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ESTILL, Savannah, Ga. ioi For si tjFd-t priB-'i ■ drtsn* 1 ' J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1877 ESTABLISHED 1850. This from the Quitman Reporter dis cusses the sugar supply ol Brooks: “Mr. S. J. Harrell informs us that he planted last year 2,600 stalks of sngar cane on a little less than three-fourths of an acre, from which he made two barrels of sugar and seven of Byrup, and saved 2,700 stalks for seed this year, from which he feels confi dent that he will make at least ten barrels of syrup. Now, if there is any one who can beat this, we would like to hear from them. The fact is fast gaining ground that this immediate section is the b‘-st and most reli able country that there is in America, so varied and important are its productions — so healthful and delightful its climate—so cheap its lauds, that it is astonishing that it has been so long a sealed book to the out side world.” Affairs Hi Georgia. Xhe number of arrests made in Augusta during the past month was ninety-six, of *1 ich forty-three were white aud fifty-three colored. ' There are thirty-one prisoners in jail in ArU sta, ten whites and twenty-one colored. Ipattam county man is manufacturing iU L’’ soap. The corn shucks are fed to . Ive as long as it will eat them, and the j'. j d boded until it is saponified. No , ase is us«-d in the process, and the soap is ^ itobr very good. i tU* Academy for the Blind, situated at m .,)!) there are now fifty inmates, and the . jeo t of a pay pupil, including tuition, r( ] fuel, lights, Ac.,' is only two hundred 1 twenty dollars per annum. J [a c ■' -v‘luence of a large number of the v cen Volunteers having recently been ab- : on :i week’s excursion to Cumberland i. ioil it is found that a sufficient number .-•.njt leave their business to form a squad w attend the Brunswick fair. . Cobb county man sold five hundred * ,iqd(1 j of honey in Atlanta last week for ventv-fivo dollars. IIo says his bees al- • -u support him, aud cause him no trouble aa.l lit’le expense. r-j. e iion. John C. Key, of Jasper county. g hi - :i nominated its delogate to the Con- . itutional Convention. A cm respondent writes us from Gardi, • ayne county, that small change is very a . f . ri -,. and what little is in circulation is , . uggeJ. He further states that the u tuat neighborhood hoard up all the . ver that passes into their hands. On thi 1st instant Governor Colquitt ap pointed Dr. John Rhea, of Atlanta, as No ; mv Public and ex-officio Justice of the Peace of the 1,234:h district G. M., vice Garlington, resigned. The Dahlonega Signal reports a heavy ,* in the mountains, ner.r that place, last 8atarday week. The mortuary report of th3 city of Au- ,r Q .vi ior the month shows forty-four inter ment, of which twenty-five were colored and nineteen whites. \jr. J. W. Hewell has received the nomi- uttiou for the Constitutional Convention hum Chattahoochee county. A negro named Austin Karris, being un der arrest at Jesup on a charge of larceny, ■tteiypted to commit suicide by cnttiDg his throat with a penknife. The knife being toi&ll and dull did not accomp’ish the death f the darkey. It is rather an unusual oc currence, the attempted suicide of a negro. );r. Albert Senter, an old and highly es- • fcined citizen of Heard county, died on Sunday last. Goa 1 in large quantities is being shipped - ’&;h over the State road. The Atlanta Constitution expresses the that in u few months the water works difficulty will be fully removed by some practical mo le of purifying the water. Judge John L. Hopkins, who has been coi'lined to his room, in Atlanta, for some wc*■&> on account of serious illness is im proving gradually, and it is now hoped that he will recover sufficiently in a week or so to lake a trip off somewhere for his health, which is advised by his physician. Judge James Jackson, of the Supreme Court, is growing stronger gradually after confinement to his bed for the past ten days. Iu Heard county rain has been badly needed ior the past ferf weeks. The corn and oats are suffering, and tho gardens are beginning to die out. Oh! for a rain, is the exclamation of nearly every inhabitant. The Griffiu Hews, of the 6ih, learns that there was quite a heavy storm in Forsyth jq Tuesday afternoon, during which the warehouse was unroofed and three or four frame buildings were blown down. The wueat crop of Georgia may bo con- -iD r* \ made. In the southern and middle •vmiitiis a portion of it has already been harvested, aud in the northern portion of the State it has progressed so near maturity without rust that little apprehension need be entertained. The crop in nearly all parts the State is represented to be fine, ex- mug tho expectations of farmers. The ily iking to be regretted is that more was R planted. It is to be hoped that the ,/allent yield this year, at a time when hr tuffs are so high, will encourage all farci- i - to double their acreage in wheat :trxt year, aud thus make us independent J tii ■ Went for bread. Father John, the pastor of the Catholic -hurch at Columbus, has established a Ha •.uitarian Society entitled the St. cent de Paul, whoso purpose it is to fur nish work for women out of employment, without regard to denomination. The i y has organized by the election of tho "wing officers: L. J. Rafferty, President; diehard Needham, It. Deighnan, R. Bran ca, Directors; and George N. HartmauD, ^fctary. Ui: tain W. D. Grant has declined the po rtion of Water Works Commissioner, to which he hau been elected by the Atlanta Common Council. in examination of all applicants for posi- ions as teachers in tho public schools of Atlanta will be held under the direction of the » lug committee of the Board of Education ou Saturday, 16;h instant, at,the c hi-- of the Superintendent, 49 Washington c’reet, commencing at 9 a. m. Jlr. E. McMahon, a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Gwinnett county, died i&st Saturday morning at 5 o’clock. He was •ixtv-three years of age and was a native of South Carolina. Hie death was deeply re gretted. The Albany Advertiser is trying to stir up sufficient enthusiasm in Southwestern Geor- gl&! ' ; form a Southwest Georgia Fair As- -a. It says: “In the expressive •‘‘ 'k'uai'e of General McKaig, let all the ^uotie. in our section pull toget'uer and or- ganiztj without delay an Agricultural and alect;>i.ii ca i Association to develop tho re- 3, 'Urci-8 of our section. By the united action °f Jli.cUell, Worth, Lee, Baker and Calhoun ^unties in connection with Dougherty, an *8eociation could be organized which would j 0 cre dit to tiouthwestern Georgia. The should be purchased as early as practi- ^ole aud the necessary buildings erected delay. Let ns all work in unison, thus benefit each and every person re- uiiug 1q thiiis delightful section of Georgia.” „ Y ° Jesup Sentinel of the sixth says : About fifteen minutes to twelve o’clock .eeterday the alarm of tire was heard. It ascertained that Dr. K. B. Harris* „ w aa on fire. When first discov- Lf U ^ re was in the kitchen, but fcJ Jre buckets and water could be ^ the fiainee had too far advanced J 2 -ye the buiidiugs. The place was occn- . by p r . T. Lvtimer. He succeeded saving everything in tha house, although jBtgsrt to some extent iu the excitement k bug them out. The buildings were a total ,® 8 - No iQsurance. Dr. Harris’ loss is aatli °i gllt hundred dollars. The fire origi- intn4K fr " m Btove Pip® where it went ^epipe ” U<3 ’ ce ^ n ^ being too close to .^Dalton Enterprise says: “Mr. John v' ^uis, of the Union House, of Green f 0r bpnngs, Fla., was in the city last week ahinm l iQr P US9 of arranging for regular pmeuts of meat from this market, but Geor?* avail. Query No. 2 : Does North HiseS?** ° ff0r inducements to stock ENRICHING THE VATICAN. The Splendid LiftH of the Catholics of Both Hemispheres to Pins IX. The Thomaston Herald asks this pertinent question: “When did Thomaston see the first of Juno without having shipped West ern corn here for the farmers? Upson is all right.” This from the Newnan Blade: “No in habitant is old enough to remember ever having seen such a spell of hot, dry weather at this season of the year as we have had for the last four weeks. Thermometer way up in the nineties, gardens drying up and crops not growing.” Chattanooga’ Times: “ On show day at Dalton Mr. King, druggist, lost by theft from the pocket of his ejat fifty dollars in money, and many valuable papers were taken. Detectives were vigilant in this city last night, but up to two o’clock had not succeeded in capturing the scouDdre!.” The Central Georgia Weekly thinks that old Pike will do well to tie to on the Consti tutional Convention question. It says : “ VVe asked one of our county nominees why ho did not address the people on the conven tion question. His reply was: ‘There is no use, the people of Pike will vote right anyway.’ Well, aftor reflection, we think tliGre is no use ourselves, as we have said before, old Pike will do to tie to, on questions of this kind. Politically, Tike is thoroughbred and true-blue. Hence we have no fears thai she will go back on her fair record on so im portant a measure as the conveution ques- ton.” An editorial letter in the Thomaston Her ald says: “The crops of Talbot, where we passed, are much further advanced than iu Upson, we suppose on account of the more recent rains over there. Wheat is very fine there as here, but forwarder, there Deiog some ready to reap and some we saw being cut. Cotton is looking young and unso phisticated aud we apprehend will ‘peg out’ altogether about the first of June when tho snow comes.” The Atlanta Constitution says: “A promi nent lawyer in Middle Georgia, in a commu nication printed elsewhere, shows that there is no Georgia law which consigns minors to chains on account of vagrancy, and he quotes the section of the Code which pro vides for their disposition. If th§ section ofsthe Code which our correspondent quotes is to be construed as it reads, minors can not be convicted of vagrancy. We most respectfully call the attention of the officers of the law to this section. Under it the mi nors who are still in the chain gang for vagrancy are now being subjected to a most cruel and unjustifiable martyrdom.” The Columbus Enquirer has the following episode of “college” farming : “A sturdy farmer of Chattahoochee county, who had received few educational advantages, deter mined that his son should bo thoroughly educated. He therefore sent him to the best schools in the couuty, aud when suffi ciently advanced sent him to college. Tom, while’a bright student, did not rank very high when it, came to work. During vaca tion he came homo and ihe old iuau r know iug his aversion to labor, called him up one morning, and giving him a bag of peas, directed him to sow them in a certain field. Tom took the peas and started for the field. After he had been gone about half an hour, tho old rnau thought ho would go and see how his son was doing tho work. When he reached the field, to his surprise, Tom was mounted on a mule and busily engaged scattering the peas. The old man protested, but Tom assured him it was the way it was done at college, and a great im provement on the old fogy method. After witnessing the operation awhile the father thought he would like to givo the new way a practical test, so he called his son, saying : ‘ Git off that critter, Tom, aud jist let me try my bp.nd a ’it- x;e.’ Tom dismounted, aud the old man mounted the mule. The c ne«v wav’ was novel, and the old man was delighted. He w r as getting on finely when the mule chanced to turn his head, just as he was scattering a handful,’ which, instead of reaching the ground, went into the mule’s ear. The mule, unaccustomed to such famili arity, gave some novel movements, and the old man landed on his head some twenty feet away. Tom rushed to his father’s assistance, and raised him up. The old man was somewhat riled, and, col lecting himself, said: ‘Tom, you infernal fool, if you try any more of your college farming* on this place, I’ll baste you alive. Dern your college farming. Take up th^m pons and sow them like a white man, and none of your college lamin’ here/ Tom sowed the peas the old fashioned way, but if he wanted a muss he had only to suggest to the old man how a thing was done at col lege.” J. S. Newman, writing to the Georgia Grange, says: “The thousands of acr^s of green pastures, now in their prime, and shaded by tho pines from the summer sun, seem intended by nature as the home of tbe sheep, and are destined at no distant day to become as noted as the celebrated Downs of England. We would make only one amendment to what nature has done— we would supplement the natural pasturage with Bermuda grass, the best sheep pasture grass in the world. This done, South Georgia would indeed be tho shepherd s paradise.” [Rome Correspondence of the New York Even ing Post.] The Jubilee of Pius IX. brings a throng of duBty pilgrims, with staff and crook and bag, to Rome, the centre of the Ro man Catholic world. . We who live in the old city recognize new comers by their red guide books and their evident look of being sight seers. They come from all nations of the world to lay down offer ings at the feet of the Sovereign Pontiff. Although many have arrived, and more are expected, until the 3d of June, which is the fiftieth anniversary of the Pope’s consecration as a Bishop, it is estimated that the number will not equal that of the Spanish pilgrimage last autumn, which was seven thousand. The various rich and smgular gifts that the pilgrims bring to tbe Pope are all to be exhibited iu a gallery of the Vatican, which was one of the Loggie of Raphael. The exhibition will last one month— from the 21st of May to the 21st of June. Showers of gold seem to rain on the Vatican, and all the riches of the world and the glory of them are represented iu thes gifts, which are humbly offered by the f athful at the feet of Pius IX. Tnere are two hundred English pilgrims from the aristocracy bringing twenty thousand pounds sterling. Americans, headed by Archbishops Wood of Philadelphia, Baiiy of Baltimore, and the representa tive of Cardinal McCloskey of New York, bring iu all §110,000. There is a box of unset diamonds from South America, a gold cup from Lyons, two keys, half a yard long, one of silver and the other of gold, symbols of the Pontifical power, from Clermont; a gilt oak throne, covered with ancient sculptures, and fifty-six thousand francs from Marseilles, and three purses full of gold, one for poor priests, one for the seminaries, and one to repurchase the ecclesiastical properties from Lisle. One of the gifts is an album richly bound, the leaves of which are bank note A society of workingmen sends a silver statuette of Jesus as a laborer; and the ex-officers of the Pontifical army have sent the Pope a sword. The Belgians send thirty altars for poor churches, and the Swiss pilgrims bring no less than fifty silver watches. The clericals of Venice send a magnificent chandelier wrought at the glass factory of Salviate. This is de scribed as an artistic wonder. Its diameter is 2.70 metres and its height four metres—a metre being a little more than a yard. It is decorated with wfeatha and bouquets of glass flowers in various oolors, with appropriate inscriptions, with the Papal tiara, and with the lien of St. Mark. The 3d of June, when the principal festivities will take place, coincides strangely enough with the national holi day, or i he Festa Della Statuto. Both parties, Clericals and Liberals, are judi ciously taking measures to avoid disturb ance in the city. The fireworks, which are always displayed from Castle St. An gelo, will be omitted this year, and the Pope has ordered the Jubilee to be ob served the day before. The Piazza della Minerva, which is the rendezvous for the pilgrims, and where there is a good inn, of which they have taken possession, gives the idea of an ethnographical museum. There is tbe picturesque costume of Normandy and Brittany, the Cracovian dress, and that of Holland. The French women seem to be all dressed in black lustre and to wear muslin caps on their heads. A number of these were crowding around their Bishop the other day its the public square to kiss his hand. Some policemen in their black and orange uniforms stood looking on, and to give color to the scene at the church of Santa Maria Sopra Mi nerva was the carnage of some tilled clerical lady with its crimson dressed outriders. To add to the fatigue, many of the French pilgrims have gone tc Naples to see the miracle of the Jiquifica- tion of the blood of San Gennaro. The anniversary of this miracle took place last week, but in order to gratify curios ity it will be repeated. AMONG THE HODOL’S. Visit to the Kcinnant of Buiui. Cupt- Jack’s [Baxter Springs (Ks.) Correspondence.] The Modocs, you will remember, have been in the nation but little over three years, so you will, perhaps, be somewhat inclined to doubt the truth of statements I shall make in regard to them When they had been here long enough to be come partially accustomed to their new life ali the children of the tribe under twenty were taken from their homes and placed at the Quapaw Mission School, under charge of Asa Tattle and his wife. The school opens every fall and con tinues in session until the following June The children remain there with out ’visiting home until the close of the school. I visited the school wuen the children had been there a year, and found almost all of the older Modoc children able to read anc, sped remark ably well, everything considered. Many of them have been converted to Ofans- tiamty. among them “Bogus Chaney, head chief of tho tribe. Some time ago I heard him speak to the caildren of the public schools of this city He told them that he nevei ceased to thank God that his people had been brought here; that they were happy here, and were learning to get good; that they were all sorry for the deeds they Lad done before th^y came, and never wanted to commit such acts again, but that thev wanted to live in peace always. A few y dlys ago I attended what to you would doubtless be a novelty—an Indian Sabbath school. I was accompanied by General Butterfield, of Kansas City who, like many others, was sometimes like an unbeliever iu regard to toe progress the Modoc children hud made, bnt before he 1, ions in the house* and when he heard them" s ’ D f. iE f g w ““wep'Taway 1 Th^Modoc people a'ren^ the men raise small crops of corn, pota- toes, and ^ thT’ho^ their welfare. As a tribe tially self-supporting. par- There was a strange christening scene in All Saints’ Church, West Bromwich, England, on May 13. The church, the churchyard, and the streets were crowd ed, for the gossips Lad known for a week that one of the vicar’s parishioners, who accused him of being the father of her illegitimate child, intended to present her self before the font. “What name do you give this child?” asked the vicar, whose name was Frederick Willett. George White, the young woman’s father, answered sharply, “Frederick Willett White.” Mr. Willett instantly refused to give the child that name, stating that they were assuming bis own name. The child’s mother shook her head and the child’s grandfather said “No.” Taking the child in his arms and pouring water on its head, the vicar named it “George White.” The grandfather remonstrated against the arbitrary use of his own name, aud the High Sheriff, who happened to be the vicar’s father-in-law, went forward and led the irascible gentleman out of the church. A Fable—The Philosopher and the Simpleton.—A Simpleton, having had Occasion to seat himself, sat down on Pin; whereon he made an Outcry unto Jupiter. A Philosopher, who happened to be holding up a Hitching-Post in the vicinity, rebuked him, saying, “I can tell you how to avoid hurting yourself by sit Liug down ou Fins, and will, if you will sot them up.” The Simpleton eagerly accepting the Offer, the Philosopher swallowed four fingers of the Rum which parisheth, and replied, “Never sit down.” He subsequently acquired a vast Fortune by advertising for Agents, to whom he guaranteed $77 a Week for light aud easy Employment at their Homes. Mobal.—The Wise Man saith, “There is a Nigger in the Fence,” but the Fool Sendeth on 50 Cents for Sample and is Taken in.— N. 7. World. To the season of early summer are pe culiar shad, spring lamb, strawberry short cakes, circus accidents, and obit uaries of little girls who jumped the skip ping rope a hundred and y times. It is the custom of some coroners a custom more honored in the breach than the observance 1 —to stimulate the skipping industry by praising performers on that slack-rone or bestowing prizes upon them. Little girls should distrust these coroners and the gifts they bring, for, as the proverb very wisely says, “The little girl who jumps often over the skipping- rope comes home on ice at last.”—World. The ignorance of some of our most wealthy citizens is absolutely humiliating. A man who pays taxes on any quantity of leal estate stopped us yesterday and asked us to change his Evening Herald to a Morning Herald,. “But our paper only appears in tbe evening,” we ex^ claimed. “AH right! I've been a friend of tbe paper for twenty years, but that settles it. If you haven’t got accommo dation enough to print me my copy in the morning you are not a live newspaper into maa apd catl t keep up with railroads and progress anti sich 1 ”—San Antonio Her ald. Moee or That “Higher Civilization. -A Chicago dispatch says: “Informs I m reached here to-night of a horrible ■ age which occurred a few miles from •tage City, Wis. Mrs. Winslow, a very spectable lady, accompanied by her says aDoui untiu^ui ~ - Tram 01 .aughter, aged sixteen years, while on party of roughs assaulted o u.er iau > bome last nigll t were waylaid niu Rust and overpowered ana oru . . , ., „ho stormed and tied hm beat, ^ [Train drew a revolver || — - a. I- ...r-itl.l ra t c Law and Obdeb in the Land of,S-eadi j Habits —A Manchester, N. U > “ b >“ ■■about midnight on ^dayLighta andfired" several slfo to at hw Wkm mortally wounding William Ryan. ” “ „.if 0 had just served out a-f-t oe here Other effio - wl came to the “ er o _. rn store. the mot. and a f 68C fi crowd assembleT about tho .ation Srbnt noSngfcr-nertbai beaten- ing was attempted- ^ An I*tota«£« a? 0 * 1 i°£ e .. - i stocking without mgs. A de- “ a footless stock, g H is better . scription by another Ln ^ .. 8hut your eyes d vou’ll see it,” said Pat. by three ruffians, who stopped and tied the team which was being driven by Miss Winslow, and inflicted a horrible outrage upon mother and daughter. After the fiendish deed had been committed they were horribly beaten by tbe ruffians and left in a condition that recovery seems almost impossible.” Thinking over it, we know of nothing neater iu the way of decoration honors to the dead soldier than to decorate his little orphan girl with a new dress or his widow’s front door witha load of wood.— NathvilU American. WOSDERFIL BROTHERS. One C'oinmlt# a .Murder and (be Other Agree** to Hang for the C'rime— Dunion find Pythian Uepeated—“slaved by a Neck.’ Lincoln, Neb , May 2‘J, 1877.—A case outrivaliing tha of Damon and Pythias has just occurred in the State of Missouri, of wflich we have seen no full account. We have been fortunate in obtaining the facts from one who was interested some what in the matter, and subjoin them. In Bloomfield, a little town in the county of Stoddard, State of Missouri, lived twobro hers, Poindexter and James Edmondson. Poindexter, the elder, was a smart, intelligent young man of twenty- seven, who had for years cared for and protected his younger brother James. The latter was of feeble mind, but was remarkable for the affection displayed to ward his elder brother. The slightest wish of Poindexter was to James a sacred oommand, and the affection was re turned in an eqflal degree by the older brother. Last summer Poin dexter had some trouble with a man named William Shaw, anl in the fight which ensued Edmondson was struck on the head with a brick by Shaw and seri ously injured. He was confined to his room for a considerable length of time, and during his confinement very natur ally gave expression to such remarks as “I’ll get even wit h him,” “I’ll fix Shaw for this,” etc. These expressions were noticed and remembered by many people who called to see him, though nobody paid any great attention to them at that lime. During the illness of Poindexter, James showed remarkable tits of violent auger toward Shaw, whenever he saw his brother’s wound; and long afterward, when the wound had healed, he woul.i fly into a violent fit of rage at sight of the scar in his brother’s head. SHAW MUBDEBED. One day last October Poindexter, while sitting with his brother, suddenly put his hand to his head, complaining that it ached terribly, and that he believed that S_iaw had given him a wound from which he would never entirely recover. James had his usual paroxysm, and Poindexter tried to soothe him mentally finding fault with himself for so thoughtlessly speak ing of this subject before his half crazed brother. The next day James disappeared and that night Shaw was found cut to pieces with a butcher knife and quite dead in his room. Suspicion at once fastened upon Poindexter Edmondson, because of the former trouble he had had with Shaw and his threats during and since his illness. Ho was arrested and thrown into prison. For two days the most agonizing thoughts filled the mind of Poindexter in regard to the murder. The actions of his brother James, his disappearance and the murder following upon it pointed in his mind to his brother James as the murder er of Shaw. But he heroically kept his mouth*sealed. On the third day James returned and confessed to his brother that he had murdered Shaw, and waited to denounce himself at once and take his place behind the bars with his brother. But Poindexter refused to allow it. In the most binding way and in the most sacred manner he commanded his brother never to tell anybody the facts in the case. Used to obeying his brother’s slightest wish he readily made the re quired promises. POINDEXTER SENTENCED TO DEATH. The trial of Poindexter came on and the best attorneys that coulcf be found were employed iu th6 defence. They did all that could be done, yet they ware convinced that Poindexter was keeping back from them some important truth about the matter. They urged upon him the necessity of confiding everything to his attorneys; but he invariably replied that he had told all about tbe case that he could tell and all he knew. The trial ended, and the j ary brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, and the nnfortuuate man was sentenced to be hanr ed on May 22, 1877. The at torneys tried by every means to get a new trial, to have the Supreme Court review the decision of the lower court, but in vain, and the young man prepared for his almost unheard of sacrifice. As a last re sort an appeal was made to Gov. Phelps for interference; but after every argu ment had been exhausted the Governor firmly refused to interfere with the find ings of the court. The last hope was gone, and Poindexter prepared for death. A TIMELY CONFESSION. The fatal day was drawing near, but the interposing hand of Providence was also near. A few days before the time set for the judicial murder, James Edmondson was taken suddenly ill at Bloomfield and laid upon his deathbed. Then, knowing that his life was drawing to an end, he confessed that he, and not his brother, had killed William Shaw. Proper wit nesses were called in and the confession was taken down in writing. As a matter of course, the people were greatly excited. There were but a few days intervening before the time set for the execution. What was to be done must be done quick ly. A publio meeting was calltd, a sum of money raised and a young man sent with all possible speed to lay the facts be fore Governor Phelps at Jefferson City. Bloomfield is a considerable distance from the railroad, but the young lawyer who was sent as messenger rode to tbe near est railroad station and then has tened to Jefferson City and laid the papers before Governor Phelp=. This was on the Sunday evening preceding the Tuesday when Edmondson was to have suffered. The Governor granted a res pite to August (1, and then the lawyer ba- gan his ride for a life. He first tele graphed to Dexter, the nearest telegraph station, the result of his mission, aud then, as fast as steam and horse could carry him, he hastened back to Bloom field with the Governor’s order of com mutation. He was not an hour too soon, although his telegram bad been received before. But there was no hanging in Bloomfield on that day, and the people were all immensely happy. Poindexter Edmondson could not speak when first informed that his brother had made a confession. James died, and the jailer, without authority of law, let his brother attend the funeral under guard. Meas- ufgg were at once set on foot to induce the Governor to grant a full and uncon ditional pardon, which will no doubt be done in a day or two. CRAZED BT RELIGION. PareDta Who Hoped lor Heaveo by Statvioa Tbeuiselres ami Chlld- [From the St. Louis GlobefMay 30 ] On Second street, in South St. Louis, aud about midway of the block, is a neat one-8tor> brick house, the two front rooms of which are occupied by Henry Lutner, his wife and a little daughter about eight years of age. The rear por tion of the building is occupied by an - other family. Lutner and his wife were religious enthusiasts, and for the past three or four days have been perfectly in sane on this subject. They have not only kept themselves in almost entire se clusion. but have compelled the little girl to keep company with them and partici pate in their fanatical proceedings. The blinds of the house have been kept shut and the windows closely curtained. The family, from all appearances last night, had eaten little or nothing for the past few days, their time having been spent in praying and singing, after the fancy of their strange superstitions. The neighbors living iu the vicinity have noticed the peculiar manner in which Lutner and his wife have acted si"ce Sunday last, and, as their actions grew more and more mysterious each day, it was resolved yesterday to solve the mystery. It was feared by many that the child had either been starved to death or foully dealt with, and the excitement of the crowd that assembled around the house last night scarcely knew bounds. The yard, as well as the street, was full of people; some having come through mere curiosity, while others were anxious to know of the welfare of the child. An appeal was made to Captain Lee, and yesterday an officer made repeated attempts to get into the house, but each time without success. The inmates would neither answer him nor give him any satisfaction. Lutner could be fre quently heard in his devotions, but when asked to open the door would treat the request with contempt. The child would occasionally be heard to cry, and this seemed to prey so on those in the vicinity tuat ihe people became perfectly wild with excitement. Last evening, about dark, Sergeant Canton and Officer Genall went down de termined to solve the mystery. It was very difficult to gaiu an entrance to the house, but after unlocking a door, lead ing into the rear apartments of the build ing the officers entered the back room of the two occupied by the Lutner family. The wife, as soon as the officers entered, ran into the front room aud locked the door after her. This door had to be forced, and the officers and several of tbe neighbors who accompanied them found themselves in the presence of two rnani aes. The man was perfectly wild, and fought desperately before he was over, powered and could be taken to the police station. The woman, too, seemed to be in a perfect frenzy, and it was only by main force that tbe chiid could be taken from her. The little one was given to Mrs. F. King, a near neighbor, to be cared for while the mother and father were locked up at the station, the latter having to bs handcuffed. They will probably be sent to the Insane Asylum. Lutner is a blacksmith, employed in the machine shops of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Road. He and his wife are members of the German Lu theran Church, in South St. Louis, and they have alwajs borne the reputation of being thrifty and hard working people. Bblef, Bot Romantic.—Ten years a;o a young roan passed through Montioello, Ky., aud was noticed by a young girl at tue window of the most aristocratic house iu town. She fell in love with him at first sight. She had wealth, culture and beauty. He was poor, and was then on his way to seek a fortune as a cattle herder in Texas. After many nps and downs he found himself the owner of a silver mine in New Mexico. The girl bloomed into a rare and beautiful woman, with literary ability, and became a con tributor to the Apostolic Times. She learned who the unconscious object of her affection was, and corresponded throughout the ten years. She never wrote a word of her personal attractions or family, nor did he ever speak of his good fortune. A few weeks ago he wrote her proposing marriage, and soon fol lowed his letter to her Kentucky home, where he saw her for the first time. Re cently they were married, and Miss Annie Berry, that was, learned on reaching Sil ver City, that her husband, R B. Met calf, was the greatest capitalist in New Mexico. Starvation on Long Island.—One day last week Dr. Burns, of FiushiDg, Long Island, was called to attend a child re ported seriously ill at a house on the Dillon Farm at Foster’s Meadow. Pro ceediug to tho place, he found a miserable hovel occupied by a laborer on tbe farm, together with 1 is wife, who had just been confined, and the child, about five years old, for whose complaint he was expected to prescribe. The furniture was of the rudest, and all the surroundings betokened the extremest poverty, while the appearance of the inmates pointed, if not at actual starvation, to the very next thing to it. The father said he oi_ly re ceived between three and four dollars per week—not sufficient to purchase the nec essaries of life, much less medicine and medical aid. The mother had not, des pite her condition, received either, and the elder child was dying through neg lect. The doctor did the best be could for it, but he had been called too late to save its life.—N. 7. World. Imbibing American Ideas. [From the London News ] At tbe Westminster County Court yes terday a respectably-dressed man, who had been making a disturbance at the back of the court, was ordered by the learned Judge to leave the court, and upon Lam bert, one of the officers, attempting to remove him, he was violently assaulted by the person in question. By direction of tbe Judge, Farrow, the chief usher, and Mr. Summers, the chief bailiff's of ficer, took him into custody until the oases before the court were disposed of. Prior to the rising of the court ho was brought before His Honor, aud stated that he was a gentleman, of no occupation, residing at No. 22 Bute street, South Kensington, and, as he was roughly- handled by the officer, he resented it. He was merely in court as a witness, and considered he had been unfairly dealt with. The learned Judge said his conduct was indefensible, and'ordered a warrant to be made out for his incarceration in Holloway Prison for seven days. Subsequently the prisoner’s father came into court to ask for a mitiga tion of the sentence, on the ground that his son had been a long time in America, and had imbibed American ideas, which he had imported with him. His son was very sorry for what had occurred, and he hoped the court would accept this apolo gy. The learned Judge said he would not at present interfere, but would consider the subject A seoond application on the part of the father induced His Honor to grant the release of the prisoner. Ex-Chancellor Robert Lowe, of Eng land, writes a letter insisting on fifteen new letters being added to the alphabet, as the [anguage contains twenty-nine sounds, Genera! Sheridan contributed briefly to tbe Decoraton Day talk about reconcilia tion. In a brief speech in Chicago he said he was ready to applaud the desire to forgive all the past, but to do that tbe forgiveness must be thorough and mutual. It would have to be based upon a mutual forgiveness, for they could not forgive the past if it meant the stultification of ail their faith in the past. The men whose graves he had visited that day would also forgive, yes, right heartily ; but if they were alive they would only do so upon the principle for which they died. Aud on no other could they, the survivors of that terrible struggle, unite harmoniously upon tbe common ground of mutual attmesty. Tbp fact wa. that there was altogether too much talk about this political and sectional forgiveness. If the people were let alone, it would all come in time. If the matter was let alone, all would come right. The New Party Hu rating. [From toe New Orleans Democrat, May IS.] The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, Mr. Redfield, who has been for some time in the Southern States, writes that there is no sign of a break in the line of the Southern Democracy. "The South,” says this writer, “is as solid as a granite mountain, and if there was a general election to-day, every Southern State would go with the Northern De mocracy, if the route took them to the devil as welL” The correspondent of the Cincinnati paper is in the main correct, Gough the adhesion of the South to the Democratic party is not so blind and un reasoning as he ignorantly or maliciously intimates. Thairissues upon which parties have been for years divided have not materi ally changed; and before they can be a political revolution the very bedrock of existing parties must be shattered and broken up by a great convulsion. We have heard a great deal of balder dash about the new party in this section, which is expected to be the outgrowth or consequence of the- President’s Southern policy; but we have not heard a single intelligent reason advanced for the or ganization of any such party. What is its purpose and mission? What weighty issue has sprung up to change the political alignments in the South ? The policy of the National Democratic party for ten years has been to restore local self-government to the Southern Slates; to cease ail Federal and military interference iu Southern politics, and to leave these States, like those of the North, under their own laws and chosen rulers to develop their resources, and generally to advance their own ma erial and social interests. Upon the other hand, for ten years, indeed for a quarter of a century— but aggressively and with armed force aud violence for ten years—the Repub - beau party has been engaged in a syste matic aud ceaseless effort to subjugate, dishonor and devastate the South. Throughout the three last Presidential campaigns this has been the issue be tween the Democratic and Republican parties; the former all the time increas ing its strength and maintaining its broad, liberal and constitutional theory, and the latter constantly losing in strength, but increasing and intensi fying the malovelence and virulence of its policy of conquest, insult aud devastation, until in the last election the liberal and enlightened principles of the Democracy received the full aud emphatic indorse - ment of the American people in the eltc tion of Governor Tilden. The inaugu ration of Mr. Hayes, the defeated candi date, was the most audacious manifesta tion of the utterly lawless and vindictive spirit which for a quarter of a cen tury has animated and characterized the Republican party, and showed that it had then lost none of its dangerous rancor. #Thus, up to the 4th of March, there was nothing in the politics of the conn try, or in tbe policy of tbe government, to lead to the organization of a new or anti-Democratio party in the South. But we are told the poliey of justice, peace a id conciliation, adopted by the Presi- d -nt, ought in its nature to disrupt the Democratic party, at least in South Carolina and Louisiana, and lead a large portion of the people of those States to join the President’s party. Those are shallow-minded leaders who entertain so low an opinion and possess so imperfect a knowldge of human nature and the common sense of the people as to expect any such result. The policy adopted by the President is the policy for the institutiop of which the Democratic party has fought for tea years, and against which the Republicans have an persistently struggled. It is the Demo cratic poiicy, aid its adoption by Mr. Hayes is, if possible, stronger evidence of the’ fact that the American people have repudiated the narrow, cruel and vicious principles of the Republican party than was the election of Mr. Tilden, foi it shows that the Democratic sentiment of the country is so powerful that a Presi dent, inaugurated through fraud and vio lence by its enemies, is forced to adopt its policy. What power or force then, is at work calculated to destroy, or even to disrupt the Democratic party in Louisiana and he South ? The Republican party has not abandoned its line. Blaine, Wendel! Phillips, Ben Wade, Garfield, and a vas: majority of its leaders, stand as unyield inglv by its traditional principles as they did in 1868, and they are constantly vex ing the ears of the people with their virulent and vindictive utterances. The organization of the Republican party has beer, demoralized by the policy of the President, it is true. But would it not be the very extreme of folly for any por tion of the Democrats of the South to organize a political movement to rein force, reorganize and revitalize the part] of hate, sectionalism and violence ? As citizens solicitous for our own wtl fare and freedom, we couid never do this. As politicians, we would play a silly part in abandoning our own party now that it is for the first time in twenty years in the majority to join a defeated and disorgan ized party. As patriots devoted to thr peaoe, prosperity and honor of the whoh country, we cannot become part of a political organization which has dis graced the Union and devastated many of its States; which created reeoustruc tion, carpet baggery and the aristocracy of corruptionists, and which has fostered in the country civil strife and sectional bitterness. There will be, as Mr. Redfield says, no disruption of party iines in the South ye; awhile. The President may become iden tified with the Democratic party of th< ci untry, and we hope he will; but he can not carry Southern Democrats into thi ranks of the party of Morton, Blaine, Grant, Phillips, Garfield, Wade A Co. Thi honor and interests of the Union, and prosperity of the South, and the restore tion of constitutionalism in the govern ment, demand that that party shall be broken up, destroyed, and driven from power;'and until that is accomplished thi South will be, as Mr. Redfield says, “as solid as a granite mountain.” A MURDEROUS ACT. Darina Attempt to YVrerk and Hob o Train—Cars Hurled O.iwo on Embank ment and Three Men Killed—The ltd li ner. Fire Severn! Shorn and Thrn Itetirc. An account of the great tidal wave at Hilo, Sandwich Islands, on the 10th of May, describes its progress as rapidly destructive; within an hour after its first appearance it was twelve feet three inches above ordinary low-water mark, and it carried off a great deal of lumber and all the stone wall of the wharf. At Waiakea the damage was frightful, many buildings, warehouses, and dwelling houses being reduced to ruins. Far in land five lives were lost, and many were much bruised and injured. At Hilo, from lowest ebb to flood, the time was only four minutes, the tide rising fourteen perpendicular feet in that time. Withir on hour, in the afternoon, the sea rose and fell three tijnes. The wave at Waiakea mast have had a perpendicular height of sixteen feet to have carried the bridge and wharf so far. A hospital on Cocoanut Island was washed away. An English clergyman named Ramus has invented and submitted to the British Admiralty a “rocket float,” which weighs fifty tons, and pushes itself along the water at tbe rate of two hundred and seventy-five miles an hour. On coming into collision with a vessel or any other object, it makes a great explosion, de stroying everything within its reach. Mr. Ramus is said to be peacefully disposed. His object in inventing such a machine is to make it so disagreeable to engage in maritime warfare that hostile navies will eventually have to be abolished. A merchant asked his Sabbath school class the other Sunday, “ What is soli tude ? ” and was answered by a boy that reads the papers, “ The store that don’t advertise,” [From toe St. Louis Republican.] A daring attempt by a band of would- be train robbers caused a serious accident ou the St, Louis and San Francisco Rail way on Satnrday night last, about one and a half miles west of Wood End, a point one hundred and fifty-five miles from St. Louis. The particulars of the occurrence, as obtained from D. Wishart, General Passenger Agent of the road, are as follows: The regular Saturday night Texas express, which is due in St. Louis Sunday morning at 6:15, encountered last Saturday night a severe storm of wind and rain some two hundred miles from St. Louis. The storm was so fierce th*at the speed of the train, consisting of baggage, second class, first class and Fullman cars, was slack ened to ten miles an hour. While run ning thus through the heart of the Ozark mountains and at a very lonely point o.a the road tbe engine was sud denly thrown from the track by some misplaoed rails, and turned oompletelt over down a forty-foot embankment. The eagineei, Frank Caton, was so badly injured that he died in two hours, and the fireman and a Dr. E. L,Atkinson, of Pacific City, who was riding on the en gine, were instantly killed. The baggage car was partially overturned, but uo one within it received any injury. The other cars remained upon the track, and with no damage to any of their occupants. The engineer lived long enough to testify to having seen a man upon or near the track, and also soino slight obstruc tion. The first intimation of the oatas- trophe received by Conductor Lewis, of tho train, was a sudd n checking of tho train, as though the air brake had been applied. He sprang to the door and per ceiving at odc3 that something serious had occurred, jumped from the car and proceeded as fast as the darkness would permit him toward the front of the train. While scaling a fence which he found iu his way, some half dozen pistol shots were discharged at him, one ball passing through his hat. One passenger claims to have seen four or five men by the light of the pistol flashes, but Conductor Lew is saw no one. The dastards, who by misplacing the rails caused the accident, had evidently expected that the passenger curs would be thrown down the embank ment, but finding that this had not hap pened they were not bold enough to attack the train, and so sneaked away into the woods. As soon as lights could be had, an examination of the cause of the lecident was made. It was found that two rails (one on each side) had been unjointed and swung around so as to tip tbe engine over almost to a certainty. The work had been skillfully done, and close by were found a new monkey- wrench, a clawhammer and a pick, which may be of great service in tracking the perpetrators of the foul deed. MURDER BY BURGLARS. ^liot aud IiiBluntly Midnight Kobhrm. Ktllrd by Singular Phenomenon.—Last week while Mr. George Pearsal, of Coe town ship, Rock Island county, Iowa, was boriDg for coal on his farm in a ravine, the surface of which is probably ten or twelve feet higher than Rock river, and when down seventy feet they heard a heavy rumbling noise, immediately fol lowed by 'a rush of water from below filling tbe six-inch tube which raised the drilling machinery, weighing some seven hundred pounds, up many feet. On moving the drilling apparatus, a volume of water was thrown into the air perhaps twenty feet and yet continues to rise seven or eight feet when it spreads out into jets like an artificial fountain. It is estimated that it discharges a barrel of water a minute. The water is pure and cold. A Btone thrown into the tube is immediately hurled back into the air as is a rail when forced down into it. This subterranean lake or river must be some sixty feet below the bed of Rock river. From whence it comes or where it goes, or if it is a pent up lake fed by springs, or an underground river is unknown.— St. Louis Republican. A Fiendish Deed.—About midnight Wednesday, an attempt was made to de stroy the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railroad bridge over Big Creek, in the western suburbs of Canton, IU., and thus wreck a train. The night watchman at the packing house, near the bridge, beard the sound of a saw, and looking toward the bridge, discovered a man m the act of sawing one of the mam braces of the bridge. The watchman fired two shots at the vUlain, but he managed to escape unhurt. The main brace was sawed about half through, materially weakening the bridge, though not enough to prevent trains from passing over it. A Boston paper dares to print this: “Sir, my ancestors came over in the May flower!” was the rather haughty remark of one Boston gentleman to another, during a rather heated conversation re cently. “That was natural enough,” was the quick response; “there were no ex tradition laws in those days.” About three o’clock Saturday morning Mr. Samuel Rader, who resides in the village of Blue Bell, about four miles from Norristown, Pa., heard a noise made by some one crawling on the floor of his bed room. After listening again be sprang oat of bed, when he was grabbed by a man, who jumped up from the floor at the foot of the bed. The burglar, in a loud whisper, said: “Don’t holloa, or I will shoot.” Mr. Rader grappled with one of the intruders and a scuffle ensued. He then called “ murder!” aud the burg lar fired, the ball striking the wall. Mr. Rader seized his gun, and his wife got out of bed to assist him. The discharge of his gun was followed by a shot from the burglar, the ball striking Mrs. Rader iu the breast aud killing her immediately. Tbe robbers then fled. One of them attempted to jump out of the front win dow, and when partly out, Mr. Rader gave him a push with his gun, which Bent him headlong to tbe ground. The ladder also fell over with him; and upon it, the windo w and other p'aces his blood could be seen. The other ran through an en try and into a side bed room, and jumped through the window to the ground. He had received wou ds of some kind, for u[on the floor aud window were large drops of blood. In his fight he dropped his cap upon the floor. The neighbors were promptly aroused, and by daylight the surrounding country was alive with armed men seeking ihe murderers. Mr. Rader is above seventy-five years of age and his wife was seventy. The only other occupant of the house was a little girl named Katie Dotts. Later accounts state that the pursuers of the murderer of Mrs. Rader are close on his track, and that his capture may be ex pected at any moment. On Saturday evening he called at the residence of Aaron Sperry, six miles from the scene of the murder, and asked for something to eat. He was wounded in one arm, which he carried in a sling, and his fore head and face were badly scratched and wounded. He is a mulatto. [Chicago Tribune.] The plan said to be under consideration by some of the New York banks for the contraction of the legal tenders to $300,- 000,000 by the alternate increase and re tirement of bank circulation, thereby compelling the Secretary of the Treasury to destroy greenbacks to the extent of 80 per cent, of the new issues which are to be subsequently retired, is exciting a great deal of attention. The comment is not generally favorable. Prudential rea sons operate to make the banks alow to engage in a scheme which may prove ex ceedingly unpopular. It is an unwar ranted extension of the duties of banks for them to undertake of their own motion 4o reform the national currency. Great stringency of the money market might follow the projected action, and if trouble were the result the banks would be severely blamed. The current of leg islation as revealed in the re cent refusal of the Legislature of New Yerk and Illi nois to relieve the national banks of ex cessive taxation, now runs as strongly against the banks as they care to have it. They are not likely to take the risk of increasing this hostility. The profit the oper. tion is expected to yield in the rise in. rates of discount may be more than offset by two or three items. It would cost something to turn the bonds that would have to be used, and the circula tion would have to be taxed. [Washington special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.] It is reported here from sources usually reliable that Secretary Sherman has origi nated or gone into a most infernal com bination, whereby, through an adroit scheme, the eighty per cent clause of the resumption act shall make free banking the means of contracting the legal tender circulation down to $300,000,#00. A prominent Sunday newspaper of this city charges that Sherman is in collusion with the National Banks,and details the schetno as follows: “The banks embraced in the scheme are to apply to the Treasury for certain amounts of additional circulation. Upon the circulation being obtained it is to be locked up for use, and not contribute to ease in the money market. Upon tho issuance of this bank circulation, the Secretary, pursuant to section 3 of the resumption act, will retire and cancel an amount of legal tenders equal to eighty per cent, of the new bank notes issued, thereby effecting a contraction of legal tenders to that extent, in order to provide the legal tenders to be thus canceled. It is further understood that the Secretary will sell, under the authorization olaimed by tho resumption act, an equivalent amount of bonds for gold, subsequently sell ing the latter for greenbacks. An effort has been or is being made to secure the 'co-operation in this plan by banks in Philadelphia and Boston. To what ex tent it is proposed to carry this proces- remains to be seen. It does not, how - ever, require any very extensive co opera tion to t fleet in this way an important degree of contraction. Each bank in the scheme can, by returning immediately for retirement the notes it has thus re ceived, repeal the operation about twice a month, so that a bank taking out say $50,000 of circulation can compel a con traction of legal tenders to the extent of $80,000 within each month. The plan is as ingenious as it is startling; it is born of the necessities of what bankers con sider a beggarly rate of interest. The devilisbneas of such a proposition is at once apparent. The Secretary has been giviDg out of late tbe idea that he has the right to make an idle fund of greenbacks iu the Treasury of $10,000,- 000 ; aud he is right about it, because the law gives him the privilege. Bankers and merchants could not accumulate fractional currency fast enough to get the silver change out in quantities large enough to meet the wants of trade. So Congress passed an aot July 22, 1876, whereby any merchant or bunker could go to the Treasury or any sub- Treasury with greenbacks and get silver change; but the whole amount of silver put out iu this way cannot exceed ten million dollars. Tbe greenbacks so received cannot be reis sued, but are to be held as a special fund in the Treasury and never again issued except in redemption of fractional cur rency. To offset this ten millions idle fund there connot be more than half a million fractional currency come in for redemption. Already Sherman has turn ed eight millions greenbacks into tbe fund, and before three months hence it will amount to a contraction of ten mil lions of greenbacks. It should be un derstood that this is one of the sly meth ods of contraction, and has ubthing to do with the three hundred millions limit provided by law. A Bbooklyn Brute.—Late ou Satur day night Andrew Barnhill returned to his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., and began, as was his constant habit, to abuse his wife.' The inhuman brute knocked his wife down and kicked her. When t ihe tried to make her escape he locked her in. She struggled to defend herself, but he beat her until she was almost uncon- cious, and then dragging her to the win dow threw her out. Barnhill’s eldest daughter, eleven years of age, tried to defend her mother, but was knocked down by her father. Mrs. Barnhill was taken to the hospital, audit was supposed that she was fatally injured. Her hus band made a desperate resistance, but was overpowered and locked up. Yester day it was found out that the unfortun ate woman had no bones broken, but her limbs appeared to be paralyzed. Porfirio Diaz, who attained the Presi dency of the Mexican republic by force of arms, and who drove the rightful Presi dent, Lerdo de Tejada, into exile, is pro mising to do great things in the way of reform for our neighboring State. Hayes, who won the Presidency of our own re public by force of fraud, is profuse in the same sort of promises. In neither case is the result likely to justify the pro- tension.—N. 7. Sun. An appeal is made for funds for the es tablishment in New York city of a tempo rary home for intemperate men, where “they may find the encouragements and restraints needed in their first struggles to resist a depraved appetite and over come the effects of entire cessation from the use of stimulants.” The projectors of this home are well known citizens of New York. Fob Shampooing.—Dissolve one tea spoonful of borax in a cup of hot water; apply the liquid to the scalp until a good lather is produced; then rinse with warm water, until the hair feels soft and natural; if desired, a cold water rinse may be taken at the last; wipe the hair dry and let it hang loosely about the shoul ders to get the air through. New York and Pennsylvania some time ago appointed a joint commission to re vise the boundary line between the two States, fixing its true loaation and replac ing tbe monuments marking it wherever they are displaced or missing. The com mission met in New York this week and determined that each State should ap point a surveyor, who should go over the whole line, and report what work is nec essary for a proper marking of the boun dary. The commission lias also de termined to ask the United States Coast Survey to make an astronomical deter mination of four points on the line of the forty-second parallel of north latitude, which is tbe interstate boundary west of the Delaware river. These points being ascertained, it will not be difficult for the surveyors to run the parallel between them. “Over five million roubles have} been ruised in Russia fo^war purposes by voluntary contributions,” Thus an Asso ciated Press dispatch, whose author does not reflect that of such a war the price is far above roubles—five millions of them. Talkmg of the war, the Russians pay in Roumania in French gold all sums not exceeding five hundred francs, or, say, one hundred dollars. Large payments are made in bons of five hundred francs and multiples thereof, printed in Russian and Roumanian and redeemable in gold at headquarters. The Grand Duke Nicholas has signed these, making him self personally responsible, his signature being desired by the Roumanian peasants, who preferred a Grand Duke’s bond to an empire’s obligation.—New 7ork World. When lovely woman stoops to folly in Greece she has the same inalienable right to perforate her betrayer that she pos sesses in the United States. Miss Cana- vasoglon destroyed her destroyer, a Cap tain in the Greek army, shooting him in the public street. She was promptly ac quitted an£ conducted home in triumph by a large and enthusiastic crowd. The noble art of self-defense has been revived in London society. Boxing matches are regularly held on Saturday nights at Sadler’s Wells, and a leading “professor” is making £1,100 a year by his lessons to the gilded youth of Britain. Paris green having been prescribed as a death trap for potato bugs, a Massachu setts savant warns people that particles of the poison may adhere to the potatoes when they are dug up, and work as much barm to the people who eat the potatoes as it is intended to work to the insects that devour the plants. This warning has drawn out thb scientists of the New York Board of Health, and they declare that the Massachusetts man is unneces sarily alarmed about a danger that doesn’t exist. They say that Paris green cannot impregnate potatoes, which are always washed clean before they are eaten, but that care should be taken that the poison is not carried by the wind on to other plants, as it would impregnate lettuce or other vegetables which are eaten raw. The Ohio Democrats have taken the wind out of the sails of the silver agita tors among tbe Republicans of that State. They have resolved to pitch the rag baby overboard and hoist what Mr. Halstead calls the “Dollar of the Daddies” in its place as a party ensign. They have de cided to hold their State convention on July 25, a week earlier than the Republi can Convention, and the campaign will then be started on the silver dollar basis. This is a shrewd move, and leaves the Republicans two courses to pursue, either to try to out-yell the Democrats on the silver question, or else stand on their old platform.- -N. 7. Tribune. Thbee Persons Poisoned.—At Greens- burg, Pennsylvania, a few days ago, Samuel N mmy, his daughter, Mrs. Pat terson and her chiid, and Mrs. Harris, a visitor, after drinking coffee were attack ed in a manner indicating arsenical poison. Physicians were at once sum moned, but the lives of all are despaired of except that of Mrs. Harris. Lincoln, son of Samuel Nimmy, a bright boy aged fifteen, was arrested and has confessed the crime. He says his father’s discip line was severe, and he committed this wholesale poisoning out of spite “to get even with the old man.” Mrs. Mary Livermore apeaking: “In Iowa I saw a law sign, ‘Foster A Foster.’ It meant Mr. and Mrs. Foster. They attended the same law school; became attached, became partners for life. The man looked up the cases; the woman pleaded them before the court and jury. In a certain difficult case where a woman was concerned he doubted his ability to do it justice and carried it to his wife, and she proved it to be a ease of in sanity.”