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trouble IN thk 1 HOIK.
[From the Utica Observer. 1
!> re was something bo nnnsnal in the singing
of the choir
That the Elder looked up mildly lrom the tenth
of Jeremiah, , , - . '
And with readjusted eyes ass looked along the
loremo t row, . . , .
Whin’ a hundred necks were twisted 10 a stare
from all below.
A- :.«*foic the rolling thunder comes a di tant,
wailing moan,
TLi-io was nresage of disturbance In the very
organ’s tone.
Jostthe popping of the pickets, ere the battle’s
awful din,
i) t Hi. tuning of the fiddles ere the orchestra be
gin.
All unprejudiced observer might have seen with
half an eye
Tiu ru was waiting an explosion that would blow
them all sky-high,
<>r spontaneous combustion, to accept a modern
name.
That was waiting just a motion to burst forth in
to Hume.
i ... Soprano sat in grandeur, with her book be
fore her face,
Wiih her hack comb turned in anger on the Alto
and the bass;
While the Tenor stood beside her with an eleva-
,-ated nose,
V i the Organist pawed madly at the pedals with
Lia toes.
How could auyonehnt Angels sing when they
u ere feeling so ?
Though the hymn was “Songs of Gladness,” they
'would make it “Sounds of Woe.”
A lien we sing about devotion, some devotion we
must feel,
or our plaintive tones of worship will partake
somewhat of squeal.
Hut the Alto sung her solo, and then left it to the
Bass,
Who was gnawing ct his moustache, and was
looking for the place;
While the Organist in anger, sung the leading
part alone,
A:.>1 the T* nor tried to follow, but it ended In a
groan.
A - the horror-stricken pcop’e heard the discord
ri-iDg higher,
li patent to the simplest there was trouble in
the choir.
Am! the Organist, in fury, closed the organ with
a crash,
And the Alto sobbed in anguish, and the choir
had gone to s _i>ach.
\\ lien the Elder went among them with a view to
reconcile.
The soprano told her story with a sanguinary
smile;
t appeared the wretched Chorister had intio-
duced a girl
A ith a bran new style of singing, and a most d.s-
tracting curl.
But, to cap the bitter climax, this usurper wore
hat,
-t a duck, a gem, a beauty, and it made the
rest look flat;
And the straw that broke the camel’s back and
made the wi eck complete—
s *he came early Sunday morning and usurped the
k ading seat.
When the Elder asked the Tenor why he left, he
said : “Because
The Soprano said his chest-tones sounded jast
like filing eaws;
\nd he overheard the Alto one night whisper to
the Bass,
Thai a raau with such a moustache was a palpa
ble disgrace.”
And the Bass informed the Elder that he sacri
ficed his views
When he c*me and joined the Elder’s choir, to
help fill up his pews.
lie was an Episcopalian, and if people thought
he’d take
Any nonsense from a Baptist, they had made a
t,reat mistake.
T lieu the Organist and Alto both put on an in
jured lock,
Saying something in an undertone about a change
of book;
And the Elder overheard them, as he gently
closed the door,
Cte the words, “A poor old Fogy,” and “A senti
mental Bore.”
Affairs in fieonria.
Judge W. D. Kiddo is holding court in Co
lumbus to try civil cases in which Judge
Martin J. Crawford was counsel. Some of
these cases are quite important, and able
counsel are engaged on both sides.
The managers of two rival excursions from
Columbus, Montgomery and Selma, Ala.,
are engaged in a newspaper war, with sharp
words for their weapons. A more serious
conflict is anticipated in a few days.
Gon. E. P. Alexander works very quietly,
yet he has put the Western Railroad of
Alabama into splendid condition since he be
came President and general manager. His
lino extends from West Point, Georgia, to
Selma, Alabama, with a branch from Ope
lika to Columbus. The great fast line to
.New Orleans goes over this route via Macon
and Colombus.
Cairo, Georgia, had a large Masonic oele-
bration on last Saturday (St. John’s Day).
There were quite one thousand people pre
sent. Judge Hansel, who is recognized as
tho brightest Mason in Southern Georgia,
delivered the addross on tho occasion.
There was an abundance of everything
that could be desired by the hungry.
Everything passed off pleasantly, and
everybody enjoyed themselves finely.
A correspondent writing to us from Lib
erty county, in the Taylor creek neighbor
hood, says, under date of the 25th instant:
“Crops, as a general thing, are just one
month behind, owing to tho cool nights and
dry weather ; but recently we have had an
abundance of rain, in fact we are now hav-
iug more than we really need. Cotton is
very small for the time of year and the
staud not at all good, as the cut worm has
been unusually active this spring. Corn is,
in many fields,tasseling and in silk, although
it is very small. Several of tho farmers iu
this section lost the greator part of the oat
crop, it having been blown down during
the storm of the 15th. There was a small turn
out to the election for convention. I am
glad to say, however, that there was but one
white man at our precinct who voted against
convention.”
Mrs. Liglitfoot, an aged lady, and odo of
the oldest residents of Macon, died at her
home in East Macon on Monday last.
There are bnt two prisoners in the jail of
Crawford ooanty at Athens, and it is said
they are extremely anxious to bid good-bye
to the vigilant Sheriff.
The Calhoun county correspondent of tbG
Blakely News writes that in his county corn
can be bought for sixty cents per bushel,
and there is plenty of it for sale.
The merchants of Bainbridge are com
plaining against the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road about freights, in that the road exacts
prepaid freight bills before they will allow
goods to be taken from the depot, and also
hecauso of the high freight tariff on cotton.
The Bainbridge Democrat says “that the
road lost the transportation of two thousand
or three thousand bales of cotton Iasi, sea
son, because freights to New York by the
Atlantic and Gulf via Savannah, were twice
as high as by the river and Fernandina. It
predicts a much larger river transportation
this year, unless the railroad ‘comes down’
in freights.”
The poople of Hall eour.ty are earnestly
discussing the question of a fair which will
develop the resources of that section of the
State. The Gainesville Eagle, which has
taken a leading part in tho enterprise, pun
ishes from a correspondent the following :
“There ia no reason why wo should not
ra * sa as good horses here as the best breeds
Lf Kentucky horses. We have talked the
matter over, and four or five of my neighbors
- Vcluded with me to help on the good
77^ V« will put the ball in motion.”
l” Ariaty Nichols, of Athena, canght a
' - 1 in hia father’d tiah pond laat week
b-u and a half inchcB long, five inches
broad, and weighing two pounds. ThiB is
abo ' arKeBt “Pocimen wo recollect of reading
A Jefferson county farmer has harvested
sovon hundred and twenty buahela of oats
this year from twelve acres.
Tho tariff of freight on grain from
Thomasvillo to Savannah by the—BBantic
and Gnlf Railroad has been placed at twenty
cents per one hundred pounds until the first
of September.
A few days ago we published in this col
umn the announcement that an Infant had
been found tied up in a sack in the Oconeo
river, and th at a man named James 0. White
had been arrested on tho charge of murder
ing the said infant. We are glad to learn
that at a preliminary examination under the
arge, at Athens, llr. White was honorably
acquitted of the charge.
Hon. A. 0. Bacon, of Macon, has been
appointed to deliver the anniversary oration
before the Phi Kappa aud Demosthenian
societies of the University of Georgia, on
the 31st of July, the day preceding com
mencement.
Echols county has been finally heard from
and shows a vote or 33 for convention
and 3 against convention. The returns are
now complete, and the convention has beeD
called by a majority of 9,600, according to
our official figures.
The Governor has decided the contest
over the office of Ordinary of Newton coun
ty, wherein D. H. Ansley was claiming and
J. W. B. Simpson contesting. The Governor
decided in favor of Ansley and hia commis-
aion has been forwarded.
Judge Rice, in a csbo in equity, heard at
Gainesville a few days since udou a writ of
injunction restraining the Northeastern
Railroad from receiving Stato aid, voted to
them by the last Legislature on granting
the charter, has decided to sustain the in
junction. The matter came on by bill in
equity for an injunction, in tho Superior
Court of Hall county, and the road was
represented by Hon. Ben Hill and able as
sociate counsel; tho contestant by Mr. Pope
Barrow, of Athens, with associates, and the
State was fully represented by Attorney
General Eiy.
They are still raiding the illicit stills in
Northern Georgia, aud the following from
tho Gainesville Southern shows how ardently
those who manufacture are engagod in the
traffic: “Deputy Collector IVbitmoro and
Milt Hopo captured a still three miles be
yond Shallow Ford last Friday that was lo
cated under ground in a largo cave with
only a trap door four feet square for ingress
and egress, which was kept covered with
leaves, brush, etc. The smoke from the
furnaco was carried a long distance by
means of a tunnel, whiclr connected with
the chimney of the dwelling."
The Toccoa Herald says: “On last Monday
a portion of Franklin county experienced a
similar freshet to that which devastated our
countrr and destroyed the farming pros
pects of 1876. North river, from Major 3.
W. Crawford’s farm dowu, overflowed its
banks, and at Tlioa. P. Wilkinson’s planta
tion nearly ail the ?ow farming lands were
submerged.”
A report having gained circulation that
Commissioner Orr had used school fuods
for electioneering purposes at the late Con-
stitutional Convention election, Mr. H. II.
Jones, one of tho proprietors and editors of
the Macon Telegraph, makes the following
explanation of tUe origin of the damaging
report: “The facts sro that Mr. Sears, the
agent of the Peabody estate, in his deep in
terest in the cause of public education, aud
desirous that the peoplo should be properly
enlightened on the subject, was kind enough
to defray the expenses of those speakers
who wero willing to advocate the good cause
on the hustings. Hence, tho sum of fifty
dollars was paid to Mr. Peabody, of Colum
bus, for speeches delivered at various points,
the said fifty dollars being turned over by
that gentlemen to the use of the public
schools. Mr. Orr does not hurdle the school
fund, therefore could not squander it if
ho would.”
The accounts we receive of the crops
throughout the entire Stato of Georgia aro
very encouraging to the farmers and indi-
cate a year of plenty. The Griffin Neict
says: “The recent rains have been most
seasonable and many tell us that they never
knew the corn cron to grow taster or look
better at this time' of the year. One farmer
said he had a stalk of corn to grow six
inches in one night. This, we think a little
exaggerated, but there is no question that
everything is in a most flourishing condi
tion and will, if we have no severe droughts,
yield an abundant harvest. Oue gentleman
says that nearly every crop he has seen is
perfectly cleaD, and- everybodv is worlsiDg
with a hearty good will that is sure to tell
id rich rewards next fall.”
Tho mining interests of Carroll county are
looking up. The Carroll County Times
save: ‘’The Georgia Cornwall Copper Min
ing Company, chartered by the last Legis
lature, seem to be goiug into the rniuiug
business on a very extensive scale in this
section. They have leased the principal
part of tho mining property, on the copper
hind, from here to Burnt Hickory, Paulding
county, some twenty-five miles. They have
commenced work on two shafts—the He-
Larty, one mile east of here, and the Little
Giant, four miles north of here. Major
Furman, of Dalton, who is President of the
company, places a very high estimation on
the copper prospect.”
The Thomasville Enterprise, with tho
.rood sense of a critic and an appreciation
°. *i. . it tr.«n turn rtf' thnUnrith
LETTER FROM COLUMBUS. French Vital Statistics.
I [From the New York World.]
•| A letter published not long ago by M.
. k' lpice de Lavergne, a well-known mem-
Viciim-Cooa -richer. and be> of the French Senate, on the subject
Witnesses—Final Pnrns^ph.-Mo-'- of .the depopulation of the country,
goniery Items. •
The “Lowell of the South”— Unll But
Not Dead—The City Light Guard
Another
of enterprise in the literature of the South,
says: “We have received tho Savannah
Weekly News, containing the opening chap
ters of ‘My Mother’s Daughter,’ by Ophelia
Nisbet lteid. The story opens well and
promises to prove unusually interesting.
Wo are glad to know that our people are
patronizing the News liberally and hope
they will continue to increase their sub
scriptions.”
The Constitution says: “Atlanta has a
circumference of exactly nino miles, within
which thirty-six thousand six hundred and
eighty-six people play tho mischiet seven
days in the week.”
The DcKaib County Hews mentions the
following rumor in connection with a recent
brutal homicide: “Wo understand that Mrs.
Jackson, the wife of the man who mur
dered Mr. Jack Thompson about Christmas,
will begin suit to recover the money that
was taken from Jackson’s house and re
turned to Mr. I. N. Nash, the rightful
owner. Mr. Nash loaned the money to Mr.
Thompson, and Jackson robbed him. The
money was found in Jackson’s house, and
the murdered mau was found hurried about
two hundred yards from Jackson’s house.”
The Macon Telegraph’s mouth waters
when it makes the following announce
ment: “One thousand fresh watermelons
wete received on Tuesday by Mr. Jasper
F Greer, less than thirty-six hoars from
Cedar Keys, Florida. No fruit is more
healtbv or delicious, and no nicer present
cau be'found for your sweetheart.”
The Thomasville Times records the fol
lowing barberoas operation: “Bill Everett
undertook to sbave a Savannah darkey one
day this week. He kinder pulled liis razor
in the direction of the gay Lothario’s wind
pipe, making an ngly gash. Justice Ladson
bound tbo festive William over in a bond of
$500.”
The following from tho Macon Telegraph
indicates that there is a screw loose in
the machinery of the Post Office Depart
ment which may be worth lookmg after. We
think that the fault lies with some one who
is very anxious to read the Saturday issue
of the News without payiDg for the privi-
leno: “Attention, Atlanta ConslUiUton and
Savannah News ! We have for the last
three weeks failed to receive your Satur
day’s issue, aud call your attention to tho
fact. Whose fault is it?”
If there is any idea that Georgia is not a
wheat growing country, the following from
the LaGrange Iieporter will disabuse that
impression : “Major Jones sowed early last
fab eight acres of old land, which had been
in cultivation for over forty years. The sod
was well prepared by plowing, using stable
manure, cotton seed and guano. He sowed
common variety of wheat known as the
muple straw. On tho most productive acre
he sowed one and a half bushels; on the
other seven about one bushel to the acre.
The land was carefully surveyed bvJ.lI.
Covin our county surveyor. The best acre
made seven hundred and eighty large bun
dles or hinds, and threBhed ont
and a half bushels. The threo best acres
threshed one hundred and seventeen and a
half bushels. The entire eight acres yiekl-
ed two nnndred and nine buBhels. Several
dozen of the sheaves threshed out a busnel
to tho dozen.”
A number of Philadelphia sinners ob
tained an injunction against ringing tha
chime bells of St. Mark’s church. This
decision against the peal was appealed to
the Supreme Court, and tho learned
Judges of that benchjdecided that the de
fendants are permitted to ring their
chimes of bells on Sunday for five min
utes at thirty minutes before the time or
commencing divino service, and to ring
the smallest bell alone for five minutes
immediately before such time. This war
against the clear ringing sndsweet Sab
bath bells is novel for pious Philadelphia,
and must fail.
[Special Correspondence Morning News.]
Central Hotel, June 2#.—Homeward
bound from the springs, i have stopped
over in this “Lowell of the South" for a
day. Dullness, dust and heat are oppres
sive here, as elsewhere, and make the
weary, thirsty traveler sigh for the cool
breezes of the mountains.
Refreshing showers on Saturday have
still further improved the crops, and they
are slowly recovering from the damaging
effects of a long and severe drought.
I see many improvements here, but not
in the way of new buildings. The offices
of the Enquirer and the Times have been
greatly improved, and are now quite
attractive iu every respect.
The City Light Guards, commanded by
Major W. L. Salisbury, of the Enquirer,
paraded yesterday in their new and hand
some uniforms. It is a blue flannel suit,
caps, pants and jackets corded with
white. The officers wear blue broad
cloth frock coats and pants trimmed
with gold braid. The members all
wear white leggins which reach
nearly to the knees. It is quite an attrac
tive dress, and Captain Salisbury may well
be proud of his c impanv, composed as it
is of good material, and inspired with a
desire to excel. Capt. Win. H. Williams,
of the Central Railroad office here, is
First Lieutenant, and a most efficient and
popular officer. Columbus, Savannah,
Macon, Augusta and Atlanta have good
cause to boast of their splendid military
organizations.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
The suicide of Thomas Maxwell, one
of the oldest and most respected mer
chants of Tuscaloosa, adds another sad
chapter to the history of tho counter
feiters arrested in that city some two
years ago.
The readers of the Mornisg News will
remember the letters I wrote from Hunts
ville in regard to this gang of dealers in
“the queer.” ’ Some of them were promi
nent aud leading citizens of Tennessee
and others were men of means and influ
ence in Alabama.
The cases are still in court, with few
exceptions, aud the end is not yet.
Several of the accused have been
acquitted, others escaped from jail, and
some have given bond. The witnesses
are, however, slowly and surely disap
pearing from earthly scenes.
I wrote you last year of the killing of
Detective Maberry at Blount Springs,
one night just after supper, by some
person still unknown. He was shot dead
through a back window of- his store. Hie
nephew, who remained at Tuscaloosa,
was killed in a similar manner only a
short time before.
It seems that he imprudently stated
that he and his uucle would “cook the
hash” of some of the parties charged with
dealing iu counterfeit money in that
vicinity. This, it is fair to presume, was
the cause of the “sudden taking off” of
both nephew and uncle, whose tragio fate
is still wrapped in mystery.
And now comes the latest sad chapter
of this affair. Mr. [Maxwell, who was a
mau of over sixty years of age, and pos
sessed of many noble traits of character,
was an important witness iu these same
cases, and it is thought that the fear of
being assassinated, as were the Maberry
witnesses, wore upon his mind until he
sought relief from bis anxiety in self-
destruction, thereby bringing deep sor
row upon his family, and creating gene -
ral regret and mourning throughout the
community, in which he was so highly
esteemed.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
While in Montgomery I called at the
Daily Advertiser office, where I found
Captain W. W. Screws hard at work.
Since the death of Mr. M. M. Cooke
Captain S. has given his entire time to
the editorial conduct of his paper, which
he has greatly improved in every re
spect.
This gentleman is quite hopeful of the
Georgia Constitutional Convention.
Judging from the Alabama Convention,
the expense ought not to exceed thirty
thousand dollars, and the length of the
session to reach beyond twenty-five days.
If retrenchment aud reform are to be the
objects aimed at in the new constitution,
the members of the convention should
set a worthy example in their own con
duct as public servants.
There will be a large emigration from
this section of Alabama and Georgia to
Florida this winter. It appears that the
gold and copper and coal and iron mines
of these States are not as attractive as
the fabled orange groves of the “Land of
Flowers.” The people of the whole
country seem to be afflicted with a certain
kind of laziness. In other words, they
are anxious to find some way in which to
get an easier living and to make money
foxier. But I fear they will find that in
these days there is no royal road to
wealth.
Columbus is called a dead town, and
in many respects it is tho most quiet city
of any size in the South. Still, viewed
from any standpoint, it is far from being
a dead town. It is to some extent a dull,
or quiet place, but underneath all this
apparent deadness there is a strong, steady
and quiet current of prosperity. There
are, in proportion, no more empty stores
here than in Atlanta, and the new cotton
factory of the Eagle and Phenix Company
is large enough to take iu the eutire
building of the Atlanta factory. Arid
yet this grand enterprise goes quietly
on to a speedy completion. It is the
same with ail other important enterprises
in this so-called old fogy town, where
excited no little interest and anxiety
among French economists. M. de La
vergne took the statistics of births and
deaths for the two years 1872 and 1873,
as follows:
1S72. 1^73.
Births 966,000 940,364
Deaths 793,064 844,563
Excess of births 373,936 101,716
aud thence came to most alarming con
clusions concerning the prospects of
population in France, comparing with
them the steady and rapid increase iu
England and Germany. M. Berthilion,
the well known statistician, followed this
up with statements no less significant,
showing that the present birth-rate per
thousand souls was in France 2G.3 to 35
in England and 3!) in Germany, and that
this birth-rate had steadily diminished
since the beginning of the century, when
it was 33. In half a century, if these
rates continued unchanged, Germany
would have a population of near
ly 05,000,000, as compared with
France’s 42,000,000, though we doubt
if M. Berthilion here made due allowance
for emigration. During the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1870, there were 109,980
immigrants landed in the United States,
or but little more than a third of the im
migration of 1873, and just 48 per cent,
of the average immigration of the four
preceding years- Taking the four quar
ters ending December 31, 1876, which
only showed an arrival of 157,440 souls,
we draw from France 0,735 people and
from Germany 31,323, the populations of
the countries being—France, 30,000,000;
Germany, 41,000,000.
One result of the agitation begun by
M. da Lavergne was the publication of an
unusually complete and valuable corpus
of official reports of late date, and of nu
merous aualyses, annotations and reviews
by French economists and statisticann.
Tho following are the figures which show
the movement of population during the
three years succeeding tho Franco-Prus-
sian war:
Exeexa of
births.
172,937
101,776
171,943
Year. Births. Deaths.
1872 960,901 793,064
1S73 946,364 S44,5S-;
1874 953,652 731,709
cotton factories line the river bank for
miles, and everyone doing a full and pros
perous business. Chatham.
Science and the Stomach.—A friend
of mine, who has just returned from
Germany, invited me to a dinner party
last week, and at the close of the dinner
which was a singularly good cne—an un
known liqueur was banded round, which
was particularly recommended by the
host, and which no one could name. It
turned out to be a new “German notion
of applied science to gourmandise. The
liqueur was a “pepsin essenz," invented
by Professor Oscar Lubruck, of Berlin,
capable of digesting cast-iron and with
which the epicureans of the German
Empire propose to insure that good diges
tion shall wait upon appetite. On this
occasion it did so; but whether the cook
or the professor must bear the palm I
cannot decide. I have seen an Alderman
include dinner-pills among his dessert,
and over this the pepsin essenz, which
had the flavor of a delicate hook, has
some obvious advantages.— Truth, June
1th. _
A Cat Chabms a Snake.—Mr. J. H.
Mann, of Osseo, has a tom cat known by
the name of Tim. He was observed by
one of the neighbors capering and purr-
in» around something in the garden, lhe
neighbor to ber surprise, saw in a coil a
large snake of the blue racer variety, the
cat seemingly haviug it under its control,
and fascinated. The reptile, on seeing
the lady, ran through the fence and out of
sight, but was afterward seen by Mrs.
Manr. who watched its manoeuvres, lhe
cat finally succeeded in bringing its prey
to the door. The dog Snep took m the
situation and soon dispatched the snake,
while the cat capered and purred around
the doc. giving unmistakable signs of its
satisfaction over the result The snake
measured three feet two inches.—Detroit
Trtttune.
A certain Mr. Petit, who amused him
self by shooting a lady friend in New
York tiie other day, pleaded in ex.enua-
tion of his crime “temporary delirium,
alleging that he was “possessed of s.
devil ” The court thought the devil
ought to get his dues, so he gave the young
mau five years in the Stale prison.
It would not be just to compare with
these figures the excess of 450,000 births
every year in Germany, and of 385,000 iu
the United Kingdom, for France insists
on a slower increase of population. But
the excess of births in France in 1874,
which has so reassured her authorities, is
due in reality to an abnormally low death
rate. Only once iu twenty-four years
had so smali a mortality been recorded—
in 1S00, when there were 781,G35 deaths.
The death rate is, of course, subject
to fluctuations. A poor harvest in
creased it in 1873; in 1874
the laws regulating juvenile labor in
babv-farming certainly brought it down.
It is for this reason that calculations
based on the death rate of 1874 as a
factor are not to be depended upon. But
six times since 1825—and then the popu
lation was much smaller than it is now—
has there been a death total less than
that of 1874. Taking the period of peace
and prosperity from 18G1 to 1809, and
making due allowance for Alsace and
Lorraine, the average annual mortality
during that period was greater by 50,000
than it was in 1874.
To repair this loss satisfactorily the
birth total at present recorded in France
cannot be considered adequate. It is less,
even after allowing for the lost eastern
provinces, than the average of the eleven
years ending with 1808. In the term
1S21-31, with a population of from thirty
to thirt'.-two millions, the births "ex
ceeded those of 1874 (when the popula
tion was thirty-six millions) every year
but oue. But twice between 1S33 and
1840 were there fewer births than in
1874; and in the whole period extending
from the restoration to the war with
Germany only on thirteen occasions was
the total cf 1874 not exceeded. This is
irrefragable proof that Malthusian cus
toms of France are maintained, and are
possibly becoming more general and
stiingent.
The figures concerning marriages are
not so easily and accurately to be com
pared. The disturbance of the war de
ferred many unions which wero carried
into 1872 and 1873, and it can hardly yet
be said that the normal condition of
things has been restored. There is also
a tendency towards a diminution in the
number of legal marriages owing to tho
superfluity of formalities connected with
their celebration. The fallowing figures
must therefore be taken simply for what
they may be worth:
Tear. Marriages. I Year. Marriages.
1S6U 2SS]936 1369 303,481
1864 299,519 11874 303,113
It is rather a shock to preconceived
notions to find that, despite the number
of illegitimate unions annually contracted
in l’aris and the groat cities, people marry
more in France than they do in England.
There were recorded in France in 1874
303,113 marriages, in a population of
30,102,921: in 1875 there were reported
in Great Britain aud Ireland 251,100 in a
population of 32.719,107. In other words,
France, in round figures, had 20 per cent,
more marriages out of only 10 per cent,
more of population.
On the whole, the latest French returns,
though thauks to an abnormally low death
total they show a fair excess of births,
cannot be considered satisfactory by
those who believe that the position of
France can only be maintained by some
thing more than the mere maintenance of
her standard of population, or an al
most imperceptible rate of increase. Po
litically the whole subject may be summed
up in the epigrammatic phrase of M.
Leroy-Beaulieu: “The universe is be
coming either Anglo-Saxon or liussiaD,
and this it is that afflict- and alarms us.”
The Fly in the Ointment Pot.
One of the briefest and most adtnirablo
letters we have ever encountered 13 that
of Elizur Wright, who holds a very dis
tinguished position in this country as an
Actuary, and who likewise practically
aided the cause of Abolition far more than
Sumner or Wendell Phillips. Mr. Wright,
explaining why he could not longer sup
port Grantism and its concomitant mon-
strosi ties,, said:
“As one that worked some, long ago,
that the Republican party might have a
being, though since but an infinitesimal
molecule of it, I improve the right to say
that it lost my vote by two things : First,
it allowed the Freedman’s Bank to be
robbed of a million and a half of dollars,
chiefly by leading Republicans, and never
said a word about restoring the money.
Second, it did not rebuke the Anderson-
ville speech of Blaine’s, the wickedest and
most mischievous, under the circumstances,
that was ever uttered on Vie floor of Con
gress.
“ Every icteiligent colored man at the
South knows how the bank was robbed.
And every one of them in the Democratic
States knows that he has been, though
not any too well, yet as well, protected by
his Slate as his colored brother has been
uDder the mgis of Stearns, Chamberlain
or Kellogg. Yet Blaine has raised such a
storm at the Nerth that it is difficult to
find a Republican, unless he has traveled
in the South himself, who can believe
that any ex slave can have voted the Dem
ocratic ticket without deadly intimida
tion : Was there ever a people so afflicted
witnfalsehood since the world was made?”
We do not see how a stronger arraign
ment of “stalwart Republicanism” could
be made in shorter metre. Alas: it was
ignorance, led by passion, that precipi-
tated the war, and it has been falsehood,
decoyed by ambition, that dragged this
noble people in the dust and mire, ever
since the “war drums ceased to rattle and
the battle flags were furled.”—Augusta
Chronicle.
The most wonderful Republican vic
tory of late was seen at the Mayor’s elec
tion in Austin, Texas. The Democrats
had divided, and put live candidates in
the field. DeGress beat them all, and
thinks ho could have beaten from seven
to eight more.—New Orleans Picayune.
A SAD STORY.
Suicide of a Drunkard—The Poor Fellow’s
Last Letter.
[From the Hartford Times.]
A still form stretched upon the grass.
A rigid, white face upturned to the leaden
clouds, uncaring for the pitiless rain that
beat down upon it. A group of eager
men gathered near, and clustered around
Coroner Shaw, was the sight greeting the
Times reporter as he hurried up Cook
aveuue, just after 7 o’clock last evening,
to gain the details of a suicide whispered
on the street by the passing breeze. The
threads as gathered and connected form
the following: Soon after 0 o’clock last
night, James W. Flood entered the house
of Mr. Thomas Kenyon, 143 Cook avenue,
and asked Mrs. Kenyon for a glass of
water and a teaspoon. When accommo
dated he took a pill-box from his vest
pocket and transferred a teaspoonful of
the contents to the tumbler of water.
Mrs. Kenyon made inquiry if he
was sick, and was answered, “Yes, and I
shall be sicker when I have taken this,’’
Flood at the same time drinking the con
tents of the glass. On being asked what
the substance taken was, the box was
shown, and upon the cover was the word
“strychnine.” Agitated beyond control
at the terrible reality so suddenly pre
sented, Mrs. Kenyon cried, “if you have
taken strychnine, do go away from here,”
and rushed out to the next house for aid.
In the meantime Flood made his way up
Cook avenue, on which thoroughfare he
had resided in the past, and halted again
at the residence of Messrs. Michael Seips
and W. T. Simonds. Going up stairs
where the latter resides, the unfortunate
mau again asked for a glas3 of water,
which was furnished and drank. Turn
ing to go, assistance to descend
the stairs was asked. Reaching the out
side steps at the back door, Mr. Simonds
noticed a ghastly pallor on Flood's face,
and a convulsive movement of the limbs.
Asking what was the matter, the reply
came labored but with appalling distinct
ness, “poison.” Mr. Seips was called,
but the seeker of death's door had
already straightened out iu the agony of
dissolution upon the stoop, and in a mo
ment had ceased to breathe. The body
wa3 laid upon the grass, and Coroner
Shaw called. Upon the person was found
a package of tobacoo, about four dollars
in money, a city savings bank book, and
a letter addressed, “To any one that
finds this,please open. Good-bye.” The
epistle was written with ink upon com
mon note paper. It was replete with
misspelled words, but had evidently beeu
carefully composed, as the chirography
was labored. It was as follows:
TO WHOM THIS MAY OONCEBN.
Meeiden, June 21, 1877.
I write these few lines to tell how I
came to my death. I have no blame to
any one on earth. I came to my death
by taking strychnine, bought to Marvin’s
up-town. I cannot stand my shame and
trouble. Wives, take care; do not leave
your husbands too hasty. If my wife
would stop, and consult with me before
she went, I might not come to this end,
but it is too late to reflect now. I love
my family. I cannot live without them,
and will not, although they think I do not
care for them. But never, dear friends,
let the idea corns into your heads that a
drunkard does not care for his family. I
love them, and die so as not to disgrace
them any more. I write this to one of
the inquest which will probably be held
over my body. I ask this letter not to be
printed in the Republican, as I wish peo
ple to know how I died. I ask all my
enemies to forgive me. I forgive all.
May the Lord have meicy on us. I
wish to say that all the money found
on my person and what is in the
City Savings Bank I want my daughter
to have. I wish to be laid out in my own
clothes, and be buried in the cheapest
manner. But pieaso decorate my grave
once a year as a soldier. I lay no blame
to any one only rum, although if I had
been better consulted with I might not
have come to this rash act. Now please
take into consideration my case, and then
let all judge for themselves. I never
neglected my family. I never deserved a
deserted wife, but I am willing to give in
I was in fault, but never had a chance to
mend matters after trouble commenced.
My bank book will be found on my per
son. Oh! oh! that dear little daughter!
How I hate to leave her, and know that
I, a self-murderer, mu3t go to an eternal
hell; but it is a hell on earth for me, too.
I cannot and will not stay longer. May
the merciful God that rules the Universe
have mercy on my soul. Mr. Inquest,
please comply with my wishes: bury me
as cheap as you can. Do not inouru my
loss, but let me rest in peace. Good-bye,
wife and all. James W. Flood.
Mrs. Flood, who is living up-town, was
hunted up by the reporter of the Times,
and from her was ascertained that the in
temperate habits of the deceased had
rendered life with him so intolerable that
she had been obliged to leave him. About
a year ago they separated, but on his
promises of reform she had returned.
Again, on Decoration day, he yielded,
and while frenzied with drink had
threatened her life. She then left him a
second time, not with any feeling of un
kindness, but for personal safety. One
child—a daughter of nine years—had
blessed the union of eleven years. Mrs.
Flood was frequently overcome while
speaking, and gave way to her grief as
the realization of what had occurred
came to her.
Additional particulars gleaned from
acquaintances are that the departed was
38 years of age, and had worked at Brad
ley & Hubbard’s, although lately he had
been out of employment. His bank
book showed a credit of $45, with $15
taken out, which it was said had been
spent in a late spree. On his coat was
the blue ribbon donned by the temper
ance workers, and it seems Flood had
signed the pledge last night while in
liquor.
Still Weeping.
[From Gen. D. H. Hill's Southern Home.]
The loyal North is still weeping over
the dastardly murder of Chisholm in Mis
sissippi. But the Northern Mettodists
are specially penitent for this Southern
sin. The NorVtern Christian Advocate
says:
“The nation is looking on to see what
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, and Gov
ernor Nicholls, of Louisiana, will do to
bring murderers to justice. As yet it
looks in vaiD, and the feeling is widely
prevailing in the North that they will do
nothing; that either they do not dare or
they do not desire to take any steps to
that object. We hope, still hope, that
the fine promises made two months ago
to protect men of all parties and condi
tions in the free enjoyment of their per
sonal and civil rights were not insincerely
made. We hope they meant something.
But since then men have been foully
murdered for their political opinions and
doings and nothing is done about it. It
has a bad look.”
The Western Christian Advocate says :
“Barbarism in the South ? Oh! no,
there is none. Lynoh law is promptly
executed. Several instances of swift jus
tice have been reported this week, and as
a consequence there aro a few less colored
criminals (?) in the South. Let no one
whisper that the South is not fit for self-
government.”
And this in reference to the proposal
which that paper says has been published
at the North to erect a monument to the
memory of Miss Chisholm :
“The proposition is a creditable one,
subject, however, to this contingent ob
jection : The State of Mississippi may
prefer to bnild its own monuments, aud
may already have inaugurated a move
ment similar to that proposed by our
Northern people, and mentioned above.
If this have not already been done,
doubtless it will be soon, for Mississippi
is the home of chivalry, and chivalry de-
lightetb to honor women merely for their
womanhood, though cheir lives have been
glorified by no deeds of valor. Sir Walter
Scott, the biographer of chivalry, has ex
alted to immortal fame several maidens
whose deeds and characters were far less
worthy to be admired than the heroism
of Miss Chisholm. Mississippi may, how
ever, be deterred from honoring her
brave little heroine by the fact that
‘chivalry’ is responsible for her death.”
Wo have been taken with a fit of weep
ing, also. We weep that the so-called
Christian editor should tell the mon -
strous falsehood that Chisholm was slain
for his political opinions. That editor
knew that Chisholm was killed because
he was believed to have instigated the
murder of John W. Gully, and many
other crimes in Kemper county. We
weep that Y’ankee soldiers shot in cold
blood so many Methodist ministers dur
ing the war, and burnt more than a hun
ared Methodist churches. The ministers
and the churches were non-combatants
and the Bashi-Bazouks would have spared
them. We weep that in time of profound
peace a mob from the pious city of Boston
burned a Catholic convent filled with inno
cent girls, and tried to murder the Lady
Superior, firing repeatedly at her. We
are specially afflicted that the Governor
of Massachusetts took no steps to bring
the rioters to justice. They are now
black-guarding Gov. Stone, of Mississip
pi, for not doing what the Governor of
Massachusetts failed to do. We are very
penitent, too, because one of the largest
and wealthiest congregations in the loyal
North listens to the preaching of a beastly
fellow, and the tears of penitential sorrow
ehise each other down our cheeks, as
wo think of the thousands all over the
North who go to hear this animal lec
ture. Our soul is filled with contrition
for loyal sins when we think of that mob
at Seymour, Indiana,who killed the ja;ler
and took out eight suspected horse
thieves and hung them by the neck until
they died. That monument to Miss
Chisholm is all very well. She was a real
heroine and died in defense of her father.
But the jailer died in defense of alleged
criminals, in whom he felt no interest.
Surely his was the nobler death. Pass
around the hat for a contribution for a
monument to the gallant jailer of Sey
mour, Indiana.
ANNIE WALKER’S SOMNAMBULISM
A Plunge In the River that waft Attri
buted to Attempted Suicide.
Heroism of Montenegrin Women.
Montenegrin women have the same
passionate attachment with the men to
family and country, aud display much of
the same valor. Goptchevitch supplies
two most remarkable examples. A sister
and four brothers, the four of course well
armed, are making a pilgrimage or ex
cursion to a church. The state of war
with the Turk being nominal, we need
not wonder when we learn that they are
attacked unawares ou their way, in a
pass where they proceed in single file,
by seven armed Turks, who announce
themselves by shooting dead the first
of the brothers and dangerously wound
ing the second. The odds are fearful, but
the fight proceeds. The wounded man
leans against the rock, aud though he re
ceives another aud fatal shot, kills two of
the Turks before he dies. The sister
presses forward and grasps his rifle and
his dagger. At last all are killed on both
sides, excepting herself and a single Turk.
She asks for mercy, and he promises it,
but names her maidenly honor as the
price. Indignant, and perceiving that
now he is off his guard, she stabs him
with the dagger. He tears it from her
hand, they • close, and she dashes the
wretch over the precipice into the yawn
ing depth below.
The second anecdote is not less singu
lar. Tidings reach a Montenegrin wife
that her husband has just been slain by
a party under the command of a certain
Aga. Knowing the road by which they
are traveling, she seizes a rifle, chooses
her position and shoots the Aga dead.
The rest of the party take to flight. Tne
wife of the dead Aga sends her an epistle.
“Thou hast robbed me of both my eyes.
Thou art a genuine daughter of Tserna-
gora. Come to-morrow alone to the bor-
der line, and we will prove by trial which
of us was the better wife.” The Tsema-
gora appeared, equipped with the arms of
the dead Aga, and alone, as she was in
vited. But the Turkish woman had
thought prudence the better part of valor,
and brought an armed champion with
her, who charged her on horseback. She
shot him dead as he advanced, and seiz
ing her faithless antagonist, bound her
and took her home, kept her as a nurse
maid for years, and then let her go back
to her place and people.
Bishop and Bruiser.
A. J. Carney, a street preacher, is now
giving open air lung exercises in the
vicinity of New York. He does not claim
the exemption of the cloth as a symbol
of the non-combatant spirit, but boldly
proclaims that his muscle is as good as
his morals and religion, and that he is a
fighter as well as preacher. When his
audience do not behave themselves he
just steps down off his stump or barrel
and thrashes his unruly auditors, and
having pounded the noise out of them he
steps back to his pulpit and resumes
preaching. At the “corners’ near New-
burg the other day a “rough” tried to
break up one of Carney’s out-door meet
ings. He hurled such expressions
as, “That isn’t so,” “That’s a lie,”
“Old Carney’s a fool” and the like into
the pauses of the sermon. Carney told
the fellow to be quiet or he’d quiet him,
but the rough, thinking it only a pious
fiction, became more abusive. Then Car
ney broke through his congregation,
caught the “rough” and quieted him to
such an extent that he had to be carried
away by his friends. Then the “bishop,”
as he is called, quietly proceeded with his
sermon and all the rest of his hearers
marvelled and held their peace. The
meeting was so orderly that it looked like
a miracle performed by one of the old
prophets. Carney’s style of preaching is
as peculiar as his method of handling his
congregation. He pitches into the
ministers who have fine churches,
and get big salaries, in a manner
fuller of truth, perhaps, than of either
poetry or religion. He boldly says that
all, or nearly all the ministers, are preach
ing for money and not to save souls.
Take away their roofs and salaries, he
said, and they would desert their flocks
and become lawyers or insurance men,
and make money by lying and fraud.
Carney is rather hard on the clergy, and
when anybody tells him he lies, he en
forces the truth of his gospel by the ap
plication of knuckles and brawn. He
leaves some black eyes, und his cards,
wherever he goes. His card contains the
words : “Bishop A. J. Carney, Founder
Independent Reform Church.” Maybe he
preaches the religion of the future. Who
knows ?
Suicide to Escape Death.— Friday
evening George Brown, aged thirty-five,
was found dead in a bedroom at No.
214 Delancey street, New York, the resi
dence of his sister, having committed
suicide by cutting his throat with arasor.
Brown was an oyster-opener, but had
been out of steady employment for a
year. He lived with his wife and eight
children, and a month ago became insane
and believed that persons were following
him with the intention of assassinating
him. Friday night he fled from his
imaginary enemies to his sister's house
and passed his time in looking out of the
window, and he occasionally exclaimed
that “they” were after him and hid him
self. He went into his bedroom at two
p. m. and was found lying face down
wards on the bed.—TV. T". World.
Several burglaries, or attempts at bur-
glaiy, have occurred lately in Newington
and other communities around Hartford.
The Times remarks that such occurrences
are much more frequent since the
slaughter of the dogs, and says:
“A house deprived of its faithful night
watchman, in the shape of the trusted
house dog—especially a honse in a rural
or thinly inhabited neighborhood—has
lost its best protection against burglars.
The hydrophobia scare has proved a God
send—or a Satan-send—to the whole bur
glar tribe. Families who have contrived
tnus far to save the faithful house dog,
will do well to save him yet a little while
longer. ”
[From the Ponghkeeps'e Eagle, June 30.]
We published in Tuesday morning’s
Eagle an article entitled “A Strange Oc
currence,” which at the time it happened
was indeed a strange affair, and all who
were made acquainted with the facts
really believed that a young girl had at
tempted suicide. But such was very far
from the fact. It was nothing more nor
less than an extraordinary case of som
nambulism. The girl is about seventeen
years of age, and her name is Annie Wal
ker. She had been in the employ of Mr.
John N. Candee, the Main street mer
chant, for several years. On the
evening of the occurrence a fe
male cousin who frequently visits
her called as usual, and the
two chatted the time away until Mr. and
Mrs. Candee returned from an evening
call, when the Walker girl accompanied
her cousin to her home, returning at about
10 p. m., and she was heard to go to her
room aud retire. After that all is blank
to her except the time when she was
awakened by coming in contact with the
water in the river. She must have got up
out of her sleep, and walking through
Hamilton street to Main, went down
Main on the north side and reclined tem
porarily upon a door-sill just west of Wil
liam Frost A Son’s store, where an officer
saw her half an hour before she was
f ou id at the river. He thought nothing
of it at the time, supposing it was some
one who had been accidentally locked out,
and was waiting to be let in. It could not
have been long after that when she started
for the river and unconsoiously walked off
the dock. She says that as soon as she
struck the water she came to her senses,
and paddled as well as she could with her
bauds, keeping afloat long enough to
reach the steps at the dock, when she
climbed to terra firma. She was soon
after returned by a colored man and Mr.
Hoffman to her place of work, went at
once to her room, and disrobing herself
went to bed, and at one a. m. was so
sound asleep that she could not be
awakened by the family, who had been
notified of the affair by the police. There
is a theory that she did not retire when
she entered her room at ten p. m., but
merely lounged in a chair for temporary
rest, as she had on her good clothing,
dress and all, the same that she wore be
fore retiring to her room, a3 though she
had not removed any of her apparel when
sleep overtook her. She, however, states
differently. It is a remarkable case of
sleep-walking.
Many Bosoms With a Single Thought.
An amusing incident happened on a
Kansas City paper the other day. Two
brothers, named Hart, were arrested
somewhere in the interior for obtaining
goods under false pretenses. There was
unusual commotion and mystery among
the members of the editorial staff that
evening, and each said unto the other,
“I’ve got a bully thing for to-morrow’s
paper—just you wait and Bee and being
asked what the bully thing was, declined
to go iDto further particulars just then.
Next morning the mystery was solved.
There was an editorial note in the first
column as follows:
“The Hatt Brothers were arrested
yesterday at , for defrauding their
creditors. They were evidently, as the
poet says, ‘Two Harts that beat as one.’”
Half way down the same page was an
other editorial paragraph, as follows:
“Two Harts that beat the creditors like
one, or even more, were arrested yestei-
day, at . Let us hope that the right
eous Judge will, in the words of Ciocro,
Soc et tuum.”
Over on the second column there was
a display heading, in big black type,
“Two Harts That Beat Like One;” away
down at the foot of the third column was
a little item, surreptitiously inserted by
the advertising clerk, about two hearts
that beat as one, and half way down the
fourth was a letter from “T. Y. Po.,” the
acknowledged wit of the composing room,
and addressed to the editor of the Kansas
City Whangdoodle, and asking if that
wasn’t a case of two hearts (Harts) that
beat as one. The different authors of
this exquisite witticism spent tkf morn
ing paying visits of condolence to each
other, and remarking, with disparaging
sniffs, that it would only be in accordance
with fraternal feeling and newspaper eti
quette to let another member of the staff
know when one intended making a dum
fool of himself in a specific direction.—
Chicago Tribune.
A gentleman, parting with a servant
woman, was asked, with respect to her
industry, whether she was what is termed
afraid of work. “Oh ! not at all,” said
he, “not at all; she’ll frequently lie down
and go to sleep by the very side of it."
Dom Pedro I. and Yictor Hugo.
[From the Me J sages Franco-American.]
The following is a new anecdote about
the Emperor of Brazil:
He recently paid a visit to Yictor Hugo.
After a long interview, in which the two
celebrities convened upon divers topics,
the Emperor asked permission of the
poet to repeat his visit, requesting him
to fix a day. “I receive my friends every
day,” said Hugo, politely, “and we have
dinner at eight o’clock.”
After the lapse of some days, one
evening at about half past seven o’clock
the door bell of the poet's house was
rung, and a gentleman in dress coat and
white cravat presented himself. “Whom
shall I announce?" said the servant.
“Dom Pedro de Braganza,” replied the
visitor. As yet there was nobody in the
parlor. The host was informed of the
arrival.
“I have come to dine with you,” said
tho Emperor, in democratic style.
Soon the guests sat down to table. The
repast was charmiDg. Dom Pedro gave
some very curious traveling impressions.
Victor Hugo, for his part, spoke with that
simplicity so full of warmth of which
those who have not the honor of being
intimate with him have no idea. When
the Emperor took leave of his host—it
was rather late—the latter said to him,
smiling with his fine and arch smile:
“Sir, I could not possibly tell you how
happy I am that we have no sovereigns
like you in Europe.” “And why?” said
Dom Pedro. “Because,” replied Victor
Hugo, “both myself and my friends would
be very much puzzled to find anything
bad to say of them.”
Dom Pedro burst out laughing, and
took leave of his friend like a good na-
tured and sensible man.
National costumes, says the London
World, are becoming quite the rage
among the fair leaders of the mode in
London, as well as in the French capital.
It is now altogether the fashion for one
lady to hold » reception arrayed in apparel
the precise copy, and that to the minutest
particular, of au Egyptian princess. An
other lady “receives” dressed in pure
Grecian style of the present day; and
even the coquettish costume of the Turk
ish harem has come into vogue since the
heat of the Atrocities furore began to
cool. Now that the Chinese Ambassador
and the “Tottering Lily” have grown so
popular, to hold a levee in your boudoir
tricked out in all the glory of a Chinese
or Japanese redingote is to do the most
correct thing that womankind can pos
sibly attain to. Another desideratum is
to hare your boudoir fitted up in exact
correspondence as to nationality of style
with the costume and adornments of your
person.
The rapid growth of Socialism in GerJ
many is shown by the annual report read
at a recent meeting of the Socialists at
Gotha, at which 171 local societies, num
bering 30,335 members were present.
From this report it appears that in 1874
they bad 379,412 votes and returned 10
members to the German Parliament; in
1877 they had 559,211 votes and 20 mem
bers, so that in three years they had in
creased nearly 180,000 votes. They have
41 political journals, 14 trades’ journals,
and 1 miscellaneous weekly, these papers
having 135,000 subscribers. In addition
to the periodicals they print many docu
ments and pamphlets, among them an
almanac called “Poor Conrad, ’ of which
50,000 copies were sold last year.
Judge Hiltan, who discriminates for
the Grand Union Hotel, has probably
never heard-Sankey sing “Are Your Win
dows Open Toward Jerusalem ?”
Adolph Girndt, a German banker cf
New York, about two or three weeks ago
became a defaulter to the extent of from
$20,000 to $30,000, and mysteriously
disappeared. Strict search was made for
him without effect, until one day a small
boy was seen emerging from his (Gir-
ndt’s) house with several $100 and $50
bills to be changed. This aroused the
suspicions of the police, who again
searched the house and finally discovered
the object of their search concealed in a
refrigerator. Though taking his rascali ty
thns coolly, when first found be dis
played a knife, but a revolver in the
bauds of his captors soon brought him
into submission. He was arrested and
taken to the One Hundred and Twenty-
sixth street police station, where he was
locked up.
Girndt professed to transact ail
kinds of business of customers un
der power of attorney to collect,
bequests or any other funds in
Germany, to procure passports and
passage tickets, to give his services as a
notary, to buy or sell bills of exohanga
on Germany, and to receive deposits on
interest. Many poor persons are suf
ferers by his defalcation, the heaviest
loser being a German widow for whom
Girndt had recently collected six thousand
five hundred and forty-two dollars in
Germany, and who had left the in aney in
his hands. Another was a young man
who had deposited one thousand dollars,
a wedding present from hisfathci, with
him, and whose marriage had to be de
ferred on account of this loss. Great in
dignation is generally felt against him.
Across the Danube.
The Russians at last are crossing the
Danube, and thus far with but little fight
ing. Henceforth the campaign in that
quarter beyond doubt will be one repleto
with stirring events. So rigid is the cen
sorship of the press within tho lines of
both armies that the outside public are
permitted to know but little of what is
really going on. Seareely less rigid is the
surveillance to which journalists are sub
jected, even in Constantinople, and so wo
know but little of the popular feeling
there. The correspondent of the Mau
cheater Examiner, writing from there on
the 9th, gives us the philosophy of the
situation: “It must not bo supposed,”
he says, “that defeat will disappoint or
discourage the Turks, that is to
say, the governing Turks. Mouths before
the war was declared, one of the most
important Turkish politicians here put
the case of the Turks in a very foroible
way. ‘To accept the ccnditions of the
conference,’ said he, ‘would be tantamount
to suicide. We are in the position of a
man to whom you offer a pistol to shoot
himself. We prefer to fight for our ex
istence, for then we have a chance, how
ever small, of prolonging it. We aro
almost sure to be overcome in a singlo
handed fight with Russia, bnt man for
man we do as much as they can, und we
shall fight to the death.’ I have since hod
many opportunities of testing this opin
ion, and have found it to be the prevalent
feeling of the masses.”—Neic York Rut
letin.
American Snobs Abroad.—Paris, May
21, 1877.—The Americans would be glad
to see the days of the Second Empire re
turn, when the gay court was open to
them and the leading lady in millinery
ruled it. Costumes are very handsome
now and cost enough, I am sure, but the
show and the glitter are not the same as
then, hnd, while the finest taste is seen
in certain places, in others there is a
plentiful lack of it.
It seems rather funny, however, to
hear Mme. l’Americaine, with r,ez en fair
and such a crushing manner, object to
the manner in which the bourgeoisie are
pushing themselves into society.
Messieurs Burlanger and Cordonnier aro
not at all to her likiDg, although the for
tune she inherits may have been made in
that redolent portion of New York known
as the swamp. There is no one who
hates tho smell of leather'as yonr true
republican, especially when he has set -
tied in Paris. He likes titles and orders,
and his genealogical tree invariably goes
back to at least William the Conqueror's
time, albeit, at home, his grandfather
did not even know where he was born.
However, wo all have our weaknesses,
and they develop differently under dif -
fering skies and circumstancoe. Certain
people are born with aspirations, and
they cannot help it; and I think most of
these corno to Paris.—Hartford Times.
The tramp industry, like all other in
dustries, seems to flourish because it
pays, as witness the two diaries of the
systematic Master Frank Labelle, or Tay
lor, aged seventeen, originally of Kt.
James Parish, Louisiana, then of the
wide, wide world, and now of the Albany
Penitentiary, where he will remain for
six months. He is slight and effeminate
in appearance, and his “lay” was to work
lawyers’ offices, asking for $2 70 with
which to get home to Maine. He wanted
to get copying, and as the lawyers usually
had n< copying, neither any $2 70, they
wouid compromise by giving him a quar
ter or an order for a dinner, or something
of the sort. He always asked for his
benefactors’ address, nominally to return
him the sum but really to enter it in his
diary with the day of the month and the
amount of the donation. This diary
showed that between December 7th and
May 9th, five months, he had received
$449 05, and daring the last week of that
term $35 05. His best day’s work was at
Galveston, March 15th, when he took in
$15 50. He says that Galveston and
Houston are the best and most generous
places he has met with. The names of
his victims include railroad and steam
boat officials, newspaper men, United
States Senators, bankers, lawyers and tho
like.—N. Y. World.
Oakey Hall's Second Flight.—Ei-
ilayoi A. Oakey Hall has finally suc
ceeded in accomplishing his purpose of
disappearing entirely from view and bo-
coming one of the long list of the men
who are in the world, but not of it. A
friend of his family states that an at
tempt had been made by his friends to
keep him in view—not with any idea of
coercing or interfering with him in any
way, but to enable them, should occa
sion present, to render him any assistance
in their power in the event of his need
ing it. Some three weeks ago, however,
he left London for Liverpool, and iu the
latter city succeeded in giving his watch
ers the slip, and all trace of him is now
lost. Various conjectures are made in
regard to his course—one gentleman haz
arding the opinion that he has returned
to New York and is concealed in the city;
but this is considered extremely improb
able, as Mr. Hall is too well kno wn to
escape identification, whatever disguise
he might assume. Nothing can be elicited
to substantiate this theory. The mem
bers of Mr. Hall’s family have gone to
their country seat in New Jersey for the
summer, and are represented as being
greatly broken down under their sfliic -
tions.— World.
Colonel Sellers ’ Smart Tbick.—At
Maurice Grau’s benefit at the Academy
the beneficiaro had provided an enormous
flower stand to present to Mile. Aimee.
It represented floraiiy a ship in fnll sail.
Tacked to one of tho masts was an en
velope, enclosing tha card of Mr. Gran.
As it was about to be taken down the cen
tral aisle, John T. Raymond dexterously
removed Mr. Gran’s card from the
envelope, and inserted his own. Mile.
Aimee is no doubt grateful to Col. Sellers
for a present which cost Mr. Grau one
hundred dollars.—Dramatic News.
The quantity of beer produced in Eng
land annually is prodigions. In 1873
nearly sixty million bushels of malt wero
oonsumed in its manufacture, and nearly
a hundred and fifty thousand people wero
engaged in retailing the beverage, while
enormous quantities were exported. Be
sides beer, the English people made in
the same year more than thirty million
gallons of spirits, or about one gallon for
every man, woman and child in tho
United Kingdom.
A singular accident occurred at Palo
Pinto, Texas, the other evening. Whde
a Mrs. Roller was milking a cow her son,
a man of twenty-five years, was standing
near with a stick three or four feet long
in his left hand, the hand resting against
the left groin. While in this position the
cow kicked, striking the end of the stick,
and driving the opposite end against the
lower part of Mr. Roller’s abdomen,’ pro
ducing inguinal hernia, from the effects
of which he died the next evening.
General Schofield said to the West
Pointjgraduates: “That courage which
avoids rashness by the restraints of knowl
edge and dishonor by the fear of God, ia
the beat hope of tbe world.”