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J. H. EST1LL,
Savannah. Ga.
WHAT OF THAT?
• Well, what of that ?
i . • • cy life was spent, on beds of ease,
‘ V.r the rose leaves scattered by the
breeze v
. i-o- thee! work while it is called to-
; go forth upon thy way !
... • . in d what of that?
- : I-; be lonely ! 'Tis not given to all,
. heart responsive rise and fall—
; ’{.other life into its own.
'- • n >y be done in loneliness. Work on !
i. aid what of teat ?
! y dream the urn would never set?
•ill iso thy way? Take courage yet!
walk by faith and not by sight,
guided be, and guided right!
V, tii, and what of that?
-• . ; v life one summer holiday,
"'•i, - .ns none to learn and naught but
(l f tiirtf to thy task ! Conquer or die !
•famed, learn it then patiently.
; Nay! ’Tis not so.
■.Vnju-ii human he p be far, thy Gcd is nigh—
i\"h >Itet-ds the ravens; hears His children
cry,
.. n ,-- r f whereso’er thy footsteps roam ;
id II J" v.guide thee, light thee, help thee
Affairs in Georgia,
v jro murderer who killed Bob Hurst
-on coumy has not y< t been arrested.
. d that he is hiding in some of
. fastnesaea of that county.
,1-Lerul Roger, who has been on an ex-
.. d-d virit to the North,has returned to his
r '.quarters at Atlanta.
■ Lr.i-' S&liie," who was rescued from the
>in gang in Atlanta by Henry Grady, has
.. ,. n returned there for another offence.
q\v Atlanta Xickie fills the gap of At-
journalism very neatly. It it a spicy,
„ de sheet, and we are satisfied that
Tjrrntoa will make a success of it if the
eople will furnish the nickles.
It will require two juries under the new
csnjtitutiyn to make a total divorce between
can and wife.
c-: i-t escaped from the camp near
o.d Town, Jefferson county, last week. The
L.iirvl ie News and Farmer says well-di-
: vV{d efforts were made to catch him, and
i tjoJ pack of fox hounds were put upon
trail, but he eluded the dogs, and is
..fafree man somewhere in South Caro-
A5i
iut Xiinraday a negro man by the name
: \„: oui Armstead was shot aud killed by
; , .{i parties on the Fagg plantation,
. :i miles south of Bainbridge. The
;. v![ rators of the deed shot him three
liccs^'ith buckshot. One load took effect
2 bis face, ono in the arm and the other in
L . •,Cupid Houston, George Sutton
ac.i bird Giicrease have been arrested under
ia?picion of having committed the deed.
.L is a Georgia negro named Jacob,
r. J eg in the neighborhood of Wynn’s
II | f Muscogee county, who claims that be
.. ;:e hundred and fifteen years old. He is
i full-blooded African, and was owned by
Mr. T. V. Rutherford. Ho came from
A: . . .1 landed in Charleston just before
declaration of Independence. He still
iits ' teeth in a perfect state of prcs.r-
v..:; n, bat has lost two from the same
p and now the third tooth has grown
ia tbut same place. The old darkey is in
L: , ! i spirits, good health, quite active, aud
is good for many days yet.
The following are the officers of tho Grand
Ledge of I. O. O. F., elected at the late
meeting: W. S. Gramling, of Atlan-
a, Ga., U. W. G. Master; H. S. Bradley, of
i . r .villo, Ga. # It. W. D. G. Master; M. P.
C:WwT, post office Ms-ysville, Ga., but of
(h... riiie Lodge, It. W. 6. Warden; J. G.
Dei!z, of Macon, Ga., R. W. G. Secretary;
T. A. Rurke, of Athens, Ga., R. W. G. Treas
urer; L. J. Glenn, of Atlanta, Ga., Grand
licpre.-entative to Grand Lodge United
- (appointed); E. A. Burch, of Hawk-
nsv i q Ga., R. W. G. Chaplain; W. G.
Gunning, of Atlanta, Ga., R. W. G. Mar
shal; J. S. Tyson, of Savannah, Ga., It. W.
N. Cj-ictor; A. H. Simpson, of Lumpkin,
L , It. W. G. Guard; J. F. Glatigney, of
-v-'.r.: ah, Ga., R. \V. G. Herald; J. S. Ty-
sm, 1). D. G. Master for Savannah.
Wo arc informed by Col. Cloud that the
ru-f ii doing great damage to the cotton
ci .p in Screven county.
The cotton crop is nearly marketed, and
t!. reetu at tho ports on tho seaboard
fiiact i-iSt September—the beginning of the
; . j-i-on—have been 3,957,0C8 bales, against
l.OOo.OSl bales during tho same period in
the season of 1875-76.
Peaches are offered ia the Atlanta market
it live couts a peck. Surely the members of
hoc..: vention will not starve, even if the
-it.. :: i refuses to pay their little accu
mulated bills.
Ahiiita is endeavoring to get up a citi-
i'wrjo for the race3 at the State Fair,
h- dir: ctors of the fair have made no pro-
: n for races, but the citizens have taken
>hc r: r r r in hand and the prospect is that
a I will be laissd that will tempt the
1 v -6 of horse flesh to take an active part
in tlie exhibition.
The finest quality of poaches are selling
at Carrollton at forty cents a bushel.
Br. Pci kins, a well known and prominent
pi*: - an, and a highly respected citizen of
- -ferro county, died at his residence on
ta- . Sunday, after a most painful illness of
Btveral weeks.
A delegation of Dalton citizens ia being
Jr - hized for Colorado and Oregon.
- he dwelling house of Mr. John A. Sto
at Crawfordsville, was burned on
i ; ay night of last week. The loss is heavy,
probably not less than three thousand dol-
, consisting of a beautiful cottage dwel-
‘ :D b, furniture and a considerable amount
d dne j .welry belonging to Mrs. Stephens,
SDv-rware and everything that makes up a
comfortable, if not luxurious home, not one
-f which was covered by insurance.
A Hereven county correspondent says the
rn crop of that county is the best made
3 the war. The eotton crop is good, but
in some sections rust has prevailed. All the
other crops are very good, and to crown the
whole, the health of the county was neyey
better.
The investigation in the case of the State
v?. Charles J. Walker, who is charged with
billing John P. Miiler, at Green’s Cut, was
CC:.eluded Thursday night, after occupying
nearly two weeks. The Justices decided
that the killing was voluntary maDslaugh-
aud required tbo defendant to give bond
the sum of two thousand dollars for his
appearance for trial at the November term
K Burke Superior Court. The bond was
promptly given and the defendant released.
A tlanta citizens mot on Saturday to con-
Ei'lor the subject of races at th6 Agricultu
ral Fair. Tho ConMtUuilon, alluding to the
Ca H, says tho reputation of tho city la at
Bta kc. We hope the winning horso will get
* substantial purge.
Slippery Dick Wbitely, now ia the peace-
bil vales of Colorado, where Stone is Jadge,
the colored people of Georgia to go
there- and join Gideon’s band. Some of tho
‘fool niggers” in Southwest Georgia believe
lliat Dick is all right on the niggor ques-
tiou.
* Q less than sixty days the .Enterprise fac-
' l0r y °f Augusta will be in tho full tide of
, ^ucceasiul operation. The building has
■HMCBaamca
JOB BBADLES’S ROTTEJT SCHEMES
H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY. AUGUST
1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
—1 inj.
been completed and the machinery has been j
placed. Ihe mill starts out under tho most
favorable auspices—freedom from taxation !
and seventy-three hundred spindles and one j
hundred and twenty-three looms.
-A 11 ® Constitution says : “James Lawshe, i
who is coutmed m jail, not content unless i
“ 5“™"’ s . ot m possession of a piece of
casting from the window gratiug of his cell
h-A , as 3’, “ nd proceeded to tunnel
throngh tho wau from his cell to the one
adjoining. He was, however, discovered in !
time to prevent his escaping from ono cell
to another.
Enquirer says : “From a
private letter wo learn there is a gentleman
wno is interested in cotton factories situated
at Armsbury, Mass., which are no w idle,
who speaks of coming to this city, aud
probably w:!I invest eight or ten thousand
dollars m factory stock.”
The fruit crop of Washington county is
thus described by the Gazette: “Never,
within the memory of man, has there been
suoj a fruit crop as there is in this couuty
this year. All kinds of fruit
- - ... w* 11 Uit U1 U 111*
abundant. The peach crop, however, is
really a wonder. The trees are loaded till
they are breaking down under the weight.
Aud strange to say, the poaches, despite
their great abundance, aro unusually
large.”
This is what the Bainbridgc Democrat
says in its criticism of the Constitutional
Convention. Tho editor, Bon. Russell, is a
delegate from Decatur county : “Tho bill
of rights of tho instrument being framed
as a constitution for Georgia, makds a felo
ny and misdemeanor the same ; which would,
in a few years, operate to disfranchise a
majority of the people of the Slate.”
The Washington Gazette says: “The crops
ia this county are generally short. They
have suffered for rain throughout most of
the county, aud the cotton is cut off by tbe
drought so much that in some sections there
will bo almost a total failure. In other
portions of the county the rains have been
abundant and even excessive. The county
will not average much if any more than half
a crop.”
The Norik Georgia Citizen says : “ Snug
gled up under the blue-skirted Cobuttah
Mountain, and fringed around with the rich
c tnebrakes of Oonnasauga and CLOsawattee
rivers, lies ono of the best counties in the
State of Georgia. Its mountain air is as pure
as the White Mountains, aud affording
scenery equaling the grandeur of Switzer
land, while along the broad valleys are
stretched farms that would dazzle tho eye of
a Kentuckian. The people are whole-souled,
energetic, industrious and intelligent, whose
barns evince good farming and rich laud.”
The Home Journal says : “The last of the
Houston county wheat crop was threshed
this week. Our farmers havo done well in
this respect this year. The quality of the
wheat is excellent, and the quantity har
vested ia considerably more than was ex
pected by many.”
Mr. Peterson Thweatt has addressed an
open card to the delegates o? the convention,
in reference to his little claim of eleven thou
sand doiErs, which he alleges is due lum for
services as Comptroller General during the
political years of ’62, ’63, ’64 and ’65. U is a
model card, and winds up as follows : “Is it
right, or is it just, then, for you thus to
treat tue claim of one who, all admit, and
who our public records will show, has served
the whole people of Georgia so faithfully, so
economically aud so beneficially as I served
them while their Comptroller General ? If
the ‘welfare of Georgia’ requires the sacri
fice of ‘me and mine,’ as above alluded to, ail
that I have to say is: Poor, poor Georgia !—
‘how the mighty have fallen !’ But ‘the Ru
bicon is not yet passed over.’ ”
The Columbus Enquirer says : "The feel
ing in Atlanta among many leading mem
bers of the convention is not very favorable
to cither the Attorney General or Atlanta.
Quite a number regard the whole as an At
lanta trick. They say such a measure was
never dreamed of until the measure to
8trike from the constitution a place for tho
capital and vote on the subject at the next
regular election. Refusal to pay more money
might induce the convention to adopt soino
hasty legislation, of which advantage might
bo taken in defeating the instrument. Such
are some of the reports we gather from the
papers and letters. Tae Constitution bitterly
denies that Atlanta had anything to do with
the influencing of the Attorney General, if
ho was counselled at all, an ! affirms tho first
caution to tji9 Treasurer to have a regard
for his bondsmen in case he paid more than
the $25,000 appropr.afced by the Legislature,
came from MilledgeviiJe. We, of course,
cannot tell about this, and can only say that
if it be a trick, it was very quickly dis
posed of,
We make the following notes of tho mining
interests of Habersham county: ‘‘Andy
Nichols has a gold mine four and a half
miles from Clarkesville, said to be very rich.
William Walker, iu the same neighborhood,
has lead and iimestone. Mr. Franklin has
iron ore in the same locality, also arsenical
pyrite or arsenical iron ore from lot 117 in
the Thirteenth district. Asbestos can be
found in groat quantities on the land of Posey
West, it is used for fire-proof safes and
packing for machinery, and for roofing. It
is worth from thirty to sixty dollars per ton.
Asbestos is now being shipped from Mount
Airv to Baltimore and other points, and will,
no doubt, prove a most profitable expert
from this couuty and section.”
Gold ia a drug in Georgia. The Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionalist says : “Mr.
Smith, of McDuffie county, has been work
ing for some time, with profit, a gold mine
on his place in that couuty. He has only
two or three colored miners to assist him,
and yet ha sends nearly every mouth to this
city a nugget of pure gold worth from six
huudred tonight hundred dollars. His ex
penses, we understand, hardly exceed one
hundred dollars per mouih. Last June he
forwarded a nugget worth seven hundred
and ninety-nine dollars.”
The LaGrango Reporter says: “Plans are
on foot to erect a school house costing
about $3,000, on the lot occupied by tho
Methodist parsonage, formerly known as
the Caldwell lot. Bishop Haven has pledged
him6eif and his family to raise $1,000; Rev.
Mr. Owens, the pastor of the Methodist
Church, has pledged himself and family
likewise to raise $1,000, and other subscrip
tions have been made amounting to $500.
The colored people of the church and con-
grt gation expect to do as much as lies iu
their power, and tbe white people of La-
Grange, who have not been called on, will
doubtless respond liberally when an appeal
is made to them.” The Reporter says Mr.
Owens, p&ator of the colored Methodist
Church, ia an educated gentleman, and has
at heart tho true interests of tho people he
ministers to. We hope tho subscription
will soon be completed.
The Street Porters of Constantino
ple.—The hamals or porters of Constan
tinople are Armenians and Turks, and
form a powerful guild. The bad roads
and narrow streets of Eastern cities are
not favorable to ordinary vehicles, conse
quently heavy merchandise in bales, cases
aud barrels, is slung on poles,or placed on
tho backs of porters, who struggle
through the streets undergoing a labor
which could be far more economically
performed by other locomotive power.
These porters form a well disciplined
trade association, which governs its mem
bers with considerable success. To the
stranger r. string of apparently poor and
needy porters entrusted with thousands
of pounds in coin, which they carry on
their backs through the streets m
sacks without any guard or sur
veillance, offers a curious sight.
There is also a section of porters who
perform the duties of watchmen to
houses and stores. “They are held, ’
says Sir Philip Francis writing to Lord
Granville, in lft72, “as peroous of great
probity and confidence, aud have much
valuable property assigned to their care.
The Armenian porter comes from the
interior. Ho frequently stays for years
in the city, living with great economy,
saving his money to go home; when, after
dwelling with his wifo and family for a
year or two, ho returns to bis vocation
at Constantinople, hoping ultimately to
settlo permanently in his birthplace,
when overtaken by year?. The frugality
of the porters is proverbial—bread, olives,
cheese, onions and salad are their staple
-food. It is only on the celebration of
some holy festival that they indulge iu
strong drink to excess, “It is doubtful,
however,” writes Sir Philip Francis, “it
the occupation of the street hamal is
healthy. The strength in some of their
limbs and certain sets of muscles is enor
mous, so much so as to effect the sym
metry am) proportions of the mon, and I
am told that when they fall ill they make
but bad patients.”—Dali Mall Gazette.
A Republican editor has discharged a
horny-handed typo for making him say :
i have unbounded faith in the rapacity
of the Ohio Republicans.” The editor
alleges that the word was written
“capacity.”
A medical .journal gives tho antidotes
to a number of poisons, and aduf. These
remedies must be given before the
Doctor comes. 1 ’ By ail means. Give the
patient at l&ftal one chance for his life.—
v t-Journal-
The Georgia University.
We have received the subjoined report
accompanied by an earnest request to
republish it:
REPORT ON ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
Athens, July 10, 1877.—Mr. J. W.
Glenn, from the special committee
charged with the duty of attending the
annual examinations of the University
of Atlanta, reported as follows:
Present, Mark Johnston, H. H. Jones,
J. H. Dunham, C. M. Neal, H. L. Mitchell
and J. W. Glenn.
That the recitations before the board
were most flattering to the teachers and
pupils. The results exhibited extraor
dinary skill and patience in the former,
and remarkable docility on the part of
the latter.
A strict construction of duty might,
with this statement,' discharge tho Board,
but presuming that the Governor and
General Assembly wish the fullest in
formation, by which they may decide
whether tho patronage of Georgia has
been well bestowed on this institution,
the board would further suggest that pro
bably we have heretofore overlooked the
vast influence which it may exert on our
State.
They would call the attention of tho
General Assembly to the fact that it can,
to a great extent, shape the public opin
ions of the colored race, and make them
true and loyal citizens of Georgia, there-
b> increasing her dignity, power and in
fluence, or it can turn all their prejudices
and feelings against their native State, as
the former scene of their slavery and the
present home, as charged by our enemies,
of their oppressors and natural
enemies. Thus trained, they will be
ready at the suggestion of our enemies to
throw all their political influence
and voting power against the true
interests of our own section. No
school in Georgia ever had such a field,
and its social a3 well as political power
may become immense. Those who seek
instruction there control nearly one-half
of the votes of the Empire State of the
South. They have just been emancipa
ted, and are wholly unformed as citizens,
and, as yet, almost ciphers in the problem
of government—ciphers to be placed after
any significant factor than happens to
control the impulse, the moment. The
board noticed, too, that they were emi
nently “clay in the hands of the potter.”
Probably no pupils on earth yield so
implicitly to the impress made by the
teacher.
The pupils from that school will be the
moulders of their race in the State, aud
the bias which they receive for or against
our home institutions will be communi
cated to a vast body of new voters. It
has passed into an axiom that the people
of a republic must be educated, since all
questions of policy aud power must be
ultimately referred to them. We coneidoi
it no less axiomatic that such education
should develop a strong patriotism and a
distinctive love for home and “father-
land.” This race have naturally strong
local attachments, but they evidently do
not love the home institutions of Georgia
as directed by the whites. Our State is
a largo patron of this institution, and she
can be interested in it only so far as it
sends out to her intelligent, moral and
patriotic citizens. To accomplish this
and furnish noblo cit’zens from a race
necessarily degraded by recent bondage,
a6 yet almost untaught, aud with circum
stances and influences wholly unfavora
ble, is a task a3 vast in proportions as it
would be noble in purpose. Your board
had constantly in view these ends to te
attained, aud the difficulties in the way.
They also found neatness and order in
the school room, far in advance of what
is usually found in tho academies and
colleges of the whites.
The pupils were exceedingly quiet and
respectful, and showed an appreciation
of the proprieties and a love for the har
monious and beautiful, which few,
knowing the race, would have thought
possible. Indeed, the board are con
strained to say that the mental training
was very satisfactory. These pupils will
certainly exert a tremendous influence on
their race.
As to whether that influence will be for
good or ill, is as yet more problematical.
Heretofore, most of the surroundings of
these people have tended to drag them
away from us ; to alienate their affections
from tho State and embitter them against
her institutions. This has been moat un
fortunate for State and people, and it
is highly important that their allegi
ance and love be secured to the home
government.
Until this is done they will always be
indifferent and troublesome citizens. The
carpet-baggers and others who exerted a
bad icfluonce are now powerless, or nearly
so: and if the pupils from thi3 school be
patriotic and true, the race may furnish
the State many valuable citizens. Mem
bers of tho board thought that the ani
mus of the pupils this year seemed much
better.
Formerly, their feelings were clearly
against us, almost wholly alienated—so
much so, indeed, that the propriety of
withdrawing tho State aid and using it
for a normal school taught by our own
people has been discussed and pressed.
But the board think now such a course
would be unwise, as it would create dis
satisfaction and further alienation; be
cause they accepted this aid in lieu of
their claim on the government land scrip.
They seem much attached to the school,
and for the present they will take in
struction from Northern teachers more
readily and confidently than they would
from us.
The board suggest, however, that our
authorities insist that these Northern
teachers do not try to alienate them from
old masters aud homes, and from their
native State; or even use such instruc
tion or place around them such influences
(by sectional books,etc.,) as will have that
tendency.
Pro! ably the present teachers are not
so careful in this respect a3 the interests
of this people and of our State demand.
The board would further suggest that the
graduates of the “Atlanta University” be
encouraged, by all proper authorities, to
engage iu teaching their race, and in
hefpiug to make them good citizens.
KEELT’S NEW MACHINE.
A MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.
Experiments with a £00,000 Kngine—
11,000 Pounds Pressure to the Inch.
[From the Philadelphia Times.]
The Directors of the Keely Motor Com
pany met the other evening to witness
Keely’s experiments with a new machine,
which weighs more than twenty tons. It
hss cost $60,000, having been two years
in process of erection, and was twice re
constructed with other metal, because the
first two choices cf the inventor proved
not strong enough to restrain the energy
of his vapor. The machine is made of
wrought iron and cast steel. It consists
of spheres, basins, standing tabes, and
small reservoirs, with a wilderness of
connecting rods, valves and tiny copper
tubes. A globe of cast steel, four feet in
diameter on the outside, holds only twelve
gallons. The centre cavity is in a shell of
nine inches thickness. The perpendicular
tubes that reach from floor to ceiling, at
the other, end of the machine, have a
central chamber of three inches diameter,
the surrounding metal being three inches
thick, and outside of it, one above the
other, are huge ring9 of wrought iron
shrunk upon the pipe. The copper tubes
appear to be one fourth and one-half inch
m diameter, but the aperture in their
centre is not large enough to admit a pin
head. The machine is now complete.
Mr. Keely is giving exhibitions of its
force, registering pressure to. the square
inch, and is testing its strength before
he applies the power to large engines.
First, he began to register pressure upon
tbe gauge, which will register a pressure
of 11,500 pounds to the square inch.
He made nine tests, and with five-
twentieths suspension of the watt r col
umn and ten pounds of air he produced
11,000 pounds pressure to the inch,
and had to shut off the pressure because
the gauge would not btanci more. The
condensing apparatus into which the
vapor is discharged is a cylinder that
holds three gallons of water, aud so
strongly bolted and barred that it looks
as if made for the discharge cf a twenty-
inch projectile. Its design is to reduce
the vapor, the force of which has just
been used, to water, for U3e over and
over again in the working of the ma
chine. The Times representative had an
opportunity to breathe the mysterious
vapor while the wonderful pressure was
upon the tubes. It was discharged into
his hand?, his eyes, and his mouth. It
was perfectly cold and dry.
Within a month, when he has made all
his experiments with his now completed
machine, Mr. Keely will endeavor to
show the extent of its power. In his
concluding talk with the Times repre
sentative, Mr. Keely said : “This is a
new substance; a new force, altogether
unknown to science. I don’t pretend to
be tho inventor; I discovered it by acci
dent. I could work this machine up to
tea thousand horse-power if the metal
would hold. I shall certainly work it
upon a two hundred horse power engine
soon. The little machine you saw in the
office, up stairs (it is only nine feet long,
two feet wide, aud three feet high iu its
highest part), is the most powerful ma
chine ever constructed. It was built for
us by Mr. Willard, of Borden town, who
was drowned a few days ago. It was a
quart machine, that i3 to say, it used
only a quart of water. With the con
denser that I have now nearly complete,
I will mako that quart of water produce
a thousand horse-power motion of suffi
cient duration to run a steamship across
the ocean.”
An KUpaurnt nnd Ten Years of Suffer
ing—.4 Checkered Career—A Repentant
Wife—Remarried to the Husband she
Deserted.
All of which is most respectfully sub
mitted. J- W. Glexn.
On motion, the foregoing report was
read before the whole Board of Visitors
for the Slate University, adopted, and
ordered to be transmitted to the Gov
ernor.
CSignedj H - H - JoN ' F - s ,
Chairman Board of Visitors.
The Country of Roses.—Iu the Bul
garian language, Schipka means wild
rose. The village, which is at the bot
tom of the Balkan Pass, crossed by the
Russians, and which bears tho same
name, consists of about eight hundred
houses, the inhabitants of which are oc
cupied in the cultivation and sale of
roses. The principal town of the Valley
of Roses, at present ravaged by war, is
Kazanlik, which the troops of General
Gourko lately seized on. Count de
M> ltke, in his letters on the East, has
the following remarks oa that region :
“The little town of Kazanlik is hidden
in a small forest of gigantic walnut
trees. Even the minarets do not succeed
in rising above the mountains of foliage
and branches nnder which they are bu
ried. The abundance of water in that
district surpasses all conception; just as
in Lombardy, ail the fields and gardens
are irrigated by ditches and rivulets.
Kazanlik is tho Cashmire cf Europe, the
Gulistan of Turkey, the country of
roses. That flower is not cultivated, as
with ns, in pots and gardeos; but in
fields and in furrows, like potatoes.
Nothing can be more charming than
such a plantation of roses. Millions
upon millions of red leaves are spread
over the bright green of the rose field,
and yet at this moment not one quarter
of the buds are opened. At Kazanlik is
made the oil of roses, which is of such
great value, and which is difficult to
procure unalloyed, even at Constanti
nople.”
The Communist platform, epigram-
matically expressed, is about as follows:
A loaf for every loafer, with full privilege
of loafing.
Mli. TILDiiN IN EUROPE.
Looked ior in London While Enji>yinff
Hiutitelf in Ireland.
iFrom the New York World.]
London, August 1.—We have all been
looking this week for the arrival of Mr.
Samuel J. Tilden, and several receptions
and entertainments had been arranged
for him. By some mischance he has
thus far failed to put in an appearance at
the houses to which he hud been asked. I
was at a dinner party last evening, in
vited especially to meet him, and I thiuk
it was thoroughly worth his while to have
been present, for it was a “representa
tive” gathering. Several members of the
House of Commons came to see and talk
with Mr. Tilden. Mr. Chamberlain, the
Birmingham Radical, was there, and Sir
Charles Dilke, the Republican, and Mr.
A. J. Balfour, member for Hertford, aDd
Sir Henry James, the Attorney General
under Mr. Gladstone’s Ministry. Lord
Fortescue was also there, formerly a
member of the House of Commons,
where he sat for about four and twenty
years, and Lord Cardwell, one of the
old band of “Peelites.” Literature was
represented by Thomas Hughes, of “Tom
Brown’s School Days,”and Mr. John Mor-
ley, editor of the Fortnightly Review;
Mr. Childers, ex First Lord of the Admi
ralty, and Mr. Grant Duff, another active
member of Parliament, had also been at
tracted from the exciting scenes in the
House by the hope of meeting the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency last
year. But, alas! he came not—and
everybody was disappointed. It appears
that ho was at the Lakes of Killarney
with Mr. John Bigelow instead. There
cannot be a doubt that a tour with Mr.
Bigelow must be most instructive to the
mind, as well as most amusiDg, but still
it was a pity that Mr. Tilden did not
make the last of this last week of the
London season, and leave Ireland for an
other time. Next Saturday he is engaged
to dine with Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P.
Mr. Hewitt of your city has been in
London for a week or more, and has been
“out” a good deal, and seen many of the
leaders in the world of politics. Mr.
Conkling I have also heard of.
Fashions of the Empire.
The following is an extract from a
Paris letter of July 31 in the New York
Herald :
“How will you like yourself dressed in
the style of the empire, a la Josephine :
Short skirts, short waists, large poke
bonnets and big bags on your arms ? Do
you think it will be becoming to our
style of beauty? I trust that iu assum
ing this empire dress—if it is to be—we
shall not be entirely deprived of our in
fluence, as tbe women of the empire
were, for it is a matter of history that
the women of the empire were as remark
able for their depuration of influence as
were the women of the revolution—for
its enjoyment and exercise. But can
didly, it is said here the Faubourg St. Ger
main have decided to adopt it, and when
the French Sinai issues its decrees
America will be the first to hear the rever
beration.
“We drove out to see Carlotta Patti,
living charmingly about a half hour’s
drive from Paris. She was very reticent
of Adelina—said but little of her. I saw
her in London as Marguerite and Nicolini
as Faust. Why he should have fascinated
her is a conundrum I don’t propose to
answer.
“I met Madame P., your great modiste,
fresh from Trouviile, where she has been
to study all the latest fashions and is now
making her fall purchase?, and she will
have all the great novelties.
“There is a most wonderful music
teacher residing here, who almost works
miracles with the voice. I have never
seen any one develop it so well and in
such a short space of time by a method
peculiar to himself. He is a Spaniard,
named Belari, and has an exquisite tenor
voice himself.”
One of the largest women in the world,
Fannie Wallace, died in Ephrata, Pa., a
few days ago. She was fifty-four years
old, seven feet four inches in height, and
weighed five hundred and eighty-five
pounds. Her coffin was seven feet eight
inches in length, three feet six inches in
depth, four feet wide at the centre and
two feet wide at the foot.
This is the way P. T. Barnum puts it :
“I hadn’t the remotest idea of lecturing
when I came over, but I have a wife who
can spend a hundred pounds as fast as I
can make it, so I thought I might as
well.”
Heroism Rewarded.—Some days ago
a young lady, while bathing in the ocean,
opposite the West End Hotel, Long
Branch, ventured too far out and found
herself being carried away by the under
tow. Her critical situation was wit
nessed by several spectators on shore and
by several bathers. Walter S. Hildreth,
son of David B. Hildreth, one of the pro
prietors of the hotel, seeing the great
danger the young lady was in, rushed
from the bluff, plunged into the breakers,
and rescued Miss P , who was quite
exhausted. It was a noble and heroic
act, and so thought the guests at the
West End, who, through a committee vf
gentlemen, quietly and generously pro
cured a magnificent watch aud chain,
which they presented to young Hildreth
as a souvenir of his heroism. On the
outside case of the watch is a monogram
of the initials of the recipient, and the
inside bears the inscription: “Walter
E. Hildreth, irom guests of the West
Ead Hotel, Long Branch, recognizing his
bravery in rescuing a young lady from
drowning.”
A high honor has just been paid to an
American engineer, Mr. Geo. E. Waring,
Jr. He has Been made an honorary mem
ber of the Kouinklijk Iastitut van In-
genieurs of the Netherlands, on the ground
of his services, as a judge at the Centen
nial, in behalf or the Netherlands exhibi
tion, and of the further interest shown
by him in that country in his work enti
tled “A Farmer’s Vacation.” Colonel
Waring is, aside from the Royal Princes
and the highest Dutch officials, the sixth
person (now living) on whom honorary
membership has been bestowed.
The young Princess Mercedes de Mont-
pensier, the future Queen of Spain, is the
possessor of a lively disposition and much
intelligence. Her features are Spanish
even to the dark hue of her complexion,
and her education is French. It is ro
mantically said -that King Alfonso has
been attached to her from childhood.
A CONSUL’S DILEMMA.
Wedded to An Heiress and Sued
Breach of Promise of Marriage.
An Elmira (New York) correspondent
of the New York Sun furnishes the fol
lowing particulars of a strange story, the
truth of which is affirmed by the parties
interested:
“ About ten years ago the wife of Arnzi
i S. Tiner, a prosperous miller, in a small
j village in Southern Pennsylvania, near
j the Maryland State line, eloped with a
j young man named George Mills, a Vir-
! ginian by birth, a clerk in the store of
Ori Gates, the f ther of Mrs. Tiner. The
match between Mbs Gates and Tiner was
made by her father against his daughter’s
wishes. She desired to marry young
Mills. She had been married less than a
month when the elopement took place.
The runaways were followed by the hus
band as far as Wheeling, West Virginia.
There all traces of them was lost, and
nothing was heard of them afterward. In
1870, Gales, the father of the runaway
wife, died. He made a will leaving
his property, valued at $20,000, to Tiner,
tho daughter having been his only child.
There was in the wiil a provision that if
any news should be beard of the daughter
within two years after her father’s death,
and she was in want, she was to receive
the interest on $10,000 for one year at
seven per cent., to be paid in instalments
of ten dollars a week. If at the end of a
year after her being found she had not
voluntarily returned home and begged her
husband’s forgiveness, no further claim
of hers on tbe estate was to be allowed.
In the event of her being with Mills, if
found within the two years, she could
have no claim against the estate. If she
returned repentant within a year, the
executors of the will were to provide her
a suitable home and allow her ten dollars
a week as long as she lived. The execu
tors were Amzi S. Tiner and Myron Pool,
a cousin of the testator.
“Tiner made every effort to find some
trace of his long missing wife, but fail
ing, procured a divorce from her in 1872,
and married again. His second wife died
in 1875, leaving him two children. On
the 22d of July last a letter addressed to
Mr. Gates, and postmarked Litchfield,
Minn., was handed Mr. Pool as one of
the executors of the estate of the de
ceased. It proved to be from the runa
way wife and daughter. It breathed a
spirit of repentance, and declared that
the writer was anxious, after ten years of
suffering, to ask forgiveness of those she
had wronged and be permitted to come
home, if only to be a servant. Pool
went with the letter to Mr. Tiner. The
latter resolved to go at once to Litchfield.
He wa3 accompanied by Mr. Pool. On
Wednesday last Tiner and the wife who
had deserted him ten years ago, and
whom he had found working as a seam
stress in a Litchfield family, arrived in
Elmira, where he has relatives. The
story of his wife’s life since she left him
satisfied him that, while she had compro
mised both his and her honor, she was
more sinned against than sinning, and
they were remarried in St. Paul on the
4th inst. The runaway wife’s story is
substantially as follows:
“Shejaccompanied George Mills only as
far as YVheeling. There he left her to go
to St. Loui3. She then went to Indiana.
She refused to become the companion of
Mills until she could legally become his
wife. He had $500. He gave her $200.
She went to Lafayette, Ind., where she
obtained a divorce, through the agency of
a divorce lawyer named Bowditch, beiDg
in the place but a few months. Milis,
meantime, had gone to the plains, and
brought up in Central City, Col. She
joined him there, and they were married.
Mills made considerable money by sup
plying miners with stores, and they lived
contentedly together for a year. Then
Mills fell into the habit of gambling; he
squandered all his gains, and his business
passed into other hands. They then went
to Utah. Mills got a position as a min
ing clerk at Corinne, and for a time was
steady in his habits. The life of a
clerk was not stirring enough for him,
however, and he finally resigned the po
sition and went to Salt Lake City. There,
in company with a miner named Olney,
he opened a faro bank. He began drink
ing, and abused his wife. To cap tho
climax of her misery Mills joined the
Mormons, and added two more wives to
his family. This indignity the unfortu
nate woman, who hail left her home and
friends for Mills, could not brook, and
one night in 1871 she ran away from his
house, and, after months of hardship,
reached Denver. She was a year and a
half in that place, working in a hotel.
While there she read the account of the
killing of George Mills, in Salt Lake City,
by his partner, Bill Olney, while quar
reling in their gambling saloon.
“In 1873 she engaged as waiting maid to
an English lady who was traveling with o
party in the Rocky Mountains. She vis
ited New Mexico, the Spanish Peak and
all the principal points of interest there
abouts with the party, returning to Den
ver in 1874. There she left the party and
started East. She was prostrated with
fever in St. Louis, and all of her money
was used up before she was able to leave.
She then engaged as traveling companion
to a Mrs. Van Atta, of New Jersey, who,
with her husband, wasgoiDg to Minnesota
for her health. They traveled through
the State until September, 187C, when
Mrs. Van Atta died in the vicinity of
Itaskalake. Having some money she de
termined to return to her old home. On
the way from the lakes to the railroad,
some fifty miles, she was robbed by her
guide, a half breed Indian. She walked
thirty miles to Brainerd, on the Missis
sippi, and had been working as a seam-
tress in different towns thereabouts ever
since. Her health failing, she feared she
would die iu a strange land before she had
told her story to her father and received
his forgiveness, and she wrote the letter
that resulted in so unexpected a sequel to
her ten years’ bitter experience. Mr. and
Mrs. Tiner have returned to their old
home, apparently as happy as if there
had never been a shadow in their lives.”
[ Special Dispatch, to the Boston Qlobe.l
Montpelier, Vt., August 13.—Thomas
T. Prentis, the United States Consul at
the Soychells Islands in the Iudian
Ocean, came to Waitsfield early in the
summer to visit his father, to spend the
summer in this country and to return to
his post of official duty in September. He
received the appointment of United
States Consul in 1871, and had been
abroad about six years. He resided in
Rutland prior to receiving his commis
sion under Grant’s administration. He
was then twenty-five or twenty-six years
of age, unmarried. When he came to
Waitsfield this summer he brought
with him a wife, whom he had married
while upon the islands, two children
and a colored woman, a native of the
islands, for a servant; their costly goods
and baggage surprised the neighbors as,
they were uuloaded in front of his father’s
residence from tho extra wagon that
brought them into the valley. Among
the goods were one hundred silk parasols,
a large number of silk dress patterns, two
hundred canes cut from different kinds
of wood that grew upon the island, aud
numerous curiosities. He said his wife
was a daughter of a millionaire, who had
given them eight thousand dollars to
make their trip to this country; had al
ways had servants to care for her; was
educated and accomplished, and though
born on the island was English. They
attended church at Waitsfield and out
shone all.
The children were left in the care of
the nurse at his father’s, and Mr. and
Mrs. Prentis took a trip to Washington,
New York and other cities. They re
turned a few days ago to hi3 fatber’s.
Sheriff E. W. II >we, of Northfield, with
Attorney T. J. Deavitt, of Montpelier,
came to town and arrested Consul Pren-
ti?, on a writ in favor of Mrs. Sarah A.
Thayer, of Waitsfield, claiming five thou
sand dollars damages for a breach of
promise to marry. Mrs. Thayer is a
widow about thirty-five years of age, of
small means, and works for a living.
She is highly esteemed and goes in the
best society in tho town, and is a lady of
fine personal appearance. She charges
in her writ that at Waitsfield, in 1871,
Prentis faithfully promised to marry her
when he should return; that upon his
arrival at New York on his return he
agreed to notify her by telegraph when
she was to meet him in New York, where
they agreed to be married, and return to
Waitsfield together after such marriage as
husband and wife ; that, confiding in the
promise of Prentis, she still is unmarried,
whereof Prentis has always bad notice ;
that Prentis informed his father and
mother of his engagement of marriage
with her, and took Her to visit his parents
before going away, who received aud
treated her very cordially, and expressed
themselves as being greatly pleased that
she was going to marry their sin; that
after Prentis went away on his foreign
mission he frequently wrote letters to her,
iu which he referred to their marriage
engagement, and his letters were very
tender. Their correspondence was con
tinued to February, 1874, when, she al
leges, he wrote her a letter that caused
her great pain and grief, in which he
stated that “ he was then living with his
wife” on the distant island. Mr. Prenti-*,
when arrested, was somewhat embarassc-d
in procuring bail in the sum of five thou
sand dollars, his father refusing to bail
him. He finally procured his brother, C.
A. Prentis, George E. Walbridge and
Moses E. Hadley as bail.
THE GREAT KUHU8Z QUESTION.
Bill Kemble and the Adventurer.
[From the Pittsburgh Commercial.]
It is evident that the Kemble revelation
hurts. The New York Evening Post and
a few other papers seek to whistle it down
the wind by declaring that Scburz’s word
is better than Kemble’s. This i3 not true.
Kemble, with all his peculiarities, is a
blunt, outspoken, truthful man, and he
refers to dates too plainly for any doubt
to exist as to tbe correctness of his state
ments. Schurz has been a political and
military adventurer through all his life,
and the mercenary trait in his character
is in keeping with all the rest. It will
not do to affirm that he did not receive
the money. And the worst is, that he
received it knowing that it could have
come from no other source than Federal
office holders. Worse still, he demanded
and received money in the infancy and
weakness of the party. Those who kno*v
the two will not hesitate to believe Kem
ble on this point.
Scbiirz On*bt to Study Arithmetic.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Carl Schurz has queer ideas of arithme
tic. Aunt Gail accused him of taking
$500 a speech for his campaign services.
He made an answer as vague as the specie
plank of the Cleveland platform, the in
tent of it being, however, to produce the
impression that he had at no time receiv
ed as much as his expenses. In this as
pect of the case Carl’s answer might be
regarded as what would have been a lie
in anybody else, but which is apparently
a mathematical error in Schurz, arising
from the obscurity of his ideas of arith
metic. Let us examine. Kemble now
shows that Carl did exact $500 for each
week. On tbe theory that he delivered
seven speeches a week, Carl now tri
umphantly retorts that this is a confession
of falsehood in the original charge that
ho got $500 a speech; and he adds that
this is a fall of six hundred per cent, from
the first statement. We had an idea that
a reduction of one hundred per cent, was
sufficient to wipe out the whole; and, if
this is correct, Mr. Schurz himself has
made a mistake of five hundred and four
teen and two sevenths per cent, in his
calculation. This is all that saves the
Secretary o? the Iuterior from the dis
grace of a falsehood. But it is hard on
his mathematics.
The Square Truth of It.
[From the Inter-Oa an]
“What’s this about Schurz never having
received pay for his speeches ?” said an
Inter- Ocean man to an ex member of the
Illinois Committee yesterday.
“It’s strange.”
“I know, but is it true I”
“I guess so. You notice he admits he
has been paid money for expenses, but
not for speaking.”
“Yes. But do you think pay for the
latter has been covered up under the ex
pense accouot?”
“Don’t know. I remember in ’68, when
Schurz was editor of the Westliche Post,
he came up over the Alton road and made
speeches along the line. I suppose he
had a pass, and the people generally set
tled the hotel bills. But afterward we
got a bill from him for $250—for ‘ex
penses.’ ”
“Was it paid?”
“Not the whole of it. I don’t know
how much it was cut down, but I know
the Chairman razed it considerably.”
Communism rests upon the eternal
principle of envy. There has been no
age in ail the history of the world when
it did not assert itself. Cain was the
first Communist. He found that Abel
was getting the better of him and re
sented the tyranny of capital. And so all
the way down.—Newark Advertiser.
Some one has prettily said: “If we die
to-day the sun will shine as brightly and
the birds will sing as sweetly to-morrow.”
It is nice to know that, because it is the
assurance of a pleasant day for the
funeral.
New Orleans Times: “Come right in
heah, ’Gustus Lysander—playin’ wi’ dat
low trash! Come in heah an’ keep de
fiies ofn yo’ granfader! Yo’ll never be a
Flipper, chile, ef you don’t !”
A young Highland doctor spends his
leisure hours in practising on the bag
pipes, and passersby, thinking an ampu
tation is going on inside, are deluded as
to the number of the man’s patients.
ENGLAND’S REVOLUTION.
says:
Never since parliamentary government
was known in these islands has such a
scandalous session as the present been
witnessed. As I have pointed out more
than once to your readers during the past
year, we are passing through a revolu
tionary period in England—a bloodless
revolution, it is true, but none the less
carrying with it great organic changes iu
ell the institutions of the country. That
the character and influence of the House
of Commons should have been so soon
debased is not surprising to those who
have a just appreciation of the forces
now at work.
Men of all classes have not scrupled to
make use of those forces for their tem
porary purposes, but not many years will
elapse before they will shrink back in
terror from the catastrophe they have
invited. When contempt of law and
authority is preached by eminent states
men and by members of “aristocratic
families” we cannot be surprised if the
classes which live by lawlessness make
haste to carry out the precepts of their
instructions. It is not often, however,
that the owners of property invite the
enemies of society to apply the torch
to it.
The recent open scandals in the House
of Commons are only symptoms of the
disease which has attacked Eagiand—
they are not the disease itself. The very
framework of Eagliah government is in
process of disintegration. Few English
men will acknowledge this, for they are
slow to see that anything is going or can
possibly go wrong with England. They
have not tho slightest doubt that England
will last as it is to-day at least as long as
the solar system. Yet there are mon
here and there who have sufficient sagaci
ty to see that the political changes now
occurring are something more than the
mere accidents of the hour, aud have a
far more momentous bearing than that
which affects parties or factions. When
the government of a country is no longer
respected, and when all power is placed
in the hands of the people, the days of
that government are numbered. Aud I
am convinced that the government—that
is, the whole civil polity—of England
has lost whatever hold it may once have
had on the respect or affections of the
people.
The bulk of the people are poor, and,
as we have seen ere now in America,
poverty breeds discontent with any form
of government. The contrasts between
rich and poor are vast—all the comforts
of the world are at the command of tbe
one, while the bare necessaries of life
are not within reach of the other. “Aw
ful, awful, poor man’s country,” cried
Thackeray; and often as I wander over it,
especially in the rural districts, the ex
clamation forces itself to the lips. Tne
large landholder has everything—the la
borer nothing. Not only the laborer but
to the small capitalist land is inaccessible.
They look around them and see men who
own from ten to one hundred and thirty
thousand acres, acquired in many c ises
by means which will not bear investiga
tion. Where ha3 “land grabbing” been
carried on to such an extent as in Eng
land ? The system under which it was
possible was very pleasant for those who
profited by it, but it has had its day, and
is fast coming to an end. If I were a
large land owner I should tremble for
the inheritance of my children.
TIIE MYSTERIOUS BENEFACTOR.
What i« Made Known now that Lewi*
Brooks of Rochester Is Dead.
[From tbe Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.J
Lewis Brooks was one of tli9 most re -
markable men this city ever contained,
a man who had amassed an immense
property and had given secretly nearly
$200,000 to worthy and needy objects.
Not long ago it was announoed that a lib
eral gentleman of Rochester had bestowed
$120,000 upon the University of Virginia,
at Monticello, and had erected new build
ings, endowed the University with a largo
fund, and provided it with a museum
selected by Prof. Ward m a European
tour. That liberal gentleman was Lewis
Brook?. It will also be remembered that
$10,000 was given last year to the Roches
ter City Hospital. The donor was Lewis
Brooks. St. Mary’s Hospital also re
ceived $10,000 from a friend, whose name
was not made public. The donor was
Lewis Br >oks. The Industrial School
and the Rochester Female Coaritable
Society were each presented with $5,000
in a similar manner. The donor was
Liwis Brooks, who died last evening at
tho age of eighty-four years.
Lewis Brooks was a peculiar man, and
one of his peculiarities was his unwil
lingness to say anything about himself.
He was exceedingly modest ard retiring
in bis disposition, and rarely confided
anything to any one. He had no family
and no relatives in this city, and henco
very little regarding his life can be given.
He c.ime to Rochester in 1822, when he
was, it is thought, about twenty-nine
years of ago. He was first engaged here
in the manufacture of woolen cloth, aud
afterward entered the mercantile busi
ness in a store. About forty years ago,
however, he retired from business, and
from that time was engaged merely in in
vesting his money and caiing for the real
estate ho owned. Wise, prudent, and
economical, he amassed a very large
property, and having no ohildren with
whom to leave it, he very naturally sought
to do good with it, giving a part of it to
charitable and educational purposes. He
never married, but lived all his life alone,
and daring the last sixteen years boarded
in the Osborn House.
The total amounts given by Mr. Brooks
to the University of Virginia aggregate
about $120,000. He was impelled to this
enterprise by a desire to commemorate
the home of Jefferson, who was a firm
family friend, and hence the new build
ing which was erected was so placed as
to command a fine view of Monticello.
Large as has been his gifts to public
institutions, they are by no means all.
In private gifts, those belonging to his
own blood and to those in whom he had
no personal interest save the interest of
sympathy, he was munificent. To the
needy and suffering his liberality was
open handed and almost unstinted, and
no worthy object of assistance was ever
allowed to leave hi3 presence unaided.
The cotton crop just being closed out
is said to have amounted to 3,966,000
bales, or within 130,000 bales of the
largest recent crop, that of 1876. Both
corn and cotton are very favorably re
ported, but about a fortnight later than
usual. The harvest weather throughout
the West is said to have been well nigh
perfect. Th6 crop of wheat and corn
will be especially heavy. It is believed that
the business of the year to come will be
upon a vast scale, but transactions in all
lines of trade will be carried on at low
prices and small profits.
Old Mb. Blanchard.—Old Mr. Blan
chard, who lives out on West HilJ, took
down his son’s double-barrelled gun. yes
terday morning, and went out into the
backyard. “I have not,” he said, “fired
off a gun for thirty-seven years,” and
then he pointed the gun at the bam
and fired. It does not definitely appear
from the evidence which made the
most noise—the hired maD, who im
mediately emerged from the barn,
carrying himself along with both
hands, or old Mr. Blanchard, lying on his
back, between the ash barrel and the
fence, trying to hold his jaw to its place,
or tho stranger on the other side of the
fence, with a brick in each hand, his hat
caved in, and a black eye all over his
cheek, calling out to know what “hoof
bound, blear eyed, four legged, turkey
trodden, shambling, cockeyed, clodhop
ping idiot hit me with that gun ?” Mr.
Blanchard has since been heard to re
mark that he didn’t want to fire a gun
again for thirty-seven years more.—Bur
lington Haukeye.
Ill* Notion* of Life fn*^rnace by which
fie Bankrupted Tvro Couipaoie*.
English Government Said to be In Pro
cess of Disintegration.
Mr.VL. J. Jennings, in a late letter
from London to the New Y’ork World,
[From the New York Snn.]
“Joe Bradley was the organizer of the
New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany,” said lawyer McCarter, counsel to
the receiver of the company, ex Gover
nor Parker, yesterday.
“Joe Bradley ?”
“Yes, that's what every one calls him
here in Newark. He is known every
where else as Aliunde Joe of the Elector.il
Commission.”
“Bat the New Jersey Mutual Life was
not a success as an insurance company,
was it ?”
“It is in the receiver’s hands now.
Bradley organized tho company to carry
out some special or pet scheme in life in
surance of his own invention. It was a
sort of non forfeiture plan, and there is
not a good insurance man anywhere who
knows anything about it who does not
say that this non- forfeiture plan will ruin
any company that follows it. Then
Bradley had an idea about low rates, so
as to get a big business, so he and several
others organized the New Jersey Mutual
Life. Bradley was the actuary and coun
sel. He said to Mr. A. S. Hubbel), one
of the leading lawyers of Newark, about
that time, ‘By God, Mr. Hubbell, money
is the power in this country, and I am
going to have some of it.’ He got out of
the CDmpany before 1873, I think about
the time that he went on the bench of
the Supreme Court.”
“Did his non forfeiting plan and low
premium ideas prove a success ?’’
“Well, in 1873 the company was insol
vent. Then the Hope Life Comoany
agreed to reinsure their risks. The Hopo
was hopelessly insolvent at the time, but
they agreed to pay tho directors of l ho
New Jersey Mutual Life, 150 for their
stock—par 100. They did this aud took
$200,000 out of the assets cf the New
Jersey Mutual to do it with.”
“That is, they used New Jersey Mutu
al’s assets to pay for New Jersey Mutual
stock.”
“That’s just it. The Hope Company
only had this thing three months, and
then the New Jersey Mutual Life took it
back with the Hope’s risks. One man
got $50,000 for conducting this business.
We discovered this when the company
went into the hands of a receiver.”
“It was for this money that you sued
the directors of the New Jersey Mutual
Life?”
“Yes, for the $200,000 illegally with
drawn.”
“Have you sued Judge Bradley ?”
“I do not find by the books that he had
any stock at the time. He unquestion
ably owned stock before, but the transac
tions about the time are somewhat oo.n -
plicated. We are bringing suits as fast
as we find the parties. We are now pre
paring to bring twelve suits.”
If Bradley owned no stock in the New
Jersey Mutual Life, and did not share in
the profits of the remarkable operation
with the Hope Life Company, common
report and men inside of insurance cir -
cles do him a great injustice. Ail over
Newark the company is spoken of as Joe
Bradley’s old company.
“Bradiey was the brains and adviser of
the company,” said an insurance Presi
dent to the reporter. “Years ago he was
the actuary of the Mutual Benefit L fe
of New Jersey, at the same time that ho
was the attorney for th9 old Camden and
Amboy road. He figured out some pecu
liar ideas in life insurance, and he and
Grover, President of the Mutual Benefit,
did not agree, so he started the New Jer
sey Mutual to carry out his ideas. That
company had a very sick existence.”
“Have you heard anything about Brad
ley’s connection with the company at the
time the Hope bought them oat?”
“Oh, yes. The stockholders privately
comment on the fact that Bradley has
escaped suit thus far, and think it a lit
tle singular.”
Mr. McCarter assured the reporter that
all those who were found to have had any
interest as stockholders and directors iu
the company at the time of the transfer
would be sued. The parties to the trans
action were, most of them at least, per
sonal friends of Bradley’s, and he, with
many of them, had organized the com
pany and carried it on by bis peculiar
methods. Not long after he went on the
bench the transfer to the Hope had been
made, and the insolvency which led to
that transfer must have existed for some
time.
It is impossible, however, until the
suits are tried, for any one outside to find
out the whole truth in regard to this com
pany, but it is understood that Superin
tendent Kelsey, in his report concerning
it, which will soon ba published, will
show that it was rotten from the start.
Bradley’s peculiar manner of insuring
life, as exemplified in the career and wind
up of the New Jersey Mutual Life—a ca
reer that begins with the famous Aliunde
Jadge and brings up square against Ben
Noye3—will be thoroughly exposed in Mr.
Kelsey’s report.
The counsel for the receiver, Mr. Mc
Carter, did not deny that Judge Bradley
might have had an interest. “I cannot
find,” he said, “by an examination of
the books that he held any stock at this
time.”
Insurance men are averse to saying
anything for publication, but they smile
significantly when asked if Bradiey got
out of the company in time to escape
the odium which its disgraceful career
was certain to entail, and to escape the
legal consequences of certain illegal acts.
MISCHIEF IN WALL STREET.
Henry Clew* Tortured on a Pulling 3I a -
rhine by Henry N. Smith and hi* Bro
kers.
Several days ago, when business was
duli in the Stock Exchange, Henry N.
Smith, Jay Gould’s old partner, stepped
into Henry Clews’office, in New street.
Mr. Clews was absent, and Smith, while
sauntering around, noticed a fine painting
in a corner. Watching to see that Mr.
Clews did not return, Mr. Smith hired
two boys to carry the picture across the
street to Timpson <fc Giflespy’s. After
hanging it, Smith went out among the
brokers, and, after bringing them in, of
fered to raffle the work of art at one dol
lar per chance. The painting was a val
uable one, and in a short time the chances
were nearly all taken. Smith went out
side and, finding Mr. Clews, persuaded
him to take the remaining chances, and
then took him iu to see the picture and
attend the tsffle.
When Clews recognized his property ho
pretended to be indignant, and stepping
outside called an officer aud gave Smith
into custody. The prisoner urged the
crowd to go down to O’Brien’s and all
take a drink, as a preliminary to his in
carceration. Smith stood treat out of
the raffle money. A pulling machine
stood in the corner, and Smith challenged
Clews to a trial of strength, and tsking
the handles made a good score. Clews
took off his coat, braced against the foot
board, seized the metallic handles, and
suddenly became convulsed with pain.
His arms twisted and his legs gyrated.
“Let me off,” he cried, but Smith winked
and the barkeeper turned on more elec
tricity.
Mr. Clews writhed in awful agony. “Q
won’t I make you pay for this! ” ho
yelled, as an extra amount of power was
turned on behind the bar.
“Send away your policeman and wo
will let you off.” said Smith, and Clews
told the officer to vanish.
Then he was let off and after another
“smile” and the division of the raffii
money the crowd separated. But Henry
Clews says he will bs yet even with Henry
N. Smith.
An ice-machine in Dallas, Texas, just
finished, produces ice-cakes thirty
feet long and six feet wide*
weighing from ten thousand to
twelve thousand pounds each. They are
formed by freezing fine rain or spray.
When the freezing is done the bottom
and sides of the cake are thawed loose
from the inclined plane, and the cake
slides out upon a platform, where it is cut
into pieces six feet square. Four cakes a
day are frozen. The works cost $30,-
000.
“What do you know about the prison
er?” asked the Judge. “I don’t know
nothin’ bout him, Jedge, only he’s bigot
ed. ’’“Bigoted ?” said His Honor. “Y’es.
sah.” “What do you mean by bigoted ?”
“Well, Jedge,” explained the witness,
“he knows too much fob one niggah, an’
not ’nuff for two.”
Returns of the late election for a capi-
tol site in West Virginia have been re
ceived and show the following result:
Charleston, 39,958 ; Clarksburg, 30,498 ;
Martinsburg, 8,136—majority for Charles
ton 1,324. It is believed the official re
turns will not materially change this.