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SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Savannah. Ga
Georgia Affairs.
r l*rof. Wb. 8. White (late Principal of the
Quitman Academy, Quitman High School,
etc.,) has accepted the position of Principal
of the Helena (Arkansas) Female Seminary
Prof. White has taught in Quitman for the
past three years with marked kucobm.
The Lalirange Rrpoeitr reports a great
uslural curiodty. It is a cantaleup grown
on a cucumber vine. The vine bore several
cucumber* and one cantaleup. The only
plaualble supposition in regard to Ibis
curiosity Is that the pollen from some can
taleup vines in the same garden was blown
u|M>n a blossom of the cucumber vine aud
impregnated it.
Mr. Marcellos E. Thornton announces
himself an independent candidate for Con
gress lit the Fifth district.
Mr. Nirpheus arrived at Sparta on Friday
and spoke there Saturday. The Evening
.Vuri of Augusta says he met with a warm
reception. No doubt Friday, was a hot day.
Hon. Henry R. Harris spoke to the people
of Hamilton, Harris county, on Saturday,
lie is a candidate for re nomination,*wnd bia
object was to appear before bis constituents
to give an account of his stewardship in the
past, and to ask, if his services have been
■PI"
.ved, i
be i
ed to
mgr.-*
In
A big horse race between Minnie Taylor,
*d Atlanta, and John Kimble Jackson, of
firiilin, fur two hundred au<l fifty dollars a
side, Is announced to conic off in the latter
city on the 10th of August. The citizens of
Spauldlug county have arranged to have a
grand barbecue on the same day, at which
Senators Gordon and Hill, General Toombs
ami others will deliver addresses; hut, the
Griffin .Vms says, the barbecue and tb« race
will be aci>arate and distinct affairs.
BUI Slade, colored, killed Ben Nice,
tired, iu au altercation near Macon on Fri
day. The murderer made his escape.
Tom Allen, who has been tig wring around
Atlanta as a horse dealer, has Incontinently
tied the eltv. It seems that be was in the
tiahit of traveling through Kentucky and
Tennessee, borrowing horses and shipping
them to Atlanta for sals. His evil practices
having been made known, he deemed it pru
dent to “ light out." And lie lit.
The differences between the stockholders
of the Atlanta Cotton Factory have been
adjusted, and It is hoped that at last it may
hi- put iuto operation.
Another child has been found cast away
in Atlanta. This time it was thrown into a
well.
The Albany Adr. i l
that some nights ein<
men wen* taking a
that town upon a sen
' '.bought he r
advertises the fact
is a party of young
lorcd band aroumi
1c frolic, the guitar
a log lying across
Udewalk, and tried to step over It. Just
as he had got one leg across, the supposed
log rare up, landing the musician on his
face and sending his musical instrument
»pinning on ahead. The log turned out to
be a cow which was having a nap at-roe. **
The pnwniut
Noilthwest tie
l lis
for the fall fair of tl
Industrial Assoclatio
)• tha
it will c
premium*,
rding to th
jntaiu four thousand dol-
»itb tw
in Sir off
a California mine
on of tons of earth
Oglethorpe county that will yield f 10 pe
ii, and $1 No will separate the gold from a
II «f c
Another rattlesnake story. The Quitman
/Wm aays: “Mr. Ephraim Crane re
ntiy killed a rattlesnake on Mrs. Folsom'i
y, over seven feet long
rattles. The rattles an
The suake had just killed
.nng rabbit*, and was preparing to
•wallow them."
Hamilton (Harris count,,
negro house on the plantation of Colonel
Keinl ert, in the western part of the county,
was burned to the ground last Tuesday, ami
a tittle negro child was burned to death,
lien I'pshearbad left the house in charge
of two little children, when one of them
•w it on lire, with the above result. It Is
not known whether it was accidental or
through mlecbief. The little boy who did
the deed was hardly large enough to know
I hat such an act would be a crime, though
Jir is considered a very had boy.''
A correspondent of the Unuti/ufion details
Uhe following as one of the many pleasant
Incidents connected with the late visit of the
Atlanta Cadets to Virginia. He says: “Al
low me space In your paper to chronicle one
«>f the many pleasant episodes which oc
curred on the trip to Richmond, and at no
entertainment tendered this gallant com
pany of Georgia hoys was there displayed so
much enthusiasm,mingled with such a hearty
wcleome. It will surely ever t*e remem
bered by the Cadets as a most pleasant sur
prise. The company was scarcely an hour's
ride from Danville when a dispatch was
banded Lieutenant McCandless on board
the train, staling that the •Danville Grays'
would entertain them and give them » part
ing shot of Virginia hospitality. Right
nobly did they keep Un'jf word. The train
was stopped, the Cadets formed ranks, and
rarely has if been our good - fort urns to listen
U* such words of welcome from e»o
quent lit* as came from the heart of one
,,f the ettiaens of Danville—Capt.
W,Hiding, formerly of the Danville Grays.
Its was replied to Ly our handsome'little'
of the Sliest im
The Atlanta Comtitution says that a few
days ago a policeman discovered a woman in
the brit ward in a vacant house. The house
w as perfectly deserted and the poor
woman lay <>u the floor. She had
with her a child, which was plainly a mulat
to and of recent birth. Dr. Pinson, the city
physician of the First ward, was called to her
aid, and some kind ladies sent In what was
necessary for her pressing wants. Still she
lay in great destitution and yesterday she
died The child is also dead. Both bodies
were buried yesterday. The woman's name
was Lizzie Norman. ’ The ease iu all Its as
pects Is one of the saddest we have
known, and it is painful to lie compelled to
chronicle it.
Brunswick sreport Appeal: “ By reference
to another column it will lie seen that some
one. with an eve to mischief, has written to
a doctor of Columbus, representing to him
that our city is now undergoing a terrible
siege of disease, and advising him to come
down mid lend his aid in our behalf. This
person or persons should be ferreted out aud
brought to justicofor writing so base a^false-
•hood about our city.’’
It is a cheering sign that it does not pay
to support Independent* in Georgia. The
Rome Tribune, for instance, says : “We are
sorry to have to part company with a num
ber of our subscribers because of our advo
cacy of Dr. Win. II. Felton, but we part in
thc'tiest of humor. We do not expect men
to support our pa|>er when we oppose their
favorite. They have a perfect right to dis
continue their paper, ami We shall not think
anv the less of them for exercising thi
right. All we ask them to do is to pay up
their past dura, as other ordinary transac
tions are cloeed.”
The Oglethorpe Echo discourses thus
wisely : “We are glad to note the fact that
a few negroes iu thi* county have become
the owners of homesteads; hut we are
sorry to see that but an occasional colored
family take the proper pride in rjltlvatlng,
adorning and making their premises home
like and attractive. Give him a half ratten
lint aud a brush fence, with a half starved
mule to plow the crop, and Sambo is happy.
But even the disposition on the part of the
darkey to own a farm points towards
civilization and Improvement. It ought to
Im- encouraged everywhere. The man who
has a home that belongs to him will be
more industrious as a producer of wealth,
more frugal in his habits, more attached to
his State and a better citizen than one who
wanders from place to place and lives with
his family in houses he does not own aud
on lands which he has no motive to improve.
The negro who makes his substance in
part or wholly from his own acres, tilled by
himself and family, becomes thereby all the
more useful and res|>ectable. This identi
ties him with the community in which he
livcs, and makes him more interested In
social onier and more obedient to law. It
increases his ability to educate his children
and rear them in the habits of industry.
The love of inde|iendeuee, this spirit of
acif-independeucc, deserves to be encour
aged by every means that He within the
power of the white rar e. Let them sell
small farms to their colored tenants on as
favorable terms as they can, and by advice
and other means help them run them profita
bly. Our darkeys no longer ally themselves
with the Radical party, and now let the
Democrats prove to them in some tangible
way that they are their la-st friends; and,
our word for it, the negro will show Ids
gratitude by following your counsel in the
future. When a negro buys a farm, don't
let him throw wide his door to every vaga
bond tramp and hypocritical preacher that
chances to pass, but go to work, economize
and pay for his home—then he will have a
castle that no one can invade without the
owner's permission, aud from which he can
not he driven.”
Here is an item from the LaGrange Re
porter, u'hich, though not strictly speaking
Georgia affair, yet is sullicicntlv connected
,ith our State to make it appropriate for
to appear in this column, hathat paper:
"Last Saturday night a young mau named
Wats.in, living near Standing Rock, Cham
bers county, Ala., about a dozen miles west
of I .at i range, was brutally murdered. We
have heard the following report of the af
fair It was quarterly meeting at Standing
Rock ciiurh. Mr. Watson, who was a
pious, exemplary yi.-'tng man, was at church,
aud, while Rev. Mr. Written, the ITesid-
inir Kld. i, was preaching. 1... In-jo, -"in.-
disturbance among his mules and went
out to s.u. about it. He discovered that
on.- of his mutt-a had been unhitched and
that a man had It ■ .Ijort distance off.
He halted the man and called urn ‘That’s
njv mul. : w hat are you going to do wnh
him I’ The ether cursed him, and -aid:
•('.une and get him.' Watson started towards
him. when the mau shot him centrally in
tin* abdomen, which caused Us dcsta ui |t
morning, ii la not known who was the
murderer, but suspicion rets on one William
lloliidav. Holliday is said to be a desperate
character, and he’ was missing from his
home next day. and was seen in Georgia.
(if course this is only suspicioa. It is to lie
hoped that the perpetrator of this cowardly
murder will be speedily caught and made
to (»•> the penalty of his crime. This thing
of shooting a man in the dark is getting too
common/
BY TELEGRAPH.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE POTTER
COMMITTEE.
An Auatro-Turkish Convention Aban
doned.
replied
First Lieutenant, ...
prompt* speeches we have ever listened to.
.•very word of which came from the deepest
recrasra of Ids L-art. I have never seen a
set of men more devotedly attached to an
officer than Ihc Cade** »rr to Lieutenant
McCandless. After having nnl-hed supper
what was our surprise to ace a eiUycn of
Danville (formerly »f Atlanta:, Colonel H
D Capers, arise aud prasrnt to the Cadets
a roost beautiful boquot from the ladies or
Danville. The address of Colonel Capers
was hi* happiest effort. The Cadet* were
very much affected, and they al! exdalmed.
milt., wav, ‘God bless the ladle* of Danville.
The ‘boys' will never forget the overwhelm
ing hospitality extended to them, for wbirn
Virginia 1« noted, and the reception at Dan
ville will l»e indelibly recorded on memory *
tablet as one of the most pleasant hours of
IhetrJJvea.”
Here id a compliment from the Walker
<Wy "The Savannah M«kmno
News. J. H. L'stlll proprietor, is the best
daily paper in th* State, always brim full
of new., sparkling with bright paragraphs,
and replete with well-timed editorials upon
the living Irenes and current topi.-* of the
day. The vVckklt Nnwft Is one of the
largest, handsomest and newsiest family
journals iu the South. Mr*. Dare is the
name at a new and Intensely Interesting
novel, written by Mr*. Ophelia Sisbet Reid,
of Eaton ton. the publication of wbluk pa.
Ju*» begun in the WEEKLY News.”
Speaking of land* iu Worth county, the
Albany Albertiarr say* : “The prospect* of
a steady appreciation iu the prices of lauds
in Worth county are well assured. From
the increasing demand by parties desirous
of entering Into sheep raising, these lands
are now held at higher figures than they
were a short time ago. A few days ago a
gentleman from Nicaragua «u prospecting
in Worth, for the purpose of securing graz
ing land* to start a sheep ranch. General
Gordon's recent investment will call re
newed attention to sheep husbandry
in thi* section, and 1* In itself a
valuable advertisement of the advantages
of Worth county lands for that industry.
Mr. Kltwald has stocked his farm wyfh
splendid C'otswold sheep, and is provided
with shepherd*, dog* aud every requisite
for entering into the buslnere upou a large
scale. We understand that Hog. B. H. Hill
contemplate* purchasing land In Worth EM
starting a sheep ranch. Thc*e indication*
of a steady and growing demand for land*
in Worth county must Indeed be gratifying
u> all who have the prosperity of our sec
tion at heart.”
A Voice from the West.
Editor Morning .Veins: The time is near
at hand when the people of the First Con
gressional district of Georgia are to select
a standard bearer for the coming election,
and while we have been of the opinion that
the counties east of the river would be
liberal and give us our man this time, mnch
Is said as to who shall l>c the nominee,
justice of the cause of our friend* in the
east, who, haviug the balance of power iu
number*, seem Induced to overlook the
claims of our people, so justly entitled to
onsideration. For several year* the
nast counties have furnished the Repre
sentative in Congress. In doing
lection has been well made. The present
incumbent has filled the full measure of our
tat ion. We recognize in him every
thing that Is great and good. But now of
hi* own choice he declines to serve us longer
ingress, 4 t'other selection is therefore
to Ik- made, and the 2Mh .of August has
been fixed as the time and Savannah the
place for making the nomination. It is
generally known that the iieonle of the west
side of the river want the Hon. John C.
Nieholls, of Pierce, and want him badly,
ind we think it but a reasonable request to
.-k the district to concur In his selection.
Cap*. Nieholls has proven himself worthy
the confidence of the Democracy of Geor
gia, and in every position In which he has
been placed has left a record marked w ith
energy, correctness and ability. Give him
therefore a trial in Congres. This done aud
we will not only lie gratified at bis success,
but will ever feel that the whole district is
together battling for one common cause the
good of all.
OUTRAGES UPON JEWS IN BU
CHAREST.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE PAN-ANGLJ-
CAN CONFERENCE.
Yellow Fever In New Orleans and
Other Points
STRICT QUARANTINE REGULATIONS
ESTABLISHED.
.Vflsre llaneon* usd tllnor Matters.
THE POTTER INVESTIGATION.
Atlantic Crrr, N. J., July 27.—Frank
Morey resumed the stand and testified that
he bad one or two interviews with the
President at great length, during which
witness agreed that the withdrawal of the
troops from New Orleans and not maintain
ing the Packard government would be the
deHtructiou of the Republican party iu the
South. The President took the position
that the Republican party could no longer
maintain that policy which had lost New
York to the Republicans, aud the party had
become weaker in consequence. Therefore
the good of the Republican party demauded
a change. The President treated the sub
ject as of national concern.
Ex-Senator Trumbull was called. He went
to New Orleans on the invitation of Mr.
Hewitt. He related the mode of proceed
ing by the board, aud said be did not see
the compilation of the returns by which
the board arrived at the result.
The committee closed its session here this
afternoon, will examine Governor Palmer
in New York on Monday, and then adjourn
subject to the call of the Chairman.
roi KTU day or the Saratoga race
Saratoga, N. Y., July 27.—Rain
until daylight, rendering the track be_„.
the first race for the Boswell stakes,
three year olds, one mile. Perfection won.
Pique second, Albert third; time, 1:50.
In the second race, free haudicap, sweep-
stake*. one mile ami three-quarters, Pilot
by two lengths; Bushwhacker second
Keunesaw third: time 8.15.
In the third race, free handicap, hurdle
race, mile heats over four hurdles,
distance eighty yards, Dandy won
the first beat, Derby coming in second;
Dalgazian third; time, 1:57*C. Passion fell
at the third hurdle, hurting his jockey,
Richard Young, of Canada, dangerously.
Wild data and Dalgazian both were cut
down in the first hes:, and were withdrawn.
Dandy won the second heat, with Derby
>nd, Redding third; time, LWY-
TUK RECLAMATION OF LOW LANDS—QUARAN
TINE ESTABLISHED.
Memphis, July 27.—At a public meeting
last night, it was resolved to call a conven
tion of representatives of the Board of
Trade, Chamber of Commerce, and Repre
sentatives ami Senators of Congress from
the Mississippi Valley, to meet here Novem
ber 12th, to consider the theories of Captain
Cowdcn on the outlet *y»tem aud reclama
tion of low lands.
In consequence of the existence of yellow
fever in New Orleau*, the Board of Health
to-day determined to establish quarantine
for Dials from that place, at the foot of
President’s Island, twelve miles below the
city.
VELLOW FEVER AT NEW ORLEANS, KEt WEST
AND ELSEWHERE.
Washington, July 27.—Reports to the
Surgeon Genera] of the United States Ma
rine Hospital service show thirty-seven cases
of yellow fever anu seventeen deaths up
yesterday at New Orleans. There are no
new cases at the Brooklyn navy yard. From
the 10th Inst, to noon to-day there were
six new cases at Key WesL During the
week ending July Kith, there were ninety-
seven deaths from yellow fever and twenty-
two from small-pox at Havana. Reports
from Matanza* show au increase of eases
and an lucre'aarj rati j of deaths.
SOUTHERN CHARITIES.
Um. H. Appleton, of New York
City -Tne Appleton Orphan Home
In .VIaeon, Ga. Its Past and Prs-
BT 9. 9. 9WEET.
J ondon, July 27.—A Constantinople dis
patch t.. H;e Ueutcr Telegram ( ompany
says: “Austria tia» abandoned the idea of
a convention with Turkey about Bosnia and
Herzegovina, but will move troops into
Bosnia and afterward* send a note or decla
ration to the Porte si tting forth Austria’s
views aad intention* ’
ACT IDEM TO A I llINKsK AMBASSADOR.
London, July 27-—A brougham contain
ing the Chine be Ambassador came iu col
lision with an omnibus iu lloihoni this
morning. The Ambassador’s right arm
was injured, hi* head contused, and his
system received a severe shock. He was
takcu iu a fainting condition into Horseshoe
Hotel.
« MOKE STRINGENT QUARANTINE.
Shkevzpor*. L+... July 27.—In addition
to the river quarantine the Hoaxu of Health
to-day quarantined against all through pas
senger aud freight traffic from infected
citira via railroad and stages. This cuts
them off from Vicksburg and overthe Texas
Pacific Hailro&'i. Tfee quarantine regula
tions will be rigidly enforced.
NO COAL MINERS' STRIKE I’UoilAHI.h.
PorrsviLLE. July 27.—A dispatch from
Mahoning City.Shenandoah, and other large
milling town*, report that no meetings have
been held or talked of to iliscus6 the ques
tion of a strike of the miner*. The prevail
ing opinion is there will be no strike at pre
sent. the men not being in a condition to
stand out any length of time.
OUTRAGES UPON JEWS.
London, July iff.—The Tim**' Bucharest
dispatch says a number of rowdies decoyed
some Jews 'into a shop in that city and beat
them shockingly. Several of the victims
bad bones brokeu. Tlie government has
promised to investigate the affair and pun
ish the offenders.
INDIANS IN A STARVING CONDITION.
Washington. July 27.—A telegram re
ceived at the \\ ar Department from the San
Carlos (Arizona) agency says the Indians
there are in a starving condition, and if not
lieved immediately would leave the
agency. Owing to the absence of troops
much trouble Is feared.
WILL KESUMR BUSINESS.
Echols.
A Horbibuc-Murder axm Suicide in
Virginia.—Wilson Houchios, who lives
near Fluvanna Court House. Virginia,
has for the last five years threatened to
take the lives of members of his family.
Not long sinec bis wife discovered him
standing over her with a drawn dagger.
She in some wnv prevented the fatal act
then. He begged her not to say anything
about it Since then Mrs. Houchins has
been compelled to take her little ones,
three in number, ana lc*vc home to save
them, on several occasions.
On Monday Houchins carried out his
premedltulorf design by murdering his
wife, mother in law apd one child, and
ihen killmg himself. The oldest boy,
about seven years old, saw bis father com
mence the attack upon his mother, seized
the baby, who was lying ip the cradle,
and maile for a neighbor’s house, thereby
saving himself and the infant. The mur
der was committed with an axe. The
cause of this horrible crime is not fully
explained. The man, however, is sup
posed to have been insanely ie.iious.
A Loaded Cioab.—'The Portsmouth
<N. H.) Timet say- “At Rye Beach, a
young man who w«a smoking had con
siderable difficulty iu makiu.. Jiia cigar
burn after it had beeu partly consumed,
and, picking it to pieces, fc und inside
the wrapper ^ ^2-calibre pistiv cartridge,
with tiie buUct’poluUt} towan; the mouth
end of the 'weed.' The cartridge was
considerably heated, and would no doubt
have aoon exploded bad the cigar con
tinued to burn.”
This is either a big wont! er or a big
lie: The Richmond Whiq of Saturday
says that Jennie Smith was a (ripple who
had been ucubJc to move from her couch
for sixteen years. £}}e attended the
Oc'ean (irovc camp-moetinc year in
It cot on wheel*. Last week her friends
got around her and prayed. She was
converted, gut up and walked, and on
lust Wednesday morning sjrode into the
tabernacle, upright and praising God.
A swarm of bees took possession of a
drtuvh recently at Fronts, in England,
and prevented service until some means
should be devised tor dislodging them.
ADBLI'Hiv, July 27.—The announc e
ment is made that in a few days Cheppers
Bros., manufacture!s of worsted goods, of
thi* city, who made arrangements with their
creditors to pay forty per cent., will resume
business. They gi.e employment to six
teen hundred men, womeu aud cklMrer;.
VELLOW FEVER ON SHIPBOARD.
Portland, Me., July 27.—The bark
Noreua, from Matanzaa for the north of
llattcras, put Into Feruaudiua with yellow
fever on board. The second mate and one
seamen are dead, afcd iI;l mato fad three
men are sick.
THE LABOR TROUBLE AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, July 27.—The men resumed
work at the scene of yesterday’s labor
troubles, under protection of the police. A
crowd gathered, but was dispersed by
the police.
TUB PAN-ANGLICAN CONFERENCE.
London, July 27.—The Pan-Anglican con
ference adjourned yesterday. There will be
a Te D».cn! snd farewell service at St. Paul i
Cathedral this morning. The Bishop of
Pennsylvania will preach the sermon.
ARRESTED.
Portsmouth, S. H., July 27.—Jno.
Shehan, the third aud last party suspected
of being concerned in the murder of Eugene
Sullivan in this city over eighteen years
ago. was arrested to-day
ABANDONED AT SEA.
London, July 2T.—The British bark
Presta, from Chatham, X. B., for Belfast,
was abandoned on the Sth of July. The
crew were rescued and landed at Liverpool.
the pope’s health.
Rome, July 27.—The Pope is in good
health and has dispensed with the attend
ance of his chief physician, who has gone
to the country on a furlough.
yilB HANLON-ROSS BOAT RACE.
St. Jobn, N. B., July 27.—There was a
heavy rain all night, which still continues,
with high wind. There is no prospect of
the Haulon-Russ race taking place to-day.
national nomination.
Pittsburo, July 27.—The Nationals of
the Eighteenth Ohio district have .nominated
George E. Smith, of Belmont county, tef
Congress,
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
Memphis, July 27.—Congressman Siemens
has been renominated by the Democracy of
the Second Arkansas district.
RIVERS SWOLLEN BT RAINS.
p? pyoRn. Vt., July 27.—The rain haA
swollen the souol river aad other
streams, and much dslmage •* itported.
GARFIELD RECOVERED.
Atlantic Citt, N. J., July 27.—General
Garfield has entirely recovered aud left for
Ohio.
MARTINEZ CAMFOe IN BAVARA.
Havana, July 27.—Martinez Campos,
wife and family, have arrived from Spain. .
Soon after the death of the lamented
Bishop Elliott, Rev. John Beckwith, of New
Orleans, was elected and consecrated Bishop
of the Diocese of Georgia. The new Bishop
entered upon the duties of his office under
the most auspicious surroundings. His many
friends from far and near rallied to him
sustain him in his new relation to the church,
and among them all he bad not a warmer
friend or a heart that beat more in unison
with his own, in the important work before
him, than that of Wm. II. Appleton, of the
firm of D. Appleton & Co., the well know-
publisher*, of New York city. Mr. Apple-
ton is a Northern man, and adhered to the
dominaut party during the war, but, when
hostilities ceased, his heart ran out in
sympathy toward the South in her distress
and poverty. Many a library which, through
the misfortuues of war, had become de
pleted, was replenished, aud many
destitute Sunday school has been
supplied with literature from the hands
of the generous hearted gentleman. The
writer was the recipient of oue of these
ostentatious gifts, a gift of some twenty-
volumes of new publications, and for whicr
he will ever remain grateful.
.\fr. Appleton, among other generous acts,
tendered Bishop Beckwith ten thousand dol
lars as a nucleus for the establishing of a
home for destitute orphans in Georgia, to
be under the control of the Bishop aud dio
cese. The generous offer, of course, was ac
cepted,and In 1888 Bishop Beekw ith .after con
suiting with his brethren, located the Home
in Macon, Ga. A most delightful location
was secured in one of the best neighborhoods
in the city. A handsome brick building,
two stories high, was erected, but not until
October, 1H70, did the school go into active
operation. The .policy of the Bishop,
under the sanctiou of Mr. Appleton, was
not to go in debt, and hence the delay. The
Home does not owe a dollar this moment, so
strietly has this policy been adhered to.
This, like every- other similar enterprise,
had au humble beginning. They started
out with four children. The management
believing that Bible declaration “that he
that is faithful lu that which Is least
I* faithful also In much,” devoted tbeir
w hole 'energies to the proper instruction
of these four children. As they had
been faithful over a few, God gave them
others, and made them ruler* of many.
With the increased numbers of children
ame increased cares and necessities. More
room was demauded, and iu 1875 a large
s ing was added to the original building,
•osting #2, 'AX). This money was donated
by Mr. Appletou also, making his gift
$12,5(10, and his hand is not yet closed. lie
also donated nearly all the school books
used in tbe Home', besides furnishing
very neat librarv for the use of the teachers
and children. Hishop Beckwith, the Epis
copal Church in Georgia, and the citizens
of Macon, all appreciate this munificent
kindness upon the part of Mr. Appleton.
While the Bishop of Georgia is the recog
nized judicial head of the Ilome, yet it is
underxhe immediate charge of three de
voted ladies, who for tbe love of the work,
and for the good of the children, and for
the glory of God, have voluntarily conse
crated themselves to this os a life work.
They are called 8isters, but are not bound
by anv secret vow or convent obligation,
but iu their own hearts, before God, they
resolved to make this their work. Thev are
a band of Sisters, but their sisterhood has
no mysterious name. They are at liberty to
abandon it at any time if they choose.
Sister Margaret is tne recognized head
of the institution. She was a Mrs. Jennings,
formerly of New Orleans, a cultivated and
most devoted Christian lady. She is assist* d
by Mrs. Marks, also formerly from New Or
leans, who has spent most of her time in
instructing the young, and is energetic and
deeply pious. Sister Catharine, a Miss
Burke, formerly of South Carolina, but more
recently from* Marietta, Georgia, is the
youngest and the last accession to the sister
hood. She fills her placv admirably and
well. These good women enter the Home
and devote themselves to this glorious wotk
of earing for orjihanage, with no other
promise of remuneration than their
txiard and their wearing apparel, and
the costume adopted is very simple
and inexpensive—a gray suit without frills
or scollops, but ma le after the old Quaker
style, charming hi Jrs >po’ Sjmplicity. These
good womeu seek not the applause of the
world, but their adornments -'are a meek
aiul quiet spirit,” and a consciousness of
doing a noble work for their sex.
The Appleton Home was established ex
clusively lor female orphans, aud all girls
who are orphans, or half orphans, are ad
mitted to the benefits of the Home without
any regard to their previous religious asso
ciations. A vi sioii also has been made
so that any child that can p*V ‘.‘ ne hundred
dollars per annum can be received Into the
Home aud furnished with hosrd, tuition
and clothing, and faring exactly as the
other children. So that any person
or number of persons who pay this sum
annually can send any child they may desig
nate. The girls are kept In this institution
until they are sixteen qr eighteen years of
age, w hen they are sent out and are pre
pared to make their own living. They are
received into the Home at the age of three
years and upwards.
The Home is supported by Individual
subscriptions, and a yearly allowance of
one hundred and fifty dollars from tbe
diocese and for the taut two or three years
the Home ha* received the Interest ou an
invested fund of ten thousand dollars. But
the management keep out of debt by living
ithin tnelr tncuim..
There are in the Home at present twenty-
six children and three teachers. The edu-
ation imparted is threefold. First is the
literary instruction. They are taught the
rudiments of English, Grammar, arithmetic,
geography and orthography, with reading
and writing. Second is their domestic edu
cation. Special efforts are made to teach
them practical housekeeping,cooking hoijse-
sing, sewing, washing aud ironing,
A Strange Story rrom Texas.
One of tbe strangest stories of deceit
and fraud which we have met with in a
long time comes to us in the Fort Worth
(Texas! Democrat. Miss Annie Walms
ley ami John D. McClure were school
mates in McDonough county. Illinois,
and in their child's play they were sweet
hearts and became "engaged." Four
years ago the Wainisley family migrated
to Fort Worth, where they were two
years after followed by McClure, who
renewed his u.tteutions to Miss Annie,
and pressed his suit for her hand. The
latter, now a beautiful and prcposaessiui
young lady of eighteen, having arrive*
at years of discretion, discovered in his
character and conduct certain things that
were objectionable, and her parents fully
coinciding with her judgment, McClure
was requested to cease lus visits to her
and finally forbidden the house. Since
that time one Leonidas B. Conant has
appeared upon the scene, profqssinjj
an affection for the young lady, anil
succeeded in winning her love for him
self and promise to marry him, she
having for many weeks worn on her
finger the engagement ring, a plain gold
circlet inscribed, “Love to Annie.” Her
parents raised objections to her marriage
to Conant, and it was therefore agreed
lietween thftm that on the 3d of July
they would "elope. Ou that day she was
invited by a mutual friend to take a ride
with him, and getting into a buggy she
was driven to the depot, where she met
Conant and took the train for Dallas,
where they expected to be married, and
were to return to Fort Worth the next
day. Conant sent from the depot a note
to Miss Walmsley's parents, intimating
the intentions of the parties, saying that
no harm would happen to Annie, and
that they would return. At Dallas she
was taken to a room at a hotel, where
she Wits informed by Conant in the cool
est possible manner that he was already a
married man, and therefore could not
marry her, and that she had lieen induced
to leave the protection of her parents that
she might be forced into wedlock with
McClure, who was on hand to play his
part. At first the young lady rebelled,but
being kept closely confined to her room
anil prevented by Conant and McClure
from seeing any other person, she wa
worked upon by tbeir recitals of he
penniless and unprotected situation, and
the compromising circumstances which
had been thrown around her, until she
consented to go through the marriage
ceremony with McClure on condition
that they were to return to Fort Worth.
She did so, however, vowing her hatred
of him, protesting that she would die
rather than be a wife to him. and de
claring that she never would be. On tbe
evening of the 4th they returned to Fort
Worth and put up at a hotel where Miss
Walmsley—or Mrs. McClure—passed
another sleepless, wretched night, the
second which she had endured without
rest, and in company with a man whom
she loathed, hated und despised. Friday
morning Mrs. Walmsley discovered Mr.
McClure passing the house and called
him in, and first learned from his lips the
deception practiced upon her daughter,
his story being in substance tbe same as
recounted above. Mr*. Walmsley at
once Hew to her daughter and took her
home. She has not since seen McClure,
and persistently refuses to see him. For
everal days she was nearly distracted,
lid a close watch over her actions was
necessary to prevent self-destruction. Lo
cal steps will of course be taken to annul
the marriage. The coolest piece of vil
lainy in the whole maUer was a proposi
tion made by Mr. Conant to Miss Annie,
to live with McClure until she could ob
tain jiossession of his money, and then
go with him (Conant) to California, leav
ing some of her apparel ou the river
bank, to convey the impression that she
had committed suicide. Of course the
suggestion was repelled with horror by
tbe young lady, who has acted in the
whole unfortunate transaction in the
highest spirit of hon(;r Conant was a
' ading member of the church, aud was
•gurded as an exemplary young man. llis
•onduct in this matter proves him to be
i cool, calculating and consummate vil
lain. Mr. McClure is described as a hard
arking young man of some means, but
anting in a knowledge of tbe world,
and professes to have been influenced to
carry out his part of the transaction by
•presentations of Conant that when the
•remonv was performed Miss Walmsley
ould be feconciled and live with him
i his wife, llis ardent anil consuming
love for Miss Walmsley 1* some palliation
for Ins conduct. Conant was actuated
entirely by mercenary motives, having
received a fiecuniary consideration for
the part he took in the matter.
Is it Folly or Wickedness
Nine York Graphic.
The Evening Post is far past blushing.
If its brazen cheek could utter that crim
son >ign of shame, its columns could not
be perused to-day without the aid of
achromatic spectacles. It actually looks
hack at its record upon the silver ques
tion, not only without confusion, but
with complacency, with satisfaction,with
boastfulness. The Evening Pbst ore
dieted that if the silver dollar should be
restored, it would flood the country
instead of Hooding the country, none
of them are anoat. The Evening
/W predicted that silver dollars would
lie for sale in market for ninety cents or
less; they cannot, us a matter of fact,
be purchased for less than one dollar
each in gold. The Evening Pbst predicted
that United States bonds would fall in
the markets of the world; they have
risen. The Evening predicted that
gold would rise; it has fallen. The
Evening Post predicted that the national
credit would be undermined and ruined
it has been greatly improved. The Et
ing I\)*t predicted that no more United
States itonds could be sold, if silver was
remonetized; tbe very poorest class of
our bonds are now selling at #1.000,000 a
day ' Every single prediction and anti
cipation of the Evening Put has not
merely been falsified, but reversed; the
exact opposite to that which it expected
has come to pass.
Instead of acknowledging its error aud
temporarily taking a back seat, the Even
ing Po*i hides its chagrin by adding mis
representation to blunder. It now claims
—not, indeed, that its prophecies have
come to pass, but that they will come to
pass by and by^nud it alleges that people
“refuse to use or bold silver," when it
knows perfectly well that the statement
is utterly false, unless it is true that they
refuse to hold or use gold. People do uot
now use much gold or silver, it is true;
but they do not discard either because
it is worth too little, but because it is
worth too much. When currency worth
only 99J cents will answer, people will
not buy currency worth 100 cents, ex
cept to gratify a transient curiosity.
When the Evening Pont denounces silver
dollars because there are #10,000,000 in the
Treasury, or gold dollars because there
are $150,000,000 iu the Treasury, and
when it declares that such retention of
the precious metals is because they arc-
inferior and depreciated, it is stupidly
ignorant or else dishonest—and in either
is deceiving its readers in the most
outrageous manner.
■leansing, sewing,
thus preparing them to work their own way
through the world. Third Is their religious
instruction. Service Is held every night
and morning in the chapel, while the
Home Is under the siniervlsion of the
Rector of St. Paul's P. E. Church, which
is near the Home, and many have
been the recipients of divine grace.
During a recent visit to this admirably
kept Home I was most agreeably entertained
by the singing of the children, and was in-
vitea into thi rhapet »o take a view of them
all together. 1 am satisfied ttiat tf the gen
erous founder and patron of this noble in
stitution could have seen their happy faces
and cheerful looks, he would have thanked
God that the thought was ever bora in bis
h* art to make this donation. I was
shown over the entire premises, and
found everything in perfect paafuest and
onier. There has been but little sickness in
tbe Home since its organization, and with
the facilities for recreation and the bealth-
fuiness of location, there can be no local
cause for sickness.
Tiie Episcopal Church of Georgia ought
to feel proud of this institution as well as
the citizens of Macon, and they ought to
make it a thousand fold more useful than it
now is, or can be. in its present status. Let
them rally to it by their means and their
prayers and general co-operation with tbe
Bishop, and it will yet be one of the
grandest blessings of this century to the
Church and the State.
Macon, July 24, 1878.
Eight Mii es Under Water.—The
attempt of Robert Ru&sell, tbe champion
diver, to walk eight miles in five hours,
under water, took place on Long Island
sound Wednesday Russell made the
attempt for a wager of one thousand dol
lars. At 11:30 a. m. he put on a diving
suit weighing two hundred and ten
pounds. A boat with judges, air pumps
and life-line accompanied him. lie
walked sixty-five feet under water, over
a measured course one-sixth of a mile in
length, which he had to traverse forty
eight times. Russell is five feet nine
inches in height and weighs one hundred
and fifty pounds. He made the first mile
in thirty-five minutes, which was two
minutes' ahead of time, as his average
time was thirty-seven minutes to the
mile. He made the second mile in
thirty minutes. On the third, one of his
stakes under the water brol e, and he
had to come V) the top.. Jt too4 him
forty-aeveu minutes to make the third
mile, having to stop ten minutes bv the
accident. The fourth was made in forty-
seven minutes, the fifth mile in thirty,
the sixth in twenty-nine, and on the
seventh he fell against a rock and injured
his hip. He made the eighth mile in
thirty minutes, and finI*hod"twenty-three
minutes ahead of time, covering eight
Mt-xicai. tfw Talk.
Washington Star. 1
Those who seem anxious to hurry up
a war with Mexico, and who come to
Washington periodically to help it ulong,
feel constrained ti> announce just now
that the time has about come for the war
policy to develop, and that MacKenzie’s
reported raid across the liio Grande at
this time is the germ from which will
spring the looked for war, The theory
is that MacKenzle will push far enough
into Mexico to find the regular troops,
have a brush with them, retreat
across the Rio Grande, and from
this a ^'*.r sentiment will develop
in tin's country ’which will demand
reparation on the part of Mexico for the
indignity. As Mexico lias nothing to
give which will be considered ample
reparation for firing on our flag, war will
therefore be an inevitable result. It may
be added, too. that there ire nqt a few
ai my officer., who really beljeye that this
government is anxious for the occasion
to pursue an aggressive policy toward
Mexico. If, as reported, MacKenzie has
with him across the Rio Grande over
eight hundred men, it is about all of tbe
effective fighting force along the border.
There have been no recent reports from
the Texas frontier, which goes to show
that tiie Mexicans have been more preda
tory than they have been in the past, and
hence the crossing of the Rio Grande
with a good sized army is accepted as a
menace to Mexico, and one which ’
pec ted to be resisted.
The capture of General Escobedo by
the troops of Diaz will probably put an
end to thp insurrectionary movements
set on foot in Northern Mexico by the
ex President of that turbulent republic,
Lerdo de Tejada. EscoIknIo, who has
been mixed up with the ever-shifting
politics of Mexico for many years, ac
quired his chief renown when, in chief
command of the fortes of Juarez, he in
vested with five thousand men the town
of Queretaro, and, by an act of treach
ery, was enabled to capture tbe unfortu
nate Maximilian. Under Juarez and the
re-established republic, and also during
the subsequent Presidency of Lerdo, Es
cobedo’s military reputation gave him
the foremost place in the service. When
LerdoVas ousted from the Presidency by
Diaz, Escobedo followed the fortunes of
his fugitive chief, and whs actively en-
j aged in the attempt to overthrow the
1 haz Government at the time of bis cap
ture. What will be done with him is at
present unknown, but one of the dis-
tatebes intimates that it is doubtful if
le reach Monterey alive.
Human Flesh as Food und Medicine.
Lomlon Telegraph, June ‘it.
'Miriam cures wounds, and Pharaoh
is sold for balsams,” wrote Sir Thomas
Brown two hundred years ago, and it is
an undoubted fact that even down to the
time of Sydenham “mummy” was held
to be a ilrujj of great curative power, and
’••as extensively administered in cases of
ver and ague. But what should be
iid of the “exhibition” to a patient of a
piece of human flesh freshly taken from
the living subject V This exceptionally
appalling medicament seems to have been
made use of under very singular circum
stances in China. A recent number of
the Pekin Gazette published au applica
tion to the Emperor from the Governor
General of the province of Kwang-Tung
permission to erect a memorial struc
ture in honor of the filial devotion of a
young lady twenty-one years of age, the
daughter of a magistrate of Canton,
'he is described as having lieen
brought up by her father from
childhood well educated ami deserved-
reputed for virtue and intelligence.”
the spring of last year her papa
fell ill, and was most tenderly nursed by
his devoted daughter. At the end of six
months the old gentleman became much
worse, whereupon the young lady cut a
piece of flesh from her arm and mixed
with his medicine. This remedy
proved fatal to the patient, ami his
laughter, who had vowed to sacrifice
her life for his, poisoned herself on the
same day that her father died. This
lancholy story of heroic filial piety,
mingled with the most barbarous igno
rance and superstition, may be instruc
tively read in juxtaposition with a letter
received in Shanghai from the Roman
'’atholic Bishop or Shanshi Says Mgr.
* magatta, whq is a resident of Tai
en, the capital of a province in which
amine is just now raging with the most
fearful severity “Until lately the start
ing people were content to feed on the
dead; but now they are slaughtering the
living for food. The husband eats
his wife; parents are eating their chil
dren; and in their turn sons and daugh
ters eat their dead parents. Tin’s goes on
almost every day/ 1 GannlbaUam basin
a more or less murked degree been an at
tendant horror on the majority of great
famines, but the systematic ea'.'sg o? hu
man flesh in & time oi scarcity is hardly
to Ikj wondered at in a country where
young ladies of runk, educijtiqn qm*
telligencp grow up to Ikj twenty-one in
the belief that a piece of human flesh cap*
he beneficial as an inward tnedioameut.
It may he mentioned thut the Imperial
Government has sanctioned the erection
of the memorial to the daughter of the
Two Lepers iu New York.
The New York World says that among
the patients in Charity Hospital, on
Blackwell's Island, are two lepers. One
of them is too sore to move save when
it is positively necessary. The other,
although much further advanced in the
disease, and almost sure to waste away
within auother year, is at present as
lively as a cricket, although loathed by
the other patients. These are the first
lepers ever admitted to this hospital, and
they have been there only a short time.
One of them. Abraham Brown, is a New
Yorker by birth, and is fifty-four vears
old. The other. Emilio Trend, is a
native of Santiago de Cuba, and only
nineteen years old. Trend has been
afflicted about five years, and is now
thought to be in the last stages of
the disease, having occasional fevers.
Brown has the disease in a more acute
form, and although it is less than
two years since he first entered the
Baltimore City Hospital, the disease has
so invaded his whole body that he pre
sents a frightful appearance. His hands
and feet are almost black and covered
with ulcers. His fingers are enlarged to
nearly three times their former size; so
that the ends stand apart like the claws
of a fowl. His nails have fallen out.
His face is not so badly swollen, but bis
features have an expression of despair
that makes it painful to look at him.
Nearly all his beard has fallen off. tho
hair of his head is thin, dry and lustre
less, and his eyebrows are jierfectly l>are.
Around the iris of each eye is an indis
tinct light yellow ring about a twelfth
of an inch in width, and the |>cculiar
leonine appearance always noticeable in
lepers is well marked. Brown brought
his leprosy from Cuba, whither he went
in 1855. remaining there about nine
•ears.
Changeof Location
BlIcKEli&CO.
HTEMTOEHOVE
ON OR ABOUT THE
1st SEPTEMBER NEXT
NEW STORE,
SOW BUILDING ON
Broughton Street,
FOUR DOORS EAST OF WHITAKER.
DESIRING TO OPEN THERE, AS FAR AS
PRACTICABLE, WITH AN
WE HAVE DETERMINED. FROM THIS
DATE, TO MAKE A GENERAL
What Rum Did fom Husband and
Wife.—Mrs. Emma Judson is au ac
complished lady of refined manners and
appearance. Her husband is a retired
merchant living in Bridgeport. Conn.,
and they have a boy twelve years of age.
She is less than thirty. Soon after her
marriage, with her own money, sue
bought a house in Lexington avenue,
Brooklyn, where the couple begun life
in comfort. Mr. Judson was in the
liquor business, and his home w*v* liber
ally supplied with wino*. Ho became
•erfond of drink, and so much so that
led to a divorce, the wife being the
plaintiff. Signs of reformation aud
promises to do better led to forgiveness
on her part,and they were remarried. Af-
' t the second marriage, Mrs. Judson her
self became the victim to strong drink,
and her husband begun a suit for limited
iivorce.that is now la nding. Mrs. Judson
ent to live with hei mother, Mrs. Mar
garef P. Liudsley, at 154 Lee avenue,
Brooklyn. She was unable to break up
her habits of drinking, and four months
ago committed an assault upon her moth
er. for which she wa* arrested and sen
kneed to the Kings county penitentiary
fur six months. The life in the prison
having to a large extent cured her of her
love for liquor, her mother, on a writ of
certiorari, had her before Judge McC'ue
iu Brooklyn yesterday. Her release is
desired that she may lie reunited to her
husband. She seemed to feel her dis
grace keenly. She was allowed to go on
her own recognizance until Frida}’, when
she is to appear to give bail, pending a
review of the proceedings the lower
court.—N. V. Sun, 'jlhi.
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IN ORDER TO
Close Out Goods
NOW ON HAND.
A South American Horror.—Peru
vian journals publish an account of a
horrible atrocity in the Province of IIu-
aigayoc. Some months ago a number of
persons from the town of San Pablo ar
rived at San Miguel for the purpose of
having a baptism performed iu the latter
place. After the religious ceremony
those present proceeded to a place of di
version, where, after the consumption of
a good deal of liquor, a scrimmage oc
curred between tbe parties from San Mi
guel and those from San paLlo, which
teiulteil hi the death one of the form
er and the detention of some others. A
few days afterwards a number of San
Pabliuos proceeded to San Miguel
and forcibly rescued their imprisoned
friends, threatening to return before long
to take vengeance for the blood of tbeir
townsuiau. At the beginning of the
present month the town of San Miguel
was invaded by twenty-five individuals
from San Pablo well armed anti furnish-
il with munitions, who began to sack
the town, behaving with the greatest bru
tality and cruelty. Thy inhabitants as
cended the ch“Vvh towers, rang the bells
to jjv3 the alarm, and attacked the inva
ders with uncontrollable fuiy. The re
sult was that fifteen of the ««ug were in
stantly killed and the remaining ten
were severely’ wounded and taken pris
oners. On the following day the latter
were also lifeless, aud the public square
of Fan Miguel offered the revolting spec
tacle of twenty-five corpses strewn in all
directions
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Were I to pray for a taste, says Sir
John Herschel, which should stand me
instead under every variety of circum
stances, and be a source of happiness
and cheerfulness to me during life, and
a shield against its ills, however things
might go amiss and the world frown
upon me, it would lie a taste for reading.
Give a man this taste and the means of
gratifying it and you can hardl^fail of
making him a happy man unless, in
deed, yog put into Ug hands a must per
verse selection of hooks. You place him
in contact with the best society in every
period of history—with tho wisest, the
wittiest, the tenaerest, the bravest and
the purest characters who have adorned
humanity—you make him a denizen of
all nations, a contemporary of all ages.
The world has been created, for him.
How a Suicide was Indefinitely
Postponed.—It is not by j.ny means
rare to hear of a suicide changing Ids
( mind at the last moment, bqt ;t is sel
dom that one dftW under such c/rejm-
sianyUi as Henry Roberts, & n old gentle-
the ravages of the famin'. I man residing in Louis’. He has been
| suffering from asthma for a long while
Dr. Hchliemann is about to return to
Greece to begin excavation* at new points.
At the last meeting of the French Acade
my of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres,
he read some extracts from a, volume he
is about to £ut,liji in ParU on the Myce-
nte discoveries. He thinks the countries
of antiquity in which are to be found ar
ticles the most closely resembling those
of Mycenie are Babylonia and Egypt.
As au example, he mentioned the per
sonages wearing a helmet with two horns
and women of an Indian type wearing
loose trousers and turban*, which were
to be found at Mycenie as on the brick
cylinders of the Babylonian Empire.
The idols with cows’ heads found at My-
cena\ on the other hand, reminds one of
the worship of Isis and Apis, and indi
cate close relations with Egypt. He dif
fers from the general opinion that Myce-
mt was only conquered and destroyed
bv tbe Argives in 408 B. C\, after the
Mcdean wars, and places ibe date much
further back, perhaps before tbe time of
Homer, quoting, in support of his belief,
lines fifty ana fifty-six of the Fourth
Book of the Iliad, where such a destruc
tion is alluded to.
Ben Butler is credited with saying that
.it,,. [^,1 1. ik. AT.....
Wiles in four hours and tbirfy-sevep Justus Schwab, the New Y'ork Comma-
minutes. He was completely exhausted I nlst, “Is infinitely superior to the fellows
at the finish. I who drive ir their Tally-ho coaches. "
Twilight in dreamy Spain! The ex
press train was bowling along between
Tarragona and Barcelona, when sud
denly it was brought to a standstill by
the alteration of a signal, and in a few
minutes twenty-six armed men took pos
session of it. They did not belong to
the Civil Guard. They were brigand*.
Some of the passengers Ware then dragged
out and thoroughly searched, anu all
money, watches and valuables forcibly
taken possession of. The brigands then
removed the cushions from the carriages,
and made a minute inspection to see that
nothing valuable was concealed in them.
The ladies of the party had their ear
rings torn from their ears. An English
victim writes: “I lost all the property I
had with me, consisting of at least $650
worth, which comprised my watch and
chain, money, pocketbook, and also my
portmanteau, which was in the luggage
van. and contained many valuable pa-
>ers.” The brigands even took from
urn his railway ticket and left him
penniless, with merely the* clothes he
wore, and thos« partly torn from the
rough treatment he received.
Starving in the Great City.—Chas.
Brown, a German boy who could not
speak or understand English, was yester
day in the special sessions charged with
entering Hermann Goldschmidt's jewelnr
store, 222 Bowery. Mr. Goldschmidt
asked the justices to pardon the lad, as
he was absolutely crazed with hunger
when he committed the robbery. “Ask
him,” said Justice Duffy to the inter
preter, “why he stole the watch.” "Be
cause I was starving ” the answer.
“That’s so, that's so,” replied Mr. Gold
schmidt excitedly. Mr. Cutter of the
Prison Association pleaded for the lad.
and the court condemned him to a few
days of detention only.—N. T. Sun, 24th.
and to such a degree that on Friday
night bust he grew desperate and at five
o'clock in the morning jumped down a
Well thirty feet deep. A neighlior who
witnessed the feat called for help, and to
his surprise Mr. Roberts, who found
drowning a more serious affair than he
had expected, seconded his appeal with
great alacrity. When the neighbors
arrived and drew bjm up it was found
that he had only skinned his knees. His
asthma remained as bad as ever.
The steamer St. Laurent, which
brought Mr. James Gordon Bennett to
New York, brought also George Felix,
and Elizabeth, his wife. On July 8, at
3:35 p. m.. when she passed latitude 41)
degrees iJM minutes north, and longitude
18 degrees 30 minutes west, she was fa
vored with what the (barrier de* Elat*
Uni* calls “Un passager extra,” to-wit:
"Mme. Felix’s thumping son.” His en
try iuto the world was a matter of some
state, the officers of the ship assisting.
Mr. Bennett qfood godfather to the child,
which was named in part for him, as
follows: ‘Laurent Othon James Felix,”
and he bestowed upon it one thousand
franca in gold pieces, concealed in bon-
Tbe son of old John Brown live# on
the Isle of Gibraltar, in Lake Erie. He
is tall and muscular, with tawny and
white overgrown beard and blue eyes, a
check shirt and a torn chip hat. He is
said to resemble Edwin Adam# as Enoch
Arden. He is rather lazy, and his sole
lon't do as much marching as tiie old
gentleman's.
Inches wide, at 10c.. I2W- and 25c.
latter good value for J0e. to 28c.
10-4 LINEN SHEETING reduced from $1 50
LINEN PILLOW CASINO reduced from #1
to 75c.
LINEN PILLOW CASING reduced from 75c.
>«l)C
TO dozen Ladies' Brown Unbleached IJSLK
THREAD HOSE, at ft.* tier dozen, east J» to
‘•ttixwt; sizes, 8. KW !i and Inches.
50 dozen Gents' SUMMER UNDF.RVKsTK. at
25c.. 40c. and 50c.; sizes. :Ki to 42; a ifreat job.
•todozen Hoys and Misses' GAUZE VESTS,
•tie*. 1* to 34. at 30e.. former price 5»V-.
A job lot of Ladies' SUMMER VESTS. 50c..
inch under value.
Full line of Gents' JEANS DRAWERS
75 dozen Gents’ Brown HALF HOSE, 20c..
flbe. and 35c, very One.
50 dozen Gent* Heavy English HALF HOKE,
25c. and 30c., usual price 40c. and 50c.
100 grata fine PEARL HUTTONS. I2j*e fo 2.V-
per dozen, not over half coot'of importation;
usual prloe of such iroods 20c. to fine, a dozen.
ti-4 BLUE FLANNEL SUITING, ftl 50 per
yard.
100 piece* yard wide printed CAMBRIC *ew
style*, at 33 per cent.fofT former price*, Some
beautiful SHIRTING PATTERNS amomrsi
them.
5 eases, 12,000 yard*. STANDARD PRINTS,
best brand*, fast colors, at 5c. per yard. These
are far superior to any such good* offering
100‘dozen LINEN HUCK TOWELS at 15c.
worth due.
on dozen LINEN HUC’K TOWELS at -*V-.
worth 25c.
75 dozen IJNKN IIUCK TOWELS at 25c .
worth 85c,
50 Oezen LINEN NAPKINS, 73c. a dozen.-
usual price 90c.
d Great jobs in NAPKINS, from $1 to ft2 50 a
BLACK GRENADINES- 50
quality at coat.
Alt Wool Colored GRENADINES and Silk and
Wool Colored GRENADINES reduced from flOe,
toVUo.
HO pieces American and Russia CRASHES,
from 5c. per yard to 2Uc.
3,000 yards DRESS I.INEN BOURETTES, at
Vetfc., reduced from 25c.
To open early in the week:
Job lot (soiled) LACE NETTING, at 50 per
cent off usual price.
Ladle*' LAWN WRAPPERS. DRESSING
SACQUSftand UNDERCLOTHING, full line iu
Our entire stock Children’s P. K. IJNEN
LAWN SUITS at to per cent, off cost.
GRAY & O BRIEN.
jri*-tr
pieces Rood
$75,000 WORTH
Staple and FancjDryGoods
SEDUCED PRICES!
A voung Mussulman who had aban-
boned the sect to which he had belonged,
was murdered in the streets of Bombay
on the 12th of June by the Mookhec, a
religious official, whose duty it was to
settle disputes among his caste fellows.
He settled it in this case by stabbing the
offender five times with a clasp knife.
It is said that ua a door several centu
ries old, of a great temple in Japan, is a
picture showing first a monkey, then an
ape. then a gorilla, and so on until the
scries end* in a perfect man. This ex
Mbit i“ respectfully referred to Mr. Dar-
wfn for bis consideration.
" l»t*n a Moutre&ler is tired of the
world he puts a piece of orange ribbon
in his buttonhole and saunters through
the streels, whistling “Croppies, ue
down. ”
Death from Hydrophobia.—.Robert
W. Greeve died last Tuesday night at his
farm in South Kingston. R. L, in conse-
a uauoe of being bitten by a sheep-killing
og on the 10th of April last
Babies cry because they suffer; and the
most reliable remedy for the relief of their
discomfort is Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup. Only
26 cents per bottle. it
VARIETY. QUALITY and PRICE a* wilt
merit the attention of clu*eca*h buyer*, whoso
examination I* respectfully invited For th®
better guidance of auch I will gire a few quo
tation*.
ASK FOR THE GOODS.
I HAVE THEM IN 8TOCK.
100 piece* CORDED JAf’ONET. linen finish,
•'« inches wide, only 10c. per yard. *ood value
for l‘44c. per yard.
WHITE PIQUE 5c., 6)4c., 8a, 10c. and up.
BLACK GRENADINES front 15a To 75a
BLACK ALPACA. BLACK CASHMERES,
BLACK BOMBAZINES, BLACK FRENCH D&
LAIN* BLACK HENRIETTA and TAMLSE
CLOTHS, and in fact everything kept in a first
class
at the lowest possible price*. However. I would
respectfully suggest to thoae needing anything
in the above line to come prepared to pay a
S t£eym*yo£d
e more than cost for what t
To Sell Goods for Coat aad Tar a
Hundred Cento on the Hollar,
to a Thine that I sn’t
DANIEL HOGAN.
151 BROUGHTON STREET.