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ESTABLISHED 1850.
pr«*,
droned,
tub two serpents.
an oriental fable.
Carigama, the Sultan, put his son
W ith Sail), the wise; and, when the boy was done
studio is tusss. it was the teaclier s way
rr 1 v - vr for Inn some moral tale each day.
A 'VVri ihlt when th t hour had come around,
Jj-jj , l;l i c he told- in Persian anuals found:
“Oiicc a magician, skilled in every art,
M ing King Lohak, breathed upon his heart,
\\ is u from that re-ion, venomous and bright,
two hideo .*» serpents wriggled forth in sight.
Tl • i:i' . "ho >aw them follow in hi-< path.
Stormed the magician with his fiercest wrath;
hut he, undaunted, answered back again :
rjhe-i' are the tokens of your glorious reign ;
V it you wish hencefor li unbounded good,
Fail not to feed them well with human blood;
(jive them your sturdiest men in sacrifice
piiVtheir mpport—fo- this is just and wise.’
Tlu- k ug, at first, grew pale when this was said,
But by degrees to its result was led, -
An 1 scatt* red slaughter till tumultuous fear
Smote all his stricken subjects far and near.
At iciig'h his people, seeing so many slain,
fievolted at the king’s bloodthirsty reign,
Ai,,l ; eked him iu a cavern far av\ r ay,
*\\ -i rr to he serpents he himself was prey.”
“On history horrible!” the young prince said,
“\Vhat could have put such baseness in his
h ad?
>'ovv ie 1 another t le more fair, I pray,
*lhat 1 with shuddering may not end the day.”
“Most willingly,’* said Saib, “and, when ’tis done,
You will confess it is a simple one :
“Orce on a time, a young Saltan was led
To huLd all things au artful courtier said,
Wi-.o crammed him w.th delusions that were rife
\\ tii all the poignancies of sinful life—
U th dreams of glory and imagined py,
Ai.'l tilings that dazzle only to annoy,
i ’:.d mid voluptuousness performed their part
Till ti ey became joint rulers of his heart;
An . held by these, above his people’s groan
waik d, until they snatched him from the
throne.
i,ihi gh he lost his crown, Pleasure and
Pride
•j. like two adders perched upon his side,
. -inking down within their coiling snare,
d ed, at length, of sorrow and despair.”
Th' n said the prince, wh n Sail) paused for rest,
tru • ur true, I like this tale the best.”
«• \: - : M .-aid Saib, “why do you thus exclaim?
Jjcikr or not—both stories i re the same!”
—Jo l Benton in Appleton#' for July.
Affairs iii Ueonna-
V. H. Burns, of Ogeechee, on tho
Central Railroad, sends us the first cotton
bloom ia that section. He writes that the
crops are now looking fine, with plenty of
rain to insure vigorous growth.
After we received the bloom from Ogee
cheo as described above, here comes the
Macon Telegraph and Messenger, which
says: “Mr. J. B. Jones, near Herndon
Burke county, sends us the first cotton
bloom of tho season. Later in the day Mr,
B n Wicks, of this county, who is farming
just above tho city, on the opposite side of
the river, also sent in a bloom. Usually
this would not bo early, but it will bo re
membered that tho spring was very chilly
and unfavorable for tho growth of cotton.
Never mind. We will wager a watermelon
that Chatham rushes the first bale into the
market.
Among tho graduates at Annapolis in the
naval academy are Thomas 31. Brumby.
James H. O.iver and Wiliiam S. Benson,
Georgia. Iu a class oi forty-five they stood
respectively Ncs. 13, 21 and 36.
Sam Bard, of the Pensacola Uerald, gives
fifteen reasons for supporting Mr. Hayes
which take up all the available space in tho
Daily Herald. Evidently “ Samivel M
adopting tho line of policy of Mr. Weller,
“riamivel, beware of vidder3.”
Sweet and dreamy poems on summer are
now in order. When written on both sides
of the paper as was one received yesterday,
the effect is stunning &ud starts tho perspir
ation from every pore.
An independent Georgia journalist has
f mud time to make tho following observa
tions : “ We notice iu the latest fashion
magazines that aii of the most fashionably
dressed ladieB carry a baby iu their arms.
Wo hope the fashion will bo followed as
closely as other novelties usually aro by cur
ladies.”
A poet in the Columbus Times says : “The
scenes of my past before me are stealing ; ”
aud straightway thirteen detectives and
eight policemen took the trail. At last ac
counts they were net captured.
The first Thursday in July will bo au im -
portaut day in Thomasville for the friends
of tho Fair Association. The Board of Di
rectors will meet that day to arrange tho
full premium list of the tall fair, which
promises to be a very comprehensive one,
au 1 one that trill refi jet credit upon the en
terprise of tho farmers of old Thomas.
Tho inestimable value of a town pump is
only appreciated when it becomes “sucked.”
Ia Dahlonega, who33 water power is reckon
ed by thousands of horse power, they have
given attention tn the town pump, and tho
citizens, says tho Signal, “will have a con-
vouleut place from which to get water. A
noat and substantial piece of work has been
erected around it which has been covered,
adding greatly to the heretofore naked ap
peal anco of the public square.”
The heavy rain ot last Sunday, says the
Lumpkin Independent, washed away aud do-
:r wed the dam of tho Vorus mill in that
county. The mill pond was the scene of
great activity on Monday, and crowds of
negro raon and boys went fishing, catching
quantities of perch, catfish, jackfish and
trout.
Tho sensation that has been troubling
Laurens county has not been allayed. Mr.
Jam s Justice, who mysterious’y disappear
ed, has not yet been beard from, and Mr.
•Linos Wright, who was mysteriously shot
and wounded, has boon arrested, charged
with knowing something about tho missing
man.
A Lumpkin county man caught a beaver
in a steel trap on Sunday morning last,
which weighed sixty pounds.
Colonel W. F. Crisp has been appointed
Judge of tho Amoricus Circuit {Superior
Court, to the vacancy occasioned by the
'hath of Judgo James M. Clarke. Mr.
Criop has been Solicitor General of the
circuit, and is a yonng lawyer of unusual at-
■ uuieuts. Tho choice is a good one, and
iho Governor ia to bo congratulated on
having acted with so much promptness in
the matter.
Lr. Harrison, whose resignation of the
Pastorship oi the First Methodist Church, at
Atlanta, has been reported, has returned to
that city, and will, if they can raise money to
hm.d Lis church, continue in charge. This
church is a branch of the Northern Metho-
'hst Church, and should not be confounded
w hh the Methodist Chuick South, whoee
P&Bturs are furnished by the North Georgia
Conference.
Preston Henry Miller, of this city, grad-
j^d in moral philosophy and in tho Bib-
Ca * department at Vanderbilt University.
£ke Superior Court of Muscogee county
been thirty-one days in se c sion, and on
riday | a3t ma( i Q the following contribu
tor to the forced labor of the State : Ho-
Ledbury, six months; Columbus Wii-
four months; Feagan Everett, four
oaths; Andrew Jones, six months; Allen
six months; Lewis Solomon, twelve
JMius Johuson, twelve months;
■ ham Diggers, twelve months; Henry
4 ^ viB> twelve months; Frank Madden,
^ elve months; T. D. Headly, twelve
“‘•Lith,; Henry Anderson, seven years; Pe-
wiinnogan, twenty years.
A sad and fatal accident occurred at the
saw mill of Lipscomb & Magonirk, two miles
from Dougla8sviIle, Douglass county, on
last Tuesday. Mr. W. T. Crumley, aged
nineteen, who was engaged in hauling stock
to the mill, and while unloading a very
largo stock, measuring fifteen feet in length
and two feet in diameter, he was thrown
over tho log, which caught one of his feet
and rolled over his body, crushing every
bone and breaking his neck, killing him
instantly.
A negro girl aged twelve years was drown
ed in the sewer at Macon on Saturday, aud
the Macon lelegraph, noticing the fact, says:
“She ha i been to carry dinner to Mr. Wm.
Y. Davis,a carpenter in the Macon and West
ern Railroad shops, and was returning be
tween one and two o’clock, accompanied by
a youDger girl. On reaching the sewer, in
stead of passing above itB mouth, they went
below to play iu the water. At this point
there is a curbing three or four feet high,
in passing over which the water ha3 made
v,ash-out fifteen or twenty feot in diame
ter, and eight or ten feet deep. Ventur
ing too close to this curbing, the girl,
Vecie RobersoD, lost her tooting and
slipped into the pool. Her cries for help
brought to the p.ace several negro women
and a man living near, but alas for the poor
drowning creature, the inhuman wretches
stood and saw her drowu without attempt
ing to rescue ber. Tho man did go into the
water over his shoe-tops, but stood in that
depth unmoved by the piteous cries tor
help. Wo could not learn his name, but
will endeavor to put him before the public
another time.”
The Thomasville Times makes our mouth
water in the following item : “We noticed
Mr. John Robinson receiving and weighing
a spleudid lot of country cured hams last
Saturday, forty-eight in* number. They
were cured by Mr. Robert S. Burch, one of
tho efficient Representatives in the Legisla
ture from this county. Mr. Burch Is not
only a good legislator and a good farmer,
but be is ail right on the bog and homiuy
question, as this transaction abundantly
proves. There is no sort of reason why
every farmer in Thomas county should not
only make enough meat to do him, but
enough in addition to make many of his
purchases with. Bacon is always cash. ’
The Cutbbert Appeal says : “The case of
Alired Marshal, convicted of murder at our
last term of court, aud sentenced to be
hung on Wednesday next, will be carried to
the Supreme Court. This will slay the exe
cution until after our November term, if tho
higher court sustains the judgment of the
court below.”
Illustrative of tho re-establishment of
that relic of barbarism, the whipping post,
comes tho following from Perry, Houston
county : “An old negro pleaded to bo allow
ed to save his son, who had been stealiug,
from tbo ignominy of the chain gang by
administering to him a thrashing. Consent
was given, and the old man, using the soft
side of a barrel stave, literally tore his heir
into a frazzle.”
It is always best to wait tor tho official
returns before announcing the result.
Bryant injured his reputation for truth by
a premature announcement of the result of
the Constitutional Convention election, and
tbo following shows that he was not tho
only moke deceived. Tbo Cuthbert Mrs-
seugei' says : “ The Cutbbert mail carrier
made a bet with one of our citizens
last week of a box of cigars that Randolph
county would give five hundred majority
against the convention. After the first re
turns it appeared that ho had won the bet,
and ho took great delight in treating all
bands toau anti-convention smoke. At the
consolidation, however, one of the districts
was thrown out and the majority was re
duced to four hundred and eighty-seven.”
The annual report of the Mobile and Gi
rard Railroad tor tbo fiscal year endiag
June 1st, has been made by President Wad-
ley, from which we extract the following:
“The reports of the General Superintendent
and of tho Secretary and Treasurer, which
are herewith appended, will show clearly
the operations of your road for the pas
year, and its financial condition on May 31st,
the close of its fiscal year. The earnings
have been $152,895 42, and the expenses
$97,632 3S, leaving net $55,363 Oi This
result shows au improvement over the
previous year, biing au increase of earn
mgs of $17,063 47, aud a reduction of
expense of $3,660 32. In my last annual re
port I stated ‘ that the eutiro debt of this
company, except the second mortgage bonds,
$300,000* aud tho plain bon is, $33,500, was
due to the Central Railroad aud Banking
Company of Georgia, and that interest up
on the whole debt as it stood at eight per
cent., would amount to $91,202 04 per an
num, aud that, as there was no reasonable
hope that tho income from the road would
be*8ufficient to meet the same, tho board
would suggest the propriety of makiug au
application to tba' company for a redaction
in the rate of interest to four per cent.”
This we take from the Columbus Times:
“Georgia needs people. Wo have an im
mense territory; we have splendid lands ;
UDqeualled water power, aud are making
moneyvear by year—slowly but. surely;
railroed facilities amply sufficient tor ail
prospactive needs ; we need more people—
men tnd women. Immigration will bring
about his result, and this we must have.
Columbus Las shown some practical results
in this line. Our industries have drawn to
our town a large number of working people,
besides giving employment to man}’ of our
citizens. 3Iacv of these aro skilled men and
women from the East and from Europe.
These people are no wanderersbut are perma
nent citizens,the highest order oi emigrants,
those who are educated, who work and
who remain. Soon fifteen hundred names
will be added to our population—not con
sumers, but producers. This tho direct
result of diversified industry, the sequence
of directed brains. Another cotton miil on
our list ot improvements; another monu
ment to the progress of Georgians. We
want people, people that work, people that
wih add to our wealth, that will attract to
us the attention of the other States, people
that shall solve the great question of inde
pendence. Our mills are bringing these to
u** each dollar invested iu this way helps
the cause. Let Georgians contiuuo the
good work and soon ours will bo the Empire
State not only of the floiitli bat of the
Union.”
Tho ease of Toter rinnegan, recntly trioG
in the Superior Court for Muscogee Circuit,
presents some peculiar features, which tho
Columbus Enquirer thus states: “Counsel
for the convicted asked tho Judge to post
pone sentencing a few days, until a petition,
containing reasons for leniency, could b.
drawn up and presented to him. Juilge
Crawford Baid that he had carefully consid
ered the matter in connection with the evi
dence, and had fully made up his mind. It
wuuld bo but trilling with the hopes of the
convicted mao-s trionds to delay passing
sentence, as tho die had been fully cast in
his judgment, and there could bo no change
under t7ie evidence and facls in the ccse.
Ho told Finnegan that he had been con
victed of next to the highest iu crimes known
to tho law. His counsel, by good faith,
skill aud ability, had saved his life. Twice
standing before him (.Uao Judge) ho bail
been sentenced to death aud had boeu twice
relieved. It was not that tho court or jury
did wrong that he was relieved, but perhaps
it was the intervention of a kind Providence.
Although tho jury might have found him
guiltv of murder iu accordance with the
law yet ho (Judge) was quite content with
the’ verdict. Punishment must bo con
sistent with the character of crime. The
victim now sleeps in death with fourteen
mortal woundsinflicted by his (Finnegans)
hand, and perhaps many of them were made
after he was dead. ‘ The dead man has dear
ones as well as you,’ continued the Judge,
aud you must he made to sufler somewhat
as the horefi ones had suffered. Just here
Finnegan asked for mercy, but without any
feeling manifested either in expression or
tone, but undoubtedly it was within. The
Judge answered him that it was not he, but
the law that punished him, and that it was
he most painful duty that belongs to the
bench for him to inflict human punishment,
4s hard as it is, however, consideiing the
interest that he felt in him, yet he was bound
fmmtv vt-ars in thcpeni-
“I LIKE MR. HAYES.”
Hon. Joe Pulitzer, of St. Louis, in De
fense of IIayes—A Critical Review of
HIm Policy by a Tiideu Stumper.
I like Mr. Hayes. He has repudiated
the traditions of the Republican party.
He has utterly ignored tho precedents es
tablished by Lincoln. He has rebuked
the Radical elements which kept the
party in power since the death of Lincoln.
He is arraying in bitter opposition to his
administration most powerful and popu
lar leaders—men like Roscoe Conkling,
James G. Blaine, Ben Butler, Ben
Wade, Wendell Phillips, the Chand
lers, Camerons, Boutwells, Tafts, etc.
His administration has so far been of
benefit to the country and the Demo
cratic organization. He has not acted m
the interest of the Republican party. He
has adopted Democratic doctrines of gov
ernment. He has discarded every ordi
nary obligation of gratitude and honor to
men like Packard and Chamberlain, the
Chandlers, and tho Camerons who stole
the Presidency and presented it to him.
He has, by his own deliberate act, plead
guilty and put the official seal of the
Presidency to the record that every single
electoral vote of three Southern States
was stolen to count in the man who never
was elected by the people, and has no
legal title to the Presidency.
I like Mr. Hayes. I like him because
be represents innovation and ideas. No
longer can it be said that the receiver is
no better than the thief. No longer can
it be said that there is honor among
thieves. No longer can it be said that
the creators are stronger than the created.
No longer can it be said that the office
should seek the man, and not the man
the office. No longer can it be doubted
that there is such a thing as an irony of
fa‘e. See how, almost with the very first J eX p Sr j enoe should win nothing for their
breath of official life, Mr. Hayes destroys, p 0sse330r heyond the right to share his
gains with all the incompetent, idle and
Socialism at Home and Abroad.
[From the New York Journal of Commerce.]
Socialism m its various forms has hard
ly obtained a foothold in the United
States. In a great city like New York it
may have a few followers who meet on
special occasions, parade the streets and
demonstrate their insignificance. It has
no organization throughout the country,
and publishes no newspapers, books or
tracts. Of the many dangers that are
supposed by alarmists to threaten the
fabric of our institutions Socialism is not
one. Not until that distant day when
the Union becomes overpopulated and
castes are rigidly established, and the
struggle for existence is desperate, will
Socialism develop into a living force
and a real factor in American politics.
While the United States are happily
free from this mest disturbing of
questions, which goes down to the very
roots of things and denies a man’s right
to inherit or accumulate property, or to
be in any way the master of his own fate
and fortune, some of the most enlight
ened countries of the old world are pro
foundly agitated by Socialism, and their
abkst statesmen are more troubled by it
than by any other problem of the day.
Iu France, though scotched by the
crushing defeat of the Commune in Paris
—which was a concrete expression cf the
Socialistic ideas—this fana'icism is far
from dead. It is organized in every
city and town of France; it has its
machinery of propagandism in full
blast; and it is represented, though
weakly, in the National Assembly. At
present Socialism is not giving the French
Government much annoyance; but its
aims are what they always were, the
overthrow of all the vested rights of pro
perty, the redistribution of all the land,
and the reduction of society to a dead
level of uniformity, in which brains and
to sentence him to twenty years in the peni
tentiary.”
The Now York Uerald, is not satisfied
with the scrimmage on the other side of
the water and is making a desperate ef
fort to stir up a squabble nearer at home.
It ia firmlv persuaded that our Mexican
boundary should be readjusted, and com
placently declares that “we are not seek
ing to deprive Mexico of territory, but we
have a right to a good boundary lf sbe is
unable to defend us,’ wherefore it inti
mates that we mean to have the readjust
ment, “peacefully if we can; f °’; elbl y *
wo must.” The Uerald is hardly able,
however, to run the country into war
ainglo handed, and publio opinion has
nofdeclared yet for such an ultimatum
as it presents. Readjustment of the
boundary means simply annexation ot
Oihuahua, Sonora and all the better part
of northern Mexico, which includes
pretty near the whole silver region, be
sides a considerable agricultural district,
and though we would no doubt be glad to
B et tbo Mexican mines, nothing is more
certain than that we don’t want to annex
a million or so of Mexican citizens Un
less the Mexicans can be persuaded to
desert the country we would much prefer
a settlement on some other basis than
annexation.— St. low Iiepubbcan.
the authois of hisbeiDg! No longer can it
be doubted that conscience doth make
cowards of us ail. See how Mr. Hayes
utterly repudiates Republican and vindi
cates Democratic doctrines.
I like Mr. Hayes. He is doing much
better than could be expected. He
strives assiduously to wash away the let
ters of that terrible syllable which is
stamped upon his brow. He struggles
hard to lull his troubled conscience into
repose, to calm the consciousness of
crime aud atone for it by improved con
duct. For Mr. Hayes has read the
classics and history, has heard of
Banquo’s ghost. If even a Richard III.
had visions, what must be the slumber of
a Hayes ? There aro tales that no walls
unfold, and secrets that human lips never
utter. They remain forever buried in
that most mysterious and inscrutable
thing called the human heart. Whose
heart is freer from regret, reproach,
wrong, or guilt—that of li. B Hayes, or
that of Samuel J. Tilden ? Who doubts
that amid all the ceremony and servility,
all the show and glitter, all tho feasts,
fun and fawning at the White House,
there does not often appear like Banquo’s
ghost, the reproachful vision of him who
of right should be the occupant ? They
have kept from tho White House the
body of Samuel J. Tilden only, not his
spirit.
I like Mr. Hayes. I like the way he
has snubbed Blaine and Conkling and
Cameron, the real representatives of his
party, and one of whom was its real
choice for the Presidency. I like to see
three members of the Cabinet who for
six years were in bitter opposition to the
President’s party and predecessor. I like
to see his “Southern policy.” Mr. Hayes
and all his organs call it an “experiment”
only, and ask for a suspension of judg
ment until time has shown its wisdom or
unwisdom. Yes, it is an experiment.
But it will prove to bo an experiment
that will cost the very life of the Repub
lican party. It will bo like the experi
ment of the medical scientist, of whom I
read in boyhood. He killed a human
body to have a vivisection and to test
whether, by putting the various parts to
gether, he could not vlvificate it. Tho
result of the experiment of Mr. Hayes
will be the same. After he gets through
with it ho will find that the life spirit of
his party has departed, and that aii the
notions and theories of Evarts, Schurz &
Co., cannot again restore tho dead corpse
to life. His policy may be an “experi
ment” to himself and the country; to the
Republican party it is a vivisection.
I like Mr. Hayes. He doos not know
what he is doing. For the last ten years
at least, the Republican party has owed
its ascendency mainly to its daring, de
fiant, able audacity. There may have
been abler political parties in the past;
there never was one a3 bold as the Re
publican party since the death of Lin
coln. From th6 day which drove Seward
and all of Lincolu’s Cabinet, excepting
one, out cf the party, to tho days of
military reconstruction and robbery, tho
impeachment of Johnson, the adoption
of the fifteenth amendment, the dis
grace of Sumner, Greeley, Trumbull
and Schurz, tho exposure of Credit
Mobilier, and Belknap, and Babcock,
boldness alone saved the party from
destruction. I remember well how one
day, shortly after Grant’s first inaugu
ration, a gentleman who was then a
Republican Senator, and is now one of
the most influential Cabinet Ministers of
Mr. Hayes, turnpd rale in reading the
telegraphic dispatches, aud exclaimed:
“This is terrible, terrible I It will inevi
tably ruin the party.” It was the evi
dence in the Black Friday investigation,
tracing money from the hands of Jim
Fisk and brother-in-law Corbin to the
White House. I remember the conster
nation of tho same distinguished gentle
man at the failure of the impeachment
of Johnson. Then, too, he saw the in
evitable rain of the Republican party. I
remember, too, his grave fears on ac
count of the fifteenth amendment. It
was then a most unpopular measure,
even with Republicans. Wherever the
question of negro suffrage had been sub
mitted to the people, it had been defeat
ed by overwhelming majorities, tons of
thousands of Republicans voting against
it. The influential member of Mr.
Hayes’ Cabinet, to his honor
be it said, never would have
dared to force negro suffrage upon
the people. But the party leaders did it.
If anybody spoke about Black Friday,
tho answer was “Rebel! ’ If anybody
spoke against negro suffrage, the answer
was “Rebel!” if anybody spoke against
robberv ar.d corruption, violation of law
and constitution, the answer was still
“Rebel!” Even last fall the maiu nnswer
we received upon the stump when we
spoke of Belknap, Robeson, Credit Mo-
bilier, Babcock, whisky ring and the
like, was simply, “Y’ou are a rebel!” AU
this is now over. Mr. Hayes has broken
the spell. He has taken a rebel into his
Cabinet, is appointing nbels to offiee,
and openly concentrating all h : s efforts
upon gaining tho support of rebels to his
admin station by making it agreeable to
rebels.
I like Mr. Hayes. He follows the ad
vice of that distinguished member of his
Cabinet whose opinions on past critical
moments of the'Republiean party I have
alluded to.
acted in accordance with those opinions
and not according to their (diametricaUy
opposed! own, there would have been no
Republican party for some years. As it
is, there will soon not be much of one, if
Mr. Ilayes will only stick to his “policy”
and his experiments thr jughout his term.
He has repudiated the men and measures,
the principles and precedents, the very
spirit and character of his party. He has
broken the spell of the bloody shir^ and
silenced the cry of rebel. He has kicked
the men to the rear who saved the Re
publican party in the past, nnd made him
what he is, and Bhowered honors upon
those who did their best to destroy his
party. A house divided against itself
cannot stand. Nobody can live without
breath. A party cannot exist without
principles. An administration
succeed without a party.
lIa -' t '’' Joseph Pulitzeb.
St. Louis, June DtA.
vicious of the community. It is a curious
fact that, while France is at this moment
less pestered by Socialism than she has
been for many years, Germany is mote
worried by it than ever before.
A cable dispatch informs us that in one
of the districts of Berlin a Socialist can
didate for the German Parliament has
just received over 3,200 votes. His op
ponent got two votes to hi3 one : but it
is a great triumph for the Socialists to
make so large a poll in the Prussian capi
tal. In other parts of Germany they are
quite strong. At the recent Parliamen
tary elections they cast nearly 500,000
votes and elected about twenty members,
against ten iu 1874. The strength of
Socialism within the a e three years has at
least doubled in Germany. At a late
meeting of the Socialists at Gotha one
bundled and seventy-one local societies
reported, representing over 30,000 active
members. They publish more than fifty
journals, besides tracts and pamphlets
innumerable, which are scattered
by emissaiies all over Germany and find
tneir way to adjoining countries. The
agents of the movement busy thomselves
in all the large factories where many
hands are employed. They have recently
come into collision with the famous iron
master of Essen, Herr Krupp, who
threatens to dismiss any one of hie
twenty-five thousand workmen who joins
the Socialists. Thus far he has defeated
these insidious attempts to demoralize his
force; but tho Socialists are cunning and
patient, and will give him much trouble
if they do not break up bis establishment.
The alarming growth of Socialism in Ger
many is explained by the prostration of
business from which that country especi-
ally suffers. This depression is the re
lapse from the delirium of prosperity
which followed the payment of the im
mense French fine to the Germans. Spec
ulation was rampant, and the prices of
everything rose inordinately, even wages
in some branches of trade g :ing up five
fold. The reaction, hastened and aggra
vated by the falling off in the trade with
the United States, has been terrible. Hun
dreds of workshops have been forced to
close, thousands of workmen aro thrown
out of employment, and the distress of
the poorer classes is unprecedented
throughout the empire. Their misfortunes
make the soil favorable for the seeds of
socialism, aud there promises soon to be
a crop of that dangerous growth in Ger
many which Bismarck will be obliged to
tear up by force. The man of “ blood
and iron ” will not hesitate to cat out
socialism by the roots when an attack
upon it becomes necessary. But no phys
ical force can suppress it entirely; aud
Europe, in tb^long future, will continue
to be vexed with this tempting and de
ceitful theory, the triumph of which
would be fatal to all originality and en
terprise and progr»".
Tito Mexican Jab.
The Mexican spoliation scheme grows
apace. It is finding now advocates where
they might least have been looked for,
and the original designers and promoters
are coming to the front with renewed
activity. The public eye is being enter
tained with column after column of
Mexican outrages; to fire the American
heart cases of special hardships and in
stances of distinguished brutality are
being raked up and colored with a vivid
ness which could only come from an
artist in love with his work. There is
nothing to bo gained by putting on ex
hibition spread eagle canvases of this
sort. It boots nothing to offer in evi
dence facts which are not denied. I
makes little difference that a goneral
truth is overdrawn to meet a special case.
We know that the Texan border has been
plagued aud harried by Mexican thieves
and cut-throats. We know that
this i3 no new cause of complaint
—that it has gone on for years,
aud we recognize that as n very bind
ing reason why wo should make haste
slowly. Since the outrages which prod
our national pride aro not new, but of
long standing, any sudden ebullition of
wrath and vengeance is ill-timed and out
of place. We can afford to be very calm
and know we ure right before we go
ahead. Reckless as Gen. Grant was in
his disregard of constitutional fetters, he
confined himself to prolonging a civil war
and stirring up feuds at home. His for
eigu policy was directed with more care,
He seemed to have no desire to drag us
iuto a foreign war. Ho wa3 sounded on
the Cuban question, and although recog
nition of tho patriots would have been
popular with a large element, Grant went
no farther than to put in one or two mes
sages a few sentences which tickled the
Gub in sympathisers iu this country, and
did not make a ripple at Madrid. But
Grant had one thing in his favor; he came
by his office honestly. Mr. Hayes, who
was juggled into the Presidency, seems
to look upon Mexico as he would a tribe
of our own Indians. He instructs Gen
Ord, “at his own discretion,” to bring
on war with Mexico. Yv ithout consider
ing who would be tho victors—about
which there is no question—there is
right anil constitutional way to declare
war ou Mexico if we desire to do that
thing. But neither General Ord nor the
President is the war-making power. This
is the point to bear iu mind, and it is
Had the leaders of the party^ t jjj a w mch Mr. Hayes seems to have
overlooked. He may be very honest in
this Mexican affair, but he must under
stand that the people are naturally sus
pieious of a fraudulent President.—
Baltimore Gazette.
A Restoration of Tme Principles.
If we could only get the masses to un
derstand that it is a restoration of ideas,
of principles, rather than of things, that
is required to bring the country back to a
state of industrial and commercial pros
perity, then an important step could be
taken with ease. A great many “reform”
movements have sprung up into short
lived existence, and a few “reform” meas
ures and retrenchments have actually
been instituted that flourished to some
public profit. But none of these have
afforded even any considerable relief, and
the depressing condition of business,
finance, morals and politics has continued
‘to grow no better.”
So it is a restoration of ideas and true
principles that is demanded. The poli
ticians are not likely to institute any
such sweeping changes. The whole ma
chinery of the General Government, and,
to a considerable extent, the machinery
in most the State governments, has been
run out of the Federal and Republican
groove. The entire sysffim has been car
ried a long way not only into debt and
corruption, but a long way into despotic
misrule and consolidated nationalism.
To expect the office holding and seek
ing politicians of either party to undo a
condition which has disqualified the peo-
plo from self-government and put tuem
forward as masters, is a folly that leads
to still further degradation. The politi
cians are not so disposed, and could not
relieve the distress of the country if they
were honestly to try to do so. It is an
undertaking in which every man must
move until tho whole body politic has
been thoroughly republicanized, socially
and politically.
Certain ideas, involving certain funda
mental principles, generally and univer
sally embraced, taught and illustrated,
must precede any such revolution.
Nothing can be more evident. YVhat
ideas, involving what principles ? do you
ask. Well, let us discuss that together.
If we eau take a deep interest in this
discussion, and get everybody to talking
and reading about it, and our best minds
to write about it, surely the proper
ideas and principles will be made ap
parent.
But, to give a more definite answer,
and to point the lesson to a practicable
ending, we say candidly that those ideas
aro involved in the declaration of princi
ples set forth as the creed of the Repub
lican party in 1798. Governments aro
made for men. All public authority
belongs to the people, aud not to public
servants. The States were the original
depositories of all trust powers, and each
in. its organic capacity a sovereign nation.
The Federal Uqjon is an artificial relation
between the States in their sovereign ca-
pacitier. The powers it exercises, legiti
mately, are delegations, not to the Federal
Government, but from the States io each
other. Thus a Federal and not a National
form of general government was created.
It is here that our troubles arise. Fol
lowing the natural disposition of man
himself, ana of largo corporations, those
who seek to use the Federal powers for
the protection and aggrandizement of
special or sectional interests, declare that
the States, the creators of the Federal
Union and its government are not sov
ereign, but that the particular Stale must
be subject to what they call “the na
tion,” meaning thereby the Government
of the United States.
This is an insidious attempt to destroy
both republican and federal govern
ment in all the States. The conse
quences are not always apprehended and
aro generally repudiated, but that does
not save the country from ruin. The
States cannot remain free and cease to
be republican. The federal relation is
not near so essential. Our present dis-
tess is due to the effort to consolidate
the States into an “indivisible nation,”
which means destruction to both federal
and republican institutions.—Jejferso-
nian Democrat.
cannot
like Mr.
The diamonds, jewelry, parasols, neck
laces, with other valuables, of the late
Sultan Abdul Aziz have been sold Dy auc
tion on the Paris Bourse.
While Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McKee
wore going home from a church festival
at New Windsor, New York, at midnight
Wednesday night, they were attacked by
three highwaymen, brutally beaten and
robbed. The miscreants evidently sup
posed Mr. McKee had the proceeds of tbe
festival, but were mistaken. His watch
and money were taken. Mrs. McKee in
terfered, and was knocked down aud turn
bled into a ditch. The robbers escaped
and have not yet been traced. The vic
tims were not dangerously m jured.
» I ^ t 4
Regarding the flat falsehood that Gen,
Garfield told concerning the correspon
dence between himself and Hayes, Gar
field, who was formerly a Baptist minis
ter, explains that the word baptize,
baptidzo, should be translated to dip or
plunge, and that it will do just as well to
put the water on the man as it will to put
the man in the water,—Boston Post.
The Financial Policy of tbe Adminis
tration.
[St. Louis Times.)
An article appeared in Washington on
Saturday, which is said by the Chicago
Tribune to be semi-official and to reflect
the financial policy of Mr. Hayes. The
Tribune is good authority on that subject,
as its editor was recently in Washington,
consulting with Messrs. Hayes and Mat
thews in regard to tho silver movement,
and has been made intimately acquaint
ed with the views of the administration.
We copy from that paper a synopsis of
the article referred to :
“It represents that, whatever course
Mr. Hayes may pursue regarding the sil
ver question, the business interests of tbe
nation will be protected; that, in the
present depressed Condition of finances,
it is deemed wisdom, by postponing the
speedy payment of tbe public debt, to
reduce taxation: that tbe resources of
the country should be developed by ex
tensive public improvements; that the
public securities should ba popularized
by low rates, and that long-term bonds
should be encouraged; that the silver
dollar should be remonetized and the
gresnbaek redeemable therewith, and that
all bonds issued before or since 1873
should be payable in gold coin.”
The statement that “the business in
terests of the nation will be protected,”
means that the bondholders, the national
bankers, the gold bullionists and the East
ern capitalists have nothing to fear from
any plan for the remonetization of silver
that may be advocated by the administra
tion for party purposes in Ohio. The
statement that “ the public securities
should be popularized by low rates” is so
meaningless as to be absurd. When the
people of a yonng and growing country,
such as 'he United States, can find so little
profitable use for their money that they
are willing to invest it in “ public securi
ties at low rates, ” our condition of financial
prostration is truly doplorable, and tbe
word “popularized” is strangely out of
place when used in connection with such
securities. The sense of the article
further is that the silver dollar shall bo
remonetized, but only to tbe extent of
redeeming the greenback. That is to
say, its coinage will be resumed, but its
legal tender quality will bo limited to
that which is now possessed by tho
greenback; it may be used to pay private
debts, bet gold alone shall be sacred to
tho public creditor. This evident con
struction is rendered absolute by tbe
further statement that “all bonds issued
before or since 1873 should be payable in
gold.” . .
The financial policy of the administra
tion will be seen to be exactly as we have
stated it. It incurs that there shall be
one kind of money for the private credi
tor and another for the public creditor :
one kind for the people and another for
tho bondholder; that the people’s money
shall ba silver and national bank notes,
and the bondholder’s money shall bo
gold, and nothing but gold. It is both
strange and startling that the Chicago
Tribune, which has hitherto advocated
the silver dollar, can print this exposition
of the financial policy of tho administra
tion without a word of dissent, or even of
comment.
How Dried Fruits Humid be Put Up
for Market.
The Southern States send forward some
of the best fruit we have, and in Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Tennesseo and
Georgia tho curing of the same has be-
oorne quite an industry and source of
profit. Dealers generally throughout the
country will enhance the value of all fruit,
aud serve their own interest greatly, by
observing the following hints in reference
to the curing and packing of the same :
Care should bo taken that all tares are
correctly marked, and the fruit to run
uniform throughout each and every pack
age ; ship none that is not well dried;
pack in new or very clean second-hand
bags or barrels; do not put more than the
one kind in the same package, thereby
securing for your shipments a reputation
which will generally insure quick sales at
full market prices; mark or brand the
kind and quality, together with weight
and tare, distinctly; send invoice descrip
tive of weights, etc., also railroad receipts
or bills of lading, with every shipment.
AU dried fruits seU principally by color,
which should be bright; and to obtain
the same in apples and peaches, they
should be prepared for drying before fully
ripe. Sliced apples if not bright, do not
pay fer the troublo of slicing, and the
finest qualities should be packed in new
barrels top and bottom lined with paper.
Bright quartered apples, well cored, uai-
foim in out, are always more or less in
fair demand, and more attention should
be given to them. Peeled peaches should
be sliced or cut in eighths, and invariably
of a bright color. Dark qualities rule
low, and are slow of sale. Unpeeled
peaches should ba cut in halves or quar
ters. Tho largest peaches should be
selected for halves, size being a consider
ation m them, while the smaUer fruit is
fully desirable to be cut for quarters.
They should bo kept entirely separate, as
when mixed they will not generaUy sell
at over tho price of quarters.
Blackberries should be particularly
well dried, as they are liable to sweat or
sour, and pack only in new barrels.
Cherries should be packed also in new
barrels of about equal parts, red and
black mixed; and syrup and sugar put ou
them detracts from tlieir value, as they
sell at much better prices and are more
desirable when free from any such mix
ture. Unpitted cherries will hardly pay
for drying, the price ruling usually low.
Black damson plums aud black raspber
ries are more or less in demand at all
times at good prices, which will fully pay
when care has been taken cf thorn; they
are better packed in barrels.
A Dog Bccned in a Fubnace.—A sin
gular case of cruelty to animals was tried
in tbe Court of Special Sessions yester
day, before Justice Morgan, Murray and
Duffy. Thomas Dickinson, engineer of
the Harlem Orphan Asylum, was charged
with having thrown a living dog into the
furnace of the boiler of his engine. Mr.
Bergb, who appeared in behalf of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, opened the case by calling four
boys, inmates of tbe institution, who
agreed in saying that Mr. Dickinson,
after hanging tho dog with a piece of
belt lace, had cut it down while yet alive,
and had thrown it into the furnace, and
that they had seen the animal move after
having been thrown in. They also testi
fied that the dog, which was only seven
months old, was not vicious, but was of
a kindly, playful disposition. Mr. Bergh
asked that the heaviest penalty be im
posed. The Judges, after consultation,
imposed a fine of one hundred dollars on
th3 prisoner.—N. T. Times, 20th.
A Young Lady Shot by a Spanish
Lovee.—A letter from San Antonia,
Texas, states that Miss Jolla Miller,
daughter of Martin Miller, who removed
to Texas from Alexandria (Va.) some
months since, was shot, and it is feared
fatally wounded, near that place on the
18th of May. It seems that a Spaniard
named Escobedo had proposed to Miss
Miller, at three different times, and had
been as often refused, and vowed ven
geance against her. On the day named
the young lady, in company with a more
favored suitor, was riding near the town
when Escobedo approached, shot the
young man dead, and fired two shots at
Miss Miller as she fled, both of which
took effect. Tho lady was finally rescued
by two wagoners and her assailant ar
rested.
Three Suicides More or Less Artisti
cally Accompanied by Shooting.
About 10 o'clock Tuesday night Mr.
Short, a well known and respected citizen
of New Brunswick, N. J., who had been
in the company of his brother and a
friend, parted with them at his own door.
When not more than one hundred feet
distant from the house they heard the
report of a pistol-shot, and returning
fouisd Mr. Short lying on the stoop,
wounded. A ball bad entered the upper
part of the abdomen on the left side and
passed out close to the spinal column.
He lingered till 8 o’clock this morning.
There is no cause assigned for his suicide.
He was apparently of sound mind and
was quite conscious up to the time of bis
death, expressing regret for his act. He
was aged about forty-two years. Ho
leaves a wife and seven or eight children.
Ho was an inventor of carpet looms and
other machines, and Superintendent of
the New Brunswick Carpet Mills.
William T. Ballard, of No. 445 East
One Hundred and Nineteenth street, com
mitted suicide yesterday morning. Mr.
Ballard had slept with his father-in-law,
Mr. St. Jchn, who was awakened by the
report of a pistol. U pon looking about
tho room he saw Mr. Ballard sitting in a
chair with a pistol in one hand and blood
streaming from a wound near tbe heart.
The wounded man died almost immedi
ately. Ho had threatened suicide several
times, aud is supposed to have been tem
porarily insane.
Furman Titus, a young man twenty-
Beven years of age, son of a well-to-do
farmer living near Trenton, took his gun
and placing the muzzle to the back part
of the head, blew off part of his head.—
U. r. World.
We have had occasion before to notice
tbo eminent qualities of TI. S. Grant as
a writer of English. Wo find, however,
that we have never done him full justice.
The recent letter of Mr. Grant to Mr.
Childs, describing the workings of his
noble heart and powerful brain, under
tho pressure of English snobbery, is sim
ply sublime. He says:
“I love to see our country honored and
respected abroad, and I am proud to be-
lievo that it is by most all nations, and
by some even loved. It has always been
my desire to see all jealousies between
England and the United States abated,
and every sore healed. They are more
powerful for the spread of commerce and
civilization than all others combined, and
can do more to remove causes of wars by
creating mutual interests that would be
so much destroyed by war. ”
Now, the touching patriotism which
glows throughout this eloquent expres
sion of condescending interest in “our
country,” in one who has given so much
talent, self-denying labor and unrequited
energy to it3 service, is beautiful. It
even suggests an increase of salary, a gift
from the bankers, or some paid-up stock,
you know. But when we are given in the
closing paragraph the sweet picture of
“jealousies between England and the
United States abated and every sore heal
ed”—as being “more powerful for the
spread of commerce and civilization than
all others combined”—we feel how great
a thing is tho English language—whon
well used!—Deic Orleans Democrat.
Despeeate Pitched Battle Between
Citizens and Hobse Thieves.—A bloody
fight look place ou Monday in the Kia-
niconic Mountains, in Kentucky, between
two well-armed bands of men, headed by
George W. Stamper and George Under
wood, respectively. Stamper suspected
Underwood and bis followers of stealing
his horses, and, organizing a company of
twenty-five men, went in pursuit. The
battle took place on Laurel creek, the
scene of numerous acts of lawlessness
during the war. George Underwood, Jr.,
a notorious character, was shot, and
several others were killed or wounded.
One report says that not less than sine
men were killed. The affair has created
great excitement in Lewis county, but,
so far, no action has been taken by tbe
State authorities. The frieDds of the
Underwoods claim that they are relatives
of Lieutenant Governor Underwood, who
will see that no harm comes to them.
The Lieutenant Governor, however, de
nies relationship. The first reports are
confirmed by men who have come from
the scene, but particulars of the affair are
still meagre.
A Russian Dare-Devil.
Among the officers on the Grand Duke’s
staff is a tall, handsome man with a lithe,
slender, active figure, a clear blue eye, a
large, prominent, well shaped nose, and
a face young enough for a second lieu
tenant. It is Shobeleff, the youngest
General in the Russian army, the con
queror of Khokand. He has the reputa
tion, even among tbe Russians, of being
a madman who would fling away his own
life and those of his troops without the
slightest regard for consequences. During
the war which resulted in the conquest of
Khokand, a Russian detachment of eight
hundred men, with four hundred Cos
sack i, was compelled to retreat be
fore a superior force of the enemy.
General Trotsky decided upon a
night attack, and confided his plan
to CoL Skobeieff, then his chief of ftaff.
The latter entered into the idea with
gnat enthusiasm, and proposed to lead
the attacking column himself, and to tako
only one hundred aud fifty Cossack^.
Skobeieff, having recounoitered tne
ground, perceived that the Khokandiaus
had encamped within a miie aud a half of
the Russians in au open plain, which
gave every facility for tho manoeuvering
of cavalry. At midnight he took his ono
hundred and fifty Cossacks, divided them
into three parties, and cautiously sur
rounded the enemy’s camp. The party,
led by Skobeieff himself, managed to pass
the enemy’s outposts, who were sound
asleep. Then he gave the signal for
the attack by firing his pistol, and.
followed by his ono hundred and
fifty Cossacks, he rode headlong into
the enemy's camp of six thousand
or seven thousand men, shouting
and yelling like fiends, and cut
ting down everything in their passage.
For a quarter of au hour the plain re
sounded with shrieks and yells, shots,
the trampling of horses,shouts and groans,
and all the uproar of battle. Then all
was silence. Skobeieff assembled his
Cossacks, and when morning came he
found that tho whole army cf the enemy,
six or seven thousand men, bad disappear
ed, leaving on the field about forty dead,
two or three thousand muskets and sabres,
all their camp material, and baggage. But
what was his astonishment on calling the
roll to discover that he had not lost a man
either killed or wounded. Mr. MacGa-
han, who first met him ou the banks of
tbe Oxus, relates this exploit to shew how
much method there is iu this dare devil’s
madness.
Five Days in a Mine.
A fall of coal occurred in the pit of
Roche-la-Moliere, near Saint-Etienne
(Loire), France, on tho 8th inst., by
which three workmon, Brossard and the
two brothers Peyron, woro cut off from
all communication with tho surface. As
hopes were entertained that they wero
simply imprisoned, and not crushed,
gangs of men were at onco organized to
liberate them, aud those efforts happily
proved successful, after the poor men had
passed one hundred and twenty-live hours
in their subterranean prison. They wero
alive, but in a very exhausted state. Tho
account they have been able to give is to
the effect that when the accident hap
pened they were in a sort of chamber,
which protected them from being hurt.
They possessed tho provisions they had
brought for tboir day’s consumption and
three litres of wine. Those precious ar
ticles they partook of with tho most
frugal parsimony, but at last ull was ex
hausted. They had the good fortune to
discover a spring of pure water, to which,
in all probability, they owed their livos.
Brossard had saved bis lamp, and for two
days they had some light, but tho oil
gradually diminished, and they then wore
plunged in complete darkness. The ac
cident having been accompanied by au
inundation of tho lower part of the mine,
the men suffered severely from damp and
cold, but bravely kept up their spirits.
The elder Peyron cheered his comrades
by relating how he had himself formerly
been in a similar strait, but had been lib
erated after a period of three days. His
efforts were powerfully aided by the fact
that they could hear the constant blows
of tbe men outside straining every
nerve to release them, and they
all agreed that they never despaired of
being eventually saved. However, their
powers of endurance were taxed to the
utmost limits. When tho pangs of hun
ger became unendurable they ate their
tobacco, guawed lumps of wood, otc. But
at length, finding themselves growing
woaker, they managed to arrange a pile
of ooal dust, on which they laid dowD,
and where they wero found by their de
liverers, one cf them being even asleep.
Of course, as soon as they could be re
moved to the surface they received every
attention. They were taken to the com -
pany’s hospital, and are getting on very
well after their long interment.
'I lie Bhabdoskidopheros.
This somewhat cumbrous word is tho
name of an umbrella, described in tho
Uatlers' Gazette, an English periodical.
Its peculiarity is that tbo canopy is
packed in a hollow stick, and ou touching
a spring it shoots out at the end and
spreads itself. The chief objection which
occurs to us is, that if a man had to ask
for tho umbrella under its patent title at
tbe beginning of a shower, the rain
might be over before he could get through
with tho name. Tbe Uatters 1 Gazette
states that in tho last hundred years
about two hundred and seventy pa
tents for umbrellas and parts
of umbrellas have been issued in
England, and abcut a quarter of a
hundred for improved canes and walking
sticks. Among the curiosities iu
umbrellas are mentioned tbo MacGre
gor, fitted with a spear or bayonet, aEd a
sportsman’s umbrella, embracing fishing
rod, gun cane aud pipe stem. Another
umbrella is a walking tent, the sides de
pending from the circular roof, and fur
nished with a glass window, through
which the sheltered pedestrian may see
his way. Another patent has in its hol
low staff a pistol and ammunition, a
telescope, pen, ink and paper, and a small
knife.
Another variety is contrived for iho
defeat of umbrella fiends, who appro
priate the property of others. The
handle of this screws iff, and as even
thieves do not want an umbrella without
a handle, this article is as safe as a com
bination lock. Tho perfect umbrella of
the future, it is predicted, will be a fish
ing-rod, fowling-piece, driving-whip,
sword-stick, bayonet, tobacco-pipe,
writing-desk, and pillar post tent. It
will have its handle fitted with a fire
place, a repeating watch ar.d a compass,
and will weigh only eight ounces avoirdu
pois, the weight of the most delicately
constructed Paris umbrella.
UlaKollcnl Aiaaalt on a Married Woman
tn Weotrbenter County.
Intense exoitement prevailed among
the people living in the northern portion
of Westchester county yesterday, owing
to a horrible outrage perpetrated tn the
person of a young married woman during
the previous evening. At a secluded
place near Witson’s Corners, in the town
of Ossining, and sitnated about two miles
west of the Harlem Railroad station at
Ploasantville, Charles Brundage, an in
dustrious farm laborer, lives with his
family, consisting of a wife and three
children, whose ages range from four
years to three months. Their cottage is
some distance from aqy public thorough
fare, and the nearest neighbor almost a
quarter of a mile away. After returning
home from his daily toil on Tuesday,
Brundage set out for Pleasantvillt, with
the object of purchasing some groceries,
that being the nearest place where he
could obtain them. This was about 7
p. m. He had not been gone longer
than fifteen or twenty minutes, when two
strangers, who had evidently watched
him going away, called at the house and
asked for some food. Mrs. Brundage—
who is a delicate looking person, twenty-
two years old, of slight form—promptly
shared her little store with the mendi
cants, who partook of it outsido on the
stoop. After eating they opened the
door and, uninvited, entered the house.
One of the wretches then approached Mrs.
Brundage and roughly seized her arm.
The poor woman, who was in the act of
arranging some needlework, aimed a blow
at the feiiow with tho scissors which she
held in her hand, striking him, she thinks,
in the face, as he uttered the exclamation,
“My God!” Both of the miscreants
then tied her arms behind her, and
taking a rubber ball covered with
yarn from ono of the children they
forced it into the poor woman’s
mouth, thus effectually rendering
her unable to mako the slightest noise.
She immediately fainted, and while in
this condition the villains oriminally as
saulted her, and finally left the house.
When their victim regained consciousness
her hands were still tied and tho ball fill
ing her moutb. In this state she made
her way to the house of a neighbor, but
sank down in another fainting fit when
she attempted to open the gate. Assist
ance speedily arrived, her hands wero
loosed and the ball was taken out of her
mouth. The neighborhood was at one;
aroused, and armed bands of men and
boys started off in all directions to hunt
down the two ruffians. AU tbe evening
and during the night the search was
kept up, but without avail. Yester
day morning information of the out
rage was conveyod to Sing Sing, when
Justice Hyatt at once instructed tho
police force of that villago to arrest
every tramp they could find. According
ly, about twenty were apprehended and
locked up. Later iu the day, however,
when Mrs. Brundage nud some friends
arrivtd, she scanned the prisoners, but
failed to recognize tho parties who as
saulted her. She gives a detailed do-
soription of them, howover, and says she
could readily identify them. Arrests were
being made up to a late hour last even
ing, but it is probable the guilty
parties Lave succeeded in getting out of
tbe county. Mrs. Brundage says she
does not believe her assailants were
tramps, as they wero both welt dressed.
Had they beon found yesterday it is not
probable that tho county would have
been put to the expense of trying them.—
N. 7. Herald.
The number of articles found each year
in the streets and public vehicles in Paris
and deposited at tne Prefecture of Police
is very considerable. In 1873 coin was
registered for a sum of 24,369 francs,
while notes and securities amounted to
867,845 francs; 2,320 articles of jewelry,
17S gold watenes and 145 silver. In 1876
there were deposited 33,958 francs in
coin,578,579 francs in notes and securities,
2,069 articles of jewelry, 212 gold watches
and 161 silver. The numberof umbrellas
is so considerable tnat no account of them
is taken. About one-tenth of the articles
of value are claimed; the proportion of
the others is even less.
M. Menier, au inventor of a military
hot-air balloon, recently delivered in Lon
don a heturo on war-time aeronautics.
In conducting experiments at Woolwich
his aim had been to find a balloon which
could ascend and descend rapidly for a
prolonged period, could be steered and
could proceed against the wind. Reject
ing hydrogen gas as au inflating medium
because it could not bo generated in the
air. and escape very freely, compressed
air for the same reason, and mechanical
force as cumbersome and unworkable, he
chose hot air because, although it re
quires greater cubical capacity, the ma
terial employed for the balloon need not
be specially prepared, and is therefore
lighter and less liable to spontaneous
combustion. By employing a special kind
of fuel the balloon can be kept in tbe air
for twenty or twenty-five hours, while
considerable change in the density of the
air, and consequent rapid ascents and
descents, are rendered easy. To his bal-
Iood, which is spherical in shape, Mr.
Menier affixes wings all round except in
front, and a tail behind, managed by tbe
aeronaut, acts as a rudder. His balloon
can ba made to travel against contrary
winds, and, when this is not practicable,
it will tack to and fro like a ship.
Good 1 aste in Our Homes.
In an article, with the above title, in
Scribner's Mayaziile, Dr. Holland writes
as follows:
The mistnk" of this era in the history
of “household art and home decorations,”
lies, it seems to us, in the attempt to do
much with furniture. Ruskin, in one of
his books, distinguishes between building
and architecture. There are certain
structures in which architecture should
never be attempted. A grain elevator, a
storehouse, a barn—these aro buildings,
and architecture is out of place in them.
Thero is no more reason why they should
be beautiful than there is why a meal
sack should be beautiful, or a coal cart.
So it seems to us that there may be and
thnt thero are certain items of furniture
which we may legitimately excuse from
tho duty of piclnresqueness. If our
carpots are less beautiful thau rugs upon
bare floors, if furnaces are less interest
ing than open fires, if the old-fashioned
wash-bowl and pitcher aro more piotu-
reique tliau the plumber’s substitute,
what of it ? In which direction shall we
make our sacrifices ? Toward comfort
and convenience, or toward the pictu
resqueness of ruder times and smaller
means? We advocate comfort aDd
convenience, and leave others to do as
they choose. The modern advocacy of
beauty, in connection with all articles of
furniture and household convenience,
reminds one of the child who insists
upon making play of everything—who
cannot taka a mouthful of food or do an
act of service without making it in some
way a source of amusemeut.
To come to the practical point, a home
may bo interesting without being more
thau moderately beautiful, and may be
more than moderately beautiful without
being interesting at all. If we rely en
tirely upon furniture for the interest of a
bouse—if wo make furniture picturesque
at tbo price of comfort aud convenience,
our homes may be made interesting in a
moderate way, provided wo follow out our
individual ideas aud do not fail back upon
the conventionalisms of the manufac
turers. But the most interesting things
in a house should never he its furni
ture. Given convenient furniture that
shall be picturesque whon conveni
ent, tho question wuether a home 6hall
be greatly interesting relates mainly to
other things—to books, pictures, objects
of art, bric-a-brac and treasures of vari
ous sorts, in fact or in association. We
can point to homes whose furniture at
tracts no attention whatever, but which
aro absorbingly interesting through the
artistic products of its members. The
more tbe culture and taste of cultured
and tasteful peoplo are expressed in their
homes, through various modes and forms
of art, the more interesting those homes
will be; and the more a guest is compell
ed to forget furniture, except as it an
swers to tho highest harmonies of the
house, the tetter. The best things of an
interesting home aro never bought of a
furniture dealer, though the most beauti
ful may be.
John G. Saxe, the poet, still suffers
from nervous prostration and neuralgia,
the effects of the railroad accident in
Pennsylvania about a year ago. He is at
his home in Brooklyn, and sees no one
except the members of his family. Ho
is despondent, bnt his family believe that
his condition is encouraging.
Speculation on the probable course of
the war is ea=y, and prophecy even
shorter. We may bold tho eye too close
to tho object of interest to comprehend
its full meaning. What is going on in
France may be but tho opening scene in
a drama in which all Europe will be
involved. Tho triumph cf the Ultra
montane party in tho government calls
forth from ono of its organs at Romo
some very plain, if not bold, utterances.
It exclaims that “tho Eastern war will
not remain circumscribed to the moun
tains of Armenia or the shores of the
Danube. It is not a war of conquest
between two rival nations,* but iu it i3
made manifest and incarnate the fact
that Europe is on tbe brink of a colossal
struggle, long foreseen and dreaded, and
perhaps final, between revolution and
order, between Christianity and barbar
ism, between Christian civilization and re
viving pagan Canariam. All men feel that
this war will pass from East to West, and
in the West a well-ordered and conserva
tive France is a formidable barrier to rev
olution.” It is impossible to ignore the
terrible significance of language whose
tone is as full of resolution as of prophecy.
The party that believes it has got pos
session of France to-day, and thinks that
it has stamped out the most stable popu
lar government France has bad in nearly
a century, may awake to find that it has
only inaugurated convulsions that will
rock the continent. Bismarck’s reasons
for watching the course of the French
Government becomes plain. If it is to be
Holy War in the West, as well as in the
East, the combinations on both sides will
be stronger than anything yet seen in
history'- Great Britain in alliance with
tho Pope, the Sultan and the clerical
power in France, would be a sight to con
found belief.—Boston Post.
The Princess of Wales is credited with
saying, years ago, that “Bertie (Albert)
has loved many women, but he has loved
me best of all.” A wife who consoles
herself with that reflection usually winds
up with the reported experience of poor
Alexandra, who retires broken hearted to
her father, because “Bertie” has become
more and more like George IV.
The property of Mr. Sniffer, of Mary
land, was recently destroyed by fir*.
Strange that he didn’t smell something
burning, in time to prevent a spread of
the flames.