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«ji|lK pEAlt OWE:
Ah the world has nothL-
B® Till its treasures, so sweet;
h like tli ■ radiance kindled
H wien night and the young day meet.
„ fnnt-fa!l is dear to the daisies,
nf/dwy waiting He in
• i ^r-Timues jostle each other
4 ” T ogS her,U let her para.
„ hrmesmn on before tier,
W »f iTsIealine 11 kiss-and they dare
‘ !, a rk. unseen, and nestle
To;- gnnbunns that crown her flair.
' Vilul Ariel Dare.
Affairs in Georgia.
j3 gtat ed m some of oar exchanges that
.* B pavis will loctnre in Atlanta in the
Jjil for the benefit of the Young Men’s
Library Association.
{cine lias been discovered which will lead
to'tbe capture of tho murderers of the un-
wn man whose body was found near
Andersonville, the account of which ap
peared ia this column of the Morning News
; om e time siDce.
The people of Gainesville are making cx-
teD8 j Vfl preparations to entertain the mera-
^ of the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., which
meets in annual session at that place on the
15th of August next.
f-Last Friday is recorded as tho hottest
davof the season at Dalton, the thermome
ter standing at ninety-nine degrees %t three
o’clock p. m.; uiuoty-three degrees at eight
o’clock, and eighty degrees at ten o’clock
p m. This extreme temperature for that
elevated section is somewhat exceptional.
The voters of Floyd county met in mass
meeting at Rome on Tuesday last to con
sider the propriety of instructing their de
bates in the couveutiou to urge that body
torednee the Legislature to a number not
to exceed one hundred members.
The repeated escapes of prisoners from
the jail of Wayne county has prompted the
jegup Sentinel to suggest that the grand
jury appropriate a sufficient sum of money
to enclose the jail edilice by a protective
palisade or paling, in order to render such
escapes less frequent.
Three negroes confined in the jail of
Wayne county made their escape on Tues
day last. They were furnished from t! o
outside with a piece of scantling,with which
they broke down the door of their cell, and
secreting themselves near the entrance
leisurely walked out as the jailer entered
the door.
A correspondent, writing from Tatnall
county, says: “Tho crop prospect of this
county is flourishing. The farmers have
planted more com and less cotton than at
anyone year since the war, and the corn is
quite up to an average. More guano has
also.been used, but the farmers begin to
flunk it docs not pay this far from the rail
road.”
The same correspondent gays: “Reids ville
jail, in Tatnall county, has been without an
occupant si oo April, until a few days ago.
One George Smythe, living in Upper Geor
gia, paid a visit to his brother, living in
this county, and stole a horse belonging to
Mr. Harrison Stanley. Stanley and B. Shu
man went in pursuit of the thief and suc
ceeded in capturing him in Telfair county.
When captured he had succeeded in steal
ing another horse from an old negro, and
was traveling through Telfair county with
both horses. He was brought to jail and
while cn route an attempt was made by J.
P. Smythe to rescue his brother, but it
failed, and George Smythe is now the only
prisoner in the county jiil, where he will
remain until sent to the penitentiary.”
We learn from the Forest News that on
Friday last Miss Lizzie Hunt, a beautiful and
promising daughter of Dr. J. O. Ilunt, of
JtffersoD, was found dead in her room by
her father. She was perfectly well an hour
before, with the exception of complaining of
neuralgia in her face. Nothing was known
as to the particulars of this sad occurrence
at the time tho News went to press.
Tho Macon Gas Company having enlarged
their cistern, are prepared to supply water
to sixty additional residences and stores
from cellar to attic, at a cost of $25 each per
annum. .So great is the fall from the springs
furnishing this pure water that it caa be
carried even as high as the cupola of the
Lanier House.
At the meeting of the Oconee Fair Asso-
ciation, held at the fair ground in Athens
on Thursday last, tho following officers were
elected for tho ensuing year: President,
^ Elder; Secretary, Dr. J. S. Linton ;
Executive Committee, J. C. Wilson, J. P.
Mayne, Jefferson Jennings, W. A. Woodis
Henry Jennings, A. M. Jackson, W. H. Hull.
Iho Gainesville Southron thinks from
present indications there will be five thou
sand bales of cotton marketed in that city
this fall.
H. . Finger, of Polksvilie, Hall county,
^aasold valuable mills, water power and
j“ na 10 the Messrs. Jenning, who recently
oa L r ht the Glade gold mines. The price
received by Mr. Finger was $0,000. The
pter power alone in Now England would
or big $20,000, to say nothing of tho 750
■•cres of land.
A curious story is told of one of tho coun-
*j CB Northeast Georgia. It is said that
ere * 0 °“ly one man in the county worth
f* ore than the homestead, and that it is
hence
impossible to make tho bonds of the
county officers in the county.
Thu- Atlanta physicians recommend that
e City Council grant permission to the
ruggigtg of the city to sell soda water on
® a hbath. They base their recommenda-
*-*°Q on hygienic considerations, and the
‘uucil Rave referred tho subject to the
Clt y Attorney.
Houston raised corn can be bought
c-rr V from eighty-fiyo cents to one dollar
j\ r ^ U(?li el for cash. Occasionally a small
Z Cln He had as low as sixty-five cents.
® 8tern corn is sold on time for one dollar
tl} irty centB per bushel. Tho supply is
U ) equal to the demaud.
The Cartersvillo Express publishes a let*
cr from Hme Log, Bartow county, detailing
* gross attempt of one Dr. A.’ E. Davis,
°rinerly of Pickens county, but recently
ettlud at Pino Log as a practitioner of
U-iedieine, to violate the person of a patient,
6 Wl ^ e of °ue of the best citizens of the
county. The opportune arrival of a female
r - Ative, attracted by the eries of the lady,
Prevented him from carrying out his hellish
eB *gn ami caused him to flee tho county to
c ‘scape from punishment by an outraged
community.
Christopher, of the Fort Valley Mirror,
sold out that spicy and interesting
has
Burr, who is an old newspa
per man. Wo are sorry to part with Chris-
°Phor, tor he has done much to build up
au i give tone to tho Georgia press. Wo
ou ‘y hope that his successor will
^-intain tho Mirror np to its present high
standard.
The Columbus Times learns that the stock-
aiders of the steamboat Gunby Jordan are
contemplating buying another boat at
omgviUe, for six thousand dollars, to be
*ced on tho Chattahoochee river in oppo-
1 »on to the Central Railroad Company’s
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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Major William Woods, for many years Or
dinary of Morgan county, died at his resi
dence in Madison on Wednesday last, aged
sixty-seven.
The berry and small fruit crop of Hall
county is beyond precedent. The peach
crop is breaking down and destroying many
of the trees ; apples will be plentiful and
cheap.
The mischievous calves, not having the
fear of the Atlanta Council before them,
chew up the tender magnolias that adorn
the City Hall square, which has prompted
an amendment to the ordinance prohibiting
cows from roaming the city, making it ap
plicable to calves also.
A house containing about one hundred
and fifty bushels of oats, on the premises of
Mr. N. B. Roberts, of Harris county, was
burned Saturday night by some unknown
person. This is the third fire that ho has
had to occur within eighteen months by an
incendiary.
The public wells of Barnesville have all
been cleaned out, and tho people now are
enjoying pure water, which is so necessary
to health and comfort in the summer season.
The alms house of Fioyd county, near
the oity of Rome, came near being destroyed
by fire on the afternoon of the 14th inst.
Tho fire originated from sparks from a
threshing machino igniting the straw which,
communicating to an out house with an
other out building, was destroyed, and the
main building was only saved by the super
human efforts of those present who were
watching the operations of the threshing
machine.
Col. H. S. Haines, General Superintend
ent of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, is on
a general tour of inspection over the road.
He passed up by Quitman last Tuesday
evening on a special train.
The Dalton Enterpi ise says: ‘‘Coal oil has
been discovered in a well near Dalton. The
well is only about seventeen feet deep, and
at times the water is so impregnated with
oil that it is impossible to use it. Some
of the water has been left at this office.”
The Athens Watchman says : “Colonel R.
S. Taylor, late Postmaster in this city, hav
ing been removed, Dr. J. C. Orr, we under
stand, has been appointed to succeed him.
Thin is a good selection, as we have no
donbt Dr. Orr will give entire satisfaction to
both government and people.”
An accident happened at the At
lanta Water Works on Tuesday. The Con
stitution gives the following account of the
occurrence: “Yesterday afternoon the works
stopped temporarily for tho purpose of out-
ting out the suctions in order to change
from the upper to the lower dam. It was
the intention of those in charge to close the
suction valves on the pumps, but by some
mistake one of the supply valves was closed
instead of the suction valve, and when tho
engine was started for the purpose of takiDg
water, it was impossible to force it through
the closed valve. As a consequence, one of
tho pumps was burst, and an air chamber
was blown through the ceiling. There were
several persons in the engine room, and it
was a miracle that some of them was not
killed. Mr. E. T. Huunicutt was wounded,
and Mr. T. F. Wynne, the Superintendent
of tho Water Works, was struck on the
head by a piec3 of falling timber. Fortu
nately, however, neither of them was seri
ously injured.”
The Cuthbert Messenger', with great deli
beration, says: “Tho Savannah Morning
News is one of the best dailies in the South;
and, at the same time, the Weekly News
can be surpassed by none, combining, as it
does, all the general news of the week in a
condensed form, with a first class literary
department, full of fine original and selected
reading matter; whilo that portion of it de
voted to the farm and agriculture is well
worth the price of subscription to any
farmer or gardener.”
The Dalton Enterprise, whose opinion
upon newspaper matters is worth knowing,
in its last issue says l “Among all of our
weekly exchanges the Savannah Weekly
News stands prominently forward. It is tho
best woekly in the South and fully equal to
any paper published in the North. Farmers
should subscribe for this standard journal,
whose agricultural department alone would
more than repay them for all trouble and
expense. Captain L. C. Bryan, of Thomas
county, manages this department, and the
balance of the paper is gotten up by able
minds and printed in the best manner. If
you really wish the best weekly in the whole
country, send for the Savannah Weekly
News. This advice is freely given, without
the hope of fee or reward, but sololy for the
benefit of our friends and tho public.”
The following is told on Gen. Toombs by
the Hou. W. H. Bush, aud is characteristic
of the old war horse: “Toombs boards at
the Kimball, aud is the greatest talker in
the world. lie gets off some very good
things. The other day some were talking
in Toombs’ presence about Joe Brown being
a Christian, and that he would lead a large
column to Heaven in the Great Day of Ac
counts. Toombs said dryly, ‘Yes, but when
the head of the column reached the good
place, the^ Commander of Heaven would
give the order, Head of column to the left.’ ”
The Quitman Reporter says : “On Satur
day last a party of Floridians who reside, it
is supposed, in Jefferson county, found a
bee tree near the Johnston bridge, and
agreed to cut it down. A respectable citi
zen of this county who happened to be pass
ing at the time remonstrated with them,
assuring them that if they felled the tree it
would fall on the bridge and injure it very
badly. He also told them that if Judge
Harden found them out they would be
prosecuted if any damage was done to the
bridge. ‘Let him prosecute and be d d,’
was the reply. The tree was cut down, and
its fall broke in two sets of railings or ban
isters, aDd otherwise injured the bridge,
which it will cost the county about twenty
dollars to repair. A warrant was immediately
issued by Justice Jones for their arrest, but
they had crossed the line before it could be
ser/ed upon them. A requisition has been
asked for by Judge Harden from Governor
Colquitt to Governor Drew, and these par
ties will be hunted up and arrested, unless
they leave the country.”
A negro woman at Quitman named Callie
Hall, who gave birth io a living child early
Monday morning, carried it to the grave
yard and deposited it in a grave that had
caved in. It was found under the following
circumstances daring the morning : “Some
negro men went to the graveyard to dig a
grave for a negro child that had died on
Monday morning, and while at work they
heard the cries of an infant. Some of the
negroes became frightened at the crying,
aud left the graveyard ; others made search,
aud found where some one had placed the
little fellow into a hole made by the grave
caving in, and had used a rail in thrusting
tho child down to the bottom, four or five
leet under ground. They went to work and
dug it out. Sheriff Thrasher was dispatched
for? Upon arriving he took in the situation
at a glance. He thought ho knew the per
son who did it and went to the house of a ne
gro woman near by, aud upon interrogating
her, she confessed that she committed the
act.”
A Model Charity.
The Night Refuge Association of New
York seems to be one of the most useful
charities of that city. It was established
in the winter of 1875-76, its object being
to provide temporary night ref age for the
respectable hfmeless poor, who, previous
ly, on applying to police stations for re
lief, had been herded with the vilest. An
allowance of $10,000 was obtained from
the city, an! an old hospital fitted up,
where clean sleeping quarters of the sim
plest nature and a morning meal and fa
cilities for washing were provided. A
small amount of work was required for
such accommodations. A reading room
was well supplied with magazines and pa
pers. Applicants for relief deemed
worthy were provided with tickets at
police stations. The dormito-
could be opened only after 6 o’clock
p. m., and the house was closed at 10
o’clock. None could remain in the rooms
after 7 o’clock a. m. Those who remaineu
to work received no pay, but were pro
vided with a dinner of meat stew, pota-
and turnips, with bread. Forty or
men would sometimes be employed
iu sawing wood. This was mainly in
tended as a test to distinguish genuine
workers from tramps. The total number
individuals receiving shelter has been
1. Six hundred persons were en-
- to procure employment during
their stay at the Refuge. The inmates
included clergymen, lawyers, dentists,
engravers, mechanics, sailors, skilled la
borers, servants out of place and hospital
convalescents ; 5,7G3 meals were tarnish
ed, costing $34 25. A balance of $101,9.,
now remains for the future use of the
Refuge. The arrests for vagrancy largely
diminished during its establishment, fhe
facts connected with this institution are
worth studying, and are fraught with les
sons for the philanthropist aud political
| economist.
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CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Seventh Dny'tt Proceedings—More Special
Committee.—Struggle Over the Capital
Que.tioti—Another Lot of Ordinance,
tend Resolution.—Committee. Rapidly
Finishing Cp Their Work for the Final
Revision Committee.
[Special Correspondence Morning News.]
Atlanta, July 18.—Convention called
to order by the President, and prayer of
fered by Rev. D. G. Phillips, D. D., of
the Twenty-first district.
After the reading of the minutes, Hon.
P. D. Dismuke, of the Twenty-sixth dis
trict (who yesterday wanted five dollars
per day), moved to reconsider the action
fixing the per diem, at four dollars. His
object was a dolorous one, and was gen
erally so considered.
Dr. E. A. Plewellen, of the Twenty-
fifth district, wanted mileage fixed at
actual expenses, to prevent delegates
holding free passes from collecting mile
age. As he is a railroad offieial, he would
have lost his own mileage, which shows
that his object was not selfish.
Hon. Nathan Bass, of the Forty-second
district, opposed five dollars, bnt would
favor a reduction of mileage from ten to
five cents.
Hon. J. B. Twitty, of the Eighth dis
trict, desired five dollars per day, as poor
men could not work for the State for
nothing; rich men might do so if they
desired.
Rev. D. B. Hamilton, of the Forty-
second district, thought the matter had
been wisely considered by the Finance
Committee, and moved to table the reso
lution, which was seconded by Colonel
A. W. Holcombe, of the Thirty-ninth
district, and carried.
General Toombs asked for a clerk for
the Final Revision Committee, but Hon.
3. A. Hunt, of the Twenty-second dis
trict, opposed it, as the other committees
had none.
This called out a reply from General
Toombs, that his committee had the
work of all the thirteen committees to at
tend to, and his request was promptly
granted.
Hon. Win. A. McDonald, of the Fifth
district, appeared in his seat, and leaves
of absence were granted Dr. Flewellen
and Colonel Lofton to-morrow on impor
tant business.
President Jenkins announced the fol
lowing special committees, ordered by
the convention:
On Payment of, the Public Debt—W.
T. Wolford, W. B. Jones, John A. Davis,
R. W. Anderson, L. H. Featherston, A.
W. Holcombe, T. G. Lawson, C. W. Du-
Bose, Weir Boyd.
Committee on the Capital Ordinance—
M. W. Lewis, S. Hail, B. L. Stephens,
W. S. Wallace, F. Fontaine, John Collier,
F. C. Furman, S. Hawkins, Pope Barrow.
Committee on Reducing the Number of
Judicial Circuits—D. B. Harrell, M. L.
Marabou, J. B. Twitty, W. I. Hudson, J.
A. Hunt, E. C. Grier, N. J. Tumlin, H.
N. Hollefield, R. D. Winn.
Committee to Examine into Clerical
Force in Sundry Offices—S. H. Moseley,
B. E. Crane, N. Bass, It. H. May, S. G.
Howell.
Committee on Printing—D. B. Harrell,
S. Hall, B. E. Russell, W. T. Thompson,
George Roberts.
Committee on Auditing—W. H. Ross,
F. Chambers, G. R. Sibley, E. A. Fiew-
ellen, P. W. Edge.
Colonel Tift announced that in reply to
a circular letter to the Governors of
States, he had received copies of twenty-
three constitutions, which he offered for
the use of committees. On motion of
Colonel Robertson, his courtesy was duly
accepted.
The special order of the day was then
taken up, which was a motion of the Rev.
Mr. Hamilton, of the Forty-second dis
trict, that the State Printer do the print
ing of the convention at his usual rates,
which was referred to the Committee on
Printing.
Mr. Wellborn, of the Fortieth district,
offered a resolution—which was adopted
—that T. B. Irwin be authorized to pre
pare and issue in parnpl let form, at his
own expense, a copy of the n6W constitu
tion and the ordinances of the convention
after its adjournment.
Judge Harrell presented tho “Memo
rial cf the Board of Trade of Amerious on
Railroad Tariffs and Oppression.”
The call of the districts was now or
dered by the President end was made by
Assistant Seoretary Hardin.
Mr. Grace, of the Third disiriet, pro
vides that all male citizens twenty-cne
years of age, residents of the State twolve
months and of the county six months,
who have paid their taxes, shall vote.
Mr. Baehlott, of the Fourth district,
wants a Senate of thirty-six members,
four from each Congressional district, the
House to have one member from each
county.
Mr. Creech, of the Seventh district,
proposes to abolish the Chemical (?) and
Agricultural Deparlments.
Mr. Hand, of the Ninth district, thinks
the homestead question should be kept
out of the constitution, but submitted
separately to the people at the same time.
Mr. Davis, of the Tenth district, wants
all officers handling money to he responsi
ble for amounts paid out improperly;
also, desires to restrict the State debt.
Mr. Wells, of the Tenth district,
thinks every species of property should
b9 taxed iu some form, except churches
and charitable institutions.
Mr. McRae, of the Fifteenth district,
fixes the salary of Supreme Court Judges
at one thousand eight hundred dollars per
year.
Mr. McLeod, of the Sixteenth district,
proposes to cut down the fees of Tax
Collectors and Assessors one half.
Mr. Deli, of the Seventeenth district,
wants four Senators from each Con
gressional district, a House of one mem
ber from each county, elected for two
years.
Mr. Johnson, of the Eighteenth dis
trict, would restrain the issue of State,
county and city bonds, unless a sinking
fund is provided to pay them, and only
tho property owner be allowed to vote for
such issue of bonds.
Prof. Sanders, of the Nineteenth dis
trict, wisely suggests some improvements
in regard to wild lands and their non
resident owners.
Rev. Dr. Tharpe, of the Twenty-third
district, asked for and obtained a special
committee in regard to the sale of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
Mr. Wallace, of the Twenty-third dis
trict, wants to be safe on the bond ques
tion, and proposes to prohibit any future
Legislature from reinstating bogus
bonds, or repudiating recognized bonds.
Mr. Flewellen, of the Twenty-fifth dis
trict, wishes to prevent members of the
Legislature from taking fees or rewards
from lobbyists. ,
Mr. Willis, of the Twenty-fifth district,
would prohibit local legislation by the
General Assembly and give that power to
grand juries, whose action is to be rati
fied by the people of the county interest
ed • also, desires to abolish the ofiioe of
Attorney General and let the Governor
employ counsel when needed, the Legis
lature to fix the pay.
Mr. Osbom, of the Thirty-first district,
desires that no defaulter shall be elected
to office.
Mr. T. G. Underwood, of the Thirty-
first district, wants homestead subjeot to
trespass and damage.
Mr. Polk, of the Thirty-fourth district,
reduces exemptions to two hundred dol
lars and farming implements.
Mr. Roberts, of the Thirty-fifth district,
wants no property except churches ex-
eD ^ r . j. T. Spence, of the Thirty-fifth
district, provides that two successive Leg
islatures and a vote of the people shall
amend the new constitution.
Mr. Denton, of the Thirty-eighth dis
trict, is satisfied with a homestead of five
hundred dollars, in anything: also, not
satisfied unless the Governor’s salary is
reduced to three thousand dollars; heads
of State departments to sixteen hundred
dollars: Supreme Court Judge) to twenty-
five hundred dollars; and Circuit Judges
to eighteen hundred dollars; aud all
Judges to be elected by the people, for
four years.
Mr. Day, of the Forty-first district,
would exempt maimed soldiers from tax
ation.
Mr. Garren, of the Forty- first district,
thinks the homestead should be abolished.
Judge Wright, of the Forty-second
district, moved that the special commit
tee on the capital question report through
the Committee cn Final Revision.
Senator Furman, cf the Twentieth dis-
trict, opposed, and Hon. Pope Barrow,
of the Twenty-seventh district, favored
the motion in spirited speeches, bnt, on
motion of Gen. Wofford, the matter was
tabled.
Mr. Hawkins, of the Forty-second
district, suggests that county authorities
should provide fire proof repositories for
public records.
Gen. Wofford, of the Forty-second dis
trict, advocates the freedom of political
opinions, and would protect all classes of
voters at the polls in the exercise of the
right of suffrage.
Judge Wright, of the Forty-second dis
trict, introduced a long series of resolu
tions on national banks, bondholders,
specie and paper money, and other
financial matters, to be referred to the
Committee on Finance.
Secretary Hardin, thinking to eateh the
Hon. Potty Peagreen, called the Forty-
third district and then the Forty-fourth
district, but Potty was busy figuring np
the amount he can 6ave out of the four
dollars per day, having failed to get the
desired V, and didn't respond.
General Lawton moved that the call of
districts be suspended untiljfurther order
of the convention, as the various commit
tees are rapidly completing their work.
The motion was carried.
J udge Augustus Reese moved to adjourn
to Friday morning at nine o’clock, but
General Toombs announced that the Com
mittee of Final Revision would be able
to make a report on one subject to-mor
row, so the convention adjourned to nine
o’clock to-morrow.
The galleries have been crowded to-day,
many distinguished gentlemen, including
Senator Gordon, being present. Judges,
Attorney Generals, heads of deparlments,
clerks, and others interested in the reduc
tion of salaries and mode of election, are
m daily attendance, aud watch with ea
gerness the drift of the general sentiment
of the convention on these important
questions. They see, however, the sig
nificant handwriting on the wall—“Re-
tkenchment and Economy”— which means
“more work and less pay.” This is the
condition now of all private citizens, and
public officials must come down to it, bard
as it may seem to them. Chatham.
“THE SHADES OF OXFORD. r
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Wonderful Plienoirenon In Steamship
Sailing.
The new steam launch Arrow, now
lying at the foot of Court street, Brook
lyn, has, by recent experiments, devel
oped the fact that she is possessed of that
great phenomenon known iu shipbuilding
as “ negative slip,” viz: Running faster
than tho pitch of the screw and its revo
lutions calls for. This is considered to
be a most remarkable feature, only one
similar case being at present known. The
first instance in which “negative slip”
was discovered was upon the completion
of a man-of-war for the British Govern
ment some ten years ago. It was set
forth in the specifications that a screw
with a certain pitch should be provided
for the vessel; that the engine should
turn the screw a certain number of revo
lutions per minute, and also that
the vessel should possess a certain
speed. Upon her trial trip the gov
ernment officers found that the speci
fied number of turns were not
made by the engine, but that the speed
of the ship was considerably faster than
the contract required. The vessel was
paid for after further tests, and then a
great deal of discussion arose between
boatbuilders and engineers as to what
should cause the vessel to run faster than
her screw. The theory was finally ar
rived at that while sailing the ship drag
ged the water after her at the rate of
about two miles an hour, and that when
the screw came to it, it possessed, like
other screws, “positive slip,” but the
speed being less than the “drag” of the
ship, the remarkable feature of “nega
tive slip” was produced. The launch Ar
row was built and is owned by Capt.
Hatfield. The pitch of her screw is
thirty-eight inches and makes 200 turns
per minute. If, instead of slipping
forward, the screw slipped back thirty
percent., as is the case with other small
boats, her* speed would be only 502.100
miles per hour. But the fact has been
determined that her screw slips forward,
as in the British man-of-war. On a re
cent test the Arrow made two and one-
half miles in seventeen minutes with the
tide, and the same distance in twenty
minutes against it. This gives her seven
and one half miles per hour rate of speed,
which, when two hundred turns are
made, places it at eight miles per hour.
Should the secret of “negative slip” be
definitely arrived at great improvements
in steamship sailing may be looked for.—
N. Y. Herald.
Matkimonial Cabesses.—For some
time past Charles H. Porter and his wife
Maria have lived at 64 John street, occu
pying apartments in the second story.
They have been married several years,
though the wife is only 24 years of age,
and four children are the result of their
union. Their married life has been any
thing but happy. About a week ago
Mrs. Porter fled from her husband’s
abuse, and went to live with her parents
in Wellstown, Hamilton county, but her
husband persuaded her“to return to him.
She found him at home anticipating her
arrival, but fully determined to take her
life. She had not taken off her super
fluous garments before her husband
picked a quarrel. Words led to blows,
and he picked up a rolling pin, and with
it struck her a series of blows that almost
stunned her, cutting and wounding the
scalp. Then he plunged a large carving
knife into her left side. After Officer
John Burke had arrested Porter, Dr. L.
B. Graveline was summoned, and Mrs.
Porter was borne to the home of her sis
ter-iu-law, at 20 Charles street, and there
lies in a very precarious condition.—Al
bany Argus.
Hanging Hebself in heb Cell.—An
nie Dempsey, otherwise known as Annie
Bennett, who attempted suicide in a cell
of |the Prince street police station
on Thursday morning, came from New
Orleans. She is a bright, well dressed
mulatto, twenty-four years of age. When
she was handed over to Doorman Blunt
she talked to him like a virago. She was
hurried into a cell with another woman.
A short time afterward she called to the
doorman in an altered tone, and when he
came she begged his forgiveness. He
replied that prayers and curses were all
the same to him in that place. Ten
minutes later he found her hanging to
one of the bars of her cell door uncon
scious. The other woman was asleep.
Annie had torn up a towel, which she
must have had with her in some part of
her dress, into strips about an inch wide.
With these she had neatly braided a rope
four feet long. Her head was only a few
feet from the floor along which her body
was extended. Her hands hung at her
side. She was cut down and a physician
was summoned, but it was daylight be
fore she was able to speak.—New York
Sun.
Newspapers in the Allegany mountain
region are chronicling captures of longi
tudinal rattlesnakes—as if such luxuries
are tempting to possible tourists in that
vicinity. The Oakland Republican
boasts of the capture of one of these
pleasant creatures four and a-half feet
long, with ever so-many rattles.
Iu seeking shelter from the heat and
dust o:‘ the low country, I concluded to
take Oxford in the line and attend the
fortieth commencement of Emory Col
lege. Oxford is a pleasant place to visit
at all times, and these annual gatherings
bring together the friends of the institu
tion from every part of the State. The
hospitality of the citizens is proverbial—
they never allow anybody upon these
festal occasions to pay for enter
tainment. Every house in the vil
lage is thrown open, and everybody
invited to come in. All formality is
cast aside and all conventionalities ig
nored, and even a stranger is made to
feel at home. It is a reminder of the
old and better days of Southern life,
when princely hospitality was the rule,
and not the exception. The character of
society is peculiar. The people are cul
tivated, moral .and religious, the greater
portion of them belonging to the Meth
odist denomination. There are no intox
icating beverages sold; there are no gam
ing saloons allowed in the village. Every
precaution has been taken to absent every
source of temptation to college boys, so
that perfect quiet reigns. There are no
hindrances in the way of study. A boy
can, if he will, devote his energies in ac
quiring that mental discipline which will
make him eminent in after life.
Emory College has had a successful
year, considering the hard times, yet the
patronage has not been what it ought to
have been, taking into consideration the
wealth and numbers of the Methodist
i church in Georgia. If all who
are able to give their boys a
collegiate education would concentrate
their patronage here, and this is the only
Methodist college in the State, there
would be no lack of facilities to acquire
the highest culture afforded in such in
stitutions. But, as it is, the authorities
are oft times embarrassed for want of
necessary appliances, especially in the
scientific department. These deficiencies
are being rapidly overcome by the in
domitable energy of President Haygood.
If the Methodists would rally as they
should to this enterprise, there is a bright
future awaiting Emory College.
The exercises this year were opened on
yesterday with a sermon by Dr. J. T.
Leftwich, pastor of the Central Presby
terian Church in Atlanta. The deserved
popularity of the speaker had lifted ex
pectation high, and before the hour of
preaching arrived the capacious church
was filled to oveiflowing. The gifted
speaker announced his text in a clear and
distinct voice. It was a passage from
the fourth psalm—“Who will show us
any good ?” It took but a few moments
to convince the audience that the speaker
was master of the situation. There was
no effort for effect’s sake, or ostenta
tion upon the part of the learned
divine. It was a genuine gospel sermon,
gotten up in the most superb style. It
wa3 convincing in its logic, faultless in
its rhetoric, and eloquent in its delivery.
It was free from those objectionable fea
tures which so sadly mar the beauty of
moat of the literury sermons of the pre
sent day. There was an entire absence
of all pedantry and effort at display. The
large audience went away captivated and
charmed by this excellent discourse. The
universal verdict was that it had been
but rarely equaled by its predecessors,
and, if surpassed at all, it was but once,
and that by Bishop Marvin some years
ago.
The venerable Dr. Lovick Pierce, as
has been the rule for ten or fifteen years
past, filled the pulpit in the afternoon.
He gave us one of his characteristic
sermons, full of wisdom and sound ad
vice.
At night Rev. C. A. Evans, pastor of
St. John’s Church of Augusta, addressed
a sermon to the young of the congrega
tion, taking part of the prayer of David,
contained in the One Hundred and Forty-
fourth Psalm: “That our sons may be as
plants grown up in their youth; that our
daughters may be as corner-stones, pol
ished after the similitude of a palace.”
The leading thought of the sermon was
growth. And in order to growth there
must be nourishment, and the develop
ment depends largely upon the character
of that upon which it feeds.
The religion of the Bible was recom
mended to the young as that nutriment
which alone will produce excellence as
well as permanence of character. Chris
tianity alone furnishes that polishing
power and process which fashions the
character after the similitude of a palace.
It was an excellent discourse, and the
people went away satisfied, that one day
at least had been filled up with the wisest
and tho best of counsel—a day not soon
to be forgotten by the visitors and people
of this goodly village.
The music was conducted by Professor
R. C. McIntosh, and was of the congre
gational character. It elicited the praise
of all, and vindicated the wisdom in in
troducing this feature into college in
struction. The Professor has done his
work well, and hereafter vocal music will
be one of the attractive features of this
institution.
To-day at 10 o’clock the sophomore
exhibition came off. There were ten
speakers, and, taken altogether, was pro
nounced to be the best of this class that
has occurred since the war. A gentle
man of culture, and of different religious
proclivities, declared that he had recently
attended the commencement exercises of
Washington Lee University, and that the
poorest speaker here equalled the best
speaker there. The prize, I think, will
be won by W. Dunbar, of South Caro
lina. The boys were trained by Prof. M.
Calloway.
The Board of Trustees did itself the
honor of electing Rev. A. M. Wynn to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
the lamented Dr. E. H. Myers, of your
city. Simon.
Oxford, Ga., July 16th, 1877.
Mr. Grant, according to a Washington
clairvoyant, has gone to Europe to become
intimately acquainted with foreign pow
ers and royal families, and will return in
two years to run for the Presidency, or,
if he fails to secure the nomination, to
make himself dictator by the aid of his
foreign friends.
The Dauphin’s Heart.
[Lucy Hooper in Philadelphia Telegraph.]
A curious story is now going the rounds
of the papers relative to a singular relic
of royalty, namely, the heart of the hap
less Dauphin, or rather the boy King,
Louis XVII. At the time of his death
he was under the care of a skillful and
learned physician named Pelietan, who
presided at the post mortem examination
of the poor child’s body, a task wherein
he was assisted by three of his colleagues,
and which proved that death bad been
produced by scrofula and consumption.
During this examination Pelietan con
trived to steal the heart, unseen by his
comp inions, and to conceal it he wrapped
it in his handkerchief and put it in his
pocket. He afterwards placed it in spir
its to preserve it. At the end of a few
years the alcohol poured upon it had
all evaporated, and the heart had become
thoroughly dry. So ho put it
m a drawer with sundry other
anatomical preparations, and troubled
himself no more about it. On ODe occa
sion it was stolen from him by a secre
tary, who knew what it was, and he only
regained it after the death of the thief.
When Louis XVIII. ascended the throne,
M. Pelietan hastened to offer him this
precious relic, suggesting that it should
be deposited with all due form and cere
mony on the high altar of St. Denis.
But the King, for some reason or other,
probably because he suspected the au
thenticity of the relic, declined the offer,
and would have nothing to do with it. So
the heart of the poor little Dauphin, most
guiltless of the many sufferers of that
time, is now in the possession of Dr. Ga
briel Pelietan, the son of its original
owner. When Marie Antoinette first
clasped her noble infant boy in her arms,
her wildest imaginings could never have
depicted the ultimate fate of the baby
heart that beat against her paternal bosom
—a dried anatomical preparation in the
hands of a Parisian doctor.
SPEAKLV OUT IN MEETINL
A Sister's Dialogue with Mr. Beecher and
the Bi( Orf an.
It was a sister who spoke right out in
meetin’ in Plymouth Church Sunday. As
soon as the last word of the short prayer
after Mr. Beecher’s morning sermon was
uttered, she stood up—an elderly and
somewhat dyspeptic-looking woman—in
a front pew of the rear gallery, and,
brandishing her fan, said acidly, with
evident determination to secure a hear
ing, “I want to ask a question.” She
continued speaking in an excited manner,
although Mr. Beecher said in a louder
tone than usual, “We will sing the fourth
hymn.”
Inquiring Female—But I want to ask a
question.
Mr. Beecher—Bnt we want to sing the
fourth hymn.
Inquiring Female—But I must ask a
question.
Mr. Beecher—But we must sing the
fourth hymn.
Inquiring Female (brandishing her fan
and gesticulating vigorously with both
hands)—I will ask a question.
Mr. Beecher (motioning to Chorister
Camp to push things)—Sing the fourth
hymn.
By this time nearly all the congregation
were stretching their necks towards the
gallery, and most of them were laughing.
Mr. Beecher grew very red in the face
with the excitement of the moment, but
seemed to enjoy the fun. Old John Zen-
dul, at the organ, struck up a lively pre
lude, which was too much for the inquir
ing female and drowned her voice. She
remained standing during the singing of
“Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love,"
with a determined look on her angular
face, but during the singing she got no
chance. When the last words of the
hymn died out Mr. Beecher adroitly put
in tho benediction. Then a torrent of
discourse began to flow from the gallery,
accompanied with continued brandish-
ment of the fan. As soon, however, as
the woman resumed, which was at the
moment Mr. Beecher finished saying
“Amen,” the full power of that twenty
thousand dollar organ was brought into
requisition for the ungallant purpose of
quenching the sound of her voice. This
made her indignant, and increased the
efforts she was making to secure a hear •
iDg. She seemed resolved to keep on
until the organ voluntarily should stop, and
the organ sounded as if it meant to keep
on all the afternoon. The congregation
appeared to be forgetful of dinner in the
desire to stay and see the thing through. A
crowd of men and boys surrounded the
woman, and presently Usher Beach,
taking her by the elbow, told her she
must go out of church. This brought
forth a fresh torrent of eloquence, and
gave rise to renewed brandishings of the
fan. The congregation regretfully gazed
on the woman as under the management
of Usher Beach she ascended the gallery
steps and vanished through the door.
Leaving the church by the Orange street
exit, she went around the block till, iu a
state of violent indignation, she reached
the rear door on Cranberry street, where
she waited for Mr. Beecher, in order to
give him in personal argument the views
which the organ had deprived her of the
power of uttering in church. A waggish
brother told her that Mr. Beecher had
gone out the other way, aud she departed,
brandishing her fan. She is a stranger
to the congregation.
Mr. Beecher in his sermon had con
tended that the danger to the church and
to religion was quite as great from undue
rigor and seventy in the presentation of
gospel truth as it was from overlaxity of
preaching, and perhaps it was this that
troubled the sister.
THE PUBLIC DEBT OF GEORGIA
“He was a hard-working man and sup
ported a wife and five children.” But he
spent Saturday night in the bar-rooms,
and now his children are fatherless.
Statement of the Treasurer.
The following statement of the Trea
surer of Georgia regarding the public
debt of the State, has just been made to
the Constitutional Convention, in session
at Atlanta:
To the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, President
of the Constitutional Convention:
Sir—In response to the inquiry order
ed by the convention on the subject of
the public debt, I have the honor to say
that the following is a statement of the
bonded debt of the State, to-wit:
Six % bonds issued for stock in the
Atlantic and Gulf Kailroad Company,
under an act approved February 27,
1S5C. $ 900,000
Seven f !,; bonds secured by a mortgage
on the Western and Atlantic Hailroad,
issued under an act approved March
12, 1S66 3,600,000
Seven % gold bonds with quarterly cou
pons in gold, issued for redemption of
past due and outstanding bonds of
this State, under authority of an act
approved September 15, 1870 2,098,000
Seven % bonds issued for redemption of
past aue and near due bonds of this
State, under authority of an act ap
proved January 13, 1872 307,500
Eight % bonds issued under authority
of an act approved February 19, 1S73,
(maturing) 9C0,000
Seven ° 0 ' bonds issued to pay the past
due interest on the $1,950,000 tirst
mortgage bonds of the Macon and
Brunswick Kailroad Company, and
the North and South Railroad Compa
ny, $240,000, both endorsed by the
State of Georgia, under authority of
an act approved February 24,1S76.... 542,000
Six % bonds issued to redeem the $1,-
950,003 Macon and Brunswick, the
$240,000 North and South, and the
$34,000 Memphis Branch Railroads,
endorsed by the State, and the ac
crued interest thereon, under authori
ty of an act approved February 19,
1877 2,298,397
AGGREGATE.
6 % currency bonds due ’.87S-18S6 $ 900,000
7 % currency bonds due 1356 3,600,000
7 gold bonds doe 1890 2,C9S,000
7 % currency bonds due 1592 307,500
5 ° l( currency bonds dae 1S78-1SS6 900,000
7 % currency bonds due 1896 542.000
6 % currency bonds due 1S39 2,298,397
$10,645,697
ENDORSED LIABILITY.
Bonds endorsed by the State of Geor
gia, eight thousand dollars per mile, of
the first mortgage bonds of the South
Georgia and Florida Railroad of fifty-
eight miles, being $464,000.
The floating or temporary debt of the
State is represented by the Executive
obligation for $100,000, borrowed from
the Fourth National Bank of New York,
bearing six per cent, interest per annum,
of date March, 1877, and due in Novem
ber, 1877.
Respectfully submitted.
J. W. Renfroe, Treasurer.
July 18, 1877.
Part Payment.—At last a man has
been found who has got even with the
demon debt collector. One of the hide
ous tribe took a trip up the country this
spring to try and get a debt of one hun
dred and fifty dollars out of a small hotel
keeper who was iu arrears to his liquor
merchant. Boniface received him poli
tely and said that he would give him
something on account the next morning,
as he expected a gentleman then in the
house, to pay him a bill. The dollar-
squeezer, of course, staid over night, got
up next morning, called for his bill, paid
three dollars for his board and lodging
to the clerk, and then went for the pro
prietor to get the promised coin. After
hanging round all the forenoon, the
smiling debtor held a consultation .with
his clerk, which resulted in three half
dollars being extracted from the drawer
and duly handed to the impatient dun.
“What’s this ?” he yelled. “Dollar acd
a half,” returned my hOLt; “you are the
party I expected to pay me a bill this
morning, and I think I’ve done a pretty
square thing in giving you fifty per cent,
of it. Hand me a receipt for the amount
and credit me with it on the bill.” There
is a small potato dealer now on the City
Front who makes a modest competence
by the sale of his tubers; but ever and
anon as he wanders among his sacks he
murmurs sadly: “How that hotel keeper
did clinch me, to be sure ! ” It was the
last bill he ever tried to collect.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
MORMON ISM AND MEXICO.
A Wealthy Mormon Pnrchaning Land In
Sinaloa and Monorn.
[?rom the JSan Francisco Chronicle, July 8.]
Three months ago a wealthy Mormon
called at the office of the Mexican Con
sulate in this city for the purpose of pro
curing information in regard to land and
land titles in Mexico, as he was en route
for that country and intended purchasing
farming and grazing tracts in the State
of Sinaloa or Durango. Receiving the
intelligence needed, he started for Mazat-
lan, taking with him letters of introduc
tion to prominent Mexicans. Upon
arrival there, Mormonlike, he imme
diately proceeded to business, and was
successful in purchasing large bodies of
land in both the States mentioned. The
gentleman returned by the last steamer,
and on the 7th instant departed for Salt
Lake City to make a report to the
Mormon authorities. Parties who con
versed with him say that he is highly
pleased with Mexico, and that he says
the tierra templada, or temperate zone of
that country, where the Mormons intend
to locate, is a perfect paradise. The first
Mormon colony has already reached
Hermosilio, the principal city of Sonora,
on its way to some defined point beyond.
There is now a chain of Mormon settle
ments extending from Utah through
Arizona into Mexico.
A Chronicle reporter called upon a
prominent Mexican yesterday, whose
opinion upon the Mormon hegira to
Mexico will interest the public, as he is
undoubted authority. He said he be
lieved the Mexicans would gladly welcome
the Mormons, as the latter were sober and
industrious, and would rapidly develop
the immense resources of the country.
All the intelligent and cultured Mexicans
were freethinkers, and had long ago dis
carded religious prejudices. Hence, the
ruling powers did not care what the
saints believed as to religious matters.
As to polygamy, he thought the Mexican
men would not object to it. The wo
men would rebel against such doctrines,
but they might be won over, as were
Anglo-Saxon women, who were the most
enthusiastic advocates of Mormonism.
The leaven of Protestantism which has
strongly permeated Mexico will aid the
Mormons, as it has already broken open
a road into the very heart of the republic.
The Chronicle's informant stated that the
proportion of the sexes in that republic
was about seven males to ten females,
and that the relative figures on the part of
the latter were increasing yearly, owing
to continued revolutions and the more
exposed and dangerous occupations of
the men. The advocates of polygamy
would undoubtedly seize upon these facts
to further their schemes.
The Mexicans anxiously desired popu
lation and prosperity, and the Mormons
promised to bring these two requisites to
the country. They would largely inter
marry with the Mexican women, and the
offspring of such unions would become,
in part, the future rulers of the country.
The Mexicans have no objection to an
influx of Anglo-Saxon blood—in fact,
rather like it—if not forced upon them at
ihe point of the bayonet. Hundreds of
Americans, Englishmen and Germans
are married to Mexican women, and the
unions have, in a majority of cases, been
happy and blessed with large families.
So far as experience goes, the women of
that country like to marry foreigners,
and it is the universal testimony that
they make excellent wives. Monogamy
is the only marital condition of the sexes
recognized by the laws of the republic,
and how the government would deal with
open and established polygamy is a ques
tion of the future. Mexican public opin
ion in such matters is very liberal. The
views herein given were very freely ex
pressed by the gentleman interviewed.
ATTEMPTED CREMATION.
A Itlan fn Cleveland Sets Fire to IIi« Be««
dine and then Shoots Himself.
“Do those bells sound an alarm of fire ?*
said a stranger the other Sunday as the
church bells were calling together the
worshippers. “Yes,” was the reply, “but
the fire is in the next world.”
Henry Lannefeld kept a saloon for some
time a( No. 734 St. Clair street. He was
a single man and slept in a chamber back
of the bar room. The place was his own,
but in the light of what took place this
morning it is supposed that he was in
volved pecuniarily.
He opened the saloon at an early hour
this morning and neighbors saw him
walking on the sidewalk. At about seven
o’clock a little girl heard a pistol shot in
the building and told some men, who, on
going to the saloon, found the doors
locked. Smoke and flames were discov
ered coming from the rear of the house
and word was at once sent to engine
house No. 5, on Phelps street, close by.
The firemen put out the fire before
any very serious damage was done to the
building, only a part of the back end
being burned inside.
Before the steamer arrived Mr. Grat
tan, formerly a police officer, looked
through a side window, and sawLannefelJ
lyiDg on his bod. The chamber is a
small apartment, and Grattan reached
over far enough to catch the foot board
and then he pulled the bed to the win
dow, through which the body was dragged.
The bleeding corpse was laid on the side
walk and remained there until the fire
was put out. Then it was stretched on
three tables in the saloon and covered
with a sheet.
An examination showed that Lannefeld
had shot himself with an old-fashioned
Colt’s navy revolver, placing the muzzle
in his mouth. The ball went straight
back, and if it had gone through the
head would have come out at or near the
base of tho brain. It is probable that
death was instantaneous, for when the
body was taken out, a few minutes after
the shot was heard, the man was stone
dead.
He meant to do a complete job. The
house inside, his bedding, his clothes,
and even his papers—leases, mortgages,
imurance papers, etc., were saturated
with coal oil, so as to make quick work.
He set the fire under the outside stairway
at the rear which was used by the family
of Mr. Jacob Hirst, who lived in the
second story of the building. His object
in setting the fir9 there is only a matter
of inference from the following fact*:
He bought the place of Hirst and was
unable to make all the payments and Hirst
holds a mortgage on the property.
There is probably some romance con
nected with the affair. Lannefeld was
young and ambitious to bo wealthy. He
was steady and very quiet. Moreover,
he wanted a wife. He had courted
several young ladies end had been en
gaged to some, but in each case the en
gagement had been broken off. His last
love was a young lady living on Wood
land avenue and they were to be married
soon. But a few days ago she jilted him,
and this, added to his financial troubles,
made him desperate.
Very little is known of him except as
one would meet him. He had been in
the city about six years, but where he
came from or where his people reside no
one seems to know. Our reporter found
among his papers a document in German,
which shows that he was born in Wald-
kappel, July 4, 1841, and that he had
served an apprenticeship at the lock
smith trade in Eschwege, m Kurhessen.
He has no relatives in this city—or coun
try, so far as known.—Cleveland Plain-
dealer.
State elections are to be held this year
as follows: In Kentucky, August 6; Ver
mont, September 4; California, Septem
ber 5; Maine, September 10; Iowa and
Ohio, October 8; Massachusetts, Missis
sippi, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia
and Wisconsin, November 6. In four of
these States Legislatures are to be chosen,
which will furnish successors to a like
number of United States Senators, whose
terms expire on March 4, 1879, viz.:
Kentucky, New York, Ohio and Califor
nia—three Republicans and one Demo
crat.
Elections for county officers are to
be held in Alabama on the 6th of Au
gust.
St. Louis suicides average two a day.
The attempts of the St. Louis papers to
excel each other in funny paragraph shave
filled the town with a settled gloom.—
Kansas City Times,,
Their Exhauintion nod Removal by Col.
Sheridan from the Bntile Ground.
[From the Herald.]
Mouth of the Little Big Horn River,
July 6.—CoL M. Sheridan, with certain
military and other friends; Troop J, of
the Seventh Cavalry, Capt. Nowlan, com
manding; C^ J. Barronette and G. Hern
don White and Curley, who were with
Custer; Half Yellow Face, who was with
Reno, and several Crow Indian scouts,
with a train of ox wagons, left here at
noon of the 1st inst. for the Custer field.
They traveled twelve miles up the west
side of the river and camped. Early the
next morning Barronette, with most of the
fcouts, pressed rapidly up some five miles
to the old village site, then six miles
across it, over immense quantities of
lodge poles, camp kettle pails, pots and
other camp equipage—much of which
was broken and destroyed by Gen. Terry
after the Indian retreat—and into Reno’s
valley; thence they filed some ten miles
above, returning again along the line of
the Indians’ retreat to Caster’s valley and
his elevated but silent resting place.
Meanwhile the main party had marched
to near the centre of the village site, some
six miles long, and camped at ten a. m.
Thence in squads they passed over Cus
ter's valley, on the west side of the
stream, and the now deep, rapid ford
and line of retreat, and all united at
Caster’s grave, at the extreme end and
highest point of a broken, treeless
ridge.
Gradually riding a mile and a half from
this and then some feet down the western
slope they found, partially unearthed, all
that remains of the gallant Custer. Be
side and below him lay his brother, Capt.
Thomas Custer, and other officers and
friends, surrounded by the partially ex
posed and bleaching bones of the soldiers
and their horses, fragments of clothing
and shoes and shod hoofs of horses.
Although the remains of Gen. Caster and
most of his friends there, as elsewhere,
had evidently been disfigured by the
coyotes or savages, and probably both,
and many, if not the most, of the skulls
there and throughout all the fields
were smashed to fragments, mangled or
missing, still what was decided to be and
probably were the main portions of the
bones of Gen. Custer and his two brothers
were secured. Neither Reed nor the
officers who fell with him and Reno were
found.
The remains were carefully and sorrow
fully gathered, wrapped, and then packed
with grass cut from Custer’s valley,
placed in ten rough boxes not unlike
rough coffins, and brought away. The
remains of Lieut. Porter and some of his
men have been found. Though the
bodies of Lieut. McIntosh and Dr. De-
Wolf were discovered and buried last
year, little, if any, portions of their re
mains or of Lieut. Hodgson’s could now
be found.
By request of his esteemed father, the
gallant Lieutenant Crittenden sleeps
where he fell, with his boys about him,
awaiting Gabriel’s reveille, but for tho
guidance of his friends, his name, rank,
etc., are rudely carved upon a headpost.
Another board shows where Captain
Keogh fell, and where his men sleep.
There is also a rude inscription at the
head of each of the others, but most of
the soldiers, either singly or in groups,
have a stake driven where they rest.
After the duty of sprinkling mother
earth upon the fallen braves and the
religious ceremonies were finished, the
train and cortege slowly and silently
wended its way from the lofty cactus de
sert to the deep valleys of cottonwood
and willow that fringed the rivers of this
Indian battle land.
The Battle of Ccrro Gordo.
[From General Shields’ Reminiscences.]
Previous to the brilliant American vic
tory at Cerro Gordo, the engineers both
of the attacking and defending armies
bad carefully surveyed the highest of the
eminences that bristle about the p’ace,
and had reported it inaccessible. It over
looked the whole Mexican army, but tho
Mexicans were confident that it could not
be occupied, and the same belief prevailed
in the American camp. The night before
the assault was a very dark one. Shields
was in his tent, when toward midnight a
number of soldiers of his command came
to him and asked permission to put a six-
pound gun on the top of this cliff.
“I was astonished. ‘Don’t you know,’
I asked, ‘that the engineers say that it
can’t be climbed ?—to say nothing of
putting cannon up there?’ They in
sisted, however, that they should like to
try it. ‘Try it then, boys,’ I said, ‘no
harm will be done, even if you fail.’
They went away, and in two hours they
were back again with the amazing news
that they actually had a six-pounder in
position on the summit of that almost
perpendicular height.
“ ‘And if you’ll consent, sir,’ said one
of them, ‘we’ll put a twelve-ptmnder
there, too.*
“‘Go ahead, I replied. ‘I’ll believe
you can do anything now.’ And long be
fore daylight they reported that the
twelve-pounder was up there beside the
six-pounder, ready to open on the Mexi
cans in the morning. I thought the news
too good to be kept, so I went to General
Twiggs’ tent and roused him up. He
heard my story, and looked at me as
though he did not believe a word of it,
“ ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ ho ex
claimed, ‘that those fellows of yours have
hauled a twelve-pounder anda six-pound
er up to the top of that height ?’
“ ‘Yes, sir; and what do you think of
that ?’
“ ‘I think there are two pieces of ar
tillery lost to the United States, for there
are not men enough in the army to get
them down again V
“But those two pieces did excellent
service against the astonished Mexicans
that day, and they were got down again
afterward.”
The Snob Receives a Rattling.—
Pierrepont was an insufferable snob in
his own country. His transformation as
a young man from Munson E. Pierpont
to Edwards Pierrepont reveals the special
weakness of his character, but it is a
small matter compared to his pompous
bearing and his assumption of aristo
cratic ways. His conspicuous attentions
to General Grant when the great sol
dier's star first arose in the political
heavens; his fulsome eulogies and per
sonal devotions to the coming man,
which were rrewaded by official appoint
ments rising in importance from the po
sition of District Attorney in New
York, through that of the Attor
ney General of the nation to
the highest diplomatic station in
the gift of the government, were charac
teristic. His abilities would never have
attracted attention to him as a man pe
culiarly fitted for these important place.^
and his conduct in each of them has only
served to thrust more and more into
notice his pretentious mediocrity of
mind and his absurd assumptions of so
cial superiority.—Boston Globe.
There is probably more genius de
veloped in newspaper offices than any
where else on earth. A San Francisco
editor has recently invented a process by
which a foe-Simile of a whole newspaper
page can be telegraphed at once. But
this is nothing compared with the feat of
the editor of tha Dallas (Texas) Herald^
who has invented a "bullphone” for
soaring cattle from the railroad track. The
twenty years of constant thought neces
sary to complete this wonderful invention
has of course left the editor bald-headed,
but he hag his reward. The “bullphone”
would scare the very dickens to death and
back again, and as for the poor bull, let
him but hear it once, and he is a raving
maniac for the rest of hia life.—Courier-
Journal.
The Montgomery Advertiser despairs
of the new generation of negroes. With
all their opportunities for learning what
is useful, th6y devote their time to base
ball, picnics, excursions and marching in
imitation of soldiers. They appear to
have talents for everything but work, and
they marry on the Robert Coiiyer plaD.
WTience their food comes is a profound
mystery.
The opium eater may reside in a mala
rious district, but he will not suffer from
miasm; or he may live in the midst of an
epidemic of some contagious fever, but
he will be among those who escape. The
opium eater almost always dies of opium
—he survives everything to die of his
favorite drug.—Dr. McPherson.
An old colored man, as he came out of
a graveyard in Gaston, N. C., a couple of
Sundays ago, said to a white man enter
ing: “I’se been over to see old ma^su’s
grave. It’s been ’leven years and more
since he died,*and I has never missed a
Sunday yet goin’ to see it,”