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SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1877,
ESTABLISHED 1850.
II/E3IOXY.
4 Amon" the rest a email uneightly root,
r.ut of divine effect, h i cnlled me oat;
rpjjc leaf "'.ne darkish, end had prickles on it,
j- lt in another conutrv, as he s iid,
j» >n . ;l bright golden flower, bat not in this soil;
II,- cftlkd it Ila inory. ’—Milton.
A little dust tlie soamer breeze
Had sifted upwuhina cleft,
A slanted raindrop from the trees,
A tiny seed by chiuce airs left—
It "as eiiou<:h. the ,-eedliDg grew,
And from the batren rock-heart drew
Her dimpled leaf and tender bud.
And dews that did the bare roci stud ;
And crowned at length her simple head
Wiili utter sweetness, breathed afar,
An i burning like a dusky star—
Sweetness upon s j little fed,
All me ! ah me ! *
And yet hearts go uncomforted.
For hearts, dear love, such se dling3 are,
That need so little, ab, so less
Than little on this earth, to bear
'1 lie sun-sweet blossom, happiness ;
And sing—these dying hearts that come
To go—their swau-soug flying heme.
A iouch, a tender tone, no more,
A face that lingers by the door
To tnrn and smile, a fond word said.
A kiss—these things m ;ke heaven; and yet
We do negiect, refuse, forget.
To give that little, ere ’fis fled,
Ah me! ah me !
Ami sad hearts go u..comforted.
1 asked of thee but little, nay,
Not for the golden fruit thy bough
Ilipcns for thee and thine who day
l>y day beneath thy shadow grow;
On y for what, from’that full store.
Had made me rich, nor left thee poor.
A drift of blossoms, needed not
For fruit, yet blessing some dim spot.
A touch, a tender word soon said.
Fond tones that seem our dead again
t’orae back alter long years of pain
Lonely, for these my sick heart bled—
Ah me ! ah me!
Sad hearts that go uncomforted.
—[Ellice IIopk?n8.
Affairs in Georgia.
During the storm that prevailed on Wed
nesday morning along tho line of tho Cen
tral ltailroai, tho depot of tho Tennille and
Sandersviile Railroad, at Tennille, was blown
down.
Mr. Goorgo K. Barker and W. Dessan
were elected by Central Lodge No. 3, Iv. of
T., as representatives to tho Grand Lodge
of the State, which meets in Savanuah on
tho fifth Tuesday in July. The Augusta
chronicle and Constitutionalist says, and we
with pleasure reiterate it: “To Savauaah
the entertainment of the representatives of
this noble order will bo a great pleasure,
which, however, cannot but be mingled with
deep sorrow at the sad recollections recalled
by tho munificent aid rendered by tho
Kuighta to her suffering sick daring the
sore visitation to that city last summer.”
Th9 Hartwell Sun is evidently out of sorts,
and in its last issue makes use of the fol
lowing strong remarks : “Our country Is
now going to hell as fast as a locomotive
would godo.vn an inclined plane without
breaks.”
On last Suuday afternoon tho quiet citi
zens of the Sheffield District, Rockdale
county, were startled by a homicide, Mr.
Audrcw J. Black having shot and mortally
wounded a young m m and relative named
Pink Black, of Walton county. The slayer
says that the act was done in self defenso.
We have received a number of tho Vox
Clionis, a little but very vigorous college
sheet, edited by the Misses Emma High,
Nannie Bull, Carrie Glantou and Jessie
McWhorter of the graduating class of La-
Grange Female College. The paper is the
organ of the Clioniau Society of that college.
The Ta’bottou Standard, in order to join
m a becoming celebration of tho glorious
Fourth of July, announces that no paper
will l>3 issued next week. The Standard
thinks that weekly newspapers may take
holiday on the Fourth of July and
Christmas.
Mr. Jos. Jackson, of Talbot coanty, has
from his orchard a pear limb, two feet long,
having on it sixty-six well grown poar3.
The Stoacwall liifies, of Waynesboro,
have invited tho Irish Volunteers, of
Augusta, to a barbecue and target excursion
at Waynesboro on the Fourth of July.
Rjfus B. Bullock was in Augusta on
Monday on his way to Now York. He will
return to Atlanta next week, if advieed that
his caso will bo taken up in Fulton Superior
Court; and will probably bo pat in the
Bweat box of the criminal court of Fulton
couuty during tho warm days of August.
Tue fiist sunstroke of the season has been
recorded by the Atlanta Constitution, which
says that Mr. J. D. Carter, an attache of the
business department of that paper, was the
victim of a stroke on Taesday. By prompt
action on his part, however, no serious re
sult followed, though he was prostrated for
the day.
Railroad conductors as a general rule in
variably say look out when they mean
that passengers should look in, hence the
foliowing accident, not very serious it is
true, but painful to the party : While the
passenger train was entering the tunnel on
Friday evening last, the usual cautionary
signal “look out” being given, a passenger
popped his head eat ot the window and was
badly hurt by a blow received from his bead ;
coming in contact with the masonry at the
entrance.
Mr. T. C. McCarter, who sustained a ter
rible fall from a scaffold of a building in
Atlanta on Wednesday, lingered until Mon
day, "hen death cirno to his relief. He was
a man of about forty-five years of age, and
leaves a family of a wife and six children,
the oldest of the latter being a girl of about
thirteen years. The family is left iu an en
tirely destitute condition.
The Rockdale Register says : “Professor
Bailey proposes to make up a party to visit
the mountains of North Ciroiina. The
grandest scenery in the Atlantic States is to
be found there. Tho party is expected to
travel in a common road wagon, and to
carry provisions along. *
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist says:
“Six colored men are among the jurors that
have been drawn for the October term of
Richmond Superior Court. This is another
case of race persecution iu Democratic
Georgia.”
The Atlanta Constitution says: “Fulton
county crops never looked more promising.
The river la.uds fairly smile in plenty.”
The question of a change in the manner
of inflicting tho extreme penalty of the law
and making executions private instead of
public, is beiug discussed by several of our
cotemporaries, one of which says: “It is
thought that the private hanging of crimi
n&U would be best, since a certain class of
tneu rather delight in a public sensation
ttian otherwise. If a brutal follow knew' ho
was to be banged without a crowd to wit
ness the execution, and without an audi
ence to listen to his wild oratory, it would
take tho starch out of him.”
The LaGrange Reporter says truly: “ ‘My
Mother’s Daughter’ is the most extensively
advertised woman in Georgia, and every
editor speaks well of her. bhe promises to
be very popular, and will doubtless add to
the popularity of the Savannah Weekly
News, with which she is connected.”
The Atlanta Constitution mentions the fol
lowing narrow escape from death in that
cay: “On Saturday afternoon, as some
workmen were repairing the ridge roof of
the rolling mill a portiou of it fell in, carry
ing down a colored workman named William
L pshaw, lie fell astraddle the main steam
pipe and clung there some ten seconds,
seeking to save himself from the loDg fall to
the iron pavement below, but he was forced
f< * let go aud take tho plunge. His arms
und body were badly burned, one arm broken
-ml ills shoulder dislocated by the fall. He
Jiow hes in a critical condition. The white
uten saved themselves by timely jumping to
the main roof.”
Tho Chattanooga Times strikes it exactly
right when it says: “We cannot refrain from
acknowledging that we are immensely
amused at the deep concern folt by a num
ber of our Northern exchanges, lest the dis
loyal in the Georgia Convention overturn
the structure which the suffrage amend
ments to tho National Constitution erected.
Some of the most sympathetic already shed
tears of bitterest sorrow over tho probable
infringement of the rights of the colored
people. Others bluster and bally and shako
in the face of the trembling Bourbons the
strong arm of the Presidential authority.
Georgia will amend her present constitution
so as to adapt it to her WLnts, and iu mak
ing these amendments she will be indiffer
ent to the fuming and prattle of others. Let
us keep cool.”
The Dalton Enterprise, who is a judge in
such matters, being itself a first-class weekly
paper, says of the Weekly News: “Many ot
our people want a good weekly paper from a
distance. To all such we can conscientious
ly recommend the Savannah Weekly News.
Several copies of this standard weekly have
recently fallen into our hands, and we must
say, according to our thinking, it is the best
aud most readable paper in tho whole coun
try—abounding throughout with able edi
torials, current news topics, stories, agri
cultural matter and all that goes to make up
really a A No. 1 weekly paper. It is very
large, printed in clear type, elegantly made
up and is a model in all respects. Send for
a ea uple copy and you will be sure to sub
scribe.”
The Butts County Argus has this funny
item: “There was no service at either
chnrch in town last Sunday, and the day
would have passed without incident if an
old freedman’s mule hadn’t run away with a
buggy in the afternoon. He tore off one of
the shafts at the first luQge, and zigzagged
the entire length of the street at his best
Mick,’ but the old darky held his seat.
When a nigger gets on his Suuday clothes,
gears up his ‘ balaam’ anl starts out, he is
mighty hard to shake out of his buggy.”
The Dalton Enterprise has tne following
iu reference to the crop prospects : “A geu-
tleman who has traveled extensively in this
and adjoining comities, estimates that the
wheat will yield a full crop—the best since
1857, and that the fruit will average at leaet
one half. To this may be added an immense
blackberry crop, which ought to enable our
farmers to give hard times the slip, at least
for the present.”
The Columbus Times has the following
"We knew our cotton mills were appreciated
and handsomely patronized in the United
States aud Mexico, but were hardly prepared
to hear of orders coming in from England.
Yesterday the Eigle & Phenix Company re
ceived a haDdsome order from England for
their celebrated cotton blankets. Tho sam
ples of the Eagle & Phenix factory shown in
England have been deservedly praised, and
Columbus and her leading mills spoken of
iu the most flattering terms by men who
know what are creditable goods.”
A special to tho Constitution, dated Bow-
don, Georgia, June 26th, gives the following
adventures of a tramp: “A trump, giving
his name as J. H. Miller, and hailing from
Tennessee and North Carolina, was arrested
to-day in Haralson county and brought to
this place, charged with breaking open and
robbing Coogle’s store, two miles east of
this place, Saturday night last^ He con
fessed the crime, aud says he first broke
open tho blacksmith shop to get the proper
tools, and then entered and robbed the store
of such goods as he could conveniently carry
away. He acknowledges to robbing the
houses of Davis and Goldens the same
night. The most of the property was found
in his possession, he having sold some to
Mr. John Crawford, who lives eoven miles
east of here. He sold a quantity of per
fumery, soap, combs, pills, etc. He was
making bis way back to Tennessee. He
waives a trial and goes to jail.”
Florida Affairs.
The Masonic fraternity of Quincy and the
surrounding country had a grand celebra
tion on Monday last. Mr. Frank Gleason
delivered the address, which is spoken of by
a correspondent as highly creditable to the
orator and the occasion.
iefferaon county is a county of abundance.
Corn is rolling at fifty cents per bushel and
oats at forty cents per bundled.
A planter residing on Georgiana, an island
in Indian river, proposes to set out five
thousand pineapples this fall. His plants
did not receive the slightest injury last
winter.
The city of Jacksonville consumes three
tons of ice daily, while the thermometer is
climbing up to the hundreds.
Colonel Wilkinson Call ha3 consented to
deliver the oration at St. Augustine on the
coming Fourth.
Major J. D. Cole has been appointed
Postmaster at Monticello, vice Anthony
Mills, colored, and the Constitution says
“the appointment gives complete satisfac
tion to the business portion of our popula
tion.”
A chicken was killed in Gainesville a day
or two since whose gizzard contained thir
teen grains of gold.
The Cedar Keys Journal states that three
hundred pounds of alligator teeth have been
consigned to Mr. Greenieaf from Sara Sota.
It is stated that the Fair Grounds, in East
Jacksonville, have been entered by parties
iu Washington, on the plea that no patent
for their possession has ever been issued
from the United States Land Office.
A company was incorporated by the last
Legislature to cut a canal from Sinta Fee
Lake through Lake Alto to Waldo, on the
Fernaudma road—a distance of four or five
miles. This will open up a large and fertile
district to transportation.
Twenty per cent, less acreago of cotton
has been planted iu Jackson county this
year.
The Pensacola Gazette nominates Gover
nor Drew as its candidate for President of
the United States iu 1880, and adds: “lie
holds the helm of State ia Florida with
firmness and intelligence, and we believe
him competent to direct affairs in Washing
ton.”
The Grangers of Madison county have
purchased a town lot from Mr. Angu3 Pater
son, of MadiaoD, and will erect a brick store
building as soon as tho brick can be made
and burnt.
The editor of the Cedar Keys Journal, who
has been on an inspecting tour, says of tho
vegetable crop: “It is estimated that up to
this time tho crop has alrealy return :d to
the country between Bronson aud Gaines
ville, a distance of twenty-two miles, not
less than $50,000 in actual cash.”
We made mention of a remarkable peach
tree in this column a few days since, and a
correspondent of the Herald has the follow
ing note of tbe curiosity: “3ince the corre
spondent saw this remarkable tree it has
been stripped of its fruit, which counted
out one thousand five hundred, making a
total yield of one thousand eight hundred
peaches for its first bearing year.”
The Waldo and Santa Fee Lake Canal is
going to be a success. Ton thousand dol
lars is the amount estimated for its con
struction. Ono-haif has already been sub
scribed.
Jacksonville is making an attempt to
organizo a volunteer company, and lists
have been opened for enrollment. As soon
as sixty men have signed the roster an elec
tion will be held for officers and application
made for tho necessary equipment of the
company. The State will furnish improved
arms to tho organization.
The earthen piping to drain off tho pond
in the centre of Madison has arrived and
the work commenced last week. The engi
neering was done by Major Wm. H. Dial,
and the work conducted by Mr. James
Ellenwood. The work will be fiuisbod iu
two WC 6ks.
The citizens of Jefferson county will bold
a mass mooting on Saturday next, at the
court house in llonticeilo, to take into con
sideration the railroad horded dobt of the
county. It is not, as some suppose, to repu
diate said debt, but to devise some plan by
which the bonds can be compromised aud
the people partially relieved from tho pres
ent burthen of taxation.
No mails had been received in Key West,
from any point in this State, for sixteen days
previous to the 15.h of June.
Tho Madison Recorder with glowing pride
points to squashes raised in that county four
feet five inches, and tomatoes weighing one
and a quarter pounds.
The sculptor Clark Mills is in St. Augus
tine, having been sent by tho government to
take face masks in plaster of all the Indians
now at Fort Marion.
The Bayport Mill Company’s mill, in Her
nando coanty, was destroyed by fire on
Monday morning last, and tbe loss i8 total.
The company but recently bought the mill
from Mr. Kcyser, and were making prepara
tions to start for the first time on the morn
ing of tbe disaster.
Calvin Peacock, Jr., shot and fatally
wonnded John Winn, at Moseley’s ferry, on
the Suwaunee river, last week. Peacock
succeeded in escaping, but his brother has
been arrested as accessory to the homicide.
The Floridian publishes some figures
showing that the work of retrenchment in
coanty expenses is not mere idle abstrac
tion, but actual fact, aud shows that the
saving to the county of Leon during the two
terms of the Superior Court amounted to
the snug sum of $1,739 97. Ia Jefferson
county a like gratifying result is manifest.
The witness fees at the fall term wero
$1,734 10; at the spring term, $311 75—dif
ference SI,422 35. FeeB of jurors, fall term,
$665 05; spring term, $318 75—difference,
$346 30. Total saving, $1,768 65.
Two immense saw-fish, fifteen and a quar
ter and fourteen feet in length, have been
captured iu nets, near St. Augustine. One
has been carefully preserved for the Smith
sonian Institute.
Tho Jacksonville Sun and Press says:
“The Qattie brought down on her first trip,
Thursday, 5,000 watermelons, 2,500 of
which were of the Christopher variety,
from Phillip’s Point. They are en route for
New York.”
The Monticello Constitution says : “The
Liberia fever among the darkies still rages
iu this county. We don’t think many of
them will migrate to that country, however,
for most of them are too well awaro that a
couutry governed by the white man ia pre
ferable to that governed by the black.”
The Lake City Reporter says: “In order
that strangers may know what this portion
of tho State is capable of producing, we pro
pose to keep standing a list of the fruits
and products which are grown in the
cmnty, and will add to the list as articles
are brought to oar notice: Corn, cotton,
oats, rye, wheat, hay, sugar, syrup, arrow-
root, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, peas,
peaunts, chufas, ginger, tea, vegetables,
melons, poaches, plums, grapes, pine ap
ples, oranges, bananas, lemons, citron', ap
ricots, berries, turpentine, tar, lumber, cork,
pecans, walnuts, and India rubber."
Tbe Monticello Constitution has the follow
ing account of a brutal murder perpetrated
in Jefferson county on Saturday night last:
“There was a gathering of negroes on ills.
Johnson’s plantation, about a mile from
town, for the purpose of engaging in reli
gious services, as was customary. At about
lUi o’clock, Berry Applewhite, a. laborer
upon said plantation, and a preacher, ap
proached the buildiug iu which the services
wero being conducted aud sent a message to
Moses Dallas that be desired to see him.
The latter responded to the call, and the
two stepped off a short distance aud engaged
in an animated conversation for a few min
utes, when Dallas, remarking that then was
not the time to settle tho difficulty, turned
od fiis fieel aud started towards tfie building,
whereupon Berry Applewhite drew his pis
tol and shot him in the side. Dallas fell,
when his assailant jumped upon him with a
razor in bis hand, aud ere he could be pre
vented, inflicted nine ngly wounds upon bis
body, auy one of which would have caused
death.”
Tho Constitution has also this: “On last
Friday a lather and sou were reunited in
Monticello after a separation oT thirty-two
years. Mr. John L. Horton, the father,
who cow lives upon Mr. Asa May’a planta
tion iu this couuty, pavted with his sou
when one year old, about tbirty-two years
ago. About tbe year 1858, through some
unreliable source, he learned that the boy
was dead, and acceptod the intelligence as
true until the month of February last. At
that time a Georgia peddler, traveling
through the country, stopped one night
with Mr. Horton, and gaining some
insight into the old man’s history,
surprised him with tho informa
tion that he (the peddler) served as
soldier with young Horton iu the army
of Virginia, that he escaped the enemy’s
bullets, aud that be was then living near
Americus, Sumter county, Georgia. The
eld man immediately wrote to his long ab
sent son, the pedler’s story proved correct,
and arrangements were made for the father
and son :o meet In Monticello on last Friday.
Mr. Horton came to town early in the morn
ing and went to Mr. Denham’s store. He
appeared restiess, and frequently went to
the front door aud cast an eager glance
northward along the Thomasville road, and
in response to the inquiry if he was expecting
any one, responded that he was looking for
a man from Georgia. Finally a young man
with a satchel was seen approaching, when
Mr. Horton exclaimed, ‘ That’s my man! ’
The stranger went direct to Mr. Denham’s
store, aud on tho threshold encountered the
old man, when the following conversation
ensued: Old Man—‘What’s your name?’
Young Man—‘Horton.’ Old Man—‘I’ta
your daddy! * The young man instantly
dropped his satchol aud rushed into the
outstretched arms of his father. It was an
affecting scene—a father and son united
after a separation of thirty-two years.”
THE JEWISH EXCITEMENT.
What the Jewish Knbbix in New York
Have to Say About It.
AS AWFUL CRIME.
The New York World says the New
York rabbis took occasion Saturday very
generally to discuss the Hiltou-Seligman
controversy, speaking to crowded syna
gogues, and very plainly drawing lessons
from their topic of warning to their peo
ple, as well as of reprehension to Judge
Hilton. A few extracts will indicate the
tone of the sermon3 delivered. The Rev.
Dr. Adolph Huebsch, a rabbi of the Tem
ple Ahawathchesed, said:
“A grievous occurrence has taken
p'ace within the last few days, which,
like a firebrand throwD by an atrocious
hand, was intended to disturb the tran -
quil peace enjoyed by the Israelites in
this blessed, because free, country—an
assault upon the Jewish name has been
perpetrated, which is the more to be re
gretted inasmuch as it originated with a
man whose c mnection with the name
and the millions of a deceased nabob
gave him a certain prominence iu social
standing. Thank God there are open to
us two never-failing resources—seif- c >n-
sciousness and the appeal to the judg
ment of onr unprejudiced fellow-
citizens. We have no reason to shun the
closest investigation of the character of
our race from its origin to the present
day.
•‘For us, however,” said the rabbi, in
conclusion, “such events may be a lesson
to watch eagerly over the honor of the
Jewish name; to keep it unblemished, to
do what the Lord requires of us, to walk
in His ways and to serve Him with ail
our heart and with all our soul. Let us
be good Israelites and good citizens, and
the missiles of hatred will fail harmless
to the ground. The Hiltons will die. ... , .
away; the great principles of Israel, how- run into the house, and the young lady
ever, and the free apir'it of the American "' fl <rorv 01111 blood-smear,*
Alleged Confession of the Horrible Triple
.Harder Near Gore, Ohio—Lynch Lair
Feared.
Cincinnati, June 24.—The Commer
cials Logan, Ohio, special dispatch says:
‘‘One of th9 most atrocious crimes ever
perpetrated in Ohio was the murder in
this county, near the village of Gore,
about seven miles from Logan, of John
Weldon, his widowed sister. Mrs. Susan
McClurg, and Miss Nancy Hite, daughter
of Mrs. McClurg, by a former husband.
The murderers are now in jail One of
them, Wm. Terrill, madoa confession to
day, which throws the crime on one
Joseph King. King denies any knowl
edge of the crime. The prevailing opin
ion is that Terrill did most of the horri
ble work. The murdered man was a
thrifty farmer, and it was generally
supposed that he had money about
him. Terrill says they met him
about half a mile from the
house, and that King, without any warn
ing, walked np and deliberately shot him
in the bowels. Then ensued a tussle,
during which King shot him in the breast
once and twice in the neck. The victim
picked up an old corn-cutter and threw
it at King and struck him iu the back.
King seized the corn cutter and struck the
old man over the head, cleaving the skull,
aud then finished his work with a club.
They then went to a small stream, washed
their hands, and then went to the house.
KiDg took an axe from the porch and went
into the house. Presently he came out
with the old lady. They walked to
gether a moment, when without warning
he struck her with the ax across the
head, nearly cuiting it in twain. She
fell, and he struck her across tbe neck,
severing the jugular vein. Ha then
THE BRIDE
OF A WEEK
SURF.
IN THE
DEATH UNDER THE GALLOWS.
Weak Disclaimers.—The friends of
the administration profess to be shocked
by the reports that “annexation” is to be
the upshot of the army movements on
the Mexican border. They are disclaim
ing such an idea very indignantly through
the government organs. If these dis
avowals were taken in earnest the opera
tions on the frontier would at once lose
popularity among the only persons who
now approve of them. These are army
officers, contractors, stockholders in
Northern California and other mining
schemes, owners of cattle claims in Texas,
and filibusters generally. All these di
verse interests harmonize in the desire
for war with Mexico and annexation. If
the government is not prepared to follow
up the beginning against Mexico to its
only legitimate end, which is annexation,
it should prove its pacific designs by not
taking the steps that inevitably lead to
war. All its instructions to the military
commanders in Texas, the augmenting of
the forces theie, and this high talk which
appears in official papers about a “vigor
ous foreign policy,” signify beyond ques
tion that the administration is coveting a
slice of Mexico and wiil have it, unless
the people frown down the scheme.—N.
Y. Journal of Commerce.
There has been a curious compromise
on tbe Ritual question in the English
Church. The Rev. C. J. Ridsdale is the
Ritualistic clergyman who appealed from
tho judgment of Lord Penzance in the
Folkestone case and called forth the re
cent decision of the Privy Council. He
has expressed to the Archbishop of Can
terbury a willingness to be guided by him
as his Bishop in regard to the use of vest
ments. The Archbishop has accordingly
written a letter in which he assumes th6
whole responsibility of directing Mr.
Ridsdale not to wear the chasuble and
»lb at the administration of the Holy
Communion and to abstain from using
lighted candles and the mixed chalice.
The Archbishop also grants him a com
plete dispensation from the obligation
under which he believes himself to lie to
act upon what te conceives to be tho lit
eral meaning of the ornaments rubric.
Mr. Ridsdale announced to his congrega
tion that he would obey the Archbishop’s
order as a temporary measure until Con
vocation should have had fitting oppor
tunity to deliberate on the question.
“If,” be added, “it shall appear that the
opportunity passes without the question
being solved, I feel I shall not be justified
in using the dispensation any longer.”
The Cartet Baggers at Home.—Tbs
New York Tribune says: “The tramp
nuisance has reached such a height that
threats of lynching are now common in
various localities. At Pieasaniviile, where
Miss Daering was lately attacked, the
feeling against vagabonds is very strong,
and a very small circumstance might result
in extrajudicial violence which would be
lamentable. A great many vagabonds
are said to be in the vicinity of Mari-
noro N. Y-, ostensibly to engage in
berry-picking; and some of these are
suspected of three several attempts to
burn the farm house of N. S. Topping.
In one of these a ohild was badly burned.
Two burglaries have also been committed,
and also there has been an attempt to
violate a respectable married woman. In
the townships of Mitchell and Marion,
Indiana, a vigilance committee has been
organized for the execution of summary
justice upon a band of desperadoes who
have long been the terror of tbat
vicinage.”
A few festive prisoners in Pennsylva
nia would like to be skipping the rope
about this time.
Constitution will live forever under the
protection of the Lord.”
In the Forty-fourth Streat Synagogup,
the Rev. Dr. DeSoia Mendes compare!
Judge Hilton to Balak, Pharoah and
Moab, and concluded: “Then let the
great nation among whom we dwell de
clare itself our friend or foe. If wo are
in Eoumania, said tbe Doctor, we want
to know it. But we have no fear. Every
true American heart and spirit of free
dom are with us. But let the Gentile
pulpit and press, the resolutions of meet
ings and prominent men unite in express
ing sympathy with us, for public insult
demands public reparation. A word for
Israel in advice. The sages say Balaam’s
charms were ineffectual against Israel,
because the people were united. If He^
brews take that lesson to heart, keep
apart from Gentiles in religious matters,
love their own and leave the Gentiles
theirs, not all the incantations of bigotry
can do us harm. ”
At the Thirty-fourth Stroet Synagogue,
Dr. Jacobs, rabbi, depicted the persecu
tion of the Jews in different ages, and,
alluding to Judge Hilton’s order of exclu
sion, said: “This base and ignorant fa
naticism, in its merely social and legal
phase, could find no fcothoid in the pul
pit; but in its moral and religions aspect
it ceils down the most decided reprehen
sion. The attempt to dwarf it into a
personal quarrel cannot be countenanced.
It is an attack upon the liberties of the
citizen. It is a blow struckat the civili
zation of the age. It is an assault upon
the constitutional rights guaranteed to all
citizens in the written and unwritten law
of this free country. Ia this sense it is a
crime, and as such must excite the dis
gust of every honest man.”
The Rev. Henry P. Msndes, in a ser
mon in the Portuguese Synagogue, said:
“I care not who is right m the present
aff air that occupies so much of the public
mind. But we do care that our names
should be dragged forth to be held up to
the scorn of narrow-minded people who
exist in every community. Obnoxious
Christians are refused privileges because
they are not gentlemen, not because they
ure Christian?. So with the Jaws. If
they are refused privileges it must not be
because they are J»ws, and therefore the
word ‘Jew’ or ‘Hebrew’ should never have
bsen used. Any attempt to fasten obloquy
upon our name must and will be vigor
ously opposed by all enlightened intel
lects as most intolerable and monstrous
the age and country we live iu.”
In the Tom pie Israel Eibbi Lswin said
the vindictiveness and spite which is
t /erywhere noticeable in Air. Hilton’s ut
terances show that he is also actuated by
a deep hatred against the Jewish race and
to revive so fir as he can the intolerant
spirit of the past. Rabbi Lewin did not
think such a man worthy of so much no
tice or notoriety as he had received, and
it would be ui.d gc’ficd for tho Jews to
get up any demonstration against him.
Every day events aie transpiring which
show woman’s unfitness to oecupy posi
tions held by man. At Williamsburg,
New York, the other day, two young mar.
ried ladies, sisters, tried a boat race, but
with what appalling results Mr. Smith,
the veteran boat owner, gave the word
“ Go.” Mrs. Clinton got a start cf seve
ral yards, but was closely followed by her
sister. When they were about half way
to the buoy Mrs. Clinton’s hat fell dawn
over her eyes, causing her to lose her
true course. While she was engaged in
trying to adjust it another misfortnns be-
fel her. A puff of wind showed what
colors she wore to an undesirable extent,
and, catching both oars with one hand,
she with tho other endeavored to tuck
the fluttering skirt more securely around
her. In the meanwhile Mrs. Geary was
engaged in a desperate attempt to got the
stiaggiing hairs, which, unconfi::ed, had
followed the behest of the wind, out of
her mouth aud eyes. She could not see
where she was going, and it clearly was
not her fault when her boat struck her
sister’s. After some difficulty they finally
got safely to shore, however. Of courso
the race was a declared fcul, and the re
sult is an awful lesson to woman’s rights
people.
The manager of Sanger’s Amphitheater,
London, was drawn on June Sim tub by
four geese from Battersea to Westminster
Badge. Ho was dressed in a naval Cap
tain’s attire, and made bis start on tbe
ebb tide to a salute of four guns, being
piloted by Gosling, and convoyed by
about half a dozm boats to clear the way.
The geese proved pretty tractable, fixed
as they were to the pole of the tub, and
satisfactory progress was made down the
river, Vauihull bridge being successfully
shot, and Westminster Bridge being
cached about three o’clock, amid the
cheers of those assombled on the bridge,
the trip having been accomplished in
about one hour and twenty minutes.
This thing of riding two horses when
they are going in opposite directions
never was attempted without trouble to
the experimenter, and Mr. Hayes is likely
to find it out pretty soon. He and Secre
tary Sherman have been trying the im
possible two horse act on the silver ques
tion, and trouble is at hand for them.
Sherman’s recent presumptuous letter on
the payment of the four per cents, is un
derstood to have been approved by the
Cabinet and President, so the silver
money Republicans of Ohio are miidly
indignant. Hayes is trying to ride both
ways, and the end is sure to be—a split.
—St. Louis Republican.
The violent hatred of Chinamen on the
Pacific coast, expressed in numerous mur
de rs, nearly put a stop to their coming;
but of late they are arriving by the ship
load Four thousand landed in San
Francisco in three weeks. Most of these
were Tartars, of which class of the Mon
golian race only a few hundred had pre
viously come to this oountry. They are
darker than Chinamen proper, and are
said to be more vicious.
A young lady, asleep at midnight in
her father’s house, near the railway sta
tion in Los Angeles, Cal., last week, was
carried from her room aod out of the
house for a hundred feet by a strange
man,’ before she awoke. Her screams
groused the neighbors and the abductor
dropped her and escaped. He had en
tered the house by a rear door.
seeing the gory and blood-smeared
weapon, ran out the front doer. The
brute pursued and overtook her before
she had taken many steps, and dealt her
a blow upon the shoulder,sinking the axe
to the handle. This brought her to the
ground, and he struck her on the back of
the head, splitting it wide open. He
again lifted his weapon and struck her
across the neck, almost severing her head
from the body. He then threw the axe
down by the victim, and probably went
into the house to find money. When ar
rested they had about eleven dollars on
their persons.
The excitement j s intense. About fif
teen hundred people have gathered about
the premises, and fears are entertained
that there will be an attempt to-night to
take the prisoners from jail aud lynch
them. The militia are under arms, and a
lot of extra police have been sworn in.
“The latest developments go far to show
that King was not concerned in this hell
ish crime. He ia known to have been in
Logan at 4 o’clock on the day of the mur
der and at 8 o’clock the same night. Ter
rill says the murder was committed be
tween 0 aud 7 p. m. Late this evening
numerous small groups of men were seen
quietly talking on the streets of Logan,
including men from different parts of the
country. Trouble is evidently brewing.”
Gone with a Handsomer Man.
Tne Adrian 1'imcs describes an elope
ment that took place in Hudson, Miehi
gan, as follow?:
About two months ago Frank Fellows
and Miss Ann VanRiper, both of Hudson
township, were united in marriage, and
so far as the husband or their most inti
mate friends knew, were mutually happy
in each other’s love. Last Wednesday
Frank went to help his fa'.her-iu-law saw
wood, and asked his wife to accompany
him; she excused herself, saying she must
bake, and then perhaps she would come
over. Frank returned home about three
o’clock in tho afternoon, only to find a
note, saying in substance: “Frank, your
past life has been as pleasant as it should
have been. You have not found in me
what you expected to find in a wife. I
hope the future will be happier than the
past has been. Good-bye, Frank. I am
going, never to return. If you think best
you can send the few things I have to
Mansfield, Ohio.” The young man was
dumbfounded, but immediately drove to
Clayton and found she had purchased a
ticket there for Toledo. He went to To
ledo the next morning and found she had
proceeded to Mansfield, whither he also
went. He learned she was in the city,
but her new found friends kept her so
close that he was unable to see her. It
now seems that before her marriage
she corresponded with a gentleman
of Mansfield, Ohio, named Snodgrass,
and that after her engagement
with Fellows, under pretence of visiting
friends in Jackson, she visited her cor
respondent for several days in Mansfield.
From letters found since her departure,
it appears thi3 correspondence has beon
kept up since her marriage, without,
however, the knowledge of her hush ind.
There is no doubt but she has deliber
ately made up her mind to prefer the
lover to the husband, and that she is
among his friends in Mansfield. The
young man is well nigh distracted; to
lose a wife ere the honeymoon is over, is
truly distressing—and then too to have
her go with a handsomer man. It is no
doubt a severe stroke for her parentF,
well to-do farmers of this township.
Circumstantially Reported, Probably by
a Bachelor at the Seoalde.
[From the Times.)
Cape May, Jnne 17.—Daintily she pick
ed her way over the sands to the edge of
theses: timidly, and with the winning
grace and gentleness of a yonng fawn,
she clung to the arm that was to protect
her in health and in sickness, on the deep
os well as on the land. He seemed to
feel the full weight of the responsibility
he had assumed, and with tender care and
words of encouragement he guided her
toward the waves. At length they stood
on the edge; the indashing surf reached
almost to their feet, but still her pretty
gray flannel bathing suit was dry and un
spotted, and the bright red trimmings
caught and threw back the clear rays of
the summer sun. So they stood for a
minute ; she with her hand resting con
fidingly in his, he looking bravely into
her upturned and half frightened face,
and urging her to trust to his strength
and with-him to plunge into the dashing
whirlpool that lay before them.
Of course, the man’s persistence over
came the woman's fear, and they dashed
into the surf together. Then all at once
ihe picture changed. They parted com
pany, and he, “braving all and fearing
naught,” rushed forward into the waves.
For a moment he rode them manfully,
and his little partner, standing knee deep
in the bright water, looked upon him
with admiration, not unmixed with a sat
isfaction that comes of assured posses
sion.
But, as has been the cas9 with stronger
men, his glory was short-lived. A billow
higher and more powerful than any that
had gone before—what is known here as
a Cape May ripple”—dashed full against
him; he struggled, lost his balance, was
lifted off his feet, and, splashing, dash-
ng, throwing his arms and legsabout him
wildly and helplessly, he was thrown
sprawling at the feet of the little lady
whom a mioute before he had been pat
ronizingly urging to put her trust in him
and fear nothing. “So pride must ever
have a fall.”
The young woman was equal to the
occasion; what American girl is not? The
receding wave was about to carry the
venturesome youog gentleman back into
the sea in which he professed to bo so
much at home; he was still sprawling—it
is the only word—and clutching wildly
at the sands, struggling to regain his
feet, when she, stooping down, quietly
but quickly caught his bathing shirt
firmly in both her hands and held him
fast till the wave had gone back. Then
he jumped to his feet, and she, woman
like, when he was no longer iu danger,
gloried in his downfall, and said, with a
pretty toss of her dark brown curls,
“There, I told you so; what did you
want to go so far for, foolish fellow?”
Shot in the Back.
Lndiow, Ky., amused itself the other
day hunting a man down to death.
Nicholas Ochsner was a saloon-keeper
who had been prohibited from selling
liquor. He then sold crackers to his cus
tomers and threw in the drinks to wash
them down. Tho officers of the law at
length resolved to pull Ochsner’s business
up by the roots, and two or three of
them went to take him. Going into his
house they found Ochsner’s wife and
another woman at the table eating supper.
The wife went into a back room, and
Nicholas soon came out with a revolver
and commenced firing at the minions cf
the law. They got out uninjured, and
went and laid the case before the Mayor
and Sheriff. An army of twenty
or thirty young men—the flower
of Ludlow’s chivalry—were enrolled
to take Ochsner dead or alive.
When the armed mob neared the house,
Ochsner and his wife commenced firing
at them with shot guns and pistols, and
tbe besiegera returned the fire. A battle
was thus kept up for some time, when
the Mayor under a flag of truce entered
Ochsner’s house to talk with him. Ochs
ner promised to surrender if he should
be protected from the mob that was seek-
iug his life. The Mayor promised pro
tection, and that the siege should be im
mediately raised. Then Ochsner laid
down his arms aud the crowd piled into
the house. In the confusion a pistol
went off and Ochsnei was shot in the
back, the bad, a large one, passing
through his body. He died in a few min
utes. The Ludlow chivalry did not treat
Ochsner aDy better than the United States
troops treat Indians. They entrapped
and then shot them.
The
Hangman's Work In the United
Staten thna far In 1877.
[From the Chicago Times.)
1. Jan. 5, Edwin W. Major, white,
Concord, N. H., wife murder.
2. Jan. 18, Daniel Price, colored, War-
renton, Mo., adultery and murder.
3. Jan. 19, Peter Larkin, white, Vir
ginia City, Nevada, killing rival.
4. Jan. 22, Simon Ragland, oolored,
Williamston, N. C., rapt:.
5. Jan. 26, Wm. E. Neil, white, Al
bany, Oregon, murder.
6. Feb. 9, Martin Henry, colored, Port
Tobacco, Md., robbery and murder.
7. Feb. 9, Chas. H. Simpson, colored,
Port Tobacco, M I., robbery and murder.
8. Feb. 12, Wm. Green, colored, Pitts
burgh, Pa., killing half brother.
9. Feb. 19, James Miller, colored, W.
Las Animas, Col., murder in lance house.
10. Alarch 1, John McCall, white, Yank
ton, Dakota, killing “ Wild Bill.”
11. March 9, Chas. Oschwald. white,
Newark, N. J.. burglary and murder.
12. March 16, Adam Johnson, colored,
Aiken, S. O., doubio murder, arson and
robbery.
13. March 16, Nelson Brown, colored,
Aiken, S. C , double murder, arson aud
robbery.
14. March 16, Lucius Thomas, colored,
Aiken, S. C., double murder, arson and
robbery.
15. March 16, John H. Dennis,colored,
Aiken, S. C., double murder, arson and
robbery.
16. March 23, John D. Lee, white,
Mountain Moadows, U. T., massacre of
emigrants.
17. April 7, James Hayes, white,
Bakersfield, Cal., murder.
IS. April 20, Steve Anderson, colored,
Aiken, S. C., double murder, arson, and
robbery.
19. April 21, Chas. W. Sterling, white,
Y’oungstown, O., murder and outrage.
20. April 24. George Williams, colored,
Springfield, Ga., filicide.
21. April 27, David L. Beck, white,
Summerville, Ga., murder.
22. April 27, William Pintz, white,
Marble Hill, Mo., murder.
23. May 3, Samuel Orr, white, Mount
Vernon, Mo., murder.
24. M :y 4, William Meeks, white,
Cedartown, Ga., adultery and murdev.
25. May 4, Chin-Mook-Sao, Chinese,
San Francisco, Cal., murder.
26. 27, 28. May 4, Wightman Allen,
Jenkins V.’hitner, John Allen, colored,
Abbeville, S. C., killing officer and
rescuing prisoner.
29. May 17, Patrick Quigley, white,
Philadelphia, wife murder.
30. May 18, Charles Tommey, colored,
Americas, Ga., murder.
31. May 18, John Burgoyne, colored,
Marion, S. C., murder.
32. May 21, Tim Tattles, colored, Me
ridian, Miss., wife murder.
33. May 22, Austin Humphrey, white,
Windsor, Ont., murder.
34. June 1, Juan Salazar, white, San
Rafael, Cal., murder.
35. June 8, John Pleasants, colored,
Diuwiddie, Va., murder.
36 June 8, Louis Rousseau, white,
Opelousas, La., murder.
37. June 11, G. W. Fletcher,
Philadelphia, murder.
38. June 21, James Carroll,
Pottsville, Pa., murder.
39. June 21, James Roarity,
Pottsville, Pa., murder.
40. June 21, Hugh McGehan, white,
Pottsville, Pa., murder.
41. June 21, James Boyle, white, Potts
ville, Pa., murder.
42. June 21, Thomas Duffy, white,
Pottsville, Pa., murder.
43. June 21, Thomas Manley, white,
Pottsville, Pa., murder.
44. June 21, Edward Kelly, white,
Maueh Chunk, Pa., murder.
45. June 21, John Donohue, white,
Maueh Chunk, Pa., murdc-r.
46. June 21, Michael J. Doyle, white,
Maueh Chunk, Pa., murder.
47. June 21, Alexander Campbell,white,
Maueh Chunk, Pa., murder.
48. June 21, Andrew Lanahan, white,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., murder.
Palaver versus Deeds.
While Hayes and his Cabinet are ro
warding party services with offices, and
running the machine iu their own way
for their own ends, he and they are car
rying on the reform farce by the issue of
orders, the publication of letters and
never ending palaver. The latest circu
lar from the Executive Mansion is ad
dressed to all officers in every department
of the civil service, and prohibits them
from taking any part in the management
of political organizations, caucuses, con
ventions or election campaigns.
Now let Hayes and his Cabinet take a
rest from the work of issuing such orders.
This one is sufficient for the present.
Let us wait for its enforcement.
There will be elections in a good many
States this fall. All officeholders who take
part in their management are to be dis
missed. All officeholders who, from this
day forward, try to exercise any political
control are to be dismissed. They may
deliver speeches for their party, or write
in the papers, but they must not show
themselves at any caucus or convention,
or pay any assessment. It will bo a won
derful order of Hayes when it falls dead.
Honest John Sherman wili of course
enforce it, and so will Postmaster Gen -
eral Key, who lately announced Hayes'
purpose to “ use his official patronage in
such a way as to give him strength in his
own party.” The reform of Hayes is
charlatanry and fraud all through.—N. Y.
Sun.
A Rule that Works Only One Way.
One of the reasons given by Secretary
Sherman for holding the four per cent,
bonds now being issued are payable in
gold and nothing else, is that gold is be
ing received for them, and it would be
unfair to pay them in a metal less valua
ble than is exacted for them. But this
is not os effective an argument as the
Secretary imagines. Let us remind him
of a little historical fact direct to the
point: when the live-twenty bonds, six
teen hundred millions in amount, were
issued daring the war, they were sold for
greenbacks ; not one dollar of gold was
ever exacted for them. By Secretary
Sherman’s rule, then, they ought to be
payable in greenbacks—independently of
the fact that they iczi's payable in green
backs, by the letter and spirit of tho con
tract ; but in 1869 Mr. Sherman, as Sena
tor from Ohio, voted to pay them in coin
—thus denying to the people the benefit
of a rale wbioh he lays down for the ad
vantage of the bondholder.—Si. Louis
Republican.
The San Francisco Mail asserts that the
new oharter of Virginia City, Nevada, has
been altered surreptitiously m the inter
ests of the Bonanza mines, so that these
latter are exempted from paying their
bullion tax, amounting to one hundred
thousand dollars a year. The amend
ment, the existence of which was unsus
pected, is fonnd to have been pasted to
the original bill, no one knows by whom.
On SuNDAr, Too—A Bloody Prize
Fight in Brooklyn which May Prove
Fatal.—John Carroll, a blacksmith of
the Fifteenth ward of Brooklyn, and
James Fulham, of the Fourteenth ward,
had some difficulty at a picnic recently
about a young woman. Carroll, attended
by two friends, happened into a saloon on
Fifth street on Saturday night where
Fulham and his friends were present in
force. The lie was passed and Fulham
threw ale in Carroll’s face. The latter
retaliated, and Fulham’s friends advised
that the affair be settled at once by
fighting. The proprietor of the saloon
objected, and Carroll and his friends
suggested a fair stan^-up fight the next
morning at the old Manor House, on the
Calvary Cemetery road. A large amount
of money was ftaked upon the issue. At
three o’clock on S mday morning the
principals and about twenty of their
friends met at the designated place, but
being afraid of the police went to an un
frequented spot near Kingsland avenue,
where a growth of large bashes screened
them from prying eyes. A ring was
formed and the men stripped for work.
Eighty rounds were fought, and Fulham
was taken home in an insensible condi
tion, Carroll having had the best of the
fight from the start. After twenty rounds
Fulham was only brought up to the
scratch to be knocked down, but his
seconds and four backers, most of whom
had money staked, would not allow the
sponge to be thrown up until the
eightieth round, when Fulham was
knocked senseless, with his face pounded
to a jelly. Carroll was but Blightly in
jured. During the afternoon a rumor
was circulated that Fulham was in a pre
carious condition.—New York World.
Artemus Ward, in his capacity as a
civil service reformer and census enumer
ator, once propounded the immortal ques
tion, “ What is the average of morality
along the Erie Canawl? ” The disclosures
during Governor Tilden’s administration
showed that it was not very high, but it
can hardly have been lower than that of
Hayti. The Independent of May 1, under
the heading of “Etat Civil de Jacmel,”
gives the following interesting statistics :
BIRTHS.
Sex. Legitimate. Illegitimate. Total.
Male 11 173 1S4
Female 7 157 161
Totals 18 330 348
The New York Times has a bashi-bazouk
member of its staff in Mississippi hunt
ing up outrages. The fellow has gone all
over the State looking for blood, but the
murders in Kemper county constitute the
only material fer hi3 reports. If the
Times is looking for murder, it will find
a convenient locality for profitable re
search a few hours’ ride from New York,
in Pennsylvania, where, notwithstanding
the haagiDg of a few scoundrels last week,
murders continue at the rate of two or
three a day.—Courier-Journal.
Memorial Htdl in Philadelphia is in fu
ture to bo opened on Sundays. One
stnmbling-bloek to popular progress has
been overcome in this surrender of a
prejudice, and it is hoped that this is but
the initial step to opening the entire per
manent exhibition on Sundays for the
benefit of the people.
A volcuno with four distinct craters
has broken out about eight miles from
Funk's Spring, a Southern Pacific station,
and forty-two miles west of Fort Yuma. It
threw out smoke and boulders on the 11th
instant, and emitted a noise like thunder,
while the mad volcanoes that formerly
were in active eruption are now still.
Shart Talk wltk White.
Sara Murderer.
[From the New Orleans Democrat]
John V. White is incarcerated now for
murder. Much has been written and said
about this man and his many homicides,
and there has been aroused considerable
interest in his case, which is warranted
by the bearing and manner of the man,
apparently about forty-five years of age;
his hair has become promaturely gray,
and from long exposure or nervous anxie
ty his skin has assumed a saffron hne.
His eyes are large and of a deep gray
shade, full of expression, and apparently
most kindly. His mouth evidences a
weakness of purpose and a lack of decis
ion of character. In bearing White is
qniet and undemonstrative, showing noth
ing of his violent disposition. After a
desultory conversation with White, he
expressed a perfect willingness to tell
all about himself and his late crimes. He
said :
It was about tho 29th day of Novem
ber, 1869, I went to a stable to get a
buggy to take a lady out with me. I
asked for a top buggy and George
Thompson said nothing to me, but went
on to hitch it up. Instead of giving me
a top baggy he gave me an open baggy.
I made some short remarks, and he an
swered in an insulting way. I started to
strike him with my open hand when he
clinched and caught hold of me.
Afterwards he started back into the
stable, and remarked, “ Mr. White, I’ll
hurt you,” with one hand ir his pocket.
He approached me and got about three
feet from me when I shot him. I crossed
the river that evening, and I came to the
conclusion I would go baok and stand my
trial, and I went back into Bayou Sara
and remained until nearly daylight, when
some friends persuaded me to leave. The
people of Bayou Sara are prejudiced
against rue, and they shot at me. I was
in a heap of waylaying affairs with the’
niggers before that, and I got shot very
often.
White here rolled up his drawers and
displayed his right leg, on which thero
were eleven ball holes between his ankle
and thigh.
Yes; I have killed men before this last
one, but it was always in a personal diffl-
culty. In 1856 I had trouble with a man
named Harmon, and I had to shoot him.
I was tried for it and prominent citizens
testified for me. Afterwards, in Wood-
ville, Mias., I got into trouble with
Hodges and had to kill him.
He said he was going to kiil me, and he
had two Derringers, and when we mit I
told him I was not armed. Hodges said
for me to go and arm myself, and I went
in and got a shot gun. When I came out
I met him and gave him the contents of
my gun.
There was no hesitancy on tho part of
White in relating his past adventures, and
he expressed a perfect willingness to tell
all he knew about himself.
After leaving White the reporter took
a stroll through the yard of the prison
and met a prisoner who knew White of
old. He said that he was perfectly satis
fied White had laid out his thirty men in
his time, and that he had “cooked the
goose of more.”
Why, do you know I had a look at his
body the other day, and it is riddled with
bullets. Do you know on one side I
oounted 'birty-two holes made by buck
shot and bail. I remember in 1864 ho
was brought to New Orleans uuder thirty-
two charges, and was sent to Ship Island,
and was afterwards pardoned. He was
the terror of his country.
white,
white,
white,
HOW WAS (JURIST CRUCIFIED?
Tlie Great Sccns Depleted in n Novel
Wav by a California Artist.
[San Francisco correspondence of tie Baltimore
Nun )
An admirable picture of the crucifixion
on Calvary has been exhibited for criti
cism and correction before taking it
abroad. It is fail size. The cross dif
fers from all extant pictures. Ia height
it is but little taller than a man. Midway
is a projecting saddle, upon which the
person sits astride. Irienens. Justin and
Tertullian so describe it. Modern artists
have omitted this, but it is obvious that
the outstretched arms couldnot maintain,
nor could the nailed hands have sup
ported, the body as usually represented.
All historians say the legs were tied to
the cross, and afterward spikes W6re driv
en through the feet, as through the hands.
There is no mention of a foot rest,
but the artist has supplied one, because
the feet cannot be spiked without. The
inscription on the cross, affixed to the
top, is purposely and ingeniously illegi
ble, because each of four gospels gives it
differently. There being no record of
personal appearance, every one is at
liberty to draw on his imagination. Here
the artist exhibits consummate skill. A
more spiritual countenance we never saw.
The head is reclined, as expiring. The
hair is auburn, long, and in ring
lets. The person is spare aud of
short stature. At the foot of tho cross
are only the executioners of the law.
No one is represented as piercing the
side with a spear. Nor are any conneo
tions, as Mary and John, present, this
being a direct contradiction of the three
synoptic gospels. It is usual to show
blood flowing from the wounds in the
hands and feet. This is omitted, because
history teils us that wrought iroD, being
our best styptic, instantly stops the flow
of blood. It is popuiariy supposed that
tbe sacrifice consisted in the shedding of
blood. Paul makes this indispensable.
Yet it is a mistake. A slight cut on a
schoolboy’s finger shed3 more blood.
Death results from exhaustion, not from
bleeding.
There are several marginal pictures il
lustrating various nr.-acles and other
scriptural stories. Perhaps the most
striking, and certainly the most artistic,
represents Jesus escorted to the place of
execution by the lowly multitude exulting
in His fate. The central figure is clothed
in scarlet, according to Matthew, in
preference to purple, which Mark and
John say was the color. And the man of
Nazireth walks majestically as to a vol
untary sacrifice. It is usual, and almost
indispensable to public taste, to show
Him bearing His cross and bowed down
beneath the burden according to John.
But the artist, following the three syn
optic gospels, which deny John's story,
shows Simon carrying the cross, a stout
plebiaB, who walks upright with it. The
artist considers it one great merit of his
painting over others, that it is true to
history j according to the plainest and
most consistent non seotarian interpreta
tion.
The birthday of the -Prophet, wbioh
coincides with the return of the pilgrims
from Mecca, was celebrated this year at
Cairo with the traditionary doich, or pas
sage of the mounted imaum over the
bodies of the faithful. These, being for
the most part of the very humblest
classes—camel and donkey drivers,
grooms, runners and fellahs—had been
drugged with hasheesh and excited to re
ligions frenzy by the attendant dervishes.
These packed them closely, face down
wards, to the number of some three
hundred, in a long line on the roadway,
and over this human pavement the
imaum, mounted on a white hoise, rode
for a quarter of an hour, amid the frantic
yelling of verses of the Koran by the at
tendant priests. There were the usual
and natural casualties—arias broken,
skulls fractured and ribs caved in, and
some fifteen of the worshippers went or
will go to Paradise.
OFFICE-HOLDING POLITICIANS.
The Eilect ot the President’* Proclanin-
lion cn its ObjcctM*
A Washington special to the New York
World says: The order of the President
prohibiting Federal officers from holding
membership of national, State or local
committees of a political nature,
or becoming delegates to political
conventions, or from paying as
sessments for political purposes,
is directed to the head of each depart
ment of the government, so that it may
reach every branch of the civil service.
It is intended to take effect on July 1, the
commencement of the new fiscal year.
Although tho President has been discus
sing thin step ever since he came into
office there were but few who believed he
would reRlly take it. Now that it has
been made and tho national and State and
many of the local Republican committees
wiil bo reorganized or abandoned, there
is a feeling akin to consternation among
Republican politicians in Washington as
to its effect on the fall election-!. They
all agree that it will be quite dis
astrous. One ex Congressman states
that Maine and Massachusetts will
go Democratic—certainly the latter.
As for Pennsylvania aud Ohio, the Re
publicans are few and far between here
who expect anything else in those States
but a Democratic victory. Another Re
publican of prominence here says : “The
President’s attempt to strike down the
machinery of a political organization iu a
republic like ours is absurd, and it will
only result in overwhelming defeat to
the Republican party.” “Why, sir,” he
added, “ Mr. Hayes carried his own State
of Ohio entirely by political assessments
and the work of men in office. He can
not deny that, as he knowB it was only by
the greatest effort that it was saved from
the Democrats. To turn Mr. Wyckoff,
the Chairman of the Republican Commit
tee of that State, out of office if ho doas
not resign from his committee is base
personal, as well as political, ingratitude.”
In the old border States like Maryland,
Virginia and Missouri it is the concurrent
opinion that the Republican organization
will be entirely broken up. The leaders
of the party there have always been Fed
eral officers, and nothing but the divis
ion of public plunder has made it cohe
sive. Take that away and it falls to
pieces.
The Bueeac of Female Favorites.—
The exposure of the investigating com
mittee into the affairs of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, at Washington,
constitutes a chapter of wastefulness aod
corruption disgraceful to the Federal offi
cers of the past administration, and tho
members of Congress by whose influence
and efforts such nefarious proceedings
were possible under the government. It
appears tbat this department was made
the asylum where Congressmen bestowed
their impecunious office seeking friends.
Twice as many employees were connect
ed with the business as could be used for
any service. In one department thirty
or more women, who, for want of room,
had a platform built for their accommo
dation, whiled away the time in sleep, not
having anything to do. The committee
find this state of things to have been the
natural result of the Congressional sys.
tem of appointments. Such an illustra
tion of its baneful influence should pow
erfully aid to prevent it from again being
adopted in the disposal of Federal pat
ronage.—Boston Transcript.
A Child Asleep in a Tree Top.—A
very remarkable escape occurred yester
day to a little nephew of Edward E. Pow
ers. The child, who is five years old,
was missing at twelve o’clock, when look
ed for at dinner time, but, after calling
him, the family ate dinner. The child
not appearing they became alarmed and
instituted a search throughout the neigh
borhood. His hat was found in the yard
nnder some large maple trees. Nothing
could be heard of him until about (hree
o’clock, when a girl discovered him on
one of the limbs of the maple trees,
forty feet from the ground, fast asleep.
The girl called him, but be did not awake.
His aunt then prevented any noise until
two boys climbed the tree- and awoke
him, and he was taken down safely.—
Detroit Post, June 17.
It is significant of the low rate at which
money is procurable in England on good
security that at a recent meeting of the
Birmingham Town Conned the Finance
Committee reported that arrangements
had been made for an advance to the
corporation by the Bank of England of a
farther loan of half a million pounds at
three and a half per cent, interest, upon
the security of the borough rates, for the
purchase of lands for the purpose of the
improvement scheme about to be effected
in the town, under the artisans’ dwellings
act.
• Gottlieb Lerchenmier went from Ohio
to California five years ago to seek a
fortune, leaving a girl behind him who
was to wait faithfully until he came back
to marry her. Gottlieb was successful in
his struggle for wealth, and this spring,
having accumulated $10,000, he returned
to Ohio to marry his sweetheart. He
did not marry her, however, for she was
already the wife of another man, Gott
lieb was broken-hearted. He went back
to Sacramento and committed suicide.