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J. H. KSTILL,
Savannah, Ga.
Affairs In Georgia.
from the Hine8ville Gazette we learn that
FATAL DEBAUCH IN TEXAS.
Rl.t.n.
Disturbance of the Peaee Fol
lowed bj Harder.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1877.
ESTABLISHED Li50.
onr talented young fellow-citizen, P. W.
jjelJrim, has been selected to deliver the
library address at the commencement of
the llradwell Institute, at Hineaville, Liberty
un tv. The acknowledged ability of the
orator of the day insures a literary treat to
those who will hear him.
Eighty-nine homesteads have been taken
to the present time in Talbot county.
Iiiere has been shipped from Cuthbert
„ - e September 1st, 1876, 8,159 bales of
cottou. During the same time there have
been received there 1,290,800 pounds of fer
tilizers* 527,671 pounds of flour, 150,003 of
corn, 23,969 of lard and 712,257 pounds of
bacon. By a very simple arithmetical calcu
lation it will appear that there hts been paid
for corn, bacon, lard and flour, and fertil-
$133,703, while the value of the cotton
shipped may be placed at $367,155, leaving a
balance in favor of cotton of $233,452, out of
wLicb is to come the labor and other ex
penses of the farm. It seems to us that by
judicious management the outlay for pro
tons might be largely diminished.
Henry Kuox, charged with committing an
outrage upon the person of a white lady in
Franklin county, has been arrested and
confined in jaii to await a hearing before
Judge ltice at the next term of the Superior
Court.
Xhe annual examination of the Sanders-
viiie High School takes place on the 28th
aud 29th inst. The literary address will bo
delivered by Rev. A. J, Battle, D. D., Presi
dent of Mercer University, aud the proceed
ings will be otherwise rendered attractive
by a concert on each evening. We return
thanks for an invitation to be present on the
occasion.
“Levi,” the well known colored janitor of
Mercer University, died at his post on Wed
nesday, June G.h. In his humble sphere Le
was all that could be required of him. His
faithfulness to students, faculty, and trus
tees, and the building and property in his
charge, have been the admiration of all who
have known him as janitor, and in honor of
his funeral services the operations of the
college were suspended.
Jii Griffin last week a young man named
Smith, who, while in a state of semi-intoxi-
cation, called at the house of a neighbor
named Mosely, late at nigh*, was by the lat
ter mistaken for a burglar, who discharged
the coutenta of his shot gun into the left
Lip of Smith. The wound is severe, but
n.it necessarily fatal.
Mr. Bl&ckstuck, who lives about one-half
mile east of Cumining, has the finest and
boldest spring in the county. He aud Mr.
McAfee have built a dam just below the
spring, into which they have turned the
spring branch, aud now have a beautiful
pond, covering about a half acre of giound,
in wuich they have already put some eight
hundred uativ fish, consisting of chubs and
perch. They expect to introduce the Cali
fornia salmon and other species of fish as
obstrvation aud experience may indicate
tboir $uitablene3d to the climate.
'Talbot toil will soon have a street railroad.
The road will be built by a private com
pany, provided the business men and prop
erty holders of Talbottou will encourage
the fClieme. Little money will be asked,
bat a great deal of encouragement. The
survey of the route will be made under the
direction of Major G. W. Masson, President
of Le Vert College.
Application has been made to the Gov
ernor for authority to organize the Griffin,
Barnesvillo and Forsyth companies into a
battalion. Captain Sam Mangham, of the
Light Guard, is a popular candidate for
Major.
Spalding county has invested twelve thou
sand dollars in steam threshing. The ma
chines are manufactured in Indiana, and
the Spa 1 ding farmers are now up to their
eyis in wheat chaff aud dust.
There was not a single vote cast in Bald
win county against convention.
Oglethorpe county scrip finds ready sale
at twenty per cent, discount.
A Randolph county farmer writes the
Commissioner of Agriculture that the wheat
crop of that county will average fifteen
bushels to the aero.
The dwelling house aud kitchen of Mr.
Heury Smith, ot Smith s Cross Roads,
Harris county, was destroyed by fire on
Friday night last. All the furniture, with
the exception of one bed, two trunks aDd
Borne wearing apparel, was burned. All the
iudications Lead to the belief that it was the
work of au incendiary, and suspicion rests
upon a woman, a neighbor of Mr. Harris.
The Hamilton Journal says that Mr. Pat.
Wo ien, of Harris county, and his little son,
on a hunting expedition, killed fourteen
squirrels out of one tree.
Effingham county has been visited by a
very destructive rain storm. A correspon
dent, over the signature of “Novice,”
writing to us from Springfield, Effingham
county, under date of the 16th, says that
“ttie hopes of the farmers in that county in
the vicinage of the Savannah river have
been almost blasted by a great deluge c f
Water, which has inundated all the low
lands. The rain commenced on Sunday, the
Dtli, and came down almost incessantly for
four days. The exact damage is not attain
able, as the succeeding season will bring the
result. If followed by a drought, which is
usu dly the ease, the loss will be groat. The
fields Lave been rendered unarable and the
grasb will take the place of corn. A like
cata*»tro[ he befel this section about a year
a R0. Fortunately this heavy rain is con
fined to a small area and did not reach the
upper part of the county.”
The Oglethorpe Echo 3ays: “Mr. Jessie
^ey, of Maxey’s, in this county, was born
in the year 1795. Iu 1813 he found a swarm
°f bees, aud lias still hives from the same
st >ck. Mr. M. works regularly in the field,
frequently on Sunday walks five miles
to church. lie is one of our best citizens,
last Tuesday polled his vote for couvet-
The hog cholera is rapidly exterminating
»uo swiue of Crawford aud vicinity. The
bjtethorpe Echo nays in this connection :
A. gentleman tells us that he feeds spring
jQiuipri to his hogs aud they remain per-
icctlv healthy. This is raid to be the onlv
kniwn cure and preventive for the diseaso.”
The crop prosptots of Monroe, as will be
J eeti by the following from the Advertiser,
re splendid: “If the average is stated at
ne hundred, the present growing corn crop
1 Mouroe is ninety-eight. It is sevea per
less than last year. The crop of fall
.A 818 ninety, three per cent, of an average,
na spring oats fifty-three per cent. The
d Ai We SJ her Cllt off tho latter cr °P a £ reat
ibo : . ^ ,ie w k® a * cr £P twenty per cent.
The Macon Telegraph Bays: “A narrow )
escape from a shocking death was had by a j
negro baby the other day, between Eastman |
and McRae, on the Macon and Brunswick
Railr ad. The mother of the child took it j
fishing with her, and left it sitting on the j
railroad track while she angled for ‘the j
forked tails on the yan side,’ and in her ab- i
sence the up passenger train came along, j
the pilot of the locomotive struck the child,
but did uot kill it, and the entire traiu
passed over it without harming it. With
the exception of slight bruises, it was un
hurt. Struck on the head, as usual.”
The Albany News says : “A young farmer
of Lee, Mr. J. T. Whitsett, has twenty acres
in wheat, his ‘brag crop.’ A North Georgia
man alleges that it will make twenty bushels
to the acre on an average, which will give
him four hundred and forty bushels. Car
ried to the mill and ground, this will give
him about eighty barrels ot flour. Allowing
for the reaction to come in the present high
price of flour, we will say it is worth ten
dollars per barrel. This will give him eight
hundred dollars on twenty-two acres, which
is a mite better than if cotton ruled on that
land.”
This is a pen picture of the country editor
from one of our Georgia exchanges by one
who knows how it is himself. We thiuk the
Franklin Register is responsible for the
graphic delineation: “The average country
editor has a hard time in this life, particu
larly if there be nine in the family and the
house cat dependent on him. Besides using
& pint of flour a week for paste, aud wn-
tiug up a quire of paper, he has to appear
in public every day and buttonhole the peo-
f ile to make them take his paper in order to
ive without stealing, at least long enough
to get out another issue. An editor iu a
neighboring village the other day had
three old farmers backed up in the cor
ner of a warehouse, and as ‘refreshments’
passed between them, he converted two
and ‘put tnem down’ for twelve months.
The third man was doubtful. He lived on
the same lot with one of the others and al
ways read the paper aDybow, but the editor
made an elastic spring and tapping the old
man’s shoulder he made his point. He
quoted with telling effect that a newspaper
was like a man’s wife—every man .should
haveione of.his own—and the old man looked
assent with the ball of his eyes as he was
just raising the tickler ana had his head
thrown back, but as soon as he swallowed,
he said, ‘put me down for six months,’ ana
the editor fled home with three Jrag dollars
in bis pocket.”
The Griffin News throws some light upon
the recent election in Spalding county,
which accounts for the large majority cast
for “no convention”: “From the black
crowd that surrounded the court house door
on Tuesday last we are convinced that there
was something wrong, consequently we
have examined the taxoooks for 1876, aud
find that Spalding county only has one
thousand four hundred and eighty-nine
poll s _eight hundred and thirty-four whites
and six hundred and forty-five blacks. The
election returns on Tuesday shows that
there were one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two votes polled, six hundred and
seven ‘for convention’ and one thousand two
hundred and twenty-five for ‘no convention.’
This shows there were three hundred aud
thirty-four votes more polled thau there are
polls iu the county. Now add fifty to the
poll for men who voted that are
over sixty vears old, and we have
one thousand five hundred aud thirty-
nine votes in the county, and it is
generally conceded that there were from
two hundred aud fifty to four hundred men
in the county that did uot vote on Tuesday.
But we will put the number at two huudred
aud fifty; deduct that number from the
number of votes in the county according to
the tax books, and we have one thousand
two hundred and eighty-uine voters to cast,
their suffrage. But strange as it may seem,
there were one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two votes cast on Tuesday—five huu
dred and fortv-three votes more thau we
have in the county, after deducting the two
hundred and fifty that failed to Vvite. Wo
publish these figures and facts for a three
fold purpose, first to show that if there is
over two thousand voters in the county that
there was a great many illegal votes
cast oq Tuesday, because the voters
hid not given’ in or paid their
tuxes. Second, to show that uot exceeding
two hundred white men in the county voted
no convention. It will be remembered that
there is not, according to the tax books, but
eight hundred and thirty-four polls iu the
county ; add to this number thirty for white
men in the county who are over sixty, and
we have eight hundred and sixty-four ; from
that number one hundred and seventy-five
for white men in the county that did not
vote, and we have Bix hundred and eighty-
eight votes. Now deduct the convention
vote, six hundred and seven, from six hun
dred aud eighty-eight, and we have eighty-
one whi e men in the county, ac
cording to our calculation, which we
think is a liberal one, that did not vote
for convention. Third, to show w_e have had
strong reasons for stating previously that
there was not two hundred w hite men iu the
countv that voted against the convention.
One tiling sure, we believe it is a little of
both, either a great many negroes voted in
this county on Tuesday who did not live in
the county or they voted without having
paid their taxes—either way there was
large number of illegal votes cast, and if
the thing was sifted to the bottom the anti’s
rnajori y would be found to be very small, if
in fact they have any majority at all.”
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE.
THE
Commencement Week—Sunday Service*
—Junior Exhibition.
The Vote on
. t au avera g 0 * The condition of the
* ion crop it) eighteen per cent, below an
c Tue peach prospect is five per
c»j * a bove an average; the apple prospect
._ eeri P e r cent, less, aud the peer prospect
7 per CGDt. less. The pork prospect is
l^en per cent, above au average. Three
gtr Cfe£ ! t * tlie sheep of the couniy was de-
< *° g8 ’ an< * ten P €r ceut * died f rom
edno.r^ ran ^ n Register has the following
0J -fthonal item: “During the examination
teachers iu Franklin Institute on
a8t * * n re Ply to the question:
^Mod U0Q va riouG races of mankind?’ a
A 0 * celebrated more for physical
k. , - u mental calibre, wrote: ‘Three
uhiin > t0man » the negro, and the Re-
tcan. He didn’t pass.”
“There is blood athw art the mooi
The leading statesman ot Maine (need it
be said that the Hon. J. G. Blaine is re
ferred to ?) has made up his mind to bot
tie the Hon. Eugene Hale. The Calais
(Me.) Times, a journal of the most stal
wart Republican type, speaking for
Blaine, announces his programme to be
about as follows:
The Indianapolis Journal has compiled
a list of names of persons who have re
cently died in Eugland, and whose estates
are liable to revert to the crown if not
caimed by next of kin. In parenthesis
is the name of the county in which the
persons named resided at the time of
their death:
Amyas, Bevil (Bath); Blake, Mrs.
Helen (£150,000); Bradford, George
(Devonshire): Brown. George (Brighton);
Bouch, L. (died abroad); Curran, William
(Chester); Dufore, Mary (Chester); For-
bas, William Henry (Sussex); Gardiner,
Charles (Essex); Gladstanes, Frederick
(Middlesex); Gullan, Thomas Ricbaid
(Westminster); Grundy, Sarah (Notting-
hum); Hancock, Harriet (Northampton);
Ilolgate, Maria (Surrey); Menzies, W.
(died abroad); Mooney, M. (died abroad);
Norris, Agnes (Cornwall); Perrett, Re-
b^cca (Dorset); Pope, George Simeon
(Middlesex); Sanderly, Mary (Sussex);
Snutb, Mary (Bloomsbury); Sullivan,
Timothy (Glamorgan); Sweeney, Charles
W. (Middlesex); Switt, Thomas (Birken
head): Wilson, William (Lincoln); Up-
eraft, B. (died abroad).
> > •» 4
Moderate Deinkino.—The “ Colonel”
was warming his coat-tail by the stove in
a prouiinet-t Main street saloon. His
nose bore evidence of successful culture,
and glowed with that rich ruby hue which
only a steady aud prolonged worship at
the shrine of Bacchus can produce to
perfection. There was a “dry look
about the corners of his mouth, which
was readily noticed by the sympathizing
barkeeper, who good-naturedly asked
tho Colonel if he would not like a little
stimulant. “Certainly, certainly sir,” re
plied the Colonel promptly, as ho briskly
ttepped up to the bar. Pouring out a
tumbler level full of the fluid he tossed
it off and as soon as he oould regain his
breath he assumed a deprecatory tone
and thus addressed the bar Wper:
“This, sir, is my sixty-fourth drink to
dav I must put on the brakes or the
first thing I know 1 shall degenerate into
excess. Moderation, sir, moderation, the
grand secret of health, has been the rule
of my life. If I had but one more drink
at this moment Kichard would be himself
again.'’ The subsequent remaiks of the
bar keeper indicated that, for all e
cared, Richard might remain impersonal
till the day of judgment.—Austin (ivct.)
Jleceilk.
According to a Washington dispatoh to
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, an old soldier
who was discharged from the Treasury
Department a day or two ago because both
he and his son were employed in the same
department, said : “When we stepped up
to be sworn as soldiers in defense of the
Union sixteen years ago, no objection
was made to us because we belonged to
the same family.”
A country editor notified his sub
scribers that before he discontinued
sending their papers all past dues on
them must be paid up. A number of
subscribers declared that they would
oontinue taking the paper rather than
pay for it.
Macon, Ga., dune 18, 1877.—Sunday
was cloudy and sultry and long ere
the bells were done tolling for church
the citizens and guests commenced
gathering at Mulberry Street Method
ist Church, where Dr. J. C. Gran
berry, of Vanderbilt University, was to
deliver the baccalaureate discourse. Most
of the churches in the city were closed
at this hour and their pastors and congre
gations augmented the attendance, and
all available space on the first and second
floor was occupied. Two or three hun
dred extra seats were provided and still
many were left standing. Twenty-eight
youDg lady graduates formed into pro
cession, after stepping from their oar.
riages in froDt of the church, and march
ed in to the music of the organ, and oc
cupied seats left vacant just in front of
the pulpit.
The choir, led by Prof. Newman, sang
the volunlary anthem, “Israel's Sons
with one Accord,” by Rossini.
Dr. G. arose and read the 361th hymn:
“Ye heart, with youthful vigor warm,
In emiling crowds draw near,
And turn from every mortal charm
A Saviour’s voice to hear.”
The entire congregation joined the
choir, using printed slips furnished for
the occasion.
Dr. Skinner, of the Baptist Church,
led in prayer.
After the Scripture lesson and another
hymn, Dr. G. announced a double text—
I Timothy, 3d ch., 9th and 10th verses;
I Peter, 3i ch., 3d and 4th verses.
You have not the space nor we the time
for a synopsis of the very beautiful and
eloquent discourse. The style was fault
less in rhetoric, abounding in most beau
tiful flowers aud imagery, aud touching
illustrations from Scripture examples.
He held the vast audienoe enchained for
au hour and fifteen minutes.
Praises of the Doctor's discourse came
from the lips of governors, judges, law
yers, professors and divines of every de
nomination. The young ladies, to whom
much of it was directly applied, appreci
ated it highly, and all complimented
President Bass iu securing one who per
formed the delicate task with such great
ability.
Rev. John W. Heidt, of the North
Georgia Conference, preached in this
church at night from the text: “Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” It
was pronounced an able and eloquent dis
course. He is a son of the Rev. E. Heidt,
of your city, and reflects great credit
both upon his father and the city of his
nativity.
Most of the othor churches were filled
by visiting ministers.
JUNIOB EXHIBITION.
The juniors held their exhibition on
Monday morning. The class numbers
fifty-nine. Ouly ten were allowed read
ing places. Seven were awarded by
superior merit in scholarship. Seven
others standing equal deoided by lot the
three places yet unfilled. The fiao pro
ductions and the admirable style in which
they were rendered, gave us an exalted
idea of the junior class. These won only
by the most vigorous and assiduous ap
plication to study.
The following young ladies read com
positions:
Miss Eugenia S. Munnerlyn, Decatur
county, Ga.; Miss Jessie P. Lane, of
Macon; Miss Ophelia J. Lundy, Macon
Ga.; Miss Georgia E. Miller, Savannah
Ga.; Miss Alice L. Cullen, Macon, Ga.
Miss Alice Mabel Camp, Rome, Ga.
Miss Carrie Tracy Johnson, Macon, Ga
Miss Ida L. Holt, Macon, Ga.; Miss
Florine G. Holt, Macon, Ga.; Miss Emily
S. Willet, Macon, Ga.
Miss Miller, of your city, read a very
creditable composition on “ Good Wo
men." It was written in a beautiful style
and happily illustrated by many bright
examples, some of them from Southern
life. She was frequently Epplauded.
Miss Camp, of Rome, gained applause
and great admiration both in composition
and song.
We miss one familiar face from the
rostrum of the commencement exercises
our friend Mr. Watson, local editor of the
Telegraph and Messenger. He is on
a sick bed at home, aud his physi
cians pronounce him dangerously ill
We trust he may be spared and that his
pen may be wielded again for the inter
ost of society, the country and the
church. His loss would be felt greatly
and very much lamented by this com
munity, as well by his mutual friends all
over the State. Yours,
West Mabvin.
We have prepared the following tabu
lated statement of the majorities at the
recent election for the Constitutional
Convention from official figures, which
will be found correct:
MAJORITIES,
Fvr. Ag'nst.
Appling 590
CONSTITUTIONAL
TIOX.
CONYEN
the Qaeetian—The
Have It.
Ares
Baker.
Baldwin 519
Banks.......... 115
Bartow 109
Berrien 132
Bibb 834
Brcoks
Bryan
Bulloch
Burke -
Batts...... 67
Calhoun
Caruden 36
Campbell
Carroll 206
Catoosa 257
Charlton
Chatham 1,167
232
SO
22
22
135
281
213
Chattahoochee....
: 69
. .
hrtftnoaft
4‘2T
Cherokee
125
’.Jar k f*
21
234
Clayton
f!(inrh. ..
42
206
Cobb
256
('off ee
248
Columbia
120
Colquitt
Coweta
711
(Crawford
45
JYjirie
292
j (dwsnn
11
Decatur
1,500
DeKalh. ..
52
Dodge.....
S4
Dooly
Dougherty
400
45
6S
Hftrly ...
269
h-ffinphiim
49
311
HiTi;i.Tinel.........
236
45S
FajeLte
117
j*loyd
442
Fiirny th
214
371
236
6S7
49
50
8
120
545
250
Hail
179
373
521
29
70
. 137
408
650
114
.) i*ffnrson
179
127
i .flnrpnfl ...
... 1S5
541
199
Lincoln
130
....
12
74
SJ
144
Mariou
14
....
McDuffie
225
McIntosh....
Meriwether.
Miller
Milton
M tchell
123
182
t
1UU
“A groat many Repubiicaus appear so
licitous to learn Blaine’s political inten
tions, and we ate pleased to state that it
is pretty well settled what he will do. In
this State one of his first political acts
will be to wipe out his ‘little bub’ in Ells
worth, whom he has kept alive and sus
tained long enough to receive his reward.
Blaine has always in his heart despised
Hale, but hitherto he has had some usu
for him and his father-in-law. But the
aspect has now changed. Hale was ap
proaching political dissolution in this
State anyway, but Blaine will now see to
it that his burial is very speedy. As to
Blaine's plans in relation to national poli
tics, there are many rumors. The
news now comes from Washing
ton, which gives a sensible ex
pos tion of his purpose. He means to
be the champion of the Simon pure Re
publican party, and ail his abilities will
be directed to arouse the ancient fervor
of the ancient faith. The administration
and the would-be leaders of an adminis
tration party will be attacked, oj the
ground that they have abandoned the
ancient faith, and deliberately, with cor
rupt intent, attempted to destroy the
Republican party. The purpose of
Blaino is to carry high the standard of
the Simon pure Republican party, and
to rally to it the loyal element of the
North, which was so irresistibly strong
daring the war and through the reocn
-truction period. Blaine struck the key
note of the last campaign in his Ander-
sonville speech, and the entire canvass
on the Republican side was made on the
issue he then so sharply and forcibly
raised.
Letter from Gen. M. C. Butler, of
South Carolina.—During Stuarts raid
on Gettysburg in 1862 General M. C.
Butler was charged with the cusiody of
George R. Messersmith, Cashier of the
National Bank of Gettysburg, and of the
bank, and his courtesy aud dignified,
soldierly conduct were so marked that the
latter, although a decided Republican,
wrote General Butler a letter of congratu
iatiou on his election to the United States
Senate from South Carolina. He has re
ceived a reuly, in which the Senator
says: “President Hayes is elevating the
statesmanship of the country to a higher
plane, and must succeed in his new de
parture on that line. I trust in God he
may, and that we shall henceforth have
less sectionalism and partisan bitterness.
The country, North as well as South, re
quires pence and quiet, and the develop
ment of kindlier and more natural feel-
inf Republican institutions are just as
dear to us of the South as ever, and we
shall feel profound pride in their com
plete triumph and perpetuation. We have
a new era in South Carolina, and under
Hampton’s administration confidently
anticipate a stride forward in every de
partment of life, which will bring happi
ness and wealth and contentment in its
train to all classes and conditions of onr
people. The millennium has not come,
bat the messenger of peace has, and we
rejoice.”
Morgan
5
570
499
Newton
*90
297
Oglethorpe
253
129
....
Pirtens
Werce
34
478
....
Polk
43
Pulaski
254
230
t£mtmin
69
159
4S7
Richmond
314
Hockdale
164
20
Sr.reven
300
618
Stewart.
159
55
Talbot
856
Taliaferro
86
Taylor. T
250
Tattnall
829
Telfair
Terrell
451
91
145
Towns ,,
Troii p
122
Twiggs .»
203
Upson
Walker
85
710
Wa.ton
502
Ware
6')
Warren ,
61
Washington
345
....
. 215
60
White
S2
Whitfield
376
Wilkes
286
Wilkinson
439
Worth _ ........
1
Majority for convention.
20,474
10,161
Majority against convention.
Clear majority for convention. 10.3:6
Witn eleven counties to hear irom officially.
One Woman's Way.—i'he story is not
a new one, but it will bear repeating.
When Professor Wormley, of the Starling
Hodical College of Columbus—who has
just been chosen to the chair of Chemistry
in the University of Pennsylvania—had
completed his work ou “Jlicro-Chemis-
try” (now a standard authority on both
sides of the Atlantic), he found that the
cost of engraving his minute drawings
would be so great that no publisher would
take the risk of publication. There was
danger, therefore, that the world would
lose the result of his arduous labors. The
difficulty was, however, overcome by his
wife, who studied the art of steel engrav
ing diligently, and with such success that
the plates reproducing her husband’s
drawings rival the finest bank note work.
We are not aware that this accomplished
lady has distinguished herself by an out
cry over the rights of women, or is con
scious that she has sacrificed herself to
that amiable monster, the domestic Mo
loch.—Cincinnati Commercial.
Betting on a Sequence Flush—An Ex
citing Scene at a Poker Table.
The exciting story, entitled “A Raffia
for Freedom,” which first appeared in
Appleton's Journal, and has since gone
the rounds, reminds me of a thrilling
scene of which I was an eye witness. The
occurrence to which I allude happened
during the latter part of the war of the
rebellion, in New York, where I was
stopping at the time, the guest of a local
politician of some note. My host one
evening asked me if I would like to “take
in” some of the sights of the metropolis;
and, although not a country minister,
still I had some of his itching to “see the
elephant,” where it could be done with
impunity away from home, and therefore
signified my willingness. We left my
friend’s house at about 10 p. m , and
taking a car got off at one of the up-town
cross streets—Twenty-third, I think—
and ascended the steps of a fine, marble-
front dwelling on that street. Upon
ringing the bell a colored man came to
the door, and, exchanging certain caba
listic signs and passwords with my friend,
ushered us up stairs into a spacious,
elegantly furnished room.
Four gentlemen sat at a table playing
tbe fascinating and illusive game of poker.
Three fit them nodded to my friend, who
returned their salutations, and explained
to me, soto voce, that the y were, respect
ively, a Wall street operator, a cotton
broker, and a junior partner in a whole
sale dry goods house ; the fourth party
being a stranger to him. This latter was
a young fellow of about twenty-two, well
dressed, handsome, and evidently a com
parative novice at the game.
The stakes were high; portentous
stacks of chips and bank notes were piled
before each player, and the dead silence
and the set faces of the gamblers beto-
, kened that an unusually “stiff” game was
' in progress.
Presently, as a hand was dealt, and be
fore the players had seen their hands, the
young stranger referred to said, with a
smile and wave of his hand: “Excuse
me, gentlemen, bat allow me to ask if we
are playing with a sequence flash; it is
customary, is it not, to settle that matter,
and we have not done so ?”
“ Why,” said the cotton broker joking
ly, “you have not got one there, have
you, Harry?"
“ That remains to bd seen,” said the
boy.
it was agreed that the sequence flush
.bould be counted in, and the players
took up their hands. I saw a startled ex
pression flash across Harry’s face, as he
looked intently at his cards; he did not
draw, and, when his opportunity oarne,
raised the Wall street operator one hun
dred dollars. The dry goods man dropped
out; the cotton broker raised Harry two
hundred dollars; the Wall street party, a
large boned, yellow skinned individual,
with no more expression in his sickly
countenance than there is in a brick wall,
came in again and raised, and the thing
began to get interesting. The betting
uecame terrific. Finally the cotton broker
weakened aud laid down; but Wall street,
who, I fancied, thought Harry was bluff
ing, took, as the phrase goes, everything
that came along. There was over twelve
thousand dollars on the table when Harry-
pushed back his chair, and, reaching
down, drew from under his feet a small
black bag, from which he took a package
of cri-p greenbacks.
Carefully he counted out $5,000 in the
green beauties, which were mostly bills
oi large denomination, and pushed them
forward. The Wall street sphinx saw
Harry and raised him an equal amount.
The boy, pale as a ghost, his lips and
fingers twitching with nervous excite
ment, threw down the remainder of the
package of m^ney, and said, prefacing
the words with a wild oath:
“Five more; I call you; what have you
got?”
“Four kings,” said Wall street, without
a tremor, as he laid down his hand.
“A sequence flush, gentlemen, by all
the gods!” said the excited boy as he
threw his cards on the table and reached
for the spoils. A slight, almost imper
captible flush came upon the cheeks of
impassive Wall street, then one eyelid
twitched a little; then, suddenly, he
leaued forward, examined Harry’s hand,
and said quickly, “Not so fast, not so
fast, my young friend; look at ycur
cards. ”
One look was enough. Never in my
life have I heard a more horrible groan
i ban came from young Harry's lips, and
then the words, “Oh .’ God 1 what will
mother say ?” seemed to burst out of his
mouth, and then he fell upon the floor in
a fit.
The poor youth had been betting on a
sequence flush that was not a sequence
flush, for by some temporary hallucina
tion he had m ; itakeu the seven of
diamonds for an eight, and although he
had examined his cards time and time
again, as I had observed, had not been
undeceived as to his error. The Wall
atr, et man, as he gathered in the money,
glanced at the writhing form upon the
floor and said, as ho pouched the spoils,
wilh a gambler's pity, “Poor devil!” and
ihen took his hat and walked out, while
we were endeavoring to revive the poor
boy.
The rest of the party, after calling a
physician, also left the house. I have
since found that Harry was the trusted,
confidential clerk of a large Now York
contracting firm, and had intended start
ing for Washington on a late train that
unlucky evening, to transact some impor
tant business.
The money he lost was of oourss not
his own. He had dropped in at the
gambling house to have a little diversion
while waiting for traiu time.
I have always had a prejudice against
sequence fl ushes since that evening iu
New York. Horace Deuceace.
THE TRUTH ABOUT GRANT.
Farts Is which the Glamour of European
FlookCTlam rannut Bliad Amerfraaa.
[Indianapolis Sentinel.]
The reception that European snobs and
fools may extend to Grant is not a matter
AN INDIAN RIOT IN CANADA.
ftaTaares Patrol Olia Villace and Barn
Church.
Fresh troable between the Oka Indians
and the church authorities is oreating
about which Americans possessed of a 1 > ome excitement in Montreal. It appears
thimbleful of brains need care a baubee,
and it is only when flunkey journalism on
this side of the water attempts to make
appear that the recipients of aristo
cratic and royal favor merits the distinc
tion, and that it gives the little fools who
bestow it a warmer place in the regards
of Americans, that the subject is entitled
to any consideration whatever. The
send-off that Grant received at Philadel
phia was in no sense a tribute of respect
to him as a man, a soldier, or as ex-
President. The affair was deliberately
gotten up by the Don Camerons of Penn
sylvania as an insult to Hayes. It was
intended to say. “We prefer Grant, the
despot, the sot, the bribe taker, the asso
ciate of thieves and the debauchee of the
government, to a Presidential fraud who
accepted power from crime-stained hands
and had not the courage to stand by
Grant’s bayonet policy.” The ovation to
Grant had this significance and none
other.
The papers that were the most bitter
in their hostility to Grant—who charged
him with the design of making himself
dictator, with all collateral crimes neces
sary to such a coup d'etat—are now over
flowing with gush about his reception by
the snobs and flunkies of England. All
of this is unfortunate for Grant, however
much he may desire to be regarded as an
“ex-sovereign;’’ for it makes it necessary
for reputable journals to go hick a little
in the history of Grant, and show him up
in his true light.
No one is disposed to disparage Grant's
military record, though it is too early to
write it. It may grow dim or brilliant in
the light of advancing years, a matter
about which there rna, be a diversity of
opinions ; but one thing is certain—his
administration as President is black with
the record of crimes. It was 'conspicu
ously an era of fraud, peculation, stealing
outright, of rottenness everywhere, and
in everything with which the government
was directly or remotely connected. It
was an era of nepotism, of ignorance, of
imbecility, and of bribe taking. It was
an era of utter disregard of constitutions,
of law, and of the rights of the people.
It was an era of military despotism, in
which crime-begrimed miscreants were
maintained in power by bayonets.
It is quite likely that a full knowledge
of these things will give Grant caste in
the aristocratic circles of Europe, and
thal the spawns of rotten dynasties may
fawn about a man whose native instincts,
strengthened by close proximity to slaugh
ter houses and the insufferable stench of
raw hides, qualified him for work which
earned the disgust and loathing of the
decent part of the Radical party, thou
sands and tens of thousands of whom
abandoned him, and for which the whole
country condemned him.
In addition to this, we have the de
claration from the highest authority that
it was only because his term of office had
so nearly expired that he escaped im
peachment. It were better to let such
men get into obscurity as soon as possi
ble, or at least cease parading them be
fore the public as objects of special
regard. This, however, the New York
Tribune, an organ of flankyism, is not
disposed to do, and among other foolish
things, in noticing Grant’s reception in
England, it says:
“The judgment of strangers resembles
somewhat the judgment of posterity. As
he is now regarded iu European conn
tries, so, doubtless, he will stand in his
tory, when the bitterness and the little
ness of partisan strife have passed away,
and his real services to his country and
his real character are better understood.
It matters precious little what the
judgment of strangers may be, or, for
that matter, what may be the verdict of
posterity. The living present knows that
Grant consorted with thieves; that he
was the defender and supporter of con
spirators; that he girdlea the Louisiana
returning board scoundrels with bayonets,
while the perjured crew was plotting
frauds with which to reverse the will of
the American people. The Atlantic
ocean, were its waters soapsuds, could
not in a thousand centuries wash out the
stains from Grant’s record.
. the Seminary of St. Sulpice demanded
that the Protestant Indians should re
move the fence from across the road near
Oka village, and that the Indians refuse d,
on the ground that it was inclosing the
pasture, and that they had been allowed
to place it there originally. As the
Seminary could make no agreement, the
clergy laid information at St. Scholas-
tique, and, on warrants being issued,
such was the feeling evinced among
the Indians that tbe authorities
of the district called upon
the Provincial Government for help,
and seven policemen and a Sergeant who
were sent up aided in arresting five out
of forty-five Indians for whom warrants
were out. The rest fled, and remained
concealed in the woods until the con
stables left the village. The Indians
again assembled, and Chief Joseph Onesa.
kuret advised them to resist arrest, when
they armed themselves with rifles, re
volvers and knives. This being com
pleted at noon yesterday, they patroll
the village and defied the priests and
people. Towards night many retired,
while a few stood sentry. At 4 o'clock
the residing priest at Oka discovered his
stable in flames, and about thirty armed
Indians promenading around the church.
The fire spread, aud in two hours the
church, priest’s residence and granary,
containing one thousand bushels of
grain, stables and coach house,
with their valuable contents, were
in ruins. A library of 1,000 volumes,
part in the Indian language, was con
sumed. A Dunnery, 100 years old, which
was close by, escaped the flames. There
was no insuranoe. A rigid investigation
will be made as to the origin of the tire.
The provincial authorities will probably
take the necessary steps. Several of the
provincial police arrived from Oka this
morning, and are awaiting orders to re
turn. The rumor that tbe military had
been ordered out is contradicted by the
officers in command of the district of
Oka. Preparations are being made to
bail the Indians now in jail by Mr.
Mathewson, who received the following
telegram to day from Rev. Mr. Parent:
“Cannot content the Indians; momen
tarily expect bloodshed.” To this Mr.
Mathewson telegraphed : “By all means
keep the Indians quiet.”
Mississippi and Sew York—IVliat Has
the Latter to Roast of l
It is a dreadful state of affairs in Mis
sissippi which lets the Chisholm murder
ers go unpunished. On that point there
is little room for disagreement. The
locality where such a crime can be com
mitted with impunity is justly regarded
as a plague spot, unfit for human habita
tion. Here in New York, and, indeed,
throughout the country, it is hardly
mentioned without an expression of ab
horrence for such a condition of society
as must exist to secure immunity to the
murderers.
But what have we to boast of in com
parison? Is not the Huntington murder
still unavenged? A young man was
mobbed by scores of persons, in a public
highway and in conspicuous private
grounds. He was tarred and feathered,
beaten and mutilated. Women, some of
the elite of the town among them, came
out to look with wondering admiration
on the scene. Finally the poor fellow
was rowed out in a boat and sunk in the
sea, the briny waters choking his voice
and silencing his cries, which were only
heard by Heaven after that. Yet this
great crime remains unpunished and
virtually unprosecuted!
Chisholm aud Kelsey, Mississippi and
New York ! What Lave we to boast of ?—
aV. T. Sun.
While going down the Rhine in his wa
ter dress recently, Captain Boynton had a
queer adventure. At Tarasoofi, near Av-
iinon, France, the peasants, taking him
for a seal or some new sort of marine
monster, got out their fowling pieoes and
nnened a lively fusillade upon him, and
did not deLtUil he hoisted his colors.
A new beauty, says tbe Truth, has ap
peared upon the horizon of London. She
is from the Channel Islands, and is the
daughter of the Dean of St. Heliers. Mr.
Millais was the troubadour who first told
nations that she was beautiful by offering
to paint her portrait. “Society” has
gone mad over her. The other day, at a
party, she was positively mobbed, and
more than one duchess climbed upon a
chair to gaze upon her. Since the ad
vent of this beautiful heiress all former
social lions waste their dewdrops on the
desert air and vaiDly roar.
A suicide took place at Forrestville,
Prince George’s county, Maryland, Friday
morning. Mr. Abner T. Hood, an old
gentleman, who has been located there
for some fifteen years, shot himself with
a pistol, the ball entering just above the
right ear and causing instant death. He
was about sixty years old and a Justice
of the Peace.
A Case of Threatened Lynching in
Minnesota.—A negro named Coombs, ar
rested for outraging a young girl, was
*aken in charge of detectives to Point
Douglas, Washington county, Minnesota,
on Thursday last for preliminary exami
nation. At Hastings, where the detective
stopped for dinner, a threatening crowd
began to gather, causing the detective
to hasten a ith his prisoner to Point Doug
las. Coombs waived an examination and
was committed to jail at Stillwater for
trial. Meantime, a crowd of two hundred
io three hundred villagers and farmers had
gathered, proposing to lynch Coombs, at
which two attempts were made, in one a
noosed rope being thrown over Coombs’
head, but the crowd was each time driven
back by tbe detective threatening to use
a pistol, and Coombs was finally got away
to Stillwater.
Francis D. Moulton Supporting Mrs.
Theodore Tilton.—In the settlement of
the case of Moulton against Beecher for
malicious prosecution Tbos. G. Shearman,
as the attorney for Mr. Beecher, obtained
an extra allowance, which aggregated
three hundred and twenty-five dollars.
.Mr. Shearman, immediately on the receipt
of tbe check of Francis D. Moulton paya
ble to his order, endorsed on the back of
it, “Pay to the order of Mrs. Theodore
Tilton,” and forwarded it to that lady,
thinking it would be of more value to her
than to himself. Mrs. Tilton endorsed
her name on the back of it, and it reached
Mr. Moulton a day or two ago, whereupon
there was much swearing in the estab
lishment of said Moulton.—New York
Tribune.
In the National Stove Manufacturers’
Convention, at Detroit, Michigan, last
week, the Committee on the President’s
Addressjrecommendod that the mannfac-
ture of stoves be reduced to two thirds
of the quantity of last year, and approved
opposition to reciprocity with Canada.
A resolution was passed demanding the
repeal of the bankrupt law. A committee
to report at the next meeting some plan
against over-production was appointed,
and the convention adjourned to meet in
New York next January.
The St. Louis Globe - Democrat has a
special from Rockwell, Texas, from which
it appears that in the latter part of April,
1875, Emberry Cannon, his son William
and two nephews commenoed a debauch
in Rockwell, and created great disturb
ance in town until a late hoar of the
night. Sheriff Alex. C. Starks was on
intimate terms with the Cannons, and en
deavored to persuade them to desist hrom
their riotous proceedings. He warned
them that if they did not stop he would
lock them up. The whole party then
assaulted the Sheriff, beating and
catting him severely. During the
melee the Sheriff drew a revolver and
snapped it several times, but none of the
chambers exploded. The party scattered,
however, and Starks procured a better
weapon and followed the Cannons with
the intention of arresting them. He
found them in a billiard saloon and was
again set upon by tbe whole party, and
while defending himself shot and killed
William Cannon. This ended the amica
ble relations between Starks and the Can
nons. Some time afterward Starks was
notified that Emberry Cannon was trying
to hire some desperado to assassinate
him. This became so evident that Starks
offered his farm for sale, with the inteu-
tion of moving to some plaoe where he
wonld be more secure.
In September of 1876, a stranger ap
peared in Rockwell, singularly dressed
and armed with double barreled shot guns
and several revolvers. He expressed a
wish to buy a farm, and was referred to
Starks as having one for sale. He called
on Starks, and after a short conversation
both started for the farm. The next
morning Starks was found dead in the
woods, with a load of bnokshot in his
head.
The murderer fled, and it was subse
quently learned that his name was Geo.
W. Garner.
The Louisville Sensation—Details of
tlie Forgery Commitied bl a Lady.
The New York Herald publishes the
following from Louisville, Kentucky :
“A startling sensation has just been
sprung in Louisville. Mrs. T. T. Haw
kins, daughter of the late Colonel Weir,
of Lexington, and of Mrs. G. W. Merri-
weather, whose second husband was be
fore his death a prominent banker of this
city, is implicated in heavy forgeries of
the names of ex-United States Senator
Stevenson, Hon. George H. Pendleton,
of Ohio, Col. James Taylor and Henry
Timberlake, of Newport, Ky. Daring
tbe last few years Mrs. Hawkins at various
times obtained money from her mother,
aggregating some $40,000, for the pur
pose, as she said, of engaging in tobacco
speculations with some gentlemen. She
promised the profits would be enormously
large.
•Last winter Mrs. Merriweather
demanded h6r share of the proceeds.
Mrs. Hawkins said the bookkeeper cf
the syndicate had absconded with the
money, but his father, who was a wealthy
Boston merchant, would reimburse it.
By this ruse she succeeded in gaining a
few days’ time. Mrs. Merriweather. who
was growing anxious, but not suspici
ous, persisted in her desire to realize on
the investments. Her daughter pro
duced two notes of $90,000 each and
two of $26,000 each, apparently made by
James Taylor in behalf of the syndicate.
Mrs. Hawkins accompanied her mother
to the Louisville Savings Bank.
“When the notes were presented the
cashier, Mr. Rohrer, perceived they were
irregular and declined to discount them.
Rohrer at once made an investigation and
ascertained that Stevenson and others had
no knowledge whatever of Mrs. Haw
kins’ tobacco speculations. The records
of the Adams Express Company were ex
amined, but no trace of Mrs. Merriweath
er's forty thousand dollars was discovered,
and it was not known what her daughter
did with the money.
“ It has since been developed that iirs.
Hawkins last summer obtained from the
Louisville Banking Company five hundred
dollars on a postal card order from Sena
tor Stevenson. The bank sent the draft
oil for collection, but it eame back pro
tested, Stevenson saying Mrs. Hawkins
bad no authority to use his name.
“On a threat of arrest for obtaining
money under false pretenses, Mrs. Haw
kins revealed these facts, which are
learned from officers of the bank and
others in position to know. Mrs. Haw
kins’ husband is CoL T. T. Hawkins, an
invalid, at one time prominent in Ken
tucky politics. The family is highly re
spected throughout the State. Mrs. Mer
riweather is said to be ruined financially
by her daughter. Members of the family
say that Mrs. Hawkins is mentally im
paired, insanity having been known in
her family. The affair has created great
excitement in Louisville.”
The Rev. Dr. Hepworth regards dys
pepsia as hostile to the growth and de
velopment of true religion. Grace is not
compatible with a weak stomach. More
serious still is the fact that indigestion
destroys self-esteem, which has been in
all time the intellectual motor of the age.
Curious History of a Package of
Money Sent to a St. Louis Bank —The
St. Louis Times has a special from Mount
Vernon, Ill., whioh says that on Monday
last the Mount Vernon National Bank
shipped by Adams’ Express a package
containing $8,000 to the Third National
Bank of St. Louis. On Wednesday the
Mount Vernon Bank received a telegram
from St. Lonis, saying that the package
contained only pieces of brown wrapping
paper cut the size of bank notes. The
bank officers here say that the package
showed no evidence of having been tam
pered with, but contained no money.
The express people say the package was
deliveied to the bank here just as it was
received by their agent at Mount Vernon,
the seals being intact on the wrappers,
and that the seals on the wrappers were
the same as nsed by the bank. There is
great mystery in the case which is being
investigated by both the bank and ex
press officials.
The Jetty System for Rivers.
The intelligence from New Orleans cou-
oerning the entry of several large regis
tered vessels, one of them drawing twenty
feet eight inches, into the Mississippi
through the South Pass, which has beeD
deepened by the Eads jetties, is an im
portant announcement foi New Orleans
and for the commerce of the Mississippi
valley.
It will be remembered that Congress,
March 4, 1875, authorized “James B.
Eads, of St. Louis, with such others as
may be connected with him, to construct
such permanent and sufficient jetties, and
such auxiliary works as are necessary to
create and permanently maintain as here
inafter set forth, a wide and deep chan
nel between the South Pass of the Mis
sissippi river and the Gulf of Mexico,”
eto. Under the stipulations of the grant
construction was to be substantially com
menced within eight months, a navigable
depth of twenty feet secured within thirty
months from the approval of the act
(Maroh 4, 1875). Moreover an additional
depth of two feet per annum is stipulated
for until a total depth of thirty feet is at
turned. Mr. Eads has reached twenty
feet several months within the time pre
scribed, and what he has done indicates
that any desired depth may be attained.
The act authorizing the enterprise of
Mr. Eads was conformed to the report of
a board of engineers whioh had visited
Europe for the purpose of investigating
the use and Buecess of the method of
jetties, and which recommended “paral
lei dikes or jetties, constructed of brush,
fascines and stone, in the same general
way as used by Mr. Caland at the mouth
of the Maas," to bs applied to the South
Pass of tlje Mississippi. In Great
Britain the mouths of various rivers and
the tidal harbors of various ports are im
proved by jetties, whereby the channel is
narrowed, the current concentrated, and
thus the depth over the entrance bars
increased. Tbe tidal harbors of Grave
lines, Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne, Dieppe,
Fecanmp, etc., (France,) of Ostend,
(Belgium,) and many others owe their
existence to jetties. They have also been
applied with more or less success to the
Oder, the Vistula, and many rive
mouths of the Baltic. The Sulina mouth
of the Danube is the most noted instance,
a permanent depth of twenty feet having
been attained where was but an average
of nine feet, and the worst harbor in the
Black Sea made to take rank among the
best. The improvement of ship naviga
tion to Rotterdam, by making a new
mouth to the Maas through the Hook of
Holland, and prolonging the outlet into
the sea by jetties, has been a double suc
cess, as tbe jettied entrance hes not onl\
fulfilled expectations, but tbe method of
construction of fascines and stone, for
the first time applied to open sea expos
ures and constructed on sand coasts, has
realized all expectations.
Mr. Eads has furnished, as compiled
from authentic sourcas, a table of eighteen
rivers in Europe where jetties have been
effective. One is the Danube, original
depth 7 to 11 feet, present depth 20 to 21
feet; Mass, a new mouth, present depth
17 to 18 feet; Trave, Prussia, original
depth 7 feet, increased to 17 feet; Oder,
7 to 18; Warne, 7 to 23; Persante, 6 to
13 ; Wipper, 4 to 15 ; Pregel, 12 to 20 ;
Stolpe, 4 to 14; Niernan, 10 to 23; Liben,
6 to 16; Dwina, 6 to 18; Windaw, 4 to 9;
Pemau, 3 to 12 ; Nissta, 5 to 12 ; Konne,
6 to 9; Altrau, 6 to 9, and Grenaae, 5 to
IS.
There can be no doubt from this ex
perience and from the triumph for the
jetties which Mr. Eads has already ac
complished in the Mississippi river that
New Orleans and St. Louis will obtain
in.portant advantages from this valuable
improvement, and that it will be of great
national value.—Baltimore Sun.
London’s Present to General Grant.
—The gold casket presented to General
Grant at London has on the obverse cen
tral panel a view of the Capitol at Wash
ington, and on the right and left are the
monogram and arms of the Lord Mayor.
On the reverse side is a view of the en
trance to the Guildhall and an appropri
ate inscription. At the end are two
figures, also in gold, finely modeled and
chased, representing the city of London
and the United States, and bearing their
shields, the latter executed in rich enam
el. At the corners are double columns,
laurel wreathed with corn and cotton,
and on the cover a cornucopia emblematic
of the fertility and prosperity of the
United States. The rose, shamrock and
thistle are also depicted. The cover is
surmounted by the arms of the city of
London. The casket is supported by
American eagles modeled and chased in
gold, the whole standing on a velvet
plinth decorated with stars and stripes.
“Truthful Tommy ” says that tue other
day a lady was deploring the death of an
acquaintance with one of the latter’s most
intimate friends. During tbe course of
their conversation the son of the deceased
gentlemen entered the room, and conver
sation became general. On his departure,
however, free and personal comment was
passed upon him. Said lady No. 2,
* -That boy has got his mother’s eyes. ”
“Yes,” subscribed No. 1 reflectively, “and
I noticed that he had got his father’s um
brella.'' This remarkable description has
stuck to him ever since, and he is known
as “the boy with his mother’s eyes and
his father’s umbrella.”
A press writer, with a philosophical
turn of mind, has been trying to explain
“how rumors are smarted.” His theory
is well enough; but there is a boarding
house keeper on Camp street who can
start a roomer with an ordinary broom
stick.—2Y. O. Picajfitne.
The Earthquake’s Work.
The earthquake horror which has
afflicted Peru appals us by its magnitude.
The sudden destruction of six hundred
lives aud $20,000,000 of property is a
catastrophe that impresses the dullest
mind with a sense of the awful power of
the blind forces of nature. When so
much misery results from a series of
shocks in a few hours, in a limited area
of country, the terrible phenomena seem
exceptionally fatal; and the mind reverts
to the burial of Pompeii, the engulfing of
a part of Lisbon, and other great earth
quake disasters in history, down to tbe
visitation which devasted Peru in 1868
and which resembled the one of last
month.
Such is the effect upon the imagination
of a single earthquake when it is un
usually destiuctive and its dreadful work
is reported in detail. But if one could
gather from all parts of the globe within
a year the statistics of losses in life and
property oaused by earthquakes, he
would discover that these upheavals are
as common as atmospherio storms in cer
tain countries, and are among the most
destructive of natural agencies. Obser
vations recently published of the earth
quakes of 1875 are probably only an
average of tbe records which similar
events would give if tabulated for any
other year. Not a day passes without a
noticeable tremor of the earth in some
part of it, and in some tropical regions
they happen many times a day. In
1875 not less than one hundred days were
noted for earthquake shocks of more or
less violence, and it is estimated that
fully twenty thousand persons perished
from them. The amount of property de
stroyed must have been immense, but as
to its value the reports are silent. These
earthquakes were only those which took
place in countries where there were com
petent scientific observers and newspapers
published. From the half civilized and
savage lands, within the known earth
quake zones, we have no authentic state
ments on this subject, but may infer that
the grand total of losses in life would be
far larger than that given if all the facta
could be obtained.
Far from decreasing in its terrors, it
would probably be found, on a careful
comparison of all the data, that tbe earth
quake is as deadly a menace to the life
and happiness of man utthe present time
as at any time daring the hiatoric ages.
All the volcanoes fondly supposed to be
extinct or harmless are, in truth, as liable
to open and belch forth death and de
struction as they ever have been since
man inhabited the earth. The periods of
the eruptions may be far apart—perhap.s
centuries—but, in the opinion of those
philosophers who have most profoundly
studied the subject, they are sure to come
sooner or later, in conformity to the un
discovered laws of the earth’s develop
ment. In 1875 a volcanic mountain in
Mexico, which history had reported total
ly inaotive for about four hundred years,
poured forth its torrents of lava in ac
companiment to the great earthquake at
San Cristobal. All the facts teach us
that a cessation or diminution of earth-
quikes t cannot be properly counted on
in anv oountry which has ever been sub
ject to them. Wherever they have been
there they will continue to be in the long
future, and man and his works will be
the sport of these convulsions of mother
Earth.
There are many theories of the earth
quake. Some sages refer it to the ex
plosion of gases caused by chemical reac
tions. Others account for it by sup
posing that water suddenly admitted to
the molten interior of the earth is con
verted into steam, and the “crust” is
blown up. Others hold the opinion that
the fluid nucleus of the earth is subject
to tides, and that the inequalities of these
produce the phenomena of earthquakes.
Electricity is also cited as a convenient
explanation of this as of many other
things which are yet mysteries. A re
cent theory ascribes the earthquake to
the cooling of the planet and tne crump
ling up of its shell by the irregularity of
that operation. All these are merely
hypotheses, and each one has its corps of
able champions. But there is no ten
able theory which does not recognize the
probable continuance—the permcnancy it
might be called—of the earthquake and
tbe volcanic outburst as processes of
nature, which will last as long as man
himself.—New York Journal of Com
merce.
A Frightful Revenge.—A horriblemur-
der v as committed on Monday near Bur
lington, Kan. Two young men named G.
S.Cook and S. M. Hedges, former partners
in business, with three other persons, oc
cupied the same room over night. Hedges
arose in the night, procured an axe, and
with it crushed in the skull of his bedfel
low. He admitted the killing, and justi
fied the act by saying Cook had stolen his
money. He has been arrested. Cook
was born in Platte county, Missouri.
The Maine Greenback Convention at
Skowhegan adopted a platform demand
ing the immediate repeal of the resump
tion act, that the government furnish
the people with a currency based upon
the faith and resources of the nation,
etc., etc. State and county committees
were appointed, and the Rev. H. E.
Munson, of Skowhegan, was nominated
for Governor. The attendance waa
large.
The story told by Abraham Lincoln
Nimmy, the fouiteen-year-old negro boy
of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, who re
cently deliberately and systematically
poisoned his whole family, in order to
make sure of killing “the old man,” leads
the Boston Post to make this solemn ob-
servttion : “ This murderous precocity
appears to be gaining gronnd, and the
worst of it is that there seems no way of
checking the fearful moral disorder.”
A correspondent of the Scotsman writes:
“I have received some further particulars
concerning the release by the King c-f
Abyssinia of the American geologist,
Colonel Mitchell, who arrived at Buez
lately. He was m chains for thirty four
days, during which period he loet fifty
pounds in weight. It appears that King
John, at the head of fifty thousand men,
met him as he was being dragged along,
without any shoes, and instantly ordered
his release.”
During the class exercises at Brown
University, Provide:.c-, R. I., Friday, an
oration was delivered by Inman E. Page,
of Washington, D. C., who will be the
first colored graduate of the university.
It is estimated that the school fund of
the State of Texas will be $30,000,000
when the school lands are all sold, and
the annual income will be $2,800,000.
“The rag baby” appears to have olimb-
ed the golden stair. Gone to meet civil
service reform.—A. O. Tine*.