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Newspaper Page Textjthc jfHotnmg JIcicjs. ^ 3 WHITAKER STREET, (HORNING NEWS BUILDING). SUBSCRIPTIONS. „ $10 00 ffiSr*-:::::::::::::::::::;::::::::: *» 1 WE DELIVERED BV CARRIER OR PREPAID C»ad'A>ca, bymail . All papers are stopped at the expiration of the *** time paid for without further notice. Mail gultfcribers will please observe the dates on tlieir wrappers. persons wishing the paper furnished for any ti , n e less than one year will have their or i. rs promptly attended to by remitting t h - amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WORDS MAKE A LIKE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 cents. 1 official. Auction and Amusement adver tisements anil Special Notioes, per Nonpar reil line. 15 cents. notices per line, Nonpareil type, 20 cents. notices, per line. Brevier type, 25 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for one week or longer. REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can be made bv l’ost Office order. Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressed, J * Savannah. Ga. A VISION. biood-stAined, who are these, that are Pak ' thronging the throne of God? t, - i. rs are ashen with anguish, their gar- 10 ini-nts soiled from the sod; Wide .uni wan asa sunless ocean, the multitude -. , ^ient iips, and with piteous eyes, and with praying hands. There ... ne that speaks, and none that stirs ,n the numberless hosts, t i. ^till white clouds in starless heavens— 1 ;i n anny of ghosts; . <!ain in the battle some, witu the curses of war in their mouth: ~ m w intonuessslaughtered; some stricken 50 ‘ of hunger or drouth. Who will stand for them, who will plead for tboin. ;here at the throne? , thev not all God’s children, whom Christ A ’ |, is , iaitned for His own? m nm ,, lint all are sinners, and who can tell If th tlieir doom? p . room in hell, yet in Heaven is there r. the motes of dust from a sunbeam,when a •gulden wind lias blown. Uke the stars from the presence of God, when a universe is o'erturown. They i • from our gaze, they are gathered an l garnered for bliss or pain, \Vi .man an warrior, Turk and Christian, slayer and slain. Is there no sign, then, is there no wonder, is there no cry? \re th>- lead as a wind that passes, are they -one as the waves go by? listen: is there no sound of a sobbing shakes Vnd ih”\vail of an unseen multitude, waked from a mute despair! I),, we dream, or are dead men weeping, as they wept in the world below. For the seeds of war untrodden, and the bitter harvest of woe, «... i ti,,. in lilt less herds that are marched, like the beasts, to a sacrifice. That can save not them, nor their rulers, from the hell of falsehood and vice? And thev weep that they see no end, and they erv that the end should be! Ah. God: send down Thine angel, that the rest die not as we! As send Thy Gon, to die that sin might cease. Send (low n one lowest of angels, only to breathe of Peace! To breathe Thy Peace in the counsels, where the rulers, unconcerned, stale for a jx-rilous glory’ the honor that Peace has earned, And the happy homes of a nation they stake f,,r a statesman's pride; Oh. send Thy Peace! oh, save them, for whose calces the Saviour died! —F. W. B.: Spectator. Georgia Affairs. The arniuai meeting of the Georgia Press Convention will be held at Gainesville on Wednesday, May 8th. Mr. < . F. lliesser, of Effingham county, killed a hog a few days ago whose net weight wa- four hundred and fourteen pounds. Some hog, t hat. The Augusta Evening News is truly an en terprising sheet. It came out on “St. Pat rick - day in the morning” in a full suit of Prices for labor of all kinds, both on the farm and in the woods, are lower than last year in the upper portion of Liberty county. Timber cutters who have been paying $2 25 per thousand now give *1 75, and labor is abundant at that price. • It has been announced,” says the Coving ton star of the 13th, “that Mr. Charles A. Larendon, of Atlanta, was to marry Miss Lula Beauregard, daughter of General G. T. Beauregard, of New Orleans, last night. They will pass through Atlanta this week on their way to Baltimore, and thence to the Pari- Exposition.” A most remarkable story comes to us from Amerieus. On Tuesday morning last a violent thunder storm occurred there, and struck a building occupied as a furniture store by Mr. I). B. Hill. Two colored men happened to be passing by the building at the time and were badly stunned. And, Vlirabitc dictu, one of them Itad his boots and socks taken J'rom his fat and lodged in a tree without injury to his person. This is so, for the Hr publican declares it. Mr. Wm. W. Cunningham, of Talbot county, committed suicide on last 3Y ednes- day by shooting himself with a shot gun. It is thought depression of spirits produced bv ill-health was the cause. It i> said that the young men of Thomas- ton are particularly fond of the dollars of their daddies. The sweet aroma of peach blossoms and other flowers intermixed with the perfumes of guano sadly disturbs the equanimity of the Carrol County Tutu*. The storm of the 10th did considerable damage in the neighborhood of Dawson. Master .lolinnie Emrieh, aged eighteen, son of Mr. Julius Emrieh, of Columbus, was taken suddenly sick on Wednesday last and died in fifteen minutes, llis heart was affected. Farmers in AA'altou county complain of the hardness of the ground. In most localities it is too hard to be ploughed. A rain is t«adly needed. Base nail is being revived in Griffin. Bullock is said to have said that Georgia is more prosperous than any other Southern •State, for the reason that she has adopted the principle of internal improvement, the very thing he used to get so many “cuss- ings’ about. The ex-fugitive is wrong. The main reason why Georgia is prosperous is because she threw him and his earpet-bag associates overboard many years ago. Discussing tea culture iu Talbot county, the TaJbutton Ret/isler says: “In 1851, Dr. A. L. Acee, near Bellevue, received from Senator Iverson, at Washington, two dozen tea plants, eighteen of which lived and de velop.-,I into vigorous bushes. Mr. T. J. Acee informs us the shrubs arc now ten feet high and twelve feet ia diameter, and produo. ni annual yield of about seventy- tivc pounds of tea to the busli. The origi nal eighteen have increased to fifty, and are now thirty bearers; but, owing to im perfect methods for curing the leaves, comparatively little of this valuable pro duct i- utilized. Mr. T. J. Acee has kindly furnished us the above facts, which, we think, should attract the attention of those of our population who are likely to develop a fondness for tea culture. The obstacle presented in curing the leaves can now be readily overcome, and certainly a great ad vantage will accrue from this class of hus bandry if our people will give all such small indu,-fries intelligent culture and persistent enterprise. Tea culture requires but little labor, as the plants grow and flourish, on tto>t any kind of soil, and under seemingly unfavorable conditions. It is worth a trial at the hands of those who have both the taste and capacity for such things.” Talbottou Register: “About two weeks ago Mr. Willie Blouut, a most estimable young Cent Ionian, and sou of Mrs. L. M, Blount, of this place, while hunting with a friend in Texas was thrown violently from his horse. hu I.:.... natisinir iuilirifU his head striking a tree, causing injuries which resulted in his immediate death. Mr. Blount has been in Texas about two years. He was very highly esteemed in this com munity.” Another instance of heroism displayed by ^Georgia lady isthusgiven iuthe AVarrenton Clipper: “Last Saturday morning while Mr. a n<l Mrs. J M. Elliott and others of the family Were at church, the stove room at their home caught on fire up about the roof. One of their daughters, Miss Lucy Elliott, who was left in charge of affairs, was informed by the cook of the situation of things. She Immediately ordered the horn to be blown •f°r the hands jn the field, and then with the presence of mind possessed by only a true heroine, she climbed up the roof inside, tore <>ff t he planks and shingles, and with rapid application of water handed her by the cook she soon overcame the flames. The hands pot home just in time to sec the work thor oughly completed. The next worthy bach elor that wants to have his house insured had better go at once, make thaf young lady Brooklyn fu.r.ted hy.(.« ofH drophobU. ’ J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1878. ESTABLISHED 1850. his wife, and put her iu possession of it be fore the flames rob him of his all.” Columbus 77//i«k 13th: “Yesterdaymorning, about daybreak, Columbus was visited by an unusually heavy rain, which was accom panied with quite a blow, and the fall of considerable hail. During the storm the lightning was terrific. One or two flashes were followed by such loud reports as to wake the sleeping town, and from more than one door could be seen a paterfamilias peering out, clothed as to his bodv only with his ‘nocturnal envelopes.’ AVithin were his startled wife and children wonder ing if a cyclone was coming.” Speaking of the business outlook in Al bany, the News says: “The prospect for a spring trade in Albany does not seem dis couraging. At no time in the past several years have our people been so little in debt as now, and the diversified system of fann ing which has been practiced of late is rap idly gaining favor, and thus very greatly re lieving our whole section. This year the grain crop is immense, and with good sea sons the harvests will be bountiful. This much secured, our planters will feel safe, and will begin making their purchases for the year. The only question is. will our merchants make an effort, or will they fix their programmes for whittling pine till the next arrival of King Cotton? Be up and doing.” Upson Enterprise: “Lewis Johnson (colored) ami Harry Garland (colored) were com mitted to jail Saturday by Justice Hard- away.’s court for stealing a rooster. That chicken manoeuvre will cost Upson county fifty dollars. No relief/’ fifty dollars. No relief. Speaking of its anticipated fair, the lkr- rieu County News says: “A grand exhibition is anticipated at our coming fair in July. Our people are striving hard to make it a success in every department. With the vim and go-a-lieadiiiveness of our leading farm ers the fair is bound to be the best we have ever had. There seems to be an ambition gotten in them to fall behind no county in the excellence and variety of its exhibition. The fair when first organized met with a good deal of opposition from many of our citizens, but this opposition is gradually growing less every year, until it now meets with hut-little, save in the location of the fair ground, which they think should be on the railroad.” Walton County Vklette: “Farmers and the people generally iu this section are better off at this time than at any time since the war. Many planters are able to hold their cotton and wait for an advance in prices. Be sides this, there is fifty per cent, more pro visions iu the hands of the consumers than has been since the war. All of this is home- raised, and consequently much better than AA’estern produce. If our farming commu nity now will only ‘keep near the shore,’ and make their farms self-supporting, an era of prosperity and thrift will dawn that will make a bright day for the country. Will thev do it V” The Mountain Signal is in distress. It wants to know “if anybody can teil us what is the best remedy for a superabundance of cats. AVe have tried everything from a blunder-buss up to a double-barrel breach loading boot-jack, but our nine-lived ad versary still perambulates, and insists upon his nocturnal serenade.” Catch ’em. If you can’t catch ’em, shoot ’em. Dahlonega Signal: “Almost every week additional families locate in our midst, until now house room, once so plentiful, is be coming scarce- But, come on friends, am ple arrangements are being made to accom modate you. Repairing and building is go ing on in every part of our thriving town, aiid, ere the dog wood blossoms, there will be room enough for all.” Florida Affairs. Strawberries are ripe iu Deland, Volusia county. A comparatively new, and prospectively profitable use is made by Dr. Moragne, on the St. John’s river, of the millions of orange blossoms which annually drop from the trees and are left to decay. He distills from them orange flower water, which ladies pronounce superior to the generality of toilet perfumes. The Putnam county schools have, with one or two exceptions, closed for this term. Teachers have given general satisfaction to patrons, and there has been a marked im provement in the schools. The prospect in the future is decidedly favorable to the ad vancement of education among the children committed to the public schools. The peo ple of the county are in favor of the system and will do all they can to promote it. Captain Rice informs the Palatka Herald that his last trip on the Ocklawaha river was the most remarkable one for alligators that he had ever witnessed. The Captain count ed one hundred and fifty on his downward trip, all good 6ized ’gators. The condition of Hon. John Morrissey is reported as improving. The property of AY r . F. Porter, at Fort George, consisting of thirty-three acres,with the improvements thereon, has been sold to M. McIntyre, Esq., of Philadelphia, who has also purchased au additional quantity of land and a fine building lot from the association, on wbicli will be erected a handsome house. A rainfall unprecedentedly severe for that locality visited Cedar Keys last week. The chain gang of Quincy now consists of one solitary prisoner, and the Herald thinks it looks rather amusing to see him marching along with a two huudred and forty pound darkey, armed with a shot gun, following behind keeping him in line. According to the Tallahassee Patriot one of the Justices of that city is going to adopt the Western marriage ceremony, which is as follows: “Arise! grab hands! united! four dollars!” More interest is manifested iu real estate at Lake City than for several years past. Mr. C. Codriugton, who has been deliver ing lectures at Delaud, A’olusia county, re ports everything in a flourishing condition in that vicinity, and speaks in the highest terras of the hospitality and enterprise of the people. The Sun and Press has information that “the prospect for a large fruit crop in the State, so far as can be judged from present appearances, Is very flattering. The peach, plum and orange trees in that vicinity are nearly all in full bloom, and give evidence of yielding bountifully. From up the river the report is similarly encouraging. Major G. II. Norris, of Spring Garden, A'olusia coun ty, thinks his crop will be three times as large as last year.” Crabbing is now the favorite amusement of the young ladies and gentleman of Fer- nandtoa. Professor Cooke, the exposer of spiritual ism. is now giving exhibitions in Florida. The ship Urania cleared for Liverpool on the 12th instant from Pensacola with three thousand six hundred and forty-one bales of cotton. This is the largest cargo of cottowever shipped from that port. In previous seasons but little if any cotton was shipped from this port. Says the Echo: “The l rania makes the eighth vessel that has cleared during the present season loaded with this king staple of the South. ’ I)r. Caldwell, of Port Read, l?as an orange tree that now has fruit fully ripe, half ripe, and almost green, and is full of bloom for a new crop. This tree last year produced over four thousand oranges. The Florida Yacht Club has made arrangements to extend to Captain Eads, after his arrival at Jacksonville, which U expected daily, a full dress reception and ball. The reception will take place at the club house, and will continue from nine until half-past ten o’clock. An elegant sup per will then be served, alter which dancing will close the evening. Three young ladies of Jacksonville were invested with the black veil iu that city Tuesday morniug at the Church of the Im maculate Conception They were Misses Belle Gross, Lelia Brennan and Mc Guire. Two years ago they underwent the ceremony of taking the white veil, and, as novices, have since lived in the convent among the Sisters, Miss Gross being known as Sister Cecelia, Miss Brennan as Sister Agatha, and Miss McGuire as Sister Agnes. It was at this time their privilege to return to their friends in the oulsido world, or by taking the veil devote the remainder of their days to the service of God. They chose the latter. Brass band stock is quoted at 99% cents on the dollar at Marianna. Pensacola has been indulging considerably in street fights of late. Says the Echo of the 11th: “Street broils were* of frequent oc currence thi9 afternoon. It put one in mind of Christmas day. About two o’clock, on Palafox street, in front of Quigley’s Ex change. two men engaged in a pugilistic en counter and their exhibition attracted an im mense crowd. The combatants were ar rested after some trouble, and are at present lodged in the station house. Later in the evening Deputy Marshal Commyns expe rienced considerable difficulty in taking into custody a man who was trying to ‘kick up a row’ in front of the office of Judge Tate/’ The Palatka Herald thus enthusiastically describes the beauties of a Florida climate: “One cannot but be attracted by the char acter of the visitors from the North during the winter. For the most part there is no doubt of a superior class among most of the representative sojourners from more North ern climes. It is with pleasure that we find our ‘Land of Flowers’ so attractive to these people, though we cannot in our poverty give ourselves credit for this extraordinary favor. Providence alone has provided this climate for the invalid or for the comfort of residents of colder climates. Our winters are summers to New England’s; our oranges are apples to the eye of a Northern citizen; our Everglades are a foretaste of heaven's per petual spring, and our atmosphere is not to be described.” A writer from Manatee, Florida, to the Detroit Fret Press says: “This region is thus far very imperfectly known, even by the citizens. A herder of cattle is king for some. An humbler and more numerous class is content to rule a few acres in po tatoes, cow peas, a little rice and sugar cane, with now and then a few orange trees. A poor man, some twenty miles further up the Slanatee river, has just sent down fifteen thousand oranges from fifteen trees, netting him ten dollars to the tree, the purchaser paying all expenses of gathering, shipping, etc. My own half acre, or rather less, brings about two hundred dollars. From this the wheat-grower in the great North can see in part the inducement to come South. I have, thus far, named poor men’s crops. Another of my neighbors, only twelve miles away, clears $1,300 from ninety trees. The pres ent winter, thus far, is sunshine and show ers. The frost in some places has cut the potato vines, but most of them are still green. A glance at the map will show you that the Manatee river empties into the most southern point or bend of Tampa Bay. This bay is tilled every flood tide by waters from the Gulf of Mexico, so that the north winds come to us across these warmer waters giving us the mildest climate of this part of Florida.” “We are asked,” says the South Florida (Sanford) Journal, “almost every day about the prospects for the building of the railroad from Lake Monroe to Orlando, but at pres ent there is not much information to be given on the subject. The charter has been received from Tallahassee, but nothing will be done until the return of Judge Baker, who is the solicitor and legal adviser of the board of trustees. In themean time let everybody interested In the construction of the road determine to do all they can for its success when called upon.” Brevard county is sadly in need of mail facilities, and this is all that is wanted to build up the locality. A correspondent writing from there says: “There is no doubt but that this is the finest section of country for stock raising in Florida# This is evi denced by the great quantities of beef cattle that are* annually exported to the Cuban market, and the continual stream which is constantly pouring from this portion of Florida to the more northern counties. The vast prairies which extend from the head waters of the Kissimmee, Lake Tohope- kilaga. to Lake Okeechobee, on the western boundary, and the prairies of the St. John’s on the east, form an almost limitless domain of rich pasturage upon which thousands of cattle roam, and still there is plenty of range.” The Lake City Rcpnler says: -Provisions sell 5o cheaply in this market we fear the farmers will hot take sufficient interest in making bread and meat at home. We desire to warn such that a ‘dollar saved is a dollar made/ and each pound of meat grown at homes saves that much cash to the com munity.” Jacksonville Sun and Press: “The number of beautiful women who have visited Jack sonville the present season is something re markable. It is not a safe city by any means, at present, for any old bachelor who desires to preserve his freedom from the fas cinating charms of the fair sex. P. 8. Every lady who reads this will understand that it has a personal application to herself." Dr. Pope, of Femandina, was very nearly shot in that city on the 15th instant, by the accidental discharge of a rifle in the hands of a vouiig man, a Mr. Brown. The Express. noticing the occurrence, says: “AVhile the young man was explaining to the doctor the destructive qualities of said weapon, it sud denly went off, the ball passing through his coat and lodging in the floor. Although the doctor is very fond of jokes, we feel confi dent that he does not like such practical ones, which sometimes send mortals to un known regions, where Rev. H. AS . Beecher’s theories in regard to a certain hot place are discovered to be either fact or fiction.” Fort Read Cr,scent: “The orange trees are laden with buds and bursting bloom, giving promise of a fine crop of fruit this year. We have never seen them look more thrifty than this spring. Many of the young trees are absolutely bending under the weight of the new growth." The Cirscent also savs : “The ‘wood fire fiend’ paid us his annual visit last Monday, bui. thanks to the united efforts of the neighborhood, a comparatively small amount of damage was done. Mr. Driggers suffered the most heavily, losing most of his fence. AA’hen will this outrage be ended ?” The Jacksonville Sun and Press of Sunday mentions the following railroad accident: “ A freight train got into trouble again yes terday " AVhen nearly to Honeymoon Nur series, between two ami three miles from the city, three cars, two flats and the conductor’s box jumped the track ami were wrecked. Four or five passengers, besides Conductor Livingston and two train hands were iu the latter ear, but fortunately escaped unin jured. The engine came on bringing the passengers, and then returned with a pas senger coach to meet the fast mail train which arrived at the scene some moments before 10 o'clock p. m. The passengers and mails were transferred to it and brought on to the city, but the wreck was not cleared sufficiently to allow the passage of the train until after midnight.” 01R JACKSQNYILLE LETTER. LE PAGE PAYS THE PENALTY Au Imperial Christening. St. Petersburg Correspondence .San Francisco Chronicle. Yesterday there was much ringing of bells and firing of cannon, and fireworks in the evening. All this display was over a very small matter, indeed—a mat ter of ten or twelve pounds—the first bom of Grand Duke Vladimir, who was baptized according to the rites of the Russian Church. The little fellow, who made his appearance immediately after his father returned from the scat of war. received the euphonius name of Boris VladimirQvitch. As the Greek baptismal rite requires the total immersion of the infant, it is to be hoped That the water used was duly warmed, for the day was one of the coldest experienced this winter. The bushy whiskers of the “mushiks ’ stood out stiff in their crystnlized glory of frozen breath, end the soldiers turned out on parade were muffled from iiead to foot, their ‘‘bashlyks” or camel hair capes drawn tightly over head and shoulders, so that nothing of their showy uniforms could be seen. The happy father of the occasion, of whom I caught a glimpse as he emerged from the im perial chapel at the Winter palace, is a no!tie looking fellow, his bronzed features set off by a fresh scar on the side of tlje foreheail. During the battle of Metchka, iu which he participated under command of tile Czarevitch, his brother, a Turkish bullet grazed his head and failed by less than an inch to send him after his cousin, the late Duke of LeueUtenberg. Grand Duke Vladimir is not yet thirty, and lias been married four years to a German Prinees- A popular doctor of Utica, N. \., while escorting a young lady home the other evening, attempted to relieve her cough and sore throat by giving her a troche. He told Iter to allow it to dis solve gradually in her mouth. Vo relief was experienced, and the doctor felt quite chagrined the next day when the lady sent him a pantaloon button with a note saying he must have given her the wrong kind of a troche, and might need this one. Fore*t and Stream descrilics the novel manner in which a two inch water pipe that had become cloggtd was cleaned. A hole was punched through an eel's ta 1 and a siring was passed through. The eel was then staffed through the pipe. An occasional jerk reminded Hip eel tp a ivance, which he did, going tiie entire length. A bunch of rags was then tied to the string and the pipe was cleaned. Glad Spring-Jacksonville in Her Bent Bib and Tucker—Jack Plane— St. Patrick’* Day- Trucking Bu.I- ne**—Don’t be in a Hurry—Again Victor—The Fight Conimenced-A Great Soldier—Court Adjourned— Treat In Prospect - The Black Veil— Quarantine Law—Honor* to Capt. Eads. Special Correspondence of the Morning News. Jacksonville, Fla., March 18.— March, so much feared at the North, is perhaps with us one of the most delight ful months of the year. The soft, balmy atmosphere is redolent with the grateful perfume of the orange flowers, and vocal wilh the melodious songs of that incom parable mimic, the mocking bird. Flora, arrayed in a garb of a thousand dyes, breathing fragrance as she moves, pa rades her choicest and fairest treasures, and charms all beholders with her fresh ness and beauty. Jacksonville, just now, wears her holi day attire. The hotels are tilled with the fashion, gaiety and wealth of our broad country. It is pleasant to stroll along Bay street on a bright morning and watch the throng of pedestrians as they pass and repass in review. As an evidence of the amount of filthy lucre now repre sented here, it is stated that the combined capital of the guests of one of our popu lar hotels reaches the enormous amount of one hundred millions < f dollars. I had the pleasure a day or two since of meeting your entertaining corres pondent, “Jack Plane,” who has been making a hurried tour through a portion of Florida. His nomde plume is derived, it is supposed, from his habit of working up rough materials into elegant and finished^articles, in which art he is an accomplished proficient. St. Patrick’s day was not observed by the Milesian population. The sons of Erin are not very numerous in this com munity, and are all Fenians aud sub scribers to the Irish World. Early vegetables from this State are already finding their way to Northern markets. Green peas are being shipped in considerable quantities, and beans, Irish potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes will follow in rapid succession. “Truck ing” is fast becoming one of our indus tries, and those engaged in this business reaped handsome harvests last season and added largely to their annual income. Our pleasant and spring-like weather has had the effect of inducing several visitors to leave for more Northern lati tudes. They appear to forget that the temperature'of New York, Boston and Chicago is somewhat different from that they are enjoying at this point, and, in their haste to return home, many lose all the benefit they have derived from their winter residence in Florida. No invalid, suffering from pulmonary disease, can afford to leave this State 'for higher lati tudes previous to the first of May with out endangering his safety. • Hon. John Morrissey has again been successful in his late contest with the grim monster. His iron will and im mense physical powers have carried him through a second dangerous crisis aud he is regarded as safe for the present. The primary meetings of the Conserva tives will be* held to-night for the pur pose of electing delegates to the conven tion which is called to-morrow to nomi nate candidates for the approaching city election. The primaries will be largely attended by our best citizen* and will embrace many who do not usually par ticipate in such gatherings. Major General AY r . S. Hancock passed through the city last week, for the pur pose of inspecting Fort Marion, at St. Augustine. The Circuit Court for Duval county adjourned this morning after a very lengthy session. Judge W. A. Cocke, of the Seventh Circuit,will preside at the spring term of this court, which com mences in May. The further hearing of the railroad litigation will be continued next week in chambers. Mrs. P. C. Goodwyn, grand daughter of President Tyler and the tragedian Cooper, will give our citizens on Wed nesday night an opportunity of hearing her reading and dramatic recita tion*. She is spoken of as a lady of great ability and accomplishments. Three young ladies will,to-morrow, as sume the black veil of the Sisters of the Order of St. Joseph. One of the candi dates is a sister of Bishop Gross, of Sa vannah. The ceremonies are expected to be of an unusually interesting char acter. The bill for a national system of quar antine, prepared by the “committee ap pointed by the convention that lately as sembled in this city, has already passed to a second reading in the United States Senate. Captain Eads, who is expected on AVednesday, has been invited to partake of the hospitality of the Carleton House, and has been tendered a full dress recep tion and ball by the Florida Yacht Club. AV. II. B. Something foi; American Qirls.— An American girl went over to Paris with her brother the other day, and the instant ?-he wsis left alone w ith her com panion in the carriage, a middle aged Frenchman, he insulted her. She told her brother when he returned, and there was a fearful outburst. The French man gave liis card, and said he was deeply sorry and would abide by the de cision of the other as to the consequences to ensue for his mistake, but certainly he never suspected Mademoiselle was a lady, as she was painted! The brother ap pealed to the l»est authorities in Paris in these matters to learn what UjC code was under these circumstances, and all the men of the Jot-key Club told him that if liis sister’s eyelashes were blackened, and her cheeks rouged, he could have no re dress. as these practices were never fol lowed by une demoiselle du monde. The trade mottoes of some of the Loudon associations are curious. The blacksmiths, for instance, have “By hammer and hand all arts do stand;” the distillers, “Drop as rain, distil as dew;” the founders, “God the only founder;” the innholder, “Come, ye Messed; when I was harborless ye lodg d me:’ the joiners, “Join loyalty gn^ liberty;” the saddlers, “Hold fast; sit sure;” the weavers, “AA’eave truth with trust;” and the needlemakers. “They sewed leaves together and made themselves aprons.” An old bachelor was rather taken aback, a day or two since, as follows: Picking up a book, he exclaimed, upon seeing a wood cut representing a man kneeling at the feet of a woman, “Be fore I would ever kneel to a woman, I would encircle my neck with a rope and stretch it.” And then turning to a young woman, lie inquired. “Do you not think it would be the best thing I could do ?” “It would, undoubtedly, be the best for the woman.” was the sarcastic reply. +Tf On Monday last, the day gold fell to seven-eighths, sixty dollars in gold coin was paid for goods over the counters of one of our merchants. And that’s the way the baser metal drives out the more precious. AVithin a few weeks of the remonetization of silver we see the use less hoards of gold actually entering into circulation alongside of the despised greenbacks. Verily great is the wisdom of the gold-bug.— \Vashiiigton Herald. Here is the cost of Patti’s last perform ance at Naples: Thirty-one thousand francs in the house; thirty-three calls be fore the curtain; more than a thousand bouquets, six of them over a yard wide, one garnished with branches of coral; finally, a crown of gold on a cushion of flowers. Pity Patti! An old, rough clergyman once took for his text that passage of the psalm, “I said in my haste, all men are liars.” Looking, apparently, as if he saw the Psalmist standing before him, he said: . You said it ip your li^ete, David. If you had been here, yon might have said it after mature deliberation. The Brutal Murderer of Two Help* le*H Girl* Hauled in Concord, N. H. Vfarictla Bull and Jode Lank ina id Avenged-A Frightful Story of Outrage and Butchery. Joseph Le Page, alias Joseph Parish, was executed at the State prison at Con cord, Xew Hampshire, on Friday, for the murder of Josie A. Langmaid at Pern broke, N H., in October, 1873. Previ ous to his execution lie confessed the murder of Miss Marietta Ball, a school teacher, at St. Albans, Yt.. in 1874, and also admitted the killing of Josie Lang maid. After ascending the platform the eyes of the condemned man sought out the brother of his last victim, Josie Lang maid, and the officers who pursued and apprehended him, at whom he glared with an expression of the most intense hatred. The Lord s prayer was recited in Canadian French, Le Page joining, the warrant w as read, and he was asked if he had anything to say. He replied, in a contemptuous sort of a way, that he did not desire to speak. He was perfectly cool and self-possessed all through, and did not seem to fear death. The noose was then adjusted, and at eleven o'clock the trap was sprung, and eighteen min utes after Le Page was declared dead. Josie Langmaid was the daughter of James P. Langmaid, a well-to-do market gardener of Pembroke. She was eigh teen years of age, five feet four inches in height, of light complexion, with blue eyes and brown hair, muscular and large for hei years. On the morning of Octo ber 4, 1875, she set out to walk to the academy, about one and a half miles dis tant. On her way site had to pass six houses, the last half a mile from the school house. She was seen by the resi dents going bv, merrily tossing au apple in the air and catching it. She did not reach the academy, a fact that excited no suspicion there, as it was not known that she intended to go to school that day. When, however, her brother returned thence at night and her absence was discovered, search was at once insti tuted. and at nine p. m. her body was found in a low swampy piece of ground, covend with a thick ’ growth of alders and birches. The ground at this spot, some fifty yards removed from the road, gave evidence of a desperate struggle. The Itody was nearly naked, the uuder- clothing having been torn from it, and the outer garments nearly all cut off, and then thrown loosely over it so as to cover it, except the breast and one knee. The head had been completely severed from the body, wrapped in the girl's waterproof and deposited in the swamp some three hundred and fifty yards further off. The hat was bruised as if by heavy blows from a red oak club that, with her school books, lay near by her body, which was shockingly mutilated. Tiie*right baud was broken, as if while warding off a blow: there were severe wounds on each side of the skull, and the print of a hoot-heel was distinctly visible on one cheek. The head had been cut cleanly off with a sharp instru ment and during life: a gold and black enamel ear-ring was netted in the hair. She had evidently been struck down on the road, diagged into the swamp, and there outraged and finally slaughtered. No trace of the murderer existed other than a piece of paper covered with inde cent doggerel found near by the corpse. Next day one Frank Drew was arrested while walking on his way rapidly towards Manchester. He was of bad reputation, and as his clothes were blood-stained and his !>oot heel, unusually small, fitted the mark on the cheek, and he resisted arrest vigorously, it was at onee concluded that he was the murderer, and lie narrowly eseaped lynching He, however, proved a satisfactory alibi, and showed that the blood came from a wound accidentally inflicted on his mother with a pitchfork, ami he was released, as well as a negro and a tramp arrested as suspicious char acters. The Boston detectives failed ut terly to find a clue till a newspaper para graph uneartiied the murderer. A Pembroke farmer, Mr Fowler, had just before the butchery hired a French Canadian to tend a threshing machine. While lie was at supper Mr Fowler’s daughter, a companion of Josie Lang maid, entered tiie kitchen, and the man after watching her carefully ascertained from her little brother who she was and by what way and at what hour she went to school. A couple of days afterwards this man, LePage, was seen crouching in the swamp. On the day of the murder Miss Fowler, just before entering the thicket, waited for Josie Langmaid to join her, but her companion was late, and, a friend driving by, Miss Fowler accepted a ‘‘lift," and so probably es caped the fate that Miss Langmaid, fol lowing her. met. LePage vanished, im mediately afterwards, and the detectives, probably liccause they doubted his con uectiou with the affair and so did not press the search eagerly, were unable to find him. Meanwhile Mr. W. N. Abell, w r ith whom Itad boarded the St. Albans school teacher. Marietta Ball (of whose outrage and murder in July of the same year a son of ex-Governor Smith, of Vermont, was suspected till he demanded a trial and clearly established his innocence), struck by the similarity of the circum stances of the two crimes, recalled tiie fact that one Joseph Le Page Itad been arrested on suspicion of murdering Miss Ball, and on being discharged had moved to Suncook, where he worked in a fac tory. This information he communica ted to the authorities of Suncook, and Le Page was arrested and identified as Mr. Fowler's hired man, who had been seen loitering round the swamp road. Otlier^jirls testified that he had threat ened or pursued them in that vicinity; a Miss Watson itad been cliascd by him, but itad cscapeii through the intervention of a hunter, and a lady and hcr .daughter had been threatened by him with a club till some men providentially appeared in sight. Le Page's wife testified that he had had to fly from Canada for outrage and murderous assttuit on her sister, and that at Suncook he had tried to violate liis own daughter. He was unable to give an account of himself at the time of tiie crime; part of his clothing was bloody and part had been destroyed; a knife and two razors, all smeared with blood, went found in the house; such a club as that discovered by the Itody was known to have been in his possession; finally, it was shown that he had been seen near the swamp hut a few minutes before the girl must have passed. Le Page was brought to trial early in Januarv, 1878, and was convicted on the first ballot of the jury, but the Judges had permitted Julienne Kousse, the nrisoner’s sister in-law, to testify in re- prisoner’s sister-in-law, to testify in re gard to tiie assault he made upon her four years before in Canada. Exceptions were taken to this evidence as having no bearing on the case, and the full bench set aside the verdict and ordered a new trial, which was held in March, 1877, and also resulted in the prisoner's con viction. A New Hampshire law re quires that a person convicted of a capi tal crime shall be aept in the prison of tiie State a year, so that the date of Le Pace's execution was fixed for March 15. 1878. Judge Sawyer's sentence was noticeable, inasmuch as it dwelt upon the subject of a future life. He warned the prisoner not to dream of death as an eternal sleep, and said it could hardly tie conceived that a just God could permit such an abandoned wretch to escape the punishment due his awful crimes by ceasing to exist Le Page’s real name is said to have been Joseph Paget, and his ace was be tween forty and forty-five. His father was a respectable farmer of the district of Joliette, province of Quebec. Up to five or six years after his marriage he bore a decent character, but he then fell into bad habits and began the frightful career of lust and murder which ended Friday on tne scaffold. That he com mitted the murder of Marietta Ball, as well as that of Josie Langmaid, there is not a particle of doubt. Miss Ball left the school house at St. Albaus on a Fri day afternoon in July, 1875, to visit hex cousin : s house, half a mile distant. Late on the following evening her outraged body was found in the woods with the skull fractured. There were marks of a fierce straggle, imprints of bloody hands on bushes, a mask made of a piece of carpet fastened with withes, but no footprints of a man. There was some strong circumstantial evidence that Le Page was the murderer, and lie was arrested, but he got off at the time by producing witnesses who said they saw him getting in hay that afternoon, and were with him berrying when he got in fected with tiie poison which he said caused tiie scratched and blotchy ap pearance of his face. But this evidence was afterwards found to be all false. A rude mask tied with withes was found near the corpse of Marietta Ball, and was used in evidence against Le Pace, it being shown that he was an adept in tying green twigs. Twigs similarly fastened were found on the body of Josie Lang maid. A Word of Enconracenient from the (Vest Atlanta Constitution. Stheator, III., February 10. 1878.— Hon. W. II. Felton, M. C., Washington, D. C.: Dear Sir—Y’ou will. I trust, pardon this intrusion, when I tell you th.it the lion. Alex. GuspbeB, with whom I have long been acquainted, has shown me your letter of the 5th inst., iu which you refer to the “all-important question of finance.” Sympathy with your expressed views prompts me to say that at no time since the civil war has there been such a pro found agitation of the public mind as now stirs all classes in this State upon this question. Labor is largely unem ployed, wages for those who get work are low and getting constantly lower; small proprietors are sorely pressed for money to pay taxes and unavoidable expenses, while all operators, large and small, are one after another failing—their property, is passing from them, and they arc joining the already overcrowded army of the unemployed. Merchants, manufacturers and bankers are involved in the general trouble, and are loginning to feel that the ruin will become universal. Thanks to the intelligence of all these classes, the whole question of finance is being carefully considered by them, and they are l>ecoming well convinced that the money system of the United States is in its nature wrong; that as it now stands it is calculated, if not designed, to sweep down periodically the wealth producing classes; putting into the pockets of the drones of society the wealth which the enterprising and industrious have earned and which their own. development re quires. AA'e propose to change all this; to make money what it should be—the servant of labor and not its master. Three-fourths of the people of the United States are wealth producers, and they have not only the right to be heard, but they have the power to right this w rong. AY’e propose that money shall not be circumscribed solely to increase its power, but that it shall be increased to circum scribe its power. It must be made to consist of not only gold, but silver, ami also that other depository of labor, the greenback, which is itself the solemn certificate of the sovereign power of the republic that it is the only essence of labor performed. The government has the constitutional right to issue this certificate—to make it perform all that is required of gold and silver, and to provide that it shall be issued instead of all bank notes and used to discharge the bonded debt, as well as to relieve the people from burdensome taxation until the volume in circulation is sufficient to cause labor to be employed and prosperity restored. I have long felt that the AY r est and the South have a common interest in this question aud that by wrorking together iu the good cause all sectional jealousy w'ould be forgotten and a real union re stored. Y’ou may well understand, therefore, that I receive with great satisfaction your assurance that “the South will join hands with the AY r est now and forever on this question.” In these two sections are the wealth producting, enterprising, thinking ma jority of the United States. Acting to gether, not for a section or for a class, but for all sections and all classes, we can wrest our common country from the coveted grasp of the money kings of Europe of which the moneyed men of New York and New England are but a faint echo and a feeble type, and put it upon a career of prosperity' which will cement us as a people and exalt us among the nations. AVith great respect, your obedient servant. Ralph Plumb. Signs of Civilization Among the Indians.—The fact that a sewing ma chine bad l»een purchased by some In dians was mentioned iq the fiee a day or two ago as proof that civilization was advanced among the red men. The ma chine was purchased from the agent about two months ago by Henry Rice Hill, Chief of the A\ T innebagoes and Cap tain of the Indian police of Dakota coun ty, for his daughter, aged eighteen years. The family have been living in camp, near Florence Take, for about two months past, and during that time the daughter, w’ho is rather good looking, and who dresses in Indian style, has visi ted the rooms in this city to receive in structions iu operating the machine. At times she was accompanied by a dozen or more of her folks, who wante d to see the machine work. Having become pro ficient in its management the machine was, a day or two ago, taken to her home. AA’e suppose that she will now subscribe for a ladies’ fashion monthly. Her father is very proud of her. and will no doubt soon buy her a piano.—Ojnahet Bee. Influence of Valleys on Health.— Mr. Alfred Haviland lately informed the London Social Science Association that many diseases were introduced by the common tendency to place houses in valleys instead of on the hillsides. He says that valleys do not get a full share of fre-h air. The wind blows over, not through them, and the atmosphere with in their Ixmndaries is comparatively stagnant. His observations are therefore opposed to the common belief that val leys are especial channels for atmos pheric movements; but the opinions are sustained by Dr. B. AY. Richardson, who is good authority. Tfce latter gentleman enumerated twenty-five or thirty diseases which he thought might be attributed to the propensity for valley homes. Among them are croup, influenza, scrofula, rheu matism, fistula, calculus and possibly some malformations. The list is for midable, and, to put it mildly, it is al most incredible that diseases of this character can be caused by living in the broad and shallow’ valleys of England. A half witted Parisian has been mak ing an experiment in dentistry. He had long been suffering from toothache, but obstinately refused to go to a dentist, and at length, finding the pain unendura ble, took U*c following uncommon method of extraction. To the tooth he attached a Ion" string, and to the string a heavy stone; thus armed he proceeded to the topmost story of the house he occu pied, opened the* window and hurled the stone into the air. The weight of the stone and the length of the string pro duced so violent a shock, that not only was the tooth pulled out, but with it a portion of the i.»w, hb neck being so painfully tw isted that he fainted. Hours ensued ere consciousness returned—and when he recovered hb senses, it was only to find himself deprived of the faculty of speech. The Mormons are a peculiar people, but their Legislature occasionally grinds out some healthy laws. One passed at the present session defines common bar ratry as “the practice of exciting ground less judicial proceedings,” and makes the offence punishable bv a fine of not less than three hundred dollars, or imprison ment in the county jail not exceeding six months. • An Appleton (Wis.) student, fooling with a pistol, shot off a chum’s nose. AN INCOMPLETE CIVILIZATION. Ralph Waldo Emenon on the Future of the Bepublic. [From his neir Lecture.] It is certain that our civilization is yet incomplete. It is not a question of whether there shall be a multitude of people here. That is settled. But shall we, the new nation, be the guide and law giver of all nations as having clearly chosen and firmly held the simplest and best rule of society? To buy and import much from Englandjand Europe does not make us better men. Every town has its cottages, its fashions, its church from England. America is provincial. It is an immense Halifax. Our politics threat en England and her manners threaten us. Our tendency is to make men all alike and extinguish the individual. The build ers of London gave you your houses, and the Bishops of London jour faith. Thus we find that often the passion for Europe casts out the passion for America; they for whom London and Paris spoiled their own homes can well be spared to return to those cities. I can not only see room for more genius than we have here, hut for more than we have in the world. Our young men lack idealism. A man, to be a success, must not l)c a pure idealism, but he must have ideas. He does not want to be sun dazzled or sun blind, but he must have glimmer enough to keep him from knocking his head against the wall. AY’e want men of originality, with ideas wider than their nationality, and taking in the interests of the race and of civilization. AY r e need men of moral and elastic minds, who can live in the moment and take a step forward. C’olumbus was not a back- waid-feeling crab, nor was Martin Luther, nor John Adams, nor Patrick Henry, nor Thomas Jefferson. The genius and the destiny of America is not sluggard, but is an incessant advance, like the hand on the dial’s face, and the heavenly bodies by which it is moved. The flower of civilization is the finished man of sense, of accomplishment, of social powrer—a gentleman. Wlmt hin ders that he be born here? The new times need the new man, the comple- mental man. w hom plainly this country must bring forth. Morality is the object of government. YY’e want a state of things in w hich crime will not pay, which allow s ever}’ man the largest liberty com patible with the liberty of every other man. I hope America will come to have its pride in having *a nation of servants and not a nation of served; where every man can say, “I serve; 1 apply my faculty to the whole extent of my power to the service of mankind in my especial place.” He thereby shows a reason for lnting in the world,* aud that he is not a mere incum brance. But the helm is given to a bet ter guidance Ihan our own, and seeing how that guidance has rested on this Union thus far, I have good confidence for the future. I feel that in all direc tions the light is breaking, that trade and government will not lose by the over throw of the enemies of mankind; that the useful and the elegant arts will be ex ercised within us as a nation; that the rea son the noblest affections and the purest religion will find their abiding home in our institutions. A turn of fortune’s wheel: Two years ago a man lived in Boston in great style, moved in good society and had an ele gant home. By a sudden reverse he lost everything. He struggled manfully, at tempted to retrieve his lost fortunes, but failed at every step. He slipped from the sight and memory of former acquain tances. A few days since he was dis covered living in the attic of a tenement house he once owned, literally without food or fire. Ho had l>een doing copy ing, but that had ceased, and, too proud to beg, he was living on the few’ cents he could earn from week to week. They have the tallest kind of a sensa tion at Long Branch. A nine year old boy, who had always been deaf and dumb, died on Friday, and just before his last breath spoke for the first time in his life, predicting that this summer there would not 1m* enough inhabitants alive in Long Branch to bury the dead. Some fear another pestilence such as visited the town a dozen years ago, when the spotted fever caused fearful havoc among the natives, while others fear the place will lie flooded by a tidal wave. A Fourteen Ylabs’ Love Romance. —About fourteen years ago a carpenter, at present residing in Round Rock, YVil- liamsou county, Texas, saved the life of a young lady in Kentucky, boon after he left the neighborhood saw another lady and married her. In the course of time the wife died. The first love was advised of the fact, and was requested to come to Round Rock to marry her ro mantic lover. She arrived here a rew days ago. and they were married.— Wil liamson County Statesman. Suicide from Religious Frenzy.— The Coroner, this mornin", held an in quest on the body of a Miss Julia Van Blarcom, at her residence at Flatbush, who committed suicide by taking poison while laboring under a fit of religious frenzy. Deceased was a lady of culture and refinement. Some time since she became melancholy over the death of a brother, and her trouble finally took the form of alierration of mind.—New York Letter. 13 th. Lord Cork recently mov ed for a select committee to inquire into the prevalence of intemperate habits, which moved Sir AVilfrid Lawson to commit the following epigram; The doctrine of the final cause. Its general principles and laws. Descends from Aristotle; But Westminster's more special work Has been to demonstrate that Cork W&a meant to stop the bottle. Smothered by Mud.—Y’esterday af ternoon, as a seven year-old daughter of Robert Sheriff, of this city, was at play in her father’s yard on a sleigh leaning against the fence, it fell, striking her across the shoulders and burying her face in the mud. YYhen found, at nine o’clock in the evening, she was dead, and it is supposed she was smothered to death. —SpeciiUfrom Appleton, Hw. The Princess Victoria, the daughter of the Crowrn Princess of Germany, twelve years of age, was in a toy shop at Berlin with her governess a few days back when a young girl came in with oranges to sell. The little Princess noticed how wistfully the poor child glanced at her playthings, so taking up a pretty doll she went up to her aud in a kind voice asked her to keep it for the sake of the Prin cess Victoria. A Methodist Conference Taking up Fraud.—At the New Jcrsev annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Burlington, Thursday, it was resolved that, in view of the fre quent failures of business men. and the injury done the church by professedly religious men under the suspicion of fraud, the conference enforce the action of the discipline in all cases. Another Big Jewelry Robbery in Excland.—tY’hile Lady Graham Mont gomery was visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Gore Langtop, at Newton Park, near Bath, thieves climbed to her dress ing room hy a ladder, cut a hole in the glass of the window, entered and made away w ith jewels to the value of £2,000. A mouse placed in a box with three rattlesnakes at Anna, Illinois, killed qne of the snakes, while the two remaining ones showed the greatest fear of the little beast, watching every move it made. Since 1840. the number of sheep in Connecticut has fallen from 100,000 to 4000. Professor Brewer attributes this extraordinary decline to dog*. The spring cattle drive in Texas will number 223,400. Prospects of the Democracy. Washington Correspondence of the NashriBe American. To-day I chanced to hear Ben. Hill, Harris and McDonald, of Indiana, dis cussing the situation and prospects of the Democratic party. Hill, who is anxious beyond measure* to convince everybody that he was always in favor of the silver bill with the Senati* amendments, was bewailing the decadence of American politics. He was inclined to believe that our country had passed the zenith of its prosperity, and was on the high road to decay aud death. “AY*hen a people are insensible to their own debasement,” said the brilliant Georgian, “there is little hope for them.” The chief sign of decadence in Ben Hill’s eye was the fact that the peo ple had submitted quietly to the tenancy of a President who was never elected. Senator Harris took up strong cudgels in behalf of the integritv of tiie American freeman. He contended that the end of carpet-bag rule was due not alone to the repudiation of that rule by the South, as Hill contended, but to a widespread change of sentiment at the North, which was evinced by the steady increase of Northern Democratic Sena tors in the Senate, and hy the growth of a public sentiment which had made it impossible for a Northern President to longer sustain and advocate the policy of holding the South as conquered prov inces. Then the conversation drifted on to finance, ami Hill. Harris aud McDonald all agreed that the silver bill would prove a national blessing if it should allay the agitatiou of the times and prove a bul wark against the fanaticism which seeks to array labor against capital. One opin ion on which they agreed struck me with great force, viz : That the great dan ger to the Democratic party was that, before 1880, the Republican party would fall to pieces of its own rottenness, and that the Democratic party, instead of l>e- ing arrayed against the old enemy which it has so nearly beaten, would be called upon to face a new and fresh arifagonist in the shape of a lal»or party, led on by demagogues, w’ho would seek to array labor against capital for motives of per sonal gain. I confess I was surprised to find three Democrats of such widely different sections, and generally accorded such widely different views, so united in the opinion that the great Democratic party must stand by its old principles, let come what would, and fight under the old flag against centralization on the one hand and communism on the other. It strengthened a tyro’s belief in the per petuity of the old doctrines, aud dis proved the Republican assertions that tiie Democratic party is divided against itself. Speaking of that Republican allega tion, by the way, I have yet to meet the representative Democrat who intimates that the Democ ratic party will not In.* a unit in 1880. Bayard, the representative of the extreme hard money wing, and Dan Voorhees, the leader of the soft money element, Doth disavow any know ledge "or belief in any split in the Demo cracy over the money question; 1880 is too far ahead, say one and all. The financial problem will lie solved ere that, we hope, say one and all. A Government Pleasure Yacht. St. Louis Republican. “Athens, March 13.—General Grant entertained the King of Greece at lunch eon to-day on board of the United States steamer Vandalia, and will sail to-morrow- evening for Naples.” YY’e are not aware that there is any thing iu or out of the Constitution and the laws which authorizes the use of a United States ship of war as a pleasure yacht. According to the Constitution and the laws, ex-President Grant has no more right to have the Yandalia at his disposal for sailing and lunching pur poses than has John Smith or William Jones. He is a private citizen traveling on private account, and has no claim upon public property to assist him in his journey or in the entertainment of his guests. He is simply taking a pleasure excursion at the expense of the people without the con sent of the people. Their representatives in .Congress assembled have never been asked to sanction thisextraordinaryeinployment of a government vessel, aud therefore that employment is. under all tiie cir cumstances of the case, a piece of impu dence deserving sharp rebuke. The same principle which permits it would permit the erection by the government ci a pal ace on the Hudson for Gram’s permanent occupation when he returns. YY’lien we remember that Thomas Jef ferson in liis old age was so poor that he had to mortgage his house and sell a portion of his dearly loved library ; that Monroe and other ex Presidents suf fered even greater pecuniar}* embarrass ments, and that none of them received the aid in their misfortunes which the government could have well afforded to give such faithful servants of the Ration, the partiality shown to Grant becomes more inexcusable and outrageous. It is a continuation of Grantism, which the present administration ought to he ashamed of, and w hich the committee on naval expenditures ought to examine and report upon. If allowed to pass uuno ticed every ex-President whet goes abroad hereafter is entitled to similar privileges, and if dchied him has just ground for complaint; unless, indeed. Grant is so much above all rules and regulation® that he can have no imitator. Liquid Vacuum.—YY’hen Thomas drove up to a house on Elizabeth street yesterday to deliver the usual quart of mixture, the gentleman of the house kindly inquired: “Thomas, how* many quarts of milk do you deliver?” “Ninety-one, sir.” “And how many comts hav« you?" “Nine, sir.” The gentlemen made some remarks about an early spring, close of the East era war, and the state of the roads, and then asked: “Say, Thomas^ how much milk per day do your cows average?” Seven quarts, sir.” “Ah—um,” said the gentloiqan as he moved off. Thomas looked after him, scratched his head, and all at once grew pale as he pulled out a short pencil and began to figure on the wagon cover. “Nine cows is nine, and I set fieven quarts down under the cows and multi ply. That’s sixty three quarts of milk. I told him I sold ninety one quarts per day. Sixty-three from ninety-one leaves twenty-eight, and none to earn*. Nov,, where do 1 get the rest of the milk? I’ll be hanged if \ haven’t given myself aw’ay to one of’ my best customers, by leaving a durned big cavity in these figures to be filled witli water!”—Detroit Free Press. AYFILL WITH A Bi. LI.ET IN HlS BRAIN.— About four years ago a young colored lad named John AY’illiams, while playing along the banks of the canal in this place was shot by a reckless canal boat captain. The bali penctraied the boy’s forehead and lodged in the brain. He was attended by Dr. R. II. Gibbons, who probed the wound to the depth of four inches with out recovering th» hail. The boy was unconscious for about nine hours. His life was entirely despaired of, but, strange to say, he maintained consciousness and showed signs of improvement. Several days afterward an abscess was formed within the wound. This was opened by his physician and discharged a quantity of pus, since which time the boy ha® en tirely recovered, goes to school regularly and stands well in hi3 class. In the opin ion of the physician the ball lies below the back of the s^ull and has become en cysted.—J&>»e*dole Independent. The aborigines of Victoria. Australia, who, when the colony w as formed, some forty-five years smee, numbered five thousand, have dwindled down to one thousand, and are decreasing at the rate of thirt}-five per cent, a year. An organ grinder struck the town yes terday with his organ draped in mourn ing lor the dead King. His silent token of his grief was very touching until he began to grind out “ The Mulligan Guards.” -Veic York Star One dav about six months ago a oar ty of children playing in the s reets i . Brooklyn, near their homes, fSSd a s ra - v ™ r > began teasing the half starved brute. The dog rush!-, into the midst of his tormentors and bitone of them, named John Foley, aged eleven i earS (V ? b< ‘ t f°‘ : aften 'ard found to be suffering from rabies, and was di£ patched by a policeman. The wounded boy was taken to a drug store, and Ms wounds were carefully eauterizrt. There was a slight wound „n o ae of his arms and a fearful one on the ieg, just under the jomt of the knee, a pkw of flesh having been tom entirely away bv Se savage b,te. The hoy wis uikl ?o hi home at loo Bond street, and I)r. Dower treated him with such success that he was soon up and alwut Since that time the child has had peri odical attacks ot illness, which were at tnbuted to ordinary causes. \ drowsi ness was one of the symptoms, but the family physician always succeeded in overcoming it until two or three days ago when he was attacked with spasm, and a choking sensation in the throa' accompanied with a reluctance to swab low any liquid. Tin- physician and the parents then began to attribute tbesvmn- toms to the bite of the mad dog siv months before. A number of the ablest physicians in Brooklyn were called mto consultation with Dr. Dower ou Thursday night and everything possible was done to save the unfortunate lad. During Friday night the l»oy suffered very violent convulsions and two men were required to hold him on tiie ben. These were relieved by others every half hour. Dr. Dower was with the boy about five hours durin» the night. He administered all the remedies usually applied in -imilar cases without producing any effect. About half-past four yesterday morning the Doctor gave the boy an injection ot chloral hydrate. This produced an immediate effect, and in five minutes the Ik.v was asleep.’ He continued in this condition, with ouly oocasionnl twitching, „( the body, until eight o'clock. At this time Dr. Dower called again and found his patient quiet. Subse quently he went to tiie office of the Health Board, and made a report of the case to Sauitary Superintendent Ray mond. The hoy remained quiet through out the day until four o'clock in the afternoon, when he died. There were no violent convulsions, but slight spasms of the neck continued nearly up to the time of his death. Dr. Dower said last evening that there was no question but this was a genuine ease of hydrophobia. Education and the Public Lands. St. Louis Republicm. The bill which the House Committee on Education and Labor have agreed on for the apportionment of the proceeds of the sales of public lands among the States is a measure entitled to favorable consideration. It provides that the net proceeds of sales of the public lands shall be divided among the States anti Territo ries in proportion to their population of school age—that is, in proportion to the number of children between the ages of five and twenty-one years in each. After five years from July 31,1*78, each State and Territory is to invest one-half the moneys so apportioned to it in four per cent. L oited States bonds as a permanent fund for educational purposes, and after ten years the whole amount so appor tioned is to be* invested in like manner. The bill further provides that for the first ten years the distribution to the States and territories shall be made ou the basis of the number of persons of ten years and over who cannot read and write. In the year ls?4 the sales of public land yielded $1,852,428; i u 1875, $1,413,- 040; in 1870, $1,120,466, and in 1877, $970,253—the total for the four years lK*in«r $5,371,787. At the last census the limits of school age were five and eigh teen years, and the number of children was 12,000,000. Tiie proceeds of the sales of public land during the last four years have averaged about $1,342,000 a year, and this, divided among tiie States aud territories, would give 11 rents for every child of school age. The number of such children in Missouri was 577,- 803, and our State’s share iu the distribu tion would he $63,388 per annum. This sum could be invested in United States bonds as a permanent fund, only the in terest being used; but as it would be in creased by the annual distributions, it would in a few years amount to an im portant fund, anti be a valuable auxiliary to our educational system. Lightning Striking Down an In corrigible Scoffer in a House of Prayer.—A startling event that occurred on Wednesday night last in the Metho dist Episcopal Church at Leiter’s F( rd, Indiana, is regarded by many people in that State as a direct interposition of Di vine Providence for the punishment of the scoffer. A revival had been in pro gress in the church for two weeks. Elias Bidinger, a married man, about twenty- live years of age, and Roliert King, had been disturbing the meetings bv making sport of those who led the services. On AA'ednesday night about seventy five per sons w'ere present. During the exercises Bidinger aud King began to create a dis turbance. Mr. Jor.es, the minister, went to expostulate with them, laid his hand upon Bidinger’s shoulder and urged him to change his way of life. Bidinger re plied with an oath that he would never change his ways. A few moments after ward, while Michael Shadle, a member of the congregation was leading in prayer, lightning flashed into the church, extinguished all the lights, killed Bidin ger, and prostrated King upon the floor. King, as soon as he returned to con sciousness, called upon the spectators to pray for him, and declared himself con verted. The occurrence resulted in swell ing greatly the ranks of sinners seeking salvation into that church. Some of the monasteries of Italy and France will send curious inventions to the Paris Exhibition, A Florentine friar has constructed a watch only a quarter of an inch in diameter. It has not only a third hand to mark the seconds but a microscopic dial which indicates the days of the week and month, and the proper dates. It also contains an alarm, and on its front cover an ingeniously cut figure of St. Francis of Assisi. On the back cover two verses of the “Te Deum are distinctly cut. A monastery in Brittany, France, will contribute a plain looking mahogany table, with an inlaid draugnts or chess board on the surface. 1 he in ventor sets the pieces for a game or chess, aud sits alone at one side of the board. He plays cautiously, and tne opposite pieces move automatically ana sometimes checkmate him. There is no mechanism apparent beneath the ta) top, which seems to Ik* a solid mahogany board. A Vah-able Fii.dle.-A Stradivarius violin, signed and dated l.Q9, was sold at the Hotel Dronot in Paris February 14. It was put up at *}.«*> down for the huge sum of Durine tho sate there » » .P V/ of the curious to get a sight strament, and a tabic wu> ■mddenlj upset and three or four persons standing on a were overturned amid lllt o nC / , h!. fusion of the crowd. “ ot alarmed, gentlemen, exclaim auctioneer, “the violin is sate. Ageotieman carried a letter daction from a friend to a strange . stranger received him coolly and - him the door. A linle showed him the ri .oou. Tjn : ' “Treat him like a trump. ger read it, “Treat him like a tramp. Mr. Pillsrilder went h . 0,M niulit considerable intoxicated ‘ , dieted with double vision. He sat tor some time with his sleepy g*j* . on Mrs. Piilgilder andt 1 marked: ‘'Well ^ul alte to you two old gals don t iook he (hie) twins f ’ A little boy who was a stingy uncle thisi.:j^‘“/^end one he lived, meeting a ciua - i , ■ day in the street, was asked by ha jg»r_ dian what made the dog - . ,. < reflecting the Wtle WBojrglM. I suppose he lives " nk Miss Blair was one of the ful girls in Atlanta whin - ■ stone engaged to ra »fy ’ bfoke her wards she fell down »t -• yj r nose and was disngitred V_' ■Wethers tone now refuses to many her, saying that she is a damaged article. — - - ■