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J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
SEPTE.HBEK.
Sweet is the voice that calls
From babbling waterfalls
In meadows where the downy seeds are flying;
And soft the breezes blow
And eddying come and go
In faded gardens where the rose 13 dying.
Among the stubbled corn
The blithe quail pipes at morn.
The merry partridge draws in hidden places.
And glittering insects gleam
Above the reedy stream,
-Where busy spiders spin their filmy laces.
At eve cool shadows fall
Across the garden wall,
\nd on the clustered grapes in purpl9 turning,
And pearly vapors lie
Along the eastern sky
■Where the broad harvest moon is redly burning.
Ah, soon ou field and hill
The winds shall whistle chill,
And patriarch swallows call their flocks together
To fly from frost and snow.
And seek for lands where blow
The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather.
The cricket chirps all day.
“Oh, fairest Summer stay!” [ing;
The squirrel eyes askance the chestnuts brown-
The wild fowl fly afar
Above the foamy bar [ing.
And hasten southward ece the skies are frown-
Now comes a fragrant breeze
Through the dark cedar trees,
And 'round about my temples fondly lingers,
In gentle playfulness
Like to the soft caress
Bestowed in happier days by loving fingers.
Yet though a sense of grief
Comes with the falling leaf, [ant.
And memory makes the summer doubly pleas-
In all my autumn dreams
A future Summer gleams
Tossing the fairest glories of the present!
George Arnold.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger : “Mr. Jno.
Mitchell, who was wounded last Saturday
in the Warrior district, by Mr. Rogers, died
yesterday of his wounds at his residence in
the district. They were from the first re
garded as very serious, but it was hoped
that by good attention he would recover.
Yesterday, however, he passed away. Mr.
Rogers, and a Mr. Pettit, whose pistol Rog
ers is said to have used iu the shooting,
were both in the city yesterday. They have
not been arrested, but are reported to be
willing to give themseives up when wanted.
The authorities should promptly look into
the matter and see that the law is vindi
cated.”
Georgia A Hairs.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens says that the
threatened hemorrhage with which he was
attacked last Fri.lay has not yet been en
tirely checked, and that it returns to him
every morning. He is therefore enjoined
by his physicians not to attempt to make
any more speeches for some weeks to come.
A citizen of Jacksonville, Florida, has
sent to Mr. II. Dempsey, of Augusta, a fine
gold watch, to be raffled for the benefit of
the fever sufferers. The chances will be one
dollar each. He sent the watch to Augusta
because he thought a larger sum would be
realized there than in Jacksonville.
J. E. Bryant made a Radical speech in
Atlanta Monday night, and concluded with
the information that “the Republican State
Central Committee had organized, and that
it intended to organize clubs all over the
State of Georgia. He urged the meeting to
do the same, and said it was by organiza
tion that this new Republican party was to
succeed.”
Some of the Northern papers call our pet
Independent of the First district Captain
“Croker.” After all, what’s in a name?
He won’t be called anything in Congress.
The Swainsboro Herald, says that most of
the streams in Emanuel county are now in a
suitable condition for the shipping of tim
ber, and much of it will, no doubt, be sent
off.
A great many of our State exchanges
commit the error of talking about “King
Rex.” Why not call him King King or Rex
Rex at once.”
We learn from the Southern Enterprise that
the weather in Thomas county since the late
storm has been exceedingly flue—cloudless
and pleasant. Cotton picking has been
pushed to the utmost, and the work is pretty
well up. A continuation of favorable weath
er for a few weeks longer will cause nearly
or all the cotton to be housed. It is open
ing rapidly, and in man} 7 fields no new fruit
is forming, It is the opinion of some farm
ers that the picking will be over nearly a
month earlier than usual.
The Talbotton Register recalls a reminis
cence of the goed old days by stating that
“away back in the early history of Geor
gia, when the laws were administered with
dispatch, and with comparatively little
ceremony, one of the commonwealth’s
noted sons, Walter T. Colquitt, at the time
of which we write a Superior Court Judge,
condemned a man to be buns:, then preached
a sermon, reviewed the militia, married two
couples at night, and afterwards conducted
with considerable unction a rousing prayer
meeting — all in one day.” Evidently
there were giants in those days.
An enterprising Georgian has named his
two daughters Time and Tide, because he
says he intends they shall wait for no man
Swainsboro Herald: “Our town and county
was visited last week by a perfect storm of
wind and rain. Cotton is very much dam
aged, being blown out and beaten into the
dirt. This gale is supposed by some to be
the equinoctial.”
Brunswick Advertiser: “The news from
last week’s storm is fearful, and the destruc
tion of property immense. The rice crops
all along our seaboard have been terribly
damaged, and much of it irretrievably lost.
On the Altamaha the damage was heavy.
At least two-thirds of the crop had been
cut and stacked in the fields, and as the
water covered the ground from three to
five feet deep, all of it was damaged, and
much of it cither ruined or washed away
and lodged against the banks. It is diffi
cult to estimate the loss, as much depends
on the weather for the next few days. One
planter says one hundred thousand dollars,
another thinks 33 per cent., etc. We deeply
sympathize with our rice planters (for their
prospects were excellent), and trust their
loss may not be as great as they now fear.
So far we have not been able to learn the
extent of the damage on the Satilla river.”
Says the Thomasville Southern Euterj)rise :
“All the crops in this county, except cotton,
are much better than for many years pre
vious, and the cotton crop will approach an
average. The farmers are nearer all out of
debt than since 1866, and will come nearer
producing their home supplies. It is true
that money i6 scarce with all classes, but
with the agricultural community (the source
of and foundation upon which rests pros
perity in every other class), in so favorable
a condition, times must naturally improve.
Even now, taken as a whole, the people are
in good condition and have no just cause
for complaint. By profiting by the expe
riences of the past and exercising reasona
ble effort and frugality in the future we see
no reason whv ‘bard times’ should not be
routed from our borders and peace and
plenty instead abound. Let us all look on
the bright side and strive for the accom
plisbmenfc of this end.”
Sandersville Courier: “Colonel F. J. Pear
son, who resides near Oconee, in the west
ern part of this county, recently dug a well
at his steam mill, six feet square and sixty
odd feet deed. When within a few feet of its
present depth, he struck a strata of some
kind of mineral substance, which continued
as far down as the operatives dug. The
water now stands ten feet deep, and is un
doubtedly a mineral, or a combination of
minerals, which doubtless possesses valu
able medical virtues. The mineral deposits
taken from the bottom of the well taste of
saltpetre and sulphur; we are also of
opinion that iron is mixed with the minerals.
Colonel Pearson has sent a portion of the
exhumed minerals to the State Geologist,
but has not heard the result of his investiga
tions.”
Ellijay Courier: “A few days ago we saw
apiece of gold weighing nine pennyweights
and two grains that was dug from the White
Path mines. If some enterprising capital
ists would take hold of the gold mines in
this section large fortunes would be made.”
Montezuma Weekly: “There is, we under
stand, a movement on foot in this district
to bring out an Independent candidate for
Congress. Bring him out, gentlemen, and
Macon and Dooly counties will show you
how flat they can sit down on your man,
even if he has half a dozen national banks
to back him.”
Says El Comercio del Valle: “Columbus,
Georgia, tier.e cinco grandes fabricas de
generos de algodoD y es una de las ciudades
mas prosperas del Sur.”
OUR ATLANTA LETTER
Local Gossip—Political and Personal
—Final Paragraphs.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Atlanta, September 17.—Latest reports
from Chattanooga indicate the continued
spread of yellow fever in this direction.
Atlanta, however, is now having very cool
weather, and no fears of danger excite our
community.
Mayor Angier, Director Brown, Major
Wallace, and Special Agent Appier are
working hard to make the “Gate City” ex
cursion to Savannah a full success.
minor topics.
The many friends of Judge J. Troupe
Lumpkin, the agricultural editor of the Daily
Constitution, deeply regret the prolonged ill
ness that still confines him to his room, and
earnestly hope for his speedy and perma
nent recovery.
The Franklin Steam Printing House has
been thoroughly reconstructed and greatly
improved, internally and externally. A new
engine gives added power, and the press
room is now alive with the busy hum of
machinery. The Messrs. Harrison cfe Co.
have given the “Gate City” a printing es
tablishment worthy the capital of the great
“ Empire' State of the South.”
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
In view of the early meeting of the Gen
eral Assembly, there seems to be a number
of resignations coming in. Judge Kiddo
resigns, and Judge Hood succeeds him,
and will run for re-election. Judge Snead,
of Richmond County Court, resigns, and
will run for Circuit Judge.
Governor Colquitt and Bishop Pierce
were unable to attend the General Confer
ence of the Canadian Methodist Church as
Fraternal Messengers from the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and their place is
supplied by Rev. Dr. D. C. Kelley, of Nash
ville, Assistant Missionary Secretary, who is
an able divine and an eloquent pulpit ora
tor.
Already the politicians are talking about
the officers of the next General Assembly.
Speaker Bacon will have no trouble in re
turning to his old position, and President
Lester has but to signify his desire to retain
the place he so ably fills. Should he de
cline to be a candidate, the President pro
tan., Senator E. P. Howell, of this city, will
no doubt be duly promoted. He is a good
presiding officer, and quite popular with his
associates in the Senate.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Savannah’s noble response to yellow fever
appeals, in physicians, nurses, and over
$10,000 in cash, is the theme of praise here.
Atlanta is also doing nobly, through
numerous channels, for the sufferers. Vari
ous entertainments alone have realized over
a thousand dollars, and Thursday night an
other one is to be given.
Col. Hammond’s nomination for Congress
leaves a vacancy in the Fulton delegation in
the General Assembly. Hon. Henry Hillyer
is strongly urged to allow his name to be
used. There was no abler or more success
ful j’oung man in the last Legislature. His
action on the capital question, the bankrupt
law, and other matters of importance,placed
him in the front rank of clear-headed and
able debaters. Chatham.
Russian Ladies Fight a Duel.
A good deal has lately been heard of
the progress of female • emancipation in
Russia, but it is somewhat of a novelty
to find the Russian ladies figuring in the
character of duelists, as was the case not
long since with two belles of Petigorsk,
a well known fashionable resort on the
northern slope of the Caucasus. A dis
pute arose between the rival beauties,
springing out of the attentions paid to
each in turn by a handsome young caval
ry officer quartered in the neighborhood.
The quarrel ran so high that one of the
Amazons at length dispatched her maid
to the other with a formal challenge,
which was instantly' accepted. The bel
ligerents met without seconds iu a lonely
place outside the town, each armed with
a brace of loaded pistols. Before, how-
ever, they had even taken up their
respective positions, the trembling of
the one lady’s hand caused her pistol to
explode prematurely, sending a bullet
through the dress of the other, who
shrieked and fell down in a swoon. The
assailant, frightened out of her wits,
flung away her weapon and rushed to
raise the supposed corpse ; but her
ungrateful antagonist, recovering her
senses as suddenly as she had lost them,
clutched her by the hair with one hand,
while boxing her ears with the other in
the most energetic style. The firing hav
ing now ceased, the battle proceeded
hand to hand. Locks of hair, ribbons,
and shreds of clothing flew in every di
rection, and but for the timely advent of
three or four policemen the affray might
have ended like the somew'hat similar
combat of the Kilkenny cats. The mili
tary' Lothario’s only remark on hearing
the story was: “It’s lucky they took to
clawing each other instead of me.”
A Dog Goes Crab Fishing.
Poughkeepsie Eagle.
She sat upon a rock, fishing for crabs.
She had her dog with her—a skye ter
rier—such a one as a Broadway vender
would charge you ten dollars for. His
hair was long and as soft as silk, blue
ribbons hung from his ears, and his neck
was encircled with a nickel-plated collar
But all that counted nothing as against
the fearful scene through which he was
about to pass. He lay close to the basket
into which the Fifth avenue belle dropped
the crabs as fast as she caught them.
He was no doubt dreaming of his
happy home far away, when he was
wont to take his daily nap on a one thous
and dollar sofa. How and then a green-
bottled fly skipped from ear to ear or
lighted upon his back, where the purp
couldn’t reach him, and at such
times he whisked his tail wildly till
the intruder went away. On one of these
special occasions, after whisking off the
fly, the little silken tail rested upon the
edge of the crab basket and the end of
it dropped inside, latitude 47, longitude
02. The feathery edge of it struck a
crab in the eye, and the claws closed on
the appendage s-i-m-u-l-t-a n e-o-u-s-l-y !
The dog, oh where was he ? A yelp, a
howl, and then in silvery tones the “ti
yi,” “ti yi,” as the astonished pup sailed
over the plain and through the clover
with a string of crabs connecting him
with the empty bounding basket, and all
their claws clutched one with the other,
and for a minute there was a mixed
scene of dog, crabs, basket, dust, and fly
ing gravel, and the tail was told. There
was no more crab fishing that day.
A Remarkable Cure.—“For many,
many years,” said the man with the bad
eye, “X was troubled, annoyed, positive
ly afflicted with a raging, burning thirst
for strong drink and alcoholic beverages.
I sought for relief in everyway. I sought
the advice of my physicians and the
counsel of friends. I tried various cures
recommended by the newspapers, but
none of them seemed to do me any good.
“And by what means,” asked the cler
gyman in the tall bat, “didyou at length
succeed in allaying this terrible thirst?”
“Well,” said the man with the bad eye
after a moment’s reflection, “I found
that old Crow whisky, as a steady thing,
kind of softened it down, and quieted it
about as much as anything X tried. When
I found the burning and thirst for drink
coming on, I would go and take about
three fingers of old Crow, and the thirst
would pass away, and"-.—
But as he looked up he saw that his
audience had also passed away, and the
young cleigyman was looking .back at
him with a sad, yearning, disappointed
expression.
Many a lady, whose complexion would
be otherwise simply perfect, has some
slight and almost unnoticed derangement of
the blood that mars it a little. Dr. Bull’s
Blood Mixture is the remedy for the com
plexion. It
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
THE YELLOW FEVER REPORT.
Rations to be Refused Idle Negroes in
Jackson.
HANDSOME BENEFIT FOR THE
SUFFERERS.
SUBSCRIPTIONS OPENED IN
FRANCE.
Count Andrassy and an Austro-Ser-
vian Alliance Repudiated.
A PATIIIOTIC YOUTH.
Bark iu Distress.
COUNT ANDRASSY REPUDIATED—AN AU3TRO-
SERVLAN ALLIANCE DENIED.
London, September 18.—A Vienna dis
patch says the Pesther Lloyd, heretofore a
loyal supporter of Count Andrassy, raises
its voice against the reported AustroHSer-
vian Montenegrin alliance, which the jour
nal declares would be a slap in the face to
Hungary, and it takes advantage of this re
puted intention on his part to repudiate the
Count and his Bosnian policy. Also an
article by Dr. Falk, member of the Reich-
srath, says that an alliance with the Sla
vonic principalities would be an enormity
and insult to Hungary.
Another Vienna dispatch says M. Ristics,
Servian Premier, has offered the co-opera
tion of Servia, but it was declined, and the
Vienna Cabiuet has given it to be under
stood that it never entertained the idea of
accepting such an agreement.
TUE SCOURGED CITIES.
Memphis, September 18.—There were
ninety-six deaths yesterday, and two hun
dred and five new cases, among them Jesse
W. Page, an active Howard. His condition
is critical. A. D. Langstaff is out of dan
ger. The fever is spreading in the suburbs.
A large number are dying at points several
miles from the city.
Jackson, Miss., September 18.—The last
installment of ten thousand rations issued
by order of the Secretary of War for the
fever sufferers have arrived. The armies of
idle negroes that hang about the town in
stead of seeking the cotton fields that now
invite them, are not considered by the How
ards as fever sufferers.
A PATRIOTIC BOY.
New’ York, September 18.—The boy, S.
Braden, of Indianapolis, who carried off all
the honors of the English training ship
Worcester, arrived here yesterday. He has
a gold medal and other prizes presented by
the Queen, but was refused the Cadetship
in tlie English navy, which belonged to
him, because he would not renouuce his
allegiance to the United States.
BARK IN DISTRESS.
Washington, September 18.—The Signal
office reports from Life Saving Station No.
3, North Carolina, a bark in distress, with
mizzenmast and fore and main royal fore
and topgallant sails carried away. She has
the rest of her sails set, and is trying to
reach Cape Henry. She passed north at 7:30
a. m. to-day, with light westerly winds.
SUBSCRIPTIONS IN FRANCE FOR TUE FEVER
SUFFERERS.
London, September 18.—The places where
subscriptions have been opened in Paris for
the relief of the yellow’ fever sufferers of
the United States are the newspaper offices,
Munroe A Co., bankers, United States Le
gation and Consulate, and at the Exposition.
ANOTHER DEFEAT CLAIMED.
Constantinople, September 18.—An en
voy from the Ameer of Afghanistan has ar
rived. Advices received through insurgent
sources claim that the Austrians were de
feated near Zwornik and Tuzla.
HANDSOME BENEFIT FOR TUE SUFFERERS.
St. Louis, September 18.—The concert
for the fever sufferers netted eight thousand
two hundred and fifty dollars.
EVENING TELEGRAMS
DECISION IN’ THE SOUTH CARO
LINA RAILROAD CASE.
The Massachusetts Radical Con
vention.
late reports from the in
fected CITIES.
Barbarous Conduct of tile People of
Elmore, Michigan.
ARREST OF A LABOR AGITATOR IN
WASHINGTON.
United -States Grand Lodge 1.0. 0. F,
TVaibingtou and General Notes.
YELLOW FEVER REPORTS.
Memphis, September IS.—There is ap
parently no decrease in the number of new
cases to-day, although the death list is
lighter, only thirty-eight being reported to
noon, making ninety-one for the past
twenty-four hours.
Among the dead are two volunteer physi
cians and J. S. Baukson and Rev. L.
L. Schuyler, Episcopal minister, from New
Jersey, Mrs. Margaret Steinkeih, Sister
Ruth, W. B. Shepard, and Mrs. R. E.
Brooks, mother of W. S. Brooks, of the
Appeal. Among the new cases is Theo.
Holst, undertaker. The supply of coffins is
very low.
New Orleans, September 18.—To-day
there w'ere sixty-eight deaths apd two hun
dred and fiftv-two new cases. Of the latter
pne hundred*and fifty-three occurred prior
to the 15th instant.
Later.—The deaths include twenty-three
children under seven years of age. A mong
the deaths are Mrs. Maguire, wife of ex-As
sistant; Lost master .Maguire, and Rev. G.
Bauman, Lutheran, of St. John’s Church.
From noon to 6 p. m. there were twenty-
three deaths and one hundred and forty-five
new’ cases reported, ninety-seven of the
latter dating prior to the 15th.
Baton Rouge, September 18.—The fol
lowing is the yellow fever report for the
past twenty-four hours: New cases twenty-
five, deaths three.
DECISION in TUE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD
CASE.
Baltimore, Md., September 18.—In the
South Carolina Railroad case the court de
cided in favor of the complainants for the
appointment of a receiver. Judge Bond
suggested that parties be named by counsel,
from whom a receiver would be appointed.
Richard Lathers, of New’ York, was named
by complainants’ counsel. The respondents’
counsel named, first, William J. Ma-
grath, the present President of the
road, when the Judge said that no offi
cer of the road would be appointed
receiver. The respondents then named
Bently I). Hazell, of New York, and, if there
H as objection to him, they named John H.
Fisher, of New York, who was receiver of
the Atlanta and Charlotte Road. The Judge
said he would announce the appointment
hereafter.
The hearing of the application for the ap
pointment of a receiver of the Greenville
and Columbia Road, a feeder of the South
Carolina Railroad, was postponed to the
regular December term of the court at Co
lumbia, South Carolina.
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN ^ CONVENTION.
Worcester, Mass., September 18.—The
Republican State Convention met to-day.
Governor Claflin was elected permanent
Chairman.
A resolution demanding that unnecessary
and incompetent officers in the Boston cus
tom house be discharged and their places
filled with honest, God-fearing citizens, was
referred to the Committee on Resolutions.
The committee on the informal vote for
Governor, reported the whole number of
votes at 1,134, as follows: Thomas Talbot
851, John D. Long 266, Benj. F. Butler 2,
Henry L. Pierce 2, Charles Devens 2, Frank
W. Bird 1.
When the name of Butler was read as re
ceiving two votes, it was received with hisses
and laughter. , , . ,
The informal ballot was made formal, ana
Talbot was declared the nominee. John D.
Long was nominated for Lieutenant Gover
nor. Henry B. Pierce for Secretary of State,
Charles Endieott treasurer, and George
Marston Attorney General.
Later —Julius L. Clarke was nominated
for Auditor. The resolution offered in re
gard to the Boston custom house was lost.
RELIEF FOR THE TELLOW' FEVER SUFFERERS.
Macoh, September 18.—The merchants
and business men to-day subscribed one
hundred dollars to the fund for the relief
of expressmen in the fever districts. 1 he
collections will go on. The citizens are re
sponding liberally to the general fund. The
collections yesterday and to-day amount to
eight hundred and twenty-five dollars.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, September 18.—Postmaster
Thompson, of Memphis, having died of
yellow fever, his widow will be appointed
to the vacant office.
The W T ar Department has advices from
the Red Cloud agency, Dakota, that two
Indians had arrived there from Sitting Bull,
up in Canada. They report Sitting Bull
well supplied with arms and ammunition.
He had intended a raid in the Black Hills
last spring, but, after considering the dis
advantages of such action, concluded not
to leave Canada.
The General Superintendent of the Life
Saving Service has issued circulars to su
bordinate officials calling attention to the
late law increasing that service and the
responsibility of their duties, urgiDg them
to select men for appointment solely upon
the ground of their fitness for the arduous
labors that fall upon them and without ref
erence to any other recommendation.
ARREST OF A LABOR AGITATOR.
Washington, September 18.—Isaac Co
hen, a labor agitator, was arrested to-day
for attempting to force his way into the
room of Commissioner Leduc, and put
under bond to keep the peace. Cohen had
a large delegation with him when he visited
the Agricultural Department.
Information was lodged at police head
quarters from the capitol police and by a
citizen to-day that the language made use
of last night at the meeting of Cohen’s fol
lowers on the east steps of the capitol build
ing was of a most incendiary character.
Some of the speakers are represented as ad
vocating a raid on the United States Treas
ury.
SUPPOSED YELLOW FEVER IN ELMORE, MICH.
Cincinnati, September 18. — A special
dispatch states that in the lumber camp of
Wells <fc Co., near Elmore, Mich., an epi
demic has been raging for a week past,
which Dr. Leevelej’ pronounces black jaun
dice or yellow fever. Thos. Maguire was
taken with the disease. None of the citi
zens of Elmore would receive him into
their houses, and he was placed under a
tree in the drenching rain and soon after
died, from what the doctor says is clearly
yellow fever. His remains were placed in a
box and buried under the tree where he
died. *
GRAND LODGE I. O. O. F.
Baltimore, September 18.—The Grand
Lodge to-day discussed the change of title
agreed on yesterday, but the minutes were
not altered.
The Lodge was addressed by a member of
the Order, a resident of the Indian Terri
tory, favoring the admission of civilized In
dians into the fraternity.
Several reports of standing committees of
the Lodge were rejected.
A resolution to hold the next session at
Jacksonville was adopted.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief jignal Observer,
Washington, D. C., September 18.—Indica
tions for Thursday :
In the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
Tennessee and the Ohio valley, falling ba
rometer, slightly warmer southerly winds and
partly cloudy weather, and in the southwest
numerous light rains will prevail.
In the Middle Atlantic States, southwest
to northwest winds, partly cloudy and hazy
weather, falling barometer and stationary
or higher temperature.
THE MAILS FOR QUARANTINED CITIES.
Washington, September 18.—The Post
Office Department is taking measures to
get the mails to all quarantined cities in the
South, and where routes are cut off by rail
roads ceasing to run on account of quaran
tine regulations or otherwise Postmasters
are instructed to try some other method to
serve the public in the matter of getting
their mails to the people regularly.
THE UNITARIAN CONFERENCE.
Saratoga, N. Y., September 18.—The
Unitarian Conference was organized this
morning, E. R. Hoar President. Rev. James
Freeman Clark read his essay on “New
Theology,” which he summed up as a seek
ing for living truth—for the truth which
will feed the soul and make God’s eternity
a duty, and heaven as real and as solid as
the outward universe.
PROBABLE ADVANCE IN COAL.
Asbury Park, N. J., September 18.—At
a meeting of the Board of Control of the
coal producers yesterday it was agreed to
continue the present association until April
1. The quota for October was fixed at
1,200,000 tons. President Gowan thinks
there will probably be an advance in the
prices of coal, but this association does not
make the prices.
DISAPPEARANCE OF A RAILROAD CONTRAC
TOR.
St. Louis, September 18.—Advices from
Lexington, Mo., say that Mr. Taylor, of the
firm of Taylor A Reid, contractors on the
extension of the Chicago and Alton Rail
road, has disappeared with seyeral thousand
dollars, with which it was expected he would
pay the laborers. Taylor’s chief clerk- is
also said to have disappeared.
SHOOTING AFFRAY.
Cincinnati, September 18.—A shooting
affray, growing out of a legal dispute, oc
curred between Dick Evans and Lem and
John Offutt, at Georgetown, Ky., on Mon
day. Fifteen shots were fired, which result
ed in critically wounding Evans and Lem
Offutt.
SUICIDE OF AN ACTOR.
San Francisco, September 18.—John K.
Mortimer, formerly a prominent actor, com
mitted suicide last evening at a low lodging
house by taking strychnine. Of late, dissi
pation jjad pequeed him to penury and
vagabondage.
POLITICAL EDITOR OF THE PHILADELPHIA
“press.”
Washington, September 18.—Edw. Mc
Pherson, Cfiief of the Bureau of Engraving
and Priuting of the Treasury Department,
resigned that office, and has become poli
tical editor of the Philadelphia Pros.
congressional nomination.
Newark, N. J., September 18.—The
Democrats of the Sixth district nominated
Andrew Albright.
MORE CHILD STEALING.
A Brooklyn Boy Kidnapped, but
Rescued by HI* Friend*.
New York World.
In a dense wilderness four miles from
Porter’s Lake, Pa., and near the line of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad, a somewhat singular discovery
was made on Monday last. A boy named
George Williams, aged eight years, whose
parents reside in Brooklyn, N. Y. t has
been visiting relatives W’ho live a few
miles west of Stroudsburg. On Monday,
shortly before noon, he w r ent out into
the woods in search of his uncle, who
was squirrel hunting. Not returning at
two o’clock, considerable anxiety was
felt by the family that some accident had
befallen him. Search was instituted,
scouring the mountains until four
o’clock in the afternoon, when he was
heard crying in a dense thicket.
The searchers at once recognized the
voice, and fearing thal he was suffer
ing from some accident hastened their
steps. Having proceeded a short
distance, they discovered two horses tied
near what looked to them to be at first
sight a bough-house, made of brush and
broken limbs of trees. Proceeding cau
tiously to the entrance, young Williams
was seen sitting by a miserable looking
woman crying, llis relatives entered
the strange abode. The boy sprang from
the woman’s side, and throwing his
arms about his cousin’s neck, w’ept bit
terly. When questioned, he replied that,
having gone about a mile from the house,
and while searching for his uncle, he had
become lost, and while upon a rock he
was accosted by a strange-looking man,
wearing a long black beard. “He tied a
handkerchief over my mouth,” he said,
“and made me follow him to this place,
After reaching here he removed the
handkerchief and told this woman to
watch that I did not escape. He
then went off.” All this the woman
sternly denied. But few words
passed, and the boy, accompanied by his
relatives, started for home. The uncle
had returned ahead of them. When the
above facts Lad been related to him he
became greatly enraged, and procuring
the aid of a number of the nearest neigh
bors and a warrant, started for the
woods for the purpose of arrest
ing the guilty parties. Reaching the
spot nothing was to be seen but the
bough house, which had been torn down
and the brush strewn about. Thorough
search was made, but the man, woman
and horses could not be found. The
horses were traced to the top of the
mountain in the direction of Strouds
burg, where all trace was lost. The
strange parties undoubtedly belonged to
a band of roving horse thieves. A large
number of horses have been stolen in
the surrounding districts within the past
few months. Parties continue to search
the mountains in hopes of receiving
their stolen property.
Leaves from a Private Correspondence
Le Puy, Haute Loire, France.
Diar *****—I am again in Le Puy, and I
feel as if I am resting, for I am already at
home and contented here.
As for the city itself, I cannot say that I
admire it much, though its antiquity and
the queemess of it£ construction make it
very interesting to the tourist in search of
the curious. And the surroundings are very
attractive on account of the scenery*
In approaching the city by rail we wind
round and round, as we do in all mountain
ous countries; sometimes appearing to be
going directly towards the city, and then
going away from it; passing it on the right
side of the train, and then on the left, for
we are descending the mountain’s side.
And at last we are in the valley, at the foot
of the mountain, on the side of which the
city is built.
We have a startling optical illusion in de
scending the mountain to this place. A few
minutes before the train arrives the view
opens suddenly upon what appears to be the
ocean ; and the rapid movement of the train
assists the imagination m making the waves
rolling and sparkling in the distance. We
have no time to stop, and think that we are
yet many miles from the Mediterranean, and
that there is no nearer sea, before the view
is past. Perhaps “ ’Tis distance lends en
chantment to the view,” for the next time
we come into position to see it, our beauti
ful blue ocean has resolved itself into a pe
culiar range of mountains, with wavy out
lines, and all of the same shape, and height
and color, and bounded at each end by
higher mountains, which our imagination
transformed into the shores of the sea.
I do not know how to describe th^fcp-
pearance of the city as we approach it bet
ter than by supposing it might have been
taken up in a whirlwind and blown against
the side of the mountain, where each house
stuck fast where it fell, regardless of its re
lation to the others—so irregular are they in
size, construction and position.
Well, the train lauds us at the foot of the
mountain and a little out of the city, and
we enter our carriage and mount up, up, up
to our hotel. And from this point we look
out over Le Puy again, and we look down
over the roofs of the houses iu front of us
and up at the garden wall of the house be
hind us. And it takes some time to over
come the fear that the garden wall behind
us may give way and crush us in its fall. But
time and habit cure these fears, just as they
do the apprehensions one feels when first
riding by the side of a precipice, when we
hold our breath involuntarily and lean to
ward the side of the carriage furthest away
from the precipice.
There is but one wide street, and in that
are all the principal business houses, whether
of merchants or professional men, and they
transact their business in the front rooms of
the floor they occupy and live with their
families in the other rooms on the same
floor, and some floors have as many rooms
as a house. There is but little privacy or
Comfort, as we understand them, in this ar
rangement, but you will not be long here
before you discover that they do not under
stand those terms as we do in America.
Everything here is made to go much further
thau with us, and the space they occupy is
not an exception from this rule. But every
family that can afford it has a country
place* just a comfortable distance from
the city, where they have their gardens,
and all the fruits of this climate ; of which,
of course, the grape is the most important.
And when the grapes are ripe, they go to
their country places and make it one contin
ual festival until the wine making is quite
finished. As far as you can see, almost to
the very tops, the mountains are dotted with
these pretty places. I have visited several
of them, and enjoyed there the delightful
ease aud freedom from constraint which are
always the effects of that cordial and refined
hospitality which the French so perfectly
understand.
People of noble rank usually have their
villas at greater distances from the city.
The houses in the city have an awkward
and patched look, even the best of them.
This is owing partly to the narrowness and
crookedness of the streets, and partly to the
difference in the manner of building.
When I left New York they were
tearing down an elegant brown stone block
in Broadway, to make room for another
structure, probably to accommodate some
change in the fashion of architecture. Such
a thing would astonish the people of this
country, where everything is built to stand,
and any change is always made by addi
tions, and never by taking down or altering
that which was erected by their ancestors.
You will never understand this until you
come here and see how the people venerate
that to which they have become accustomed,
and with wliat suspicion and indignation
they regent the proposal of innovation or
change of any kina, excepting always in
their form of government. And perhaps
that is not really an exception, as they have,
in fact, become accustomed to frequent and
spasmodic changes in that, and seein to con
sider themselves ill-used if they find them
selves living too long under any one sys
tem.
This is the centre of the lace making in
dustry; and the lace makers sit in front of
their doors, with their lace cushions on their
laps, and with their children running about
them, so that it is impossible to walk on the
sidewalks in the narrow streets. And pe
destrian find it dangerons to walk in the
middle of the street, which itself is scarcely
wider thau a good sidewalk. They are con
tinually in danger of being run over by the
careless and uhskillful drivers of the car
riages; a custom which possibly has come
down from the days when the cavaliers dis
dained to set their feet upon the ground,
and contemptuously scorned all whose sta
tion in life compelled them to walk.
Only yesterday the driver of our carriage
came so near running over a woman that I
remember with alarm the fright it caused
me. But he was quite ^indifferent to the
danger, and drove on with perfect sangfroid
and as ready as before, to run over the next
who might be in his way.
“Don’t wash your family linen in public”
is a good proverb when applied to the
family quarrels. But the French do it—
those who have quarrelled and all others.
In this pait of France you may wade
across many of the streams, and most of
them are well supplied with rocks. And
every washwoman takes the linen and her
soap and her washboard (which is plain,
and not corrugated like ours), and goes to
the river and selects a rock for herself, or
some other contrivance if there are no
rocks, and dips her linen in the open river,
and washes and rinses it there.
I suppose they do this because they have
no water works to supply them at home, or
because it brings them together so that they
may gossip, or because their ancestors did
80, which to them is a sufficient reason for
any custom they may have, however incon
venient it may be.
Well, no doubt you are tired of my ac
counts of the daily life of these people, so
let me show you something that you can 6ee
no where else—something which*for simple
grandeur has no equal in the civilized world.
It is a bronze statue of the Blessed Virgin,
seventy-five feet in height, holding the in
fant Jesus in her arms, and standing on a
pedestal of native solid rock rising perpen
dicularly four hundred and forty feet from
its base, and that base is the top of the
mountain, upon the side of which the city
of Le Puy is bui]£.
No more appropriate place could have
been selected for this collossal statue, for
the city is consecrated to the Virgin, and
this upright rock which overlooks the coun
try further than human sight can penetrate,
seems formed by nature to support the sa
cred aharge.
It is not possible to convey to you a just
conception of the magnificence and impres
siveness of this figure as viewed from many
points in the surrounding country, for it is
the most prominent object in the view from
every side. And it seems like a desecration
of a great work of art, to descend to
mechanical technicalities, and talk about
the material of which it is made, and the
feet and inches of its several parts. And
yet I know no other way to make you un-
d«?rstand its character, and its vast propor
tions.
They tell me that ten thousand cannon of
all sizes were used in its construction; that
they were all captured from the Russians
by the French during the Crimean war; and
that Napoleon ILL. sent them all to Le Puy
for this purpose.
As I am no soldier and my sex forbids
that I should ever hope to be one, I have no
idea how many cannon an army has, but
that seems to me an enormous number to
be taken in one war, and it shows how
wasteful and unprofitable a thing war is.
To reach the statue we go by carriage to
the base of the rock, and then commence
the ascent, which we accomplish by 6teps
winding round and round the rock, and a,t
the end of each flight stopping to rest on a
platform. We continue this until \yp reach
the top of the rock and the base of the
statue, and there we come upon a view far
surpassing anything that I have seen in all
my wanderings through this land of mag
nificent scenery. Cities, villages and coun
try seats are scattered over the land in
every direction as far as they can be distin
guished, and wherever they can find a lodg
ment in mountain or valley, and ri\ e *s, lakes
and waterfalls grow “small by degrees
and beautifully less,” until the human eye
can reach no farther, and they are lost in the
dim distance. Even in the city at our feet,
the men seem little more than half their
usual size; and iu the valley at the mountain’s
foot, they seem to creep about like creatures
of another race.
After resting, we walk around on the top
of the rock, and we are protected from fall
ing off by a heavy bronze railing, which
runs entirely around it. Then we enter the
statue, and ascend within it by five flights of
steps, lighted by five little windows. Here
we lose all admiration for the great work of
art, and—alas !—all veneration for its sacred
objects ; for we are simply exploring the in
side of an immense figure capable of con
taining two hundred persons. Ten persons
canjenter the body of the infant held in the
arms of the Virgin. We enter to gratify
our curiosity, and then we think: How
strange it is that such a figure should be used
for such a purpose !
By means of a gas pipe, running irregu
larly round and round the statute, it may be
illuminated; and on the occasion of the
feast of the Blessed Virgin they are all
lighted, and it is 6aid the effect is grand be
yond description. And on these occasions
the city itself is a blaze of light and a scene
of great magnificence.
Tam sorry I must finish this account of a
noble work, which ought to leave on your
mind only a remembrance of the grand and
beautiful, by telling you that it is made in
sections and screwed together. Is not this
too much like witnessing from our favorite
front seat in the balcony of the theatre
one of those gorgeous transformations upon
which the wealth of Nevada seems to have
been lavished, and then going behind the
scenes only to learn what coarse ma
terials the waves, aud the clouds and the
heavens (yes, and the living nymphs and
angels too,) were made of.
I thought to have told you all I had to say
about LePuy in this letter, but I fiud there
is so much that I must write still another,
for I have still to tell you about the oracle
and temple of Apollo, which dates back to
the time of ancient Rome ; and of the Ca
thedral of LePuy, which is almost as old as
the Christian religion ; and of the castle of
Polignac, which was in that age of unre
strained rule by separate Lords and Barons
aud Princes, who made fortresses of every
rock and mountain, from which they made
war on one another, or levied contributions
from the cities and villages of the plains.
But for the present, good-bye.
Yours, sincerely, L.
A SH ARP TRICK BY TWO TRAMPS.
How Tliey Set Two Brother Tramp*
to Work and Secured a Dinner loi
Them*elve*.
Indianapolis News.
Flood and Bruce are peripatetic prin
ters, widely known. They have a habit
of turning up here and elsewhere when
least expected, coming without warning
and departing even as the wind. By a
rare chance they have just been heard
from at Danville, ill., tramping from St.
Louis, and headed in this direction. They
came w’ithin view of that city last Sun
day, weary with travel and sorely hun
gered. The road they came has been
overworked. The erstwhile hospitable
farmer now’ sets his dog on the wayfaring
man instead of welcoming him to his
family. Through this departure from
the customs of the fathers, they walked
and ate not.
Thoroughly discouraged at their re
peated failures to procure food, they yet
concluded to make one more trial on thi§
beautiful Sunday morning, and cautious
ly entered the yard of a decent farm
house, peering about them to see that
Tow’ser did not come suddenly around a
corner. They knocked on the front door i
no response. At tfie side door; no an
swer. They went in There was not a
soul at home. A table spread and a most
substantial meal was before them. It
w r as like a dream from the Arabian
Nights. The dinner was, doubtless,
awaiting the return of the family from
church. The pedestrians fe\\ to, and
their knives and fogies §o.on smoked with
the friction of execution. To say that
they fared sumptuously would convey
no idea of the amount they ate nor the
intense satisfaction with w’hich the viands
were received.
As they were finishing the feast a knock
wa c heard. Bruce, with uuparalleled
cheek, went to the door. Tfiere. stood
two other tramps, who asked for some
thing to eat. Bruce, in a rare spirit of
mischief, questioned them closely in re
gard to their travels, and finally ;isked if
they would chop wood for their dinners.
They answ’ered yes. He then took them
to a w ood-pile that he had noticed in the
rear of flip house, and they went to work.
Bruce and Flood, filling their pockets
with victuals, stole out the side way from
the house and went to a neighboring hill,
w’here they had a full view of the wood-
pile and the toiling tramps. There they
gloated over the picture. To make their
measure of enjoyment run over, Jhe
owner of the farm house with several
daughters and two stalwart sons arrived
on the scene, the devastation of the din
ner was discovered, and the two sweat
ing tramps at the wood-pile seized as the
depredators. All was seen by the two
on the hill, from the arrival of the family
to the ignominious expulsion of the wood
cutters.
The Solid North.
Boston Transcript.
Now, if ever, is the time for a grand
uprising of the whole North. As one
man, casting aside all prejudices, forget
ting all differences, with a sole purpose,
let it be “solid” from Maine to Califor
nia, from the lakes to the line that sepa
rates it from the all too “sunny” South.
And with an enthusiasm and earnestness
equal to that with which it rose in ’61,
let it unite against the invader that is
desolating the hqjpes of the South, for
if it cannot repel him, it can, at least,
render substantial aid to the besieged,
save untold suffering and thousands of
lives. It is not enough that in the great
cities money is being contributed. Every
town, every village, every hamlet must
contribute its share. In the old days the
Sanitary Commission had its branches m
every towq, and, in the vast aggregate
of supplies that tilled its Washington
and Louisville storehouses, were pack
ages bearing the names of places
of which its officers had never even
heard. The same spirit should be
awakened now. We cannot even ap
proach a realization of the horror, the
despair into which the dwellers in the
fever-smitten districts have been plunged.
Starvation as well as pestilence stares
them in the face. All industries are
suspended, and those who rely upon
wages for daily food for themselves,
their wives and little ones are left pen
niless and idle. Business is paralyzed,
the necessaries of* life are scarce and all
but unobtainable. All that could get
away have left, save a noble few who
stay to nurse the sick, bury the dead,
comfort the bereaved and feed the
starving. It is their hands that the
North must strengthen. There should
be community of action, and each State
should organize for the work. LetMassa
chusetts take the lead.
The cattle in a large portion of Bengal
are dying at the rate of hundreds a day,
and the streams are completely choked
with dead bodies. The decrease in the
number and the deterioration in the qual
ity of the agricultural cattle all over
British India is cue of the gravest fea
tures to be noted in connection with the
general condition of the peasantry. In
no respect have the various famines pro
duced a more dangerous effect than in
this direction. There is reason to doubt
whether either men or animals obtain a
sufficient supply of food now even in
ordinary times. The consequence is that
both succumb with terrible facility to
the slightest scarcity or to the mild
est disease: Such a state of thiLgs
tends to perpetuate itself. The qual
ity of the cultivation falls off with
the character or the bullocks employed in
it Deep ploughing becomes more and
mpre exceptional, while the cost of re
placing the dead animals by other beasts
tends still further to the impoverishment
of the people. In Madras and Bombay
the destruction of cattle has been appal
ling, while in Burmah there has also
been a plague. The general condition
of the agricultural population through
out India is such as to occasion the
gravest uneasiness. Continuous impov
erishment bids fair to he followed by
continuous famine. There is scarcity
amounting almost to famine, even at this
moment, Hi Madras, Bombay, the north
west provinces, and Bengal. Y'et the
only remedy proposed is increased taxa
tion.
WONDERFUL FEAT OF A WOUND
ED BUCK.
He Disarms the Hunter, Take* Off
Hi* Gun and Fires It.
We have been specially requested to
republish the following indeed remark
able feat of a wounded buck, with the
assurance that the story is verbatim et
literatim a true one:
To the Editors of the Georgetown Times:
As the love for the chase, next to that
of women, is said to be the deepest im
planted sentiment m the heart of men,
giving rise as it does to the most exciting
employment of the human faculties, it
naturally follows that a hatever wonder
ful happens not in keeping with the gen
eral order of things relative to it is of in
terest and worthy of note. In view of
this fact, the writer, with the hope of
contributing to the pleasure of your read
ers, proposes giving through your paper
an authentic account of a most remark
able occurrence w’hich happened to one
of his young friends while out hunting
with his father a few days ago near
South Island.
Bright and early one calm, beautiful
morning these two ardent lovers of the
chase sallied out with guns and dogs in
anticipation of a fine day’s sport at an
old buck known to be living in a quiet
corner near the road side. On arriving at
this intended drive, there, as usual, was
seen the fresh track of the old buck just
gone iu. The old gentleman, after put
ting his little son at a stand, followed on
in close pursuit with his pack, whose
rapid bark soon admonished them of the
fact that the old buck was up and lead
ing the way. A little while after was
heard the unmistakable report of Master
Nimrod’s gun, who, seeing the noble
animal coming for him, reserved his fire
until within easy range; then, with
steady nerves and unerring aim cave
him the full contents in his side. ^This
well directed fire brought the old buck
to the ground, but no sooner down
than up again. The pack, how’ever, was
not long in bringing him to bay, and
then came the tug of war. With un
daunted courage this brave little hunter
rushed in to take hold, in hope of en
couraging the dogs to do the same, but
before his desired object was accom
plished found himself knooked down
and the buck op top. This was cer
tainly uu awkward predicament to be
in, though it only the more inspired
the little hero with greater courage,
who, jumping up, caught hold of the
buck by the tail, to.which he held with
all the tenacity of the bull dog. It was
at this critical stage of the fight that one
of the most remarkable events ever be
fore knou’n to occur in an encounter with
a deer, took place. During the scuffle
that ensued the buck, through some un
known way, got his foot fastened be
tw’een the trigger and guard of the gun,
and, knocking oil hi- assailants, away
he w’ent with the gun attached to his leg,
whiph, after being carried for some dis
tance, went oif, and came near shooting its
owner. The old gentleman x in the mean*
time, hearing the noise, rode in, and see
ing the deer making otf with his son’s
gun—a tumble state of affairs, indeed—
gave chase on horseback, ran over and
knocked him down; then, with dogs,
son, chunks and knife, fell upon the poor
old buck and finally ended his career.
Bit, butchered and chunked him to death
as you see.
This, Mr. £dhor, j s an unexaggerated
accoqrtf of this most wonderful hunt,
related simply as told to me, and actually
did occur.
In concluding, the writer would beg
to say to the lovers of the chase at Mc-
Donaldville: Take warning, gentlemen,
from the above! Be careful how you
approach a wounded buck in future
while at bayq else you too may, in like
manner, find yourself disarmed, your gun
taken off, and fired in return, by that
noble animal whose life you seek to de
stroy. Deer Stalker.
The Camel —No human royal family
dare be uglier than the camel. He is a
mass of hones, faded lufts, humps,
lamps, splay-joints, and callosities. His
tail is a ridiculous whip, and a failure as
an ornament or fly-brush. His feet are
simply big sponges. For skin covering
he has patches of old buffalo robes,
faded, and with the hair worn off. His
voice is more disagreeable than his ap
pearance. With a reputation for patience,
he is snappish and vindictive. His en
durance is overrated; that is to say, he
dies like a sheep, if he is not well fed.
His gait racks muscles like the ague.
And yet tins ungainly creature carries
his head in the air and regards the world
out of his great brown eyes with disdain.
The very poise of his head says: “I
have come out of the dim past; the de
luge did not touch me; I helped Shootoo
build the great pyramid; I knew Egypt
when it hadn’t an obelisk rot a temple.
There are three of us; the date-palm,
the pyramid and myself. Everything
else is modern. Go to'.”—Charles Dud
ley Warner.
I PC IT!
Going to Europe in a Balloon.—
Prof. Samuel A. King, the sqronaut,
proposes to start from New York on a
balloon voyage fa Europe. His balloon
will be the largest in the world. It will
average about 90 feet in diameter, and
hold between 300,000 and 400,000 feet ui
gas. The material employed will, be Pon
gee silk,coated with a substance known to
the Professor only, The silk will be
doubled throughout. Pure' hydrogen
gas Will by used, and the cost of infla
tion alone is approximated at fS,000.
The car will he a combination of boat
and basket, a wicker frame work cov
ered with a heavy rubber substance,
which can easily be used as a boat in
case of emergency. The Professor will
start early in June next.
The Incendiary Goblet.—The Ral
eigh News is responsible for the follow
ing: “One of the family a{ Mr. N. S.
Mosely entered a roopR in his house, at
the corner of Salisbury and Cabarras
streets, yesterday, and was surprised to
see smoke ascending from the floor, with
a vividly bright ray of sunlight settling
thereon. The cause of the phenomenon
was soon ascertained. A goblet had been
inverted and placed on a window ledge.
The sun shone full on it, and the rays
were brought to a focus by the bottom
of the glass. The rays, so concentrated,
fell on the spot on the floor, and the heat
was so intense as to char the boards. A
few minutes later and the room would
have been all on fire.”
The howling of a dog in the night is a
sign that death will soon occur. The
Pennsylvania Dutchman, whose faith
was fixed on this sign, gave an incident
in proof of its correctness thus: “One
night mine old dog Bose he howls all
the evening, and he howls like every-
tings, when me and mine frau go to bed,
and in the night Katrine she vake me up
and say: ’Hans, I not sleep pretty muej.
any. Bose he howl so, vat ish dt> mat
ter?’ And I say, ‘Somepody yill be dead
pretty quick already.’ and tfen we go to
sleep mit ourselves, and de next morn
ing I look in mine paper, and, by jingo,
deie was a man died in Cincinnati- —N.
T. Staats-Zeitung.
The shark wave on the Atlantic coast
is spoken of as something new. Stuff:
We remember, before the war, when the
timid females at Xarragansett would not
venture to bathe until the Hon. Robert
C. Schenc k went in and scared the sharks
off. A strong-minded but slender-bodied
lady from Boston went through a shark
one day. The monster of the deep was
found bottom up, dead, next day. It
could digest fruit cans, gridirons and
boarding house batter, hut not a strong-
minded female.— WuxAingtoj* Capital.
Sir, A, G. Capron, principal proprietor
of the Hotel Royal dis Strae g ers at
pies, protests that he should not be held
responsible for rudeness to which
the daughter of General Lee was recently
subjected at that establishment. He ex
plains the whole matter by saying that
he was absent from Naples at the time of
the occurrence, and that the hotel was
then in charge of his German partner,
whose course he disapproves.
A
MILLION YARDS HAMBURG EDGINGS,
at 3c., 5c., 6c., 8a, 10c. and 12$4a
A BANKRUPT STOCK.
3,000 yards WHITE SWISS MUSLIN, at 12tfa,
worth 25a
6-4 WHITE ORGANDIE MUSLIN, at 35c., re
duced from 50a
1,000 yards 4-4 FRENCH ORGANDIE, plain
white, at 25a, former price 50c.
100 pieces PLAIN VICTORIA LAWN, yard
wide, reduced from 20a to 1214a
300 pieces CRASH TOWELING, at 5a
300 dozen HUCK LINEN TOWELS, at $2, sold
at $3.
100 dozen GENTS' HEMSTITCHED LINEN
HANDKERCHIEFS, at 25c. each, usual
price 45c. to 50a
200 dozen LADIES’ HEMSTITCHED HAND
KERCHIEFS, at $2 50. reduced from $3.
10 pieces BLACK CASHMERE, this season’s
importation, at a great bargain.
10 pieces BLACK STLK, the richest and heaviest
ever offered by us, at 40 per cent, off cost
of importation.
100 Pieces BLACK ALPACA, 25a and 30c. Oui
30c. goods equal any ever offered at 50a
Beautiful Blue Black.
10 cases WINTER PRINTS, at 5c.
4-4 BLEACHED SHIRTING, at 634c.
Gray & O’Brien.
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BARGAINS!
"J^OR the balance of the Summer I will offer
my ENTIRE STOCK OF FOREIGN AND STA
PLE DRY GOODS AT GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES. I specially invite attention to the
following lines:
100 pieces choice PRINTED CAMBRIC, yard
wide, at 6%c., reduced from 10c.
150 pieces BLEACHED SHIRTING, yard wide,
at 8a, reduced from 10a
60 pieces PILLOW COTTON, from 10c. yard
up.
100 pieces PRINTED LINEN LAWNS, at 6$*a,
reduced from 1214c.
75 DOZEN
Completely Finished Shirts,
At 90c. each. These are made of Wamsutta
Shirting and Richardson’s Celebrated Linen,
and consequently are as goed as can be
bought.
100 DOZEN
Gents’ 4-Ply Linen Collars,
At $ I 65 dozen, former price $2 dozen.
250 DOZEN
MEN’S FANCY HALF HOSE,
Striped and Solid Colors, reduced at least 15
per cent.
GREAT BARGAINS in Ladies’ and Gents’
NECKWEAR.
MATTING! MATTING!
150 rolls fresh imported MATTING, in white
and red check. Will be sold much under
regular value.
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B.FMEIA&CO.
DRY GOODS.
Removal, Removal.
B. F. MEffiA & co.
WOULD INFORM THEIR PATRONS THAT
THEY HAVE REMOVED TO THEIR
NEW STORE,
137 Broughton Street,
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER STS
WHERE THEY WILL BE GLAD TO SEBVW
THEM.
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