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i.KRMAN or FR. CODES-
O iRXISG NEWS.
s.,n:jg t h** mountain heights ascends,
. melts at the sunbeam's darts,
^ t|„- first gn*en leaflet sends,
first sweet flowret starts—
fh' i: the "'inter's rain,
ui the "'inter's pain.
r ,. n< i m the valley seen again,
heights to the valley ring:
„. 3 .,t.ful is the time of Spring!”
ii.
• sun lu-ks on the glacier's ice,
■,\ ii let springs from the hill,
lur its dress of green applies,
birds the woods with music fill;
,’hen tie* herbs so green
ill with balm the scene.
11 tii.- >ky is in blue splendor seen—
r ,,m the heights to the valley ring:
leant if ul is the time of Spring!”
ill.
i it. spring s most beauteous time.
,, me the heart disclosed its grace—
niaei **o wondrous, fair, divine,
■ed t!;-. kiss and thine embraced
liHMiph the woodlands rang
ii.l tii.* brook s|>ed gaily to the main—
,m the heights to the valley ring:
I. .Mutiful is the time of Spring!”
K. K.
Georgia Affairs.
f.Ttih/.ers have been sold in Toccoa
i- 't.ite than in the previous year.
of Toccoa is on the increase,
mired wagons from Franklin and
unties left there in one day last
i\ morning a terrible accident oc-
i Atlanta, which should be a warn-
>ov> against jumping; on railroad
in motion. According to the
ion ‘ the morning passenger train on
tern and Atlantic Hoad was being
.i -\\ itch engine from the passenger
the yard where the trains are made
taken apait. As the ears moved
owly several boys jumped on the
t take a free ride. Among these
[ about ten years old, the son of Mr.
[Juggles, who resides on Foundry
eh the ears were crossing Forsyth
mug Kuggles endeavored to jump
platform. Unfortunately his feet
tnd he fell on the track. In an in-
heavy coach behind him had passed
ii and his left leg was frightfully
j«>t below the knee.** llisleghadto
ated. and at last accounts he was
well as could be expected.
half-past three o’clock Tuesday
the residence of Mr. Ilenry Krouse,
>trret, Atlanta, was discovered
The tlames were finally arrested,
ever, until a loss of about $3,000
inflicted. It is believed the fire
m‘ of \V. (i. Rivers, arrested and
« ith assault with intent to murder
II. Colvin iu AugustOy has been
1 at the request of the prosecutor.
hi.a II. doubling, relict of the Kev.
doubling. I). I)., oue of the first
' of tin- Theological Seminar}’ at
l died at the residence of her son-
lie Rev. W. M. Reid, in Sumter
n the l*th instant, in the ninety-
r of her age. She was the mother
v. Frank douiding, of Georgia,
'The Young Marooners.”
o of Crawford named Winfrey, son
iail contractor from that place to
n. robbed Rev. J. C. Gibson, a well
iptist minister, of seven hundred
-t week. He confessed the crime,
it four hundred dollars was re
lic has been arrested, as has also
’at her, who is charged with eom-
' in the theft.
Mrs. de
i I'egram, of Baltimore.
iiainesviile is the latest candidate for a
^ 1: mint. It bases its claims upon the
round-* tliat it has good railroad facilities
id is situated in the heart of the buliion-
P°“Ucing regions of Georgia.
seven cents a dozen in Dalton.
Wuite a number of Northern visitors who
ite bei*n spending the winter in Florida
s’their health propose to spend the sum
«■ iu j »ulton
Monday night the residence of Mr.
• J- Smith, No. W Reynolds street, Au-
i^a. was entered by burglar, who car-
^ off six teaspoons, nine tablespoons,
veral forks, a lmt, flour, sugar and
lies articles. He effected an entrance by
'■’ij through a slat of one of the window
ind? and then raising the latch opened the
:i i..u The robbery was not discovered
day morning.
W. King,of Augusta,has taken
s in defense of dancing. She
diing wrong in what she considers
i enjoyment.
'1 c ouple woke up a Franklin
jH'tice at two o’clock a. m. a few
• to make them man and wife. He
knot. No cards.
^• v* i i] arrests for illicit distilling have
aly hn-u made in Emanuel and Tattnall
tnttl Wedtu
Miss Loui?
ip the cudg.
A c.
'OUnty
days si
tied th.
Tii.
and i
terv i
>eet for a good fruit crop in
>ty is llattering.
ta Argus, 27th: “On last Thurs-
' Shipp levied on a tombstone
i -' enclosing it, iittheceme-
ille, to satisfy a li. fa. issued by
1 tty Odette: “A wind storm
iis section on Sunday last and did
to fencing, trees, etc. The
ngregation at Monroe, in this
• ;’ v very much frightened—the
ding having been shaken and
'Ttunjed. A considerable panic
ui fortunately no one was injured,
up the services.*’
>wainsboro Herald: “We spent
- hi't week in the country, aud were
i ‘tied to observe that our farmers
are advanced with t heir work. The
■e been thoroughly prepared, and
"* the corn planted. Cotton lands,
ra! thing, are ready for planting, or
The small grain crop—wheat and
- king remarkably welL A large
been devoted to these import-ant
* n? - ;t nd if no disaster befalls the yield
v * ry great. We are a little appre-
it planters are investing rather too
Metl*,
Chun'
alnios
three
mud
kn.ls
the r
nearly sc
i*
Mil
h<
much •* 1 ■■*?
»k“t ln commercial
the
contrary.”
manures, hut hope to
t r , 1 u Pon as a dead certainty. A con
ut ^- v ' lI,e Casttte, has been fully agreed
tor i ,-‘ ieh was eVen better than the direc-
art-V i' v ' foul d be make. The company
dr ’ :v Colonel Dickinson five thousand
irr»T r 111 H lone >’ " hen a specified amount of
diii, 1 'Slivered at Toccoa, five thousand
wllcn half the road is ironed, and
e Uiousaud dollars when the work of lay-
* r tlj *' o'on is completed to Elberton. The
or ?{*“>'*1*0 to have the cross-ties ready
tj. . ' of the road as needed in laying
„ iron. Colonel Dickinson is to face up
r '*.ul bed, furnish the iron and lay it
vL D ’ H, Pply two locomotives, two passen-
s - caches, and all necessary box a4id plat-
xini t ars ’ au< ^ the depots at ElbertOb
bun* v C<:< ' a — t ^ le Inteiweniug depots to be
« - v b y the company. The road will be
*1'^'“' '1 and furnihhed in thoroughly first-
g£ra ?I * V e ’ aU(i tlirou & b freights to Elberton
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
E ire s in the woods are all the raire Inst
TZ' -' U “ :nB Wal ‘ l '"»"‘ of WVdneila. 1
, SuI,da - v Iast - »“ several different
tt^Vr ouUide of tLe city, it was no-
ii th ? 1 th , re wcre ,ires burning in the
th“?V an<iS - ° ne or two instances we hear
that fences and small houses were burned,
the wind having been so strong that the
nf’/C fl° Ud n °} be controll ed. The origin
of the fires, so far as we have been able to
ascertain, was accidental.'"
.A, communication to the Dalton Enternri*
from Detroit, Kansas, show’s how greatlv
people have been humbugged into emigra
ting to that State. The writer adds: “Many
of our people will start South iu the fall of
the year for the purpose of farming. If
sufficient inducements were offered in North
Georgia they might settle there. I expect
n *y 8elf a, *>ut one hundred and
thirty persons, and if North Georgia desires
them to settle there it is time that some sys
tematic effort should be adopted.”
The winds of Sunday last seemed to have
done great damage in the way of producing
fares throughout the State, hut in no section
was this damage more severely felt than in
Warren county. From the Buena Vista
Ar;/H* we learn that “a fire broke out from
the new ground of Mr. J. F. Hollis, about
four miles southwest of town. It did no
material damage to Mr. Hollis, though his
house was. for a time, in great danger. It
i^nied considerable fencing on Major
Black s plantation. The fencing of the
portion cultivated by Mr. J. C. Rigsby was
greatlv damaged. Another fire broke out
from Mr. Stephen Swain’s plantation, burn
ing considerable fencing for Mr. Swain, Mr.
N. B. Butt and Dr. Hart. Another broke
out on the premises of Mr. Ben. Powel,
burning some fence for Mr. Powel, Mr. I.
M. Jordan. Mr. Reuben Hamilton and
Robert Hamilton. It burned, out Luke
Frasia, colored, catching his house several
times, but it was saved. He lost all his
fences. Another broke out from the place
of Dr. J. R. McMichael, destroying some
two thousand rails for him. Another origi
nated on the plantation of Mrs. M. A.
Wallis, burning some fences for her and
Major E. W. Miller. A fire at Glen Alta
burned some fence for Mr. Clarke.”
A serious and bloody affray occurred at
Thompson on Saturday night "last, between
W. D. Hodo and Joseph T. Kendrick, in
which knives were freely used. The McDuf
fie Weekly Journal gives the following parti
culars: “Hodo received a wound in the
breast across the nipple, and another under
the right arm. both extending to the ribs,
hut neither of them dangerous. Kendrick
received a terrible cut across the side of the
neck to the jawbone, making a ghastly
wound. The knife penetrated deep into
the neck, but fortunately struck the jawbone
and severed no important artery. At
the time of the fight it was thought
that both were mortally wounded,
hut Drs. Jones and Harrison, who
were promptly summoned, skillfully dressed
the wounds and pronounced them not neces
sarily fatal. Hodo is able to he up and walk
al»out the streets, but Kendrick is confined
to his bed at home. Marshal Jas. A. Sta
pler arrested both parties and placed them
under boud for their appearance before the
projier authorities to answer for violating
the laws, and, therefore, as the matter will
undergo judicial investigation, we refrain
from giving the circumstances which led to
ard accompanied the unfortunate diffi
culty.”
The Chronicle and Con.ditntionalbtt tells of
the recapture of a murderer, after an ab
sence of ten years, as follows: “ On the 18th
of last January a man named Washington
McDaniel was brought to Augusta and
lodged in the Richmond county jail, under
a bench warrant issued by Judge Bartlett.
McDaniel's career has been rather a strange
one. In 1868 he killed a man in Wilkinson
county, and two years afterwards was tried,
convicted of murder and sentenced to be
hung. He managed to effect his escape,
however, before tne day for execution ar
rived. A short time afterwards he was re
captured, hut while his capturers were con
veying him hack to his old quarters he again
escaped and made his way to Florida,
where he remained nearly three vears, pass
ing under the name of Charles Heath. He
then returned to Georgia, and for the past
fi ve years has been working for Perkins &
Bro.'at their saw mill in Burke county. Last
January he was identified as McDaniel,
arrested and brought to Augusta. We un
derstand that it is suspected that he is the
party who murdered a man named Cornwell
at one of the stations of the Central Rail
road, robbed his store and then set fire to
and burned it to the ground. Wilkinson
County Court will be iu session next week,
and McDaniel will be carried back and re
sentenced. He refuses to see any reporters
of the press.”
There has been a good deal of excitement,
says the Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
allst of yesterday, in Georgia Railroad stock
for the "past few days. “Last Saturday 100
shares of Georgia Railroad stock were sold
at 70. Tuesday an Atlanta broker purchased
in Augusta 85 shares at 77 and45shares at
78. This at once ‘bulled’ the market, which
assumed an excited tone, and rumors were
alloat that Mr. John H. James, of Atlanta,
was buying up all the stock he could find, it
having been reported that he was the pur
chaser of the 80 shares. Later in the day
300 shares were sold—250 of which brought
7Ci}4; 40, 70; and 10, 75^.7. It was soon after
wards reported that ahis stock had been
sold by Mr. James and this report, it was
said yesterday, was well founded. Rumor
had it that Mr. James telegraphed to Au
gusta Tuesday morning, after purchasing the
80 shares mentioned above, asking what 1,000
shares of Georgia Railroad stock could be
bought at, and soon afterward placed 300
shares on the market, which were imme
diately sold at 70 1 4,76 and 75 *.... Sixty shares
of the stock were sold yesterday at 75 and
the market closed quiet with offerings
at that figure. The transactions during the
past four or five days have been entirely be
tween brokers, no outside parties making
purchases. Yesterday a promineut Phila
delphia capitalist purchased $20,000 of Geor
gia Railroad six per cent, bonds at 75. It
lias been rare, we understand, for Northern
capitalists to come South for securities,
such securities generally being put upon the
Northern markets in large lots, but iu this
instance the capitalist referred to purchaseMl
the bonds at the Georgia Railroad Bank, in
this city, paying the price asked. Tii is is
an indication of the scarcity of good securi
ties at the North, and shows that Northern
capital is seeking investment in this section.
A large number of the Georgia Railroad six
per cents, have already been disposed of. and
the price will be advanced to 76 on the 1st
of April.”
The Wife of a Connecticut Legis
lator Eloping with a Farmer.—Lot
K. Brown, a thriving farmer, forty-five
years old. living in Preston township.
Conn., sold his farm for £2,400. with the
avowed intention, as soon as his affairs
were settled.7 of going West. Last
week the wife of Alfred Guile, an ex-
mcinber of the State Legislature, set out
ostensibly to visit a friend in New York
State. Subsequent events prove that
the farmer’s hasty determination to sell
out and the wife’s journey abroad were
parts of a mutual arrangement. Ml
Guile, who had lived peaceably with his
wife, was shocked to find on Saturday
that she had taken in departing money
and silver ware to the value of over
£1,400. He discovered Brown’s compli
cit}*, and demanded reparation for the
loss. This the latter promised to furnish,
and agreed io jneet Guile on Saturday
evening to settle; but when that time ar
rived he drove instead to n -Nation on the
Shore Line Railway, and took a night
train, probably to New York. The two
have not been"heard from since.
THE SPRING FASHIONS.
LouImvIIIc the Emporium of Fash
ion, in which l« Blended Western
Style with Southern Ta«te.
Mexican Girls’ Dance.—A feature of
society iu Presidio is the fandango, or
evening dancing party, which is a char
acteristic of the population of all the
rural districts of Mexico. A favorite
way of holding these soirees is for the
young of both sexes, and, indeed, not a
few of the old folks, gayly attired, to
collect at a house in the subuibs, and
there, beneath the soft shadows of cedar
groves, am! the light of the stars, dance
in the open air, with the green and mot
tled sward for a hall room d&or. The
Mexican girls of Presidio appear at these
parties looking quite liaudsome, and,
dressed in red and white, their robes
terminating a iittie below the knee, be
neath which their well-rounded limbs
swell in stockings of a color opposite to
the skirt above. These toilets, as well as
their wearers, are very pretty by torch
light under the cedars.—Cor. St. Louis
(i lobe-Democrat.
Mrs. Ciiataway. the keeper of Shake
speare's house at Stratford-on-Avon, was
not pleased with General Grant. She
says: “Generally people who come here
seem to have some interest in the place.
General Grant walked about with his
eyes fixed on the fioor—what there was
on the floor I don't know. lie didn’t
look at anything at all, not at the pic
tures nor the relics, and he didn’t say a length. .
word tiil he was goin^ out of the front turquoise ring upon the finger, the cuff
door, then he said ‘Thank you.’ That of chased silver. „
was the only speech he made here. Mrs. I There is great diversity of style in
Grant seemed to like it.” 1 dressing the hair. Finger puffs are very
Correspondence of the Morning Xetct.
Louisville, Ky., March 23.—Louis
ville of mu; years has been gradually
establishing for herself a reputation as
an authority in matters of taste and fit
ness in dress and fashion. Strangers
quickly recognize this fact upon enter
ing an assembly where our women pre
dominate. Occupying middle ground as
we do between the South and the East
whence Fashion issues her mandates,
while readily adopting fresh ideas and
designs, there is an absence of the dash
and that rigid adherence to given styles
that makes the dressing of the women of
the Eastern cities the first noticeable
and conspicuous thing aliout them.
The Southern woman never adopts the
extremities of fashion. Iu a manner
I»eculiarly individual she softens the out
lines and tones down the colors and
blends shades into one harmonious and
perfect whole. Her dress is subordinate
to her person and a foil to herself. Our
modistes and milliners import directly
from Paris each season marvellous beau
tiful creations; an Eastern woman ac
cepts these with a faith that questions not
because they l>ear the stamp of a French
milliner, and therefore there can he no
blemish in them. A Southern woman,
with a due understanding of her style
and the fitness of the model, accepts it
if it harmonizes with herself; if not, she
alters aud modifies and adds here and
there, exercising her originality and in
dependence, until she has something that
is a delight to the eye and a triumph of
cultivated taste. * The result is that
a large class of Southerners come
as far as Louisville in their search
for “something new under the sun,” and
are content to take back with them our
artistic productions as models of grace
and tasteful elegance.
After this lengthy preamble I trust
that a small measute of gossip upon the
fashions that prevail will not come amiss
to some of my Southern sisters, more
especially the younger portion, whose
sympathies arc usually so readily aroused
upou the subject
The kilt-plaited walking dress
established fact. The greater number
are made of black cashmere, consisting
of the skirt, just escaping the ground,
plaited on to a yoke fitting tightly over
the hips, and accompanied by a simple
long coat basque or half tight sacque,
or the English cut-away coat and vest. I
xYny lady at all expert with her needle
can make one of these suits without the
aid of a mantua maker. The skirt
made lengthwise, the material laid in
large side plaits pressed firmly down with
a warm iron; a tape strap sewed around
the middle of skirt on the inside so as to
catch each separate plait serves to hold
them evenly in place. A wide box plait
extends down the front, widening to
ward the bottom, and is studded with
rows of jet or steel buttons or is trimmed
with bows of ribbon. This wide plait
should be lined with cambric to sit well
These black suits will do best service as]
traveling dresses during the summer, for
which they are admirably adapted.
Some of these suits are more elaborately]
finished with the sash, which almost
takes the place of the overdress. Two
walking dresses worn by two of our
fairest belles were made of soft, pale
gray cashmere, a wide sash of the ma
ferial passing diagonally across the front
from the right and draping grace
fully low down on the left side of the
skirt. A deep fall of gray frirge edged
the lower side of the sash, the upper side
being trimmed with abroad band of vel
vet, garnet-colored in one and navy blue
in the other. One skirt was accompanied
by a long half-tight sacque, with large
square pockets, standing collar and cuffs
of navy blue velvet; the other was an
English cut-away, with deep vest, cuffs
and collar of garnet velvet.
Everything that is not a walking suit
is a fail train. These are easily made by
opening the back widths of a skirt of
walking length and inserting half way
up two widths cut en train ami wedge-
shaped; this of itself falls into a long
and graceful fan traip.
The Princesse polonaise is still worn in
the spring materials with the additional
features of revere and shirred puff:
wherever there is room for them.
The present style of dress is a great re
lief from the old bouffant; one then
could never sit down without serious
misgivings in regjird to the fate of puffs
and furbelows, and the painful apprehen
sion that we would never rise again as
we once were, as to our outer raiment.
A new feature in spring fashions is
the Carriek rape, which will appear ii
the greater number of suits this sprin^
and summer in percales and lawns as
well as bourettes. They consist of short
double or triple capes,one above the other,
the lowest one reaching to the waist, cut
to fit tightly over the shoulders. They
show off to advantage a pretty pair of
plump, sloping shoulders, but they are
pitiless toward angularity.
The bourettes aud Knickerbockers of
the winter are reproduced in soft, deli
cate shades in spring goods.
Pale blue grounds, dashed with (Lirker
blue, soft gray and fawn colors, splashed
and streaked with deeper hues, make up
beautifully, combined with trimming and
underskirts of silk to match. Silk and
woolen ^fringes enter largely into the list
of new trimmings. Jet is also revived
upon costumes, hats, and in the shape of
personal ornaments.
Bonnets have hardly settled themselves
into shape yet; Easter will bring out the
latest and best. Our ladies usually do
not pay strict regard to Easter toilettes,
as the weather in this latitude is gener
ally quite chilly at that time, and spring
costumes seem a little ahead of time; but
this season being unusually advanced
will doubtless allow something fresh and
spring-like.
The tendency in hats and bonnets
seems to he to fit the head closely, with
narrow brings turning back from the face,
more liecoming to most faces than Ihe
decided flare of those we are discarding.
They are principally, as yet, of straws
in all shades, black, navy blue,
yellow, brown and gray, simply trimmed
with twilled silk and bunches of natural
looking violets and pansies. The new
ribbons are mostly marvels of ugliness;
satin on one side and gros grain on the
other; one side a cardinal and the other
bronze green or sulphur ! They c annot
fail to make any bonnet an incongruous
tangle of stripes and streaks shocking to
the sight. The pretty fashion is revived
of wearing tiny bouquets upon the brea>t
or shoulder, usually the left. Dainty
clusters of violets aud tiny rose buds, a
leaf of geranium, a pansy and a sprig of
heliotrope form the prettiest of these
trifles.
Ladies have also adopted the fashion
of carrying exquisite bouquets to the
opera and theatre, which is something of
a novelty where flowers do not bloom
the year round for the asking. One car
ried by one of our prominent society
ladies a few evenings since consisted of
a huge calla lily, filled to its pearly brim
with blush roses and heliotrope. Could
anything be more unique or lovely?
The new ties «ui4 bows for neck wear
are in the faintest and most exquisite
shades of colors. Peach blossoms the
palest blue and several shades that are
compromises between ivory and white
and saimon, are those that promise to be
most popular. White illusion is much
worn about the throat, in full snowy
masses fastened without visible ends.
There are large assortments of orna
ments in every conceivable variety and
design iust brought on, in pearl, rilyer,
cut steel, jet t*na gilt. Daggers for the
hair, combs, buttcTrilL&s, vail and scarf
pins in endless confusion. One beautiful
little trinket was a pin in the form of a
gauntleted hand, of mother of pearl and
silver, the whole about three inches in
The hand was of pearl with a
much used; also short curls and friz-
zettes. 3Iany ladies are now allowing the
i short front hair which the recent ruinous
I fashion cut off and frizzed to grow out
and are returning to the false curls about
the face. Any lady can make her
self a “sealpet” by sewing a half
a yard of frizzettes neatly on a piece of
black foundation muslin (this answers
for blonde as well as dark hair), and
sewing a tine ribbon wire around the
edge. This enables it to bend and fit
itself to the head. Fasten on the front
of the head and place a row of finger
puffs just beyond it; arrange the back
hair in a French twist or roll it in the
figure 8. Many persons still wear the
chatelaine braid surmounted by the coro
net plait. There are few faces to which
this style is not becoming. Still an
other way is to comb the hair very
high on the head and arrange
in a loosely hanging chatelaine braid
clasped with a dagger or an arrow in
peail or gilt; an irregular mass of finger
puffs is grouped on top of the head, and
the whole is crowned with u handsomely
ornamented comb. Combs of pure ivory
can now be purchased from four dollars
up. Tlrs is a considerable reduction
from former prices. It is, after all, the
l>est economy to buy one of these real
ivories; they are always more or less
fashionable" because of their costliness,
and to possess one is almost as great
treasure as an old lace.
1 believe the good old style of train
bearing is about to be pleasantly revived,
and the fan trains are particularly adapt
ed to it. At any rate, one secs now and
then upon the streets a lady accompanied
by a ga}’ cavalier, gracefully bearing her
train In his hand as he walks at her side.
I wonder if the fashion obtains farther
South than Louisville? I am sure it is
style of skirt-supporter which the girl
community will pronounce infinitely pre
ferable to a tape string.
Coyle Douglas.
ALONG THE GULF RAILROAD
LETTER FROM Ol’R TRAVELING
CORRESPONDENT.
Sander*ville, Socially and ( oinnifr-
cially The Concert- fcfc IIcavy .Ylau-ft
Retreat’* — Newspaper*. Itev. .Ylr,
Hricknian vm. Kir. Mr. Ilarri-.
Sanders ville, March 2G.—Editor
Morning Xeics: There is no place
where a social visit is enjoyed more
heartily by the writer than at Sanders
ville. There is a general hospitality
manifested. I have more homes offered
me and more invitations extended than
can possibly be accepted during the
limited time alotted me at this point. So
ciety is good, cultivated and attractive.
The social gatherings are always plea
sant. The musical talent of the com
inanity is laid under tribute for the en
tertainment of the public and the eleva
tion of the tone of society. In this de
partment they have a brass band, a string
baud and a musical society. I had the
pleasure during my stay here to enjoy
one of these excellent concerts. The
performances would have done credit to
the older musical organizations of the
cities. This was the first ever given by
this society. The orchestra perform
ances were equal to any that I have heard.
There were some very good voices among
the singers. There was one of fine com
pass and richness of tone, and another of
remarkable sweetness, but the vocalists
could not do themselves justice because
of the ill adaptation of the room
in which they sang. It is to
hoped tliat a better place can
secured by the time they are ready for
another concert. One of the peculiar
charms of tlieir music was the clear and
distinct enunciation of the words of the
song. This is quite refreshing in these
fjishionable days, when sentiment and
language are sacrificed to melody. This
is a peculiar attraction of all of Prof.
Guttenberger’s pupils; they enunciate
tlieir words plainly.
Business here, as every where else, is
very much depressed, and duller now
than usual, because of the fine weather,
as every farmer is at home and at work
in the field. It has lieen one of the most
favorable springs known for rnakin^
preparations for crops, and hence the
farmers are all up with their work, with
a great deal of the corn planted, and
even some of it up already.
Washington county boasts of some of
the liest farms and some of the most en
terprisiug farmers iu the State. Their
county fairs are always a success, and
they are now planting with a view to make
the next October fair a greater success
than any which have preceded it.
The clerks have easy times just now
aud “heavy man’s retreat” is largely at
tended, 'flierc were five of us at rest
there, aggregating over one thousand
pounds. I ’ol. Pringle keeps strong chairs
and replenishes ofien.
The two newspapers—the Herald and
and the Courier—judging from their ad
vertising patronage, must be doing well.
There being no paper in Glasscock or
Johnson counties there is territory enough
to support both papers well. Professor
Whatley is telling what he kuows
about whisky and its influence
through the columns of the Courier,
while some smooth-pointed pen-holder
is “doing up” the lawyers in the columns
of the llerald. Both are inexhaustible
subjects, and will no doubt be entertain
ing to those seeking enlightenment upon
these interesting topics. In addition to
this, the Herald is graced each week
with a letter from the State capital, from
the pen of Colonel J. Ii. Sneed, one of
the most accomplished journalists and
writers in the South.
“A Home for Strangers” is established
here by Colonel J. N. Gilmore. I found
it all that it claimed to be, a home in
deed.
Rev. Mr. Brickman. of Savannah, has
lieen up at this point lecturing on the
New Church, lie made an impression
upon the public mind.
Rev. T. M. Harris, of Sandersville, is
replying to the “strange doctrines” advo
cated by Mr. Brickman. I heard but
one lecture of the course, which dealt
only with the intermediate state. It w
the presentation of the orthodox view of
that mysterious realm.
I go hence to Wrights ville, the county
site of Johnson county, where the spring
session of the Superior Court convenes.
Jack Plane.
Liebig’s Cure for Intemperance.—
The Scientific American contains an ac
count of an experimental test of Liebig’s
theory for the cure of habitual drunken
ness. The experiment consisted of a
simple change of diet, and was tried
upon twenty-seven persons, with satis
factory results. The diet proposed is
farinaceous, and in the cases reported
was composed of macaroni, haricot
beans, dried peas, and lentils. The
dishes were made palatable by being
thoroughly boiled and seasoned with
butter or olive oil. Breads of a highly
lutinous quality were used, care being
taken to prevent their being soured in
course of preparation. In his explana
tion of the theory, Liebig remarks that
the disinclination for alcoholic stimu
lants, after partaking of such food, is
due to the carbonaceous starch contained
therein, which renders unnecessary and
distasteful the carbon of the liquors.
Gay Widower Burnside.—Senator
Burnside, the beautiful, is a conspicuous
figure on Washington’s fashionable
drives. He has a stylish T-cart, drawn by
one superb horse, elegantly caparisoned,
a liveried footman iu top boots, high hat
with rosette, olive green livery, with sil
ver buttons, is in place, while beside the
Senator 1? always one of the fairest buds
from the capital s rose garden of beauti
ful girls.—Boston Host.
Three Remarkable Ladies.—Three
ladies were remarkable at the drawing
room last Thursday. 31 rs. Cavendish-
Bentinck wore a sort of sandals iulaid
with gold; 3Irs. Tom Brassy had a gor
geous train, resembling somewhat a pea
cock's tail, that floated from her shoul
ders—not her waist; and Lady Margaret
Beaumont carried in her hand a bouquet
worth a King’s ransom.—London World.
Burning of Lumber Bridge— Incen-
diarit-H at Work-Tlie C rop*—Geor
gia Luergy on Cieorgla Soil—The
.llorning Ne\%* — The Religion*
Spirit—Champion Fi*h Eater of
Georgia.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Xevs.
Johnston’s Station, A. & G. R. R,
3Iarch 28.—About one o’clock on Tues
day last Lumber bridge, fifteen miles
from here, at the crossing of Beard’s
creek on the road leading from Danen to
Reidsville, in Tatnall county, was dis
covered by an elderly lady living in the
immediate vicinity to be on fire. She
hastened with a bucket of water to extin
guish ihe flames, and finding the fire
had got beyond her control sent
the alarm down the road to her neigh
bors: but it was too late, for the wood of
the bridge, well seasoned and dry, con
sumed rapidly, and in about an hour the
entire structure was gone.
This bridge, fifty feet long, spanned
the above named creek at this point, be
tween Liberty and Tatnall counties. It
was built by both counties about two
years ago, cost about four hundred dol
lars, and was not insured. Its loss will
be a temporary inconvenience to a
large number of citizens and to
the mail carriers, all ~ of whdm
will have to cross in dry weather at
Platt's ford, higher up the creek, or go
by way of Hall's old bridge, through a
low and desolate looking country, where
the roads are quite bad and the distance
considerably increased by the circuit.
A short time liefore the fire broke out
two men went beneath the bridge, and it
is suspicioned that they set it on fire,
possibly with a view of a contract to
build a new structure. The people are very
indijniant, and arc willing to offer a re
ward for the apprehension of the incen
diaries. .
The 3Iorning News is regarded by
the people of this section as the best
paper published in the State. The
weekly edition is much admired and is
daily increasing in favor.
Planters are putting in corn. Wherever
we go on * the line of this road,
leading to Reidsville, there are
large droves of cattle in splendid
condition feeding by the roadside on the
fresh sprouting wiregrass. There ap
pears to lie considerable land sown
in oats, which are growing well in spite
of the iong spell of dry weather, just
broken this morning by a heavy rain of
several hours’ duration.
A few new houses are built, and there
are rigns of active industry prevailing
iu every direction. The Lilierian exodus
will not seriously affect the people of this
neighborhood, for along the road in a
distance of forty miles or more, it is no
ticed that lawyers, doctors, ex-memliers
of the Legislature, also a member of the
recent Constitutional Convention, are
out in the field doing their own plant
ing and other work. Up in Tat
nall I came across a young man well
known on the Bay in Savannah who has
thrown down hia cane and kid gloves
and other superfluities of dress ami gone
to planting. He built himself a house,
mostly with his own hands, married an
estimable young lady up there, and last
year raised a good crop. He is full of
life and deservedly independent and
proud of what he has done. In the same
neighborhood is a youn^ man, formerly
on the Savannah police force, doing
equally well. Tliirty-tive miles from
here in the opposite direction, that is
towards the coast, I suddenly met a
young man driving a team of oxen.
He looked sun burned and hardy, and
I would not have recognized him as one
of the former attaches of the 3Iokning
News had he not lifted his head, smiled
and burst out with a most hearty saluta
tion. It is not necessary to go to Texas:
Georgia energy applied to Georgia soil Is
ill tliat i' regulate to satisfy the dreams
of the would-be Texan agriculturist.
The Rev. 3Ir Palmer, of the 3Iethodist
Church, came here yesterday afternoon
according to announcement, and preached
in a hall at the station to a large congre
gation. The religious spirit of the peo
pie is reviving. Two Sunday schools
were organized lately and are largely at
tended.
The champion fish eater of Georgia
resides near 3Iorgan lake, a few miles
from here. He is a great lover of that
tribe, and it is said has eaten so many
redhorses, shad and other fish lately, that
he is confined to his bed. unable to turn
over or put on his clothes on account of
the many bones protruding through his
skin. F. 3\ . S.
FRANTIC WITH SORROW.
A Woman Jump* from a Sleeping
Car Window While It 1* at Full
Speed—Death of Her Husband En
Voyage the Cause of Her De»pera-
tion.
Cincinnati Gazette, March 22.
On the train of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad that left this city on
Friday night of last week was a party en
route from Florida to Akron. It would
lie hard to find a sadder story than that
which the presence of this party on that
train calls up. In brief it was this: Only
a short time ago 3Ir. Phillips, one of the
leading citizens of Akron, Ohio, pro
prietor of a manilla paper manufactory
in that place, suddenly found himself
losing his hitherto excellent health.
Alarmed at this change from health to
debility he consulted^ a physician, who
told him his only hope was to go to a
warmer climate. His mother and sister
were opposed to the journey, as they
thought him unable to endure" it; but he
was fully convinced of the propriety of
the step, and went a few weeks ago to
Florida, accompanied by his wife. The
journey prostrated him, and he tele
graphed for the old family physician to
come to him. The physician went and
found 3Ir. Phillips apparently better, but
deeply intent on going home to die. He
felt that he could not recover, and his
whole desire was to come home and die
among his friends. The- physician
yielded to the sick man’s earnest en
treaties and the three started homeward.
3Ir. Phillips was buoyant with hope at
the start and seemed better for a while,
but on the second morning he was dead,
and the journey was continued with the
dead body on the train. His poor wife
was almost crazed. She felt that she
w ould be blamed for having taken him
home to die, and as she neared Cincin
nati her grief and dread of the appre
hended blame that would fall on her
gave the physician alarm. When the
train left Cincinnati she seemed to be
more calm, and late at night she retired
to her liertli. The physician thought
she would sleep after so much exhaus
tion, and he. worn out w’ith so much
watching aud anxiety, went to sleep in a
berth opposite.
When the train neared Akron early in
the morning the physician arose, and to
his horror, when he went to awaken
Mrs. Phillips, fouud her berth empty and
the window open! Search was made all
through the train, but she w’as nowhere
to be found. When the train stopped at
Akron the poor physician was almost
speechless. How could he give to the
sorrowing friends the dead body of Mr.
Phillips, and tell them that his wife had
committed suicide?
The telegraph wjis used at once to get
tidings of the missing woman, but it was
several hours before any response came,
and then it was announced that the wo
man wras lying at a house in a little vil
lage some distance off the railroad, not
far from 3Ianstield. A train was char
tered and friends listened to bring her
home. They found her in bed, con
scious, but almost exhausted. The peo
ple said that she knocked at their door a
little while liefore daylight, and when
they opened the door they found her all
covered with mud and unable to tell her
name or anything about herself. They
took her in and kindly cared for her, but
it was some hours before she became
conscious. She explained that after she
went to her berth she could not sleep.
She finally opened the window aud looked
out. It was raining, and the feeling that
she was rapidly approaching her home
brought an undetinalile dread and a pow
erful impulse to escape it. With this
feeling she threw herself out of the win
dow while the train was in full motion.
She fortunately struck upon a sandbank,
and was thus saved from immediate
death as well as from severe injury.
How she wandered so far from the rail
road to the house where she was found
she could not tell, aud it is hard to tell
how’ she found strength for such a task.
It was late in the afternoon w’hen the
special train brought her to her home,
where she still lies in a critical condition.
THE WEDDING OF ROSEBERY
ROTHSCHILD.
Some ol .Yli** R»th»eliild’* Clothe*
Wedding Pre*ent* from Ameri-
A Reminiscence of General Breckiu-
ridge.
State Senator Johnston, of Kentucky.
The most prominent events of his life
have passed into history. I will mention
one, however, which was so clouded by
the smoke of batrie that it probably
escaped the historian's eye. That inex
orable old Virginian, General Jubal A.
Early. bail been assigned to duty in the
valley of Virginia with a command, in
cluding that of General Breckinridge, of
less than fifteen thousand men, for the
purpose of entertaining Sheridan’s forces,
numbering over forty thousand, and
keeping them away from Richmond. We
hail many desperate encounters in which
I had opportunity to admire the skill,
courage, coolness and daring of General
Breckinridge. At the last battle of
Winchester, after lighting all day, the
two armies seemed by mutual consent to
rest a moment for the final struggle.
The smoke of battle drifted from the
field, and discovered massed iu our im
mediate front, at close range, an army
large enough to annihilate the handful of
men opposite to them. The prospect
was demoralizing—disorder would be
destruction. It was a supreme moment.
General Breckenridge seized it and rode
boldly out in front, and along the lines
between the armies within point blank
range of ten thousand hostile muskets.
He did not grasp a standard and wave it
aloft, or draw and flourish his sabre, ne
imply moved along with the composure
and majesty of a god, while two armies
looked on with breathless homage. When
he returned to our lines and quietly or
dered the retreat, it was executed
with precision and deliberation, our little
army presenting an impassable wall of
fire which the assaults of the enemy were
powerless to break.
Two Smart Young 3Iex.—About a
week ago there were two smart young
men who got on a Burlington and Cedar
Rapids train and laid themselves out to
amuse and instruct the passengers. Very
many funny things said and very many
funny things did these two brilliant
young men,land it did seem as though
Providence had been just too kind to the
other passengers to let them ride on the
train with such smart voung men. But
presently there loomed up for them a
colossal opportunity, when a lady, at
tended by a little girl and a little dog,
came into the car. The two young men
ied with each other in saying funny
tilings about the pup. Presently the
funniest young man said, in tones of
perplexity": “Well, let me see, they
make dogs pay on this train, don’t they?*’
And then the lady turned around and
said in just the driest tones you ever
heard a lady say anything, “Then you’d
better get off before the conductor comes
in.” There was a great deal of talking
and a great deal of laughter in the car
between the place where that accident
occurred and Burlington, but the men
who were killed at the siege of Jerusa
lem were noisy, roaring, howling baccha
nalians a week ago in comparison with
those two young men for the rest of the
tnp.—Burlington Hairkeye.
A Strange Dream Fulfilled.—A
singular dream case is reported from St.
Thomas, on the Canada Southern Rail
way. A week ago Jesse 3IcConnell, a
brakeman, was killed at Harwich while
coupling cars. His remains were brought
home to his widowed mother, and that
night she dreamed she saw two coffins,
one of Jesse’s and one containing the
body of her son James, also a brakeman.
She was so disturbed by this that early in
the morning she telegraphed to James,
asking him to come on at once to his
brother’s funeral. He answered tliat he
was on his way, but he was killed at
Brigdcn. twenty miles from home, by
falling off the platform of the car. His
remains were conveyed to his mother,
and, true to her dream, her two sons lay
dead in the house together.
The London correspondent of the New
York Herald, m his telegraphic account
of the marriage of Lord Rosebery to
Hannah de Rothschild, says that at the
civil ceremony ihe bride wore a morning
dress of brocaded silk, a gray Cashmere
cloak lined with ermine, a white bonnet,
pearl gray trimmed, and with rose color
ed ribbon, white ostrich feathers, tipped
with pink, and a border of pearls. The
only jewelry visible was a plain gold
bracelet on the right wrist. At the
ceremony in Christ Church the bride
was seen to be of stately presence. She
was now clad in white satin, nearly
covered with Brussels lace, rows of
orange blossoms alternating with flounces,
and a vail of Brussels lace. A wreath
of orange blossoms was on her head, and
her only jewels were ear-rings of pearls
and diamonds. The following are some
of the principal toilets: A walking cos
tume of poult de soie-aquatique and natt
jardiniere, with a plain petticoat and
body, forming a long train, cut square,
and gracefully caught on one side. A
visiting dress of light blue brocade,
with bronze velvet petticoat, trimmed
with blue silk and wide fringe feather
trimming, long brocade basque and
bronze velvet waistcoat. A walking
castume of dark blue marine brocade
over a velvet petticoat, draped elegantly
at one side, and long, handsome
fringe. A dinner dress, pompadour
lompas front, the skirt forming three
long friuged points, a long train lompas.
A visiting dress of blondine pompadour,
having wide bands of satin of the same
color, large pockets, and jeweled but
tons. A short costume of fancy gray
material, forming three waistcoats of old
gold colored satin, caught up with cor-
deliere. A costume of beige havanna
and poult de soie of sapphire blue, ban
deaux of blue velvet, embroidered with
the same colors anti shaded in the style
of Louis Treize. A dinner dress of white
satin damask, quite plain and very long,
with corsage slightly open in front, show
ing very full jabots of beautiful 3Ialines
lace, which are repeated thrice on the
skirt, caught up at intervals with bou
quets of lily of the valley, narcissus and
violets.
The lingerie is of exquisite material
and taste. The night dresses are of
batiste, striped with alternate rows of
Valenciennes and embroider}’—jalxits of
embroider}’ with ruches of Valenciennes
—a straight lace collar, with a ribbon
under the collar and around the sleeves.
The chemises are of the same material,
with a plastron, alternate embroider}’and
Valenciennes. Others of linen are hand
embroidered. White flannel underwear
of extraordinary fineness, trimmed with
Valenciennes, and a pink or blue ribbon
inserted. Handken-huffs trimmed with
splendid Valenciennes and Alencon
point lace. Stockings of white silk, with
the initials woven in. Dressing sacques
of w’hite cloth, embroidered in white
silk, with floral designs: some with
scalloped edges, trimmed with wide
Valenciennes or Chantilly. Dressing
gowns of the same, with deep borders of
embroidery, trimmed with Mechlin lace.
Every article is initialled II. R. in re
naissance style, and united in the centre
by the coronet of a countess.
Mr. August Belmont, of New Y"ork,
gave a silver coffee service, and 3Ir.
Beard, of New Y'ork, presented a picture
of the Earl and his bride in a gondola,
wiiicli the bridegroom is steering, and
which is drawn by six swans.
General Grant and the Van da li a.
—Objection is made in some quarters to
the use of the United States ship Vanda-
lia by General Grant anil his suite, and
several members of the House have been
asked to offer a resolution of inquiry on
the subject. It is possible tliat some
memlier may lie found who will do this,
although most of those who have been
spoken to on the subject appear to regard
it as an ungracious task. It is said in
behalf of the administration that it was
considered, in view of the position and
services of General Grant, public senti
ment would approve the placing of the
vessel at his disposal; also, that the ex
penses of the vessel have not been mate
rially increased thereby.
At a leading hotel, after a club dinner,
when the cigars were on, a gentleman
leaned back and asked one of the waiters
to bring him a cuspidor. “A phwat,
sur?” said the attendant, with a vacant
stare. “A cuspidor,” repeated the gen
tleman hoarsely, with the annoyance a
man always feels at table in attracting
his neighbor’s attention to his order. “Is
it on the bill, sur?’’ said the waiter, peer
ing over the interrogator’s shoulder.
“No, you fool!” replied the now amused
diner. “I thought not,” said Patrick,
drawing himself up with an air of pro
fessional superiority. ^Cuspidor is out
of season, sur!”
An English writer calls attention to
the fact tiiat the failure of the potato in
Ireland in 1846 gave an almost new popu
lation to the United States and to the
British colonies. This writer thinks
tiiat if the millions of men oppressed by
famine in China are not debarred from
migration a great many of them will
seek the United States. Russia keeps
the Chinaman from Europe; but only the
sea keeps him from Western America,
where capital encourages him.
The Dunlap family in New York ap
pear to lie having a comfortable time.
Thomas Dunlap is Commissioner of
Juries on a salary of £15,000 a year. His
subordinates are the following persons,
according to the list compiled by the
New Y’ork Citv Record, viz: Thomas J.
Dunlap, Jr.. Frank P. Dunlap, William
Dunlap. John J. Dunlap, all sons of the
Commissioner. A. J. Keegan, the Com
missioner’s cousin, and Frank D. John
stone, the Commissioner's brother-in-
law.
The aerophone is the latest wonderful
development of Edison s phonography.
The vibrating diaphragm, instead of re
gistering sounds on a cylinder of tin foil,
as in the phonograph proper, in so ar
ranged as to ojien and shut valves in a
steam whistle, and 3Ir. Edison says that
before long he shall have the thing so
nearly perfected that one of his machines
will utter words distinctly enough to be
heard miles away.
Dr. C. B. Eddy, of Finchville. Ky.,
who has recently imported from Canada
a drove of Berkshire hogs, has erected
for them the finest pen in the country.
It is made of heavy stone, and through
it runs a hallway six hundred feet long,
traversed by a stream of water. Perfect
light and ventilation have been secured,
and the entire cost has iieen twenty thou
sand dollars.
In the Kentucky Legislature a breeze
has been stirred by the introduction of
resolutions raising committees to investi
gate the cases of certain members charged
with drawing too much mileage by the
reporter of the Louisville Courierhour-
)uxl. These discrepancies were charged
to amount to from five to seventy-five
dollars apiece, and involved sixteen mem
bers of the House, whose names were
given.
A Decision Which Does not Decide
.AV»r York Post.
Senator 3Ierrimon has introduced a
biff to “regulate the counting of votes
for President and Vice President and the
decision of questions arising thereon.”
While it decides the controversy’ con
cerning the powers of the President of
the Senate and the two houses of Con
gress respectively in favor of the latter,
it does not secure a satisfactory settle
ment of differences in other respects.
After providing for the appointment of
tellers by the two houses to make a list
of the votes and to count them, it directs
as follows:
“If upon the reading of any such
certified lists by the tellers any question
shall arise in regard to counting the votes
therein listed and certified, the same hav
ing lieen stated by the piesiding officer,
the Senate shall thereupon withdraw,
and said question shall be submit
ted to the Senate for its decision; and
the Speaker of the House of Representa
tives shall in like manner submit the
said question to the House of Repre
sentatives for its decision; and no
electoral vote or votes from any State to
the counting of which objections have
been made shall be rejected except by the
affirmative concurrent vote of the Senate
and House of Representatives.
“If more than one certified list shall be
received by the President of the Senate
from a State, purporting to he certified
lists of electoral votes given at the last
preceding election for President and Vice-
President in such State, all such certified
lists shall be opened by him in the pre
sence of the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives when assembled to count the
votes; and that return, and that only,
from such State shall be counted which
the Senate and House of Representatives
acting separately shall concurrently de
cide to be true and valid votes.”
The objection to Mr. Merrimon's plan
is that it reallv provides for no settlement
whatever of disputed questions. At best
it amounts to an agreement to leave them
unsettled. A Presidential election de
cided according to this plan, provided
the bill should pass, undoutyedly would
be decided lawfully; but the method of
decision would scarcely be regarded as
satisfactory. The scheme, indeed, is
destructive of its own object; for, while
it evidently proceeds upon thj assump
tion that each house has an equal right
to decide, it really gives the power to de
cide to a single house. Suppose that
the vote of New Y’ork is objected tp
as irregular. There is good ground
for the objection, but partv feeling
runs high, andt^ere is a party division on
the question. The Democratic House of
Representatives sustains the objection,
but the Republican Senate rejects it. The
vote is therefore counted, and it deter
mines the choice of President. Now the
theory is that the two houses shall have
equal rights in the matter of deciding
whether the vote shall lie counted, but
one house really decides. It is well
enough that the presumption shall lie in
favor of the vote; but the presumption
I c annot be regarded as a broad '*ud aatia-
fictory settlement; it u merely a conve
nient expedient in the absence of any
method of settlement.
Again, suppose ft case of more than
one return trom a State. Take the actual
ease of t begun last year. The Cronin
return and the regular return are sub
mitted. Under the pressure of party
feeling the Democratic House of Repre
sentatives votes in favor of the Cronin
return, and the Republican Senate in
favor of the regular return. According
to this bill Oregon would lie dis
franchised because, since the two
houses failed to agree upon a return,
both returns would lie rejected. Could
this be called a satisfactory decision ?
It would be rather a deliberate failure to
decide. 3Ir. Yiemmon’s plan would
work well so long as no dispute arose—
as indeed any plan would. Nobody
would lie injured by the Vice President’s
counting the votes so loqg as there was
no difference qf opinion as to what votes
ought to be counted. The moment such
a difference occurs, that is, the moment
any question comes up U» be decided,
this plan for deciding it fails.
The bill is a mere makeshift. It fur
nishes nothing more than an escape from
a block or a violent collision; and all that
can be said in its favor is that it is to be
preferred to these. The country, how
ever, wants something better than a
makeshift. It wants a me&sure which
shall show distinctly what questions may
properly be decided, and shall provide
for deciding them, not for leaving them
undecided. Congress is delaying too
long to make such provision.
A LITTLE FLO >YER-M AKER’S
DEATH
Said to lw PolHouod. But \% itli What
Ha* Not !!«•«• n Dett'rinlued.
• -Vnr York World 25th.
A cab was just moving away from the
door at No. 1 Ylontgomery street yester
day afternoon when a reporter of the
World called to ascertain the facts con
ceming the death of little Man’ Ann
Dougherty, whose father and mother had
only that moment returned from the
funeral and burial of their only child.
A few moments later 3Irs. Dougherty
was seated in a neat little front room on
the fourth floor and narrating the ac
count of her daughter’s sudden illness
and death.
“3Iy husband,” said the woman, “had
lieen "sick and out of work for some
time, and last August my little girl got a
place in a Broadway artificial flower
store—Strauss A Bianchi’s. After she
had been working on the flowers a few
weeks I noticed that the <*olor of her
hair began to change in front. When
she went there her hair was light brow n,
like mine, but it began to get reddish
like. I spoke to her about it and she
said it was the bronze they used in
making the flow ers. There was also a
change in her complexion, but I thought
it was only dust-like and would
all come off. She was alwavs well,
and last .Thursday night wLen she
•ame home she was unusually gay and
lively, and seemed to be very glad to
see her father when she got home. She
went to ben the same as ever, but Friday
morning she was uot well enough to get
up. I came home that evening and
found that 3Iary had been in bed all dav.
My si ter had done everything she could
for her, but whatever she ate or drank
w’as thrown right up again. During the
day my sister hail given her a milk punc h,
and the little thing said she felt better
after it. She had been asking for w’ater
all the time, but she couldn’t keep it
down. She was pale and very weak, and
when she tried to stand up her limbs
•ouldn t support her.”
“How was she the next day?”
“She kept getting weaker, and I went
for Father C^uin to ask him to come and
tell us w’hat to do. I had no money to
pay a doctor, and I knew* that Father
(Juin was a skillfulman and would tell us
w’hat we should do. Father Quin come
right away. He knew my little 3Iary,
for she had been confirmed and made her
first communion in his church. He said
right aw'ay that 3Iary was very sick, aud
he went for Dr. Welch. They came back
and held a private consultation. They
didn’t want me to hear what they said
and I came out. The doctor prescribed
for her and the medicine seemed to stay
on her stomach. But the next morning
eai ly she was so bad that I went for Fa
ther Quin again, for I wanted him to be
here. Father Quin came up immediately
in his slippers. The doctor was sent for
also, but before he got here Mary was
dead.”
Mrs. Dougherty was asked to describe
more minutely the changes which had
taken place in Ylary’s complexion:
For a long time 1 took but little
notice of it,” said she, “liecausc 3Iary
aid it was only the dust of the bronze.
But about five or six weeks ago it be
came worse. Her face and hands were
yellow and greenish like, and even her
bawl and handkerchiefs were of the
same color. I don’t know’ whether it
was Paris green or what it was. The
color wouldn’t wash off.”
Dr. Welch said that when called in he
found the symptoms to be peculiar, but
at once concluded that the child w’as suf
fering from the effects of poison. There
was nausea, ana inia and a weak pulse.
Although she was naturally pale her face
was sallow’, and on close inspection a
greenish tint was distinguishable. He
examined her and found that all the or
gans were in a healthy condition,
save a little weakness of the heart’s
action and a derangement of the
stomach. He questioned her about
the nature of her work, and asked her
w’hether any other girls had got sick iu
the store where she worked. She said
that she had heard of three or four get
ting sick there and dying soon after, but
didn’t know the cause. The doctor found
her to be a child of unusual intelligence
and ready to follow out all his instruc
tions. Although he was satisfied that
she had been poisoned, he did not antici
pate so speedy a climax, and w^s sur
prised when he arrived Sunday morning
and found her dead.
^Messrs. Strauss A Bianclu said yester
day that no Paris ijreen is used in their
establishment, anifthat picric acid w’as
the substance used for producing green
colors.
A Coroner’s inquest was opened yes
terday by Coroner Ellinger, but the testi
mony was not all taken.
Bell-Punch Revenue.
New York Post.
The method of collecting a revenue
from reUiil liquor sales by means of a
bell-punch arrangement, which was a
subject of considerable ridicule when in
troauced in Virginia about a year ago,
has proved so practical and jiipular iu
that State that its introduction is seri
ously proposed in other States, and latest
of all in New Y’ork. 3Ir. Brooks having
offered a resolution in the Assembly
calling for a report on the subject. TTie
Yloffett register in in Virginia is not
a bell-punch such a3 is used iu the street
cars, but a box measuring eight inches
by four, containing open dials repre
senting units, tens, hundreds, etc., up to
one million. Whenever a bartender re
ceives pay for a drink he touches a spring
which registers the drink and gives
notice thereof by ringing a bell. For
each alcoholic drink sold Virginia collects
two and a half cents, and for each malt
drink half a cent.
The register is very popular in Vir
ginia foi several reuses. Taxpayers
like it because it has shown its ability to
relieve them of a considerable part of
their State dues. Owners of tars favor
it because it puts an end to the credit
system, and forces bartenders to be hon
est ; and a general argument in its behalf
is the fact that it compels a class to pay
a State tax who comprise many persons
for whom the State is put to expense
and who have never paid any tax liefore.
The revenue from the register in Vir
ginia Is expected to amount to about
$600,000 during this year. If the state
ment is correct that £60.000.000 a year
are expended in the retail liquor business
in this city, then, estimating the average
cost of a drink at ten cent* »ud the
at one and a half a drink, the city
would, under a rigid enforcement of the
law, secure an annual revenue of £1)00,-
b00. In Virginia a regular license is re
quired in addition to the register tax,
from all liquor dealers. No law on the
subject would he satisfactory here which
did not put the trade under some kind of
supervision, and give a competent body
power to refuse licenses to persons in
w’hose hands they would be abused.
TOM SCOTT
A- fn..r«clne7^,„ „ r R nllro , d
Mlwtory.
WaAington Smtind.
Both houses of Congress stil, po,*,*. *
conside. jble number of members who
ure favoring Tom Scott s Tei^ Fa^c
Railroad subsidy job of something of a
hundred mdlions. They call that • i u( 7
sidy, hut more properly » n v ,
srhemeshould be styled a donation" to
i M k* m 1 ' 1 ’ 1 mllli «ns. for if
that subsidy should be grants the Gov
eminent of the l nited States will never
get back a cent. Here U the proof for
that assertion, to which W e call the n-ir
ticular attention of Congress 1
One of the finest and Best pavine rail
roads in the Imted States is undoubtedly
the Pennsylvania Railroad, of which Ton.
Scott has for years be™ President and *
autocrat manager. As long as the stock
holders received tlieir dividends they did
not pay much attention to Turn Scott's
management of the road. But recently
something has gone wrong !UU 1 last
Tuesday a meeting of the stockholders
was held at Philadelphia, at which the
indignant stockholders pitched into Tom
Scott most lustily From ,|„. priKwd .
ings of that meeting, as published in ihe
Philadelphia papers, it appears that last
year the profit and loss statement showed
a loss of tfl0.1t!4.01T. We copy from
the Philadelphia Tun,, of March IT-
“What," exclaimed Mr. Oalviu, -has he
come of the ten millions We certainly
want to know wliat lm- made that terrible
hole In our finances!”
“Hear! Hear!” “Give us the reason"’
came from all parts of the house
Col. Scott: “Every dollar is i'„ the tr
urv vaults of the company. "
Mr. Galvin: “In what shape”
Isn't worth a penny ?" 1 raper “•*
Col. Scott: “In paper securities that have
depreciated to that amount.'' * ve
A Stockholder: “Ten millions lost In a
year, and scarcely a line to explain it in that
report!
4 ,u\ n £« e .7? t0ekh ? lder: “ But h "»' about
ftMl.Md '.loin sundry accounts, charged off
as no value? ’ To this no answer was
vouchsafed.
Buying the Empire Line without
the knowledge of the stockholders
aud of which Tom Scott himself
was one of the owners, and for
which he bail paid millions of dol
lars out of the funds of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, created another excite
ment unpleasant to Scott The indebted
ness of the Pennsylvania Railroad
amounts to the enormous sum of stisti
000,000. Colonel Scott asked of the
meeting to fund monthly fluo.issj „f the
earnings to serve as a sinking fund That
plan, however, did not meet with the ail-
probation of the stockholders Mr Todd
indignantly asked:
“Are we to go on without receiving any
benefit* from our Investment In this road'"
Aud more than that. tlSi.uoO.duO d,„.. D0 j
represent all our indebtedness. That Is a
guaranteed debt; and In addition we li e e
a loan debt of $80,000,000, so that the I’enn
sylv&nia Railroad is sailing along to-dav
with a debt upon its shoulders of ho l,un
drrtl md forty'milium* ' The intere-t ujioii
As the earnings last
this
$17,000,000.
year were $1H,000,000, a fair average where
are you going to get tl. JJO.OUO to' throw
into the sinking fund: ll„w | UI1 „ wm jt
take to absorb the debt! I have said 138
years. When that sweet bv and by comes
the world will have forgott.-a where the
tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to-dav
are, aud generation after generation of
stockholders will have gone down u, their
K ves without having enjoyed a dividend"’
iplause.]
That is the future of Scott’s Tcxas-
Paoific Railroad: Give him the millions
and he will be all right, but die stock
holders and the government never will
be.
Judge Leonard and His Engagements.
Washington Gorresporulewt Poston Herald.
Mentioning flirtations and engagements
naturally suggests the stories in circula
tion here aliout the very much engaged
member of the House of Representatives
who recently died in Cuba, presumably
of yellow fever. He was only thirty-
two years of age, but was a w idower,
and evidently determined to remarry as
soon as he could fix his affections per
manently on any one lady. Although
his engagement to the Cuban, whom Tie
called in the aid of the Secretary of Stftie,
and the Spanish Minister's wife to help
him to find, when his letters and hers
were evidently intercepted, was men
tioned openly, he did not hesitate to pay
most serious attention to many ladies
of this city. Reports always based on
“ good authority,” are rife that in
spite of his projected Cuban alli
ance, lie was positively engaged to two
ladies in Washington and one in Europe.
As he was a graduate of Harvard, per
haps there are claimants to his affections
in the vicinity of Boston. None of his
friends here appear to lielieve that he
died as alleged in tho telegram of Secre
tary Evarts, of yellow fever. The gos
sip in the House of Representatives, as
well as outside, has openly hinted at foul
play, at the hands of a Spanish rival, or
some one else Interested in getting him •
out of the way. Perhaps the impossi
bility of marrying all the ladies to whom
lie was more or less pledged may have
had something to do with bis death, for
suicide, under the circumstances, seems
as probable as death at the hands of a
rival. It being early in tfae season for
yellow fever, and hi*'being the only case
mentioned u* occurring recently in
Havana, suggests the doubt as to Judge
Leonard having been its victim. Sup
posing that foul disorder caused his
death, it appears strange that a request
should be made to send the corpse to the
United States, and that the Speaker of
the House should suggesi a committee of
Representatives to receive the body from
the vessel, and form an escort of honor
to the home of the parents of the de
ceased, in Westchester. Pa. Expres
sions of wonder are heard as to which of
his personal enemies, of whom he would
lie glad to be rid, the Speaker will ap
point on the committee.
Cotton Seed Oil Manufacture — To
the Editor of the Columbus Sun: Sm—In
your issue of the 20th, under the head-
of “Sunbeams,” I notice a short para
graph on cotton leed oil manufacture in
the South, which is erroneous. A ton of
cotton seed yields thirty-seven gallons of
oil, and Is worth fifty cents per gallon
(£18 50) in this market. The cake is
worth twenty-three dollars per ton in
New Orleans. In justice to the resources
of the South and *o your readers, I ask
you to publish this, as" it gives a correct
idea to those who may desire to go Into
that branch of business.
“Oil of Cotton Seed, ” Mississippi
Subsidies in England.—Times have
indeed elianged in England when the
British Government is anxious to defend
itself against the suspicion of subsidizing
steamships. Once England scattered her
money royally in aid <>f steam lines, but
she has grown wiser and more thrifty,
and as a rule now leaves those enter
prises to sink or swim according to their
deserts. The policy of the l nited
States, which is opposed to subsi
dies, is now quoted in Parliament as a
pattern for English imitation; and 92 to
117 members of the House of Commons
have voted to censure the government lie-
cause it is paying more for tarrying the
mails on the ocean than it is our custom
to pay, viz.: the sea postages alone. The
government could only defend itself by
the plea that the steamship companies
received no subsidies in fact, hut were
barely paid for the work done, and that
the arrangement could be terminate*.! on
six months’ notice, There was no charge
of extravagance again>t the Ylinistrv.
The large vote for the censure must lie
considered evidence of ihe strong aver
sion the English poople now feel to the
principle of subsidies, of which Great
Britain was once the staunch upholder.
N. F. Jovfneil of Commerce.
The Philadelphia Icedger, remarking on
the ancient saw which requires men to
get up early in tho morning, says:
But there is a questionable practice of
n not
•ss tliat
working before breakfast which is not
The new English war songs are very
poor. One of the spnghtliest says;
I'm satisfied tfaere’i no decay
In British pith and pluck;
Before the world we'll have our say,
And trust to "strength," not "luck!"
We're means! we've right! we've common
sense’
We've courage! force! and skill:
So—hang the question of expense!
Old England s England still!
The Pnnce^of Waks visited the office
of the Paris sxgaro recently. A special
copy of the journal was struck off for
him on vellum, with a border sketched
by two prominent artists.
virtue by any means, hut a proc»*jiM
may be pernicious and exhaustive, lue
sagacious French, whose second break last
comes at eleven o’clock or noon, have
their big bowl of coffee and roil lie*ore
they get—figuratively speaking—ou then
legs for the day. But there arc people so
injudicious as to consider that thty are
taxing a constitutional, in a loDg walk,
ride on horseback, or even stirring exer
cise in the way of work, for several hours,
fasting, which is about equal to the wis
dom of putting the blast io & lurnace
when the fuel Is low. ”
Here is the Burlington Hifkeycs ex
cellent description of the ordinary metn
od of allaying cutaneous irritation, it
has been in nearly every newspaper in
the Union. It is very truthful, but it is
low, and, to a reader of refinement, even
revolting; yet the sweetest poem m
language would not receive half tfae ap
plause that has welcomed this:
“ Scratch my back, oh brown^yed Mabel*
Throw the buckwheat riour away.
Scratch as long as you are able;
Harder; stronger: that's t^ywa.
Somewhat higher; little k*w«r;
Closer to the shoulder blade;
Dig!!! Good heavens, go it !i *°wc r a
Murder: Ttander: Come, that .*» ptayea
A countryman going down Ylainstreet
the other morning, carrying a laude
one hand and now and then
gaze into a store window, knocked o e
fourteen school children in a journey^
two blocks—and it was not a ve D S
morning for school chiM*® 11 * either.
Memphis Avalanche.