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Savannah. Ga.
Georgia Affairs.
^ Are occurred in the Ciiy Cemetery in
Columbus, Tuesday afternoon, and some
f the outside fencing, together with the
paling* around several of the lots, were
destroy f
P<
Two ladies who were in that
of the cemetery in which the fire
j burning were so pressed by the flames,
that they with difficulty avoided being
burnt. Says the Times: “It is not to be
supposed that anybody intentionally set fire
to anything in our cemetery, but some care
less handling of matches was the cause of
It ami those who smoke and carry matches
t cigars and pipes will see from this
iportance of greater care in the fu-
There is now much dead grass and
highly inflammable material about
portions of the main enclosure, and
airly under way would scarcely be
Id before it had done much ugly
to llg
the h
ture.
Bisln
raised t»
George F. Pierce is recovering
>vere and protracted illness.
- has the measles pretty generally,
ivington .Sfur, In order to be in time
pring advice, advises its farmers to
ro corn and less cotton this year
before. It says : “ The man who
» much corn aud meat at home died
just before the war. There is no danger
from raising too much of these things now.”
'lhe Erntimj Xacs is of the opinion that
the bottom round of the business ladder in
Augusta has been reached; the crisis has
passed, and nothing is left now but an up
ward tendency. In other words, the busi
ness prospects for that goodly city are most
favorable.
According to the Augusta Evening Sentinel,
it has been a great many years since Georgia
had an opportunity to cut and store natural
ice, and she looks forward to natural mint
juleps with a smack to her lips.
The New York Herald says - “Several ex-
rebel soldiers say that Grant can carry Geor
gia, Florida, Louisiana and both the Caro-
linas in 1*SJ if Tom Settle, of North Caro
lina, is on the ticket with him. They have
agrowing respect for Grant.” No doubt
that (Tom i Settles it. But who is Tom Set
tle, anyhow ?
Pointer dogs sell at Eiberton for ten dol-
The Americus Republican is sorely’ puz
zled. It says: “Two men in Ferry county
married each other’s daughters. Now, how
are they related V Well, as nearly as we can
make it they are each other’s father-in-law;
hence each other’s son-in-law ; and their
wives are each other’s stepdaughter; hence
each other's stepmother. If any of our
readers can discover any other relationship
existing between them we would like to hear
from them.”
Numerous Georgians misled by roseate
reports of life in Texas, and induced there
by to emigrate, arc returning home dis
gusted and disconsolate.
The J topic's Champion is the name of a new
paper just started at Madison, Ga., John
F. Shecut, editor. It is an eight-page
weekly. It congratulates Itself with pos
sessing the prettiest newspaper head in
Georgia, and promises to do its best to win
success. It will favor the Independents.
A8tate exchange facetiously calls Will-
helm j, the great violinist, Billj.
Home Courier : “The Radicals are hop
ing that the Georgia Democracy will divide
on the question as to whether Hill or Mur
phy is entitled to the fee from the Atlanta
Kolling Mill. They may do so, and may
have warm words, but when it comes to
voting they will vote the Democratic ticket,
straight.”
Cumming Baptist Banner : “There is more
sickness among the adults of this vicinity
thau we have known to exist for the same
length of time in the four or five years we
resided in Cumming—principally
have
pneumonia, with a typhoid tendency.”
Eiberton Gazette: “Mr. Abner Webb, on
’aw way out of Eiberton late last Monday
evening, sat down on the railroad track
about a mile above town and went to sleep.
A hand car coining down the road after
night ran against him, and striking him on
the head, cut an ugly and painful wound
thereon. This is the version the car hands
give of the affair, adding that they saw the
man before they got to him, but were un
able to take up. Mr. Webb thinks there
was foul play, and that he was struck on the
head with a stick aud was robbed of his
money. He had several dollars about his
person, however, and he only missed one
dollar and sixty cents. lie was brought to
town, w here he received medical attention,
aud at last accounts he was doing very
well.”
On the subject of the guano difficulty now
raging between the dealers and the plant
ers, the Griffin Xt-ics says: “We see from
our exchanges that considerable difference
exists between the guano dealers and the
planters of Georgia as to what shall be the
price this season for fertilizers. The seller
claims that he does not get enough owing to
the low price of cotton (and the cotton op
tions, almost the only way that guano is now
sold) to pay even a small interest on his in
vestment, while the former, owing too to
the low price of cotton, sajs he
■cannot afford to pay more because
<»f the low' price of the same staple.
Me would suggest that the seller and
buyer come to some understanding with
♦*ach other to regulate the matter, rather
than what is now being done in certain sec
tions—the merchants meeting as a body aud
raying they will make no concessions, and
the planters of the same section in public
meetings declaring they will not agree to
any advance. Such a suicidal policy never
benefits any one. four interests are one
and the same. So harmonize aud settle
your troubles without injury to either
party.”
Americus Republican : “Charles Harris, a
■colored man, was up before Ills Honor for
some case of misdemeanor, and not being
-ready fur trial was sent to jail. Not liking
Zo ‘Pave his family unprotected and his farm
unattended, he applied to Mr. Wheeler, the
Wor, for permission to go to his work—
pledging his word that he would be at court
reav. i ' r / or tr * a -- Mr. Wheeler kindly con
sented Carles went on his way rejoic-
ing. \\ L eourt met winter had 6et in
pretty gev ' T *# *ud Charles was in Dooly
county He and got to Flint river,
and Yo ’ it w ** so swollen by
*ke vast amount e h fallen in
Pilous rains that ^ /°. De
and no way to cross .^, e
“4 Jown the banl hut . “Ted
“"Id not. The winter ^red
ground him and the muddy wa. ^
°?* Ile hac * no time t0 lose *
mlptetad his word to his kind jaile. ’
e should not suffer if he allowed him *.
go and take care of his farm; so withou*.
lon S er he pulled off his clothlug,
pu them in a bundle and then on top of
5 head, and plunged into the chilling
aters. With 6trong arms and determined
".m, ue was soon over in Sumter, and made
ms way to the court house with all speed,
ue stepped into the door of the court room
J 8 h* s case was called, and defended by the
gallant Allen Fort, was acquitted. These
ar, -‘ facts from Colonel Fort himself, and
“peak well of the integrity of Charles.”
Jf Duffle Journal: “The first and only in-
muent within the scope of our editorial ex
perience which we confess our inability to
describe, occurred in Thomson on last Thurs-
Qay night. The 6cene was simply indescrib-
?i * e , and to those not present it is impossi
ble to convey an idea of the amusement and
“Proarious fun which ii occasioned. Here
•jethe leading facts: David Wilson, called
Dave because he is short, is a virgin youth
about nineteen, has a mouth like a
borse trough, a pair of legs like the clamp
fl ooks of a carry-log, and is built wrong
end up—that is, we judge eo, because
motive power of his anatomy is not
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
in his head. Seyeral weeks ago, while
peeping through a crack of the fence
into the back yard, he accidentally fell in
love with Miss Matilda Butler, and pro
ceeded to harrass and worry her until she
agreed to marry him on the evening above
mentioned. \V hen the hour arrived and
Dave stepped out on the street to be led to
the altar, his appearance was simply gor
geous. His attendants, however, marched
hi in to the residence of the bride, placed
her arm in his, countermarched to the
front porch on the street, and there, in the
presence of about three hundred specta
tors, they were ‘hitched.’ Prof. Fulton
tied the hymeneal knot and bit off the
thread—and he did it well. His deep,
sepulchral voice sounded out on the
night air like a phthisicky bull with
his head in a flour barrel. Congratulations
were profuse and happiness reigned supreme
until a late hour, when suddenly Dave
rushed in among the company, with tears in
his eyes and his clamp-hooks in a tangle,
and yelled, ‘Dat ar gal’s done run away !’
Then he tried to escape himself, but was
captured and secured. He is in a terrible
pucker. Everybody he meets asks about
his wife. By way of reply, the comers of
his mouth make frantic efforts to collide at
the back of his head, and the tail end of his
last meal becomes visible—but his voice is
no more. We learn to-day that David has
appealed to the strong arm of the law, and
proposes to force Miss Matilda to terms by
the writ of ‘uxor cum snatchibus.’ ”
Atlanta Constitution : “Mr. Watterson, in
his lecture Monday night, paid a very high
compliment to the humor in ‘Major Jones’
Courtship,’ written years ago by Colonel W.
T. Thompson, of the Savanuab News. Ue
might have gone further and said that it is
the only purely pastoral love story ever writ
ten by an American, and is perhaps the only
book of American humor that will outlive
the present.”
The Vacancy in the Forty-fifth Con
gress.
McDuffie Journal.
Col. W. T. Thompson.—The ileath of
Mr. Hartridge creates a vacancy in the
Georgia delegation in Congress, to fiil
which the Governor has already ordered
an election. A number of the leading
papers of the State, appreciating the
character and abilities of Hon. W. T.
Thompson, of the Savannah News, are
urging him as a suitable successor to the
lamented Hartridge. To this we give a
hearty approval. No man in the State
has been more faithful and unswerving in
his devotion to true Democratic princi
ples than he. For many years he has
freely given his time, talents and ener
gies to upholding and promoting the
best interests of the South, and defend
ing her people against the wrongs aud
oppressions of her enemies. The voters
of the First district owe it to Colonel
Thompson, to themselves and to the en
tire State to manifest their recognition
and appreciation of his many and valua
ble services by sending him to Congress
without opposition.
Thomasville Enterprise.
Col. W. T. Thompson.—The press of
the State, with singular unanimity', are
agreed that Colonel Thompson deserves
to be elected to fill the unexpired terra
of Mr. Hartridge as a compliment to him
for services rendered the party’. We
cordially unite with our brethren in this
view and only regret that the gentleman
cannot receive a reward more propor
tionate to his services.
Cochran Observer.
The Governor has ordered an election
in the First Congressional district to fill
the place of the late Representative,
Hon. Julian Hartridge, and the Telegraph
and Messenger suggests that “the nomi
nation and election of Col. W. T. Thomp
son, the veteran journalist, author and
patriot, would be eminently r satisfactory
to the people of the entire State.”
We think the suggestion a good one,
and think the people of the First could
make no better nor wiser choice.
Griffin Sun.
The Macon Telegraph suggests Colonel
W. T. Thompson as a suitable gentleman
to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Julian
Hartridge, deceased. It would be well
did our legislative bodies contain more
gentlemen of Col. Thompson’s ability
and experience instead of so many mere
stump orators.
Sandersville Herald.
A Merited Honor.—The veteran
journalist, Colonel W. T. Thompson, of
that model paper, the Savannah Morn
ing News, whose trenchant pen has done
much valiant service in the cause of the
Democracy, is strongly urged as the suc
cessor of Hon. Julian Hartridge in Con
gress from the First district. The sug
gestion is eminently judicious, and we
feel sure that the State w’ould have in
Colonel Thompson a representative for
w'hom she would not blush, and in whose
hands her interests would be faithfully
guarded.
Waynesboro Herald.
Several of our exchanges nominato
Colonel W. T. Thompson as successor
to Mr. Hartridge. The. veterau jour
nalist is in every way competent to the
position, and it would be a most fitting
recognition of his arduous and manly
service for the party. The committee
met in Savannah yesterday. We have
not yet learned what is the plan they pro
pose.
Waynesboro Expositor.
Col. W. T. Thompson, of Savannah,
seems to be the coming man for Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Hon. Julian Hartridge.
Charleston (S. C.) Evening Journal.
Georgia in Congress.—The Georgia
State press is endorsing Colonel W. T.
Thompson, the editor of the Savannah
News, as a fit successor of that brilliant
man. the late Julian Hartridge. The
Savannah Recorder protests against the
nomination, because, in its judgment,
the honor would be empty, which would
entail about a week's service. Be it
so. Send the Colonel to Congress, if
only for one day. He may arrive in the
nick of time, and by the instant applica
tion of his sound judgment, to some
measure, do the great State he will so
worthily represent a substantial and per
manent good. Then it will (to be a little
jocose) enable tile Colonel to drop his
military title, and hereafter be known by
a prefix more in keeping with his brains
and his general worth. Colonels are too
numerous these days to be distinctive
titles.
Arrest of Noted Counterfeiters.
Henry C. Cole and Charles Ulrich, to
whom are traced the counterfeits upon
the Central National Bank of New York,
the Third National Bank of Buffalo and
the national hanks of Tamaqua and Han
over, Fa., and also some other success
ful counterfeits, have been arrested by
the United States Secret Service officers.
Ulrich was “shadowed” for some time,
and was arrested on November 30, 1878.
He was kept quietly in his house under
constant surveillance until the officers,
who were also in search of Cole, had
secured sufficient evidence to establish
the latter's guiit. Cole was arrested on
Friday night, and both ttie accused were
then taken before a United States Com
missioner in Jersey city, and in default
of bail were sent to prison.
Charles Ulrich is one of the most ex
pert engravers in the world. In August,
1870, he was pardoned out of the Ohio
State Penitentiary, where he had been
frying a sentence of ten years for en
graving and printing a §100 note on the
^'irst National Bank of Boston, Mass. He
4 . Columbus, Ohio, in the autumn of
ii t ve .' r » after having been engaged in
iuo lLitim't® business of engraving for a
If™ aRd went to Philadelphia.
by Henry C Cole
a well known and notorious counterfeit
er to resume counterfeiting. The two
got out spurious notes on the Central Na
tional Bank of New ’»orit -?
1876 which were disposed ot to tne ex
tent of $100,000. They also put M cir
culation counterfeits on the Third Na
tional Bank of Buffalo and the national
banks of Tamaqua aud Ha° 0 J<m They
are believed to he responsible also for the
many counterfeit bonds and notes so ex
tensively circulated jn Germany and
brought to this country last summer by
emigrants. Cole formerly lived ip¥«
York, and while there was connected
with the bond forgeries of Roberts and
Gleason.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Proceedings of the Potter Committee.
THE IHUKDERED CHEYENNES.
Lome and Louise at Niagara.
Severe Cold in Great Britain.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, January 23.—Messrs. Win-
dom, Allison and Withers were appointed
a conference committee on the part of the
Senate on the Indian appropriation bill.
Mr. Matthews, of Ohio, introduced a bill
to grant to the American Ocean Cable and
Telegraph Land Wire Association of Phila
delphia tne right of way and privilege to
lay land and operate submarine telegraph
cables on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of
the United States, and to establish tele
graphic communication between the United
States, Europe and Asia. Referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, from the
Conference Committse on the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill, submitted a
report which was agreed to and the bill
passed. It now goes to the President for
signature.
In explanation of the report Mr. Windom
said the amendments of the Senate were all
agreed to in conference, with the amend
ments striking out the appropriation of
$20,000 for Charges D’Affaires ad interim
aud diplomatic officers abroad, aud $20,000
for the diplomatic and consular service, to
be expended in the discretion of the Presi
dent. The total amount appropriated by
the bill as passed is $1,087,835, or $10,200
more than the bill for the present fiscal
year.
A bill for taking the tenth census was re
ported, and will be called for consideration
Tuesday next.
A favorable report was submitted from
the Committee on Education and Labor on
the bill to promote the education of the
blind. It appropriates $250,000 as a per
petual fund to aid in the education of the
blind in the United States through the
American Printing House for the Bliud.
The bill to amend the patent laws was
resumed, the pending question being on the
motion of Mr. Edmunds, submitted yester
day, to lay it aside and take up the resolu
tions declaring the validity of the 13th, 14th
and 15th amendments to the Constitution.
Mr. Edmunds said he found by a vote of
the Senate last night that a majority was
averse to considering his resolutions. It
was useless to waste the time of the Senate,
and, therefore, he withdrew hi6 motion to
take them up.
The Senate then considered and subse
quently passed the bill to amend the patent
laws.
The army reorganization bill will come up
to-morrow.
The House has agreed to a conference re
port on the consular and diplomatic appro
priation bill. It leaves the bill almost
Identical with the law of last session.
The post office appropriation bill has been
reported from the Committee on Appropria
tions.
The bill was discussed at considerable
length, being earnestly supported by Goode
of Virginia, Bell of Georgia, Luring of
Massachusetts, Monroe of Ohio, Cain of
South Carolina, and others, and opposed by
Bunnell, Patterson, Southard aud Towns
end. No action was taken. The House is
in session to-night on the bill to regulate
postage on third class mail matter.
The House is in committee of the whole
on the bill to apply the proceeds of sales of
public lands to the education of the people.
THE POTTER COMMITTEE.
Washington, January 23.—Immediately
upon the assembling of the Potter Commit
tee, Mr. Butler rose to a personal explana
tion and read a statement from the Wash
ington ibsf to the effect that the cipher dis
patches were in his possession all of last
summer, and that at one time he missed
them from his desk. lie said if he made a
statement such as that, he must have been
drunk or insane. [Laughter]. On the con
trary, what he did say was to show the im
possibility that the dispatches printed in the
Tribune came from him, and in this state
ment he was borne out by another member
of the committee.
Mr. Hiscock—Yes; I had good reason to
believe that the telegrams were copies, for
the Tribune had published them before they
came into your hands.
THE VICE-REGAL VISIT TO NIAGARA FALLS.
Niagara Falls, January 23.—The vice
regal party spent yesterday visiting the
scenery about the falls. At Luna Island
Her Royal Highness set foot on American
soil for the first time. The party then went
to Prospect Park, which was beautifully
decorated with flags and arches, and
descended the inclined plane to the ice
mound below the American falls. They
then crossed on the ice bridge to the Canada
side.
THE NEW CALEDONIA IN9URGENTB.
Paris, January 23.—A telegram ‘from
the Governor of the French colony of
New Caledonia says the movable columns
of troops had cooped up the insurgents on
the shore of Cape Goulvair, whom they
captured after a warm engagement, in
which a sub-Lieutenant and a private were
killed.
INDIANS KILLED.
Fort Robinson, January 23.—Later news
from the field states that only nine Chey
ennes, all of them wounded, were captured.
The balauce of the party (twenty-three in
number) were killed. Seventeen are still
unaccounted for. It is supposed that some
are dead from their wounds and the others
have escaped.
COLD WEATHER IN GREAT BRITAIN.
London, Jauuary 23.—Severe cold weath
er prevails, and much suffering and desti
tution is reported in all parts of Great
Britain.
EMBARKED FOR INDIA.
Marseilles, January 23.—Ex-President
Grant aud family embarked to-day on board
the French mail steamer Labour Donnais for
India.
EVENING TELEGRAMS
THE ELBE BLOCKED WITH ICE.
A Suspicious Steamer on the If isrli
Seas.
THE BIIEA TUITT CO UNTY TllO V
BLES.
The Libel Suit Against the New Y'ork
“ Times.”
GRAND LODGE OF B’NAI BRITH.
Washington and General Notes.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, January 23.—Mr. Hayes has
nominated Joseph H. Gloss to be Lnited
Slates Marshal for Alabama.
The Senate Committee on post offices and
post roads authorized their Chairman to
oiler as amendments to the post office bill
all the postal legislation which was added
to the post route bill by the Senate last ses
sion, except the Brazilian subsidy clauses.
These legislative provisions relate to the
classification of mail matter, compensation
of railroads and the franking privilege.
The Senate confirmed the following nomi
nations for Postmasters: North Carolina—
J. I). White, Greensborough; Wiley A.
Walker, Winston. South Carolina—James
H. Goss, Union Court House; Alonzo Web
ster, Orangeburg; R. W. Boone, Newberry
Court House. Georgia—Frederick Ball,
LaGrange. Alabama—Mrs. M. E. Hen
ry, Decatur. Mississippi—Robert Stew
art, Macon; John B. Drason,
Brookhaven; Frank M. Goar, Topelo. Texas
—C. B. Sabin, Galveston; A. G. Wilcox,
Rockdale; August B. Palm, Round Rock:
Chas. H. Clifford, Hearn: Chas. Kieicken-
barger, Bonham; A. B. Norton, Dallas.
THE BREATHITT COUNTY TROUBLES—RAIL
ROAD ACCIDENT.
Cincinnati, January 23.—Governor Mc
Creary has ordered the return of the cav
alry company sent to Breathitt county.
They accomplished the arrest of William
Fletcher, who murdered Judge Barnett.
A freight train on the Detroit, Lansing
and Northern Railroad was ditched near
Detroit, killing Charles Reed, a brakenian,
and breaking the ribs of the conductor,
Richard Bare. A broken rail caused the
accident. -
rise in rentes.
Paris, January 23.—Rentes rose In price
to-day upon the rumor that an interpella
tion would be addressed to Leon Say.
Minister of Finance in the Chamber of
Deputies, in regard to the conversion of
the five per .Tent, rentes, and that he would
reply that he considered such conversion
inopportune in prpseat clrcinstances,
GRAND LODGE B’NAI BRITH.
Baltimore, January 23.—The Fifth Dis
trict Grand Lodge of B’nai Brith elected
the following officers for the year ensuing:
President, David S. Stern of Baltimore;
First Vice President, Nathaniel Levin of
Charleston, S. C.; Second Vice President,
J. L Macks of Washington, D. C.; Secre
tary, Dr. S. B. Wolfe of Baltimore; Treas
urer, Aaron Goodman of Baltimore; Ser-
geant-at-Arms, Max Cohen of Washington,
D. C.
William Lovenstein, of Richmond, Va.,
J. M. Solomons, of Savannah, Ga., and J.
J. Macks, of Wilmington, N. C., were
elected to fill vacancies in the Board of
Control of the Orphan Asylum fund. Dele
gates to this District Convention will be
delegates to the Constitutional or General
Grand Lodge of the order, which will meet
in Philadelphia next week.
ICE IN THE ELBE—A SUSPICIOUS AFFAIR AT
SEA.
London, January 23.—A Lloyds dispatch
from Antwerp, dated yesterday, says the ice
in the roads and river has considerably in
creased since yesterday. A boat coming in
was capsized and eight men were drowned.
A dispatch to Lloyds from Heligoland dated
to-day says the Elbe is blocked with ice and
steamers are unable to force an entrance.
The Captain of a ship recently arrived at
Queenstown writes to Lloyds that he
saw, fifty miles west of Fastnet, on the 16th
instant, a steamer alongside of a burning
wreck. The steamer ordered him to keep
on his course aud say nothing about the
affair under the penalty of being also
burned. The steamer had not the appear-
auce of being a merchantman or mau-of-
war. She had 150 or 200 men on board, ap
parently English.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Obsbrtbb
Washington, D. C., Jauuary 23.—Indica
tions for F riday :
In the South Atlantic States, westeily
winds, shifting to northerly and easterly,
rising barometer, lower temperature anc,
partly cloudy weather, with local rains in
the northern portions, followed by clearing
weather.
In the Gulf States, Tennessee and the Ohio
valley, partly cloudy weather, northerly
winds shifting to easterly and southerly, and
during Friday falling barometer and rising
temperature.
In the Middle States, a slight fall, follow
ed by rising temperature, rising followed by
falling barometer and partly cloudy wea
ther, northerly to westerly winds during the
night, and variable winds during Friday.
THE BULGARIAN GOVERNORSHIP.
Tirnova, January 23.—While Prince
Alexander of Battenberg is ,the choice of
the younger members of the Bulgarian As
sembly which is to elect a ruler for Bui
garia, the older leaders favor Prince Henri
of Reuss, formerly German Ambassador to
Constantinople.
COLONEL KEITT’S LIBEL SUIT.
New' York, January 23.—In the trial of
Colonel Keitt’s suit for libel against the
New York Times to-day, Mr. Choate, for the
defense, contended that the article did not
refer to the plaintiff, but to one Thomas
Keitt, also known as Colonel Keitt.
LETTER FROM COYLE DOUGLAS.
Flood and Ice—Flow In the Ohio
Damages to River Craft—Disagree
able Effects of the Cold Snap— .tils*
Vlarv Anderson Creates a Theatri
cal Furore-Louisville Clubs—The
Dramatic Clubs — The Cooking
Club and the Pedestrian Club—Geo,
Francis Train’s Courtship.
BUTLER AND DAVIS.
Ben Tells H r hv He Voted Fifty-Seven
Times lor the Confederate Presi
dent.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Tlic following letter was received a few
days ago by a gentleman of this city
Boston, Mass., January.’>, 1870.—Bear
Sir: I do not know as 1 ought to write
you to decide a bet, because you ought
not to bet. But to set you light in
matter of history in which you seem to
be interested, allow me to say that in the
Democratic Convention at Charleston
South Carolina, in the year 1800, I voted
fifty seven times, as 1 remember it, for
Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, after
ward President of the Confederate States,
as candidate for the Democratic party for
President. He was not before the conven
tion as a candidate, for my vo’e and that
of one of my colleagues were the only
ones he had. I believed him to be a re
presentative man of the South, and sub
sequent events have shown that I was
right* Aud 1 believed theD, and I be
lieve now, that if he could have been
nominated for President and elected, the
war would have been saved and the at
tempted disunion prevented, for he would
have been chosen to be President over
thirty-two States rather than fifteen, and
my experience has been that the North
always got more consideration on ques
tions of human liberty from a Southern
statesman as President before the war
than it did from a Northern doughface,
and that remains true down to the present
time. Benj. F. Butler.
A Death Unparalleled.
Hartford Times.
It has fallen to the lot of a man in In
diana to die from a cause that is in all
probability unparalleled in the history of
the human race. One Leonidas Grover,
a man who had lost his wife and lived
with his married daughter, near Newton,
in Fountain county, has been killed by a
meteor. lie was left alone at home while
the daughter and her husband went out
on a visit, staying somewhat late at
night, and when they returned Mr. Gro
ver was supposed to be asleep in his bed
up stairs, aud was not disturbed. But
in the morning he was found to be dead
on Ills bed, with his body crushed aud
torn through, and a hole torn through
the bed and floors, down into the ground
beneath the house, where a bloody
meteoric stone was found, weighing
twenty-five pounds. A ragged hole
through the roof showed the place where
the stone had descended. It had evi
dently descended while Mr. Grover was
asleep, in the evening, while his daughter
and her husband were absent, for they
would have heard the crash, had they
been at home. If one considers the
mathematical probabilities of such an
occurrence taking place, he will find tha
by the law of chances there are millions
on millions against one that it will never
happen. In the first place, not
one meteoric stone in a million
probably ever reaches the earth, out
of all thatjare draw’n within the earth’3 at
traction; they are set on fire and de
stroyed by the friction of the atmosphere,
which grows denser as the stone comes
nearer—while the increasing velocity of
the meteor, as it plunges nearer to the
surface, increases the friction in the in
creasingly dense atmosphere, and, of
course, the combustion of the flyinj
body is correspondingly increased. 1
disappears suddenly in nothing, while
yet it is miles above the surface, and
descends in an imperceptible and
impalpable dust. But this does not
exhaust the sum. Compared with
the uninhabited surface of the globe,
the parts that are peopled are so
exceedingly small as to render the
chances of such a catastrophe as this one
which has happened in Indiana extreme
ly few and remote. But when both of
these conditions are united—the small
number of the meteors which reach the
earth and the remote chance that the few
that do reach it will ever hit a human
beiDg—the ctvse that has at last actually
happened, is seen to have been one that
has probably never happened before, and
never will happen again.
The Irish Language.—The Irish in
America do not only preserve the memo
ry of their old country in the warmest
spot in their warm hearts. They are do
ing much towards keeping up the ancient
Irish language also, not with a view to
speaking it, but of gaiuingacquaintance
with ana preserving the literature of their
country. Some months ago we noticed
the formation in New Y’ork of an affili
ated society to the Dublin Society for the
study of Gaelic. We now see, from the
annual report of that Dublin Gaelic So
ciety, that the study of the ancient Irish
tongue has been taken up with enthusi
asm on both sides of the Atlantic, and
great progress has already been made.
The study has been put by the Commis
sioners of Education in Ireland on the
programme for the national schools, and
it is reported that “thousands” are now
studying Gaelic in this cormtry. The re
port further says that the language is now
receiving the attention of continental sa
vants also. “Distinguished professors in
Berlin, Paris, Leipzig and Copenhagen
are zealously studying the Celtic lan
gujige. The Sanscrit professor in the
University of Berlin is teaching Irish to
German students in that university.”
The Dublin Society numbers over two
hundred members, three hundred associ
ates, and has twenty affiliated associa
tions.— Baltimore Sun,
Special Correspondence of the Morning Xctcs.
Louisville, Ky., January 18.—Our own
“belle Riviere” is and has been for some
days the centre of attraction, the object of
curious and excited observation. All day
long the wharves and river banks swarm
with eager crowds of men, watching the
swollen tide, while the ladies throng into
the Galt House, from the back window of
which there is an unimpeded view ot the
wide sweep of waters, now bearing on
their heaving surface immense floating
islands of ice that plunge madly
downward and dash over the falls, where
they are shivered into fragments by
the whirl of angry w aters. Such a volume
of ice has not been seen in the river since
the memorable winter of 1856, when ad
venturous skaters could skim to Cincinnati
over its frozen bosom.
The memory of the older citizens wan
ders pleasantly amongst the events of pre
vious cold seasons, and the man who can
unfold a tale of tremendous disasters in the
past, of harrowing scenes of flood and de
struction, i9 quite the lion of the hour. A
number of coal barges have gone down,
filling the coal merchant’s heart with exul
tant joy. The loss of these is more to him
than the saving of many, for can he not
proclaim a coal famine in consequence, and
make the price of one bushel answer
for half a dozen ? The bursting of a gorge
eighty miles below us has caused a sudden
fall in the river and a fine
steamer, the W. P. Halliday, lies high and
dry at our wharf. Another, the C. B.
Church, met a massive b€rg while coming
up the river, and is now’ a wreck. But there
is a general calm belief with us that the
backboue is broken and we look for an
early spring. Our streets have been coated
with successive layers cf snow and sleet for
so long that we have become perforce ex
pert gymnasts by long and arduous practice
in getting over them. The present season
has developed a sad increase in profanity.
The old supply haying been tried with every
form of variation and found inadequate,
new series of “cuss-words” has been in
vented, of pecular fervor and depth of
meaning, and it is by no means an infre
quent occurrence to see a pedestrian, limp
ing over the treacherous sidewalks, go down
and bite the dust, as it were, while he sends
off a volley of these expletives, which act
like a soothing balm to bis wounds.
The sensation of the week, jn social and
amusement circles, has beeu* the engage
ment of Mary Anderson at McCauley’s.
Here in her old home an engagement is
always made the occasion of an ovation to
her genius, but this time she excited a per
feet furore. Her houses have been over
flowing every night, and on her benefit
night the theatre was crowded to suffoca
tion, and must have been a gratifying spec
tacle to the young actress. It seems almost
impossible to realize that this self-pos
sessed, handsome woman, flattered and
feted, is the same plain looking girl who a
few years ago lived among us, uncon
sidered and obscure. She was then excep
tionally awkward in appearance, long limb
ed, with an ungainty, limping stride, and
hands and feet in a high state of develop
ment. While at school she was not at all
remarkable for superior scholarship, and her
great talents were unsuspected. Bv-and-by
it began to be whispered, as persons pasajd
ber in the streets, “ that girl is studying for
the stage,” and finally, a little over three
years since, she made her debut at Macau
ley’s Theatre as Juliet. Her success was as
sured from the start, and from that time she
has walked her way under an Arc de Tri-
omphe.
It is wonderful to mark the change for
the better in “Our Mary.” The ungainly
positions, the awkward 6tarts, and the pain
fully evident self-consciousness in moments
of inaction are all gone, and instead we see
a graceful, commanding woman, easy iu
manner, and, seemingly, loving in her char
acter. “Juliet” is the part that seems pe
culiarly her own. To see her impersona
tion of it, as it was this week, is something
never to be forgotten. Miss Anderson'
voice is not the least marvelous thing about
her. It is deep, resonaut and powerful,
something between a base profundo and a
contralto. It is nature’s kindly dower to
the queen of tragedy, but is entirely un
suited to comedy. 8he appeared in the
“Duchess of Torreneuva” one evening, but
while being very rich and brilliant, that
voice, and heavy, sweeping stride, pro
claimed that the queen was out of her
domains. Last evening being her benefit,
the Prentice Club, the most fashion
able of our amateur dramatic asso
ciations, tendered ber a reception at
tbeir rooms after the performance
was concluded. The night was a wretched
one aud hacks at a high premium, but nev
ertheless Macauley’s opened its doors to the
largest audience of the season, made up of
the beauty and fashion of the city. After
the performance, Miss Anderson, followed
by a large portion of her audience, repaired
to the elegant rooms of the club in the Cour
ier-Journal building, which were profusely
decorated with flowers. A band of music
was in attendance for dancing, and the ban
quet was served ou small individual tables
scattered through the rooms. The critic of
the New York Dramatic Xem, usually a
rough customer to deal with, has pronounc
ed Miss Anderson the most beautiful woman
at present on any stage, and she is beautiful,
with a beauty apart from frizzed hair and
pink complexion. The noble face is soft
aud rounded in its outline, but one that will
most likely show sharp angles and hollows
after the first bloom of youth is past. It is
lighted by deep, fine gray eyes aud sur
rounded by dark brown hair. The com
plexion is pale and clear, the features finely
cut, a broad, high brow, and when the pro
file is in relief you are reminded of the face
on a cameo. She appeared last night in a
regal toilette of black velvet and satin and
wore diamond ornaments, and looked, as
she stood in the centre of an admiring, con
gratulating throng, like a stately dame of
high degree stepped down from the frame
of an old picture. Miss Anderson is accom
panied everywhere by her mother and step
father, Dr. Hamilton Griffin, who is a brother
of Hon. G. W. Griffin, United States Consul
to the Samoan Islands. It would not do
at all to slight the aforesaid Dr. II. G. in
speaking of his step-daughter. Indeed,
that young lad^ is in imminent danger of
being absorbed in, swallowed up by, the over-
f lowering doctor. Basking in the reflected
ight of Miss Anderson’s greatness, aud
spending her money royally, he has grown
pompous and consequential, and has ac
quired a glorious strut that is the envy of
all beholders. As her only male chaperon,
he has a chance to see the world while
following in her train, aud is simply having
no end of a good time. Miss Anderson
went to Europe and paid the doctor’s way,
and he presented himself iu company
with his step-daughter to the various
notable persons abroad in whose way they
fell, a happy stroke of luck in his experi
ence that possibly at one time only dawned
upon him in the rose colored visions born of
potations many and deep. In payment for
all this kindness on the part of his charge
he puffs her hugely, tells numberless point
less, slangy stories of her, and succeeds, so
far as in him lies the power, in making her
ridiculous. In fact, Miss Andersen’s well-
wishers are growing clamorous in their
advice to her to provide herself with an
other stepfather.
The old Dickens Club is to be reorganized
with its ancient splendor. Time was, away
back fifteen years ago, when the entertain
ments of this society drew together the
most brilliant audience of the season. No
untoward weather could operate to prevent
crowd, and hack hire reached
fabulous figures. A winter without
entertainment by the club was
like a June without roses. But the
young men and maidens of those days are
now the fathers and mothers of half-grown
families, and the juvenile performers are
the “grown-up” of the present. What
stealthy changes go on around us iu the
flight of fifteen years! But the charades,
ibe exquisite tableaux vicard*, the delightful
extracts from the Diekens novels are to be
jresented tor the favor of new audiences
n all their former glory. The Prentice
Club is another high-toned body. Its rooms
are elegantly fitted up and adorned with
P ictures of its patron saint, Geo. D. Prentice,
t gives one or two dramas during a season,
in which local talent has room to air itself
and bring down thunders of applause and
bouquets.
From the mimic stage to the kitchen is a
sudden step from the ideal to the practical.
Our first Cooking Club was organized by
Miss Edith Harlan before she removed to
Washington, and at once growing popular
became a tree with many branches. But
alas! it has degenerated into a pound-party
affair under another name. The primal ob
ject was that every girl should contribute a
dish literally of her own making, thus teach
ing her the intricacies of a ioDg-neglected art.
The plan worked for one brief, brief hour.
One girl would proudly produce a villainous
compound which the gentlemen would de
vour bravely, paying it compliments which
ought to have stuck in their throats. Another
*would present an india-rubber concoction
called cake, insuring a nightmare of the
most terrific description every night regu
larly for two weeks, and which teemed to
weigh a ton after swallowing. The male
hypocrites ate it, and then congregated to-
§ ether and laughed till the tears came.
f course the other girls laughed at
the unlucky contributors/ as girls will do in
this wicked world, and the consequence
was the improvement in the bill of fare and
the decay of amateur cookery.
Another useful invention is the Pedes
trian Club, which received its impetus from
that nice, kind little thing, the Princess
Louise. Indeed ’Er Royal ’Ighness can’t
imagine how the American girls have
adopted Her Britishisms—her walking
shoes, her, ulster, even her thick short cane.
If she would just give us a call 6he would
be at home with us directly and we would
all feel like twinses. The President of the
club stipulates that each member, under
penalty of a fine, shall wear a hood (only
girls being admitted to the society), and
nothing can be prettier than a pink and
pearly face and blonde “bangs,” under a
blue cashmere hood, surrounded with
swan's down or a pair of saucy, black
eyes blazing under a scarlet one. A failure
to walk on the appointed day Imposes
another flue upon the delinquent, an d fre
quently when the treasury is having a
flush time of it, the tramps, after their
“outing,” bring up at a lady’s restaurant,
and the sinking fund is royally laid out in a
lUHCh.
Ou a dingy back street in our city, that has
a down-hill grade, and has long since been
given over to deserted warehouses and store
rooms, stands a dilapidated residence that
bears the melancholy air of having ouee
seen better days. Tweuty-five years ago it
was a fashionable boarding house, aud from
it George Francis Train took his beautiful
bride one early morning after a somewhat
melodramatic courtship. The young lady, al
ready betrothed to Train, came to Louisville
from somewhere, ami by her great beauty
and vivacity soon became a toast. She is
represented as having a face “divinely fair,”
with big blue eyes and a 6hower of loose
golden curls. Elegant in dress, captivating
in manner, and a finished coquette, she was
always the centre of a throng of admirers
wherever she appeared, and played havoc
with manly hearts. Those things were much
more brittle then than now—a modern wo
man can’t do half the damage of one of
those old time belles. Amongst her lovers
was a cynical young lawyer of this place,
whose boast had always been that no woman
could impress him so as to make him lose a
dinner for her sake. This girl showed him
especial favor, promenaded, danced, went
everywhere with him, until the dignified
man was foolishly infatuated. She represent
ed her father as anxious for the
marriage with Train, which she did
not favor. Finally, Train came up
on the scene, and the two men armed
themselves and sought each other’s gore.
The lady still kept up appearances with the
Louisville lover and walked with him one
Saturday evening, aud at daybreak on Sun
day morning a little chilled aud shivering
group crept into St. Paul’s Church, where
the lady and George Francis were made man
aud wife. Leaving immediately for Boston,
they sailed from thence for Europe in one
of Train’s ships, while the forsaken lover
locked himself in his office, and for three
days gave no token of life. Suicide was
feared, but at last he reappeared and took
up the same old strain of cynicism. He
didn't die—not at all—he i6 now a comforta
ble looking Judge, with a pleasant-faced
wife, and is a person of much importance
in the village where he lives. Poor Mrs.
George Francis has doubtless had an unset
tled time of it in following her capricious
lord over the w’orld.
Coyle Douglas.
A HAUNTED HOUSE IN NEW YORK
The Experience Some Women Have
Had.
IN MALE ATTIRE.
A Young Lady Graduate of the Bos
ton High School Seeking Employ
ment Dressed a« a Boy.
Virginia Speaks Once More.
Thomasville, January 21.—Editor Morn
ing Xcws: It affords me inexpressible plea
sure to notice in your issue of the 20th the
‘“bill of rights” just put forth once more by
the grandly historic Old Dominion, and
your comments on the resolutions please me
to the core. I read and re-read the resolu
tions almost with tears in my eyes, because
the manly, patriotic dignity and firmness
they express carried me back to the heroic
days of untrammeled liberty and inde
pendence, when American manhood
scorned the fear of partisan revenge, and
dared even to die for the right. Forbear
ance has ceased to be a virtue, and the
old mother of statesmen, outraged,
goaded to the last extent, once more
resumes her manhood, and speaks out in the
spirit of her departed heroes. The whole
South will respond to the resolutions adopt
ed, and the North must admit the historic
justice of the claim or howl with the iin
potent rage of Wendell Phillips and Wm
Lloyd Garrison. Let fanatics rage and
demagogues rant until doomsday against
rebellious South.” I say they are hypo
crites and liars or else fools and lunatics, for
all truly wise and patriotic men of
this country do know that without equality
among the States, a preservation and
just administration of the powers granted
and reserved, there can be no permanency,
no peace and prosperity ia this Union. 11
is the interest of Northern as well as South
ern prosperity and happiness that the con
stitutional rights of the States be preserved
to the letter; for whatever there is of na
tioual grandeur and glory attaching
American institutions sprang from, and is to
this day supported by, the anomalous inde
pendence of States in the besom of au inte
gral Union. It was the iguoringof this fact
that brought on the civil war and produced
the political demoralization which still
prevails, and engendered the partisan hate
which has ever since sought to exalt one
section upon the ruins of the other. But
statesmen know that this state of affairs
cannot long exist. Justice must be done
right and principle must prevail, or commu
nities of free meu will be changed into per
petual foemen. The terrors of war deter
but a single generation. Soon there will be
millions as stern in demand for the right and
as fearless in arms as the myriads who laid
down their lives for a principle. The nation
has lost its name for great and good, and
that name must be regained before the in
spiration of patriotism returns to its people.
The course of Virginia, followed by the
other States, will effect that object, and le
us hope that her voice will be again heard
throughout the nation, and that all lovers
of true liberty will rally to the platform
reiterated iu her second “bill of rights.”
States Rights.
Farmers’ Meeting in Bulloch County.
At a meeting to call the farmers of Bui
loch county together to enter into resolu
tions in relation to purchasing guano for the
year 1879, Dr. Wm. Col mao was called to the
chair and A. C. Williams was appointed
Secretary.
Moved and carried that a committee of
five be appointed to draft resolutions to in
vite the citizens of Bulloch together on the
first Monday in February to say what they
will pay per ton for guano.
The following named gentlemen were ap
pointed as the committee ; J. F. Brown, A.
C. Williams, D. C. Proctor, M. B. Hendrix,
Cuyler Nevils.
The following was adopted :
We a portion of the citizens of Bulloch
county having met in convention to-day for
lhe purpose of taking into consideration
the use of commercial fertilizers at the
advanced prices recently established, feel
that we cannot constantly use them to any
profit. Years of experience have proven to
us that there was little margin for profit at
former prices. Cotton having declined,
money scarce, labor high and uncertain, we
feel that fertilizers ought to fall in propor
tion toother commodities. Therefore,be it
Resolved, That we invite the people of Bul
loch county to meet us in convention on the
first Monday in February to enter into such
resolutions as will be to the interest of both
planter aud manufacturer.
J. F. Brown,
A. C. Williams,
D. C. Proctor,
M. B. Hendrix,
Cuyler Nevils,
Comni'tte 3 .
It was moved and seconded that the reso
lutions be published in the Morning News,
Excelsior X< ws, Hinesville Gazette and Swains
boro Merabi.
Pension Frauds. —■ Captain George
Prince, of Bath, Me., has been arrested
in that city, charged with obtaining a
large amount of money from the Pension
office at Washington on fictitious names.
The fraud has been going on for years,
and detectives have been on the case for
a year.
In Japan the 4th of July is now a gen
eral holiday, because on that day was
fought the decisive battle of Uyeno, in
the contest which resulted in the estab
lishment of the temporal power of the
Mikado.
Rev. John Wilson, of St Louis, per
formed a marriage ceremony for a girl
of fifteen, and her father has obtained a
verdict of $300 damages. Missouri law
requires the consent of legal guardians in
such cases,
Xeic York Letter to the Springfield Republican.
Ghost stories are always in order, and
a haunted house in New Y’ork will be
regarded as a great novelty. The fol
lowing story was told me by a well
known and much talked about lady au
thor and lecturer. She is neither a fa-1
natic nor a fool, and the last person in
the world to see sights or dream dreams.
She had taken the upper floor of a house
in Fifteenth street, and furnished it her
self. In a few days she noticed that in a
certain part of one of the rooms a
strange, unearthly chill come over her.
It was so disagreeable that she shunned
the place. She also frequently had
a very distinct feeling that some
one was coming up the stairs,
and at first rose and opened
the door expecting to see a visitor, but
found no one. In the night, between
eleven aud twelve, she was regularly
awakened from sleep as though some
one was standing by her bed, and often
times as though a hand was on her
throat trying to strangle her. She could
see no one, and the experience became
so disagreeable that she gave up Tier bed
to her woman—a very substantial, mat
ter of fact, courageous person—and took
to the lounge, where she slept without
difficulty. But the poor domestic had
a hard time of it. She had experienced
the chill, and had opened the door hun
dreds of times to the stranger coming up
the stairs; now she was choked every
night just as though some one was try
ing to strangle her.
One ©f the lady’s friends visited her
and experienced the chill and also open
ed the door to the invisible visitor, and
without knowing what her occupants
had felt, declaied that the place was
strange and depressing. A popular news
paper writer, a lady well know'n in the
social circles here, called one day and
told the occupant of the rooms, who had
left her alone for a few minutes, that
they were haunted, as she saw the form
of a person standing in the very place
where the unearthly chill had been felt
by several persons" Sickness obliged
the lady to leave her apartments several
weeks in charge of her faithful woman.
When she returned she found this
woman nervous and emaciated as though
she had been very ill and was still suffer
ing. In reply to her agitated inquiries
the woman told her substantially the
following story:
“It was near midnight after you left
that I woke suddenly out of a sound
sleep, and there sat a woman iu the
rocking chair by the fire, her back to
ward me, with a full head of dark hair.
I thought it a piece of impertinence in
any one to come up to my room at that
time of night, and without knocking
then I remembered that I fastened the
door. But to be certain about it, I
slipped out of the bed at the foot and
tried the door, which I found bolted.
Then I got into bed. The woman turned
her face toward the door in an anxious
way, inclining it as though listening to
hear some one coming up the stairs.
Then she rose as though she was coming
toward the bed. I covered myself with
the bed-clothes and stood it as loDg as I
could in that way. When T looked out the
room was empty. ”
This strange visitor returned night
after night, and some of her doings the
domestic was unwilling to repeat. She
lost fourteen pounds of solid flesh by the
experience, and was only too glad to
escape out of the place. Some weeks
after the breaking-up, the lady, who was
staying with a friend iu New Jersey,
was surprised to see her woman coming
up the steps of her house in great glee
one morning. “I have found out all
about it,” she exclaimed; “that house is
haunted.” And then she told of calling
on a dress maker to get work done, and
incidentally mentioning where she had
lived.
“Did Miss occupy those upper
rooms?” she asked.
“Did you have no trouble there?” she
inquired.
On being told that the place was ob
jectionable, she said, “It is strange no
one V kl Miss that house is haunted.
I took a,lease of it for three years, but
w r as obliged to give it up at a loss of
several hundred dollars, after a few
months. It was haunted, and I had
nothing but misfortune there. Y’ou
know a woman strangled her husband in
that upper chamber several years ago.
He had abused her in his drunken fits,
and she endured it until she became des
perate. One night she waited for his re
turn and choked him to death on the
bed. And the poor creature’s spirit has
haunted these rooms ever since. Miss
visited the dressmaker and hail a
full recital of her experiences in the
haunted house, and ascertained upon in
quiry that she is a highly respected and
trustworthy woman. And Miss re
gards her former domestic, whom she
has known for years, as absolutely truth
ful, and quite free from superstition and
nonsense, au unusually plucky, sensible
woman. But you should hear Miss —
tell the story. It would lie curious to
know how many haunted houses there
are within a mile of Union Square or
Murray Hill.
THE GREAT HUMBUG.
How Plerrepout Played the C'lncin-
naius Dodge on Enlightened Eng'
land.
London Letter in the Chicago Times.
The whole trip of Grant has been a
series of curiously-tiansparent intrigue,
more or less ludicrous when brought to
light. The way he has been managed
and advertised reminds one more of
Barn urn’s methods than even the astute
party engineiy in vogue in “the States.”
Badeau, had he been seconded by a more
able associate than Pierrepont, would
have done marvels—he did wonders as it
was. Pierrepont, however, was timid.
He wanted to stand well with the Bri
tish aristocracy. He saw' from the first
that the British w r ere simply guying the
General, and he knew that, by identify
ing himself too closely with Badeau’s
ludicrous pretensions he too would
share the ridicule visited upon Grant
from the moment of his first public ap
pearance until this hour. Pierrepont was
willing to go as far as diplomatic prece
dent would admit in forcing Grant, his
son and his wife into public honors, but
he searched in vain for precedents. The
American ex-Presidents who have visit
ed Europe hitherto had been received by
society, the court and nobility on mere
letters of presentation, they had * met
with the most profound consideration
without the intervention of any diplo
matic formalities. Franklin, at the
French court, had been made the spe
cial guest of the King, though Franklin
had never been President. But Pierre
pont, whose aristocratic yearnings re
strained him from aiding the impervious
Badeau, thought of a subtle expedient
He imagined that the British w'ould be
disarmed if Grant could b$ presented
in the character Gf the Hpartan re
publican. He therefore gave out that
it was a Cincinnatus remitting the
plow for the moment to pay tribute to
the kinsmen of his countrymen’s ances
tors. Grant himself confirmed uncon
sciously this humorous by-play. He de
clared that he had come abroad simply
fora jaunt; that his means would not
>errait him to travel extensively; that
ic hadn’t the means to present himself
in state. He fixed six months as the
utmost limit possible to him. This naive
confession was of course put in print
His admirers “talked it up” with con
scious pride in their idol. “Look,” they
exclaimed, “at this great soldier just re
tired from two term9 of sovereignty of
forty-five millions ui people, so poor that
he can not relax himself in a few months
of travel, not sitting by the wayside like
Bellisarius to solicit compassion for his
woes or imply reproach to his people,
but simply accepting adversity as he
had accepted triumph and elevalyfti,
composedly.”
The New Y’ork Times of Saturday says:
“Between five and six o’clock on Thurs
day evening officer Cody, of the w'estern
steamboat squad, while on duty at the
pier of the Fall River steamers, was ac
costed by a girl in male attire, who asked
him to direct her to some place where
she could procure decent lodging. The
girl carried a small satchel in her haud,
and, though she endeavored to eonceal
her sex, her voice alone w T as sufficient to
betray her. She was attired in a clum
sily made and ill fitting suit, with over
coat, and wore buttoned gaiters and over
shoes. Officer Cody, who felt positive
that the person who addressed him was
a female, escorted her to the station
house, and yesterday morning took her
before Justice Otterbourg, in the Tombs
Police Court. The Justice had her hiken
into his private room, and, after a short
talk with her, temporarily committed
her to the care of Matron Foster. She
was again brought up in the atter-
noon, and Justice Otterbourg in
quired into her history. The pris
oner, who had by this time changed
her clothing, submitted to the magistrate
a written statement, which was an auto
biography in brief, and which is substan
tially as follows: She said her name was
Madge Rivers, and that she was born of
English parents in Boston, eighteen years
ago. She was left an orphan at an early
age, and was then adopted by a family
named Worth ley, who were friends of
Lcr parents. She graduated at the Bos
ton High School last year, and she says
her troubles commenced from that date.
The Worthley family, who were living
in Everett, near Boston, became very
poor, and Madge, who had always gone
to school and was now idle, considered
herself a burden cn their hands. She
says she looked for employment in Bos
ton, but failing to get it she determined
to come to this city, and chose male at
tire as the most fitting for her expedition.
She took the six o’clock train from Bos
ton to Fall River on Wednesday evening,
and from her story it would appear that
she experienced a most unpleasant jour
ney. At the request of Justice Otter-
bourg she wrote yesterday to her friends
in Everett. She will remain for the pre
sent in the city prison. ”
Selling Out at Cost.
Philadelphia Record.
The notion that a nation is necessarily
prosperous that has a heavy export trade
and light imports is sedulously incul
cated by many writers upon economic
topics; but it is liable to lead persons
who adopt it into serious error. The
variety of the exports of the United
States"is, indeed, a matter of just grati
fication, inasmuch as it shows to what
extent our great country is enabled to
contribute to the wants of other peoples.
But if our wheat, corn, tobacco and cot
ton are exchanged for gold or merchan
dise, at prices which leave us no profit
in their production, it is most manifest
that the country is not enriched by the
transaction. We simply pay out w ith
one hand what we take in with the
other. Other countries are gainers by
trade of this kind, not ours.
On the contrary, it may easily happen,
if we are able to import largely of goods
produced in Europe or elsewhere which
are sold to us for less than the cost of
production, or for less money than will
enable us to produce them for ourselves,
that we shall be the richer for what we
buy.
The enormous export trade of this
country for the past year has been made
in the face of great depression in prices.
The following table, copied from the
Boston Herald, shows the total loss in
curred on the export of six great staples,
comparing the prices obtained in 1877
and in 1878;
GRANT IN EUROPE.
Secret History of the General’* Re
ception In France.
.$7G,061,R31
. 2,505,651
Loss on cotton $11.716,055
Loss on bre&dstuffs 24,573,470
Loss on provisions 25,1-8.327
Loss on illuminating oils 10,370,715
Loss on leaf tobacco 4,233,064
Total
Deduct gain on living animals
Total loss by decline S73,5?5fi80
These figures cover only the transac
tions in nine corresponding months of
each year. The showing at the end of
the year will be still more unfavorable.
Taking the export trade of the country
into consideration solely, it is evident
that we have been “selling out at cost,”
or very near it. The proof of it is to be
found in the universal depression in the
wages of labor, which regulates the cost
of production. L’nless we have been
able in some measure to get even with
foreign nations by an adequate falling
off in the prices of articles imported
into the country, there is no particular
gratification in the great bulk of our
business; least of all is there any cause
for gratification in the gold payments we
are receiving, for in that form of return
there is certainly no profit. The ship
masters and owners of foreign tonnage
who have carried the great bulk of our
freights abroad have probably fared bet
ter than American exporters. It is to be
regretted that a more encouraging view
of this business is not permitted by the
facts.
London Letter in the Chicago Times.
In spite of all hints of the American
Minister, iu spite of the protest of Ba
deau, the French republic wouldn’t ae
cord the slightest recognition. He arrived
at the Northern station in the dark, and
was met by a few obscure journalists
and the fullest-fledged of the flunkeys of
the American colony. Great care had
been taken to secure two of a suite of ten
rooms that the Prince of Wales occupies
when in Paris, and the announcement
sent to the Paris papers that the ex-
President of the lnited States was to
occupy the Prince's apartments. Finally,
when every artifice had failed in in
ducing the French to take him up,Noyes
sent an appeal to the Americans in
town to meet him to confer
over a proposed banquet to the
ex President. A few- parvenues met
and decided that a grand dinner
should be given to him. and that the
guests should pay thirty francs, six dol
lars, for the privilege of eating the din
ner. The history of that extraordinary
mingling was, I believe, to some extent
made known at the time, but I doubt
■\ hither a proper idea of it was ever
sent forth. With one accord the Paris
press ridiculed it, and for weeks the
cafes rang with merriment over it. It
was hardly surprising if. after that, no
notice was taken of the “distinguished
citizen” by the French officials. "It may
be said that MacSIabon purposely put a
slight upon a Itepublican, as be was just
at that time aiding his unconstitutional
ministry to throttle tiie republic. But
during the weeks that Grant remain
ed iu the city, walkine about the
streets with a look of ineffable ennui on
his face, not a single Republican
leader called on him or intimated a
knowledge of his existence. Some rich
Californians made a big fete for the hero,
but the attendance of the French was
slim. Noyes gave a reception, aud two
of the Cabinet Ministers attended—De
Fourton to gossip with the Spanish
beauty, Mrs. Sickles, and the Minister
of Foreign Affairs as a matter of eti
quette. Grant liimself made no mistake
as to his standing. He fell into free
speaking on certain occasions, and
cursed the country heartily, and vowed
his purpose of instantly taking ship home,
lie was persuaded to go to Copenhagen to
see his brother-in-law, Minister Kramer,
aud hoping that in a small kingdom,
at least, he would be a big man.
But the same fate met him Kramer
called in his diplomatic privileges and
used every artifice to make a sensation
with his kinsman, but unsuccessfully.
The fact is, Grant's reputation all over
Europe is just what it wa3 during the
Babcock exposures, the San Domingo
and other scandals, and these old fash
ioned and well ordered governments and
peoples resent the intrusion of such a
person in their realms. Diplomatically,
of course, they are bound to treat him
at least corn teously—in no case have they
gone a step beyond the most formal exi
gencies. In Rome the young King re
fused to see him for a long time, until
the Ministry convinced him that it would
imperil the good understanding of the
two governments.
A Canadian Preacher Starved.—
Canadian papers say the Rev. W. F.
Checkley, assistant minister of St.
Paul’s Church, Toronto, died on the 3d
instant, it was said of typhoid fever, but
in reality from want. A few years ago
lie was engaged at a salary of '$81)0, but
the congregation found tiicy could only-
pay half that amount, and on $409 per
annum Mr. Checkley had to keep alive
himself and his own family of five or
six children, including an adult son
who some time ago had his hands am
putated, and two children of a dead
brother, and an invalid sister. Nothing
was known of the extreme poverty of
the family until Mr. Checkley s death.
Mr. Checkley was of a plucky, noble
disposition, and always had a joke for
everybody. One day recently he was
met bv a brother clergyman, who re
marked that he looked terribly cold, and
a->ked where his overcoat was. Mr.
Checkley, in a joking manner, replied
that he hadn't any, and in this way
warded off suspicion. The New York
Ilerald says : “Satire is the last senti
ment to be displayed during the Christ
mas season, but the story of the Toronto
pastor who, in his pulpit on Christmas,
thanked God for all that he had dor«
for the poor, and then went quietly
home and died of starvation, because of
ins insufficient salary, is the most grimly
satirical nairativc that ever disgraced a
fashionable church. ”
The Necessity of Plenty of Sleep
A writer in Scribner for February, con
sidering “The Relations of Insanity
to Modern Civilization,” speaks of the
loss of sleep as a prominent cause of. in
sanity. He says:
During every moment of consciousness
the brain is in activity. The peculiar
process of cerebration, whatever that
may consist of, is taking place; thought
after thought comes forth, nor can we
help it. It is only when the peculiar
connection or chain of connection of
one brain cell with another is broken and
consciousness fades away into the dream
less land of perfect sleep, that the brain
is at rest. In this state it recuperates its
exhausted energy and power, and
stores them up for future need.
The period of wakefulness is one
of constant wear. Every thought
is generated at the expense of brain
cells, which can be fully replaced only
by periods of properly regulated repose.
If, therefore, these are not secured by
sleep, if the brain, through over stimula
tion, is not left to recuperate, its energy
becomes exhausted; debility, disease and
finally disintegration supervene. Hence,
the story is almost always the same; for
weeks and months before the indications
of active insanity appear, the patient
has been anxious, worried and wakeful,
not sleeping more than four or five hours
out of the twenty-four. The poor brain,
unable to do its constant work, begins to
waver, to show- signs of weakness or
aberration; hallucinations or delusions
hover around like floating shadows in
the air, until finally disease comes and
"plants his siege
Against the mind, the which he pricks and
wounds
With many l-gjous of strange fantasies.
Which in their throng and press to that last
hold
Confound themselves."
Juvenile Ingratitude.—A woman
gets on the train aud says a very warm
hearted good-bye to a great cub of a
sixteen-year old boy who sets down her
bundles and turns to leave the car with a
gruff grunt tiiat may mean good bye or
anything else. There is a little quiver
ou her lip as she calls after him, “Be a
good boy, write to me often, and do as I
tell you.” He never looks around as he
leaves the car. He looks just like the
kind of a boy who will do just as she
tells him, but she must be careful to tell
hint to do just as he wants to. I have
one bright Bpark of consolation as the
i ruin moves on and I see that boy per
forming a clumsy satire on a clog dance
on the platform. Some of these days he
will treat some man as grufiiy and rudely
as lie treats his mother. Then the man
will climb onto him and lick him; pound
tiie very sawdust out of him. Then the
world will feel better and happier for
the licking he gets. It may be long de
ferred, but it will come at last. I almost
wish 1 had pounded him myself, while
he is young and I felt able to do it. He
may grow up into a very discouragingly
rugged man, extremely difficult to lick,
and the world may have to wait a very
long time for this act of justice. It fre
quently happens that these bad boys
grow up into distressingly “bad” men.—
llurdette in the llnwkejje.
I would keep “better hours” if I were
a boy again—that is, I would go to bed
earlier than most boys do. Nothing
gives more mental and bodily vigor than
sound rest when properly applied. Sleep
is our great rcplenishur, and if we
neglect to take it regularly in childhood,
all the worse for us when we grow up.
If we go to bed early, we ripen; if we
sit up late, we decay; and sooner or later
we contract a disease called insomnia,
allowing it to he permanently fixed upon
us, and then we begin to decay, even in
youth. Late hours are shadows from the
grave.—J. T. Field*.
The Princess Victoria, of Baden, at
her rc-cent confirmation, was required to
write a short autobiography and pro
posed plan of life. Among other state
ments the young Princess advanced the
following republican theory; That
Princes must not conceive that they are
placed in their high position because
they have greater rights than other hu
man beings, bpt that they may maintain
an elevated standard of obligation and
set an example of fidelity to duty to the
w hole society of which they are members.
Whitelaw Reid is suffering for an in
vestigation of the cipher dispatches. He
cries aloud from the tall tower for more
investigation.
We know how this delicately indeli
cate creature of the gigantic Intellect
and the tall tower can be gratified.
Listen:
The people of New York were suffer
ing for rapid transit through their popu
lous city, and some cunning capitalists
conceived the idea of running a railway
on poles. It was seized on as a most
happy proposition, and so vociferous
was the press that the capitalists were
allowed their own terms. ArnoDg these
was Jay Ghoul’s Tribune. It favored
rapid transit in its own high toned way.
After the Legislature granted all that
was asked, the capitalists began taking
account of stock, and all was accounted
for save five thousand dollars' worth.
This little amount, after a deal of trou
ble, was traced to the pocket of White-
law Reid.
Now, this is the charge; and if White-
law is really so anxious for an investiga
tion, let him sue us for libel, and we
will see if the charge cannot be sus
talned.—Wa»hir<qtou Capital.
Tiie Water Torture Japan.
The originators of this cruel device re
lied upon the torment of thirst as more
powerful than mere corporal suffering.
The prisoner is for several days confined
to an extremely salt diet, without rice or
water. When two or three days have
passed the craving for water becomes in
cessant, and tiie sufferings of the tor
tured man approach the bounds of in
sanity. Efforts are then made to obtain
c mfession by subjecting the sufferer to
the agony endured by Tantalus when iu
tbe midst of the infernal lake, whose
waters he could not touch. Ou all sides
the tbirst-distracted prisoner beholds
water—water for which he would sacri
fice everything—but which he cannot
touch except upon the conditions of con
fession.—Japan Gazette.
There was a pathetic scene at the
burial of the wife of ex-Governor Smith,
of Virginia, the other day. Mrs. Smith
was eighty years old, her husband eighty-
two, and they had been married fifty-
nine years. The venerable man was so
prostrated by bis grief that hejfeli on the
way from the house to the carriage that
took him to the grave, and there his cries
for his dead wife were most pitiful to
hear.
A GOOD ACCOl APr.
“To SUM it up, six long years of bed-rid
den sickness and suffering, costing 4200 per
year, total, $1,300—all of which, was stopped
by three bottles of Hop Bitters, taken by my
wife, wuo has done her own housework for
a year since without the loss of a day, and 1
want e/erybody to know it for their benefit.
“John Weeks, Butler, N. Y.”
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