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SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1877.
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Affairs iii (ieonria.
uterfeit coins are so common in At-
that tbo use of patent detectors be-
,r frequent use. Possibly a few patent
iv. ? would do much to remedy the
* catting affray ocoured at Station 13j
ntlie Central ltiilroad, on last Slondiy. in
ue TUo. Tucker received five or six
cats, which will prove mortal, at the
blU u 0 ol Morris Grady. Both of the parties
„ r e colored railroad hands. Grady ia still
it ittrge.
Governor Colquitt has pardonsd Sam San-
j L r a negro, who was convicted last De-
c oil er in Greene county oourt of riot, and
. .ateuced to twelve mouths on the chain
— a -. It appears from the showing made
ruat the prisoner was oa a drank and that
His crime consisted of the freaks of a
drunken intltvidnai aud nothing more.
phe indebtedness of Newton county is
., m: ::ed at seven tbonsanJ dollars, by the
p iard of County Commissioners. They ex-
ct to pay off the whole of it the present
rear.
X;„. Warreuton Collard Leaf did not fiiake
eiraace last week; whether it waa
scorched by the drought or evten up by
•j, . cutworms of journalism, dead-head
advertisers, Ham, of the Clipper, does not
Prosperity dawns npon the old town of
G'viugton, for the Star says: “More new
j,. U m s will be built in Covington this year
t (,an have boon built any one year since the
war, notwithstanding the hard times.”
A colored man in Augusta nam.d West
Mok ozie has been arrested on a charge of
i lisouing bis wife. The woman was found
dead in her bed ou the night of the fifth,
anti ■. rcumstanoes point to the husband as
having been the oause of her death by
poison.
V, ry little bacon and corn has been ship-
, d to Fort Valley, the centre of supply for
Houston ami the contiguous counties,during
the present season. Thii is a good indica-
i.ou that the farmers in-that section intend
to keep their smoke houses aud corn cribs
at home this year.
since the Dougherty county horticultural
exhibition and fair receutly held, and which
utraoted such favorable notice from those
who were fortunate enough to be present,
- people are awaking to the importance
f > fair association. Lee, Calhoun, Baker,
Mitchell, Worth aud Dougherty propose to
stabliab such aD association. The propo
silion is that stockholders from the above
■unties establish fair grounds and erect
i-table buildings in Albany for the exbibi
MU of the agricultural, horticultural and
tuologieal productions of those conuties.
We wieh the enterprise abundant snocess.
One of our most valuable weekly ex-
ckiuges has given up the ghost, and we are
sorry to make the announcement that
. Blade, published at N.wnau
l, s smueaded for the want of patronage to
sustain it. It did not die from want of
vitality, beoanse Barron made it sprightly
tu :ko last, and it only expired when to have
,ive 1 would haTe bean financial suioide.
At Tunnell Hi-!, on Tuesday night last,
negro raau named Unit Wright, out of pure
wautouncss and malicious deviltry, shot a
white man named David Stuart in the left
leg, Just above the knse. The shooting was
jutirely unprovoked. Stuart, being a stran
- r aud a traveler, stopped to ask directions
as to his journey, when the shooting occur
red. Wright is represented as a desperate
•iiaraoter, even among.his own color, end it
is to be hoped that he will be benefited by a
term in the penitentiary.
During the month of May the Atlanta po-
Bee, whioh if we mistake not numbers
;;iirty-!our men, made two hundred and
eighty-nine arrests, eighty-five of which
«• re for violations of State laws, and two
hundred aud four for violations of oily
r finances. The Recorder imposed fines to
the amount of fifteen hundred and sixty
three dollars, being an increase of about six
hundred dollars over the month of April.
Three hundred and ninety-seven dollars was
collected in money, and the balance has
. 11 or Hill bo settled by labor on the pub
lic streets.
A man by the name of W. W. Boyd, who
uas been pirouetting about Sandersville as
special detective to work up some case in
which the State w*s a party on the one side
an-1 a defaulting Tax Collector on the other,
has been arrested for an attempt to levy
blackmail fr-im Comptroller General Gold
smith. He wrote a letter to the Comptroller
d minding fifty dollars, or he would make
au expose which would involve that offioial in
- conspiracy to defraud the State. Mr,
Goldsmith promptly turned the paper over
:-j the Attorney General and tho result was
■bat the detective was detected, arrested,
and lodged iu jail. The affair creates con
siderabie comment in SauderBYille.
Tfie Atlanta Constitution annonnees, after
an interview with Mr. H. I* Kimball, Presi
dent of the much talked of cotton factory.
teat uy the first of September the saaebin
ervof that huge affair will be humming the
song of Industry.
The incendiary is plying hi « nefariou
trade in Atlanta. The Constitution says
in b’nuday morning the police officers on
-buy ou Broad street .discovered an attempt
at incendiarism in the brick building
ru.-r Hu-tier and Broad sheets, in which
-1 dm Broad's saloon is located. A fire had
CD built upon the stairway and oneatthe
partition wall, and kerosene oil poured
upon the Hour. The Sre was oxtmgu.sUed,
w.tkout auy alarm, aud there is as yet no
clue to the miscreant who attempted the
arson.”
The Bartlesville Gazette says : “On Tues
day night Mr. W. T. Lif«oy had the mis.or-
lune to havo his dwelling aud all its con
tents burued. He aud his family had re
tired, and waking up about eleven o’clock
.u the night ho found that the stove room
* as falling iu, and his dwelling beyond re-
Fort Valley Mirror, who seems to be well
acquainted with the gentlemau reported as
drowned, under the head “A Canard,” says:
"It is generally believed that the report of
the drowning of J. D. Roddey in Kansas is
a canard. Those who are well acquainted
with his style of writmg and t&lkmg affirm
that the letter bears the ear-marks of Rod
dey. The article which we publish in an
other column is a whole batch of inconsis
tencies. It would seem that Mr. Davis is
omnipresent. How did he find out that Mr.
R. made every effort to save his son? And
how did he get the information that he got
tangled np in the reins? Was Mr. Davis an
eye-witness to the scene? For our part, we
believe Roddey wrote the article for the
purpose of deceiving his wife, who is still
living in this State. Oar readers know his
character."
The Dawson Journal publishes tho follow
ing account- of a distressing chapter of acci
dents : “Miss Delia Rentz, a young lady
about sixteen years old, and niece of Mr.
Tiner Reutz, who resides in Baker county,
was assisting ber uncle in hauling oats one
morning last week, and while en route home
with a load, the oxen that were 'drawing the
wagon became frightened and rau away,
throwing the young lady off under the
wagon, the hind wheel passing directly
across her breast, producing internal inju
ries from which she died the following even
ing. We also learn that a day or two previ
ous to the above, a little two-year-old son of
Mr. Rentz happened to the misfortune of
swallowing a piece of potash that was lyiug
carelessly about the house, the effects of
which produced death in less than two
hourB.”
The same paper has the following: “On
Wednesday night of last week a negro
cabin, situated in what is known as the
‘fork field,’ ou Mr. J. M. Taylor’s planta
tion, about two miles southeast of Leary,
was entirely consumed by fire, together
with fonr of its occupants, a negro man
named Tim White aud three of his children.
BeiDg situated in the forks of two large
creeks, tho mosquitoes are very trouble
some, and, not being provided with bars,
it had been Tim’s custom for several nights
previous to build a slow fire directly under
the door in a clay-hole, for the purpose of
smokiDg off these insects; and on the night
in question the tire was built, and the
family, consisting of Tim, bis wife, and
four children, retired. About ten or eleven
’clock Tim awoke to find the house com
pletely enveloped in flames fit having caught
from the fire in the clay hole), and under
such headway as to render escape tnrough
the door impossible. By his frantic screams
he aroused hiB wife from her slumbers, who,
realizing their dangerous situation, took
the baby child in her arms and, knowing of
a loose plaok in the floor, raised it up and
succeeded in making her escape just as the
roof began to fall in, leaving her husbaud
who, in the attempt to save the other three
children, perished in the flames with them.”
SKETCHES OF FLORIDA.
True Love iu New Jersey.
In the heyday of his youth a New Jer
sey swain made fervent love to a New
Jersey lass. His love-making was of the
high-strung sentimental sort which youDg
Lord Mortimers always indulge in in the
novels of the class to which a handsome
sentimon tal peer is necessary as a hero. He
sighed like a furnace, and probably wrote
bad sonnets, if he could write—which is
not made evident by the telegraphic re
ports of the case—to her eyes and other
features, whatever their color or shape
may be. He evidently wished that be
might be the glove upon bis sweet heart's
band, the belt about her waist, or
” The wind, the summer wind,'
That wanders o’er her damask cheek,”
in order that he
"might leave a kiss behind.
Or hear her voice In kindness speak,”
and all that sort of thing.
To satisfy these cravings of his love
lorn soul, he purloined a handkerchief—
her handkerchief, as he believed—mean
ing to keep it near his heart, without
permilting the laundress to wash out the
memories of Her, with a big H., which
clustered lovingly about its borders and
nestled in its folds.
Unlucky swain! The handkerchief
was not his Dulcinea’s, but belonged to
that damsel’s unromantio mother, who
had wrapped certain talents—that is to
say, dimes—in one of its oorners, and
hence the youth was speedily haled be
fore a Judge on a charge of feloniously
appropriating the subsidiary silver coins
in question. He confessed his love in
court, as he had already confessed it in
courtship, and upon producing the hand
kerchief from its hiding-place over his
heart, with the coin untouched in its
knotted corner, he was released.
Moral: The course of true love never
runs less smoothly than when your in
tended mother-in law begins to miss
valuable articles after your visits.
Vesuvius Fieing Up.—Vesuvius has
every appearance of firing up for another
eruption. Smoke is constantly issuing
from the crater, and occasionally in im
mense volumes,-that overspread the at
mosphere like a sable pall. The other
day a dense black cloud that had gathered
about the orater was suddenly driven over
Pompeii. Ashes and cinders fell in a
thick shower, and for a time it looked as
if the midday darkness that attended the
eruption which overwhelmed Pompeii
and Herculaneum was to be renewed, and
the partially disentombed oily was to be
buried up again. I thought of the fate
of Diomed’s family, smothered to death
in the wins cellar, where they sought
refuge. When the cloud drifted over,
the pavements of Pompeii were covered
with a thin layer of hot volcanic ashes
and minute scorim. I asked the director
cf the excavations if Pompeii might not
be covered up again. “That depends
on the duration of an eruption
of Vesuvius,” he said, “and its character.
Should it break forth on the eastern side
of the mountain, eject masses of Bcoriie,
volcanic ashes, and showers of boiling
water, the effect would be as disastrous
as in the 79th year of the Christian era,
when Herculaneum was covered up by a
strata of volcanic matter sixty feet deep,
and Pompeii and Stabia and other cities
were entombed beneath heaps of mud and
voloauic deposits.” Vesuvius is the most
uncertain of volcanoes. Prior to A. D.
79 it had slumbered for centuries, oince
then it has been more or less active, with
spasmodic intervals of tremendous fury
and desolation. Pompeii is more than
one-half excavated, but much remains to
be done before this old Greek city will
a Main bo entirely laid open to view within
its walled circuit.—Philadelphia Press.
No. 1—Introductory.
It may be asked by some oaptious
reader, why single out Florida for a series
of sketches ?
The answer is brief and well grounded:
Because that State is attracting within
her borders a steady and increasing tide
of immigration.
The Morning News has a circulation
that embraoes in its scope every part of
the United States and the Canadas, and
to its columns thousands of far-off read
ers took for desired information in regard
to the “ Land of Flowers.”
Brief, reliabli sketches, written in a
practical manner, are always eagerly
sought for and carefully read by persons
desirous of making permanent homes in
Florida, or who may wish to spend the
winter there, in search of renewed health
or a more mild and enjoyable climate for
recreation.
There are many reasons why the tide of
immigration to Florida will increase in
magnitude and importance for several
years to come, and why capitalists, both
at the North and West and in Europe,
will seek large investments in lands in
that State. Already have these invest
ments, because of their magnitude, be-
come matters of favorable comment on
both sides of the Atlantio.
It is not necessary to name the reasons
referred to, as they will become apparent
in the sketches to which this article is the
introduction. While thousands of South
ern people are seeking homes in far-off
Texas, some of our people are persuaded
that they can do better in the “Land of
Flowers.” But the great bulk of immi
gration comes from the North and West,
and from Canada, and is in the main
oomposed of good families.
The chief impelling motive that leads
these people to a change of location is to
be found, I think, in the severity of the
winters in their section of the country.
Since the war the climate of this conti
nent has become, like everything else,
demoralized. People who years ago
moved from Maine to Minnesota, or Wis
consm, in search of a milder climate, are
now removing from those States to
Florida for the same purpose. The
cold weather and the grasshopper plague
have driven hundreds of settlers South
ward.
Farmers, I find, are becoming wearied
with long winters. They prefer a milder
climate, one in which they can always
have some kind of a crop to attend to,
and some sort of agricultural farm labor
to perform. Others are anxious to en
gage more extensively in fruit culture,
and, therefore, seek a semi-tropical cli
mate for that purpose. There are others
who desire to engage in “truck farming,"
for which Florida offers such excellent
advantages.
Another class of settlers, and one of no
small importance, is composed of men
who are themselves invalids, generally
consumptives, or who have invalids in
their families. They seek a home where
the health-giving breezes are soft and
balmy, and where weakness gives place
to strength, and the pale cheek blooms
rosy with renewed vigor. Florida to-day
is full of such cases, men and
womeo, who went there ten
or fifteen or twenty years ago,
almost hopeless of a recovery, but who
ars now comparatively healthy and ro
bust, aud give promise of living long and
useful lives. Of the number of invalids
who simply spend the winter months in
Florida, having no fixed residence there,
it would be hard to give a strict account
as their name is legion, and their ills are
numberless.
The series of sketches which I propose
to Rive the readers of the Mossing New s
, v - r i i: l j —;n
CAPITAL CITY GOSSIP.
Steady Rain at t*a»t—Bullock and Blod-
(ett Still on the Kacced Rdgr—Conven-
tion Paragraphs—Local News Item*—
Cotton Factory—State Endorsing Kail-
road Bond*—Hungry Applicants lor City
Offices.
‘try from the Carnes. He threw oat the taiaoa b Ool. Goiburn, hearing the
bedou which he was sleeping and rushed tion p bin horse and rode to the
to
th6
his family out in time to save them from a
Li'*st horrible death. All his household ef-
'• with supplies, were consumed bj’ the
iu rcilesH dames. Ho is satisfied that it was
tile work of an incendiary.”
The Mitchell Reformer says: “On Satur
day morning last as Mr. C. T. DeGraffon-
thcVxif SrX,‘ y on 8 e h o7tt‘ Da The »u to Ma
colored, who was sentenced to five years in pursuit, but ^ ^ an d killed th
the Deuiteniiarv at the May term of court,
J-iii over Mr. DeGraffeureid and made good
his escape. There were some four or five
'ther prisoners in jail, and but for tho cool
ness and bravery of Mr. DeGraffeureid all
of them would doubtless have escaped.’
The editor of the McDuffie Journal paid
a visit to Savaunah recently, aud among his
notes of that trip we find the following :
“The next p!ace of interest visited was the
offico of the Savannah Mornino News.
.The weary printers had lain aside stick and
ru.le, aud ail the machinery in the immense
• bUMishment was -still, and while, on ac-
o iunt of its being the ISabbath, we failed to
tinj systematic working of both men
ini machinery, we saw enough to convince
ne that we were looking through the most
complete aud best arranged printing estab
lishment in the 804th. From the cupola of
tho News bui'diug we had a magnificent
■vi»*w of the valley lands surrounding the
city, as well as the shipping in the harbor
and vessels going and coming as far out as
Tybee.”
Kid" e Published in this column on WeAnes-
k u } au item taken from tho Macon lelegrttph
,ad Messenger, of the drowning of Mr. J.
T>. Roddey and his son iu Kansas. The
Tub Revollt;on is Paraguay.—Files
of the Buenos Ayres papers of May 1
contain the details of the recent -evolu
tion iu Paraguay. President Gill was
walking in one of the streets of Asuncion
on April IY, about 10 o’clock in the morn
ing, attended by two officers, when he
came suddenly upon a small party of
armed men, who aimed and fired at the
President, killing him almost instantly^
HiS aids were stupefied with horror for a
n 8 / «nd when they understood what
prisoners near the place rusuCdspon the
assassins, and with a sabre stroke ou. one
down, hut of course could not withsand so
many. The news spread through the capi
tal aud the greatest alarm and consterna
taiau“ v “.& „ , toRrin? thl
will be brief and practical, and will serve
to aid all classes of people who propose
to remove to Florida during the coming
season in completing their plans in the
most profitable manner. Great injury
has been done immigration by romantic
and sensational journalists and corre
spondents, whose overdrawn picture
have lured au undesirable class of set
tiers to Florida. Such people are worth
less, so far as the development of the
State is concerned, for they soon get dis
gusted and return to their old homes,
generally giving a bad name to the
“Land of Flowers.” I have met many
such persons, not a few of whom, if they
had gone to Florida under proper ami
truthful representations, would have re
mained there satisfied, and become goed
and useful citizens. It will be my pur
pose in these sketches to keep away all
who expect to find in Florida “a land
flowing with milk and honey,” and where
the inhabitants “toil not, neither do they
spin.” It is no place for lazy people, un
less they are rich; but to men of practi
cal sense, industrious habits, and a love
for agricultural and horticultural pursuits,
it offers many and rare inducements, as I
shall show in the succeeding articles of
this series. Sidney Herbebt.
NOTES BY THE WAY.
[Special Correspondence Morning News.]
THE CROPS IN GEORGIA.
Consolidation of the Reports of Oops,
Etc., for the Month of .Via., 1877, Re.
turned to the rttate Department of Agri
culture, Atlanta, (fa., June tel, 1977.
Department of AaBicn-rmtE, >
877.)
Atlanta, June 14.—We had a light
drizzling rain the most of yesterday, bnt
last night it settled into a steady rain,
which continues to day. The dry, heated
term has certainly ended for the present.
The “demand” of Bullock and Blod
gett for a speedy trial was not argued, as
expected, yesterday afternoon. Attorney
General Ely moved the indefinite post -
ponement of the matter, but opposing
counsel objected, and Judge Hillyer set
the hearing for Saturday.
And this reminds me that yesterday
afternoon, when leading Democrats were
offering to bet that the convention was
defeated, Bullock was equally as earnest
to bet that it was carried. “I tell you,”
said he, “the oall is sure to be sustained.
I have looked over the list of delegates
carefully, and I have never kuown such
an able body of men to be selected in the
State before. They can't be defeated.”
The mass of the people here are re
joicing this morning in the prospect of
victory, but a few sore-headed politicians
and office-holders are growling. The
negroes who voted against the convention
were mostly.managed by Democrats who,
from personal motives, desired tojdefeat
the convention. It is safe to say that
the better class of citizens supported the
call. Some good men voted against it
for fear the capital would be removed,
and their property ruined.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
H. I. Kimball has perfected a plan to
relieve the Atlanta Cotton Factory from
its embarrassments by the issue of pre
ferred stock, and he promises to have the
looms at work in about two mouths.
The ladies of St. Philip’s Episcopal
Church gave a Hue entertainment at the
Opera House last night, in which some
fifty little girls took part in the charming
operetta of “The Flower Queen.” Miss
Anna Castleberry, the most wonderfully
gifted juvenile vocalist in the State, was
the Queen. Misses Alice Screven, Mox-
ley Sorrel, Cornelia Jackson and Delia
Foreacre were among the most attractive
characters.
An effort has been on foot to secure
the endorsement of the State on the
bonds of a certain newly finished rail
road, and the defeat of the convention
would no doubt have made the attempt
successful, as men in high official posi
tions have been engaged in promoting
the measure. Now that the convention
is to assemble next month, no one I think
will dare attempt such au outrage upon
the tax payers of Georgia. State aid is
dead, aad the convention only has to
bury its putrid carcass.
The most popular men in Atlanta to
day are the members of the City Council.
This is owiDg to the fact that au election
for officials is soon to take place, and
hungry swarms of applicants are after
each position. One Connciimau, whose
office is next to mine, has about five bun
dred visitors a day—candidates and their
friends. In fact, he is never lonely now,
as they hang around him “from early
morn till dewy eve.” It shows that law
yers and doctors are pretty nearly starved
out in the practice of their professions,
otherwise they would not make such des
perate efforts to get hold of offices worth
only from two hundred to five hundred
dollars a year, with few exceptions.
Chatham.
Pronin in Jans Costume—Kcfrcshin*
ltninn— 1 The Cropn—Griffin an n Summer
Itrsort—YVenleyan Feuinle College.
Beneath sombre olouds and silvery rain
drops, we waved a departure to the Forest
City, for a bri,ef visit to the home of our
nativity in the heart of the Empire State,
and to move for a time amid festive and
social scenes, both literary and religious.
The earth is robed in her loveliest huts
the copious showers hath washed the
dust from her brow, and a health inspir
ing breeze is wafted through the verdant
forest and floweiy daie. Vegetation leaps
to catch the smilmg sunbeams as they
play hide and seek amid the flying
cloudlets. The refreshed and
now growing crop has written
a cheerful and hopeful look upon the
farmer's brow. From Savannah to Grif
fin the promise for the ingathering bd 1
growing crops was never better. In Jef
ferson and Spalding oounties—where we
made short stoppages, we walked through,
as a matter of recreation, some of the
farms, and speak by comparison. The
only apparent drawback is the smallness
of the weed; but it is very healthy and
entirely free of weeds and grass. We
trust the extended arms of railway reach
ing out from your city, the first port c f
man a uand harvest from
A Meat Shower in l’ennessee.
A correspondent of the Nashville Amer
ican, writing from Franklin, in that
State, says:
“We had a meat shower last Thursday
night in Franklin. This is all we lacked
to be a great people, and now we’ve had
it. It just preceded the rain, and we all
supposed it to be hail. It passed away
except on the tin roofs, where it was not
absorbed. Judge Turley brought some of
it down next morning to the Chancery
Court room, but, unlike au estate, it was
got out after the lawyers had tasted it as
much as they wished. I send you what
remains of it, aud I wish you to
pass it over to Dr. Summers and Prof.
Winchell, who will give you the long
name for it. I have placed the substance
uuder a fair microscope and find it an or
ganism, a lorioated infusoria. From the
average seeu in one drop the number
must have been immense indeed. The
enclosing jelly is perfectly transparent
except a little coal dust and paint from
the tin roof. Each animalcule is onolosed
in a case or shell of silica and all are
alike, of the same family. To the un
educated eye they most nearly resemble,
under the glass, a pile of minnows. The
cases give the prismatic colors, making a
fine show. Each one has about ten cilia
on each side, and two tuberoles in front
serve for a mouth. One drop oentains
about fifty or sixty, and they have plenty
of room to float around. They are about
oue four hundredth of an moh long.
Where they came from I oannot say
possibly from the deoaying heaps of kelp
in the Gulf of Mexioo, or, as the winds
have been from the north for some time,
they may have come from the lakes.
On the ocean these showers are not an
unusual occurrence. The ship Challenger
encountered off the Cape de Verd Islands
an immense shower of a colored infusion,
aud their numbers were so great that the
color of the water was changed for a
great maa; miles.
Another vessel saw a shower off the
coast of Africa that extended up and down
the coast for sixty miles aud out to sea
for eighty miles. They often fall in with
suow, imparting their color to it, so that
people imagine the snow is red.
Occasionally blood or meat showers
take place in different localities, o&using
great consternation among the ignorant
and superstitious. This peculiar shower
did not attract so much attention, on ac -
count of its want of color.
repo^ mounTedhU horse and rode
re P ’ . iu. murnav prying
ho reached
flout., Ac
place
rr^eX 'thedead President he
fired his revolver into the lifeless remains,
a then raking up another assassin, Mo-
and then taking up escaped.
^ e be governm“Lt r °itsp a atcLd troops in
^ hut the assassins rode on to Ma-
o- r*£s =•
formed^ rmw°C*binet -th Gem Esc<,ba
Jone^lsunomn was placed tai»sUteof
defense, and the en’ire oonnt y
to be in a state of siege.
4n opinion of Phil Sheridan, expressed
recently at Chicago, upon the European
war, was thought to be so sharp
was telegraphed to New York. ’
r.n save the Russians will cross the
Danube^when they get ready. That is t _
sum and substance of his 0 P m ‘°“%
Perhaps Sherman can do better; or Fred.
Grant.
the South, will reap a good harvest from
these promising cotton fields.
Griffin holds its own very well, eonsio-
the enterprising growing towns
above and below it. ’Tis a lovely city,
situated on a ridge, and is re
markable for health, for the robustne: s
of her men and the ruddy beauty of her
maidens. Her sohool and church privi
leges are equal to any in the State, and
there i* ho place more delightful as a
summer resort, for those who seek refuge.
from malarial districts.
I met Rev. Mr. Harley, of your city,
up here, where he leaves his family dur
ing his absence, on his contemplated
visit to the Old W orld.
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE — BI-ANNUAL
CELEB BATION OF THE PHILOMATHEA*
SOCIETY.
We reached Macon about 7 p. m., and
taking tea at one of the very best ofliced
and kept hotels of the State—the Brown
House—we walked slowly up Cottage
Hill with an old Charlestonian fnend,
arriving at the spacious chapel just in
time to find ourselves among the hun
dreds who were left seatless, and the
most part on the outside. We stood fer
awhile in a chair with the Hon. J. O. B..
takine side glances, through his long ret
beard! down the length, haU over
a sea of heads at the beautiful young
actresses on the stage, until we lnaagined
every young miss sported auburn hair, or
was dressed in autumnal colors Fortu
nately the surging waves of t* 6 vaat
crowd opened a crevice large enough fey
us to slip inside the door, where we stood
high enough from the floor to see over
the greater portion, and was a faithful
eye witness, but nolof the _ear,_through
the remainder of
hu Br & sar
T-B^ln^keye.
the interesting pro
^The'attendance of visitors from a dis
tance is likely to be very large, and the
annual exercises very tnte^ng^Yours,
Clothes-Moths.—Cioth.s-moths are
always worse in the summer, writes the
Rev. J. G. Wood, than in any other
period of the year; but there is one plan
by which they may be baffled. It is
simple, but useful from its very simpli
city, and may be expressed in two words
“brown paper.” There is no such pro
teotion against the elothes-moth a«
brown paper. Years ago I purchased an
enormous rug of white woif-skm, which
has been an inestimable benefit to the
whole family. Every summer I wrap it
up in brown paper, and not a moth has
attacked it. Why the clothes-moth
should have so great an aversion to
brown paper I cannot tell, but such is the
case. I find that professional furriers
employ the same plan, but do not dis
close that very simple secret. Annually
thousands of valuable seal-skin jackets
and other furs are handed over to the
dealers for preservation during the sum
mer, and nothing is done except wrap
ping them up in brown paper and letting
them be until the dawning of autumn.
There are of course instances where furs
and other similar articles must of neces
sity be left exposed during the summer
time. Let every piece of these be
violently shaken every morning, and not
a clothes-moth will harbor within it.—
“An Old Housekeeper" in Germantown
Telegraph.
It is Baid that “the moon has gained
about an inch in rapidity of motion"
within the last hnndred years. This is no
doubt true, for young men will tell you
that when talking at the gate with their
sweethearts the moon goes down much
quicker now than it did when they were
bovs waiting to rob a watermelon patch in
the dark.—Louistille Courier Journal.
— > <
Disclosures during the bankruptcy pro
ceedings against Henri Rochefort, in
Paris, show that his salary when he was
the editor of the Rights of Man newspaper
was $14,400 a year, payable in advanoe.
Atlanta, Ga., June 15, 18
In consolidating the reports for this
month, the State has been divided into
five sections, with a view to exhibit more
correctly the condition of the crops in
each, as influenced by different natural
features of climate and elevation, and
diverse meteorological conditions.
This division is made, first and mainly,
with reference to geological formation
and elevation above the sea level, modi
fied, to some extent, by differences in
latitude, and also by natural division
lines.
These diverse conditions have resulted
in giving different degrees of prominence
to a given crop or industry in the several
sections of the State.
It is well known that in the first section,
embracing the counties of North Georgia
the labors of the farmer ere chiefly
directed to the production of corn,
wheat, oats, rye, clever, and the grasses,
and (comparatively) sorghum, Irish pota
toes and apples.
The second section, Middle Georgia,pro
duces chiefly cotton, corn, wheat, oats,
peaches, peais, grapes, eto.
The third section, Southwest Georgia,
and the fourth section, East Georgia, are
very similar in geological formation, and
in products also, both giving special at
tention to cotton, corn and oats, and
much less to wheat than in Middle or
North Georgia, whilst sugar cane and
ground peas and chufas are important
products.
The fifth section, Southeast Georgia,
embraces the coast or tide water region,
and covers the greater part of the area
devoted to rice and sea island cotton, and
is considered well adapted to sheep hus
bandry, and unsuited to the production
of wheat and rye, and the fruits of the
more northerly sections.
Hitherto the condition of a particular
crop in a section 1>roducing it to a very
limited extent has had undue influence in
arriving at the -general average for the
State. This difficulty has been, to some
extent, obviated, and the average condi
tion in the several sections is shown
separately.
This arrangement still leaves, as a
problem of some difficulty, estimating the
averages for the State at large, when the
seasons and other contingent circum
stances have been different in the differ
ent sections.
This is owing to the want of reliable
statistics of areas and production in the
several counties.
CORN.
Owing mainly to the cool, dry weather,
the condition of this crop is reported at
rotu 2 to 15 per cent, lower than aver
age, being highest in North Georgia, 98,
and lowest in Middle Georgia, 85. The
average of ail sections is 94; the average
for the State 1st Jape, 187C, was 106.
Since the 1st June good rains have fallen
in many parts of the State, and the pros
pect proportionately improved.
OATS.
Average condition of fall-sown oats,
by sections, was 81—compared to aver
age of the State 1st May, 86.
Their condition in North and Mid
dle Georgia was 62 and 69 re
spectively, owing to the fact of ma
turing later, and beiDg, therefore, more
injured by the May drought; and also to
the circumstance of greater injury from
winter killing.
In North and Middle Georgia the pre
ference is almost evenly balanced between
the winter grazing and yellow or-red rust
proof, sb to hardiness. In the other sec
tions, the Irwin rust-proof has greatly the
preference.
All varieties have escaped rust, the in
jury from this source being less than 2 (
per cent. Spring sown bear about the
same comparison to an average crop, be
ing reported at 80-
wheat
is reported censiderably over an average
in those sections—North and Middle
Georgia—where it is most grown. The
general average of the sections is 103,
but the correct average, due allowance
being made for the circumstances already
alluded to, would be about 107, or 7 per
cent, better than au average crop. Sev
eral reports of comparatively extraordi
nary yields have been received. One
correspondent in Randolph county re
ports yields, respectively, of 27 and 22
bushels per acre, and an average for the
county of fifteen bushels.’ This is a
remarkable result in a section of the State
that has never been considered as adapted
to the production of wheat, and is due
ohiefly to tho peculiarly favorable con
dition, as to moisture and temperature,
which prevailed during May, aud indi
cates the great importance of discovering
a rust-proof variety which shall make the
crop more independent of these favor
able circumstances.
Of the varieties distributed with the
view to test their rust-proof character,
correspondents generally report tho Dal
las as exempt from rust; one, however,
says “not more so than others, and ten
days later than blue-stem.” A small
quantity of a new variety—the Nicara-
ua—was sent out, and the reports are
unanimous that it is nut-proof. The
season, however, has been very favorable
for'wheat, and the test has not been very
severe. The average injury from rust is
reported at 4 per cent.
COTTON.
The stand of ootlon in North Georgia
is far below an average, being only 46.
A great part of the crop was planted just
at the beginning of the dry weather. In
the other sections the stand is 93 per
cent, of an average.
The size of the plant is much below an
average, but the fields are free grass, and
the warm-growiDg weather will soon make
great improvement in the^irospect. Cut
worm have been very destructive to the
young plants, notably in Lowndes and
Macon counties, necessitating planting
over a large part of the crop in Lowndes.
SUGAR CANE
is inferior, both as to stand and size ; but
it shows a better average iu those sections
where it is most grown.
Where the stand is good, propitious
seasons will easily overcome the draw
backs of the spring.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sorghum is a little below the average in
stand and condition. Ground peas and
chufas, eaoh, 90: and melons 85.
OBCHABDS.
The peach prospect is 111—11 per cent,
better than an average. The attention of
farmers is again directed to the impor
tance of providing means for rapidly
drying the surplus fruit. The report
shows that the peach crop, in the last ten
years, has been destroyed by frost, in
North Georgia, five times; in Middle
Georgia, three times; in Southwest Geor
gia, two to three times; in East Georgia,
five times; and in Southeast Georgia,
three times. The apple and pear pros
pects are inferior iu North and Middle
Georgia, where they are chiefly grown,
aud good in the three other sections.
POTATOES.
Irish potatoes are a little below an aver
age. The planting of sweet polatoes has
been much delayed by dry weather. This
should not be. It is a good practice to
keep the ground intended for draws al
ways mellow, by frequent plowings, and
set the draws, whon large enough, with
or without rain—provided there is a mod
erate supply of well or branch water to
be had. To plant—open holes with a
dibble, or stick, insert the draw, pour in
half pint of water and cover the wet with
dry earth. No pressing is needed.
Farmers, try this plan.
BICE.
Is little below an average in
the State at large, but iu the
southeastern section, where much the
greater part of the crop is produoed, it is
five per cent, better.
STOCE—SHEEP—DOGS.
The number of sheep killed by dogs in
the last twelve months was eight and a
half per cent, of the whole, and destroyed
by disease and cold only five per cent.
The value of the sheep annually de
stroyed in Georgia is not less than $70,-
000—sufficient to pay the expenses of a
Constitutional Convention or a twenty
day session of the Legislature.
That amount of money would be wisely
expended if it should result in the passage
of an effectual sheep-proteotive dog-law.
It costs no more to produce a pound of
wool than a pound of cotton, and the
wool sells for three times the price of
cotton. Again, the one hundred thousand
dogs in Georgia consume and destroy
food, either already fit for human use, or
suitable for feeding to productive animals,
sn amount which, estimated in bacon,
would Hip ply, perhaps fifty thousand
laboring men I Perhaps one fourth, or
even one-half, of these dogs are more or
less valuable and profitable. The re
mainder are a curse and a burden. Cer
tainly these considerations merit the care
ful attention of our legislators.
HOGS.
There is od increase in the pork pros
pect, compared with last year, of six per
cent. Cholera has prevailed to bat lim
ited extent, destroying five per cent, of
the stock.
LABOB, SUPPLIES, ETC.
Labor is very generally reported as
equal to the demand aud moie efficient.
Supplies good and farmers generally in
better condition than at any time since
the war. On the whole, the general con
dition of the farming interest in Georgia
is encouraging, and farmers are grad
ually but surely attaiuiug independence
and prosperity.
Thomas P. Janes,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
k GAMBLER’S SERMON.
CIVIL ScRVlOE UiFuRJL
Hr. Haven Sitting Dawn an Ihc Eminent
Colared Patriot.
[Special Conesp ndence N. O. Democrat.]
Washington, June 8, 1877.—The emi
nent colored patriot is passing from our
gaze, but not like a beautiful dream; for
he dies hard, and the scene of his disso
lution is made lively by his lusty though
futile kioks at destiny. The experiment
of statesmanizing the colored patriot be
gan by those Congresses which Ben Wade
and Tbad Stevens used to own—except
such fragments as were from time to time
ourchased by the Credit Mobilier Com
pauy cud other dealers in human cattle —
and carried out by Grant, may fairly be
said to have beeu definitely abandoned.
This is a startling declaration,
but it is true, and its truth
fulness will have grown into established
history by the time Mr. Hayes greets his
successor in the White House. True
there are still occasional appointments of
negroes to office, but if the policy of
this administration be closely watched,
it will be discovered that the design is to
let the colored patriot down easy; to
eliminate him from the statesmanship of
the period gradually; to render him less
by degrees, aud beautifully less; so that
when he finally vanishes entirely he wiil
not be able to miss himself, as it were.
The mission of the Republican party
for the last decade has been to hold the
eminent colored patriot up by the tail,
and the concurrent te .ch;ng of all the
Radical leaders at the North has beeu
that the white population of the South
was a barbarous race, whioh could
be oivilized only through the refining
agency of negro government. The the
ory was that the Southern people must
be robbed in order to ohasten them, and
to this end the carpet-baggers were sent
down to develop the latent colored talent
for larceny. The troops were, of oourse,
incidental to these operations. This is a
plain, blunt description of the old Radi -
cal policy toward the South: a compound
of fanaticism and villainy, the like of
which has never been seen in the past,
and the hideousness of which, in retro
spect, will be its own abundant remedy
m the future.
Well, this portion of the mission
of the Republican party is practi
cally ended. Mr. Hayes and
his advisers have quietly, but
firmly, concluded that, owiDg to the rapid
increase in the specitio gravity of the
eminent colored patriot, viewed as a dead
weight, the task of holding him perpetu
ally up by the tail must be abandoned.
The original proposition of the Radicals
that the longer he was thus held up th
sooner he would be able to stand alone
was found to be as absurd in practice as
it was paradoxioal in theory, and thi- ad
ministration, taking one good, square look
at the situation, concluded to let go of
the tail and leave the eminent colored
patriot to stand alone, if he could, and if
he couldn't, do the next bast thing.
I do not mean to say that the adminis
tration proposes to turn its back upon
the man and brother, or that the eminent
colored patriot is to bo kicked down the
front steps. That isn’t the policy. On
the other band, he is to be treated with
distinguished consideration, a la Pinch
back, on the recent occasion of his cal
at the White House. He is to be advised
with concerning the situation, to be
asked concerning the fitness of this
and that applicant for office, and all
that sort of thing; and then the admin
istration, after bowingthee. e. p. out and
asking him to call again, wiil go and ap
point the other fellow. Thus the colored
patriot is to be “froze out” as it were,
so delioately and by such beautiful de
grees that he will never know what hurt
him. At this writing there is very little
real, lively sympathy for the negro
among the masses of the Northern peo
ple. As a “ward of the nation” the emi
nent colored patriot is definitively played
out, and Mr. Hayes, in quietly sitting
down on him, is only conforming to the
drift of sentiment in the Northern States
Just at this moment there is vast excite
ment in social circles over the prospective
problem of Cadet Flipper and nis sooiel
status. Flipper iB to grad late this year
at West Point,aud as he intends to demand
‘an assignment to servioe, there seems
to be no escape from the problem: “Wiil
he mess with the white officers? Will
the society girls have to dance the Ger
man with him—horror of horrors ? What
is to be done with him anyhow ?” These
are the agonizing inquiries evoked by the
prospective irruption of the eminent col
ored patriot into the haul ton of the
army. The replies are various and inge
nioue: “Give him a platoon of nigger
troops and then send the platoon out into
the Sioux country ! Send him to Alaska
and freeze him out! But I do not hear
anybody, not even the most advanced
Radicals, proposing that he shall be sta
tioned in Washington on staff duty,
which means the wearing of boutonnieres
and dancing the German.
' For my own part I shall not be sur
prised to hear of Flipper’s resignation at
the end of a brief term of servioe.
Hot as the cadets made it for him
when he first entered the Academy, he
will find that theirs was a cordial wel
come compared to the cold shoulder he
will encounter in active service. Thus
we observe that while the laws of nature
may be repealed by Radical Congresses,
the repeal ultimately vetoes itself. The
emiueut colored patriot has reached the
summit of his possibilities under the
operation of the Radical tail-hold. He
must now glide gently down the other
side of the declivity until he reaches tiie
genial plane fixed for him by the im
mu! able laws of fate. It may be sad, bat
it can't be helped. Not even the tears of
Morton and Blaine and the two Bens—
Wade and Bntler—though shed by the
barrelful; nor the gaping wounds of
Eliza Pinkston with ail the woe of
Garfield, can save him.
A. C. Buell. ^
At a Sunday school a teacher asked a
little boy if he knew what me expression
“sowing tares" meant. “Courth I do,"
said he, polling a part of his trousers
around in front. “There's a tear my ma
sewed; I teared it when I was sliding
down hill.”
The graduating class of West Point has
bad a cup made, costing three hundred
dollars, to be presented to the first baby
born to any of the class who shall marry.
This is calcnlated to make the infantry
manoeuvres quite lively.
Advica Co Vanns Hen Who Pool
With Chance.
The Resell Bertbqaake la Pera—Six
Handrail l.lvee Lent and Twenty Mil
lions of llall.irn Worth el Property lie
■trayed—The Annihilated Towns and
DnanseJ Nhlpplnx-
[Prom the Cincinnati Enquirer .f
His clothes were good, of the latest
pattern and most fashionable cut. His
watch-chain was the heaviest of the
heavy, aud as fine as the gold of Ophir.
It surpassed in richness the gold obain
that the King hung about the neck of
the young prophei Daniel. His boots
were highly polished, aud shone like the
exterior of fine black walnut coffins. His
diamond pin twinkled like the evening
star in.a summer sky. His shirt bosom
was as white as au infant’s soul, but his
eyes were sad and his voice was as sor
rowful and sorrowing as the wailing of
the winds in the drooping branches of
the weeping willow. He tapped his boot
with his natty ivory-headed cane, slipped
down in his chair, to give the base of
his spinal column a rest, pulled his hat
over his eyes, and languidly said— which
painfully indicated that the gambler had
struck a loser, had coppered in the wrong
place.
'Faro is a h—1 of a fascinating game 1
In all the games for gambling it bus no
equal. A man’s a d—n fool to play it,
but it catches the oldest of ’em. The
chances, on the closest calculations, are
three to one on each play at the outset
against the player: occasionally we stiike
a winner, but we only win to lose. The
most prosperous of us die in the gutter—
unknown, forgotten and deserted. Luck
only smiles on us for a brief season, and
when fickle fortune deserts us, she never
roosts above our doors again! Few of
us are wise enough to save iu luck, iu
order to live in a rainy day. But while
we live, we live, and after all, that is all
there is of life! The hereafter is a
obanoe, and the old man has put up the
cards so well that nobody has ever called
the turn. It’s a ‘cat hop’ at the best. We
are not utterly heartless. It makes my
heart ache to see how many young men are
drawn into the vortex and down to ruin.
They begin on a game of base ball. They
lose on a horse race, get oaught at a
friendly game of draw, and in an evii
hour try to get even on faro. They often
win on the first venture, but it is a terri
ble success. They always pay one thou
sand per cent, on the first winning, and
often they play life and blood on the first
investment. The first winning opens the
fascinating road to hell; builds up a bar
rier behind them which few ever climb
over to reformation. A little sentimental,
ain’t I ? Have something ? You don't
drink? Good. Barkeeper, give me a
whisky punoh, light! I’m blue to-day.
Gambling and its attending excitement
burn all the stamina out of a man, but,
thank God.' it cannot, does not, blot out
his sympathies. I wish I had never touched
a card, but I am a born gambler. It’s in
me; it always was; and I’m in for it until
the deal is out. I hate to see young men
of promise at a gaming table. They have
mothers and sisters who love them ; they
have good situations and employeis win
trust them; but the day they set foot iu
side a gambling room their fate is sealed.
The Recording Angel enters up the books
ahead, ninety nine times out of a hundred
and loafs around the gates of St. Peter to
notice the arrivals and say tah! tab ! to the
boys who are assigued rooms lower down.
I have a case in mind now. A fine fellow,
who a short time since was agent for a New
York varnish house aud commanded a sal
ary of $5,000 a year, in traveling go
lonely. He gambled for amusement when
his business was over. He fooled wit!
the tiger, put his hands through the bars,
petted the beast, and suddenly found
himself torn to pieces. To-day he is an
outcast—drunken, broken, deserted.
would advise every young man who has a
business never to cross the threshold of a
gambling house. I have made big win
nings and I have made big losings. I lost
$6,000 in Chicago trying to make ten.
was broke and down and stayed down for
a long while. I’m up again. If I had a
business you would never catch me gamb
ling again. Guess I’ll go and buy a couple
of stacks of reds and see how luck ruDs
to-day. Good afternoon. ”
SILVER IN OHIO POLITICS.
Haves nod Secretary Sherman to
Evolve a Policy.
A Washington special to the New York
World says: The President is informing
himself on the silver question in its varied
bearings, and takes every occasion to dis
cuss it with those who.have become cod
versaut with the subject. The Republi
cans of Ohio are anxious to know how
they shall meet it iu the platform of their
forthcoming oouventiou, and have sen
Senator Stanley Matthews here to obtain
the views of the administration. It
becoming very evident that the
new policy on this question will b
in favor of making silver a legal
tender equal to the legal tender character
of the Treasury notes, which of course
covers all contracts made iu the latter
and holding at the same time that th,
government should only exchange silver
for the legal tenders and fractional cur
rency, as is now to a certain limit author
ized by law. This may not take official
shape until Congress meets in October,
though so far as Secretary Sherman is
concerned no concealment is made of his
views in favor of the remonetization o
silver within the restrictions named, ijs
believes that a law making the silver dol
lar a legal tender will aid resumption
as it will take the place of the Treasury
notes exchanged for it. Gov. Cullom, of
Illinois, who has lately become prominent
on this question by his veto of an act
making silver a legal tender for all debts
incurred iu the State of Diinois, had ai
interview with the President to-day and
debated the question as one assuming na
tional importance. Governor Cullom ex
pressed the opinion to the President that
a goodly portion of the people of Illinoi
had been misled temporarily on the re
monetization of silver, and that in time
they would see their error and sustain his
veto. He gave his views at the Presi
dent’s request, quite fully, and the Pres;
dent, despite the reports of his opinion
heretofore published, seemed to concur
with the Governor. Subsequently
in a discussion at which Secretary
Evarts and others were present, he listen
ed very atteneively to the views submit
teJ, but gave no positive oonolusions in
reply to them. It is the very decided im
pression, however, of those who were
present, save Mr. Evarts, who did not
join in the conversation, that the Presi
dent favors the restoration of the old sil
ver dollar, and it will doubtless be found
in time that he will go as far as Secretary
Sherman in making it a legal tender. jThe
Ohio Republican platform will probably
be the first positive indication of the
views which the administration will sus
taiD, and Senator Matthews will frame the
plank in Washington for it. When the
campaign opeDS, if some more positive
identification with it is needed, there
will, of course, be no trouble in securing
it here.
A Yebmont Humobibt.—Young Mr
Blow, of Bennington, Vermont, is a hu-
moriat. His sense of the ludicrous
excessively acute, and nothing, it appears^
amuses him more than a frighteiit-d wo
man.
Young Mr. Blow walked out in the
fields last Sunday in company with two
women, his cousins. Humorist as he is,
he took a gun with him, although we be
lieve the use of that sportiDg implement
on Sunday is strictly forbidden both by
the law and by the public sentiment of
Vermont.
Mr. Blow wanted to make a joke, and
he made it. He neglected to blow into
his gun, and rested confident in the be
lief that it was not loaded, wherefore he
believed it to be perfectly safe to point
the weapon at his cousins, merely to
frighten them into an exquisitely ludic
rous oondition of terror. Unluckily tho
gun was loaded ; as empty guns are pretty
snre to be when humorists of Mr. Blow’s
kind undertake to perpetrate the entirely
original joke of pointing them at other
persons. The gun went off, wounding
both women, one of them, it ia feared,
fatally. It would be an excellent thing
now to lock this humorist up, say for tec
years or so, just to give him time to laugh
over his exquisite jest.
The Panama Star and Herald of May
30 has a Lima letter of May 20 giving the
‘following particulars of the Peruvian ti
dal wave and earthquake, of whioh we
published a brief telegraphic report on
Tuesday:
At about 8:90 ou the night of the 9th a
severe earthquake shook, lasHu from
four to five minutes, moved tntT entire
southern coast, overraaohing down as far
as Antafagnstu. So severe was the move
ment that iu many places it was impossi
ble to stand upright without support.
The first shock was succeeded by several
others of less intensity, and then
the sea reoeding from the shore
seemed to concentrate its strength
for the fearful and repeated attacks it
made upon the land. At Arica the peo
ple wer- busily engaged in preparing
tempon.rv fortifiuatious to repal a threat
ened assault of the rebel r„m Huascar
when the rear of tho earthquake was
heard. The shocks were very numerous,
and caused immense damage in the town,
the people flying to the marro for safety.
The sea was suddenly perceived to recede
from the beach, and a wave from ten to
fifteen feet in height rolled in upon the
shore, carrying before it all that it met.
Eight times was repeated this assault of
the ocean. The earthquake had leveled
to the ground the custom house in great
part, the railway station, the submarine
cable office, the hotel, the Britiab consu
late, the steamship agency, and many
private dwellings. Owing to the early
hour of the evening and the excitement
attendant on the proposed attack of the
Huascar, every one was out and
stirring, and the only loss of life
reported is that of three little children
who were overtaken by the water. The
plunder commenced, the evil-disposed
improved the occasion to rob the goods
scattered along the beach, andthe prefect
to enfnn rdir was obliged to command
his troops to fire upon the thieves. This
occasioned a tumult, iu which several
men were killed and wounded. Arequipa,
the chosen victim of earthquakes, was
this time left intact. Her own special
volcano, the Misti, left the honors of the
fray to his distant brother on the fron
tier, for it would appear that the shock
piooeeded from the Llaga, a volcano situ
ated on the southern boundary between
Peru aud Bolivia, anil whioh has recently
beea reported in activity. Iquique is in
ruins. The movement was i-xperienoed
there at the same moment with the same
superhuman force. Its duration was
exactly four minutes aud twenty seoonds,
proceeding from the southeast, directly
from the location of the Llaga. A*
Iquique houses built of wood and cane
tumbled down at the first onset of the
enemy. Lamps were broken, and the
burning oil spreading over the debris im-
nediately started a general conflagration.
Three companies of firemen were in
stantly at their posts, although it was
still aiffioult to maintain an upright posi
tion, shock following shock with dread
ful regularity. In order to procure water
the two best engines were stationed on
the beach, and work began. Just then the
cry arose: “The sea ! the sea!!” andthe
waves rushed in. The engines were car
ried out by the reflux and the fire con
tinued unopposed. Three elements of
destruction were busy at one moment.
The affrighted people gave up all at
tempts at resistance and left the oity to
its fate, flying to the neighboring emi
nences. The fire destroyed a large por
tion of the town, the earthquake leveled
nearly all the rest, and the
water covers the ruins which it
took out in its reflux. Four
entire squares of buildings were swamped
and taken by the waves; all the wharves
were destroyed. The custom house is
gone ; the nitrate stores have disappeared;
the water condensers along the shore
ruined, a most irreparable loss for Iquique,
as no palatable water is found there. An-
tafagasta, Mexillones, Tooopilla and Ca-
bija, towns on the coast of Bolivia, met
with the same misfortune of earthquake
aud tidal wave at the same time, and are
iu an identical oondition with Iquique
and Arica. At Antafsgasta several lives
were lost. Mexillones was visited by a
tidal wave sixty-five feet in height, two-
thirds of the town is completely oblit
erated. At Mexillones six persons were
drowned.
At Tooopilla, little or njthing remains
of the town. A mine called “La Pena
Blanca,” four miles to the southward,
sank in, smothering two hundred work
men, of whom forty were Cornish miners.
Cabija, the prinoipai town on the Bolivian
coast, has lost three.fourths of its houses.
The wave, thirty-five feet high, swept
along the main business street aud left it
as level as the desert. Wharves and
launches were all carried out to sea. Ail
of these towns are in the greatest distress.
Chili has escaped without injury. The
northern parts of Peru were damaged
but little, although the sea was running
remarkably high. Efforts for the reiicf
of the distressed are being made.
Chanavaya, the little town at the guano
loading ‘ deposit, known as Pabella de
Pica, with four hundred houses, to-day
has only two standing. Here, as at
Iquique, the earthquake was followed by
fire. The sea came in and extinguished
the conflagration, but as it retired car
ried off all that remained of the place.
In one of the guano cuttings thirty la
borers were buried by the falling earth
and suffocated. Amongst the shipping
at least two hundred people were killed:
bodies were floating around in the bay,
and a pestilence is feared. At Huanillos,
another guano loading station, the dam
age inflicted was fearful. AU the houses
were destroyed. The wave whioh suc
ceeded the earthquake and completed the
work of destruction was nearly sixty feet
in height.
The Old World is threatened with a fear
ful innovation in fashion. “Pairs” are
going out. Hereafter it will be in the
very best taste for a lady to go to a ball
with oue white glove and one pearl-gray
—and, by the way, in Paris gentlemen do
not wear gloves at night, but carry them
partly exposed in the breast of the waist-
ooat—or with a long diamond drop iu one
ear and an exaggerated emerald pendent
in the other, or to appear decoUetee as to
one Bhining shoulder and high in the[neck
as to the other, or to imitate Girofie-
Girojla in some eccentric extravagance of
costume-color. It may come to a high-
stepping young woman of a rainy day
exposing two limbs, reminding the casual
behclder of the signs of rival barbers, or
infect male dandies with the desire of ap
pearing in diversified pantaloons, one leg
say of sombre navy .blue and one of Ox,
ford gray.—AT. Y. World.
Henry E. Childs, the educated twenty-
year-old son of a wealthy Hartford phy
sician, is under arrest for setting fire to
four buildings, at different times. He has
for a year been the leader of a gang of
young men who robbed and burned in
East Hartford to an extent that dumb
founded the citizens. His motive seems
to have been pure deviltry, for he had no
lack of money, and realized very little
from his crimes. One of the structures
set on fire was a church. He confesses
that the party, when arreBted, had plan
ned to kill and rob a merchant. The proof
that led to his detection was the imprint
of his corduroy trousers where he had
fallen in a [Vowed field, while running,
away from a fire that he had kindled.
A telegram from Philadelphia says:
“Charles Stringer was arrested to day by
the agent of the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Children for placing
his grandson upon a hot stove and burn
ing him badly, for assaulting his wife and
another grandchild with a hatchet and
knife, and for setting fire to his house.”
If we followed the example of the Re
publican organs we would state that the
cremation of grandsons was “a favorite
pastime of the barbarous people of the
North.” That is the style by whioh they
purposely misrepresent the South.—
Courier-Journal.
The streets of London, if placed in one
line, would form an avenue of seven thou
sand miles in length. In the daily cleam -
ing of the streets about fourteen thousand
men find employment, and six thousand
horses and two thousand four hundred
carts. The engineer in chief has a salary
of ten thousand dollars The work goes
on day and night, but the actual sweeping
does not commence until 8 p. m.
Cupid and Mars have met on the gol
den coast. Gen. Nagle, of California, ia
required by a jury to pay $27,500 to a
woman named Hants, who sued him for a
breach of promise. He has appealed the