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En ” T " . J. H. ESTILL,
addressee* Savannah. Ga.
BY MISS M. G. BRAINARD.
>wing the things that shall befall me
not what shall befall me;
er my eyes,
;i inisi«•* j ^j ^°t
s tvp of my onward path.
—• nl l k,^ new scenes to rise,
i very ! v he sends me. comes
Y- a sweet and glad surprise.
not a step before me,
I s ?*; r ' tn . iv | ,,n another year;
, t -• is in God's keeping,
But 111 UIV ji ijs inerc y shall clear,
i win, looks dark in the distance
v brighten as 1 draw near.
-haps the dreaded future
i-W> hitter than 1 think;
n" I>»rd mav sweeten the waters
iLf..re 1 stoop to drink;
I* M irah must he Marah,
He will stand l>eside its brink.
j ie keeps waiting
't.ii tin- coming of my ft et,
1 ecift of such rare blessedness.
S !?! mr jov so strangely sweet.
Tint mv h’ps shall only tremble,
1 With the thanks they cannot speak.
ft rrtlf'd. blissful ignorance !
T j, blessed not to know,
it stills me in those mighty arms
Which will not let me go.
Ami hashes my soul to rest
oil the bosom which loves me so !
50 I to on n«'t knowing;
* i would not if I might;
I would rather walk in the dark with God
Than go alone in the light;—
I would rather walk with him by faith
Thau walk alone by sight.
Mv heart shrinks hack from trials
which the future may disclose,
^HutwhU the dear Lord chose;
51 1 send the coining tears back,
With tile whispered word, “He knows.”
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Georgia A Hairs.
In spite of our urgent appeals to the con
trary the State press will continue to dis
charge their ;>liot at Hon. Ben Hill for his
course on the silver bill. The Sparta Tunes
4iwl 1‘lutUr says its say in these words: “Our
glorious Benjamin is somewhat like the
Irishman’s squirrel—when you’ve a load in
he’s not on either side of the tree, but when
voorgun is empty he’s on every side.”
The desire to leave Georgia and go to
Texas is on the wane so far as the section
al*out Sparta is concerned. The people there
are arriving at the wise conclusion that
Georgia is as good as Texas or any other
State.
Rev. T. PeWitt Tulmadge’s lecture in Au
gusta next Friday will be for the benefit of
gj, John’s M. E. Church. His subject will
bo “The Bright Side of Things.”
The Berrien County Xeies learns that “the
death rate among the cattle this winter has
been lighter than for the last ten years, and
that they are generally in tolerably good or
der.’’
A dog law is wanted in Thomasville.
Over one thousand mules and horses have
been sold in Thomasville this season. The
city is hut becoming one of the most advan-
tageuu estockmarkets in its section of the
State.
The Cave Spring K.dj rprise boasts that if its
town is called “old fogy” and has narrow
streets and had sidewalks, it is still, taking
it altogether, a hard place to beat. It there
fore tails upon the City Council to come for
ward and make home more beautiful and at
tractive. It says: “Nature has certainly done
much for Cave Spriug. Let not the act of
man be lacking in beautifying our beautiful
village, else our intelligence and the solvency
we boast of will he rcgarded)as a farce by the
many visitors we hope to welcome during
the summer of 1878.”
The houses destroyed by the late fire in
Forsyth are to tie promptly rebuilt, and on
a finer scale than before.
A lire in Macon on Saturday destroyed two
buildings, the property of Mr. J. F. Barfield.
They were wholly insured. The fire is
thought to have been of incendiary origin.
The Milledgevillc Old CapUcl also com
plains of the irregularity of the mails, It
remarks: “What is the matter with the
tnails ? is the almost universal cry in this
State. We have suffered from the negli
gence of some official, and would like to
have him or them attend better to their
business. We scarcely take up a Georgia
paper that we do not see this complaint
made. Some routes need prompt over-
, hauling.”
The good people of Milledgevillc are look
ing about for an orator to address them on
the 26th of April—Memorial day.
The citizens of Bainbridge arc much in
terested in the subject of their spring fair.
From the Democrat we learn that the town
h alive, the country is getting wide awake,
and the people are coming forward manfully
in aid of the enterprise. The farmers are
taking much interest in it also, and it is now
believed that the fair, as a success, will ex
ceed the fondest expectations of its promo
ters.
Among the numerous articles raffled on
Thursday night last, at the Hebrew Fair, in
Macon, was a 8100 United States bond, pay
able in Isns, interest due every six months.
Capt. J. a. Gotten, of Thomasville, was in
Macon last week looking up a foundry to
,est a mill wheel patent, in which he is attor
ney for tin* inventor. A Northern capitalist
has valued the patent at one hundred thou
sand dollar:. A thorough test will soon lie
•itade, and the public will know of its effi
ciency. The inventor lives in Upson county.
The \ uldostu Times of the 9tli complains
1 at there was no mail from Savannah re-
Ce,Vv d there on Wednesday morning, and
^' is - feelingly, “We’d rather miss our break
fast”
Tis true ’tis a pity, and a pity ’tis ’tis
U* 0, hut one of the editors of the Constitu-
‘ 11 has taken a desperate resolve. Speaking
1 l -'ie subject of hell he recently 6aid: “We
a rule whenever we tackle anything
’go to the bottom of it. We are discuss-
dancing and hell now, and we will get
" bottom of both of them before we
Soft them.”
Tlic Macville (Telfair county) South Geor-
D-’ 1 reproduces the article which lately ap-
in our editorial columns headed
More Trouble with the Mails,” refer-
na S to the change of schedule on the Macon
^Wick Road, and says: “The above
theniv 6 ® avanna ft News is timely and to
ftm»° nit ' * n f aet ft relieves us from any
aer task than simply to explain that it
only injures Savannah, but works a
of ti 1 \j Ur T to every citizen in the vicinity
“ e Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and
^1 l ^ at l h e authorities of the road
If j. j . 0D °e go to work and make a change.
Hic i? u J, conv enient to change their sched-
win certainly be no difficult task to
let ^ lnai ! lraiu °f their daily freight.
Trjth r? m cthing be done, or else do away
. e faree of a mail line by which it
tie if 1In P°f s ible to transmit a letter over
ty-four'f^ u^? ee °* 1611 m ft e6 UQ der twen-
d^jkpalia Is ambitious that her citizens
ii, jn (arr y off the palm for industry and
ootaii Vn boasts that “there is
°ursir 1 tr ’ white or black, to be seen upon
celiwT eets ; an( f their honesty cannot be ex-
coods °. U 1 le c °ntinent of America. Chicken
Unlock 1 an d smoke houses are left
Upon fh; 9 ur merchants leave at night
tratn 7i , P iazz as plows, hoes, grindstones,
nd fin!i nfl ’ hanging, birds and chickens
tasav . n aU right next morning.” Itfur-
‘‘Hlow your lionr, other cities and
1 - Boast ol your wealth, pride, uul*
formity and beautiful appearance of your
towns; your pretty women, cotton ship
ments, etc. Your meat and com houses are
kept securely locked: your merchandise is
salely enclosed within your stronglv locked
storehouses; while our citizens sleep se-
renely knowing that honesty prevails.
W hat little stealing we have is done by ne
gro tramps.” J
Incendiaries are driving a t living trade in
Thomasville. The Times comments on them,
and writes thus: “In addition to the
hre noticed last week, and which was with*
out doubt the work of an incendiary, at
tempts have been made to bum a house on
Madison street, belonging to Major Haw
kins, and also the handsome residence of
Mr. Jay Hirshinger,on Jackson street. These
nicht fiends, if caught—and we trust they
will be*-ought to be hung to the first lamp
post. Of course it is always better to let
the law take its course, but we think the
spectacle of an incendiary swinging to a
lamp post some morning would have a very
salutary effect. Should the villains be
caught in the act of firing a house there is
little probability of the authorities being
troubled with the case.”
On Friday next, the 15th inst., Gus John
son, who murdered a negro at King’s Ferry
on the Coosa river in 1K7G, is to be hung at
Rome. The Summerville Gazette remarks:
“We hear it rumored that Gus Johnson’s
lawyers are making an effort to induce Gov
ernor Colquitt to commute his punishment
to imprisonment in the penitentiary. We
can assure the Governor that such an exer
cise of his power will be unpopular with
the citizens of Chattooga county.”
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger of
Sunday reports the follow ing destruction of
cotton by fire: “Yesterday about twelve
o'clock quite a serious burning of cotton
occurred on the Macon and Western road
at the town of Milner, in which two cars
and about seventy bales of cotton were
destroyed. As the second down freight
train was rounding the last curve before
reaching the town the cotton on one of the
flat ears was discovered to be on fire. This
was about a half mile from the village. Mr.
Brys. Erwin, the engineer in charge
of the train, stopped his train and cut off
the cab and cars in the rear of the burn
ing cotton. He then uncoupled and
pulled the cars in advance of the burn
ing ones into Milner, shifted them to a
place of safety and returned to the burning
cars,'coupled to them and hauled them on
to the siding, though in doing so the intense
heat scorched his engine’s tender very much.
The heat from the burning cotton and ears
fired the track, and not only the side track,
but the main line were burned. The up-day
passenger was delayed some time, but by the
time the down passenger reached the spot
the damage had been repaired, ami it
reached our city on time last evening. Both
the cars and the cotton were totally de
stroyed. The bales were tired by sparks
from the locomotive. The wind was blow
ing a perfect gale, and the flames consumed
all the material in reach with the greatest
rapidity.”
The Darien Timber Gazette gives the parti
culars of a terrible murder, the result of
jealousy caused by the fickleness of an Ethi
opian swain, and the consequent jealousy of
his quondam dulcinea. The following are
the particulars as given by that paper: “It
6eems that a negro man—whose name we
cannot learn—had been paying attention to
Elsie Polite, a girl of seventeen, but becom
ing enamored of the charms of Susan Limi-
say, left the gentle Elsie for the more at
tractive Susan, whereat the rejected damsel
became highly incensed, and swore dire
vengeance upon the unsuspecting Susan.
Confiding her secret to her friend, Harriet
Pridgeon, and finding in the sympathetic
Hurriet a willing accomplice, the
pair started forth upon their
murderous errand. Meeting the
cause of her wratti, tlje infuriated girl drew
a knife and rushed upon her rival, stabbing
her in five or six places, inflicting wounds
from which her victim died at half-pa^t live
o’clock next morning. Officer Guyton,
hearing of tli« crime, proceeded at once to
the scene of the murder and effected the ar
rest of the murderess ana her companion.
The murdered girl was but fourteen years
old. Coroner J. II. Burrell was notified and
immediately summoned a jury of inquest,
who after a careful investigation of all the
facts in the case, rendered a verdict of wilful
murder against Elsie Polite, witli Harriet
Pridgeon as an accessory before the faet.”
The Southern Christian Adt'ocate says of the
Morning News: “We take pleasure
in calling attention to the advertisement
of this sterling paper. It cer
tainly deserves a generous support, as it is
one of the best papers we ( rer saw. Mr. J.
H. Estill, Its euterprlntns proprietor, has
succeeded well in business, and ho richly
deserves it ail. Rev. S. S. Sweet is traveling
agent and correspondent of the News, and
gives its readers some good letters.”
The spatt a Tinv&anu Planter wants rail
road competition. Jt says: “From this
place to Tennille, ou the Central Road,
there is a stretch of reinarkat/ly ievei coun
try, offering one of the cheapest routes for
the construction of a railroad that we know
of anywhere- - N ' ow if tlie Saud '-' r *'
ville and Tent.ilie narrow gauge road were
extended to Sparta, we would be ou an
equal footing with Milledgevillp, and have a
great advantage over other neighboring
towns, aTtd this would be tin- making or
Sparta. Doubtless Sandersvilic anil Mash
ington county would gladly unite with Han
cock in this enterprise.”
Oil of Ben.
Prom tiu, Wtekh/ News.
Your readers must not confound the
oil of “Ben” with “Bene" oil. The lat
ter I hare already described. The oil of
beu is nude from the seed of a tree that
grows in the West Indies, called the
"Moringa.” The tree grows to the height
of about twenty feet, and is a continual
bloomer. The flowers are white and
fragrant, and attract the bees in large
numbers. The pods are long and nearly
round, containing from S!\ to eight
seeds, which are very light, but oily.
The oil is valued for fluidity, it is almost
colorless, never turns rancid, and of a
pleasant taste. The oleine, when sepa
rated from the stearine, is highly valued
by watchmakers and perfumers, as it re
tains the most fugaeeous odors without
diminishing their softness and serves to
fix the odors of the most delicate flow
ers Rowland's Macassar Oil is made
from it. The tree can be easily propa
gated from cuttings, and is of a very
quick growth; like the plum tree, it puts
out blossoms before leaves, anti that the
first year after planting. The roots make
a line substitute for horse-radish—m fact
there is no detecting the difference. I
introduced some of the seeds into Florida
ami was informed by those to whom I
■rave them that they grew, but 1 have
not lately heard anything more about how
the trees were progressing, C.
Jacksonville, Fla.
\ Bkutal Parent.—At New Haven,
Conn,, on Monday a Coroner's jury sit
ting on the body of a three year old
child of Edward MeGrcevy, rendered a
verdict that death was the result of men
ingitis from brutal beating by the fathc*.
MeGreevv has been arrested. Before
the jury” the mother of the child, who
had made the complaint, testified that
her husband whipped the boy mercilessly
four weeks ago with a short, thick stick,
anti whipped it every night for no good
reason. A week ago Sunday night he
wanted the ltoy to walk from the bed to
the window ami back. The little fellow
was not able to, and the father threw
him violently on the bed, the chtlds
head striking hard against the wall. A
week a«o Monday he whipped the boy
a,r a in. Previous to this, on one occasion
ttie father knocked the child violently on
the side of the head with Ins hand After
the punishment, Monday, the child was
taken with vomiting, which lasted until
the 1st, when he became unconscious so
remaining until death supervened ^ atur-
day night.
All women play cards alike. Watch a
woman at a game of whist; “La, me,
Henry, is itn,y play? Let me see—second
hand low—that's the first time around of
that suite, ain't it? Well, I’ll play no.
I hardly think I will—now you stop
looking at my hand—did you see any
thing—of course I’m going to play but
I must have time to think—what s
tramps—spades? 1 thought t was clubs
—well I'll—no—yes—well, there! Then
she will clap an ace on her partner’s king
and insist upon keeping the trick for fear
she will be cheated out of it m the final
count.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Standijrd
says that a lady was received into full
membership in a Methodist Episcopal
Church connected with the Providence
Conference not long ago who had been
on probation fifty-seven years.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that
nine-tenths of the land in Alabama is
valued at less tliaa ten dollars per acre.
EMIGRANTS FOR AFRICA.
\ Shipload of Colored People Leav
ing South Carolina -The ISe^innlns
of a threat TlikNiouary .tlovcincnl.
Correspondence Xetc York Herald.
Charleston, March 8. — The pro
gramme of the Lilierian Exodus Associa
tion is now completely arranged, and the
sailing ship Azor, which is to convey the
first instalment of colored emigrants is
expected here daily, having left Boston a
week ago. She is already loaded with pro
visions of different sorts, agricultural im
plements, dry goods, boots, shoes, etc., the
property of persons intending to take
passage. There are also a quantity of
provisions and seeds stored here, the
whole being amply sufficient to last out
the voyage and for some time
after the arrival at Monrovia, the
ship’s destination. Three hundred and
fifty men, women and children from
various portions of the country are now
quartered in this city awaiting the time
for their departure. The Azor will carry
about two hundred and fifty of these,
which is nearly her full capacity. Only
those will be taken who hold stock in the
Liberian Joint Stock Steamship Com
pany and have the means to support
themselves for six months in Liberia
without assistance. They will consist
mostly of the better class of independent
small farmers, * who have acquired the
necessary funds by the sale, and in many
cases sacrifice, of all their property here.
They are to lie provided with comfortable
quarters in Monrovia by the Liberian
Government until they are removed to
the lands which are to be given them at
the rate of twenty-five acres for each
head of a family and ten acres for each
male adult. They intend settling in the
northwest portion of the territory.
After landing her passengers the ves
sel is to return immediately for more,
bringing back a cargo of African pro
ducts. This method of transportation
is to be continued until the company se
cures funds enough to purchase a steam
ship, when a regular line is to be es
tablished between this port and Monrovia
for carrying over emigrants and bring
ing back produce. The officers of the
company claim to have on hand now,
after paying for the Azor, nearly suffi
cient funds to pay the first instalment on
the steamship. Every stockholder has a
right to one passage to Monrovia, when
his turn comes. There being JO,000
shares of stock, which sell at $10 per
share, it is certain that if the mass of
colored people retain their present dis
position the steamship will be fully oc
cupied for years to come.
It is claimed that twenty-five thousand
people through the South have invested
in the Joint Stock Association and that
over one hundred ancj sixty thousand are
enrolled to go when occasion offers, and
do not consider the claim an extravagant
one that iu this State if transportation
could be obtained at least one-half of the
colored population would go, so thor
oughly have they been worked up on the
subject
The feeling is carefully cultivated and
widespread among them that it is their
mission to return to Africa and endow
their brothers there with the civilization
and enlightenment which they have ac
quired, as the cant phrase goes, “during
their captivity and bondage.” Religious
feeling, race sympathy and political
prejudices are active aids to the desire to
emigrate from this country. Four com
missioners, elected by a convention last
summer, will accompany the first ship
load to inspect the country, return and
report. No white man has any connec
tion with the scheme or is allowed to
touch it.
NORTHERNERS COMING SOUTH.
Tlic Videttes of tlic Looked-for Army
of Immigrant*.
Spartanburg (8. C.) Spartan.
We begin to feel that our oft-repeated
prophecy, that in a short time there
would be a perfect flood tide of settlers
coming South from the North and West
to join with us in developing the resources
of our country, and restoring prosperity,
is about to be* verified. There are num
bers of Northern men traveling ever)'
(jay along the Air Line and connecting
railroads, inspecting *mr country with
the intention of settling, q fhpy can
make proper arrangements and suit them
selves concerning a location. The ma
jority of these have been induced to come
South through influence of Messrs.
Gaines and Tingling, whose pcT^ 1 v erance
anil long continued labors deserve re
ward.
We are glad to see that these men are
not mere laborers without capital, but
intelligent, respectable, industrious men,
who (lesire to rent and buy farms, and
engage in other business, and who will
prove valuable citizens, and contribute
not only to the progress of our section,
but also to society. On Saturday Messrs.
Ludliam and Ludham, two very nice
gentlemen, from Deckertown, Sussex
county, New Jersey, and Port Jervis,
Orange county, ISew York, came
to see us, desiring to purchase a
farm near Spartanburg, for the
purpose of establishing a dairy,
with which business they are perfectly
conversant, coming from a section where
it is made a specialty, as is well known
to all parts of the country. On Monday
Mr. C. Graham and son, from Elizabeth,
N. J., also gave us a call, and will in all
probability settle In our town. There
are many others xvlio are constantly pass
ing through on a general tour of in spec 1
tion, and one and all of them tell us that
“our people want to come South, and if
we settle there are numbers who wish to
foliow us.”
We bespeak for all of these men a
warm welcome and generous hospitality,
for they come as Itona fide settlers, and
we would ask and advise our people not
only to extend every civility to them,
but to offer the greatest possible induce
ment for them to settle. The fruits of
such a policy will l»e realized in a short
time, in the increased value of property,
the revival of industry of all kinds, and
tlic restoration of wealth and prosperity.
During the approaching spring and sum
mer our land owners should organize a
society for the encouragement of settlers,
and record their property for sale so that
jt can be reached and examined w ithout
trouble.
“Does eny of de gem’len understan’
what ferlantropy means?” asked Brother
Gardner as he rose and folded his arms
across his noble breast. It w*as a long
time bfeore Felix Smcad lifted his body
and replied: “I ’spect dat aferlantherpist
am a pusson dat feels a heap sorry for de
poor, an’ is allers wantin’ to better the
condition of his nayburs.” “You is mo’
dan six-fifths kerect,” continued the
President. “De ferlanterpist sits down
liefo’ a rousin' good fire on a cold day an’
wishes dat everybody else had such a
fire. He doan’ take money out’n his
pocket to buy wood an’ coal for de poor,
but he figures up some scheme by which
all de money an’ all de po’ folks is to be
divided up somehow, so dat ebery dollar
will hab a man an’ebery man a dollar. If
he bars dat any one starved to death, he
figures up the amount ob de grain crop,
divides de bushels by the number o’ pop-
erlashun, an’ makes it plain dat ebery
pusson is ’tided to ober thirty bushels oh
wheat dis y’ar. De ferlantherpist wishes
dat de po* chil’en had clothes, but he
doan' buy ’em eny. He wishes dat all de
bad folks would reform, but hedosn’ w alk
’roun’ among dem for fear of gittin’ de
shine off’n his boots. He auverkates
homes for crippled an’ aiged an’ unfortu
nate, an* nex’ day signs a petishun to frow
a one-armed soldier out’n a posishun pay
ing a dollar a day. Gem’len, de cull’d
race am graded down, even below de
Turk, but I is ob de solum opinyun dat a
good square nigger am forty rods abed of
a ferlantherpist, an’ gainin’ at ebery
j ump. Detroit Fro* Press.
A man and his wife committed suicide
together in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
by getting in the way of a railroad train.
The plague has again broken out in
Persia, several populous cities being al
ready afflicted with the terrible scourge.
A Rival to the Sea Serpent.
Xew York Tribune.
The sea-serpent has a rival. It is a
land animal; an animal as large, as fan
tastic, and as elusive as the celebrated
monster of the sea—and at least twice
as mysterious.
Tlie minhoeao is the new wonder. A
very slight change in its name might
have prejudiced the world against it—as
for instance, if it had been baptized
minhoaxo. It is well fathered in the
realm of science, being brought to notice
by one Fritz Muller, of Brazil, in the
7subjgixrJie Garten, and receiving a full
page of large type in a recent number of
Nature. The minhoeao is believed to be a
resident of the region of South America
where the Uruguay and Parana rivers
have their sources. The animal is said
by different observers to have the
following characteristics ; It is worm
shaped; about eighty-two feet long (by
guess) and more than a yard in thickness,
“not very long,” however, according to
another account; two horns ou the head;
a snout like a pig; a less definite descrip
tion makes the animal “as big as a
house,” and measurement of the tracks
indicates its possible width at six and a
half to ten feet. Some years ago, it is
said, there was a dead minhoeao wedged
in the cleft of a rock near Arapoliy,
Uruguay; its skin was as thick as the
hark of a pine tree, and formed of hard
scales like those of the armadillo.
The new animal is, however, chiefly
known by his works. Great trenches
are found in this region, which are sup
posed to be the evidence of the minho-
cao's industry. Heaps of earth are
turned up in the process, and where pine
trees stand in the way of the trench,
they are rooted up, and sometimes part'
of their hark and wood may be tom
off. The devastation of this per
formance, which is chiefly near or
under the surface of the earth, though
often under the bed of a stream, is enor
mous. In one case the entire side of a
hill was undermined, it is supposed, by
two of these animals, and was traversed
by deep trenches. By such proceedings
marshes have been drained, or dry laud
converted into morass, and the courses
of streams entirely changed. Some of
the trenches are spoken of as lieing froni
three-fourths of a mile to a mile in
length. They are excavated with great
rapidity.
It will lie noticed that the new aspirant
for fame has been almost as little seen as
tlie sea serpent. The subterranean mon
ster is simply more fortunate than tlie
submarine, in leaving more palpable
traces than a wake of foam. We may
expect soon to hear of a scientific expe
dition to Uruguay in search of the min-
hocao. Whether it will be found like a
ceratodus or a lepidosiren or a glyptodont
it is yet too soon to guess. Possibly when
unearthed it will be recognized as the de
scendant of one of the gigantic armadil
los that certainly dwelt in South America
during the reptilian age of geology.
A Phantom Fox in Virginia.—The
Culpeper Set vs gives an account of a
fox who has successfully baffled all the
huntsmen and dogs of that county.
Many and rapturous chases have they
■riven him. but all to no effect. All the
packs of the different parts of the county,
have made trial of his skill, and found
him too cunning for one and ail. His
fame spread to Fauquier, the huntsmen
of that county, thinking to lace the
jackets of the Culpeperites, came down
in force, as to an easy triumph. After
getting two straight runs on him one day,
without success, they retinal inglorious
from the field. Atid Orange is now
challenged to make trial of her su
periority. The fox's peculiarity seems
to consist in walking rails and leading
dogs and hunters round about promiscu
ously, and then vanishing into thin air.
A church congregation in Ohio has
been sued for compelling a man's wife
and children to desert him. About three
years ago James Leichty. a member of
the Mennonite Church at Bryan, was
excommunicated, and his wife and chil
dren were directed to leave him. This
they did, although he begged them to
remain. A strong church influence was
brought to licar upon the wife, and she
refused to live witli her husband, dread
ing the same ban, which, according to
their creed, would have consigned her
soul to everlasting damnation. Mr.
Leifchtv brought suit against the church
mil hofllies for compelling Ills wife to
leave his bed and board, without his
fault or consent, and demanded £10,000
damages. The case was on trial for
nearly' a week, and on Tuesday the jury
-"•urued a verdict of £2,500 for the plain-
m:
TEXAS IIORSE THIEVES.
will They are I sually Lynched
When Tanaht —100,000 Horses
Stolen Within Three Years.
Austin correspondence Galveston News.
The popular fury in rural districts
against horse thieves is thought to be
by denizens of citizens senseless and out
of proportion to their offense. Why
when a horse thief is caught he is gener
ally strung up to the first convenient
limb, while the homicide is carried to
jail with favorable prospects of proving
self-defense and escaping punishment, is
very plain to me, since I have looked
somewhat diligently into the incomplete
and unsatisfactory criminal statistics of
our State. There are now some
seven hundred and fifty indicted horse
thieves fugitives from justice at large, aud
perhaps half as many more in J ill- and
in the penitentiary. But where onehorse
thief is known and indicted near about
one hundred get away with the stolen
horses, or at least where the thief who
steals one horse is known and indicted
one hundred horses are stolen and no
clue of thief or horse is afterward ob
tained. About Austin they seem to be
organized and succeed month after month
in getting away with tlie horses of farm
ers, stockmen, and city people. The
thieves are unknown and the horses are
never recovered. If their success here
is a criterion of their general success
throughout the State, then the propor
tion of one hundred successful steals to one
failure and exposure is certainly within
the bounds of truth, and on that hypo
thesis they have stolen one hundred thou
sand horses in Texas in the last three
years. The magnitude of their opera
tions and the difficulty of checking them
then, will explain the fury of their
victims against such as fall into their
hands. Knowing their game to be
desperate, they prepare for extremities,
and are rarely caught without a fight
and bloodletting on both sides. Hence,
Sheriffs arc not usually very enthusiastic
in their pursuits. Owners of stolen
stock are aliout their only pursuers,
and when overtaken by such the reader
will readily infer that due course of law
will not he had. It is believed that the
exodus of outlaws from the cattle dis
tricts of tlie West, driven to the country
cast of the Colorado by Hall's Police ami
the Frontier Battalion," has given an in
creased impetus to horse stealing, and
that an organized band of hundreds are
now operating in Middle Texas. The
loss of farm stock in some localities is
fearful. Farms are rendered useless, and
families depending upon crops see the
plowing season passing away without
being able to plant or sow.
The Late Pope.
The will of Pius IX. makes provision
for his monument According to the
usual custom, a magnificent tomb was
prepared for him during his lifetime in
Santa Maria Maggiorc, but 2,000 francs
are to cover the whole cost of the new
monument; the stone is to have a death’s
head instead of a coat of anus, and the
inscription, mostly written in his own
hand, is as follows: “Here lies Pius IX.,
Supreme Pontiff; horn 13 May, 17B2.
died 7 February, 187.S. Pray for him."
One of his recent biographers says of
him that he was a great billiard-player.
11a had a French table (without pockets)
at tlie Vatican, and, when liis health al
lowed it, used to play two or three games
every evening before going to bed.
He was not an early riser, and his
habits had a great deal of the Italian in
dolence. He liked sweetmeats, pastry
and playful conversation. Wine he
never touched at table, and he took all
his meals alone, it being contrary to eti
quette for any one, even a crowned head,
to eat with the Supreme Pontiff. The
Pope was always very fond of children,
and frequently had some little street ur
chins soul for to prattle with him in his
garden. These never went away empty
handed. On one occasion, however, lie
had to deal with a very astute youth,
who, being taken to a drawer full of
gold pieces, where he was bidden to help
himself to as much as ho could carry in
both hands, answered; “I had rather
send for father, he has bigger hands than
mine.”
The Trinity College Bell Again—A
Fearful Discovery.
Hartford Times.
The t;fiapcl boll at Triuity CrJie^o lias
been the source of much trouble or late.
The students seem to have a special ill
will against it. It has been repeatedly
tampered with. Only a few days ago it
down, the wheel broken, and
A Cargo of Laguayra Coffee.—The
brix Alexis is in Hampton Hoads with
four thousand bags Laguayra coffee,
which will likely be brought to Balti
more. The cargo is the venture of an
Englishman who visited South America
for liis health, and who is on board the
brig. After buying the coffee he found
that his best market would probably be
found in the United States. He was in
Baltimore yesterday with samples, and
several coffee buyers were figuring with
a view to purchase. A full cargo of
Laguayra coffee "has not been received at
this port for a very long time, but Balti
more formerly did a large business in it.
—Haiti more Sun.
A Bear Seized with IIydropiioria,
—One of the black bears in the Cincin
nati Zoological Garden was seized with
an attack of hydrophobia Saturday, and
before the keeper of the pits succeeded
in separating the mad animal from its
companions, it had managed to wound
two of the other bears. All the symp
toms of lipdrophobia were noticed in
the bear, which, after h.-ving run at a
rapid rate around the pit for some time,
snapping its teeth at everything in its
way, was finally made secure in one of
the dens, where it died iu aliout ten
minutes.
An Unaccountable Suicide.—John
Bowers, merchant at Skipton Landing,
Talbot counly, Maryland, Friday morn
ing, after cleaning up his storehouse and
eating his breakfast, apparently in good
spirits, told his clerk, Mr. Hopkins, that
he would be out a few minutes. (Ie
walked around the store, near some
mountain cherry bushes, and shot him
self through the head, killing himself in
stantly. Mr. Hopkins hearing the report
of the pistol, went out and found him
weltering in his blood. He was an un
married man, his finances in good condi
tion, and no reason for the act has been
ascertained.
A Uniontowner wrote recently to
Beast Butler, describing himself as a
"patriot, nut a politician,” and asking
for assistance to obtain office. Butler
sent back his letter endorsed as follows:
“Respectfully returned. I do not be
lieve that a patriot stands the slightest
chance of getting office now. ” \\ here
upon said “patriot.” in a letter to Mr.
Hayes, enclosing the endorsement, pen
sively sighs, “We are drifting to an
archy.”
Outside the meetin’ house—Deacon
Norwood (to Elder Tompkins): “Yes,
sir; a man witli hope and without no
faith is just like a young man in a row
lioat. who aint got only one oar, and rows
round and round in*a circle and don’t
get nowhere.” Small boy (at a safe dis
tance): “If he warn’t a darned fool he’d
scull.”—Harvard Lampoon.
The total amount of corn exported
from the port of New Orleans thus far
this season, since September 1. foots up
3,402,955 bushels, against 979,425 bushels
for the same period last year.
Spurgeon, the great London preacher,
has broken down in health, and has been
forced to abandon the ministry. It is
anticipated that the largest congregation
in London will thus be broken up.
A long line of fearful tragedies has led
the Kentucky Legislature to pass an act
forbidding the carrying of concealed
weapon*,
other danpige. done, so that the students
might escape chapel anq taiiy recjtutjon.
This morning the janitor went to ring
the bill, but the bell wouldn’t ring, lie
ascended to the belfry to ascertain the
cause, and found the inside of the bell
filled with a peculiar mixture, looking
white, hard and solid. On the outside
was this label:
Nitro-G i.yc ekixe !
If you touch this bell.
You will be blown to h—11!
Ou reading this, the janitor turned as
white as the mixture, aud rushed to Pro
fessor Hart, who at once issued orders
which were sent to all the students to ap
pear at chapel as usual, and also at recita
tion, without the warning notes of the
bell. Only a few of the students w r ere
late after that notice.
The alarming mixture in the bell was
subsequently found to be composed mere
ly of plaster of paris and nail'. It has
hardened, and it would require some
trouble and skill to remove it. ^The col
lege authorities have decided not to have
the bell cleaned, but have directed the
students to attend chapel and recitations
without the bell.
The silliest idea that has come to the
surface in connection with silver remone
tization is that of coining a silver dollar
to be kept equal in value to a gold dollar
by changing the number of grains of
standard silver contained in it. The ab
surdity of coining to-day, for instance, a
silver dollar of 410 grains in order to
make the dollar of 414 grains which was
coined yesterday equal in. value to the
gold dollar today, is apparent at a glance.
But greater silliness would lay in the at
tempted regulation of a reasonably stable
metal by a remarkably fickle metal. Even
after demonetization, silver was more
stable in value than gold. If legislation
is needed to equalize the values of the
gold and silver dollars, it should be ap
plied to a wise regulation of the sunounts
of the coinages rather than to the amoimts
of the precious metals in the two coins.
But we do not apprehend that any legis
lation will be necessary. The steady de
cline of the gold premium, and the ad
missions of the anti silver organs that
the silver dollars will lie worth nearly or
quite their face value, indicate that the
margin, if any, between the two coins
will be too small to be material.—Bridge
port Fanner.
Mr. John T. Raymond is quoted as
declaring that he went on the stage when
he was seventeen years old. “I was
cast,” he savs, “as Lopez, in the ‘Honey
moon,’ and all I had to say w'as. ‘I am
appointed to ask you to our merry
making on the green hard by.’ This was
to the duke and duchess. I got my
mouth open and there it stuck. House
came down. Next day actors said it was
the hit of the season. Everybody thought
it was done purposely. It was as natural
a peasant, struck dumb by high society,
as you ever saw*. Next night I w’as cast
for Smatter, in ‘Hunting a Turtle.’ Did
the same thing again, and then they
knew I w’as nothing but a fraud. Man
ager said I w as only worth $0 a week.
And yet here I am, the owner of a high
priced play, written by a man with a
$1,500 name, and especially adapted for
the undersigned.”
Wednesday, near Fort Wayne, Ind.,
Jas. Zeiss, aged thirteeen, son of Louis
Zeiss, hanged himself in ills father’s barn,
because he had been accused of stealing
A lead pencil.
ATTEMPTED TRIPLE MURDER.
A German Carpenter Poisons His
Family.
New York Post.
Henry Schmitt, a German house car
penter, aged thirty-two years, living on
the top fioor of the tenement house No.
97 Pitt street, attempted to kill his wife
Barliara, aged thirty-two, his daughter
Catherine, aged thirteen, and his mother-
in law', Elizabeth Schmittler, aged sixty
years, by poisoning them with arsenic
yesterday at the dinner table.
Schmitt is a native of Odenbacb, in
Rhenish Bavaria. He was married in
1S04 to the woman he attempted to de
stroy. His mother-in-law’, Mrs. Eliza
beth Schmittler, lived with him and late
ly contributed largely to his support. She
lost a son in the civil war, and has been re
ceiving a pension of $8 a month, which she
drew every three months and turned over
to tlie family support. Schmitt has been
entirely out of work since last Christmas,
aud before that for a long time earned
but little, and his wife, in order to do her
part tow r ard the support of the family,
has since that time taken in washing.
Latterly Schmitt has been drinking hea
vily and compelling the women to give
him their money. lie has also frequent
ly beaten his wife. Yesterday morning
liis wife and mother-in-law left the
house early, the former to get washing
money and the latter to draw her
pension. Schmitt was furious and
followed his wife to her sister’s
house, when he lieat her. He then drovo^
her home. At dinnertime he put arsenic
in the coffee, and soon afterward his
wife, mother-in-law and daughter were
seized with cramps. Medical aid was
summoned, but it is believed that Mrs.
Schmittler will die. Schmitt w T as arrest
ed, and in the station house became per
fectly furious and acted like a madman.
He tore his clothes, and seizing a strong
hold on the water pipe, wrenched it from
the wall. Hooding the cell. He was then
handcuffed to the cell door. On tlie
prisoner’s person when arrested were
found a razor aud a bottle , filled with
whisky strongly impregnated with arse
nic. lie said he bought the arsenic at
Christmas for the purpose of poisoning
rats. He denied having poisoned his
family. He admitted, however, that he
had put arsenic in the whisky for the
purpose of destroying himself, as “every
one was down on him.”
A New and Growing Industrj’.
Baltimore Sun.
Every succeeding year the Southern
cotton * planters are finding a larger
market, both at home aud abroad, for
what was at one time regarded as a waste
product of the cotton field. A few years
ago cotton seed was looked upon not
only as an article tlult was utterly worth
less. except when converted into manure
and returned to the soil after decomposi
tion, hut as an encumbrance which, from
annual accessions to the heap about the
gin house, became so difficult tq get
rid of that large planters sometimes
found it less expensive to remove the
gin house whose operations it obstructed
than the lieai»ed up mass of seed. To
day, says the Memphis Append, every
bushel of that seed is of value. It has
long l»een known that the seed
yields, under pressure, a large
quantity of fixed oil, but it is only
of recent date that this oil has been put
to domestic and industrial uses. When
thoroughly purified it is said to l»e
to olive oU for f .®!^le and medicinal pur
poses, while the residium, after the oil
lias been expressed, forms a cotton seed
oil caj*:e Yrhiyl*, *»»r the fattening of
stock, is said to lie an excellent sul>sti-
tute for the oil cake of commerce. Cot
ton seed oil is also beginning to be used,
like palm oil, in the manufacture of the
liner kjnds of soap; for softening wool;
for lubricating machinery; dressing mo
rocco leather, and for mixing paint colors
instead of liuseed oil, which, in its dry
ing qualities, it is said to rival. If the
properties of cotton seed oil are not ex
aggerated, the multitude of uses to which
it can lie put and the cheap
ness with which it can be fur
nished ought to bring it into extensive
demand, and so give the Southern
planter another and important source of
profit. To what extent cotton seed until
with a few years past lias been a waste pro
duct, may be estimated from the fact that
a rough calculation puts the yiy-lii tu seea
at tv> o pounds to every pound of cotton
lint. Assuming the annual product of
raw cotton in tlie United States to lie
four millions of bales of four hundred
pounds each, the total cotton crop for
the year, expressed in pounds, is sixteen
hundred millions of pounds, and of cot
ton seed tbirtv-two hundred raillioqs of
pounds. The market’for raw cotton we
know, but tfiat for the products of the
cotton seed we are only just loginning to
learn. It is an industry yet In its In
fancy, but already ♦yy re }irc se ven cotton
seed oil mills in New Orleans,five in Mem
phis, and others at Baton Rougje,
Natchez, Shrevepoct, Vicksburg, Pine
Bluffs, St. Louis and Chicago. In
January last it is reported that four thou
sand four hundred and ninety-one sacks
of cotton seed, to lie manufactured into
oil and oil cake, were received at New
Orleans alone. A demand fias also
sprung up at New Orleans for seed for
export, and within the past four weeks
twenty-four thousand sacks reached that
city for shipment to Europe. Of course
at this time, with the supply so largely
in excess of demand, the price of cotton
seed rules low\ But with the rapid ex
tension of the uses to which the oil am
lx* put, and a larger knowledge of the
fattening properties of the ou cake, it
bids fair before long to become an im
portant staple article of commerce, both
lor home purposes and for export.
There "was an extraordinary scene in
the course of the recent trial of the
Nihilists in St. Petersburg. A prisoner
named Mischkin complained of the
merciless Hl-usage and torture to which
he had been forced to submit for two
years. According to his statement,
during the prolonged examination, forty-
three of the one hundred and eighty
prisoners had died from natural causes,
twelve had committed suicide, and
twenty-eight had gone mad. He de
nouuced the proceedings as a miserable
farce. At these words the Judge jumped
up, ami gave orders that the prisoner
should Ixj at once removed. An officer of
tlie gendarmes promptly seized Mischkin,
but at the same time two other prisoners
rushed to the aid of the latter, and a
hand-to-hand fight ensued, in which the
officer had to contend against the three.
Mischkin continued in a louder key to
rail against the court and the Judges.
At last a gag was forced into his mouth,
and he, with his fellow-prisoners, was
dragged out of the chamber. A terrible
tumult ensued in the court. Many wo
men, some of them being wives of the
prisoners, fainted or went into hysterics,
and loud curses were heard. The pris
oners, offic ials, spectators and gendarmes
fcere involved in a riotous struggle, but
eventually a detachment of soldiers suc
ceeded in clearing the place.
A Young Lady Shot.—The Fred
ericksburg Star of the 6th says: “Late
Friday evening, Miss Ella Mills, of this
place, was shot by a young man named
Chas. Jones. The particulars, as far as
we can gather them, are as follows:
Jones haa been out hunting, and in re
turning home stopped at the house of
} Mi "
Auk. i .v-tay. .
M
you 1’ When she threw up her hands be
fore her eyes, the gun exploded, and
buried a load of shot in her hands and
face. Drs. Doggett and Herndon were
sent for, who extracted the shot, and now
the patient is doiug well. The throwing
up of her hands saved the young lady’s
eyesight. Jones was much frightened,
and declared that the shooting was acci
dental. We are informed that Jones had
previously pointed the gun at another
young lady.”
A lump of coal weighing sixteen thou
sand three hundred and fiftj-two pounds
has been shipped from Indian Ridge col-
Pwia exposition
vaster
Jiery to tbo J
Electoral Disputes.
St. Louis Republican.
The method of adjudicating and deter
mining qut3Stions growing out of Presi
dent ial elections has been taken up by
the House Committee on the Revision of
Laws, and it is probable they will report a
plan for performing this difficult work at
this session. Several schemers are before
the committee. One proposes that the
electoral vote of no State shall be re
jected with the concurrence of both
houses. If there be but one return
from a State, it will be counted,
of course. If there be two returns
that one is to lie counted which the
highestf tribunal of the State has de
cided to lie the true one. unless both
houses of Congress reject it. If there
be a contest involving two or more re
turns from a State, aud the supreme tri
bunal of the State shall not have ren
dered a decision, then neither return
shall be accepted and counted, unless by
agreement of the two houses of Con
gress. All questions touching the eligi
bility of an elector and the result of an
election in a State are to be decided by
the Supreme Court or other high tribunal
of the State, and its decision Rmst be
accepted unless reversed by the concur
rent vote of the two houses of Con
gress.
This plan is not perfect. It seeks to
conform to the sound doctrine that each
State ought to be left to decide its own
electoral contests; but it gives to either
house of Congress authority to reject the
electoral votes of a contested State in
case the contest has not been adjudicated
by the supreme tribunal thereof; and it
gives to both houses of a partisan Con
gress acting together authority to reject
the electoral votes of an uncontested
State for any fancied cause, or for
no cause • at all. In Louisiana,
in the last electoral dispute, we
saw a lawless government imposed
on the people by the Federal power,
violating the laws ot the State in tlie dis
posal of the electoral votes; in Florida
we saw the decision of the highest tri
bunal of the State disregarded in the dis
posal of its electoral votes; and in South
Carolina we saw’ a Federal Judge inter
fering with the process of the Supreme
Court of the State; and at Washington
we saw all these outrages virtually ap
proved bv the solemn special tribunal
organized to pass on them. It will be
necessary in framing a plan for deter
mining a Presidential dispute absolutely,
either to have each electoral contest de
cided in tho State where it arises, or to
have them all sent up to Washington to
be determined by a tribunal invested with
plenary power over them.
Papal Overtures to the. Church of
Eugland.
Father Nugee has just made a tender
appeal to the Church of England on the
solemn occasion of the Pope’s death.
This eminent London priest was a per
sonal friend of the late Pope, and he soft
ens the matter of infallibility. No one
could talk with Pius IX., he savs, but
must have felt that it w’as not to a human
but a divine Infallibility that he looked.
The late Pope yearned for the reunion ot
the English and Roman Churches. On
one occasion when Father Nugee was
talking to him ou this subject *l,u Pope,
taking the priest’s left hand over his (Nu-
gee’s) shoulder, and joining it to his
(Pius’) right hand on his (the Pope’s)
breast, said with characteristic energy,
“I give you my f r cc and hearty concur
rence.” Archbishop Manning also,
Father NfWBB d .a.t s, reels the same
wav, aqd “ would make any sacrifice for
the unity except that of Christian love.’
Father Nugee says the Cardinal said to
him, “You know* how I differed from
my predecessor, Cardinal Wiseman, on
the subject of corporate reunion. 1 now T
admit that the circumstances have
altered, and this I will say—if any well
digested system of reunion, backed by a
body of English clergy, is submitted to
me, sd far from opposing it, I assure you
I will promote it to the utmost of my
power.”
Father Nugee expresses the fervent
hope that Cardinal Manning may prove
the divine instrument for the unification
of the church in the West.—M. />. Gon-
tray's Letter to Cincinnati Commercial.
Thomas Humphreys was as bra ye an
English sailor as ever furled a sail. He
win crossing Carmarthen Bay a few
weCKs ago in the customs boat, with
Mrs. Byddcr (an officer’s wife) and a
companion, when a sudden gust of wind
struck the sail, and they found them
selves struggling in the w : ater. He first
endeavored to support his comrade, wire,
was an awkward swimmer but the poor
fellow could not by. kept afloat! lie then
tplu the woman to cling to the boat,
while he swam round to see what could
be done. He got his knife and opened
it with his teeth, cut away the cordage,
Rn ' 1 , aiier considerable exertion, dis
masted the craft and righted her uut as
she was full of vfatei, iney eould not get
into her. He therefore placed the mast
across the boat, and got the woman’s
arms over it on one side, w’hile he went
and hung on at the other. Mrs. Ryuder.
then said, “Every one for himself,” and
lagged him to leave her and to‘save him
self! which he could easily havp done,
being only about tliirtv yards from
shore, but he knew' that if left the
woman she would b*> u rowne( i. He re
inaiued by her, at the cost of his own
lite, for an hour and a half, shouting all
the while for assistance. Just as a boat
reached them, the brave fellow sank from
colfl and exhaustion, but the woman was
saved.
An Ice Calculation. —It is estimated
that 3,500.000 tons of ice will be cut iu
Maine this winter. Now’, allowing a
quarter of a pound of ice for a mint
julep, aud making allowance for those
who don’t drink, the rest of the people in
Maine can have about forty-nine drinks
each, living that seven drinks will
make a man feel tolerably happy, out of
forty-nine drinks he can manage to have
seven drinks, and one man drunk seven
times is, of course,equal to seven drunken
men; so the whole ice crop will yield an
aggregate of 2,100,000 drunken men.
Suppose that from evefry ten of those w’ho
get drunk seven times one has the jim-
jams; 210,000 men will be thus afflicted—
about one-third of ’the total population
of the State! If each of these unfortu
nate men sees 1,000 snakes, there will be
210,000,000 snakes seen, and allowing
two snakes to a boot, they will fill
52,500,000 pairs, which insures brisk
w ork in the shoe shops.
The London Lancet protests in the
strongest terms against doctors allowing
their patients to inject morphine sulxrn-
taneously for themselves, and mentions
that a young lady, the victim of neurotic
symptoms, was actually taught by an
eminent London physician to carry out
this system of self-doctoring, and has
never ceased to soothe herself with it
nightly, whether necessary or not, since
she was so educated. A middle aged
lady. W’ho li;\s been in the habit of ad
ministering it to an invalid sister for
some years, rewards herself at the same
time with a dose in the neck, which is
seamed with ugly scars from the fre
quent repetition of an operation con
ducted too often in very close propin
quity to the external jugular vein.
“But, Paul, how can the spirit be in
us and we in the spirit at the same time?”
said a young man to a venerable darkey.
“Oh, dar’s no puzzle ’bout dat. It’s like
dat poker, I puts it in de fire and it gets
red hot. Now, de poker’s in de fire anu
de fire’s in de poker.”
A Granger stood curiously watching
the peanut man as he methodically turned
the crank of his roaster. After expec
tantly waiting until patience ceased to be
a virtue, the unsophisticated tiller of the
soil blurted out: “Hullo! you feller, why
don’t you play suthin?”
A Chinese Consul, with a salary of
eighteen thousand dollars a year, is to
arrive at San Francisco this summer.
An “Indian Devil” in Maine—Battle
with a Wild Beast.
Portland {Me.) Press.
On Thursdav last Mr. J. L. Ingraham
and son, of I^est Camden, Maine, dis
covered the track of a wild animal lead
ing toward Ragged Mountain, in the north
part of Camden. They at once put the
hounds on the track and followed them.
After following the track about two
miles, they caught sight of tlie animal,
which proved to be an Indian devil of the
largest size. Being excellent marksmen,
ami not in any way daunted, they took
different routes to cut him off before he
could reach the heavy growth of timber
that lies on the top of the mountain.
They agreed to meet at a point half-wav
up the mountain, where they expected
tlie animal would pass. J. L Ingraham
arrived first, and discovered the animal
coming up. Mr. Ingraham’s son fol
lowed. Seeing Mr. Ingraham in his path
tlic Indian devil turned upon tlie hound,
and a terrible combat followed. The
fight lasted a short time only, as the
devil threw' the hound in the air about
ten feet. The men did not dare to fire
for fear of killing the dog.
After throwing the hound into the air,
the animal, seeing Mr. Ingraham’s son
coining up, jumped to the top of a bill
cliff. The young man at once went lie
low and prepared to fire. Tlie devil
made a tremendous leap from the cliff to
the young man below’, over thirty-five
feet. The father, seeing that his only
chance was to kill the animal in his leap,
at once fired, breaking one foreleg. The
Indian devil struck the son, however,
tearing his coat in shreds and knocking
him down, and they both rolled down
the mountain together, about twenty
feet. The hound followed and attacked
the animal again.
The devil left the young man and
turned on the dog and threw’him into the
air again, and the dog struck on a ledge
below, nearly dead. Mr. Ingraham ‘,,00^
the gun his son had dropped^ the strug
gle and tired. The annual dropped on
his side, but w oS still very ferocious. Fa
ther am\ son took their guns and struck
him until he ceased to move. He meas
ured five feet aad looked very much like
an American panther.
It is estimated that the white popula
tion of South Carolina has increased
Jtfty-flve thousand during the past year,
iZlac..,...
A Career of Crime.
A short but shocking story of crime
has just been developed in Paterson, New
Jersey. The young man is the son of
well-tc-do and honorable parents. His
name is Harry Hudson, and he is the sen
of Mr. II. C. Hudson, a»\ old citizen,
and at present Justice of the Peace.
Harry married well, and had children.
Some time ago a young and beautiful
girl w’ho resides near the city w’jis ruined.
The discovery raised a storm of indigna
tion, and tlie girl was brought face to
face with Hudson, nointing him out as
her seducer, and aftirruing that he had
dishonored her under promise of mar
riage. The other day young Hudson en
tered the store of Messrs. H. B. Crosby
& Son, grocers, in Main street, anil
asked them to cash a check to oblige
his father. The r V.eck purported to be
signed by Hvnlson’s father. It was cashed.
Tlie amount was hundred dollars.
When presumed at the bank the cashier
payment, saying there was no
balance to Mr. Hudson's credit on the
books. It was protested, and, when it
came to 1x3 presented to. Mr. Hudson he
pronounced it a forgery. Broken in
spirit thp ukl man claimed that he would
not pay the check, but let exposure come
and the law take its course. The Messrs.
Crosby pitied the poor old man aud the
boy’s mother, who was also broken
hearted, and they thought they would
try to frighten the son into payment;
but when they looked for him they dis
covered he had flown. Detectives were
put upon his track, and it was learned
that he had been last seen in company
with a young lady with whom be had
been intimate. Inquiries at this young
lady’s residence revealed the fact that
she', too, had disappeared. And thus it
came to pass an elopement was discov
ered as possibly the cause of the forgery.
The military superstition that it is flan-
tre r c;is to change the color of a horse
during a campaign has 1kx*ii illustrated
by General Sgobcleff. He does not like
c. gray horse, but happened to ride one
in tlie first battle, aud soon came to be
lieve that he could never lie killed on a
horse of that color. A correspondent of
a Sedalia paper, who served under Shelby
during the American civil w. states
that that officer had a similar supersti
tion. His color was sorrel, and he firmly
believed that he never would be killed
while mounted on a horse of that hue.
He. was wounded three times, but never
while riding a sorrel horse. He had
twenty-four horses killed under him in
the various engagements in w^ioh he
was not w’ounded, and iu every instance
thehor«* tbui yvefit down under him was
„ »yrief.~ Once a ball struck the brim of
his large felt hat. and scratched his fore
head, and he fell heavily from saddle;
but he was on liis fuel ill an instant,
shouting fo iiia men, “I cannot be
to day for I am ou a sorrel her.** **
— 1
A Sityq t \R Ar^ DEXT —^ singular
!in y “ft 4 * acr . .ent occurred on Tuesday,
!° u ” ..orer named Oavenaugh, at Lex
ington. A faithful farm horse, named
Billy, that had done duty about the
premises for upward of twenty years,
having become old and worthless, this
man and another were given orders to
kill and bury it. The grave had been
dug, the carcass drawn alongside, and
they were in the act of rolling it in,
when somehow one of the horse’s feet
caught in the frock of Cavenaugli and
rolled him in too. As he went down his
head struck on the side of the trench
and broke his neck. He died instantly,
almost without a gasp. Just before he
was caught, while they were rolling in
the carcass, he called to his fellow-work
man, “Here goes your last roll, old Bill.”
—fMicrence (JIass.) Eagle.
A Decision Against Spring Guns.—
The Supreme Court of Alabama holds
that the common law rule once prevail
ing in England, allowing the
owner of property to set spring
guns to protect it against tres^
passers, is inconsistent with our customs
and institutions; that while the owner
may use necessary force to prevent a tres
passer from taking property, the rule is
subject to the qualification that he must
not, except in extreme cases, endanger
human life or inflict great bodily harm;
and if, in order to prevent a bare tres
pass, life is taken with a deadly w’eapon,
the killing is murder; while, if the
weapon used is not a deadly weapon,
and is suited rather for alarm or chastise
ment, and there was no intent to kill, the
killing will lie manslaughter.
fry floods.
B. f. ME1A & CO.,
157 Broughton Street.
JUST RECEIVED:
A SPLENDID LINE OF
Hamburg Embroideries
In CAMBRIC and NAINSOOK MUSLINS/em-
braerng upwards of
300 PATTERNS
New and Handsome Designs.
THESE EMBROIDERIES COMPARE FAVOR.
ABLY WITH THE BEST HAND-WORK
GOODS. BEING REMARKABLE
FOR FINENESS OF WORK
AND ELEGANCE OF
FINISH.
I»m€ES LOW.
B. F. McKEXNA & CO.
JUST RECEIVED:
NEW SPRING POPLINS in ttwhmere and
Basket styles.
NEW SPRING BOURETTE CLOTHS.
NEW SPRING CAMBRICS.
NEW SPRING PRINTS.
A tun Une ° f WRITE FRENCH NAIN
SOOKS, very line and handsome finish.
A full line of 8-4 WHITE FRENCH ORGAN
DIES, vary fine and handsome finish.
TORCHON LACE COLLARS.
TORCHON LACES.
BLACK and WHITE LACE NECK SCARFS.
PRICKS IX >W
feltfJS-tf
A FEW
Starch.
EilKEABKECIIEirS
Bon-Ton Starch.
Is absolutely odorless, and Chemically
Pure.
It is snowflake white.
It is susr-eptible of the highest and
most lasting Polish.
It possesses greater strength of body
than other trade brands.
It is packed in Pound Parcels. Full
Weight guaranteed.
It costs less money than any Starch in
the World.
It is manufactured in the heart of the
greatest cereal region of the Globe.
It is sold universally in America by
Grocers and Dealers.
Its annual consumption reaches Twen
ty Million Pounds
ANDREW ERKENBRECHER,
CINCINNATI.
By Erkenbrecher's World-Famous Com Starch
for Food.
febl-F&Tu,ly
WRAPPING PAPER.
F )R sale, old newspapers, suitable
for wrapping paper, at Fifty Cents per
Hundred. Apply to
deesi-tf JfOBNISa NEW8 OFFICE.
LEFT AFTER THE GREAT SALE WE HAVE
(HAD FOR THE
LAST :!0 DAYS!
We will TAKE STOCK on tho FIRST OF
MARCH, and there are many SMALL
ARTK T.ES (too much to enume
rate), which we do not
want to take.
THE IDEA OF COST IS NO WORD FOR
WINDING UP WHAT LS LEFT
OF OCR
Our Mr. CHRISTOPHER GRAY says that
they MUST BE SOLD. He left for the Northern
markets lost week, and if there are any
to be had, you will see them in a few weeks.
Already we have received,
100 pieces WHITE ORGANDIE at V2% to 15c.
(worth 325c.)
Job lots of 6-4 and 8-4 ORGANDIES,
FRENCH NAINSOOKS.
FRENCH NAINSOOK EMBROIL EWES.
1,000 pieces HAMBURG EDO INGSand INSERT
INGS, at greatly reduced jxiees.
PARASOLS and SUN SILVDES, sizes 22,24 and
26-inch (ivoiy handies).
Small lot of very fine CANOPY SUN SHADES.
INFANT LONG ROBES and SUPS (very beau
tiful).
1,000 pieces CASHMERE FRILLING, 33 per
cent, less than regular prices.
Twenty-five pieces
Mingliam Curtain ace.
GRAY & O’BRIEN
WISHES TO CALL ATTENTION TO HIS
HAVING RECEIVED A VERA
CHOICE UNE OF
Spring & Summer Silts
ALSO, AN ELEGANT LOT OF
All of which will be offered at the
Very Closest Prices!
450 PIECES EMBROIDERED
Edgings and Inseriings
Ranging in price from 5 cents a yard to $2 50
a yard.
SPECIAL BARGAINS
T
ii
WHICH has been largely replenished, and
» y now includes many NEW DESIGNS. An
inspection of these goods cannot fail to_ con
vince the purchaser that in point of nnisii ant«
quality of material, as well as
Lowness of Price!
they surpass any that has been offered in this
city at corresponding prices.
100 dozen TWO-BUTTON KID
Spring colors, at 50 cents a pair: actual
value #1 00 a pair.
500 dozen LADIES’, GENTS’ and MISSES'
HOSE, to close, reduced fully 25 per cent.
A JOB LOT CONSISTING OF ABOUT SIXTY
PIECES
Black Siik Warp Henrietta Clotfr,
LUPIN’S BLACK FRENCH CASHMERES AND
TAMISE CLOTHS,
TO BX CLOSED AT A
Great Reduction
FROM FORMER PRICES.
50 BLACK THREAD EMBROIDERED DOC.
MANS, at less than half of last year s yrtcea.
DANIEL HOGAN.
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