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SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1877.
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Affairs IB Georgia.
ffm . Zimmerman, of Company C., Second
teii States Infantry, now at McPherson
D ' ,j. a wss knocked oil the track and in-
uidykilled in Atlanta on Wednesday last
noon passenger train on the Central
j; llr(li a. He had been drinking freely, and
'j ' inq 08? ty the barracks between the
tracks near the Peters street crossing, and
ttempted to cross in front of the train,
* a . C «as struck by the cow-catcher and
■iitown some thirty feet ahead of the train
j ou to the other track. The deceased
u ,bout thirty years old, a native of Ger-
numarried, and bad been in the ser-
bfe some eight years. Bad whisky has
fjjsed the death of several soldiers in the
nine way during the past few years ou these
nilroail tracks.
Ike Atlanta Water Works soem to be a
hilnrc. New engines aro to bo pnt in and
other improvements made, and in the mean-
street sprinkling is to be suspended.
Muddy water, poisoned wells and clouds of
just are alliictions.that now overoome the
City" like a summer cloud.
Then was a grand ball at tho Markham
House, Atlanta, on Wednesday night, a sort
0 [ “blue" and ‘'gray" affair, complimentary
to Miss Wilder, of Washington, D. C.
daughter of 1’aymaster Vedder, of General
jj,,,., staff. Star spangled banners and
py uniforms prevailed. Attorney General
HIV anti Hon. Henry Hillyer were among the
iuanaK*Ti'.
John E. Bryant has located in Atlanta for
the present, and tho notorious Bishop Gil
bert Haven is also there. Just think of it
-Bryant, Haven, Bullock, bad wells,
muddy water, dusty streets, and lager beer
only five cents a glass. Is it possible that
my man cau even snegest, much less advo-
cite, the removal of the State capital from
t city «o full of attractions ?
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger, fol
lowing the example of tho Morning News,
now keeps a regular correspondent at the
ctpiul of the State. Ho is a young lawyer
of considerable energy of character, John C.
Jones, Esq., son of Rev. John Jones, D. D.,
formerly of Savannah. His excellent letters,
allied “Oarolyun,” show constant improve
ment, and warrant the belief that ho wii*
become an industrious and efficient Journa
list.
Tho Milner Examiner is a new paper pub-
luned in the town of Milner by Messrs. F.
M. H«<rton A Co. It is small for its size,
but will probably grow larger as it grows
older. It is published at fifty cents per
The Perry Journal says that Houston will
make enough wheat to supply the people of
the county with flour for a year. Hurrah
for Houston!
A Gwinnett county farmer offers to fur
nish conveyance to haul all his neighbors to
the court house who would agree to vote for
& convention. That is the righ t spirit, and
we hope Gwinuott will roll up a largo ma
jority for the convention.
Mrs. John Perdue, living a few miles from
Btfnesville, attempted to burn out her fowl
house to rid it of mites last Monday, bnt the
flames catching to the walls of the building,
soon reached two tenant houses, which were
oonsumod.
The several volunteer corps of Griffin,
Forsyth and BaruesviUe are agitating a
camp battalion drill at Indian Springs
shortly.
The annual fair of the Marshallville Agri
cultural Society wid take place at Marshall-
ville, in Macon county, on the 20th and 21st
of July next.
Tho hall formerly used by the Young
Men’s Library Association of Atlanta is
being cleaued and repaired, and will soon
beopeued for the new scientific library.
Troup county has organized a Western
Georgia Fair Association, the object of
which is to diffuse information pertaining
to agriculture, manufacturing and stock
raising.
The Walton County Vidette says that dys
entery of a malignant type is prevailing at
Social Circle, in that county.
At the annual election for Directors of the
Commercial Bank of Augusta, held Wednes
day, the old board, composed of the follow
ing goutlomon, was re-elected: W. T. Who
les*, W. H. Howard, Sr., Thos. G. Barrett,
John W. Wallace, W. 0. Sibley, W. A. Lati
mer, James G. Bailie, H. F. Russell and J.
H. Alexander.
A new post office has been established at
Lxmar’s mill in Upson county, and W. G.
Holloman has been appointed Postmaster.
We learn from the Clipper that the reports
from tho wheat crops are most flattering,
and that Warren county wiU raise her own
flour this year.
Id his speech, delivered at the Albany fair
tort Saturday, Gen. McKaig remarked that
if the exhibition could be transported to his
borne, Baltimore, Md., there would be 100,-
WD people to look and wonder at it 1
The following extract, from the recent
presentment of the grand jury of Burke
county, pays a deserved tribute to a noble
citizen, Judge John W. Carswell, who has
Dover filled any office of trust, and yet for
forty years he has faithfully aud unselfishly
labored as an officer of the county: “We,
the grand jury, for the May Term, 1877,
have teamed with profound regret that tho
infirmities of age and the weight of more
than three score aud ten years have at last
determined the Hon. John W. Carswell to
define accepting a re-election to his trust
48 0De of the Board of County Commissiou-
* r8 of Burke county. For thirty-five years
n&has been an honored and faithful public
8e rvaut, distinguished alike for his urbanity,
Private worth, uubeuding integrity, and
c »nscientious discharge of public duty. Tbe
memory of such men should be preserved,
that their examples may be followed, and
ibeir virtues imitated. It is proper that a
Snteful people should pay them some
•Jjbute 0 f their appreciation and esteem.
, e therefore recommend that the County
^nimissioners do purchase and present in
The grand jury of Burke Superior Court
find “that the County Court has been the
means of saving the county at least twenty-
five hundred dollars the past year, besides
being self-sustaining; therefore, that the
thanks of the citizens of Burke couutv are
due to the County Commissioners for effect
ing the establishment of the said court.”
The Columbus limes has the following :
“The clothing of Miss Cottingham, a little
girl, aged twelve years, while engaged in
cooking, caught on lire. In her fright she
ran into the crib which also took fire, and
both were burned up. The girl lived near
Box Springs, in Talbot county.”
Tbe Sandersville Ilerald says: “On Satur
day afternoon a little son of M&l&chi Sbur-
ling, about eight years old, while trying to
drive a horse out of a pasture, was kicked
by the liorae ou the head and so seriously
injured that it is feared death will ensue.”
The Columbus Enquirer remarks : “ Far
mers report a good rain eight miles above
the city on Tuesday. The crops generally
were drying up, and this God-send is a bless
ing for which they should be truly thaukful.
There was another rain reported to have
fallen Tuesday, ten miles east of the city.
Although these did a world cff good, they
were by no means ‘geueral. The Whole
country is suffering, and unless we get a
good rain soon, crops and everything in the
vegetable Hno will certainly be a failure.” ,
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
alist says : “Several Northern capitalists,
who contemplate investing in a large cotton
factory, to be erected on the Bite of the old
Confederate powder mills, are expeoted in
the city.”
The Griffin News rejoices at the breaking
np of the dry spell aud says : “The rain of
Tuesday was very general through this sec
tion, and did a great amount of good: We
understand it extended from as far up as
Fayetteville to the lower edge of this coun
ty, and perhaps farther. One or two simi
lar showers within the next few days will
place the crops in a splendid condition. The
farmers have been busy and the grass is
pretty well cleaued out.”
This from the Franklin News sounds rath
er fishy, but we suppose it is only a piece of
editorial fisheatusness : “It is now a mat
ter of impossibility for a catfish to pass
Franklin, either up or down the river;unless
it does so when some one is fishing his bas
ket. In some places the baskets are so
thick a man might walk across the river on
floats, provided he could step far enough,
aud provided further that the floats didn’t
sink. There are not enough fish caught to
feed one lean editor.”
We learn from the Augusta Chronicle and
Constitutionalist of yesterday that W.E.
Arnett, the clerk in the Augusta post office
who was arrested for tampering with letters
passing through that office, explains how
the seven letters found open in his private
drawer came into his , possession. The
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
sajs: “Three of these letters were directed
to a party whom we will call Mrs. A, three to
Mrs. B, aud one to Miss O. Arnett ex
plained how these came into his possession
in the following mauner: Being a con
fidential friend of Mrs. A., he had been
in the habit, during that party’s resi
dence in Augusta, ot carrying her letters
to her personally. Some time since
she left the city and before she wont direct
ed Arnett to take possession of any letters
that might bo sent to her at Augusta, open
them if he thought best and keep them and
their contents until she came back. The
decoy letter, postmarked Philadelphia, was
directed to this party and contained two
dollars. Arnett took charge of and opened
it, but did not take out the money, which
was found in the drawer with the letter
Wednesday night. Mrs. A. is the person
whose evidence was desired by the defendant
yesterday, but other proof was at hand to
show the friendship between Arnett
and herself aud establish the fact that
he had been in the habit of deliver
ing her letters personally. From Mrs. B.,
Arnett had somewhat similar instructions,
aud is prepared to prove the fact. The sev
enth letter, directed to Miss 0., was deliv
ered to a party of that name who afterwards
returned it opened, stating that it was in
tended for auother party of the same name.
As the letter was open, Arnett placed it in
the drawer, intending to band it to the
owner whenever she called for it. He de
nies that he ever opened or tampered with
anv othor letters than the six mentioned,
which he says he is prepared to prove he
had a right to do.”
uarne of the people of Burke county to
J* 16 Hon. John W. Carswell a handsome sil-
V8r piteher, with a suitable inscription en-
^ r ^ Te< l thereon, as a testimonial of his high
honorable character, and long and faith-
uu public service^’
, The Berrien County News says :
>Vuhin four days the merchants of Ala-
bought twenty thousand pounds of
aud J. B. Dorminey & Co. shipped
uhin one week thirteen thousand four
Dndred and ninety-nine pounds. Last
a * W0 °Hy * time. On Wednesday
iWO pounds of wool was carried into town.”
I pke ^audersviile//eraW says of ourTybee
naud resort; “it may well be styled the
7?. D K Branch of the South. The eastern or
.‘*autic beach is said to be unsurpassed in
8 by any on the continent. We can
jteest no pleasure excursion more enjoy-
e tuan a visit to onr Forest City and then
e xcursiou in tne nice steamer, the Rocka-
w *y. out to Tybee."
^ 0 b D80Q county the wheat crop is
sufe oat cro Pt though having
„ O( e . rt0 ^ or want of rsin, is nevertheless
lar» Corn cotton, though not so
tw<? e &H if ram had fallen every week or
i * la Dot vet ininrari Th« nnnntv is in
bette*°— in ) ured * The county is in
w *r.
inot L _
r condition than it has been since the
applies have been purchased
c °Dnty nearer self-sustaining than
10 ^years past.
We« c »^ arne8v *^ e Gazette says: “Mr. J. F.
i Vebte(1 wheat crop Saturday,
Th* ground into flour on Tuesdav.
ChL? 0111 !® ^ our * 8 aB good as Cook &
tfine s cel , el, rated brand, aud Mr. West baa
uee * Q PPly on hand lor sale.”
Florida Affairs.
The Fernandina Express introduces to its
readers Mr. J. N. Whitaer as associate edi
tor of that paper. Wo' welcome the gentle
man. Mr. Whitner is a good writer, and
is well known to newspaper men.
About seven thousand dollars worth ot
land has been sold at Orange Park since the
purchase of the tract in February by Mr.
Benedict.
The total number of deaths in Jackson
ville during the month of May just cloeed,
was thirteen, of which three were of colored
persons and ten white. Five were less
than three years of age, aud the remainder
wero over seventeen. Four only were na
tives of Florida.
The Tampa Guardian says : “The pros
pects for good crops this season throughout
this and adjoining counties were never bet
ter than at present.”
C. A. Cowgill, late Comptroller of this
State, and a member of the notorious re
turning board, has received a government
appointment at Washington. He is the last
of that disreputable trio—Stearns, McLin
and Cowgill—to receive the reward of his
infamy. . . , ^
The editor of the Agriculturist is informed
that the whole belt of government land be
tween Indian river and the ocean, near Cape
Malabar, is being entered by immigrants,
mostly from Illinois. The land is some of
the best in tbe State, and free from under
brush, so that it is easily brought under
the plow.
A man hearing the reputation of being a
cow thief was recently assassinated at Fort
Mead, in Hillsborough county. Ho was sit
ting in his house with his family when the
murderer shot him through a window.
Mr. Bobt.E. Parks, of Macon, Ga., has
presented the Monticello Academy Library
with a fine package of hooks.
At no time since the war, says the Monti
cello Constitution, until tho present season,
has corn been selling at fifty cents per
bushel daring the summer months in Jeffer
son county. There was an unusually large
crop raised last year. •
A mighty change has been wrought in
Jackson county. Last week the Circuit
Conrt was in session, and for one entire
of ernoon the court room was not honored
by the presence of a single colored man.
There are sixty marriageable yonng ladies
in Monticello, and only twenty-one young
men. ... .
An excursion to Florida this month is be
ing planned in Chicago.
The County Commissioners of Sumter
havo adopted and ordered published the
game law passed at the last session of the
Legislature. No wild turkey, partridge,
mocking bird or deer can be killed between
tbe first day ot April and the first day of
September.
The amount of the orange crop of Sum
ter county in 1875 was 1.125.000; m 18/0,
1 000 000. Immigration is rapidly filling np
the county, and the Advance says: Ala
bama families are expected here next week,
to locate in this vicinity.”
On Wednesday a young girl, the adopted
a.m.hter of Peter Jones, Esq., of Jackson-
daughter oi w harf at the boat yard,
gs*aa.>r.saa:- , "“
rtvvaSffS&a
Sand Point, by Mr. E. B. Carter.
The Jacksonville Yacht Club have elected
the following officers for the
Wm. Aster, Commodore;
Vice Commodore E. \V. Penn ^
W H. Bent, Secretary; A. 1>- Basuei,
ur'er A. M. Beck, Measurer. House Com
W A Dell. E. C. Stetson, H. D.
T? ltt nAthea*n Building Committee— S. Con-
®°t Q D Greenleaf, H. T. Bays, M. W. Drew,
t Tt Campbell. Finance Committee—V. G.
»• T McConihe, C. B. Benedict. Board
A fTnistees—w. Stokes Boyd, H. Bisbee, Jr.,
EM Randall, J. B- CampboliDr.Geo. B.
Had ' Begatta Oommittee-J. 1. Childs, B.
McLaughlin, E. B. Kellogg.
T 1 nnville Sun: “Elick Valentine and
o JaC v k8 r‘wo colored individnals residing
Sam Vesey, two com on Alfred Smith's
in °,‘ kl ? cattTe 'our miles east of Baldwin,
St °TneIdav 1M‘. and s° cce « ded “ 8 e tt‘ng
on Taesday i*» . includiag two working
away "i’ h ®Jole valued at one hundred dol-
oxen, the whole Thomas Fan-
lars. Tb ^ t s 0 l d r ‘m ‘“cksonville, ior fifty
dollars*’ Tb«y were subsequently arrested
and oommitted to jail.
The investigation relative to the recent
attempt to burn the Norwood House, at
FernaDdina, has been concluded. Miss
Jennie S. Mooney, the losses of tbe house,
was arrested on suspicion of settiDg the fire.
She was taken before JnBtioe Jeffreys, bnt
waived an examination and gave bond in the
snm of one thousand dollars to appear at
the next term of tbe Circuit Conrt. The
house was owned by a Mrs. McBoy, who is
represented by Mr. Samuel A. Swann. It
was insured for three thousand dollars.
The furniture was the property of Miss
Mooney, and was insnred for two thousand
dollars in Foster’s agency, Jacksonville.
Five prisoners in the Leon conntyjail
made their escape on Wednesday last. Some
of them were pursued by one or two persons
passing the jail yard at the time, and sev
eral Bhots were fired at them, bnt of no
avail. Tbe Sheriff at once instituted a vig
orous search, bnt nothing came ot it. The
Floridian says that among those who escaped
waaJack , charged with murdering a
negro at Miccosukie, Joe West, the incendi
ary who fired Bobioson’s store, and Jeff
Jackson, the attempted wife murderer.
From what the officers have ginoa been able
to learn there is no doubt that tbe prisoners
had bribed “Bally,” the assistant cook at
the jail, to pick a chance and let them oat.
The Monticello Constitution says: “On
last Sunday afternoon Frank Goodman and
Spencer Miller, two colored men residing in
the neighborhood of Bnabin’s store, about
eleven miles northwest of Monticello, be
came involved in an altercation, which ter
minated seriously. Goodman stabbed Mil
ler in the abdomen inflicting an ugly wound,
from which protruded hie entrails. While
in this condition, and scarcely able to re
main upon his feet, Miller shot his antagon
ist four times with a pistol—all the shots
proving flesh wounds, however. A woman
was at the bottom of the whole affair.”
On the evening of May 30th a very shrewd
plan for the escapement, of the prisoners
confined in the Monticello jail, was discov
ered by Sheriff Bailey. In one room are
confined a white man named Boatwright
^charged with cattle stealing) and five ne
groes, all committed in delault of bail for
trial at the fall term of the Circuit Court.
By some means Boatwright secured a case-
knife and file, and with the latter he con
verted the knife into a very serviceable saw.
With this tool he cut a hole sufficiently large
for the passage of a man’s body through the
solid ceiling of the room, and then removed
all the brick and mortar except the ontside
casing of the building. The prisoner had
sawed the ceiling in such a manner as to en
able him to replace the timber whenever the
jailor was expected to make his appearance.
The rubbish was all kept concealed, and
naught bat tho imprndeut tongue of one of
the prisoners revealed the plot. If the dis
covery had been delayed a few hoars longer,
six prisoners would have escaped, as all that
intervened between them and freedom was
ono casing of brick. Boatwright and his
companions now sleep in the iron cage.
The IVnsacola Gazette has this notice of a
“ Fine Florida Farm : ” “ The fruit farm
and vineyard of Mr. Btodard is probably the
most extensive and expensive enterprise of
the kind in Florida. Already there are many
thousands of vines and trees, of various
ages, growing with fnll thrift, and unmbers
in bearing. The trees inclnde a vast variety
of pears, peaches, figs, plums, oranges,
lemons, apples, etc., both American and im
ported from other lands. There are cur
rants, strawberries and other berries by
acres. His domain, on the shores of Bayon
Texar, includes seventy-five acres of selected
land, charmingly situated, devoted to t'rnit
and vine culture. A short drive away is his
home place, where his handsome residence
Btands in an enclosure of thirteen acres
of high ground, which looks down upon
the peopled bay a mile and a half distant.
Several acres of ground in front of the man
sion are tastefnliv laid out and planted with
thousands of flowers and ornamental Bhrubs,
including a great number of the rarest ex
otics. Fountains and vaseB adorn the
grounds, and the machinery for thorough
irrigation is complete throughout the area
of the thirteen acres; hydrants, with a heavy
head of water on tap, being placed at short
intervals. Thns drought can be defied, aud
vegetation assured the season through. A
year or two’s growth will render the grounds
most beantifnl, and within that time they
will be enclosed within the rapidly growing
hedge of rose vines. Fountains, hydrants
and the buildings are supplied with .water
from tanks fed by pumps driven by a wind
mill.”
The following sensible resolution has been
adopted by the Board of Pilot Commission
ers of Pensacola : “Resolved, That for the
better security ot tbe health of the city, no
sand, rubbish or dirt ballast can be dis
charged at the railroads, wharfs or cribs at
the citv, and that nothing but atone or rock
ballast'cau bo discharged at said wharves,
from now until the 1st of November next,
with the exception of such as already have
obtained a permit for such discharge.”
WRECKED ASD BUTCHERED.
A Startling
Story of Shipwreck
Pacific Const.
THE DAGGER AHEAD.
How the Southern Pacific Jabbers Ex
pect to Organize the Uonse.
Two Maidens Fighting is Church,—
It was a hand-to-hand engagement be
tween Annie Owens and Sarah Jones,
who could not even under the sublning
influence of a soul-inspiring sermon, con
trol their passions. The fight occurred
on the 20th ult„ during divine services
in a churoh in Ixonia. The girls entered
the church, and unaccountably both oc
cupied the same seat. While the rest of
the congregation were attentive listeners
to the sermon, Sarah Jones arose from
her seat and raised a window near by to
get a little fresh air. This did not suit
Miss Annie, who was’ seated by her side,
and she instantly got up, leaned over her
enemy, aud spitefully pulled the window
down. This slight indignity led to a
few epithets, and the window was again
raised aud as quickly pulled down. Then
Sarah struck Annie with a book over the
left eye, and the engagement threatened
to be fierce and determined for a time,
but a few women stopped it. After the
services, care was taken not to permit
the belligerents to get at it outside. They
had the satisfaction, though, of shaking
their fists at eaoh other.— Watertown
Democrat.
A surviver of the wreck of the steam
ship George S. Wright has been discov
ered at last in the person of an Indian
named Coma. He was recognized on
the street at Nanaimo, British Columbia,
last Friday, and was arrested and brought
to Victoria. Vancouver's Island. Sun
day. The Colonist of the 4th icst. says:
“Since the disaster Coma has constantly
evaded the police, and until quite recent
ly it was not known that there existed a
single survivor of the wreck. Coma has
confessed to the Superintendent of Po
lice, after being duly cautioned, that at
night the boilers of the steamship ex
ploded, and she began to sink at once.
Captain Ainsley. with four United States
officers and a passenger, got into a
boat and told Coma, who was on
deck, to get in too. The rest
of the people were in bed, or tried
to escape by means of another boat. The
Captain’s party, seven in all, pulled ashore
near Cape Caution. They were nearly
naked, and the Indians gave them blan
kets to keep them warm. A day or two
afterwards three canoe loads of Indians
came to the spot, and Captain Ainsley
offered the leader five hundred dollars to
convey the shipwrecked men to Fort Ru
pert. Four of the Indians were armed
with muskets, with which they killed all
the whites. They then tied stones to
their bodies and sunk them in deep water.
They robbed the bodies of all valuables,
including the Captain’s gold watch and
chain. They spared Coma, but told him
that if he ever dared to narrate the cir
cumstances they would kill his father.
Coma thinks all the peiple on board who
were in bed at the time of the explosion
were drowned, as the ship went down
rapidly. The prisoner was to-day con
fronted with four Indians who were
brought in as prisoners by the steamer
Rocket and have since betn in jail here,
and identified two of them as belonging
to the party of murderers.’’
[The steamer George S. Wright was
lost, as near as it is possible to determine,
on the night of January 27, 1873. The
place whereshe is supposed to havs taken
her last plunge is a point along the wild
and ragged coast about forty miles north
east of the extreme northern end of Van
couver’s Island, and nearly 250 miles from
Victoria. On the evening of January 2,
1873, the Wright sailed from Portland,
Ore., bound for Silka and intermediate
ports. She reached her destination and
was on the return trip. As near as can
be ascertained, about twenty passengers
were on board at the time. A few frag
ments of the wreck were recovered and
two bodies; one of the bodies was identi
fied as that of Mijor John Walker,United
States Paymaster, who was known to be
among the passengers, and the other that
of a small boy. The fate of the Wright
was for years shrouded in mystery,
though the conjecture of the murder
of the survivors by the Flathead In
dians has long been entertained, and
this conjecture the present account makes
certainty. She was built at Port Ludlow
in 18G3, and was a propeller, topsail-
schooner-rigged. Her length was 118
feet; registered at 215 tons, carrying 400.
Originally the Wright was built as a tug,
and after plying for some months be
tween Portland and Victoria she was
taken to San Francisco and sold to Capt.
Bulkeley, of the Russian and Siberian
Telegraph Company, serving as transport
in the two expeditions made by tbe com
pany, first to Sitka and second to Petro-
paulovski, Kamstcfiatka, demonstrating
the impossibility of erecting a shore line
or laying a cable along the rockstrewn
coast. Subsequently the steamer was
sold to Ben Hailiday, who was the owner
at the time the vessel was lost. The
boiler, hull and machinery were in
spected a few months prior to the time
the Wright was lost, and all were
pronounced to be in excellent condition.
The boiler was low pressure, 18J feet
long, 8A in diameter, constructed of
boiler-iron 6-16 of an inoh thick. At the
time the Wright was lost she was well
provided with all the necessary life-saving
appointments, having in addition to a
number of life-preservers two large life
boats.]
[From the N. Y. Times, Radical]
The dissatisfaction in the Republican
ranks will continue as a depressing and
demoralizing element, rather than a9 an
active cause of hostility to the adminis
tration. The really serious complications
which we regard as not improbable will
have a totally different origin. One that
has been daily foreshadowed may arise at
the opening of the extra session. Some
of tbe more injudicious friends of the
administration have conceived the idea of
"organizing the Honse" in its interest.
We have no specific knowledge of over
ture's in this direction, but the rumors
have been for some time past too posi
tive, and withal too mnch in harmony
with ascertained facts, to be summarily
discarded. It is conceded that on a strict
party basis the Democrats will have the
House organization in their own hands.
The question raised is, will the Democratic
party remain intact, say, upon the ques
tion of the Speakership ? We hope tnat it
will. It represents a majority of the
members on whom rests the responsibil
ity of regnlating the machinery of busi
ness. They have the power and must be
held accountable for its exercise. We
should deprecate as a misfortune, not to
say a crime, any intrigue designed lo
wrest from them the fruits of their op
portunity or to gain for the administra
tion an influence to which it is not legiti
mately entitled. That some bargain
might "be effected we admit. The Dem
ocratic majority is narrow, and included
in it are members to whose constituencies
the party complexion of the Speakership
is of infinitely less moment than the fur
therance of some sinister scheme. Only
let the right sort of agents be employed,
with authority to adjust the terms to the
exigencies of eaoh individual case, and
the requisite number of votes might be
changed. The process would he dis
graceful to all connected with it, but
the prevailing standard of political mor
ality is not high, and questions are avail
able which would render the arrangement
of equivalents comparatively easy.
Foremost among them is the sub id}
question. It has many ramifications, and,
once opened, will not be closed until the
credit of the nation has been placed in
imminent jeopardy.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is made
the test scheme, partly because it has
great and widely diffused strength at the
South, partly because it has the support
of Northern combinations of capital and
influence in an unusual degree. An oh
vious basis of a bargain exists between
the Northwest and tbe South, the former
having in the Northern Pacific an enter
prise which on its merits is certainly as
much entitled to free access to the public
purse as the route through Texas. Every
body knows how these things are man
aged. The Northwest will help the South
aud will obtain help in return. The job
bery and speculation which bring Messrs.
Scott and Huntington together cover so
wide an area that the scheme, fraudulent
and ruinous as it is, possesses formidable
strength. The best men of both parties
will oppose it.
Fatal Case of Lunacy.—Conrad Wo-
ber, of Baltimore, a yonng man of Ger
man parentage, lately married, was a sol
dier daring the late war, and while in the
service acquired a fondness for sleeping
in the moonlight. Since the war, from
the 1st to the 4 th of every month, always
at night, he has had fits of the deepest
melancholy. He would remain up all
night gazing at the sky, the moon and its
changes having a special fascination for
him. A day or two since hj was attacked
by melancholy for the first time in the
daytime, and being left alone he was
found dead, his head leaning against the
wail. He had twisted several pieces of
bine ribbon into a cord, made a noose
around his neck, and fastened the other
end of the ribbon to a picture hook, draw
ing up his lower limbs so as to throw the
full weight of his body upon the noose.
' Southern Claims.—Orders have re
cently been issued by the Quartermaster
General of the army, directing the sus
pension of the investigation of claims
under the act of July 4, 1874, for property
taken by the United States army during
the civil war. These claims are for the
fuel, forage, etc., taken from loyal citi
zens in loyal States, and are almost en
tirely confined to the States of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri, West Virginia,
Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
It is understood that this action is in
anticipation of legislation by Congress at
the next session, transferring these claims
to the Southern Clams Commission.
Similar action will probably be taken by
tho Commissary General of the army,
relative to claims for subsistence stores
which are being examined by him under
the same \a.vr.—Washington Special to the
Cincinnati Commercial.
Recent developments in the failure of
C. H. Taylor, the great Kentucky distil
ler, which was reported by telegraph the
other day, show evidences of the grossest
fraud, and the dishonest merchant has
since disappeared. His family is one of
the most noted in the State, and Taylor,
for several successive terms, was Mayor
of the State capital. He is cnarged with
obtaining large sums of money on raised
warehouse receipts, and his liabilities will
reach half a million.
Admirers of Russian literature will be
pleased with this scrap of poetry written
by Alexis upon his departure from New
York:
“ Owata jollitimiT ad
Sicci tooklevov mioldad!
Owata merit covive bin—
Ives pen ta nawful pilovtin!
Damsorri tolevami now,
Bnt landigoahet.jingo vow,
Thetor k.ahwar mustavaatop
Gotele graptutoff topop."
Senators Saulsbnry and Windom left
Washington to meet Senator Morton at
Indianapolis, where the trio will take a
pleasure trip to Oregon for the purpose
of investigating the lata Gov. Grover.
The Vicissitudes of a Mosque.
Twice the Temple of St. Sophia was
destroyed by fire and twice rebuilt;
twice the great dome fell and twice it was
restored. The arches, having resounded
to the music of Chrysostom’s voice, came
at last to echo the blasphemies of the in
fidel and the groans of the wounded and
dj ing. At the capture of Constantinople
the clergy, the virgins dedicated to God
and a multitude of people of all classes
crowded into the church and sought
refuge before the high altar. Mohammed
at the head of the Osmanlis rode into
the sanctuary, forced his way
through the affrighted throng, and leap
ing from his horse at the alter he
cried. “There is no God but God, and
Mohammed is his Prophet!” A bideons
scene of slaughter followed and the tem
ple was desecrated. The Sultans have
despoiled it of its pictorial beauty; have
added minarets and abutments to sup
port the tottering southeast wall; have
caused the rich frescoes to he plastered
over with a yellowish substance; have
chipped away wherever it was possible
the carved symbol of the cross; have
hung great disks graven with the names
of the four companions of the Prophet
over the seraphims nnder the dome with
their slender wings crossed above and
below them. Beneath the cupola is in
sonbtd in fantastic and beautiful charac
ters a line from the Koran : “God is the
light of the heavens and of the earth.”—-
Stamboul Letter to the San Francisco
Chronicle.
A Startling Scene on a Street Cab—
A New York Physician’s Death.—Dr.
Israel Randolph took breakfast at the St.
Nicholas Hotel, where he had lived for
twenty years, at an earlier hour than was
usual with him, and then went to keep an
engagement up town. He got into
Third avenue car at Spring street, and
paid his fare. As the car approached
Eleventh street a lady, who had been sit
tiDg by his side, hurried to the rear plat
form, and said to the conductor: “That
man is dead.” The conductor found Dr.
Randolph sitting braced up in the corner,
with his eyes open, and without any per
ceptible pulse. The body was carried
into the offioe of the Superintendent of
Out-door Poor, and thence taken to the
Morgue. Subsequently it was removed
to the St. Nicholas Hotel, where an exam
ination by Dr. Goldschmicdt showed that
death resulted from heart disease.
No relatives of the dead man are in the
city. It is said that he had none, except
two nieces in Massachusetts. Mr. James
Williams, who was agent for the Doctor
in a business enterprise, estimates his
wealth at very nearly a million dollars.
Most of this, he thinks, is in bonds,
stocks, and other personal property.—A.
7. Sun.
Army of Crickets.—A large army of
crickets attacked our town this week.
They are traveling in a westerly direction,
and no doubt came here for the purpose
of crossing the bridge in order to get on
the south side of the river. On Thursday
there was a steady stream of them float
ing down the river. They are probably
going to the Sacramento Valley, and
concluded they could go quicker by wa
ter than by land. A few stragglers started
np the stairway leading to our sanctum
We met them at the door and told them
“ there was nothing green here,” and
they turned back.—Susanvtile (Cal.) Ad■
matte, Map 26/
A superior tramp made his appearance
in Norwich, Connecticut, the other day.
He asked for breakfast, and having re
ceived and eaten it, he was requested to
cut the grass in the front yard. He at
once went cheerfully to work and labored
three hours in the hot sun. The neigh
bors were called in to look at this unpre
cedented phenomena, and. such was the
admiration which the spectacle excited
that the industrious tramp received a good
dinner, twenty-five cents in oash and a
tolerable pair of pantaloons.
An Australian Heroine.
The bravest girl in Australia is Grace
Vernon Bussell. The steamer Georgette
was wrecked off the west coast, near
Perth ; a small boat had been capsized in
the surf, and women and children were
struggling in the water. On the crest of
a precipitous cliff appeared the figure of
a young lady on horseback. To the sail
ors on the stranded vessel it seemed ut
terly impossible that a horse and its rider
should be able to descend that precipice.
But the young lady never faltered. She
plunged down at fnll speed, and reaching
the shore, spurred her horse into the boil
ing surf. There were two lines of roar
ing breakers. With splendid pluck she
dashed through them and reached the
boat, to which the affrighted women
and children were clinging. Her
horse stumbled over a hawser
which stretched between the wreck and
the small boat; but she clung to the sad
dle and brought the women and children
to land. There was still a man left on
hoard the boat. She plunged into the
breakers again and brought him safe to
the shore. While those whom she had
saved were rescuing those who remained
on the wreck, the heroic girl, drenched
with the sea foam and half fainting with
fatigue, galloped a dozen miles home to
have relief sent to the half drowned, half-
naked folks whom she had left on the
beach. Her sister, Mrs. Brockman, took
horse, galloped that night through the
woods to the shore, taking tea, milk,
sugar and flour for the destitute people,
and the next day the rescued were
brought to Mr. Brockman’s house and
cared for. The anxiety and excitement
proved fatal to Mrs. Brockman, who took
a severe cold, and died eventually of brain
fever. Graoe Vernon Bussell still lives.
Pillow’s Mexican Plan.
[ From the New Orleans Times.)
The Mexican question has been ab
sorbing mnch of the time at Cabinet
meetings lately. The discussions are on
account of the perplexing nature of the
border difficulties. Thirty-one years ago
Mr. Polk endeavored to adjust these mat
ters by the same remedy—which it is
possible may be applied now—a war.
Bnt he failed, it is said, because Mr.
Nicholas P. Trist, of Louisiana, did not
obey the special instructions of the Pres
ident in making a treaty.
General Pillow, of Tennessee, has sub
mitted a plan to the President which
seems to have met special favor.
There iB no man living who is better
able to advise intelligently abont Mexico
and its territory than General Pillow. He
has marched over all tbe country from
which tbe bands have issued that have
given such annoyance and trouble to the
United States, and has submitted a letter
in regard to the plans to be pursued in
settling this Mexican matter to the Presi
dent. The views embodied in it were
first expressed to General Sherman in a
casual conversation.
The General of the Army, who is an old
friend of Gen. Pillow, was mnch im
pressed by his clear and valuable knowl
edge of Mexican topography, and asked
that the substance of these views be pat
in writing lor presentation to the Presi
dent, which was done. The most inter
esting features are of lines of defense
that might be available. Of some of
these, Gen. Pillow says:
“Daring the Mexican war I marched
my division from 61 at&moros through San
Fernando, San Martin and Santa Barbara
to Tampico, passing through a tract of
country embracing also New Lion and
Tamaulipas. The first three hundred
miles bore off to the interior to the capi
tal of Tamaulipas and along the base ■ of
the Sierra Madre mountains, there an un
broken chain, siz thousand feet high, of
basaltic stone, with but two passes in
them for six hundred miles, these but
mule passes, abcut three thousand feet
above the sea level.
“A single company with a battery could
defend thtse passes against an attacking
force of twenty thousand men. The
Pernambuco river, on the south, is the
boundary of Tamaulipas. It is four
hundred yards wide, and deep enough to
float a large man-of-war; at the distance
of nine hundred and sixty miles from the
mouth it cuts the Sierra Madre moun
tains; from thence it runs in a straight
line between high perpendicular rocks,
without a trace of verdure upon their
summits, to S-ltillo.”
He goes on to say that Mr. Polk spe-
cially instructed Mr. Trist to make no
treaty with Mexico that did not make
the Sierra Madre the boundary, and cede
all the country lying north and east of
this mountain range to the United
States, as it was the intention of Mr.
Polk to secure the mining region of
North Mexico. But the treaty author
izing the present boundary was made,
and although Mr. Polk refused to ratify
it, it was finally adopted by the Senate
after a long discussion.
General Pillow’s plan has the merit of
extreme simplicity. It is to acquire in
some way the territory which should
have been taken in 1847. He says this is
the only way the thieving upon Texas
can be prevented, and that the orders
of Gen. Ord to pursue the marauders will
soon bring on a war. He could never
catch anybody, for as soon as the thieves
were pursued they would scatter in the
chaparral like so many rabbits.
As to the method of acquiring this ter
ritory, General Pillow proposes two plans.
The first is that tbe United States shall
offer to buy it for $10,000,000. If this
amount is refused then the second plan
is simply to go and take possession any
how.
The latter plan would perhaps be the
most attractive to the mass of Americans.
General Ord has been ordered to follow
the raiders across the Mexican border and
punish them whenever he can find them
If he does very much of this, it may not
be long until the vigorous foreign policy
of the President may bring about a casus
belli that will cause a change in bounda
ries and settle the question of marauding
and the zona Ibbre forever.
A SUDDEN RISE IN LIFE.
Front the Position of a Poor Factory
Girl to that of a Wealthy llelreeo.
He Must Have His Pay.
[Washington Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.)
The true inwardness of the appoint
ment and resignation of the Fnnchal
Consulate by James E. Anderson is vastly
different from the published accounts,
and not at all to the credit of Secretary
Sherman and Garfield. Anderson was
Supervisor of Registration in East Feli
ciana Parish, and one of the most active
tools in the returning board. Naturally,
he wanted pay for dirty work done
there, and came here to get it.
While here he bragged that he would
get what he wanted, and threatened to
bring some prominent Republicans to
grief if ho didn’t, by telling what he knew
about the purchase of the electoral vote
of Louisiana by the Republican managers.
Sherman and Garfield knew alt about An
derson’s performances, and the oharges
against him since made public, bnt never
theless recommended his appointment to
the Fnnchal Consnlate, signed his papers,
and personally advocated it, as is now as
serted, to get Anderson out of the way
and shut his month. Anderson declined
the place because he thinks ho knows
enough to force Sherman and Garfield to
give him a better one. He is again
threatening openly to tell what he knows
if Sherman and Garfield do not come to
terms.
The Sutbo Tunnel —The San Fran
cisco Stock Reporter publishes a rpport of
an interview with Adolph Sutro about the
Sutro tunnel. He states that the “head
er” is now in about 17,000 feet. The fu
ture rite of progress is expected to aver
age 300 feet a month. The work has
been prosecuted eight years, at a cost of
about $1,000,000 a year. It is estimated
that the Comstock lode will be reached in
about ten months, though the exact time
cannot be definitely stated. Mr. Sutro
expressed the opinion that before the
Comstock lode is reached the tnnnel
might be expected to cut some valuable
ore bodies. As to lumois of a change in
control of the stock of the company Mr.
Sutro said emphatically that the man
agement could never he wrested from
him.
Jubilee Offerings to the Pope.
The contributions to the Pope, exclusive
of presents of articles of value from va
rious countries, which have already been
presented to His Holiness, are very large.
It may be mentioned that the subscrip
tions of the people of Ireland were made
up of Bmall earns, although one county
(Wicklow) contributed $5,0#0. Cardinal
Cullen took to Rome $35,000, collected
in Dublin alone. The principal offerings
were as follows:
France
United States..
Spain.
42550,000
..160,1X30
..130,001:
. .120, <XX
.. 100,oot
Germany
Belgiam
r*oriugal
luslrmla
anada
.. f70,000
.. t3,000
. 42, t OO
.. 76,000
.. 30,000
...100,001
.. 75,000
.. 15,000
loll and
■M’otland
Switzerland.*..
.. 32,000
.. 30,000
.. 25,000
[Acte York Ilerald.
Mr. Will Carleton, ot Michigan, is re
ported to have incensed the colored peo
ple of Washington by calling the race,
in his Decoration Day poem, “jet jew
elry”—as thus: “Jet Jewelry of your
olon. Yon showed with what good grace
A man may die tor man."
Tbe Administration aud tbe Rio Grande
Troubles.
A Washington special to the Baltimore
Sun says: Extreme Republicans like
Blaine, Butler, Wade, Phillips, Boutwell
and their followers, who seek cause of
quarrel with the administration, find in
the instructions of the Secretary of War
to General Sherman, concerning the
marauding raids on the Rio Grande,
basis of attack, which they believe can
be worked np into a formidable move
ment. ' They profess to see in this mili
tary demonstration a disguised feature of
Hayes’ “Southern policy,” the result of
which will be the annexation of Mexican
territory, and ultimately an increase of
representation in both houses of Congress
for the advantage of the Sontb.
To stimulate the fears of the North
aud to excite sectional prejudice, they
assert that the carpet-baggers, who hold
the balance of power in the Senate, will,
to revenge themselves on Hayes, vote for
the admission of Spofford and Butler, and
by that means, with the aid of Conover,
Dorsey, Spencer and Patterson, who are
all in the market, transfer the majority
from the Republicans to the Democrats
Of course the carpet-baggers would ex
pact to be rewarded for their patriotism
by a reorganization of the official corps
of the Senate and a division of the spoils
According to this plan of the extrem
ists New Mexico would be admitted into
the Union immediately, to be followed by
Arizona as soon as the necessary popula
tion might be “counted in,” and after
wards by the new States to he acquired
by the present scheme of spoliation, as
Wade and his fellow agitators represent
it to be. This programme has elements
well calculated to rouse the old bitterness
of The abolitionists, who fought the an
nexation of Texas so persistently and oh
stinately. It is true, they cannot de
nounce the “retention of slavery,” but
that cry will be substituted by the “ex
tension of Southern power," and, as will
be claimed, the practical overthrow of the
amendments to the Constitution.
Evidences increase every day that thos
who oppose the double standard of silve
and gold are going to try at the approach
ing session of Congress to strengthen
their own proposition by an ingenious
and deceptive scheme that will bear the
appearance of a concession upon their
part, whereas it will really be quite the
contrary. To understand what the Re
publican means, the reader mast re
member that the bimetallic standard
silver and gold, has never been repealed
by any act of Congress, bat that the
practical result was reached in 1873 by a
trick in omitting the silver dollar from
the coins which the mints were
authorized to cast. The bill ex
pressly provided that nothing in it
should be construed to affect any
“right accrued,” and therefore especi
ally gives to the people their old right
of paying their debts in silver or
gold at their own option, bnt took away
trom them all power to avail themselves
of this right by refusing to make the
only silver coin that was unlimited
tender. Now the second trick contem
plated is to authorize the coinage of the
silver dollar, bnt at the same time take
away its character of unlimited tender.
This will destroy the right that now re
mains and establish a direct demonetiza
tion, by making the silver dollar a sub
sidiary coin. To-day a debt of any
amount can be paid with silver dollars if
anyone can get hold of them, bnt if
silver dollars are made a legal tender for
twenty or fifty dollars only, the poor
man’s wages will be paid in silver, bat
the debts to the rich man will ha^e to be
paid in gold. This will be one of Sher
man’s steps to resumption, but Congress
will hardly want to go that road.—St.
Louis Republican.
Tbe greenbacerks of Minnesota, under
the command of ex-Congresaman Don
nelly, are to hold n convention Jane 20th,
for the purpose of nominating a State
ticket.
The London law conrts have recently
brought to light a romantic story, some
what like that of the Annealey peerage
case—which Charles Reade seized upon
in his story of the “Wandering Heir”—
though in this case the heir is an heiress.
Some years ago Mr. Gardner, a well-to-do
farmer at Melrose, in Scotland, married a
young lady of the neighborhood, and in a
very few weeks after the marriage his
wife presented him with a daughter.
Mr. Gardner was an elder of his Presby
tery, and being well aware that a fierce
light beats upon that office, and being
anxions to save his reputation and
bis wife’s, he hired a discreet nurse
to take charge of the child. The scandal
was thus averted, and years went by
without the girl herself or any one else
discovering the secret. Meanwhile the
daughter. Margaret Gardner, had become
a mill hand in a factory and at the age of
twenty-one discovered by some means
the story of her birth and parentage. She
at once sought out her parents and de
manded recognition, but Mr. Gardner
disputed her legitimacy, declaring that
her father was a shepherd named Laidlaw,
and that he (Gardner) had married her
mother, whom he loved, to save her repu
tation. The girl, however, like immortal
Harry VIII., thought this was “too thin
and bare to hide offenses,” and declining
an offer of a thousand pounds to hold her
tongue, brought an action in the Scotch
courts to compel her recognition as a
legitimate daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gardner. The case was decided against
her by the Judge Ordinary,whereupon she
appealed to the full Court of Session, who
gave judgment in her favor. Against
this her parents appealed, and the case
found its way to the House of Lords.
This court of ultimate appeal decided as
the lower court had done—in her favor—
holding that when a child is born after
marriage the presumption of its legiti
macy, in accordance with the old legal
maxim, “Pater est quern nuptia demon-
strant," is prima facie so strong that the
onus of disproof rests with those who
deny it. The romantic generosity claimed
by the father in marrying his wife to
save her reputation did not quite jump
with the offer of £1,000 after the wife’s
reputation had been irreparably damaged,
and looked, so their lordships thought,
more like a desire to screen himself. At
any rate, the fact remained that the
court acknowledged the legitimany of the
girl, and she becomes the natural heiress
of her father’s wealth, which is consider
able.
Ihe Men Who Caused the War.
Gen. Rogsr A. Pryor, in his speech in
Brooklyn on Decoration day, indulged in
a good deal of clap-trap about politicians,
which is a cheap way to the popular heart
and rarely fails to bring applause when
well managed. It is like the cheap flings
at lawyers and doctors. There are good
and bad and medium politicians, but it is
the merest moonshine and the most illogi
oal and unpbilosophical moonshine, too,
to say that the politicians brought on the
war. If they did, there are many who could
recall Gen. Pryor's part in it. We do not
do so to his discredit. He was not
creator of event i, a shaper and moulder
of destinies—neither he nor his com
peers. Every man, woman and child in
the United States—almost every one—did
his or her Bbare towards bringing about
the terrible clash. None can be ex
empted. All were as much free, intelli
gent moral agents as the politicians, so
there must be no shifting of responsibili
ties all to one class—that class a promi
nent one—an active working one—cer
tainly largely instrumental in any effect
produced, but only responsible, each, as
a little more influential one of many
agents.
General Pryor, once an arch politician,
an agitator and a fire-eater, and an early
war provoker, does not well to attack poli -
ticians and cast the burden on them.
The masses applaud. They do not know
or do not recall that General Pryor
himself chief among those denounced by
himself. They see in him only the
mouthpiece of their own views, as they
are themselves seeking a scape-goat
They accept the politicians blindly, as
the goat prepared lo take the sin of fratri
cidal war. But what does General Pryor
take? Nothing for a man of ability,
learning and culture. He has been il
logical, inconsistent, unphilosophical, in
declaring causes, and he has not declared
the truth. And then when an old poli
tician begins to denounce politicians, one
begins to suspect it is a politician’s trick.
—St. Louis Republican.
Mr. Hayes and His Minstrel Chum.
There was an interview at the White
House this morning, which was not
down on the books. The sable knight
of the pasteboards had carried in a bushel
of cards, more or less, and was engaged
in his diurnal effort to keep good natured
a room full of impatient offioe-seekers,
all of whom wanted to go in first. The
President within was undergoing his
daily torment. To him perspiring and
sighing for a breeze came a card bearing
the superscription: “Charles Backus and
wife.” The fame of the minstrel was
talismanic. “Admit him,” said the
President, and Charley, round formed
and jolly, rolled in. “No, I don’t want
an office, Mr. President,” said Charley
after being duly presented, “I’ve come
to do you a favor.” The President
sighed a sigh of relief, in two
minutes had forgotten the cares of office,
and was laughing at some of Charley's
impromptu minstrelsy. A dozen poor
bnt proud gentlemen from the South
stood about saying: “Be Gawd, Bah,what
a letting down of offioial dignity, sah. It
is disgraceful, sah! ” But Charley joked
and the President laughed. “Well, Mr.
President,” said the jolly minstrel rising
to go at last, “there’s a box at the theatre
at your service.” “Mr. Backus,” replied
His Excellency, evidently speaking from
the bottom of his heart, “I would goto
see you three nights in succession if 1
could get the time:” and be looked at the
impatient waiters within and without.
“Come if you can,” said Charley, bowing
himself out and vowing as he departed
that he had never seen so many seedy-
looking Generals and Colonels in shiny
black clothes gathered together before in
one place in his life.— Washington Star.
Nude photographs of children are be
ing taken for proud Hartford mothers,
according to tbe correspondent of tbe
Boston Herald. Only a short time ago a
lady brought to a leading photographer
two handsome little girls, aged four and
six respectively, and had a number of
stereoscopic views of them taken in a
node state, the little ones first being
poised in various attitudes. From the
ease with which they placed themselves
it was evident that they had received
preparatory training at home. With a
strong light thrown open them,
splendid effects were produced, the
figures standing out as clear and dis
tinct as statues of marble. At other times
photographs of three or four younger
children of a family have tieen made in
varied groupings, the little youngsters,
both boys and girls, being quite as well
pleased with the results as their admiriDg
parents. When the practice first came
into favor infants only tfere photo
graphed, and their pictures were, and are
now, frequently displayed in the photo
graphers' show cases. As the custom
grew in popularity, elder children were
thns photographed, but seldom beyond
the age of five or six years, after which
period, as they began to grow rapidly,
they lose some cf the beautifully rounded
outlines of early childhood, and develop
angles and sharp lines, which detract from
the pleasing effects of tbe pictures. Care
is exercised by the parents in the case
of children who have passed babyhood
to prevent the piotnres being seen be
yond the sacred privacy of the family
circle, and in the case of the two little
girls above mentioned, the negative was
demanded and taken away by their
mother. The whim which prompts this
practice is a singular one, and those pos
sessed of it seek to and do deprive it of
all features of indelicacy. The mother,
proud of her little one, seeks to perpet
uate by the camera the beauties which
time and advanced growth will destroy.
It is a whim attributable solely to mater
nal pride, pure and above reproach,
guarded as it is in its developments by
true delicacy in preserving the picture
from the publio eye.
A Fine Distinction.—A young man
whose attire was clean and neat, and
whose appearance was rather prepossess
ing, stood before the bar of the Jefferson
Maiket Police Conrt yesterday morning.
By his side stood a youDg man of about
the same age, with a coal black face and
wooly hair, and who was dressed in all
the gorgeousness of a “swell.”
“What’s your name, white man ?” ask
ed the conrt.
“McFinnigan, sir."
“And yours, my man and brother?”
“Gawge Washn'ton Jones, sah.”
“What was the matter, George Wash
ington ?”
“Sah, I’ll tell yo’ de truf, sah. I was
a goin’ np de street, sah, las’ night,
when I met this man an’ I kine’ of jostled
agin 'im, ash, an’ he turn’ right roun’,
sah, an’ fetch me a clip on de nose, sah,
den I calls an' offsa’ an’ had dat man ar
rested, an’ data all de treof, foa’ God,
sah.”
“How was it, McFinnigan ?"
“Shore, yer Oner, an’ it was all the
nayger’s fault, sor. I was a cornin’ dowD
the av’nie quiet as a lam’, sor, sayin’
nothin' to nobody, whin tha! sphalpeen
came forninst me, sor, wid his elbie, an’
I np an’ hit im upon the spur av the
momint”
“No, sah, be hit me on de nose, sah!”
“On the spur av the momint”
“On de nose, sah.”
“Never mind fine distinctions,” said
His Honor, “it costs a man $10 in this
court to hit a man, whether it be upon
the spur of the moment or upon the nose.
George Washington yon are discharged.”
—New York World.
Governor Stanford, of California, au
thorizes the announcement that be is not
a candidate for United States Senator.
He “could not afford and would not be
willing to accept the position if it came
to him without solicitation.”
Some Russian customs.
[From D. Mackenzie Wallace's “Russia. ”1
“To celebrate a parish fete in true or
thodox fashion, it is necessary ta prepare
beforehand a large quantity of braga, a
kind of home-brewed small beer, aud to
make a plentiful supply of piroghi or
pies. Oil, too, has to be procured, aud
vodka (rye spirit) in goodly quantity. At
the same time the big room of the izba,
as the peasant's house is called, has to
be cleared, the floor washed, and the
table and benches scrubbed. The evening
before the fete, while the piroqhi are be
ing baked, a little lamp burns before the
Icon in the corner of the room, and per
haps one or two guests from a distance
arrive, in order that they may have on
the morrow a full day’s enjoyment.
“On the morning of the fete the pro
ceedings begin by a long service in the
church, at which all the inhabitants are
present in their best holiday costumes,
except three matrons nnd young women
who remain at home to prepare dinner.
About midday dinner is served in each
izba for tbe family and their friends. In
general, the Russian peasant’s fare is of
the simplest kind and rarely comprises
animal food of any sort—not from any
vegetarian proclivities, but merely be
cause beef, mutton and poTk are too ex
pensive; but on a holiday such as the
parish fete there is always on the dinner
table a considerable variety of dishes.
In the house of a well to do peasant
thore will be not only greasy cabbage soup
and kasha, a dish made from buckwheat,
but also pork, mutton, and perhaps even
beef. Braga will be supplied in unlimit
ed quantities, and more than once vodka
will be handed round. When the repast
is finished, all rise together, and, turning
toward tbe Icon in the comer, how and
cross themselves repeatedly. The guests
then say to their host, ‘Thanks for your
hospitality,’ or more liberally, ‘Thanks
for bread and salt;’ and the host replies,
‘Do not be displeased, sit down once more
for good luck,’ or perhaps he puts the
last part of his request into the form of a
rhyming couplet, to the following effect •
‘Sit down that the hens may multiply
brood, and that the chickens and bees
may multiply.’ All obey this request,
and there is another round of vodka.
“After dinner some stroll about, ohat-
ting with their friends, or go to sleep in
some shady nook, while those who wish
to make merry go to the spot where the
young people are singing and playing,
aud amusing themselves in various ways.
As the sui. sinks toward the horizon, the
more grave, staid guests wt_nd their way
homeward, but maDy remain for supper-
and as evtning advances, the effects of
the vodka >ecome more and more appar
ent. Sounds of revelry are heard more
frequently /from the houses, and a large
proportion of tbe inhabitants and guasts
appear on the road in various degrees of
intoxication. Some of these vow eternal
affection to their friends, or with flaccid
gestures and incoherent tones harangue
invisible audiences; others stagger about
aimlessly in besotted self-contentment,
till they drop down in a state of complete
unconsciousness. There they lie tran
quilly till they are picked np by their less
intoxicated friends, or more probably till
they awake of their own accord on the
next morning.”—Vol. L, p. 149.
“No class of men in the world are
more good natured and pacific than the
Russian peasantry. When sober they
never fight, aud even when nnder the in
fluence of alcohol they are more likely to
be violently affectionate than disagreea
bly quarrelsome. If two of them take to
drinking together, the probability is that
in a few minnteB, though they may never
have seen each other before, they will be
expressing, in very strong terms, their
mutual regard and affection, confirming
their words with an occasional friendly
embrace.”—Vol. I., p. 165.
“As tbe village assembly is really a
representative institution in the fnll sense
of the term, it reflects faithfully the good
and the bad qualities of the rural popula
tion. Its decisions are, therefore, usually
characterized by plain, practical common
sense, but it is subject to occasional un
fortunate aberrations, in consequence of
pernicious influences chiefly of an alco
holic kind. An instance of this fact oc
curred daring my sojourn at Ivamka.
The question under discussion was
whether a kabak, or gin shop, should he.
established in the village. A trader from
the district town desired to establish one,
and offered to pay to the commune a
yearly sum for the necessary permission.
The more industrious and respectable
members of the commune, backed by the
whole female population of the locality,
were strongly opposed to the project,
knowing fail well that a kabak would
ultimately lead to the ruin of more than
one household; bnt the enterprising
trader had strong arguments wherewith
to seduce a large number of tbe members,
and succeeded in obtaining a decision in
his favor.”—VoL L, p. 198.
“When the sheep had been devoured,
partly by the company in the tent, and
partly by a nondescript company outside
—for the whole hamlet took part in the
festivities—koumiss was served in un
limited quantities. This beverage, as I
have already explained, is mare's milk
fermented; hut what here passed under
the name was very different from the
koumiss I bad tasted in the establish
ments of Samra. There it was a pleasant,
effervescing drink with only the slightest
tinge of acidity; here it was a “still”
liquid, strongly resembling very thin and
very soar buttermilk. My Russian frieDd
made a very wry face on first tasting it,
and I felt induced at first to do so like
wise, bnt noticing that his grimaces
made an unfavorable impression on
the audience, I restrained my
facial muscles afid locked as if I liked
it. Very soon I really came to like it,
and ltarned to ‘drink fair’ with those
who had been accustomed to it from their
childhood. By this feat I rose consider
ably in the estimation of the natives; for
if one does not drink koumiss, one can
not be sociable in the Bashkir sense of
the term, and by acquiring the habit one
adopts the essential principle of Bashkir
nationality. I should certainly have pre
ferred having a enp of it myself, bnt I
thought it well to conform to the habits
of the oonntry, and to accept the tug
wooden bowl when it was passed around.
In return my friends made an important
concession in my favor: they allowed mo
to smoke as I pleased, though they con
sidered that, as the Prophet had refrained
from tobacco, ordinary mortals should do
the same.”—YoL IL, page 41.
On Saturday afternoon a yonng man
snoceeded in stealing a package of money
variously estimated in amount from
$2,000 to $10,000 from the New York
National Exchange Bank.