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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
OKUA.T1S.
Dreams, only foolish dreams may be.
Is wakefulness so wise ?
These eyes are dull—what if we see
In dreams with keener eyes?
Some dreams we've known more wakeful far
Than any waking hours.
When we make fast with lock and bar
This Haunted House of ours.
All day we shut our doors, but sleep
Sets doors and windows wide;
The ghosts come in witn stealthy creep,
And through the chambers glide.
Sometimes they come in trooping hosts,
And sometimes one by one;
We call them dreams, but they are ghosts
Of davs and years long gone.
And some with mirth and laughter come.
And some look gravely glad;
With angry, frowning faces some
Pass by. and some are sad.
And some -they hover round us long,
With pitiful, sweet smile—
Alas' we did them grievous wrong,
And slew ourselves the while!
As on your failing ghosts we gaze.
Sure death's no sharper pain,
O Days that should have been! O Days
That ne'er can come again!—Good Words.
Georgia Affairs.
Tuesday morning the stockholders of the
Bank of Augusta, the National Exchange Bank
and the National Bank of Augusta, held their
annual meetings in Augusta, electing Boanls of
Directors and Presidents of their several boards,
as follows: Bank of Augusta— H. H. Hickman.
W. 8. Roberts, Austin Mullurky. John M. Clark,
Henry F. Russell, L. M. Hill, B. M. Heard. Mr.
Hickman, President, having declined, owing to
his labors in building the contemplated Vau-
cluse mill of the Graniteville Manufacturing
Company, Mr. Wra. S. Roberts was choser to
fill the vacancy. National Exchange Bank—
Alfred Baker. J. B. Dougherty, W. H. Barrett.
E. R. Schneider, John M. Clark, D. B. Hack and
George R. Sibley. Mr. Alfred Baker was re
elected President. National Bank—W. F. Jack-
son. W. B. Dinsmore, H. B. Plant, J. M. Burdell.
B. S. Dun liar, J. P. King, Francis Cogin. Mr.
W. E. Jackson, the old President, was re-elected.
It is a somewhat remarkable fact, but true
nevertheless, that Macon's cotton receipts by
wagon exceed the receipts by rail nearly every
day.
Tho tax on telegraph companies in the city
of Macon is seven hundred and fifty dollars—
a regular electric shock from a full battery.
There is still considerable cotton to be
gathered from the fields In Spaulding county,
according to the Grffin Xcirn.
At the annual meeting of the Academy of
Medicine, of Atlanta, which was held on the 7th
instant, Dr. James F. Alexander was elected
President. Throe Vice Presidents were also
elected—Dr. J. Tliad. Johnson, First Vice; Dr. C.
C. Pinckney, Second Vice, and Dr. J. Scott Todd,
Third Vice.
Mr. Beau Berry, of Atlanta, while standing
in the rear of his drug store stepped and fell to
the ground, a distance of about eight feet, his
head striking first on the bard-frozen ground.
It is feared that his skull was fractured, and on
Tuesday night he was in a very critical condition.
The Atlantese now do their walking on
skates, and those not adepts in the art find it
very difficult to navigate the streets, which are
aleok with ice. The average pedestrian chooses
the middle of the street, and the Constitution
pays the people are sliding and sprawling in all
parts of the city.
Th.‘ Atlanta Tribune states that Lieutenant
W. 8. Patten, of the Eighteenth United States
Infantry, now stationed at Atlanta, is a son of
Lieutenant Colonel tieo. W. Patten, well known
to all Georgia soldiers in the Mexican war,
and tho author of that familiar declamation,
-The Seminole's Reply," which commences
with these lines :
“Blaze with your serried columns,
I will not bend the knee."
The rainy weather is seriously interfering
with the timber men in Wayne county, throw
ing them ha<*k very much in hauling to the
river for shipment. This, with the low prices of
timber ruling at Darien, makes the timber busi
ness. which is a main dependence in some sec
tions of Wayne county, quite dull.
The Brunswick Adi'ertiser is taking time by
the forelock, and discussing the quarantine
question. Brother Stacy will pardon us the in
quiry, but ain't it most too cool at the present
time to agitate that heated question ?
There have been only two Sheriff's sales ad
vertised for Charlton county for the year—a
fact which speaks well for the people of that
county, who stay at home, manage their farms,
pay their debts without the aid of courts, law
yers and sheriffs, and are happy.
Another body was found last week near Buz
zard Roost, above Brunswick, supposed to be
that of the other negro drowned with Mr. Mc-
Oonn. the recount of which sad event was pub
lished last week in the Morsiso News.
The receipts from all sources by the Treasurer
•f the city of Brunswick for the fiscal year
ending December 31, 1877, amount to $18,258 28,
and the disbursements for tho same time to
$15,710 01, leaving a cash balance on hand of
$2.51-8 21.
The annual election for Directors of the Plan
ters' Loan and Savings Bank of Augusta took
place Wednesday morning with the following
result : Thos. P. Brauch, Win. Gibson, Jas. L.
Gow. T. W. Coakery, E. li. Rogers. G. Volger.
M. I. Branch. Major Branch was subsequently
elected President, and Mr. J. T. Newberry,
Cashier.
“Can the Ethiopean change his skin ?" has
been definitely determined in the affirmative.
There is a negro in Glasscock county about
fifty years of nge whose face, hands, feet, and
most of his body have turned completely white.
He was once black all over—said to have been
very black. When a boy a white spot appeared
on his body, and since then he has been gradu
ally turning from Ethiopean to Caucasian color.
A few nights ago, while Mr. L. H. Zachery
was passing from his house to his store at
Cochrau's Cross Roads, in Harris county, he
was shot at by some unknown |>arty and hit.
The weapon used was a double barrel shot-
guu, charged with squirrel shot. Mr. Zachery
was struck in the side, the shot scatteiing from
his knee to his shoulder. He was not seriously
hurt fortunately, but might have been killed.
The scoundrel evidently intended to kill his
victim.
The spring meeting of the Georgia State Agri-
cuUu;*al Society will be held in Americus, be
ginning on the 12th of February. Captain John
A. Davis, of that city, who was one of the
members of the recent Constitutional Conven
tion, has been invited to deliver an address on
the peculiar advantages of Southwestern
Georgia as a farming section.
The following gentlemen were elected Direc
tor* of the Chattahoochee National Bank of
Columbus: H. H. Epping. Esq., Colonel R. L.
Mott, Colonel Geo. P. Swift, Sr.. Mr. Joseph
Kyle. Mr. Chas. E. Dexter. Mr. C. C. McGehee,
ex-Governor Jas. M. Smith. II. H. Epping,
Esq . was re elected President.
The debt of the city of Brunswick, with ac
crued interest to the 1st of January, 1968, is
$213,174, the annual interest amounting to $11,-
186, and the Fiuance Committee, in their report
-on the subject, say: “The impossibility of our
■community of a few hundred souls meeting
such ac obligation must be apparent to the
znost unobeerving. and we belie>e that if the
creditors of the city were made fully aware of
tie limited resources of our community, that
an adjustment might be reached which would
admit of our meeting our obligations punctual
ly, aud at the same time gradually reduce the
same until finally paid. Your committee is
prepared to suggest a plan of settlement when
the time arrives, which we confidently expect
will lie acceptable both to Council and bond
holders. To carry out this olan it will be neces
sary to have a meeting of the creditors of the
city, and we now advise that the Mayor be in
structed to make this call for a meeting to be
held in Brunswick early in February."
The Brunswick Advertiser says: “On Friday
last- the body of Mr. P. L. MeConn, recently
drown'd, was found in a creek above Fancy
Bluff anJ brought to this city Saturday morn
ing for in torment. Although satisfied thor
oughly in their minds several days since that
Mr. MeConn was indeed drowned, our people
could not realize fully the fact until his re
mains were piaced before them.
A Vermont man. wearing a watch chain upon
which dangled a "golden sheep's foot," has been
talking sheep to a Constitution reporter. He
said “that Georgia's future is in the hands of
the sheep. By this 1 mean that in sheep raising
will Georgia achieve the greatness for which
she Is so admirably fitted. The time will come,
and you will five to see it, when the cotton cron
gt Georgia will be secondary to.the wool crop,”
The Warrenton Clipper casually remarks:
“The Savannah Morni.no News has come out in
a new dress for 1878. and the Weekly News is
greatly enlarged. Tills splendid journal now
deserves its subscription list doubled."
As the subject of the transfer of #ild land
tax fi. fas. is attracting considerable attention
throughout the State, and the action of the
authorities in some cases severely commented
on. we publish for general information the
following from the Comptroller General to his
Excellency Governor Colquitt, dated Atlanta,
January 7,1878:
"Hit Excellency, Alfred H. Colquitt. Atlanta,
Ga.: Sir—At your request and m order to cor
rect numerous erroneous reports and impres
sions, I give a brief statement of the law gov
erning tne sale of wild lands for taxes by
transferees of wild land fl. fas. issued from this
office, which you can publish if you wish:
“1. Transferees of wild land fl. fas. get no
title whatever thereto bv such transfer.
“2. All wild land soles for taxes made by
transferees of such fl. fas. will be made by the
Sheriff of the county where the land is located,
and will be levied, advertised and sold as other
Sheriff sales, at the court house, at public out
cry to the highest bidder, aud everyone who de
sires can bid at such sales.
“3. Each lot should be sold separately. Sales
of more than one lot at a time is illegal.
“4. Owners have one year after sale to re
deem wild land- for taxes by paying purchase
money, all cost and interest at the. rate of
twenty per cent, per annum.
“5. Sheriffs have been instructed not to sell
any improved laud or any land returned for tax
on the large digest to be round in the Ordinary's
office. That such fl. fas. are void, because not
against wild lands, but by mistake, either of
th** citizen or Tax Receiver, such lots were
placed in the list of unreturned wild land sent
to this office by the Receivers, anil upon which
fi. fa-:, were issued according to law.
“6. Complaint has been made to your Excel
lency that transferees of wild land fl. fas. and
Sheriffs declined to allow the owner to pav the
tax and cost before sale. This of course should
be allowed, but, if not, then such parties, if the
true owner, would be perfectly safe in buying
the land, for they would only have to pay tar
and cost, no matter what price the land might
bring.
“7. Ample opportunity has and will be given
for the correction of all errors ami mistakes of
whatever kind, such as error in returning
wrong lot, number, etc. Very respectfully,
“W. L. Goldsmith.
“Comptroller General."
The Griffin Sews has the f-flowing: “Our
city was startled on yesterday morning to
learn that one of our most quiet and orderly
county citizens had been shot, and probably
fatally wounded, as the report went. After
making inquiry, we learned about the follow
ing statement, which we deem reliable: It
seems a negro man by the name of John Wil
lis, in- the! employ o" Mr. H. C‘ Cumming,
who lives on the Tobe Johnson pla-e. just
beyond the eastern limits of the city, had hod
a dj>;igreement with that gentleman about the
rant or a house, and Mr. C\ had given him ord-ra
to leave the place and not return again. This
was on Monday, and in the afternoon W r illis
came to town and sued out a warrant againt
(’uinming. charging him with carrying deadly
weapons concealed. That gentleman, learning
this, hunted up the officer and promptly gave
bond for his appearance before the magis
trate to-dav. Thus the matter stood until
night, when Mr. Gumming was out at his lot
seeing to the fee-ling of his stock, and was in
conversation with another of his tenants. This
ended, he started to go to his house, when he
saw the flash of a gun and was wounded terri
bly, the shot covering hlsporson from the knee
to the top of his heal. The most painful are a
couple of small shot in his left eye, and a slug
umter his cheek bone. After this, the negro
walked to his cabin and his wife gave him
supi»er. He remarked to another negro that
Cumming had 'threatened his life, but d—d
if I wasn't determined to have the first shot,
and I got it.' After his meal, the negro went
out of the back door of his house. A gentle
man came to town and notified the officers,
wh**n Sheriff Bridges, Constable Jones anil Mr.
Scab Hale started in pursuit. They searched
the woods and swamps near by. but the night
was so cold and the ground so terribly frozen
that they were unable to find any traces of the
scoundrel, though they were out until near
dawn.”
Florida Affairs.
In the Morning News of thp 7th instant
apj►cart'd a paragraph in the Florida column,
taken from the Sun and Press, and relating to
the arrest of a Mr. W. W. Arnett, of Wayne
county, Georgia, who had in his possession a
gold watch which was alleged to have been
stolen from the residence of City Clerk Crab
tree, of Jacksonville, in May last. Mr. Arnett,
it was stated, claimed tliat the watch was found
in Wayne county, under a mulberry tree, by
one of Ills brother's children; but this explana
tion being deemed unsatisfactory, he was com
mitted to jail. A correspondent at Gardi, who
is perfectly reliable, seeing the item, cora«s to
the rescue of the good name of Mr. Arnett, and
furnishes us with the following as coming within
his own personal knowledge of the truth of Mr.
Arnett's statement, thus vindicating his good
name and reputation from unjust aspersions.
He says: “I stein yesterday's (Tthl Morning
News a paragraph taken from the Jacksonville
Sun and Press in regard to Mr. W. W. Arnett
and a gold watch, and that he was in limbo.
Now I happen to know that Mr. Arnett’s state
ment about the finding of tho watch is true, as
it was generally known that such a watch
had been found Some tim * during the past
summer several children went to walk from
Mr. Timothy Arnett's house, and during their
walk a little girl of Mr. T. Arnett's, about five
years old, picked up a gold watch on the side of
the road and carried it home to her parents.
Mr. W. W. Arnett at that time and for a long
time prior to the finding of the watch, lived in
Daytona, Volusia county, Fla., and only re
turned home on a visit to his parents a short
time ago. The finding of the watch in the
above manner can be substantiated by several
witnesses. The Arnetts are & good family, and
W. W. Arnett has always stood well in this and
the adjoining neighborhood. The Arnetts live
abont twelve miles from Gardi, near the Glynn
county line, near No. 2 Macon & Brunswick
Railroad. I have not seen any of the family
since W. W. Arnett’s return from Florida, and
did not know he had gone back until I had seen
the piece in the News about the watch." We
trust that Mr. Arnett has been released on this
and publish the above simply to do a wronged
man justice.
The Supreme Court of Florida assembled in
Tallahassee on the 8th instant, a full bench be
ing present.
Josiah T. Walls colored. State Senator from
Alachua county, and formerly Congressman
from the Second district of Florida, has been
adjudged a lunatic aud was sent to the asylum
at Chattahoochee on Friday last.
Game is abundant in Florida. A party of
three on Halifax river last week shot twenty-
seven deer in two days.
We regret to learn from the Jacksonville Nun
and Press that Col. Nieholls, of the Nicholls
Hotel is confined to his room by sickness.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says, with unblush
ing audacity: “The weather in Florida has for
the past ten days been exceedingly cold. While
the sun has been shining and the air warm and
balmy even in the Northern States at Pensaco
la ice has been forming some nights to the
thickneas of six or eight inches." "Where the
Sentinel got its information we do not know,
but the fact is that, beyond some frost in vari
ous points in the State, the weather has been
spring-like and altogether agreeable.
D. S. Place, Esq., of Waldo, has been appoint
ed agricultural editor of the Florida Immigrant.
Key West has four weekly newspapers, two
printed in the Spanish language and two in the
English.
This looks very much like ice eight inches
thick. GVeen peas made their appearance at
Sorrento on Christmas day.
The legal sales last Monday at Jacksonville
resulted in th“ changing hands of some valuable
property in Duval county. The Hartley tract,
sold by Uriah Bowden, commissioner, was
purchased by Ed. A. Bacoska & Brother, of
Mandarin, for $3,100. The marmalade factory,
on the Moncrief shell road, was disposed of at
Master's sale, and purchased by Alexander
Wallace for $2,700. The Overton properties
were purchased by Mrs. James Cheetham for
$1,500.
On Tuesday last the grand gathering of the
W. M. Grand Lodge A. F. M., of the State of
Florida, assembled at Masonic Hall Jackson
ville. A large number of representatives from
various parts of the State were present, and the
session promised to be an important one, as
several amendments to the constitution were to
be finally acted upon.
A deputy United States Marshal recently
seized at Cedar Keys twenty-five thousand logs
and a schooner load of lumbei. besides about
seven million feet on the wharves at the two
mills there. The schooner gave bond and went
to sea. The Journal of Saturday last says :
“Up to the present writing there has been no
let up. and the lumber interests are paralyzed."
Other seizures, it is stated, are to be made.
To keep step with the varied and rapidly-
growing interests of Lake City and Columbia
couni y, the Reporter will at an early day be en
large J to double its present size.
The Marianna Courier entered upon tfie
thirtieth year of its journalistic existence last
week. It has, says the editor. In that time met
with many ups and downs, many trials and
much disappointment, but it still lives, and. we
trust, will reach a ripe old age. and enjoy the
rewards in its latter years it may have failed to
reap in the season of its youth and early man
hood.
The value of the exports from Key West dur
ing December, according to the Key of the Gulf,
was two hundred and forty thousand dollars,
while the imports were two hundred and two
thousand dollars.
Mr. Charles C. Leary, principal owner of the
Charleston and Florida steamship line, is In
Jacksonville enjoying the balmy climate of a
Southern winter.
Shad fisheries have been established at the
mouth of Lake Monroe. The fish will be pack
ed in ice and shipped to New York.
A party of emigrants from Lowndes county.
Alabama, passed through Gainesville on last
Thursday en route for Tampa, where they will
make their permanent abode.
Judge Bryson, of the Third Judicial Circuit,
on the evening of the 2d inst., (Wednesday -,
while descending the stairs of the Metropolitan
Hotel Jacksonville, fell nearly the whole
length of the stairway, and was very seriously
Injured. He is attended by Dr. Holt. On Sat
urday evening he was convalescing slowly,
though confined to his bed.
Commodore William Astor has arrived at
Jacksonville. He will remain in Florida during
the winter.
It is quite probable that Colonel Wm. F.
Wood, the present Postmaster at Fernandina,
will be appointed Collector of Customs at that
place, and that Mrs. F. E Grossman, wife of
the late Collector, will receive the appointment
of Postmistress.
In the United States Court, Monday, an in
junction was issued restraining the sale of the
National Hotel furniture, advertised to be sold
at special Master's sale.
On last Tuesday night at Gainesville a diffi
culty arose between one Charley Tipple and his
wife, in which the former had his nose cut en
tirely off. It is not known whether Tipple lost
this member leaping out of the window or from
a blow received at the hands of his wife's sister.
Iu consequence of the deprivation of the
schools of St. John's county of the donation
from the Peabody fund, the Board of Public In
struction. at its regular meeting cn Wednesday
last, decided that the schools in the city could
not be kept open for a longer period than six
months.
Sami. H. Williams, an old and highly respected
citizen of St. Augustin*-, died on the 3d of Jan
uary. aged seventy years. He was born in 1808,
in the city of St. Augustine, Fla. Previous to
1835 he was a sugar planter on the Halifax river,
from which place he was obliged to flee with his
family during the war. His liappy home was
first devasted by the United States troops, and
afterwards by the Seminole Indians, leaving
only the soil for his support—which spot is now
known as Daytona. He then movdd to St. Au
gustine, but for a number of years afterwards
was engaged with General Hernandez, on a
sugar plantation at Matauzas.
There was a fire at Mellonville on Sunday
night, which originated in the store of James
H ughey, and is supposed to ha\e been incen
diary. Mr. Hughey s loss was eight thousand
dollars and his insurance four thousand dollars.
The post office was bum»*d, and with it the mail
in the boxes for deliver}’. The outgoing mail
was saved. Bawdy & Bros’, billiard saloon was
entirely destroyed, together with two new and
expensive tables, the fixtures, etc. This firm
was uninsured. It was only by the greatest ex
ertiou that the Mellonville Hotel was saved.
Mr. Morrissey will remain in Florida for the
present. Dr. K. I\ Daniel and Dr. E T. Sabal
nis physicians, have given him the following
written opinion: "In response to your request
i hut we. your medical advisers, should give you
a candid expression of our professional opinion
in regard to the effect upon your physical con
dition of a return North at this season of the
year, and in your present state of ill-health, we
unhesitatingly state that, in our opinion, not
only would such a course on your part he im
prudent, but that your life would be thereby
most seriously jeopardized."
The Gainesville Times says: “One Jerry An
derson, colored, was shot by a Mr. Moncreith
near the depot on last Wednesday night. The
lm.ll entered the left side of the face and passed
into the back of the neck, and was extracted by
Dr. Phillips. The wound, though von- severe,
is not considered mortal. Moncreith has lxt*n
arrested and committed to jail in default of one
thoasand dollars bail to await his trial at the
Circuit Court."
Tho grand jury of Orange county use the fol
lowing strong language in their presentments
in reference to the county jail: “The jail we
find to be on outrage on humanity. The stench
arising from it is almost unendurable, while ail
of its surroundings evidence neglect. The
floors are rotting, the yard overgrown with
grass and weeds, and so thoroughly is ull ven
tnation prevented that one might almost deem
it intentional. If the house was moved from
over its present foundation, larger windows
and grates provided, and a thorough ventilation
given to the building, it would be some improve
ment. hut as it is is worse than the Black Hole
of Calcutta, and a disgrace to th - county."
The Tallahassee Floridian says: “On Thurs
day week last, in the vicinity of lobinson s
store in this county, a young man named Eddie
Whitehead (employed by Mr. Robinsoni shot
and killed a negro man known as Ishain John
son during a dispute over a bate of cotton. The
affair created great excitement among the
negroes of the neighborhood, who collected in
large numbers and threatened summary venge
ance upon young Whit -head, who was brought
into town and lodged in jail. An inquest was
held the following day by Justice West, and
the negroes were still veiy much excited, but
were finally quieted by the Sheriff On Monday
last a preliminary investigation of the case was
had before Justice Copeland, which continued
until Thursday night, when the aceused was
fully committed to answer the charge of
murder."
The following appointments and removals
have been made by the Governor: Alachua—
Joel Holt, resigned as Justice of the Peace;
Baker—A. J. Sweat, resigned as County Com
missioner ; Clay—Martin Fonts, resigned as
Justice of the Peace; Duval—C. L. Robinson to
bo Notary Public; Escambia—W. T. Kee to be
Justice of the Peace: Franklin—A. M. Harris
to be Justice of the Peace, and J. C.
Brayton to be County Surveyor: Gadbden—
Henry S. Reeves to be County Commis
sioner vice W. H. Scott resigned; Her
nando—John Morrison to be County Com
missioner. vice King, resigned; Leon—G. B.
Hopkins resigned aiJustice of the Peace: Nas
sau—Geo. F. Roux and J. J. Brewer to lie In
spectors of Timber and Lumber; Orange—E. C.
Morgan to be Justice of the Peace; Sumter—P.
B. Perry to be Justice of the Peace; Volusia—
Philip N. Bryan to be Justice of the Peace and
Notary Public, James Rideout to be Justice of
the Peace. H. T. Titus to be Notary Public;
Walton—A. B. McLeod to be Justice of the
Peace, vice Reeves, left the countv; Sixth Ju
dicial Circuit—S. M. Sparkman to oe State At
torney. vice J. B. Wall resigned: Henry J.
Strutemeyer to be Commissioner of Deeds New
Jersey.
Auction of Youni; Ladies.
From the Pittsburg Leader.
An interesting and novel experiment is
to be tried soon in one of our churches,
which is ns original ns it is successful in
the purpose for which it was instituted.
The object of the institution to be treated
of is to raise money for church purposes,
and a more fruitful source of revenue, in
connection with pleasure, has not here
tofore been discovered. The Pittsburg
church got its idea from some churches
in some of our Western cities. The
modus opemndi of the game, as it may
be called, or auction, is about as fol
lows: All the young Indies are
mustered into the service, and are com
pletely enveloped by the auctioneer
in sheets, so as to prevent their
recognition by means of their dres
ses. Then their pretty faces, like
those of the Turkish ladies, are com
pletely veiled—a pillow-slip or something
of that sort is drawn down over it They
are permitted to have eye holes to look
through and mouth holes to breathe
through, but nothing more. So they
have them disguised entirely beyond re
cognition. Then the auctioneer proceeds
to auction them off as partners for the
evening to the youug men, and even to
old men, if their wives will permit them
to bid. The bidding is almost sure to be
lively. At a recent Western auction of
this kind, the lowest price at which a
young lady was auctioned off was one
dollar and* a half. The fun in the thing is
the vouug men don't know who they are
bidding for. and the unveiling of the
maidens is looked forward to with great
expectation. The gent has to attend to
tho lady bought during the evening, and
to see her home at the close of the festi
val.
Playing “Make Calls.”—“What
kind of house will we play?' asked one
little girl of another. “Oh, play calling.”
replied the other. “Mary, here, she can
be Mrs. Brown and sit on the step, and
me and Julia will call on her and ask how
she is, and how her husband is, and if
the baby's got over the measles, and tell
her how nice she looks in her new wrap
per, and hope that it wont hurt her much
when she has that tooth filled. And then
we'il say, ‘Good bye, Mrs. Brown, come
and see us some time or other, and bring
the children and your sewing; and you're
such a stranger! and we don't sec half
enough of you.’ And then me and Julia
we ll courtesy and walk off a piece, and
I'll sav to Julia, 'Did you ever see such a
horrid old fright as she looks in that
wrapper?’ And then, Julia, she’ll say,
'The idea of anybody having false teeth
filled!' And then 111 say, ‘Yes, and
what a homely lot of dirty little brats
them young ones of her'n is.’ Let's play
it; what do you say?” ^
A deserted Utc squaw, grieved by the
heartlessncss of the Indian who had
only a few months previously taken her
to his wigwam, drowned herself. Before
her suicide she formally and elaborately
cursed him. The Indian belief is that
such a curse is potent.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Om WASHINGTON LETTER.
HOW PLEVNA FELL
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
ARRANGING THE TERMS OF THE
ARMISTICE.
Capture of the Turkish Army De
fending Sehipka Pass.
THE FLOW OF THE FINANCIAL
WAVE.
Gone for Cleopatra’* Needle.
ARRANGING THE ARMISTICE.
London, January 10.—The Daily Tele
graph's special from Pera states that
Mehemet Ali has gone to arrange the
armistice. The correspondent under
stands that the Porte has agreed to pro
pose a six weeks armistice on condition
that the belligerents maintain their
present positions, and peace negotiations
be commenced as soon as the armistice
comes into operation.
The London correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian telegraphs to that
journal that he believes a six weeks'
armistice has been already agreed upon
on the basis of ubi possidetis.
A dispatch from Constantinople
to Reuter's mentions a similar
report current there, and that military
operations are ordered to be suspended
from ten o’clock Tuesday night, but Reu
ter’s agent points out that these rumors
are necessarily premature, since the mili
tary representatives of the belligerents
to conduct the negotiations had not then
been appointed. Mehemet Ali, who, it
was stated, had gone to arrange an
armistice, attended the war council on
Tuesday and left Constantinople Tues
day night.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
‘Washington, January 10.—The female
ballot-seekers had a discordant and some
what unruly convention, which ad
journed informally. Their programme
for the day has not transpired. A
colored lady has turned up as a delegate
from Mississippi.
The House, is unexpectedly, quite full.
The committees were also in session, but
did nothing. The Ways and Means
Committee referred the question of re
lieving savings banks from taxation to a
sub committee of live. The committee
was full, and had a colloquial discussion
over the tariff and revenue.
Over forty Senators were in the cham
ber before the Senate was called to order.
The great part of the morning hour
was taken up in the presentation
of a large number of petitions from
various parts of the country in favor of
the adoption of a sixteenth amendment,
prohibiting States from disfranchising
persons on account of sex, ali of which
were referred to the Committee on Privi
leges and Elections.
FAILURE OF A WALL STREET NOTE
BROKER.
New York, January 10.—Edwin J.
Dunning, Jr., note broker, 01 Wall
street, has made an assignment. He
fixes his liabilities at between $.500,000
and $600,000. These, he said, were
divided up between five or six
banks, in each of which he had
a line of discounts for about $100,000,
fully drawn upon. Mr. Dunning was
willing to admit this evening that
the Bank of Commerce, American
Exchange Bank, and the Bank
of the State of New York
were among those that made loans to
him. His assets consist of notes
given by some thirty representative
firms in the drug, chemical, paint
and oil trade. If they all met their
obligations, he could pay up in full; but
if failures resulted, as he feared in some
cases, his losses would probably reach
two hundred thousand dollars, lie states
that his failure is unavoidable, and was
due to hard times.
FROM TIIE THEATRE OF WAR.
London, January 10.—The insurrec
tion in Crete commenced on Tuesday,
and Layard, the British Minister at Con
stantinople, requests that British men-of-
war be sent there.
The Times' Bucharest correspondent
telegraphs that the thaw has commenced,
which, if it continues, will cause
a movement of the ice in
the Danul>e to recommence and make
eommunicafion more difficult than ever.
It is utterly impossible now for horses
and wagons to cross, and the Russian in
tendance department is helpless. Words
cannot describe the situation on the Dan
ilin?. The Russians suppress telegrams
with a view of preventing this state of
affairs from becoming known to Europe.
A terrible outbreak of spotted typhus
has occurred in Frateshti and neighbor
hood. It originated among the Turkish
prisoners, and it is whispered that it is
really the plague.
CAPTURE OF THE TURKI9II ARMY DEFEND
ING SCHIPKA PASS.
St. Petersburg, January 10.—The
Grand Duke Nicholas has telegraphed
the following to the Emperor from
Lovtcha, January 9: “I am happy to
congratulate your Majesty upon a
brilliant victory gained this day.
General Podetsky, after des-
•rate fighting, captured the whole
urkish army defending the Scliip-
ka Pass, consisting of forty-one
battalions, ten batteries and one regiment
of cavalry. Prince Mirsky has occupied
Kazanlik. Gen. Skobeleff holds Schipka.
CHICAGO FAILURES.
Chicago, January 10.—An involun
tary petition in bankruptcy has been
filcxl against Elisha and Charles Eldred,
lumber dealers, on a claim of $132,000.
New York, January 10.—A Chicago
_ ial says that the wholesale grocery of
ells & Faulkner suspended yesterday.
Liabilities, $94,000 ; assets about
$100,000.
An involuntary petition was filed
against Elisha and Charles Eldred. lum
ber dealers, yesterday by their creditors
on claims of $137,083.
gone gi immering.
Springfield, Mass., January 10.—
The Great Carrington Savings Bank
suspended payment pending investiga
tion by the State Bank Commissioners.
The ohlcers are confident that the bank
can meet all liabilities. Deposits $407,-
000; total liabilities $414,000.
ORGANIZATION OF THE WISCONSIN LEGIS
LATURE.
Madison, Wis., January 10.—In or
ganizing the House a Greenbacker was
elected Speaker bv a combination of
Greenbaekers and democrats. The chief
Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms are both
Democrats.
UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM IOWA.
Des Moines, January 10.—The Legis
lature, which meets on Monday, will pro
bably re-elect United States Senator Alii
son. ’ There is no other candidate in the
field.
TIIE CLEOPATRA OBELISK.
London. January 10.—A steam-tug left
the river Thames yesterday for Ferrol,
Spain, to bring the Cleopatra obelisk
here.
Ti;
speci:
Wells
There is a company of Methodists in
Coventry, the members of which believe
that the time for the performance of
miracles is not past. Some time ago
one of their number while getting lumber
for a church was caught beneath a falling
tree. Since then, although severely in
jured, he refuses to have a doctor, but
has two of the brethen come in and pray
with him each day. After their prayers
they exhort him to “Arise and walk,”'
which he always tries to do, but so far
with no success.*
The Aanintant Commiasloncrahlpa—
The YVexican Frontier Tronble*-
The Keahftembilng of ConfreM-
Proposed In ventilation of Chand
ler’* Charge*—Southern Democrat*
and the Conklins Faction—The
Color Line In the Jury Box—Win
ter In Washington.
Graphic Pen Picture of the Attempt
ed Sortie.
There are now twenty-seven States
whose commissioners of fisheries receive,
hatch and distribute the eggs of fishes
furnished by the United States Fish Com
mission. About four million e^gs of
California salmon were thus distributed
iu October,
Special Correspondence of the Homing Sows.
Washington, D. C., January 8, 1878.
—The pressure for the position of Assist
ant (paid) Commissioner to Paris is caus
ing the President and Secretary Evarts
considerable embarrassment. The limited
number of those positions and the high
character of the applicants from the vari
ous States makes the task of discriminat
ing an exceedingly delicate one. In order
to give each State a fair representation
at the Exposition, the question of
asking Congress to increase the
number of paid Commissioners from
eighteen to thirty-eight has been dis
cussed, and it is probable that such legis
lation will be recommended immediately
upon the reassembling of that body.
The appointment of Professor Mallette,
of Virginia, to be Assistant Commlision-
ec from that State,indicates that the poli
cy to be carried out in these appoint
ments will be the selection of representa
tive men best qualified to serve the
interests of their respective States.
The arrival here of Colonel Shafter
and Lieutenant Bullis, from the Rio
Grande, will give Mr. Conkling’s border
committee an opportunity of ascertain
ing the exact sta’ us of affairs on the bor
der and the peculiar nature of the in
structions that were given to these two
officers in regard to penetrating Mexican
territory’ in pursuit of raiding parties.
The indications are that the efforts of
the committee of the Senator from New
York will not be repaid by the discovery
of any substantial grounds for complaint
against the Secretary of State, in bis ad
ministration of the complicated ques
tions at issue between this country* and
Mexico. This will be a heavy disap
pointment to Mr. Conkling and* his fol
lowers, as it was expected that these in
quiries would result in unearthing a set
of secret instructions that were intended
to foment the border troubles aud goad
Mexico into acts of open warfare.
The reassembling of Congress will
open a lively campaign between the ad
ministration aud the ultra Republican
faction in the Senate, and at present both
sides are preparing to assume the ag
gressive, On New Year’s day it was
quietly intimated by the Secretary of
State that he had his guns shotted, and
the decks cleared, and expected to win a
complete victory on the first issue that
shall arise in tho Senate, namely: new
nominations for the New York custom
house. From the earnest efforts now be
ing put forth by Mr. Conkling nnd his
friends.it is evident that theadministiation
will have no “walk over” in this struggle.
There will be a most determined effort
made to get a committee of investigation
on the charges contained in the “bargain
and fraud” letter of weeping William E.
( handler, and rumor has it th.it General
Butler will be the directing spirit
in this particular matter by offet-
ing a resolution which will author
ize the appointment of a committee,
and should the matter receive the favora
ble action of the House, parliamentary
usage will give the Essex statesman the
Chairmanship, where he can forward the
scheme of Bill Chandler and the other mal
contents of bringing the President’s rc-
lx?llious policies under party subjection.
The only stumbling block in the path
way of these conspirators against the
peace and prosperity of the South, and
in fact of the whole country, is, that it
will be necessary to have the support of
a few’ Democratic votes to carry the
measure through; it is claimed that they
trill be forthcoming. Now’ it cannot be
disputed that the action of several Demo
cratic Seuators, whose hearts seemed to
lie surcharged with that all powerful
principle of “Senatorial courtesy," potent
enough to constrain them to support Mr.
Conkling in his last fight with the ad
ministration, gives a color of probability
to this marvellous statement. Should
the sequence of events justify this asser
tion, then was the lips of U. S. Grant
touched with the live coal of prophecy
when he said his party would climb to
success in 1880 on the 'stepping stones of
Democratic blunders.
The latest issue on the “color line”
comes up in the jury boxes of the crimi
nal courts of the District, where has l>een
tried within the past few weeks a black
brute who outraged and half murdered a
white girl fifteen years of age. With
an unbroken chain of circumstantial evi
dence. clearing establishing the guilt of
the prisoner, the colored jurors in the
rase obstinately contended for a verdict
of not guilty, and the result was a mis
trial, In connection with this, a subse
quent outrage of like character has so
intlamed the popular mind that a
vigilance committee has been form
ed, and should the scoundrel
who perpetrated this last crime
be captured and identified, some of the
tall trees that border our stately avenues
will bear unw’holesome fruit, and the
community spared the farce of a trial.
The Supreme Court retissembled yes
terday. It has been decided to have the
Charleston bond tax case reargued before
a full l>eneh, also the credit mobilier
case will be heard at an early day.
Winter came down on the capital
with a bang. After our long spell
of “Indian summer,” we revel in four
inches of snow, sleigh rides, and the
mercury down to eight degrees above
zero, while the closing of navigation on
the Potomac indicates that ice for the
June juleps of overworked Congressmen
wrill not lie wanting. Dias.
An Ancient Toast.
“It was a grand day in the old chivalric
time. The wine circled round the board
in a noble hall, and the sculptured walls
rang with sentiment and song. The lady
of each knightly heart was pledged by
name, and many a syllable significant of
loveliness had been uttered, until it came
to St. Leon’s turn, when, lifting the spark
ling cup on high,
*T drink to one” he said
“Whose image never may depart.
Deep graven on a grateful heart
Till memory is dead.
“To one whose love for me shall last
When lighter passions long have passed
So holy 'tis and true;
To one whose love hath longer dwelt,
More deeply fixed, more keenly felt.
Than any pledged to you.”
Each knight upstarted at the word,
And laid a hand upon his sword.
With fiery flashing eye!
And Stanley said. “ *Ve crave the name.
Proud knight, of this most peerless dame,
Whose love you count so high."
St. Leon paused, as if he would
Not breathe her name in careless mood
Thus lightly to another;
Then bent his noble head, as though
To give that word the reverence due,
And gently said, “My Mother!"
January 9, 1878.
The term “nourisson” is applied in
France to infants under three years of
age who are or ought to be nourished at
the breast There are three kinds of
* ‘ nourissons ”—those fed at the mother’s
breast, those intrusted to nurses, and,
finally, the infants which fall to the care
of the poor-law authorities. The fate of
these different classes varies from ten to
ninety per cent. In the first class there
is a mortality of ten to nineteen per cent.
In the second clas3 the death rate is
about fifty per cent. The mean rate for
the third class is fifty-six per cent., but
sometimes reaches the horrible rate of
eighty-seven to ninety per cent.
The New York Jewish Times quotes
from the Telegram : "The notorious dark
eyed little Jewess, Georgie Lee, was
again arraigned before Justice Bixby,”
etc., and retorts as follows ; “And, at
about the same time, the notorious blue
eyed little Christian, Owen Murphy, stole
$40,000 from the Excise office and ab
sconded.”
From the London Daily Sexes
Plevna. Mondav, December 10.—The
Russians knew on Friday night that Os
man Pasha was preparing for a sortie,
and on their part made every preparation
to receive him. The trenches were kept
full of troops day and night, division and
regimental commanders were advised to
be on the alert, aud all the post* were
doubled and trebled.
The night wore slowly away. The
snow storm ceased and was followed by
clouds scudding swiftly across the sky,
with now and then a blast of sleet. At
three o’clock another spy brought news
that the men of SkolxlefT- command
had a position on the side of the Green
Hill, and that the Krishina redoubts
were bein^ abandoned. He was very
sure, he said, that all the positions along
our side would shortly lie abandoned.
Would he go along and’ lead the way into
the Krishina redoubts at the risk of being
bayoneted if his words should not prove
true ? Yes, he would, and orders were
given by Skobeleff for the troops to be
gin to move cautiously forward and feel
their way with care* Thi9 was done,
and the positions were taken. At last
now it was certain that the Turks were
moving, and that the final decisive mo
ment had come. Skobeleff ordered
the captured positions to be instant
ly placed in a state of defense,
in case the Turks, repulsed, and not
yet ready to surrender, should attempt to
recapture them. The gray light of morn
ing came. It was cloudy, and threatened
more snow. Suddenly’ there was the
booming of thirty or forty guns speaking
almost together, followed instantly by
that steady, crashing roll we have learned
to know so well. The battle had begun.
The giant, after defending himself four
months, hurling thunderbolt after thun
derbolt upon his enemies, was now strug
gling through the meshes he had allowed
to be thrown around him, and was in his
turn attacking the trenches and earth
works which he had taught his enemies
so well to defend. Wo mounted our
horses and rode toward the battle. It
was in the direction of the bridge over
the Vid, on the Sophia road, and half an
hour’s ride brought us in sight of the
conflict.
A terrible and sublime spectacle pre
sented itself to our view. The country
behind Plevna opens into a plain, into
which the gorge leading up to Plevna
opens out like a funnel. The plain is
bounded on the Plevna side by steep
rocky bluffs or cliffs, along whose foot
flows the Vid. From these cliffs, for a
distance of two miles, burst here and
there in quick irregular succession, angry
spurts of flames that flashed out and ais
appeared and flashed out again. It was
the artillery fire of the Turks and Rus
sians, which from our point of view ap
peared intermingled. The smoke run
ning around in a circle toward the Vid
rose against the heavy clouds that hung
right up on the horizon, while low on the
ground burst forth continuous balls of
name that rent the blackness of the clouds
like flashes of lightning. Through the
covering of the smoke could be seen
angry’ spits of fire^ thick as tire-flies on a
tropical night. Now and then through
an irregular stream of tire we had indis
tinct gliinpsbs of bodies of men hurrying
to and fro, horses, cattle, carriages run
ning across the plain, and above all the
infernal crashing roll of the infantry fire
and the deep booming of more than a
hundred guns.
COVERED BY THE TRAIN.
This is what had happened ; Osman
Pasha had during the night abandoned
all bis positions from Grivica to the
Green Hill and concentrated the greater
part of his army across the Vid, over
which he passed on two bridges, one the
the old and the other the new one lately
constructed. He took part of his artille
ry, some three batteries, and a train of
about five hundred or six hundred carri
ages drawn by bullocks. He succeeded
in getting his army, the artillery, and
part of the train over by daybreak.
The Russians say that to have started
with so large a train is a proof that he
was deceived with regard to the num
ber of the Russian forces, and that he
believed the Russian line, owing to the
absence of General Gourko. was very
weak on the Sophia road, and thought an
other road along the Vid was virtually
open. It does not seem possible that he
could have been so badly informed, and
I am inclined to think that the train was
taken to serve a special purpose in the
fight. Indeed, the first thiug the Russians
perceived when daylight broke was a
line of wagons drawn by bullocks ad
vancing upon them in close order across
the plain. The smooth open level offered
every facility for such a manoeuvre. The
Turks were behind these wagons, which,
piled full of baggage and effects of vari
ous kinds, afforded very fair protection
from bullets.
TIIE GRENADIERS MEET DEATH.
The attack was directed against the
positions held by the grenadiers, north of
the Sophia road, whose lines extended
from the road to a point opposite Opanes,
where they were joined by the Roumania
curving line through Susurla. It Is said
the attack was made with 20,000 men,
but I doubt this, as there was really not
room for so many to deploy, unless they
had descended from the heights of
Opanes and taken the Roumanian posi
tions, and 1 have not heard that they did
this. Nor did they even attack the Rus
sian position south of the road,
as they would probably have done had
they attacked in such force. At any
rate the attack was a most brilliant
one. The Turks advanced as far as
they could under cover of their wagons,
while the Russians poured in a terrible
fire on them from their Berden breech
loaders, scarcely less destructive than
the Peabody, and opened on the ad
vancing line with shell and shrapnel.
The Turks then did a splendid deed of
bravery, only equalled by SkobeleflTs
capture of the two famous redoubts.
Probably finding their cover beginning
to fail them, owing to the cattle being
killed or getting frightened and running
away, they dashed forward with a shout
upon the line of trenches held by the
Sibrersky or Siberian regiment, swept
over them like a tornado, poured into
the batteiy, bayoneted the artillerymen,
officers and men, who, with desperate
heroism, stood to their pieces to nearly
a man, and seized the whole battery.
The Sibrersky regiment had been over
thrown and nearly annihilated. The
Turks had broken the first circle that
held them in. Had they gone on they
•would have found two more; but they
did not have time to go on, the Russians
rallied almost immediately.
General Strukoff, of the Emperor’s
staff, brought up the first brigade of
f enadiers, who, led by the General—
forget his name, but the Russians will
remember it—flung themselves upon the
Turks with fury, A hand-to-hr.nd fight
ensued, man to man, bayonet to bsvonct,
which is said to have lasted several min
utes, for the Turks clung to the captured
guns with dogged obstinacy. They
*eem to have forgotten in the fury of
liattle that they had come out to escape
from Plevna, and not to take and hold
a battery; and they held on to the
guns with almost the same despera
tion which' the Russian dead around
them had shown a few minutes
before. Nearly all the Turks in the bat
tle were killed. Those in the flanking
trenches open to the Russian fire had, of
course, very little shelter, and were soon
overpowered and began a retreat, which,
under the murderous fire sent after-them,
instantly became a fight. Some took
shelter behind the broken wagons, and
returned the fire for a time; but the ina
nity made for the deep banks of the
Vid, where they found ample shelter
from the Russian shells and bullets.
They formed here behind the banks, and
instantly began to return the Russian fire.
THE LAST FIGHT.
It was now about half-past eight, and
the Turkish sortie was virtually repulsed,
but the battle raged for four hours longer.
The losses inflicted from this time for
ward were not great on either side, for
both armies were under cover. The
Turks were evidentlv apprehensive that
the Russians would charge and drive
them back in a mass into the gorge. The
Russians were resolved to prevent anoth
er sortie, and so both sides kept it up.
Indeed, there seemed at first every pro
bability that the Turks would try it again,
though it was evident to any one who
knew the strength of the Russian lines,
and had seen this affair, that escape was
hopeless from the first, even though Os
man Pasha had had twice the number of
men. For four hours tho storm of lead
swept on, as one hundred guns sent forth
flame and smoke and iron. During all
this time we were in momentary expec
tation of seeing one side or the other rush
to the charge. We could hardly yet
realize that this was to be the last fight
we should ever see around Plevna, and
that when the guns ceased firing it was
the last time we should hear them here.
It was a strangely impressive spectacle.
Behind us the plain, stretching away to
the horizon, dark and sombre, under the
dull lead-colored clouds of the black No
vember dav. Before us the gorge lead
ing up to Plevna, flanked on either side
by steep, high cliffs, and between us and
them the smoke and roar and fire of
liattle filled the air with its mighty thun
der, a battle on which hung the fate, not
of Plevna—for the long-beleaguered
town was already in the hands of the Rus
sians—but of Osman Pasha and his army.
About twelve o’clock the tiring began
to diminish on both sides, as if by mu
tual agreement. Then it stopjxnl en
tirely. " The rolling crash of the infantry
and the deep-toned bellowing of the ar
tillery were heard no more. The smoke
lifted, and there was silence—a silence
that will not be broken here for many
a long year, perhaps never again, by the
sounds of battle. The firing had* not
ceased more than half an hour when a
white flag was seen waving from the
road leading around the cliffs lieyond
the bridge. Plevna had fallen, and Os
man Pasha was going to surrender.
GHAZI OSMAN SURRENDERS.
When the General is aliout a hundred
yards from the bridge the crush is so
great that we can advance no further,
and indeed we do not wish to, for it is
in this little house overlooking the road
that Osman Ghazi lies wounded. Gens.
Ganetsky, Strukoff and some others
have gone to see him. I was unable to
get in owing to the crowd. The con
ference did not last more than a few
minutes. The terms of capitulation
were easily arranged. The surrender
was unconditional. Osman consented at
once. If surprise be expressed that he
should have so suddenly agreed it is
only necessary to state that he could do
notliiug else. In order to attempt a
sortie Tie had to abandon all thtj posi
tions in which he had defied the Rus
sians so long, and to concentrate his
army down on the Vid. These positions
once lost were lost forever, because the
Russians occupied them almost as soon
as bfc left them. He was down in the
valley ; they on the surrounding hills,
with an army three times as large as his.
He had to surrender without delay, for
they were drawing the circle tightly every
moment. His position was like Napo
leon's at Sedan. The disparity in numlier
was greater, and he had not even the
shelter of the village. So Osman Ghazi
Surrendered unconditionally the gallant
army with which he had held this now
famous stronghold for so long, and with
which he upset the whole Russian plan of
campaign, and with which he defeated,
in three pitched battles, Russia’s finest
armies.
Negro Suffrage In Africa.
Sew York Tribune.
The Cape of Good Hope is a long wav
off, but negro suffrage is a topic which
comes close to Americans. Anthony
Trollope, in tho course of a series of let
ters to the Cardiff Times, has something
to say in regard to tho future of the
black races on their own continent. He
complitins that the very men who are the
friends of the negro hold the theory, but
never entertain the practice of equality.
He says that the staunchest disciple of
Wilberforce and Buxton does not take the
negro into partnership, or even make him
a private secretary; but the conviction
that the white man must remain in the
ascendant is as clear in his mind as in
that of his opponent; and though he will
give the black man a vote in hopes of the
happy future, he is aware that when black
men find their way into any Par
liament or Congress, that Parliament or
Congress is to a degree injured in public
estimation. In British South Africa, the
majority of colored men is so greaj that
the country has to be compared to India
or Ceylon, rather than to the Southern
American States. When once the Kafir
shall have learned what voting means,
there will lx? no withstanding him, should
the system of voting which now prevails
in the Cape Colony be extended over a
South African Confederal ion. There can
be no doubt that the condition of the race
has been infinitely improved by the com
ing of the white man, but, were it to be
put to the vote to-morrow among the Ka
firs whether the white man should be
banished out of South Africa or retained,
there can be no doubt that the entire race
would go for banishment. This may be
natural; but it is not the decision which
the white man desires.
DON CARLOS ROBBED.
HI* Collar of the Order of the Golden
Fleece Fleeced From hi* Lug;;'i"r(
Six Wives Within Ten Years.—
There now lives in Dakota county, in
this State, a man who has just married
his sixth wife in St. Paul, Minn. He was
lx>rn in New Brunswick, married there,
and moved to Minnesota with his first
wife and two children—both girls—in
the year 1867 or therealiouts. At Min
neapolis his wife died, and afterward one
child. Here, a short time after, he married
a widow with one child, a boy. Moving
thence to Stearns county, he remains
until five children are bora, all girls. One
dies, aud afterwards his second wife.
After a lapse of six or seven months
he marries again a widow with a boy.
This woman is a Hoosicr, and
proves too much for him. In less than
a year he gives her a thousand dollars to
grant him a divorce. He obtains it,
starts for Maine, meets with a woman
separated from her husband, but not
divorced; falls in love (?), marries her as
soon as the divorce is obtained—the extra
boy coming afterward this time. In a
year and a half she dies, leaving no
children belonging to him. Nowise dis
couraged, after three and one-half years
he marries again another Maine widow.
Then he returns to Minnesota, where, on
the 11th of August last, his fifth wife
passed from earth, leaving him another
girl. And now’ her place is already filled
by a sixth—whether a maid or widow I
know not. Who will dare to be the next.
If any man outside of Salt Lake City, or
at least outside the regions of polygamy,
can show a better record let him speak.—
Stilhcater (Minn.) Lumberman.
tr y
use of morphine comes from Detroit,
Mich. A woman was arrested the other
day for stealing a pair of slippers, and
tried to hang herself in her cell, who
proved to be Mrs. Harriet Smith, a
native of Albany, N. Y., a former resi
dent with her uncle at Providence, R. I.,
and ten years ago a student at Vassar
College, where she formed the habit of
taking morphine. Within two years the
failure of her health compelled her to
leave, and, though she was afterwards
supposed to be cured of her disease, and
married, she had not been long in Europe
with her husband before she found her
self again a slave to the habit. Her
husband died, and she returned to this
country two years ago, leaving her two
children with relatives, and has since
steadily gone down hill, till, an educated
and accomplished woman, she is arrested
for theft, and tries to kill herself in the
station house.
At dinner parties in the country in
England it is usual, when the host has a
very large establishment, for guests to
bring a footman with them, who waits at
the table. An Anglo-Indian writes to a
London paper to ask why people in
moderate circumstances, w’hen they dine
with a friend, don’t send their waitress
(if it be no great distance) to assist, in
stead of calling in the housemaid, who
can’t wait In India each guest brings
his own servant.
From the Pall Mall Gazette, Dec. 22.
Don Carlos, who is at present staying
at Milan, has been the victim of a jewel
robbery. He discovered a few davs ago
that his collar of the Order of the Golden
Fleece had been abstracted from his lug
gage. There seems to 1x3 some doubt as
to where the robbery was effected, one
opinion being that the collar was stolen
at Venice, from whence Don Carlos came
to Milan; while on the other hand it is
suspected on manv grounds that it was
carried off at the latter place. All that
is known for certain is that the collar is
gone, and tliat the loss was discovered
last Sunday, when Don Carlos, on return
ing to the hotel where he is sojourning,
found that the case which usually cou
tains the collar was empty. The police
were at once “communicated with,”
but by latest accounts the collar had
not been found, nor had any clue been
obtained to the perpetrator of this heart
less robbery—and heartless it certainly
was, for a sovereign who has lost his
kingdom mi^ht at least be permitted to
retain his orders. This collar, moreover,
had not only a large intrinsic value, but
was doubly precious on account of its
associations. It was always carried al>out
b} Don Carlas wherever he went, being,
it is alleged, the identical collar that lx*
longed to Philip the Good, Duke of Bur
gundy. who founded the order in 1430 to
celebrate his third marriage with the In
fanta Isabella of Portugal. Don Carlos,
therefore, not unnaturally very much
prized his collar and is much annoyed at
its disappearance, as is also the proprietor
of the hotel at which he had taken up
his quarters, who fears that the reputa
tion of his establishment may be injured
unless the collar is recovered. Illustrious
exiles, however, should as a rule leave
their valuables in the bar of the hotels
they patronize under charge of the land
lord, for many of them are known to
possess articles of a costly nature and
are consequently often objects of special
interest to thieves.
“Tiny Tim.”
From an Exchange.
Toole was acting in London in "The
Christmas Carol,” playing Bob Cratchitt.
A little delicate girl, one of the children
of the dresser at the theatre, whose pale
face and interesting manner fitted her
well for the part, played Tiny Tim. The
sickly little child was a favorite in the
theatre, and especially so with Mr. Toole.
During the performance of the piece, as
the reader may remember, the artists sat
down regularly to a supper of roasted
goose and plum pudding, which Was, in
the present instance, genuine material.
Toole was in the habit of chopping the
viands up and giving them to the chil
dren |XTforming, aud they, when they
had eaten the first helping, returned, like
Oliver, for more. Tiny Tim, however,
like Benjamin, appeared to eat seven
times as much as her brethren. She was
the first to return her plate for more, and
always made away with more than an
ordinary adult coukl eat of goose, supple
menting this collossal repast with plum
pudding enough for half a dozen. Toole
gradually felt an aversion growing iu him
for the child. Her pallor and sickness
*<*emed to him suspiciously allied with in
digestion, the first fruits of gluttony. He
struggled against the feeling for a time,
but it mastered him. and he could not
think kindly of the little one. One day.
in a fit of disgust, he sawed off a piece of
meat and bones from the savory bird and
flung it into her plate with a piece of
plum pudding, which left little for the
others, hoping that for once the child
■would be satisfied. But she wasn’t.
With a punctuality worthy of a landlord,
she returned for more. Toole was shocked.
“My dear,” said he, “you will make
yourself sick if you eat so much. I
gave you enough for three or four big
boys. You could not have eaten it in
this time. Where arc the bones V” he
added, looking at the empty plate.
Tht? poor child hung her head. Toole
spoke again rather sharply.
“Please, sir,” sobbed Tiny Tim, “my
little sister ate it.”
And, following the direction of her
eyes' towards the wings, there he saw a
hungry little horde of ragamuffins pitch
ing into the Christmas cheer with an en-
mgi
ergy that indicated how much they need
ed it. A light was let in upon him.
Little Tiny had been filling the stomachs
cf her hungry little brothers and sisters
and not her own. She never took an
other grudged morsel from the, table.
Toole told the story to Dickens, who lis
tened attentively, and at its conclusion,
with a hurst of warm enthusiasm, cried:
“Give her the whole goose and half the
plum pudding next time;” and if the ac
tor did not follow the warm-hearted novel
ist s instructions to the letter, he acted
up to the spirit of them, and Tiny's
family never lacked a square meal during
the run of the piece.
Popular European Snperstition.
All the Year Hound.
Swubian people believe that on Easter
Day, or, as some say, on Ascension Day,
the rising sun leaps thrice for joy. At
Kotenburg, on the Neckar, the sun is
supposed to perform these antics on
Christmas Eve, the period of the winter
solstice. On Good Friday the sun mourns
over the crucifixion, nnu does not shine
until three o'clock in the afternoon. In
some parts of Epper Swabia public
prayers are still offered up after an
eclipse. The nppearanee of three suns
denotes war; they are only visible at
sunrise and differ in size. The largest
gains the day, practically and metaphori
cally. At Herhrechtingen these suns
have frequently been seen, and such was
the case just lief ore Napoleon's Russian
campaign. The largest sun was in the
northern direction, and that is why the
Russians won. The sun is obliged to
shine for a short time, at least, every
Sunday, in ordtr that the Blessed Virgin
may dry her veil. Three Saturdays in the
year, on which she mourns, the sun does
not shine at all. In Tyrol and elsewhere
it is believed that any wish expressed
while a star falls will be fulfilled; a treas
ure lies where it falls. The Lithuanian
myth connects falling stars with the
Fates. Wcrpeja, the spinner, begins to
weave the thread of each newly born
human lteing in the sky, and each thread
terminates in a star; when death ap
proaches a man his thread breaks and the
star fades and falls. A comet is pro
phetic, and generally presages evil. The
Tyrolese call it 1 'Gods rod."andsay that
its import may be learned from its color.
Red signifies war and misery, but if the
light tie clear and bright it portends peace
and happiness. The Milky Way usually
goes in Swabia by the name of "Jacob's
ladder,” or "Ileaven’s Ladder.” The
angels still descend on the earth by it, as
Jacob saw in his dream, but they are not
visible to every - one. The Great Bear
probably owes his name of Wain to Pa
ganism. It is said that at midnight the
chariot turns with a mighty rumbling.
The Swabian peasantry believe that it
drives to Jerusalem every night, while
the Swiss have a superstition that if it be
low in the sky bread will be cheap, if the
contrary it will be dear,
Sc.GrL.ut Case of Heredity.—Dr.
Rizzoll knew a young girl who had a
long, thick lock of perfectly white hair
on the forehead, the rest of the hair being
a very pronounced black. This anomaly
had been congenial and hereditary in the
girl’s family for two centuries. Wherever
it existed iu a parent, several of the chil
dren were certain to present it. The
genealogical tree of the family could be
traced back for six generations! including
about forty-five persons, more than half
of whom presented tho white tuft.—
Medical Record.
The deepest arte»mn well in the world
is being bored in Pesth. Hungary. It
has already reached 3,000 feet. A well
at Paris of somewhat more than half that
depth has hitherto had the pre-eminence.
The city has devoted $200,000 to the
work, which is undertaken to supply
warm water from hot springs for the
municipal establishments and public
baths. The boring will be prosecuted
t«til the temperature of the water shows
178 degrees Fahrenheit,
The Recent Siege of San Bllzarte-
«• Defense by the Ranger., Cap.
tnre by the Mexican, and tli.
Shooting or Three Texan.,
Thr official report of Lieutenant T avs
commanding the rangers at the El Paso
massacre, is just in. He gives a graphic
account. Letters from other parties al
hi Paso are also received. The following
w the substance of the accounts of th»
San Eliz&rio siege;
The rangers occupied a onc-story xdobe
house with the windows and doors barri
caded, and port holes cut in the walls.
The Mexican besiegers occupied tho
neighboring houses, fortifying the win
dows, and dug a trench around the ran
gers’ building, which they also mined
On the first day. says Lieutenant Tays,
the Mexicans charged upon the building’
but thev were repulsed. On the last day
of the fighting he put up a flag, in order
to let She Sheriff of Pecos couutv go out
The besiegers let him go without moles
tation. and sent word to Tavs that they
wanted to talk with him. lie went out.
and a truce was agreed upon till next
morning, the Mexicans agreeing not to
fire during tho night, and they kept their
word. During the night, however, they
continued to fortify and dig rifle pits.
Tays then met them in tho morning,
and the Mexicans told him unless he sur!
rendered up Judge Howard, they would
blow up the rangers' building, as they
had already gunpowder under it They
promised- that if Howard would come
down to the mob and relinquish all
claims to the salt lakes, the original cause
of the whole difficulty, they "would not
hurt him. Tays told this to Howard,
who replied; "1 will go, as it is the Only
chance to save your lives; but they will
kill me.” Tays went down with Howard,
after telling him publicly he did not
want to do so, aud that if he would re
main with the rangers be would protect
him. Judge Howard answered: “It is
useless to attempt to stand them off any
longer. This is our only chance of es
cape. "
Howard then bade the rangers good
bye, gave his valuables to his friend, Mc
Bride, and walked out with Tavs to tho
mob. John Atkinson was taken along
as interpreter. To save bis own life
Atkinson, by agreement with the Mexi
cans, returned to the rangers and falsely
told them Tays had ordered them to sur
render. The rangers did so, and were
disarmed. The mob then held a meeting
and determined on the death of Howard,
Atkinson and McBride. The majority
of the mob were for killing all the
rangers, hut were dissuaded by one of
their leaders, Chico Barrillo.
The mob yelled fiercely, nnd the tireo
doomed men were led out one hundred
yards, and shot standing at the bends of
their own graves. Howard acted with
great coolness, and after the first fire was
quite dead. He stood with his hands in
bis pockets. The shooting was done by
Mexicans from Mexico, and it was with
difficulty the Texas Mexicans prevented
those from the other side of the river
from slaughtering the entire American
population of El Paso. Two leaders
from Mexico appealed to the mob to
massacre not only the rangers but all the
Americans in that countv.
A Defense that Convicts.
Neio York Sun.
Gen. II. V. Boynton, the well known
Washington correspondent of the Cin
cinnati iinzette, has come to the defense
of Mr. Hayes against the charges of bar
gain and corruption recently preferred
by Mr. William E. Chandler. General
Boynton is an intimate personal friend
of Mr. Hayes, and be espouses his cause
with the zeal of an ardent nature. His
zeal, as it appears to us. has outran his
discretion. We quote liis own words :
“Tho attention of RppublicnnH in Washing
ton wan first pointodly directed to Jie state of
feeling among Southern Democrats by tho
marked uneasiness of the Northern wing of
their party, cauaed by the publication of what
will be remembered a« the Rolierta interview
with Governor Hayes at Columbus. For tht*
purpose of thin discussion, it Is not necessary
to inquire whether that interview was correctly
or incorrectly reported, hut as printed, it at
once became aa the handwriting on the wall to
Tilden’s personal adherents. Emissaries from
liberty street came post haste to Wa<liington,
to sound Southern men anti see if there was
any n*sponse Among them to a sentiment that
would prefer Hayes, with an assured liberal
policy, to Tilden, with the certainty of generul
trouble. Their anxiety and tne general uneasi
ness among their friends in Congress disclosed
the situation to Republieans, and by the middle
of Doonaber tome of tin- roost praminont
among the latter had fully grasped its meaning
and ita possibilities. Republicans who ^rave
themselves earnestly to the study of the situa
tion found a general agreement among South
ern Democrats ui>on several subjects. "
• « * *#«
“In short, a numtier of prominent Southern
men were earnestly considering whether, in
case Hayes should nonestly and earnestly set
himself about carrying into effect the ideas of
his letter of acceptance, it would not be far
better for the quiet and material interests of
the South, or whether the shortest rood to a
just and permanent reconstruction did not lie
through a Republican administration under
Gov. Hayes.
"These were the elements of Southern thought
which a number of Republicans found to be
questions of earnest though quiet discussion
That they should instantly avail themselves of
this knowledge to widen the opening breach
between Tilden’s personal adherents and these
cooler Southern men was entirely natural."
The date of these transactions Gen.
Boynton fixes, as will lx? seen by the
above extract from his letter, as the mid
dle of December. The election of Presi
dent took place in November previous.
The election had been over more than a
month. Why did “some of the most
prominent among” the Republicans set
themselves to work tit that late day to
convince Southern Democrats that they
would be better off with Hayes than with
Tilden? What good could it do to con
vince them? They were not to vote over
again. Suppose they became satisfied
that thev had made a mistake and voted
for the wrong man, what could they law
fully do about it? They could not re
call their ballots for Tilden and substi
tute ballots for Hayes.
No; there whs but one thing that could
lx? done, and tliat was to tamper with the
returns—to substitute false returns for
true returns—and this is the thing that
was done.
This revelation of a leaky but truthful
Republican witness, testifying from his
own knowledge, brings us lace to face
with the most accursed conspiracy ever
entered into on American soil. General
Boynton’s own simple, unconscious
statement leads us directly up to this
gig*antic crime, and he leaves us con
fronting it in all its enormity. It was
this crime which for the first time de
feated and temporarily overthrew free,
self-government in the United States.
With what eyes, then, are wc to look
upon Hayes, who profited by the con
spiracy, and ujxm this friend and de
fender of his w ho insists that such a
crime was natural!
And when such evidence is volunteered
by Mr. Hayes’ own witnesses, are we to
be told that no sufficient grounds exist
for his impeachment ?
No War With Mexico.
Washington 8tar.
The evidence of Colonel Shafter, one
of our authorized “raiders” into Mexico,
before the sub-committec of the Military
Affairs Committee, will not give much
comfort to the newspaper closet-warriors
who pine for Mexican gore. His testi
mony that the number of raids had been
considerably decreased within the la^t
two years; tliat "the raiders were in most
cases marauding bands of Indians; that
he knew of no case where the Mexicans
had refused to give up on application
property thus stolen by Indians; that the
Mexican troops expressed a strong desire
to put a stop to disturbances; tliat
their numbers had been increased for
this purpose; that in his expeditions
into Mexico he had invariably been
treated w ith great cordiality by the Mexi
can officers, and by the respectable citi
zens of the frontier towns, and that tho
Mexican troops, besides endeavoring un
assisted to prevent raids had co-operated
with him for the same purpose, w’ill
come like a wet blanket over the military
ardor of some of our patriots. Tho
probability of a war with our Southern
neighbor grows fainter and fainter. In
stead of finding in Mexico graves for our
soldiers, and an opportunity to sink
several million dollars, we must make
her a great market for our products, as
her situation and requirements indicate
she should be. The reciprocal advan
tages of trade, while developing the re
sources of Mexico, w’ill prove to our
treasury a source of ever increasing
wealth, and by proper use of our oppor
tunities Mexico may help us to banish
the next crisis far into the indefinite
future.
In the last thirty years Mexico has
produced $702,000,000 of gold and silver^
and this country lias raised $1,400,000,000
in the same period from territory ac
quired from Mexico.
—
The Dizzy Blondes, a burlesque com-
any, were marched from W ood $
'hwatre, Cincinnati, to a jail.
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