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Savannah. Ga.
faint heart.
che s'ood before him, tall and fair
- A n j gracious on that summer’s day,
\V*ith June's firsc roses in her hair,
An j nu her cheek the bloom of May.
Kut ro*y cheek, and dimpled chin,
1 And raven lashes drooping low,
C V d tli- answer he would win.
p mi r bt be Yes; wojld it be No?
\h if twere l o—his throbbing heart
‘ fairly still with sudden pain;
And if 'twere Yes, the world so wide
riis d**ep content could scarce contain,
So wondrous fair.' how could she stoop
To favor such a one as he?
Ah *w**et suspense that still leaves hope,
Ah. pain of sad uncertainty!
He held her hand so white and small,
\nd moved to press it with his lips,
But changed his mind, and let it fall,
With dullest touch of finger tips.
\nd took the seat she offered him
ppon the s fa by her side,
>*,,r made the space between them less,
Which seemed so narrow, yet so wide.
Then gazing on the perfect face,
’llie dimpled mouth, the serious eyes.
And drinking in with eager ears
The music of her low replies,
He let the bright hours drift away,
yor told the secret of his heart,
But when the shadows lengthened lay,
Hose, all reluctant, to depart.
And stammered forth, with blushing cheek,
An eager, timorous request
That si
Wool
She ga
old acquaintat.ee sake,
1 grant the rosebud from her breast.
>■ a him. with downcast eyes,
,-.itched him leave her with a sigh,
nl." s- e said, “so true, so wise;
e, if h“ were not to shy!"
i>ly.
Georgia Affairs.
A correspondent signing himself “D.”
writes us from Lawtouville that “Mr. Aaron
Silverberg, one day last week, killed fifty-
two birds in sixty shots in the course of two
liours.’’ If in the above our correspondent
means to convey the impression that Mr.
Siiverberg killed fifty-two single birds on
the wing in sixty shots in the time men
tioned, his shooting was good, and he may
someday hope to rival the champion wing
shot of the world, Captain Bogardus.
Mr. F. A. Brewster, of Brunswick, writes
us that he has two fine pullets that have
each laid an egg weighing three ounces,
and measuring one six and the other seven
and one-quarter inches. The breed of the
chickens is not given.
The tlrilliu Sun cautious its readers against
having too many Mexican dollars on hand.
A most uuuecessary caution in most in
stances.
The Cuthbert Appeal offers to present a
sewing machine to the mother exhibiting
the finest baby at the fair to be held in that
town on the 4th and 5th of July next.
The death of Mr. John L. Jones, the old
est merchant in Macon, and who has been
residing in that city since 1826, is announced.
He was seventy-seven years of age, and was
highly esteemed.
According to the figures obtained by the
County School Commissioner, there are in
Jackson county, between the school age,
1,71S white male children, 1,442 white fe
male children, making a total of 3,161.
Colored male children, 712; colored female
children, 664; total colored, 1,376. Total
number of school children in the county,
4,53*1. Total number of those unable to
read, between ten and eighteen years of
age: white, 327; colored, 602; making in
all 929. Number unable to read over
eighteen years of age, .white, 289; colored,
767; total number, 1,056.
Eggs eight cents a dozen in Gainesville.
Cheapest yet.
Hon. S. V. Jamison died at his home near
lliwassee, Towns county, on the morning of
the 22d ult., aged seventy-four years. Says
the Gainesville Eagle, speaking of his death:
‘‘Colonel Jamison was one of the pioneers
of his county, and has long been a promi
nent citizen in the community and section
in which he lived, lie has frequently rep
resented his county in both branches of the
Legislature, and was a member of the pres-
of Representatives. lie was a
ent lb
man of the sturdiest integrity both in public
and private, and will be greatly missed in
his community. Reipiiescat in pace.”
Dodge county, according to the Eastman
Times, has several hundred dollars in her
treasury, and don’t owe a dollar in the
world. She has just completed a three
thousand dollar jail and has paid every
dollar of it.
Augusta News: “Last Friday, while a
party of negro boys were seining in an old
pond in the eastern portion of the town of
Greensboro, under the superintendence of
Mr. Torn Scott, for the purpose of trans
ferring tish to another pond, they discovered
two l nited States mail bags. One of them
bad a cut in it twelve iuches long, into
which the other had been crammed. It is
supposed some money was obtained, as sev
eral receipts for registered letters were
found. They are now in the hands of W.
*-• Mayfield, revenue officer of that district,
awaiting orders from the proper authorities.
They were stolen from the house at the de
pot, where they are placed at night b}* the
igent, some time in November. The
loss was reported by the agent there when
the bags were missed, but the citizens knew
nothing of their loss until they were dis
covered in the pond. It has created some
excitement.”
Gainesville Eagle: “We learn that Mr.
Robert Marler, who lived at Young Caue,
tniou county, died suddenly on Thursday
rooming of last week. Our informant stated
that he arose, dressed himself, aDd weqt to
tbe wa.'h bowl for his morning ablution,
and while thus engaged dropped down and
expired immediately.”
a he Covington Enterprise says: “Hon.
James M. Pace, a gentleman well known to
nearly every prominent man in the Union,
Was taken suddenly ill last Saturday and for
several hours his life was despaired of.
jLppy indeed are we to aunouuce that Mr.
Face has sufficiently recovered to be up and
at his post again.”
‘‘The negro preachers in Newton county,”
the Covington Enterprise, “deserve
Peat credit in not mixing politics with their
Wigion. Ten years ago nearly every negro
jn the State had a riDg in his nose, and was
*eu to the polls by designing colored preach
ers ami dishonest Radical adventurers. To
day
a majority of our negroes will vote the
Demo--*— --* 1 • • ■ n
noeratic ticket whenever a true Southern
roan offers his name for office. There are at
.at twenty thousand negro voters in Geor-
S 1 * ami Alabama that will vote the straight-
<*ut, old-fashioned, Jeffersoniau Democratic
ticket for President and Congressmen in
XTNow let the editor of the New York
Tribune howl."
Hmesville Gazette; “It is rumored that a
company of capitalists is being formed in
savannah to build a line of light draught
steamboats for the navigation of the Can-
ouchee. Several parties interested are ex-
Pccti ij to surrey the river and ascertain tbe
Practicability of making it a success. The
“ Ver is now quite low, and it would there-
°re be an excellent time to see what im
pediments are in the way. The idea is not
“^practicable, if boats drawing but two feet
1 water could be constructed; and let our
People be assured of the fact that the enter-
f r,se * s to be pushed with vigor and uurn-
oery,f them will be found who will take
stoe'k. We await further developments and
confirmation of the rumors in circulation.”
Eastman Times: “We regret to learn of
he loss by fire on Friday last of the dwell
er *Nir 0use and contents belonging to Mr. J.
' Voo dard at Dubois, in this county. It
*® ems that Mrs. Woodard had gathered her
I ^bes preparatory to washing them, and
"r^bero lying near the door while she car-
irK?i re * rom *be house to the kettle, and
"fine engaged in building a fire under the
Kettle ami making other arrangements ne-
cessary, she discovered the 6inoke proceed-
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 12, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
ing in large volumes from the house She
soon realized the situation. The clothes
were in a blaze, and mother-like—all praise
to her—her first thought was for the safety
of her children. These she carried to
a safe distance away, and having
previously given the alarm several
gentlemen came in, but the fire
had spread so rapidly that it was impossible
to extinguish it, and they could only wit
ness the ravages of the merciless flames.
Not an article of clothing of any description
was preserved. The quiet and comfortable
little home of only a moment ago of these
young beginners waB thus suddenly trans
formed into ashes. There was no insurance
The lire originated, as is believed by all, by
a spark or coal dropped in the clothes by-
Mrs. W. as she passed out of the house
with the lighted torch, and was purely acci
dental. We are glad to learn that our citi
zens here responded quite liberally on
Tuesday last for the benefit of this family,
when their heavy loss was made known
here. It is due, however, to Mr. and Mrs.
Woodard to state in this connection that we
have heard of no appeal for help from them,
and hence this action will be the more ap
preciated bv them.”
A FRENCH CHARLEY ROSS CASE.
How the Paris Police Solved It.
Paris Letter to Chicago Times.
On the Boulevard Malesherbes a young
couple somewhat new to Paris had just
taken the place of concierge and butler
respectively. One afternoon as their
little boy of four was playing in the
passage on a .level with the street, by
which all houses here are entered, a
coupe stopped in front of the house and
a well dressed lady descended. The in
fant was attracted by the noise and ran
out. The woman stooped and fondled it
and carried it to the carriage and drove
off. The mother, in the narrow ground-
floor allotted to the concierge, saw noth
ing of this. A neighbor’s servant had
seen it, but supposed it was all right.
Had this happened in America it would
have been a Charley Ross affair. • ‘ They
manage these things better in France,” as
Lawrence Sterne was fond of saying.
The mother missed her infant in due
time. She went up and down the street
in no great uneasiness, but finding no
sign, she grew alarmed. Her alarm be
came terror as the lights of the wide
street began to burn in the early winter
evening. By chance, the servant who
had seen the cab was encountered. She
told the story. The police were called
in, and assured the terrified mother that
she should soon have her infant. One
day passed, and no infant; two days,
then two weeks, and the mother was
summoned to the station of the district.
She was shown into a private room, and
there was her small boy in the arms of a
strange lady. The mother made for the
lad, but the lady pushed her away.
“What,” said the dismayed mother,”
‘ ‘ant X not to have my child?”
The policeman spoke up: "Madame
la Comptesse claims the child as her
own.”
"It is false,” said the mother; “it is
my own. Come to me, Paul.”
The child made an effort, but was re
strained, and burst into sobs. The po
liceman interfered. He saw a much
more practical way of deciding the ques
tion of maternity than Solomon in all his
wisdom. He commanded the child to
be left free to choose. The little boy
ran with a gurgle of delight to its mother.
‘ ‘Madame la Comptesse will consider her
self under arrest (eii surveillence) until
further orders, and will not attempt to
leave the country. ”
How had the infant been found? First
every hack in the district was examined
as to its work on that particular after
noon, and in time this reduced the prob
lem lo which of a dozen or more ladies
had driven with children that day. Then
the problem came down to a lady living
in a modest quarter of the city who had
returned home with an infant and had
immediately- left the place, and had not
been seen since. Then the history of
this personage was looked up. She was
the Countess Lomenin, an English wo
man, who had separated from her hus
band. Then the departures from Paris
were traced, and so surely that within
three days the train she had taken was
known;" in another the point she
had gotten off—Calais and crossed to
Dover; then in England the
work was slow and promised to be
hopeless, when lo, the bird re alighted in
the same bush, though not in the same
cage. She had returned to Paris and
taken quarters elsewhere. She was vis
ited by the police, and vowed that the
child was her own and vows still that it
and the case is to be tried in the
is,
courts. The developments meanwhile
about the Countess illustrate not only the
portentous espionage of the police on
every man, woman and child in the eapi
tal, but reveal some extraordinary phases
of Paris life. The woman, it seems, lias
a mania for seizing children and putting
them in asylums for infants, to be
reared to certain creeds. So far as shown
she is not mercenary in her madness, but
simply bent on making monks of such
promising babes as she can seize.
Moral Courage.
Have the courage to discharge a debt
while you have the money in your
pocket. To do without tftat which you
do not need, however much you may
admire it. To speak your mind when it
is necessary that you should do so, and
to hold your tongue when it is better
that yon should lie silent. To speak to a
poor friend in a threadbare coat, even in
the street, and when a rich one is nigh.
The effort is less than many take it to
be, and the act is worthy a King. To
face a difficulty, lest it kick you harder
than you bargain for. Difficulties, like
thieves, often disappear at a glance. To
leave a convivial party at a proper hour
for so ‘ doing, however great the sacri
fice; and to star away from one, upon
* -isfo" *■—-
UCC; ituu tu otaj i*" ' i
the slightest grounds for objection, how
ever great the temptation to go. To
dance with ugly people, if yon dance
at all; and to decline dancing, if you
dislike the performance, or cannot ac
complish it to your satisfaction. To tell
a man why yon will not lend him money
he will respect you more than if you tell
him you cannot. To cut the most agree
able acquaintance you possess when he
convinces vou that he lacks principle.
"A friend ’ should bear with a friend s
infirmities,” not his vices. To wear
your old garments till you can pay for
new ones. To pass the bottle without
filling your glass when you have reasons
for so doing, and to laugh at those who
urge you to the contrary. To wear
thick hoots in winter, and to insist upon
vour wife and daughters doing the like.
'To decline playing at cards for money
when “money is an object,” or to cease
playing when your losses amount to as
much as you can afford to lose. Lastly,
have the courage to prefer propriety to
fashion—one is but the abuse of the
other.
How Order is Preserved in Paris.
—The municipal police of the city of
Paris (the population of which in 1816
was 1 988,748)consists of 7,750 “agents,”
of whom 0,890 are common policemen.
The pay of these policemen aggregates
10 208 000 francs, equal to $300 a year,
or $6 a week for each officer. But in
addition they are equipped and uniform
ed at the city’s expense, and receive each
an indemnity of 185 francs ($3<) for
lodgings, making their actual pay about
$375 a year. There are eiglity-one con1-
mmaries of police, each with his secre
tary exercising the functions at once of
police captain and polices magistrates
who are appointed by the ministry of
justice, and are responsible chiefly to the
prefect of police, a great political officer
appointed by the general government.
The cabinet of the prefect of police is
divided into three great bureaux, one of
which relates to the affairs of the secret
police {bureau lie secrete), the second to
shows, crowds,etc., the third to the press,
and into nine grand divisions, having
charge of (1) arrests and expulsions, (A)
legal surveillance, (3) prisons, passports
and lodging-houses, (4) lunatic asylumns,
(5) assistance of children, nurses, ^tc.,
(ttj provisioning of Paris, (7) navigation of
the Seine, (8) bourse, (9) police of streets,
carriages, fires, sanitary matters, etc,
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL
WALKING MATCH.
The Englishman Still Ahead—Cham
pion O'Leary Last.
THE TREATY OF BERLIN STILL
UNEXECUTED.
FURTHER REDUCTION OF WAGES
IN ENGLAND.
CALIFORNIA MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
minor Notes.
THE GREAT WALKING MATCH.
New t York, March 11.—About twenty-
five minutes after ten o’clock this morning
the record of the pedestrians stood : Rowell.
145 miles; Ilarrimau, 131 miles; Ennis, 120
miles; O'Leary, 116 miles.
Rowell’s face is greatly flushed, yet he
keeps up his quick eait, spurting at inter
vals. Harriman walks steadily, keeping up
the same gait constantly. Ennis keeps
hard at work. He has made the best mile
so far in the match in eight minutes and
twenty seconds. O’Leary goes around the
track mechanically. Opinion is freely ex-
E ressed that something is the matter with
im. His face wears a dazed appearance as
if he was stupifled. Brandy is freely given
him as a stimulant. Some bets were made
this morning on O’Leary coming in last in
the match, and they found takers. Betting
was heavy on Rowell. Odds of two to one
were taken on him. There were also some
bets made on Harriman coming in first. At
12 o’clock (noon) to-day the scores stood as
follows : Rowell, 149 miles and 1 lap; Har
riman, 139 miles and 2 laps; Ennis, 126
miles and 2 laps; O’Leary, 122 miles and 3
laps.
About midday it was reported that Rowell
was feeling very sleepy, and it required
an effort to fight the sensation off. Rowell
this morning received the following dispatch
from Sir John Astley:
“London, March 11.—To Rowell, Gil
more's Garden: Go it, my boy. Don’t over
do it. Tell Atkinson to put on a century
for me.
“[Signed] Astley.’
A century, Mr. Atkinson 6aid, was one
hundred pounds English money, or five hun
dred dollars in American coin.
Kelley reported up to ten o’clock this
morning that eleven thousand dollars had
been taken up at the ticket office.
The betting this afternoon was two to one
against O’Leary, fifty-five to one hundred
against Rowell, fifteen to one against Ennis,
and three to one against Harriman.
THE TREATY OF BERLIN STILL UNEXECUTED.
London, March 11.—The Times’ Pesth
dispatch says the pour purlers between the
powers as to the various points of the treaty
of Berlin, which is still unexecuted, have
not yet led to any positive proposals from
any quarter, but they have made apparent
the necessity of finding some general rule
applicable to all cases of difference. It
would not be surprising if the idea of an
eveutual reference of all such matters to
the Ambassadors at Constantinople, the de
cision of the majority of whom would be
final, were revived, as the only means of
terminating the tedious negotiations.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, March 11.—At the Oak
land municipal election the vote was very
heavy. The citizens elected live Council-
men and five School Trustees. The Work
ingmen two Councilmen and one School
Trustee. The vote for Mayor was close,
the citizens’ nominee probably being elected.
In the municipal election iti Saleuia, the
citizens elected the full ticket, except one
Councilman and one School Trustee by the
Workingmen.
reduction in wages.
London, March 10.—The reduction of
12^ per cent, in the wages of which the
Fife and Clockmannen colliers have receiv
ed notice, will make their average wages
three shillings per diem, which is lower
than for many years, but no serious opposi
tion to the reduction is anticipated.
THE FOREIGN PORTFOLIO IN THE SPANISH
CABINET.
London, March 11.—The Times’ Paris
correspondent says: “Contrary to announce
ment from Madrid the Marquis of Molins
has not accepted a second offer of the port
folio of Foreign Affairs in tlia^panish Cabi
net.”
THE WrMBLEDON SHOOTING TEAM.
Ottawa, March 11.—Lieut. Col. Hon.
John G. Blanchet, Speaker of the House of
Commons, takes charge of the Wimbledon
team this year, with Major Worsley King
ston second in command.
PAUL DE CASSAGNAC’S ELECTION VALID.
London, March 11.—The Daily Xetes’ Pa
ris dispatch says : “The committee of the
Chamber of Deputies have recommended
that the second election of M. Paul de Cas-
sagnac be declared valid.”
BREAKING UP OF ICE.
Pittston, Pa., March 11.—The ice in
the Susquehanna river here commenced to
move last night, and is now passing quickly
down the river. All fears of an anticipated
ice gorge are now removed.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
RUMORED DISSOLUTION OF THE
GERMAN REICHSTAG.
Division in the French Republican
Ranks.
THE POWERS ON THE NEW EGYP
TIAN MINISTR Y.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PENNSYL
VANIA R. R. COMPANY.
Special Session of the Indiana Leg-
islature.
BUTLERISM TRIUMPHANT IN MASSA
CHUSETTS.
.HiseellaucouN Foreign and Domestic
Note*.
RUMORED DISSOLUTION OF THE REICHSTAG.
London, March 11.—The Daily Xetes’ cor
respondent at Berlin, discussing the renewed
rumors of the dissolution of the Reichstag,
says the personal altercations of the last two
days have certainly complicated tbe situa
tion immensely, and if mere personal irrita
tion were to be considered, Bismarck would
have enough reason for promptly appealing
to the people, but there is yet no occasion to
doubt that the financial measures will at
least be submitted to the present Reichstag.
The Xational Zeitung seems to fear an early
dissolution. It admits that Bismarck is all
powerful iu the Federal council, which
would readily accede if he proposed the
dissolution, but it adds, ominously :
“ New elections at present would
only result in the creation of
a radical party which now doe6
not exist, unless the Socialist can
be so considered. This is supposed to relate
to the alleged intentions of Dr. Lasker to join
the advanced Lib rals. Such a coalition of
the National anil advanced Liberals would
create a regular and very radical opposi
tion.”
London, March 11.—A Pall Afall Gazette
Berlin dispatch says the dissolution of the
Reichstag is unlikely before autumn. Prince
Bismarck relies mainly upon the rural
population and will fix the day for the elec
tion after the harvest, as the most con
venient time for bringing them to the polls.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
ARREST OF AN EXPRESS ROBBER—DISSATIS
FIED INDIANS.
Chicago, March 11.—A special to the
Tribune from Omaha says: “An important ar
rest was made here of H. C. Holland,
charged with being an express robber in the
fall of 1875. He was an engineer on the
North Missouri Railroad, “and with
a confederate entered an express
ear as the train was approach
ing St. Louis, overpowered the messenger
locked him up, rifled the safes of about
three thousand dollars and got away. Hol
land, after considerable wandering, came
to Omaha, tried several places and finally
enlisted as a private soldier at Fort Omaha,
whither the officers eventually tracked him.”
Information has been received here
stating that the Spotted Tail Indians are
greatlv dissatisfied at their isolation and
want 'to get back to the Missouri river,
where supplies are cheaper.
FOUND MURDERED IN BED.
Cleveland, March 11.—John R. Avon-
tall, an old ami respected citizen of Marion,
O., was found dead in bed this morning
with a bullet hole in his head and the bed
clothing on lire. It is supposed he was
murdered by some person endeavoring to
rob the premises and the bed was set on fire
to remove the evidence of the murder.
Office op the Chief Signal observer,
Washington, D. C.» March 11.—Indies'
tions for Wednesday:
Iu the South Atlantic States, partly
cloudy weather and local rains, with north
west to northeast winds, risiDg barometer
and slight fall in temperature.
In the Middle States, partly cloudy
weather and slight fall in temperature,
northerly to westerly winds and rising ba-
romter.
In the Gulf States, northeast to southeast
winds, partly cloudy weather and light
rains, slight fall in temperature, except iu
the western portions, and stationary or
slowly rising barometer.
Iu Tennessee and the Ohio valley, clear
or fair weather, rising followed by falling
barometer, northerly to easterly winds and
slight changes in temperature.
CABINET MEETING. %
Washington, March 12.—In tbe Cabinet
meetmg to-day Secretary Sherman presented
estimates of the probable receipts and ex
penditures of the government during the
next fiscal year, and calculates that with
the arrears of pensions paid there would be
a deficit of about twenty-eight million dol
lars iu the Treasury. Congress appropria
ted money to pay these arrears, but made no
provision’for raising the funds. This matter
probably will be brought to the attention of
Congress at the extra session. The pros
pective condition of the departments in case
the legislative bill should not pass before
July 1st, was also considered.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA
RAILROAD COMPANY.
A JACKSONVILLE LETTER.
Weather and Hotel*—Influx of Rail
road Agents —General BusineM-
.Tlinor Topics — Atlunta People —
Death of Judge Wheaton—A De
lightful Excursion to Green Cove
Springs—The Steamer .Uary Draper
—Final Paragraphs—News and Per
sonal Items.
Philadelphia, March 11.—At an annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany this morning resolutions were intro
duced providing for a general reduction in
the salaries of all employes, for placing
upon the roads operated by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company their own express
to the exclusion of all other express com
panies, for placing upon their roads their
own parlor, sleeping and palace cars to the
exclusion of the Pullman Company’s,and for
prohibiting the issuing of passes except to
employes in the service of the company,
and then only when traveling on business of
tbe company.
LAWLESSNESS IN OHIO.
Cincinnati, March 11.—On Saturday
night a party of fifteen masked men called
at the residence of Wm. Moore, a brother
of General Groome, the cattle king of Win
chester, Ky., and told him that unless he
made immediate settlement of his debts he
must leave the country. Moore procured a
shotguu and fired into the crowd. The lat
ter tired a yol ley in return, three shots tak
ing effect in Moore’s body, inflicting severe
wounds. Two men who were suspected
of being implicated in the affair were after
wards arrested and lodged in jail. Yester
day their confederates overpowered the
guard and liberated them.
APPROACHING NUPTIALS OF THE DUKE OF
CONNAUGHT.
London, March 11.—The Duke of Con
naught and suite went to Queensborough
to-day to meet Princess Louisa Margaret, of
Prussia, his intended bride, and to conduct
her to Windsor. The King and Queen of
Belgium left Ostend for Windsor this
morning. Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria’s
youngest son, who was to be one of the
supporters of the Duke of Connaught at the
wedding, the Prince of Wales being the
other, is ill at Darmstadt, and cannot come.
The Prince of Wales arrived in England
yesterday from the south of Frauce.
FRENCH AFFAIRS.
Paris, March 11.—M. de Fourton in the
impeachment debate will demand to be tried,
and not merely let off with a vote of cen
sure, which he contends that the Chamber
of Deputies, not being a judicial body, has
no power to pronounce on those no longer
in office.
M. Pascal Du prat presided at the first
meeting of the Free Trade Society, which
intends to have lectures on a great scale
given throughout France. The society is
assured of the co-operation of John Bright
and of the Cobden Club.
CLEAN SWEEP OF TnE BUTLERITE9.
Westfield, Mass., March 11.—The But
ler Democracy made a clean sweep in the
election, electing their full ticket for select
men by large majorities. They also elected
two out of three school commissioners,
Rev. Thomas Smythe, a Catholic, being de
feated. A full board of assessors and all
but oue of the constables were elected on
the Butler ticket. The election was run by
the Butlerites under the head of Indepen
pent Reform. A heavy vote was polled and
there was great excitement.
NUBAR PASHA AND THE EGYPTIAN MINISTRY.
London, March 11.—A dispatch to the
Reuter Telegram Company from Cairo says
before the formation of the new Egyptian
Ministry the British and French Consuls
General presented identical notes, sayiug
that their governments did not absolutely
insist on the retention of Xu bar Pasha in
the Ministry; but if the Khedive decided
to exclude him the Khedive would be held
responsible for the maintenance of public
tranquility. The Khedive accepted the
responsibility.
MACKEREL SEINING IN THE GULF OF ST. LAW
HENCE.
Ottawa, Ost., March 11.—A motion was
made in the House of Commons to-day for
aU tbe correspondence relative to the prac
tice of mackerel seining in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence. In the debate on this motion,
which was participated in by almost every
representative of a maratime constituency,
it was shown that the practice of “purse”
seining by American fishermen in the Gulf
of St. Lawrence threatened to destroy the
valuable fisheries of the gulf waters.
MURDEROUS RESISTANCE OF A SHERIFF’S
POSSE.
St. Louis, March 11.—II. H. Vickery,
Sheriff of Douglas county, in this State,
went last Saturday, with a posse, to the house
of 8. H. Alsop to arrest him. Alsop resisted
the process and fired several shots at the
Sheriff’s party, one of which killed the
Sheriff. Alsop and his little girl, five years
old, were then killed by the Sheriff’s posse,
and two other persons wounded. The child’s
death, of course, was not designed.
REPUBLICAN CITY NOMINATIONS—TONE OF
THE WHEAT MARKET.
Chicago, March 11.—The Republican city
convention to-day nominated A. M. Wright
for Mayor, Col. P. W. Rickoby for City At
torney,* and M. A. Farwell for Treasurer.
The wheat market seems greatly demor
alized, prices to-day having declined two
cents, with a weak feeling and pressure to
sell at the 1 o’clock close. The reaction is
chiefly on account of the rumors regarding
Keene’s movements.
SPLIT IN THE RANKS OF THE FRENCH RE
PUBLICANS.
London, March 11.—Special dispatches
from Paris to the London papers discredit
the statement that the French Government
has resolved to retire if a majority on the
impeachment question is only ob
tained by the support of tbe Bight. It is
thought, however, that such support is ne
cessary, as the split in the Republican camp
has begun to attract general attention.
PENNSYLVANIA NOTES.
Philadelphia, March 11.—Jacob Ott, re
cently convicted of counterfeiting, was to
day sentenced to ten years inprisonment,
two thousand dollars tine and costs of
prosecution.
At a meeting of the Philadelphia Iron
Merchants Association to-day, prices of all
descriptions of merchant iron were advanced
fully five per cent.
THE TREATY OF BERLIN AND GERMANY’S
FIRMNESS.
Berlin, March 11.—The semi-official
papers say that surprise is felt in govern
ment circles at the general attempt made to
give to England all the credit of having
kept Russia to the treaty of Berlin. The
execution of the treaty is due above all to
Germany’s firmness.
LUCKY NUMBERS IN THE LOUISIANA LOTTERT
New Orleans, March 11.—The principal
prizes drawn in the State Lottery were as
follows: 49,211 drew $30,000; 41,220 drew
$10,000; 95,937 drew $5,000: numbers 97,022
and 78,262 each $2,500. The capital prize
was sold in Norfolk.
SPECIAL SESSION OP THE INDIANA LEGISLA
TURE.
Indianapolis, March 11.—The special se*-
sion of the Legislature convened this morn
ing and organized. The officers and clerks
of both houses are the same as at the regu
lar session.
MISSING VESSELS HEARD FROM.
Gloucester, March 11.—The schooner
Clara F. Friend, one of the missing vessels,
arrived last night, having lost three anchors.
She reports having seen five vessels on
Brown's Bank after the storm.
THE CADDO PARISH MURDERERS.
New Orleans, March 11.—The trial of
the Caddo parish murderers is progressing
before Judge Woods. The jury is composed
of seven white and five colored men.
PARDON OF COMMUNISTS.
Paris, March 11.—President Grevy has
signed a decree pardoning one hundred and
fifty Communists, including MM. Arthur
Rauc, Eli Reclees and Elisee Reclees.
CONVICTED OF MURDER.
Baltimore, March 11.—John Heath,
colored, indicted for killing Louis Schmidt,
white, by stabbing him, was to-day con
victed of murder in the first degree.
RESUMPTION OF A BANK.
New York, March IX.—The Manhattan
Savings Bank will resume business to-mor
row morning.
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Special Correspondence of the Momiruj News.
St. James Hotel, March 10.—The weath
er continues delightful, in fact, a little too
mild in the middle of the day.
This hotel is packed in - every part, and
dozen telegrams are here from Savannah to
secure rooms for parties stopping over in the
“ Forest City.”
It is really amusfng to see how rooms are
“gobbled up” the momeut a party leaves
for “up river” by new arrivals. By this
constant change of location everybody is
finally provided for in a somewhat satisfac
tory manner.
Just now the leading hotels here,
Green Cove Springs and Palatka are full,
but, like an omnibus, generallv find room
for “one more.” Ex-Gov. Gardner, of Mas
sachusetts, who is hurrying to a sick son at
Palatka, was telegraphed to Saturday night
to delay his departure until Monday morn
ing, that rooms could be secured for his
family. Hotels all full at that time. North
ern visitors in Savannah will do well to
tarry there until the crowds here thin out
little. *
The railroad agents are already flocking
here and preparing to open a lively compe-
tion for home-bound travel. Captain A. A.
Sharp, the energetic Passenger Agent of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and Mr.
John S. Barbour, of the Virginia Midland,
are at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. J. A. Mer-
cier, wno so well represents the Central
Railroad and the Ocean Steamship Line
Savannah, rented an elegant new office on
Bay street, on Saturday, and will do good
work for his lines during the next six weeks.
Mr. J. H. Griffin, of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad, is also looking after Savannah
travel.
As we rode up from the cars, on the day
of our arrival, it seemed as though Jack
sonville was “booming” in the way of busi
ness. Many elegaut new buildings have
been erected on Bay street, but merchants
tell me that the general trade has not been
good, and that they have made no money.
Mr. J. Gumberger, who has removed to a
much larger and handsomer store, says his
trade in “Florida Curiosities” and jewelry
has steadily increased. Visitors buy lesi
expensive articles in most cases, but just
now business is quite brisk. It is hoped
that the new ocean steamship lines here will
improve other branches of trade. Mr. P.
McQuaid, the agent of the New York line
and the steamers Carrie and Rosa, assures
me that such a result may be confidently
expected.
MINOR TOPICS.
There have been an unusual number of
deaths of visitors during the past few weeks,
mostly of confirmed invalids. The most
notable of these was Mr. John A. Van Nos
trand, of New Jersey, who died at the St.
James Hotel, of consumption, at the early
age of thirty-one years. He was quite 2
traveler during the last ten years of his life,
and figured as “Jack” in Mark Twain’
“ Innocents Abroad,” a narrative of his trip
to the Holy Land, and other foreign coun
tries.
Among the notable guests at the St. James
Hotel is a charming lady, Mrs. Mary J.
Holmes, authoress of “Tempest and Sun
shine” and othCT popular works of fiction.
The young lady guests of the hotel are per
fectly delighted With her society, while all
classes are charmed with her stately carriage
and graceful manner. She is still a well
preserved and handsome woman, and dresses
with rare taste and good effect. Although
the hotel is filled with families of wealth
and culture, 1 have seen but one “flashy”
dressed lady. Black and brown are the pre
vailing colors, and there is no apparent ef
fort at display. In all this crowd of wealth
and culture one can see that Mrs. Holmes is
the central figure. Her husband is a most
agreeable gentleman.
ABOUT ATLANTA PEOPLE.
Hon. Jesse Noreross and wife, of Atlanta,
are spending the winter here.
Col. E. Y. Clarke, of the Atlanta Evening
Jhst, accompanied by Mrs. Clarke, has gone
up the river.
Mr. W. A. Moore, of the firm of Marsh
& Moore, and Mr. H. T. Inman, of the great
cotton firm of Inman Bros., of Atlanta, are
at the Windsor Hotel.
Mrs. Fitten, wife of Major John A. Fitten,
of Atlanta, is spending the winter at the
Clarendon Hotel, Green Cove Springs, and
has her invalid mother, Mrs. Turner, with
her.
Captain J. H. Morgan’s excursion party
have scattered aoout, and will go home in
small slices and at different times. Quite a
uumber have exchanged their tickets and
will return via Savannah, spending several
days in the “Forest City.”
DEATH OF JUDGE WHEATON.
Many Georgians, especially in Thomas
county, will regret to hear of the death of
Judge Francis I. Wheaton, formerly of
Thomasville, but for many years a resident
of Jacksonville. He was a Northern man,
born in Massachusetts in 1818, came to
Thomasville in 1837 as a teacher, subse
quently studied law, and after his removal
to Florida was Judge of the Superior Court.
Judge Wheaton left this city ou Friday, ap
parently in his usual health, for Green Cove
Springs, where he died suddenly on Satur
day morning.
During my last visit to Florida I was a
fellow passenger with Judge Wheaton on
the steamer Lollie Boy, Captain W. A.
Shaw, and together we made the trip from
Jacksonville to Lake Jesup and return, oc
cupying several days’ time. At every land
ing the inhabitants greeted the Judge with
great cordiality, and he seemed to be a gen
eral favorite all along the river. 1 found
him a scholarly man, eminently social, and
with a fund of anecdote and historical data.
Full of generous impulses, he won the last
ing gratitude of the people of Jacksonville
by his philanthropic efforts in the yellow
fever epidemic of 1857. During his life he
held many offices of trust, and in his death
this city has lost an honored citizen.
A DELIGHTFUL EXCURSION.
On Friday last, by invitation of Captain
David Dow, one of the proprietors of the
steamer Mary Draper, I joined a select party
of excursionists to Green Cove Springs.
The Mary Draper formerly belonged to
Mr. Thomas Arkwright, of Savannah, but
her new owners have entirely reconstructed
her, and she is now one of the most elegant
and popular little excursion steamers on the
river.
Captain A. M. Beck, formerly agent of
the Nassau line, is the manager of the ex
cursions, and 1 found him as active and as
polite as ever. We left Jacksonville at eight
o'clock, in a dense fog, but succeeded in
reaching Orange Park after many exciting
incidents. The fog then cleared up, aud we
600U landed at Green Cove Springs.
Several of our party stopped over, while
the balance crossed the river to Six-Mile
creek, where the time was spent in shooting
alligators. The steamer was decorated with
two or three ’gators on her return. I pre
ferred, however, to remain at Green Covi
Springs and take a hot sulphur bath and
drink sulphur water. The Clarendon Hotel
was full of guests, and, as usual, among
them are many leading New York families,
such as the A spin walls, the Ogdens and the
Hoffmans.
I noticed that Mr. H. M. Stoddard, Mr.
C. II. Taney and wife, Mr. A. C. McAlpin
and Dr. Osceola Butler, of Savannah, were
among the recent guests at the Clarendon.
Mr. Tanev, 1 was sorry to learn, died at the
hotel on Tuesday. He was attended by his
brother, Mr. R. J. Taney, of New Orleans,
who carried his remains to that city for
burial. Every attention was paid to Mr.
Taney in his last hours by Dr. Applegate
and Dr. Rogers. Of Dr. Osceola Butler
many inquiries were made, as he was quite
popular among the guests of the hotel, after
his health became improved.
As to improvement of health at Green
Coye Spriugs, the hot sulphur baths are
almost sure to rid one of rheumatic and
other ills that flesh is heir to. In ray own
case a first attack of rheumatism quickly
yielded to hot sulphur baths, and I returned
to Jacksonville greatly improved and invigo
rated. Messrs. Harris d$ Applegate have
been proprietors of the Clarendon for many
years, and I found them unchanged in their
courteous treatment of guests, and espe
cially those who are invalids. The Morn
ing News is kept regularly on file, and
through its valuable advertising columns
the Clarendon has secured much of its large
and profitable patronage.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Mr. E. E. Jobson, not Mr. Dobson, is the
name of Dr. Webster’s efficient assistant.
He was from Columbus, Ga.
The Morning News appears to be as
popular as ever in Jacksonville. It is eagerly
sought after at the news depots and hotels.
Prof. Henri Gwinn says the visitors can’t
get along without it.
In* Messrs. Geo. L. Cary and J. H. Sand-
ford the St. James Hotel has two most ac
complished and genial clerks, who ably as
sist Mr. Campbell in his excellent manage
ment of the establishment.
Young Mr. Bolshaw, of Savannah, and
Mr. O’Connell, formerly clerk at the Mar
shall House, are now at the Moncrief Hotel
The former is going up the river this week.
his final recovery seems doubtful to his
friends.
Declining a cordial invitation from Capt.
Dow, ot the fine excursion steamer "Mary
Draper,” to visit Green Cove Springs again
to-day, I shall leave on the steamer George
M. Bird, Capt. W. A. Shaw, at noon, for
Palatka and Sanford. The travel up the
river just now is very largely increased, and
will hold good for a month longer. People
are coming late and will go home late this
year. Chatham.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN QUINCY,
FLORIDA.
Loss $20,000—Hotel and
Stores Consumed,
Quincy, Fla., March 10.—Editor Jfuming
News: At about 4:30 o’clock this morning
the rear room of the store of A. W. Smith,
Express Agent, was discovered to be on
fire, and in about two hours all the build
ings on the eastern side of the court house
square, with the exception of the store of
E. P. Dismukes tfc Bro., were in ashes.
LOSSES.
W. T. Barnett, merchant, loss $3,500; in
surance $2,500, in Liverpool and London
and Globe Company. He managed to save
a very few goods, and all his papers.
Stephens <fc Love, lawyers, loss of library
and furniture, valued at $2,000, and valua
ble papers, etc.; not a scrap being saved or
insured.
A. VV. Smith, merchant and express agent,
loss of goods, fully covered by an insurance
of $600 in the New York Home Insurance
Company. His books were burned and some
little property in the possession of the ex
press company; and,^ also, was destroyed
between three and four thousand dollars of
county scrip and about seventy-five dollars
in school scrip, which he held as County
and School Treasurer.
J. J. R. Love, merchant, loss about $8,000;
insurance $6,500 in various companies. Mr.
F. J. Scarborough, one of his clerks, lost a
gold watch and a great deal of his clothing.
James Bunce, loss of building valued at
$2,000; no insurance.
E. L. Dismukes, loss of hotel, capital in
vested, $2,500; no insurance.
Mrs. Bettie Lee, proprietress of the hotel,
loss of furniture, etc., valued at a few hun
dred dollars; no insurance. A good deal
saved, but damaged.
About twenty guns belonging to a mili
tary company, and several hundred cart
ridges for the guns, were also destroyed.
THE ORIGIN
of tbe fire is unknown. Enough people were
present at its commencement to stop it
could the water have been commanded.
comments.
Our town is without a hotel, which will
be keenly felt by the traveling public, as
many persons always prefer to stop at a
public boarding house. Most of the suffer
ers will continue on their business the best
way they can for the present. The Joss is a
very deplorable one for a town of our popu
lation, aud there is universal sympathy for
the unfortunate. A.
A Very Easy Thing to Die.
Indianapolis News.
Is death painless? The best medical
authorities have about agreed that the
last moments o£ a dying man are com
paratively free from pain, aud William
Hunter, the greatest of English physiolo
gists, upon his death bed, as he felt his
end approaching said: "If I could grasp
a pen 1 would write how easy a thing it
is to die.” But the last gasps, the stif
fening of the muscles, the death rattle,
are they painless? Is death really a
cessation of pain? These are questions
yet unanswered. No man has ever taken
the fatal step to come back and relate
his experience. Death from strychnine
poisoning is generally supposed to be the
most painful of all deaths. Tbe agonies
of the terrible tetanic spasms have been
pictured as most horrible. From the
"American Cyclopaedia” the following is
condensed:
“The symptoms it produces are diffi
culty of breathing and a sense of suffo
cation, twisting of the limb3 and tetanic
convulsions, the body becoming arched
in the back, often resting on the head
and heels. The features are convulsed,
attended by spasms of the jaws and
choking. The attack occurs in pa
roxysms, between which the intellect is
often clear at first but becomes clouded
after a succession of paroxysms. Death
occurs after an interval of suffering, last
ing usually about three hours.”
But the poisoning is not always attend
ed by suffering. C. C. Cook, the special
State House policeman and night watch
man, it will be remembered, took a dose
of strychnine by mistake about a month
ago. He was found in the State Li
brary lying upon the reading table,
perfectly unconscious, his back arched
and his head almost reaching his heels,
in a violent tetanic convulsion. Medical
aid w r as summoned, and after three hours
of pumping and rubbing, during which
he was knotted in spasms, he recovered.
His first request was for a chew of to
bacco, and in an hour’s time lie was
apparently in his customary health, and,
with the exception of a feeling of sore
ness in his muscles, he felt comparatively
well. He slept remarkably sound that
night, and got up in the morning none
the worse for his evening’s blunder. lie
described his sensations upon that occa
sion to a Xetcs reporter this morning:
‘After I had taken the stuff I walked
down the street to the Metropolitan
Theatre and took a seat. I had hardly
settled myself when I felt so strangely.
I was hot all over; grew dizzy and light
headed; everything turned white, and I
felt so queer that I got up and walked
down stairs. I went to the State Library
and laid down on the reading table. That
was the last I knew until I was brought
to. I didn’t suffer any particle of pain,
not a bit. After I came to I asked for
some tobacco, got up aud walked
around, and if I hadn’t been a little weak
and sore, I would have felt better than I
do now. It is an experience I don’t want
to have again, though. There is too
much danger in it to suit me.” A promi
nent physician and a professor in the
medical college was talked to about the
case, and gave it as his opinion that it
was very remarkable. The absence of
pain does not occur more than once in a
thousand cases.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The River and Harbor Bill—Appro
priations for Improvements in
Georsia and Florida—Surveys for
intimates—Other Items of Local
Interest—Coast Surveys-Propasa^
tiou of Pood Fishes — Wllllamee
Chandler.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Washington, March 9.—The bills which
passed during the closing hours of Congress
have just been printed. To-day for the
first time it is possible to secure copies of
them and learn their exact contents. The
river and harbor bill and the sundry civil
possess the greatest interest to your sec
tion of the country. The amendment
which Conover succeeded in placing on the
river and harbor bill in the Senate by which
$30,000 was appropriated for the continua
tion of the survey for the Florida ship canal
got choked off before the final passage of
the bill. As ihe bill went through
it contains the following Georgia and Flori
da items—the more important items of in
terest to Alabama being also given :
Tor improving harbor at Savannah, Ga.
$100,000.
For improving inside passage between
Fernandiua and St. John’s, Fla., $7,000.
For improving harbor at Cedar Keys, Fla.
inc luding removal of wreck, $15,000.
For improving Choctawhatchce river,
Florida and Alabama, $5,000.
For improving Alabama river, Alabama,
$35,000.
For improving Chattahoochee river, Geor
gia, $15,000.
For improving Flint river, Georgia, $7,000.
For improving St. Augustine creek, Geor
gia, $5,000.
For improving the Warrior and Tombigbee
rivers, Alabama, and Mississippi river, $30,
000, ot which sum $10,000 shall be expend
ed on the Tombigbee above Columbus,
and $20,000 on the Warrior and Tombigbee
below Columbus.
For improving the Apalachicola river,
Florida, including the slough connecting
the Apalachicola with the Chippola river,
$5,000.
For improving Pensacola harbor, Florida,
$10,000.
For improving Coosa river, Georgia and
Alabama, $45,000.
For improving Oostanaula and Coosa-
wattee rivers, Georgia, $3,000.
For improving Ocmulgce river, Georgia,
$7,000.
For improving Oconee river, Georgia,
$1,500.
For improving Mobile harbor to secure a
seventeen foot channel, $100,000.
For improving Brunswick harbor, Geor
gia, $20,000.
As to the expenditure of the money
bill, it is enacted
the
ippropriated by
hat “ it shall be the duty of the Secretary
of War to apply the money herein appro
priated for improvements, other than sur
veys and estimates, in carrying on the vari
ous works by contract or by hired labor, at
his discretion, and as in his judgment may
be most advantageous to the government;
and, where said works are done by contract,
such contracts shall be made after sufficient
public advertisement for proposals in such
manner and form as the Secretary of War
6hall prescribe ; and such contracts shall be
made with the lowest responsible bidders
therefor, accompanied by such securities as
the Secretary of War shall require.”
SURVEYS FOR ESTIMATES, ETC.
There is also given in the bill a large num
ber of points where the Secretary of War is
directed, at his discretion, to cause sur
veys or examinations, or both, and esti
mates of cost of improvements proper,
to be made. The money for this work
is provided for by the following section:
“That for the examinations and surveys
herein provided for and for incidental re
pairs of harbors, for which there is no spe
cial appropriation, the sum of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appro
priated, to be paid out of any moneys in the
reasury not otherwise appropriated.” In
the list of surveys authorized and provided
for in the manner above stated are the fol
lowing:
Coosa river, from the bridge of Selma
river, Rome and Dalton Railroad, to the
city of VV’etumpka, Alabama.
Charlotte Harbor and Peace creek, Flori
da.
Entrance to Cumberland sound, Florida
and Georgia.
Withlacoochee river, Florida.
Warrior, from Tuscaloosa to forks of Sip-
sey and Mulberry, Alabama.
Sipsey river, Alabama.
Chattahoochee river, Alabama, fr<5in Ge
neva to Newton.
Pea river, Alabama, from Geneva to
Elba.
The Miracle.
Two men were talking once in Eng
land.
“Well, you may say what you please,
said one; ‘I, for my part, cannot believe
that God would first impose laws on
nature and then go on to violate his own
laws. What would be the use of making
them if they are to be so easily set
aside ?”
“I dinna ken, sir, what God may do,
or what he winna do,” said the Scot,
very reverently. "But I don’t regard a
miracle to be a violation o’ the laws o’
nature, or rather the laws o’ God, that I
ken, save the wicked actions o’ wicked
men.”
“And what then,” asked he, “do you
make a miracle to be ?”
“I regard it to be merely such an inter*
ference wi’ the established course o’
things as infallibly shows us the presence
and action o’ supernatural power. What
o’clock is it wi’ you, sir, if you please ?”
It is half-past twelve exactly, Green
wich time,” replied he.
Well, sir,” said the Scot, pulling a
huge old time-piece from his pocket, “its
ane o’clock wi’ me. I generally keep my
watch a little forward, but I may have a
special reason, the noo, for setting my
watch by the railways, so you see 1 am
turning the hands o’ it round. Noo,
wad ye say I hae violated the law 0’ the
watch? True I hae done watchdom wi’
a’ its laws could not hae done for itself,
but I hae done violence to nane o’ its
laws. My action is only the interfer
ence o’ a superior intelligence for a suita
ble end. But 1 had suspended nae law',
violated nae law. Weel, then, instead o’
the watch, say the universe, instead o’
the moving o’ the hands, say God acting
worthily o’ himself, and ye hae a’ that 1
contend for him a miracle; that is, the
unquestionable presence o’ a mighty hand
working the Divine will. And if he sees
to work miracles, who can hinder
him? He has done it oftener than once
or twice already, and who dare say that
he will not get leave to do it again?”
Is there a better illustration of a mira
cle than this of the old Scotchman?
Looked at rightly, there need be no diffi
culty about this matter of miracles,
which so many rational people so coolly
iief as ti
OTHER ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
The sundry civil bill contains a uumber of
items of interest down your way. The only
public building in Georgia, Florida or Ala-
jama for which an appropriation is made is
the court house and post office at Atlanta,
Georgia. Tea thousand dollars is appropri-
ted there in fencing, grading aDd ap
proaches.
For changing the position of the light on
Fig Island, Savannah river, Georgia, and es
tablishing a range light on the tower of the
Exchauge building, Savannah, $300 is ap
propriated; and tbe Lighthouse Board is
authorized to establish said range light with
out cession of jurisdiction, provided the
government 6hall be at no expense for rent.
For continuing the construction of a light
house at or near American Shoal, Florida
Reefs, Florida, $50/000. [This light house
has been described iu this correspondence.]
For establishing a depot for buoys and
supplies ia the sixth light house district,
$6,000.
For repairing the light house at the Dorth-
west passage, entrance to Key West, Florida,
$6,000.
To reimburse keepers of Dog Island and
Saint Mark’s light stations for private prop
erty destroyed by a hurricane, $970 65.
COAST SURVEYS.
The bill also legislates as follows concern
ing the survey of tfie Atlantic and Gulf
coasts;
“For every purpose and object necessary
for and iucident to the continuation of the
survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of
the United States, the Mississippi and other
rivers, to the head of either tidal influence
or ship navigation: soundings, deep* sea
temperatures, dredgiug9 and current obser
vations along the above named coasts, and
in the Gulf of Mexico and the Qulf
Stream, including its eutrante into the
Gulf, its course through the Caribbean
and into and around the Sargasso
Sea; the triangulation toward the
western coast, and furnishing points for
State surveys: the triangulation of the Mis
sissippi river from the northern boundary of
the State of Mississippi to the Gulf; the
usual coast survey w’ork of that part of Lou
isiana lying between the mouth of the Red
river and the Gulf as a portion of the coast
included in the operations of the Coast and
Geodetic survey; the preparation ana publi
cation of charts, the Coast Pilot, and other
results of the work, with the purchase of
materials therefor, including compensation
of civilians engaged in the work, three hun
dred thousand dollars.”
PROPAGATION OP FOOD F13HES.
Under this head the bill has among others
the following items :
‘For the introduction of shad into the
protection to the people of the whole coun
try in the enjoyment of an honest ballot,
and will unite cordially with Republicans of
ever}- grade in fighting the momentous bat
tle for vital Republican principles which is
to be waged without intermission from the
18th of March until November, 1880. I make
this |prediction without changing a single
opinion or retracting a single expression of
mine concerning the past motives and action
of the President and his principal advisers.
But now he is relieved from the fear that
the Democrats will turn him out of the
Presidency and install Mr. Tilden; and he
has also come in the progress of political
events to the place where two ways meet.
He cannot travel in both; he can no longer
hold with the Democrats and run with the
Republicans; he cannot serve both the Lord
and the devil; the issues are to be sharply
defined, unmistakable and not to be evaded
he must choose this day whom he will serve
to yield to the Democrats would result in
infamy which he will not incur; and when
he has made hi6 choice and sent in his first
veto the threats and anathemas of the en
raged Democracy, if nothing else, will keep
him true in the re3t of the fight. His]
anxiety to avert the dangers of ‘rebel rule
and a solid South’ will be almost as great
as it was before election in 1S76, and he will
again be acting with, if not securing the
confidence of, the stalwart Republicans of
the nation. Mr. Murat Halstead wrote me,
shortly after March 4, I811, that President
Hayes was liable to be the most radical
President we ever had. It looks now as if
that liability after two years of defalcation
were to be partly redeemed by the Presi
Potomac.
dent.”
WASHINGTON'S VIEWS OF LOVE.
A Letter to ?Ils* Custls, His Ward.
Mr. B. J. Lossing, in an article in the
Philadelphia Weekly Times, prints a let
ter written in January, 1795, by George
Washington to Eleanor Parke Custis, a
grand-daughter of Martha Washington
and his adopted daughter. In this he
gives her the following advice on the
subject of love:
"Men and women feel the same incli
nations to each other now that they
always have done, and which they wili
continue to do until there is a new order
of things, and you, as others have done
may find perhaps that the passions of
your sex are easier raised than allayed.
Do not, therefore, boast too soon or too
strongly of your insensibility to, or re
sistance of, its powers. In the composi
tion of the human frame there is a good
deal of inflammable matter, however
dormant it may lie for a time, and, like
an intimate acquaintance of yours (a
sister just married), when the torch is
put to it, that which is within you may
burst into a blaze; for which reason, and
especially, too, as I have entered upon
the chapter of advices, I will read you a
lecture drawn from this text.
“Love is said to be an involuntary pas
sion, and it is therefore contended that
it cannot be resisted. This is true in part
only, for, like all things else, when nour
ished and supplied plentifully with ali
ment, it is rapid in its progress; but let
these be withdrawn aud it may be stifled
in its birth or much stinted in its growth.
For example, a woman (the same may be
said of the other sex) all beautiful and
accomplished, will, while her hand and
heart are undisposed of, turn the
heads and set the circle in which she
moves on fire. Let her marry, and
what is the consequence? The mad
ness ceases and all is quiet again.
Why? Not because there is any dimi
nution in the charms of the lady, but
because there is an eud of hope. Hence
it follows that love may and therefore
ought to be under the guidance of rea
son; for although we cannot avoid first
impressions, we may assuredly place
them under guard; and my motives for
treating on this subject are to show you,
while you remain Eleanor Parke Custis,
spinster, and retain the resolution to
love with moderation, the propriety of
adhering to the latter resolution, at least
until you have secured your game and
the way by which it may be accom
plished.
"When the fire is beginning to kindle
and your heart grows warm propound
these questions to it: Who is the invader?
Have I a competent knowledge of him?
Is he a man of good character, a man of
sense? For, be assured, a sensible wo
man can never be happy with a fool.
What has been his walk in life? Is he a
gambler, a spendthrift or drunkard? Is
lis fortune sufficient to maintain me in
the manner I have been accustomed to
live and my sisters do live? And is he
one to whom my friends can have no
reasonable objection? If these interro
gatories can be satisfactorily answered
there will remain but one more to be
asked. That, however, is an important
one. Have I sufficient ground to con
clude that his affections are engaged by
me? Without this the heart of sensibili
ty will struggle against a passion that is
not reciprocated—delicacy, custom, or
call it by what epithet you will, having
precluded all advances on your part.
“The declaration, without the most
indirect invitation of yours, must pro
ceed from the man to render it perma
nent and valuable, and nothing short of
;ood sense and an easy, unaffected con-
uct can draw the line between prudery
and coquetry. It woul<$ be no great de-
sarture from truth to say tnat it rarely
happens otherwise than that a thorough
paced coquette dies m celibacy as a
punishment for her attempts to mislead
others, by encouraging looks, words er
action, given for no other purpose than
lo draw men on to make overtures that
they may be rejected. ”
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THE DETECTIVE'S DREAM
George Tan*’* Surprising Feat
at the Windsor Hotel.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Mr. George Tarr, the Illinois detective,
who has been engaged in tbe successful
search for the murderers of Mr. David
Pierson, of Augusta, performed a feat
which surprised himself on Friday night,
and which is partially attributed to the
long search and the excitement attending
the arrest of Edwin Ferguson, one of the
accomplices in the bloody conspiracy.
On Friday evening, after the return of
Messrs. Hoy, Tarr'and tbe prisoners from
the chopping camp near Montrose sta
tion, tbe two detectives, accompanied by
Chief Hunger, strolled around the city
for an hour or two, and then Mr. Tarr
retired to his room at the Windsor
Hotel. He soon fell into a heavy
sleep, but it was disturbed by an
unusually lively dream, in which
his prisoner, Edwin Ferguson, escaped
and ran off at the top of his speed. The
detective evidently followed him—in his
sleep—and with surprising suddenness
aud agility Tarr leaped from his bed,
and with one bound passed through the
window of his sleeping apartment, car
rying the sash with him, and falling a
distance of several feet, but miraculously
escaping severe injuries. He was fully
awakened by his somnambulistic tumble,
but was naturally startled and confused.
Being in a strange place, and not clothed
for an extended journey in the night air,
he impulsively concluded to climb up
the side of the house to his room, and
gripping the corner with one hand, and
clawing the outside boards with the fin
gers of his other hand, and free use of
his toe-nails, he actually succeeded iu
climbing up the wall like a scared cat,and
entered his room without awakening
any of the people about the hotel.
Iu his ascent he "clawed” the boards so
violently (but successfully) that he loos
ened some of the nails on his hands and
feet, and the blood flowed from them
upon the side of the building and the
furniture and bedding in tbe room. Mr.
Tarr himself states that he had not fully-
recovered from the excitement attending
the imaginary chase after Ferguson, and
could not again perform the feat, even
if his life depended upon its successful
accomplishment.
Mr. Thompson, the proprietor of the
Windsor, states that the marks of Tarr’s
nails are plainly visible on the side of the
building, where he clambered upward,
and the blood spots still remain as proof
of the striking reality of the Dlinois de
tective’s dream. Mr. Thompson states
that he would declare the feat a physical
impossibility, if he did not know posi
tively that he had one guest able to scale
the side of a house like a cat.
The credit of subjecting electricity to
industrial uses belongs for tbe most part
to this country, but the French people
have excelled us in putting the force to
a practical purpose by employing it in
facilitating the receiving and recording
of ballots in the Chamber of Deputies.
Instead of going through the dull routine
of calling the yeas and nays, as is done
in American legislative assemblies, the
votes are recorded automatically by an
ingenious electric system. Without en
tering into an elaborate description «of
the system, it is enough to state that on
the desk of each deputy are two buttons,
not unlike those used in hotels for sig
nalling the office. By simply touching
the positive or the negative button &
Deputy’s vote is recorded at the side
of the presiding officer’s chair, the
arrangement being such that the sen
timent of the Chamber is ex
hibited to the members while the ballot
ing is going on. The votes are at the
same time recorded by permanent marks,
so that a Deputy can at once see if his
vote is correctly recorded and reported,
thus effectually preventing false voting.
In addition to recording the votes, the
name of each Deputy is at the same time
printed automatically, together with the
nature of his vote, on a paper register.
secret ballot can be conducted by sim
ply covering up the recording cabinets
and removing the names of the Deputies
from the printing presses. The system
used can also be utilized in calling tfco
roll. The advantages of such a method
are so great that steps should be taken
looking to the introduction of similar
devices in this country.
Nothing Lost by Courtiisy.*—A
courteous man often succeeds in life
when persons of ability fail. The ex
perience of every man furnishes frequent
nstances where conciliatory manners
have mtde tho fortunes of physicians,
lawyers, divines, politicians, merchants,
and, indeed, individuals of all pursuits.
In being introduced to a stranger, his
affability or the reverse creates instan
taneously a prepossession in his favor,
or awakens unconsciously a prejudice
against him. To men civility is, in fact,
what a pleasing appearance is to women;
it is a general passport to favor—a letter
of recommendation, written in a language
that every person understands. The best
of men often injure themselves by irrita
bility and consequent rudeness; whereas
men of inferior abilities have frequently
succeeded by their pleasing and agree
able manners. Of two men, equal in all
other respects, the courteous one has
twice the advantage, and by far the
better chance of making his way in the
world.
Good Advice.—Never believe, much
less propagate, an ill report about your
neighbor, without good evidence of its
truth. Never listen lo an infamous story
handed to you by a known enemy of the
person defamed, or who ia himself in
famous fqr defaming his neighbors, or
who is wont to sow discord among
brethren and excite disturbances among
society. Never utter tbe evil you know
or suspect of another, till you have the
opportunity tu expostulate with him.
Neve * speak ill of another while under
the influence of envy and malevolence,
but wait till your spirits are cooled down,
that you may better judge to utter or
suppress the matter. Never express the
evil yoq would say of your neighbor in
terms too strong or in language which
would convey an exaggerated idea of his
conduct. Never throw out against a
man broken hints and dark inuendoes,
which would leave the hearers to suspect
anything and everything that ill nature
can suggest. Never speak of your
neighbor to his own enemy, who wishes
for an occasion to slander him; for he
will certainly p^ipt the image anew and
waters of the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Golf touch it with bolder colors. In short,
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assert is so beyond belief as to be un-
but the latter is in very feeble health, and l worthy of a thought,
and Great Like States, and of salmon,white
fish, carp, gourami and other useful food
fishes into the waters of the United States
generally to which they are best adapted;
also for the propagation of cod, beTriner*
mackerel, halibut aud other 6ea fishes, and
for continuing the inquiry into the causes
of the decrease of food fishes of the United
Stales, seventy-five thousand doliiars, which
shall be immediately available.
“For constructing,equipping and fitting a
steam vessel for the hatching of shad, cod,
mackerel, halibut and other fishes along the
coast of the United States, to be built under
the direction of the Secretary of the
Treasury, according to the plans cj the
United States Fish Commission, forty-five
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary; to be available from the
pas .‘-age of this act.”
William E. Chandler, of fragrant Florida
memory during the settlement of the late
Presidential canvas in that State, has written
to the New York Tribune. William E., or,
as the irreverent put it, Williamee, has been
before the public since his career in Florida,
sometimes in the role of a witness before
Potter investigations and the like, but prin
cipally as the champion defamer of
Hayes, in print and in private co^r
versation. His near relative, equally as
fragrant, in fact more fragrant both as to
fraud manipulation and as to the smell of
gin, Zachariah Chandler, has succeeded in
bringing Mr. Hayes to the bosom of stgi-
wartism. This naturally mollifies Williamee,
as his letter to the Tribune shows, and he
attacks Hayes no more. His letter also re
moves what little doubt there may have
been in some minds that Hayes is not whol
ly converted to the worst Radical cf Radical
ism, and that he is not ready and willing to
walk hand in hand with the most stalwart
of stalwarts. The following is an
excerpt from Williamee’s letter to the Tri
bune : “I am rejoiced to be able to predict
that President Hayes [ tyllliamee never called
him President before] will interpose his veto
against every attempt, by special act or by
riders on appropriation bills, to withhold
never speak evil of a man when you are
speaking: it may probably do much hurt,
but cannot possibly do much good.
Character.—The character is formed
by the personal habits of daily life as
much as by the thoughts and principles
inculcated The careless and unmethodi
cal in action will scarcely be the ac
curate observer, the correct reporter, the
reliable authority, or the standfast sup
porter in other matters. The loose ends
of daily habits repeat themselves in the
character, and graver virtues than the
prosaic qualities of method, order,
regularity and the like follow on these
habits or forethought and observation
which elder people try so hard to incul
cate on the younger, and the younger
try' so hard not to learn. Also, no one
can exaggerate the importance of daily
combatting the sins or the frailties that
most easily beset us. To give way to
day to a fit of inconsiderate selfishness,
unfounded suspicion, irrational anger,
or careless self-indulgence makes control
all the harder to-morrow, and the folly
committed now all tho easier to repeat
then. The character is not formed by
great leaps, but one strong impression,
by a few striking experiences, but by
small repeated touches, by the constant
rippling of daily thoughts, the minute
shaping of daily^habits.— Exchange.
One of the religious newspapers says
that what it calls “an amusing possi
bility” has become a fact, and that a
telephone in the pulpit of a church in
Lowell has made the services audible in
other 3Iassachusetts towns from fifty-five
to eighty miles distant. What there is
especially amusing about prayers, hymns
and sermons so heard we leave our ex
pert contemporary to determine. But
does not the fact which interests it sug
gest a change in the conception of
religious services ? Do men go to church
now not themselves to worship, but to
hear the choir and the minister worship?
Else how can there be such a thing as
devotion by telephone ?—X. Y. Post.
Xim 2iUs.
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Jefferson Davis as “a double dyed trai
tor,” suggests the question as to whether
a double dyed President stealer is a more
agreeable object of contemplation, ilr.
Davis’ treason was an act at least which
his conscience sanctioned. Zach Chand
ler’s crime was an act whichproved that
fee had no, Qousciew*.—N. X. Star.
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