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; WILL WALLACE HARNEY.
An exile to the pine and palm,
- 1 . i r winged summer brood,
,t,' , /iire depths of endless calm,
1 Atuve a nursling solitude.
And ample l>readths of bloom unfurled,
1* a^v'-rt a- that voluptuous south
" r , \ )n y gave the Roman world
For E-'vpt's Cleopatra mouth.
All thin''3 of sight and sound appear
To ■ : Vhe ot nothing but content,
A« if unheeded through the year
The v igrant seasons came and went.
Vet often.
ion I hear the rain,
In flei
Like gho
My hea
of vapor, whisper low,
. about the window pane,
would leap to see the snow.
To*ei- beyond the frozen meres,
In chilli mid crayon’s black and white,
. • bn tugh at mospheres,
Wind-blown in dazzling points of light.
The smothered roofs that lie below
The litth- wreaths of thin blue smoke,
Where dodder h 1 Is handsful of snow
Above them on its mother oak.
In smooth, white levels lies the croft;
A monad ot snow the boxwood shines;
Still sweep the trowels, white aud soft,
In sloping curves and sweeping lines.
3ft dairies as a shadow blurs
’he pa/-- in passing, light and fleet;
c soit. warm faces wrapped to furs;
ike faces passing on the street.
I see them in the falling rain,
Through ab the years that lie between,
Like gn.’.'ts about the window pane,
Among the musk and evergreen.
The boyhood's irieuds, the fair young wife
Who watched with me so long ago,
As if across another life,
Among the softly falling snow.
While, grieving through the pine and palm,
The winds do chide uncounted hours,
Wlm:e unspent summers fill the calm
W;,h soft, sweet utterance-of flowers.
—[Harper's Magazine.
Affairs iii Georgia.
The Athens Watchman advances the
sometrliat startling proposition that soloDg
as Mr. Hill’s constituents in the Ninth Dis
trict are satisfied with his conduct in Con
gress, no oue else has the right to com
plain. But is the Watchman certain that
Mr. Hill’s course has been entirely satisfac
tory to all his immediate constituents ?
The Augusta Constitutionalist promises
that there will bo music in the air shortly.
We are getting uueasy. Is it to be vocal or
instrumental—a eolo, or a chorus—a string
band or a wind orchestra ? Give tho word.
Gentlemen will please take partners for a
galop.
Tne Georgia Railroad bridge over the
Oconee will be ready for the passage of
trains by Sunday. It will cost about ten
thousand dollars to replace the structure.
The Augusta people are jealous even of
Bilbo’s canal. Hauged if they won’t en
deavor to ilout the Atlantic Ocean after
awhile.
Rome had some snow tho other day, and
in the face of this fact Joel Branham re
fused to stand up to his knees in the mnd
and allow a fellow-citizen to talk him to
death, and Bill Arp Smith publicly an
nounced that the season was unpropitious
for beer. It will thus bo seen at a glance
that it is mighty easy to work miracles in
Rome.
Mayor Estes, of Augusta, is spoken of as
a suitable candidate for Governor.
Col. CliBby, of the Macon Telegraph, is
not a granger, as we had been led to be
lieve. He merely remarked that he had one
corn that was au acher.
The Rome boys caught Cohen, of the
Commercial, the other day and endeavored
to put snow in his stockings. They say he
sqoealed as loud aud kicked as hard as a
college girl.
The Central Railroad authorities have
arranged their rates of freight to agree
with the schedule of the Georgia Railroad,
from Atlanta to the seaboard, including
Augusta. The change was made on Mon
day. In view of the temporary position of
affairs on the Georgia Road, the Constitu
tionalist thiuks the merchants of that city
must appreciate this liberality on the part
of the Central.
Mr. Michael Waitzfelder, for many years
a successful Milledgeville merchant, di ;d in
New York on the 13th
Mr. T. Sanders, & New York consumptive,
has been testing, with the most favorable
results, the climate of Liberty county. He
ifl very rapidly regaining his health and
strength.
A couple of Augusta women are fighting
m the courts over the possession of a child.
The mother gave it to a neighbor two years
*go and now desires to reclaim it.
The edition of the Monticollo Banner for
March 10th was burned by an incendiary.
A very destructive fire swept through the
woods iu Liberty county recently.
Mr. Ben E. Russell, editor of the Bain-
bridge Democrat, announces that there will
Diboat excursion, under the au-
8 Pices of the Bainbridge Cornet Band, from
Bainbridge to Apalachicola on or about the
-dh of April proximo. The steamer will be
kbsem ou the trip three days. Distance
from Bainbridge to Apalachicola 250 miles.
e torsion will be most delightful. The
***€ of passage will not be over six dollars
P* r ticket for the round trip, and probably
ess. Parties who desire to go on this trip
requested to communicate with Mr. Bus-
8611 as
soon as possible.
last number of the American Grocer
comments iu terms altogether uncalled for
J"! a a recent note of inquiry written by
a J°r L. C Bryan, of ThomasviUe, relative
fo the i
e price of certain staple articles in the
'Ty ^ ne * It is perhaps natural that the
jr " or ohould seek to win the applause and
Peonage of retail dealers in ThomasviUe
^*r eU where, but its method in this in-
-? ce seems to us, quite contemptible.
6 choir of the Methodist Church in
oinasville will have a grand concert on
* m “ ht of the 30th of April.
' >aQ dersville Messenger says that on
of p ' a6t * ** re S°t out on the plantation
coud* 6 lale ^ a j° r Brantley, in Washington
«wt n-* ’ b0 °n got beyond control and
•trov T a Iarge extent °* country, de-
*cre' l ^ 6 t ‘ m ^ >er on several thousand
°®tbuild * an ^’ ^ e8i ^ es baaing fences and
crogAAi ' ** is burning, haviDg
au!* i U cree k °b which Hines’s mill
More than fifty thousand pannels
efiito' ^ ^ aVe ^ een destroyed, and the
*frantl< la tllat tbe Rotations of Green
‘Others * ’ G * W * PriDce » A - p * Heath and
The r» re &1,U08t com P let e wrecks.
emocratic Convention of the Sixth
on thf toU t>6 held in Albany
° f April *
in ti d ‘ V ° f a m *n wras seen float-
Mr. p V lW !? r Dear Au gnsta the other day.
w« notio i o{ Macon, whose illness
de&d _
«6are 8 .i“ “ bas Ea T*" Bays: “The
i ? 1st show that 4,570
*6«teri ai r* left tti8 86ct,0D ™ the
aDd 200 by the
tula , making a total of 4,770.
“fi 8 Bfoatly dimini.ha^ of the
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
number probably not more than 150 are
whites. We can only repeat what we have
said, the vast body constituted a surplus
population—the mass that was brought here
by owners from the Western StateB to pre
vent their falling into the hands of the
Federate. ”
The Thoma8vilio Enterprise is able to
show that the sales of guano this year fall
short of those for last season to this date
by 100 tons. This will be a saving of at
least $5,000 or 100 bales of cotton, and when
it is considered that the total sales only ag
gregate 220i tons or $10,000, the Enterprise
is forced to the conclusion that the country
will not be so hopelessly ruined by the
guano question as some se6m to think.
On Thursday last Senator Norwood intro
duced a resolution, which was agreed to by
tho Senate, to the effect that the Secretary
of War be requested to commnnicate to the
Senate his opinion as to the importance and
practicability of deepening the inside pas -
sage between Cumberland Sound and Saint
Simon’s Sound, State of Georgia, with esti
mates of the probable cost of snch improve
ment of the inside passage between Fernan-
dina and the St. John’s river.
An escaped prisoner burned the dwelling-
house of the Sheriff of Whitfield county the
other night.
The dwelling-house of Dr. M. G. Williams,
of Cartersville, was burned Saturday night.
Dalton had fifteen inches of snow on Sun
day night.
Hon. H. G. Turner, of Brooks county,
will be invited to deliver the address before
the Ladies Memorial Association in Thom-
asville on the 21st of April.
ThomasviUe is shipping early vegetables
to the North.
Since the 1st of September, Forsyth has
shipped 8,839 bales of cotton.
Forsyth has received more guano this sea
son than daring the past three seasons com
bined.
The South Georgia Medical Association
will meet in ThomasviUe in June.
Sandersville Messenger: Tho grain crops
in this section look remarkably fine. They
are, however, in a very forward.state; but if
there is no further cold weather the yield
will be excellent. In this county there is,
without doubt, at least five times the area of
land planted in oats this year tbau there
was last, and more than three times the
amount of what.
Forsyth Advertiser': We learn that our
farmers are farther advanced in their work
than for many years past. Nearly all the
corn is planted and a great deal of cotton
land is prepared. The very mild winter
allowed an early start and the farmers,
eager to get uuder headway, pushed the
work vigorously. We are afraid that some
were so well advanced that the corn has
commenced to peep out of the ground, and
if so, the young plauts were bit down by the
cold of the last few days. The small grain
crops are flourishing, and are not far
enough along to be much injured by the
cold. If the weather continues good after
this we may expect heavy yields of wheat
and oats, two crops that pay better and iiro
more serviceable than any others.
ThomasviUe Enterprise : It is with pain
we chronicle the death of the oldest daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Dekle, which oc
curred at their residence early on Monday
morning last under peculiarly painful cir
cumstances. It seems that the unfortunate
child was assisting her younger sister to
dress on Saturday morning last, when her
clothing caught fire from the fire place near
which they both were. Her cries, when 6he
discovered her condition, brought al
most immediately her mother, who, at
the time was attending to some one of her
domestic duties near by, to her relief, with
whose assistance the burning garments were
extinguished, not, however, until the unfor
tunate giri bad been terribly burned.
Everything that kind parents and. thought
ful friends could do to alleviate her suffer
ings was done, but all to no purpose. The
little sufferer lingered until Monday, when
the pure and gentle spirit left its prison
house of clay and soared to brighter and
purer realms above.
Macon Telegraph: We feel that it is
no violation of confidence to give publicity
to the Following private letter received from
Dr. J. G. Thomas, of Savannah. Tho
writer is himself one of the ablest medical
men in the State, and, together with the la
mented Nottingham, was mainly instrumen
tal in procuring the passage of the act for
the establishment of a State Board of
Health and mortuary statistics. Such a
testimonial, coming from a source so
worthy of respect aud confidence, reflects
honor upon our deceased friend and fellow-
citizen :
Savannah, March 20, 1876.
Jo Colonel II. H. Jones:
My Dear Sib—I heard of Dr. Notting
ham’s death on yesterday, and have just
read the communication about him imyour
paper. I feel that I knew him welRand
fully endorse all you say about his noble
ness of character and pureness of life.
I have hardly ever known a man of
higlnr tone, and in this way he impress
ed all who came in contact with him.
His death has cast a shade of sadness
over me all day, and I have felt as
though I had lost one who was near unto
mo by blood. • This, however, is personal,
and when I think of the medical profession,
aud the cause of health in our State, I truly
fear that his loss is irreparable. Dr. Not
tingham always lived in a very high atmos
phere of thought, and you had but to be
with him for a 6hort time to realize this.
For the last year of his life public hygiene
was becoming the master passion of liis
mind, and in his death I feel that Ihe whole
State loses. The vacuum which his death
creates in tho medical profession and in the
State Board of Health, will not be easily
filled. Yours truly, J. G. Thomas.
South Carolina Affairs.
Andrew McGinnis, a young man in Spar
tanburg county, while putting on his coat
one morning, lately, was accidentally shot by
his pistol falling to the floor. The bones of
one leg were shivered into splinters. His leg
was amputated, but being in bad health he
died last Saturday.
Mr. Wm. Thompson, a highly respected
citizen of Horry county, more than seventy
years of age, rambled in the woods near his
House and was found dead.
Several cows have died in Columbia re
cently from eating the leaves of the mock
orange. These leaves are poisonous only
after they have become withered.
Mr. Michael Welch, of Darlington Court
House, is erecting a new store on the site
of his old one.
In the matter of the impounded $8,000
in Fairfield county, found in the Treasury
when Treasurer Smith was arrested, the
Supreme Conrt has set aside the judgment
of the Circuit Court which gave most of the
money to the county, and tho matter has
been reopened.
Bill Bryce, who was recently arrested in
Charlotte for stealing, is suspected of hav
ing stolen a gold watch in Lancaster county
some time since.
The Republicans of Kershaw will meet on
the 1st of April to take steps for the inau
guration of the Presidential campaign.
The race between tho firemen of the
Brooklyn and the Congress at Port Royal
came off last Wednesday afternoon. The
crews started from the lower buoy and
rowed three miles. The Congress crew won
by four minutes, after a very exciting con
test. The great attraction of this race was
the novel oars—fire shovels—with which the
rowers were more familiar than the usual
sort. The defeated crews are determined to
have another contest, and show the Con
gress boys they are not invincible.
A new Masonic haU will be dedicated at
Buena Vista, in GreenviUe county, on the
25th instant.
The County Commissioners of Laurens
have been restrained by legal injunction
from giving warrants for any indebtedness
created in that county between November
1 1874, and November 1, 1875. All such
claims wUl require legislative enactment for
payment.
Rev. Mansfield French, who lived in Bean-
fort during the war, died recently in New
York, aged 70 years.
The town taxes of Anderson reach $2,236,
of whiob $1,775 have been collected. The
town Connell has $900 on hand at this time,
and owes $400, of which $350 are for real
estate purchased by former Connells.
Mrs. Joel Ellison, of Lanrens, and Mrs.
qimeon Styles, of Greenville, died last week.
^Mr^ Simon Mills died at Bock BiU, on
Monday, at the age of 38 year*.
The Abbeville Press and Banner man has
been reading Munchausen. Hear him : “It
is said that Mr. W. T. Head some time ago
tamed an old sore-backed horse out to die,
and the animal had been forgotten until it
returned a few days ago with a small oak
growing out of its back. Ik is thought an
acorn fell into it, from which the bash
grew.”
Mrs. Jane Wilkins, of Spartanburg, died
recently at the advanced age of seventy-nine
years.
Mr. Samuel Jefferies, of Union, has a fine
specimen of gold-bearing quartz, which was
picked up from some of his mines, and is
about the size of a turkey egg, only mado
in tho shape of a rough Irish potato. It
was almost literally covered with gold—one
knob on it near as large as the end of one’s
little finger, It is said to be worth $25. He
has also a piece of pare gold, cast in a
square form of an inch and a half.
Winnsboro' witnessed a novel tournament
on Tuesday afternoon. The participants
were thirty-two young knights on foot.
Each knigbt had three runs ; time, eight
seconds. She runners were in good train
ing, and there was no bolting nor shying,
with only occasional somersaults. The
Knight of the Golden Eagle, Master Riley
McMaster, won the first prize, and crowned
Miss Annie McKorell. Robert Buchanan,
Willie Ilion and David Crawford selected
Misses Mamie Creight and Rachel McMaster
and Kati^ Gorig as maids of honor. The
prizes were an eight-bladed knife, an India
rubber snake, a top, and a toy set of salver
and decanters. The young folks had a
dance that evening..
A difficulty occurred on the 12th instant
in Laurens between two freedmen named
respectively Irvin Jackson and Phelix Irby,
in which the former severely stabbed the
latter, who is still in a critical condition;
but he may recover, as the symptoms are
now favorable. Jackson was arrested
promptly and lodged in jail. The cause of
said difficulty, as is usual in such troubles
among the freedmen, was a woman.
The difficulty recently reported at Mc
Leod’s Mills between whites and blacks over
an old election quarrel, is said by the Marl
boro Times to have been nor in that county
but in Robeson county, North Carolina.
About five hundred or a thousand persons
had assembled to have fishing IroJic, and
when they had become nred a.ad muddy, a
man drove up with five gallons of whisky.
This did not give the crowd a drink around.
Then two barrels were brought to the scene
and a general warming up began. Then a
quarrel commenced, and fish-gigs, pistols
and knives were drawn. One man got his
skull split with a gig. After a time peace
counsels prevailed, the fish were divided
out, about one apiece, and the crowd dis
persed with black eyes and aching heads.
The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad has this year procured a reduction
on the assessment of its property in Darling
ton of $2,000 a mile for twenty-three mile-'.
It has tendered $1,225 in bills of the Bank
of the State in payment of the tax. Up to
last Saturday the total tax collected in that
countv reached only $13,491 of a levy of over
$70,000.
Trial Justice Keenan, of Aiken, has a rich
case before him. A newsboy on the South
Carolina Railroad, on Monday night last,
went to sleep aud on awakening found his
hat gone. Mr. liurkhalter next morning
brought tho hat to Trial Justice Keenan,
saying he had found It in his pocket in the
train on waking. He thinks Williams, an
employe, put it into his pocket for a joke.
Williams indignantiy douies this, and Mr.
Burkhalter is prosecuted for highway rob
bery. Mr. Burkhalter refused to compro
mise for five dollars, but will appear next
Monday and have the newsboy arrested on
the charge of being a three-card monte
player.
A warrant has been issued at Chester for
tho arrest of F. B. Lloyd, School Commis
sioner of that county, for purchasing school
certificates, which is prohibited by the act
of 1S73. He was absent at the time on a
visit to schools under his charge, but,we are
informed will not seek to evade the penalty
of the law.
Mark Twain on St. Patrick.
The foUowing letter was read at the
supper of the Knights of St. Patrick in
Hartford, Conn., on Friday night:
Habtfobd, March 16.
Richard McCloud. Esq. :
Deal Sib—I am very sorry that I can
not be with the Kuights of St. Patrick
to-morrow evening. In the centennial
year we ought ail to find a peculiar
pleasure in doing honor to the memory
of a man whose good name has endured
through fourteen centuries. We ought
to find pleasure in it for the reason that
at this time we naturally have a feUow-
feeling for such a man. He wrought a
great work in his day. He found Ireland
a prosperous republic, and looked about
him to see if he might fiud some useful
thing to turn his hand to. He observed
that the President of that republic was in
the habit of sheltering his great officials
from deserved punishment, so he lifted
up his staff and smote him, and he died.
He fouad that the Secretary of War
had been so unbecomingly economical
as to have laid up $12,000 a year
out of a salary of $8,000, and
he killed him. He found that the Secre
tary of the Interior always prayed over
every separate and distinct barrel of salt
beef that was intended for the uncon
verted savage, and then kept that beef
himself, so he killed him also. He found
that the Secretary of the Navy knew
more about handling suspicious claims
than he did about handling a ship, aud
he at once made an end of him. He
found that a very foul private secretary
had been engineered through a sham
trial, so he destroyed him. He discov
ered that the Congress which pretended
to prodigious virtue was very anxious to
investigat e an Ambassador who bad dis
honored the country abroad, but was
equally anxious to prevent the appoint
ment of any spotless man in a similar
post; that this Congress had no God but
party, nog system of morals but party
policy, no vision but a bat’s vision and
no reason or excuse for existing Anyhow.
Therefore, he massacred that Congress
to the last man.
When he had finished his great work
he said, in his figurative way, “Lo, I
have destroyed all the reptiles in Ire
land.”
St. Patrick had no politics; his sympa
thies lay with the right—that was poli
ties enough. When he came across a
reptile he forgot to inquire whether he
was a Democrat or a Republican, but
simply exalted his staff and “let him
have it.” Honored be his name—I wish
we had him here to trim us up for the
Centennial. Hut that cannot be. His
staff, which was the symbol of real, not
sham, reform, is idle. However, we still
have with us the symbol of truth—George
Washington’s little hatchet—for I know
they’ve buried it. Yours truly,
S. L. Clemens.
Pleasures or Life in Texas.—A man
named Adams went into the store of Mr.
Anderson at Savoy, one day last week,
and raising a difficulty with him, threw a
four pound weight at him, but fortunate
ly missed him. Anderson then threw a
four pound weight at Adams, and strik
ing him on the head, killed him—weighty
arguments.—Galveston News.
It is reported that Mr. Thos. Maguire,
the able and popular New England
“commissioner” of the New York Herald,
has fallen heir to a legacy of $50,000
from a New York gentleman, who takes
this method of expressing his gratitude
to Mr. Maguire for saving his daughter
from drowning, some time ago, at Long
Branch.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says:
“At first it seemed that to render Grant’s
administration respectable in the eyes of
the world nothing was so much needed as
the active aud persistent operations of
the fool-killer; but now the plain necessi
ties of the case plead like angels, trumpet-
tongued, for the stern, implacable red
right hand of the thief-killer.”
Beecher says: “Every man that loves
his country would fain take a cloak and
go backward and cover the shame and
sin and sorrow of the miserable spectacle
that humiliates us at home and makes us
a shame-stock abroad.” He was alluding
to the Belknap matter. Oh, yes. That's
the thing he wants, to “w&lfc backward”
and cover with a cloak.
BY TELEOiPO
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
KAUICAt, RASCALITY AJiD
KNAVERY.
The Case of Georgre H. Peadleton.
CRESWELL, LATE POSTMASTER GEN
ERAL, IN AN UGLY FIX.
WUITELY AND THE SAFE
OLAKY BUSINESS.
Bl'R.
The Hayes Cadetship Investigation.
FROM THE CENTRE OF CORRUPTION.
Washington, March 22.—Mrs. General
Barton, to whom Butler refers as cognizant
of the relations between Pendleton and Mrs.
Bowers, is known in the lobbies as Minnie
White.
The poet Longfellow is seriously canvass
ed as JSchenck's successor. Cameron and
Frellnghuysen, and all the Democrats, voted
against Daua in the committee.
The post office investigation regarding
straw bids and collateral irregularities is
assuming an ugly look for Creswell. Jewell
is untouched beyond allowing pay from the
department for political services.
Congressman Burleigh writes that his
charges againBt naval officiate, in regard to
building a sloop-of-war at Kittery Navy Yard,
which has undoubtedly been run in the in
terest of Senator Hamlin, are true. The
Chief of the Bureau of Construction and
Repairs will have an opportunity to explain.
There are to be no postal cards after the
first of April, unless Jewell gets $685,000
special appropriation.
* The new steamboat bill allows the carriage
of coal oil one hundred and ten degrees
proof in metallic cans, and one hundred and
tiftjTiegrees proof in barrels, on deck or in
the forecastle. Steamboat owners having
knowledge of defects are liable for the full
amount of loss, while inoocent owners are
still liable for the amount actually owned.
The story of the safe burglary will be fully
told. Whftely, the Chief Detective of the
Secret Service, who was indicted in connec
tion with the aftair, is here from Colorado.
He denies that ho had been out of the
country.
The Committee on Naval Expen
ditures is developing facts which show
that while Baring Brothers were custodians,
money was held for a legitimate pur
pose. Jay Cook, McCullough & Co. used
it for all kinds of speculations.
Capt. Whitney, manager of the telegraph,
produced messages between Balknap and
Marsh. Belkuap telegraphed: “Come here.
Some hitch in arrangements.”
The evidence against Hays, in the cadet
ship irregularity, accumulates. When Mrs.
BeardBlee got the $3,000 draft from her
Utica banker she told him the use she was
to make of it.
The supporters of Payne’s bill are discour
aged. Holman and other Democratic infla
tionists will vote for the Atkins bill, which
virtually repeals the rt sumption act.
FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY, BLA.
An Attractive Inland Town—Some of Ita
Substantial Features—A t.lance at Jef
ferson County—That Undiscovered Vol
cano—Fresh Attempts at Its Discovery
—A Few Final Notes.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Monticello, March 13, 1876.
AN ATTRACTIVE INLAND TOWN.
To travel in Florida and not hear of
Monticello, where are the most fragrant
of flowers and the most beautiful of fe
males, would be like visiting Boston with
out hearing any one speak of the “Big
Organ ’—it can’t be done. This noted
town is not only off the regular line of
travel, but you have to leave an irregular
line of travel, on a short branch railroad,
to reach the place. But when you get
h$re, which is not a difficult matter in
any respect, you find one of the most
pleasantly located and charming towns in
the State. I doubt if any other city of its
size can boast of as elegant and
stately mansions as can be seen on the
shaded streets of Monticello. The resi
dences are widely scattered, and nearly
all of them are adorned with tastefully
arranged flower gardens. The orange
trees are now in bloom, and some still
display their ripe and tempting fruit,
while on every side I see banana and other
fruit culture being successfully carried
on. The vegetable gardens present a
flourishing appearance, and more beauti
ful and fragrant flowers I have never
seen in this semi-tropical land of fruits
and flowers. As I write the sweet fra
grance of a magnificent boquet, tasteful-
* ly arranged and presented by one of Mon-
ticello’s most charming, bright-eyed maid
ens, proves to me that the praises which
have been so lavishly showered upon the
floral beauties of this favorod region were
well deserved and justly bestowed, as
beautiful flowers and lovely women are
the pride of Jefferson county.
SOME OF ITS SUBSTANTIAL FEATURES.
SWINDLES.
.Republican Uottennemi in Nearly Every
Department.
Washington, D. C., March 17.—Day
by day fresh evidences of the corruption
that has so long existed in the War De
partment are coming to light. This time
it is not a post tradership nor a sutlership,
but a deliberate steal of over $100,000. A
letter dated Leavenworth, Kansas, March
9, 1876, written by a gentleman in that
city, has been received by Mr. Randall,
of Pennsylvania. The writer, whose
name, for sufficient reasons, is withheld,
is said to be a responsible person. The
subject of his letter is the military prison
at Leavenworth, and the connection of
the late Secretary of War therewith. At
the earnest solicitation of Mr. Belknap in
1874 a military prison was established at
Fort Leavenworth,Kansas, and three stone
buildings were turned over by the Quar
termaster’s Department to be converted
to that use. Congress at the same
time made a very liberal appropriation of
$100,000 for the purpose of building a
stone wall about the prison grounds and
to make other trifling alterations, such as
fitting up two hundred small pine cells
within the main building. Mr. Belknap
is said to have been especially active in
securing this appropriation. The writer
of the letter states that the first stone of
that wall is yet to be laid, and all that
can be shown for the appropriation of
$100,000 is a pine fence around the
prison and a few cells of coarse pine lum
ber within the prison. Shortly after the
prison was organized it became necessary
to warm it, and in 1875 Congress made
another appropriation, urged by Belknap,
for the purpose of erecting machinery to
heat the prison with steam. Belknap had
the letting of the contract for work, and
he accepted the highest bid, that of J. O.
A. Sargent & Co., of Manchester, N. H.,
for $32,000—thus giving the contract to
a firm in an Eastern town thousands of
miles from the prison in which the heat
ing apparatus was to be placed, at the
same time rejecting lower bids made by #
prominent firms doingjbusiness in St.
Louis, Chicago and other Western cities.
Messrs. Sargent & Co. farmed their con
tract to the Great Western Boiler Manu
facturing Company of Leavenworth, who
were one of the original bidders for the
work. The writer charges that the
ex-Secretary of War received in the
neighborhood of $12,000 from Sargent &
Co. for awarding them the contract.
But there are other things in which a
just pride is felt that contribute to the
prosperity and attractiveness of Monti
cello. Her citizens are men of energy
and business capacity, and know no such
word as fail. The fire-fiend may come,
as he has done, and sweep away their
stores and lay in ashes the best part of
the public square, but, Phot;uix-like, new
structures arise from the ashes of dead
hopes and disappointed aspirations, and
the increasing trade of the town receives
no serious check from such disasters. One
of the last structures of this kind is now in
course of erection by Messrs. G. W. Lyons
& Co., of Savannah, who are doing a gen
eral mercantile business here. A number
of the stores are built of brick, as is the
court house, some of the churches and
school edifices, and a few dwellings.
The Jefferson Academy is a large brick
building, two stories in height, and very
pleasantly located. The colored children
also have a large two-story wooden school
house, neatly painted, and with ample
play grounds attached. There are four
attractive church edifices for the white
people, and several for colored worship
pers, which afford ample sittings for a
population of about twelve hundred, iu
eluding both races. Two commodious
hotels provide the traveling public all
the conveniences of an interior town,
and the. Constitution, an excellent and
well patronized local weekly paper, pub
lished by the Messrs. Fildes, presents in
its columns many inducements for com
mercial travelers and pleasure seekers
and immigrants to visit Monticello in
their journeyings, and examine the re
sources of Jefferson county, either for
mercantile, mechanical or agricultural
pursuits, or as a home for invalids seek
ing a miJder and healthier climate.
A GLANCE AT JEFFERSON COUNTY.
A FEW FINAL NOTES.
I am surprised to find the circulation
of the Morning News so large in this
county, nearly every person having the
means to take it being a subscriber. I
have received many courtesies from CoL
Thomas Simmons, your local agent here,
who is a most cultivated gentleman and
honored citizen, and who at one time was
widely known throughout Georgia and
South Carolina. I am also much indebted
to Mr. S. Simon and his pleasant family
for their agreeable attentions, and shall
long remember with most delightful
recollections this brief visit to Monticello,
whose attractions I had so much desired
to “see with mine own eyes, and not
another’s.” Judge Bell has been engaged
for some montfis past in making a rare
collection of the birds, reptiles and natural
curiosities of Jefferson county, to which
valuable additions are yet to be made,
with a view of exhibiting the same at the
approaching Centennial. As this county
extends to the Gulf coast, and has numer
ous lakes and rivers and swamps withtfi
its limits jn which game abounds, it is
possible to make a collection of this kind
whose value and attractiveness would
fairly astonish even the scientific men
and learned naturalists who are expected
to daily inspect the- h-lte of tho exhibi
tion buildings at Philadelphia. As J6f
ferson county adjoins two of the most
fruitful and desirable counties in South
Georgia, would it not be well for the citi
zens of Thomas and Brooks, who are men
of acknowledged energy and capability,
to look about them and see if they too
cannot make some kind of a display at
the Centennial, that the world may see
that that portion of your noble “Empire
State of the South” can rival even this
semi-tropical “Land of Flowers” in many
of its natural attractions and cultivated
productions? Sidney Herbert.
The
Carl Schurz’s Bereavement.
[N. Y. Tribune, March 16.]
Mrs. Schurz, the wife of ex-Senator
Carl Schurz, died yesterday afternoon, at
her husband’s residence in this city, No.
40 West Thirty-second street, of puerpe
ral fever. She gave birth on the evening
of Sunday, the 5th in&t., to a boy—her
fifth child. Great anxiety has been felt
ever since by the physicians as to her con
dition. For some days she seemed easier,
but on Tuesday morning the fever ap
peared to reach its crisis, and since that
time she has been gradually sinking.
Mrs. Schurz was the daughter of a well
known and wealthy Hamburg family.
Her marriage to the ex-Senator was es
sentially a love match. She met him
when he was young, poor, a defeated
revolutionist, an exile from Prussia, and
with a price set upon his head, married
him then, and has been since the most
devoted of wives and mothers.
Senator Schurz is doubly afflicted by
this loss, as it is only a few weeks since
his venerable father died in Illinois. Mr.
Schurz had visited him a short time be
fore, but was compelled to return to New
York by his anxiety concerning the
health of his wife. When dispatches
came announcing his father’s rapid de
cline, he was unable to start West again
because of his wife’s condition, and was
thus deprived of the mournful pleasure
of soothing his father’s last hours upon
earth. He is now called suddenly to bear
a second and even greater bereavement.
Mrs. Schurz leaves two grown daughters,
a son three or four years old, and an infant
boy, born ten days ago.
The Rochester papers tell a carious
story of a baptism which took place the
other day in the plunge bath of a Turkish
bathing establishment in that city. Ac
cording to the account a clergyman called
and arranged for the unmole&ted use of
the plunge, then called again with his
convert, and the two entered the room
together. The mysteriousness of the
transaction induced some of the people
belonging to the bath to watch and listen.
Instead of discerning the expected indi
cations of murder or suicide, they were
astonished to hear the voice of prayer.
Further investigation disclosed the fact
that it was a case of baptism by immer
sion. The minister and his baptized fol
lower paid their bill and departed in
peace.
The ballot is a weapon firmer set and
better than the bayonet; it falls like
snow flakes on the sod and executes the
freeman’s will as lightnings do the will of
God; but in New Hampshire it oosts
something to make it execute, and the
ballots fell there last Tuesday at about
fifteen dollars per flake.
Jefferson county extends, in a narrow
strip, from the Georgia line to the Gulf
coast, and is bounded by some of the
most fruitful counties in the States. I
need only name Thomas and Brooks, in
Georgia, and Leon, Madison, Wakulla
and Taylor, in Florida, to prove this as-
serticn. It is nearly the centre of what
is designated as Middle .Florida, and pre
sents, generally, an attractive, undulating
surface, well watered, including the
widely-known Miccosukie lake and the
Ancilla river, and with a fruitful and
easily cultivated soil. The climate is un
surpassed for health and invigorating in- *
fluences, which are promoted by good
water and moderated breezes from the
Gulf. Lands of all kinds; and in every
portion of the county, can be purchased
at as reasonable rates as iu any other sec
tion of the State possessing similar ad
vantages. That farming can be made
successful and profitable in Jefferson
county, as in the adjoining counties, was
fully shown at the ThomasviUe Fair,
where many of the prizes awarded came
to Leon and Jefferson. Cotton, corn,
oats, rice, potatoes, sugar cane and vege
tables of all kinds can be cultivated here
with the most gratifying results. North
ern and Western immigrants wiU find
many desirable features in this section of
the State, and if they come here in the
right spirit they wiU always be cordially
received and weU treated by the old set
tlers. The lands are not worn out, but
will readily respond to proper cultivation
and experienced labor.
THAT UNDISCOVERED VOLCANO.
Of the wonderful secrets of nature that
Florida can boast of possessing within her
limits there is one in this county upon
which the eye of mortal has not yet been
permitted to gaze. For more than thirty
years its existance has been tantalizingly
proclaimed by a cloud of smoke that has
unceasingly ascended, frequently chang
ing from a light to a dark shade, from an
imp^etrable swamp some twenty-five
mUes from Monticello, and in the direc
tion of the Gulf coast, from which point
this “pillar of cloud” is also visible.
Short-sighted men, unmindful of the fact
that illicit distiUeries are of a somewhat
modern growth, have suspiciously hinted
that this perpetual cloud was “merely
the smoke of an illicit distiUery.” Learned
gentlemen, however, after viewing “the
landscape o’er” for many years, and from
various standpoints, have arrived at a far
different conclusion, and have proved the
sincerity of their opinions by frequent
and persistent efforts to solve this long
standing and perplexing mystery. But
up to this time nothing has been accom
plished beyond unsuccessful attempts to
reach the place, all of which efforts ended
in disaster within four or five miles of the
spot on which the supposed volcano is
thought to be located.
FRESH ATTEMPTS AT ITS DISCOVERY.
I am informed that Judge Bell, of this
place, and other parties are now making
a fresh attempt to penetrate to this mys
terious phenomenon, and discover its
true character. Judge White, of Quincy,
a man of large literary culture, has led
several expeditions to that region, bat in
every instance failed to effect an entrance
through the closely interwoven and im
penetrable undergrowth of the centre of
the swamp, where the volcano is situated.
While some of these attempts have been
feeble and inefficient, others have been
well organized and equipped, and led by
men of experience and fixedness of pur
pose. Judge White had an ob
servatory which he could place
in the tree tops to guide him
in the right course, and I am told that
the New York Herald had one of its
“great discoverers,” of the Stanley order,
attached to one of the expeditions. And
yet this “undiscovered bourne” remains
untrodden by the foot of a modern
traveler; at least none has ever returned
to report its still unfolded and unex
plored mysteries. One thins: is certain,
now that the Okefenokee Swamp has
been “done up” for the reading public,
that another twelve months will not pass
withont witnessing the successful un
folding of this wonderful mystery. If
this object can be accomplished in no
other way, I will guarantee that the
Savannah Morning News will send out a
balloon expedition that will swoop down
upon impenetrable spot and explore
mouth of the flmy demon.
Cheek of the Heathen Chinee.
[From the Laramie San.]
One of our city guardians was standing
on the corner of Second and B streets
yesteiday, when a wild-looking China
man came rushing up, seizing him by the
arm, and said:
“You ketch-um-saw?”
“Yes ?”
“You no savey; you ketch-um-saw-ee,
dem saw-buck-ee. You savey?”
The officer was bewildered, and think
ing some terrible crime had been com
mitted, endeavored to get the Celestial to
explain. John repeated over every word
of English that he had learned, yet still
he couid not make himself understood.
I* inally, he seized the officer by the arm,
and saying, “Come long,” started off at a
rapid pace, closely followed by the eager
official. They went first to a wash-house
on B street, into which the Chinaman
looked, and then, with a shake of the
head, struck out again.
“Skipped out, has he,” asked the offi
cer as he pounded along, using every en
deavor to keep up with the cat-footed
Mongolian.
“Come along, we katch um bime by.”
On they went at a rattling pace until a
house near the rolling mill was reached,
into which John looked, and shaking his
hand, dashed off on the back track.
“Where now?”
“Come ’long,” replied John, and on
they went.
They traveled all over the town, and at
last reached a shanty near the round
house. The officer was by this time
nearly dead with fatigue, and was covered
with perspiration. Going up to the door,
John said:
“Now we catch-um.”
“Thinking there might be a desperate
crew inside, the officer drew his revolver
and they entered the door. A small man
was sitting on the floor, and in him the
officer recognized ‘Jim,’ an English
Chinaman.”
“What’s the row, Jim?” he asked.
“He hunt me so I interpret what he
say. ”
“Well, what is it?” * -
The two jabbered a minute, and Jim
said :
“He want ee borrow saw-buck, and
somebody tell ee him you lend um one.”
“Saw-buck be dashed! Here I’ve
walked no less than ten miles after that
rice-mashin’ heathen, thinking a murder
had been committed, or something ter
rible had been done. You tell him that
if he ever speaks to me again I'll mash
him into the ground ! ” and he returned to
his beat.
A Petrified Forest iu the Desert.
[From the Winnemucca (Nevada) Star.]
From David Rideout, who has been en
gaged in preparing a section of petrified
tree for the Centennial exhibition, we
learn the following relative to the petri
fied forest in the desert of Northwestern
Humboldt. On the plain, about thirty
miles west of the Blackrock range of moun
tains, stands one of the greatest natural
curiosities ever discovered in Nevada. It
is a petrified forest, in which the stumps
of many of the trees, now changed into
solid rock, are still standing. There are
no living trees or vegetation of any kind
other than the stunted sage brush in the
vicinity. Some of these ancient giants
of the forest, which flourished, perhaps,
thousands of years ago, when the climate
of Nevada was undoubtedly more favora
ble to the growth of luxuriant vegetation
than at present, rival in size the big trees
of California. Stumps, transformed.into
solid rock, stand in an upright position,
with their roots imbedded in the soil, as
when growing, that measure from fifteen
to twenty-six feet in circumference, and
the ground in the vicinity is strewn with
the trunks and limbs, which retain their
natural shape and size. Mr. Rideout,
determined to secure a section of one of
these trees for the Centennial exhibition,
-with two other men, spent twelve days
in cutting it from the stump. This was
accomplished by drilling all around the
tree and separating it with wedges. The
specimen is three feet high and eighteen
feet in circumference, and its estimated
weight is three tons. It stands on the
stump from which it was severed, ready
to be loaded on a wagon. Mr. Rideout
does not feel able to incur the expense of
bringing it by team to the railroad,
though he had once made arrangements
to do so, but the other party to the agree*
ment failed to perform his part. He is
anxious to call the attention of the Cen
tennial Commissioners to the matter and
see if they will not furnish the means to
get it to the railroad. The country in
which it is situated is an inviting field for
geologists.
GRANT’S UNBIDDEN GUEST.
Carious Scene at the White House.
Washington, March 19.—A few days
ago the President wished to talk over, in
an informal manner, with the ring men
of the District and their Congressional
backers, some matters of importance to
his household. The President’s real
estate speculations, General Babcock’s
connection with the improvement of cer
tain public reservations, and Hallett Kil-
bourne’s imprisonment for not producing
his private books and expressing Grant’s
connection with the real estate pool, all
required friendly conversation. The
private secretary of the President,
Ulysses S., Junior, was handed by his
father a list of the parties to be sum
moned to the Presidential dinner table
During the day he repaired to the Capitol
and personally presented the President’s
compliments with the request that each
party waited upon would be at the White
House to dinner that evening. General
Garfield was among the first called upon.
Then looking over the list he saw the
prefix “Sen.,” which he thought meant
Senator, and the angular writing of the
President lead him to read the line as
Senator Saulsbury. To thei.venerable
and gentle Senator from Delaware young
Ulysses presented his father’s compli
ments and requested him to be at the
White House promptly at seven o’clock
that evening. At the appointed time the
guests were all in attendance. No one
was so bland and polite as Senator Sauls-
bury. The President saw the mistake,
but it was useless to attempt to
correct it then. General Garfield was
consulted, and having had large <
perience in “sitting out” intruders at
late hours, he recommended that the
invited guests except Saulsbury be re
quested to linger ai the table and perhaps
the Democratic Senator would discover
his awkward presence amid an assem
blage of Republican Congressmen and
Senators. But he did not, and remained
until so late an hour that the President
gave up in despair and intimated that he
wished to retire. Now, the Senator who
should have been invited instead of Mr.
Saulsbury, everybody knows, was Sena
tor Sargent, of California. Garfield in
the House and Sargent in the Senate are
the defenders of Boss Shepherd, the real
estate pool, and all the other profitable
rascality which has cursed the District for
six years past. Young Ulysses was up
braided for having made the mistake, and
defended his action on the ground that
he was not familiar with his father’s
handwriting, and did not know who his
ijjpg friends were. During the last Con
gress Mr. Wood was placed in a similar
awkward position by mistake. Congress
man Parker, of Missouri, a Republican,
was invited to the feast, instead of
Parker, Democrat, of New Hampshire
and this one uncongenial party spoiled
the evening’s entertainment.—Baltimore
Gazette.
J very i
Uncle Sam’s Cash Room.—The cash
room of the United States Treasury is
said to be the most beautiful room in
America. One may study the marbles
for hours. The polished panels in the
second story have the varied coloring of a
choice painting—or, from the gallery,
he can look down upon the busy clerks
below, who are cashing drafts; filling
boxes with greenbacks; sealing the pack
ages; counting the fresh, crisp bills, so
unlike the dilapidated rag-money that
they are destined soon to become; pour
ing gold through funnels into bags, occa
sionally stopping to “ring” a suspicious
coin. But beyoijd this there is not over
much to see. Uncle Sam keeps strict
guard over his huge money-box; and the
vaults, processes of engraving, sorting,
examining and destroying of notes, must
generally be left to the imagination of
visitors.
A Great Organ Changing Tune.
There are two articles in Harpers
Weekly of this week that are significant—
especially so because of the recently man
ifested opposition on Staten Island to
Mr. Curtis, its political editor, as a dele
gate to the New York Republican Con
vention, by reason of his hostile criti
cisms of the Administration and to the
Administration’s second choice for Presi
dent, Mr. Conkling. Mr. Curtis is an
intense partisan and reflects, no doubt,
the sentiments of the brains of the Re
publican party. Equally suggestive was
the abandonment by this organ of its
tone of defense of Republican corruption,
in its preceding issue. Dropping the mask
of hypocrisy, it now candidly confesses
that “recent events, culminating in the
crime and disgrace of the Secretary of
War, the return of our Minister in
England under a charge of swindling,
and the declaration of the Attorney Gen
eral that he has ‘ascertained’ the private
secretary of the President to be a thief
of private papers, leave no sensible Re
publican in doubt that there is but one
way in which Republican success can be
assured in the Presidential election of
this year,” and “that way lies in a radical
and thorough change of the spirit and
character and tone of administration.”
And yet it as freely admits in another ar
ticle that there are Republicans who see
in this disgrace disaster so fatal that they
“despair of the party and declare reform
within the party to be impossible.” Mr.
Curtis would be even more candid to en
dorse this declaration. That he ought to
endorse it is shown by his own logic in
the article immediately preceding, where
in he says:
It is puerile to say that Mr. Belknap is
only an individual, and that a party
should not be held responsible for the
conduct and character of all who choose
to act with it. Our government is one
of parties, and the party in power cannot
evade its responsibility. What is the
value of party principles and professions
if the men trusted to put them into
practice are unfaithful or dishonest ?
Can the Republican party, for instance,
claim to be a party of civil service reform
merely because at its last National Con
vention it declared for it in the most
unreserved terms, but when it had gained
power contemptuously discarded it?
The “journal of civilization” admits
further that the Republican dread of
Democratic success this year is counter
balanced by the popular indignation with
the corruption that has been developed
under Republican auspices; but when it
adds “that indignation will defeat the
party if the party cannot prove by its
nomination that those who have con
trolled, control no longer,” is insincere,
insomuch that it is merely the expression
of the editor’s personal hostility to Conk
ling and his administration-backing. The
Republican situation is far more desper
ate than that. The ejection into the
seething sea of popular indignation of
ever so many Jonahs, will not save the
doomed Republican ship. The admissions
in the other article from the Weekly,
from which we have quoted, prove this.
It tells us there are Republicans who
have abandoned all hope of success over
the Democrats, save through the ma
chinery of a new party. This is always
the ominous and unmistakable symptom
of early party dissolution. A new party,
or rather the old party under a new name,
with new directors, will no more save it
than the casting of its Jonahs to the
fishes. No party could survive such ex
posures nor withstand such a storm of
popular indignation as is now rising, un
less the public attention might be di
verted from the main issue—which is the
corruption of the party in power—to
other made issues, which, if not irrele
vant, are of secondary importance.—
Nashville American.
KATE THE KLEPTOMANIAC.
The Romantic Career of a Once Rich
and Beautiful Woman—A Shop-Lifter
Dressed in Brocade, Silk and Diamonds
—iler Stay in Cincinnati—Arrest in New
York, St. Lonis and New Orleans.
There are some few Americans who
think they are “ doing the genteel thing”
by doing nothing; or who, if they must
work on an emergency, are ashamed of
it. But such people, fancying that they
are imitating “foreign airs,” are only
adopting a spurious “ gentility,” which
is despised and ridiculed. No matter
what nominal rank, by birth or prefer
ment, people may hold, those who make
their mark in the world are neither
ashamed nor afraid to labor. The leading
men in Europe to-day, Disraeli, Glad
stone, Bismarck, Thiers and others are
among the hardest worked men alive. If
they had not been they would not have
achieved their greatness. In our own
country the same remark holds true.
Given an idler, and yon have a useless,
and sometimes a dangerous person.
One of the principal attractions in the
old Hall of Representatives are the mas
sive pillars of Potomac marble. The
quarry was exhausted in supplying the
variegated supports which encircle what
is now called Statuary hall. For over
thirty years the pillar to the right of
what is now the entrance to the new hall
has been pointed out as containing a re
markable formation, being a perfect rep
resentation of a man’s face in a recum
bent position. It was first noticed by
John Quincy Adams* when Speaker of
the House, during a night session. Re
cently workmen engaged in placing the
statue of Ethan Allen in position, per
mitted the derrick to come in contact
with this column, resulting in defacing
this well-known attraction. As a com
pensation there has been discovered in
the same column a perfect head of Boss
Tweed, resembling in the most striking
manner the caricatures of Nast. Since
the celebrated face has been disfigured,
parties are daily engaged in seeking for
new formations in this curious pillar.
Birds with the rarest plumage, heads of
animate, outlined faces, implements of
war, and in fact there seems to be a re
flection of the contents of Noah’s ark.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Habitues of the Grand Hotel may re
member among the feminine guests there
last fall a tall, elegant woman, about
thirty-five years of age, whose striking
face and figure and rich toilet made her
noticeable everywhere, and whose sud
den departure was the ccasion of consid
erable gossip at the tilths. Dame Rumor
connected her aristocratic name with th«
gentle epithet of kleptomaniac, and cer
tainly her repeated visits to fashionable
dry goods storos, which found themselves
heavy losers^ gave some ground to the
suppositio2r The circumstance would
not be alluded to now, if an Enquirer re
porter had not learned some facts which
make these robberies an insignificant epi
sode in the romantic career of a remark
able and gifted woman, and, as the in
formation was gathered from an authen
tic source, there can be no harm in relat
ing it to a Cincinnati public.
A short time after her sudden flight
from Cincinnati she appeared at St,
Louis, where she registered at the Everett
House, under the name of Miss Kate
Cummings. In the glamour of wealth
and aristocratic lineage that surrounded
her she met with nothing but servility
and obeisance everywhere in her visits to
the dry goods palaces of the Mound City.
No suspicion attached .to her when it was
discovered at a number of stores along
Fourth and Fifth streets, that they were
daily suffering the loss of valuable articles
of ladies’ wear and fancy fabrics. No
suspicion attached to her when a detec
tive from the police department was
placed in a secure position, where he
could observe everything for the pur
pose of catching the thief. And the
detective could hardly believe his
eyes when at Scruggs, Vandervoort
&- Barney’s, a few days later, he
saw ;a piece of lace pocketed by this
woman, dressed in brocade and silk and
bedecked with diamonds. But it turned
out to be so when she was taken down
to the police station and locked up. The
property was found upon her, and a
search of her trunks at the Everett House
showed a stock of stolen goods amount
ing in value to several hundred dollars.
The police threw a veil over the matter
when they found that she had a brother
in the city who was a prominent and in
fluential lawyer, and consented to accept
her version of the affair, as a freak of
kleptomania, with which she had been
afflicted from childhood. In her extrem
ity she “spouted” her diamonds and
other valuables, and with the proceeds
she was able to purchase bonds from
shyster attorneys in league with tho po
lice, who let her “jump the town.”
It wouldn’t be worth while to pursue
the story further, if the woman was an
ordinary shop- lifter, who was running a
race for the penitentiary. But the
heroine of this news item is a veritable
daughter of haughty Virginia stock.
Born and brought up amid wealth and
luxury, she married a wealthy retired
New Orleans merchant, who became her
devoted slave. As the wife of Colonel
John M. Carr, she moved in the highest
circles of New Orleans society. In that
soft Southern sky no star was more bril
liant than was Sallie E. Carr. Men fol
lowed in her train and worshipped at her
foot-stool, but woe to the victim on whom
her fascinating glances fell with favor.
Her control over men was that of a
queen, and a subject once gained yielded
to her the control of his whole being.
He was drawn into a maelstorm of in
toxication and fascination until whirled
into a black abyss of disaster and
despair. She controlled men by the pow
er of a mighty and subtle intellect and wit,
and these alone. Her passion was not
love, but gambling. Her victims fell be
neath her greed of gain. At her com
mand, and often with her money, they
backed against the “tiger” till all was
lost. Once a year she made a trip to her
home in Virginia, but she took advantage
of the occasion to go on a gambling tour
through the watering places of the East.
She would stake thousands on a single
throw of cards. She was wonderfully
lucky, and frequently won immense sums.
These were lavished on the most costly
laces, silks and jewelry. These, again,
on the other hand, she would hand over
to her “uncle” when fortune went against
her, and more than once she was com
pelled to resort to her kleptoma
niac practices to replenish her ex
chequer. In the fall of 1866 she
was arrested in New Y’ork for shop
lifting and thrown into the Tombs. A
well-known New Orleans merchant, J.
Pinckney Smith, happened to be in New
York at the time, bailed her out, and had
the matter quieted. In the fall of 1868,
during the progress of the Louisiana
State Fair, at New Orleans, she was de
tected in the act of purloining a set of
jewelry on exhibition belonging to E. A.
Tyler, a prominent jeweler in that city.
Her wealth and social position succeeded
in preventing scandal. Enemies she had,
of course, but she pursued them with the
vindictiveness of a fiend. On the other
hand her generous charities made her
adored by thousands. She played men
as she played cards, and a man in her
hands became a piece of pasteboard she
could bend at her will. Later she played
for a $2,000,000 silver mine and lost.
Her own home, heavily mortgaged, fell at
last under foreclosure, and her husband’s
princely fortune went with it. Then she
became a wanderer, and a wanderer she
is to-day.
Distinguished Englishmen have re
marked that if the Prince of Wales had
not sworn falsely in the case of Lady
Mordaunt it would have been impossible
for him ever to become King of England.
“He perjured himself like a gentleman.”
saicUhe late Daniel Webster, on a mem-
oca
A Spark Extinguisher—A Simple But
Effective Contrivance.
It has long been a puzzling problem, to
railroad, steamboat and factory men, how
to devise a prevention of the escape of
sparks from smoke stacks. The danger
arising from flying sparks is so apparent
that it need scarcely be pointed out. Mr.
C. L. Kock, of this city, has devised a
simple contrivance which seems to effec
tually accomplish the desired purpose. It
consists of two semi-circular iron plates
—together exactly equaling the diameter
of the smoke stack—inserted one above
the other, so that the lower will close
the front half of the stack, the upper
*the rear half. The upper plate is set
within a sifter, or perforated copper
plate, which entirely covers the other
half of the stack. The smoke and sparks
ascending the stack, strike against the
lower plate, and are deflected to the
other side, where a little higher up they
are again arrested by the upper plate.
The effect of the two deflections is to
completely extinguish the sparks and to
prevent the escape of nearly all cinders,
while the smoke escapes as freely os it
would under any other circumstances.
The contrivance is called the spark ex
tinguisher and arrester, and is appli
cable as well to the stacks of steamboats
and factories as it is to those of locomo
tives.
Mr. Kock has applied his invention to
the stack of a locomotive of the Pont-
chartrain Railroad Company, and last
evening a number of gentlemen, by invi
tation, rode down to the lake to observe
its operation. The fairest kind of a test
was made, and it resulted in convincing
all present that the object was completely
accomplished. Although the closest ob
servation was made, both in going and
coming, not a single spark was detected
escaping, and very few cinders. It is
surprising to think that so simple a thing
does perfectly what over seventy-five
patented inventions have failed to accom
plish.—N. O. Times.
[From the Commercial Advertiser.!
the inost°remarkah| irt j yeaPS ® noe 01
derous
fought in Vicksburg P laca J® 8
was formerly a Xew YnrV V he Pf 1 ' 68
from one of the a P"!? 48
filling all Vu atreet ,,&nk8 - Af ter
with'singnlar abUul °! that '“titution
: b ; Ch JT ° S r Se “ d cause d much jeaf-
Stitmg r, 8 . ^ 3enior Of that in-
in hta^ >eC< T “? marked “d unbearable
told tb? r er th c at the President finally
^d that hf" ^ hC must it,
and that he would stand by him. He
thftS°. a SOO “ afUr t0 one of
the tellers a specimen cf his skill in the
ch«l?f self ; defen3 e- This resulted m a
and !f!?r “ d !i el ‘ Which was ““Pted,
d after three days of constant pistol
P r |^'“ ce . reaultld iu the death of the
tenet, lie had numerous relatives that,
one after another, came forward to
avenge his death, until four duels were
forced upon the cashier from the natural
consequences of the first duel, and “still
there were more Richmonds in the field.”
A relative of the first victim, an editor
and successful duelist, gave out a threat
that he wascoming to town to avenge
the death of his cousin. His great cour
age and desperate fighting qualities had
been frequently successfully tried, and
were so well known that something dos-
perate must be done to meet the emer
gency , and if possible to stop any and all
future challenges. The editor arrived in
town, and lost no time in sending his
message, whioh was as promptly .
responded to. Early in the morn
ing of the same day all of the
arrangements were made for a meeting
at 6 o’clock the next morning.
After making some necessary arrange-*
inents in case of death the cashier went
to bed and slept until 4 a. m., having all
this time forgotten the almost worshipful
love and devotion of his wife and only
child, who were in profound ignorance cf
his desperate enterprise. He silently
kissed them, aud then the husband and
father stole away to attend the bloody
business. On arriving at the appointed
rendezvous he found a trench dug six
feet deep, two feet wide, and twelve feet
long. Into this double grave the two
principals descended, each armed with
six-shooting navy revolvers aud having
bowie knives, with instructions to com
mence firing at the word advance and finish
the bloody work with their knives, if
their pisrols failed to accomplish it. At
the first shot the editor was mortally
wounded. He drew his kuife, and with
the ferocity of a tiger sprung forward at
his opponent just as he had fired his
second shot. He warded off the blow
with his pistol, which had a deep cut in
it 'made by the heavy knife, showing
what a desperate blow had been aimed at
his life by his adversary, who fell dead at
his feet. The cashier's mind was so
much diseased that he could not attend
to business, and by the advice of his
physician took a vacation and change of
scene. lie came to this city and died in
a lunatic asylum a month after.
The Royal Bengal Tiger.
The tigris regalis is the only species of
the kind, and obtains the appellation of
“Bengal” because its beauty and ferocity
are there most developed. It has a wide
geographical range, though it is limited
entirely to Asia. From Ararat and the
Caucasus on the west, it extends to the
Island of Sagbalieu, and, with the ex
ception of the central table land of Thibet,
extends through the length and breadth
of India, and round by China and Mon
golia into Persia. It is found at consid
erable elevations on the Himalayas (Dr.
Fayrer gives au instance of one that was
shot test year one thousand feet above
the level of the sea,) and penetrates
Siam into the Malayan Archipelago being
found in Java and Sumatra.
The St. Louis whisky trials will cost,
according to figures in the Republican,
$65,682, if the lawyer’s bills are allowed
as presented. General Henderson’s bill
is $22,000, those of Broadhead & Eaton
are $10,000 each. Had Babcock been
convicted the result reached would have
warranted this great expenditure.
The President has interviewed Robeson
and the Secretary says he is innocent.
“Guilty or not guilty is it yon ask me?”
said
hear ikt evidence ?”
I till ]
As might be expected, it varies greatly
in color, thickness of hair, etc., according
to its habitat, the hair growing longer
and thicker in colder localities. None of
the felidtv have as yet been found in
Australia or Madagascar. Recently
Captain Lawson, however, has astonished
the scientific world by his discovery of
the “moolah,” which was in shape and
size, he tells us, like a Bengal tiger, but
much handsomer, the skin being a white
ground, with black and chestnut stripes.
One which he shot was seven
feet eight inches from the nose
to the tail—larger than any tiger
he had seen in India. Ill-natured persons,
on reading these details, may be tempted
to fancy that the gallant Captain had
served with the marines. In Ceylon, too,
it is unknown. The special points in the
anatomy of a tiger which call for mention
are the enormous developments of muscle
in neck, chin and forearms, and his for
midable canine teeth. The digitigrads
feet are armed with cruel retractile claws
and cushioned with soft pads, which aid
his stealthy advance. In man and many
other creatures the partition which sepa
rates cerebrum and cerebellum is mem
branous; in the tiger it is bony, which
lends additional strength to skull. The
senses are acute, though that of smell
is less developed than the others. The
skeleton is strongly compacted, the
frame being especially adapted to the
requirements of strength, speed and
agility. The curious little clavicles are
deeply sunk in muscle, and if not care
fully sought for are liable to bo passed
over: the natives esteem them highly as
amulets and charms. Digestion of the
flesh which forms the tiger’s food is
speedy, owing to its simple stomach and
short intestine. Lightness of foot and
extreme facility in executing thoB©
bounds which are characteristic of the
felidte generally are noticable points in
the tiger. In fact, he is nothing more
nor less than a huge cat, with power and
ferocity excessively developed; a very
“King of Cats.” Travelers sleeping in
their tents may hear one calling to
ita mate in the neighboring jungles,
till night is made hideous by their
amatory growls and roarings, just as
their diminutive congeners on European
house-tops serenade the moon, and pro
voke the exasperated sleeper to dislodge
them with a hair-brush, a lump of coal,
or whatever comes first to hand. The
crowning point of a cat’s ferocity,
stealthiness and delight in bloodshed, is
arrived at in the royal tiger. Those who
have seen him after he has been shof and
his skin stripped off have noticed liis
singular resemblance to the frame and
fore-arm of an athlete. The muscles of
his arm and shoulder are but modifica
tions of those seen in man and other
animals, adapted to the requirement*' of
the animal’s predatory life.
A carious arrangement of elastic liga
ments and muscles provides for the with
drawal of the claws during ordinary pro
gression, so that they are not worn or
jlonted by contact with tho croand.
The tiger takes particular care of these
terrible weapons. Trees are frequently
seen in the jungles scored with iongverti-
cal fissuies to the height of eight or ten
feet from the ground, where tigers have
cleansed and sharpened their claws.
Some trees are greater favonties than
others, and the peenul, or Indian fig, is
often disfigured in this manner, AU
sportamen know how difficult it is to
Srv. either claws or whiskers on a
presen Da tives deem them
powerful love charms, and cut them out
K7instant they dare to approach the.
tne / It features peculiar
watchfulness^ to" prevent this and Dr.
w tells us that natives who are per-
F honest in all other respects are
utterly ^unable to resist these tempting
treasures. —i-Vustr’a .!/by<zunc.
A writer in the ProetiOmfr te**;
BL sev eral instances to show that
TTofdws not assist the vital forces to
alcohol doe ^ De Q uinC y > m
re6lS „ t fM» P e«Js, notices the same fact
one of 1, FTMtaonal observation. Al-
“h fibs the moisture in the body.
by frost.
„ J.ril is imputed ability to quote
To the d presumes to tell what
“ri-^re “Practically,”
ri sing except the cultivation
h . e pJltisn virtues in both sexes. The
of C K virtues of moral life must be
(oundatio vi cu]uyated . homely vir-
more r , be Wde heroic at the mother’s
tnes mu» ^ m y > wn’t. Beecher an *<M-
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