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Savannah. Ga.
" the lovi:uv hoik.
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mi the evening sun goes down,
id th“ daisies close their eyes;
dusk wrinkles to a frown,
i ir the stars hfink in the skies;
When the dew and zephyrs light
\\ ... ine perfume from the llower,
Vlien the day is meeting night,
I* ,he lovers' hour.
is the trysting time;
..utlines soften then;
portals grow sublime—
1 twilight soften men.
idden from the light
to assert their power;
day is wooing night
vers hour.
veils with kindly grace
• ; burning on the cheek,
u* timid upturned face
answers eyes that speak;
ts lip. its troth to plight:
re. then, is love's sweet dower;
lien day is kissing night,
Geonria A flairs.
A *• prominent gentleman ” remarked to a
Constitution reporter Saturday that he be
lieved twenty thousand people had emigra
ted from the Caroliuas and Georgia to Texas
In the last ten years, and he further believed
that ten thousand of these would like to
come bac k if they could do so on the same
terms on which they went.
The Albany A'b'crtivr has received no new
developments iu reference to the late shock-
inn Wit tikiml murder. Capt. P. E. Boyd and
Mr. J. A. McGregor are working up the
case, however, and hope soou to bring the
guilty parties to justice.
The measles are making rapid strides in
Oglethorpe county.
The LaGrange Reporter say’s that it knows
now what Wilhelmj does with that abnormal
«* j.’’ lie unlimbers it, on concert nights,
straps it vigorously on a lump of rosin, and
then plays on lii» little Sidle with it.” We
are rather inclined to think he holds on to
it as an advertising dodge.
The Fra- Press congratulates itself upon
the prosperous condition of Quitman. It
says that “turn which way you will, and
evidences of thrift and prosperity meet the
eye.’’
Gainesville rejoices in the possession of a
The
bit crop is being rabbidly harvested
The Sparta Times advises farmers to count
on six cents a pound for cotton next sea
son, and perhaps they will not be disap
pointed.
Atlanta t'onstiiutwn (Sunday): “Hon. W.
B. Fleming, of Walthourvillc, recently
elected to Congress from the First district,
to till the unexpired term of the late Hon.
Julian llartridge, is in the city, for the pur
pose of procuring from the Governor the
necessary credentials. He will leave for
Washington to-morrow. Judge Fleming Is
the guest of the Kimball. Yesterday quite
a number of our most prominent citizens
called upon him and extended their con
gratulations.”
Lawrenceville Herald-. “On last Friday
night the Marshal attempted to arrest three
parties from the country for some viola
tions of tin* town ordinances. Several citi
zens came to the assistance of the Marshal,
and a regular rough and tumble fight ensued,
and there were lively times on the streets
for half au hour.”
The Conyers Examiner gives utterance to
the following sensible remarks: “Every
one should endeavor to aid and encourage
home production. The plau of sending the
mouey out of the country for wagons, bug
gies, sash, doors and other articles which
are manufactured here is a most destructive
one to home mechanics. Even if the cost
*6 a trille more for home-made articles, the
fact that the local manufacturer purchases
the products of the farm and thus aids the
producer, is au important consideration.”
Says the Madison Madisonian: “It is pos
sible that at least a dozen lawyers in the
Savannah circuit will be sadly disappointed
when Governor Colquitt names Judge
Tompkins’ eun essor. We hope he will ap
point Judge Fleming to fill the vacancy,
lie is poor, deserving, able, and has filled
the position before with entire satisfaction
to the people of that circuit. The Gov
ernor will appoint a good man, however, w r e
Warrenton Clipper: “It becomes our
painful duty to write out the details of the
dreadful conclusion of Judge C. G. Lowe’s
life on Wednesday of last w’eek. He was
visiting his s >n-iu-law, Mr. Clem Gunn’s
family and was perhaps partially intoxi
cated. la the absence of the members of
the family, from the sitting room he got
hold of a bottle, which he supposed con-
taiu.-d whisky, and took several swallows.
His daughter came in and discovered there
was something the matter, and on examina
tion, found her father had taken carbolic
acid, lie set out for home and she gave
the alarm to some of her neighbors. Be
fore auy one could get up 'with him he
arrived at home and was iu the act of tell
ing his wife what hs had drank, when sud
denly he fell over dead. These are about
the facts, or at least as they were related to
us by parties well and reliably informed, in
regard to the entire details.”
*>ays the Uawkinsville Dispatch: “Mr.
John Collier, of Dooly county,, made last
year about one thousand bushels of corn,
but the best yield of his crop was upon a
£fteen-acre iield^These fifteen acres were
manured wit h cotton seed, and the rows
inadif live feet each way. The yield was
twenty-four bushels per acre, or a total of
thr>e hundred and sixty bushels on the fif
teen acres. 7'his is only* one of the many
instances that have come to our knowledge
"kbiti the last few ninths in which it has
be. n f u ijy proven that the lands of this sec
tion in he made to produce from twenty
t0 thirty bushels of corn per acre. It ic one
of the cheering indications in the progress
°ur agriculture. Our farmers are begin
ning to find out that eight to ten bushels of
corn per ac re will not do, and au improve
ment in cultivation, etc., will be the re
sult.'’
Says the Dahlonega Mountain Signal: “An
ug.y accident occurred at the pahlonega
Mine on Wednesday morning. While young
John Purdy, of New York, was feeding the
batRrio- a car on the tramway’ from the
miI ‘e got beyond the control of the breaks,
a,) I under high speed jumped into the mill
an d fell on him, with its load of half a ton
°f rocks, crushing him to the floor. How
•severe or dangerous kis hurts are we have
Dot learned. Dr. Howard went to his as-
si-Unce. Washing at the Findley is going
on rapidlv, and the great elides of January
are fast disappearing.”
„ Madison Madisonian: “The Savannah
Weekly and Duly News are two of the
best papers that reach thi9 office. It is sur
prising to us that the Weekly does not find
* ts "ay to each fireside in the State. Asa
uterary journal it is not eclipsed by any
P a Pcr; as a compendium of State and gen-
news it is par excellence, and it con
tain® besides a fund of general information
adapted to all classes and conditions. Suc
cess to each of these papers say we.”
Sparta Times and Planter: “A very’sad ac
cident occurred near Carr’s station, on Wed
nesday or Thursday of last week, resulting
;n the death of two colored children, one
•■ubout four years old and the other about
two. We find it somewhat difficult to get
particulars, but the following facts have
been gathered: It seems that the father of
the children returned to his home late in the
afternoon, and found that his wife was ab-
As it was growing late, he concluded
to go and meet the woman and accompany
ber home. Thinking it safest, he locked the
children up iu the house before leaving.
The couple did not return home till late in
the night, when, to their horror, they found
their cabin In ashes, and an investigation
soon revealed the sickening truth that their
children had been burned with the house.
Coroner Hutchins summoned a jury, and
held an inquest over the remains. We learn
that nothing was developed which might
produce suspicion of incendiarism. It is
doubtless but another instance of that care
lessness which has resulted in so many like
disasters.”
fry «o m.
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Florida Affairs.
Hon. John A. Henderson and Mr. C. E.
Dyke, editor of the Tallahassee Floridian,
have received subpoenas to appear before
the Potter Committee at Washington and
tell what they know about the crookedness
of ’76.
The Reformed Episcopal Church of Talla
hassee has purchased the building known
as the National Freedman’s Bank, and are
fitting it up as a church edifice.
Orange trees in bloom one day and ice
and cold the next puzzles the Tampa citi
zens most woefully in deciding whether it is
winter or spring iu that section.
The Lake City Reporter has been inter
viewing Major Mahon, in charge of a party
of civil engineers examining the practica
bility of digging a ship canal. The latest
work on which the party was engaged was
an exploration of Okefenokee Swamp, ap
parently one of the most desolate places,
and the Major dispels the natural idea of
the place when he recounts its inward beau
ty of scenery. Says the reporter: “Natu
ralists and hunters should avail themselves
of the pleasures of a trip through the Oke
fenokee while seeking pleasure and excite
ment in Florida. No doubt many objects
of interest are to be found within its depths,
which are now unknown, and many scenes
revealed which have no counterpart.”
On Wednesday morning last as Mrs. Tully,
wife of the Rev. W. K. Tully, of the Ocean
Presbyterian Church at Jacksonville, was
descending a pair of 6tairs, the child bent
forward to pick up something, and the
mother, in trying to prevent the child from
falling, lost her balance and rolled from the
top to the bottom of the stair case. She
received severe though not dangerous in
juries.
On Monday morning of last week, when
the store of Paine Saunders, on Second
street, Fernandina, was opened for business,
it w%s discovered that the store had been
entered the previous night, a quantity of
goods carried away, and an attempt made
to burn the building. Kerosene had been
thrown about the floor and over the goods,
fire had been applied to a candle, which was
stuck in a bottle, and the bottle placed in a
box containing hay. It was expected, evi
dently, that the candle would burn down
and ignite the hay, but. for some reason it
fell into the bottle and was extinguished.
The Nctos and Times of Gainesville have
been consolidated into one paper, to he
called the San. Mr. O. A. Myers is editor
and manager, and Mr. McK. F. McCook is
associate editor.
General E. Kirby Smith was in Jackson-
vill last Saturday.
Conover is calculating that the election of
Hon. Wilkinson Call as United States Sena
tor from Florida will create dissension in
the Democratic ranks of the State, and thus
redound to the good of the Radical party.
Another probable instance of a drowning
man catching at a straw.
Gainesville is all excitement over the
State Fair, which begins there to-day. A
correspondent of the Jacksonville Sun and
Press says : “Our people are all alive with
the fair" Strangers are coming in rapidly.
All our faces grow shorter, especially those
of hotel keepers. Our hotels, by the way,
deserve great credit for their energy and en
terprise in preparing extra rooms and bed
ding, which will enable them to accommo
date hundreds of guests who could not
be otherwise provided for. Our citizens,
too, will open their doors to visitors, and
we are confident that unless our attendance
is much greater than it has been at former
State Fairs, we shall be able to accommo
date all who wish to remain with us from
day to day. The fair building is all com
plete, and gives more space by far than the
large hall at the Jacksonville fair grounds,
and we have notice at this writing of suffi
cient exhibits to fill every foot of it. But
all must crowd a little, and we are now
building shed room for heavier articles, so
that we intend to accommodate all.”
The Forest and Stream thinks there is a
submarine volcano off the coast, of Florida.
It says : “Recent intelligence seems to con
firm our theory of a submarine volcano off
the coast of Florida, by whose recent erup
tions countless numbers of fish have not
only been killed, but the business of market
fishing, upon which so many of the coast
dwellers depend for a livelihood, put a stop
to altogether. The drift of pumice stone
along the shore of the Gulf would seem to
be almost conclusive evidence in itself.
That these eruptions are intermittent, as in
other known volcanoes, is proven by the
data pertaining to similar occurrences
twentv-five years ago in the same locality.
Inversely, that there have been inter
mittent” phenomena of precisely the
same character, proves the absolute fact of
voleauie eruptions. If we were to to be al
lowed to speculate, we might inquire what
relation or connection these oceanic dis
turbances may have with the mysterious
smoke inland, near St. Mary’s which has
been visible for the past three years, and
whose locality and source so many persons
have made futile efforts to discover. The
evidences of extreme volcanic action, not
very remote, are visible all over the western
part of Texas, while volcanoes are still
burning in Mexico, localities not so far re
moved as to make the disturbances in the
Gulf of Mexico unreliable for conclusive
data.”
Tampa Tribune: “Mr. D. M. Nix, living
on Gadsden Point, the peninsula near here,
extending into the bay and dividing Old
Tampa from Hillsborough bay, lias charge
of ten young orange groves, belonging to as
many young naval officers, near where he
lives, under his care. Most of the officers
were engaged iu the coast survey service on
this coastfor several winters up to last
spring, and of course had extra opportuni
ties of judging of the best ami most eligible
points on the Gulf coast, either for orange
groves or, prospectively, for commercial
importance, and that they should have pro
cured places on the Hillsborough bay side
of this Gadsden Point peninsula may be
taken as an estimate in which this county
aud the future of Tampa is held by men
fully capable of judging. These groves are
about five miles from town, and Mr. Nix
reports them doing well.”
Tallahassee Floridian: “The debate in
the Senate on the Edmunds resolution
called forth a forcible speech from senator
Jones, of this State, directed almost entirely
to the jurors' test oath law and the iniqui
ties practiced under it in the South. lie
began by saying that if any Senator was
anxious to enforce the Constitution, and
enact practical legislation to forbid »nd pre
vent real oppression, here was his field. Mr.
Jones thought it a much more i™I'? r ‘ a ° t
matter to restore the white population of
the Southern States to their rights aa eiti-
ZI.-US than tc be wasting time over abstract
resolutions based upon the supposition that
citizens here and there had been denied the
franchise. Mr. Jones said the to.t oath
excluded from service as bolted States
iurors all the best elements of citizens of
the South; meu whoae disabilities for par
ticipation iu the rebellion had been removed,
and who were eligible to the position o
President of the United States could not
serve as jurors. Tbe very man m Florida,
said ho 1 who administers Justice—l nited
States Judge Settle—admitted that ue utm-
SMftol take this oath; thtftteJdJg
who expounded and enforced the la*, w&o
passed sentence and Instructed juris*, was
bv this law excluded from the jury
aI)D0intin«- power haa nominated this man
JudSe, and the Senate had approved
U and it denied to others who were even
less active in support of the Southern Con-
iederaev than Settle, the right to sit as ju
rors This was a floe commentary w. .h.
judicial system of the government.
The Value op tv Eve. | In the suit
of Michael Agbakahn against Jacob J.
DetwHIeranri others, tried before Judge
Lawrence, in New dork, the jury ou Fri
day gave the plaintiff a verdict for f-.OW
He was badly hurt by n misd.rected
rocket set off not ou July 4th, but Jul}
5th, 1875, at Mount Morris Squara Be
sides other serious injuries he lost the
sjo-ht of one eye. ihe plaintiff tame
from Constantinople to study medicine
here and among other causes of com
plaint says the accident has seriously in
terfered with his ability as a physician
and surgeon.—Tribune.
The new regimental flag for the French
army has been adopted. The standard
is surmounted by a laurel wreath m
bronze, traversed by a golden dart. In
the central bard of three colors wiliap;
pear the words “Rcpublique Francaise,
and regiments which have distinguished
themselves in particular engagemen
will be permitted to inscribe gn theflfgs
of their corps the names and thedateBof
thn hattip.fi in which they have won honor.
BY TELEGRAPH.
lOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
More of Mr. Window's Emigration
Scheme.
HON. W. B. FLEMING TAKES HIS SEAT.
Important Afliilnvits Presented to the
Potter Committee.
FAMINE IMMINENT IN INDIA.
A FINANCIAL PANIC AT REVAL.
TIIE ENGLISH ROWING CHAM
PIONSHIP.
Foreign and Domestic Notes.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 17.—In the
Senate, Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, pre
sented the petition of the Negro Co-opera
tive Association of Shreveport, Louisiana,
favoring the passage of the resolution in
regard to the migration of the colored peo
ple. It was signed by a large number of
ministers, representing the colored congre
gations of that place. It was laid on the
table, the resolution now being before the
Senate.
The Senate resumed the. consideration of
unfinished business, being a bill to amend
the interual revenue laws, which contains
the amendment to reduce the tax on to
bacco. Mr. Dorsey, of Arkansas, moved to
postpone the further consideration of that
bill for the purpose of taking up the post
office appropriation bill. It was rejected by
a vote of 35 yeas to 37 nays, and the Senate
proceeded to consider the bill to amend the
iuternal revenue laws.
The Senate has had a long discussion on
the amendment of the Finance Committee
to the House iuternal revenue bill, to fix the
tax on snuff at 24 instead of 16 cents per
pound, leaving tobacco at the last named
figure. The amendment was rejected by a
vote of 14 to 30.
In the House, during the morning hour,
Mr. Hale, of Maine, offered a resolution di
recting the Committee on the Judiciary to
report a joint resolution proposing a consti
tutional amendment to prohibit the payment
of war claims except those of persons loyal
to the Union. A motion to adjourn <Was
made on the Democratic side, and the roll
call consumed the remainder of the
hour. The resolution went over without
action. A motion to suspend the rules
was made by Mr. Sparks, of Illi
nois, for the purpose of passing the
bill appropriating 826,S52,300 for the
payment of arrears of pensions. On mo
tion of Mr. Rice, of Ohio, the bill was so
amended as to include special pensioners
and pensions granted on account of sol
diers who enlisted in the war, but who died
from disabilities incurred after the cessation
of hostilities. Agreed to.
Mr. Ackliu presented the resolutions of
the Louisiana Legislature protesting against
the proceedings of the United States Cir
cuit Court at New Orleans in the prosecu
tion against the citizens of various parts of
Louisiana.
Mr. Elam, of Louisiana, presented a
resolution of the Louisiana Legislature
in regard to the sugar tariff.
Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi, presented a
resolution permitting the Vicksburg and
Memphis Railroad Company to construct a
bridge over the Yazoo river.
Hon. W. B. Fleming was sworn in to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon.
Julian llartridge.
The House agreed to a motion to suspend
the rules aud pass the river and harbor ap
propriation bill.
District of Columbia matters then re
ceived attention, aud the House took a
recess.
The evening session of the House was
devoted to memorial services in honor of
the late Representaiive Schleicher, of
Texas. The usual resolution of respect and
condolence was presented by Mr. Geddings.
Eulogies were pronounced by Messrs. Ged-
diugs, Throckmorton and Culberson of
Texas, Brentauo and Henderson of Illinois,
McKenzie of Kentucky, Tucker and Cabell
of Virginia, Eckhoff of New York, Gibson
of Louisiana, Garfield of Ohio, Harris, But
ler and Banka of Massachusetts, and Kelly
of Pennsylvania.
The House then adjourned.
POTTEK COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION.
Washington, February 17.—The Potter
Committee met this morning. The Chair
man laid before them the affidavits of Judge
II. C. Ripley and H. M. McIntosh, which
have been forwarded by Judge Cocke.
Ripley’s affidavit was to the effect that one
morning during the bitting-of the board of
State canvassers at Tallahassee he
called at the office of the Attorney
General in the State House. He met
the Attorney General, Hon. W. A. Cocke,
at the door, and he seemed quite agitated.
He stated to deponent that he had twice
been to the office of the Secretary of State
and had found the door locked on both oc
casions. While standing in front of the
Secretary’s office they saw Governor Stearns,
and General Noyes, of Ohio, come out and
walk across to tbe Governor’s office.
At the time deponent wondered that the
Governor and a citizen of a distant State
should be closeted with the Secretary of
State at the time appointed for a meeting
of the returning board. McIntosh interposes
that he was the Tallahassee correspondent
of the Savaunah Morning News, and du
ring the canvass of the returns of the last
Presidential election he one day saw J udge
Cocke, one of the three members’of the re
turning board, pacing the floor in front of
the Secretary of State’s office in a nervous
frenzy. In reply to the deponent’s question
he said: “ Those infernal scoundrels, McLln
and Cowgill, the two other members of the
board, have got me locked out,” or words to
that effect. McIntosh immediately after
wards saw Gov. Stearns, of Florida, and
Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, leave the Secretary’s
room together. The affidavits were ordered
to be placed on tbe recordof the committee.
3IMONTON BEFORE TIIE SENATE COMMITTEE
ON RAILROADS.
Washington, February 17.—Before the
Senate Committee, considering Sena
tor Jones’ bill to authorize railroad tele
graph lines for commercial purposes, Mr. J.
W. Siruontou, general agent of the As
sociated Press, made a statement to-day In
reference to the relations between the As
sociated Press and the Western Union Tele
graph Company. It was closely condeused,
interesting aud vigorous, an exposition of
the general system of the association and a
convincing demonstration that it is not in any
true sense a monopoly, that it neither lives
nor prospers by the favor cf the telegraph
company, but is absolutely independent of
that corporation, and that the postal tele
graphy, or any governmental intervention to
fix the telegraph rates, would only strength
en the Associated Press power, arid propor
tionately weaken its competition. A number
of questions were asked by members of
the committee concerning various features of
the subject in hand, and were responded to,
as the Chairman took occasion to say, very
freely and frankly.
LATER AFRICAN ADVICES.
London, February 17.—Later telcg^ras
from Madeira give the news from Pieterma
ritzburg. It is stated that at if o’clock on
the morning of the 27th of January Lord
Chelmsford was at Maritzburg in confer
ence with the Governor, Sir Baltic Frere. All
was quiet on the front aud the feeling much
calmer. The Zulus had been rfcpulsed from
the fort on the Lower Tugela. The
reports that Lord Chelmsford retired upon
Helpmakaar are unfounded. Captain Staf
ford aud Lieutenant Davies, of the National
contingent, who escaped from the disaster
at Colonel Giya’s camp, speak highly of the
conduct of all eugaged, aud of the courage
and firmness of the native contingent, thus
disposing of the reports of the mutiny and
massacre of the officers by the native sol
diers.
BOILER EXPLOSION.
Cincinnati, February 17.—The L. C.
McCormack, a small steamer, running be
tween M^riettc and Zanesville, on the
Muskingum river, exploded her boiler when
near Beverly on Saturday, killing Mixle
Ilavemyer and seriously scalding Captain
Martin and two of the crew and three
passeDgers. The boat sunk a few minutes
after the explosion.
THREATENED FAMINE IN INDIA.
Calcutta, February If.—There was a
slight fall of rain iu the Punjaub on Saturday,
but not sufficient to appreciably benefit the
crops or diminish the risk of a famine, which
imminent unless rain falls within a fort
night. In Oeide aud the northwest prov
inces the situation is equally bad. and there
is also some complaint from Bengal.
STRIKE CONTINUED.
Liverpool, February 17.—The strike con
tinues this morning, but the number of
men at work LaSre increased. Able-bodied
men from the workhouse are freely em
ployed.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA SPREADING IN ENGLAND.
London, February 17.—The pleuro-pneu-
monia is spreading among the cattle iu
North aud East Yorkshire.
ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP.
Newcastle on-Tyne, February 17.—The
boat race for four hundred pounds sterling
and the championship of Great Britain, be
tween Higgins and Elliott, took place on the
Tyne, at this place, to day, and resulted in
a victory for Elliott by about three lengths.
FINANCIAL PANIC AT REVAL.
London, February 17.—The Augsburger
Allgemeinte Zeitung reports that a panic pre
vails at Reval. in consequence of the failure
of the mercantile house of Eggers & Co.,
with liabilities of a million silver roubles.
A DERELICT BACK.
London, February 17.—The Swedish bark
Lovis, from Coosaw, S. C., has been towed to
Christiansund derelict. She was previously
reported to be in a dangerous position at
Marstrand.
TRADE DEPRESSION.
London, February 17.--About 6ix thou
sand weavers are out of employment at
Macclesfield on account of the depression
in trade.
E V E N1N G_T EL£ GRAMS.
AS U. S. JUDGE ORDERS INDICT
MENTS AGAINST CITIZENS
OF LOUISIANA.
The Owner of Ben Hill Arrested
for Fraud.
REINFORCEMENTS ORDERED TO
LORD CHELMSFORD.
THE LIVERPOOL STRIKE PRACTI
CALLY ENDED.
HpYTON TO SW1.TI FROJI PITTS
BURG TO THE GULF.
iscellaneoui* Watters.
INDICTMENTS ORDERED FRAMED.
New Orleans, February 17.—Judge
Billings, in the United States Circuit Court,
said that a statement of facts had been pre
sented to Judge Woods by the grand jury,
which facts had been presented to the ju
rors in the jury room, aud upon which the
grand jury had returned true bills of Indict
ment. These were the bills upon which it
is said the District Attorney declined
to frame indictments. Further, that
more than one Federal otSci&l
is included in the list. The Judge had ex
amined the facts 6et forth, and deemed
them sufficient to justify the indictments,
and therefore ordered the statements re
corded; also, that the District Attorney
frame the indictments. Although the Dis
trict Attorney had 6aid the government had
no further use for the grand jury at present,
Judge Billings ordered them to continue
their investigations. The trial of the Ten-
643 cases commences to-morrow.
A DISHONEST JOCKEY.
Charleston, S. C., February 17.—Ben
Pope, alias Babbit, colored, who rode Mary
W alton lu the mile dash on the last day’s
races here, confessed that he pulled the mare
all the way around the track and allowed
Ben Hill to win, having been paid twenty-
five dollars cash and a pool ticket of thirty-
nine dollars on Hill by the latter’s owner,
S. Atchison, to do so. Atchison
and the jockey were both ruled off
the track by the Jockey Club aud arrested
to-day on a charge of conspiracy to defraud,
the prosecutors being persons who had pur
chased pools on Mary W'alton. They waiv
ed an examination aud were bound over for
fifty dollars each, to appear for trial at the
June term of the Sessions Court. The war
rant was Issued against Crea, owner of the
mare, but he has left the State. The pools
and bets have all been paid, and much in
dignation exists in sporting circles against
the parties.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observes,
Washington, D. C., February 17.—Indica
tions for Tuesday :
Iu the South Atlantic States, areas of
rain, with easterly to southerly winds, fall
ing, followed by rising barometer,and winds
shifting to southwest or northwest, with
slight changes in temperature.
In the Middle States, generally cloudy
weather and snow, with northerly to east
erly winds, falling barometer aud slight
changes in temperature, followed by rising
barometer and variable winds.
In the Gulf States, winds mostly from
north to west, with partly cloudy weather,
and in the eastern portion, rain, stationary or
a slight fall in temperature and slowly ris
ing barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, varia
ble wiuds, mostly from northwest to south
west, areas of snow, followed by partly
cloudy weather, no decided change in tem
perature, with slowly rising barometer.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR LORD CHELMSFORD.
London, February 17.—The Times says:
“It is probable a brigade of all arms will be
dispatched from India to reinforce Lord
Chelmsford. The Fifty-seventh Foot will
leave Colombo, Ceylon, to-morrow, and
may be expected at Port Durban, Natal, on
March 10. In the meantime Lord Chelms
ford has already been reinforced by one
company of the Eighty-eighth Begiinent
(Connaught Bangers) from 8t. Helena, and
by three huudred men of the Second Bat
talion of the Fourth (King’s Own) from
Capetown. This will bring up his infantry
force to nearly the same strength that it
was prior to the disaster of the 22J ultimo.”
RICHMOND NOTES.
Bichmond, Va., February 17.—Frank D.
Hill <£ Co.,real estate agents,have failed. The
liabilities are stated at over sixty thousand
dollars. They made aq assignment cover
ing twenty-nine thousand dollars.
Although the bill for the settlement of the
State debt had been made tbe special order
for to-day in the Senate, it was allowed to
go by, auot.her special order intervening.
Snow fell here for three hours this morn
ing, followed by rain aud hail the remainder
of the day.
COLLAPSE OF TnE STRIKE.
London, February 17.—A dispatch from
Liverpool to the Echo says the 6trike has
practically collapsed. Oulv about three
thousand men attended to-day’s meetiug,
which resolved to continue the strike. In
the meantime, work is being resumed along
the whole line of the docks, and men are
going back in large nqnjbers. The sailors
continue to hold out.
BOYTON TO ATTEMPT TO SWIM TO THE GULF
OF MEXICO.
Cincinnati, February 17.—’A dispatch
say9 Paul Boyton is at Pittsburg waiting
for the flow of the heavy ice in the Ohio
river to become reduced, so as to make a
voyage dowu the 6tream and the Mississip
pi river to the Gulf of Mexico. It is
thought he will be able to 6tart on Thursday
next.
THE ENGLISH MONEY MARKET.
London, February 17.—The Times, In its
financial article, says: “The collection of
the government revenue has given the Bank
of England such control over the money-
market that it Is nqt probable money will be
cheaper than at present until after the end
of the financial year, April 4th.”
CONFIRMATIONS.
Washington, February 17.—The follow
ing confirmations were made to-day : John
F. Hartranft, to be Postmaster at Philadel
phia ; A. Louden Snowden, to be Superin
tendent of the Philadelphia Mint. Assistant
Treasurers—Martin P. Kennard, at Boston ;
Albert G. Edwards, at St. Louis.
REDEMPTION OF FIVE TWENTY BOND?.
Washington, February 17.—The Treas
ury to-day issued the eighty-ninth call for
the redemption of the five-twenty bonds of
1865. The amount is twenty millions of
dollars, in equal proportions of coupon and
registered bonds. i
RESIGNED.
Washington, Feb;uary If.—Judge Geo.
Andrews, United States Attorney for the
Eastern District of Tennessee, has tendered
his resignation.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
Washington, February 17.—A Demo
cratic caucus was held to-day on the sub
ject of public printing, but there was no
practical resuit of the discussion.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Mir. Tilden** Standing With the
Democratic Party—The Anti-Chi
nese Immigration Bill—Defeated
Radical Candidate* to be Provided
For—What i* Ben Butler up to f
If Secretary Sherman has any serious
intention of hanging out the bloody-shirt
as a part of his Presidential campaign—
and he has 1}eeq one of the choicest
haunters of that politic&i commodity in
this country—he hid better call his epau-
letted brother home from the South.
General Sherman is actually’ recommend
ing that Northern people go South and
settle, and has the hardihood tQ sqy that
there is no reason to think they won’t be
secure iu all their rights and enjoy life
as well as anybody. The organs can
now begin to play.—Philadelphia Times.
Prince Louis Napoleon is reported to
be lying dangerously ill at his mother’s
residence, Chiselhurst. It is said that
the Prince has for some time led an
inregular and dissipated life, and * has
been wholly regardless of the admoni
tions of his mother and of M. Rouher
and other devoted adherents of the Impe
rial family.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Washington, February 16.—Naturally
from the testimony of ex-Governor and
President elect Tilden on the cipher dis
patches, there has sprung a good deal of
“ Tilden talk ” and talk about Tilden. This
talk, contrary to the general drift of politi
cal discussion, commenced outside of Wash
ington, and was brought here by visiting pol
iticians—I came near saying “ statesmen ”—
and the newspapers. Taken up here, views
as to Mr. Tilden’s standing In the Demo
cratic party are many, if not varied, aud not
varied among Democrats, because all the
view's heard from men of that faith take either
a decided pro or a decided con 6tand on the
Tilden question. All the Democrats say
that Mr. Tilden has cleared his personal
skirts from all blame or complicity in tlm
transactions by which certain unau
thorized Democrats attempted to get
their own by paying for it. Not all—not
by any means all—Democrats think
that he should be again taken up as a
leader. Iu fact, a large majority think that
he had better be left alone in the future.
Admitting his innocence they cannot over
look the fact that tbe men who were
“ciphering” away during the progress of
the count were on the Democratic side very
near 4 to him personally and in political man
agement. If he had been any sort of a leader,
they argue that he would have known
all that was going on around him, and would
have soon squelched the Peltons, the
Marbles, the Woolleys, and id omne genus.
This is but one point that most Democrats
make against Mr. Tilden. Another is that
he will not “take” with the people—that
anything like enthusiasm in his favor would
have to be skillfully worked up instead of
coming spontaneously from the people.
Still another point is that his conduct pend
ing the late alleged count of the electoral
votes developed that,undecided what to do,
not trusting the acknowledged leader of
the party, and vacillating, Mr. Tilden
lost prestige and confidence that cannot be
regained. To a little knot of Congressmen
and others congregated in Willard’s Hotel
the other evening, Representative Joe Black
burn, in discussing Mr. Tilden’s a’titudo
after declaring that he had cleared
himself by his testimony, said: “Nothing is
plainer than the fact that Mr. Tilden is a
candidate for renomination, and that he
will use every means in his power to secure
a renomination. Nothing is plainer
than the fact that one wing of the
New York Democracy is trying to put
him again at the head of our party. And
again, nothing is plainer than the hand
writing on the wall that he will not be our
next candidate. The South has lost confi
dence in him. The Tilden ‘movement’ Is
characterized as an attempt to galvanize a
political corpse into a Democratic Presi
dential nominee. The corpse can never be
galvanized.” Mr. Blackburn is a gentleman
of decided views on all subjects, and one
who does not hesitaie to express his convic
tions. It is evident though that the great
majority of the Democrats, while they do
not go so far as Mr. Blackburn, look
very coldly on Mr. Tilden. This is par
ticularly the case with Southern Democrats,
who are almost unanimously iu favor of
Mr. Tilden—for political retirement nation
ally. Mr. Tilden, though, has quite a fol
lowing. A dispatch sent you from here be
fore he appeared before the Potter Commit
tee iu New York aud testified concerning
the cipher dispatches, stated that a Penn
sylvania editor who was in the city just
from New York, had had a long talk
iu that city with Mr. Tilden, who ex
pressed himself as perfectly willing
to appear as a witness, said that his testi
mony would, as it has, completely vindi
cate him, and that there was no doubt of
his being renominated by the Democratic
party; that a great principle was involved
in his case which the party would vindicate
in his person. Mr. Tilden’s friends use the
argument of the great principle being in
volved when they discuss with anti-Tilden
men. The latter admit the existence of
the principle, but also add that while
the party is pre-eminently the one
for fighting wrongs they cannot
exactly see the logic of attempting to right
a wrong heavily handcuffed and with defeat
staring them in the face, whereas with a
more available man at their head they have
every prospect of righting wrong iu prin-
clole if not in person.
The above is, I think, a very fair outline
of sentiment here concerning Mr. Tilden,
leaving out the Republicans, most of whom
admit that he has exculpated himself, and
all of whom express the hope that the
“Democrats will run him again,”
considering that Mr. Tilden Is go
ing to make the strongest sort
of a fight for the head of the next
Democratic ticket on the groqnd of right
ing wrong. The signs are, and continue to
multiply, that he will not be the man
whose name will head the next Democratic
National ticket.
The priqc pal debate for the past few
days in the Senate has been on the hill to
restrict Chinese emigration. The debate
Is still pending. It has brought
forth hardly anything new on the
subject, and consequently has not
been very entertaining. Senator Thur
man’s speech has probably been the most
original and able effort on the subject. The
bill which is under consideration is the one
that has already passed the House. It may
fail with this Session by not going through
the Senate for want of time, though great
efforts are being made, notably by Senators
from the Pacific 6lope, in its favor. There
has been in the past short while quite a
change of sentiment in favor of what Kear
ney denounced as the “moon-eyed leper.”
Another feature of the question js ttyat some
Radicals are crying that the proposition to
restrict emigration, as the bill proposes, is
nothing but an effort to gain political
capital in California in her elections next
fall. They would not so cry aloud If the
bill had not originated in the Democratic
House, because as it Is the Democrats get
all the capital. If the measure had been
Republican born, it would have been ail
right. As to its being a political capital
acheme, I think there are but few who
will deny that. Before the bill had been
reported to the House from the Education
and Labor Committee, Mr. Hayes and his
Cabinet- determined to make a hid fqr Cali
fornia’s favor. So Mr. Evarts, the Secretary
of State,was instructed to open negotiations
with the Chinese Mininister, Chin Lan JMn,
with the view of obtaining his consent to a
modification of the Burlingame treatv,under
which the celestial now pours by the
steamer load Into California. The Demo
crats in the House saw Mr. Hayes and bis
Cabinet, and to use a phrase not known in
the drawing room, went them one better.
If there was to be political capital made out
of the question, they thought they eight as
well come in lor a"share. So the Demo
cratic House Committee reported the bill
and the Democratic House passed it.
The only trouble with the Radicals who
are decrying th* measure is that they were
headed off by Democrats. On a vote the
8enate would not refuse to pass the bill,
That it may not come to a vote U.barely pos
sible.
At the present writing the last Republi
can member of Congress who has been
given a job because, rejected by his con
stituents, he will not be in the next Con
gress, is Mr. Bure hard— Horatio C. Bur-
chard, of Illinois. He takes the place of
Director of the Mint, Treasury De
partment. Who the next retiring
Republican Congressman that is to be
hitched to the public crib is at present
doubtful. There are others though that
will come on in turn. Burchard’s appoint
ment has created some surprise, not be
cause he is a retlrjng Republican Congress
man, but because he is what is known as a
silver man. The sangtpne silver men think
this means a better policy toward the dollar
of the daddies on the part of the Treasury
Department. It does not. John Sherman,
who is Secretary of the Treasury, has all of
those under him under such close surveil
lance that no matter how they may think they
only act as John Sherman directs. There
fore no better policy towards silver need
be expected from Mr. Burchard. The
nomination should not cause any surprise.
John Sherman made the selection. He is
hsjbg all his appointing influence, all his
connection with resumption, or all his con
nection with the refunding of tbe national
debt, to help along himself in his race for
the next Presidency. Burchard being a
silver man, is of course the representative
of that element in the West. That element
being opposed to John Sherman, John
Sherman, in order to conciliate it, makes
Burchard Director of the Mint. That’s
exactly the size of it.
“What’s Ben Butler up to now?”
asked everybody last Friday when
that cock-eyed statesman, during a
mild debate on a “Southern claim,”
said that he thought if an ex-Confederate
General, not wounded, could be put into the
Cabinet, a wounded ex-Confederate General
had a right to a pension. The inquiry has
not been answered yet. Some think that
Ben—'‘sore oid Ben’’—wanted to precipi
tate another “ debate,” and others are of
the opinion that he wanted to curry favor
with the Democrats, in order that he may
be the next candidate of the party for
the Governorship of Massachusetts, on
which he still has his revolving optics
fixed. If the first was his object he
most signally faffed. If he had the second
in view’ he made a worse failure of it. Rep
resentative Blackburn answered him quickly
that the South wanted nothing of the kind,
and intimated that it did not hold sugges
tions from Butler exactly in order. If a
capture of the Democracy in his favor was
the motive which actuated Mr. Butler, the
applause that followed Blackburn’s brief re
marks was a sharp slap in the face.
Potomac.
The Radical Conspiracy.
New Orleans Picayune.
The Chicago Time* repeats its favorite,
but utterly absurd and senseless charge
that the Democratic party, while admit
ting the validity and paramount authori
ty of the constitutional amendments,
deny that Congress has any right or au
thority, or power, to give them the ef
fect of paramount law. Can the Times
point to any instance in which such de
nial has ever been made? If so. by
whom ? Certainly not by the Southern
men in Congress whom it is in
the habit sometimes, with excess of cour
tesy, of calling Confederate brigadiers,
and sometimes with brutal insolence of
describing as the Southern dog. What
is denied by Southern men, and by
Northern men who are constitutional
lawyers, is the right, or authority, or
power of Congress, under pretence of
enforcing the amendments iu question,
to pass laws for which there is no au
thority in any part of the Constitution.
Take the case of the fifteenth amend
ment for example. These are its words:
“Section 1. The right of citizens of
the United States to vote shall not be de
nied or abridged by the United States,
or by any State, on account of race,
color or previous condition of servitude.
“Sec. 2. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appro
priate legislation.”
Does the so called enforcement act
really enforce this article by appropriate
legislation? That act imposes certain pen
alties for interference by individual per
sons with civil rights—that is to say, the
right to register and the right to vote.
But the prohibition is not directed
against persons; it is directed against
States. The Supreme Court has decided
that it is not competent for Congress to
define and punish as a crime a violation
of any right unless such right is derived
from and conferred by the constitutions.
This may be news to that enterprising
journal, the Chicago Times; but it
has been known for two years to
everybody that has kept himself in
formed of the proceedings of the Su
preme Court. It has also been decided
by that eminent tribunal that the right
to vote is not derived from the fifteenth
amendment or from any other part of
the Con-titution. lienee any law of
Congress that punishes an infraction of
that right is necessarily invalid. This
also may be news to the Times, but it is
nevetthelcss true. The Times is in the
habit of treating with scorn and con
tumely and derision the idea that there
is any limit to the legislative pow
er of Congress. It asserts it as
an indisputable proposition that in
the evolution of the American politi
cal system the reserved rights of the
States have been abolished, and all lim
itations on the legislative power obliter
ated. It assumes that the American
Congress has become omnipotent, like
the British Parliament, and that what
ever the Congress chooses to do it may
legally do. Everybody that does not
accept this view our respected contem
porary assails as a Bourbon, a fossil, a
Southern dog, or a Confederate briga
dier. Tiie conspicuous facts that the
States still have separate and distinct
local governments ; that the State Legis
lature possesses and exercises the powers
of defining and punishing crime, of
regulating social relations, and the
tenure of property], and of making
all those laws which directly affect
and protect the life and liberty and prop
erty of the citizen, and that Congress
never attempts to exercise such powers
except within the District of Columbia
and the Territories, these facts com
pletely overthrow the Times' theory. So
much the worse for the facts our re
spected contemporary will answer. We
have nothing to do with facts. These
arc fossil remains of Bourbon antiquity.
Unhappily for our contemporaiy the
Supreme Court of the United States
have decided that this hypothesis oj
Congressional omnipotence) is entirely
unfounded. They have gone fur
ther. They have decided that Con
gress cannot define and punish as
crimes any infraction of personal
rights unless such rights are conferred
by the Constitution. They have gone
still further, They have decided that
this enforcement act about which our
respected contemporary raises so hideous
a clamor, is, as to that feature which de
fines and punishes crimes against the
right of suffrage, unconstitutional and
invalid. Aud yet it is under this un
constitutional and invalid act that a band
of partisan conspirators are now prose
cuting hundreds of American citizens
and threatening them with fine' and' im
prisonment. it is under this invalid
an 1 unconstitutional act that they
are organizing a conspiracy to indict,
prqsecute aud imprison Democratic
members of Congress in order that they
may be enabled to seize the control of
the next House of Representatives, it
is under this Invalid and unconstitu
tional act that they are forcing men to
trial before juries packed by force of
law and drawn from a single political
party. And it is for exposing tee con
spiracy, for Insisting that the form of
thisjin valid and unconstitutional act shall
be expunged from the statute hook, that
the Democrats in Congress are denounced
by our respected contemporary as Bo'ur
lions, fossils, Southern dogs and Con
federate brigadiers.
StsaciAB Bhavehy of tiie Zulus.—
For courage and other war like qualities,
the Zulus may fairiy be called the
Afghans of Africa, and many of their
recorded exploits would do credit to any
trained soldier. Some few years ago a
Zulu hunter, hearing a young British
ofiioci speaK somewhat lightly of native
prowess, offered to give him a specimen
of it by killing single-handed a huge 'ion
whiclt infested the neighborhood. The
challenge was accepted, and the brave
fellow at once set forth upon his danger
ous errand, the officer and several of his
comrades following at a distance. Hav
ing drawn the beast from his lair, the
hunter wounded him with a well flung
spear, and instantly fell flat on the
ground beneath his huge shield of rhi
noceros hide, which covered his whole
body like the lid of a dish. The lion,
having vainly expended his^ury upon it,
at length drew back a few paces. In
stantly the shield rose again, a second
lance struck him, and his furious rush
encountered only the impenetrable buck
ler. Foiled again, the lion crouched
close beside his ambushed enemy, as if
meditating a siege; but the wily "savage
raised the further end of the shield just
enough to let him creep noiselessly away
in the darkness, leaving the buckler un
moved. Arrived at a safe distance, he
leveled his third spear at the broad, yel
low flank of the royal beast with such
unerring aim as to lay him dead on the
spot, and then returned composedly to
receive the apologies and congratulations
of the wondering spectators.
Died pi Tbichin.k.—Mrs. Horn,
wife of a New York jeweler, died in
that city on Friday, it is supposed of
trichina-. She and her servant had
eaten ham at the house of Hr. and Mrs,
Grifeldt, and all were taken sick, and the
survivors are still very ill. A post
mortem examination of the body of Mrs.
Horn will be made.
TWO REALISTIC SPECTACLES.
Preparations for the JIarttia Wash
ington Reception aud the Arlon
Jlasked Ball.
Extensive arrangements are being
made by the managers of the New York
Martha Washington reception and the
Arion ball, which will take place in the
Academy of Music and Gilmore’s Gar
den, respectively, on Thursday and Fri
day. At the -Martha Washington recep
tion, the audience in the body of the
house will be treated first to a picture
representing Washington delivering his
first inaugural address on the balcony of
Federal Hall. The hall will be repre
sented just at it stood in olden times,
and Washington will appear in the -per
son of a Boston gentleman, who is said
to bear a close resemblance to the Father
of his Country. The windows of the
hall will be open, and stages will be
erected, so that ladies and gen
tlemen may sit at them, thus
adding to the realistic effect. As
far as possible, the parts in this pic
turesque tableau rirnnt will he taken by
the descendants of those who were pr- s-
ent at the ceremony. On the left of the
stage will be represented the old Ver-
planck mansion, and on the right will be
cottages, gaily festooned and made in
exact imitation of the houses of a hun
dred years ago. The balconies will be
filled with costumed ladies and gentle
men. On the stage itself will stand hosts
of Continental soldiers from the Brook
lyn navy yard, and civilians in costume.
The scene, it is claimed, will be not only
realistic, but historically accurate, and
the committee intend to print on the pro
gramme of the evening a letter from the
historian, Benson J. Lossing, approving
of all the plans of the evening, which
were submitted to him before their adop
tion.
In front of the drop curtain will hang
an emblematic representation, consisting
of two medallions in green bronze, bear
ing the profiles of George and Martha
IVashington. These medallions will be
in the centre and will be surrounded
with laurel wreaths. On the left will be
a scene representing Mount Vernon, and
on the right the tomb of Washington.
The grouping of the figures in the
tableau will be under the direction of
Sarony. the photographer. After the
tableau, a “dance of ye olden time” by
thirty-two couples in costume will take
place, under the direction of William B.
De Garmo.
It is safe to say that the scene in Gil
more’s Garden, at the Arion festival,
will he strikingly unique. The Fourth
avenue end will be cut off by an immense
curtain, bearing a design of the most
curious pattern. In the centre, repre
sented as though coming towards the
audience, will*appear two immense
dolphins, one of gold and one of silver,
with tails intertwined, and with yawn
ing mouths, sixteen feet in diameter.
They will appear to be coming from a
cave, the top and edge of which are
fringed with flowers of brilliant color.
As the top of the cave slopes, large
bunches of tropical plants are seen, and
the base of the arch and the foreground
on either side are strewn with sea shells,
painted from nature. On both sides of
this main cave, from which the dolphins
appear to be issuing, are other caverns.
The green sea water plashes against the
shell-strewn beach.
The canvas on which this elaborate
scene is painted is one hundred and
twenty feet in width. At a signal the
mouths of the huge dolphins will open,
and the great procession will issue slowly
from the mouth of the silver dolphin,
and after winding about the hippodrome
will disappear in the mouth of the gold
dolphin. Highly colored butterflies will
float over the scene, suspended in gauze,
and will add to the general effect.
Among tne many wonderful objects in
the procession will be three silver dol
phins, which were modelled by a well
known German sculptor of New York.
They will appear tQ be in the water, and
will he pushing their way through the
rushes. The dolphins will look upon
the hilarious scene about them through
eyes made of street car lamps.
NORTHERNERS SOUTH.
The Hon. Joseph lleser, who served a
third term as Mayor of Galena, General
Grant’s town, has been arrested for
swindling the government, He has been
at it (the swindling) fourteen years.
A bill now before the Legislature of
lYiic'onsin contains a provision for pun
ishing tramps, under certain circum
stances, with whipping.
Some Facts from a Northern AXan In
Orange County, Florida.
Letter in Philadelphia TtJeyrapH.
In the construction of the internal gov
ernment of Orange county, for instance—
and this county is instanced for the
reason that from thence this communica
tion is addressed—the North is better re
presented than i3 the South in any
Northern Jpcql government that has
eome under iny observation. The Board
of Public Instruction is composed of four
members, two of whom are Northern
mqn—one from New York and the other
from Connecticut; the Superintendent of
Public Instruction is from Connecticut;
the Board of County Commissioners con
tains one New York man; two others of
the county officers are from the West;
the Controller of the Stale is, I am
infO ( rme,l, u Norliicrn man; and lastlv,
the Go’vernor of the State hai'ls
Connecticut as the land of his birth. And
yet we are told that by going Noutii men
with any sclf-resnect will have to recog
nize the claims or a pack of lazy, good-
for-nothings to office as superior to their
own! The inoougruity between the
statement and the facts requires no com
ment to a thinking mind. The aspect
of the South is one of fraternity and ex
treme friendliness to men of honor from
the North. T era now visiting in the
house »i an officer in the rebellion, and
a quondam Confederate Brigadier Gen
eral, a man of undoubted trustworthi
ness, and a relative of one of our best
Phduuelpbta families, who assured me the
other day that during a residence of a
number of years in Florida he had never
known a reputable Northern man to be
abused,
Oatmeal Cakes.—Fill a two-quart
basin half full with fine oatmeal, aiid a
a small piece of dripping, mix thorough
ly with tlfe hands until the moal feels
moist (more dripping should be added if
not thuught moist enough); then pour
some boiling water over the whole, stir
ring quickly with a spoon while doing
so; strew plenty of meal on the board;
turn out the dough and cover thickly
with meal; knead it well; then roll out
until of the desired thickness (cakes
should be kneaded out until thin enough
in preference to being rolled): stamp into
small round cakes or squares, place them
on the griddle, after strewing some meal
over it, imtil they are hard and toast the
other side in front of the fire until ready.
The dough that remains after the cakes
are cut out should be, if hard, put iu
the basin and some more hot water mixed
with it, then kueaded and rolled out.
The quicker the cakes are made the
better,
Fifteen Dollars fok a Kiss.—Otto
McXanuy is a St. Louis man of middle
age and sedate manners. Mary Engle
brechl is young, with a shapely figure
and a pretty face, and she dresses with
artistic neatness. Otto saw Mary in the
street for the first time, and was over
come with admiration. He threw one
arm around her waist, drew her to him,
exclaimed, “O, girly, girly,” and kissed
her three times before she could break
away. He subsequently paid fifteen dol
lars fine in a police court.
At Owensboro’, Ky., Miss Anna E.
Darble, a handsome young lady from
Fort Branch, Ind,, entered Judge Scott’s
room and whipped Edward Boone, a
Prominent young man, until the Sheriff
merposed. She said Boone had slan
dered her. She used in her punishment
a big black snake whip.
In Norway a horse can help himself to
watdr as he does to hay, from a trough
kept full of it, and accordingly drinks
like a human being at meals—a sip, then
some hay, and so on. Broken winded
horses are almost unknown in Norway.
Pedestrian (who has dropped half a
crown in front of “the blind”)—“Why,
you confounded humbug, you are not
blind!” Beggar—“Not I, "sir! If the
card says I am, they must have given me
a wrong one. I’m deaf and dumb.”
Household Recipes.
Oyster Macaroni.—Boil macaroni in
a clolli to keep it straight. Put a layer
in a dish seasoned witli butter, salt and
pepper, then a layer of oysters; alternate
until the dish is full. Mix some grated
bread with a beaten egg, spread over the
top end bake.
New Kettles —To remove the iron
taste from new kettles, boil a handful of
bay in them, and Repeat the process if
necessary, nay water is a great sweet
ener of tin, wooden aud ironware. In
Irish dairies everything used for milk is
scalded with hay water.
White Fruit Cake.—One pound of
sugar, the white of sixteen eggs, three-
fourths of a pound of butter, two cocoa-
nuts grated, one-half pound of almonds
blanched and sliced llun, two pounds of
dried citron cut thin, one teaspoonful of
soda and two of cream of tartar dis
solved in cream.
For Invalids.—Two ounces of mut
ton suet (that next the kidney is best),
cut into small pieces aud simmered in
half a pint of water fifteen minutes;
then throw the water away, and add to
the suet one quart new milk, two ounces
loaf sugar, two drachms cinnamon bark,
quarter ounce isinglas. Simmer for fif
teen minutes, strain and drink lukewarm.
Dorchester Pudding.—Half a pound
of bread crumbs grated, half a pound of
suet finely chopped, half a pound of
sugar, two eggs, oue pot of marmalade
(orange). To be boiled five hours in a
mould. Sauce: Three ounces of butter
and three ounces of sugar, to be beaten
well together; add a'glass of brandy;
beat all to a paste and put it on the top
of the pudding just before it goes to
table.
Mustard RELisn.—Beat the yolk of
two eggs; stir into this three tablespoon
fuls of French mustard, one tablespoon
ful of black pepper, one-half teaspoou-
ful of cayenne, one of salt and also of
sugar, half a cup of sharp vinegar; beat
all well together and cook until the con
sistency of custard. If not thickenough
add more custard; if too thick add vine
gar. This is a nice relish for any kind
of meat.
Salad Dressing Without Oil.—
Take the yolks of two hard boiled eggs,
aud rub them quite smooth in a mortar;
add a teaspoouful of mustard, a little
cayenne with black pepper and salt to
taste, and four or five tablcspoonfuls of
cream; lastly, add a tablespoonful of
vinegar, mix well, and it is ready. Of
course it is much better with olive oil,
but there are yet people in the world
who reject it.
Remedy for Earache.—There is
scarcely an ache to which children art
subject so hard to bear and so difficult
to cure as the earache. But there is a
remedy never known to fail. Take a bit
of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of
black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip
in sweet oil and insert into tbe ear. Put
a Uannel bandage over the head to keep
it warm. It will give immediate relief.
To Cleanse Glass Globes.—If the
globes on a gas fixture are much stained
on the outside by smo ic, soap them in
tolerably hot water in which a little
washing soda has been dissolved. Then
put a teaspoonful of powdered ammonia
in a pan of lukewarm water, and with a
bard brush scrub the globes until the
smoke stains disappear. Rinse in clean
cold water. They will be as white as if
new.
Foaming Sauce.—Beat a cup of sugar
with a quarter of a pound of butter until
it is light and creamy; add the well-
beaten yolk of an egg, then the white
cut to a stiff froth and beat vigorously.
Stir in a wine glas3 of wine very gently,
or use water and flavoring instead. Set
the bowl over the tea kettle until tbe
mixture is the thickness of cream; on no
account allow it to boil or tbe sauce will
be spoiled.
Fruit Puddings for Winter.—Take
sour cream aud saleratus enough to
sweeten it, add a pinch of salt, and mix
thick enough for biscuit. Boil out thin,
and spread any kind of fruit that has
been canned, omitting tbe juice, or pre
serves, or marmalade, or dried fruit that
has been soaked, stewed and cooled be
fore. Roll the crust up carefully, so
that the fruit will not drop out, close up
the ends, and lay it on a white towel that
has been wrung out of scalding hot wa
ter and floured. Pin the towel loosely
around the pudding, leaving plenty of
space for it to swell, then put it in a
kettle of boiling water, with a plute at
the bottom. Keep boiling constancy
untij done
B.F.McKENNA&CO.
137 BUOICHTON STREET.
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER 8TS,
WE HAVE JUST OPENED:
V I.I.YE of elegant CREPE LISSE RUCH
INGS, plain and silvered-edged.
A new line of Children's FANCY HOSIERY,
choice styles and colors from 10c. pair up.
Children's elegant FRENCH and ENGLISH
FANCY* HOSE.
A handsome assortment of Children’s Col
ored Bordered LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
at 10c.
CORSETS.
An extensive assortment of first class Cor
sets, including—
THE IMPROVED SPOON BUSK,
THE DOUBLE BUSK,
THE CR< >SS B< >NE,
THE DOWAGER. ABDOMINAL,
THE PHENIX, NURSING, and
THE 50c. LIZZIE,
The best Corset to be had at the price.
KID GLOVES.
Evening shades 3-button KIDS, 50c.
Dark shades 3-button JOUVINS, 95c., usually
$1 25 to SI 50.
Black 3-button KIDS, good at 75c.
Dark colors 2-button, 40c. up.
SHIRTS.
We are now offering in all sixes the celebra
ted QUAKER CITY DOLLAR SHIRT, made
of Wamsutta Shirting, and admitted to be
among the best made and best fitting Shirts
ever offered for sale.
Full lines also, of the QUAKER CITY 75e.
SHIRT.
Gentlemen’s LINEN COLLARS and CUFFS
Gentiemeu s LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS,
hemmed and ready for use, from 10c. up.
AT A SACRIFICE!
The balance of our stock of Ladies’ DRESS
GOODS and other WINTER GOODS we are
offering at a sacrifice.
B. F. McKENNA & CO.
feb6 tf
sEivrr 3?iUs.
45 Years Before the Public.
THE CENUINE
DR. C. McLANE’S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHB.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
I )AIN 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 debility; 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 livf.r to have been exten
sively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C- McLaxe’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 uit-
equaled.
BEWABE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Every box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dr. 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.
novS-Tu TKSSLXellF
gray & mm.
ANOTHER CONSIGNMENT OF
' aM liases' deals.
500 CLOAKS!
B erlin beavers and basque cloths,
at 50 per cent, off cost of manufacture.
BEAVER CLOAKS $7 50, $8 and 310, former
price $15. $2P and $25. These goods have got
to be sola. No reasonable offer refused.
DIRECT IMPORTATION
10,000 yards of HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES.
FRENCH NAINSOOK EDGING and INSERT
ING.
JACONET EDGINGS and FLOUNCING8.
5,000 yards EDGING, 2c., 3c., 5c. and 6c.
These goods are guaranteed full 50 per cent,
less than any such goods in this or any other
city.
100 pairs 10-4. 11-4 and 12-1 BLANKETS, Just
received, at a great reduction in price.
20 pieces BLACK CACHEMIRE, just received,
75c., former price 31 15.
Our entire stock of DRESS GOODS, All
Wool, Black and Colored, reduced about 33^c.
Our entire stock of other styles of DRESS
GOODS are marked down 25 per cent, in order
to close this season’s purchase.
Ladies’ MERINO VESTS, very nice goods, 50c,
Gents’ MERINO VESTS, 50c., 75c., $1, excep
tional value.
Boys’ and Misses’ VESTS, fuU line, from
35c. to $1.
200 dozen DAMASK and HUCK TOWED3,
from 31 per dozen to 312.
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.
GRAY & O’BRIEN.
SAVANNAH’S
Enterprise Carriage Works.
FETZER & SAiJBERG,
PROPRIETORS.
West Broad and Duffy Street*.
H AVING had long experience in the busi
ness, and with unrivalled facilities, we are
prepared to do work in the best style and at
the shortest notice.
jan20-lm FETZER & SANBERG.
THE SAVANNAH
CARRIAGE WORKS,
Old stand of McKee A Bennett,
Comer Bay and Weit Broad Street*.
A N extensive stock of Carriages. Phaetons,
Baggies, Wagon*. Harness, Whipa, Um
brellas and material of all kinds for the build
ing and repairing of vehicles. In addition to
the above a general workshop with competent
hands to bund and repair all kinds of vehicles,
at prices to suit the times. All work guaraa
teed, protected. A. K. WILSON,
je29-tf Proprietor.
Iron snd grass .founders.
liHi&EALLlTfi
IRON AND BRASS
Founders and Machinists,
East Broad St., near A. * Q. B R. Depot,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Iron Fronts tor
Stores.
BRACKETS,
IRON RAILING,
CASTINGS
Of all kinds, and
ARCHITECTUKAL
IRON WORK,
For Churches, Stores and Dwellings made to
order.
SUGAR MILLS & PANS
A SPECIALTY.
dec!0-9m
Ed. Pinaud’s Perfumery,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
AND BRILLIANTINE FOR THE HAIR.
For sale at
L, C. STRONG’S Drug Store,
feb7-tf Cor. Bull and Perry st. lane.
R ailroad and steamboat woi
executed in the best style and lowest prie
at the Morning News Steam Printing Horn
3 Whitaker street.