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’ Savannah, Ga.
UVI1US VI VANIKS.
. t look not. love, before!
••Oloot' - 1 ' • ( , , in y. chill, uncertain;
TIi T!’a 1 impes. and anguish sore,
„,'utK u» sombre curtain.
ywai* U3
, . no t. love. < > glance not back!
' V?1^“ ' . doth the Past remember;
He e i7Ti, i* toinbs. ami shadows black,
faded* passion s cheerless ember.
v Ipt im live onr fluting day;
i we the hours with mirth and laughter;
^^i BoUh" Pas’. nortl'e Hereafter:
. .., j-.^ness, licht is doubly clear,
i ‘ hii’ii sw.vt. in midst of sorrow;
i all that we to-da.v hold dear
A 'v t lie in allies ere to-morrow.
313} ur
-. let U' live and love, while yet
Mr shor lived happiness endureth;
c n all t«* • soon, will come regret,
imi Dank'' that no physician eureth.’’
And pans Appletons' for March.
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beoriria Affairs.
•w. of our spring poets has, after great
<T,rl managed to make “terrapin” rhyme
with “hairpin.
* colored man of Augusta, in speaking
the other day of the religious progress
n(T hi- ra-c in our cities, said: “Weis
rful here in Augusty, Sawanah and
Runsick. hut up about Atlauty and uthcr
little town- in that quarter we ain’t much
importance.
From every'section of Irwin county it
is reported that the wheat and oat crops are
looking well and growing rapidly. Just
no w the prospect for a generous yield is
extremely flattering.
A new post olliee has been opened at
Mullville, Chattahoochee county, about fif-
tf*n mil'-> from Columbus near the line of
Musco 'ee ami Chattahoochee counties.
It will he impossible to have the Confed
erate monument in Augusta ready for un
veiling bv Memorial day. This is to be re
gretted. hut the Memorial Association will
appoint a day for the ceremonies as soon as
it is definitely ascertained w ben the monu
ment will he completed.
The F rest Sacs, of Jac kson county, warns
in readers thus: “Look to your horses.
Thieves are looking for them, and in various
part'of the country have been so far suc
cessful as t * take both themselves and
hor>es away."
A letter from Mulberry, Jackson county,
describes everything as flourishing there.
Farmers are doing well, the educational
status is most gratifying, and everything
looks bright for the future.
The difliculty between Mr. John E. Wil
kinson. of Atlanta, and Mr. Driver, of
Lafayette, Ala., which was noticed in these
columns some days ago, has been honorably
settled.
lien. P. M. P.. Young, Commissioner to
the Paris Exposition, has closed his office.
So more articles will be received by him.
The Cglcthorpe Echo tells of a most un-
f> rtunate man, a resident of Murray county,
who. since the war, lias accidentally killed
five nu n. The first was slaiu by an axe
slipping from his hand and striking the vic
tim on the head : the second he drowned by
snajrgiug and sinking a boat in which the
pair were crossing a stream : the third was
accidentally shot through the brain, being
mistaken for a turkey; the fourth was killed
by a tree that had been felled by the unfor
tunate man; and the fifth was killed by him
accidentally at a log rolling. He was put
on trial fur his life on several occasions, but
each time was exonerated from all blame.
H - is a peaceful, law abiding individual, and
is simply the victim of a chain of unhappy
circumstances.
Georgia is evidently the best place for
Georgianv The Lumpkin Independent learns
that many emigrants from its section to the
West are dissatisfied and are coming back.
It says: “Mr. Matthew Watkins, one of a
large party that left last fall, has started
back and is now stepping it off in the
direction of his oid home. Gradually, thoie
who arc struck with the emigration fever,
find out that there are less attractions in
Texas and Louisiana and the Western
States for one raised in this section than
emigrant agents would have them believe.
An industrious man can live here as easily
a- 4 he can anywhere, and can save about as
much money as he eould in the rich coun
tries of the West. If you do not think so,
ju 4 t inquire of those who have recently
given the thing a trial.”
TheAVarrenton clipper makes a startling
assertion, and one of sufficient importance
to he carefully looked into. It says - “Some
scoundrel i< handling the ihails on the Ma
con aud Augusta Railroad. He ought to be
picked up. Nearly ever letter we have re
ceived for some weeks past, or at least a
great number of them, have a great hole
pinched in the end. We are not the only
Party that have suffered in this way; others
have re eived letters in the same condition.
«e sin erely hope this villain will be picked
U P Win ther he means to steal or not, he
ehmldno! pinch open letters in that man
ner and i.*;.ve them exposed. One thing is
'vrtain. lie is not lit to have charge of the
nails.”
t.hronirlr and Constitutionalist: “Rev. W.
**• Ham-on, formrrly a citizen of Augusta,
hut now n siding in Baltimore, and who
ow ns a large amount of real estate in this
city, has uifered to donate to the City Coun
cil a lot o: e hundred and sixty feet in width
and extending through from Walker to Tel
fair strei t, between Jaeksou and Campbell
-vreets. to 1-uild a market upon, or he will
' _ . square for seventy-live thou-
wnd dollais. This proposition will be put
*iore Council at its next meeting.”
William Williams, who was captured in
g ,n month and has been iu jail at
-parta ever sinee, was, according to the
a>ltI “an enterprising thief.
Q carried on his business in au extensive
Sinner. While here in jail a gentleman of
a fine mule about Christ
ie remembered that this negro thief left
t j i-i ui that time, and upon investiga-
v ®^at 1*> S mule had been swapped
this man :o a livery stableman in Macon,
mains got a horse and some boot,
j-. has not vet transpired w'hat
^-position he made of the horse,
win be remembered that he was
f " r st *almg two mules, one in Mc-
JJ™ e j 1111 ! ‘me in Warren, which he traded
£ a color"! man named July Wall, iu this
dief - " hile passing he borrowed a sad-
brr a , ,lor ed man on Mr. Middle-
ofh I ’ lantati °i'- He also had a new set
harne.-s which he had scooped up some-
hniyre!-1 "*'■' l par, i that he also picked up a
m betWc ‘'‘ u Her- and Milledgevillc, which
’ found in Macon. But AVilliam Wil-
busi . ^Hcn in his sign and discontinued
om i ^ or t,le present, and when he gets
oj. the chain gang he will likely be too
°g° into his favorite business again.”
'larietta Journal gives the following
°* ai * alleged bigamy ease recently
1*T5 1 kr ' “On the 5th day of September,
V a n K, ' n tlcman representing himself to
, ® u tton. married Miss Lena Young,
vonm, i r , 0 ^ Yeung, a highly respected
DphvLIy °- this city. The ceremony was
imiYifl!? 11 ’ 1 . at the Episcopal Church, and
left thereafter the bridal couple
(J, o the evening train, being Sunday, for
Horn Mrs. Sutton, nec Miss Young,
tfori I’. lace proceeded to and entered
ton olu nibia iTenn.) College, and Mr. Sut-
tnitJP < ? le<i be would return to the
tionoa StatPS Coast Survey party, sta-
sn , llear Sand Mountain, Ala. After
« prn ce SOI ue Hve or six months
Parent ge ' ilrs- Sutton returned to her
ske l 8 • at this place. Subsequently
PumA« Ce ved a letter from Mr. Sutton,
Mating 1 !? 2 to be from Alabama,
few a ■ , at he would start for Marietta in a
Put m 8 ' -Months passed and he did not
“Card 11 f a PPc arance and nothing could be
eeitp/i f om lum. Finally a letter was re-
un k n f J rom °ue Mr Jones, of Rome, but
fiottfm stating that her husband, A. D.
Hun f./Had started home, having a large
HjQrdpp, ^ on ey on his person, but had been
AMbam ^ud robbed on Sand Mountain,
itIaa - Here matters rested for many
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
months under the belief that he was dead.
> chance it was learned that a gentleman bv
IffpTii 0 D ‘ C- Sutt on, living at LaFay-
ette, \> alker county, Ga., having a wife and
several children, filled the description and
appearance in every particular of A. D.
Hatton, and circumstantial evidence went to
strengthen the belief to such a sufficient ex
tent that the grand jury of Cobb Superior
Court found a bill for bigamy against him.
Mr. I>. C. Sutton denied being the party
wanted, but submitted to arrest, and gave a
bond of five hundred dollars for his anpear-
? DC f'S. 1 th l s term Cobb Superior Court.
Last Tuesday was set down as the day for trial.
After consultation, the defendant's lawyers
asked for a continuance of the ease, on the
plea tnat important witnesses were absent,
by whom, if they were present, an alibi could
be proven, and that the case was one of mis
taken identity. L pon the defendant swear
ing to such statement, the case was contin
ued until next term of court, but the defend
ant was required to give bond on the new bill
of indictment jor $500, both bonds amounting
to $1,000. Mr. Sutton returned to Chattooga
county Tuesday evening, where in the last
month he moved his family from Walker
county.”
Florida Affairs.
A small two-masted schooner, called the
Okansta, Captain F. W. Edwards, sailed
into Pensacola on Tuesday last. She came
from Cleveland, Ohio, and is only thirty-
three feet long by ten wide. The Captain
and two carpenters composed the entire
crew, and they seem to be on a sort of ma
rine tramp. From the Echo we learn that
they left Cleveland about one year ago,
sailing down the Ohio river to Cairo, DL,
thence down the Mississippi to New Or
leans, and from there to Pensacola via Mo
bile, sailing about one mile off 6hore from
New Orleans there. They left the West in
search of employment, stopping and work
ing at different points all the way down.
They say they do not find times much better
at the South than in the West, it being as
hard to get employment at any of the places
they have stopped at as it was in Ohio.
Quite an excitement has been caused in
Volusia county by fire in the woods. Some
one carelessly started such a fire, and it
spread with great rapidity. It was impossi
ble to stay its progress except by “ back
firing,” which was resorted to, and thereby
much threatened damage was averted.
A mass picnic is to be held at the New
DeLand landing, in Volusia county, on
the 2Gth iust., the occasion being the dedi
cation of a warehouse lately erected there.
A good time generally is anticipated.
Mr. G. C. Gibbs, within a mile of Talla
hassee, has shipped twenty bushels of green
peas in the last few days to Northern mar
kets. This enterprising farmer, it is said,
makes the first shipment every season of this
vegetable from that section.
The Quincy Herald will be sent for one
year to the first one who will forward to its
office one of the new silver dollars.
A shipment of peas from Lake City to
New York recently brought $4 50 per crate,
which is fifty cents higher than was the
price this time last year. Twelve hundred
bushels have been shipped from there 60 far
thi6 season.
Hon. John Morrissey and wife started
for New York from Jacksonville on Friday.
John C. Lynch, a “bunko*’ man, was tried
| in Jacksonville on Thursday for fighting
j and drunkenness. He was fined twenty dol
lars, and ordered to leave town.
| A Reformed Episcopal Church is soon to
be established iu Jacksonville.
Peter Jones has been nominated by the
Jacksonville Republicans for Mayor.
Mr. P. F. Wilson, of Arredondo, shipped
eleven crates of beans on last Friday, and
twelve crates the following Saturday. This
gentleman also shipped a crate of beets on
last Wednesday. This is the first shipment
of beets from Florida.
Eight or ten families from Reading, Penn
sylvania, have determined to settle on Crys
tal river, and twelve more families from the
same place will follow them in a month or
two.
An election for Mayor of Marianna, Fla.,
on Thursday of last week, was nipped iu
the bud, because the clerk, who ha1 only
agreed to serve for a short time, became
restless and left the polls. The voting sud
denly ceased, and the election was declared
of no effect. No new election has yet been
ordered.
The body of George Wild, the actor, who
was drowned off Pensacola last week, has
been recovered. It was washed ashore near
Fort Pickens.
Mouticello boasts that as little whisky is
drank there as in any town of its size iu the
Union.
“On Wednesday of last week,” says the
- Madison Recorder, “a strange man, calling
himself a revenue inspector, applied at
Mr. J. B. Lipscomb’s livery stables to hire a
horse for a few days, saying he wanted to
make a trip through the country. Mr. Lip
scomb brought out one of liis finest nags for
the ‘inspector's’ use, when he (the inspector)
left immediately. Frida} - , Mr. Lipscomb
suspecting that something was wrong, set
out after the so-called ‘revenue inspector,
and after several days travel he found liis
horse in the possession of a farmer, thirty*
miles above Quitman, who bad obtained it
in a bargain with the ‘inspector.’ The ‘in
spector’ has not been heard from, and it is
likely will not be, unless Thrasher starts
after him.”
The Florida Patriot, of Tallahassee, says:
“We learn that less cotton has been planted
this year than usual. This is a move in the
right direction, and our farmers will be bet
ter for it at the close of the year.”
Florida mules arc bad things totrille with.
The Patriot declares that “the other night a
colored man on his way home spied some
thing which he thought to be a ghost. The
ghost stood exactly in the middle of the
road, and he decided to investigate it, and
poked at it with a stick. The next instant
he was knocked twenty feet into a mud hole.
Moral—Never poke a stick at a large white
mule when his back is turned.”
The Lake City Reporter says: “Mr.
Charles Broward, of Hamilton county,
ginned two hundred bales of sea island cot-
ton from the first of October to the first of
February, notwithstanding that there are
other gins in that locality. This speaks
well for his portion of the county, as we
know' that a great deal of the cotton grown
there was brought to Lake City in the seed,
which shows that the farmers there make
cotton in abundance. Mr. B. is now en
gaged in sawing lumber.”
Gainesville Times: “About half a mile
from town is one of the most promising
voting orange groves we have noticed m
this section. It is situated across the branch,
in a northeastern direction from the town,
and owned by Mr. Loomis, a gentleman
from Okalla, Ill. Mr. Loomis has made a
great many improvements upon the property
sinee he purchased it. He has ten acres m
seedlings and in stumps of the sour orange
budded. In a few years this will doubtless
be a flourishing grove.”
Speaking of the appointment of Judge
Cessna as Postmaster at Gainesville, the
Times says: “Judge Cessna has been ap
pointed Postmaster at this place, and has
forwarded bis bond to Washington. Tlie
county and the community were satisfied
with Dr and Mrs. Porter, and with some
few exceptions, so were both political par
ties. They are competent, prompt, reliable
and accommodating—why should there lie
a change? The new appointee may dis
charge his duties with fidelity and to the
satisfaction of the public, but there is
neither reason nor justice in turning out a
BOixl oUlcer against the wishes 01 the peo
ple, merely to reward another for partisan
services. This Is not ‘civil service reform
by any means.”
Monticello Constitution: “More guano has
been brought to this county the present
season than ever before. For some tune
there was an average of ten sacks per week
received at the depot. Most of it has been
used in enriching garden spots, howe ver the
majority of our lands being so fertile that
fertilizers are not required."
A negro convict, named A. J. Brown
made his escape from the Monticello jail last
week bv boring a hole through the brick
walls on" the second floor of the building.
The Constitution says: “The prisoner had
been supplied with a saw, a brace and two
bits, and had done his work expeditious y
and neatly. How he got through the hole
and reached the ground, however, is a mys
tery. If he passed through head foremost
he would have had a fall of about fifteen
feet, which was sufficient to break an o rtl i"
nary person's neck. Brown was convicted
of a felony at the recent term of the Circuit
Court, and a day or two previous to making
his escape had been sentenced to service in
the penitentiary for a term of one year. We
have heard of no effort being made for the
rearrest of the prisoner,”
The Jacksonville Sun and Press of Satur
day gives the following account of an at
tempt to rob the Windsor Hotel in that city
on Friday night last, which was frustrated
by the vigilance of watchman Michael
Grady: “Soon after eleven o’clock, in pur
suing his rounds, Michael Grady discovered
a man standing in his stocking feet on the
second story piazza, near one oi the windows
fronting the park. When accosted as to his
being there at that unseasonable hour, he
gave very unsatisfactory and suspicious an
swers, which finally induced Grady to take
him by the collar with the intention of
earning him into the lighted hall for in
vestigation. He led willingly enough until
the door was reached, when he suddenly at
tempted to get away, and failing in this,
struck the watchman several blows in
the face. He finally managed to reach
the banisters, hoping to be able to shake off
the watchman and jump to the ground. But
Grady’s hold was a good one, and it did not
break until he himself was thrown off, and
fell to the sidewalk half stunned. The
would-be robber then ran to the north end
of the piazza, slipped down the corner post
to the ground and dashed across the street
toward the park, closely pursued by Mr. J.
II. McGinnis, policeman Reed and several
others who had been attracted by Grady’s
cries for help. In the darkness, he ran
against the railing of the park, but recov
ered himself and started in an opposite di
rection down Duval street, running almost
into the arms of Mr. J. H. Griffin, passenger
agent for the Atlantic and Gulf Road, who
was coming across from the St. James.
When he reached a point opposite the back
yard of the Windsor he jumped the fence and
disappeared in the darkness. Quite
a number of persons had gathered
by this time, and a thorough search
was instituted in and around the prem
ises in that vicinity, but it proved un
successful. Grady described him as being a
short, thick-set white man, with a heavy
moustache, and wearing rather light clothes.
When running down the street he was carry
ing a pistol in his hand. An hour later Ser
geant Mays discovered a man answering to
the above description in Medeeis’ barroom,
on Bay street. He considered his actions
also somewhat suspicious, and obtaining the
services of Captain Rawson, effected the ar
rest and took him up to the hotel, where he
was immediately identified by Grady as the
man with whom he struggled. The prisoner
gave his name as Wm. Mack, and earnestly
declared that he was innocent. He was locked
in the station house to await examination Sat
urday morning.” The result of the examina
tion proved the identity of thfe prisoner, who
was fined fifty dollars and sent to jail for
twenty-nine days.
The Pleasure of Hanging:
Some time since the American press
was discussing the question: “Does it
hurt a man to hang him?” The conclu
sion arrived at seemed to l>e that hang
ing was a painless death. Now some of
the English magazines are speculating on
the sensation of a hanged person, and
they almost make out that hanging is
rather a pleasurable and desirable opera
tion. One person who was hung, to all
intents and purposes, and afterwards re
vived, declared that he felt no pain, and
his only sensations were of tire before his
eyes, which changed first to black and
then to sky-blue. These colors are even
a source of pleasure. A culprit who was
revived when almost dead, complained
that, having lost all pain in an instant,
he had been taken from a light of which
the charm defied description. Another
criminal, who escaped through the break
ing of the halter, said that, after a second
or two of suffering, a light appeared,
and across it a most beautiful avenue of
trees.” All agree that the uneasiness is
quite momentary, that a pleasurable feel
ing immediately succeeds, that colors of
various hues start up before the eyes,
and that these having been gazed at fora
limited space, the rest is oblivion.
A Faithless Wife.—At Manchester,
N. J., a sensation was created Thursday
by the elopement of the wife of Mr. Jno.
Pine with her brother-in-law, Henry Dix
on, of Tom’s river. Mr. D.xon was mar
ried to Mrs. Pine’s sister several years
ago, and he has oue child. His wife died
six months ago. It is intimated that
there has been criminal intimacy between
Dixon and Mrs. Pine ever since Mrs Dix
on’s death. The pair, accompanied by
Dixon’s child, took Thursday night’s
train for Philadelphia. Mrs. Pine took
all her clothes and a sum of money with
her. Both families are highly connected.
The deserted husband has done nothing
in the matter except to telegraph to his
runaway wife in Philadelphia to return
to her mother at Tom’s river, N. J. Mr.
Pine is a wealthy butcher and produce
merchant. The affair has occasioned
much excitement among the social circles
in which the Applegate and Pine families
move.
Stealing IIis Mother’s Diamonds.—
The New Y'ork police are searching fora
young man named Walter Walker, son
of a wealthy paper dealer in New Y’ork.
who has absconded after stealing his
mother’s diamonds. The World says:
“The boy was spoiled, it is said, by un
limited pocket-money and lax surveil
lance. Although repeatedly in disgrace,
the boy was trusted implicitly, and
acted as collector for Mr. Walker’s house.
It was asserted last night, however, that
his accounts are several thousand dollars
short. About ten o’clock yesterday
morning young Walker was seen by his
mother to leave the house hurriedly and
she thought that he appeared to be ex
cited. An hour later she missed her
jewels. The jewels consist of a pair of
solitaire diamond earrings, a solitaire
diamond ring and two cluster diamond
rings. There is every probability that
the fugitive will be arrested.”
Mrs. Ilaweis, a lady moving in the
highest society in London, says in her
book, entitled “The Art of Beauty,” that
a beautifully dressed woman may lose
more than half the lienefit of her taste in
dress, or that of her dressmaker, by the
ill taste of her husband or her upholsterer
in furnishing her rooms; and that the
dressmaker and dress wearer ought to be
acquainted with the human form and the
laws which govern its functions iu order
to dress with true taste. She defends
corsets, but condemns all light lacing; jus
tifies the use of false hair, teeth, and cos
metics; urges that the dress should con
form to the natural lines of the body;
condemns low dresses, both on grounds
of morality and beauty, and. finally,
would dispense with shoes altogether and
substitute sandals.
Miss Baird Robsed by a Street
Tiiief.—Iu New Y’ork, on Friday after
noon, as Miss Baird, of No. 809 Madison
avenue, was walking along Sixty-first
street, near Central Park, a young lad.
about fourteen years of age. walked up
to her and snatched her pocketbook, con
taining one hundred dollars. He ran
away immediately, and was joined at the
corner of Sixty-second street and Fifth
avenue by a well dressed man, who had
watched the robbery. They jumped over
the park wall and have not since been
heard of.
Madame Christine Nilsson’s success
during her recent tour iu Russia has
been extraordinary. She has never be
fore been received with such enthusiasm
in that country, and the presents made to
her have been of enormous value.
Among others were a superb silver ser
vice, necklaces, brooches, bracelets, etc.,
from the Emperor and Empress, literally
blazing with diamonds, rubies, sapphires,
emeralds, and other precious stones.
Will Lister, a young man in Cedar
county. Neb., was a while ago “living in
clover,” engaged to half a dozen young
ladies, and would have been yet if they
hadn’t begun inviting each other to l>e
bridesmaids. That broke up Lister, and
the young ladies went in a body and set
fire to liis homestead, burning every
thing.
Cauterization lias l>een generally con
sidered a certain preventive against the
effects of dog bite, but a case is reported
in Brooklyn, N. Y\. where it failed to
destroy the poison. The victim, a little
boy, was bitten six months ago, and the
symptoms developed plainly point to hy
drophobia as the cause of death.
“General Anderson is vindicated” by
some of the Republican papers. How?
Where? When? He escaped a felon’s
punishment solely on a technicality. The
crime of manipulating and forging re
turns is fastened on him, and he cannot
shake it off.—Courier-Journal.
The Backbone of Volusia County, Fla.
—Spring Garden.
^ in.
Correspondence of the Morning Xtics.
This place is situated on the same pla
teau of land as Orange City and DeLand,
and five miles north of the latter place.
The land is somewhat of the same quality
as the others until it descends near the
spring, from which it takes its name,
where it forms the finest class of
hammock. The spring is something
worth seeing; it issues in a large vol
ume in a basin about one hundred feet
in diameter, the waters being slightly
sulphuric. The water has been dammed
up by a causeway of shells, taken from
banks near, only leaving sufficient outlet
for a sluice gate to lead the w ater to a
powerful water wheel now in decay.
Near by are the remains of an old sugar
works, the chimney still standing, in a
good state of preservation and covered
with creeping plants. These are evi
dently the remains of the British occupa
tion, over one hundred years ago, for
they are the counterpart of those seen in
the island of Jamaica. Bartram in his
work, written about that time, speaks of
this place, and mentions the fact of
four huLdred acres of orange
grove having been destroyed to make
room for sugar culture. It must have
been extensively carried on, for the
cleared hammock consist of alxmt one
thousand acres, which are at present
rented out in patches to negroes and crack
ers for planting corn. The quality of
this land is excellent, lor it still produces
thirty-five bushels to the acre without
fertilizers. Major G. II. Norris, formerly
of Chicago, owns about seven thousand
acres of land three miles from the spring
south. A part of his hammock land con
sisted of a wild grove, about one hun
dred acres of which he has budded, and
part is now* in bearing. I forgot to men
tion that a creek runs from the spring to
Lake Dexter, on the St. John’s river,
eighteen miles, which is navigable for
small steamers—oue named the “Nell”
now trades there regular. Major Nor
ris has opened an avenue five miles long
and one hundred feet wide through his
property, and sold lots to Northern
people, who have settled there and are
all making orange groves. These settlers
are chiefly from Illinois. Mr. Haines,
a gentleman of wealth and refinement,
has here twenty-two acres in grove, and
has been residing on his place for three
years continually, and be looks the pic
ture of health Some of his young trees
that he planted when he first came are
now bearing, and the whole grove shows
evidence of careful culture. He is a
firm believer in muck as a fertilizer for
the orange tree. He is also planting
grapes, and has a variety of roses and
other plants. Tomato vines had been
growing all winter and had fruit on
them at the time of my visit, March
lJth. From a cassava plant in his yard
1 took out one of the bulbs, which w - as
near four feet long and as large round as
my arm. A boarding house is being
erected for the accommodation of visi
tors. Mr. C. Delano, another Northern
gentleman, has about twenty acres in
grove, and there are others with several
acres planted, all showing signs of thrift
and good care. The avenue in the town
had been planted with shade trees and
the sidewalks were shelled. In my
first article on DeLand, I should have
mentioned that Messrs. DeLand A Parce
were going extensively into grape cul
ture, and had then "ten varieties of
grapes set out. The hammocks of this
country would answer well for tolmcco
culture. I saw a tobacco plant alongside
of the road, going from DeLand to
Orange City, in common piny land, that
was about three feet high, and then in
blossom. Could anything show more
convincingly the mildness of the climate?
Spring Garden labors under the disad
vantage of being far from transportation,
but this will be overcome by the steamer
running from Volusia to the spring. At
present their post office is at Beresford,
nine miles off. There is a saw mill near,
from which settlers can get their lumber.
Some one, who would make it a busi
ness, might do well here iD taking the
job to blow out the pine stumps with
dynamite cartridges. At present they
burn them out, but it is arduous work.
I do not believe that there are a more
hospitable people in the world than those
settled here. They are willing to give
anything except their orange trees, and
new settlers are welcomed and assisted.
The place only wants to be more known
to be thickly settled. C.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Another Mixed Tree.
Blount Springs, Ala., March 18.—
Editor Horning News: I was very much
interested in a recent item published in
your excellent paper, containing a de
scription of a water oak and elm tree
growing together, the trunk of the for
mer passing through that of the latter,
from the fact that we have here, standing
on one of our rocky hiilsides, near the
famous sulphur springs, two trees grow
ing together in a somewhat similar man
ner.
A stately old China tree, that has at
tracted the attention of thousands of
people who have visited this great South
ern health and pleasure resort, displays
among its own wide-spreading boughs a
large and thrifty elm branch.
This novel combination of nature ex
cited the curiosity of your Atlanta cor
respondent (Major Sidney Herbert), who
while here last summer ascended
the tree and disclosed in part the
mystery. He discovered that this elm
branch was entirely enclosed in the
junction of the first two large liml>s by
the growth of the china tree. He also
ascertained by reaching through a cavity
in the trunk, several feet below the
limbs, that the tree was hollow, and that
the elm branch extended downward as
far as the ground. Then, removing the
earth from the roots o' the tree, he traced
out the root of the elm brancY which was
solidly imbedded in thetrunLof the china
tree. * Quite a number of gentlemen of
rare scientific attainments were present,
and a discussion arose in regard to the
growth of the elm branch.
Some contended that the China tree
was at one time in a decayed state, and
while in that condition an" elm seed was
blown by the wind into the thin, decayed
junction of the limbs, and bad grown
downward through the hollow trunk.
As the China tree revived and renewed
its growth it had closed around the
branch. Others contended (your corres
pondent being strongly of this opinion)
that the seed had fallen among the roots
of the tree, and from thence it had en
tered the hollow trunk, making its way
out at the junction.
Neither party convinced the other that
their opinion was correct, so we ignorant
people here in the country are still won
dering whether this strange elm branch,
growing in the midst of the branches of
the China tree, really grew up from the
ground through the hollow trunk, or
grew down from the junction of the limbs
out of which it passes. It is in itself a
marvelous freak of nature, the discussion
of which brings to light evidence that a
deep mystery surrounds its origin. Al
though the^muin trunk of the tree is hol
low, the elm branch and the branches of
the tree are all iu a flourishing condition.
It is really a curiosity to see this elm
branch blooming so freshly in the midst
of a C’hina tree loaded with berries.
There is another article in your paper
about caves and stalactites that I would
like to say something about, as we have
so many strange caves and rocks here in
our little Alabama “Switzerland,” but I
fear I have written too much already; so
I will res-erve that for another letter if
this epistle from the feeble pen of a poor
mountain maiden proves worthy of a
place in your columns.
Lulu Suydam.
A BATTLE-SCARRED CITY
What a Woman Saw of the Fighting
in and About Winchewter.
No non-combatants saw more of the
shifting panorama of the civil war in the
L’nited States than did the citizens of
Winchester, in the valley of Virginia.
Held as an outpost by the Confederates
the first year, it afterward served as a
shuttlecock between the gray and blue
battledores. It thus changed hands
eighty-four times, and when the game
was over the shuttlecock was denuded of
feathers, velvet and tinsel—a poor, use
less, ruined thing. The best houses in
the town had served as hospitals, bar
racks and even stable*. A lady after the
war, upon taking possession of a house
newly painted and repaired, was in
formed by her neighbors that they had
many a time seen The heads of cavalry
horses at the windows from which the
children of the family now gazed. It is
needless to say that her relish for her
new home was slightly di.-turbed, as one
does not like the idea of living in a sta
ble, if it is newly painted.
Of course, in common with the rest of
Virginia, the town was almost a unit in
its enthusiastic, loyalty to the Southern
cause, and, such being the case, suffered
accordingly. Jackson and Ashby were
peculiarly the Valley heroes. Their ap
proach was the signal for wild joy, their
retreat for bitter tears. It seems won
derful, iu looking back, that ordinary
physiques could so long have stood the
severe strain upon their powers—the ex
citement of battle, followed by an occu
pation by the enemy of weeks and
months, during which time communica
tion was utterly cut off with friends; the
terrible depression thus caused to be .ob
literated by another season of excitement
and exultation. This constituted the war
life at an outpost. Nor was it without
its effect. There never was a time in the
history of the town when so many
young girls and old people died. It
took very little disease to result fatally;
the sj'stem sank almost immediately, and
yet, with all the terrors of that time,
there was a charm in the life which was
so much more and so much less than life
ever was before or ever will be again.
We would none of us part with our war
experience, bitter as it was; when hope
and despair followed each other as the
minutes in the hour; when the issues of
each day were so imminent, containing
in them often more than the measure of
joy and sorrow which is the ordinary al
lotment of a lifetime. A bare narration
of facts would hardly be credited. I
have seen the town change masters four
times in one day. First a battle, fol
lowed by a triumphal occupation by one
party for a few hours, the first greeting
of long absent friends interrupted by an
other battle, followed by the gloom of
defeat, aud while our tears yet flowed,
another battle, another scene of joy, and
so on through the day*. One never knew
what au hour would bring forth. Too|
often we would rise in the morning to
find a different flag floating over the
town from that which blessed our vision
when we retired to rest. Sometimes thl:
change was quietly made, one army re
treating before the other, without dis-1
turbing the slumbering citizens; but far
more often was our rest rudely disturbed
by the booming of the cannon or the more
terrible crashing of musketry at our very
doors, and our startled vision has opened
upon the glare of burning buildings; or
we would lie stunned by the explosion of
a monster magazine, while the crashing
window glass and falling mortar attested
too surely the reality of the danger, and
we thanked God for one more miracu
lous escape from sudden death. This was
invariably the precursor of an evacuation
of the town before the Confederates en
tered. Let me paint you one picture
from memory.
one day’s experience.
It was in the afternoon of the 23d day
of May, 18G2, that the citizens of Win
chester were startled by a g~eat sound of
wheels rattling on the stones of the val
ley turnpike, and before they had time to
wonder what it could mean there came
rushing down the hill a confused medley
of wagons, horses and men: the first
horse, perfectly exhausted, fell, and the
next unable to check their flying speed
stumbled against the wagons, and so the
next, until the street was crowded with
broken and overturned vehicles, from
which men covered with dust were ex
tricating themselves with the best speed
they might. Horsemen covered with
dust and with marks of the stampede in
their faces galloped past; some hastening
on to their quarters without exchang
ing a word with an}' one; others on
tiie contrary talking eagerly to friends
with wild gesticulation, pointing behind
them; others still, throwing themselves
beside the hydrants, a lowed the cool
water to stream upon their heated heads,
or with it slaked their parched throats.
All faces gathered blackness; there was
an appearance of trouble and haste; of
apprehension and expectation every
where. “What can it mean?” said the
citizens to one another. It could not be
the approach of General Jackson, as they
had heard of him but a few days before,
far away in McDowell, fighting General
Milroy." But it was even so. With his
foot cavalry he made a dash down the
valley and cut off a portion of the wagon
train at Newton, and wjis now in full
march on Winchester.
The night was one long to be remem
bered. l^he sound of the locomotive,
mingled with the frightened cries of
women and children entreating to be
taken away before the impending battle;
companies of cavalry dashing through
the town; the rolling of the artillery
wagons going to the front, and the com
missary wagons and ambulances making
the best speed in the opposite direction;
companies of infantry, with stern set
faces, goirg out to the battle; and
through all this babel of sound broke the
occasional boom of the distant cannon,
showing that the combatants were draw
iug near to each other. There was little
sleep that night for any; there were so
few male citizens left iu the town that
the ladies were peculiarly unprotected;
they could not trust their servants, and
knew not wlmt would be the result
of a battle in their very midst.
The house from which my pen and
ink sketch of these scenes was taken was
at the northern end of the town, on one
corner of what was old Fort Washing
ton; it was almost the last house in the
street, the country spreading out l»eyond
in a level plain, from which all the trees
had already been cut, so that there was
nothing to obstruct the view. It was on
the top of a very high hill, and also
commanded a view of the whole coun
try on the southern side of the town, at
which point all of the interest at present
centred, as it was on those hills the Fed
eral forces were making a strong stand—
planting their artillery and deploying
their forces. About 11 o’clock on the
night before the battle four ladies, the
only inmates of the house on the hill,
while trying to calm the tumult of their
minds in the midst of this outside tur
moil. were terrified to hear a company of
cavalry dash up the hill and dismount
around the house; they heard them
come into the yard and the lower part
of the house, and remembered, with
sinking hearts that there was not even a
locked door tetween the fiuor on which
they were and that now occupied by the
soldiery. Afraid to call attention to their
presence by even a light, they sat np the
entire night in absolute silence and dark
ness, with the horror of a great fear upon
them. Surely there was a special Provi
dence over them during those terrible
hours. The same God who shut the
mouths of the lions, and preserved his
servant, watched over them, for the night
passed in safety, and with the first dawn
ing of the day the roar of the cannon
proclaimed that the battle had joined; and
what a sight met the vision of those who
stood upon the top of that house and
turned their eyes from point to point of
the landscape! To the south, east and
west the battle w*as raging, while the
streets were crowded with fugitives.
Ne^ro women, with great bundles on
their heads, dragging^ their little chil
dren by tbe bands; here was a child
alone, ciying for its mother; there a
mother wringing her hands for a child
lort in the melee. Just below, soldiers
with lighted torches in their hands were
disappearing in the warehouses, which
were filled with army stores, and soon
the smoke and flames bursting from the
roofs told their business. Every moment
the panic increased, and when the blue
coats broke on the tops of the hills and
ran at the point of Confederate bayonets
the rout became general. Whole* com
panies fled up the streets with pallid
faces, throwing away guns, knapsacks,
clothing or anything which impeded
their progress until the ground was car
peted with such articles. Here came a
horse flying under a burden of three
which he bore; next, a piece of artillery
covered with men; the wheel came off—
it w - as the work of a minute to cut the
traces, mount the horses, and on, while
those less fortunate made the best use of
their heels and sped away.
a conflict in the streets.
But now the gray disappears upon the
hills, aud mingles with the blue in the
streets; they grappie as they run; they
grapple as they lie in the death struggle
on the gfouud. Oh. that brother should
thus meet brother! Every now and then
a flying figure tails; one coming after
stops a moment and covers ever the face
of the dead which he has made dead. A
company of infantry, marching with some
feeble attempt at order, comes up the hill,
at the corner they stop and huddle, to
gether like flightened sheep! Two roads
meet; which shall they take? Danger
here, danger there, anQ danger behind
them, they crowd one upon another with
white faces. An officer rides up with
drawn sword, all bloody. “ For
ward!” he cries; the doubt" is solved.
They spring forward, break ranks,
aud scatter in every direction.
And now the lurid, leaping flames
lend horror to the scene; the warehouses
are oue sheet of flame, which leap from
building to building, eager for their prey.
Suddenly some one cries: “The powder!
where is the pow - der?” And it is remem
bered that there is at the end of this row
of warehouses a building used as a maga
zine. “God of mercy! there is enough
pow’dcr there to blow up the town, with
its teeming multitude!” The fire engines
are brought out. Some wretch has cut
the hose, aud rendered them useless; the
tire gains—the roof begins to smoke—no
time is to lie lost; citizens and soldiers
mount the roof; buckets of water are
passed up, while some go inside, pour
water on the powder and remove it.
They w'ork bravely; one spark, and all
would be over! But heaven helps them,
the spark does not come! The tire stops
at the next house, and thousands upon
thousands of lives are saved.
And now comes the Confederates in
force, and who is at their head? The
women know*, the old men know; they
rush out of the houses and throw - them
selves almost under his horse’s feet, cry
ing, “General Jackson! General Jack-
son!” With hat off, and triumph iu his
whole visage, he greets them, one and
all, telling ihem to go under shelter, for
the balls are still flying; but they are
past fear; “fear hath torment,” and this
is unmitigated joy—joy which is broken
in a moment by the w r ail of women’s
voices for the dead fallen upon the
threshold of their homes. “Rachel weep
ing for her children, and would uot be
comforted because they were not.”
Such is war. terrible war!
Chicago Troubles.
St. Louis Republican.
The serious embarrassment in which
Chicago finds itself is the product of
several causes—the fire of 1871, which
destroyed property valued at $150,000,-
000; municipal extravagance, and a dis
ordered and confused revenue system
which encourages thousands of tax
payers to refuse to pay their dues. It is
true, Chicago was rebuilt after the great
fire, the burned buildings were replaced
with finer and more cosily ones, and the
burned district is now* one of the most
nobly constructed regions in the world.
But the new buildings represent an
enormous debt, the interest on which in
creases the cost of living and the ex
pense of doing business in the city. This
debt is nearly twice as large as it
would have been had the rebuild
ing been put off till the present
time, for it represents labor aud material
at double the prices that prevail now.
Iu addition to this, there is the city
debt. $17,000,000 of which is funded";
Imd about $5,000,000 of which is un
funded; and the city’s share of the coun
ty debt probably $5,000,000 more—mak
ing the total public indebtedness $27,000,-
000. If we estimate the mortgage loans
effected for the rebuilding of the city at
$40,000,(KM), wc have an aggregate debt
of $07,(MM),000 which the property of the
city is carrying, and the annual interest
on which is a tax on all business passing
through it. Had the fancied prosperous
era that prevailed at the time of the fire
continued to this time, this debt w r oulti
uot have been so severely felt. But the
collapse of 1873 has shrivelled values not
less ruthlessly than the conflagration
itself, and it is probable that quite as
much imagined wealth in Chicago
has vanished before the depression
of the last four years as went up
in smoke in 1871. The taxable valuation
of the city has decreased from $312.0:)0,-
000 in 1873, to $148,400,000 in 1877—a
reduction of more than one half. The
city authorities are earnestly endeavoring
to discover some solution of their diffi
culties that will save the credit of the city
and provide a sufficient revenue to defray
the municipal expenses; but they are se
riously impeded by the recent legal decis
ion winch practically forbids them to an
ticipate the revenues, and by the applica
tion for an injunction to restrain them
from paying the illegal certificates of in
debtedness issued heretofore. The Mayor
insists that a large part of the police force
will have to be disbanded and the lire de
partment reduced one-third, while the
insruance companies declare that if this
is done they will be compelled to cease
Liking risks on the unfortunate city.
How a Mule Saved a Man’s Life.
Pittsburg Telegraph.
Charley Houston relates a very inter
esting incident of the railroad accident
which occurred on the Fort Wayne road
at Lakeville, Ohio. Standing between
two of the cars, which were loaded with
horses and mules, was a brakeman.who - o£
name is not learned. He went dowu
with the wreck, becoming fastened be
tween the bars, under ten feet of water.
His weak struggles to release himself
were useless, and he concluded that iu a
few short seconds all would be over. The
mules had been kicking pretty lively in the
car, and suddenly the brakelnau felt the
end boards give way. Then he received
a tremendous kick on the thigh, which
sent him out of his perilous position to
the top of the water. Here he spluttered
aliout until a white mule rose up and
struck for shore. Then the bnikeman
grasped the animal’s tail and was safely
carried ashore. His injuries were not
go severe but he could be moved home
to Crestline. Another mule escaped by
the same egress as the first, and the re
maining animal perished. The brake
man should certainly purchase that white
mule and keep him. for it has never oc
curred before that a man’s life was saved
by a mule, and may never occur again.
The Maxwell family’s recent adven
ture, near Fort Bozeman, was like an
incident in a dime novel. They num
bered six men and two women, and were
traveling in a w*agon, on their way to a
border settlement, Seeing the approach
of a band of hostile savages, they decided
to select a favorable position in which to
defend themselves, and soon found a
spot that was bounded on two sides by a
deep, wide gorge. They hastily built a
barricade of the wagon, stones and earth,
working all of one night at it. In the
morning the Indians made an attack,
but the men in the fort, armed with
breech-loading rifles, repulsed them.
During two days fighting was kept up,
and then a rescuing party of soldiers
arrived. Eight Indians were killed and
one of the white men was injured.
QUAINT
STORY OF
MENT.
A TOURNA-
POOR MRS MILLIGAN.
The AmiiftementK of Bachelor* and
Benedict* in Olden Time* —The
Virtue* of Harried and Unmarried
Women.
A correspondent of the American Rtg-
ister translates the story of a tournament
which took place before Duke Charles of
Savoy and the duchess and the ladies
and lords of his court, the record of
which is still preserved in the archives of
Turin. At a royal banquet one of the
lords of Blonay, he being a married man.
asserted that the married matt was as
gallant aud as formidable in deeds of
arms, and in all things, as the unmarried
man. and that the married woman was
as virtuous and worthy of praise as the
unmarried woman, and offering to prove
it by the lance or sword, if there was
any one who wished to contradict it.
De Corsant of Savov. an unmarried
man, presented himself as champion for
the unmarried. Duke Charles, seeing
that the question was not provoked
by hatred or malevolence, and that they
wished to tight to pass the time and for
pleasure, as well as for the exercise of
arms, gave his consent. There were to
be two trials with the lance, and fifteen
strokes only with the sword. If the mar
ried man was conquered he must beg for
i»prcjr of M1U» de Savoy and of all the
unmarried ladies of that house and from
one lady out of the house of Savoy, who
should be appointed by his conqueror.
If the unmarried man was conquered he
was to ask for mercy of the Duchess of
Savoy, and of the wife of Lord Blonay.
The arrangements completed, the two
champions met on the 12th of May. 1501,
on the square before the Castle of Turin.
On the first trial they fought with so
much address the lances were broken to
pieces. Having received new lances
ile Blonay broke his boldly, and Cor
sant, encountering the shock, breast-
piece, girth and saddle, all were carried
to the ground with the chevalier, in such
a way that every one believed it was all
over with him. Not so, however; Cor
sant sprang immediately to his feet, ready
to do his duty with the sword. The
coinbat was sustained long and bravely,,
and it would have continued longer if
Duke Charles had not ordered theuUTo
desist. Duke Charles accorded the honor
of the day to the married lord, but ac
knowledged that the champion of the
unmarried had done his duty bravely.
Following the conditions of the combal,
I)e Corsant knelt for paidon before the
Duchess of Savoy and the married ladies
of the court, and then set out for the
Castle Blonay, which, after a Jong and
perilous journey, he safely reached,
and asked the grace of Lady Catherine
of the castle; and now, having paid the
penalty of the vanquished, he asked for
his discharge. On the next day Lady
Blonay gave a grand banquet, and in
vited the lords and ladies, married and
unmarried, of the neighborliood. Then
De Corsant met the beautiful Zolande.
cousin of Lady Blonay, and lie concluded
that by Liking a wife lie should better
sustain the cause of the married than he
had done that of the unmarried at the I
tournament of Turin. Lord Blonay re
turning four days after and giving his
consent, the nuptials were celebrated in
the good castle of Blonay, when De Cor
sant bravely cried: “It any one says
aught against the married mau he must
settle with me, and I will do to him what
was done to me in the tournament at
Turin.”
A medical association of Washington
city has expelled a doctor because he ad
vertised to cure Bright's disease of the
kidneys in four w<
Consumption of Cotton in England.
Lontlon Saturday Review.
In spite of the sleady decline of our
export trade since the autumn of 1873,
our imports of raw cotton were higher
in 1870 than in any former year, even in
cluding the inflation perioil "that followed
the close of the Franco-German war;
and, although there was a falling off iu
1877, the total imports were still higher
than iu 1875. To put the matter more
exactly, the imports of raw cotton in
187(5 exceeded those of 1875 by 31 per
cent.. while those of 1877 showed a de
cline from the previous twelyementh of
only 27 per cent. Consequently, if we
except 1870 alone, the imports of the raw
material last year exceeded those of any
preceding year in our history. This re
markable fact would seem to prove that,
up to twelve months ago at any rate,
the condition of the trade was
fairly prosperous. Manufacturers would
certainly not have persisted in augment
ing the production season after season if
they had not been receiving fairly re
munerative profits. The decline in the
imports shows that this was no longer
the case in 1877, and other facts which
we shall cite by and by demonstrate that
then a period of real adversity set in.
But, when we bear in mind the political
condition of Europe and the famines
that have been desolating India, China
and South America, we shall see suffi
cient cause for the change without sup
posing any loss of our manufacturing
pre eminence. Another favorable cir
cumstance In our position is that our
productive capabilities very largely ex
ceed those of the whole continent taken
together. The number of our spin
dles amount to 39.500,000; those of
the continent tQ no more than 19,-
603.000, or nojt quite half as many.
It must lie added, hoivever, that the
quantity of raw* cotton we imported was
only 1,303,500,000 pounds again>t
1.044,460,000 pounds imported by the
continent; so that, w’hiie our superiority
in spindles is over 100 per cent., in actual
production it is only 25 per cent. We need
hardly ob.-erve. however, that our pro
ductive capabilities are not measured by
the outturn of last year. Decreased de
mand, vanishing profits, and lal»or dis
putes caused, as we have seen above, a
considerable diminution even upon the
production of 1876, when the full energy
of our manufacturers was by no means
put forth. On the other hand, it Is not
likely that depres«k>n has had as injuri
ous an effect upon European competitors
as upon ourselves. As a rule, they manu
facture only for the home market, which
is secured to them by protective duties;
we, on the contrary, supply ihe world.
Etiquette in Vienna.—Hers is a
description of how stupid and august so
ciety iu Y ienna Views etiquette: “In
^ '.Clinese ball rooms girls, w hen they do
not belong to the uppermost and oldest
coache soeiale, are used to being dropped
for partners of lietter family. A young
gentleman belonging to the highest set
does not think twice about letting go the
arm of a young lady of less blue blood
with whom he is going to dance should
he see an opportunity of waltzing with,
say, a daughter of the Liechensteius or
Esterhazys. The forsaken one might
feel disappointed at losing her cavalier,
but not humiliated. Being deserted for
a dancer of no better position than her
own would be resented as a slight. In
V’iennese society there is no such thing
as social equality. There are sets super
posed one above the other. It is per
missible for those near the apex to dine
at the houses of those lower down, and
afterwards to stare in their faces without
saluting them. ”
The recent attempt to kill the Master
of the Rolls in England made by the
Rev. Mr. Dodwell, an insane clergyman,
is the first assault of the kiud on a Civil
Judge which has occurred In England
for many years. In 1616 Sir John Tyn-
dal, one of the Masters in Chancer}', was
killed by a shot fired at him while enter
ing Lincoln's Inn, by a man called Ber
tram, agaimt whom Sir John had given
a decision. The assassin committed sui
cide before be could be punished. A
few years later, at the Assizes at Salis
bury, a prisoner, after being condemned
for felony, threw a brickbat at Chief Jus
tice Richardson, which narrowly mbsed
him. For this an indictment was imme
diately drawn by Attorney General Noy
against the prisoner, whose right hand
was forthwith cut off and fixed to the
gibbet, upon which he was himself imme
diately hanged in the presence of the
Court.
John W. Overall, a young stock dro
ver of Liberty, DeKalb county, was
robbed of five hundred dollars by three
confidence men, Thursday, in Chatta
nooga, Tenn.
The Pre*ident Break* Hi* Word to
a Soldier’* Widuu .
Washington Post.
Mr. Hayes, in his naturally weak and
vascillatin^ way, has violated another
promise, and this time the disappoint
ment falls upon a woman. Some weeks
ago Mrs. Mulligan, of Chicago, made au
application for the pension agency at
that city. She is the widow of Coionci
Mulligan, the gallant Union officer who
defended Lexington > gainst General
Price, and afterwards fell mortally
wounded at the feet of liis De Factoship.
then Colonel of an Ohio regiment. Mr.
Hayes caught the wounded Colonel a*
he "fell, and supported him until he died.
Mrs. Mulligan was left without means
to struggle for the support of sev
eral children. She is a woman o:
more than ordinary ability and ener
gy, and her friends suggested that she
appeal to Mr. Hayes for the pensi< n
agency. Following this advice Mr.-
Mulligan called upon Mr. Hayes and
made her application, which was backid
by petitions from eight of the Illinob
meinbers of the House, the Common
Council, nearly all the Judges and mem
bers of the bar and tliousjinds of tie
bt'st citizens of Chicago. She urged that
Miss Sweet, whose term was about to ex
pire, had held the position for eighi
years and ought to have laid by enough
to support her. Senator Davis also urged
the appointment of Mrs. Mulligan
and Mr. Hayes promised it. But
the reformer. Schurz, objected. Ik
said the appointment of women to
office was only an experiment, and
lie did not care to try a new woman;
that Miss Sweet had managed the office
well, and if she was not retained hi
would insist upon the appointment of
man. Y’esterday the name of Miss Swet t
was sent to the Senate, and Mrs. Mulli
gan, surprised and disappointed, called
upon Hayes, who apologized, said he was
sorry but couldn’t help it, anil asked ii
he could do anything else for her; i!
there was any other place she would l.kc
to have. Mrs. Mulligan informed him
that he could not do anything for her
and left the White House. Shelias beeu
here several weeks at heavv expense, re
lying upon the promise of llayes and be
lieving she would return home with a
commission that would provide com
fortably for herself and family. Poor,
weak, vascillating Hayes.
Dm ©oofls.
The Valley of Death.
Kennesaw Gazette.
In the northeast corner of San Bernar
dino county, lying partly in Invo county
and, by the newly surveyed line, partly,
also, in the State of Nevada, is a legion
paralleled by few other sjiots on the face
of the earth. YYe say the world is in
stinct with life. Here, if the phraseolo
gy may be paidoned, is a place instinct
with death. A huge basin, whose rim is
the ancient hills, stricken with the bar
renness of eterual desolation, whose bo
som the blasted waste of the desert—tree-
1 *88, shrubless and waterless, save a few
bitter pools like the lye of potash w T ater;
surrounded by mountains that tower
thousands of feet above the sea level,
itself lying three thousand feet above
the sea. It is a very “Gehen
na”—a place of death and bones.
Birds do not fly over it. Animals do not
enter it. Y'egetation cannot exist in it.
The broad sands absorb the heat, the
bare mountains reflect it, the unclouded
sun daily adds to it. Ninety degrees in
the shade (artificial heat, there is no
other) means winter; 130 and 140 de
grees, that means summer. The hot air
grows hotter; wavers, trembles with heat,
until nature, goaded with madness, can
endure no longir and then the burning
blast rouscj iLell—routes in its might;
rouses as an angry blast, with a hoarse,
ominous roar; swept mile after mile, on,
ever on, over the broad reach of the
desert, bearing la its black, whirling
bosom—black as midnight—dust, sand,
alkali and death. Sometimes murky
clouds gather upon the mountains
above; then there is a rush—
a warning sigh of the winds—a low
rumbling in the air; the hills quiver, the
earth trembles, and a torrent, half water,
half mud, bounds from the hills, leaps
into the desert, ploughing chasms like
river beds in the loose sand. The clouds
scatter, the sun comes again, the eternal
thirst is not quenched. The raging river
was only a dream. In the year 1849 a
party of emigrants entered the basin.
Day after day they toiled on, thirsting,
dying. The pitiless mountain walled
them in; no escape. One by one they
dropped and died. A few abandoned
everything, scaled the mountains and
escaped. The others lie as they fell,
dried to mummies—uq birds even to de
vour their flesh; no beasts to prey upon
them. YVagon tires unrusted, gun bar
rels bright, untarnished. Such is the
place. Mile after mile silence reigns:
silence—and death
B. f. ME.VVl k CO.,
157 Broughton Street.
WE HAVE JUST FECEIVED THE FOLLOW-
New Spring Goods!
WHICH WE OFFER AT OUR USUAL
LOW PRICES.
A choice lot of Plain an.l Striped mi nnrn
SILKS, from 65c. to 90c. a yard tx,LORED
A lot of Elegant Embroidered WHIT!' Piarr
SUITS for Children and Misses ‘ * E
A f s'il“ ! Sx> f K. ,niit8 M V '" rT rm <' FRENCH
A full Une of White S-4 FRENCH ORGANDIES.
A full line of Fine SCOTCH, thin NAINSOOKS
Full lines of WHITE SWISS MULLS VTfTn
RlA&nd BISHOP S LAWNS ’ ICT0 '
30 V Half Reached IRISH
TABLE DAMASKS, warranted all Linen
at low prices.
A splendid assortment of LINEN nmrviD
KINS and DOYLIES. N AP
100 dozen IRISH. HUCKABACK>nd Dtsir
LINEN TOWELS. 1 “AmASK
2 cases full size WHITE TOILET and HONFY-
CO.MIi yLILTS, from TV U
An elegant line of Ladies' Black. Soanish and
Blonde LACE NECKscAHFs" pamih
An elegant line of Colored F.MBROHIERFD
SILK LACE NECKTIK5, new da^m
20 dozen very handsom- EMBROIDERED
WHITE LACE NECKTIES, from ii-. up
50 dozen NEW CORSETS, including the popu
lar -Nonpareil and extra long, sidedaced
Ladies extra long BROWN BALBRIGOAN
HOSIERY.
Misses' and Children'!: verv fine and handsome
FANCY BALBRIGOAN Hosiery
spring colors.
m ia?:. 1 ,' , n ,"e ^'L su P’ r «ne BROWN
LMiLlbll HALT HOSE.
M «Sr^n? 8t , i bra ” ,ls SHIRTLNGS and
SHLLTINGS, at low prices.
A splendid assortment of HAMBURG FVT-
BROIl'ERIES, in Cambric and Nainsook
Muslins* handsome designs and extra line
work.
Agents for R. J. ROBERTS PARABOLA
NEEDLES and RAZOR-STEEL SCISSORS
“the best in the world.” mhl8-tf *
WISHES TO CALL ATTENTION TO HIS
HAVING RECEIVED A VERY
CHOICE LINE OF
Spring k Summer Silks
ALSO, AN ELEGANT LOT OF
m
All of which wiU be offered at the
Very Closest Prices!
450 PIECES EMBROIDERED
Edgings awl Swrlings
Ranging in price from 5 cents a yard to $2 50
a yard.
SPECIAL BARGAIXS
The New Y’ork Graphic begins ar
ticle on lacrosse by remarking that we
are indebted to the Indians for samp,
succotash, corn, tobacco, the pipe, ro
tary motion of the rifle ball (first sug
gested by the twist given the Indian ar
row by the three-stem feathers), clam
roasts, snow shoes, Tammanyball, and
finally, the game of lacrosse.
\\7HICn has been largely replenished, and
M now includes many NEW DESIGN - '. An
inspection of these goods cannot fail to con
vinee the purchaser that in point of finish ana
quality of material, as well as
Lowness of Price!
they surpass any that has been offered u this
city at corresponding prices.
100 dozen TWO-BUTTON KID GLOVES, in
Spring colors, at 50 cents a pair; actual
value $1 00 a pair.
500 dozen LADIES’, GENTS’ and MISSES’
HOSE, to close, reduce fully 25 per cent.
A JOB LOT CONSISTING OF ABOUT SIXTY
PIECES
Black Silk Warp Henrietta Cloth,
LUPIN S BLACK FRENCH CASHMERES AND,
TAMJSE CLOTHS,
TO BB CLOSED AT A
Great Reduction
FROM FORMER PRICES.
30 BLACK THREAD EMBROIDERED DOL
MANS, at less than half of last year's prices.
DANIEL HOGAN.
.1
^ottmes.
§320,000 Cash in Prizes!
THIRD GRAND DRAWING
Commonwealth Distribution Co.
In me City of Louisville, Ky..
ON TUESDAY, APRIL 3 th, 1873,
Or Money Refunded.
X -VNDEH the immediate supervision of R. C.
J Wintersmith. Ex. Treas. State of Kv.. Gen.
T. A. Hams. Pres't Ilex. Trading and Trans.
Co., Col. Geo. E. H. Gray, and other promint nt
citizens.
LIST OF PRIZES.
i Capital prize of $30,000; 1 prize S20.000; 2
prizes 810,000 each $20,000; 5 (Mizes $5,000 each
$25,000; 3 prizes $3,000 each $15,000; 10 prizes
$2,000 each $20,000; 25 prizes $1,000 each $25,000;
50 prizes $500 each $25,000; 200 prizes $200 each
$40,000; 800 prizes $100each $80,000; 1,099 prizes,
ail cash,
Whole Tickets $10, Halves $5. Quarters S2 50,
11 Tickets $100, Tickets $300, 57 Tickets
$500.
< )fflcial lists of Drawing will lie sent gratis to
all buyers aud will also be published in Louis
ville Courier-Journal and New York Herald.
Money can be sent by 31ail, Postal Order.
Registered Letter. Express or Draft, payable to
Common-wealth Distribution Co. All orders
for Tickets and applications for agencies should
be addressed to COMMONWEALTH DISTRI
BUTTON CO., or T. J. COMMERFORD, Sec’y,
Courier Journal Building, Louisville, Ky.
Circulars, giving full particulars, sent free.
mh0,9,12,16.19,23.26,30, w 14,28: ap2,4,6,9,11,13,16,
18,20,23,25, w4,11,18
G rand extra drawing of
HAVANA LOTTERY.
Class 1,013—April 13th, 1878.
First Prize $l,000,oo6.(One Million.)
Second Prize 200,000
Third Prizfc 100.000
Only 15,000 Ticket.s-$2,500,a» Distributed.
2,400 Prizes.
A liberal discount made to clubs or parties
purchasing $50 or over.
Address MANUEL ORRANTIA,
168 Common street. New Orleans. La.
Next ordinary drawing. Class 1,014, April 30,
1878.
/or Salt.
AT ISLE OF HOPE FOR SALE.
Desirable Summer Residences,
117ITH necessary outbuildings an l 1W acres
»t of land attached to each. Will sell cheap
and on long time.
mh24-tf D. C. BACON.
ill BLUN & DEM ERE.
F )R SALE, U. S. GOVERNMENT 4 per cent
and 6 per cent.
STATE OF GEORGIA BONDS.
RAILROAD MORTGAGE BONDS.
MUNICIPAL BONDS,
COUPONS CASHED. mh!8-26t
I r. PIECES BLACK TAMISE C.OT^W
J'.l inches wide, at 75c. and $1, worth 33}$c.
more.
BLACK FLORENTINE BINGALINE, C AMEL
HAIR GRENADINE, BLACK ALPACA, MO a
full line nf BLACK GOODS genirall} and ex-
ceptional value.
50 pieces BLACK and COLORED BUNTISP,
in all the different shades, as low as oi»c.
30 pieces NEW BOERETTE SUITING.
100 dozen Gents’ LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
hemstitched. 3-1 size, at 12J$c., 15 - ^
worth double,
95 dozen Ladies’ HEMSTITCHED (two-ineb
hem). at $2, $2 5U and $3.
150 dozen 5-8 LINEN HEMMED IiANDKER
CHIEFS, at 5c., 8c., 10 and 12c.
10t pieces 10-1 LINEN SHEETING, a bin drive.
20 pieces PILLOW CASE LINEN, 12 (Ilffei-
ent prices, ranging in width from 40
inches.
98 dozen DAMASK LINEN NAPKLNS, at T5c.
to SI 50.
The above goods havinc been
ring the large Linen Auction Sale of ,
ris, we sliall offer them at much below
21 welbs FAMILY LINEN. O heavy.
Richardson. Sons & Owden, at 40c., wo
The biggest drive in TOWELS ever offered.
100 dozen PLAIN HUCK, at J2J$C.
WO dozen DAMASK TOWELS, at Vffr
200 dozen EXTRA LARGE HCCK, the I est
25c. towel in the world.
90 dozen VERY LARGE HUCK TOWELS, at
$2 50, good value for $3 50.
3.000 yards “ BRAGAN’ZA ’’ _ s ;,n ‘NDS,
equal to Linen, 40 inches wide, at •
15c., worth 25c. We purchased the mi-
50 dozen Gents’ UNLAUNDRIED SOTM*!*
50c.. 75c. and $1. Every Shirt warranted a 1 er
feet fit.
75 dozen Ladies'
SKIRTS, at 50c., $1. $1 25. $1 up
$3, with flu® embroidery.
The largest and most complete hne ^
SHADES and PARASOLS ever offered uyu .
10,000 yards HAMBURG EDGINGS, fine
Beautiful designs in JACONh”; Jh'rhr. !'
NAINSOOKS and LINEN. No «“•*. dmP
good* among them.
100 WHITE and COLORED S HFTLA>T>
SHAWLS, at about fifty cents on the douar u
w hat it cot»t to make them.
35 pieces SPRING CASSIMERE for Men and
Boys
NAVY BLUE 6-1 and 3-! SUITINGS.
NEW GOODS BY EVERY STEAMER-
GRAY & O’BRIEN
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