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Georgia Affairs.
The Radicals of Atlanta, taking advan
tage of the dissensions which exist in the
ranks of the local Democracy there, are
seriously contemplating putting a Radical
municipal ticket in the field.
From the Constitution we learn that Jim
Alford, who fatally cut Wm. Shuler near the
rolling mill store, Atlanta, on Sunday night,
has been captured by Sheriff Perkeuer, with
the aid of Captain W. H. Redding, keeper
of the chain gang, lie was tracked to the
woods, whence he had escaped, by dogs,
lie made no resistance, but was taken in
charge and brought to Atlanta Tuesday
night, when he was placed in the Fulton
county jail. Alford is described as a young
man of about twenty-five, and is of very
good character when net on a spree. His
victim was buried Tuesday afternoon.
The statement that F. C. Rollins, one of
the prisoners who escaped from the Cobb
county jail on Sunday, had returned and
surrendered himself proves to be incorrect.
All four men arc at large, and a reward of
twenty-five dollars each is offered for their
recapture.
An amateur entertainment at the Opera
House, in Columbus, Tuesday night, real
ized two hundred and forty dollars for the
fever sufferers.
Mr. Henry P. Goetchins, of the Columbus
Times, has announced himself as a candi
date for the Clerkship of the next House of
Representatives. The Enquirer speaks
highly of his qualifications for the position.
Dr. William King, of Athens, publishes
an article in the Southern Banner calling
upon the medical profession of Georgia to
come forward and erect a monument to the
late Dr. Crawford W. Long, of that place,
the discoverer of that great boon to suffer
ing humanity—anaesthesia.
A grand entertainment in Americus for
the benefit of the fever sufferers came off
in that city at College Chapel on Tuesday
night. We have not heard as yet what were
the net proceeds. Nearly every town in the
State is engaged in doing something of this
sort—in fact, making use of every available
means to help their stricken fellow men.
The Covington Star is informed by some
of the best farmers of its county that cot
ton pays better at the present price, taking
the low price of everything else into con
sideration, than it did when it brought *20
cents per pound.
On Monday morning of last week as Mr.
Michael, jailor of Walton county, entered
the jail for the purpose of seeing after his
prisoners, he was seized by one of the
colored prisoners named Ben Aldrich, and
held fast till Mike Cox, convicted of hog
stealing, made his escape. “Mr. Michael,”
says the Vidette, ‘‘endeavored to shoot, but
the mainspring of his pistol breaking be
was unable to do so. His cries brought
others to his relief, and other escapes were
prevented. Mike Cox was aw aiting trans
portation to the chain gang, whither he had
been sentenced for twelve months by Judge
Rice at the last term. He is a great villain
and his escape is to be regretted.”
The Vidette, of Social Circle, says it didn’t
gay the cotton crop of Walton county was
cut off two-thirds by drought. It says it said
the crop was only cut off one-third.
Mr. Jesse Iloltzclaw is announced as the
regular straight out Radical candidate for
Congress in the Seventh district, and pro
poses, with the notorious J. E. Bryant, to go
on the stump. Mr. Iloltzclaw thinks the
Independent movement in said district has
progressed so far that he can now afford to
run, and possibly slip in. This move will in
all probability take a good many votes from
Dr. Felton.
On the 10th of August, as the down pas
senger train on the Georgia Railroad was
passing a point about four miles from Con
yers, some one fired a pistol at the train,
and a ball passed through a window very
.close to the head of the President of the
road, General E. P. Alexander. The
affair was hushed up at the time,
but it was thought to have
been an attempt on the life of
General Alexander, and it was determined
to ferret out the matter. This was done in
^ quiet and effective manner by Capt. W. L.
Jooes, of Atlanta, who on Sunday night ar
rested a negro in Conyers, named Dan 8ig-
raan, who confessed the crime, but said he
had no intention of taking Gen. Alexander’s
life. He said lac fired at the passenger
coach because he was mad at the time, and
'‘didn’t care a d—n who he hit. ’ He will
probably get his deserts in due time.
According to the Talbotton Register, Tal
bot county is all right. It says: “Notwith
standing the proverbial ‘hard times, the
contraction of the currency, and various
other causes that have combined to keep
the people ‘tight up, a brighter day lias
dawned on our dear old Talbot. Ihe sturdy
farmer, the mechanic, the merchant, the
laborer, now breathe freer, and hail in the
‘Conservative condition of all our interests
.the beginning of a new reign of plenty and
•prosperity. Good crops of small grain were
Soused in the early summer. A heavy crop
of corn has been made, and cotton promises
a fine average yield. ISo that all around the
-•eople are on firmer ground, are more or
U -s free from debt, and are consequently
pros ^eriug under this new order of things.
Colum bus Enquirer-Sun : “The Rev. J. k
Key relate t" us a very singular and str.k-
imr coincide'«’* Ibat occurred to him. Ihe
EEt. ,'e«d before going to bed on
night before last w*» » letter he had reuan ",
ed that cveniutr i. '*mau old and respected
friend, theltevf’E. C.
of the First Methodist C 3 ™"** t j"Pr“|
Next morning almost thd ^
was the telegraphic announcement of the
death of this great and S°? d m 3 „ e '
low fever. Verily,in the midst of >ue »e arc
In death.”
Columbus Times: “The little North ****
South, though struggling for existence,
determined not to be behind in furnishing a
news item occasionally. On Monday last a
collision between a freight car, loaded with
brick, iiud a handcar happened on the road
just above Fortsons, ten miles above here.
The car load of brick had been left at Aliens
crossing, and as'it stood on a grade, the
wheels had been ‘scotched. 1 Some malici
ously inclined person or mischievously dis
posed boys removed the obstructions under
the wheels, and ttie car accordinglj' started
down grade, it ran for two miles or more,
and just after passing Fortson’smet a uaud-
car on which were several road hands. The
men had to jump from their car to keep
from bei;:g run over, and as they were on a
trestle the accideut came very near termi
nating seriously. Fortunately no damage
was done save a slight injury to the cars,
resulting from the collision.”
Atlanta Constitution 11th: “On yesterday
=ta Mr. C. Howard Williams was coming out
»of his residence on Pryor street he observed
a man stagger and fall on the pavement just
?»eyoud bis gate. He hurried over to see
wh **t the matter was. He discovered that
the i > *»or tramp was an Italian, who had
started se'ven days ago from New Orleans
on foot and i, v1 just reached Atlanta. He
left to 1 Jet out o * the infected districts, but
■SSfiferyES-HS
siraMKs sr*
He was taken charge of by the cit>
ties and carried out to the city hOe»” lu ^z
where he will be properly nursed and care,
for.”
Gainesville North Georgian: “The hogs of
the city are dying up rapidly from cholera.
Large numbers of them are hauled off
nearly every day. We hear of nothing of
the kind outside the city limits, and doubt
»ot the disease originated from their living
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
alone on the filth of the street. If the City
Council enact the law proposed last week,
to require every owner of hogs to keep them
up, we believe the disease can be soou
broken up.”
McDuffie Journal: “Anderson Murray, a
respectable, industrious negro, living with
Mr. J. W. Murray, had his dwelling, with
all his furniture, clothing, provisions, etc.,
entirely destroyed by fire last Sunday- fore
noon. Anderson and his wife had gODe to
church and left their little children in the
house, and it is supposed that they acci
dentally set fire to it. He estimates his loss
at over one hundred dollars.”
The Walton County Vidette publishes the
following “frightful accident:” “On Fri
day afternoon last, four miles w-est of this
place, just across Alcova river, there oc
curred one of the most frightful disasters,
to cause no fatal results, that we have ever
been called upon to chronicle. Mr. Thomas
Dailey is running a steam saw-mill at the
place designated, and employs the use of a
six horse power ‘Eclipse’ engine. While
running his saw ou Friday evening last, and
while no one was expecting it, the boiler of
the engine exploded with terrific force, and
demolished everything within a radius of
forty feet. Mr. Thomas Dailey was ter
ribly scalded from tbe waist down, and
bis legs severely bruised and lacerated by
the ilying debris. Peyton Jones, a col
ored man, was severely wounded on the
scalp, side and leg. Jack Anderson, colored,
was terribly scalded all over his person and
slightly wounded in tbe foot. James Bal
linger, colored, (the engineer) was terribly
scalded. • It was feared for some time that
Ballinger’s eyes were blown out, but at last
accounts there was strong probability of his
recovery. The larger portions of the boiler
and engine were found a distance of two
hundred yards from the scene of the explo
sion, and the wonder is that every one of
the men were not killed instantly. Dr. T.
P. (iibbs was summoned and rendered
prompt surgical relief, and reports the par
ties doing as well as could be expected.”
Augusta Chronicle (12th): “There w-as an
upward turn in Central aud Georgia Rail
road stocks yesterday. Central stock,
which was last quoted at 55%(g)56%, was
quoted yesterday from 57% all "the way to
GO, with none offering at the first figures.
Advices received during the day from Sa
vannah stated that the stock was very firm
and held at GO. The advance in Central
caused Augusta and Savannah (one of the
former’s leased lines) to stiffen in price.
The last quotation was 95; it is now quoted
at 97}^. The same strong feeling was
noticed in Georgia Railroad stock, in
which there was an advance during the
morning—small sales being made a fraction
over seventy, with hardly any of the stock
ou the market. The advance in these stocks
is accounted for by tbe belief that tbe season
has opened very promisingly for both com
panies, and that they will do an unusually
heavy business. One of the largest stock
holders of the Georgia Road, and a gentle
man perfectly familiar with its manage
ment, predicts that the stock will advance
to eighty within a comparatively short
period.”
Democratic* Meeting in Wayne
County.
Jesup,Ga., September 11.—At a large meet
ing of the voters of Wayne county, held this
day at the court house, on motion Col. John
I). Rumph was selected Chairman and Mr.
O. F. Littlefield requested to act as Secre
tary.
Colonel Iiumph upon taking the chair
briefly stated that the object of the meeting
was to hear an address from our distin
guished fellow-citizen, in whom we delight
to honor, Hon. John C. Nicholls, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress.
Colonel Nicholls then advanced to the
stand and delivered an eloquent and impres
sive speech, which was received with ap
plause and satisfaction.
At the conclusion of Colonel Nicholls’ ad
dress, Mr. A. B. Purdom read the following
preamble and resolution, which ou motion
were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, There is a movement on foot
by the Laboring Men’s Greenback party to
run a candidate in opposition to the regular
nominated Democratic candidate in the First
Congressional District of Georgia; therefore,
be it
Resolved, by the people of Wayne county, in
mass meeting assembled (a large majority of
whom are workingmen—bumble tillers of
the soil), That the greenback doctrines of
tbe new party are substantially that of the
grand old Democratic party, and we regard
it as a stolen plank from our platform and a
subterfuge of our dead enemy, tbe Republi
can party, to again get their clutches hold
of the vitals of the people of this section,
and we warn all Democrats everywhere not
to be deceived thereby.
Resolved, 2. That we pledge tbe cheerful
and undivided support of the voters of
Wayne to our standard-bearer, Hon. John C.
Nicholls, in the coming November election.
John D. Rumpii, Chairman.
O. F. Littlefield, Sec’y.
Mr. Blaine’s visit to Minnesota is the
signal note of his candidacy in 1880.
The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, which
usually chatters of Grant, has taken up
the Senator from Maine, and remarks:
“The reception accorded to Senator
Blaine in the Northwest is significant.
It shows that he is still immensely popu
lar, and lhat his Presidential prospects
are not impaired. On the contrary', he
is consolidating his strength at the North
west, and this will be a potent factor in
the Presidential contest. Should Grant
not sweep the country, it is altogether
likely that Blaine will loom up with great
prominence as the coming leader of the
Republican hosts in 1880. The reception
accorded him in the Northwest fully
equals that extended to the President.”
Breaking tiie New s Gently.—Visi
tor from the country at the door of a
Southside residence "to a German next
door:
“Jane not at home, did you say?”
German—“Nein, Cliane’s nod at
home.”
Visitor—“Where is she?”
German—“She’s gouc der cemetery
down.”
Visitor—“When will she come back?”
German—“Oh, she vont come back al
ready any* more; she’s gone to stay'; she’s
det.”—Indianapolis News.
It is-averred on good authority that a
diplomatic mission is about to be sent
from China into Russian territory,
whether to St. Petersburg or not is un
certain. The business of the mission is
believed by some to be a negotiation af
fecting the Mohammedan colonies which
are called Kashgaria, the territory re
covered by China since the death of Y a-
koob. By others it is said to concern
the cession of Russia of the Ivudja or
fiilly country so long occupied by the
Russians, from which the Chinese were
expelled in I8G1.
—— •-»—
Apd has it come to this ! that a wife
no longer has the right to chastise her
husband without >)eiu" considered a lu
natic? Here is a Mr. Fagan, of Brook
lyn, N- V., who wants his wife adjudged
insane simply because she poured boiling
coffee down his hock. If a precedent is
established in this case extra accommo
dations for lunatics will he necessary in
the Vicin;.‘ v of New York, where such
little incidents ar? of almost daily occur-
A little son of Mr. J. A. Giles, near
Rock Hill, S. C., was bitten by a high
land moccasin, a very deadly snake.
When his father saw the bleeding foot
of his dear little boy he instantly-
snatched him up, and applying his own
lips to the wound sucked the poison
and relieved the sufferer. The experi
ment was hold and dangerous, hut was
successful. Tiie snake was killed, and
the father is uninjured.
A curious accident is reported in the
Turin journals. M. Giacomo Beschetti,
a land survey-or, went out shooting with
his dog in the neighborhood of Creseen-
tino. Desirous of resting after a long
walk, he leaned upon his gun, when his
dog, pawing the trigger, caused its dis
charge. M. Beschetti received the entire
contents of the weapon in his chest and
arm and died.
A boy of fifteen has been brought be
fore the Magistrates of Bristol, England,
charged with several burglaries. A
wa ^on load of plunder, valued at from
two to three thousand dollars, was pro
duced in court, as also the young gentle
man’s kit of housebreaking tools and a
libra A of exciting fiction of the -‘penny
dreadful" sort.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
THE YELLOW FEVER RECORD
A Malignant Type of Fever at New
Richmond, Ohio.
TIIE LATE TERRIBLE MINE DIS
ASTER IN ENGLAND.
The Sooloo Inland* to be Ceded to
Spain.
THE YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
New Orleans, September 11.—Dr.
Isadore Lehshan, Benj. A. Ray, son of Hod.
John Ray, II. D. Mitchell, late Captain of
the Twentieth New Jersey Cavalry, are
among the deaths to-day. The Howards
report two hundred and seventy-seven new
cases.
Dr. O. C. Thompson, of Osyka, Miss., re
ports several cases of fever there, but of a
mild type, since Sunday. There are several
new cases, among them Dr. Jones and sod,
Mrs. Ellis, and Dr. Thompson's wife.
Grenada, September 12.—Since yester
day there have been four deaths and five
new cases.
New Orleans, September 12. — The
Young Men’s Christian Association reported
ninety-four new cases yesterday. Among
the deaths is George McCloskey.
A MALIGNANT TYPE OF FEVER AT NEW RICH
MOND, OHIO.
Cincinnati, September 12.—H. W. Bleitz,
of Memphis, died of yellow fever last even
ing. It is stated that a very malignant type
of fever has broken out at New Richmond,
Ohio, a small place, twenty miles from this
city, up the river. Of the six or seven per
sons attacked up to this time, five have
died. The wife of Rev. Dr. Lewis,
and a servant girl, their next door
neighbor, died Tuesday, and shortly after
the wife and sister of Mike McGlane, where
the servant died, were attacked and died.
A daughter of Dr. Kincaid was attacked,
but recovered. The patients turn yellow,
and before death present the peculiar symp
toms of black vomit. Tbe physicians, how
ever, pronounce the disease bilious fever.
THE LATE TERRIBLE COAL MINE DISASTER IN
ENGLAND.
London, September 12.—The full extent
of the terrible disaster in the coal mine at
Abercorne is now known. At half-past two
o’clock this morning the flooding of
the pit commenced. At that hour
the tire was within a short dis
tance of the bottom of the shaft, and
all hope for the rescue of the unfortunate
miners had been abandoned. When this
decision was announced to the relatives of
the two hundred and fifty-one men still in
the pit the scene was terrible beyond de
scription. Thirteen additional bodies were
recovered before the Hooding began.
THE SOOLOO ISLANDS TO BE CEDED TO SPAIN
—RUSSIAN POLITICAL MATTERS.
London, September 12.—'The Standard
says it is probable a portion of the Sooloo
Islands, in the Indian Ocean, has been or
are about to be ceded to Spain. The British
Consul General at Lohuan has been ordered
to proceed to the Sooloo Islands in a man-of-
war.
A Berlin dispatch reports the influence of
Gortschakoff paramount at St. Petersburg,
and Count Sc’houvaloff has been released
from office at his own request.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATION.
Louisville, September 12.—Phil. Thomp
son has been renominated by the Eighth
district Democrats.
EVENING TELEGRAM.
THE SITUATION AT CANTON AND
VICKSBURG.
A Sad State of Affairs Continues
at Memphis.
ACTION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS
DEMOCRACY.
The United States Hoard of Trade.
FIGHT WITH HOSTILE BAN
NOCKS.
Washington and General Notes.
THE SITUATION IN MEMPHIS UNIMPROVED.
Memphis, September 12.—The thermome
ter last night marked sixty and a half de
grees, but a stiff breeze dissipated all hopes
of frost. From 6 o’clock yesterday evening
to noon to-day there were sixty-two deaths,
among whom are several of the most promi
nent citizens, including Dr. B. W. Avent,
Judge Robert Hutchinson, Captain A. T.
Lacey, Professor E. S. Francis and
Captain Win. Elliott. Sister Yincentia is
also dead. Rev. S. Landrum, pastor of the
Central Baptist Church, was taken sick
while watching by the bedside of his dying
son. Herbert S. Landrum, city editor of
the Avalanche, died at 2 a. m.
Nurses from Southern cities continue to
arrive, and are much needed. Dr. J. W.
Woodard,a resident physician, is down with
the fever. Casey Young, member of Con
gress, is sick, but not with fever. A cool
breeze is blowing, and hopes are entertained
that at least there will be a falling off in the
number of new cases. Mayor Flipper is
convalescing.
THE SITUATION AT CANTON AND VICKSBURG.
Canton, September 12.—There is no
abatement of the scourge. New cases to
day twenty, deaths two.
Vicksburg, September 11,* via New Or
leans,September 12.—The weather is cloudy
and very cool. Among the deaths to-day
are D. A. Culley, merchant, Dr. Potts,
and Dr. Blichfeldt, of Chattanooga,
volunteers. The two doctors, Blichfeldt
aud Norris, who came from Chatta
nooga with ten nurses, are both dead,
and nino of the nurses are sick. It is
best for physicians and nurses that have not
had the fever to keep away from Vicksburg.
Deaths yesterday forty-two, to-day thirty-
one. New cases are unknown, but it is
generally thought by druggists that the
fever is decreasing in the number of new
cases for the want of material. The fever
is spreading throughout Warren county.
The Howard Association estimates that
there have been three thousand cases and
five hundred deaths since the fever first ap
peared.
MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS.
Boston, September 12.—At a meeting of
the Executive Committee of the Massachu
setts Democratic State Committee it was
voted that, under the call for a State Con
vention, no person known to be in favor of
nominating through the Democratic Con
vention as a candidate for Governor, or for
any State office, a person who is not a
recognized member of the Democratic party,
should be entitled to sit or vote in the Demo
cratic State Convention.
A Republican caucus was held in this city
and r-urrounding citie.. and towns last even
ing for the choice of delegates to the State
aud other conventions. The State delegates
generally favored the nomination of Talbot
for Governor.
UNITED STATES BOARD OF TRADE.
New York, September 12.—At a meeting
pt the United States Board of Trade, held
yesterday, it was resolved to hold the next
meeting in New York Wednesday, Novem
ber 0th, when Presidents and delegates from
all the chambers of commerce, boards of
trade, maritime, produce and commercial
exchanges in the United States will be in
vited to attend. A number of important
subjects will then be discussed,
FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Bozeman, Montana, via Helena, Mon
tana, September 12 —An extra courier says
that Sunday last General Miles had a battle
with the Bannocks on Soda Butt creek near
Clark’s forks. Thirteen Indians were killed
and the rest of tfie party, thirty-seven in all,
were captured. Miles’ loss was Captain
Andrew S. Bennett killed and one soldier
mortally wounded.
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC PLAT-
FORM.
Concord, N. H., September 12.—Hosea
Parker was President of the. Democratic
State Convention. Among the resolutions
is the declaration that the greenbacks
should be full legal tender for all debts,
public and private, and the word gold or
silver, or coin, should not remain in the
contract pay to the bonds.
FURTHER RELIEF FOR THE FEVER SUFFERERS.
New' York, September 12.—The Relief
Committee of the Chamber of Commerce
to-day received $1,417 47, making the total
subscriptions $87,582 03. Mayor Ely to-day
received subscriptions to the amount of
$986 81.
4NJNESTr TO SWISS PRIESTS.
Berne,September 12.—The Grand Council
of Switzerland has granted amnesty to
ninety-three Catholic priest* who were de
prived of their livings in 1873 for refusing
to comply with the requirements of State
laws.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., September 12.—Indica
tions for Friday:
In the South Atlantic States, clearing
weather, colder northwesterly winds, rising
barometer, preceded by high variable winds,
rainy weather, attending storm centre.
In the Middle Atlantic States, cloudy,
rainy weather, increasing and high easterly
winds, becoming variable, stationary tem
perature and falling barometer.
In the East Gulf States, clear or partly
cloudy weather,- northwesterly winds, sta
tionary temperature, and stationary or rising
barometer.
In the West Gulf States, clear or partly
cloudy weather, cold northerly shifting to
warmer southeast winds and falling barome
ter.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley,warmer,
partly cloudy weather in the east portions,
frequent rains, and winds mostly northerly,
stationary or falling barometer.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, September 12.—Subscrip
tions to the yellow fever fund continue to
increase, and fifteen thousand dollars have
thus far been subscribed here.
The Metropolitan Hotel, which had been
closed for three mouths, was reopened to
day under the proprietorship of J. F. Coke.
BLAINE QUIET ABOUT MAINE.
Ogdens bubo, September 12.—Senator
Blaine spoke at the fair here to-day. He
devoted himself largely to financial matters,
and made no reference to the result iu
Maine.
STORY DISCREDITED.
Chicago, September 12.—There is noth
ing known respecting the alleged massacre
of General Miles’ excursion party. The
story is discredited at Sheridan’s headquar
ters.
CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE IN POSITION.
London, September 12.—The Egyptian
obelisk was brought into an upright posi
tion and lowered on its pedestal this after
noon on the Thames embankment.
A NEW' OPERA.
Rome, September 12.—Verdi has com
pleted his new five act opera entitled “Mon
tezuma,” which will be first produced in
Milan.
NOMINATIONS.
Concord, N. II., September 12.—The
Democratic State Convention nominated
Frank A. Me Kim for Governor.
NEW' ORLEANS FEVER REPORT.
New Orleans, September 12.—Two hun
dred and twelve new cases and fifty-seven
deaths reported to-day.
Influence of Gaslight on the
Eye.—The German Minister of Instruc
tion lias recently issued a report on the
influence of gaslight on the eye. The
conclusion arrived at is that no evil results
follow a moderate use of gas, if the
direct action of the yellow flame on the
eye is prevented. For this purpose
screens or shades are employed. Grave
objections, however, exist to the use of
zinc or lead shades, most evils affecting
the eye bein^ traceable to them. Their
use, it is said, inevitably tends to blind
ness or inflammation, aud other harmful
effects. The milky-white glass shade is
the best, as it distributes the light and
has a grateful effect on the eye. The
burner should not be too close to the
head, as congestions of the forehem 1 and
headaches result from the radiated heat.
The glass plate below the gas, employed
in some places, is especially useful for
the purpose, as it causes an equal dis
tribution of the light—necessary where
a number are working at one burner—
prevents the ladiation o£ heat, and tends
to a steady illumination by shielding the
flames from currents of air. In cases of
highly inflamed eyes, dark blue globes
can be very beneficially employed. With
precautions of this kind, no effects from
the burning of gas need be feared.
How Prairie Dogs Get Water.—
It has always been a subject of curiosity
and inquiry as to how' and where prairie
dogs, living on the prairie, far away from
any river or stream, obtain their water.
Mr. F. Leech, formerly of Mercer coun
ty, Pa., and a frontiersman of experi
ence, asserts that the dogs dig their own
w’ells, each village having one with a con
cealed opening. It matters not how far
down the water may be, the dogs will
keep on digging until they reach it. He
know's of one such well two hundred
feet deep, and having a circular staircase
leading down to the water. Every time
a dog wants to drink he descends the
staircase, which, considering the dis
tance, is no mean task. In digging for
water the animals display as much pluck
as in resisting the efforts of settlers to
expel them from the land of their pro
genitors. —Sa n Ft a ncisco Call.
“Well, Jedge. I’ll 'splain de wharfo’o*
dem remains. Y'e see I’se got a passel o’
chickens dat’s pow’ful enterprisin’ —
deyn’t been no day sense last Chris’mas
but dem fowls hez bin reg’lar in dere
’tentiou to bizness. Suddintly, Jedge,
eggs w T as scase, and yet dey wuz mo’
shells layin’ roun’ de yard dan dis chile
could ’count fur. Well, I sot on de
problem a wile, an’ fetched out dat dere
wuz a weezle or so jes started in bizness,
so I tuk two or free of dem eggs, ’strac-
ted de natural pervizions, an’ furnished
’em wid la’nutn and turpentine, an’ a few’
mossels ob corn starch puddin’, to kine
o’ make e’m nourishin’, an’ in de morn-
in’ w hen I kim out J foun’ dat nigger
waitin’ fur de kurriner. I tell ye, Jedge,
some eggs ain’t hullsome, an’ it don’ do
fur a man to go roun' suckin’ ’em per-
miscus. ”
Ills Turn Next.—A boy came up iu
the Picayune office to insert a death no
tice last night.
He said to the gentleman having charge
of the advertising department:
“Another one gone, that makes
eight.”
“What do you mean?” asked the gen
tleman.
The boy answered: “I mean that is
the eighth one of my family that has
died, five brothers and .liree sisters. I
wonder who w T ill come next?”
“How many are left?”
“Only me,” he replied, as he went
out.— New Orleans Picayune, September 5.
Adam Forepaugh, the large-hearted
proprietor of Forepaug’n’s great show,
now making the tour of Minnesota, has
contributed over four hundred dollars to
the yellow' fever sufferers of the South.
In addition to this, Mr. Forepaugh sent
a draft of fifty dollars each from St.
Paul to the Mayors of Memphis and New
Orleans for immediate use. As soon as
Adam gets to St. Louis he will give a
grand benefit for the same noble charity,
which shows that he has a large heart as
well as a large show.
“Why does lightning so rarely strike
twice in the same place?” Professor
Wortman asked the new boy in the class
in natural philosophy. “Huh,” said the
new' boy, “it never needs to.” And it is
a little singular that nobody bad thought
of that reason before.
A shoeless and ragged bootblack in
New Y'ork who was seen to put several
pennies in a box for the New Orleans
sufferers is informed by a gentleman who
watched him that he need black boots no
An artesian well 3,250 feet deep has
been bored in Pesth, Hungary. It is the
deepest in the world, being nearly twice
the depth of that in Paris. It sends up
a jet of nearly boiling water forty-two
feet high.
English steel pens are almost entirely
made by women. In 1820-21 the first
gross of “three slit” steel pens was sold
wholesale at j£7 4s. the gross. In 1830
they had fallen to 8s., and in 1832 to 6s.
the gross. 4 l>etter article is now sold
at (id. per gross.
The sadness of civil service reform is
hovering over St. Louis:
[boy v
“O what have you been doing Filiey boy. Fillev
charming Filiey ?
“I've run the Grant machine.
And that is why, I ween.
They have made for me all this confounded
bother.' 1
Fifty thousand eucalyptus trees are to
be planted about the City of Mexico.
^ ^hese trees grow very rapidly, and in a
ew years will make a material modifi-
tion iu the rainfall about the Mexican
capital.
Silver Vigorously Defended.
New Haven {Conn.) Register.
The following communication to tbe
New York Bulletin was promptly pub
lished with seriatim answers by the edi
tor, the gist of which will be found quot
ed in the rejoinder of “W.,” which has
been handed us for publication, and
which we take pleasure in commending
to the careful attention of our readers,
the subject being one of great interest:
THE PRECIOUS METALS IN EUROPE.
New Haven, Aug. 16, 1878.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Daily Bulletin:
Your article on the “European Money
Markets” in yesterday's issue interests me
very much, and suggests a good many
inquiries:
First. What proportion of the £161,-
000,000—which you say the great banks
of Europe held at the' close of July—is
gold and what silver?
Second. How do these proportions
compare with the previous and other
years?
Third. What has become of the de
crease during the past two years, which
you set dowu at $75,000,000?
Fourth. How—as you suggest—could
the non-receipt of the product of our
mines occasion a decrease in the Euro
pean stock, when they did actually re
ceive $20,000,000 net?
Fifth. Did Europe not get a quantity
of gold and silver last year from Austra
lia, South America and Mexico ? If so,
how much ? And, together with the $20,-
000,000 from us and the $75,000,000 de
crease, 1 ask again what has become of
it ?
Sixth. If silver had not been remone
tized in this country, would the balance
of trade, to the extent of $100,000,000
(more or less), have been settled in gold
instead of bonds returned, as you and all
mono-metalists asserted during the dis
cussion of the question ?
Seventh. If yes—and European money
markets are in a strait because of the loss
of $75,000,000—what would have beeu
their conditiou if they had paid us $100,-
000.000 in gold ?
Eighth. If Europe needs not only all
the gold and silver she can get from the
rest of the world, but all our mines pro
duce in order to preserve her money
markets from stringency, how could she
get on at all if she should wholly discard
silver ?
Ninth. If, ^ itli silver serving as money
in all Asia and both Americas and in a
large part of Europe, there is yet a
scarcity of coin, what would follow the
universally discarding of silver ?
Tenth. Is it not just possible that we
could not have drawn enough gold from
Europe to have enabled us to resume
specie payments next January or any
other date—or if we did—it would have
plunged Europe into suspension ?
Eleventh aud finally. Is it not possible
that there is not enough gold in the
world to answer the purposes of money?
and that, therefore, the single standard
theory is a delusion—a fallacy to be ex
ploded before Europe can ever again
have a safe and satisfactory money mar
ket? \ r ours, W.
To these questions the Bulletin replies
in a series of answers too long to be re
printed in full; and as they are noticed
by “W.” in his rejoinder with candor
and sufficient fullness, we will, as we
have said, merely add his second com
munication, which is as follows:
New Haven, August 24, 1878.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Daily Bulletin:
In your replies to my inquiries you
admit that “ it is certain there is not gold
enough in the world to answer all the
purposes of money.” Good. But pardon
me if I say you ii.r onsequentlv add:
“Butwe hope it liy i.o means follows
that we can never have a safe and satis
factory money market until the single
standard fallacy is exploded.” The only
logical sequence to the admission which
you so unreservedly make is that the
double standard is aabsolute necessity.
The world, you say, cannot get on with
gold alone; it must, therefore, have both
gold and silver. Aud this pregnant fact
you emphasize in your replies to some
other of my questions. For instance,
you say, “ The balance (in trade the past
year) could not have been paid in gold,
for the reason that the European hanks
could not have sent us that amount in
gold, nor the fourth of the sum, without
producing a panic, which would have
sent back our securities in lieu of the
gold.” Again: “ If Europe should wholly
discard silver * * * the narrowed
coiu basis would compel a general con
traction of banking operations. The
shrinkage of bank credits would induce
a widespread liquidation and panic, and
in order to avert a permanent prostration
alike of hanking and commerce, relief
would have to be sought in abandoning
the old-fashioned usage of maintaining
large cash banking reserves, and in re
sorting to a more extensive use of paper
money, with a narrow metallic basis, or
no metallic basis for the issues.” And
once more: “Under the conditions con
templated in this question (universal dis
carding ot silver), we should have first
universal panic and liquidation, and then
barter in Asia, and in Europe and the
United States, gold used only as an in
strument of banking and the foreign ex
changes, with paper money of one^ kind
or another, performing the functions of
a common circulating medium.”
Now, all this is, to my mind, as true
as it is important—and, as I have said,
it emphasizes the first simple assertion—
“there is not gold enough in the world
to answer the purposes of money.” But,
ycu add, “Our correspondent, however,
need not harass himself with the appre
hension of a universal discarding of sil
ver,” and in another place, “that theory
(the single standard) is very far from
having the wide ascendancy that WV
seems to attribute to it.” Pray! How
long is it since “that theory” had a very
wide ascendancy? When England, Ger
many and the L nited States, not to men
tion minor States, had discarded silver
and taught the world to look upon
it with contempt, and when France had
stopped minting silver and was said to
be on the^ point of leading the whole
Latin Union into the rejection of it,
then, it would seem as if “that theory”
had a well nigh world wide ascendancy.
There was, then, imminent danger that
the single standard theory would obtain
not only a wide but universal ascen
dancy, and, indeed, why not ? If it is
sound in principle it must be of univer
sal application. No sane man will pre
tend that, if gold is the best—the only
proper and honest standard for England,
Germany and the United States—it is
not equally so for France, Russia and the
rest of Europe, and, if for all Europe
and North America, in the name of all
that is reasonable, why not for Asia and
the rest of mankind ? A contrary
opinion would involve its holder in a very
Serbonian bog of absurdities and diffi
culties, and it would be easy to demon
strate if it were necessary.
And yet it is just here that advocates of
a gold standard are either silent or evasive.
They, one and all, seem to think there is
some sort of a compromise to be reached,
by which a few favored nations may use
and profit by the single standard, whilst
all the rest of the world may (or shall
perhaps) be satisfied with, and be ruined
by. the double !
To state such a proposition is to make
patent its absurdity.
A double standard, then, being an im
perative necessity, it remains only to set
tle the basis of coinage, for in order to a
concurrent circulation of the two metals,
there must be a just relation of value be
tween the coins of the two; and in regard
to this, there is a pretty wide difference
of opinion even acqQng the friends of
Silver
It seems to me, however, that there are
sundry facts which, rightly considered,
will go far toward solving the question.
First. Silver, on the basis of our
present coinage, bore a small premium up
to a few years ago (notwithstanding Eng
land had long previously demonetized
it), proving beyond dispute that ou that
basis silver teas more valuable than gold.
Second. The annual product of gold
the world over, even since the opening
of the Nevada mines, exceeds that of sil
ver by about $2.5,000,000.
Third. The East shows still, as it has
glways, an insatiable capacity for ab
sorbing silver.
Fourth. The arts and manufactures
consume incalculably more silver than
gold.
Fifth. Silver, in coin, being the softer
metal and infinitely more in actual use,
is subject to far greater waste than
gold.
These I believe to be the essential
pivotal facts of the case, and if they are,
the dollar of 412 grains is intrinsically
worth as much as the gold dollar of the
present standard, and is, therefore, the
just basis of coinage.
If it is asked why it is actually worth
but 90 cents, I answer, simply and only
because of the action of Germany and
the United States and the threatened
action of the Latin Union, ichereby silver
was denied its proper function and use,
was discredited iu fact and by anticipa
tion. The only wonder is that it was
not further depreciated. I venture to
assert that if gold had beeu treated in
like manner it tcouid have fared far
worse.
It follows, of course, that the remedy
is to be found iu retracing th steps
taken in the direction of demonetization
of silver. We have done so, and 1 be-
lrave wisely (uulcss, indeed. VPlIh too
much caution). Is it too much to ex
pect France and the other Latin nations
to stand firmly by us, aud then for Ger
many, and possibly England, to follow
our example? I think not. Economic
truths are self-vindicating! The tide of
opinion a year ago was well nigh over
whelmingly against silver. It was not
only rejected—it was reviled and con
temned. The fashion rose almost to a
mania. But it has evidently culminated.
Already signs are not wanting that a
sober second thought is coming, even to
hitherto uncompromising advocates of
gold. It is seen andfelt in this country that
the remonetization of silver has made
possible—if not certain—the resumption
of specie payment (otherwise not pos
sible. as you virtually admit when you
say Europe could not and would not
have spared us even as much as $25,-
000,000 gold) at an early day. It has
gone far 'towards settling the financial
problems which so weighed upon the
people as to paralyze all enterprise, and
therefore has opened the way to the im
provement which unquestionably has
taken place in our affairs; and these two—
resumption and better business—will
speedily give the quietus to the pesti
ferous greenback agitation and its logical
sequence, repudiation.
And in the Old World we see the
sometime not-to-be too mucli-ridiculed
International Monetary Congress hold
ing its early sessions in Paris, attende 1
by delegates from every nation in Eu
rope except Germany; and already, since
I began writing, come utterances which
indicate that they are far from treating
the American policy lightly, or even
combating it uncompromisingly. The
representative of England says "that al
though England has a gold standard.
she is greatly interested in silver retaining
its monetary condition" (selfish England!);
whilst M. Leon Say, the French delegate
(Minister of Finance and highest au
thority in finance), said “the monetary
question would remain too obscure for
France to take sides so long as Ger
many had a considerable stock of silver
which she could throw upon the market
of France" (timid France!); yet “he ap
proved of the initiative having' been taken
by the United States in this matter.”
Truly, the world does move; and now
it is moving in this matter in the right
direction. WT
Reports of Crops for the Month of
August, 1878.
Department of Agriculture, )
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 10, 1878. f
Corn.—Since the. date of the last re
port, the corn crop has improved 3 per
cent, in North Georgia, and 8 per cent, in
East Georgia, while it has fallen off in
Southwest Georgia 1 per cent., and in
Southeast Georgia 2 per cent.—Middle
Georgia remaining the same. The gen
eral average for the State is 95 per cent,
of an average crop, or 3 per cent, im
provement since August 1st.
Cotton.—There has been a general
falling off in the prospect of the cotton
crop since 1st August, the decrease being
much greater in Southwest and East
Georgia than in the other sections. This
decrease is chiefly the effect of rust,
which has prevailed very generally
throughout the middle aud southern
portions of the State. Tbe complaints
of injury from this source are almost
universal.
In Southwest Georgia caterpillars have
appeared in many of the counties, but
the injury to date has been slight, though
in some localities serious damage and loss
are apprehended. The crop is opening
two weeks in advance of the usual time,
and is being rapidly pushed into market
and sold. Several correspondents write
that ‘ ‘more cotton has been picked and
ginned in August than ever before
known.” With favorable seasons for
the harvesting, the main crop in Georgia
will he all gathered and ready for mar
ket at a much earlier period than usual.
It will be wise policy on the part of farm
ers to use extraordinary diligence in gat h-
ering the rapidly opening cotton during
the good weather, and before it becomes
stained and soiled by long exposure and
had weather.
Miscellaneous Crops.—There has
lieen a general improvement in the con
dition of all the minor crops—sweet
potatoes, sugar cane, sorghum, field
peas, rice—excepting sweet potatoes in
Southwest and East Georgia, where this
crop has been injured by excessive rains,
causing too much vine.
Oats.—As the oat is rapidly and cer
tainly becoming the leading forage crop
in Georgia, it should receive all the at
tention which its importance demands in
selection of seed, preparation of soil,
proper fertilization and timely sowing.
The reports to the Department for several
years past show conclusively that the
main bulk of the oat crop should be
sown in the fall. Experience of the best
farmers is in favor of heavy seeding, from
one and a hal f to as high as five bushels per
acre, according to strength of soil. The
Mexican Rust proof — (variously called
‘‘Red Rust-proof,” “Yellow Rust proof,”
“Irwin Rust proof,” etc., etc.,) is now
generally accepted as the best variety-
in all respects suited to our climate. The
best farmers are not now satisfied with a
yield of less than fifty bushels per acre;
some have secured much more—even
double that amount—and are confident
of still greater results in the future.
Seed Wheat.—This department will
take pleasure in registering the names
and addresses of farmers who have for
sale approved varieties of wheat and oats,
and furnish the same to those who may
wish to purchase directly from growers.
Thomas P. Janes,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Irish Catholics Turning Jews.—
There have been but very few instances
of Irish Catholics turning Jews, either
for love or money. It seems an utterly
unnatural step for any cause, though it
is sometimes taken. Surrogate Calvin
will soon have to try a will contest aris
ing mainly from an occurrence of this
kind. Several months ago an old lady
of Irish birth and a most scrupulous
Catholic, died in New York and left a
will bequeathing nearly all her estate to
Catholic charities. Her nearest relative
was a nephew, who had been of her
own faith, but who apostatized from it
many years ago. He was an accom
plished scholar, and a Hebrew rabbi em
ployed hint to jpake some translations of
ancient Hebrew works. He subse
quently abjured the faith in which he
was born, and became an orthodox Jew,
and he atterward married a Jewess and
reared a family in the Rehrew faith. All
this was a source of great sorrow to the
old lady, and when making her will she
left but a mere token to her apostate
nephew. After her death he gave notice
that he would contest the will, and the
trial will probably begin next monl^.—
Buffalo Courier.
Twenty naked men started out in
Smithville, Ind., the other evening, and
after making night hideous with un
earthly yells, proceeded to strip and tar
and feather two women.
The Great Plague in London.
The present epidemic of yellow fever
in some of the Southern cities brings to
mind Defoe's description of the epi
demic plague in London. known as the
great plague. In many features the two
disorders present points of resemblance.
Both were imported and grew by reason
of the unusual warmth of the season
acting upon the tilth of the streets. In
each case the desolation and loss of life
were awful, and the most stringent
quarantine regulations failed to operate
as effective checks. The London plague
was, however, by far the most de
structive, not less than 100,000 persons
having died of it.
The plague raged in London during
the spring, summer and autumn of 1665.
It first appeared during the previous year
in the parish of St.-Giles in-tlie Fields,
and was believed to have been brought
over from Holland. It spread so fast
that the gravest apprehension was felt
lest it might become general. But the
cool weather of autumn ami winter
checked, and was believed to have killed
it. I pon the return of warm weather
Ii ffroke out again, and the season, like
the present one, proving unusually hot.
it spread with alarming rapidity. The
utmost precautions were taken to arrest
its progress. The city was quarantined—
no one was allowed to leave it having
once entered. An effort was made to
enforce cleanliness. People were mured
iu their houses. Families afflicted by
the disorder were kept off the streets. In
May and June it entered the city proper,
and several fatal eases occurred in the
best quarters. Iu July the King and
his court lied to Salisbury, leaving the
city in charge of the Duke of Albemarle.
The condition of the city from this out
is graphically described by Defoe; “The
face of London was strangely altered—
I mean the whole mass of buildings,
city, liberties, suburbs, Westminster.
Southwark, and all together. For, as to
the particular part called the city, or
within the walls, that was not yet much
infected, but in the whole, the face of
things, 1 say, was much altered. Sor
row and sadness set upon every face,
and though some parts were not yet
overwhelmed, yet all looked deeply con
cerned, and as we saw it apparently
coming on, so everyone looked on him
self and his family as being in the ut
most danger. * * * London might
well be said to he all in tears. The mourn
ers did not go about the streets indeed, for
nobody put on black, or made a formal
dress of mourning for their nearest
friends. But the voice of mourning was
truly heard in the streets; the shrieks of
women and children at the windows and
doors of their houses, when their near
est relations were perhaps dying or just
dead, were so frequent to be heard as we
passed the streets that it was enough to
pierce the stoutest heart in the world to
hear them. Tears and lamentations
were seen almost in every house, espe
cially in tbe first part of the visitation ;
for toward the latter end men's hearts
were hardened, and death was always so
before their eyes, that they did not so
much concern themselves for the loss of
their friends, expecting that themselvis
should he summoned the next hour.”
Soon the streets were deserted and
business stopped, whereby thousands
were thrown into idleness and destitu
tion. Grass sprouted in the principal
thoroughfares. In a little while people
came out from their houses, being driven
to mingle with each other in search of
provisions, which began to be very
scarce. “This necessity of going out of
our houses to buy provisions,” says De
foe, “was, in a great measure, the ruin
of the whole city, for the people catehed
the distemper, on these occasions, one of
another, and even the provisions them
selves were often tainted—at least, I have
great reason to believe so; and, there
fore, I cannot say with satisfaction what
I know is repeated with great assurance,
that the market people and such as
brought provisions to town were never
infected. I am certain the butchers of
White Chapel, where the greater part of
the flesh meat were killed, was dreadfully
visited, and that at least to such a degree
that few of their shops were kept open,
and those that remained of them killed
their meat at Mile-End and that wav,
and brought it to market upon horses.
It is true people used all possible precau
tions; when anyone bought a joint of
meat in the market they would not take
it out of the butcher's hand, but took it
off the hooks themselves. On the other
hand, the butcher would not touch the
money, but have it put into a pot full of
vinegar, which he kept for that purpose.
The buyer always carried small money
to make up any odd sum that they might
take no change. They carried bottles
for scents and perfumes in their hands,
and all the means that could be used
were employed. But then the poor
could not do even these things, and they
went at all hazards. Innumerable dis
mal stories we heard every day on this
account. Sometimes a man or woman
dropped down dead in the very market,
for many people that had the plague
upon them knew nothing of it
until the inward gangrene had
affected their vitals, and they died
in a few moments. This caused
that many died in that manner in tbe
streets suddenly, without any warning.
Others, perhaps, had time to go the next
bulk or stall, or to any door or porch,
and just sit down and die, as I have said
before. These objects were so frequent
in the streets, that when the plague came
to be very raging on one side, there was
scarce any passing by the streets but that
several dead bodies would he lying here
and there upon the ground; on the other
hand, it is observable that, though at
first the people would stop as they went
along and call to the neighbors to come
out on such an occasion, yet afterward no
notice was taken of them. Rut if at any
time we found a corpse lying, go across
the way and not come near it, or if in
a narrow lane or passage go hack again,
and seek some other way to go on the
business we were upon, and in those cases
the corpse was always left until the
officers had notice to come and take them
away; or till night, when the bearers at
tending the dead-cart would take them
up and carry them away. Nor did these
undaunted creatures who performed those
offices fail to search their pockets, and
some to strip off their clothes, if they
were well dressed, as sometimes they
were, and carry off what they could get.
* * * It is scarcely credible what dread
ful cases happen in particular families
every day; people, in the rage of the
distemper or in the torment of their
rackings, which was indeed intolerable,
running out of their own government,
raving and distracted, oftentimes laying
violent hands upon themselves, throwing
themselves out of their windows, shoot
ing themselves, etc. Mothers murdering
their own children in their lunacy; some
dying of grief, as a passion; some of
mere fright and surprise, without any
infection at all; others frightened into
idiotism and foolish distractions; some
into despair and lunacy; others into
melancholy mail ness. * * * In some
the swellings were made so hard that
no instrument could cut them, and
then they burned them with caus
tic, so that many died raving mad
with the torment, and some in the very
operation. In these distresses, for want
of help to hold them down in their teds
or to look to them, laid hands upon
themselves, as above, some broke out
into the streets, perhaps naked, and
would run directly down to the river and
plunge themselves into the water where-
ever they found it. It often pierced my
soul to hear the groans and cries of
those who were thus lormented. This
running of distempered people about the
streets was very dismal, and the Magis
trates did their utmost to prevent it;
but as it was always in the night, and
generally sudden, when such attempts
were made, the officers could not be at
hand to prevent it, and even when they
got oui during the day, the officers ap
pointed did not care to meddle with them,
because as they were all grieyously in
fected, to be sure, when they came to that
height, so they were more than ordi
narily infectious, and it was one of the
most dangerous things that could be to
touch them. On the other hand, they
generally ran on not knowing what they
did, till they dropped down stark dead,
or till they had exhausted their spirits so
as that they would fall, and then die in
perhaps half an hour or an hour; and,
which was most piteous to hear, they
were sure to come to themselves entirely
in that half hour or hour, and then to
make most grievous and piercing cries
and lamentations in the deep afflicting
sense of the condition they were in. * * *
After a while the fury of the infection
appeared to be so increased that, in
short, they shut up no houses at all; it
seemed enough that all the remedies of
that kind had been used till they were
found fruitless, and that the plague
spread itself with an irresistible fury, so
that it came at last with such violence
that the people sat still, looking at each
other, and seemed quite abandoned to
flespair. Whole streets seemed to be
desolated, and not to be shut up only,
but to be emptied of their inhabitants.
Doors were left open, windows stood
shattering in the wind in empty houses
for want of people to shut them. In a
word, people began to give up them
selves to their fears, and'to think that
all regulations and methods were in
vain, and that there was nothing to be
hoped for hut an universal desolation. ”
Clergymen Cheating at Croquet —
The Rev. N. C. Baldwin tells in the Re
ligious Herald that he once saw a young
Baptist preacher and a young lady play
ing croquet, and lectured him aliout it,
and he afterwards learned the lady-
saw the game iu a new light and aban
doned it forever. We are not at all sur
prised. If there is one thing that a
young Baptist clergyman will do more
than another, it is to cheat at croquet.
Mr. Baldwin probably exposed the gen
tleman in the case he mentions. The
lady was grieved and astonished, and. in
deep disgust at the deception jiraetiecsl
upon her, resolved upon the spot to l>e
good and unhappy for the remainder of
her life. It is to be regretted that the
name of the reverend deceiver is not
given. It is not fair in Mr. Baldwin to
withhold it. There is no young Baptist
clergyman in the country who will not
feel in his inmost heart that he is the per
son thus exposed to a cold world, and
the consequent misery will he very great
indeed. Still further, there is no young
lady who will not suppose- that the of
fending youth is the reverend party who
was in her confidence in croquet and has
abused it.—Buffalo Express.
Improvising a Red Light.—A
Phillipshurg, N. J.. item says: A night
or two ago. just as his train had passed
Cranford, Lafayette Larry, an engineer
on the Central Road, saw a red light ap
pear some distance ahead of him. and
after burning a few moments disap
peared again. Thinking there must lie
something wrong he brought his train to
a stop, when a man got on, who, in
answer to who stopped the train, said.
“I guess I did.” “But where's your red
light?" was further queried. “Here it
is,” he replied triumphantly, producing
a long, flat, well tilled whisky liottle.
“I lit a match and held it behind it.”
The men on the train say the re
semblance to the ordinary- red" light was
perfect. It is said that the man who
made this ingenious invention was a
commuter who had been left behind liy
tbe regular train.
The steamship Great Eastern has, it is
said, lieen purchased by a company who
intend using her as a cattle boat 'to p y
between Texas and London. She is now
1 cing fitted out at Milford Haven, and is
to have new engines and boilers, manu
factured by the Clyde Iron Works at a
cost of $500,000. Refrigerators will lie
built in lier for the purpose of carrying
fresh beef. It is estimated that she will
carry two thousand head of cattle and
three thousand head of mutton.—N. T.
World.
Miss Maggie Lewis, a robust young
lady, eighteen years of age, while "in the
act of passing a cup of coffee at a table
in Glendon, Pa., on Friday,felt a tickling
sensation run Ihe entire length of her
right arm, and suddenly the arm and
hand became numb and perfectly dead,
her hand closed, and the strongest man
in Glendon is uuahje to open the fingers.
The arm and hand are perfectly senseless.
“D—n ’em, here is my trial just com
ing off, and these fellows go in and kill
another man! Why couldn't they wait
a little while?” said a disgusted Chicago
murderer as another artist was brought
into Murderers' Row.
fainting.
ANDREW HANLEY,
(Successor to McKenna <£: Hanley.)
Paint and Oil Store.
RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT AND MILL SUP
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HOUSE, SIGN AND DECORATIVE
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SIGN PAINTING A SPECIALTY.
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NO. 5 WHITAKER STREET,
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WM. P. McKENNA
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STREET (up Htnirs), until he secures a per
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Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Paints, Oils, Glass, Tarnishes, Etc.
A LSO, a full line of WALT* PAPERS. House,
Sign and Ornamental Painting done with
neatness and dispatch, at prices to suit the
times.
NO. 22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
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I). FERGUSON,
UNDERTAKER,
H AS removed to 122 STATE STREET, second
door east of Bull street. His residence is.
still at No. 34 President, corner of Price,
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