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J. H. ESTILL,
Savannah. Ga.
the SWALLOW.
St. Nicholas.
the birds that swim the air
t [her be the swallow;
. : nner days, when days were fair,
, ,1b ,W, follow, follow
.rrving clouds across the sky,
th the singing winds I'd fly.
- r wings would need no rest
• • but a swallow;
i h»- highest mountain crest
1 the deepest hollow.
.uld ray pathway hide;
, ,:i plain should be too wide.
: he sources of the Nile,
i he Sandwich Islands,
hub irazo’s granite pile,
,r land's rugged Highlands;
ti>f sands of Tiinbuctoo;
:int in* pie s mosques I'd view.
among the isles of Greece,
j,ride of great Apollo,
;: vle round the bay of Nice,
, ,-re but a swallow,
. tin- sunny fields of France,
, 11. vunls merry with the dance.
my shadow in the Rliine
i .wjftly like an arrow,
h the breath of eglantine
m the banks of Yarrow;
mu the world aud never tire,
mid have ray heart's desire '.
Nathan Haskell Dole.
—
Georgia Affairs.
nniay was the twenty-third anni-
,r;i,i- great conflagration which laid
Calico has been put down to 2}$ cents a
yard in Augusta.
Tw attempted burglaries occurred in
('.anir-ville on Saturday night. Both were
frustrated, one by the burglar’s receiving a
load of bm ksliot which drove all thoughts
of present stealing from his mind, and the
other bv the thief’s, becoming frightened
and making a sudden exit.
The second quadrennial session of the In
terna: ;• uai Sunday School Convention willbe
held at Oglethorpe Park, in Atlanta, on Sat
urday, April 20.
The Brunswick Base Ball Club want the
Darien dub to play them a match game.
The Dalton North Georgia Citizen learns
that it is proposed to erect a cotton compress
in that place iu time for the next cotton
crop. It says: "This will be a great addi
tion to the business of our town, as with a
steam gin already, it will make Dalton a
considerable cotton centre, at which all the
fleet-v staple in this and adjoining counties
will find ready sale and be compressed ready
for shipment.”
A very intelligent Eastern capitalist, who
ismtieh interested in mining matters, has
told the (lainesville Southron that he had no
doubt there would be millions of capital in
vested in Upper Georgia and North Caro
lina within the nextfive years, audthatin his
judgment it would pay better than bank,
railroad, or manufacturing stocks, merchan
dising. or any of the ordinary pursuits of
life. He also stated that there was no mill
in the up country that with proper manage
ment was not, or could not be made, pay a
splendid dividend upon the investment.
• It '-an ill wind that blows nobody good,”
and th • boys of Rome on Sunday evening
last fully experienced the truth of this pro
verb. The wind blew down the tents of the
circus and menagerie there, exposing all the
animal eage.-, the elephants, the camels and
one bear. The boys were thus afforded a
free exhibition, which they enjoyed hugely.
A ease of some iuterest will soon occupy
the attention of the Butts county courts. It
seems that a still belonging to some parties
in Butts county was seized last week by Col
lector Brown, for illicit distilling, and car
ried olT. together with another still which
was found upon the premises, but which was
not in use, having been stored there for
safe keeping by Mr. George Johnson, to
whom it belonged, and who was in no way
connected with or interested in the parties
first mentioned. The question now arises,
was not this a fraudulent seizure, so far as
relate- .the still belonging to Mr. Johnson,
and can he not recover his property by suing
out a p-ssory warrant ? Some very astute
lawyers think he can, and the case will soon
be brought before the courts.
An unfortunate accident, the result of the
carelt" use of firearms, occurred iu Pleas
ant Valley. live miles from Lumpkin, Stew
art county, on Sunday morning last. Mr.
Lewis J. Harris was riding in a buggy with
Mr. .1, A. Williams when he met a negro
man named Williams, aud of whom he was
very f i He stopped to talk with Wil
liams in a jocular manner, and, while talk-
big'. pulled out a Smith «!c Wesson pistol. In
flourishing this about, he discharged it, the
shot striking the unfortunate negro and
killing him instantly. When Mr. Harris saw
"'bat hml happened, he exclaimed: <: My
bod' what have I clone? I had no idea of
doing -uch a thing.” The affair is much to
be regr- t ted. especially as it is believed it
would n ver have happened had not Harris
,eeu > at the time, under the influence of
" oi. (, Rivers, a one armed man, of Au-
s'nsta, has t een arrested in that city, charged
'rith an a--ault with intent to murder Mr.
W. U. Calvin.
A young gentleman of Whitfield county,
win. went to the far West many' years ago,
idly on a visit to Dalton, and now
b gone back to settle up his business,
"bon he will return to old Georgia to live
out the balance of his time. The usual
moral can be deduced.
' i!n Hammond, convicted of assault with
i!l • ' to murder, aud sentenced to two
ham gang, made his escape
berton jail last week, by means
froi
d ' key he had in his possession. He
not been yet recaptured.
V tudersville -Courier thus compliments
b-ie New - aU( j one G f r s regular correspon-
dens ‘Rev. S. S. Sweet, traveling agent
*ml th,. -.lack Plane’ correspondent of that
paper, the Savannah News, last
’ ' ^ l aid our city an I sanctum a visit. We
r ’ n ar “ ;bat he tilled the Methodist pulpit here
Sunday. The Savannah News is fortu-
eiiv !i s ' eurin g the services of such an
i mm: i^ent and so able a correspondent,
-r > is fortunate in being the rep-
^-•utative of such an able and popular
j . i V ‘ le Savannah News. The local
j'' - ; K- A. Sullivan, our worthy Post-
t watches the interest of this popular
J vv ith unflinching fidelity.”
_ J b’- klberton Gazette boasts of the good
4. () “ u ' ‘banding of Elbert county. It says:
the nee d have no fears concerning
rrjyberton bonds. They are in Elbert
K tat ' A l,at ^ bonds are to the
do 1 -1 Georgia—always in demand—and
" ,! have to go into outside markets. Of
tr 1 a -ic-ady issued—having been out sev-
jl a j'. : ‘ rs —it is a rare thing to find one of-
*or sale, and a bnver lia* to bunt them
Up."
( '°utest between a hawk and a
j' recorded in the Excelsior Kvws of
d -'" k county. It says: “Mr. J. S.An-
foiM f’ Tatnall county, some time ago
Pc- r llav ' k aud snake iu a fight. It ap-
PdV V ,at t,lc hawk was intending to make
to:! rllc 6nal< e. while the snake nad come
sr. V f anie con clusion about the hawk. The.
*.j. ‘ u d wound himself about the hawk’s
ne ?k until the latter, seeing his
1 condition, began to cry for mercy.
L, ' II:t ko, having no mercy, tightened his
it* r ..!* tbe ^stressed cries of the hawk
, f ''l the attention of Mr. Anderson,
nn m crcy to lavish on either
| '^ b , ,lak e, threw a stone at them, kill-
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The winds of Sunday made their presence
very sensibly felt in Columbus. The
iw/umer-.V"/, says: “In the morning the
wind began to blow with such force that
many were afraid that onr city would sus
tain a loss equal, if not greater, than that of
our sister city, Atlanta. The sand and dust
was tossed about in great sheets, which
rendered walking very disagreeable. Many
V>ew suit was transformed to a lighter
shade by the dust, and eyes to a beautiful
pink by wind, sand and rubbing.”
Brunswick Advertiser: “The peach crop in
this section bids fair to be immense this
season. Just here we would commend oui
people for the spirit of progress displayed
in endeavoring to secure choice trees. There
is no telling what can be raised right here in
Glynn county.”
From the Macon Telegraph and Mexxenger
we learn that a very unfortunate ami proba
bly fatal affair occurred at Byron, on the
Southwestern Railroad, on last Saturday af
ternoon, in which Mr. Warren Peavv shot
his brother-in law, Mr. Hammock. The cir
cumstances are as follows: “Peavy married
a sister of Hammock, but from some cause
or pother they did not live very peaceably
together. The old story of domestic infe
licity was retold. The father aud mother of
the girl remonstrated with Peavy, and he
soon after ran away and remained away
three or four weeks. At last, at the solicita
tion of his wife, he returned, and all seemed
well and good. On Saturday afternoon,
the brother, Hammock, went over
to Peavy’s place, and was riding
his little niece out in a buggy. Peavy.
who was absent, came home ami
met Hammock at the gate sitting in his
buggy, and asked him wnat he was doing
riding his child out, ami commenced attack
ing him with a 6hot gun he had in his hand.
He pushed or knocked Hammock out of
the buggy. Hammock was unarmed and
retreated. Peavy pursued and finally
shot him in the back as above stated. Ham
mock's elbow was also broken by blows
from the butt of the gun. Drs. Richardson
and Hammond, of Macon, were called in
and consider Hammock’s wounds fatal.
Peavy is still at large. Prom the evidence
now before us a very grave and ugly case
stands against Peavy.”
Mr. John Grier, one of the most respected
citizens of Butts county, was fatally injured
at Indian Springs on Saturday last.' “It ap
pears,” says the Argus, “that Mr. Grier was
engaged in conveying stock from his farm
to u saw mill, and when going down a short
but very steep and rough hill, the oxen be
taine unmanageable, whereupon Mr. Grier
was thrown violently from the lumber car
riage, and pressed between a large stump fn
the road and the stock which he was haul
ing. Upon being released from this peril
ous position by his brother, Mr. Tom
Grier, and some of the farm hands,
he was carried to his home. Drs.
Ellis and Ovens were immediately sent for,
and the summons promptly responded to by
Dr. Ovens. Upon examination the Doctor
pronounced it a case of dislocation of the
nip joint. The case was considered neces
sarily a fatal one, there being very severe
internal injuries. Drs. Ellis and Ovens and
a friend of the family, Dr. Gunter, con
stantly waited on the unfortunate man from
the time of the accident up to the time of
his death, which took place on Monday
morning at 10 o’clock. The immediate cause
of Mr. Grier’s death was enteritis, or in
flammation of the bowels.”
The high winds of Sunday last were the
cause of immense damage in DeKalb county.
Certain parties had been burning brush near
the Stone Mountain the day previous, and
the wind blew the smouldering coals into a
blaze, which played havoc in that vicinity.
From the Atlanta Tribune we learn that
“the flame struck a pile containing one hun
dred cords of wood, and in a few seconds
the sable smoke ‘along the entire line’
proved the work well done, and soon March
had the largest bonfire of the season. The
careening wind swooping down from a great
altitude, would circle round iu the flames,
and taking new flights, made the air hot
with its breath, and spread the fire iu other
places. Soou a la r ge concourse of people
assembled, some distance in advance, and
by dint of strong personal effort managed
to stop its progress before it reached several
large farms near by. This occurred early in
the morning, and about the same time the
fire made its appearance on the premises of
Mr. Brannan, in East Clarkston, midway be
tween Stone Mountain and Decatur. Clarks
ton is a young and vigorous town, ten miles
from Atlanta. The lire spread with great
rapidity, and in a short while four large
blocks were swept clean by the fiery wave,
leaving scarely the ashes behind, so that it
cannot be even told by the sites if houses
ever occupied them. j. J. Norman, the live
Mayor of the town, called out his entire
force, and, by the promptness and energy of
his labors, saved the depot aud public build
ings of West Clarkston.”
Covington Enterprise, 22d : “On last Fri
day night a party of malicious scoundrels
made a raid on the fanning utensils of
several of our countymen. It seems that
the rogues visited the plantations of those
who had left plows in their fields. They
commenced on Mr. S. D. Hight’s land, near
town,and stole two plows. Mr. D. II. Roberts
also lost one plow from his field the same
night. Alex. Hendrick, a colored man, lost
three plows and had one hundred and
twenty-five pounds of guano stolen the
same night. James Berry, colored, was
robbed of all his plows. The tracks of these
rogues were traced to the graveyard in
Covington, where trace was lost on account
of the hard ground. Wc hope that the
villains will be detected and suffer the full
penalty of the law.” ^
Anecdote of General Lee.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It was in the summer of 18GJ, while
the armies of the United States and Con
federate States were confronting each
other on the St. James, below Richmond.
On a c ertain day a Federal attack, which
was thought to be a decoy, was made on
the southsidc of the river. We thought
we saw evidences of a real attack on our
side. Occasionally the whole picket-line
would open fire. The gunboats at Deep
Bottom would send three hundred pounds
crashing through the timbers in the rear
of what had been Libby’s residence, but
was then General Lee*s headquarters. At
about two o’clock p. in. the artillery'
opened on our left. A few minutes
afterward we heard the unmistakable
roar of infantry firing. We then knew
that the lines of battle were engaged on
our left. The pickets opened and kept
up a rapid firing in our front, the
gunboats sending their infernal ma
chines more frequently. We, the Rock
bridge battery, were ordered to double-
quick into position on Libby’s Hill.
On onr way up everything looked as
chough we were on the eve of a terrible
tonflict—the roar of artillery' and in
fantry, the rapid movement of troops
into line, and the solemnity that seemed
to have impregnated the whole atmos
phere. As we passed the Libby house
we saw General Lee in the yard. He was
standing just under a low tree, with one
arm extended, as if reaching for some
thing on the limb. As we got nearer to
liimT we could see what he was engaged
in doing at such a time. A little bird,
whose mother was just teaching it to use
its wings, had, in its first effort, fallen to
the ground. Its dumb mother, regard
less of the death and carnage that intelli
gent man was dealing to Ins fellow, was
uttering pitiful cries for her fallen off
spring. General Lee reached down and
picked up this little creature, and when
we passed, was in the act of placing it
where its mother could care for it.
►.-»
Where Girls are in Demand.—Fe
male help can obtain situations in Pres
cott in good families at not less than
twenty-five dollars a month. There is a
laro-e and constantly increasing demand
for servant girls at the above and even
greater wages. It might result in much
good, and prove profitable, if a few car
Toads of girls were shipped into the ter
ritory from the overcrowded cities. The
population of Arizona is in the propor
tion of about one woman to four men.—
Arizona Enterprise.
The whole sum expended on the
London Metropolitan Police for the year
ending March, 1870, was $5,630,000.
The estimate for the Paris police for
1878 is about $4,000,000. but this in
cludes a great deal which in London
would not come under the head of police
expenses. In actual police duty* there
are employed in Paris 7.695 persons, at
an expense of about $2,000,000. The
Exposition expenses have probably'
sw ollen the estimate for 1878.
Misfortunes never come singly. The
other day a man was walking along
Washington street with a paper of tacks
iu his coat tail pocket, a basket of eggs
on his arm, and a fall hat on his head.
When he sat down the tacks stuck into
him, and the eggs broke and ran over
him. When lie tried to get up his hat
fell off, and he sat down on that, and
just as be ventured one little oath his
minister came along and overheard it.—
Vicksburg Herald,
HON A. H STEPHENS.
HU First Appearance In Court—
Jlerit Recognized Under Peculiar
Circumstance* — How He Came
Near Klein*; President in tlie Cam
paign of 1860.
New \ork Star.
The ex Vice President of the Con
federate States has been so often men
tioned in various reminiscences.that some
account of him, with- additional anec
dotes, may not be out of place. His
ancestors were English, and his grand
father, a gentleman by birth, adhered to
the fortunes of the Chevalier Edward
(called the Pretender), and was, there
fore, opposed to the house of Hanover,
of which family George III. came. This
ancestor came to America during the
Indian and French wars, and served
under General Braddock, near Fort
Duquesne. He served, still later, under
Colonel (afterward President) Washing
ton. This first Stephens resided in
Pennsylvania during the war of inde
pendence, and was the friend of Stephen
Ilopkins, the Quaker signer of the De
duration of Independence.
In 1795 the Stephens family settled on
Kettle creek, in Georgia, and removed to
the present homestead in 1805. The
father of Alexander H. Stephens died on
the 7th of May, 1820, while the latter
w'as in his teens. His mother, Margaret
Grier, w r as cousin to Justice Grier, of
the United States Supreme Court, and
sister to the once famed author of the
Grier Southern Almanac. Of the son of
the old calculator, whose weatliei pre
dictions once governed the planting of
Southern fields, a story is told, which
shows that his famed cousin Alexander
was not the only' one who was quick in
repartee. One day, the Grier meal chest
being empty, the son put the bridle on
the old mare, a blanket on her back to
keep the horse hairs out of the grist, and
with no saddle, started to the mill. A
stranger overtook him on the way, and
finding out his name began the following
dialogue:
Stranger—Then you are a son of the
great almanac calculator?
Young Grier, (modestly)—Yes, sir.
“And do you ever attempt to make
calculations of the weather, like your
father?”
“Sometimes I try it sir.”
“Really 1 Aud how do your calcula
tions agree with his?”
“We are never more than a day apart,
sir.”
“That is astonishing! Can you ac
count for sfrcli remarkable agreement?”
“Perhaps so. You know father always
knows the day before it will rain. ”
“Precisely—I see.”
“And I always know the day after it
has rained.”
The stranger began to look at the sky’,
and soon roue on his way'.
That was a day when young men of
means were ashamed of cowardice only',
or of dishonor, and Stephens himself,
like Henry Clay, “the mill-boy of the
slashes,” has often rode on a meal sack
to mill, and practiced speaking in the
lonely forest road.
When Alexander H. Stephens began
the practice of law, there was a shoe fac
tory in the pleasant village of Crawford-
ville, his present home, and the negro
workmen partook of their coffee, and
bread and bacon, in the sun at the front
door.
One day as Stephens walked past very
rapidly’, as was his wont, one of them
suspended his tin cup near his lips, aud
said loud enough for the young man to
hear, “Who is that little fellow that
walks by r here so fast of mornings?” A
second replied, “Why, man, that’s a law
yer.” The third thought he saw the
point of a fine joke, anil burst into the
loudest negro “yah! yah!” with. “A
lawyer! A lawyer, you say’! Now dats
too good-^ah. yah, yah!'
The next week was term time, and that
same laughing negro found himself ic
peril of the whipping post for stealing
leather. It whs young Stephens who was
appointed by the court to defend him,
and, although the proof was clear. Ste
phens quashed the indictment on a legal
(law. The black now said with a bow of
humble reverence: “Sail, when I didn't
know you, 1 thought you was the littlest
mau I ever seed; but now I knows you.
y’ou looks big as a pine tree.” That poor
negro, and a poorer white woman, whose
child was saved by Stephens by means of
the writ of luiJ>eas corpus from the oppres
sions of a cruel family to whom she had
been bound out, were the first on earth to
see his real greatness.
Mr. Stephens was once a candidate for
the ministry of the Presbyterian Church,
and still professes to be a member of that
communion. This fact may seem some
what strange to Northern people who
possess copies of his challenges to Gov.
Herscliel V. Johnson and Senator Benj.
H. Ilill to mortal combat, and who know
of a book that sayetii: “No murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him.” Those
eminent gentlemen declined to be shot
at, possibly' on the ground that Stephens
is a lath who can scafcely’ make a shadow
without an overcoat, and that if he turn
ed sideway’s he would be invisible.
When he was a boy', starting to Athens,
Ga., to be examined for the freshman
class, he was too poor to ride in the
stage, and'walked the fifty-odd miles car
rying his change of clothing on his back,
swung to a stick. A family' then owned
a tine plantation and country house in
Greene county, and he stopped at the
gate, hot and dusty with his walk, to
ask for a drink of water. The kind lady
gave him a glass to drink from, and in
stead of treating him as a tramp, asked
him in to stay all night, thus making him
her guest.
A little girl-baby that he took up in his
arms became very fond of him. The next
day a farm wagon helped him some dis
tance on his way, and a luncheon of cold
chicken and bread and butter was his
only repast until he arrived at the col
lege. Many years after the poor boy* had
won the first ‘honors of his university',
had been in the Legislature, had been the
means of building the greatest railroad in
the South, and had become at last the
leader of the Whig party in Congress and
owner of a thousand acres of land. It
was then that a poor widow, Mrs
Parkes, came into his library at
Liberty Hall, leading a pretty little
girl by the hand, and told him that
by reason of the lax habit of her hus
band in never taking receipts, her whole
estate, worth nearly a quarter of a mil
lion of dollars, had been seized by’ pre
tended claimants. She had no money’,
but offered him one half of the property
to save it for her. He took the case, and,
by* great labor and research, won it for
her. She came to thank and pay him,
aud be sflid: “Do you remember a poor
lad whom you kept all night, when on
his way to school ?” She did not, at
first, but soon said: ‘ JOh yes. I do; for
Ire was so fond of the baby. This is her
with me. Do you know her?” "Yes,”
he said; “I am the poor boy', and now I
pay my’ bill. You do not owe me any
thing, for I still owe you my love.”
When little Mary Parke’s married her
part of the property was $80,000. Each
of her two sisters also had as much. Mr.
Stephens’ patrimony had been $444. On
this he graduated, and began the study
of law on the 20th of May, 1834. He
refused an offer of $1,500 a year with a
partner, but lived on $0 a month, blacked
his own boots, groomed his own horse
(after he had one), and made his own
pies, and, also, made $400 the first year.
Mr. Stephens tells, with great srlee, a
story of his first going to court. It was
indispensable that a lawyer should enter
a town horseback, at least, and he owned
no horse. His uncle—Aaron W. Grier—
lived half way on the road to the town of
Washington, but considerably off the
road. lie walked there, carrying his
saddle-bags, and borrowed a horse. He
rode, however, a less distance than he
had walked to procure the horse. To
make his entrance the more impressive
he dismounted in a pine thicket, outside
of tov.*n, and after washing his face in a
stream, and dusting his shoes, be put on
a pair of clean white cotton pantaloons,
starched to resemble the white linen
worn by Southern gentlemen. Thus,
fresh and clean, he made his entry’. He
does not say that the court was* much
impressed by his display, but he does
say that in leaving town he undressed in
, the same thicket, and put on his soiled
I clothes for the weary starlight walk
home after he should return the horse.
The great statesman has had to bear the
consequences through his whole life of a
slight form and boyish look, but these
deficiencies have had mostly only an
amusing and sometimes an agreeable ef
fect. In the earlier part of his career a
great commercial convention of many
States was held at Charleston, S. C., and
j Mr. Stephens having been asked to make
the great speech of the occasion, consent
ed to do so. His fame had already ex
tended beyond the country’ in which he
lived, and*expectation was greatly excited
at his arrival. To avoid the crowds at
the hotels he had asked two merchants,
who were of the party’, to engage him
rooms at the hotel where they were to
stop, and in due time he arrived with
them. The lady’ who kept the house, in
great excitement was engaged in looking
out for her guest, who was of as much
consequence as a President, but she was
not in the least aware that the had come.
In the meantime the tired statesman had
thrown himself on a lounge for the pur
pose of repose, and his two friends stood
near him. The lady bustled in, and see
ing, as she supposed a country lad who had
come in to see the sights and hear Steph
ens, actually occupying the best place,
and his shoes also on the sofa, she said,
with great kindness but .some firmness,
"My son, you should let the gentlemen
have the best place, but put your feet on
the floor, for we are trying to keep things
nice for the great Mr. Stephens.”
When one of the laughing merchants
pointed to the smiling boy, with his won
derful eyes, and said, “This is the Hon.
Alexander II. Stephens, madam,” and he
arose and gave her his hand, the express
ion of her countenance was a subject for
Hogarth.
It is not generally’ known that 31r.
Stephens was much talked of for Presi
dent of the Confederate States, and still
less, that he came much nearer being
President of the United States. In 1860
the Democratic party’ could have elected
whom they’ pleased if the party' remained
united. When Stephen A. Douglas wit
nessed the opposition to himself at
Charleston, he proposed to defeat the
Yancey malcontents and Breckenridge
men by giving way to Stephens, on whom
there could be no hopeful division of the
South, and whose Union sentiments
would carry’ the North.
Reminiscences of Stonewall Jackson.
In the hist number of the North
American Review, General Richard Tay
lor contributes a chapter of reminiscences
entitled “ Stonewall Jackson and the
Valley’ Campaign.” He tells nothing that
is new concerning the military operations
which lie describes, and the value and
interest of his article is in the glimpses it
gives of Jackson, who was without doubt
one of the most peculiar and interesting
figures which the war between the States
brought into view. General Taylor saw
Jackson for the first time in May’, 1862,
This is his description of the meeting :
“A figure, perched on the topmost rail
of a fence overlooking the road and field,
was pointed out as Jackson. Approach
ing, I saluted aud declared my name and
rank, then waited for a response. Before
this came, 1 had time to see a pair of cav
airy boots covering feet of a gigsintic
size, a mangy cap, with visor drawn low
a heavy, dark beard and weary eyes-
eyes 1 afterward saw filled with intense
but never brilliant light. A low, gentle
voice inquired the distance and road
marched that day’.
“ ‘Six and twenty’ miles—Keazleton
road.
“ ‘You seem to have no stragglers?”
“ ‘Never allow stragglers.’
“ ‘You must teach my people; they
straggle badly.’
“A bow in reply. Just then my cre
oles started their baud and a waltz. After
a contemplative suck at a lemon,
‘Thoughtless fellows for serious work’
came forth. I expressed a hope that the
work would not be less well done because
of the gayety. A return to the lemon
gave me an opportunity’ to retire. Where
Jackson got his lemons ‘no fellow could
find out,’ but he was rarely without one.
To live twelve miles from that fruit
would have disturbed him as much as it
would the witty dean. Quite late that
night General Jackson came to my camp
fire, where he remained some hours. He
said he would move at dawn, asked a
few questions about the marching of my
men, which seemed to have impressed
him, and then remained silent. If
silence was golden, he was a‘bonanza.’
He sucked lemon, ate hard tack and
drank water, and, I imagine, his idea of
the ‘whole duty of man’ was—praying
and fighting.”
Of Jackson s inability to understand
anything like a jest, (Jen. Taylor soon
had an illustration. The night before the
entry into Winchester, Jackson and Tay
lor were together under a desultory fire.
Gen. Taylor says :
“An officer, riding hard, overtook us,
who proved to be the Quartermaster of
the army. He reported the wagon trains
far be hind, impeded by bad road, in Lu-
ray Valley.
“ ‘The ammunition wagons?’ (sternly).
“ ‘All right, sir. They were in ad
vance, and 1 doubled teams on them and
brought them through.’
“ ‘Ah!’ (in a tone of relief.)
“To give countenance to this Quarter
master, if such can be given of a dark
night, I remarked jocosely: ‘Never
mind the wagons. There are quantities
of stores in Winchester, and the General
has invited us to breakfast to-morrow.’
“Jackson, who had no more capacity’
for jokes than a Scotchman, took this se
riously’, and reached out and touched me
on the arm. In fact, lie was of Scotch-
Irish descent, and his unconsciousness of
jokes was ‘de race.’ Without physical
wants himself, he never remembered that
others were differently’ cultivated, and
paid little heed to the commissariat; but
woe to the mau who failed to bring up
ammunition! In advance, his trains were
left far behind; in retreat, he would fight
for a wheelbarrow.”
Jackson’s Puritanism appears not to
have been of a very aggressive type. His
conscience was not an offensively’ vicari
ous one, as appears from the following
anecdote:
“We reached the shallow depression
spoken of, where the enemy could depress
his guns, and his fire became close and
fatal. 3bmy men fell, and Lie whistling
of shot ana shell occasioned much duck
ing of heads in the column. This an
noyed me not a little, as it was but child’s
play to the work immediately in hand.
Always an admirer of delightful Uncle
Toby, I had contracted the most villain
ous habit of his beloved army in Flan
ders, and, forgetful of Jackson’s pres
ence, ripped out, ‘What tho h—1 are you
dodging for? If there is any’ more of it,
you will l>e halted under this fire for an
hour.” The sharp tones of a familiar
voice produced the desired effect, and the
men looked as if they had swallowed
ramrods; but I shall never forget the look
of reproachful surpise on Jackson’s face.
He placed his hand on my shoulder, and
said, in a gentle voice: ‘I am afraid you
are a wicked fellow,’ then turned and
rode back to the picket.”
Of Jackson’s overmastering ambition.
General Taylor says:
“I have written that he was ambitious;
and his ambition was vast, all-absorbing.
As the unhappy’ wretch from whose
shoulder sprang the foul serpent—he
loathed it, perhaps feared it, but he
could not escape it—it was himself; nor
rend it— it was his own flesh. He fought
it with prayer, constant and earnest—
Apollyon and Christian in ceaseless com
bat. What limit to set to his ability I
know not, for he was ever superior to
occasion. Under ordinary circumstances
it was difficult to estimate him because of
his peculiarities—peculiarities that would
have made a lesser man absurd, but that
served to enhance his martial fame, as
those of Samuel Johnson and literary
eminence.”
FEARFUL RETRIBUTION.
The Lyncliln*; of John Wallace, a
Triple JIurderer, at Wheeling:, W.
Va.
Thny men and a weman Lave been
arrested at Petersburg, Va., on suspicion
of having perpetrated the robbery of the
office of James H. Young in New York,
in January last, of $200,000 in bonds,
certificates and other stock securities.
The prophecies of the lynching of John
Wallace, the man who committed the
triple murder at Littleton, West Virginia,
on the 19th inst., have been fulfilled in a
most horrible manner. Late on Satur
day night the probabilities of his being
lynched before morning were very’small,
and many of the people who had‘flocked
from far and near into Littleton had re
turned to their homes. The prisoner
was to have been brought to Wheeling
and thence taken to the jail al
New Martinsville to await his trial.
The passions of those who remained
at Littleton have been at the highest
pitch since Wallace made his confession,
and the jury brought in a verdict of
guilty. This feeling was further aroused
by tlie evidence of the physicians, who
swore positively that both 3Irs. George
Wallace, alias Baker, and Miss Church
had been outraged, and that the crime
had apparently* been repeated several
times in the case of the latter, who was
a school girl only fourteen years of age.
The lynching would have taken place
the night after the murder, but no leader
could be found. Wallace has said from
the first that he would ‘be hung by* the
mob, and has been alternately’ crying and
praying since Friday morning. Sev
eral unsuccessful attempts have been
made to take Wallace from the
jail, but they did not succeed,
and the impression become general
that he would be allowed to leave the
town under the Sheriff’s care. He was
to have been brought to Wheeling, and
then taken to the jail at New Martins
ville this morning, but a party of fifteen
men met in a building on the outskirts
of the town and laid their plans carefully
to take him from the house where he was
confined and hang him. All were armed
with revolvers, and they were determined
to tight the guards if necessary. They*
marched silently through the streets to
the house in question, where they were
joined by ten more men, also armed.
The party approached the first guard and
demanded admission. He refused, and
they drew their pistols and fired several
shots in the air, and the man ran off.
Then the mob fired about in such a
reckless manner that several of their
own party were slightly wounded.
When Wallace heard the uproar he
began sobbing and praying and
as the door of his room opened and the
first of the -lynchers made his appearance
he sprang behind one of the guards and
screamed, “3Iy God, don’t kill me; save
me, save me.” The mob laughed at his
cries, and after knocking the guard
down and trampling on him, they threw
Wallace on his back and began to tie his
arms. Again he screamed iu agony*,
“D.on’t murder, don’t kill me, for God’s
sake give me time to pray; I want to see
a minister." One of the men yelled
“You murderer. Miss Church
wants to see you, and by’ she shall.”
After placing the rope firmly about his
neck they dragged him downstairs head
foremost and out of the house on to
the railroad track, where he uttered
the most horrible cries, cursing,
praying anil begging them to let
him go. They paid no attention to him,
but began running with him as if he
were a log or barrel. Wallace did not
stop calling until be had been dragged
nearly a quarter of a mile. He vainly
tried to regain his feet, but whenever he
did so the mob would pull the rope sud
denly' and jerk him on his back. After
going nearly a mile below Littleton they*
stopped and hung him to a tree. It is
supposed that Wallace was dead by* this
time. At six o’clock he was found dang
ling from a limb of an apple tree along
side of the railroad, his feet about throe
feet from the ground. When the early
passenger trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio Road passed the place there was
great commotion among those on board,
and the trains slackened their speed in
order to give the people a chance to look
at the lynchers’ work. When the body’
was examined the spine and necli were
found to be broken and the body horri-
blv mangled and bruised.
A Novel Alphabet.
A was a traitor hung by the hair.—Sam
uel, xviii., 9,
B was a folly built high in the air.—Gen
esis, xi., 9.
C was a fountain o’erlooking the sea.—
I. Kings, xviii., 42-45.
I) was a muse buried under a tree.—
Genesis, xxxv., 8. .
E was a first-born, bad from his youth.—
Hebrews, xi., 16.
F was a ruler, who trembled at truth.—
Acts, xxiv., 25.
G was a messenger sent with good word.
—Daniel, ix., 21.
H was a mother loaned to the Lord.—I.
Samuel, i., 27-28.
I was a name received of the Lord.—
Genesis, xxxii., 22-28.
J was a shepherd in Arabian land —
Exodus, iii., 1.
K was a place near the desert of sand.—
Deutoronomy, i., 10.
L was a pauper begging his bread.—
Luke, xvi., 20-21.
31 was an idol, an object of dread.—Le
viticus, xx., 2-3.
N was an architect ages ago.—Genesis,
vi., 13-23.
O was a rampart to keep out the foe.—
II. Chronicles, xxvii., 3-4.
P was an isle, whence a saint looked
above.—Revelations, i., 4-9.
Q was a Christian saluted in love.—Ro
mans, xvi., 23.
R was an obscure, y et a mother of Kings.
—Matthew, i., 5.
S was a Danite, who did wonderful
things—Judges, xiv., 5-6.
T was a city that had a strong hold.—
II. Samuel, xxiv., 7.
U was a country productive of gold.—
Jeremiah, x., 9.
V was a Queen whom a King set aside.—
Esther, i., 10-22.
Z was a place where a man wished to
hide.—Genesis, xix., 1.
Read II. Timothy, iii., 15.
Jewish Culture in New Testament
Times.
The culture of the people in New
Testament times was evidently much
higher than it was at any time covered
by the Old Testament history. Idolatry-
had been completely* extirpated, syna
gogues had been established in every city*
and village where the Word of God was
read and expounded every Sabbath, and
these services were almost universally
attended by the people. Nearly every
one had received a fair elementary educa
tion; and as devotion to “the Law ’ was
the fashion of the times, the people be
came experts in discussions and disputa
tions respecting its details, in which the
rabbis delighted them with their hair
splittings and meaningless interpreta
tions. It seems evident that there was a
comfortable share of wealth among the
great middle classes, which compre
hended nearly all the people, and,
aside from their political subjection,
they seem to have been in a condition of
wholesome well being. In this condition
of society our Lord Christ was reared
from infancy to manhood, and in it he
lived, as one of its members, for ten
y’ears. With a mind so quick and sus
ceptible as his certainly was, it was quite
natural that he should be largely affected
by this state of things, and also by the
great events that were then transpiring
iu the Roman Empire, and especially
thos^that affected his own people. Evi
dently his life was not the dull routine
of merely’ animal existence, that too often
characterizes the career of young villa
gers. His afterlife affords conclusive
evidence that during this period he was
in lively rapport with all his nearer and
more remote surroundings.—National
Rejtository, April.
TEA CULTURE IN THE UNITED
STATES.
What Lar^c Tea Dealer* Have to
Say oil the Experiment* Now Be*
in- Made.
Xetc York Star.
The question whether tea can be culti
vated in this country is one which has
often been asked, and experiments have
occasionally been made in that direction,
not, however, it must be confessed, as yet
with much success. Lately Gen. Viollet
Le Due, the French Commissioner, has
stated positively* that the climatic and
other conditions in the United States are
favorable for tea culture, and not long
ago another experiment was resolved
upon by the Commissioner of Agricul
ture at Washington. One hundred thou
sand tea plants were placed in the propa
gation houses of the Agricultural De
partment, which were watched with
eagerness and anxiety by those interested
in the experiment.
With a view of ascertaining the gene
ral opinion of the trade in this city in
reference to the experiment, a Star re
porter yesterday called upon Messrs. A
A. Low A Brothers. One of the firm
stated that while he had not given the
subject such careful thought and investi
gation as would enable him to speak au
thoritatively, he would say that he
thought, on the whole, the idea to be
chimerical. He did not. think the cli
mate was favorable, and even if it were,
American workmen could not possibly
compete with the Chinese as to wages.
A Chinaman lives on what an American
would spend for beer or something strong
er. Necessarily*, therefore, the [handling
of the tea would cost so much that it
would not be profitable to undertake its
culture. The same thing had been tried in
silk culture. Silk could be produced
here, but it cost more than it could be
imported for.
Mr. George II. Hartford, the General
Manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Company’, was of a similar opinion. He
said that tea had never been profitably
cultivated in the United States, nor did
he think it ever would. All the condi
tions, in his opinion were against it.
The climate was not suitable, and it. was
folly to think of American laborers com
peting with Chinese. The Chinamen
were satisfied with food and lodging that
no American would submit to, and a rate
of compensation that was munificent in
the Chinese estimate, was insignificant in
our view. Tlie experiment had been
made some years ago in North Caro
lina, but without success.
On the other hand, a meinl>er of a
large tea inspecting firm m Baltimore,
who had traveled in China and Japan on
business for his firm, and been superin
tendent of tea plantations and curing and
packing establishments owned by his
house, expressed his utmost confidence
in the success of the experiment making
hy r the Commissioner of Agriculture.
This gentleman recently’, at the Com
missioner’s invitation, inspected the tea
plants in the propagating houses at
Washington, and gave his decided
opinion in favor of the Commissioner’s
plans. He thinks that hand labor on tea
curing and manipulation will be
superseded by machinery, and that but
one-tenth of the ingenuity displayed in
the invention of the cotton gin is neces
sary to give a machine that will do all
the‘ work in tea manipulation, except
picking. The result will be, in his
opinion, the successful production of an
American tea on American principles.
Dr. Mary Walker.
An incident in which Dr. Mary’ Wal
ker’s trousers took a leading part, oc
curred in Washing ton the other day. Dr.
Walker, clad in the majesty of trousers
and the splendor of a frock coat, entered
one of the public offices, and sat down
in the waiting room to wait her turn to
be admitted to the official presence.
Among the men who were present was
one who was regaling himself with a
cigar, Strange as it may’ seem, although
Dr. Walker has learned how to put on
trousers, .and, unlike 3Irs. Swisshelm,
knows that they’ cannot be put on over
the head, she has never yet acquired the
masculine habit of smoking, and detests
a cigar as much as she would were she
clad in the black bombazine garments of
a maiden lady' of advanced age. The
smoke of the cigar in the official waiting
room was an offense to her nose, and ac
cordingly, with her characteristic fear
lessness, she ordered the smoker to throw
his cigar away’, and informed him that
he ought to be ashamed of himself for
smoking in the presence of a lady.
The smoker was a courteous, but also
a firm and determined man, and he de
clined to obey Dr. Walker’s order with
out a previous investigation of her right
to issue it. He remarked that, while he
conceded that it would be wrong for
him to smoke iu the presence of a lady,
he was unaware that any member of the
feebler sex was present. “You, mv dear
sir,” he continued,addressing Dr. Walker,
and apparently mistaking her for a man,
“are wrong iu suggesting that there is a
lady present. Tlie momenta lady enters
I will cease smoking, but until then 1
claim the right to smoke without inter
ference." "To this lucid exposition
of the smoker’s alleged rights, Dr.
Walker replied that she was a lady,
and that he knew it perfectly well,
and was guilty of a great rudeness
in pretending to ignore it. In these
circumstances a weak man would have
yielded and thrown away his cigar, but
the smoker was not that kind of a man.
He said he must differ with Dr. Walker
in her estimate of her sex. “ You have.”
he explained, “ the troufeers, the coat,
the hat, the c ane, and all tlie outward
and visible marks of masculinity'. On
the face of your clothing you are un
questionably a man, and T have no right
to accept your word to the contrary un
less it is sustained by evidence.” On be-
in£ informed in reply that he was a mean
thing, the imperturbable smoker ag-
CTavated his offense by taking still more
decided ground, and asserting that, on
second thoughts, he must decline to re
ceive any alleged evidence as to the ques
tion at issue, since he had no right to go
behind the returns and inquire into mat
ters that any’ respectable court would de
cide to be aliunde. Probably it was the
use of this opprobrious Latin epithet that
drove Dr. Walker to temporary madness.
No sooner had the smoker uttered it than
she rose up. snatched his cigar from his
and threw it out of the w indow.
mouth i
Burned to Death WirrLE Drunk.—
John Mylan, a tvell-to-do young trades
man of Wheeling, W. Va., entered a
stable Sunday night, being, us is sup
posed, intoxicated "at the time. He pro
bably* laid down on the hay in the loft
and attempted to light a cigar, for in a
few moments the building was in flames,
and nothing was left of Mylan save part
of one leg and a few charred bones.
Tlie newspapers have made the daugh
ter of the late Baron 3Ieyer Rothschild—
who has just married, in London, Earl
Rosebery—the wealthiest woman in
England. He^ wealth is named at
eighteen millions. What may be the
sum of money ow’ned by the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts, the grand daughter of
Mr. Thomas Coutts, the London banker,
w*e do not know; but she has been called
the richest London English woman.
Thomas Coutts die^ at ihe a^e of ninety-
one, in 1822, leaving the wealth to his
second wife, 3Iiss 3Iellon, an actress,
whose fine dinners and society
parties made her a central ligure
in the London society of Byron’s
time, and she figures in half a dozen
novels of that day, and notably in Dis
raeli's “Vivien (irey.” She afterwards
married the Duke of St, Alban’s, but
kept the bulk of her property, a^d be
queathed it to the present Ranmess Bur-
dett-Coutts, the Daughter of her first
husband’s first wife. This maiden lady
must now be upwards of sixty. She
docs not, like a miser, hoard her vast
wealth, but uses it in charities that
“tell.” Among her later good deeds,
she has been down among the Turks ard
Bulgarians, erecting and arranging hos
pitals, and procuring supplies, during the
past winter—a dreadful one in the East—
to mitigate a little the horrors of the
war.—Hartford Times.
A large mastiff attacked g group of
children in Evergreen street, Bergen
Point, N. V., Friday afternoon, and seiz
ed a little girl named 3Iary Landregan,
about two years old. He shook her as a
terrier would shake a rat, and when the
child was rescued it was found that her
head and face were terribly lacerated. It
is feared that her injuries may prove fa
tal. The dog was killed soon afterward.
A CROCODILE AND A BALLOON
1ST.
An Air Voyage Near Calcutta-Thir
teen Thousand Feet Above the
Earth Tlie DeMcent, and How the
Aeronaut Escaped a Huge Croco
dile.
KILLED BV HER DAUGHTER.
3Ir. Simmons Lynn made an ascent in
a balloon at Calcutta on tlie 29th of Janu
ary. He descended safely* some miles
from the city’, after an exciting adven
ture with a crocodile. Owing to the den
sity’ of the s supplied for the balloon.
3Ir. Lynn did not deem it advisable to
take up with him Mr. L’Estrange (Blon
din), who was much disappointed in con
sequence. The balloon first mo veil in
the direction of Baliganj, but afterwards
shifted towards Dhappa and the salt
lakes. Having passed over the eastern
boundary of Calcutta, 3Ir. Lynn found
that at 4:40 o’clock it was beginning to
move rapidly toward Tiger Point, in tbe
Sunderbunds. He descended from bis
then altitude of thirteen thousand feet
into the current which was blowing for a
few moments from the southeast.
In this current he could not remain,
and at five o’clock a descent into the jun
gle seemed inevitable. He at this time
observed that there was not a breath of
wind over the surface of the jungle for
three thousand feet in height. Either he
must come down at once or be enveloped
in darkness, and have no chance of get
ting out of the jungle. Even with light
the chanc2 of being extricated seemed
small. \\ hile slowly descending, and at
an altitude of ten thousand feet, in an
otherwise perfectly clear atmosphere, a
vast plain of intense white toward the
north was open to view. He could not
form any conception as to the cause of
this phenomenon, except that the rays
fiom ihe setting sun had come in con
tact with a cold blast from the snowy
range in the Himalay'as. He continuetl
his descent, and very* soon the phenome
non was lost, but although every mo
ment’s delay increased the risk in land
ing, he could not resist the temptation of
reascendin" to try and fathom this mys
tery, but did not succeed. At 5:15 he
was within one thousand feet of terra
firma, a rather inappropriate name for
tin locality.
A huge crocodile was moving towards
him with an impressive steadiness, and
when he came down into the mud and
rushes, which for miles around were over
ten feet in height, he could see the mon
ster’s head level with the bulrushes.
Fortunately, there was enough ballast
left to throw overboard just as the mon
ster was within fifty yards of the balloon,
and this enabled 3ir.‘ Lynn to rise above
the thick jungle to the length of the
grappling rope, about thirty feet. The
story* that a crocodile cannot turn rapidly
was in this case disproved, as this one
ran around tlie grappling rope. Having
called .lustily for help, Mr. Ly nn found
some natives making their way towards
him, wading through the thick mud and
rushes. As the rushing sound was heard
on all sides the crocodile made off.
About half a dozen natives were induced,
after much persuasion, to hold the rope,
and ultimately the balloon was wafted
over the jungle and across creeks for
nearly three miles, until a dry space was
reached.
Mark Twain as a Reporter.
Speaking of its reportorial corps from
1864 to 1870. the San Francisco Cali
says:
The reporters during this period were
Frank 3V. Gross, lately Secretary to the
Superintendent of tlie .Mint; Charles W.
Crocker (dead), William K. 3IcGrew
(present legislative correspondent),
Ernest C. Stock (present criminal news
reporter), Sam. C. Clemens (“Mark
Twain”)—all, with the exception of the
latter, industrious and useful in their
places.
In saying this, we do not wish to de
tract from Mr. Clemens at all; but truth
compels us to state that one of the best
American writers, in his way, and who
has made wealth and fame by his pen,
was the most useless local reporter it has
ever been our lot to meet. The business
at the time necessitated, of course, a
good deal of physicial activity’, and for
this reason only, we suppose* the work
was not at all in Clemens' line. An
amusing and characteristic instance of
this may' be given:
“Mark,” said the managing editor to
him one day', “there is a riot going on
among tbe stevedores along the city
front. Get the facts and make a col
umn.”
“ Ya-a-s,” he responded, with his inimi
table drawl; “but how can I get them?
There’s no street railroad down that way.
You wouldn’t want a fellow to walk a
mile to see a couple of ’longshoremen
in a right, would you?”
3Ir. Clemens remained in the office
about six months. The want of a more
active man for reporter became pressing,
as the paper was suffering in its local col
umns. At last the managing editor ob
served one day, while he and Clemens
were sitting in the editorial room:
“3Iark, do you know what I think
about you as a local reporter?”
“Well, what’s your thought?”
“ That you are out of your element in
the routine of the position; that you are
capable of better things in literature.”
.Mark looked up with a queer twinkle
in his eye.
“ Oh, ya a-s, 1 see. You mean to say I
don’t suit you.”
“Well, to be candid, that’s about the
size of it.”
“Ya-a-s. Well, I’m surprised you
didn’t find that out five months ago.
There was a hearty laugh. He was told
his unfitness for the place was discovered
soon after he entered on it, but he was
allowed to remain till he had made the
“stake” he wanted.
An Aged Woman Saeritioed by tlie
Whim of an Iu*ane child.
Cricket Fighting in China.
In some parts of China crickets are as
regularly* trained for combat as English
pugilists, the method being as follows:
“Tlie crickets when captured are kept
singly in earthenware pots, at the bot
tom of which is a small quantity oi fine
mould, and a very small cup containing
a few drops of water for the insects to
drink out of and bathe in. Their food
consists of two kinds of fish, called man-
yu and kut-yu. Insects called loc-kum-
chung, tun-tsit-chung. ^nd pin-tam-
chung are ocauiuiialfy given to them.
They get honey to strengthen them, and
other items of their diet are boiled
chestnuts and boiled rice. For two
hours every* night a female cricket is
placed m thu not with the male. Smoke
ia supposed to be injurious to their health,
and tlie room* in which they are kept
must be perfectly free from it. A charm
of mystic scroll to avert evil influences is
sometimes placed on the cricket’s pot. If
they are sick from overeating, red insects,
called hun-ehung. are given tbem. If the
sicknes« r t risea from cold, they* get mos
quitoes; if from heat, shoots of the green
pea plant. Chuk-tip, or bamboo butter
flies, are given for difficulty in breathing.
At the cricket-pit, w hit h the Chinese c&il
Lip, the insects are matched according to
size, weight and color. The stakes are
in some cases very large. It is, however,
generally supposed by the government
that they consist of presents of »weet
cakes. A cricket vyLku wins many vic
tories is ealleti ahanlip, or conquering
cricket, and when it dies it is placed in a
small silver coffin and buried. Crickets
which display great fighting powers are
tly sold f<
not unfrequently
for large sums.
Most of tbe patents were taken out in
New England thirty years ago, but now
six great Western States take out fifty
percent, more patents than New Eng
land. In 1870 the yearly product of our
manufacturing establishments was nearly
twice the value of all our agricultural
products, and the wages of the operatives
were greater than the labor earnings of
all farmers and farm laborers, including
their board. The manufacturing pro
duct and wages exceed those of agricul
ture even in the great com and grain
growing States of the West and North
west, while our exports of industrial
products exceed our exports of bread-
stuffs. The abundant currency issued
during the war was the principal agent
of this industrial development, but some
ascribe it to a protective tariff. — Wash
ington Capital.
Netc York World.
A brutal murder was committed in the
town of Cicero. New York, eight miles
from Syracuse. Saturday* afternoon. A
woman named Lorn L. Edden killed her
mother, aged eightv, by stabbing her in
the back with a jaefc-knife. The two had
lived together several years, but tlie
daughter" had continually* beaten her
mother. 3Irs. Edden and her daughter
had lived on a small farm in Cicero,
which was w orked by two sons of the
murderd woman. The neighbors heard
the murderess declare that she must
get rid of the old woman, and
she told her brothers that if they* did
not remove her from the house she would
not keep house for them any lonper
Saturday afternoon she was alone at the
dinner table with her mother. She began
to abuse the old lady, who reta'iated. and
the daughter then went to a bureau draw
er, took out a common jack-knife and
plunged it in her mother s back under
neath the shoulder blade. The old wo
man ran out of the house, and was as
sisted by several neighbors, to whom the
daughter said, “What does that old
want to make a show of herself out
in the road for?” She then told the neigh
bors that her mother had fallen and had
hurt herself. They left the house, and
the daughter closed and locked the doors
aud stripped the clothing from her moth
er, tearing it into shreds and burning if.
Tlie murderess was arrested this morn
ing by Sheriff 3Ieldrnm and brought to
the penitentiary at Sy*racuse. A jack
knife stained with blood was found in a
bureau-drawer in the house. 3Irs. Edden
is a masculine woman of coarse features
and not much intelligence. She will not
confess the crime, but says her mother
fell and hurt herself. The wound of the
murdered woman is two inches deep
and two inches long, and, as the physi
cians say, it caused her death. The sons
of the murdered woman say that their
sister was down on her mother and had
wanted to get rid of her for a long time.
The murderess has two sons and does
not live with her husband.
Bones vs. Bones.
Hartford Times.
The workingmen of C’alifornia elected
one State Senator. His name is Bones.
But he has been voting for measures
which are especially distasteful to the
workingmen. His constituents have sent
a petition to the Senate asking that Bones
shall be investigated, and submitting a
list of witnesses who are ready to testify
that he has received money for his votes
in the Senate. This was square work,
and it demanded attention. It arrested
the attention of Bones at once. He rose,
and, stretching out his bony arm, de
manded “protection!" He needed it, evi
dently'. He did not ask for an investiga
tion, which the workingmen wanted, and
possibly’ be did not greatly desire any
thing of that sort. “Remuneration”
for voters is one thing. “Inves
tigation” into corrupt practices is
another. Bones wanted protection
to bis person as well as to his character.
Said he, “ 3Ir. President, on my desk I
find a letter demanding my resignation;
and how, sir, do you suppose this letter
is signed ? Who is tlie author of it—the
author, sir!” “The President ” didn't
know who the author was, and couldn’t
answer the conundrum so solemnly and
freely put to him. “ I will tell you, sir,”
said Bones. “It is signed with a skull
and cross-bones. What docs that mean,
sir ?” The President didn t answer. But
an old miner, with grissly beard, and
hair standing up stiffly, opened a
large, but honest-lookin^ mouth, and,
in a low tone, replied: “It means
h—1 to you.” This alarmed Bones,
and his hair also began to stand up.
Another old Senator remarked, “it was
probably by one of your near relations,
Mr. Cross Bones.” This aroused the in
dignation of Senator Bones, and he said
that was an “aspersion upon his charac
ter.” ‘ Your character,” said grissly*,
“the workingmen will dispense that.”
Then Bones cried for "protection,” and
said the workingmen of Oakland had
raised the cry of “hemn/’ when his name
was alluded to. He thought it was time
that something should lie done. “Some
thing will be clone,” said grissly, opening
liis big mouth, “unless you get out of the
way’.” The Senate aujoitfned, leaving
Bones in solemn contemplation, and
without “protection.” As a working
man’s representative, he is reduced to
“Bare Bones.”
Mr. Lane drew
Fnre hundred dollars in silver wem
given to McGinnis, who C anS
the package under his arm M,
Lane carried a njirlfom^ ‘ .•*
ing Iji.OOd in bills under his° arm
and the remaming *400, also in
he placed in his pocket. The two men
returned to Brooklyn, took a Sacke"
street car and rode t„ Hovt street wher,'
they got out. From there they wa knl
| two blocks south President strm
I When opposite public school No
Hoyt and President street* i
suddenly attacked f mm Mli J Z h £
men, who knock,-, them down with a
sand bag seized the uv„ packages of
money-three thousand live hundred dob
lars in all-leaped , nl „ a wagon contain-
ing a fourth man. which drove up at the
moment, and drove off down Hoyt -tree*
As soon as Mr. Lane could re
gam his feet. he gave an
alarm and started i„ -
Many other persons joined in thechaae
including Laptam Loivv, uf tlie IiutW
Street Police Station 11,, ^, T t wagon
was driven along Hoyt street to Warren
street, and then turned into Nevins
street. The taptam followed it until it
reached i ulton street, where he lost sight
of it among the car; iages and cars
three robbers were described as dressed
in laborers' clothes, and their faces were
stained brown. They appeJto^
about forty yean of age, and wore side
whiskers, which are supposed to be false
The detectives have succeeded in arrest-
ing one of the robbers and are on the
track of his confederates.
KlUJJtO CHIUHt^T^TK^L® FOR
THE Sake of Iksi-ram k Money —The
disclosures that have been made on one
or two occasions lately at inquests on the
bodies of children whose live- have been
insured go to justify the prevalent suspi
cion of a close connection between in
fant mortality and life insurance. At an
inquest held a few days ago as to tlie
death of two children at Low Spennw
moor, Durham, which was adjourned
for evidence as to the result of an analyti
cal examination, a startling statement
was made by I)r. O Hanlon, medical
officer to the local board. Tu the last
few years," he said, ‘ever since there had
been such an enormous canvassing going
on amongst insurance companies there
had been a wonderful increase in the
mortality among children." As a rule
he found that the children were always
insured. Tlie temptation to get rid of a
child rather than maintain it is to many
parents very great at all times; and when
in addition to being relieved of the bur
den of its maintenance they can actually
gain hard cash by its death, tlie tempta
tion may become irresistible.—Pall Mall
Gazette.
Death in a Dentist’s Chair.— An
unfortunate case of sudden death, from
the use of chloroform, occurred in Phila
delphia on Wednesday morning. The
wife of 3Ir. William Neely, a resident of
JIatboro, 3Iontgomery county, came to
the city on Tuesday evening for the pur
pose of having teeth extracted. On
Wednesday morning, accompanied by a
lady friend, she went to the office of Dr.
Winslow, on Tenth street, al>ove Race.
Prior to the operation 3trs. Neely asked
Dr. Winslow upon the advisability of her
taking chloroform, as she had been for
same time in delicate health. Upon the
assurance of the doctor that there was
not the possibility of any serious results,
the lady assented to its qse. He admin
istered the ana»sthe**ic for one minute;
then, finding no result, continued for one
minute and a half longer, taking all the
usual precautions. After extracting some
teeth, and, desiring to restore her to con
sciousness, the doctor applied restora
tives without tke slightest effect. Be
coming alarmed, Dr. E. B. Jackson was
called, and, after a careful examination
and the application of every quickening
remedy known to the profession, he ex
pressed the belief that the patient had
died of heart disease. Investigation by
the Coroner's physician resulted in the
verdict of “death from fatty degenera
tion of the heart. ”
The Coroner’s physician does not at
tach any censure to Dr. Winslow, but
says that any excitement might, under
the existing circumstances, have pro
duced death.
Wn.\T They Smoke in Germany.—
In connection with Prince Bismarck’s
tobacco project, a celebrated botanist
Herr Schlieden, has published some
statistics in regard to the manufacture
and sale of cigars in Germany. It ap
pears that in Thuringia ulone about four
hundred and fifty tons of beetroot leaves
are annually “transformed into tobacco.”
In 3Iadgeburg and tlie Palatinate the
cigar makers employ large quantities not
only of beetroot leaves, but also of the
leaves of endive, and even of the potato
plant. The cigars sold in South Ger
many as coming from Vevey, at a price
of from one mark to one mark and a
half a hundred, do not, according to
Herr Schlieden, contain any tobacco,
“except that made with cabbage or
turnip leaves which had been deprived
of their specific odor by various
manipulations, and subsequently steeped
for some time in an extract of tobacco.”
Herr Schlieden adds, with an air of con
scious pride, “that in no country in the
world are cigars sold at so cheap a rate
as iu Germany. ”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Lost With All On Board.—The
schooner General 3IiIIer. Oaptain 3Iay,
belonging to ihe Alaska Commercial
Company, sailed from San Francisco,
February 16, for Alaska, having as pas
senger Colonel Woods. United States
Collector of Customs for the territory of
Alaska. A day or two ago tlie schooner
was discovered* bottom up a few miles up
the coast. All on board are undoubtedly
lost. The vessel ami cargo are valued at
fifty thousand dollars.
William III. put as a motto on his
State coach when in Ireland, “Xonrapui
ml rccepi”—(“I did not take by force, I
received.”) Some one asked Swift,
who didn’t like William. what
he thought the King had chosen
for his motto. “ Dutch cheese?”
When told he said, *vvitb a slight smile,
“Yes, but a receiver's as bad as a thief.”
The fraudulent, de facto President of
these United States is open to a similar
oriticism.
Beecherism in Omo.—The town of
Lebanon, in Warren county, Ohio, noted
principally for its educational institution,
has at last come to the front with a first-
class scandal, the role of hero in this little
social drama being represented by Rev.
Mason Chenoweth, alias Rev. J. M.
Wells, who stands accused of having pre
vailed on too man}’ of the fair sex to en
ter into a marital partnership.
A novelty was at last accounts exten
sively sold in Paris streets. It was a
picture with four heads., those of Queen
Victoria and the Enq>eror of Austria be
ing on the top, and those of the ('zar and
Sultan below. By folding the picture
four times, the united heads formed an
ingenious picture of Bismarck.
Sewer Gas Traps.—A correspondent
submits to the New York Times what he
considers a perfect sewer gas trap. He
says:
“I agree with General Viele that there
is no safety except in mechanical traps,
as very slight pressure will drive gas
through any water-seal. This is manifest
to even a child blowing soap bubbles with
a tobacco pipe. The trap I recommend
is an automatic mechanical trap, steam,
gas and water tight. It is of brass, almost
identical with the well known clack valve,
so familiar to machinists in connection
with steam enginos. It has, to seal the
outlet, a hollow cup, with a weighted
spindle and the concavity upward, which
admits the outflow of water, and then
shuts down firmly. If there is sewer gas
outside, it is closed a,U the tighter. The
top of the trap can be unscrewed bodily,
if necessary, to remove cigar ends, hair,
paper, etc., which may choke the pipe,
though the trap itself can never get out
of order. Ic is exceedingly simple and
durable, and if ever}* drop of water were
to evaporate, it would still be as perfect a
protection against sewer gas. ”
3Irs. Hardin, who dwelt near Bijou
Basin, was left with her two children
just previous to the recent terrific snow
storm. The snow drifted and the wind
howled about her house. Her provisions
were nearly exhausted, and the fire was
dying out. The supply of matches had
given out, and all the efforts of the
mother to infuse life into the dying em
bers in tlie stove proved fruitless. The
snow fell through the chimney and
smothered the fire, and after an hour’s
effort to keep herself and the children
warm, the mother, brooding over the
possible result of the storm and wonder
ing at her husband’s long absence, gath
ered her children in her arms and ven
tured out into the storm, intending to
make an effort to reach the house of her
father-in-law, which was three miles dis
tant. The next day her lifeless body
was found buried in the snow clasping
her two dead children.
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