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Savannah. Ga.
;.\TAV8 COUNCIL.
B V MICHAEL II. MATHIEW.
. tfc - infernal king ordained
® s “;. 1,,,'iiof nispceis,
A r “ ■ '.ve to earth the most
'pf miser anil tears.
ncei their deeds portrayed
*$£* i iei.ee and pride,
I “ut - lid t was hard indeed
^Mirein them to decide.
„ M ,.. came tottering forth,
u -iV^o ii •’ <1 banefu breath—
u j !. c nbite but fl-ehless hand
mpauion, Death.
‘(if he r
, :_■) .ssious, hate and crime,
, r ,.,VVn li ,‘r loutish ejes,
1 . ' in tones that seemed
jV., nc:' • Deliriums cries:
... t e „ jht* lovine hearts I br.ikc,
‘ % -nt souls I have crazed,
' - " . »i:thlul forms I’ve killed,
1 l : !n- ’scilto.ils I have raised.
ns0 1 a j-ea of tear3 and blood
“ ‘ V ‘ f! yV on ,- irth above—
* ‘ thal bears the wxecks of homes,
‘ ‘ felessfo uis of Love!”
Admi-rinn S.nan thus replied:
.. a •*" l~' he laws divine
v,, •; T ,‘i has worked so well as tbes—
4 The victor’s palm is thine.
. t ] ie powers that spoil the earth
*\ h iw. h-u-'trie mizhtiest spell!
‘'f gr :h with thee t’.l share my tlirone,
p,. : i.oii the ljutenof Ilell.”
fj * H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST U 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Affairs iu Georgia,
phego-ahead firemen of Griffin will pur-
i... fiorees for the purpose of reaching
d. .-oiic of conflagrations with more alac-
r :r if the City Council in their magnan-
■ llv W jii build stables at the engino
j- ri .-e?, where they may be kept.
”*>■,1? vc fruit cultarists who will assemble
ia jlacon to-Jay, and who have been listen-
" j 0 a rd reading stories about sixteen
I Teaches fall grown and four inches or
!|. c: ,about? iu diameter, on a twig six
inches long, listen to this : “Uncle Joe
Wut-r, of Carroll county, has a peach that
his gruwn on a tree some seven or eight
| icht-s in diameter, without the sign of a
iimber stem about it, but simply grew out
of the rough bark.’*
Oaeday last week live well known gentle-
I men of Griffin went bit hunting in the
rarre: Mr. 11. F. M. Mann’s residence,
j md two hundred and eighty-nine
j ka Ur-wiug bats, and it was not a good day
for bailing either. This shows what indus-
i try wd energy will accomplish in the sky
p-r.j of an ordinary dwcdling. Where’s
the gams law ?
I lie way they collect pay for the cemetery
loU in the Griffin cemetery is a3 simple as
I’it is efficacious. It is this : The City Sex-
I tonia to notify all pirties who have failed to
pay for their lots that unless they come
I down by the flrst of December, the bodies
interred thereon and therein, will bo re-
e ir:d therefr ;a and the said lots sold at
k;■':(■ nnlcry at ttio risk of the former pur-
fluser. Teas the ghosts of the dead are
n:L collectors of the defaults of the living.
We commend the scheme to our friend Tor-
ley at Laurel Grove.
Thtre are one hundred and twenty-five
guests at Indi n Springs, and every day io-
•rear jp their number. We are glad to see
, that our people are beginning to patronize
to home watering places, where they can
erj y that quiet aul rep -se which is impoa-
I sible in the North, where they are thrown
bcontai : with all the lower elements of so
ciety* Gere at home, with climate, water,
tcccery and society the best, they can spend
their money, knowing that they are but re
turning it to the savings bank from which
j they will receive it again.
Thirty-three dollars have been absorbed
hto a brass band ia ColumbuB, but as that
Mount won’t exactly purchase Ludden A
Dates’ silver get of instruments the Colum-
-uj boys ask Lr a little mere, and wo hope
they will succeed, for the man who has not
toiic iu his soul, and is not moved by “dis-
I c ^u” of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons,
s.ra!egems and spoils.
Colonel Jjhu C. Maund, of Talbot county,
hi3just concluded a purchase of eighty
‘■lonsand acres of land in one body in the
j neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tenn.
j question is evidently awaking
| —e ire of the citizens of Columbus, and not
*uhoQt Ciuse, if the facts daily detailed in
toe Columbus papers are true. Policemen,
?gaid to the danger, shoot dogs on
Greets whether they have badges on or
“ J ’’ aru * a ca S2 has been mentioned where a
.' iQQg .ady was struck by the ball from the
, 1 1 a Gcensed dog killer in the person
^ apoacemau. The citizens are justly in-
“•Saant, and it seems that other methods
Mating rid of worthless curs could
‘‘“ 4 • fiu S*,'est themselves to the autbori-
upou a little reflection.
; ^ e total receipts of cotton at Columbus,
8 ‘f C ; ^Ptenber 1st have been 72,073 bales.
• ;! ^ aQJOllnt fGe mills of that city have
biles, 824 halos less than last
.to :or the same period.
U not a tenable house for rent in
fr(V?' : . : °^' ^bbert, though inquiries are
c | H'-ii. v made for each, and with lumber
l a bor low, it is somewhat sur-
s lilat such a state of things should
gree of Doctor of Divinity was re-
"■* : mfe - r red by Emory College, Oxtord,
d ' . GD ^‘ V ’ Cook, of Atlanta.
C( „, , r was formoriy from Monroe
having been born and raised in the
TH t Callodcn ‘
ta,-,.. ate Sunday School Convention
2G;k 3 At bens August 24:h, 25th and
p re ’ convection sermon will be
, u ‘ ; y K.v. W. P. Harrison, D. D.
tli6r- * n “ P ro sramma u prepared for
,* i ^7 7‘ a - Uelo-ates will be transported
Stt’e I ‘ sr " rates over any railroad in the
fit :!*•* ias fu ’* I"® Koieg> and returning
1En j ‘“nty associations are invited to
»kr-' " a ' tS ‘ aL: ^ rcliools in connties
*o the 1 " 83 ° Ci&t ' 0n ex ‘ stB - As delegates
tioa ' .., U ’, rnataoua ' Sunday School Associa
te to , Ch , KeeU iQ Atlanta iu April, 1878,
Mt ‘ Bc:, id, it is dosirablo that the
he f, I’rrst Congressional District
tt e j.- a 'l' ri - uted. The newspapers of
’ V"f, tnCtare re< l ue9ted togivecir-
j h 10n to tfio abovo.
Geor "‘a Medical Society met
011 Wednesday last, Dr. B.
disc tt g 8 ^ U “ S3 ’ of Uouroe . presiding, and
'iepr r* >arioU:i nratters connected with
6 «hv I'.r"* 00 ' membership is farnish-
>.7 ■ ' 1 ' I(,:| roe, Bibb, Crawford, Hous-
‘fija 1 ‘ ^‘fi 9 connties, and numbers
ifioae c 01 t * i0 best physicians of
The • c ®*
U u ' JtilJS Population of Monroe county
polig x f( B . lated the Adcertiser: “White
Vote h ,Jj “’ Colorc ' d polls 1,303. The negro
four 1Dcroaae ^ °eo hundred and ninety-
polla-f ! vote twenty-five over the
Mo S<6 ‘
thoQ 8au °. ^ 0,lnt y rejoices in a seventy-five
at , J *'*r Jaw suit on the eanity side
. n ? er ‘° r Conrt ’ It is “a bill for ac-
J. C. j te tting aside decree,” brought by
tad 1 , U| trustee for Mrs. A. M. Zorn,
,er sos Hz' friendof Mrs - M - E - Cowberry,
■fehQ Ti Drj J ' Lama r, exeentor estate or
Vrrv " Jlm °ud, deceased, and Tbos Dew-
t .’.trustee, etc.
The Tax Receiver of Monroe county haB
completed liis returns and closed his books,
from which are gathered the following
valuable statistics of the value of properly
in that county : The whites own$2,209 596
The negroes own $64,743. Property owned
by defaulters is valued at $27,071. Wild
lands are valued at $10,033, making a total
property valuation of $2,311,416, which com
pared with last year’s returns shows an in
crease of $14,394.
If during the watermelon season your
child should get a watermelon Beed in his
windpipe, give it the whites of four eggs.
This remedy brought up a seed from the
throat of a little son of Mr. Joseph Church,
who lives near Jefferson, which had re
mained in the windpipe from September last
until May 7, 1877, defying the doctors skill,
and oftentimes threatening the death ot tho
child-by strangulation.
Jackson county has lost one of her oldest
and most valued citizens in the recent death
of Peter E. McMillan, Esq., at tho ripe age
of eighty-six. He lived an active life, held
many offices of trust and honor, and repre
sented the county in the Legislature of
39, ’40 aDd ’53, with credit to himself and
honor to his constituency.
DuriDg the burial of an infant at Provi
dence Chnrch, Milton county, a violent
storm overtook tho funeral cortege and
threw down a largo red oak tree, tho tep-
moBt branches of which struck a wagon
containing a number of women and children,
bruising them in a shocking manner. The
mules became frightened and ran away,
capsizing the wagon and still further bruis
ing and maiming the alarmed victims.
None were lulled, tut all were more or less
hurt—some very seriously.
The annual commencement exercises of
the University at Athens began on buuday
last by the commencement sermon,wLich was
delivered by Bishop Pierco. The text se
lected was the second verse of the second
chapter of Corinthians, aud the correspond
ent of the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist says : “For the space of one hour
and a quarter the Bishop held his large au
dience completely spell-bound by the magic
words of eloquence which came from his
lips in solid, logical and beautiful figures of
rhetoric.”
Tho Macon Telegraph says : “Rev. James
Murphey, assistant pastor of St. Joseph’s
Church, of this city, died on Sunday at Pio
Nono College. He was much beloved and.
will be missed. His remains were carried
to the State of Maine for interment.”
Angusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
“Mr. Wm. Kustou, the Master Mechanic of
the Goorgia Railroad shop3 at Atlanta, has
invented a smokestack for locomotives
which retains cinders and soot. Thi3 does
away with flying cinders which are such an
annoyance to passengers. The coal burner
Clinton, Engineer Del. Taut, made a trip
from Atlauta for the first time Monday, w’ith
one of these smokestack?. Mr/Tant says it
is & perfect success.”
Macon has seen its first boli of cotton of
this se&soij. The Telegraph thus records
tho fact: “Mr. J. B. Carson, of Taylor
county, near Reynolds, sends us tho first
open cotton boll we have se*n this season.
It opened on the 25th instant, aud is from
his place near Reynolds. The size is small,
but the texture of the cotton is very good.”
The Augusta Gliromcle and Constitutional
ist says : “Last Sunday nighr, just after the
excursion train which left Augusta Satur
day night for Savannah rolled away from
Yemassee on its return trip, a difficulty oc
curred between Willie Bel/, aged about
eleven years, and Harhn WTngard, a youth
between sixteen and seveatosu yoars old, in
the course of which Bell stabbed Wingard
in the back with a pocket knife, inflicting a
very painful but not serious wound.
Wingard got off the train at Brunson’s and
had his wound dressed by a physician. Ee
reached the city yesterday afternoon by the
regular passenger train, and wis able to
walk to his home. Bell came to Augusta
yesterday morning.”
Tho Hamilton Journal is entirely respon
sible for the following “tail about snakes :”
“Mr. Alfred Johnson, five miles below Ham
ilton, has discovered a den ot horned snakes
on his plantation. He has killed two of
them and seen several others. They are of
a white and black speckled color. Tho horn
is on the tip of the tail, and is stuck into
everything that comes within reach.”
Tho Monroe Adcertiser curiously remarks:
“ Mr. Key, delegate to the convention from
Jasper cuunty, is a man of stout heart.
Almost every amendment he proposes (and
they are numerous) is tabled, yet he ham
mers away.”
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Sovereigns have concluded to forever do
away with the whipping post in Georgia, it
is.still sometimes resorted to as a punish
ment, as the following, from tho Mouroe
Adcertiser, will show: “Dr. RudLill was in
attendance upon a patient early Sunday
morning, a week ago, and left his umbrella
in the buggy before the door. When he
came out the umbrella was gone. The
negro who stole it, as was afterwards found
out, went from town to Mr. Charlie Mc
Carthy’s, about two miles distant, aud going
into a negro cabin, stole the breakfast of
the negro occupying the cabin, who was
asleep on the bed. This negro, named
Anthony Hollis, upon waking found his
breakfast gone, and immediately started iu
pursuit of the thief. In a short while he
came up with, took his breakfast from him,
tho stolen umbrella and a coat, no then
tied him to u tree and «avo him a sound
thrashing. Jim Cotton was his name, and
Jim left for parts unknown when Anthony
had finished whipping him. The umbrella
was restored to Dr.-Rudisill. It is right and
proper to say hurrah for Anthony!”
Here is a picture of a model young far
mer of DeKalb county, from a pea portrait
of the DeKalb County News: “Milton A.
Chandler, Jr., the youDgest farmer of De-
Kalb county, carried to Atlanta last week a
fleece taken off his Merino ram weighing
eleven pounds. Milton is the third son of
Hon. M. A. Candler. Ho is about fourteen
years old, and has a large snm in bank mado
by his own labor, besides doing his regular
work on the farm, which is as much as any
body of his ago does. He is never idle,
never uses bad language, and is always
kind to his parents and polite to every
one.”
The Eilijay Courier has tho following
cheerful news for the friends of tho Marietta
and Murfreesboro Railroad, so much
needed in that section of Georgia: ’find
enterprise, in which our peoplo aio so
much interested, is now' ^on better
footing than ever heretofore. The convicw
force that was on the upper p wfc of the line
is now taken back, and the woik from now
on will be carried on in a connected line.
We learn that General Phillips, the never-
tiring President of the road, has at last suc
ceeded in hiring quite a number of the
hands to an iron company, and iu return
gets iron for their labor. We learn that he
has closed a contract that will iron fifty
miles of the road, thus leaviug the com
pany the use of all the loan from tho State
to carry on the grading, which will be car
ried on from Canton.”
A Sevebe Fight Between General
Miles and Sitting Bull.— Washington,
July 27.—Tho following dispatch was
received at the War Department to-day
in regard to the Indian trouoies in the
Black Hills :
“Chicago, III., July 27, 1877.
“ General J£. D. Townsend, Washing
ton, D. C.:
“Referring to affairs in the Black
Hills, Colonel Bradley telegraphs to tho
department headquarters as follows :
44 4 A company from Laramie started
this morning. Lieutenant Lemty is re
ported to have been surrounded by tho
Indians at Spear Fish. lie telegraphs
to-day that there is no occasion for
alarm" in his case. Ship his detachment,
and Reynolds can finish the curvey.
Have no report of Indians in the Hills.
This morning friendly Indians report a
severe fight between General Miles and
Sitting Ball’s band on Powder river.
Have no doubt reported depredations in
Black Ilills have been exaggerated.
(Signed) “ ‘R. C. Dbcm.
“ ‘Assistant Adjutant General.
Anne Brewster, writing from Rome,
July 7th, says: “One day last week His
Holiness had a long fit of fainting. When
he revived his attendants and doctors,
seeing that he was deeply affected by his
situation, said encouraging words. Tfie
Pope shook his head and replied: ‘Aon
me Imingate. To sento bene di esser vicino
alia mia fine.' (Do not flatter. I know
well that I am near my end.)”
COSSTITUTIOSAL CONVENTION.
Pierrepont, glancing over the news
from America: “WeaDy. now! Awiot!
a wumpns! a webelUon! And in the
Nawtb, torv you know! How vewwy
unfortunate that Genewal Gwant is out
of the eountwy!”
JSerenteemb liny’. Proceeding.—Call,
far the Reconsideration of Anientlment.
Adopted on Saturday—Colonel Tilt’* !
Amendment Stricken Out—Report on
Counties and County Officers Adopted
Without Material Changes.
[Special Conespondence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, July 30.—President Jenkins
called the convention to order at ten
o’clock, pursuant to adjournment, and
prayer was offered by Rev. E. J. Coats,
of the Twenty-first district.
The reading of the minutes was fol
lowed by several calls for the recon
sideration of matters acted upon Satur
day.
Mr. Donaldson, of the Eighth district,
wished to reconsider action on the third
section, so that the people could change
county lines by a two-thirds vote. Mr.
Mobley opposed, and reconsideration was
denied.
Gsn. Eli WarreD, of the Twenty-third
district, desired to reconsider the action
which tabled his amendment, which pro
posed to let out the collection of- taxes to
the loweet responsible bidder. Recon
sideration, however, was voted down.
Mr. Mynatt, of the Thirty-fifth dis
trict, desired to reconsider the action
which adopted Col. Tift’s amendment
fixing a uniform rate of costs, fees and
commissions for all county officers and
fixing their salaries at not more than two
thousand dollars.
Coi. Tift, of the Tenth district, replied
to Mr. Mynatt’s speech, and asked the
convention not to reconsider, but Gen.
Lawton, of the First district, in a strong
speech, and Rev. Mr. Hamilton, of the
Forty-second district, opposed Col. Tift’s
views. Hon. Francis Fontaine, of the
Twenty-fourth district, did not want any
reconsideration, but the convention did,
and so voted, and finally tabled the
amendment (adopted on Saturday) by a
vote of one hundred and eight yeas to
nine nays.
Col. Tift then desired a reconsideration
of the action which tabled, on Saturday,
his second amendment, in regard to
county officers, but the convention re -
fused to reconsider.
Leaves of absence were granted to Dr.
Hollifield, of the Twentieth district, Mr.
Lawson, cf the Twenty-eighth district,
Mr. Russell, of the First district, Mr.
Conley, of the Second district, Mr. Scott,
of tho Thirteenth district, and Judge
Hansel!, of the Seventh district.
On motion of Mr. Simmons, of the
Twenty second district, Colonel Tift’s
amendment to the sixth section, adopted
on Saturday, was indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Davis, of the Twenty-third dis
trict, offered an amendment to the sixth
section, excepting Tax Receivers and de
volving their duties on Clerks of courts.
The motion was tabled.
Colonel Tift again desired to amend, so
that the General Assembly shall fix uni
form rate of fees, costs and commissions
for county officers, but was voted down.
Rising, Phoenix-like from his ashes,
however, Colonel Tift offered another
amendment, that sheriffs and other pub
lic officers shall pay only regular adver
tising rates for legal advertisements,
which was also tabled.
Mr. Hawkins, of the Forty-second
district, moved to add after “thereof,”
in seventh line of section six, the words,
“la such manner as may be prescribed
by the General Assembly,” which was
adopted.
Mr. Wallace, of the Twenty-third dis-
trict, wished; o add after “two years,” in
fourth line, the words, “and a qualified
voter,” and his motion was carried.
Mr. Creech, of the Seventh district,
desired to have the Ordinaries serve four
years, but this amendment was declared
out of order, as it was voted down on
Saturday.
Mr. Spence, of the Thirty-fifth district,
then moved to strike out all of the sixth
section after “two years” in the fourth
line, which motion prevailed, thus de
stroying the amendments of Messrs.
Hawkins and Wallace.
Judge Collier, of the Thirty-fifth dis
trict, introduced a long substitute for
section six, authorizing five Commission
ers of Finance for each county, and regu
lating their election and duties, butCapt,
Little, of the Twenty-fourth district, op
posed, aud Colonel Ingram, of the
'f wenty.fourth district, wished to modify
the substitute, so it was tabled by
a vote of one hundred and one yea3 to
twenty-nine nays.
Mr. Ellington, of the Thirteen.h dis
trict, desired to make some chaDges in
the wording of the seventh section, but
his motion had no second.
Mr. Davis, of the Twenty-third district,
wished to have the Legislature provide
for County Commissioners. On motion,
his proposition was tabled.
Mr. Crane, of the Thirly-fifth district,
desired the Legislature to have power to
provide County Commissioners for cer
tain counties, to which motion there was
no second.
On motion of Mr. Wallace, tho report
a3 a whole was then adopted.
Gen. Lawton moved to take up the
report of the Final Revision Committee
on the judiciary, but Mr. Pace, of tho
Twenty-seventh district, explained that
copies had noc been distributed until this
morning, and the mattar was postponed
until to-morrow.
Senator Reese offered a motion that tho
convention, hereafter, meet daily ut 8:30
a. m. and adjourn at 2 o’clock p. m.,
which was carried.
Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth dis
trict, then moved, it being 12:30 o’clock,
that the convention adjourn to 8:30
o’clock to morrow morning. The motion
was adopted.
The following is lha text of the report
of the C. mmittee on Final Revision of
the Constitution on the report of Com
mittee on Counties and County Officers,
as amended and adopted by the conven
tion, after being up for discussion a por
tion of two days:
ARTICLE I.
Section 1. Each organized county shall
be a body corporate, with snch powers
and limitations as may be prescribed by
law, not incompatible with this Consti
tution. All suits by or against a county
shall bo in tho name thereof; and the
metes and bounds of the several counties
shall remain as now prescribed bylaw,
unless changed as hereinafter provided.
Seo. 2. No new county shall be created.
Sec. 3. County lines shall not be
changed, unless under tha operation of a
general law for that purpose.
Sec. 4. Nocouutysite shall be changed
ox removed except by a two-thirds vote
of’ the qualified voters of the county,
vo" ing at an election held for that pur
pose and a two thirds vote of the General
Assembly. .
Sec. o. Old county organizations may
be dissolved and merged with contiguous
counties by a two-thirds vote of the
qualified electors of such county, voting
at an election held for that purpose.
Sec. 0. The county officers shall bo
elected by the qualified voters cf their
respective counties or districts, and shall
hold their offices for two years. They
shall be removed on conviction for mal -
practice in office, and no person shall be
eligible to any cf the offices above re
ferred to, unless he shall have been a
resident of the county for two years.
Sec. 7. Whatever tribunal or officers
may hereafter be created by the Legisla
ture, for the transaction of county mat
ters’shall be uniform throughout the
S‘ate and of the same name, jurisdiction
and remedies, except that the Legislature
may provide for the appointments Com-
missioners of Roads and Revenue in any
Tiufamendment (adopted Saturday) of
Col. Tift, to section six, which was
stricken out this morning by a large vote,
was, in -its corrected form, as follows :
“The General Assembly shall provide
competent and uniform commissions,
costs and fees for all county officers, and
they shall receive no otjier compensation
for their services. Each county officer
shall keep a record of fees, commissions
and costs received, to be submitted to the |
examination of the grand jury at each
regular term, and shall pay into the State j
and county treasury at the end of each j
year, all sums collected for fees, commis- |
sions and costs over and above the snm
of two thousand dollars.
Chatham.
HOW TRADE IS AFFECTED.
State Sunday School Convention.
We have been requested to publish the
subjoined letter relating to the objects
and ends of the State Sunday School Con
vention. It will be read with interest by
all engaged in Sunday school work :
Atlanta. December 20th, 187G.
Hon. A. -IP. Rodgers, Vice President State
Sunday School Convention, First Con
gressional District, Waynesboro :
Deab Bkotheb—In answer to your in
quiry as to the object of the State Sun
day School Convention, I beg leave to
reply brit fly.
Its objects are—
1. To unite all the evangelical Chris
tians throughout the State in earnest
efforts to promote the cause of Christ
through the Sunday school.
2. To bring together Sunday school
workers for the purpose of considering
the best methods- for thoroughly orga
nizing the State in combined, associated
effort, through county organizations,
and through these county links, uniting
all the Sunday schools in one fraternal
band.
3. For the dissemination of Sunday
school ideas, the comparison of plans,
the discussion of principles and illustra
tion of methods in Sunday school teach
ing.
4. To encourage the systematic and
thorough preparation of JSunday school
teachers for the high and responsible
stations which they occupy.
5. Denominational integrity will not be
impaired by the most active co-operation
in this blessed labor. It is not sectarian
in spirit or purpose.
6. It is missionary in its spirit and
design. It seeks to unite the Evangelical
denominations in the effort to educate
tho young religiously; to stimulate each
of them to renewed and unceasing dili
gence in Sunday school work: to increase
the spirituality and efficiency of the work;
to obtain reliable statistics of what we
are doing; the number attending Sunday
school; the proportion of conversions;
the number of children who do not at
tend Sunday school, and where the bulk
of them reside, so that the field for mis
sionary labor can be definitely defined.
7. Its motto is: “Every child for
Jesus.” Its aim is to mass the evangeli
cal denominations in one common effort
to accomplish this result. Viewing the
Sunday school as a department of church
work, it would stimulate each denomina
tion to increased diligence in their own
way to lead the little ones to Christ.
8. The annual reunion of Sunday
school workers in convention will be pro
ductive of good, for “the more they know
of each other the better they will love
each other,” and, instead of a divided
movement, r.11 will march with steady step
and in enthusiastic accord against infidel
ity, intemperance aud vice. It will band
together Christians and patriots in a com
mon effort to elovate the rising genera
tion by the inculcation of Christian prin
ciples in early years.
In th8 furtherance of this object each
Vioe-President is authorized to appoint
in each county in his Congressional Dis
trict a county Vice-President, whose duty
it shall be to organize a county associa
tion. Copies of the DeKalb Sunday
School Association will be forwarded to
all desirous of forming associations as a
guide. Yours in the cause,
W. G. V HIDliY,
President S. S. Convention.
The Liability for Destroyed Property
[Pittsbiirg Leader.]
A suit for six thousand dollars dama
ges, resulting from the riotous proceed
ings which have disgraced our city for the
past few days, has already been entered
by Mr. Smith, pawnbroker, of this city,
who claims that his place of business was
entered by the mob on Saturday evenin]
and pillaged of property to the amount
stated. Mr. Smith, through nis counsel,
Major A. M. Brown, is the first, so far as
is known, to taka advantage of the law
in regard to acts of trespass and robbery
committed by mobs and rioters, and the
question of who is liable for the immense
amount of damages sustained by the
railroad companies and others is thus
opened up, and may prove a very in
teresting ono to the taxpayers of this
already overburdened community. Our
reporter called on Major Blown
this afternoon, and elicited from
him the following fasts in regard to the
law upon the subject in cases of this
kind. Ha stated that the county is liable
for all damages resulting from acts of
mob violenoe, and, therefore, all claims
for damages awarded by the courts must
come out of the County Treasury. The
railroad company is generally supposed to
be liable for the loss sustained by ship
pers from the fact that being common
carriers they are insurers; but it seems
that a provision exists in the law which
says that “acts of God and enemies of the
State make their liability as insurers
void,” and the shippers can come on the
county for every dollar’s worth of freight
destroyed by the rioters. The railroad
companies also can collect from tho
county every dollar of their los3 if they
feel so disposed.
Nobody Eveb Killed by Lightning
in Labge Cities.—A New York paper
says: In no record that has yet been pub
lished for many years past, while
thunder clouds have hung over this city
and discharged their artillery at us, has a
single death occurred here from at
mospheric electricity, while its fatal
effects have been visible in all directions
beyond our city limits. In a conversa
tion with a noted electrician, a few years
since, we drew his attention to that fact,
and suggested that what with the iron,
gas and water pipes in every building,
which conducted lightning into the very
ground deeper than even a regular light-
niug rod would do it, and the masses of
iron employed in all shapes in modern
structures, and the bundles of telegraph
wires running strung over our heads, aDd
higher than the average height of our
ordinary buildings, aud while every
street almost has iron tracks for street
railroads, the electric fluid was so gen
erally distributed that there was no
chance for it to concentrate anywhere.
The electrician in question saw the force
of the suggestion, and concurred in it,
and evidently perceive! that New York
city is no place for the profitable prose
cution of the lightning-rod business.
A Man’s Head Pulled Off.—Yester
day a gentleman named Wilbur, just ar
rived from Frio county, reported in the
office of Messrs. Moss <fc Bennett that a
day or two ago, near the Frio, the body
of a man, whose name we failed to learn,
was found on the prairie with his head
completely severed from the body. Near
the body was found a horse, with o raw
hide lariat fastened to the saddle, the
other end of the lariat being attached to
the boms of a steer. This lariat for a
distance of three or four feet, was freshly
stained with blood, and the supposition
was that in lassoing a steer the lariat had
accidentally become twisted or wound
around the avan’s neck, and that after he
had caught tho steer in the rope he had
been dragged about by the horse and
steer until his head had been completely
torn from the body. The man’s head had
not been, found when Mr. W. left that
section.—San Antonio {Texas) Express.
The noble American invention of par
liamentary “filibustering” has got into
the British House of Commons. It has
gone such lengths already that Sir Staf
ford Northcote has introduced reso
lutions against it. To the American
member of Congress this device looks
very much like “stopping one hole in a
sieve.” If the British obstructionists is
the man we take him for he will find
small trouble in getting “over, under or
through” the fence Sir Stafford Northcote
has put up to keep him from rambling at
will over the pastures of debate.
Market JHen Anliripatinit a Meat
Famine ia New York—An Army of Car
men and Truckmen Idle—Plenty of
Vegetables, Flour, Meal, Groceries,
Fish, and Fruit, exerpt Peaches.
[From the New York Sun. 27th.]
The down-town streets were quiet yes
terday, although there was more business
done in the city than on Wednesday,
when the fear of •ulsiders, and the
anxiety of New Yorkers for the city’s
safety, left business at its lowest ebb.
Yesterday, below Fulton street, there was
a little of the wonted bustle and excite
ment in Wall street and around the Ex
changes, but the greater part of the busi
ness district was unnaturally quiet. Even
Broadway showed the general stagnation.
In the side streets cartmen slept on their
drays, express wagons returned empty
from their rounds, and the porters and
laborers whose work is to move heavy
articles to and from stores and wagons,
had no need to take their hooks from
their leather belts.
A Warren street cartman said: “I
usually get four or five dollars a day from
one or two houses, and not much less
from two op throe other firms I work for,
but yesterday I had earned only twenty-
five cents up to two o’clock in the after
noon.”
There has been a general advance made
by the retail grocers and butchers on all
the necessaries of life, during the past
three days, and by the end of the week
the advance will be appreciable by house
wives and shoppers. Beef was advanced
two cents per porjid yesterday, making
au advance of five cents per pound since
Monday.
There are some kinds of food that are
not influenced by the suspension of freight
carriage. Salt meats, flour, etc., and the
various kinds of staple groceries are held
by large dealers in quantities amply
sufficient to supply the retail trade for a
long time. Vegetables are plenty also,
and cheap, and their regular arrival not
at all interfered with. The garden truck
used in New York is grown on small
farms near the city, principally in New
Jersey, though there are many on Long
Island, and brought to the city daily in
wagons. There is a full supply, too, of
fish, oysters aud clams, whicli are brought
to the city by boat.
Iu Washington Market, yesterday, few
of the smaller butchers had enough meat
to supply their customers, and some had
none at all, but by borrowing from each
other and purchasing such pieces as they
could from tho larger dealers they man
aged to get through the morning.
Mr. John H. Moon, of the firm of P.
W. Liwrie & Co., the largest dealers in
fresh meats in the market, said : “I an
ticipate almost a panic in the meat mar
ket. There is but very little on hand, not
half what we need, and I see no immedi
ate Drospect for a future supply. The
great bulk of our beef cattle comes from
the West, and now there are no means of
bringing them here. Even if the trains
were to commence running in tho morn
ing, none could bo brought to this city
before the early part or middle of next
week, and then, after their hot, exhaustive
ride, the poor beasts would be tired and
feverish and require several days’ rest be
fore the meet would be fit to eat.”
Poultry dealers are almost as badly off
as the butchers, but they can get a limited
supply from the country near New York.
Messrs. Knapp & Van Nostraud, a lead
ing firm of Washington Market, said:
“Wo are cut off entirely from the South
and West, from where we should get a
large supply of live fowls. When seut
through without delay they usually arrivo
in good condition and are killed here.
Now we depend entirely for what wo get
on Long Island and New Jersey, Prices
have advanced considerably, and bid fair
to continue going up. Turkeys are worth
from 25 to 28 cents, fowls from 20 to 25
cents, and spring chickens from 22 to 25
cents. I cannot tell you what they will
be worth on Saturday.”
Peaches are more seriously affected
than any other fruit. Mr. P. F. Cooney,
an experienced and large shipper, said:
“The peach growers are suffering terribly
because of this strike. Peaches are
rotting on the trees by hundreds of
bushels. If they could bo brought to
New York by rail, tho market would be
fairly glutted, and wo could sell the de
licious fruit for almost nothing. The
Pennsylvania and the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western roads are the ones wo
depend on maiuly, aud they have both
stopped running. One load of four or
five hundred crates came through yester
day on the Pennsylvaniaroad. The train
hands flagged it as a passenger train, and
so deceived the strikers. The peaches,
though, had then too long on the road,
and when they reached here were worth
less. The same trick was tried again, but
the strikers had dropped to it, as ihey
say, and it failed. We get some by
steamer, but they do not usually arrive in
good condition. They are one day longer
on the water, and the salt water injures
them. The prices have increased since
the strike; before it we sold peaches
at two and three dollars per crate, now
we want four dollars and four dollars and
a half. For the same reason blackberries
have advanced about two cents.”
Butter has been seriously affected by
the strike. Messrs. Kay <fc Buckman, of
Washington Market, said: “Since this
trouble the price for prime butter has
advanced from one to three cents per
pound. The Erie, New York Central,
and Delaware, L ickawanna and Western
roads bring the great bulk of butter to
this city. Illinois and Iowa furnish the
best fine dairy packed butter, and tho
Illinois creamery butter is now recog
nized as equal to the best made in Orange
county. The prices have advanced about
three cents on the pound. We have a
large refrigorator house in which we have
over 1,200 packages stored, but I know
several small dealers were short this
morning."
The great Fulton wholesale fish market
was a very bu3y scene yesterday. Retail
dealers from all parts of the city were
providing for to day’s demand.
The Black Hills Savages.— Washing
ton, July 26.—The following telegram
was received in this city to-night:
Yankton, D. T., July 26. '
The Hon. Geo. W. McCrary, Secretary of
War:
The following telegram is just received:
Dead wood, D. T., July 26.
Agency Indians are murdering citizens
and destroying property in all parts of
the country. Twenty ranchmen are al
ready deed. Seth Bollock.
The Sheriff of the Territory has no
arms or ammunition. Cin a disposition
of troops be made that will give the Black
Hills’ settlers some protection ?
[Signed] John C. Pennington,
Governor.
Tha dispatch was referred to Lieut.'.
Gen. Sheridan.
AT THE RUSSIAN HEADQUARTERS
~* t - camp fires are again brightly
b i In sight of Gen. Howard’s com
mand, and that hatchet which he prom
ised to bury is still brandishing in a most
unevangeiical manner. Not to put too
fine a point on it, Joseph has lied; and,
until he is reduced to a Christian basis,
he will probably continue to deceive tho
trustful soldier, who is mildly trying to
subdue him by moral snasion. The
American Tract Society ought to forward
supplies to Gen. Howard at once, aud, if
necessary, reinforce him with a baDd of
Gospellers, so as to insure the conversion
of this untruthful chieftain beyond the
peril of any more backsliding.—Hew
York Tribune.
A sumptuary law has been issued in
Constantinople against thin veils, tight-
fitting cloaks and high-heeled slippers.
The police are instrncted to follow all
women who disobey to their residences,
and inform their lords of their insubordi
nate conduct.
A distinguished Japanese traveler in
this country writes home: “The chief
branch of education of young men here
is rowing. The people have large boat
houses called ‘colleges,’ and the principal
of these are Yale and Harvard.”—N. Y.
Weekly.
Where the Emperor Nleholns ia Quartered
and Hew He and His Staff are Occu
pied.
[Correspondence of the London News.]
Simnitza, July 6.—The headquarters
of the Russian Emperor and of the
Russian army are both for the present at
Simnitza, and are close together, yet dis
tinctly apart. It is the fashion of the
latter to be practical, to be masters of de
tails, and to hold that the princes, noble
men and gentlemen composing the former
know nothing about army matters, and
ore merely playing at soldiering. The
Piinces, noblemen and gentlemen of the
Emperor’s suite may own to themselves
that they don’t know a great Leal, but
find compensation for their ignorance in
the odor of majesty in which they abide.
On the bluff to the right of the wretched
hotel of Simnitza there is a little angular
space. First comes a garden, or rather
what was once a garden. Here, amidst
tethered horses, wagons innumerable
and perspiring servants, are the head
quarters of the Grand Duke commauding-
in-chief. He and his staff abide in
tents, suffer from mosquito bites,
have to swallow not a little dust, and
mess together in a big marquee—at
least the staff does; the Grand Duke
himself dines with the Emperor. Their
location is the orchard of a chateau,
whose back front looks across the Danube
to Sistova, and whose front opens into a
smooth grassy lawn, flanked on either
side by a row of fine old elms. This
chateau and lawn are close to the orchard,
and beyond it as one walks from the
hotel. The chateau is but a small house
for an Emperor, although snug quarters
enough for a well-to-do boyard. The
main entrance is in the centre of the
front, with the stair case directly oppo
site the door. It is the coolest habita
tion in Simnilzi and the least dusty,
Lining as it does the wide sweep of the
Danube valley, along which a cool breeze
blows when everywhere else the heat is
intense. Below the house the abruptness
of the cliff has been lessened by art, and
on the slope is a pretty garden with vines
grown on trellis work. In an arbor of
this garden the Emperor spends a good
deal of his time, and a great telescope has
been set np there for him, through
which he scans tho opposite bank with
much interest and attention. He
is very active notwithstanding the asth
ma which troubles him, and he is assidu
ous in his visits to the wounded, and in
inspections of the soldiery. A telegraph
wire, conveyed into an adjacent cowshed,
which does duty as a telegraph office,
keeps him acquainted with tho intelli
gence of the world at large, although
news comes somewhat scantily from the
outlying portions of his own army, the
construction of field telegraphs with a
Russian army on the march not being
carried out with great enterprise, al
though all appliances for the purpose are
attached to each division. Thus it is
known in the Imperial staff that the Brit
ish fleet has sailed lor Besika Bay before
the news of reported fighting outside
Tirnova has been confirmed.
The chief members of the Imperial
suite occupy little square pavilion tents
ranged in a double row under the old
elm trees, and flanking the lawn in the
centre. On this lawn there are always
some loungers, and gossiping groups
drink tea sitting on stools outside the
tents. The venerable Prince Suwarc-ff is
very constant to the lawn, and ready for
a talk with all comers. Among the most
frequent of his companions is the keen-
faced Prince Menschikoff, and General
Xgnatieff occasionally louges out from his
coo! tents, with his books and papers, to
talk epigrams and play at strategic spec
ulation. Beyond the outbuildings flank
ing the chateau is a field where there arc
also princes; he of Mingrelia, a late
comer, is next the dust of the road, and
Colonel Wellesley, the British attache
when in his bath, has to dofend himaelf
from the strenuous attempts of his
horses, tethered to the vehicle cf which
his little tent is a dependency, to drink
the water in which his manly form is
immersed.
Ou the lawn is a marquee which consti
tutes the sails-a manger. Occasionally
the suite eat at tables set out on the lawn
in the open air, in full view of the way
farers on the adjacent road, and in the
enjoyment of eddies of its fetlock-deep
dust. Sometimes the Emperor sits at one,
but for the most part he dines with his
suite. A very interesting episode oc
curred the other day. Iu the middle of
dinner were heard the strains of the
“Dead March in Saul,” for both the hos
pital and the churchyard where the
wounded who die are buried are nigh at
hand. The Emperor inquired if that was
not the funeral passing of the young ar
tillery officer who was drowned by the
foundering of his pontoon during the
crossing, and whose bedy was recovered
four days later some distance down
the river. Being told that it was so,
he at once rose, and, with the Grand
Duke and all his suite, walked to the
quaint and pretty little church whero the
funeral service was being performed. He
remained daring the whole of its per
formance, lasting for an hour, and then
went into the porch, where the grave had
been made, and stood by the head of the
coffin while it was being lowered into the
earth. On the following day all the
Turkish prisoners were brought from the
guard room on to the lawn just as dinner
was finished. A guard of Russian in
fantry were formed in the circle around
them, with fixed bayonets and cartridge
pouches opened. The poor devils no
doubt thought that they had been brought
out to be shot, and that then last hour
had come. The Emperor, with his
dragoman, went among them, talking
familiarly to them and asking questions.
Tho Nizams answered him with a
straightforward frankness, which might
indeed be called bluffness. They told
him that they had not received a
penny of pay for the last six-and-twenty
mouths. In answer to his question
whether they were satisfied with the food
they were now getting, they replied that
they had never lived so well in their lives;
and one fellow—he mast have been a
sneak and a sycophant—added that he
was heartily glad that he had been taken
prisoner, for he was tired of hard living
and no pay. The officers of the suite
went among the prisoners distributing
cigarettes, which the prisoners, with the
most perfect ease of manner, lighted at
those between the lips of the officers, and
it was quite a happy family. The Em
peror another evening visited a couple of
Bulgarians in the adjacent hospital, who
were broughtjin mutilated by the Turks.
One lies comatose with his head stove iu
and fearfully shattered; the other is not
so much hurt. Both their wives are with
them. His Majesty has promised two
gold pieces to each man wounded in the
war, and the money has, I believe, been
distributed to those already wounded.
They were sitting together, and he
was arduously thinking what to say,
when finally he grew confident in his
manner, and broke out thus: “In this
land of noble achievement and undying
glory, why is it that women do not come
to the front and climb the ladder of
fame?" “I suppose,” said she, tying
knots in her handkerchief “its on ac
count of their pull-backs.”
Tho carpet- baggers of Mississippi are
gradually leaving the State, owing to the
ruinous falling off in the facilities for
stealing. One of them left not long ago
by baDging himself on the road below
Meridian, and the people are now leaving
their ropes out at night with the hope
that others will steal them and follow his
example.—Courier-Journal.
Master Max E. Walter, a San Francisco
broker’s boy, got $2,240 from a teller at
the mint instead of $1,140 for which his
check called. He returned the surplus of
$1 000, and was rewarded with an elabor
ate “Thanks.”
THE LABOR LEAGUE.
Petitioning the Federal Caoverninent to
Interfere Between Labor and Capital.
Washington, July 27.—The Central
Council of the Labor League of the Uni
ted States, an organization having its
headquarters in this city, to-day trans
mitted a petition to the President of the
United States urging that steps be taken
immediately to end the existing labor
troubles, restore traffic, law and order.
They oppose any compromise with the
actual rioters or those countenancing
riot, and declare that impending famine
ia the large cities, the imminent suffering
of the great and law abiding labor ele
ment, loss and rain to the agricultural
papulation, with the undeveloped evils
which may result from the present trou
bles, justify the Executive, on behalf of
the whole people, in calling the prominent
railroad men, who, in blind and passion
ate stubbornness, refuse to listen to
either reason or the loud appealing of
the people, to Washington, together with
the leaders of the la* or organizations
who have opposed violen e, that the dif
ficulties may be compromised. The pe
tition also sets forth that any further
blind resistance of he railroads, to the
detriment of the business of the nation,
would justify the government in taking
possession of the roads and running them
in the interest of the people as well as
that of the companies. The petitioners
declare their belief that such a movement
would give immediate confidence to the
country, and put an end to bloodshed.
They declare in favor of suppressing riot
and upholding the supremacy of the law,
and further that the league is convinced
that the great law- abiding element of the
United States, capitalists and laborers,
would hail with delight- any settlement
of the present deplorable condition cf
affairs by a just and patriotic compro-
A Romance in Real Life.
[From the Birmingham PosL]
An extraordinary story has jnst come
to light at Bath. Some weeks ago there
was received at tho Bath Post Office a
letter, addressed to “the Protestant Min
ister of the Circuit of Bith.” The letter
consequently reached the hands of Canon
Brooke, rector of Bath. It came from a
lady at Bangalore, India, and stjL'ed that
in looking through the papersajif a de
ceased son she found that he hr’t left two
children in the neighborhood of Bath,
and she asked that they might be sought
for. The inquiries set on foot revealed
a highly romantic little history. The
two children wer%fc md—one in the Bath
Union, and the a domestic servant,
filling a situatisE ■ which she had been
sent by the anlit.NA.ies of the Dntton
Union. They uacr-^ach been left with
farmers in the immediate neighborhood
of Bath by a person named Mortm, who
twelve years a ,o presented himself first
at one house and then at the other. In
each instance he claimed relation
ship, and, after a pretty lengthy
visit, obtained permission to leave a
child, when he and a woman by whom bo
was accompanied, and who passed as his
wife, represented as their only one. In
introducing themselves they stated that
they had come from India, and produced
references to Anglo-India families of
high position in Bath. They represented
when they left the children that they
were going to Scotland to visit relatives,
aud would be back in a few weeks, and
in one instance they promised to pay five
shillings per week for the maintenanca
of the child. They were never after
ward heard of, and the two persons with
whom the children had been left, mutu
ally learning some months afterward of
the manner in which they had been
duped, sent tha children to the work-
house belonging to the respective dis
trict in which they resided, and there
they remained for twelve years. On
learning of their discovery the lady who
bad at first written sent -£70 to Canon
Brooke, with a request that the children
should be sent to India. The application
was made known to the guardians, who,
after investigation, consented. Till the
inquiries were set on foot eaoh of the
children was in ignorance of the exist
ence of the other, and they will not only
now meet their grandmother for the first
time, but a brother youDger than them
selves.
General Grant Abroad—The Question
of Returning Ua Is Made Upon Him.
[From the London World ]
Two somewhat grave questions have
been exercising the pandits of social eti
quette during the last few days. Tho
first—ought General and Mrs. Grant to
return the numerous visits which have
been paid to them during their stay iu
London? The second—supposing tho
preceding query decided in the affirma
tive, would the General and his wife ac
as etiquette appeared to enjoin ? Tho
first question is not so easily solved as
may at first appear. Royalty never re
turns other thau royal visits, except as a
matter of gracious condescension. The
President of the United States certainly
is pro tanto a sovereign. Now does the
rule “once a King always a King,”
apply mutatis mutandis to ex
Presidents iu the matter of calling?
Tho learned differed. The second
question has been positively settled.
General and Mrs. Grant, albeit a little
late in the day, and by proxy have since
their departure left their cards on all
those who called on them, and who might
fairly (to use the Orleans Ciub term) be
considered “in general society.” The
ist, even thus limited, contains over
thirty-five hundred names. The United
Service Club, sometimes called the
“Senior” and sometimes tha “Sarcopha
gus,” did its duty nobly in entertaining
General Grant last week. But some of
the veterans were a little scandalized at
the license which prevailed that same
night in the club. Smoking was freely
indulged in, not only in the drawing
room, but all over the house, General
Grant aud the Duke of Cambridge Bat
ting the example. Now on all ordinary
occasions the use cf tobacco is strictly
limited to a room ju3t under the roof,
and this wide spread contamination was
a shook to many prejudices. Among the
French there is a saying that prayers
should be short and sweet. General
Grant has a similar idea of eloquenoe.
When ho arrived at Ostend a few days
ago, ho answered the compliments of
the Burgomaster with these words: “I
am obliged for your sentiments.”
One of the latest Yankee ideas is a
Turkish bath on wheels. It is a car that
can run behind the sleeping coaches of
an express train. It has a drawingroom,
a Russian and plunge bath, shampooing
rooms, and all the other accommodations
of a Turkish bath house. The tempera
ture of the rooms varies from eighty to
one hundred and sixty degrees, and the
compartments are lighted from the roof
with bine glass. Travelers oan bathe as
well as eat, drink and sleep on the rail.
Such a car cau be switched off on a side
track in any town or village and remain
a day or two for the accommodation of
the residents.
Nine hundred and twenty physicians,
surgeons and general practitioners of
London have signed a petition for the
abolition of the grocers’ license, under
which retailers of ordinary groceries are
permitted to sell intoxicating liquors in
bottles. They regard the practice under
this license law as even more pernicious
than open dram selling, since it tends to
encourage secret drinking and drunken
ness at home.
The Southern Pacific is about to plant
a quarter of a million eucalyptus trees
along the line of their track." Preparing
for ties in the sweet bye-and-bye.
A Paris letter tells of a lunatic arrested
a few days ago in Fontainebleau forest,
where he had killed a woodman by chop
ping off his head. He was found sitting
by the corpse's side, and was asked
“What are you doing there?" “I am
waiting to see the wry face this fellow
will make when he wakes np and finds no
head on his shonnders,” he replied.
A statue of Shakespeare, ten feet high,
and modeled by Herr von Muller, has just
been cast at Munich for erection in a
park at St. Louis, Mo.
(
The Distribution of Labor.
The inequalities in the distribution of
labor, as evinced in the excess of the
labor supply over the demand oast of the
Alleghanies, and of the converse of that
condition iu the|agricultural districts at
the West, has never been more signally
demonstrated than at the present time.
In all the Atlantic cities and along the
lines of the great trunk roads there are
thousands of men out of employment.
At the same tune in the agricultural
fields of tho West the farmers are offer
ing high prices for hands to assist in
gathering their crops. A citizen of Bal
timore, who has passed through Missou
ri, states that large areas of wheat were
standing in the fields waiting for hands
to assist in harvesting it, and farmers were
offering two dollars anda half a day to all
who wonld come forward and help. There is
not only great need of labor there, but
the labor is well paid, and, although it
may not find constant employment at
such high prices as now prevail, it can at
least get work for a considerable period
that would enable those who are willing
to work to tide over their present difficul
ties. Moreover, these great western
crops also give promise of an ac
tive carrying trade, from which the em
ployes on railroads might reasonably take
hope and courage. The complaint of the
strikers is two fold—a redaction of
wages .and short time. With the pros
pective activity on the railroads conse
quent upon the removal of the crops, it is
fair to anticipate, in the presence of a
steady and probably an unusually heavy
foreign demand for breadstuffs, that tha
railroads, when shipments of grain begin,
will bs worked if not to their full
capacity, certainly well up to it. If such
should turn out to be the case it must
necessarily follow that the train hands—
for it is they who organized tha strike—
will be able to make fall time, which,
even at low wages, would be nearly
double what they now are. But with in
creased business and earnings by the rail
ways increased pay to the employes must
follow in due course.—Baltimore Sun.
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Wages and LiTing.
It is never possible to say precisely
what the absolutely necessary cost of liv
ing is, and it is not desirable that the
wages of labor shall be reduced to the
lowest point at which the laborer can
maintain life. On the contrary, it is for
the interest of all classes of men that the
laborer shall receive as much more than a
bare living in return for his labor as the
condition of business will permit. It is
certain, however, that wages are to some
extent measured by the cost of living; if
the cost of living increases wages must
increase, and if the cost of living de
creases there must be some corresponding
redaction in the rate of wages.
During the years of inflation the cost
of living was greatly increased, and
wages were about doubled. Since the
panic of 1873, however, the cost of liv
ing has steadily declined, until now it is
not very far from the standard of I860.
Has the rate of wages deolined in the
same ratio ? Iu 1860 railway engineers
were paid sixty dollars a month; they
now receive from sixty-seven dollars and
a bait to ninety dollars a month; firemen
and brakemen, who in 1860 received
thirty dollars, now get from forty to
forty-five dollars a month; so that while
the cost of living ha3 returned very
nearly to what it was in 1860, the races ot
wages are considerably higher than they
were in that year.
Men naturally dislike to have their in
comes reduced, whether their incomes
are from the work of their hands or their
heads, or from money invested; but
nothing is clearer than that the reduc
tion in the cost of living is brought about
by a redaction in the selling price of the
products of labor, and with that selling
price reduced, tha price of labor must
fall or production must cease.—Evening
Post.
A Fable Tor Strikers.
When the Roman citizens were once at
loggerheads with their Senate, and had
moved out ot Rome on a strike, Me-
nenins Agrippa, “an eloquent man and a
favorite with the people, because he de
rived his origin from them,” went out to
their camp and related to them a fable,
which we recommend to the strikers and
the working men generally just now:
“At a time,” said he, “when all the
parts of the human body did not as now
agree together, but the several members
had each its own scheme and its own
language, the other parts became indig
nant that everything was procured for the
belly by their care, labor and service, and
that the belly, remaining quiet in the
centre, did nothing but enjoy the
pleasures afforded it. They conspired
accordingly that the hands should not
convey food to the mouth, nor the month
receive it when presented, nor the teeth
chew it. But while they expected thus
to subdue the belly by famine, the mem
bers themselves aud the entire body were
reduced to the last degree of emaciation.
Thence it became apparent to them by a
disagreeable experience that the belly did
no more receive nourishment than supply
it, sending to all parts of the body and to
all the members the blood by which we
live and possess vigor.”
It is an ancient fable, but it applies
j ust as well in these days. The strikers
now, as in the old times, complain that
the belly enjoys undue privileges, bat
when they attempt to isolate it they see
that famine overtakes the members, and
that a wholesome co-operation of all the
parts is the only possible course by which
any or either can prosper.—Hew York
Herald.
M.uhiied Undeb the Shadow or
Death.—Dr. Wm. E. H. Post made the
acquaintance some years ago of Miss
M iry H. Milford, daughter of the late
Edward Milford, of New York. He
wooed and won her, and they pledged
themselves to become man and wife.
The years roiled by, but each year only
seemed to increase their love. Last Fri
day Dr. Post was suddenly taken ill with'
inflammation of the bowels. The dis
ease rapidly assumed dangerous symp
toms, and on Monday it was plainly seen
he could not recover. Wh6n informed of
his fatal malady he expressed a wish to
see bis intended wife, and if she were
willing, to become united with her in the
bonds of matrimony. She was informed
of his wish and consented. Accordingly
at five o’clock on Monday afternoon
everything wa3 made ready for the wed
ding in the room of the bridegroom at
No. 233 West Fifty-first street. It was a
pathetic ceremony. No months of anx
ious preparations had been spent for the
occasion. There were no br.l.iant lights
or sweet music or costly costumes. It
was simple and solemn. The Rev. Dr.
Houghton, of the Church of the Trans
figuration, was called in to conduct the
services, which were only of a few min
utes’ duration. When the ceremony was
concluded, the sick man was nursed as
before. In less than two hours the bride
groom was a corpse and the bride a
widow.—H. Y. Tribune.
The following advertisement appeared
in a late number of the Gazzeita diItalia,
which is published at Florence and Rome:
“Any man, widower or bachelor, who is
at liberty to dispose of his person and his
hand, aud who desires to change his soli
tary life, may present himself at the ad
dress below if he suits the requirements,
and may rely upon hearing from ns. The
candidate to the position of my son-in-
law must have at least a passably good
looking exterior; mast have gone through
the four classes of a gymnase, or have re
ceived an equally good education at home;
must give proofs of affection for his
wife, whom he will choose from among
my three daughters; and must, further
more, be in all things obedient to and
never gainsay the will of her parents.
We do not requ'ue rlohes, but the per
sons who take up my offer must be more
than twenty-two years old, and not be
under any form of judicial censure. Any
religion except Jewish will be accepted.
The dowry consists of money guaranteed
by the bank of Nezrik & Co., and can be
drawn out in the course of the first month
of the honeymoon. The total of the
ages of my three daughters is one hun
dred and seven. Come, look, and take.
Russia, Province of Kiew, District of
Lipovetz, Village of Salohicbooka.
“Ad amo Itansky.”
How is this for an essay on moles:
“Themule isagood worker,but he cannot
be depended on. He is liable to strike,
and when a male strikes, human calcula
tion fails to find out any rale by which to
reckon when he will go to work again. It
is useless to pound him, for he will stand
more beating than a sitting-room carpet.
He has been known to stand eleven days
in one spot, apparently thinking of
something, and then start off again as
though nothing had happened.”
Next year’s tuition in the University of
Mississippi will be free. The State ap
propriation is thirty thousand dollars.