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I Hi: « I NO AND THE MOON.
HY OKORGE MACDONALD.
il t|„* Wind t«* the Moon, “I will blow you out;
In the air
lake a ghost in a chair,
i,K»k.ing wliat I am about:
1 i • be watched: I will blow you out.”
u ml blew hard, and out went the Moon,
rind, and slumbered soon—
••I've done for that Moon.”
s bed; she was there again.
her one ghost eye.
while, and alive, and plain;
[ will blow you out again."
iard, and the Moon grew dim;
i my sledge
my wedge,
■* knocked off her edge!
^lit tierce and grim,
I soon be dimmer than dim.”
blew, and she thinned to a
>"" T -
senough
• \r her to snuff!
ore where the last was bred—
glimmer, gluin will go the
—
it, aiul the thread was gone;
, a moonbjara bare.
in less the shy stars shone;
ii the Moon was gone!
>k to his revels once more;
merry, mad clown,
loed with whistle ami roar;
lie glimmering thread once
-—lie danced and blew;
the pain
is bursting brain;
ider the moon-scrap grew,
swelled his cheeks and blew.
till she filled the night,
•nderful, siivery light,
eiy. thel^ueenof the Night!
• What a marvel of power ant I,
i my breath,
•w her to death—
iway rigiit out of the sky—
n: what a strength am I!”
she knew nothing about the
? white eye,
the air.
■ great WinJ blare.
r a full
'‘Kettle
The (ia
hast
imp
lout
Georgia Affairs,
n has become this season quite a
market for the sale of mules. We
itn the I/•.raid that the lots and
lie two livery stables there have of
crowded with good stock in this
mice mules range at $75, $100 and
>ne planter, a few days ago,
d eight mules. That paper believes
trade will continue to be lively
aarket for a mouth or six weeks to
ling to the Lumpkin Independent
*-r- in that section are as busy as
after a freshet, preparing their
l farm' for the next crop. New
ivc been put up and old ones re
am! Ian 1- broken up ready for
The t .iwn seemsdiserted, scarcely
yman having been seen there during
lomasville Times says farmers are
•utting in for the next crop. Let
brav enough to get out of the debt
erupt rut of “all cotton” aud go in
s” arc favorite means of so-
Atlanta.
die SouUtron says that not-
le severe freezes of the win-
in that section looks well
operly put in, and it thinks
the crop will be better than
ious years.
l, a colored man, who has
riving business by receiving
IrilUn firm ou forged orders,
• 1 aud placed in jail in that
■ over bold in his audacity on
■ ing successfully and with
•d out his practices for so
liev.
that
It hi
(jrai
• M mtezuraa Weekly pertinently re-
s that several planters ia Dooly county
failed, so far, in securing hands to
vate their plantations this year, and
here arc several million tramps in the
t-d States who say they cannot find
r Montezuma Weekly is indeed in a
"f trouble. It says its printers are
its devil is sick, its foreman is sick,
t too has been sick the greater part of
lumlms has been again badly scared
fires, one on Sunday and another on
Tiy. Fortunately both were insignili-
<■ Brunswick Advertiser comes to us this
; enlarged and generally improved.
•• Thornasville Enterprise begins to be
that Madame Shipton was right, aud
the world will come to an end in 1881.
? ' s belief on the reputed fact that
1 lias sailed for India at his own ex
pense, instead of waiting for the vessel
plated at his disposal by the United States
Government.
Augusta is certainly progressing. They
are guing to build a tine hotel at her most
popular suburb, the Sand Ilills, or rather,
* n °r , ‘ properly speaking, Summerville.
^ Atlanta Consttfntion ; “Atlanta is to have
•ttew enterprise, it will insure plenty of
tZ . tla ‘ C1? . v - We are to have no more
in the hottest part of the year,
ifiord N’elT, of Cincinnati, a live,
uoera! man, has completed the arrangement
or the erection of an ice machiue on the
^ near James' chapel, West End.
m re based eight acres and has given
on tracts. He has ordered the ma-
‘ipl»ed from his manufactory, the
Machine Manufacturing Company
land, Ohio. We are assured that Dy
^nt middi! of March this live Western man
ui have in operation a machine which can
. - produce ten tons of the best ice daily.
N ~ is the agent used in freezing. Mr.
in j t a machine working splendidly
Jacksonville for six weeks past. There
no doubt of the success of. his Atlanta
ne ' * us pluck and means to
dr> ' 11 :s goiug right to work to
c '"fillc in the city, Mr. Nell was en-
i j?-'proceed In bis work by many
cert. 1 - 1 " ' 1 izeU3 who want an abundant and
supply of lee. This enterprise seems
thp^ SUr , e i! ' *^ r * ^ e fi 6&ys Be will make all
ji V( ■ c . 1 ' ,,V( - ca b possibly want, and will de-
n * r !' at i^ ie doors of citizens at a cent a
^ _ nJ ‘ * Be work will begin at once.”
J Milledgeville Union and Recorder i6
of f ' iin £ulne and “sassy” over the fortune
of * ^ says; “Mill edge ville is out
8hc Y~° We8 nothln £ and pays pash for all
8‘i^k.’ ls ' • ^ as Bad much to endure, but
e ... triumphed by her patience and hon-
if h &ae B as * n v ^ ew 6ome projects which,
Into^ com kBshed, will benefit her material
Ah/* aQ d tBe public generally we believe
-Mr. Wu
11
Arc I
of (
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The Newnan Herald records the following
stop- of a romantic marriage in high life
which was lately celebrated in that county:
“Married, at 3 o’clock a. m., near Sharps-
burg, by torch light in the road, by the Rev.
H. Dickerson, George Caldwell and Debbie
Johnson (all colored). The couple were to
have been married' at home—all arrange
ments having been made for a wedding on
Thursday night—but the mother of the girl
got mad and broke up all their anticipated
fun for the next night, sending the groom
word that 6he would send for him when she
wanted him. This disappointed Caldwell
and he bethought himself of the license
safely folded in his pocket and of the possi
bility of accomplishing by stratagem what
was denied him openly. Taking a partv of
friends with him they arrived about 10
o’clock at Mr. Ed. Wilkinson’s plan
tation where they found the girl at
her brother-in law’s house. She being
taken by surprise, at first could not
make up her mind to desert her clothes, but
after considerable persuasion was coaxed to
give them up. Next morning Johnson, her
father, awoke early, and calling for Debbie
was told she was seen the evening before in
company with her sweetheart; and as the
light broke into his mind he. burst out with
a laugh and these words : ‘Dar now; I bet
dem niggers is married.’ The happy party
reached home at 3:30 o’clock, making the
wood* ring with their hurrahs, and bringing
the stolen bride home in triumph. They
were handsomely entertained on Friday,
with a good dinner, and the hearty good
wishes of the bridegroom’s friends at Wil
liam Caldwell’s, on Mr. John Ray’s planta
tion.” J
Augusta Sentinel: “Mr. Gilbert Gill, of
Baltimore, is now in the city. Mr. Gill is
prospecting among the tea culturists of the
South, making observations for the benefit
of the Agricultural Bureau, as to the adap
tation of this soil and climate for the growth
of the tea plant. He has been a resident of
China and Japan for seven years, aud his
opinion may be deemed valuable. lie thinks
the tea plant is admirably adapted to this sec
tion of the country, and feels confident that
when its culture has been tried for some
time, and the methods of curing the plaut
for market are understood, it will become
an important branch of industry in the
South. His idea is that we must not attempt
to bestow the labor upon curing the plant
that the Chinaman does, and that an Ameri
can tea can be successfully introduced into
market, which will equal the best Chinese
in flavor, but not in preparation, which is
an expensive part of the crop, and not abso
lutely necessary, as many persons think.
Mr. Gill, we are glad to know, will be in
Augusta for several days.”
Thornasville Southern Enterprise : “Our
farmers seem determined to stand up square
against the increased price of commercial
fertilizers. They cauuot afford to pay the
prices dernauded they think, and we think
they are nearly right. The manufacturers
claim that while cotton has gone down the
prices for the articles of which their fertil
izers are compounded have not decreased,
aud they must get the same amount of
money as heretofore, and in order to do
this they must get a larger number of
pounds of cotton. This all looks
fair and reasonable. But what strikes the
farmer with peculiar force, taking this view
of matters, is the convention. Why have a
condition to keep up prices ? If the guano
costs so much to make it, the cost or pro
duction, modified by a healthy competition,
should regulate the price. Then why the
convention and the binding by obligations
of honor, etc., of the manufacturers to
maintain prices ? Our sympathies are all
with the farmers, and we hope they may be
able to get along without the stuff, though
many of them think it can not be done.”
Gainesville Southron: “To see a man
whom God has endowed with more than ordi
nary brain become a hopeless imbecile from
poverty, and a heart broken woman with a
pale infant child, patiently trying to takel
care of the unfortuuate man. We have just
such a case in Gainesville at this moment.”
THE GREAT CANAL.
J unction
of tlic Misrifidippi
Atlantic.
crushed by the removal of the capi-
a '7^ lias Q cver complained Ot cgid aught
Public verdict. All she asks
vatir n *1 fi B e Be left to work out her sal-
frnm v, 111 the future without obstruction
uomh er
St. Mary’s, Ga., January 20.—Editor
Morning Neves: Your recent article on the
subject of the proposed land-locked water
way between the Mississippi river and the
Atlantic ocean, and the warm interest you
have always taken in the project, encour
ages me to write a few lines conveying very
welcome intelligence for our section, from
the surveying corps, who, under the able
direction of Major Mahon, of the Hydro-
graphical Department, Washington, have
(ive have every reason to believe) overcome
all difficulties, and, at last., succeeded in
getting a perfectly reliable survey of the
great Okeefenokee swamp.
With the assistance of Col. Winn (
Georgian), to whom the eastern section
was assigned, and an efficient staff of aides,
Major Mahon has completed, not only the
circuit of the swamp, but run lines and
made cross sections, throughout its length
and breadth, obtaining, as we have been
informed, the gratifying result of abundance
of water in every direction, and thus solving
satisfactorily the vital question of a ''sum
mit level supply.”
We next hope to hear of a good and
feas.ble route from the Okeefenokee to
St. Mark’s, the point indicated by General
Gillmore in his report to the Senate, as best
adapted to the Gulf terminus of the canal,
and then the final report and plans for this
magnificent project may shortly be looked
for. A _ , ,
With such a report as it cannot fail to be,
and in the hands of such a Senator (and
statesman) as the Hon. Wm. \V iudom (Chair
man of the Committee ou Water Transpor
tation), the “consummation so devoutly to
be wished for” cannot long be delayed. The
statistics of twenty States and Territories
are calling for it! The enormous foreign
trade of the country demands it! And ere
another year passes we hope to Eee the com
mencement of this great national work,
fraught with benefit to millions on our con
tinent as well as Europeans, by which the
teeming valley of the Mississippi and its tri
butaries will be enabled to pour its vast
treasure of the richest staples in the world,
without “let or-hindranee,” into the laps of
waiting argosies at St. Mary’s, Georgia.
But not to St. Mary’s only will immediate
benefit accrue. Our whole coast from Sa
vannah to Fernandina will feel the benefit
of this enormous commerce, to realize the
amount of which one must examine the sta
tistics alluded to by Gen. Gillmore in his re
port, or by the Hon. Mr. Windom in Bis
speech (January, 1878), and even then it is
hard to grasp the “grand total, or the bene
fit not only to our own country, but the
world at large, which the opening of this
water-way will afford, by which products
(measurable only by millions) will beplaced
ou the Atlantic ‘seaboard, “by the cheapest
route known to commerce,” and under cir
cumstances thus described by an English
writer on the subject :
“The whole coast ot Georgia offers facilities
for harbors and safe anchorages unsur
passed on the continent. Tim ail'”'™*’ 1 ®
maps Nos. 56 and 57, of the United State.
Government Survey, demonstrate this at a
nlance, and the ease with which such ports
as Savannah, Brunswick and St. Mary s are
‘made’ at all times, and i n „ al, weathers, is
" “IVtere neither icc nor snow, fogs or storm, mar
the prospects of the merchant or the navigator,
but favoring' winds, with ports eaxy of access
aiul' open, in a delicious climate, all the year
round] writ? the largest commerce in the
world, winter amt summer alike.
With a copy of the New lork
fore me, crowded with accounts of frozen
canals rivers choked with ia, and miles of
railways, and their freight cars imbedded in
snow, "“note o, comment” on the forego
ing would be superfluous.
1 therefore commend them to your many
readers, subscribing myself yours faith-
ftv “VFBBUM Sil-IESTU M.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
MIXERS’ STRIKE ENDED IN PENN
SYLVANIA.
DISASTROUS FIRE IN BIRMING
HAM.
Further
Proceedings of
Committee.
the Potter
POPE LEO'S
ENCYCLICAL
TER
LET-
News, Forelirn and Domc»tlc.
FURTHER EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES BY
THE POTTER COMMITTEE.
Washington, January 29.—Before the
Potter Committee W. T. McLellan, Assistant
Chief of the warrant division of the Trea
sury, stated he was in Washington in 1876,
and iu consequence of a letter from Sec
retary Sherman,attended in the Morton com
mittee room to examine the Oregon cypher
dispatches, aud was there two days and
succeeded in deciphering them by means
of a dictionary key with which he had been
^provided. He rec ognized Nos. 10, 12 and 14
on page 37 of the Tribune pamphlet, and
No. 15 on page 38, as part of those dis
patches. The committee were not in ses
sion at the time he made the examination,
but other experts were at work on the dis
patches. He knew nothing of the Florida
dispatches; he only saw a few of them, and
was unable to decipher them, because the
key had not then been discovered. The
committee then took a recess.
Assistant Postmaster General Brady pro
duced the cipher dispatches sent by Judge
Tyner to Tallahassee. Brady’s re
plies to Tyner were addressed to
John Wing, Washington. They re
ported the progress of the Republi
can party in the Florida election, aud con
tained little of present interest. Tyner
produced the cipher telegrams to
Foster and Chandler, and stated
that their contents had reference to induc
ing the Greeubackers of Indiana to
vote the Republican tieket, aud to the
purchasing of the Indianapolis Sentinel, a
Democratic organ. The money asked for
was iutended a3 legitimate campaign
expenses and was provided by
the National Republican Committee.
“Efcrly” meant $10,000 aud “certain”
$5,000. In Secretary Chandler’s dispatch
‘appoint two Indian agents” meant to send
$10,000, and did not refer to any appoint
ments. To-morrow Whitelaw Reid,editor of
the Tribune, Judges South wood and St.
Martin will be called.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, January 29.—After a short
struggle the Republicans who desired to
have a morning hour were voted down, and
the House, by a vote of >-eas 118, nays 115,
determined to go into committee of the
whole on the post office appropriation bill.
The House again discussed the postal ap
propriation bill. Among the amendments
adopted was the provision requiring that no
deficiency shall be made during the next
fiscal year by placing postal cars on any
line. Amendments were also adopted in
creasing the appropriation for route agents,
increasing the appropriation for transporta
tion on star routes, for railroad transporta
tion and for steamboat transportation.
The Senate to-day passed a number of
bills granting pensions—among them the
bill granting fifty dollars a month to the
widow of the late General Robert Anderson,
and another increasing the pension of Dr.
Mary E. Walker to twenty dollars per
month.
Mr. Edmunds] resolutions in regard to the
constitutional amendments are to be dis
cussed to-morrow, when Mr. Morgau, of
Alabama, is entitled to the floor to speak on
and IBe substitute resolutions recently submit
ted by him.
POPE LEO’S ENCYCLICAL LETTER.
New York, January 29.—Some of the
morning papers publish the full text of Pope
Leo’s encyclical letter. It is said to have
been written by the Pontiff himself, and
the London Standard's Rome correspondent
says: “It is a great subject of discussion
to-day. Much of it gives reason to believe
that there is to be a great change from
Pius the Ninth’s policy. Socialists,Commun
ists and Nihilists are anathematized as a
death dealing plague that is creeping into
all fibres of hnman society.”
MINERS STRIKE ENDED.
Pottsville, January 29.—It is reported
this morning that the miners employed at
the Luke Fidler and Cameron colleries, at
Shamokin, had resumed work at their old
wages. Investigation shows that the com
pany offered the Luke Fidler men their former
wages, but they refuse to go to work
until a similar concession is made to the
demands of their fellow workmen iu the
Cameron mine.
DISASTROUS FIRE.
Birmingham, Ct., January 29.—Hinks tfe
Sous’ lamp works have been destroyed by
fire. An immense quantity of goods were
lost. Three hundred men are thrown out
of employment.
THE EGYPTIAN FAMINE.
Cairo, January 29.—Accounts from upper
Egypt give heartrending details of the
famine there.
OUR JACKSON VILLE LETTER
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
THE SITUATION IN FRANCE.
Wholesale Arrests for Violation of
the Election Laws.
fully,
“All is not gold that glitters.” The
fact here is, says the Saturday Magazine
that the sentence does not say what it
means to. But this-its most common
form—and the other, All that J-tters
is not gold,” do in fact say that nothing
that glitters is gold, for the quality of not
being gold is asserted of whatever glit
ters. In order to convey the idea that
although some glittering substances are
irolxl yet others are not, the proverb
must Land, “Not all that glitters is
E old.” See an instance of the correct
construction in Matthew vtt.; where,
if the passage were worded as Hie pro
verb usually is, it would assert that no
one who said unto Christ, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Oliver P. Morton has gone to his long
account, and the only effort of the
publication of tbe cipher dispatches is to
keep fresh in the public memory the
fact that be it was who preserved these
dispatches for publication in tbe hope
of implicating his poUtical adversaries in
the same crimes of which he and his
party were convicted.-BaUtmore Oa- latmnm
zette. 1
DISMISSAL OF THE SALVAGE CASE
AGAINST THE “CONST1TITION.”
minor matter*.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
* OFFICE OF THE CHIEF 8IGNAL OBSERVER,
Washington, D. C., January 29.—Indica
tions for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, areas of
rain, followed by partly cloudy weather,
variable winds mostly from north to east in
the northern portion, and from south to
west in the southern portion, and a slight
rise in temperature iu northern portions.
In the Middle States, a slight rise follow
ed by a slight fall in barometer, northerly
winds becoming more variable, a slight fall
followed by a slight rise in temperature, and
partly cloudy weather.
Iu the Gulf States, a slight fall in tem
perature and partly cloudy weather, with
areas of light rain, stationary or a slight
rise in barometer, and southerly winds,
shifting to east and north in tbe jDqthwest.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, slight
changes in barometer, northerly to westerly
winds, partly cloudy w'eather, with light
rains in Tennessee and no decided change
in temperature.
NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS — THE
FISHERY INTERESTS.
Washington, January 29.—Senator Cbris-
tiancy, of Michigan, to-day was nominated
and confirmed as Minister to Peru.
Henry Page, of Arkansas, was confirmed
as Indian Agent.
A delegation from Gloucester, Massachu
setts, representing the fishery interests, to
day had a conference with Secretary Evarts,
and urged the abrogation of so much of the
treaty of Washington as relates to the fish
eries.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS FOR VIOLATION OF
ELECTION LAWS.
New Orleans, January 29.—Marshal
Wharton continues making arrests in vari
ous parishes of parties against whom true
bills have been found by tbe United States
grand jury for violation of the election laws.
Jwenty-nine prisoners are expected to ar
rive to-night iu change of a depqty marshal.
It is stated that one hundred more will ar
rive iu the next few days.
SALVAGE CASE DISMISSED.
London, January 29.—In the Admiralty
division of the High Court of Justice to-day,
a motion to arrest the United States frigate
Constitution and her cargo was argued.
The counsel for the ship, under the instruc
tions given by the United States Minister,
claimed that the Constitution and her cargo
were not within the jurisdiction of the court.
Sir Robert Joseph Philimore dismissed the
motion.
THE FRENCH SITUATION.
Paris. January 29.—M. Dufoure this
morning had a conference with MacMahon.
It ii generally believed that tbe Marshal
persists in his refusal to 6ign the decree.
The Ministers will meet to-morrow at Ver
sailles prior to the opening of the Chambers
to deliberate upon the situation.
The Hungarian papers state that the
Jewish and Moslem cemeteries at Nisch
have been desecrated, the tombs broken
open and the corpses scattered on the
ground. The Servian Government has
been informed of the crime, but no steps
nave been taken in the matter. It is be
lieved that the atrocities were committed
to terrifv the Jewish and Moslem popu
lation and thus induce them to leave the
Some Few Interesting Fact* Con
cerning tbe Trial of the Brevard
County Canvassing Board — Im
provement ol the Inland Passage
Between Fernandina and Jack
sonville—Negro Legislators —Gen
eral News Items.
Special Correspondence of the Momina News.
Jacksonville, Fla., January 27.—The
trial of the canvassing board of Brevard
county, indicted iu the L’nited States Court
for fraudulent alteration of tbe returns, has
ended, as you have been informed, in the
conviction of the prisoners. All of the tes
timony was published at length, and is be
fore the people, but there were some things
not put in print which can bear a few com
ments. In the first place the bills were
found by a picked, if not by a packed grand
jury, all the members of which bore the
stamp of loyalty by their ability to take the
famous ironclad oath. The old rebs were rig
orously excluded, and were given unmistaka
bly to understand that the Interests of the
General Government could not safely be
trusted to their keeping. No matter what their
character, standing or education might be,
if they had ever given aid or comfort to the
Southern Confederacy, out they went to
give place to an ignorant negro, or to a
white man of inferior Intelligence. And
then again, it bore a rough look for the
Judge in a court, from whose decisions
there was no appeal, to comment upon the
evidence and even partially to reply to the
arguments of the prisoners’ counsel. Be
fore imposing sentence, the Judge went on
to say that there were several prominent
Democrats upon the petit jury by whom the
prisoners were tried. Now, the fact is, as
far as can be ascertained, that there was
only a single man ou that jury who voted
the entire Democratic ticket in November.
And just here it may be well to state, in
spite of what the New York Herald has to
say oh the subject, that all the votes given
by the ex-rebel soldiers of Florida, to Tom
Settle, when he wins the second place on
the Grant ticket, can be put in a mustard
seed. They are not going to vote for him any
sooner than for any other Republican. He
needn’t lay this flattering unction to his
soul, and the Herald talks the wildest stuff
aud nonsense in mentioning such balder
dash.
The Seaport Appeal makes a strong plea
for Congressional aid for the improvement
of “the Sisters,” the inland passage between
Fernandina and Jacksonville. It would not
cost an enormous sum to make those waters
navigable at all stages of the tides,and such
an appropriation would be of signal service
to the commercial interests of this region.
It is high time that a few crumbs of the big
government loaf should be dropped in this
direction.
Mr. Astor’s beautiful yacht has taken her
departure, and her morning and evening gun
no longer announces the rising and setting
of the sun. She has for several weeks been
the chief ornament of the harbor, and her
graceful hull and man-of-war appearance
have always attracted general admiration.
Col. Call, United States Seuator elect, is a
resident of this city, and his fellow towns
men rejoice in his elevation. They are sat
isfied that he will take a high stand in Con
gress and will be an honor to the State.
After a trial of two weeks, which ex
hausted the patience cf all concerned, the
great slander case of Archibald vs. Bentley
resulted in a mistrial. This issue was not
unexpected, and produced little surprise.
Whether the plaintiff will tight his long and
tedious battle over again is a question for
the future to determine.
It is a right funny sight to observe negro
legislator engaged in law-making. Hap
pening to be in Tallahassee a few days ago,
of course I visited the capitol and saw the
sable members at this occupation. They
would drop into their seats with an air of
conscious dignity, and grasping a paper
or pen. read or scratch away as if the fate
of nations was at stake. Meantime their
constituents outside looked on in wonder,
and put one iu mind of hungry pigs gazing
through the bars of a rail pen that inclosed
a portly porker leisurely munching an ear
of corn. Presently comes the coveted op
portunity of the dusky Solon. Some little
irregularity occurs and up springs one or
more to a “pint of order. Mr. Speaker.”
For, mind you, they study the rules closely,
and are only satisfied with their strictest
enforcement. They bang away at such a
subject with great earnestness and perti
nacity, seldom venturing to tackle
anything requiring any reflection. Each
one would think he had failed in his duty,
and had not earned his pay, unless he got
his name on the record once a day. They
are great hands at moving to adjourn, pro
posing some petty amendment, etc. Much
time is wasted by them iu this way, and
they only embarrass and retard legislation.
Lee, a colored member, from Duval, seems
to have more self-respect and intelligence
than his fellows, and shows more hard sense
and aptitude than all his color in the House
and Senate combined. They have a high
appreciation of their talents and ability,
and a friend told me that he heard one say,
after a little debate, “They may have the
votes, but we have got tflle brains.”
Half of our people here have had an at
tack of influenza, and such sneezing,
coughing and clearing of throats you never
heard.
Some important amendments to the city
charter will be presented to the scrutiny of
the Legislature.
Bishop Young has returned, and his feeble
appearance proves his recent severe illnpss.
Mr. Yulee has written an able letter,
warmly urging the completion of the
system of railroads to Tampa and Pensacola.
This was originally contemplated, and the
people of those sections deserve this great
work for the reason in addition that they
are all Democrats.
Mr. Astor’s iron-front building will soon
be finished, and is a splendid structure.
The convention question doesn’t find
much favor here. A constant stream of
visitors continues to arrive, and the city
will be gay enough for the next three
months.
Hops at the hotels are of frequent occur
rence, and Blind Tom is to give us a touch
of his quality this week.
Again.
THE FIRST DISTRICT VACANCY.
Yleetlng ol tlie Democratic Party of
iTlcIiito*li Comity.
Darien, Ga., January 28.—Pursuant to a
call of the Chairman of the Democratic
party of McIntosh county, a meeting was
held at the court house in Darien this day at
12 o’clock, for the purpose of selecting dele
gates to the Congressional Nominating Con
vention, to be held in Savannah on the 4th
of Fpbruary ; for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for thu uncApired term of the
late Mr. Ilartridge.
Hon. A. Smith Barnwell, of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee, in the absence
of the Chairman of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of McIntosh county, called
the meeting to order, and in a few remarks
stated the object of the same.
On motion of Colonel James E. Holmes,
Captain Barnwell was made permanent
Chairman of the meeting. Richard W.
Grupb, of the Darien Tiniber Gazette, was
requested to act as Secretary.
Colonel Holmes moved that Peter W. Mel-
drim, Esq., of Savannah, be chosen to cast
the votes of McIntosh county iu the ap
proaching convention. The motion being
seconded by Col. Henry A. Weil, it was
adopted unanimously. After some little
discussion, it was thought best to let Mr.
Meldrim use his own well-known discretion
in casting the vote of our county, believing
that he would be guided b3‘ what was right
and just in the matter.
Ou motion of Capt. Geo. W. Furies, the
Secretary was requested to notify Mr. Mel-
drim of the action of tjiis meeting. Thp
motion was adopted.
Capt. Joe Mansfield moved that the Da
rien fliizette and Savannah Morning News
be requested to publish the proceedings of
this meeting, which motion prevailed.
On motion of Col. J. E. Holmes, the meet
ing then adjourned.
A. Smith Barnwell, Chairman.
Richard W. Grubb, Secretary.
Albert C. Andrew's and James W.
ColtiDg have been arrested in Boston,
charged with conspiring to defraud
merchants to the extent of $31,700. An
drews has been in the liquor and cigar
business many years, and; having gained
the confidence of dealers, bought largely
on long time, and, it is s^lieged, with
Colting as an accomplice, sold out
quickly, secreted the proceeds and failed.
Mrs. Jane Tremaine keeps a barroom
in Dallas, Pa. On Thursday she set a
box containing a dozen bottles of lager
beer near the stove, to thaw. One of
them exploded. A piece of it struck
Miss Annie Adams in the forehead, and
there deeply imbedded itself. A physi
cian extracted it. Nfiss Adams lay for
twelve hours unconscious. The injury
has left her a helpless, and, it is feared,
a hopeless lunatic.
The Higher Law Doctrine Applied
to the Chinese Question.
Louisville Aye.
Chinese immigrants are not a desirable
addition to our population, but the bill
and accompanying report submitted by
Mr. Willis, of "Kentucky, from tbe Com
mittee on Education and Labor, looking
to the restriction of such immigration by
act of Congress are open to grave objec
tion. The bill makes it a misdemeanor
for the master of a vessel to receive more
than fifteen Chinese passengers for the
United States. Our treaty with China
gives the subjects of that power unlirait
ed right of immigration to the United
States, and the Constitution makes a
treaty a part of the supreme law of our
laud. The question is, whether the pro
posed law contravenes this provision of
the Constitution, or is otherwise be
yond the law-making power of Con-
S Referring to the objection
upon the above citation of
the Constitution, the committee's
report presents the following argument:
“The objects for which tbe Constitution
was formed are higher than any power
granted under it. The general welfare,
justice, domestic tranquility, and the
blessings of liberty, are of supreme im
portance, and cannot be taken from tbe
people bv any treaty, however solemnly
ratified." The treaty-making power is
limited by these objects. Moreover, both
in nature and by international law, tbe
first duty is self-preservation. If, there
fore, it be true that the presence of the
Chinese endangers the peace or prosperi
ty of our people, no mere technical con
siderations should intervene to prevent
an increase of the evil.” Surely, this
is a broad statement of I hat source
of so many of our woes, the
“Higher-law” doctrine. It is a fair
statement of the principle that
the restrictions of the Constitution are
mere technical considerations when they
interfere with what we desire, or prevent
what we may regard as desirable objects.
If domestic tranquility is an object higher
than any restriction of the Constitution,
we are debarred from questioning the
authority of any act of President Grant
in interfering with the domestic affairs
of States. We no longer have the right
to say that President Grant frequently
disregarded the Constitution in the man
ner and occasion of his interference, but
merely that, in our individual judgment,
the circumstances were sufficient to jus
tify the exercise of his higher law right
to set the Constitution aside. The declara
tion that the objects for which
the Constitution was formed are
higher than the Constitution itself,
was the justifying theory of
every act during the civil war and the
following years, for which no constitu
tional authority could be adduced, or
which seemed in contravention of that
instrument. Such an argument is two-
edged. With one edge it is now pro
posed to cut off this obnoxious Chinese
immigration; but the other edge is as
keen and glittering, and may be used, as
it has been used before, for the decapita
tion of States, and the severing of the
constitutional bonds that protect the
rights of persons by restraining the exer
cise of power.
But the report of the committee pre
sents, and fortifies by cited precedents
and authorities, the further argument
that while the Constitution makes the
Constitution, the laws and the treaties of
the United States, the supreme law of
the land, it gives no dignity to treaties
over laws, and that a statute may render
inoperative a treaty if enacted subse
quent thereto. Within our own juris
diction, and as affecting only our own
people, a treaty and a statute are of equal
dignity as a part of the law of the land.
But the law of the land is for the gov
eminent of the people of the land.
Neither the Constitution nor the statutes
affect foreign powers, while a treaty has
a two fold” dignity; one domestic, the
other international. The history of
the efforts at relief against Chinese
immigration fully illustrates this distinc
tion, and the clearness with which that
distinction has heretofore been kept in
view. In 1309, in the Forty-first Con
gress, an effort was made, without suc
cess, to secure the restrictive legislation
now sought la the two succeeding
Congresses, the subject was constantly
agitated, with the same result. In the
Forty fourth Congress these appeals met
with the only appropriate response—
keeping in view the sovereign right of
annulling all treaties, and the cessation
of all intorcourse—of a re olution call
ing upon the President to open negotia
tions with the Chinese Government for
the purpose of modifying the treaty by
restricting it to commercial purposes
alone. But the most conspicuous ex
position of our true attitude in this
matter is furnished in a resolution
passed at the same session requesting
the President to negotiate with China
for the mutual right to regulate, restrict,
or prevent immigration into the respec
tive countries. The present Congress has
passed a similar resolution, proposing
negotiations looking to the modification
or abrogation of the obnoxious clause of
the treaty. The report now presented
says such action would have been
preferable to tbe interference of Con
gress, as it would have been free from
doubt as to its validity, and would not
have jeopardized our friendly relations
with China. This attempt to change a
treaty by legislation without the concur
rent action of the other contracting party
is of a character with the attempt of
Great Britain to restrict our extiadition
treaty with that power by Parliamentary
enactment. We successfully resisted
that attempt on grounds that must frus
trate the attempt on China now proposed
in our own Congress. Analagous to this
effort of ours is' the r ( ,cent
attempt through domestic legislation
to curtail the benefits of the
fishery clause of our treaty with Great
Britain; an attempt which we again
foiled on grounds that are wholly in
compatible with this proposed bill
against Chinese immigration. We can
not evade the obligations of a treaty.
We can not say that the Chinese shall
have the unrestricted right to immigrate
to our country, blit that no one shall
have the right to bring' them. Jf the
Chinese disturb our 1 domestic tranqud-
ity” through the irascible temper of
Mr. Dennis Kearney, if they imperil
“the blessings of liberty,” and throw us
back upon the international right of self-
preservation, then the only law higher
than our own Constitution and the law
of the mutuality of contracts, is that
which by the judgment of the world
warrants us in saying to China that we
will have nothing to do with her; that
all our friendly relations are terminated,
and that if she prefers such a mode of
adjustment, we are ready to submit to
the arbitrament of arms.
A remarkable scene occurred at the
funeral of Wm. II. Tilford, a wealthy
citizen of St. Louis, on Monday, accord
ing to the St. Louis Time*-Journal. Mr.
Tilford, it is said, separated from bis
wife about eight years ago. and contract
ed another alliance. Upon Ids death
wife No. 1 demanded to see the remains,
and after several refusals wife No. at
last consented, the former having threat
ened to make a scene at the church.
When wife No. 1 saw the remains, how
ever, she was very much affected, and it
became necessary to give up the idea of
having services first at the church and
then at the house, and the body was
taken to the cemetery without any cere
mony, the two widows following, and so
much absorbed in grief as not to notice
each other's presence. This will proba
bly not prevent a fierce legal fight over
the will of the deceased, who left prop
erty valued at $150,000.
Now if Ghristiancy will die of resign,
and let Michigan send my old friend
gachariah back to the Senate, the rmnU
unnct of Radicalism in that body will be
complete. Z&chariah is badly needed to
maintain the balance of power in the
next Senate. With Zachariah in the
Senate to represent brains without cul
ture, Don Cameron to represent culture
without brains, and John Logan to repre
sent the absence of both, things would
he cen. Ry all means Jet my oid friepd
Zachariah be returned to the Senate re
gardless of the cost or of Christianey.—
Baltimore Gazette.
THE ASTRAKHAN PLAGUE
The Symptoms of tbe Disease For
mer Visitation* of tbe “Black
Death.”
Cincinnati Commercial.
The disease now ravaging Jhe districts
of Astrakhan is the “black death,” which
for ages has had its home in Egypt,
Syria. Greece, Turkey and the adjoining
provinces of Russia, to which countries
it is now chiefly limited. The people in
the first infected districts are dying, the
report states, like flies. So rapidly has
the disease spread that fully ten per
cent, in the newly infected districts have
perished. No one dares touch the dead,
and they lie unburied in the streets.
In the commencement of the disease
there is a feeling of weariness and fa
tigue, shivering, nausea and sickness,
confusion of ideas, giddiness and pain
in the loins. These are quickly followed
by increased stupor and delirium, by
pallor and flushing of the face, and a
feeling of intense binding or constriction
about the heart. Darting pains are felt
in the groins, armpits and other parts of
the body. The lymphatic glands be
come enlarged and carbuncles ap
pear. The tongue becomes dry
and brown, and" the gums, teeth
and lips are covered with a dark fur,
while the bowels, which are at first
eonstipated, become relaxed and dark,
offensive and sometimes bloody dis
charges are frequent. The will loses its
control over the muscles. About the
second or third day livid spots and
stripes appear upon the skm. In fatal
cases—and most are fatal—the pulse
gradually sinks, the surface becomes
cold and clammy, the blood oozes from
the mucous surfaces, and there is either
coma or delirium. The victim usually
lingers five or six days, and may pass
away without a struggle, or in convul
sions. It is said that infected persons
might visit every county in Europe
before the symptoms were recognized,
and in this way endanger the whole
world.
The plague may be spontaneously en
gendered by endemic or epidemic influ
ences; it may originate from local causes,
and may be propagated by peculiar con
tagion. Temperature seems to exert a
very great influence over it. In tropical cli
mates it is not known, and it does not long
withstand tbe cold of northern climates.
Its particular harvest time in Europe is
late in the summer and early in the fall,
especially in September. Like the germs
of yellow fever, it has thus far evaded
the examinations of chemists and micro-
scopists. As soon as absorbed it alters
the composition of the blood and the
condition of the tissues. There is no
universal cure for it. In occasional in
stances fresli air may be of benefit.
Cleanliness is generally a preventive, and
it is due to this and superior ventilation
that foreigners in the Levant are com
paratively exempt.
In 1393, so Chinese historians tell us,
there were great convulsions in nature,
and earthquakes and floods, which were
followed by drouths and famines. Hills
and lakes disappeared, and the gases
rising from the earth and decaying vege
tation and animals, rendered the air ex
cessively impure. Following these con
vulsions came Lhe great plague, and be
fore it entered Europe 13,000,000 of peo
ple in China and 25,000,000 people in
Western Asia and North Africa had
died.
It appeared in Russia, near where it
now prevails, in 1348. Constantinople
was attacked, and from there it spread
over all Turkey. The disease was car
ried to Italy, and from thence to France,
England, Germany and the low countries.
From England it was conveyed to Swe
den, and passed over the Baltic Sea into
Northern Russia. Iu only three years it
covered the whole of Europe. Half the
population of Italy died of it. Fifteen
continental cities lost 300,000 inhabitants,
London 100,000, and in Europe 2-5,000,-
000 people perished-
Tbe terrible disease was attributed by
the superstitious to tbe Jews, who were
accused of poisoning the wells, so that
the water would breed pestilence. En
tire colonies of Jews were massacred,
and thousands were so terrified that
they took their own lives. The disease
was extensively spread by numerous
bands of religious zealots, who visited
town after town, torturing their bodies
ia the vain hope of expiating the sins
of tile jieople. These Flagellants, as
they were called, comprised both men
and women, who went about nearly
naked, and each one wore a red cross
upon the breast. The church reaped a
rich harvest, for many of its frightened
subjects gave to it their all. The donors
were obliged to throw their gifts over the
walls of the inclosure, for the monks
were afraid to come in contact with
them, and shut the gatM- Multitudes
sought to escape the disease by living in
caves and woods, and starved. Some
endeavored to escape by tfie sea. They
died, and tfie sailors who picked up their
boats shared the same fate. Rotted
bodies floated down the streams, pollut
ing them and filling the air with conta
gion, Some of the delirious victims ran
through the streets of villages, tearing
out the hair and scratching the faces of
every one they met.
The plague of 1663, 1604 and 1665,
the last that prevailed very extensively,
produced fewer deaths. In 1720 Mar
seilles was almost depopulated, and in
1790 Turkey, Poland and Russia were
again visited. From all rerorU the
present nlag”,? p 4 omises to destroy as
many ilves as those of former years.
A San Francisco romance of love at
first sight: A lovely youqg Vi’qrqaq in
St. Louis leaving tfie misfortune to lose
her liu9band, to whom she wa» tenderly
attached, took her child aud went back
to her old homo in California. She was
received very coldly by her stepfather,
and after vainly struggling to get employ
ment, was finally turned into the street
by her mother. For a moment she was
completely oveniome, but remembering
an acquaintance in Bush street, to whom
she had been introduced, she sought the
hospitable home of one of tli<* kindest of
Vjomen. 4 s " ilk tottering limbs sb» was
going up the steps, her strength failed,
and with a cry of despair she fell to the
bottom, with her child closely clasped to
her bosom. The mother and child were
immediately taken into the house and re
stored to consciousness. Among the
ft lends of the family who happened tq
be present was a '.-eptlcman, tyho was
impressed with the Beauty of the widow,
and the account which she gavo of her
sufferings. His sensitive heart was
touched, and before the evening closed
he laid his hand and fortune at her feet.
It was Saturday night. They waited
until Monday, and then were u^arped.
Of ail painful things, can there be any
so excruciatingly painful as bone felon ?
We know of none that flesh is heir to.
and as this malady is quite fre.^ueot, and
the subject of muph fearueit Considera
tion, We gfvC the latest recipe for its
cure, which is giyen by that authority,
the Londop pwefi; ‘ ! .\s soon as the
pulsation which indicates the disease is
felt, put directly over the spot a fly blis
ter about the size of a thumb nail, and
let it remain for six hours, at the expira
tion of which time, directly UDder the
surface of the blister may be seen the
felon, which can be instantly taken out
with the point of a needle or a lancet. ”
The President, it is said, regards Fast-
master General Key as one of the most
pronounced Republicans in his Cabinet
Why to be sure; and it’s all owing to
the diet. While the Democrats had n '-;h
ingtogiye him buj husks, in the Cabi
net his dish js of yeal cutlet. And Key
B refers the cutlet, When, if ever, the
lemocratic calf comes to maturity. Key
will again be a Democrat. It's a matter
of “wiitlcs” with Key.—Mobile Register.
A family at Barnsley, England, was
poisoned by eating bread pudding, two
of the memuers dying. Analysis de
tected no poisonous substance ip the
pudding or in the glaze of the basin in
which it was cooked. The decision of
toxicologists was that the cause of the
poisoning was mouldy bread—a sub
stance which in some stages resembles
ergot in all its chemical reactions,
"The Irish in America."
Baltimore Sun.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal notices
very appreciatively a recent pamphlet
on “The American Irish,” by Lady
Wilde, widow of Sir Wm. Wilde, once
a leading home-ruler, who is well known
in Ireland for her patriotic poetical con
tributions under the pseudonym of
“Speranza." Lady Wilde makes some
very good points in comparing the dif
ference between Irishmen living in Eng
land and those living in America. She
says that Irishmen in England never be
come naturalized, never acquire
the English manner or the Eng
lish accent, “while in America
they rapidly become Americanized, bold
in speech, audacious in enterprise, self-
asserting in manner, and,above all, repub
lican in sentiment. No Irishman returns
from America loyal to monarchy.” The
fidelity of this portrait will at once be
recognized, and yet the Irish in America,
though becoming so promptly natural
ized and Americanized in every respect,
always retain, to their latest breath, the
most touching and tender loyalty to the
land of their birth. They find on our
soil the very field in which their ready
talents and quick spirit can most largely
and generously expand, but they never
forget, and they teach their children never
to forget, “the ol pcouctry" from which
they once emigrated with aching hearts.
To show* what some of the IrDh are doing
in America, the Journal publishes along
side of the notice of Lady Wilde's broch
ure a letter from Dillon O'Brien, describ
ing some of the operations of the Catholic
Land Colonization Bureau in Minnesota.
One single colony founded by this bu
reau contains eight hundred families of
industrious, thrifty Irish, all happily
planted on their farms or as tradesmen
in the towns. The bureau has opened
up three other colonies, containing over
one hundred and twenty thousand acres
of land, which it supplies*to acceptable set
tlers at first cost. The comparison be
tween the condition of the happy settlers
on these fertile prairies and that of the
wageless denizens in the teeming tene
ments of New Y'ork furnishes grave food
for reflection, and impels Mr. O'Brien
to press for the inauguration of a
reform in Irish immigration at
home and abroad. He says: “We have
drifted from city to city, from public
w’ork to public work, a floating popula
tion, while the Germans have been taking
possession of the great States of Illinois,
Wisconsin and Iowa. The pulpit and the
press of Iieland should keep continually
impressing upon our people at home that
when it is the misfortune of any of them
to be compelled to emigrate, to do so
with the firm resolution of going upon
land. Ou the land they can become, by
industry, independent and prosperous,
the owners of the soil in fee, the owners
of property perhaps more valuable than
the landlords’ whom they leave after
them.” In regard to these Irish colonies,,
it may be added that there is one at
Barnesville, Charlotte county, Ya., and,
though small, it is said to be doing well.
Dying with His Boots On.
Detroit Free Press.
A few days ago a drummer from tbe
East was taking a nip in a saloon near
the Central depot, and be put tbe pro
prietor up to a new dodge. It was
to place on tbe bot stove wbat seemed to
be an ounce bail and cartridge, but tbe
cartridge, or shell, was of course empty.
Very few loungers would care to remain
in the room and wait for tbe expected
explosion, and once outdoors they would
give room to cash customers. The sa-
loonist procured three or four of tbe
“bombshells," and the trick was a suc
cess from tbe start. When be bad roped
in three or four friends to aid him they
could clear the room^f loafers iu one
minute by the watch, and the fat on their
ribs grew in thickness.
Yesterday morning an ungainly-look
ing chap, who seemed to have been frost
bitten by contract, and whose old over
coat was too ragged to even tangle tbe
cold, dropped into tbe place in a quiet
way, and at once tried to surround tbe
coal stove. The saloonist asked him if
be didn't want a hot drink, and be re
plied :
“Oh, I guess not-ril thaw out by the
fire :;ftcr ah hour or two.”
Pretty soon a hint was given him that
he could buj’ a ten-cent cigar for five
cents, aud that reminded him that he
bad a clay pipe and some tobacco in his
pocket. The saloonist thereupon deter
mined to scare him out, and while fix
ing the fire he placed one of the deceiv
ers on the stove, and leaped away with
the exclamation that some fiend had
conspired to, assassinate him. The
stranger lose up, realized the peril, and
called out: ‘ ‘How lo*g ’foro the darned
thing will shoot off’" “You haven’t a
minute to live if you don't get out doors”
was the wild answer, as the saloon
ist made a dive for a rear room.
“Pete Adams," began the stranger, as
he shook off his old overcoat, “you
halu’t got a tarnai thing to live for, and
you might as well go under now, when
coffins arc cheap. "Brace up, old boy,
and die with your boots on—whoop!”
Picking up a stool be knocked the hot
water can off the stove at the first blow,
and he was whaling away at the beer
tables when the saloonist rushed in and
screamed out:
“Fly! Fly' or you're a dead man!”
“Welcome! King of Terrors!” whoop
ed Peter as he tossed a table clear over
the barkeeper’s head.
Three or four men came in to help se
cure him, hut before they had succeeded
iu jgmmiug him down behind the coal-
box they had bumps and bruises enough
to last them for a month.
“I’m the clothes-pin that never flies
from nothing jior nobody,” remarked
Peter as they finally let him up and
sought to get twenty dollars damages.
He hadn’t a red cent, and when he had
jumped through a back window and can
tered down the alley his faded and rag
ged overcoat alone remained to tell that
he had been there
Blown from a Car—A Princeton Col
lege Student Instantly Killetl.
Shortly before seven o'clock Saturday
evening, while the express train from
New York was nesting Liowood, on the
Philadelphia Wiimiugtah and Baltimore
Railrpad, between Chester and Wilming
ton, three students of Princeton College
attempted to pass from the car in which
they had been seated to a car in the rear.
The wind was blowing fiercely from the
northwest, and the first student was
nearly blown from the platform. He
lost his hat and Had to hold on tightly to
rae brake wheel. The second student,
a son of Dr. Vaughan, a prominent phy
sician of Wilmington, Del., w$s pqt so
fortunate.
The wind blew o^n his overcoat, and
iho garment filling by the fierce gust,
the yotmg m m was (blown backward
and hurled with terrific force over on
the Delaware river side of the track.
The train had gone on about four miles
Wore the conductor was apprised of
the accident. He was uiged to return,
but thought it safer to run rapidly to
Wilmington and dispatch the particu
lars to Linwood. This was done, and
when the express train reached Perry-
ville a dispatch from Linwood awaited
it, stating that a hand car hgd been
sent out and t>>&t the Jead body of young
Vaoghao ha4 been picked up. His
death must have been instantaneous,
owing to the velocity at which the train
was going when he fell. He ltad intend
ed to take dinner with his father on
9unday and return to college on Alon-
day. He was about twenty-five years
old, and of slender build.
A fellow named F. G. Figures, who
says he has recently traveled through the
South, writes for a Boston paper some
dreadful things about the people down
there. He ia uoi the Figures that won't
lie. rip is the Figures that won’t do
anything else.—Courier-Journal.
The Cheyenne Outrage.
Neto Orleans Times.
At last the Cheyenne campaign has
closed by the massacre of the last of the
unfortunate refugees from starvation and
ill-treatment. Ever since the escape of
these poor wretches from their so-called
reservation, they have deservedly had the
sympathies of all who were acquainted
with the facts in the case.
Tbe trouble came about through the
usual criminal conduct of the Indiau
agents. In the treaty made with the
Cheyennes, as with the other Southwest
ern Indians some years ago, it was stipu
lated that if they would consent to live
upon the reservation allotted to them in
Indian Territory, and abstain from raid
ing and depredations, they would be fur
nished abundant rations by government,
together with blankets and other neces
saries of life. In obedience to their part
of the contract they moved upon the
reservation in Indian Territory, where
they were committed to the care
of an Indian agent, and placed
under the surveillance of troops.
It was given them to under
stand that they w’ere not to leave the
boundaries of the reserve, even under pre
text of hunting buffalo, under penalty of
being considered hostile, and treated as
enemies. No sooner were they thus ;n
the power of the United States, than the
usual system of swindling was inaugu
rated by the agent, who defrauded them
of the only means of subsistence they had
left, and soon brought about a most
desperate condition of affairs. Starved,
maltreated, and seeing their women and
children perishing before their eyes,
a band of them made a dash for
liberty, striking for the Llano and Esta-
cado, and thence through Kansas and
Wyoming, passing to the Northern
plains to join their cousins, the Sioux.
With the rest of their history the public
is familiar. Pursued by troops, cap
tured, imprisoned in Fort Robinson, and
there starved to desperation, they were
treated in the most barbarous and inhu
man manner. Frenzied by these wrongs,
they broke from confinement, and, with
out other arms than a few knives and
old pistols, and unprovided with either
food or shelter, again sought the free
dom of the plains, preferring death bv
cold to the treatment they had received.
The last act of the tragedy has now
come. Two companies of the Third
Cavalry have pursued them and massa
cred all but a handful.
It will be remembered that these poor
wretches were almost defenseless, and
that their sole crime was striving to es
cape from lingering death by starvation
upon a reservation of tbe United States,
whither they had been lured by promises
which were never fulfilled. The recital
of their wrongs is a sickening horror,
and one which should demand a rigid in
vestigation if there is a spark of ^ G nor
left in the nation.
A young gentleman of eighteen at
Springfield, Mass., with an annual in
come of $156, wedded secretly a school-
young lady of seventeen. On Sunday he
called at her residence and his unconsci
ous mother-in-law said her daughter was
not at home. The husband forced his
way in, to sec for himself; the old lady
called for a neighbor to put him out, and
tbe bride darted forth and threw herself
into the arms of her husband, who bran
dished aloft a copy of the Boys of New
York and shouted: “Behold me lawful
wedded wife.” But they fired him out,
and his lawful wedded wife was igno-
miniously chastised and sent supperless
to bed.
£im Stills.
45 Years Before the Public.
THE CENUINE
DR. C. McLANES
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
In Boston the tramps are provided
with baths and night shirts, the hire of
which, they must work out the next day.
While in the tramp hotel the guest must
neither smoke nor swear.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
I JAIN in the right side, under the°
edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure ; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade, and
it frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The stom
ach is affected vith loss of appetite
and sickness; the bowels in general
are costive, sometimes alternative with
lax; the head is troubled with pain,
accompanied with a dull, heavy sen
sation in the back part. There is gen
erally a considerable loss of memory,
accompanied with a painful sensation
of having left undone something which
ought to have been done. A slight,
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains of weariness
and debilily; he is easily startled, his
feet are cold or burning, and he com
plains of a prickly sensation of the
skin; his spirits are low; and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely
summon up fortitude enough to try it.
In fact, he distrusts every remedy.
Several of the above symptoms attend
the disease, but cases have occurred
where few of them existed, yet exam
ination of the body, after death, has
shown the liver to have been exten
sively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, in
cases of Ague and Fever, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements, and
as a simple purgative, they are un
equaled.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Every box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Da, McLane’s
Liver Pills.
The genuine McLane’s Liver Pills
bear the signatures of C. McLane and
Fleming Bros, on the wrappers.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr.
C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name McLane, spelled differently but
same pronunciation.
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b.f.mcTeIa&co.
137 BROUGHTON STREET,
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER 8T&
GREAT REDUCTIONS!
CLOSING OUT SALE
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WINTER GOODS!
I T'ROM this date we will offer our winter stock
. at extraordinary reductions, without re
gard to cost. We would call special attention
to the following changes in pnees of cur
Fine Dress Goods
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, ror-
inerly $2 50 per yard, now $1 37)4.
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for
merly per yard, now 11 37*4-
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for
merly $1 65 per yard, now $1 25.
Black HENRIETTA CLOTHS, formerly % 1 25
per yard, now 87J4^-
Black AUSTRALIAN CRETE, formerly 50c. per
yard, now 35c.
Black AUSTRALIAN CREPE, formerly 65c. per
yard, now 40c.
Black ENGLISH CASHMERE!, formerly45c. per
yard, now 33c.
Black ENGLISH CASHMERE, formerly 56c.
per yard, now 40c.
Colored ENGLISH CASHMERE, formerly 55c.
per yard, now 40c.
Colored ENGLISH TAFFETAS, formerly 50c.,
now 30c.
Colored FRENCH CASHMERES, formerly from
90c. to $1 25 per yard, now from 65c. to 75c.
Brown FRENCli CASHMERES tone piece only),
very fine. 42 inches wide, formerly $1 25 per
yard, now 87Uc.
Black All Wool SaTEEN,formerly 65c., now 40c.
Black All Wool SATEEN.formerly 75c., now 50c.
Black BAZITS CLOTH, formerly 75c., now 55c.
Fine Black BR1LLLANTINE, formerly 51 per
J ’ard, now 75c.
iard's Rich Black DRESS SILKS, warranted
f iure, formerly 52 50 per j'ard, now 52.
iard’s Black DRESS SILKS, formerly $2 25
per yard, now 51 85.
Handsome Lyons Black SILKS, formerly 51 60,
now- 51 25.
4-1 All Wool Medicated SHAKER FLANNEL,
formerly 75c., now 60c.
4 4 White All Wool SHAKER FLANNEL, extra
heavy, formerly 75c , now 60c.
FINE HOSIERY.
Ladies’ Extra Long Colored BALBRIGGAN
HOSE, silk clocked, formerly 85c. per pair,
now 50c.
Children's Extra Long, Extra Heavy FRENCH
HOSE, 8J4 inch, formerly 70e. per pair, now
50c., smaller sizes of same at lower prices.
Children's Fine Colored BALBRIGGAN HOSE,
various sizes, at prices much under value.
Gentlemen's Heavy MERINO UNDERY1CSTS at
h greatly reduced prices.
KID GLOVES.
Alexandre's 4-button KIDS, black and colored
Jouvin's and Empress 3 button KIDS, black
and colored.
3-button KID GLOVES, evening shades, at 50c.
Ladies’ CLOAKS, BLANKETS and HEAVY
CASSIMERES at a great sacrifice.
jan6 tf B. F. Mt-KENNA A CO.
GRAY &
angl4-tf
M u ^ raD
street.
Morning
3 Whitaker
ANOTHER CONSIGNMENT OF
L;
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isses'
500 CLOAKS!
DERLIN BEAVERS and BASQUE CLOTHS,
!-> at 50 per cent, off cost of manufacture.
BEAVER CLOAKS 510. $1.2 and 515, former
price 515, $20 and $25. Tlie.se goods have got
to be sold. No reasonable offer refused.
100 pairs 10-1, 11-4 and 12-4 BLANKET8, just
received, at a great reduction in price.
20 pieces BLACK CACIIEMIRE, just received,
75c., former price $1 15.
Our entire stock of DRESS GOODS, All
Wool, Black aud Colored, reduced about 33J4c.
Our entire stock of other styles of DRESS
GOODS are msrked down 25 per cent., in order
to close this season’s purchase.
Ladies’ MERINO VESTS, very nice goods, 50c.
Gents’ MERINO VESTS, 50c., 75c., f 1, excep
tional value.
Boys’ and Misses’ VESTS, full line, from
35c. to $1.
200 dozen DAMASK and HUCK TOWELS,
from $1 per dozen to 512.
The best and largest LINEN HUCKABACK
TOWEL in this city for 25c.
5 pieces Ponson’s and Tilliard BLACK SILKS,
very heavy, and not usually offered in this
market.
m\ & O’BRIEN.
jan20 -tf
(?rit$, Peal, fttA, &t.
Grits, Meal, Feed,
! > HA N,
Corn, Oats, Hay!
O UR mill being refitted and now in full
operation, we are prepared to fill orders
for the above in any Rize lots.
Orders left at A. C. HARMON & CO.’S, 31
Whitaker street, will receive prompt attention.
Mill, A. and G. R. R, Depot.
Depot, 31 Whitaker street.
SAUSSY & HARMON.
jan'J-o&wtf
SEED OATS, BR fl, CORY!
A CHOICE LOT OF HEAVY WHITE SEED
OATS IN STORE.
Bran, Mixed Feed Oats,
Bulk and sacked.
White and Mixed Corn
In depot, on wharf and to arrive. For sale by
R. L. MERCER,
jan24-tf Congress and Jefferson str.
asoofcs.
NEW BOOKS.
FRANK LIN SQUARE LIBRARY.
DIARY FOR 1979.
GRIER’S ALMANAC FOR 1879.
Also, a fewTOYS and GAMES left, which
we are seUing very low.
IIUMTOCK & POURSElLt
132 BROUGHTON STRUCT,
jan!7-tf
Allcock’s Porous Plasters
H ERRICK’S Porous Plasters, Benson's Cap-
cine Plasters, Benson’s Mechanical Plan
ters. Arnica Strengthening Piasters, Benson’s
Rubber Plasters, Poorman’s Piaster^ Bella
donna Plasters.
For sale at
jan28 U L, C. STRONG’S Drug Store.
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