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t<d, but no promise of continuous
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s must have equal opportunities.
' iiriirv in Georgia.
„ „ m »nv times will we have to explain
winy variation in this column from tho
• Ec dish is to be attributed to anun-
pliable’ propensity to revel in what
m dail of tlie Aniiusta Constitutionalist,
*® cll ’ied the “choice Georgia dialect?’’
mn is the Lumpkin Independent, tot to-
“ " jjjjjng US to task for using the word
Shoulder,” and some time ago we were
• ' the word “disremember.”
criticised lor using
ffe have d
defen?c- to make, and albeit our
sped for recognized authority is tbor-
* : h we couf.-ss to a feeling of delicious
exaltation
akin to the sensation of a boy who
bag for the lirst time successfully robbed a
fjtennelon patch, when we occasionally
3i “ e bold to transgress the rules and fall
7* npon the unaffected, yet vigorous
homeliness of the Georgia vernacular.
Why w»s not Hannibal I. Kimball called
to'eslify before the committee appointed
w investigate the charges of bribery against
the ■'tate Road lessees ? The evidence
Uken before that committee connects him
Terr intimately with Brown and some others,
we shuuld like to know why he was
not put upon the stand ? Will some one ex
plain ? .
The editor of the Thomasville Times is
ordering bis wedding outfit in installments.
Itmav be news to him to know that a
Marietta man has invented a cradle that
will rock itself.
Family bull-dogs are a recognized insti
tution in Macon—so much so, indeed, that
xc enterprising tailor in that city has in
vented an attachment for young men’s pan-
tjloons which gives a dog ample room for
venting bis spleen without wounding the
feelings of the wearer.
It is stated that Col. It. A. Alston will soon
revive the Atlanta 1 ourier.
The failure of the legislative lease inves
tigating committee to summon Hi Kimball
wmquite an oversight, wasn’t it ?
Mr. HeDry W. Grady, who is now con
nected with the Augusta Constitutionalist,
till not engage in aDy regular editorial
fork, but will act as general correspondent
fith a roving commission—a position which
affords a fine field for the display of those
piquancies of thought and expression and
the sprightly and pungent humor that char
acterize his style.
The reason the Port Itoral people alluded
to the Northwestern excursionists as
“Americans” was probably because they
they bad an idea the visitors were from
Americas in this State.
When a Gordon man proposes to havo
family prayer, he has the cat shut out of
the room and the goats driven from under
the house.
The Sunday Mirror is the latest newspa
per venture in Athens.
When the Count Johannes B’Gormanne
finishes his rice mill, he will probably seek a
situation as boarding-house keeper.
The Macon people are in a terrible stew
over the bills presented by Brown’s Hotel
for entertaining some newspaper men two
or three years ago. We trust Macon will
refuse to pay these bills. If the newspaper
men can't settle their own bills, let Brown
go without bis money and behanged to him.
The Hou. Potiphar Peagreen, who is now
nodding by hia own fireside, has the hardi
hood to deny to his neighbors that he voted
to feed Georgia dogs on mutton.
Major M. Eugene Thornton, tho patent
quail digester, gives it as his opinion that
the peculiar gamev flavor of that bird is
due to its diet—in other words, that it is
one of the results of too much bug-juice.
Scientists will pieaso stick a pin here.
Gregg Wright, of the Augusta Chronicle,
says that nothing but low wines and draw
poker will break the holt of an adult red-
bug.
The thermometer suggests hog’s-head
*nd turnip greens.
The colored people are too impatient to
ail-'W chickens to get the spring in ’em this
season.
Watson, of the Macon Telegraphy says if
^ ere was more beer in the world there
*ou<d be more poetry, and offers to prove it
by figures.
1- *J an open question whether Gil. Haven
hugbt Rev. Lee to love the nigger, or
•hethir Rev. Lee taught Gil, Haven. They
a lovely p&ir any way.
Macou had Borne snow the other day, and
t Ciistj y 18 °f the opinion that he will have
bui.1 a fire under his early turnips to
them.
^Henrr \Y. Q ra dy writea to the Aug „, ta
"homilist: There is a rumor that a
v ° r ‘ ^ )a ' 8a o e *at-arms took place between a
7/ ernc-r and an Atlanta lady, though I
1 the rumor is winged rather by the
‘ it than by veracity. On dit,
» Michigauder (I like the ending of
bid * retUar ked to tho lady that “ail he
»een down South that he liked was tho
UJ * V * ir and gonial sunshine.’’ “Ah,”
I'm ^ i * encoura k'ingly ; “well, you see,
jjj °‘‘‘ - ou our‘air and sunshine.’
burnc * ^ ava tliat tlie Yankees didn’t
M- \> atta ‘ ,lllria £ or since the war.”
beitb *Polbill, of Macon, one of tho
i:. & v* 1 &Dt * m successful educators
far & '. (,eor gia, was stricken with
uri&v ^ ^ ace ncar on
Sxth / J / Vontio11 °f the Democrats of the
Xafion TT' t0 aom in a te delegates to tho
bsidiMi em&crallc Convention, will ho
Charii r 8fcVille 011 the 26111 of A P riL
^tru-d rafr ’ a known and highly
Amrnut UeKro ’ tiieci ln Macon on Monday.
t'Httd * WaUtS tk 0 names ol her streets
t% in,/ . liiat ^ er husbands and fathers
18 h ihoulTk^ 45,1101116 at ni 8ht. This is
liable t 0 s humblest citizen is
wber e ;U ° D a dark ni ght in a town
■^ e editor
^rec-ia have no names attached.
»iat 6 Lumpkin Independent
jnU D6 ^ ^here we find the word
Mi of
w ° r kiof s \ re ^ er our friend to the
find the *7,, Scott - If he doesn’t
good tim,°/ 1 ereiu he will at least have a
Va u U U8forit ‘
110 DOt BqU ‘ rt har-
deal . T oaSu^ 0 a ^ aulle ’ of iIac0D * ^ied sud-
ra n'ug in the woods of Jackson
^biti in" asj ^ UQ b e r8 captured forty-two
insn «*iJiT C00Dt - v the other d& y-
.° n th ^ 19;l) f m& 1 fire 00 SuQ day.
^°f Gbn r 7 Apri1 ttie Medical AsBOcia-
16,11011 in a7, " U its usu&1 an nQ al
AUudin gbo this fact,
^^‘erestin l **** that one of ^
l* 6 tbe a S8emblf ° ature8 of the session will
k&ru nf 8 fu° f CoQfedera te surgeons
^ here bv S ° Uth ’ Who have been
Agsoma.- 6 Aa 8 U8ta Medical and
^ tnt ieme a 0 f, ( 10n ‘ . Tlli8 assemblage of
°f the most; me(iic& l Profession will be
port»nt and interesting
aenryV^^Wmthateity.
. *'^on c . “ the Augusta Con-
fc, • *1 the way. i uotioe that
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Augusta is not going to give these
strangers any sort of a public welcome.
We neednt be surprised at it. Augusta
while hospitable to the core, doesn’t
take a man on trust. Before she drops
her latch strings to his waiting fingers,
she wants to know who his grandfather was
and what sort of a record the old gentlemau
had. When this staid city invites a man
to involve himself in the melancholy pomp
and circumstance attending a trip up
the canal, you may be sure that that
man has a charnel house full of
respectable bones aback of him. Atlanta
doesn’t care a farthing whether he ever had
a grandfather or not ; indeed it would not
matter to her if, after the manner of that
picturesque hoax with which nurses bam
boozle too curious children, he was hatched
out of a hollow stump in an old field. When
a stranger desires to become somebody in
Augusta, Augusta hies herself to the stud
book, and the young man’s pedigree is
looked up. In Atlanta they gaze into his
palm and if the lucky lines are found there,
he is boosted into a high place.
Macon Telegraph: Mrs. Sarah A. Weed,
a venerable and pious Christian lady, after
long years of ill health and suffering, fell
peacefully asleep in Jesus at twenty minutes
past four a. m. on Sunday, the 19th inst. The
deceased, Sarah A. Nisbet ? was tho fourth
daughter of Dr. James Nisbet, of Athens,
Ga. She was born near Union Point, ou the
plantation of her father in Greene county,
on the 22d of June, 1810, and was conse
quently in her sixty-sixth year. Removing
with her father to* Athens at
quite a tender age, she afterwards,
ou the 10th of October, 1833, was united in
marriage with \Villiam LeConte, Esq., of
Liberty county, Ga., a most worthy and in
telligent gentleman, who was an elder
brother of the celebrated sacans, Professors
John and Joseph LeConte, now connected
with the University of California. This
husband of her youth died January 25,1841,
in his ancient home on the seacoast, where
he was universally loved and respected,
Mrs. LeConte then removed to Macon,
to bo near her brothers, and her sister,
Mrs. R. K. Hines. Here, after the lapse of
more than seven years, she again married,
in July, 1848, Mr. Edwin B. Weed, a wealthy
hardware merchant, and gentleman of high
standing and exemplary character. He
also deceased in January, 1854. Since that
period Mrs. Weed has remained a widow,
and the latter portion of her life
was spent under the roof of Hon.
Clifford Anderson, who had married
Miss Le Conte, her daughter, and where
she was most tenderly watched over and
cherished until the close of her existence.
Mrs. Weed was a cherished sister of the
lamented Judge Eiigenius A. Nisbet, and an
aunt of Mr. James T. Nisbet, of this city.
Of eleven brothers and sisters besides her
self, two only survive: Mr. Frank Nisbet, of
Russell county, Alabama, and Miss Mary M.
NiBbet, of Macon. To the bereaved children
and relatives of the deceased we extend oar
earnest sympathy, and would essay to com
fort them with the trite but true remark,
that “what is their lots is her gain.”
Tlie Organic Law.
[From the St. Louis Republican.]
From the Cincinnati Gazette (Rep.):
“As for resolving that this is a nation ora
confederacy, it may be continued till dooms
day without defining anything. This is a
government of a written constitution, which
is the sole law of its being.”
From the Cincinnati Commercial (Lib.
Rep.):
“We netice Sam Cox is still in sorrow
about the ‘rights of the States.’ There is
yet enough mischief iu the State-rights
foolery to cause another civil war. If tho
worshippers of provincial sovereignty do not
allow the divinity of ‘States’ to gradually
become an obsolete superstition, tno time
will come when it will be necessary for ‘we,
the people,’ to smash up and abolish the
States.”
Until the breaking out of the civil war
Americans were accustomed to proclaim,
with more zeal than knowledge, the man
ifold advantages of a written constitu
tion, and to dwell with a large amount of
self-complacency upon the fact that Eng
land was unable to imitate our example
in this respect. Since the war this sort
of boasting has nearly ceased, and the
wonder is that it does not cease alto
gether. We have proved by bloody ex
perience that an organic law, though set
down in black and white, is liable to be
misunderstood; that communities and
persons of equal intelligence and equal
patriotism read it through different spec
tacles, find in it widely different
principles, and are obliged at jast to re
fer the irreconcilable diversity of opinion
to the supreme arbitrament of the sword.
The South claimed the right of secession
under the constitution, and the North
claimed the right of coercion under the
constitution; and, as usual in such cases,
the decision was rendered in favor of the
strongest battalions. This plan of settle
ment, though effectual and practically
final, does not relieve us of the disagreea
ble conclusion that on so vital a question
as the nature and extent of the agreement
by wliich a united Republic was formed
out of separate and sovereign States,
there have been, and still are, the most
contradictory theories. Moreover, if wo
examine these theories critically and im
partially we shall find that each side is
partly right and partly wrong; in other
words, that some portions of the organic
law were so obscurely framed as to be
liable to two interpretations, mutually
antagonistic. Now, as England, with an
unwritten constitution has had no serious
trouble in regard to her fundamental
principles of government for nearly two
hundred yearc, it is evident that the ad
vantages of the written over the unwrit
ten are not so vividly apparent as they
might be.
In the extracts quoted above, the organ
of straight-laced Republicanism is de
cidedly more conservative than its liber
ally inclined contemporary. According
to the former, “the written constitution
is the sole law of the nation’s being.”
According to the latter, “the people”—
meaning thereby the party which happens
to be in the majority—may rise and
“smash” the Constitution and everything
else, whenever they see fit. Now
whether the organic law is made up,
as m England, of well-established
precedents, or, as in America, of a
written code, it is plain that the salva
tion of the country depends upon a
rigid adherence to this law. If it
can be set aside, or suspended at
the will of a majority, it is not a law at
all in the true meaning of the word; it
is a mere temporary regulation of no
more binding force than a rope of sand.
The Gazette and the Commercial repre
sent the two wings of a party which com
menced its political existence by enun
ciating the dogma of “the higher law.”
As soon as the administration of public
affairs passed into the hands of this par
ty the dogma was put in ac -
tive operation. Whenever the Con
stitution harmonized, or seemed to
harmonize, with the Republican pro
gramme, its praises were chanted from
press, pulpit and platform, and its edicts
executed to the letter; but whenever the
constitution opposed the programme, the
former was thrown overbroad amid the
unanimous acclamations of the champions
of “great moral ideas.” The result has
been the complete emasculation of an in
strument once sacred and omnipotent. It
has been stripped of its original power
and prestige, and is now scarcely more
than a foot-ball, kicked hither and
thither by contending factions. Those
who feel for it something of the old
reverence, and ask to have it faithfully
obeyed at all times and under all circum
stances, are hooted at as “strict construc
tionists,”* unworthy to live in a pro
gressive age. If a prominent politician
ventures to suggest that the States
have some rights which the Constitution
obliges the Federal Government to re
cognize and respect, he is denounced as
an advocate of “foolery;” told that these
rights ought to be treated as an obsolete
superstition,” and that if they continue
to be urged “it will be necessary for ‘we,
the people,’ to smash up and abolish the
States.” How much liberty “we, the
people,” will have when the republic is
thus moulded into an empire, the Com
mercial om\t» to inform us: but, unless
all history is a lie, the abolition of
the States will be the establishment of a
despotism whose laws are promulgated at
the point of the bayonet.
These centralization doctrines have
stepped on fast and far during the last
fifteen years, and need not go much
farther to accomplish their mission.
Whether the Constitution, the only bul
wark against centralization and its accom-
panying despotism, shall be restored and
main tabled in its pristine puxity, remains
for “we, the boo] ‘
BY TUBiPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
FROM JACKSONVILLE.
RECEPTION OF THE WESTERN
EXCURSIONISTS.
[Special Telegn*m to the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, March 21.
Two hundred and fifty of the Western ex
cursionists are here. They were enthusias
tically received at Metropolitan Hall, where
they were addressed by several gentlemen.
All are highly pleased and seem to be enjoy
ing themselves.
Noon Telegrams.
CLYMEK’.S
CORRUPTION
MITTEE.
COM-
A Newspaper Correspondent at the
Bar of the House.
BLEAR-EYED BEN SUMMONED
TESTIFY'.
TO
THE COERUPTION COMMITTEE.
Washington, March 21.—Scott Smith, tho
correspondent of the New York Post, is at
the bar of the House for refusing to give
his author of the story that Pendletou paid
money to Mrs. Bowers.
Fisher, post trader at Fort Sill, confirms
Marsh about the royalty paid him for the
post, but is ignorant of Marsh’s disposition
of tlie money.
General B. F. Butler has been subp<enaed
by the Committee on War Expenditures.
PIPEE, THE MUKDEREB.
Boston, March 21.—The Supreme Court
has overruled the exceptions in the case of
Thomas Piper, convicted of the murder of
Mabel Young, in the belfry of Warren ave
nue church. Piper will bo sentenced.
FROM MADRID.
Madrid, March 21.—One hundred and
forty thousand strangers are in the city.
Two hundred and fifty dollars were paid tor
a balcony on the route. There were thirty
triumphal arches.
FROM LONDON.
London, March 21.—Tho Title Bill passed
the committee. Disraeli said it was certain
the Queen would not assume the title of Em
press in England under the circumstances.
DEAD.
Rome, March 22.—Piince Daria is dead,
London, March 22.—Col. Chas. Chesney
is dead.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
A Ludicrous Funeral—Rattling of the
Thunder on the Pane—A*onieo of the
Fruit Beaters—An Almost Groundless
Excitement—Ireland’s Patron Saint—
The Radical Candidates— Fooling With
Flame—Kneel or Ye Die—The Western
Tourists—The Race For Life—How Are
You '-Marine.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Switched Off.
The Plymouth managers have at last
got the scandal in about the shape they
want it. The Congregational big-wigs
are at loggerheads, a schism in the church
is threatened, and in the cloud of dust
kicked up by the controversy the question
of the pastor’s adultery and perjury is
lost sight of. Mr. Beecher has a lively
sense of humor—how ho must 6njoy it,
Twenty years ago his brother Thomas
reminded him that the code of morals
which he preached was very different from
the code which he practiced. Within the
last eight years he himself has so far
expressed his adhesion to the doctrine of
the survival of the fittest to assert that
brains must run things here below wheth
er the moral element in them predomi
nates or not. It is the office of fools to
believe; it is the office of the man of
brains to make such use as may be neces
sary of the fool’s faith. Mr. Beecher is
a man of brains. The scandal train had
been carrying him straight into the jaws
of destruction. He switched it off ou to
the track of the Advisory Council, and
there it has stood in comparative safety
ever since. The Congregational Church
followed on the next train, and now it
seems bound toward the catastrophe that
menaced him. Mephistopheles held Faust
by a pretty sure bond: Mr. Beecher beats
Mephistopheles and puts an incum
brance on Congregationalism which it
can evidently only get rid of by destroy
ing itself. With such men as Storrs,
Budington and Bartlett ou one side;
Porter, Woolsey and Dwight on the
other, and Leonard Bacon at the grind
stone, the Church which shelters them is
in about as bad a way as the temple was
when Samson grappled its pillars. Prac
tically, therefore, Mr. Beecher’s doctrine
that might, backed by brains, makes
right, is sound. If the Rev. John Smith
had been caught on the floor looking at
engravings with bis friend’s wife, it
wouldn’t have rent Smith’s Church in
twain, unless Smith had been a man of
brains.—Brooklyn Argus.
Saved Her Little Companion.—The
Des Moines, Iowa, Register, says: “Little
‘Pet’ Ford, daughter of E. M. Ford, Esq.,
saved the life of a playmate while ou a
trip to Illinois a few weeks since. Several
girls about the same age as Pet—10 or
12 years—were skating on a pond near
Providence, when one of the party broke
through the ice. All the balance of the
group except our Des Moines heroine
scampered off to procure help from a
hpuse about a quarter of a mile distant.
Pet saw the drowning girl, who was her
cousin, rise to the surface and support
herself on the edge of the ice. Pet un
wrapped her scarf and threw one end to
her cousin, but the girl was not able with
this help to climb out. Then she laid
down at full length on the ice with her
hands extended to her cousin, and with
this aid the girl was rescued.
The Crisis of Congregationalism.—
The leading members of the Rev. Dr.
Budington’s church have informally dis
cussed the propriety of at once following
the example of the Church of the Pil
grims in repudiating the acts of the
Beecher Advisory Council, and it is un
derstood that the same action will be
taken as soon as Dr. Storr’s address has
been circulated enough to form a weight
of sentiment. The church is nearly unan
imous in its feeling on the subject. A
call will doubtless be placed in Dr. Bud-
ington’s hands next week fc>r a church
meeting to pass upon the question. It is
expected that a majority of the churches
in the denomination will take a stand in
repudiation or in acceptance of the coun
cil’s edicts. There will be more action
after Dr. Storr’s views have bean digest
ed.—^. T. Sun. lGtfi.
Suit Against Governor Wm. Allen.—
Proceedings were commenced in the
United States Court in Cincinnati yes
terday by Allan Campbell Mc.^thur and
the other grandchildren of Duncan
McArthur, formerly Governor of Ohio,
to eject Governor Wm. Allen from his
farm near Chillicothe, known as Fruit
Hill, and compel him to account to the
legal heirs of Duncan McArthur for all
the rents and profits of the estate,
alleged to be illegally withheld frem
them. Should the case be decided
against Governor Allen it will leave him
a poor man.
The estate involved em
braces eight thousand acres of land in
Ross county, including a portion of the
city of Chillicothe.
The Most Contemptible of Frauds.—
A respectably dressed impostor, calling
himself “Dr. Lewis, from Boston,” has
been visiting clergymen in Newark repre
senting himself as employed by the gov
ernment to make a census of the blind,
lame, deaf, dumb and other afflicted per
sons. On Tuesday he visited the Rev.
Dr. Brown, pastor of the Clinton street
Congregational church, and on getting
the desired information went to the
house of a blind girl, saying that Mr.
Brown had desired him to call, and that
he would guarantee a cure for $12. The
mother of the girl handed him the money,
and he hung a “magnetic” chain round
the poor girl’s neck and departed.
A clever pickpocket in the Hippo
drome at New York observed a detective
watching hi™, called for Mr. Moody and
beonme converted on the spot.
Jacksonville, March 20, 1876.
BLOW YOUR BUGLE.
If there is anything within the scope
of speculative or imaginative phenomena
that is more pleasant* than sucking
an orange, it is the proprietorship
of a formidable reputation for an
nihilating bravery. It is invari
ably more advantageous than the genu
ine article itself and places its fortunate
possessor above men who are his supe
riors but who are defied oftentimes, not
because they have less courage but be
cause they have more common sense. It
was the observation of Thackeray that a
writer cannot always play first fiddle, and
it so happens that we may extend the ap
plication of this dictum to those indi
viduals who feign an air of stoical noncha
lance m order to convey an impression
of irreproachable innocence. If any ono
supposes that we expose the corruption
of the Radical mercenaries because we
like the task, he should be hidden deeper
in a bottomless pit than the heaviest
anchor would descend in forty centuries,
for being an egregious simpleton. These
things force themselves upon our at
tention until their exposure and de
nunciation becomes a public ne
cessity. A large portion of the pre
ceding dissertation is intended tor
the usurpers who have foisted them
selves into the “Florida Fruit Growers
Association,” and succeeded in trans
forming thit body into a machine for
the furtherance of Radical schemas.
The shameful manner in which they in
serted their pliable tools into command
ing positions in the society has already
received notice, and the unquestion
able dishonesty of a number of the
officers is a thing so widely known
as to require no comment. It
has become the obvious duty
of every gentleman whose misfortune it
is to be a member of this concern to im
mediately withdraw therefrom for his
own protection. The proclamations of
the body as at present constituted, have
ceased to carry weight with them, and
the iniquity is worth about as much as a
missing pin in the discerning eyes of the
general public. The Secretary is
knave, and the servile adulator
of Stearns and the rest of that
villainous herd of monstrosities, the Cor
responding Secretary who is incapable of
corresponding is the slave of the cold
blooded scoundrel whose machinations
control the business of the association.
There are enough decent members to
form a nucleus for a purer atmosphere
than that which now surrounds them,
and in justice to themselves, they cannot
submit to the outrageous violation of all
principle by the few conspirators and the
utter disregard of honor which
exhibited in the transactions of these
cabalists. The deliberations of the so
ciety will not be marked by that dignity
and decorum that should characterize
such assemblies henceforward. We there
fore are constrained to pronounce the
“Florida Fruit Growers’ Association” a
defunct institution. The President, Sec
retary, Corresponding Secretary and their
master, Stearns, are welcome to all the
political capital they can make out of it
now.
GOING TO THE POOR HOUSE.
The air was rife last week with dis
agreeable rumors in relation to the con
dition of Duval county poor house. After
au inspection of the premises we must
say that the reports are exaggerated im
menseiy. Beyond a slightly unhealthy
odor, which can be easily dissipated by
the use of disinfectants, and an appear -
ance of uncleanliness and raggedness
about some of the bedding, we observed
nothing to indicate such an alarming and
reprehensible state of affairs as was
represented to exist. The inmates, who
are principally negroes, do not number
above a dozen, and in answer to our in
terrogatories they expressed themselves
as highly satisfied with the treatment
they were receiving. There are no con
tagious diseases on hand at this writing,
and the patients all seem to be doing
well. Altogether, the appointments of
this establishment will compare favorably
with those of any similar place we know
of in the State. It, perhaps, has not been
ordained that we shall originate all the
suggestions that are necessary at
this day, but would not a poor house be
a proper home for professional beggars.
The repulsive spectacles witnessed in
almost every city of emaciated humanity
asking alms from passers by could thus
be effectually prevented. A mendicant
is a rare occurrence in Jacksonville, but
occasionally a case of the most aggravated
sort obtrudes lr-mself or herself into pub
licity. By consigning all helpless people
of this class to the poor house by compul
sion if necessary, not only would these
sickening sights be avoided l ut chronic
mendicity would be checked and the
public protected from possible imposi
tion. The benevolent impulses of the
people would not fail to respond to calls
for contributions to support an establish
ment that would keep beggars with every
description of deformities from display
ing their hideous malformations to the
gaze of every passer by. Will some
charitable and enterprising spirit of the
hour take these hints into serious con
sideration and act.
saint Patrick’s day in the evening.
The festivities on Friday evening, under
the auspices of the Sons of St. Patrick,
at Lyman’s elegant parlor, were furnished
with a happy zest by the radiant presence
of some of the loveliest of “Erin’s
daughters” and the most polished of her
sons. Mr. P. McMurray, as presiding
officer, filled his station well, and ex
pressed* himself felicitously,on all [occa
sions. The supper spread before the
guests was all that the appetite could
desire, and the responses to tho various
toasts were unusually brilliant, and spark
ling as the champagne that did not
inspire them. Mr. B. F. Kelly, in re
sponding to the toast, “The land we
left,” put forth an eloquent plea for Ire
land’s freedom, and rounded his periods
off in an extremely beautiful way. Mr.
Wm. Fahey replied to “the future pros
perity of Ireland” in a scintillating style,
and began his remarks in a manner which
indicated his opinion that it is pos
sible to extol the Emerald Isle with
out abusing England. In this Mr. Fahey
merited commendation, and while the
discussion of the question would be ill-
timed, here it will strike every rational
mind forcibly that England’s treatment
of Ireland does not begin to equal the
carpet-bag despotism’s iron heel upon the
South. Mr. Gough enlivened the mo
ments with several songs in his own in
imitable fashion and produced much
merriment. Mr. P. McMurray in his an
swer to a toast evidenced the possession
of a wonderful forensic ability, and gave
utterance to a plenitude of ennobling
sentiments. Now when the hand of time
marks 1877, may ye all meet again as
bright, as ruddy and as fair as on the
other eve.
WORSE AND WORSE FAST.
Perhaps some lunatic will inquire where
we obtained the following clue, and per
haps he will not. From authentic intel
ligence and a carefully considered survey
of the outlook, we are inclined to think
that the Radical slate will be John Tyler.
Jr., for Governor, Josiah T. Walls lor
Lieutenant “Gubner.” It is thought
that some of their opponents have con
cluded that they might as well attempt
to stay the bilJowy sea as to try to defeat
them before the nominating convention.
The combination in favor of Tyler and
Walls is one of the moat powerful and
The imminence of an inspiriting family
quarrel among the Radicals, is one of
the sides of the matter we like to con
template, and we shall experience as
muc u pleasure in aiding to secure the de
feat of Tvler and Walls as a boy does in
riding a hobby horse.
MORE CARELESSNESS.
A fire took place last night in east
Jacksonville and destroyed two small
dwellings owned by negroes. As is almost
alwajs the fact, when it is not otherwise,
the destruction was caused by twisting a
lamp around incautiously. You might
lecture some bipeds until doomsday about
sticking a flame up against pitch pine
just to ascertain if it will ignite, and ac
complish nothing but a burnt building.
’rah ! FOR SIB TBOOLY.
We are gratified, nay, even elated, at
the privilege accorded ns of announcing
the distinguished arrival of that delectable
gentleman, Lord Nicholas Trooly, of
Poodleville, in Zanzibar. Our knees per
form spontaneous genuflexion in the au
gust and imposing presence of Lord
Trooly, for his condescension in coming
among us at this crisis in the line of
lions. Lord Trooly » descended from a
great and magnificent historical family,
and it is supposed that he is the heir pre
sumptive of Billy Trooly, the “renowned
freebooter,”.so called because he got his
hoots on time and never paid for them.
Here’s to Sir Trooly.
THE WESTERN VISITORS.
The Common Council convened this
morning, and selected a committee of ten
citizens to complete arrangements for the
reception of the five hundred Western
excursionists now en route to this city.
About fifty of the party arrived to-day.
and the remainder are expected to reach
here to-morrow.
ADDITIONAL CANDIDATES.
To-morrow another organization will
nominate their standard-bearers in oppo
sition to the tickets now in the field. It
is understood that the “Young Men’s
Independent Colored Reform Club” will
take part in this movement also. In this
they manifest a catholicity of spirit not
often found among men with their advan
tages.
A SUNDAY VISITOR.
Our young friend, Dr. W. McL. Dancy,
is the possessor of a fortune since yester
day, at 8 a. 111. Weight ten pounds—a
boy—all doing well.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrivals during the week ending this
day—Schooners Marcus Edwards, Hattie
Card, New York, and A. K. Bentley,
Charleston, S. C. Departures—Schoon
ers Herbert Percy, New Smyrna: Nettio
Walker and Lexington, New York.
ApBIANUS.
The New Finance Bill.
We give below the full text of the bill
reported by the majority of the Demo
cratic Caucus Committee, and adopted
Wednesday night by a vote of 69 to 46:
A bill to provide for the gradual resump
tion of specie payments.
Be it enacted by, etc., that it shall be
the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury,
during each and every year, from and
after July 1, 1876, and until the legal-
tender notes of the United States shall
be appreciated to par value with gold,
and shall be convertible lifto com, to
cause to be set aside and retained iu coiu
an amount equal to three per centum of
such legal-tender notes outstanding, and
from the date of such convertibility as
aforesaid, the amouut of coin set aside
and retained as aforesaid, shall be held
as a resumption fund, in respect to said
legal-tender note ~, and shall at no time
be less than 30 per centum of such out
standing legal-tender notes, provided,
however, that the coin so set aside and
retained as above provided, shall be
counted as a part of the sinking fund for
the purchase or payment of the public
debt, as required by section 36 of the
Revised Statutes.
Section 2. That it shall be the duty
of each National Banking Association dur
ing each and every year from and after Ju
ly 1,1676, and until the complete resump
tion of the payment ou specie of its cir
culating notes, to set aside and retain
from the coin receivable as interest ou
the bonds deposited with the Treasury
of the United States as security for its
circulation, an amount equal to 3 per
centum of its circulating notes, issued to
such association and not surrendered, and
from the date of its resumption of specie
payments, as aforesaid,[the amount of coiu
to be held and maintained as a resump
tion shall at no time be less than 30 per
centum of its outstanding circulation:
provided, however, that the com by this
section directed to be sot aside and re
tained, shall be counted as a part of the
lawful money reserve which said associa
tions are, by existing laws, required to
maintain.
Section 3. That so much of section
of an act entitled “An Act to provide for
the resumption of specie payments,” ap
proved January 14, 1875, as requires the
Secretary of the Treasury to redeem legal
tender notes to the amount of 30 per
centum of the sum of national bank notes
issued by any banking association in
creasing its capital or circulation, or to
any association newly organized or pro
vided for in said section, and also so much
of said section 3 as related to or provided
for the redemption in coin of the United
States legal tender notes on and after
January 1, 1879, and all other provisions
of law inconsistent with this act, are
hereby repealed.
LEITER FROM ATLANTA.
Heavy Snow Storm in the Gate City—A
Warning to Homeward Bound Florida
Tourints—Burning of the Oconee Kiver
Bridge on the (.eorgia Railroad.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, March 20, 1876.
I reached this city last night between
ten and eleven o’clock, via the. Georgia
Railroad, the train being due here at four
p. m. The delay at the burned bridge
over the Oconee river, and an accident at
Social Circle, caused the extension of time
above stated. Walking out of the depot
I was surprised to find
A FEARFUL SNOW STORM
prevailing, mixed with sleet, h»il and
raiD, and a sharp, chilling wind, making
it almost impossible to get through the
streets. All sight the storm continued,
and this morning the streets and build
ings of the “Gate City” present a dreary
.appearance, especially to one who has
just left the sunny “Land of Flowers,”
via your own semi-tropical city of parks,
flowers and sunshine. The rain and
sleet is still failing, and is slowly melting
the snow, and it is simply impossible to
remain “dry shod” in the universal
prevalence of “slush.” Few pedestrians
venture out except to meet business en
gagements, and hundreds of flat, tin-
roofed buildings are being sadly dam
aged by the melting of snow and the
accumulated rain, against which these
roofs are not proof. The Central Hotel
and Southern Express office, opposite the
depot, and James’ Hall are among the
worst sufferers. Northern and Western
tourists from Florida will do well to delay
their homeward journey, or stop over a
few days in Savannah, if they do not
desire to suddenly run into a cold and
wintry climate.
BURNING OF OCONEE RIVER BRIDGE.
This disaster, of which you have al
ready given a report, will prove a very,
sad one to the Georgia Railroad Com
pany, as they have recently reached the
limit of their carrying capacity, under a
heavy press of business, and the destruc
tion of this important bridge makes it
impossible for them to run freight trains
except via Macon and then over the Cen
tral Railroad to this city. Three iron
spaus of the bridge are gone, and about
half of the long trestle on the Augusta
side. On the Atlanta side the
trestle is uninjured and one span
of the iron work is but very
little injured. Still, owing to the delay
which must occur iu getting new iron
work for the spans destroyed, I am sure
that teu or twelve days must elapse be
fore the bridge will be fully repaired.
Colonel S. K. Johnson, the efficient
General Superintendent of the road, came
up with us yesterday, Captain Grant
Wilkins, of this city, an experienced en
gineer and iron bridge builder, met him
at the scene of disaster, where several
wooden bridge builders were hard at
work repairing the trestle and
getting out the necessary timbers
for tho iron structure. Two construc
tion trains and a large force of laborers
are pushing the work ahead with all pos
sible speed. Nothing has been left un
done to contribute to the comfortable and
safe transfer of passengers, mails and
baggage at the river, aithough some ne
cessary delay occurs. No one regrets this
unfortunate and disastrous conflagration
more than Colonel Johnson, to whom no
blame can attach. The watchman was
supposed to be trusty, but it seems be
“slept at his post of duty,” and in con
sequence the company will lose thousands
and thousands of dollars in tho carrying
business, in addition the great expense of
reconstructing the bridge. The traveling
public can be assured that the road will
be opened through to this city at the very
earliest moment possible. Chatham.
THE
CHARLESTON
TION.
CONFLA4RA-
An Hundred Familiea Homrlru-Pii-
Ittftinc (he Endangered Houses—Hercu
lean Efforts of tlie Firemen, and £rill
Bio Water—Heartrending Scenes.
Tlie End of the World.
On Sunday a little band of men gather
ed in a room in the Cooper Institute, New
York, to discuss the subject of the com
ing of Christ in this year of our Lord,
1876. After a hymn of an impressive
melancholy nature had been sung, one of
the adventists went up to a blackboard
and began to chalk mysterious calcula
tions upon its surface. It seems that he
meant to show that the end of the world
will occur in this Centennial year, and
based his calculation upon the prophecy
found in the twelfth chapter of the book
of David. The words of the prophecy,
he said, are that Christ shall come
“the day the wickedest shall do most
wickedly,” and the speaker pointed his
long bony finger in the direction of Wash
ington, and asked if there was ever
time when corruption and social rot
tenness were so general and startling as
now. He argued that the prophecies
foretold the end 1,385 years from a given
time, that is, from “the time when the
daily sacrifices shall be taken away and
the abomination that maketh desolate be
set up,” and he figured it up so as to
bring the end in 1876. This prediction
of the adventists will hardly occasion
serioas alarm throughout the world. This
is not the first time that the period for
the earth’s destruction has been foretold,
and strange to say not one of the pro
phesies has ever come to pass. The
world may be now very wicked, and
Washington the most corrupt city on the
face of the earth, yet there are lower
depths of political and social corruption
to be sounded, if the rapid decline is not
soon arrested.
Letter from Gen. Beauregard.—Gen.
Beaur jgard has written a letter in reply
to one from Hon. J. C. Ferriss, of Nash
ville, Tenn., inquiring why the pursuit of
the Federals*immediately after their rout
at the battle of Manassas. July 21, 1861,
was suddenly checked ana the Confeder
ate troops recalled towards Manassas. He
charges that he failed to pursue the Fed
erals at Bull Run because he was misled
by a false alarm which made himself and
Gen. Johnston believe that the Confeder
ate forces had been outflanked by the Fed
erals crossing to the south bank of Bull
Run, the falsity of the report not having
been discovered until late in the evening.
He says any pursuit of the Federals next
day toward their rallying point at and
around the long bridge, over the Poto
mac, could have led to no possible mili
tary advantage, protected as that position
was by a system of field works. If be
had had means of transportation and of
feeding his troops he would have passed
around Washington into Maryland, cross
ing the Potomac at or about Edward’s
Jhe (’ountry’s “Idle” Gold.
Dr. Linderman, the Director of the
mint, in his last official report, estimates
the amount of specie in the country, coin
and bullion, gold and silver, at only
$142,000,000. On the other hand, Mr.
Morrison, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, has been furnished a
table showing that there ought to be no
less than $482,000,000 of specie within
our borders. This tabic is made up from
the records, year by year, since the dis
covery of California gold, and may be
summarized as follows:
Bank returns and Treasu-y esti
mates indicate that the United
States contained in 1S43, of gold
and silver $ 112,000,000
Production iu United States, re
corded 1S49-75 inclusive 1,530,000,000
Custom IJouse records of net im
ports specie aud bullion. 1S49-73. 180,000,000
$1,872,000,000
Records of dum-'stic exports.
1549-75 ],r 90,000,000
Leaving $ 432,000,000
After doubling the proportion of allow
ance made by Dr. Linderman for wear
and tear, use in the arts and errors in re
turns, this would indicate at least $450,-
000,000 still in the country. To dispute
the annual records would bo to pronounce
them utterly valueless for every purpose
they were framed to serve; yet there is a
difference between the net result of these
tables and Dr. Linderman’s official esti
mate of over $300,000,000. There are
but two outlets left by which to account
for the disappearance of this enormous
sum; first, the unknown quantity that
has left the country in private hands,
without opportunity for “record,
since specie was demonetized by
the legal tender acts; secondly,
the quantity that went to foreign shores
through the Southern Confederacy du
ring the war. Whether these two items
will suffice to explain the discrepancy, we
must leave others to decide. Of one
thing, however, we are absolutely satis
fied, namely, that there remains in this
country to-day no such sum as $450,000,-
000 of specie lying idle and unprofitable.
Beyond the comparatively small amount
needed at a few ports to pay duties, gold
is of no use except as a collateral, and for
this purpose interest-bearing bonds are
equally serviceable. The argument of
the precipitate resumptionists that so
large an amount of solid wealth has stood
idle all these years, drawing no interest
and reaping no profits, staggers our faith
in human nature itself. Mr. Morrison
may explain his table as he will, but the
gold is not in the country.—Nashville
American.
[From the News and Courier^of yesterday.]
The fires of Saturday and Sunday last
were but a prelude to the most disastrous
conflagration that has visited Charleston
since the terrible scenes of 1861. Within
the preceding forty-eight hours the alarms
of fire had become so frequent that every
body seemed to have a foreboding of the
terrible calamity which impoverished hun
dreds of families yesterday morning, and
which has laid waste one of. the most
thickly populated sections of the city.
The alarm was sounded about half-past 3
o’clock from the Eighth ward, and al
though the firemen had been worked hard
for two days, they were promptly ou the
scene with their machines. When the
reporter of the News and Courier
rived at the scene of the conflagration
the frame dwellings on the west side of
King street, immediately north of Rodg
er’s alley, were in flames. Thejfire origi
nated in the store No. 681 King street
owned by Mrs. John Wilson, and occu
pied by J. H. Greeber, who kept a dry
goods store ou the first floor. Mrs. Wil
son and her family occupied the second
floor. At this time the wind was blowing
moderately from the east, and there seemed
to be no danger of a general conflagration.
The two buildings south of Mrs. Wil
son’s house wore in flames, but there
was every prospect of an early extin
guishment of the fire. In about fit teen
minutes, however, the wind increased to
a perfect gale, blowing from the south
east, and the flames were communicated
to the adjoining buildings on the north,
owned and occupied by Mrs. Bligh as a
grocery and provision store. In the
meantime Mr. F. W. Pieper’s grocery
store, on the southwest corner of Rod
ger’s alley and King street, had caught
fire, and the building adjoining it on the
south, which was occupied by a colored
man as a restaurant, was also on fire. The
first named building was totally con
sumed, and the latter only partially so.
It was now about four o’clock, and the
fire was rapidly spreading to the north
and west. The general alarm was sound
ed. and the entire department summoned.
But it was
THE SAME OLD STORY.
There was no water; and, although the
firemen worked like Trojans, they could
not fight fire successfully without water,
and they had absolutely no water at all.
Tbe neap tides of the past three or four
days had reduced the water in the tidal
drains to such an extent that the keeper
had, on Sunday night, notified the chief
of the department that the drains were
empty. So the engines were dragged
from one point to another, in frantic
search after wells and cisterns on private
lots, which were found, only to be dried
in a few minutes. The tidal drain pits
on Spring street contained a scant supply
of water, which increased as the tide
flowed, but tho steamers at work did not
have a sufficient amount of hose to reach
the leeward side of the fire, which soon
began to spread with fearful rapidity.
Grant in the Pool.—A Republican
Committee of the last Congress scratched
the surface of the Washington real estate
pool, and had Kilbourne before them,
who refused to answer at exactly the same
stage of the investigation as he does now.
He was guilty of the same contempt if the
Republican CDngress had thought it pru
dent to push the matter. Now, however,
while Kilbourne languishes in jail, other
sources of evidence are being ransacked,
and among the official records of real es
tate transfers, one has been found headed
as follows: “No. 40, Hallett Kilbourne to
U. S. Grant, deed 10th of December, 1873,
recorded June 6th, 1874.” From a com-i
parison of these dates, it appears that
the record of this deed was purposely de
layed until the Republican committees
had disbanded. The property conveyed
consists of two lots on the corner of
Rhode Island avenue circle and Thir
teenth streets. Tens of thousands were
expended by the government, under Bab
cock’s superintendence, to beautify this
particular locality in excess of the sums
spent in other quarters. Ever}’ inch of
curbing, every square foot of the finest
asphalt pavement, every yard of flagging,
was paid for by the United States, the
circle being -a public reservation.
Robeson, the jolly mariner of Grant’s
Cabinet, was walking down Pennsylvania
avenue the other morning with about
half a yard of handkerchief streaming
from his coat-tail pocket. A friend,
overtaking him, thus accosted the old
Jersey salt; “Rob, I guess the Navy
Department must be going to take in sail,
for I see you’u i-.got your storm signal
at half-past four o clock
the wind was blowing a brisk gale, and
the sky was lit up with a lurid glare,
while large flakes of fire, burning shingles
and cindersjwere carried to the north and
west and landed on the roofs of the houses
in Line street, St. Philip, Coming and
Percy streets. The heat had now become
so intense fhat the firemen were driven
up King street. A hundred gallons of
water would have saved the buildings ou
the east side of the street, but there was
not a single drop to be obtained,
and the fire just worked its way when
ever it minded. At a quarter to
o’clock the {grocery store of J. H. Ducker,
at the southeast corner of Columbus
and King streets, caught fire, aud was
soon wrapped in flames. From this point
the fire threatened to extend eastward in
the direction of the South Carolina Rail
road round-house; aud it would prob
ably have done so but for the fact that
the wind was blowing from that direc
tion, and the progress of the flames was
thereby arrested. By this time the store
of Messrs. Wiley &, Jacques, 683 King
street, east side, had caught fire; the
flames were thence communicated to the
old frame house at the northest corner of
Columbus and King streets, which was
spared from destruction by the fire which
destroyed the store of Mr. F. L. Meyer,
next north of it, about a week ago.
the fire raged
now with the fury which the firemen
were unable to cope with, even if they
had had a plentiful supply of water. The
plaDk road took fire, and even the stone
posts on the sidewalk were crumbled into
dust by the intense heat. Nearly every
roof on the block bounded by King, Line
and St. Philip streets were by this time
glowing with cinders, and the poor peo
ple who occupied the houses, not yet
realizing the fact that they were doom
ed to the flames, mounted their roofs
with brooms, axes, hoes and buckets of
water, in vain efforts to extinguish
the kindling flames. The fire engines,
with one or two exceptions, were of
course powerless, not having water, but
the members of the three truck companies
fought the fire like heroes, putting a
ladder here, a hook there and a bucket of
water in another place. The point of
immediate danger now seemed to be in
St. Philip street, in which the roofs of a
half dozen houses were on fire, and the
chief of the department at once sent the
trucks in that direction. By the efforts
of the men the entire block west of St.
Philip street was saved.
A PANIC.
From the store of Messrs. Wiley <fc
Jacques the flames were communicated
to the building 635 King street, occupied
by Mrs. Haeslop, which was some distance
north, and which belonged to Mrs. Ross.
This was about 5 o’clock, and just at this
juncture several loud explosions occur
red, caused by the bursting of cases of
gunpowder in the grocery store of Wiley
A Jacques and J. H Ducker. The ex
plosions, however, did no other damage
than to cause a stampede in the crowd
which had been attracted to the scene
of the conflagration. The houses
King street, north of Columbus, were
occupied by poor people—black and
white—and was very thickly populated.
It was nearly daylight when the fright
ened and demoralized occupants seemed
to re&lize for the first time that nothing
could save them from the tire, and then
it was that they first began to move their
household goods. The street was soon
crowded with men and women staggering
under the burden of bedding, trunks,
boxes and other articles of furniture,
while the storekeepers, very few of whom
were insured, rushed wildly about looking
for help to remove their goods.
SACKING AND PILLAGE.
This was of course a shining hour for
the thieves, and they did not neglect to
improve it. There were several hun
dred drunken negroes in the street who,
under the pretence of being firemen,
plundered right and left indiscriminately.
A half dozen burly rascals, raving with
liquor, would rush into a store, seize a
counter or some other useless fixture,
make a pretence of carrying it out to save
it, and then returning would steal every
thing they could conceal about their per
sons. At the store of Mr. C. H. Ruffio,
693 King street, two policemen were
stationed to keep out the crowd. They
could not do it. A drunken ruffian
would rush up to the door and upon
being ordered back would curse the
officers, swear that he was a fireman, and
rush in and steal and pillage. At his back
would be a hundred other drunken
rogues, armed with spanners and slung-
shots, and the officer who dared to resist
them would just as certainly be thrown
down, beat and probably murdered. It
is due to the firemen, both white and
colored, to say that in almost every in
stance they lent their aid to the police
force, but the thieves outnumbered them,
and, under the peculiar law which pre
vents a
chief or assistants (who can not be every
where at once,; nothing effective could
be done to stop the sacking. Thousands
of dollars of goods were stolen, and from
poor people who lost by the fire what
was not stolen from them. When the
fire reached the corner of Line street
the thieves made for the door of
the grocery store of Mr. N. C.
Luden. A stream of water had been
got on the building, which had a siate
roof, and some hopes were entertained of
saving it. Under these circumstances
Mr. Luden refused to open his doors,
and a couple of policemen were stationed
at the side door to keep out the thieves.
They were just about to overpower the
officers when Chief O’Neill and a half
dozen white and colored firemen came up
and put them to flight. Tbey^went of.
making the air hideous with their
drunken shrieks and yells, to plunder
other places. They had complete posses
sion of tho s reets until about half-past
six o’clock, when Mayor Cunningham and
Captain Hendricks arrived with a detach
ment of policemen from the Main station
house. The Mayor then assumed charge,
and the streets were quickly cleared, and
a dozen of the rogues arrested aud sent
to the guard house.
THE END.
By 9 o'clock the fire had burnt itself
out: that is to say, it had burnt north
ward iu King street as far as the farm of
Mr. Wm. Ufferbardt, about two and a
half miles from the Court House; west
ward as far as St. Philip street, and east
ward as far as Railroad avenue. Mr. Louis
Dunneman’s house, north of Shepherd
s reet, was consumed, together with
much fencing, trees, shrubbery and
hedges north of that. From Dunneman’s
house to a distance of about a half mile,
such early vegetables as were spared by
the frost were ruined by the fire. The
store on the northeast corner of the
avenue, next north of Shepherd street,
was saved, as was also the soap factory
of Mr. M. Storen immediately north of
it. The store at the northeast corner of
the avenue, next north of the one men
tioned above, was also saved, but the
Addison row of buildings adjoining on
the north, and the other buildings as far
north as Moultrie street—the street which
leads to the race course—were all de
stroyed. The entire district described
above was a smouldering mass of ruins,
with nothing standing but the naked
chimneys. A little after 10 o’clock the
wind died away, and a drenching shower
of rain fell, which added to the troubles
of the hundreds of homeless persons who
were wandering about the ruins in search
of their stolen property. The fire would
doubtless have spread further south but
for the fact that the drains in Spring
street furnished water, which enabled the
firemen to check the progress of the con
flagration in that direction. There were
no less than eight steamers at the two
drain pits in Spring, between St. Philip
street and Railroad avenue.
A VERY “GREEN-EYED MONSTER.”
A Wisconsin lafo’s Deviltry.
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
Two nice old people, man and wife,
sat in the Detroit and Milwaukee depot,
having come from Canada, and waiting
to go further west. She called him
“George” as she ordered him to look and
see if that one-handled satchel was safe,
and he called her “Dolly” as he reported
that that ’ere satchel was as safe as if
spiked to a tree. By-and-by he wanted
to smoke, and he went out and lit his
pipe and strolled into a barber shop. Left
alone in a strange town, the wife became
nervous aud fidgety after a few minutes,
and walking over to where a serious look
iug chap sat reading a paper-covered nov
el entitled “The Bushwhacker’s Daugh
ter,” she asked:
“You don’t think my husband has got
lost, do you ?
“Is your husband of phlegmatic dispo
sition, ma’am ?” he asked in reply.
She looked at hiu^ in a puzzled way,
and then hesitatingly said:
“He’s good natured, and I never heard
him swear, ’cept the time when I forgot
and left his boots in the oven.”
“Are your conjugal ties still tender
and sentimental ? ' he asked.
“I’m his lawful wife,” she replied, look
ing rather indignant.
“Yes, yes, I kuow; but perhaps your
husband has cogent reasons for desiring
to sever his conjugal ties.”
“Jugal what ?” she asked.
“Hasn’t it occurred to you, madam,
that your husband may have run away ?”
“Good gracious, no!”
“It has to me. I was studying both of
you before he went out. I saw that he
was of a phlegmatic temperament, while
you are vivacious. ”
‘Good land! ”
•Yes, ma’am; I saw him looking at you
as you were looking &t the lady who tends
the eating stand. 1 'could almost read
his thoughts. I saw him sigh. A look of
deepest sorrow crossed his face. I saw
him draw away from you as if your pre
sence was disagreeable.”
“You did?”
“Aud I saw him elevate his nose.”
“Did he stick up his nose at me ?” she
demanded.
“Yes, and as he passed me going out I
heard him say to himself: ‘I’ll leave
the old jade and hunt me up a blooming
wife.’ I’m sorry for you, ma’m.”
Y'ou needn’t be,” she slowly said,
drawing off her yarn mittens and button
ing up her waterproof. “So he stuck up
his nose eh ? And he kinder drew off,
eh ? Called me an old jade, did he ?”
“It is a sad case, ma’am,” continued tbe
stranger, as he saw her eyes snapping,
“but of course you can’t do anything
about it.”
“I can’t, eh?” she replied, as she began
stacking up the baggage.
“No, ma’am. All you can do is to pawn
your jewelry, sell your baggage, and re
turn home.”
“Stranger, will you keep an eye on
them things ?” she asked, pointing to the
baggage.
“I will ma’am, but I hope you will take
my advice. You don’t want to make a
public scandal, do you ?”
“Watch them things,” she said, waving
her hand, and she went out upon the
street.
Nothing was to be seen of “George.”
She started up the street, looking very
pale around the mouth. He sat in the
window of the barber shop, smokiDg away
and reading a negro minstrel programme.
She saw him as she was walking past,
and she softly slid in and had him by the
hair before he looked up.
“What on earth—Dolly -why, Dolly?”
he yelled, in his sudden surprise.
“Yes, it’s your old jade ?” she hissed,
trying to get hold with the other hand,
too.
“What’s this—who—hold on!” he ex
claimed.
“For de Liwd's sake! What’s all dis
yere mean?” called the barber.
“Found that young and blooming wife
yet?” she sneered, holding his head
against the wall.
“What wife—what ails ye—are ye
crazy ?” he yelled.
“Now, dew stop dis yer bludshed, or
I’ll call out de police!” added the barber,
waiving his lather brush around.
“Sneaked in here in hopes I’d go, did
you ?” remarked the wife.
“Woman, are you mad?” asked the
man.
“If she bain’t done gone crazy as a fox,
den I never seed a ’possum,” put in the
barber.
“George” returned to the depot with
her. The baggage was there, but the
strange man with a novel wasn’t. She
sat “Ge'crge” down, sat down beside him,
and in repi y to his explanation she pressed
her lips and said:
“You set right where you are or there’ll
be broken bones.”
“But, Dolly ”
“You let Dolly alone. We’ll be alone
bime by, and you’d better git ready |to
shiver.”
The stranger was a mean man. “Dolly *’
will never believe there wasn’t something
in it.
WONDERFUl WOLF STOBY.
N«rro" ' n Cana,l » H « •
Hour. I D a T * Pa '”« S*T*r«l
ary W.lv„. S “»«"»dtd by II...
[from the C^Tpreep
Messrs. McLrea" Co the em P lo r ot
river, I, John a. (tu nn ’ ™ t th * Gatln ? au
morning 0 f the 2'Jth « F °?‘
company with two Indians to ™ *’. ™
if any trespasses had “ aHcertam
a limit ownedbv £ OB
being northeast of^ the Gatine“
The district’
tain. I took my horse along with me sn
M DB whenId£v“ kenableii me to do
^ e 7 n,y •S-iX-T'S
cunning and erperienied hnnter
solemnly warned me to tnrn back £
wnTvo I!" nnniistakable indications of
wolves being m close proximity; but not
of the dusky son of
In rest - 1 “ado np my mind’to keep
on my way os it is a principle of mine to
SU°° Unt UDtl1 my WOrk is •or
phaned. On the present occasion, how-
for the Prophetic
words of tho Indian came near costing
me dearly. Approaching the foot of the
1 ^eld full in view, and only
a short distance away on a small eminence’
a pack 01 wolves, twenty.seven ni q U . u .
ber, devouring the remains of a deer,
rhis was rather an unpleasant position
to be in, aud the only recourse for
safety was retreat or climb a tree. The
former I decided on without much delay
but on turning about I found that the
two Indians nan gone. I sa w to my re
volvers as my best friends immediately,
and found all nght. 1 determined to live
as long as I could, and to sell my life as
dearly as possible. I began the retreat,
however, with all the haste that my phys
ical powers were capable of. but w'as soon
alarmed by hearing the howling ot the
wolves in pursuit. I have always prided
myself on my fleetness of foot, as I have
seldom met my equal, but in this race with
wolves I lost ground very fast. I quickly
realized that the attempt to escape was
vaiu, for ai the rate of going I could not
hold out long, au^, therefore, believing
that ‘prudence was the better part of valor,’
I concluded to climb a tree, and though it
took me but a few moments to reach a con
venient bough, I was none too quick, for the
pack was nigh on hand, anxious for a
fresh dish atter disposing of the deer.
They drew up in line about ten yards
from the tree, and, considering the
opportunity a good one. I commenced to
blaze away at them with deadly effect,
no less than four falling in answer to
seven shots. This destructive fire did
not abate their fury in the least, and I
proceeded to draw my second revolver,
when, unfortunately, it caught in a twig
and was jerked out of my hand to the
ground. I now felt my predicament a
worse one than ever, fearing that they
would remain and starve me out, ot until
I should become benumbed with ihe cold
and fall an easy prey to the rav
enous pack. My buffalo coat I had
left in the cutter, aud, being very
thinly clad, I began very soon to
experience the effects of the cold.
The wolves, I believe, realized my help
lessness, and became bold accordingly.
They walked up to the foot of the tree,
which was a very small one, and as they
could not reach me by leaping, they be
gan to gnaw it down. I had beeu in
many a tight place before, in whale fish
ing and other perilous positions, and
flatter myself I have never been much of
a coward ; but on the present occasion,
with a hungry pack of wolves methodi
cally at work, one after the other, gnaw
ing away the tree on which I had taken
refuge, I began to feel loose about the
jaw, and my spirits went down to 45 °
Fahrenheit. However, an idea occurred
to me ; I decided upon a plan. Taking
out my knife I cut the longest limb I
could reach, and having a hook on the
end of it, I caught hold of a large cedar
tree about ten feet off, and as the wolves
continued gnawing and my perch got
more and more unoteady, I pulled on the
pole and drew the tree over toward the
cedar. With a desperate exertion,
and after several minutes of deep
anxiety, I succeeded in gaining the cedar,
and took up a safe position among the
branches. The wolves uttered a tierce
howl and took their departure, but I did
not venture to descend from my perch
until tbe last sound from them was
faintly heard from the distant hills. On
reaching the place where I had left my
horse I found that he had got frightened
and had gone. I was about strikiDg out
in pursuit when I espied the two Indians,
who were endeavoring to secure two
young moose, which they had got into a
kind of crevasse at the base of a high
rock. I turned in with them, and we
succeeded in taking them alive and un
hurt. We carried them to Mr. Valent’s
shanty, where they still remain until we
can get them down to Ottawa. The In
dians had courage enough to go back and
skin the wolves. I hope to take the skins
to Ottawa about the 14tb inst. My horse*
I found at the jobber’s shanty, about
seven miles distant.”
The bo is d’ arc of Tffiis is pronounced
the most durable wood in the world. It
neither shrin^-kikor swells froi
The details of the swindle committed
in furnishing headstones for the graves
in the national cemeteries are not very
clear, but enough has been shown to
prove that the only crime meaner than
tealing a guinea from a dead man’s eye
namely, cheating a country’s gratitude
and her soldiers’ memory, has been per
petrated under the Grant administration.
The visitors to Gettysburg, in thinking
over the viliainy permitted by the last
Republican President will find consola
tion in the solemn utterance of the first:
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate,
we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it far above our power to
add or detract.”
Horrible Bridge Dlsaster in France.
—A Paris dispatch to the London Daily
Telegraph says an arch of a railway
bridge over the River Ill, near Lutterbacb,
gave way under the pressure of the flood,
and a passenger train, from Mulhouse for
Strasbourg, which was crossing at the
time, was precipitated into the liver.
The carriages fell on top of one another
and were dashed to pieces. Owing to
the violence of the stream none of the
passengers could be saved; all were
either crushea to death or drowned.
Thirty corpses have already been recov
ered. Terrible excitement exists in the
neighborhood. It is supposed that sixty
or more lives have been lost.
A French money lender complained to
Baron Rothschild that a nobleman, to
whom he had loaned ten thousand francs,
had gone off and left no acknowledge
ment of the debt. “Write to him and
ask him to send you immediately the
seventy thousand francs. “But he only
owes me ten thousand francs, said the
moneylender. ‘-Precisely, rejoined the
Baron: “and ho will write and teh you
so, and you wiU thus get his acknowledge-
ment.” i. i m *
Not over a dozen JJepublicana in New
Hampshire know that Ingalls, tne Assist
ant Quartermaster General, made a pres
ent of a watch to President Grant s wife;
and that the said watch had over a dozen
diamonds set in it—and that it was only
worth *180, and was a poor time keeper.
It takes years for such facts to Ret
through the forests of New Hampshire.
—Hartford Times.
A Veby Youso Thief.—In Xe ",\£’
on Friday afternoon, a child named Wm.
Bessever ten years old, was charged be
forejudge Kasmire w.th having stolen a
silver watch and two go d ch ^
total value of >/ •*. ± uc npr.
he sold the chal^to BOine mikno- pe^
son, and pawned tue juvenile
sent by Judge Kasmire to the Juvenile
Asylum.
The cost of the St. Louis whisky trials
lnecosioi iu resu j t; Two men
was *Co,6M «• 1 convicted, not son-
1° t hbertv The net proceeds
tenced and at liberty- much
of the whisky trials do not t a^ s _ cto _
encouragement to hon
Tier-Journal. ^
The Uttle daughter o V he ; I)em^io
rue muc o office in baratoga
candidate for a toad ^o run and tell
county, N. Y- "f .. go t the
her aunt that cried wnt:
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mean P«tem-ions ^ egti _