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■dln-sed, J. H. ESTILL,
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I'll AT WAS HIS CREED?
i load of anthracite
‘ • ,,f a poor widow's door,
,, n snow, frozen and white,
street ami square, mountain and
That was his deed;
He did it well;
“What was his creed?”
I cannot telL
n his basket and his store,”
\ u .‘, ,i«.wn and rising up;
,p* he *t. he gave the more,
not ill** crust and cup.
took the lead
in each good task:
••What was his creed?”
I did notask.
r ; T v was like the snow.
and silken in its fall;
; noisy winds that blow
shivering trees; a pall
For tl«>wer and weed.
Dropping below.
•What was his creed?”
The ]x>or may know.
M eat faith in loaves of bread
/ tv people, young and old:
„. inspired kind words, he said,
u he sheltered from the cold.
For he must feed
As well as pray,
• What was bis creed?”
1 cannot say.
e did not nut his trust,
, s words ne never writ;
, share bis cup and crust
unkind who needed it;
In time of need
A friend was he.
••What was his creed?”
He told not me.
trust in Heaven, and
v. ron with hand and head;
Iim cave in charitv
i) and daily bread,
ke heed,
»is brief !
as his creed?”
What his belief Y”
—tin r ling ton Haxckeye.
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Georgia Affairs.
butler, beef, delicious cane syrup,
• products, are now plentiful and
in Talbot ten. Eggs 12}£c. per dozen,
[iUc. a pound, syrup 50c*. to 75c. a gal-
, f 4c. to He. a pound.
Lrs are plying their nefarious calling
Ltton. On Saturday last the dwell-
| ing of Mr. J. T. Willis was entered and Col.
Willis, a guest of his, was robbed of his
pocketbook, containing Fifty dollars. On
the same night four other attempts at rob
bery were made In the town. No clue to
the thieves has been obtained.
A colored man died recently near Cuth-
bert under very suspicious circumstances,
■which served to create the impression that
he had been poisoned. On Thursday last a
negro named liabe Kaigler was arrested
charged with the crime. An analysis of the
Btomaci. of the deceased will be made.
The Du Pont Okrfenokean this week con
tains the salutations of Messrs. Du Pont and
Benton, its editor and associate editor.
The Purim ball which is to come off in
Augusta on next Tuesday, promises to be an
unusually grand affair.
The military companies of Augusta are
making extensive preparations for the cele
bration of Memorial day.
Gilmer county girls are said to be specially
fond of poetry and pickles.
Quite a heavy enow storm fell on the
mountains near Elijay on Sunday night.
A lady of Sandersville is very anxious to
know “what will destroy cut worms ?”
Still speaking of eating a quail a day for
thirty days, a man living near Tcnnille
agrees to eat a string of sausages as long as
from Tennille to Savannah, “as fast as the
♦rain can run,” and a “Tom Thumb” saus-
# ace at every station on the railroad in ad
dition.
Robert McEvoy, the murderer of Major J.
J. Gregg, of Augusta, will be hung at Aiken
<>u Friday next, between the hours of 10 a.
m. and 2 p. in. In accordance with an act
recently passed by the South Carolina Legis
lature. the execution will be strictly private,
and will take place inside of the jail. The
sheriff is only allowed to admit his deputies,
the family of the convict, the attorneys who
prosecuted and defended the case, and ten
discreet citizens to be summoned by the
Sheriff.”
Burglaries are getting to be* very common
occurrences in Macon. On last Saturday
night four were committed in that city.
A little daughter of Mr. W. A. Wood, re
siding just outside the limits of Gainesville,
was drowned in a wash tub last week. Mrs.
Wood, it seems, had been washing, and left
the place long enough to attend to some
household duties, when she missed the
child and immediately went in search for it,
and after some little delay found the child
drowned in the tub which she bad but a
few moments before left.
Efforts are being made to have the
sentence of Gus Johnson, who is to be
hung at Rome on Friday next, commuted
on the ground that he is insane. He was
brought up from the Atlanta jail last
Sunday in charge of a strong guard, and
was carried to the jail of Floyd county,
"where he will be kept until the day of exe
cution, or to await the action of the
Governor.
Lumber dealers about Brunswick seem
much divided a» to the prospects of business
in that city. The Advertiser has conversed
■with two of them, and one says that in thir
ty days more the harbor will be stripped of
v'~e!s. while the other asserts that “we shall
soon see a bright change in the lumber busi
ness and, consequently, happier faces among
thv lumber men.” “This latter gentleman,”
say- the Advertiser, “being informed of the*
view:, of the former, explains the situation
by saving that in view of the present pres
sure ves-els will be scare for a short season,
but that reaction will soon take place, and a
healthier state of.things exist—in other
■word*, that the lumber business is like the
£bhin«; and flowing of the tides, aud that it
has been ebbing now for a long time and is
*b«»ut ‘low water;’ ‘young flood’ will soon
in, and then things will look brighter.”
Chufa planting is getting to be a subject
of interest in this State. The Cuthbert Ap-
l*d -ays: “We hear some inquiries after
• hufa for planting. We hope some will be
pLnu-tl. as it is spoken of in the highest
h-r.ii- by all those who have tried it.
< ' »nel ‘Reuben Jones, of Baker county,
pronounces the chufa his most profitable
* u d important crop. It is far more pro
ductive and less expensive to raise than the
SV‘>und pea, while hogs like them better,
aQ d thrive faster on them than any root crop
Rrown.”
A young lady of Wilkes county was lately
bitten by a rattlesnake, a rare occurrence
during the winter months. The Washington
'"L.'!’, thus describes the occurrence: “On
u plea-ant. warm day, some few weeks ago,
jhe daughter of Mr. Denuard, living on
broad river, went into the yard and pulled
^P an old pine stump to get some kindling
A ground rattlesnake had ensconced
n»m>elf under the stump to spend the wiu-
t€r - The weather being warm he was not iu
u torpid and helpless condition, and finding
inin—if go rudely disturbed resented the lu-
* uIt by striking at the hand of the young
and fastened his fangs In the flesh so
do ply tUfct, as she withdrew her hand the
s !‘ r l»ent was lifted up with it and had to be
*«akeu off. Shu was very unwell for several
- afterwards, suffering severely from the
poison of the serpent.”
speaking of the disease which has been
*jjuicting the dogs of Augusta lately, the
"toing yews says: “A well known pliy-
^rian. and several others who are familiar
da the habits and diseases of dogs, assert
“ al Die dogs lately reported mad iu this city
■'vc-ro not afflicted with the rabies, or hydro
phobia. They contend that It is aggravated
di'turnper. Mr. J. E. II. Couturier, who had
> w ° fine little dogs afflicted with the diaea»e,
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
tried a number of remedies, but eventually
found that small doses of coal oil, with tar
on the nose, cured them.”
“It was rumored through the city Sundav
night and yesterday,” says the Atlanta Tri-
teM of Tuesday, “that'Acworth, Carters-
Mngston and Calhoun, on the E. W.
. , bad suffered terribly from the
™?.and that several lives had been lost.
A Tribune reporter went up the road for the
purpose of procuring the extent of the dam
age, etc., but found ihat the reported disas
ters had no foundation whatever. The
places named were not visited bv any such
zephyrs as toyed with the roofs of Atlanta,
and the reporter languishes over a disap
pointment.”
The storm which did so much damage at
Atlanta on Sundav also visited LaGrange. A
correspondent to the Columbus Times from
there thus writes under date of March 10;
“A terrible and disastrous storm visited this
place early this morning, doing an immense
amount of damage. The fine steeple upon
the Baptist Church, one of the finest pieces
of ornamental workmanship in the State,
and erected at a cost of *5.000, was blown
down, and is a heavy loss to that denomina
tion. The Meigs House, one of the largest
hotels in the citj’, was almost unroofed, and
the loss at present to the house cannot be
calculated. The Holmes Hotel, a large
wooden structure, is in a damaged condi
tion. The Masonic Hall was unroofed, also
the roof E. R. Bradfield’s dry goods store.
The new chapel of the Southern Female
College was seriously damaged. Sterling's
Hall, the largest structure in the place, was
also damaged. Jim Haralson’s barber shop
was almost ruined. Fences and trees were
blown down and uprooted in all the yards.
No lives reported lost. The people fled from
their houses for safety.”
The cure of a remarkable case of dropsy
is thus detailed in the columns of the Safi-
dersville Courier: “Mr. Francis Orr, of this
county, has for several years past suffered
from general dropsy. After having pretty
well spent his substance in visiting and be
ing treated by physicians of exalted reputa
tion from New York to Texas, he finally put
himself under the treatment of Dr. A.
Mathis, of this eity, who, within the space
of twenty-four months tapped him ninety-
six times. At these tappings the water was
accurately measured, aud the total amount
taken aggregated three hundred ami thirty-
two ga’lons. For the last six months Mr.
Orr has considered himself entirely cured,
and now follows the plow and does a good
share of other work.”
Macf>n Telegraph and Messenger: “On Sat
urday night, between twelve o’clock and
daylight, two horses were stolen from the
unusually quiet and undisturbed village of
Vine ville and vicinity. The thief entered
the lot of Mr. C. H. Rogers, and in spite of
double locks—one on the stable door and
another on the lot gate—stole one of his
horses. In the morning Mr. Rogers discov
ered his loss. The direction taken by the
thief was ascertained by the fact of the
horse’s having cast a shoe. Mr.
Jack Slappey went after the thief
and animal, and succeeded in overtaking
the horse about eleven miles from the city,
on the Columbus road, in the possession of
B. Holmes, of Vineville. Mr. Slappey com
pelled him to surrender the horse, but being
alone could net effect an arrest. The horse
was safely brought back to the eity. The
same night Mr. Alex. Cherry lost a horse.
Mr. Cherry resides at the Napier place, near
Vineville. The thief entered the front yard
and captured the horse aud led him past the
house out through the front gate and va
moosed. No clue as to the whereabouts of
this horse and thief has been discovered.”
Gainesville North Georgian: “The farm
operations have actively begun. Ditehps
are being cleared out, fences reset, land
sprouted, creek banks cleared off and the
plowing of land for the coming crop rapidly
pushed forward. Considerable quantities
of fresh land have been takeu in and a larger
area will be planted than ever before. Our
farmers are recognizing the fact that the
source of all wealth is in the ground.”
A Virginia Atrocity,
A telegram to tlie New York Herald
from Richmond, March 9, gives the de
tails of the unprecedented horror of the
summary execution of a woman by lynch
law. The atrocious deed was perpetra
ted in the eastern portion of Rockingham
county on Wednesday night, and not far
from the scene of the celebrated Lawson
murder. It appears that on Tuesday last
a negro boy named Jim Arbegast was
committed to the jail of Rockingham
county upon the charge of having burn
ed the barn of Ilenry K. Sipe on Thurs
day, the 28th uli, ►Subsequent investi
gation disclosed the fact that the incendi
ary torch was applied at the instigation
and by the inducement of a colored
woman named Charlotte Harris, who
is said to have had some grudge
against the Sipe family. A warrant
was procured for the arrest of the wo
man, aud on Wednesday evening last N.
H. and J. M. Talb and John Sise, who
had gone in pursuit of Charlotte Harris,
arrested her and returned with her in
custody. The evidence being very
Strong against the accused, her commit
ment to jail was ordered. Over one hun
dred persons were present at the exami
nation, during which the excitement was
intense. At the conclusion of the exami
nation, the hour being late, tho woman
was placed under a strong guard, to keep
her safe gnd secure until the
following morning, when she was
to be taken to the county
jail at Harrisonburg. This guard was
composed of four persons. The utmost
quiet prevailed until the hour of 11 p. m..
when there was a rush of armed men, all
blackened, into the building. They
seized the woman Charlotte Harris, and
at once dragged her outside and up the
road towards David Gilmore’s, a distance
of about four hundred yards. Here a
peculiar sort of tree known as Black
Jack, because of its toughness, was bent
and a rope attached thereto. The tree
was held in its bent position until the
other end of the rope was fastened to the
unfortunate woman’s neck. In another
instant the tree was let go, and the vic
tim was jerked into midair, where in a
few’ moments she expired, and the dis
guised lynchers dispersed.
« —
How a Montana Mountain was Top
pled Over.
JJrb-ria Independent.
Nearly every resident of Montana has
either seen or heard of the laiuoU~ B°ar
Tooth Mountain, the most promi
ne nt landmark in Northern Montana.
It is visible from different points at a dis
tance ran^puu from forty to sixty miles,
and is in full view from Helena and the
surrounding country. The mountain is
distaut about thirty wiles from Helena,
and stands like a grim aud mighty senti
nel at the end of the canyon known as
the Gate of the Mountains, through which
flows the Missouri river. The Gear tooth
was described as a wonderful landnia.-l
of the early explorers, Lewis and Clark.
In all photographs of the northern coun
try the two tusks, rising black and grim
hundreds of feet above the mountain,
are the prominent objects. The main
tusk remains, looking lonely and isolated
in its grandeur.
We are indebted to Judge Hilger, who
met the hunters referred to below, for
the following particulars in reference to
the fall of the smallest of the tw-o prongs:
Last Monday a party of hunters who
were chasing game several miles north of
the Bear Tooth, observing a rumbling
sound and a quaking of the earth, and
supposing it was an earthquake, and not
noticing a repetition of it, they soon
forgot the occurrence and continued
their chase until they reached the Bear’s
Tooth. Here they were astonished by
the appearance of the eastern tusk. This
was a perpendicular mass of rock aud
earth, fully five hundred feet high, three
hundred fept in circumference at its base,
and about one hundred and fifty feet at
the top. This immense njass had be
come dislodged, and coming down with
the speed of an avalanche, had swept
through a forest of large timber for a
quarter of a mile, entirely leveling it.
The country around is now covered with
a meat mass of broken trees and tons
upon tons of rocss, many of them as large
as an ordinary house.
Horseflesh eating, far from declining,
has so increased in Barts that last year
It) 109 horses, asses and mules were cut
up for food. In the capital there are up
wards of sixty horsemcat shops, besides
manv in provincial French cities. A
comparison of the 10,1GB equine animals
eaten in 1877, with the 2,198 of 188/.
illustrates the steady progress of hippo-
pliagy. St. Hillaire and his friends
would no longer have to give their horse
flesh banquets for the sake of introducing
this food; many people a.ow are glad
enough to eat it.
OCR ATLANTA LETTER.
Rot. Dr. Allen at Conference -Recon
structed Reconstruction of Judi
cial A flairs -Heavy Rains in Atlan
ta Visit of General Hancock to
Southern Vlilltary Posts—Terrible
Wind Storm-Church Blown Down
During Divine Service—The Won
derful Escape from Death of the
Rector and Congregation.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Atlanta, March 12.—The Rev. Young
J. Allen, D.D., a distinguished son of
Georgia, who has been an efficient mis
sionary in foreign lands for years past,
will return home from China and attend
the approaching Methodist General Con
ference, to which he is a delegate from
the North Georgia Conference. His
visit aud addresses will do much to re
vive an interest in foreign missions,
which result is greatly to be desired.
MINOR TOPICS.
The re-election of Judge A. P. Aldrich,
of South Carolina, who was removed
from the Second Judicial Circuit by mili
tary authority in 1808, calls to mind the
case of Major General Henry I). Clayton,
who was removed in a similar manner,
but has now been re-elected, and is again
Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of
Alabama.
A very heavy rain has fallen during
the night accompanied by thunder and
lightning, and frequent dark showers are
making the day one of universal gloom
and unpleasantness. The amount of rain
has been so great that much damage
must have beeu done to farming lands
and early crops in this immediate section
by the washing of the soil and the des
truction of fertilizers already distributed.
VISIT OF GENERAL HANCOCK.
Major General Winfield Scott Han
cock, U. S. A., now commanding the
Military Division of the Atlantic, with
headquarters in New York, reached this
city yesterday morning from New Or
leans' and intervening military stations.
His tour of inspection, via Key West and
New Orleans, hits been pleasant, sind has
given good satisfaction.
On yesterday he reviewed the troops
at McPherson Barracks (seven compa
nies of the 18th United States infantry),
and inspected the post. General Ruger,
Commander of the Department of the
South (who is Colonel of the regiment),
and his staff, accompanied General
Hancock. In the absence of Lieutenant
Colonel Black and Major Brown, who
are on a court martial in New York,
Captain Kline commanded iu the review.
General Hancock aud General Ruger left
for Charleston, S. C., last night, to in
spect the headquarters of the Fifth
United States Artillery, now located in
that city.
MRS. WHISTLER’S BURIAL.
I am sure your readers will be in
terested in a few additional facts in re
gard to the venerable Mrs. Whistler,
whose death I mentioned in my last
letter.
She was a lovely girljof fifteen and
Lieutenant Whistler only eighteen, and
his father, Captain John Whistler, of the
same regiment, tried to prevent the mar
riage by drawing his son s pay until he
became of age. But the lovers married
nevertheless, and Lieutenant W. soon
after became a Captain in the same regi
ment with his father (from 1812 to 1815),
probably the only case of the kind ever
known in the regular army. After the
surrender by General Hull to the British
at Detroit, Mrs. Whistler, whose beauty
made her a great attraction to the “reel
coat” officers, repelled their attentions in
such a taunting aud defiant manner that
she was sent off into Canada as a punish
ment for her patriotic scorn.
Her husband’s first commander was a
grandfather of General Henry J. Hunt,
Fifth United States Artillery, Charleston,
S. C. She had two sons at West Point,
General J. N. G. Whistler, and one who
died years ago in Russia. Two of her
daughters are widows of army officers,
and she was connected with many other
military families in the country. Her
funeral was at Newport, Ky., und the
officers of the barracks were the pall
bearers. At her request the remains of
her husband, who died in 18G3, aged
eighty-two, were disinterred near Cin
cinnati, and together, in a common
grave at Newport, they now sleep their
final sleep. “Lovely in their lives, and
in death not divided. ’
A TERRIBLE WIND STORM.
In a special telegram sent on Sunday,
I gave the most important facts connect
ed with the great wind storm which oc
curred that day. Up to this writing no
additional eases of any importance have
beeu reported, although much damage of
a trifling character was done in all parts
of the city, and throughout this section
of the S^ate.
The falling of tlie Chapel of the Holy In
nocents, a small -wooden gothic edl*oc. is
another evidence of how wonderfully hu
man life can escape destruction amidst
falling timbers and a general crash. The
Rev. J. S. Pinkerton.. D. D., of Marietta,
was in the chancel, reading the service,
when the building was lifted from its
foundation by the wind and fell in with
a terrible crash. But one person, a
young man, escaped from the ruins.
Jbe rest of the congregation, many of
whom weiv ladies, were immediately
rescued by a removal of /be debris. Sev
eral were injured, but none very sowe-Jy
or dangerously. Rev. Dr. Pinkerton
wimpaled across the chancel rail, and
his wrists sprained and his body consid
erably bruised. His escape from instant
death was almost a miracle. Miss Nellie
Peters (now Mrs, Col. George R. Black,
of Scriven county,) wae Instftinienfal iu
having this chapel erected a few years
ago, she contributing $500 from her own
purse for that purpose. Two hundred
dollars wi!! be required to rebuild the
edifice, and is to btj raised by subscrip
tions at on<*.. Chatha^.
PRESIDENT HAYES* TITLE*
A .Hoveuient to Open the Question
iu the Honir,
A Washington dispatch of the 10th
instant says: “Fora day or two the air
of Washington has been full of fresh ru
mors of intended judicial proceedings to
contest the right of Mr. Hayes to the
Presidency, but they aie based upon the
preparation of a memorial to Congress by
Judge Black, who has been closeted for
several days in private quarters at Welck-
er’s with' prominent Democratic politi
cians opposed, like himself, to allowing
the question of Mr. Hayes’ title to re
main undisputed. Prominent among
these gentlemen is Mr. Montgomery
Blair, who unsuccessfully introduced a
similar memorial into the Maryland Leg
islature. It is said this last memorial will
Ik* presented in Congress by Mr. Proctor
Knott, of Kentucky, when he can get
the floor on a suspension of the rules, to
morrow if possible. Mr. Blackburn, of
Kentucky, was originally to have intro
duced a resolution calling for an inquiry
as to whether the President had improp
erly appointed persons to office. This
was aimed at the Anderson and similar
cases of the Louisiana returning board
members who have been indicted. He
was asked by Judge Black to withhold
this resolution,' because a committee of
conference was sitting to provide a wider
and more searching and effective inquiry,
and 31 r. Blackburn surrendered his reso
lution.”
A young man was arrested in a New
Jersey town a few days ago on the
charge of carrying concealed weapons.
On searching his person a bowie knife
was found in each boot leg, a seven-
shooter in his hip pocket, a slung-shot in
his inside coat pocket, a cavalry sword
slid down his back, a “billy” in each coat
tail pocket, and a dagger up each coat
sleeve. That was all. He was discharged
when he explained that he was on his
way to Princeton College to enter the
freshman class, and had merely taken
precautions to protect himself from the
attacks of the sophomores.— Elizabeth
Herald,
ONE STORY OF THE TIMES.
The Experience of One Family Tliat
Viay Stand for That of Htmdreda.
Xetr York World.
The year after the panic the Broadway
house that G had been with fifteen
years came near failure, and only saved
itself by cutting down every expense
and sending off all the high-priced men
about the place. G had been getting
seventy-five dollars a week for over ten
years, and had bought a pretty little
house up town with some money of his
wife’s, and lived in easy style, never
dreaming of any other sort of life. He
found himself set out in the cold, with a
wife and three children, but as he was
very clever in his line there couldn’t be
much doubt of his getting something
that would keep them well enough. He
had been in the wholesale drug trade,
and besides had a very good talent for
design, having studied the art when he
was young, lie went to all the houses
in the business and got one or two en
gagements, but the firms were obliged,
one after another, to cut down expenses,
and let their best men go in a good
many cases because they commanded
the 'highest salaries. Things looked
shadowy; but he was certain to get into
business again in time, so they lived
economically, didn’t buy an}’ new clothes,
but fell back on their well-furnished
wardrobes, and didn’t go out except
when a friend sent them tickets for a
concert or picture gallery. Airs. G
was a splendid manager, as women say,
and she retrimmed her old hats and made
over her dresses till other people couldn’t
see but she was as well dressed as any of
them, and she made G ’s dinners
taste almost as well as ever, though she
began to do what they never used to—
retrench in the marketing. That sum
mer, the last of their prosperous ones,
she had put up, in her handsome way of
housekeeping, two hundred glasses of
currant jelly and fifty cans of preserved
strawberries. Poor woman! she didn’t
know they were going to stand between
her and absolute starvation.
But with no steady employment and
falling behind expenses all the time
things began to look very gloomy by the
beginning of the second winter. The
house was not all paid for, :uid the debt
was pressing. They took friends of their
own to board with them and made out
the family expenses in that way very
nicely till G came home with the an
nouncement one night that the debt must
be met or a foreclosure would be made
at cnce. 3Irs. G tried every way to
prevent the sacrifice, and showed an
energy almost heroic to save the home of
her children. Her own mother’s fortune
was so reduced by failures that it hardly
gave the old lady a home, and the G s
felt that they ought to help her instead
of asking aid iu that quarter. They had
rich relatives, but the one or two
desperate appeals 3Irs. G made to
them decided her to venture any other
trial nither than apply to them again. It
is the l>est way with relatives in trouble.
It shows.them what they have to expect,
and saves a great deal of annoyance.
This put an end to the boarding busi
ness. They had not enough left to take
a good house again, and not caring for
appearances any more, now that their
dear, eosey home was sold, 3Irs. G
took rooms away out by Bergen Heights,
out of reach and hearing of all her
old friends, and began the""battle with
poverty in earnest. She would not let
any of the old friends know her address,
nor ever went near them, but dropped
out of her old world entirely. Her old
friends might have found her getting up
liver lnish for the children’s dinners or
ironing her husband’s shirts, to make
him presentable when lie went out for
employment. Her clever woman’s art
still made the cheap home not only
pleasant but handsome, and she set out
the very plain meals with as much at
tention as if nothing were wanting of
equipage or society. All her womanly
knack of adornment was brought into
practical requirement. Her skill of
making fancy caps and neckties of lace
and ribbon was turned to account, in
making them for a fashionable shop.
But the confection which sold for three
dollars or five dollars the proprietor ex
pected to get for seventy-five cents, and
the demand was limited.
G could only get an odd job, like
illustrating a child’s book or a comic al
manac about holidays, or drawing a high
ly spirited sketch for the advertisement
of a patent washer, a new laundry soap
or an insurance company. Work that he
once would not have taken less than fifty
dollars for he was glad to do for twenty,
and get his pay when convenient or pos
sible for the employer to pay him. Rarely
he got a sketch taken by an illustrated
newspaper, but each hacf its corps of men
working hard to keep their places, with
forty volunteers to fill the vacancy if one
fell behind. Indeed, it would seem, as
poor G used to say, as if there was
no room for half the people in the world,
and two-thirds of them were not needed,
nnvliow.
but rent and coal and flour run out
the faster, U seems, when there is noth
ing coming in for new supplies. There
was absolutely no work to be had, and
tlje coal was low. The handsome silver,
the heavy iadlns th^t ha^ ^ rs -
G ’s pride at her oyster suppers after
theatre, the pretty eoltee and strawberry
spoons that were her last fashionable in
vestment, and which she meant to keep
with such pride for her little daughter s
wedding twenty years away, the card
salvets mfi c°ke basket, were looked
upon with eyes of doom. I’ie^e by
piece they were pledged to the broker,
who “conducts all business with se
crecy” or with a business friend or two,
and the proceeds eked out another
desperate winter. The china was sold
to a mechanic’s daughter who wanted a
handsome outfit for her first housekeep
ing. It cost $150 from Haviland; it sold
for $38. The same thrifty, cheerful
maiden bought the parlor furniture, and
her mother took the ruffled and em
broidered pi!!°w rovers and fine towels,
once the pride of tfie guest-chamber.
“ lived on pillow ’* cases for
three weeks/ 7 G— said, with a
speaking of it to the unly
friend she ever these things to,
“My best dinner cloth and damas*.
kins kept us for a fortnight; a fine china
toilet set went in coal aijd kindling.”
One day they got up to a breakfast of
corn griddle cakes and tea. There was
nothing else left in the house, and only
fifteen cents in the pocketbook. G
had been at home a week working at
some designs, and he started for the city
to sell them and collect some money due
him for an advertising cut. He took ten
cents for ferriage and car fare one way
to save time. Mrs. G— took the five
cents, saying, laughingly, she didn’t like
to be without a little money in the house.
For all they were so miserably off, they
kept: up their spirits, feeling that there
was no use in losing everything and los
ing courage beside. The children were
not going to school that week; Tom’s
shoes hafi given out. and Gilbert was
waiting till his mother could
make him some new shirts out
of a figured linen summer dress of her
own. They shook the tablecloth and
studied their lessons, and watched their
mother sew pearl beads on a wedding
pincushion for a fancy store, and played
omnibus and fought the Southern war
over again with the chairs, and, child
like, got hungry. Their* mother had
been dreading to hear them ask for some
thing to eat for an hour. She searched
her cupboards through and through in
the morning, and found nothing but a
remnant of dried herbs for flavoring,
some salad oil, and half a cup of sugar,
with some very small bits of bread. She
sent one of the boys for five cents worth
of crackers, and by frying tbe bread
crumbs in the oil, with' salt and sage,
made a queer, not uneatable little dish.
“Now, children,” she said, speaking
with composure, and as if it were an or
dinary failure, “were about out of
things, and you must eat what there is
till your fatner comes home and we’ll
have a good supper. ” So she set the ta
ble carefully iu the little sitting-room,
where she kept the only fire to save coal,
put on all the ware they had and served
crackers aud bread-stew delicately. They
were too hungry and too good-humored
to make remarks, and ate with their usual
jokes and more than usual “cutting-up,”
which their mother had no wish to check.
She did not eat, but she had not emptied
the teapot in the morning; she poured
boiling water on the grounds and drank
the thin tea with a little sugar. The
mother did not feel hunger that day of
waiting.
The suspense of the afternoon grew
very hard to bear, as it drew towards
niiriit. Three hearty children were to be
fed, and only half a dozen crackers in the
house. Suddenly she thought of her
currant jelly. 3lost of the two hundred
glasses had gone, sold for the dinner ta
bles of rich neighbors, to go with the
venison roasts and game, but she had
kept a dozen glasses back for sickness.
If worse came to worse, and their father
was late, the children could keep from
famishing on that. Dark came, and she
consoled them for the hot supper they
craved with the promise for once in their
lives of all tlie jelly they wanted, and set
them down with their crackers and two
glasses of it. There was reason enough
for not sending to the grocer’s for any
thing. A two months’ bill was due, aud
credit in that quarter was dubious. The
children were put to bed, and she sat
waiting for her husband till ten o’clock.
He came in pale and famished, with a
face of despair. He had not been , able
to collect a dollar.
A few repetitions of this ipisernhle ex
perience stung the mother to absolute
desperation. She never for one moment
forgot her ladyhood, but she was inces
sant, urgent in finding some small chance
of making dollars and food for her chil
dren. Come what would, they should
not suffer, whatever went in the balance.
If you please, madam, who read this,
you have yet to know how little pride,
repute, flesh and blood, night-watching
and day-serving weigh against the sound
of a child’s voice, saying, “I’m hungry,”
when there is no bread to give it. If
honor turns the scale, it is by a hair’s
weight.
She tried to get together a little school,
for she was more than passably educated.
She wrote children’s songs and stories,
after she had been washerwoman, cook
and nursery governess for her family all
day, and got a three dollars here and a
five dollars there at rare intervals, enough
to keep the children’s feet from the
ground. She wore a pair of leaky arc
tics in her visits to newspaper offices,
because she had no shoes except a pair
of felt slippers to wear about the house.
No matter, herarmure dress, five seasons
old, and expensive when new, kept well,
and hid the ungainly shoes ; and she wore
her home-made dolman and hat which
her clever fingers turned out of old things
as creditable as any Broadway modiste
could have made them, with all her na
tive pride and an air that never failed to
bring her consideration above other ap
plicants. She often walked from the
Heights to 3Iadison square, to save car
fare, after a breakfast of bread and tea,
with three cents hoarded to pay the ferry
back in case her hope of getting help
should be unsuccessful. Once a friend
slipped a dollar bill into her band
to buy a present for one of the
children, not knowing that she had
provided the whole family with the
only food they saw for three flays. Thrift
kept the four at home on this allowance,
and the mother learned to market with
nice economy. A veal heart for ten
cents, with an onion and barley, made a
stew for two days, and in the short win
ter days they needed but two meals a day.
The children sat and told stories, and
went to bed happily by the light that
shone in from the street lamps. Then
the kerosene lamp was lighted, and the
mother sat down to her portfolio or work
basket. There was so much that had to
be spent—the newspaper every morning
to see what advertisements of “help
wanted” there might be, then the paper
and postage stamps for answers or the
fare and lunch if the application was
made in person, then materials for work,
lace and silk and beads, and advertise
ments inserted when there was a dollar
or two to spare, in hopes of something
permanent to do. 3Irs. G tried all
the ways of making a livelihood so well
worn by desperate efforts, taking
children to board “with lessons and a
mother’s care,” advertising for a fur
nished house to board the owner for rent,
with the privilege of lettihg rooms, offer
ing herself as matron of a hotel or char
itable institution, or to keep a linen-
room. She even tried Ijook canvassing,
and was moderately successful in intro
ducing children’s histories, one week by
unceasing labor making six dollars. But
the children, left in a neighbor’s care,
ran wild and got sore throats, so she had
to stay at home and nurse them, and that
week the publisher gave up employing
agents. An advertisement brought her
before the Secretary of a charitable so
ciety, who appointed her. with half a
dozen other women, solicitors for sub
scriptions to tfie fund, paying them
twenty per cent of all collections. Her
thoroughly refined air and good address
made her very successful at this work,
which she accepted reluctantly, only for
the sake of those children wait
ing at home. Iler commissions were
sometime® fifteen dollars a week, and
other energetic solicitors made more than
this. But her directions led her down
town among business offices,
w’here a presence more attractive than
common exposed her to annoying experi
ences, as might be expected. Easy, idle
men would try to amuse a dull afternoon
by drawing out her history. She was
asked if there was no other business a
handsome, well-bred woman could find
that would not lake her among business
offices, what was her husband thinking
of to allow it, and civilities less equivo
cal. ^ne dav a gentleman invited her in
his private office politely to explain the
workings of the charity for which she
c^me, closimr the door as he did so. She
gave the insinuation with modest dignl-
tv, evading personal inquiries’ he was
disposed to press and rose to go. He
flushed and hurried to open the door, but
her hand was on the knob to find a spring
bolt, locked. She crave him one wonder
ing look and passed composedly cut, but
nothing could induce bet to go on with
the Work.
At this time she had been happy and
encouraged because the children kept so
well. They weie so patient and merry,
making up in their games for other pleas
ure wanting. If there was little to eat
they told stories and w ent tq sleep early.
Their lessons were kept up by the
mother, whose one horror was that in
this interval of poverty they were losing
advantages of school and association that
would take years to regain. It went to
her heart sometimes in her busv drudge
ry to bear her oldest boy say, '"Friz your
hair, mamma, and put on a nice dress, and
look pretty as you used to ” There was
consolation of a sort moiners will under
stand in hearing liim insist to the boys at
the gate that he had the handsomest
mother in the block “when she was
dressed up.” But the scarlet fever swept
the city, and the three sickened. Not a
neighbor would come near them for fear
of infection. The father was away all
dav in a little post that brought a few
dollars a week, and the mother watched
by her children's beds, day ai^d
night, till she fainted with exhaustion.
The medicines and stimulants ordered
for two days took a week’s salary. G
drew all in advance his employers would
allow, and then was forced to stay at the
house and take care of his wife as well
as the children. Tbe pother Igy on a
bed where she could see the sick children
either side of her, and drag herself to
them when wanted, or whisper direc
tions, for her voice was gone with ex
haustion. Every dollar was gone and all
they could look forward to, and the lives
of the pale, clay images on the pillow
depended on their strength being kept up
by the highest stimulants—beef tea, port
w'ine and brandy every twenty minutes—
and they must be had. Their nearest
friends were away. The father must
leave them and go over to the city to see
what help could be found. The mother
crawled from bath room to kitchen and
bedside as water and food and nursing
were wanted, once crawling on her hands
and knees in a fit of faintness after water
for R child.
The doctor mentioned their need to la
dies who knew* 3Irs. G slightly, and
wine and delicacies for the sick came in
enough to last for weeks, and money was
not wanting, though no one cared to risk
the infection by coming near. The other
families in the house kent their doors
locked for fear the G s might come
and ask for help.
The crisis was past, and every care was
lost in the intense gladness of seeing the
children spared, when the second morn
ing the oldest boy, who bad suffered most,
had a relapse, sank imperceptibly while
his father was w atching and died before
his mother could be called. It was no
use to wake her then, and her husband
let her sleep the deathlike sleep of one
worn out. The chill and scanty food of
the past months had weakened the child
so that he could not rally from disease.
His mother woke to find her little, brave
lover, her first born, passed away without
farewelL
It was the irony of fate, then, that now
her courage was taken away and the cir
cle she kept through such a bitter strug
gle wq| broken, the kindness came that
might nave saved what they loved. The
times w’ere better so that G-—’s employ
ers could afford to raise his salary, out
of sympathy for his troubles, and 3Irs.
G found her talent for milinery so
appreciated by a circle of friends that she
carries on a modest business in the most
private way at home, nothing to make
them rich or even keep them without close
work, but enough to forbid such cruel
straits as those which have been barely
and truthfully told above.
French Royalist Intrignes—The
Anti-Republicans Busy—The Presi
dent Resolved to Stand by the Re*
f public—The Eastern Question.
“Tlie Skirmishing Fund/*
Netc York Herald.
The recent transfer to Ireland for in
terment of the remains of the late Col.
John O’Mahony, the well known Irish
patriot, has given rise to a rather singular
litigation. Mr. Dennis D. Mulcahy says
that succeeding Colonel 0’3Iahony’s
death he was engaged by J. O’Donovan
llossa to convey Colonel O Mahony’s re
mains to Ireland and superintend there
his interment; that the stipulation was
that he should be paid from the so-called
“Patriot Skirmishing Fund” one thou
sand dollars; that of this sum three hun
dred dollars was advanced to him; that
subsequently there w’as paid to him two
hundred and thirty-seven dollars, and
that four hundred and sixty-three dollars
is still due to him.
For this balance claimed to be owing
him he has instituted legal proceedings.
His first step was an application yester
day to Judge Lawrence, in Supreme
Court, Chambers, for an injunction re
straining the parties sued from placing
the funds in their hands outside the
jurisdiction of the court. The parties
against whom the suit is brought are
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Thomas C
Luby, Thomas F. Bourke, John J. Bres-
lin, John Dewey, W. Carroll and James
Reynolds. He states in his petition
for the injunction that since March,
1879, “various people, who have
a desire to advance liberty in Ireland
and honor Irish patriots have voluntarily
given to J. O’Donovan Rossa over
$23,000, known as the ‘Skirmishing
Fund,’ to be used by Rossa at his sole
discretion for the advancement of lilierty
in Ireland and tho honoring of Irish pa
triots, and to keep alive and in active op
eration the party which favors Irish lib
erty.” In another clause in the petition
be states that the reason for removing to
Ireland the body of Colonel O’AIahony
for burial was because of its being “well
known that the Remains of the patriot
would arouse the'feelings of patriotism
in an ardent people, the funeral cortege
would be exceedingly large, and the
oration would abound with words
of patriotism, tending to advance the
cause of liberty as well as a eulogy
upon the life and character of O’Mahony. ”
Further on he states that at the time of
making the agreement with him O’Rossa
was wholly irresponsible, and is so still.
He further alleges that one of tbe de
fendants resides in Philadelphia and an
other in New Haven, and for this reason
there is danger that tbe fund may be
taken out of the jurisdiction of the
court. He also states that according to
his information the fund comprises main
ly United States bonds, the remainder
being on deposit in a savings bank.
Judge Larremore, after examining tbe
papers, disposes of tbe application by
the following tersfc indorsement. “I do
not see any ground for granting the in
junction applied for."
Tlie Penniless Man—Canticles by
Caliban.
Blessed is the man who is penniless, for
he is never stricken—for a dollar.
The deadhead annoyeth him not,
neither is he pursued by the book agent.
He is not grasped by the lightning rotl
seller. The lunch tieuCl tqrueth away
from him. The trinket vender passeth
him by. He is not asked to invest in
church lotteries.
lie hath no friends to cocktail; he is
poor and hath no enemies.
When he risetii in the morning his
stomach is not rebellious from over feed
ing; neither doth he chink his silver and
say: ‘ ‘How thall I get rid of these dimes?”
When he eateth he is not vexed by a
multitude of dishes. His bowels, by
reason of bis sparingness, are not trou
bled with revolutions.
His lands will never take unto them
selves wings, neither will the fire devour
his water lots,
lie Is not perplexed about taxes,
neither careth he for the rise in lumber.
He toileth not for gold, nor orateth like
Jones on silver.
He hath no ties for money, therefore
careth not to demonetize, nevertheless a
dime will he not refuse, nor turn away
from* a five-eentev-
Yes. a gerkin will he relish, and storm
the outworks of a steejcl^d biscuit,
He Ioveth none hut himself; he is sel
fish ; yea, fond of fish, clams in chowder,
oysters raw and lobsters in vinegar, will
he not despise.
He maketh his lair in a bar room; he
squatteth on a keg while it is day, and
sleepeth in a barrel at night.
Where the scent of whisky is, there he
is found, he snuffeth the lunch with
frenzy, and crieth “Ha, ha!” at the chink
of glasses. He hvetfi lil^e a ringtailed
moke, and dieth like a spotted jehosa-
phat.
THE FRENCH CONFLICT.
Sunday Evening Amusements in
New’ York.—A large number of sport
ing men assembled Sunday ni^ht in an
up town resort to w itness a ratting match
for one hundred dollars a side between
the imported black-and-tan bull terrier
Harn’ and Flora, a white bull and terrier
slut. The conditions of the match wgre
that each flqg should be put In the pit
with fifty fats, the dog killing the rats in
the shortest time to be declared the win
ner. Fifty ^vprago siaed rats were drop
ped from a big into the pit.' Flora, who
was handled bv her owner, John Casev,
killed the fifty 1 rats in four minutes and
fifteen seconds, After a recess of about
five minutes the imported dog Harry
w’as brought into the room. He appeared
to be fat. and beta made that he
would not beat Flora’s time. The rats
were put into the pit, and the dog set to
'work in a very resolute mannef, but,
after killing a tew, he lost spirit. Finally,
after much~urging, he killed all his rat's,
tlie time being mue minutes and thirty
seconds. The owner of the Imported dog
said that he attributed bis dog’s defeat
to its being out of condition. He was
willing to back him against Flora for »ny
amount to kill one hundred rata.—H. Y.
World.
The mysteries of double entry l>ook-
keeping do not seem to be understood in
Springfield, -Mass. The Republican says;
“It is told about town that the recent
failure of a prominent firm was some
what abruptly hastened by the error of a
bookkeeper. The merchant was es
pecially congratulating himself on last
year’s profitable business and the clearing
of some thousands of dollars, and, as
this year opened with a much better
trade, the outlook seemed e8pt*:ially good!
But the engaging of a hew bookkeeper
recently disclosed the fact that the thou
sands supposed to have been cleared were
really entered upon the wrong side. The
revelation was followed by the prompt
filing of .ft petition in bankruptcy."
Cor. New York Tribune.
Paris, February 8.—Fresh attempts
continue to be made to undermine the
present Ministry. There have been, in
many Ministerial Departments, and even
in the committees of the Chamber, very
unfortunate delays on several points, and
the reactionists have taken advantage of
them. It was obvious that immediately
after the formation of the Liberal Govern
ment the two Bardoux Laws, as they are
called, ought to have I>een voted, since
they are the sole positive guarantee of
safety against the plots of "the Elysee.
The Marshal is not as yet absolutely
tied down to keep good faith with the
republic, nor can he be so until the
power to proclaim a state of siege is re
strained, and the right to sell newspa
pers is rendered inviolable. These are
the objects of the “Bardoux Laws,” and
there is danger until these are voted and
ratified by the Senate. Now’, there has
been remissness on all sides, and these
two measures have only been reported
and prepared, ready for presentation,
within these last two or three days.
What has been the consequence? That
the whole clique of the Elysee has set to
work to try what could be done in the
way of producing a conflict between the
Chamber and the Senate. As usual, tbe
Bishop of Orleans came to the front;
Madame AIucAIahon was ready enough to
second his pious efforts, but at the same
time she avowed that there were great
obstacles in the way of success. M. Buf
fet, rather than the Due de Broglio, was
the head of the conspiracy, and he open
ly coalesced with M. Rouher and the
leaders of what are termed the poli
tical Bonapartists, and various siege
approaches were combined around the
Alarshal. But here has been the
surprise, at least up to the present
moment. At a friendly meeting of
moderate “Constitutionalists,” the Mar
shal flew into one of those “blue rages,”
to which he is subject, and gave utterance
to the following sentiments: “I will
not,” be said, “be exposed to all these
absurd attacks. I did not take my 3Iin-
isters from the Left because I liked them;
I do not like them, I don’t like the Left
Centre better than tbe rest; I have not
accepted the Republic because I like it;
I don’t like it, but I have taken these
Alinisters because the country would have
them, and because, apparently, the
country is determined to have the Re
public. Therefore, I have done what I
have done, because it was said to be
my duty to do it. and sis I have made up
my mind and promised and en
tered into engagements, I will not
recede now, and I will not be
bothered any more; there must and
shall l>e an end to all this.” In express
ing these sentiments, MacAIahon is
the same man as during tbe late crisis.
He knows nothing of what he is doing.
Luckily, his Alinisters are the pick and
choice of tbe country, and honesty and
probity personified—but if they werejnot
so, it would be all one, for he neither
knows, nor studies or examines what is
their policy or what arc their acts. He
has been forced into a compact with the
Liberals, as be was persuaded into sup
porting the Reactionaries, and the letter
of his engagement he will stick to, let
what may be the sense or the purport or
the consequence of it. The Marshal has
no appreciative faculties, and does what
he has undertaken to do to the best of his
ability, and with the most perfectly blind
submission.
The proofs—or one proof among others
—of the accuracy of the situation as I am
describing it, is to be found in the alter
ed demeanor of Madame MaeMahon.
Whereas up to last week she was lachry
mose and sad at home, and sulky aud re
served abroad, she has now liecome quite
sunny and gracious, pays visits to her
Ministers’ wives, and is chatty, if not
even absolutely “jolly” in general and
non-clerical society. With her own ex
clusive little circle, she laments over the
“reign of Satan.” as it is styled, but her
tone is gradually becoming one of resig
nation, and she will, perhaps, even in a
short time hence insinuate that “submis
sion” may grow to be a necessity.
Another curious proof of the firm root
now taken by the Republic here in
France is to be found in the perfect equa
nimity with which opinion in general re
gards the victories or Russia, the coming
of the Congress, and the threatened oc
cupation of Constantinople. There is no
excitement—no public interest, even.
The Ultra-Royals try bard to get up a
“Cry," which shall go back to the Cru
sades and the sacked obligations of
France, but there is no echo. Modern
France is pacific and determined to
“mind her own business,” put her house
in order and not meddle with her neigh
bors. It is a new country with whom
Europe hasTo deal.
Important changes in the government
of Germany are now taking place. Their
significance will not be appreciated dur
ing the lifetime of Bismarck, who will,
in effect, rule uncontrolled whatever sub
ordinate agencies may be established;
but their subsequent effects will be felt
in the history of Germany. The Empe
ror is an absolute and constitutional sov
ereign combined, having under him a
single Minister, the Chanc ellor, a Federal
Council composed of representatives
from the various States, and a Parliament
with limited powers. It is now proposed
to create the office of ‘Vice Chancellor,
and to organize an Imperial Ministry.
The first half of the programme was
probably effected to-day. But the
second will meet with great oppo
sition. It is a movement in the direction
of centralization, and is opposed by tbe
smaller States of the Empire as weaken
ing the Federal council and endangering
their autonomy. Under Bismarck the
Vice Chancellor would be an automaton
andj the Almistry chief clerks. They
would render him great assistance by re
lieving him of mechanical and unimpor
tant duties, but would not affect his su
preme control of all weighty matters of
State. But a time will come when the
iron grip of the Chancellor will be loos
ened, and the proposed change, if effected,
will weaken the power of sectional inter
ests and of intrigue and jealou«v ffi the
scramble for fiis m^Ule. Germany must
continue firmiy united to maintain her
commanding position in Europe.— Wash
ington Star.
THE FAMINE IN CHINA
Woeful .Vliwery and Suflerins Ba-
bien Sold by the Pound for Food.
A gentleman in Shanghai writes to a
friend in San Francisco as follows: “The
great question which at present agitates
the Flowery Kingdom is the famine at
the North. ' For four years past a part of
four of China’s northern provinces has
yielded either a small crop or none at all.
One vear ago the suffering was something
dreadful among these poor people, who
are worse off than slaves. At that time
about $70,000 was raised by foreign com
munities at the open ports and forwarded
to disbursing agents, who made good use
of the money. This year the famine is
still worse. Over a country that em
braces a population of some fifteen mil
lions of people, absolute destitution
prevails. People are actually eat
ing each other. Babies are cut up
and sold by the pouud. There seems to
be no remedy. The Chinese authorities
are doing something, but it is only a
drop in the bucket. Tbe foreign com
munity have elected canvassing commit
tees and the subscriptions will be up iu
tbe thousands; how much it is impossible
to say. From last year’s experience it is
estimated that a life can be saved for
a^out $1 50, so that all that can be done
will be to save only a few out of the
millions. In tlie C entra 1 provinces there
is an abundance of rice. This is being
shipped to the suffering districts, but it
takes a month to reach them. It costs
nearly three times tbe price of the rice
to carry it to its destination—no
railroads, no canals, not even a
carriage road. Within the past fif
teen years the Chinese Government has
spent money enough on fortifications,
ships, improved arms and ammunition
to have built a road from Shanghai to
Pekin, with branches leading through
the famine districts. The ships arc use
less: so are the fortifications; they both
serve only for an excuse to pay fat sala
ries to lazy officials. The arms and am
munition are stored away, rusting so as
to be worthless, and China’s millions are
starving. Chinese officials do not want
to change the order of things. Why
should they? The merchants and trades
men desire it, but they have very little
to say in the matter. If I am rightly
informed, with all their govern
ment workshops and arsenals, there
has never been an agricultural tool or
implement made. Guns, torpedoes,
ships, etc., seem to be their end and aim.
The official class grow richer and richer
each year, and the lower classes poorer
and poorer. No wonder that such num
bers are willing to go to the Pacific
coast, where, in a few years, they can
earn a life competence and lie down and
die in their own land with tbe millions
taken from the poor laboring classes in
our own country. What kind of people
is it who regard with cool nonchalance
their neighbors devouring their own chil
dren? Were you to ask them to explain
their strange apathy, they would no
doubt give the regular Chinese shake of
the head and say: *3Ie no sal>e.’ ”
Tlie Metric System.
It is announced that the Committee on
Weights and Measures will report in
favor of adopting the French metre as
the standard of weights and measures in
this country. It is a reform that has
long been needed. The French system
is precise, accurate, uniform iu measure
ments of linear dimensions, surface or
cubic; contents, solid or liquid. It also
measures weights by tbe same metrical
standard. The advantages of this over
feet and inches, quarts aud gallons,
pounds and ounces, is as great as the
advantages which tho decimal system of
dollars and cents has over pounds, shil
lings and pence. The United States
coast survey has found the adoption of
the metre almost a necessity, and
all the calculations of geodetic surveys
are simplified by its use. There
would be, of course, a considerable time
required bring tbe system into general
uSo. People would for a long time go on
using yards, feet and inches quarts,
acres, and pounds and ounces, just as
they still of shillings, sixpences,
levies and iourperice-ha’pennies in pre
ference to dimes: but they would gradu
ally accustom themselves to the new
standards. Even in France, where the
metre has long been established, the peo
ple still occasionally use colloquially the
names of the ola measures. But the
adoption in tliis country of the metre
will be a long step toward the general ac
ceptance of an intemationn! standard of
weights and measures wl*ich would be of
immense convergence to all sorts of com
mercial trapsacuous. It is to be hoped
that Congress will give to the report of
the committee a rqost favorable consider
ation.—BiUtitnore Gazette.
A Flylns Haehlne in mi.,...
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Bridgeport Standard.
3Ir. C. F. Ritcbel. of Com- i. aa
p r f “ ti ?h g « ?ying , mathine ‘ o^“
plan in the Rieers.de Hotel, East hrldZ
port The machine stands in the twit
nearly completed. It consists of a blaik
, 8 d k .2 ll ? d ! r tWt ; n,yfour feel longand
twelve feet in diameter, holding tee
thousand feet of gas. and a car suspended
$-r“ f CJ ; hn /- r ,' ,y c,ml3 and rods.
This car is of slender brass rods and ex
tends the whole length of the cylinder
tapering to a point a! each end. In the
centre is a platform, upon which the oc
eupant aits. In from of the seat are two
cranks attached tea wheel, which in turn
is connected with an upright shaft, at the
lower end of which is a fun similar to tho
screw of a propeller. This fan is about
level with the bottom of tlie platform,
and is made of thm brass plates At the
front end 0 f the long car is another brass
fan. which is so constructed that it can
be turned in any direction bv the feet of
the occupant of the ear, while the centre
fan is at the same time worked by his
hands. J
A man Of ordinary strength can re-
yolve the handles at the rate of one hui,.
dred a minute which gives the fan 3 500
revolutions. The silk cylinder, filled
will, hydrogen gas, which is the lightest
that can he used, is to sustain all liut a
fraction of the weight to be carried, and
the central fan is expected to lift the rest
by a pressure upon the air similar to that
“J! ro P?‘ ler whei1 has upon the
r. The air being much less dense
dense,
is given a rapidity
A German Theory of the Sun.—A
German doctor of Heidelberg has just
published a book in which lie earnestly
sets forth that the sun is a cold body lifce
the earth; that its rays receive their lumi
nous and caloric properties when their
rapid motion in space is arrested by such
bodies as the planets: that light is a sub
stance like water; that tlie decrease of hy
drogen ;md nitrogen involves a corres
ponding increase of ozone, and that, as
on his theory light and heat are the re
sult of the union of the hydrogen clouds
of the sun with the ozone anil the NH
(sic) of the atmosphere of the earth, light
and ozone increase at the same time. The
use of l)r. ISchmidt’s imagination is
scarcely what one would will scientific,
but is interesting nevertheless.
A good writer, who gets things down
fine, can put several thousand words on a
postal card, and the cost is a cent, but if
he pastes a printed slip containin'* a
single word on the card, the e xpense is
six cents; one paid fop the card and the
other five '.ulioeied from the card re
ceiver, yet if words are printed the
card itself it is all right. I» a person
pastes a printed slip uu a card the size of
a postal card, and puts the card and slip
in an open envelope, the government
will carry card, slip and envelope for a
cent, yet it charges six cents for carry
ing a postal card and slip without the
envelope.—^Tree Brens.
A Startling Street Scene in New
Y’ork.—Tlie quiet neighborhood of Bank
and Bleecker streets, New Y'ork, was
aroused Sunday evening by the shrill and
frequent screams of a young woman who
ran along the sidewalk with bare feet and
head and with disordered clothing carry
ing in her arms a baby. Just before
reaching the corner she fell the side
walk in an epileptic fit, u»e ba6y slipping
from her grasp. Fortunately it was
caught by an elderly gentleman, who
held it tenderly in his arms. At least
three hundred persons, attracted by her
moans and cries, crowded around her,
but none offered their services until an
Irishman, employed in a stable near by,
pushed his way through the throng ami
by dashing water in her face and slapping
her in every way the exigency suggestetl,
endeavored to fpsiure Her to conscious*-
ness. Her first words as she recovered
were; “Where is my baby?” “I have
got it,” replied th? gentleman who was
swinging the screaming baby in his arms.
“Is it ail right ?” said she. “Y'es.”
“Thank God. then,” the woman moaned,
and was instantly seized whh another fit.
It was ascertained that her home was in
the neighborhood of Perry and Fourth
streets; and that, almost demented by
the severity of her attack, she had rushed
out of the house aimlessly.
Mr. John W. Wheeler, of Tuscola,
Illinois, was awakened on Thursday
night last by his dog springing upon his
bed and clawing at his lied clothes.
Startled at the unusual conduct of the
animal, he got up and discovered that a
fire was raging in the lower part; of the
house, and he barely escaped with his
family and the dog.
_ ldav a
said he was Frederick' Schmidt, of 103
Hester street, tied his hands together on
pier 37 East river and jumped into the
water. Officer Moylan rescued him. He
was then insensible, but recovered in the
Chambers Street Hospital. Schmidt is
insane and refuses to giv*» a reason for
attempting to destroy himself.
A vocation—Aunt; “Shall I give you
a new doll, Maggie?” Maggie: “No,
thanks, aunty! I shall never love another
doll like this; for. see, it has only gvt one
eye, one leg and one arm, and nobody
would care for it if I didn't. Proper
dells can take care of themselves, you
know!”—Punch.
which
wate
the fan or a*rial screw
of motion sufficient to paniaiTvoverctmi
this aifference. By reversing the motion
of the fan the power is so exerted as to
raise or lower the machine at will The
fan at the end of the framework is also
revolved with great rapidity by foot
power, and can be turned straight ahead
or on either side, working on a plan
similar to that of the Fowler steering
propeller. By the use of this fan the
machine can he steered like a ship and
the inventor expects that a rid navimtion
will lie accomplished in the same manner
mat /. 1 L OCC ? n a 3 travers «lby ships, tho
gas filled cylinder serving the purpose of
a sail, and the fans guiding tlie machine
through the air.
Mr. P. T. Banmm. who is interested
in the invention, was present at yester
day’s test. There was a flaw in the steer
age apparatus, by which the fan was
caught and broken; nevertheless the ma
chine raised as high as the ceiling and
was lowered at the will of the operator
We are informed that the machine was
tested a day or two ago in the presence of
an expert from New York, anil that it
worked perfectly, sailing about tlie room,
and all the time under the perfect con
trol of the operator. Mr. Ritehel has beta
working upon the invention since 1871
and is confident he bits found the mue - u
sought-for principle to he safo’.v applied
in icrial navigation. He Ub applied for
a patent m tlie Lnfled States, Canada,
Great Britain and France. lie
expects that a larger machine, capable of
carrying several men, would work even
more successfully than the small one
now being tested, as more power could
be employed, and he even has hopes of
a still larger one, in which tlie motive
I>o« er will he furnished by a small en
gine. lie informs us that the model of
his invention has been shown to the edi
tor of the Scientific American, who said
he believed it might be made so success
ful that a trip could tic taken to t'ho
North Foie in it. Mr. Ritehel is a very
intelligent looking gentleman, apparently
about thirty.five years of age. He claims
that all other inventors have failed w ith
their flying machines liecause they have
trusted entirely- to tlie lifting capacity of
the balloon appendage, rising by throw
ing out hidlast and falling by letting out
gas. Another defect has been tlie plac
ing of the steering apparatus in the cen
ter, where only a comparatively small
amount of power could he exercised.
Home Work for the Missioxartes
—Some time ago there drifted iato Can
ton, Pa., a young woman of the town,
who has lived around nobody knew how’
sleeping at night, it is said, over the
boilers in a mill iu order to keep warm.
A few nights ago from twenty to thlrtyof
the young men of the town assembled
together, and at midnight seized her,
and, stripping her uuked, proceeded to
treat her ip the most outrageous manner,
tarring and feathering her, burning her
flesh in a had manner, and finally thrust
ing her into the street in a eo'ld night
without a particle of clothing. Several
hours after she made her way to a ne
gro’s house, where the poor creature,
more dead than alive, was kindly treated,
showing that in spite of his black skin
he had a whiter heart than the others.
One of the young muu has turned Stale's
evidence, and disclosed the names of tho
periK'trators of the act. Some of the
leading citizens of the town have, in the
name of an outraged humanity, taken up
the case, and will prosecute" it to the
hitter end.—Elmira Adurtiner.
Died from Overeatixg. — A man
named Paquet recently left the Upper Ot
tawa shanties and started to walk to
Rome, Ont. He was out seven days with
out food, and on reaching a farm house
gorged himself to such an extent that he
died in a short time afterwards.
Miss Boutwell, the young ladv who
killed herself with laudanum, in Ports
mouth, Va., last week, is said to have
been engaged to he married to a young
man who went to sea on the United States
ship Hartford last fall She pined awav
for her sailor boy.
His hat sailed high in air, it did—
The hat which pleased his vanity;
Such things we see when March winds
Do persecute humanity.
And she, poor girl, embraced a post,
With tenderness quite curious:
Such deeds take place when clouds of dust
Are bJowin# fast and furious.
The Legislature of Ylississippi has en
acted a law providing the same penalty
for rape as for murder-death or impris
onment for life, at the discretion of the
jury* .
A bill now before the Senate of Ohio
prohibits betting on elections under pen
alty of from $5 to $500 fine, or impris
onment from ten days to six months.
A man from the lower walks of life
entered a drug store and inquired the
price of an ounce of arsenic. Being in
formed, he drew a paper from his pocket,
consulted some figures, and said: ‘ That’s
two cents more than they asked me in
Chicago.” “Well, those are my lowest
figures,” replied the druggist. The man
took out a stub of a pencil, figured for
three or four minutes, and sagely ob
served: “It’s time to practice economy,
and \ might as well begin here. Two
cents on an ounce is thirty-two cents on
a pound. Thirty-two cents on a pound
is thirty-two dollars on a hundred weight
or six thousand four hundred dollars on
a toR. Great heavens! but do you think
I would recklessly throw away six thous
and four hundred dollars?” The drug
gist could make no reply, and the man
looked terribly indignant as he went out.
—Scientific American.
“Mark Twain” gives the following de
scription of a heroine in his story in the
Atlantic for March: “Her dress and
adornment were marked by that exquisite
harmony that can only come of a fine
natural taste perfected by culture. Her
gown was of a simple magente tulle, cut
bias, traversed by three rows of light
blue Bounces, with selvage edges turned
up with ashes-of-roses chenille, overdress
of dark bSy tarletan, with scarlet satin
lambrequins; corn colored polonaise, en
punier, looped with mother-of-pearl but
tons ami silver cord, and hauled aft, and
made fast by buff velvet lashings; basque
of lavender reps, pieked out with Valen
ciennes; low neck, short sleeves, maroon
velvet necktie, edged with delicate pink,
silk; inside handkerchief of some simple
three-ply ingrain fabric of a soft saffron
tint; co^al bracelets and locket chain;
coiffure of forget-me-nots and lilies of
the valley massed around a noble calla. ’
An Injured Girl Seeking Revenge.
—'A Cincinnati Inquirer special from
South Bend, 3Iarch 7, says: “Our city
is greatly excited over the seduction case
reported yesterday. 31iss Hamlin,
whom Law is said to have seduced, with
promise of marriage, last January,
called at a late hour last night at the
Grand Central Hotel, where Law and his
bride were stopping, to interview him.
He camo down stairs, and, meeting her,
refused to be interviewed, and passed by,
when Miss Hamlin drew a pistol and
shot at him, grazing bis face, bhe nred
a second time, but missed him. Uuw
escaped and swore out a warrant, out
there are no officers here who will *>erve
it. It is rumored that juiother lady ol
one of our first families has l**en ted
astray by this alleged villain, the name
of which will appear soon. ’
Just listen to Prof. Brewer; There
is another disease that dogs disseminate,
much more to be dreaded, and causing
two hundred per cent, more cases of
death than hydrophobia. A '™ n j 1 13
generated in dogs, called the biadder-
worm. The eggs of this worm are de
posited upon the grass by tbe dogs, ana
thus get into the stomachs of *’ liee P'
There they hatch aud till th e und
in this state pat* Into the stomachs ami
flesh of mou. The result is something
like only more fatal than trichime of
hogs. If the worm goes to the brain it
prtKluces incurable insanity, and it it
mains in the lower organs, distress ana
death. There are over five hundred
cases of death from this cause m Eng
land every vear, and one-fifth of the
mortality in Iceland results from this
bladder-worm passing from dog to man
in mutton.”
A young woman of Newburg, Wul,
severely thrashed her father iKrcausc he
would not raise five hundred dollars to
give her as a dowry, in order to marry a
man who wanted his wife to have tha|
sum.