENT.
New York, January 4.—Benedict Bros.,
jewelers, 675 Broadway, whose place was
robbed under mysterious circumstances last
Thursday night, made an assignment yes
terday. The assets aDd liabilities are not
stated.
BOILER EXPLOSION.
Lexington, Ky., January 3.— Hamon’s
steam mill at Leesburg exploded, kiliiug
Andrew and Cnarles Hamon and a Mr.
Dreskell, and breaking Hamon’s father’s
leg.
STRIKE.
Springfield, Mass., January 4.—The
Blackintou woolen mills operatives struck
against the ten per cent, reduction, and
burned the manager’s barn and threatened
his life.
DIX.
New York, January 4.—Governor Dix de
livered a political lecture characterizing the
currency as scandalous. He favored the one
term of six years, and opposed an elective
judiciary.
ENGLAND AND THE KHEDIVE.
London, January 4.—The serious differ
ences between the Khedive and Mr. Case,{the
British Commissioner, is confirmed by
private advices.
FROM AUSTRIA.
Vienna, January 4.—The Archduke Ru-
dolphe, Prince Imperial of Austria, will
bo crowned King of Hungary in July.
Doak, the Hungarian statesman, is dead.
TAXING CHURCH PROPERTY.
Columbus, Ohio, January 4.—A bill has
been introduced into the Legislature taxing
church property.
FROM SPAIN.
Madrid, January 4.—The Imparcial re
ports that Cardenas has been offered the
mission to the Vatican.
Tlie Christinas Present Si Didn’t
Want.
[From the Atlanta Constitution.]
Yesterday Si came up the street in his
shambling way, and spying his former
young master standing in his store door,
approached and made a profound bow.
“Well, Si, what is it?”
“Marse John, I s’poses yer kno’ nex
Saterdy is Chrismus ?”
“Yes, that’s so. ”
“Well, yer ain’t gwine to furgit de old
man, is yer.”
‘Oh! no, Si, I never do that, you
know. What do you want this time ?”
“Mos’ anything, Marse John, that’s
good,” said Si, brightening up.
“Times are pretty hard now, Si ”
“Dat’s a fack !” interposed Si, with a
deprecating shake of his head.
“And we Southern boys can’t bo as
liberal as before the war.”
“I kno’s dat, sah; dat’s true, too !”
“Suppose I give you a nice copy of the
Declaration of Independence ?”
‘Sah! Ah, go ’way, Marse John, yer
ain’t talkin’ bizness now!” perplexedly
said Si.
“Why, it says that you and I were both
made free and equal!”
“Well, dat ain’t so ! You know it ain’t!
I wuz born a slave an’ you wuz born free;
I’m a nigger an’ you’se a white man!
Now, what for do yer want to fool a poor
nigger wid dat for, Marse John ?” argued
Si, with great unction.
“Then, say I shall give a Constitution
of the United States, with the Fifteenth
Amendment included?”
“Dar now! Marse John, you know dat
fifteenf commenment is jis another name
for nigger! I’m seekin’ arter somefin
solid, Marse John, like a par o’ shoes or
an obercoat—somefin ob dat sort—like it
wuz ’fore de war,” pleaded Si.
“Now, wait a minute, Si! How would
you like a genuine Civil Rights bill?”
“Dat’s jis’ ’bout de mos’ worfless ting
yer could pick out, sah!”
“Then, a check on the Freemdan’s Bank,
eb!”
“Was an’ wuss!” lugubriously mourned
Si.
“You are hard to please, Si! Now I
know what you want—one of those ele
gant emancipation proclamations?”
“Elephint nuthin’, Marse John! I
didn’t tink dat you’d fool wid yore old
nigger dis way. I wants somefin com
fortin’ an’ ’stautial, somefin like feed and
kiverin’, case dis old nigger, like all de
rest, is left out in de cold—put too much
’pendence ’pon dat manserfashun procky-
mashun what put de nigger in de wrong
pew—too high up in de church—and ho
had to come out! Dat’s what’s ailin’ us
now!” and Si moved off mournfully,
muttering and complaining.
Evening Telegrams.
BEECHFR BUSINESS ONCE MORE
American Meats on Sale in London
A MUTINEER ARRESTED IN NEW
YORK.
Trial of the Lanfinaid Murderer.
A Most Amusing and Wild Hunt for
Missing Letters.—Quite recently Post
master General Jewell received a com
plaint from a Western man to the effect
that he had sent out a large number of
letters, many of them quite important,
and that in no instance had any one of
them been received at their destination.
The writer, assuming that a screw was
loose somewhere, requested Mr. Jewell to
make search among the dead letters, with
the view to get a clue as to how the fail
ure to reach those addressed occurred. At
the same time the writer furnished the
Postmaster General with a list of two
hundred names, which included those
to whom the missing letters were
said to have been directed. A careful
search was made, and, strange to say, not
one of the names given was found super
scribed on any dead letter. The writer
was notified, when he supplemented the
first list with an additional one covering
four hundred names. Not one of these
could be found. He was so apprised
when, still undismayed, he sent a third
list with some eight hundred names. Mr.
Jewell gave orders to have the search
progress, but in the meantime addressed
a letter to the Postmaster nearest the res
idence of the complainant, and in due
course of mail received the information
that his pestiferous correspondent was a
confirmed lunatic, and was indulging in
one of his freaks at the expense of the
Post Office Department. — Washington
Star.
The wonderful expansive force of grow
ing vegetable tissue is shown by the fact
that a young squash, whose sides and
bottom were imprisoned in iron bands,
and across the top of which a lever, with
weights attached, was placed for the pur
pose of experiment, at six weeks old had
lifted 60 pounds; at two months, 1,100
pounds, and at tbree months the extraor
dinary weight of 5,000 pounds.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, January 4.—The Committee
on Privileges aud Elections met to consider
the resolution providing for the election of
a President pro tern,., which was referred to
them. Only four members were present,
who discussed the question informally.
There will be another meeting to-morrow.
There is considerable diversity of opinion
among tho committee.
The steamer Supply, now at New York, is
ordered to Civita Vecchia to bring works of
art to Philadelphia.
The steamer Congress will arrive at Port
Royal the middle oi this mouth for Madeira
via the Southern passage. The Juniata was
at Gibraltar on the 12th of December.
There was some trouble with her machinery,
but it is expected she would leave for Port
Royal in a few days.
The first Cabinet meeting since Tuesday
before Christmas was held to-day.
The Treasury Department decides that
spirits cannot bo transferred In bond from
the bonded warehouse to a manufacturing
warehouse, there to be manufactured into
an article for exportation, with rebate or
drawback of tho revenue tax.
ENGLISH NOTES.
London, January 4.—The Farmer news
paper says that at the beginning of last
week forty-two tons of meat were sold at
Smithfield market in this city, which were
shipped from New York to Liverpool, and
thence by rail to London. The market was
closed on Christmas, Sunday and Monday
(Boxing dav), aud the meat consequently
kept three days longer than ordinarily ne
cessary. l'et on Tuesday it was in excellent
condition, and sold rapidly at an average of
sixpence per pound.
A Liverpool company is now negotiating
with the Marquis of Bute’s trustees for the
re-establishment of a steamship line be
tween Cardiff and New York.
The Fall Hall Gazette is informed that
Lord Northbrook will return to England in
April next and Lord Lytton will be appoint
ed to succeed him as Viceroy of India.
Sir Anthony Rothschild is dead.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, January 4.—Probabilities:
l or the South Atlantic States, clear or fair
weather aud northeast to southeast winds,
stationary or slowly rising barometer and
no decided changes in temperature.
For the Gulf States, Tennessee and the
Ohio valley, partly cloudy aud slightly
warmer weather, easterly to southerly
winds, veering to southwest in the Ohio
valley, aud stationary or falling barometer,
except possibly a slight rise in the Gulf
States during the night.
For New England, and the Middle States
cold, clear or fair weather, rising barometer
aud northerly winds during the night, follow
ed during Wednesday by northeast to south
east winds, slowly falling barometer, slight
rise of temperature and increasing cloudi
ness.
THE BEECHER NASTINESS.
New York, January 4.—A nolle prosequi
was euterea in the case of Loader, in
dicted for perjury in the Beecher
case. Tho forthcoming mutual council
of tho Congregational Churches, to take
into consideration the diflerences ex
isting between Plymouth church, and
Mrs. Moulton, is to consist of five dele
gates at large and the pastors and two dele
gates from ten churches on each side. The
names of these pastors, churches and lay
delegates will not be announced until they
have been invited, to participate in the
council, and have signified their willinguess
to do so.
SPANISH POLITICS.
London, Jauuary 4.—The Standard has a
letter from Madrid saying Sagosta, Ulloa,
Colmeares and Ortiz, forming a junta ot tho
Constitutional party, have issued a circular
urging participation in the coming elections
for the Cortes. It says the government has
promised the strictest neutrality on the part
ot its agents, but denies that any compact
has been made with the government where
by the party’s principles are abdicated. It
is stated that tho Constitutional party ex
pects to secure from one hundred and fifteen
to one hundred aud twenty seats in the new
Cortes.
ARREST OF A WOULD-BE MURDERER.
New York, January 4.—While the Brit
ish brig Neptune’s Car, of Buxton, England,
was on her way to this port from Rio Ja
neiro, Thos. Stewart, the colored steward,
made an assault on the mate, Richard Buck
ingham, catting him in a most horrible
manner with a large carving knife. On the
arrival of the brig here Stewart was arrest
ed, and is held to await the action of the
British Consul.
THE LANGMAID MURDER.
Concord, N. H., January 4.—The trial of
L. A. Page for the alleged murder of Josie
Langmaid, at Pembroke, commenced before
Chief Justice W. L. Foster and Associate
Justice Rand. Au immense assemblage
filled the court room. The prisoner was
seemingly indifferent. T bo jury was com
pleted, and will proceed to Pembroke to
morrow to view the scene.
THE INDIAN TERRITORY.
Mu skogee, Indian Territory, January 4.
—By direction of the Secretary of the Inte
rior Major Upham, commandant at Fort
Gibson, has taken possession of the office,
papers and vouchers of the Indian Agency
at this place. The agency was under the
charge of Major G.W. Ingalls. Tho alleged
cause is misapplication of public funds.
Major Ingalls is absent.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, January 4.—Charles Smith,
intoxicated, beat and kicked his wife
fatally.
llubenstein, tho alleged murderer of the
Jewess, Sarah Alexander, was arraigned,
and pleaded not guilty to the charge of
murder in the first degree. The trial is set
for next Monday.
FREIGHT RATES.
Chicago, January 4.—The General Freight
Agents of the Eastern Pool lines held a
meeting for the purpose of equalizing local
rates. This was the only business trans
acted. It is reported rates East are weak
ening, and will shortly be reduced.
TILDEN’S MESSAGE.
Albany, January 4.—In Governor Tilden’s
message, alter the common schools are
mentioned only in the submission of their
statistics, nothing is said of the sectarian
question, of the constitutional amendments
proposed by the President and Mr. Blaine,
or of the Grey nuns act.
CONTESTED ELECTION.
Baltimore, January 4.—Henry M. War-
field, Reform candidate for Mayor at the
election in October, instituted proceedings
contesting the election of Gen. F. C. La-
trobe, the Democratic candidate, who has
been installed in office.
Philadelphia, January 4. — Harrison
Grambo, a very prominent operator in real
estate, is dead.
Albany, N. Y., January 4.—Judge Peter
Gangvoort is dead. He was a son of Gen.
Gangvoort, of Revolutionary fame.
burned.
Boston, January 4.—Biddle’s carriage
factory, with six tenements, is burned.
Loss, HO,000. A man who entered after
tools was burned to death.
WOOLEN MILL BURNED.
Utica, N. Y., January 4.—The Oriskaiig
woolen mill is burned. Loss $50,000. Eighty
persons are ousted.
LETTER FROM ALABAMA.
Advent of the Centennial Year—A (Glance
at Barbour County—The Preen Not Fully
Appreciated — The Pleasant Town of
Clayton—Christman Festivities.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
The Hog Crop.—The Cincinnati Price
Current reports for the entire pork pack
ing season a failing off at all interior
points in the West of 570,000 hogs and a
possible falling off at the leading cities
sufficient to make the aggregate decrease
750,000. But taking weights into con
sideration the hog crop will scarcely vary
from 5,000,000 against 5,566,000 last year,
or 10 per cent, decrease. The packing
to date at all points is approximately
3,000,000 against 4,000,000 hogs last year
“Cussed if the darned thing ain’t
a-going!” was the surprised remark of a
sight-seeing Granger from Maine, who
caressed the teeth of a circular saw in a
North End planing mill; and now should
you propound to him that first problem
for young arithmeticians, “How many
fingers have you on your right hand?” he
would bite the lonely thumb, and sadly
reply, “Nary, stranger!”—Boston Globe.
A lamp on a table at a hotel in Ben
nington, Vt., exploded last week while no
person was in the room, setting fire to the
tablecloth and then to the table itself. The
heat of the flames increased until it
cracked open a globe filled with water for
gold fish which was standing upon the
table. The water extinguished the
flames, and thus probably saved the
building from destruction.
Mr. Joshua Montgomery Sears, a stu
dent in Yale College, attained his ma
jority on Christmas day, and with it
stepped into the possession of a neat
little property estimated at $9,000,000.
About one-half of the property consists
of real estate in Boator
And now the martial Morton “puts
forth the tender leaves of hope” that
Presidential honors await him. But
Shakspeare, who wrote for all |ages, must
have had Morton in mind when he wrote :
“The third
Term comes a fro9t, a killing frost,
Aud when he thinks, good man,
Bis honors ripen fast, nips his root
Clayton, Ala., January 1, 1876.
A person sitting here in the quiet of
this little town, where all the noise and
hilarity of a merry Christmas season have
died out and left no echo, would hardly
suppose that this closing day of the last
week of 1875 had given birth to the
great jubilee year, the grand Centennial
period of this American nation. Christ
mas day was almost universally ushered
in, after a long prologue of noisy de
monstrations, by a perfect bedlam of in
congruous sounds, and one would have
thought it was the birthday of any other
than the “Prince of Peace.” Bad whisky
and bad blood came in conflict, in all
parts of the State, and scenes were en
acted that would have disgraced a people
to whom the birth of Christ had never
been made known. It is a relief, there
fore, to have this Centennial year come
qnietly and peacefully into our midst,
and, if possible, give us, through its un
demonstrative advent, promise of better
days to come for “The Land we Love.”
A GLANCE AT BARBOUR COUNTY.
Clayton is the county seat of Barbour,
a county that has become historic in the
record of its noble sons, many of whom
have passed into the silence of the tomb.
But the names of Bullock, Shorter. Bu
ford, Cochran and others, have lost none
of their lustre, and they shine brightly
to-day beside the names of Baker, Pugh,
Shorter, Clayton and others of the living
public men of the county. For about ten
years, under Radical negro rule, the peo
ple of Barbour were without a voice in
the management of the affairs of the
county. A negro filled the place in Con
gress once occupied by a Pugh and a
Shorter, and meaner negroes disgraced
seats in the Legislature, where the ablest
and most honored citizens of the county
had been used to represent a proud and
prosperous constituency. But that day
of negro supremacy has passed, and old
Barbour is now officered in every depart
ment by true and patriotic white men.
Hon. Jere N. Williams, of this town, an
able lawyer and sterling patriot, repre
sents the district in Congress, and Judge
Henry D. Clayton, who was a gal
lant acting Lieutenant General of
the Confederate army at the
close of the war, is again on the bench
of this eircuit. General Alpheus Baker,
tho brave soldier and fervid orator, pre
sides over the City Court of Eufaula,
which has concurrent jurisdiction. With
these gentlemen in high positions, and
all the subordinate offices filled by effi
cient and reliable men, there is hope that
the county will speedily recover from the
dire effects of a long and disastrous Rad
ical usurpation.
THE PRESS NOT FULLY APPRECIATED.
In the great work of redeeming the
county and State from Radical negro
rule, much as was done by the eloquence
of eminent men on the stump and the
rostrum, the power of the press was a
grand lever with which to lift out of office
the vile horde that sought to fatten upon
the misfortunes of the people whom fate
had made helpless for a time. The press
of Barbour county was prompt, fear
less, and untiring in its efforts
to bring victory to the banner of the
white man’s party.” It spared neither
time, money nor personal convenience,
but worked with constantly renewed
energy and zeal up to the very moment
when the bugle blast of victory sounded
out from the capital of the State, to let
the people know that Alabama, long and
terribly oppressed, was forever free from
Radical dominion. When the days of re
joicing were over, and a new government
had taken possession of the State and
county, the people seemed to quietly
settle themselves down to their daily
pursuits. If a few rpmembered the press,
and gave it a substantial token of their
appreciation of its services in the political
redemption of the State, hundreds turned
away thoughtlessly and left it to languish
for want of a justly deserved support.
Aud to-day, as I view it, the press of
Barbour county is a reproach to the peo
ple for whom it has done so much, and
done it so unselfishly. The Courier, by
E. R. Quillan, of this place, and the
News, by E. J. Black, (son of the
veteran John Black,J and the Times, by
Shropshire A Brown, of Eufaula, are de
serving of a generous support; and yet
all of these papers are driven to the
lowest point of economy to keep them
selves alive. There can be found no
more laborious or faithful publishers in
the State, men who worked harder and
receive less in return for their labor, and
it is due them, at this critical period in
their history, that the people of Barbour
county should come forward and sub
scribe to (and pay in advance) one or
more of these papers. Each man will
then realize that
He that would spend in peace the winter,
Should promptly go and pay the printer.
THE PLEASANT TOWN OF CLAYTON.
Until within the past three years Clay
ton was twenty miles from the nearest
steamboat and railroad lines. The com
Dletion of the Vicksburg and Brunswick
Itailroad from Eufaula to this place, un
der the supervision of Messrs. Papot,
Walthour & Co., of Savannah, put the
town within an hour’s ride of the “Bluff
City.” As the road became bankrupt be
fore the twenty miles were fully equipped,
the Central Railroad Company came to
its assistance, and are still in charge of it.
The regular passenger train leaves here
every morning for Macon, as it formerly
did from Eufaula, and carries a very good
number of passengers. There is now
but one vacant store in the town, which
could not have been said of it last year.
The death of CoL Wldtfield Clark, who
did the most extensive mercantile busi
ness of any merchant in this section of
the State, was a severe blow to the pros
perity of this county, yet his place
is being ably filled by ex-Alderman
R. A. Solomon, a former leading
warehouse and commission merchant ot
Eufaula, who now carries on a large busi
ness at Colonel Clark's late establishment.
As County Treasurer also, Mr. Solomon
is in a position to do much, as he no
doubt will, for the future prosperity of
the town. There are numerous stores
here, a good brick court house and jail,
three churches and a commodious female
college building and first-class schools,
and many private residences. A large
amount of cotton is purchased here or
shipped to Eufaula for sale, the most of
which goes to Savannah from that point.
The departure of negro emigrants to
Texas has made trade lively for the past
week, especially in the trunk line, Mr.
Solomon having sold ten large packing
trunks to one lot of negroes. Everything,
however, has been orderly, and social
pleasures have abounded during the
Christmas season. The presence here
of Hon. Jere N. Williams, Judge H. B.
Tompkins and General H. D. Clayton,
each taking a rest from his public labors,
has given occasion for quite a number of
elegant social gatherings, the most promi
nent of which took place at Gen. Clay
ton’s attractive residence on Thursday
night. The attendance was very large,
as the train from Eufaula brought up a
crowd of ladies and gentlemen, the
“beauty” and “chivalry” of the “Bluff
City,” and all enjoyed a happy time, and
partook of a really sumptuous feast of
good things, such as only General Clay
ton’s most estimable and accomplished
lady could have prepared. Truly could
it be said of the joyous occasion, that
“Bright the lamps shone o’er fair
Women and brave men,”
For Barbour’s capital had gathered there
w — ita r*“—
A Worse than Russian Despotism—Crisis
in the Career of E. M. Randall—Steal
ing a Perry —Dosed with Vile Drams—
Conjurors and (-amblers—Immunities of
Vassalage—Eighteen Hundred and Sev
enty -Six— Must be Appreciated to be
Enjoyed—Karine.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Its beauty and its chivalry.
Jacksonville, January 3, 1876.
LIFTING A LURID THUNDER-CLOUD.
It was Goldsmith who observed that
those are best qualified to volunteer ad
vice who are the least likely to accept it,
and being unhappily so constituted that I
never under any emergency listen to gratui
tous counsel, I suppose it per consequence
becomes my peculiar province to evolve a
perfect deluge of unwise maxims. You
will find it invariably convenient to de
nominate everything you are incapable
of comprehending as pedantic, every
thing that you lack the judgment to
admire as uncouth, ever^tning that you
are unable to confute as a lie. In nine
instances out of ten you will thus ex
perience scarcely any difficulty in dodging
the question, and may possibly en
force a delusion that you are an Jait even
to the buttons on your coat. The pri
mary disadvantage of such a line of
argument, however, is that you resort to
petty shifts which are the property of
the veriest charlatan—which bumps us
incontinently against the subject oi this
memoir. E. M. Randall, who has incon
siderately taken occasion to communicate
the information to the New York/Sun that
the allegations of this correspondent to
the effect that the Chief Justice of
Florida is enveloped by a mountain of
corruption, are “utterly untrue.” This
denial will force a smile from every in
dividual acquainted with Randall’s his
tory, but as it is not unlikely to deceive
those who know him not, it is reduced to
an imperative necessity that your cor
respondent shall substantiate the charges
advanced, which he will proceed
to do at once, and will supple
ment it by an oath before a Notary
Public. We are accused of being bitterly
denunciatory in our language towards the
Chief Justice, granted. The courts of a
people have been for ages regarded as the
bulwark of their liberties—even their
lives, and when the highest tribunal of a
commonwealth is presided over by an
ignoramus universally believed to be or
to have been corrupted, it is an insult to
the inhabitants, and it is high time that
hypercriticism and a fastidious delicacy
should cease, and that the disgrace of his
presence upon the supreme bench should
be vigorously protested against. In the
time gone by, when Governors were gen
tlemen not foisted into office by the bal
lots of illiterate and imbuted voters, such
a fellow would never have been made a
member of the Cabinet. That we do per
sist in following up Randall is acknowl
edged, but we shall pay strict atten
tion to facts in every instance and when
we shall have compelled him to resign
from a position for which he is unfited
under any circumstances, we shall have
more leisure to devote to the rascals who
contaminate inferior offices.
PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF.
Montesquieu or some other French
man—it is well to be precise—enunciated
the glowing problem, “L'esprit estsouvent
le dupe dear,” which, being subjected to
the crucial test of a periphrastic interpre
tation, means “obey the behests of your
mind.” Of course it is all gasconade,
and probably no man in the history of
the world ever put a literal construction
upon it before Harrison Reed, at one pe
riod gubernatorial prince of Florida.
Reed was as good an executive officer as
Stearns, and there is another striking re
semblance between them—they both nave
an eye to business. Grimalkin Reed,
while Governor, turned his long
ing optic upon the Jacksonville ferry
and sighed for the exclusive privilege of
operating the same. In these post bel
lum days when judges decide their own
cases one can hardly wonder that a Gov
ernor should do likewise, and so Harri
son at once caused himself to be created
sole lessee and owner of this valuable
franchise, with a monopoly of the ferry
for a period of twenty years.
As a result of his own kindness
to himself we enjoy the spectacle
of a few decayed planks that ply between
.his city and the opposite bank of the
river, in accordance with no regular sched
ule, and the prosperity of the aforesaid
opposite bank is being seriously rt tarded.
If Mr. Harrison Reed, ex-Governor and
present ferryman, is incapacitated by any
reason from making a respectable enter
prise of this affair, every rational citizen
would rejoice to see him relinquish his
job.
THE MUNICIPAL AMPHITHEATRE.
An elegant party was first permitted to
appear in the role of a female. Himself
and a companion, just for fun, had en
deavored to disguise themselves as ladies
and promenade west. A lynx-eyed guar
dian put a period to their prerigrinations
and escorted them to the city parlor.
Two dollars and costs. Then came a ma
gician with a little box, wherewith he
tried to “induce” to woolly citizens.
He also owned a pack of playing
cards. This genius and a “pal’
were mulcted for twenty dollars and costs,
each, for playing “Heathen Chinee.”
A Canny Scot, who, as a pedestrian
claims pre-eminence, came next. He
walked from Savannah, and being tired
and sleepy too, fell asleep upon the dock,
where he was found. Released from
custody, the Hon. Mr. Evans, a darkey,
on Saturday applied sundry epithets to a
gentleman, which, as they are in
common use by Radicals in this quar
ter, can be supplied by the imagina
tion without their reproduction here.
The gentleman laid a hundred
pound weight across the forehead of
Evans, and the character he personated
in court was that of a battle-scarred ne
gro making a charge of assault. The
progress of his complaint was interrupted
by a melee, not mentioned in the pro
gramme, between a witness and himself.
new year’s eve
beats anything the world ever saw—
eighteen hundred and seventy-six. New
Year's eve was marked by several enter
tainments, whereat the company danced
the days that left them one year nearer
to life’s end away. But as Sardauapolus
saith, “eat, drink and sleep—the rest’s
not worth a fillip.” I have drifted into
this lackadaisical strain merely to see how
miserable everybody can be made. Duval
Division of the Sons of Temperance in
augurated a brilliant “hop” at Polk’s
Hall, which passed off with appropriate
eclat, and was well and largely attended,
and the dancing continued until nearly
day. Several other balls were given in
the city, and the old year passed off with
befitting ceremonies.
LIVELY TIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
The School Board did not convene last
Thursday, as I announced, out postponed
their session until some time during this
week for various reasons. One unruly
member demands a report of the pro
ceedings for the last three or four years,
and insists upon holding the others to a
strict accountability for monies disbursed
without proper authority. The accom
plices of Archibald, who has possession
of the books, I believe, are moving every
thing to stave off the threatened investi
gation.
A PROPOSED SYNAGOGUE.
The Israelites ot Jacksonville held an
informal meeting on Saturday for the
purpose of devising a plan for the con
struction of a Jewish temple here. Sub
scriptions to this end were called for, and
I am gratified to learn that the result was
entirely satisfactory.
DEFECTIVE SEWERAGE.
Much complaint has been made by
property owners on Newnan street in
consequence of the Mayor’s action in
closing up a sewer in that neighborhood.
Instead of repairing the drain it has been
stopped up effectually, to the great in-
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE.
The bellicose Alderman, who acted as
Tax Collector during the fiscal year end
ing April, 1874, is hereby notified that
the Morning News allows him thirty
days from date in which to settle up his
indebtedness of nine hundred and
eighteen dollars to the city, and if he
fails to avail himself of this extension,
we shall make efforts to discover his
bondsmen, or compromise matters by
lettiffg him “mash the nose” of your
correspondent.
CELEBRATING slavery.
Ybout one hundred suffragans paraded
the streets on Saturday in honor of the
emancipation proclamation. They were
fantastically bedecked with ribbons and
carried three or four standards. What a
commentary upon civilization. Whenever
they shall have shaken off the thraldom
which they are under to the Radicals, they
may count themselves free indeed. Voters
who serve a scalawag master have not
much freedom to boast of.
CLASSIC—VERY.
A colored barber has posted up a hiero
glyphic on a fence near the St. James
Hotel setting forth that he is “no travel
ing kwak but a genuine doctor. no
keur no pay. money returned.” There’s
a chance for some Radicals to take les
sons .
SUMMER IN FRAGRANCE STILL.
The temperature at this point tor the
past week has ranged higher than has
ever b6en known before at this season by
the oldest inhabitant. The days are
warm almost to sultriness—the nights
cool, pleasant and rejuvenating.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived during the past three days—
Schooners E. F. Cottingham, Baltimore ;
m T. H. Livingston, Belfast, Maine; J. G.
1 Drew, Camden, Me. Adrianus.
The Orator in No Demand in the North
Aurora. Portage Co., Ohio,)
December 29, 1875. j
[From an Occasional Correspondent of tlie
Morning News ]
Pnblius Syrus was a noted actor of
Mimes in the provincial towns of Italy.
His reputation reaching Rome, he was
summoned to the capital by Caesar to as
sist in the public amusements and spec
tacles which were offered the people in
exchange for their freedom. Roman elo
quence, as an instrumentality, was super
seded by low farce and drunken buffoonry.
Individual honor and the public good, the
only proper stimulus of the true orator,,
lost caste and went out of fashion. Luxury
and circumstance, purchaseable place and
power, were not favorable for orators.
Moreover, orators were often apt to
be unmanageable where right, justice,
honor and religious and political pro
motion are bartered and sold. Hence in
Rome Cicero was made away with, and
clowns, like Syrus, and bullies, like
Clodius, came into requisition. The
orators of the republic disappeared. The
empire afterwards occasionally produced
good poets, and a class of philosophers
like Seneca, who tapped his own veins
while sitting in his bath, and died at the
arbitrary command of his patron and
master. But as for orators, it became a
dungeon and a tomb. The theatre and
circus superseded the Senate, and the
forum became a block where political
characters were booked and sold, or
beheaded.
The scarcity of orators in the northern
section of the United States may be ac
counted for now as satitfactorily as
though centuries had passed, and
history had 'fulfilled its task. The
silencing and wanton banishment of
Vallandingham, the incarceration of dis
tinguished men and patriots, the vindic
tive expulsion of Federal Senators, the
seizure of sovereign Legislatures en
masse, and the general fear of spies and
upstart officials in every neighborhood
and on every thoroughfare will have a
meaning in tho hands of some future
Pliny or Plutarch, and will explain the
reason why the race of orators that
sprung from earlier and better times has
died without heirs. But the dungeon
and the file of soldiers will Hot constitute
the half, or the worst part, of the story.
The insolence of office and the perfidies
of friendship, with repression and dis
trust and hate can all be easily painted
and their effects easily described.
It will be more difficult, as it will be
more important, to show how the demand
for orators has ceased, not how they were
repressed; how they ceased to be born—
not how they became abortions. It is
imagined that whatever differences may
be entertained as to other matters, there
will not be much disagreement in the
statement that these children of genius
are not the offspring of the lust of power,
and that they obstinately refuse any rela
tionship with meanness aDd vice, with
falsehood, injustice and corruption. They
are neither born in sin, or brought forth
in iniquity. If this be so, then in a gov
ernment run by treasury thieves, railroad
and land monopolies and coupon cutters,
the orator has no place. The climate is
too cold. He can put in no appear
ance, at least, so long as the people,
amused with shows and shams, dream
themselves at the top of the world. “The
trail of the serpent is over them all.”
There is no place for the orator to put
his foot or his fulcrum.
If the oppression of Germany ever
made Carl Schurz an orator, the incon
sistency and perfidy of political life in
America has lost him “the trick.” His
thoughts live not outside of the occasion
that hired them.
If shrieking for negro liberty ever kin
dled the true fire in Cassius M. Clay, Ca
ry, or Ben Wade, it went out at the pre
cise moment when its blaze should have
mounted most exultingly. The fearful
realization of their frenzied projects has
revealed the deceitful and delusive char
acter of theii inspirations; and the deluge
of evils now afflicting the country, that
acknowledge no control, have proved them
no better than mischievous swamp lights,
bewildering the lost and leading them
into outer darkness. And if ever the
beautiful form of a united and justly
balanced constellation of self-governed
Republican States inspired the leaders of
the great Democratic party in the North,
with thoughts and words that took hold
of the hearts of men, and were worthy
of history, they too, like the brothers of
Joseph, have betrayed their mission, and
dabbled in righteous blood, until they
appear to have come from among the
Ishmaelites, and are unable to explain
the color of their own vestments.
Now let the Harpers, the Nashya, and
all the King’s fools wave! Re-open
Ford’s theatre and let the dance begin!
Brutus and Booth are both dead.
In “the land where the orange blooms”
the orator has lived and flourished, and
he lives there yet. The voices that came
up to Massachusetts not long since, to
worship at some of the earlier shrines of
local sovereignty, among those who had
forgotten the lesson, and the voices of
Lamar, and others on the floors of Con
gress, justify the expectation that in spite
of enameled religion, governmental gam
bling and military despotism, one portion
of our country will retain the reputation
for eloquence which it has heretofore
held. Plinius.
A female “Evangelist,” known as
“Preaching Mary,” says a Glasgow pa
per, was in Galashiels on Sunday even
ing, accompanied by a male fellow-
worker, and while attempting to address
the crowd in Roxburgh street the pair
were mobbed. An address by the female
speaker was closed with a prayer by her
companion that the word spoken by his
wife might be blessed to the audience,
when he was interrupted by a shout that
“ Mary” was nit his wife, and that he
had deserted both wife and children in
Berwickshire. The pair made off, fol
lowed by a hooting and hissing crowd,
who afterwards snow-balled them, and
forced them to take refuge for their lives
Studies Among the Sioux.
[Dakota Correspondence Evansville Journal.]
They have a keen sense of the ridicu
lous, particularly the women, and some
what of humor. I think it was “Run
ning Antelope” who said that “when he
first heard of it, he was much surprised
that the white men killed their Saviour,
but now he knew them better he had
changed his mind.” I recollect once,
when a friend and myself were standing
rather too near the circle where they were
having a squaw dance, two hags, whose
heads were silvered by well nigh a cen
tury, threw their skinny arms around our
necks and, drawing us into the circle,
compelled us to join in their gyrations,
much to the hilarity of the rest. But of all
objects of study, the women are the great
est from the pretty, good-natured young
girls of seventeen, to the toothless old.
hags, who, in this very tribe, have been
known to come on the battlefield after
the fight to kill the wounded. Much
righteous indignation has been expressed
by American writers with regard to the
servile labor which is required of the wo
men among the Indian tribes, and this
criticism is but to be expected from a
people whose habit of pampering their
women exhibits itself in the absurd eti
quette which requires that « gentleman
must offer to carry a parcel for a lady, if
it be but an ounce weight, and is now re
sulting in the cry of “woman’s rights.”
But these Indian girls are the happiest
set I have ever seen, and if the old wo
men are bent from being hewers of wood
and carriers of water, the men do their
part in huntingand fighting.
The girls are at once both modest and
bold. They will stand and gaze in at
your window for a quarter of an hour at
a time, but having once ventured to hint
to one of them that her ways were most
winning, the poor child was so overcome
that she ran away, hid her face in her
robe and refused to be comforted.
The manner of love-making among
them is strange. When afflicted with
Cupid’s dart the young men go about
wearing their blankets in such a manner
as to cover up all of the head except the
eyes, and, having spied the object of their
affection, they slip up behind her, quickly
throw the blanket over her head also,
and, holding her tightly around the
waist, compel her to listen to the soft
accents of love. In case of a popular
belle they will sometimes range them
selves in a line at the door of her wig
wam, and when she comes out pass her
from one to the other as each in turn dis
burdens his surcharged heart. They
have been known to keep a girl this way
all day long.
Their simplicity is something wonder
ful, and many a maiden has run away in
the greatest confusion upon a field glass
being levelled at her, thinking that it
rendered her clothing diaphanous.
Lastly, the language of the Indian is
well known to be picturesque, and no
one can appreciate the grace of their
oratory without having seen it, and even
in ordinary conversation their gestures
are profuse. It is the very poverty of
their language which makes it sound
poetic; thus, for “the ship sails,” having
neither the word “ship” nor “sails,” they
say “the wind makes the boat run on the
water,” thus bringing in two of the na
tural elements in that one sentence. It
is noticeable that when we sometimes ex
press age by so many summers, they
always say winters, and when we say “so
man}’ days since,” they say “so many
nights or sleeps.”
The Coming Marriage of a Poetess.
—In the reign of William IV. Caroline
Elizabeth Sarah Norton was a noted
beauty. She was the grand-daughter of
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and with her
two sisters, formed the “Three English
Graces.” One of these sisters, the Lady
Dufferin, is the author of the once popu
lar ballad, “The Irish Emigrant’s La
ment;” another is Lady Jane Seymour,
who presided at the Eglintoun tourna
ment as the “Queen of Love and Beauty.”
Mrs. Norton was in eaily life married to
George Chappell Norton, and at his in
stance the young wife figured as respond
ent in a celebrated divorce suit, the charge
being adultery with Lord Melbourne,
then Premier. Melbourne won in the legal
fight for damages, but the reputation of
the lady was so injured by a decree of di
vorce that she retired to private life. It
was in her sorrowing hours that she
touched the harp and sounded the chords
of song. Her earlier poems bear evi
dence of a heart full of grief, and are
among the best of their kind in our lan
guage. Later years developed her genius,
and Mrs. Norton has long ranked among
the foremost of British female poets.
Every one will remember her better when
we mention “Bingen on the Rhine,” a
gem in its way. It was a strange coinci
dence that her famous grandfather should
write “The School for Scandal,” and his
grandchild should realize it in its worst
London form. Mrs. Norton is soon to be
married to Sir W. Stirling Maxwell. She
is not young—rather in the “sere, the
yellow leaf ” but a genius, and a woman
purified by suffering.—N. Y. Sunday
Mercury.
THE NEW FOREST SHAKERS.
Wild Excitement tit a Keetinc in Exeter,
England—Almost a Riot.
[From the Western Morning News, Dec. 10.]
Mrs. Girling, accompanied by twelve of
her followers, visited Exeter on Thursday
to deliver a lecture on “The Life and
Aims of the Community at New Forest. ”
Mrs. Girling was listened to with some
attention at first, but the audience soon
began hissing and cheering. Suddenly
one of the eight girls who accompanied
the lecturess rose from her seat and be
gan to dance, with her eyes closed and
her arms waving to and fro. This dem
onstration caused loud laughter at first,
followed by groans and hisses, which
were redoubled when Mrs. Girling ex
plained that it was the operation of the
spirit. The dancing girl next commenced
singing snatches of hymns, and one
of her companions fainted for a
moment, and then began to dance as
well. Great disorder followed. Mr.
Carroll, a commercial traveler, and Mr.
Ruse, a member of the town counci!,
rose from their seats and protested
against “the blasphemous farce” that was
beii.g enacted on the platform. Loud
cheers, followed by cries of “Go on tho
platform,” were raised, and the people at
the rear made a move toward the plat
form, which was quickly surrounded by
an excited crowd, many of whom brand
ished sticks in a threatening manner,
calling Mrs. Girling and her male com
panions, “Yankee adventurers,” “swin
dlers,” and so on. A Mr. Gowiug
threatened to summon them before the
magistrates, to which the Shakers replied
that they were willing to go anywhere.
Appeals were made to the Shakers to stop
the dancing, to which they replied they
had no power to do so.
By this time the number of dancers
had increased, and a rush was made to
the platform, which was speedily occu
pied. Half a dozen policemen partly
cleared it, and endeavored to protect the
Shakers from violence; but the mob
again gained possession of the platform,
and loudly demanded that their money
should be returned. Mr. Pople and
others endeavored to make the poor
women sit down, but this only in-
The
Picking and 8te,U.«, Abo„t ^
Capital.
Washington, December 27 _t„
internal alapsffi.; between the adfon^ 8
mentof Congr, is on the 4tb oI M«a
last and the assembling of the
fourth congress.
been a more general cleaning out thin
usual of the furniture of the commU^
rooms. A clerk just appointed to one^f
(ho committees reports that on takine
possession of his committee room he
found that it had been stripped of nearl!
ev rything portable of value. It has for
tw
- r—uu ai me end
of a Congress anything that they can la,
the.r hands upon. To supply the loss
occasioned in this manner over $9 ooo
has been expended under the head of
furniture and repairs’ in the last five
months. Between twenty-five and thirtv
thousand dollars is thrown away annually
on the capitol police. J
.n T uo.S l6 ? r° f th ? Honse paid oat 9i uce
the doth of June last np to December 1
¥l,9S5 for pocket-books and card-cases’
and $1,573 for gold pens and penciU
Such a large purchase of these artisu.
could only have been necessitated bin*. s
total abstraction of the old sup-J-fe'f/
band. Between two and tb-ae t 015 ^’
dollars worth of pocket-knEli < 1 ~
purchased for the new members.
Democratic House is sincere in its _
for economy it cannot do better than 1
beginning the work of retrenchment in’
its own household. It would be difficult ~
for any member to allege any reason ex
cept that of precedent, why he should be
furnished at the publie expense with
costly Russia leather pocket-books, gold
pens and pocket-knives. Nor is there
any shadow of right in permitting
members horse-car tickets at the
public expense. One of the most
crying abuses under the Honse is
the hire of horses and carriages. This is
a perquisite enjoyed and very improperly
too, by officers of the body. Many thou!
sand dollars are annually paid on this
account, and in many instances more
being paid every month for the use of a
horse than his entire value. Under the
law every member is allowed $125 worth
per annum of stationery and newspapers,
or he is allowed to commute his allowance
in money. At least nine-tenths of the
members draw all the stationery they
need, (a very comprehensive term,) from
the general allowance, and then take $125
in money. An end should be put to all
these things, and to various other abuses
which it is not necessary to specify. At
least $100,000 per annum can and ought
to he saved in the expenses of the House
of Representatives. The Democratic
majority in that body cannot do a more
popular thing than by applying the muoh
talked of pruning knife to the lopping off
of its own useless and unjustifiable ex
travagances.—Baltimore Sun.
Shocking Domestic Tea oedy.—Late
on Thursday morning an officer was called
, . r „, to West Fifty-third street, New York
creased their excitement The scene where he found a man named Meyers hta
at this time defies description— 2. ... , . — - 3 ’
three or four girls with dishevelled
hair, and faces streaming with perspira -
tion, dancing within a circle of police
men, and an infuriated mob trying to get
at them and their companions, and hustle
them from the platform. One of the men
of the Shaker party, who had up to this
time remained comparatively cool and
collected, suddenly commenced to jump,
and defied the efforts of three or four
stalwart men to keep him still. After a
few moments of the wildest excitement,
one of the women seized him round the
neck, and while embracing each other in
a state of frenzy they and their compan
ions were pushed off the platform and
took shelter in the anteroom.
Mr. Carroll, after the Shakers had
quitted the platform, moved a resoluticn
condemning the affair in strong terms,
and it was seconded by a Mr. Muyer,
who said that although he came there
disposed to give Mrs. Girling an atten
tive hearing, he had been disgusted by
the indecent exhibition just witnessed.
The resolution was put and carried by
acclamation. The gas was then turned
out, and, with great difficulty, the police
succeeded in clearing the hall.
wife and child in bed. The former was
insensible, and the child dead from pistol
shot wounds. It is supposed that Meyers
did the shooting.
Later information from the scene of
the tragedy states that the name of the
man was Monroe S. Minster, employed in
the office of the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children, as janitor
and interpreter. Minster had lived in
the apartments where the tragedy oc
curred for several months. At about 7
this morning groans were heard by women
living in the adjoining apartment, who
gave the alarm, and the room wa* broken
into, when the senseless bodies of Minster
and his wife, and the dead body of his
child, were found. The mac and wife
were taken to the hospital, where the
doclors pronounced their wounds fatal.
From the positions of the parties in bed
it is supposed that Minster first shot his
child, then his wife, and lastly himself.
All the parties were in their night clothes.
It is thought that poverty and disagree
ments prompted the crime.
Horrible Affair—Hand-to-Hand Con
flict in a Negro Church.
[Special to the St. Louis Republican.]
Mt. Vernon, III , December 29.—The
little town of El Dorado, on the Shaw-
neetown branch of. the St. Louis and
Southeastern railway, in Saline county, is
in a state of great excitement over a
shooting and cutting scrape in which two
negroes were killed and several others
badly wounded. The facts, as near as
can be ascertained, are as follows : The
colored people were holding a festival
for the benefit of their church, when
some parties presented themselves and
demanded admission without paying the
fee required at the door. On being
refused admission these parties rudely
forced their way into the church, when
the real trouble of the evening com
menced. Pistols, knives and razors were
drawn. Shots were fired in rapid suc
cession. Women screamed and fainted.
It was a scene of the wildest excitement.
Charles Pickett was shot through the
head and his throat cut from ear to ear,
causing instant death. Another man
named Sails received a bullet in the brain.
Still another named Timothy Gart was
shot through the ohest, receiving what is
thought to be a mortal wound. A num
ber of persons were shot and cut in vari
ous parts of the body, receiving slight
wounds. A negro named John Elliot is
under arrest as the party who killed Pick
ett The authorities of the town of El
Dorado aoted very promptly in the prem
ises, and took into custody all of the
parties engaged in the bloody affair.
A Good Financial Platform.—While
lecturing the other day on the influence
ana office of Moses, a clergyman said
that the prophet did not originate the
moral law, that being already known for
its substance, but he did give it authori
tative sanction. “To illustrate,” he con
tinued, “wo are subject, as a commercial
people, to constant financial crises. There
are many opinions held as to the causes
and the proper laws of finance. Quite a
library of books have been written on the
subject. How great the gam would be if
some great mind could arise which would
unentangle these perplexities and name
an undoubted law of exchange and pub
lish it with incontrovertible authority ?
Like this was the sanction of Moses.”
At the close of the lecture one of tho
audience stepped up and remarked, “Doc
tor, did you not kuow there was an admi
rable and efficacious law of finance in ex
istence; one published, too, with author
ity and most tremendous sanctions?”
“No, indeed,” said he; “and pray, what
may that be ?” The answer came, “Thou
shalt not steal.”
The number of men at present main
r t . .• „ tained in the standing armies of civilized
! nations is not less than 3,000,000. All
create in these times should she make
her appearance dressed in the following
costume, a description of which is taken
from “Malcom’s Anecdotes”: A black
silk petticoat, with a red and white calico
border; cherry-colored stays, trimmed
with blue and silver; a red and dove-
colored gown, flowered with large trees ;
a yellow satin apron, elaborately trimmed;
a muslin head dress with lace ruffles ; a
black silk scarf and a spotted silk hood.
“Such was the costume worn by a lady in
1708.” Further on, we read of ladies’
head dresses costing from one to two
hundred dollars. A great deal has been
said about the extravagance of women of
the present day; but the modern belle
would stand aghast should she be asked
to pay two hundred dollars for a bonnet;
and it is doubtful whether the expensive
head-gear referred to was any more be
coming to the wearer than the jaunty
and stylish hats worn by the “girls of
the period. ”
Gladstone is reported as saying, “ele
vate the working classes by keeping your
children in it.” When we see every me
chanic of soberness and industry always
in demand and never pining for some
thing to do, and know of so many needy
young and old professional men, we are
oonstrained to add to Mr. Gladstone’s ad
vice the suggestion that the working
classes may not only be elevated by keep
ing your children in it, but your children
may be made independent and happy.
The moral of this had its illustration in
the recent rush of idlers and office-seek
ers who knocked at the Clerk’s door in
order to get anything in his gift, when it
was apparent that rotation was to be the
order of procedure. — Washington Capital
A “Red Hot Time.”—Wm. B. Shaw,
correspondent of the Boston Transcript,
was invited to spend last Christmas with
a brother in Pennsylvania, whom he had
not seen for several years. An induce
ment offered him was that if he came he
would be given a “red hot time.” He
did go, and on Christmas night the red
hot time was given him through the
burning of his host’s house. Shaw, wife
and two children escaped to the sidewalk
with their clothing in their hands, and
arranged their toillettes on the curb
stone.
A Tragic Affair.—At Nebraska City
on Christmas day, the ten-year-old sister
of Mrs. Zach. White was playing in com
pany with another child in the yard, with
an old pistol not known to be loaded.
Presently th€> sister rushed in where Mrs
White was sitting, and exclaiming, “I’m
going to shoot you,” discharged the pis
tol. The ball entered the back of the
head, near the cerebellum, and passed
out of the forehead. Mrs. White
claimed, “You’ve killed me, and fell to
the floor dead.
these are snatched away from useful in
dustries and condemned to idleness and a
vicious life, while the laboring people are
taxed for their support and for the costly
armaments they require. The annual
amount of the military and naval budgets
of Europe is $596,963,300; the loss of
labor involved by the withdrawal of so
many men from productive industry
costs $660,874,460■ and the interest of
capital invested in military and naval
establishments amounts to $152,200,000.
This makes a total of more than $1,400,-
000,000 taken every year from the people
of Christendom for the maintenance of
military establishments. But this is not
all; for nearly as many more men are re
quired to wait upon them in some form
or other, and they, too, become con
sumers of the world’s supply of food.
The first effect of this is that the finances
of nearly all European States are embar
rassed. On the other hand, let ns for a
moment suppose that, by an understand
ing with the great powers, a disarming in
the proportion of one-half was effected.
Immediately more than 2,500,000 of men,
from twenty to thirty-five years of age,
constituting the flower of the population
of that age, are restored to tho labors of
peace, and at once an annual saving of
$640,000,000 is effected on the totality of
European budgets—a sum which would
pay off in twenty years all the European
national debts.
It is reported that Mrs. Joyoe, the
wife of Colonel Joyce, is here seeking a
pardon from the President for her hus
band. She had better ask Judge Wylie
for a divorce, and then she can re-Joyce.
Ten Thousand Dollars Spent Over a
Twenty-five Cent Transaction.—Six
years ago, Messrs. Wolcott, Johnson A
Co., of Freehold, N. J., sold to Lewis D.
Mount, a farmer, a twenty-five cent pack
age of what they represented as seed that
would produce excellent early turnips.
The seed brought forth late turnips, and
of such a poor quality that Mr. Mount
was compelled to feed them to his cattle.
Mr. Mount sued for damages before a
Justice of the Peace, and was granted a
judgment for $99 damages. The plea of
the defendants was that they had pur
chased the seed under the impression that
it was first class, and, having paid the or
dinary price, no fraud was in tended.
An appeal was taken to the Court of
Common Pleas a year afterwards, and the
judgment of the Justice of the Peace was
sustained by the full bene h. The case
was then carried to the Supreme Court,
and two years ago the judgment of the
Common Pleas was affirmed. The case
was then taken to the Court of Errors
and Appeals, and all the Judges affirmed
the original decision. In the suit $10,000
in legal expenses have been paid.—N. Y.
Sun.
Mrs. Roberts, hotel keeper at Sulsun,
interviewed a spiritual medium re
garding the identity of the thief who
robbed her of $800 a few days since.
Results; a search warrant directed to the
{ )remises of a respectable merchant, fol-
owed in succession by an assault on the
medium, arrest of the merchant for as
sault and battery, and, in conclusion, the
departure of the medium in obedience to
an urgent invitation numerously signed.
Vigorous and Determined Effort at
Lynching a Pair of Murderers.— WheeL-
ing, W. Va., December 30.—A special to
the Intelligencer says since the murder of
Thos. Lee, of Madden, Kanawha county,
this State, by Rufus Eastess and John
Dawson, the miners and laborers em
ployed in the salines organized for the
purpose of lynching the murderers. This
evening a mob of masked men, number
ing from three to five hundred, marched
into Charleston, turned out the gas, and
proceeded to the jail and demanded and
procured the keys of the jail, but the
prisoners had been removed by the
sheriff, who anticipated the mob's ap
pearance. They captured the jailor,
threatening to hang him if he did not in
form them of the whereabouts of the
murderers. They dispatched mounted
men to find the sheriff and prisoners.
The supposition is the jailor has divulged
the whereabouts of the murderers.
Dubuque thinks it has found a monster
among its human population. In 1868
Frederick Lawrence Schubert, a middle-
aged man from somewhere over the seas,
came to Dubuque with a young and
comely girl and took a home in the su
burb of Eagle Point. Sohubert called in
a preacher (German Lutheran) and was
married to the comely girl. The pair
disturbed nobody, and nobody disturbed
them until lately, when a young man
came to Dubuque and reported that Schu
bert is his father, and Schubert's wife is
his own daughter and his sister. Schu
bert says it is all no such thing. The j
wife asserts it is news to her. Schubert j
ought to know best about such rela
tionships. But Dubuque is now busy
trying to penetrate the Schubert family
secrets. A good deal of bad feeling has
been excited against Schubert and his
wife, and sympathy is aroused for their
two young children.
A Man Disemboweled by an Infuri
ated Hog.—One of the most horrible and
loathsome deaths any one can imagine
occurred at Lansingville yesterday morn
ing. The victim was William P. Baker,
a well known wagon maker of that village.
He was missed sometime during tbe fore
noon and search was made, when he was
found in the hog-pen dead, with hia
bowels torn out. How he came to be in
the pen is not known, but it is supposed
he was attending the pig when he fainted,
and the animal attacked and killed him.
He was not in very good health. There
was but one pig in the pen, and that not
a very large-sized one. There was blood
on Mr. Baker’s hand, showing that he
must have come to bis senses sufficieutly
to try to drive tho hog off. There were
marks on his face where the voracious
animal had bitten him.—Ithica (iV. Y.j
Herald.
Losing Three Children in one Night.
The mortality in this city at the present
time, especially among the young, is al
most unprecedented in seasons when an
epidemic has not swept over the country.
Membrane croup, typhoid pneumonia*
quinsy, and all of the local diseases of
fall and winter, are now so prevalent as
to amount almost to an epidemic, aud
thG death rate has increased during the
past ten days so rapidly ai to cause gen
eral alarm. One of the saddest cases
which has come to our notice lately is
that of Mr. Swagles, living at the Three-
Mile Hotel, who lost three children night
before last from membrane croup. A
short time ago he lost two children, mak
ing five within a brief period. He came
into town yesterday and purchased three
coffins, and the funeral will take place
to-morrow. —Leavenworth (Kan.) Times.
The reign of false hair is over, and i: is
said that Parisians are already arranging
their own locks, either in plaits or
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