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A POK.n WITH A KEV.
Oil City Derrick.
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Mary had a little lamp;
Her lover, all serene.
Extinguish* d it. for he did not
Want any caress seen.
Solution.—l^et x equal "caress,'’ and x plus y
equal "caress seen; ' then .r plus y plus n will
equal ‘‘kerosene," and we have the answer
thus:
Extinguished it. for he did not
Want any kerosene.
n.
When Mary saw the lamp put out
She screamed: **<), deur, it's dark!”
“But hriehl enough," her lover said,
“With delight of a spark."
Solution.— Let q equal "delight," and k plusj/
equal a hyphen • i. when q plus k plus n will
equal “de-light," which, reduced to United
States, means "ihe light." Xute—a. The word
"delight" refers to the joys of courtship: b. In
some countries “spark" and "courting" are
synonymous terms. Therefore—
“But bright enough’’ her lover said,
"With the light or a spark.”
in.
What makes the youth love Mary so *
I'll tell you—she’s a catch;
And he put out th« lamp, you know,
So he might strike a match.
Solution. This Is very simple, and can be
solved by mental process. The young man
extinguished the lamp so that he could have
the fun of striking a match and lighting it
again.
Georgia Affairs.
One day last week, says the Walton
County Vidette, a very severe hailstorm
visited the same section so terribly injured
by the same cause last spring. The stones
were reported as large as a guinea egg, aud
beat the cotton out fearfully, driving it into
the ground.
Accidents from being caught in the saws
of gins are of startlingly frequent occur
rence. Scarcely a day passes but we see re
corded one or more such occurrences in our
State exchanges.
It is reported that Hon. Jefferson Davis is
expected to deliver the oration on the occa
sion of unveiling the Confederate Monument
in Augusta. The Telegraph and Hemtenyer
hopes that should he go to Augusta be may
be induced to stop a day in Macon and visit
the State Fair.
Alexander Johnson, a Maeon colored
brother, was on Tuesday put in jail on a
warrant for malicious mischief. He was in
toxicated and held a small negro boy and
made a dog bite him.
Major Wm. E. Evans, an old and highly
esteemed citizen of Augusta, died In that
city Tuesday evening. He was in the
seventy-second year of his age.
Dowdell Adams, charged with killing
Harry Barbee, and throwing his body from
the upper bridge wiudow at Columbus, has
been taken to Hamilton, Harris county.
He will be tried at this terra of the Harris
Superior Court.
We learn from the Swainsboro Herald that
Thursday afternoon last Nelson Walker, a
colored man, of Emanuel county, on his re
turn home from huuting, attempted to set
bis gun down. His hand being wet, the
gun slipped and fell, striking the floor in
such a wav as to discharge the piece. The
whole charge of shot struck him in the
band, inflicting a severe wound. A physi
cian was sent for and went to the relief of
the wounded man, but he died that night .
The champion cotton picker of the State
is a Spalding county boy named Frank
Flyut. On his father’s plantation one day
last week he picked out 704 pounds of the
staple.
Columbus Ewpiirer, 15th : “Since the
report of the committee (in whose charge
the North and South Railroad was), re
fusing to grant Mr. II. Blanchard further
time, or to make a netv deed, our citizens
have been held in suspense, the meetings of
the committee being secret. Various ru
mors were afloat as to who would purchase
it, but on yesterday afternoon it was sold,
aud the committee, who have labored
so faithfully for the best interests of
-Columbus, adjourned tine die. At a
Jate hour yesterdaj' afternoon the com
mittee was called together in the office
of Mr. L. F. Garrard, to consider a bid for
the road made by a company of large capi
talists aud property owners of our city. Af
ter discussing the bid, aud the plausibility
of their scheme, the committee awarded
them the road, aud a deed was ordered
made. This Company is composed of the
members who formed the ‘Columbus Com
pany,’ with several other gentlemen of
means, aud are inen of determination to
push the road through. We are reliably iti*
formed that work will begin shortly, and
the road carried to Chipley without delay.”
Mr. Harry Camp, writing to the Coving
ton Enterprise, says: “Gin houses are being
burned up by the wholesale. I have had
fifty years experience in the ginning busi
ness, and no doubt but what many matches
have gone through my glus, but none have
been " burned. If the brush baud is too
tight it draws the cylinder against the box,
and the brash running at high speed heats
the brush cylinder verv quickly aud causes
~ Do; * * ’
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
band too tight.” •
Thoraasvillc Enterprise: “Our little neigh
bor, Boston, is comiug out. It now boasts
of a cavalry company aud a spicy little
newspaper, in addition to its other attrac
tions, and is progressing rapidly. We hope
to see it build up rapidly, for whatever
growth it makes will be to the advantage of
our noble old county of Thomas.”
Forsyth Advertiser: “One day last week
Mr. William Brown, from Jasper count}',
came to Forsyth, and partaking too freely
of bottle * pisen,’ soon was glorious!}'
drunk. He wandered arouud during the
day, boasting be was the best man that ever
came to town, and could whip anybody.
Not tiuding anybody ready to fight, he per
haps concluded to try a steam engine. At
any rate, after night, be tvalked down the
railroad and sat down on the cross ties. Tbe
up night passenger came along and knocked
him off. The train was stopped and the
man was picked up for dead by the train
hands and brought to Forsyth. lie received
attention after the departure of the train,
and it was found that his head was badly
bruised, but no bones were broken. lie
was up and off to home next day. not dam
aged very seriously.”
The Jesup Sentinel records the following
shooting aifair in that vicinity: “Du Satur-
<Ia> night, October 5th, some colored folks
had a dance at Whitehall, about one mile
from Jesup. Sam McCloud and his wife
live near by. and thinking it a good chance
to make a little money, McCloud’s wife
cooked supper and furnished it to those
who were willing to pay. Among othere
who supped at the McClouds was a man
who left without paying. .Sam being absent
at the time, his wife told him about it on
his return, and he went to Whitehall to find
the man. On enteriug the room he was ap
proached by the man he was searching for,
who Inquired what he wanted. McCloud
informed him, whereupon he became very
abusive and beliigereut and struck Sam
three or four times. Sain then knocked him
down and proceeded to give him further
punishment, but was pulled off aud held by
some one in the crowd, during which his
antagonist drew a pistol and fired, the ball
taking effect two inches above tne left el
bow. The wound is painful acd severe, but
not dangerous. After firing the man disap
peared, and has not been seen since. Bam
tells us that he does not know the fellow’s
name, but that he is well known in this
neighborhood, having killed one man and
wounded six others during his career. This
be does, so Bam says, not on account of ill
feeling towards anyoue, but it is a way he
has of amusiDg himself wheu he wants a
‘little fuu.' As this ‘playful disposition’ is
not very commendable, we hope to be able
to announce the capture of the ‘gentle
youth’ in our next issue.”
MORE FAILURES IN GLASGOW.
John Hoar, the Banker, in Lmllow
Street Jail.
Axi YES ANT) PARTY IN VIRGINIA.
FEELING IN' BERLIN TO
WARDS AUSTRIA.
BURNING
OF T1IE
ENCE.
BRIG FI OR
DoineMtic and Foreign Notes.
HAVES AND PARTY IX VIRGINIA.
Winchester, October 10.—The President
and party arrived at 11 o’clock this morning.
In addition to the President and Mrs. Hayes
there are in the party Webb C. Hayes, Gen.
and Mrs. Hastings, becretary Thompson and
Others. They were met at the station by a
large crowd, and proceeded to the residence
of .Governor Holliday urder the escort of
the Winchester Light Infantiy. Governor
Holliday courteously received liis visitors,
aud after a brief rest the party proceeded to
the fair grounds.
Upon arriving at the fair grounds, Gov.
Holliday addressed a large assembly in front
of the main stand. Iu comduding, he for
mally introduced the President to the men
and women living in the Shenandoah valley.
The President rose to reply, and was
greeted with applause. He spoke at some
length on the financial affairs of the govern
ment, and quoted exteusivelv from Wash
ington, Jefferson, Madison, Richard Henry
Lee. George Mason, Chief Justice Marshall
and others against the issue of paper money,
and argued that the money of the Constitu
tion is coin.
TUB FAILURE OF IIOAR <1 CO.
New York, October 16.—The assignment
of John Hoar, J. Hingster and C. F. Keub-
nemund, composing the Arm of Hoar&Co.,
bankers and brokers, was filed yesterday.
In connection with the failure, rumors of
fraudulent transactions are freely cir
culated, which are credited bj T many
on account of the mysterious absence of
members of the firm. The gold clerk said
that the failure was due entirely to the re
pudiation of their contracts by Belden A
Co. Hoar \va s arrested on an order of arrest
granted by Judge Bassett, of the Supreme
Court, yesterday afternoon, aud lodged in
Ludlow street jail. It is stated that the
firm’s account at the Citv Bank is overdrawn
*-W,000.
MORE FAILURES AT GLASGOW—FINANCIAL
MATTERS.
London, October 1G.—A firm of local iron
brokers failed at Glasgow yesterday—liabili
ties fifty thousand dollars. Two other fail
ures, said to be heavy, have occurred, but
arc not yet officially announced. The gen
eral feeling is more quiet, but private
aud joint stock banks still refuse
accommodations, and throw this class
of business entirely upon the«Bauk of Eng
land, where as much as eight per cent, was
charged for loans yesterday. Should the
Bank of France raise its rate of discount to
morrow, as predicted in some quarters, a
further advance in the Bank of England
rate is deemed inevitable.
NOTES FROM BERLIN.
London, October 16.—The Russian Minis
ter of Finance was at Berlin Monday last
consulting with leading baukers in regard
to a new loan. Nothing was settled, and
the Minister left for Paris on Tuesday.
The report that the Russians have re
sumed their withdrawal towards Adrianople
is not confirmed.
The report that Layard, the British Min
ister at Constantinople, had visited London
is declared untrue.
Dispatches from Berlin state that Couut
Von Buist, being unfriendly to Germany,
his appointment as Austro-Hungarian Min
ister at Paris has created ill feeling iu Ber
lin.
BURNING OF THE BRIG FLORENCE.
New York, October 1G.—The schooner II.
R. Tilton, of Philadelphia, which arrived
here yesterday from Cardenas, brought the
Captain and crew of the brig Florence,^ of
Annapolis. Captain Monroe, of the Flor
ence, reported that his vessel took fire on
October 7th. All hands took to the boats
aud were picked up next day by the bark
lluldren, and shortly after were transferred
to the Tilton. The 'Florence was four days
out from Savannah bound for London.
PROJECTED PURCHASE OF A RAILROAD.
Richmond, Va., October IG.—At a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company yesterday,
the aetion of the Board of Directors, in re
lation to the recent arrangement looking to
the purchase of the Columbia, Charlotte
and Atlanta Railroad, was approved and
the report adopted.
ERRONEOUS REPORT.
Plymouth, England, October JG.—The
report that the steamer Suevia, from New
York, brought to this port the crew of the
ship J. II. Wlieejer, from St. Johns, N. B.,
for Londonderry, is erroneous. The Suevia
saw the J. IL ’Wheeler, which vessel had
been abandoned.
STAGNATION of business.
London, October 1G.—On the Stock Ex
change business is almost at a standstill.
Eight inconsiderable failures were declared
iu the cleariug house to-day.
DEATH OF HON. W. M. RANDALL.
Pottsville, Pa., October Id.—Hon. Wm.
M. Randall died this morning. He repre
sented this county in the State Senate for
three terms.
DECLINES THE CANDIDACY.
Boston, October 10.—Charles Theodore
Russell has written a letter declining to be
the Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Eighth district.
YACHT RACE A FAILURE,
New York, October 1G.—The ocean yacht
race between Gracie and Vision yesterday
was a failure, both being nearly wrecked by
a gale.
PROHIBITIONIST NOMINATION.
Lowell, October 16.—The Prohibitionists
of the Seventh district nominated John S.
Colby for Congress.'
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
THE AMEElt INCITING MOHAM
MEDANS TO D AK.
Caiif riiia Wishes Chinese Immigra
tion Stopped.
A REGISTRA TJON COSIEST
SEW YORK.
IS”
GEUJIANV AND 111 I: VATICAN.
THE COURTS IX WASHINGTON.
Items, Foreign and DoineMtic.
COURT* IN WASHINGTON.
Washington, October IG.—The Supreme
Court continued the hearing in iho Jurnel
will ease to-day.
In the Criminal Court, the District At
torney called attention to the cases against
Sugg Fort, K. R. Butler, F. S. Somers, Wiley
Edwards, Henry Waters, Albert Metcalf,
George II. Purdy and R. B. Mitchell, who
are charged with conspiracy and presenting
the fraudulent claim of Mr. Wells. It is
stated and claimed that, in I860, Sugg Fort
furnished a quantity of flour to the army
in Tennessee. Ten years afterwards he filed
a claim for its value, $23,000, that it
was rejected by the Southern
Claims Commission, reported on adversely
by the Committee of War Claims of the
House,and afterwards the papers were taken
to the Treasury and marked special. On the
same day a warraut was issued, a draft
drawn and paid. He was not prepared,
however, to make oyt the case, and re
luctantly would ask to euter £ nolle pros.
The entry was directed by the court.
DISPUTED REGISTRATION.
New York, October 10.—There was a
prospect of a fight between the Democrats
aud J. S. Davenport, United States Super
visor of Elections, yesterday. Judge Freed
man decided that a voter hail a right to
register on papers issued iu 186$,
Sind no election officer had the
power to go behind tbe certification
of the Superior Court or Common
Pleas. Late last evening Davenport issued
orders to the Supervisors and Marshals to
disregard the opinion of the Judge and re
fuse to register men with supposed fictitious
papers, aud tc seize the papers and send
them to him. To-day the Supervisor is car
rying out the order, and the Democrats are
getting out mandamusses to compel the re
gistration of those holding papers.
CREW SICK.
Fort Monroe, October 16.—The bark
Cort Adler, from Wilmington for Hamburg,
has put in here with the crew sick.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., October IG.—Indica
tions for Thursday:
In the Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic
States, warmer, clear or partly cloudy
weather, winds mostly southerly, stationary
or falling barometer.
In the East Gulf States, clear or partly
cloudy weather, warm southerly winds,
stationary barometer, generally followed by
rising barometer and colder northwest
winds.
In the West Gulf States partly cloudy
weather, frequent light rains, warm south
winds, followed by rapidly rising barometer
and colder northwest winds.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy and e oudy weather, with frequent
rain, warm southerly veering to colder
westerly winds, falling followed by risiDg
barometer.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
Middleboro, Mass., October 16.—The
Greenbackers of the First district nomina
ted Matthias Ellis for Congress. The Demo
crats also nominated him.
Chicago, October 16.—The Republicans
of the First district renominated Wm. L.
Aldrich for Congress.
Lowell, Mass., October 10.—The Demo
crats©/ tbe Seventh district nominated Juo.
K. Tarbox for Congress.
Salem, Mass., October IG.—Tbe Demo
crats of the Sixth district nominated Jas. U.
Carleton for Congress.
Flushing, L. I., October 16.—The Demo
crats of the First district nominated Jas. W.
Covert for Congress.
THE EPISCOPAL CONGRESS.
Cincinnati, October 16.—After com
munion service at St. Paul’s Church this
morning, iu which Rev. Phillips Brooks de
livered an appropriate address, the Episco
pal Congress convened iu Pike’s Opera
House. The papers upon tbe interpretation
of the Bible aud iu relatiou to the preseut
condition of learning and science, were read
by Rev. Frederick Gardiner, D. D., and Rev.
Edwin Harwood, D. D. In tbe discussion
which followed, many prominent divines
participated.
THE VATICAN AND GERMANY.
Rome,October IG.—The first basis for an ar
rangement between theVatican and Germany
having completely failed in consequence of
the attitudeof the Centre party in the Reich
stag, a new and less radical basis will be sub
stituted, and the relations between the
church and State will be regulated as nearly
as possible in accordance with existing Ger
man laws.
LEGALITY OF THE IOWA ELECTIONS.
Burlington, Iowa, October IG.—Chair
man Duncan, of the Congressional Demo
cratic Committee, has decided not to call
convention to nominate a candidate for the
November election, being advised to this
effect by prominent lawyers of the State.
The legality of the October elections will bo
referred to Congress.
FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, October 16.—The residence
of Ben Dreyfus, on Camp street, was burned
to day. The loss is estimated at ten thou
sand* dollars. The family of Itev. Mr.
Leueht, of the Temple of Sinai, barely es
caped with their lives. They lost every
thing.
PROHIBITION OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
San Francisco, October 16.—The Con
stitutional Convention to day adopted a
resolution to memorialise the President and
the United States Senate to so modify the
Burlingame treaty as to prohibit Chinese
immigration.
TRYING TO RAISE A RELIGIOUS WAR.
Bombay, October 16.—The Ameer of Af
ghanistan is endeavoring to raise a religious
war among the Mohammedans of Central
Asia against England.
DANGEROUSLY ILL.
Huntington, L. I.. October IG.—Admiral
Pauldiug, U. S. N., is still dangerously ill
with embalism of tbe heart.
THE BUZZING OF INSECTS.
Some Interesting;
Into Kn fanset-
So Hilda.
Investigation*
Two Distinct
London Times.
The old naturalists thought generally
that the buzzing of insects was produced
by the vibrations of the wing, but they
had scarcely attempted to analyze this
phenomenon, and their opinion was
abandoned wheu Reaumur showed that
when the wings are cut a blow-fly con
tinues to buzz. Other explanations of
the phenomenon have been advanced by
various naturalists, but none of them are
satisfactory. M. Jousset de Bellesme
has been making some investigations on
the subject, and, after proving that pre
vious tneories are unsatisfactory, he
desc ibes the results of his own re
searches. To avoid confusion, it should
be distinctly understood what is meant
by buzzing. In the scientific acceptation
it means to imitate the sound of the
bumble-bee, which is the type of buzzing
insects. But the humble-bee gives out
two very different sounds, which are an
octave of each other—a grave sound
when it flies, arid a sharp sound when it
alights.
We say, then, that buzzing is the iac-
uit}’ of insects to produce two sounds at
an octave. Thus definition limits tne
phenomenon to the hymeiioptera and the
diplera. The coleoptcra often produce
iu flying a grave and dull sound, but
they are powerless to emit the sharp
sound, and consequently do not buzz.
There are two or three ascertained facts
which will serve as guides in the inter
pretation of the phenomenon. First, it
is indisputable that the grave sound al
ways accompanies the great vibrations
of the wings which serve for the transla
te *n of the insect. It is easily seen that this
sound commences as soon as the wings
begin to move, and that if the wings be
rut off it disappears entirely. The sharp
sound U never, on the contrary, pro
duced during uigjit- it is only observed
apart from the great vibrato os of the
wings when the insect alights, or whua
it is held so as to hinder its movement,
and in that case the wing is seen to be
animated by a *api4 trembling. It is
also produced when the wings arc en
tirely taken away.
From these two remarks we may draw
the conclusion that the grave sound be
longs properly to the wings, that it is
caused by their movements of great am
plitude. There is here no difficulty. As
to. the sharp sound, it is certainly not
produced by the wings, since it survives
the aba^n‘'e of these. Yet the wings
participate in il undergo a particular
trembling during the producer, of this
sound. To discover the cause it is nec
essary Lo go back to the mechanism of
the movement qi the wing. It is known
that among nearly all instcu lira muscles
which serve for flight are not inserted in
the wing itself, but in the parts of the
thorax whieh support it, and that it is
the movement of these which acts on the
wing and makes it vibrate. The form
of the thorax changes with each move
ment of the wing under the influence of
the contraction of the thoracic muscles.
The muscular masses intended for flight
being very powerful, this vibrator}’
movement qf the thorax is very intense,
as may be proved Ly holding one of these
insects between the finger*, ss th'*
vibrations are repeated two or throe hun
dred times per second, they give rise to a
musical sound, which is the sharp note.
In fact, lira air which surrounds the
thorax is set in vibration by fhst direct
ly, and without the wing taklug pfcfi
it. Then there are two simultaneous
sounds, one produced by the vibration of
the wings and the other by the thoracic
vibration, the latter twice as rapid as the
former, and therefore an octave. This
is why in flight only a single grave sound
is heard. When the thorax moves alone
a sharp sound is produced. This 31. de
Bellesme believes, is the only explana
tion that can be given of the mode of
production of tke two sounds which con
stitute buzzing.
Louis Hopson killed himself, in Wash
ington, because a girl whom he loved
would not marry him; but he seems to
have died with more revengefulness than
love io his heart, for he left a note to
her in which he said; “Before this
reaches you I shall l»e a corpse. In .one
hour my soul shall be suffering the tor
merits of the damned, and it was you
who dK»wn*?d me.” This has had the
desired effect, for the nearly demented
girl accuses herself of murder.
James Laxton, under sentence to be
hung on the 2oth of October, for mur
der, escaped from jail at Statesville, N.
C., Monday night, and has not been re
captured,
The Legislature and the Judges.
Editor Homing News: If there is one duty
to be performed by our next Legislators of
more vital importance to the people than
any other, or all others, it is the election
of Judges of tbe Superior Courts, and, as a
citizen of the State, feeline: a deep interest
both in the public good and in the good of
individuals, I beg you to allow me space in
your columns to offer a few suggestions on
this subject. All offices of honor and trust
should be filled by the best and purest men
in the country—by men of unquestioned
integrity, fidelity and capacity, even from
the lowest to the highest office in the gift
of the people. While everyone concedes
this fact, the necessity of the application
of the rule becomes more obvious when ap
plied to the electiou of judicial officers than
in any other view it can be considered.
The Judges of our courts wield a great
and powerful influence. They occupy high
and responsible positions. The rights of
life, liberty and property are brought before
them to be determined.
Hence it becomes the imperative duty of
the Legislature to adopt some plan by which
the members can ascertain the desire aud
choice of the people, and elect gentlemen
to the bench who have the firmness, integ
rity and intelligence to measure out even-
handed justice to all men. No creature in
human shape is more detestable to a people
than a dishonest, partial and corrupt Judge.
The annals «f the courts of Eugland abun
dantly testify to the crimes and usurpations
committed by corrupt aud unjust judicial
officers, and even our own couutry furnishes
some notable examples of this class.
Then, to guard against the election of
such men—or even the election of honest
and upright men—who are otherwise incom
petent and unqualified to discharge the du
ties of tbe office, and in order to accom
plish the end whieh all good citizens most
ardeutly desire, the Legislature should, in
my judgment, elect for Judges of the dif
ferent circuits, the candidates preferred by
a majority of the members of the Legisla
ture from the counties composing the cir
cuit.
In the first place, tLis plan, if adopted,
will save the Mine of the Legislature. Much
important business will be before the next
General Assembly, and the session will no
doubt be necessarily prolonged in order to
enact such laws as may be deemed neces
sary to carry into practical effect many
parts of our new constitution, in addition to
a deal of other business. So every day-
saved to the Legislature is equivalent to
two or three thousand dollars iu the State
treasury. Ten days saved by prudent
legislation would approximate thirty
thousand dollars. It is obviou*- that this
plau would not only save time, but money
also. The expenses of the Legislature ore
paid out of the State taxes; hence the reduc
tion in the expenses of the State govern
ment is a reduction of each taxpayer’s tax.
If there should be more than two candidates
from each circuit, it may require a great
many ballots and much precious time be
fore an election can be made, uulessthe pro
posed plan is adopted.
In the second place, this plan would se
cure better aud more acceptable Judges, as
the members of tbe Legislature from the
circuit in which the candidates practice
know them better and know tbe choice of
the people better. They are the representa
tives of the people, and are presumed to
reflect the seutimeut of the people. The
members from one end of the State are not
supposed to know who would make an ef
ficient and acceptable Judge at the other,
and uuless they are guided by the members
from the circuit they are liable to make un
wise and injudicious selections.
In the third place, this plan, if adopted,
would thwart the evil operation of combi
nations between the different candidates,
the “ins” against the “outs,” and vice
versa. Such combinations might thrust
upon a circuit a Judge entirely odious to
the bar and people thereof, a man utterly
unfit and incompetent to discharge the du
ties of the office, and wanting in all the
essential elements and qualifications of an
upright J u ige.
We have bad enough of combinations,
cliques and rings, auu, it is to be hoped
that the members of our Legislature, soon
to convene, will inaugurate a new era iu
this respeet, make aii personal considera
tions and preferences subordinate to the
public good, and leave an example of
patriotism and public duty that will be well
for their successors to emulate.
Above 4II things keep the judicial ermine
pure and unsullied. Respectfully.
Clifford A. Holmes.
THE
SURE WAY TO RESTORE
PROSPERITY.
The Second and Certain .71 ea sure la
an Export Duty on Cotton.
ANGELS GUARDING HIM.
Ucsruins a Four-year«ol 1 Lad who
Spent Eighteen Hour* Among
Howling Wolves.
St. Jo Herald.
Pawnee City, Neb , September 24.—
Lust Sunday Lewis H. Wood aud family,
of Table Rock, were visiting at liis
brother’s, Jobn Wood, who lives seven
miles west of this place. About eleven
o’clock in the forenoon their little boy
Carl, aged between three aud four, wan
dered away from the house, and when
missed by his parents a search of the
entire place was instituted, but at dark
no trace of the lost child could lie found.
A messenger was sent to the city to raise
the citizens to search for the lost boy.
The messenger arrived after the inhab
itant3 had retired. The residence of
Capt. G. M. Humphrey was sought out
and he was informed of what had hap
pened. A few moments afterward the
town was in a perfect state of excite
ment. Guns were tired, village bells
Were nearly jerked from their hangings,
the ne^s spread like fire over tne city,
and every heart warmed up iu sympathy
with the stricken parents. Teams were
harnessed and hordes were saddled, aud
a hundred men or more of the merchants,
mechanics, doctors and lawyers o; Paw
nee hastened to the place where little
Carl was lost.
On arriving at Mr. Wood’s place. Capt.
Humphrey, being somewhat of a military
man, was elected Captain of the band.
A deploy line half a mile long was
formed, acd Captain marched his lit
tle army arouud the piacj, cohering every
foot of ground within a radius of a half
mile; then a second march was -made
outside the circuit of the first, and after
starting on the tlqrd march Mr. John
Wood, who is uncle to little Carl, said lie
would ride over to a piece of timber a half
mile further out.
Mr. Wood reached the timber about 7
o'clock in the morning, and riding a few
rods in the brush, heard little Carl call
ing, “Oh, papa!” aud rode in the direc
tion from whence came the sound, aud
there he found the little fellow wander
ing through tbe brush, with his limbs
torn ana biccuug h;*.ving been scratched
by the brush ana grass.
When little Carl saw his uncle, he be
gan to laugh, and ran toward him.
When Mr. Wood a^keJ him where he was
the night before, he said that he campccj
out.
The glad news was echoed along the
line, and was quickiy borne to the grief-
stricken father and mother. Captain
Humphrey and his band hastened to the
house amf delivered up little Carl to his
father and mother, who completely broke
down under their extreme joy. and every
soul on the ground wept, and cheer after
cheer of joy went up till the men were
Little Carl was im»t kg I)L parents over
ei.hteen hours, and slept* alone iu the
woods all night, while the howling of
wolves was heard by those who were
anvouslv and eagerly hunting for him.
* If seems fual ibs rhild laid down and
slept till toward morning, wuen qe wokp
up and it was dark, and laid down again
and slept till the sun was »hiniog, Then
he started to hunt his papa, which was
but a few moment* before being found
by his uncle, John Wood, one andihree-
'ourths of a mile from where he started
about 11 o’clock the day before.
Nathan F. Hart committed a murder
in St George Me., and then manufac
tured most of tne eviaeace ui&i eon
vicled him. He killed a woman, and
suspicion was not at first directed toward
him; but he bunglingly undertook to
make himself-secure by writing two let
ters, dated at Providence and Philadel
phia, in which the crime was described
ostensibly by the perpetrators. The
writing was recognized as his, and he
was arrested, lie also reratod pretended
dreams of the murder, telling what he
could not have known if innocent.
Little Henry aippits, of Cincinnati,
aged seven, walked tc the river, undress
ed himself, jumped in and was drowned.
Reason—his mother would not put but
ter on his bread when he came home from
school hungry.
New York Sun.
New York, October 5, 1878.
lion. Abram 8. Hevilt, of the Con-
yreemional labor Committee:
Sir—In my first letter, published Oc
tober 8, I developed a differential tariff,
which must inevitably restore our lost
shipping, revive the ship building indus-
try, recover the lost freights aud passen
ger money, and lessen the burden of
taxes by the reproduction of an enor
mous amount of taxable property. I
mentioned four objections .'hat might be
raised to this measure, two of which in
volved retaliation on the part of Eng
land. The third objection was that Eng
land would make an effort to discover
new fields in which to grow cheap cot
ton, in order to dispense with the supply
she now takes from us. I propose to
prove that this is impossible, and that
such is England’s belief. I further stated
that the establishment of this fact con
stituted the basis of other measures to be
developed in their proper connection
I am well aware that there is a class of
persons incapable of assisting their fellow
men, but expert in fault finding and ob
jecting to tbe earnest efforts of others.
For ihe instruction of this class, and to
remove the impression from the minds of
the few who may sincerely entertain the
belief that this objection to my scheme is
tenable, I will prove that the question of
a rival to America in the production of
cotton was settled in our favor by Eng
land herself eighteen years since. She
has not only convinced herself that we
are without a rival, but that we are so to
remain, and that our advantages muA
constantly increase.
The facts that have produced this con
viction abroad should certainly settle our
own belief. Even if it were possible for
Europe to obtain a supply elsewhere, the
cotton would be inferior, consequently
fatal to her in the markets of the world.
Cotton is an absolute and indispensa
ble necessity to our race. Out of the
1,400,000,0(H) of people on the earth,
1,200,000,000 are more or less consumers
of cotton. If it was obliterated, there
is no known textile that could supply its
place. All other textiles are more or less
special in use, iu special localities to
which they arc specially fitted. Cotton
alofic, from its very cheapness, abun
dance, and adaptation, meets the wants
ot all people and all classes in all climates.
Our cotton belt is situated between 30
and 36 degrees of north latitude. There
is uot exceeding one quarter of that belt
uuder cultivation. The day is not far
distant when Texas alone will produce
more coltou that is now grown in all the
States. The lands now- iu cotton are not
half cultivated. Before the l>eginmng of
the next century we will produce better
cotton and double as much to the acre.
Those readers who will follow us care
fully in this discussion will be satisfied
that within twenty years our country
will produce twelve or fourteen millions
of bales, aud find a profitable market for
it
The eye in following our cotton belt
around the world fails to discover a rival
producer. Anywhere between the south
era line of our belt and tbe equator sue
cessful cotton growing is impossible. Iu
climates destitute of frosts cotton deteri
orates, and the boll-worm that follows
the plant destroys the crop. Our long
warm seasons thoroughly ripen the plant.
Our sharp Irosts in winter, extending to
the Gulf, kill the eggs of the boll-w-orm
and save the crop. Without frost our
cotton fields would be like the cotton
fields of Central America—laid waste by
the ravages of the worm. Frost is the
enemy of cotton, it is also the savior.
There is no couutry on the globe hav
ing the lands suited for cotton growing,
iu"conjunction with a long, warm season
and severe winter frosts, like our own.
In latitudes destitute of keen frosts the
fibre is much weaker than the fibre
grown in America. This is especially
true of the light, weak fibre of the East
India cotton. In Upper Egypt alone a
fibre has been produced that in some
seasons will compare with our short sta
pie. This, however, is of no conse
quence, as the Upper Egyptian crop
amounts to only a few iliousanij of our
bales. Other cotton raised in other parts
of Egypt is inferior, and is used to mix
with ours.
Cotton requires a peculiar climate for
its regular, unfailing and perfect growth.
It is a tropica} plant, Yet the tropics
furnish (outside of our own country) but
few, and those limited localities for the
production of a fibre equal to our own.
Although some of these latitudes produce
cotton enormously, it is inferior. China
is said to have produced from 10,000.000
to 12,000,000 of bales the size of ours. But
China cannot now supply her own con
sumption, and is importing from British
India a large amount to make up her de
ficiency.
A little over seventy years since fam
ine compelled the dynasty of China to is
sue a decree enforcing the withdrawal of
a large quantity of lands from the culti
vation of cotton ancf devoting them to
the production of food. This policy has
been continued, and more lands are grad
ually takeu from the cotton area every
year to meet the demand for food of her
increasing population. The capacity of
a territory for the production of food is
limited: the capacity for the production
of population is absolutely unlimited.
Hence a country already overgorged with
hundreds of millions of inliabiiants must
yield up its lands to the cry of hunger, if
all other interests must perish. The first
necessity cf nature must first be supplied.
This question of population lm3 must im
portant bearings upon the political eco
noray of our country, as will soon ap
pear aud if we have any statesmen, it is
entitled to their grave consideration.
From this cause China has become a
large importer of cotton, although she
has been, uud is the largest cotton pro
ducing couutry in the world. The recent
famine, still raging there aud involving
150,000,000 of people, will enforce an
other withdrawal of cotton lands for food
purposes, and will, of course, increase
her importation of cotton to make up
hc- r enlarged deficit. This demand for
cotton in China has given an outlet for
the iuferior cotton of British india. Eng
land now finds a market for Dholerali cot
ton in that direction. It has proved
more profitable to *hip coiton to China
than bring it to Eugland lo spin. This
has increased her dependence upon us for
her European supply. The quantity of
India cotton consumed by England is
very small in comparisoe with what she
take, from us. Any increase which she
reouire* we must furnish.
In 1868, before our cotton cultivation
had recovered from the effects of the
war, England took from us only 877,000
bales; from India, 913.000 bales. In 1871
she tqok from us 1 ,925,000 bales- from
India. 558,000 baies. ’These facts end all
and seed. beiDg about 900 pounds of lint
to the acre, equal to our best crops raised
in the State of Arkansas. Now Cuba
plants none. Climate and the absence
of frost closed the business. The Man
chester Company made several vigorous
efforts in the Darwar settlements of
the Bombay Presidency, but succeeded
only in producing a weak, unequal
fibre as compared with the American cot
ton. I now ask your committee to re
flect upon England’s exhaustive efforts
to get rid of us, and also her signal fail
ure, as shown from the following facts.
The English journals lashed the home
government into vigoious action. The
following extract from the Cotton Supply
Importer, published in Manch ster. and
dated December 1, 1858, will indicate the
tierce energy with which it stirred the
English mind:
“ One hundred millions sterling in ten years.
Ten millions sterling—dead loss—and that an
nually (it was charged that America was over
paid m the shape of an extra price— $50,00n,-
000—yearlyt. ought to be sufficient to rouse
English energy and fix the determination at
once in every man. knowing the facts, that he
will do what in him lies to agitate this great
question; for it is a question for every house
holder and purchaser of a single yard of calico.
It affects all trades—all interests. The palaces
of the home trade in this city (Man :tiester) are
built upon cotton. The stability of these pal
aces depends upon cheap cotton. The tens of
thousands of this nation of shopkeei>ers, and
especially of drapers, live chiefly by cotton:
and it is sheer imbecility, year after y»ar. pas
sively to watch the efflux of ten millions,
while we have the means in our hands of im
proving the condition ot our industrial classes^
and of converting this loss into twenty or thirty,
millions (sterling 1 saved. We could obtain cot
ti.n fr m Africa or India. By doing so. we
should save not only our annual tea milli *ns
(sterling) but create markets ihat would take
far more than an equivalent of our manufac
tures in return. Every year would widen our
markets. In ten years we should have at least
saved oue hundred millions (sterling)-$500,000,-
000-an eighth part of our national debt, in
stead of paying for our folly at the rate of one
hundred millions (sterling) in ten years.”
This is the cotton supply problem.
We ask where is our rival when England
confessedly pays us $50,000,000 yearly
iu the shape of a higher price than the
same quantity of cotton would cost her
elsewhere?
This goading of her press, and our
great cotton year of 1858-9, moved Eng
land lo an herculean and exhaustive
effort to rival us in the production of
good, cheap cotton. The able and in
telligent author of the “History of Cot
ton” gives tbe following record of Eng
land’s final aud abortive efforts.
" In 1ST>9 the‘Cotton Supply Association' of
Great Britain held its second annual meeting—
an organization whoso purpose was to supply
Great Britain with cheap cotton, aud rid her
of dei>en(lenco upon America. This Associa
tion had. in its second year, received two thou
sand communications from government de
partments, the New India councils, the British
Consuls abroad, and from societies and indi
viduals in various parts of the world, relating
to the encouragement of cotton growing in
places suitable for it. Grants of cotton seed,
varying from one bag to two hundred bags
each, had been made and forwarded to Bom
bay. Madras, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad.
Malabar. Ceylon. Singapore, Sydney, Sava-
nilla. Barranquilla, South America, Honduras,
(jiautemala, t‘ul»a, Jamaica, Hayti, Tunis. Sa
gos. Fernando Po, Sierra Leone, Cape Coast
Castle, Natal. Monrovia. Macedonia. Aleppo,
Jaffa. Sidon, KaitYa, Broussa, Sakmiea, Con
stantinople, Messina. Attica, Argotis. Laconia,
Arcadia, Euboea and numerous other places.
Cotton gins v/cre s. u to many of these places,
and cotton presses were sent to Cape Coast
Castle. Metlals and prizes were offered for the
best samples of cotton grown in Lilwria. A
coiton periodical, railed the Cotton Supply Re-
porter, was established ani regular!}- for
ward ed to all associations aud individuals
likely to be able to uid in the general object."
Thus we perceive England raked the
world in all latitudes aud countries
suited to the growing of cotton. Her
extraordinary effort was powerfully
aided by our civil war breaking out at
the time. Our ports blockaded, her sup
ply necessarily cut short, cotton selling
iit a fabulous price. It sold in New Y’ork
at $1 85 per pound. This price was a
desperate incentive to her agents for
exertion everywhere. All in vain. To
get a cheaper supply of equal quality
elsewhere proved a complete failure.
And now she is taking an increased
amount of our cotton every year. She
has abandoned her experiments, and sub
mits to the Inevitable. She sees the
“handwriting on the wall” in the rapid
increase of cotton factories out
side of her dominions. In 1860
she used half of the whole cotton crop
of the world; last year she used only
3,017,000 bales, against 8,059,000 bales
consumed elsewhere. In this tact our
cotton planters may learn that the day is
near at hand when the English market
for raw cotton will be the least import
ant. (And here let me remark, in paren
thesis, that tne argument in re erence to
the necessity for China withdrawing her
lands from the cultivation of cotton in
order to furnish food nr.dpre*eni famine
is equally applicable io British India.
The day is not far distant when that
densely populated country rjmst limit her
production of cotton, o^ium, cochineal
and indigo in order to guard against the
same calamity incident to a surplus and
ever increasing population. And when
she restricts her cotton field even China
will become a market for our excess.)
It will be observed that in the extract
we have given from the Coiton Supply
Reporter the howl of high prices paid us
comes from the English money glutton
alone. Other nations take 1,000,000 bales
from 11s at the same prices and make no
complaints. It is svULut lo me that
England's efforts to find and control new
and cheap cotton fields has a double pur
pose—first, to get rid of us: second, to
drive t!»e prcducis of other mills than
her own out of the markets of the world.
Failing to find what she was seeking, her
infamous conduct toward us during the
war is easily explained. Defeated in her
effort to find a rival for us, she resolved
on splitting the Union, hoping then by
trick to get exclusive control of our cot
ton as her sole dependence. Cotton was
the hinge on which her policy turned.
Before we get through with this subject
we will prove that American cotton and
American mills and American thips arc
the colliding forces between which she
will be crushed, and reduced to a third-
rate power
We now rntura to the object of this
paper, to prove that, a3 producers of
cotton, we are, and will remain w ithout
a rival. This fact being conclusively
established, we are confronted with the
momentous question: IIow r can we by
legislation utilize this conceded and en
during advantage? We answer, by levy
ing an export duty on cotton. This will
be the subject of "my next letter.
Ellis B. Schnabel.
CANNIBALISM
The Horrible Practice In the 71 ar-
que«a» - Qualification* of the Vic
tim-The Kellgloua Sacrifice.
San Francisco Chronicir.
Among the passengers by the Gray-
hound, arrived at this port from Tahiti,
was an American, named Lewis Chase,
who, for more than a quarter of
a century, has never seen a civilized
country, and has seldom looked
upon the face of a white man. San
Francisco is the first glimpse of civiliza
tion he has had since he left his native
home in Danbury, Conn., twenty-seven
years ago.
The group of islands on which Mr.
Chase has passed his quarter of a century
is the Marquesas, where before his ow n
eyes he has seen cannibalism practiced
both as a fine art and as a fierce display
of human ferocity. This horrible practice
is indulged in principally to gratify a
deadly spirit of revenge which one tribe
of natives holds against another.
The flesh is eaten from the hand, and,
to give it greater relish, dipped in native
sauces. Cocoanuts. yams and various
kinds of nuts are also’amoug the edibles,
besides certain varieties of fish, but the
piece de rixi»tancc is the human portion
of the spread. While the feast lasts the
greatest hilarity prevails, and after it is
over a fearful druukeu orgie follows,
whenever the liquors, native or import
ed, can be procured. Scenes of the
wildest licentiousness accompany the
revel, and for days after the cannibals
are in a state of semi unconsciousness.
They quietly retire to their huts, and
allow sleep and nature to restore their
shattered constitutions. Sleep is their
greatest restorative, and after a fearful
debauch they will lie as if dead for a
space of from ten to fifteen hours.
Mr. Chase was witness to a fearful and
revolting act of cannibalism practiced at
the little harbor of Atawana two years
ago. A young and beautiful girl bad
been captured and brought in a canoe to
Atawana. She belonged to a tribe which
was fiercely hated by her captors, and
they determined to aveDge themselves
upon her. She was taken out into the
centre of the village, stripped naked and
bound. Then, with war clubs she was
beaten and fell as if dead to the ground.
Her whole body was cut to pieces and
divided up among the cannibals present.
While indulging in this almost incredible
brutality, shouts of joyous vengeance
were heard on every side.
Great pomp and solemnity surrounds
victims intended for religious sacrifices,
and none but high priests can officiate in
the most solemn ceremonies. The
priests have numerous attendants, mostly
young boys, who are being educated for
priestly honors. The victim selected is
usually a man of note among his tribe,
and while he is iu the hands of his religi
ous torturers, previous to the act of
sacrifice, receives some consideration.
When the hour arrives, he is placed
upon a large stone, to which his body is
bound firmly. The priests then chant
low wails, which increase in volume
uutil it seems as if they were shrinking.
Charms, spells aud incantations are then
brought into p'.ay, the priests occasion
ally placing their hands upon the intend
ed sacrifice, who never utter- * word
from the time fie i- selected us a sacrifice
to the moment of liis death.
The cannibals have epicurean tastes,
and a fine sense of the various shades of
delicacy of different classes of vi. iims.
The flesh most highly priz-ed is that of
the African, and a colored man who, in
life, neitfifcr drunk liquors nor smoked,
if he falls into the hands of the Marque
sas cannibals, is certain to have the
highest respect shown him. He will be
feu luxuriously, and tended carefully up
to the time that he is to I4 sacrificed.
The bodies wiUstonartes take second
rank, because in life they are supposed
to have used neither liquors nor tobacco.
Sailors are not esteemed a luxury, be
cause their flesh »s thoroughly saturated
with smoke, w’hisky and salt water.
The cannibals have the most dainty
sense of smell in this respect, and will
tell instantly whether their victim has
ever been in the habit of using liquors
or stimulants of any kind.
Y’oung.childreu and women, especially
unmarried women, are great luxuries.
Persons advanced in years are seldom
eaten, as their bodies are too full of well
developed and tough sinews. Mr. Chase
has never seen a w U;te person offered up
ns a sacrifice to the cannibal appetite,
but there are well authenticated cases of
such being the fact, A missionary and
two colored men are known to have been
eaten on Dominique Island, one of tbe
most savage of the group. In recent
times the cannibuls rarely sacrifice a
white victim, but they are entirely will
ing to do so if the opportunity offers. It
is not safe to trust them with a tender
Angler Saxon lamb, or anytfitng in the
shape of humanity that would be cer
tain to take a first prize at a baby show.
These not being procurable, no objection
would be offered to making *» good
square meal cut of n nice, fat, healthy
mi«i»ioiiaiy. Sailors are the only class of
white men for whom the cannibals can
not get up an appetite at a moment's
warning.
MOHAMMEDAN SEPULTURE.
A Strange Sight That was Seen In a
Liverpool Cemetery.
A Liverpool newspaper gives the fol
lowing account of a Mohammedan
funeral which took place in Anfleld
Cemetery on Monday:
“The funeral was that of a young
man whose age was marked on the coftin
as thirty five. The corpse was conveyed
to the ground in a hearse of the usual
kind, and was accompanied by eight or
nine men who from their dress appeared
to be Turkish sailors. After alighting
from the coaches they proceeded to the
unconsecrated division of the cemetery,
and commenced taking off their clothes.
It was soon apparent that they had under
their ordinary clothes garments of linen,
consisting of a loose blouse and trousers.
When divested of their outer garments
each man proceeded to wash his face,
hands, and feet iu a bucket of water lhat
had been provided for the occasion.
One of them then produced a couple
of small pieces of stick, or tubing, and
putting one end cf each in the ground,
proceeded to light the others, when each
piece burned like tinder or touch-paper.
He then warmed something in a bag—
apparently camphor—over the ends of
the two lubes, and rolled it up, holding
it in his hands. Two of the men then
went to Ihe hearse and brought out the
coftin, laving it on the ground, with the
right side facing the sun. A young
man came forward and motiontd to
the few people who were gathered
round to clear away from between
the coffin and the sun. He then
Stopped to the opposite side of the
coffin, and all the other men ranged
tliemscdves in a row behind him. T i tiis
young man, who seemed to be a priest,
or something of that sort, was dressed
in a loose holland suit, and per
formed several strange ceremonies
over ihe corpse. Standing about a
yard from it, with his face to the
sun, he raised his hands to his ears,
mumbling some strange words; all the
others imitated him. This he did some
half dozen times; then he bowed low,
still muttering. The rest imitated this
movement also. After these ceremonies
had boeu repeated several times, the
young man proceeded to the coffin, the
lid of which had bt»cn removed as soon
as it was nut on the ground, and taking
some of t lie camphor lief ore mentioned,
and inserting his hand between the linen
folds that covered the corpse, deposited
the camphor, apparently, on the face of
the corpse, lie also put some on the
breast and the feet, and sprinkled the
rest all round the inside of the coffin.
The lid was then put on, but not
screwed down. All the uien proceeded
to raise the coffin, carrying it sometimes
feet foremost and sometimes head
foremost to the graveside. Here they
again deposited it on the ground, and, in
imitation of their priest, each took up a
handful of earth, mumbling rapidly the
while, and this earth being deposited hy
the men into thehaudsof their priest, he
proceeded to do with it as i»e had done
with the camphor. The lid was again
placed on the coffin, but not screwed
do.wn, and they, without allowing either
gravediggers or any one else to assist,
lowered the coftin into the grave and pro
ceeded themselves to fill in the earth. As
it was a public grave, one of the diggers,
when the coffin wits covered, attempted
to stop further filling in of earth, but
they took no notice of him until the
priest uttered word, which, wc suppose,
meant stop. The two small tubes before
mentioned were relighted, and thrown
by one of them on the soil covering the
coffin, when they proceeded to put on
thei* outer garments and retire from the
scene. After they had, however, gone
about two hundred yards, all the men, in
imitation of the;r priest,’ stood still, and
turning Ihtlr faces to the corpse, began
again to mumble some incoherent words,
with their hands raised to their chins.
This proceeding they closed by covering
their eyes with their hands, after which
they retired from the ground.”
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Full lines of (ientlemen's plain and fancy
HALF HOSE.
Job lots of Mists' Fancy HOSIERY. and 10c.
per pair.
Job lot Of Ladies' two button KID GLOVEU
(numbers incomplete), at 35c. per pair.
Job lots of ladies' all silk NECKTIES, at 15c..
20c. and 25c.. worth double these price*.
Full lines <»f TOWELS, NAPKINS and LINEN
GOODS generally.
2 cases wide I>ark Colored
tt*4c. per yard.
CAMBRICS, at
Nsw Goods by Every Steamer.
Prices Always Moderate.
B. F. HcKBNNA k CO.,
137
oct(4 If
BROUGHTON STREET.
Gray & O’Brien.
GRAND DISPLAY
Parisian Novelties
SPECIA L BARGAINS
—FOR Tn/-
l*r<'sont 'Wool*
SOMNAMBULISM EXTRAORDI
NARY.
A Boy Step* OH a Moving ExpreNS
Train and Escape* Injury.
controversy about East India competi
tion. even if the cotton was equal in
quality to our own.
England consumes about 3,000,000
bates, two-thirds of which she takes from
us. In 1859, before the war, England
took from us 2,086,000 bales; an3 the
total amounts from Brazil, West Indies,
Egypt and East India, were 743,000 bales.
In 1860 she took from us 2.582,000 bales,
and from all others 786,000 bales. More
than ten-elevenths of her increased sup
ply came from us: less than one-eleventh
from all the others In I87Q, nctwith-
sianoing our war and the arduous efforts
of her Cotton Supply Association, she
took from us between sixty and seventy
per cent, of her supply. If she could
get equally as good cotton elsewhere, she
would have done so long ago. She has
abandoned her Cape of Good Hope plan
tations. Failing in all her efforts, she
now looks to our crop as her chief de
pendence.
Cuba made an effort to produce cotton
in 1858-9. Tbe seed was furnished by
England. The experiment was made
under the auspices of “Anglo Douera
Joint Stock Company.” The lands se
lected were about eleven miles from the
city of Havana. The crop produced
was, in bulk, an unusual success, yield
ing about 3,000 pounds to the acre, lint
Sensations Under Chloroform,
Popular Srience Muntfjq.
I began to be terrified to such a won
derful extent as 1 would never before
have guessed possible. I made an in
voluntary attempt to get out of the chair
and then—-suddenly became aware that
I was looking at nothing, while taken up
by the confusion in my lungs, the out
ward things in the room had gone, and I
was “alone in the dark.” I felt a force
on my arm (which did not strike me as
the surgeon's “hand,” but merely as an
external restraint) keeping me down,
and this was the last stra'„ that made me
give in, tiic- last thing /smell, sound,
sight or touch) I remembered outside my
own body. Instantly I was seized and
overwhelmed by the panic inside. I
could feel every air cell struggling spas
modically against an awful pre-ssure. In
their struggle they seemed to tear away
from one another in all directions,
and there was universal racking tor
ture, while meantime the common foe, iu
the shape of this iron pressure, kept set
tling down with more and more irresisti
ble might into every nook ant}» cruer of
the scere. l}y vOusciouSness was n°w
about this: 1 Was not aware of anything
but an isolated scene of torture, pervaded
by a hitherto unknown sense of terror
(and by what I have since learned is lull
ed “the unity of consciousness’'—this
never desertca the scene, even down to
the very last inaudible heart beat). Y'et
I call it a “scene,” because I recognized
some different parts of my body, and
felt that the pain in one part wns yet ti*e
seme as that i M another. Meanwhile,
along with the increased intensity of con
vulsion in my lungs, an element of noise
had sprung up. A chaotic roaring ran
through my brain, innumerable drums
began to beat far iasijo my ear, till the
contusion suddenly came to a monstrous
thudding, every thud of which wounded
me like a club falling repeatedly on the
same spot.
Shot For a Bear,
A party of four from New Y T ork city
have l>een gunning near Hunter's Range,
I*a., for a week, making their headquar
ters in tliat place. After dinner on Fri
day James Myers and Henry Burke, with
their other two companions, started out.
The two named separated from the
others, going in a northwesteily direc
tion. Tney were to join each othyr again
at five o’clock at a point two miles from
town. I^urke anti Myers met with good
success, lmving bagged twenty five
phea'-ants and many squirrels. Looking
at their watches, they saw it was
four o’clock, and in order to
reach the meeting point at five it
was necessary to immediately re
turn. While hunti-^g «n their way
back, Burke separated from Myers and
soon was out of sight and hearing of
him. I le hallooed, but no response camy f
He discharged his gun, but 77^ r( T
suit—nothing but uie echo of the report.
He then (ook what he thought to ue near
ly a direct coun c to the range and started
cn. llaying proceeded a short distance
lie came to a swamp, among the bushes
of which he 6aw a black movable object,
which he took to be a bear. He reload
od his gun with buckshot, and taking de
liberate aim fired. He heard faint rnoan-
ings, which he recognized as human, and
hastened to the spot. He found Myers,
his clothing stained with blood. Part of
the charge had entered his side near the
heart. The wounded man was placed
carefully upon a bed of leaves, when
Burke smarted for the range for assist
ance. On his return with help the
wounded man could not speak, but by
gesticulations them to understand
tbpt ho desired to be taken home. He
was carried to the nearest house. A
physician pronounced the injuries fatal.
A gentleman look the following tele
gram tc a telegraph office; “I announee
With grief the death of Uncle James.
Come quickly to read the will. I be
lieve we are the heirs. John Black.”
The clerk, having counted the words,
said: “There are two words too many,
sir.” “All right; cut out with grief.’"
yOfiy thousand Lombard peasants
have been attacked by pellegra, a malady
which, beginning with the skin, impairs
the digestion and nervous system,
liecomes fatal. It is prcducv*! by the
habitual consv,nipnoa of flour made from
4am«qjed maize aud by overwork, un-
cleanlmess and unhealthy dwellings.
Edward Ward whipped y* wife so
outrageously in Charlevoix, Mich., that
his neighbor* tarred and feathered him;
but the wife removed the tar and feathers
from him. bound up his -wounds, and
accompanied him in his miffrntUm horn
the county.
An old lawyer says that whenever a
witness under cross-examination takes to
frequent spitting he is lying, and takes
to expectoration just to gain time to think.
Otherwise witnesses rarely 6pit while
giving testimony.
Wtlwaukee \t~i*consin, 7th in»t.
A remarkable incident occurred dur
ing the run of the express train over the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail
way, 3ue here from Chicago at twelve
o’clock last night.. Among the passen
gers was a lady named Dixon, with a
family of eight children, seven boys and
one girl, the eldest cf the former being
fourteen years. As the train sped to
ward Wilwaukec the children one by
one dropped asleep. The train passed
Lake station and was flying over the
rails at the rate of fully thirty miles an
hour when ihe mother missed her eldest
boy and caught a glimpse of his slender
form as it passed through anu out Upon
the platform. She hurried after him,
but before sfie could reach the
platform he was gone. He had
stepped off the car amf plunged into the
abyss of darkness that shrouded the
train and its surroundings. The poor
woman became frantic with grief when
she realized that her idolized son. the
oldest of her interesting flock, had en
countered a danger from which the
chance ot escape from certain duuth was
perhaps but one out Qf one hundred.
The remaining occupants of the car were
also terror-stnckjn io such an extent that
steps wpre instantly taken to find the
conductor with the view of having the
train stopped and backed to the scene of
the accident. By the time this could be
accomplished, however, Milwaukeo was
so close at hand that the cc*ndu< tor con
cluded to makq the depot and send r.
party of yard men to search the track
for me lad. A switch engine was ac
cordingly dispatched, which proceeded
as far as Lake station, where the youth
was found wandering about upon tke
platform in a 01 bewilderment,
rubljim; his eyes and feeling of his shou ■
der ac,d head, which had sustain-d flight
^cratches and bruises. Beyond these not
the slightest injury could be discovered.
The lad could give no account of his
si ngular action. He knew only that he
had fallen asleep in the car with his
brothers and sister and wfts awakened bv
the shock of strikitur the earth upon his
shoulders. Tlra violence of the concus
sion caused him to roll over and over
down the slight embankment of the road
bed. and by the time he could collect his
scattered senses and regain his feet
the train was out of sight. Not
knowing which way to proceed, Le
wandered, along the track at random, and
sclja reached the platform of Lake sta
tion^ where be hail concluded to remain
until c lay break. when tiie rescuing party
came up The joy of the mother on
tiuuuig her boy safe and 8/*und can better
be imagined than described. He had
passed through a terrible ordeal in a
romnambulistic state, and escaped with
out a sprain or fracture, and no discom
fort beyond that occasioned by a few
scratches and bruises. Dixon is en
route from Montreal to Manitoba, in the
British po^-e^ions. where her husliand
is $t present engaged as a contractor.
She remained in the city until this after
noon, when the journey to the new b»>iue
in the far Northwest was resumed. The
story of the wondexful escape spread like
wild fire on the south side, and resulted
iq 4u**rn£ the mother and her family
objects of interest during their stay.
BLACK CACHMXRES
I PIECES, all wool—‘^yiien we say all wool,
we don't mean cotton and wool"—at 50c.
13 pieces all wool BLACK CACHMIRE at 60c.,
75c.. SOc., good value at $1 CO.
BLACK CACHMIRE, 4fi inches wide. Job lot
to close eonsismment. Finest frootis ever
offered in Savannah, $1 00 to $1 25.
BLACK TAMISE and HENRIETTAS, “Lupin’*’
make
BLACK MATTLASSE, 3-4 and 6-1, French
Novelties.
BLACK AUSTRALIAN CREPE CLOTHS,
40 in.. 35c. and 40c.. cheap at 73c.
BLACK BlARITZ. all wool, never wears out,
n*-ver changes color, at 75c., worth $1 S5.
BLACK BKILLIANTINES and PURE MO
HAIRS, very hhrh lustre, 40c. and 50c.,
formerly at 75c. to S5c.
BLACK A LPACA, the best 30c. poods in ihe
world, cheap at 43c.
GENTS' 3-4 LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS, 25c.,
worth 50c., a Gig drive.
(TENTS ENGLISH HALF HOSE, full regular,
25c., worth 40c.
snSSEH’ BLEACHED and UNBLEACHED
HOSE, greatest drive of the season.
200 doz n sizes, 6 in. to 8 in., at 12Uc. a pair.
coat 35c. to import.
Great job Misses' solid colored HOSE Enelial*.
25c.. worth 50c. .,
LADIES BaLBRIGGAN (No. 8 only) at $4 50
per dozen, worth S» 00.
We challenge the world and balance of man
kind ou our LADlfcS’ MERINO VE&TS at
H>c. and 75c.: GENTS’ 73c and SI 00
MERINO VESTS valued at $1 25 to f I SO.
Id pieees BLEACHED BARN ESLY DAMASK,
at 31 00. We guarantee better than any
thing ever offered at $1 50.
100 dozen NAPKINS, at 75c., cheap at f 1 00.
300 dozen BUCK LINEN TOWELS, at ft* 25
and $2 30. valued at 53.
* ou - 5110
“CACHMIRE LOUVRF. 53 00 and $3 50, chal
lenge comparison with a nr sLk purchased
in New lorfc at 53 00 to $6 00.
Ti e entire stock of a manufacturer at 30c on
wr n * LANVNS > WOOLEN
handsomely trimmed. Misse*
SKIKTS Uld CLOAK ^ Ladi*** WALKING
-J) pieces all wool BLACK TAMISE, (Out at
Kood value at $1 00.
OKAY A O BRIEN.
stores, &r.
ilOt’kl.VS,
Watrbis, &r.
KRIEGER & TANQUEREY,
PRACTICAL
WATCHMAKERS ANU JEWELERS,
NO. W7 CONGRESS STREET.
Pkasure to announce to my friends
and the public nerierally that I have come
oaclt to Savannah with a flue stock of Watches,
Clocks, Jewelry, lie Litre,ns Articles, on Paine
inks, etc,, at prices which will defy competi-
if >n - li ,D arn W *hto formed a partnership Snth
Mr. Krieger, the well known watchmaker of
mo„r i? r ne W ^jr mdj, 2. d0 of work
in our line, and warranted to give aatis/action
to every one. at prices to suit the times.
. Safi'S? "**!•« ,rum you the same patron-
*K e of past. I remain yours,
a. fAN^UEHEY.
NO. 107 BROUGHTON STREET.
SAVANNAH, GEOHGIA,
has on hand a large
of
ASSORTMENT
PARLOR, OFFICE
HAKDW.IKK, CITLEBT, Elr.
manufacturer of
I; IN WARE!
Pkrties in want or anythin* in my line win
flhd a to their interest to examine my nock
^^pnn-hasjn*. seplktf
Satltjad ^ftrfduifs.
Coast Line Railroad.
SUHEDW,E FOR OCTOBER.
WSd e!ty daily., 7:15
f-tveThunrierhoft an^ T*
*«* Uw 10:»
o'tKt 4 * 1 Iu e 1 ' ti *aat car leaves city at 8:15
f^ CaTS ,eaT * «ty 8:30 a. m. 10:35
noon from 3 un hour £ ’ aftS
bolt 7:00 n * L? ? ock - Thunder-
bolt and Scimetaen LeJl ''o Thunder-
and every Rat*,- e. it,
3:30 untiiT:S)o'c£ct UO ncti? J rom -
ED'V. J THOMAS, '
General Area*.
Jrittitto.
JOHN NICOLSON,
Ga« uud Steam Fitter
acv3&-tf m£)rOT ®Sicnta at the sborteat eotioa