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tiik last soul.
niE FRENCH OF CATULLE MESDES.
, heAven. earth's altars overthrown,
..crown short life, and no thanks*
i st last from all his dreams, was
,-ss end fear immortal grown.
nly knew the burial places;
:• iiad crumbled iroin the marbla
! ancestors, and through all lands
» prayer, life left no hallowed
riienil*'*’’. then, how one man’s soul
.. -ve? ' Were legends all forgot ten?
airches stood men eouuttd gains ill
cross was now a shamble-pole.
-.ick of dawning and expanding
■s destinies with day on day:
•re came a man from far away,
c. ••There is one temple standiui
stunt land from whence I came,
rdiess, it fails but.slowly;
ergrown, it still keeps holy
god without u name.”
■ the towns that had no churches,
- r 1i.it knew r.o tin i'll of love or hope.
. :t Dount was dead and ceased *
ad vainly crowned man’s cold're-
i.itberward. Days followed days
■ul capitals on dried-up rivers;
tinting through their portals shl
• <it-i in their dismal ways,
ne strength at first, and^wift feet
,<• way was finished Youth had sped
ring feet at length and aged head
w. -rid s last temple stood before me.
t eager and all comforted,
be altar with a brow grown hoary
vpiimg soul went up in glory.
Use to a god long lied.
Gentleman'8 Magazine,
Georgia A Hairs.
i;g to the Atlanta Tbst, Captain
ic says that the Uate City Guards
t.y independent gentlemen, never
■ ; veil since their organization one
State, municipal or individual
If "f their own membership
cm fore, he says the story that
d with the Hartford soldiers in
•\V:1 hang Jell Davis,” etc., wears
on its face, and is au indirect in
Hartford citizens, he wishes the
mderstaiid that the G. C. G’s. will
their privilege to sing any soug
i\ and at any time that may suit
•ailing was the fashionable pastime
’it Ia.»t Wednesday.
:h mail of Smilhville, Lee county
- ago killed with squirrel shot an
: the bird of freedom had swoop-
•i|toil a two-year-old turkey, with
Mi ni of stealing and eating the
Ic me Courier says that Cherokee
i .iiid Alabama will be nearly on
u ry soon, judging from the way
and buggies are being sold. The
i wagons has been unprecedented in
t; ket, and the Conner takes this as
-ii of prosperity on the part
of
Uu Tut
•tday morning of last week the
i ear-old sou of the editor of the
1/ni.sevfjcr was seriously scalded by
g ou himself a large pot of boil
The little fellow suffered agonies
•lays, and for a long time was in
midition. At last accounts he was
. Sellers, of Schley county, tried
•uicido last Saturday by knock
brains with a hammer. He had
and said he was tired of living.
-N,?i Gazette says that the cotton
nit. town M as very much excited
ales were rapid and at advanced
also says that the wires were
: the week keeping New York
h;1 advised of the state of the
that point, so that they might
r transactions accordingly.
■i d voters engaged in a difficulty
is last Tuesday. From words
• i blows, and from blows one of
o come to something more
Ireiv out his pocket knife and
;e at his antagonist, -but the
f tin* latter was so thick tbattbc
dy refused to penetrate it, but
it the handle. Being unable
>h anything in this direction, the
'••fits pummeled each other until
red, when they separated with-
erial damage having been in-
•» County Vidette says the top
o in that eectiou is as dead as
1 no mistake, and this it
’»ut the crop is about one half
juM have been with favorable
ighout the year.
- ISantur wants to know why in
' '• people’s great necessities
f the business men there start
; in that c:tj ?
i• 'uuii living near Bellevue, in
1ms given birth to six
:ii v years. Twins every time
'•» the Standard, the colored
: • n Friday last was most
horses, Logs and corn
The poultry show was im-
1 | n stock. Field crops were
• *. Household and needle
• •'•i;t, and the cooking depart-
1 •• crowd, however, was not
• 'expected. The amusements
I’. A.
Dul’onr, editor of the DuPont
,: '" 1 Way cross Observer, has been
•r of his town. He is thought
nicest, Mayor in Georgia.
- 1 and eleven Atlas tese signed
Wednesday night, -having
"i so to do by the powerful
a M“a’s of Mr. John W. Drew,
■Hited a temperance crusade at
■ iia makes three hundred and
-’•i! abs ainers at present in At-
- !r «a» arrested in the house of
L.g.ir Thompson, in Atlanta,
• •• lie had entered the dwelling
d himself in a closet for the
‘ 1 r °bb rv, and when found bad
r ( > of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson
r ' 'i. lie gave his name as James
~ tl . and said that he lived iu New
u ‘ bid recently gone to Atlanta
• ,! -uab. Mrs. Thompson is a
r «»f Senator Ilill.
1 r:? . is the banner matrimonial
; • •"bate. On Tuesday night la6t
d 's were married at the same
ll ** Methodist Church there; it re-
elcrjrymen to tie the triple
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u contracting parties were
'h and Miss Carrie Oelin,
>!in and Miss Callaway, Mr.
•»3r. 11 .... . “ *■* -** 00
Tr, e i. lt * an< * Miss Lcoua Reed,
r^'^r i*! J ‘ IUTICr thus quotes the matri-
jfejj- j- : ■''' l of that city: “Spots, all
^ ov -m!)rr, none selling;
' ,‘‘'’^vi.-ry doubtful; February, in-
sales steady; March,
unsteady; April, springy,
, bill).. V; n,U * nt *y, but still uncertain;
^et! CV i. ”^ures ruling, with feverish
i^stlier ’ ^ ec ided depression, buyers
uiv, m ar k ^ j 1 * * * a rLi} - r aud f arl her apart:
state of completegollapse;
or sellers to be found.”
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Of the snow storm on Wednesday In Au
gusta,-the Aewwsays: “The cemetery pre-
a »o»t beautiful appearance, the
snrubbery and monuments being covered
- - m onuments being covered
i *i Crysta ! epr& y that chastened and
purified the resting places of the saints gone
above. All through the city, work was
stopped, and some in wonder and all with
admiration watched the falling snow flakes.
Umbrellas used by pedestrians were covered
with a white coat before a block was passed,
and coats of shaggy brown or sooted
black soon changed to whitened cloth be
neath the snowflakes’ touch. The change
In the weather was very sudden, as for some
days back Augusta has been basking in
spring and summer breezes, while to-day
old winter marks his frozen presence with
snowy card.”
Rome Courier. “ ‘Has he deserted to the
enemy ?’ begins a very sensible editorial In
the Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
upon the question of Felton’s renunciation
of all claims of belonging to the Democratic
party. No, he has not deserted. He has
simply made a clean breast of it, and gone
where he properly belongs.”
Cuthbert Messenger: “The high price of
cottou for the last two weeks is astonishing,
in the face of excessive receips as compared
with last year. We cannot account foi
this, except on the gro p •>'A>i of speculation,
and would not be surj ^rd at any moment
to see a decline of two cents per pound.
We again take the liberty of advising our
planting friends to sell as rapidly a*> pos
sible and not hold for higher prices, as wr
can see no cause on earth for a further ad
vance. There can be no doubt about a
short crop for this section of Georgia, but
we learn the crop is good iu many fertile
regions, enough so at least to warrant the
opinion that this year’s’erop will be greatly
in excess of that of last year.”
Americus Republican: “Last Sunday morn
ing, the ICtb, the neighbors of Mrs. Mary
Randall were aroused from their slumbers
about one o’clock by screams and shrieks
from that estimable lady. A gentleman re
siding but a short distance ran over to learn
the cause of the disturbance, and was In
formed that a negro rnau had just been
ejected from the house. Policeman
Erskinc was summoned, and the negro was
arrested, identified and lodged in jail. Mrs.
Thorpe, the lady who had detected the
negro in his raid, says she was awakene
from her sleep by 6ome one having
hold of her loot, but with remark
able presence of mind she con
trolled herself, and looking down at the
foot of her bed, discovered the fiend in a
kneeling position. She ordered him out,
and threatened to blow his brains out if lit
did not hurry, and iu his baste he ran over
a chair, and made his way out of 'the house
through the parlor. Mrs. Randall, who had
not up to this time been awakened, was
aroused, and supposing some one was trying
to get into the house, ordered the window
closed. Then it was that the shrieks were
uttered and the alarm given. Monday morn
ing Mrs. Thorpe came before the proper au
thorities, and, after giving the facts in the
case, two warrants were taken out against
the rascal, and the ebony gentleman, failing
to give the required bond, was again placed
iu jail for trial.”
The Elberton Gazette mentions in its last
iss«e the following batch of curiosities:
“Mr. W. R. Edwards sent us last week the
head of au auimal that resembled more that
of the tiger than anything we had ever 6eeu.
Judges of such matters pronounced it
catamount. It was killed on Y r an Duzcr
Island, on the Savannah river, and its body,
minus the head, weighed nineteen pouuds!
Mr. Frank Mattox, of Oglethorpe,
killed, about two miles below Elber-
ton, on the Jones’ Ferry r*ad, and brought
to this office last week usuake of the horned
species, which resembles the scorpion, but
without its legs. It was about thirty inches
long, and had on its tail a horn about two
Inches long, with which, it is said, it docs
its fighting. Mr. Samuel Wilson, of Madi
son county, reports to us, on the plantation
of Mr. Duncan Power, near Newtown
covey of partridges which has in it a per
fectly white one. A reward of five dollars
has been offered for its capture.
Advices from Covington, Madison, Mon
ticello and Rutledge,” remarks the Walton
County Vulette, “say that some of the mer
chants of those places are doting out n
great many farmers who fall in arrears iu
paying up their supply accounts. While it
is a great hardship upon the merchants to
fail to make their collections, we conceive
it to be much greater to the farmers to have
all their means of self support, such as
6tcck, farming implements, corn, forage
aud the like, takeu from them, leaving
them fiat in the world without any
possibility of support, to say nothing of
the menus to make payment with
iu
the future. This policy is suicidal, too.
for the merchant. If these poor men had
any cotton crops to pay with, and refused
to do so, we would be the last man to say
this, but they have made nothing now fo:
two successive years, by reasou of Provi
dential causes, aud we do think it wrong to
press the poor fellows to the wall because
they cannot help themselves. If this policy
Is pursued there will be many a wail o*
hunger and destitution in those sections
before auother crop is garnered. We are
glad to say In this connection that our own
local merchants are bciug ju6t as lenien
1th their customers as their own absolute
necessities will admit of, and we hope wi
will be able to cay this the balance of the
season.”
“It Is our painful duty” eay3 the Talbot-
ton Register, “to chronicle one of the most
dastardly outrages aud cold blooded at
tempts at assassination ever perpetrated in
the county. About eight o’clock on Satur
day night last, Mr. William Boswell, a most
worthy aud peaceable young man, at the
time being on a visit to ills brother-in-law,
Mr. Henry Edwards, living three miles
north of Talbotton, prepared a torch with
the intention of looking after a tar kiln, a
short distance from the dwelling. The
night was intensely dark and cloudy. Mr.
Boswell was making his way through
cotton patch near the house, when ho
heard the report of a pistol and felt a
ball enter his body. Thinking he might
be shot again he rau off a short piece, bui
was not further molested. lie was within
twenty feet of the public highway when
shot, heard no noise and could see no one.
Only one shot was fired, which struck Mr.
Boswell a little below' the left shoulder
blade and ranged in toward the right lung.
The report of the pistol was heard by Mrs.
Edwards, who gave the alarm for assistance.
Mr. Boswell returned to the house badly
wounded. Medical aid was summoned im
mediately. Dr. Boyd attended the case,and
pronounces the wound most painful, but
not necessarily dangerous.” Two men,
Henry Teal and James Thomas, white, were
arrested on suspicion of having committed
the cowardly deed, but the evidence against
them being purely circumstantial, and not
strong enough to justify their detention,
they were dit-eharged.
Says the- Macon Telegraph: “Passengers
ou the several lines of railroads from the
east and southeast report heavy snow storms
along their routes. On the Central Road the
flakes commenced falling at Haley on dale,
about fifty miles from Savannah, and fell
until Oconee was reached.* At Millen the
fall amounted to four or five inches, aud the
sport of snow balling, as the train passed,
was being freely ludulged in. On the Bruns
wick Road snow is reported at Hawkinsville,
Jochran and other points. On the Georgia
Road a heavy snow is said to have fallen
from Augusta to about Warreuton. The
snow belt seems to have extended over the
southeastern portion of the State. No snow
is reported from the Atlanta division, and
none fell yesterday in Macon.”
Irregular methods are tolerated in the
West. Two men started from Minneap
olis on the same train carrying conflicting
deeds to a piece of land in Sioux Falls,
and eacli resolved to get his document
recorded first. As they approached that
cit3% one of them climbed upon the en
gine, slipped the coupling, left the train
to take care of itself, and rushed on, se
curing a record of his title half an hour
iu advance of his rival, who had to wait
for another locomotive. •
An Arizona Judge has just shown his
appreciation of modern improvements in
firearms by shooting and killing an edi
tor. The editor’s partner immediately
shot the magistrate and was himself way-
aid aud extinguished the same night by
some parties uuknown. The total hag
for the day’s sport was a Judge and two
editors. Altogether it was a great day
for Arizona.
The Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says:
Some of the more cowartfly sort of our
politicians lire advocating the selection
of Presidential electors in this State by
the Legislature instead of by a popular
vote, the usual satisfactory^ method.
The least attention paid to this sugges
tion the better. If the Democrats can’t
carry this State by a popular vote, pray
what State can we carry?”
A curious calculation has been made
by a Continental statistician as to the
amount drawn by various sovereigns
from the civil list. According to this it
appears that the Czar has 125.000 francs
per day; the Sultan, 90.000; the Emperor
of Austria, 50,000; the Emperor of Ger
many, 41,000; the King of Italy, 32,000;
and the King of the Belgians, 8,215,
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EVENING TELEGRAMS.
PROCEEDINGS OP THE ARMY OF
THE CUMBERLAND.
TWO IlUFFIANS UET
DESERTS.
Indignation In Ireland Over the Re
cent Arrests.
Congressman Felton’s Letter.
Columbus Enquirer.
We give it as we find it in the New
York Times, which paper heads it “The
Empty Boat Adrift.
PROCEEDINGS OF TIIE ARMY OF THE CUMBER
LAND.
Washington, November20.—The Society
or the Army of the Cumberland, after hold
ing a secret, session, adjourned to meet on
board the 6tearner Jauc Moseley, on which
steamer the society was invited to visit
Mount Vt* Arrived on board, the
meeting w^o resumed, during which,
ou motion of General Garfield,
a resolution of thanks was
tendered to three Virginia and two Mary
land companies, who, forgetting party dif
ferences, had joined the Army of the Cum
berland In paying respect to the memory of
General Thomas. When Mount Vernon was
reached the wind was 60 strong that a land
ing could not be effected, and the steamer
started on her return to this city.
The business meeting was then resumed.
A gentleman who had been an interested
spectator of the proceedings, 6tood upon
the chair and stated, as a soldier who had
fought agdinst General Thomas, and who
carried a Federal bullet in his bosom, that
he wished to raise his voice in honor of
the memory of that great General.
[Cheers. J He had fought for what he bad
thought was right, but the arbitrament
of war bad decided against him. It would
be a long time hence, however, when he
would not bo willing to extend the hand of
fraternal friendt-hip to those who had fought
against him. He now wished to join the
Army of the Cumberland in doing honor to
one of the bravest, purest ami best Generals
who ever lived—Gen. G. H. Thomas. [Loud
cheers and cries of “Good for you.”J
He stated in response to a question that hia
name was Watkins, of Howard county, Md.
General Garfield said Mr. Watkins’ voice
was only the first of that great orchestra of
voices that would arise from all the
States all over the Union, in honor of
Gen. Thomas. The Army of the Cumber
land gave its band to Watkins, and
wished that there were a million Watkinses.
Such bauds as his the Army ofjthe Cumber
land would always grasp in Fraternal wel
come and love. Watkins carried a bullet of
the Army of the Cumberland. He car
ried now its heart. It sent its bul
let to wound. It sent its heart
to heal. He (Garfield) was glad
that the day of wounding was
over and that the day of healing had come,
lie was proud of a great many things, but
of nothing so much as of the love aud es
teem of his comrades. Rather lose every
thing else than that love aud esteem. In
conclusion, he paid a tribute to General
Thomas, whom, he said, had ever been ac
tuated by the highest, the purest and the
most patriotic impulses.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of toe Chief Signal observes v
Washington, D. C., November 20.—indica
tions for Friday :
Iu the Isouth Atlantic and East Gulf
States, higher pressure, diminishing north
westerly winds, and colder clear weather,
followed by slight rise in temperature.
In the West Gulf States, lower pressure,
cold northerly winds, becoming variable,
aud clear weather, succeeded by rising tem
perature.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, rising
followed by falling barometer, cold north
west winds, becouiiug variable, or shifting
to warmer southerly, aud generally clearing
weather.
In the Middle States, rapidly rising ba
rometer,high northwesterly winds and gales,
gradually diminishing iu force, stationary
to lower temperature, and partly cloudy
weather, with light snows.
TWO RUFFIANS GET THEIR DESERTS.
Cincinnati, November 20.—A special
from Morristown, Tenn., says two men
named Downs aim Anderson, a day or two
ago went armed with rifles to the house of
Miss Josephine Williams near Jamcstowp
insulted that lady aud threatened to shoot
man named Steincipher if he did not leave.
Steincipher, however, snatched a rifle be
longing to one of the men, shot Downs dead
and clubbed Anderson nearly to death.
Steincipher was arrested, but uoone appear
ing against him, he was subsequently
leased.
INDIGNATION IN IRELAND OVER THE RECENT
ARRESTS.
London, November 20.—A Dublin dis
patch says It is believed that it will be almost
impossible to su6taiu the indictments for
sedition ugaiust the persons recently ar
rested there.
An indignation meeting of the Irish reel
dents of Manchester to denounce the arrests
of Messrs. Ravitt, Killen aud Daly’, in Ire
land, is to be held probably on Sunday
uexr.
ADRIFT AT SEA.
Halifax, November 20.—An empty boat
with her mast broken and sails gone was
found last Sunday morning near Advocate
Bridge. It is thought to be the one in which
six persons left Scott’s Bay for Advocate
harbor just previous to the severe gale of
last Saturday. All who were on board are
supposed to be lost.
SUICIDE OF THE SCORPION.
Tlte Destruction of tbe Animal by
In Own Deadly Poison.
London Times.
Doubts having been expressed at va
rious times, evea by learned naturalists,
as to the reality of the suicide or self-
destruction of the scorpion by means of
its own poison, and these doubts having
been again staled by Mr. IU F. Hutchin
son, of Peshawur, as the result of his
owu observations, I think, writes Mr.
Allen Thompson to Nature, it may be
useful to give an articulate account of
the phenomenon as it has been related to
me by an eye-witness, which removes all
possible doubts as to its occurrence in
certain circumstances.
While residing many years ago during
the .summer mouths at the baths of Luc
ca, in Italy, in a somewhat damp locali
ty, my informant., together with the rest
of the family, was much annoyed bj T the
frequent intrusion of small black scor
pions into tbe house, and their being
secreted among the bed clothes, m shoes,
and in other articles of dress. It thus
became necessary to be constantly on
tbe watch for these troublesome crea
tures, and to take means for their remo
val and destruction. Having been in
formed by natives of the place that the
scorpion would destroy itself if exposed
to sudden light, my iniormant and her
friends soon became adepts in catching
the scorpions and disposing of them iu
the manner suggested. This consist
ed in confining the animal under
an inverted drinking glass or tumbler,
below which a card was inserted when
the capture was made, and then, waiting
till dark, suddenly bringing the light of
candle near to the glass in which the
animal was confined. No sooner was
this done than the scorpion invariably
showed signs of great excitement, run
ning round and round the interior of the
tumbler with reckless velocity for a
number of times. This state having
lasted for a minute or more, the animal
suddenly became quiet, and turning its
tail or the hinder part of its body oyer
its
back, brought’ its recurved sting
down upon the middle of the head, and
piercing it forcibly, in a few seconds be
came quite motionless, and, in fact,
quite dead. This observation was re
peated very frequently; in truth, it was
adopted as the best plan of getting rid
of the animals, and the young people
were in tbe habit of handling the scor
pions with impunity immediately after
they were so killed, and of preserving
many of them as curiosities.
The London World says: “It is be
coming the fashion at distingushed wed
dings in Paris for page boys to be sub
stituted for bridesmaids. They are all
dressed alike, mostly in red or blue
velvet or satin, with siik stockings or
gold buckles, and, for their business,
have to attend on the bride, carry her
prayer-book and bouquet, support her
train and veil, and generally be at her
bidding all the day. Young brothers or
relatives, under twelve years of age, are
usually selected for the office.”
Doom of Bourbonism.” It is not what
the correspondents of some papers inti
mated, but written at the time and under
the circumstances under which it was
penned, it very directly gives aid and
comfort to our bitterest enemies. Fol
lowing Ohio and New York, coming
from a man who pretends to represent a
constituency in Georgia, it adds insult to
injury. It is a foolish letter for a Geor
gian to write at any time, and worse than
folly at the present time. It is not
so bad as some correspondents have
it, but it is a composition that no man
who loves Georgia can approve. True,
it comes after the elections, but it is
equally as bad in effect as if it had been
written before. For a period, at least, a
Georgia Congressman might afford to
keep his opinions silent, if He entertained
such. We supported, to the best of our
ability, Dr. Felton in the last race, when
he sadly needed friends, because we be
lieved him a better Democrat than his
opponent. He won. We are against
this letter, which is thq only anti-Demo-
cratic utterance we have heard from
our State. The writer is wholly, unut
terably mistaken. We may have differ
ences between degrees of Democracy, but
when it comes to Republicanism or
Democracy, the latter will overwhelm
ingly triumph. It has come to this pass
that those not with us are against us.
The great Democratic heart of Georgia
beats firm and true to friends and faith
and he is false who pretends it is other
wise. Dr. Felton falsities his State, and
does not represent even a minority.
Were Tilden the Democratic nominee,
much as many oppose him, Georgia
would vote en masse for him. She
would go heartier for Bayard.
Dr. Felton or anyone else says she
will not they know nothing of the
temper of our people and are misera
ble representatives of their honor or
principles. Georgia is Democratic to the
core, as Dr. Felton will find to his cost in
the next race. His letter at this inoppor
tune occasion has killed his political pros
pects and given a blow to independentism
that it will not recover from. We will
hereafter choose men we can trust, who
will know wfien to encourage friends and
not dishearten them as Dr. Felton has
done. We will cling closer around our
cause. We will nominate men who will
be true to no clique or ring, but to the
State; no Independents but honest
Democrats, who can say yes and
no and mean it, and elect them.
We must have those strong natures
which inspire confidence. The«noney
question is nothing iu our State. There
Dr. Felton again misrepresents us. The
silver business disturbs the people not an
iota. They are content with monetary
affairs. The issue of silver has never
been a matter of primary importance to
our people. In this Representative Fel
ton misrepresents us. In not one single
iota, except as an individual, cau he
claim to act for us. His letter, coming
as it does, is a libel upon the sentiment
of communities. He speaks for none
but himself, and this he will be shown
by beiDg allowed to remain at home after
the next Congressional election.
He might Lave advocated Judge Davis
for President without abusing Southern
Congressmen and decrying Democracy.
The Northern Republican journals are
gloating over the Felton letter with glee.
They claim he will not be controlled by
the Democratic caucus. Regarding this
Dr. Felton does not speak in his letter,
but those who hate us and ours are re
joicing. Georgia desires no such a dele
gate, and will have none such. If Mr.
Stephens, as has been intimated by cor
respondents, shares the same opinions,
and as freely expresses them, the Augus
ta district is proud enough and indepen
dent enough to leave him at home.
We know of no document written at
such a time as the present which will
tend more to unite firmly the regular
Democracy than this Felton letter.
Georgia cannot afford to vote for those
who so fully misrepresent her people as
the author of such sentiments. We
would rather have an open foe than the
one who gives encouragement to the
enemy in the time of peril. The Felton
letter invites Republicanism to make
any and every advance. Georgians
must rally to the Democratic colors and
reject false advisers.
In the face of the enemy no General is
to be trusted who even indirectly gives
them aid. He who says Georgia will
not vote for any nominee of the National
Democracy knows nothing of the temper
and feeling of the people, and if he holds
a position, his opinions should be at once
repudiated. If there ever was a time
when Democracy should be firm and
intact it is now, and the party can de
pend always on good old Georgia to sus
tain its true principles and condemn those
who oppose the organization.
A WOMAN’S VENGEANCE.
Another Kentucky Traced v—A
Faithless Lover Instantly Killed.
The following is telegraphed from
Newport, Ky.:
The killing of Charles Scheurer by
Anna Hoff, a well known young woman
of this place, is the topic here. She is
twenty-one years old, has a fine fenu
jet black hair, and regular features.
There is a flash in her dark eye that in
dicates determination. She became ac
quainted with Scheurer very soon after
he arrived here from the old country,
three years ago. He was an attractive
young man of twenty then, seemingly
possessing both money and brains. The
girl took an instant fancy to the stranger,
Protectionism and Socialism.
Hew York Journal of Commerce.
An argument for protectionism is an
argument for socialism also. The Pro-1
tectionist demands that the government
shall make business for his muls, factory, i
workshop, or other variety of “ native I
industry” and “home enterprise.” The |
MARK TWAIN ON BABIES.
A Speech Which Occasioned Boars
of Laughter In Chicago.
A feature of the banquet of the Army
of the Tennessee in Chicago was the hu
morous response of Mark Twain to the
Socialist demands that the government I toast of “The Babies.” It was greeted
shall provide him with work and wages. I on all sides with laughter, and caused
The Protectionist would thrive at the I considerable merriment. He said:
expense of the people by compelling “Babies as they comfort us m our sor-
them to buy high priced goods of him row, let us not forget them in our fes
instead of low priced goods from for- tivities. [Laughter.] AYc haven’t all
eigners. The Socialist, in asking the I had the good fortune to be ladies,
government to secure to him steady em-1 [Laughter.] We haven’t all been Gene-
ployment at fancy wages and eight hours rals or poets or statesmen, but when
a day, would also throw himself on the I toasts work down to babies, we stand on
public for support. The underlying I common ground, for we have all been
principle in the two cases is the same. | there, for we have all been babies.
Q •• • * * * “ •• •• *• ." “ -••“ ■ “—... “J .V/ OiluU^vi , I * . I J —— — .... — v —“ - ' . “.
but did not betray the fact to him until -Every reason that can be given why a [Laughter and applause.] It is a shame
The
Conditions of Democratic Stic*
cess.
Nashville American.
A gentleman writes to say that while he
likes Mr. Bayard and finds no sound
Democrat who has not switched off on
some side track that has anything against
him, yet he would have preferred Thur
man, and asks if we really think, can
didly, that Bayard, will be nominated
over Thurman. We have already set out
as frankly as language can declare ideas,
not what we want nor “what we would
an’ if we cou!d,” but what we conceive
to be the state of facts, accepted by most
men, that tbe Ohio election disposed of
Mr. Thurman. We have always so
frankly avowed either preference or op
position that there is no room for mis
understanding. If the Democracy had
an overwhelmingly sure thing of the
election, there would be or might
be a good deal of room amongst
good men, who were possible candidates,
for personal preference. With our nar
row margin there is none. Therefore
we endeavor to reach the public to day
and not to-morrow, and hence we cannot
answer our correspondent’s query as to
who will be nominated or who not. We
read to day that circumstances, events,
public opinion, point out Mr. Bayard as
foremost, but we cannot undertake to
say that to-morrow will point out the
same man for the next day. We have no
candidate, but only a desire that amongst
the many able, pure and experienced
leaders, the best and most available
will be selected. That msn is now Mr.
Bayard. Others have a different view,
and to them we grant equal earnestness
aud desire for the success of Democratic
principles, but we are glad to see that the
arge majority of the people of Tennes
see are agreed with us that coming'events
have indicated Mr. Bayard. This is just
as far as we can go as Democrats de
siring a pure and efficient Democratic
rule. If we thought that depended upon
any one man, we^should rapidly disband
our portion of the party. We believe it
depends upon a good party capable of
selecting some one of its pure and able
and experienced statesmen.
There lives in the republic of Salvador
at present a venerable gentleman named
Miguel Solis, who is one hundred and
eighty years of age. There is no doubt
at all about it. He signed a document
relating to the building of a convent in
1722, being then twenty -three years old.
When Dr. Hernandez lately called on
him he was at work in his garden. He
takes one strong, nourishing meal each
day, except on the 1st and loth of each
month, when he eats nothing, but drinks
as much water as he can. We are not
told whether he is a teetotaller, or drinks
the wine of the country, which is called
•tangleleg,” but it is stated his skm is
like parchment, his hair white as snow,
while his eyes have a most lively’ expres
sion.
Poisoned Her Daughter.—A Browns-
burg, Ind., Coroner’s jury, in the case of
child poisoning, brought in a verdict
that “Minnie Joces came to her death by
means of arsenic administered to her in a
pie and bread, purposely and willfully
administered bv her mother, Mary
Jones.” Mrs. Jones was indicted for
murder in the first degree. She is very
weak, and is eating nothing.
a few months ago, after he had paid her
much attention. They were very much
in one another’s company then, and be
came engaged to be married. He gave
her an engagement ring, which she yet
wears, on which is the inscription: “C.
foundry, rolling mill or shipyard should j
be protected is also good in the mouths
of tbe Socialists when they insist that
the true function of a government is to
find bread for its citizens.
Persons who have read the reports of
S. to A. H., July 21, 1879.” Soon after tlie Labor Investigating Committee have
the engagement he gave her a gold watch
and chain. He was with her very much
of the time, and persons spoke of him as
a devoted lover, and congratulated her
upon her prospects.
Towards the 1st of September ho dis
continued his visits to her house, and
was no longer seen with her in public
places. She repeatedly sought him, and
urged their immediate marriage. He
put her off, saying that he was too poor
to support a wife and family, but he
hoped to succeed in business, so that he
could fulfill his promises to her. Since
then she has continued to urge him to
make her his wife, receiving the same
answer every time. She told him
her reasons for desiring to be
wedded to him without delay,
and warned him that she should
kill him if he refused to comply. He
answered her that he could take care of
himself. Before starting on this last
visit to him she put in her pocket a re
volver, and on her way she stopped at
been much astonished and amused by
the extraordinary vagaries of some of the
trade unionists and labor reformers who
came before the committee. The seri
ous opinions of these men about the
cause and cure of the business depression
and oi social ills generally are the rav
ings of lunatics—so the level headed
reader would say. But let the most
fantastic and absurd of these notions be
examined and it will be seen to be only a
protection theory in extenso. Instead of
being applied to a steamship line in the
form of a subsidy or the iron interest in
the shape of prohibitory duties, or to
some other corporation or class of manu
factures or industries, whose enrichment
is sought in the usual way by direct
appropriations or by high im
posts, the dogmas of socialism
relate to the Slate support of the
that for thousands of years the world’s
banquets have utterly ignored the baby
as if he didn’t amount to anything. If
yon gentlemen will stop and think
minute, if you will go back fifty or one
hundred years to your early married life
[laughter], and contemplate your first
baby, you will remember that he
amounted to a good deal and
even something over. You soldiers all
know when that little fellow arrived
at family headquarters you had to hand
in your resignation. [Laughter.] He
took entire command, you became his
lackey, his mere body servant, and y6u
had to stand around too. He was not a
commander who made allowances for
time, distance, weather or anything else.
You had to execute his order whether it
was possible or no [laughter], and there
was only one form of marching in his
manual of tactics, and that was double-
quick. He treated you with every sort
of insolence and disrespect, and the
bravest of you didn’t dare to say a word.
You could face death at the storming of
Donelson and Vicksburg, and give back
blow for blow. [Applause.] But when
poor. Surely the poor are as deserving I he clawed your whiskers and pulled your
of protection as the rich or the well-to-1 hair, and twisted your nose you had to
do! How can the former be blamed for I take it. [Laughter.] When the thun-
demanding that the government shall pre- J ders of war were sounding in your ears
her brother’s place of business, telling I 8ent them with farms and farming imple-1 you set your face toward batteries and
him her story and asking him to go with
her. He asked whether she intended to
kill Scheurer, and she replied that she
did. ne refused to accompany her,
whereupon she said she was going any
way, and he decided that it was his duty
as a brother to comply with her request.
Arriving at Scheurer’s boardinghouse,
they were ushered into the sitting room,
and Scheurer was summoned. He re
sponded, and sat down directly in front
of the young woman, and not three feet
from her. She began anew to recite her
troubles, saying that all she desired was
that he would marry her. She did not
care ihat he should support her, nor did
she insist that he should live with her
after marriage. He might go where he
pleased; she would remain at the house
of her parents, but she did desire to be
shielded by a marriage certificate.
He refused again to marry her, saying
that he had not the money with which
to pay for a ceremony. Miss Hoff’s
brother offered to give him enough to
cover all expenses, but Scheurer refused
to take it, and in the most determined
manner said that he would not become
her husband.
Miss Hoff rose to her feet, and Scheur
er stood up also. They were facing one
another, and were close together. Miss
Hoff, holding the pistol in her right
hand underneath her cloak, so that it
ments, or $500 apiece, or easy work at
the fewest hours or the highest wages,
when the latter are the recipient of far I
I greater favors than these in the subsidiz-1
! ing of their steamship or railroad lines,
or the retention of a high protective tariff
framed and kept up exclusively for their
advanced with steady tread, but when he
turned on terrors of his war-whoops you
advanced in the other direction [laugh
ter], mighty glad of the chance, too.
When he called for soothing syrup did
you venture to throw out any remarks
about certain service being unbecoming
benefit? Europeans often wonder why I an officer and a gentleman? [Laughter.]
socialism should find a home in this
country, where boundless opportunities
are offered to the workers who have
found the Old World too narrow
and cramped for their energies.
Of all countries on the earth America
would seem to offer the least inducement
to socialism, for here there is the least
need of any State support of citizens.
Socialism has taken root here because
our high protective tariff has prepared
the soil for it. Its development as an
organized danger in this country dates
from the passage of the present tariff,
which is the embodiment of much that
is unjust and odious in protectionism.
As long as this tariff is maintained the
Socialists will have before them a con
stant example and encouragement to
action. With tariff reform will come
one means of escape from the disturbing
element of socialism. Hateful in their
lives, in their deaths they will not be
divided!
The intimate relations between protec-
socialism are seen now in
No, you got up and got it. It he ordered
his pap bottle did you talk back? No,
you went to work and warmed it. You
even descended so far in your menial
office as to take a snp at that warm, in
sipid stuff yourself to see if it was right;
three parts water to one of milk, a touch
of sugar to modify colic, and a drop of
peppermint to kill the immortal hic
coughs. I can taste it yet. [Roars of laugh
ter]. And how many things you learned
as you went along. Sentimental young
folks still take stock in that beautiful old
saying that when a baby smiles in his
sleep it is because angels are whispering
to him. Very pretty, but too thin.
[Laughter.] Simply wind on the stomach.
My friends, if the baby proposed to take
a walk at his usual hour at half past two
in the morning, didn’t you rise up prompt
and remark, with a mental addition
which wouldn’t improve a Sunday school
book much, that it was the .yery thing
you were about to propose yourself. Oh,
yes, you were under good discipline, and
you went fluttering up and down the
afterwards expired. "Had she held the
weapon at arm’s length her aim could
not have been surer.
With her brother she hurried to the
jail, and gave
keeping. He
and tried to sing * Rock-a-by baby in the
treeptop,’ for instance. What a spec
tacle for the Army of the Tennessee
[roars of laughter]; and what aifiiction
,... t w tionism and _ r
was hidden, pointed it towards Scheurer I Germany. Prince Bismarck, in forcing I room in your undress uniform. You
and fired. Tbe bullet entered liis breast, I ^ is high protective tariff on the empire, I not only prattled undignified baby talk,
and taking a few steps, he fell and soon I has P ut a new an(i keen weapon in the I but you turned up your martial voice
' ’ 1 hands of the Socialists. In the first ’ * ’ ' '
place (and this is one of the ways in
which protectionism breeds socialism)
he has raised the price of provisions and ^
e herself into tbe warden’s I necessaries of life without also I tor neighbors, too, for it isn’t everybody
3 did not immediately lock raising wages of poor people, and by within a mile that likes military music at
her upfbut on learning the facts put her I this act lias iucrcased popular discon- I 3 o’clock in the mornimr. When von had
" ■ • * tent. In the second place, he has
sought to make work and money
for certain favored classes of manu
facturers. The Socialists only ask that
he shall do the same thing for them. The
great Chancellor answers this logical but
troublesome request with new repressive
laws intended to crush out socialism.
But that pestilent heresy still lives. Bis
marck may’ stop newspapers and throw | baby can’t furnish more business than
in a cell. She appeared to be perfectly
cool and self-possessed, relating the cir
cumstances with tue utmost composure.
She seemed to believe that she had done
just right towards him, and she express
ed no sorrow for the deed. In narrating
the facts in the case she said that he had
told her lately that he was compelled to
fly r from an Illinois town for refusing to
marry a girl to whom he had become en-
3 o’clock in the morning. When you had
been keeping this sort of thing up two or
three hours, and your little ‘velvet’ had
intimated that nothing suited him like
exercise and noise, ‘go on,’ did you say?
He simply went on, till you dropped
into the last ditch. [Great laughter.]
The idea that a baby don’t amount to
anything! Why, one baby is just
REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.
A Child’s Fall From a Car Window*
Baltimore Bulletin.
One of the most remarkable accidents
ever heard of occurred on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad a few nigh’s ago. On
a train coming eastward were Mr. George
W. Kidd, his wife and two children.
They were returning to their home near
Siddeh, Bland county, Va., after an ab
sence of five months, which they had
spent in Kansas, whither Mr. Kidd had
gone to better his fortunes. Like many
others, he had been deluded by the glow
ing colors in whiQktb*H£cst had ^been
painted. —
Having failed to find the success he
sought, he concluded to return to his
native State. Wearied by the journey,
Mr. Kidd and his wife fell asleep. Mean
time the children were moving abont the
car, jumping up on the seats and gazing
in pleased amazement from the windows.
The train passed on, and, when between
Kanawha and Walker station, W. Va.,
Mr. Kidd started up as from a dream and
locked around him for his children. His
little daughter, aged three years, tired of
looking out of the windows, was nest
ling by the side of her mother, sleeping.
But the other child, a boy twenty-three
months old, could not be found.
Frightened and uneasy, the father
rushed from the car, and in a half-be
wildered way searched the train from end
to end. It was a vain search. His son
could not be found. The passengers
were questioned, but no one knew any
thing of the child. When the little fel
low was last seen he was standing on
one of the seats of the car with his
parents, leaning forward through an
open window. At Walker’s station the
conducter stopped the train, and 31 r.
Kidd, his wife and remaining child got
off, and, in the darkness, walked back
over the road toward the station which
they had passed a short while before
The train passed on. With bleeding
hearts and imagination filled with dark
forebodings, the parents began their
search. Up and down tbe road, half
fearing to look lest they should come
upon the mangled remains of their darl
ing boy, went the father and mother, the
latter nearly crazed with grief. Tbe
father tried hard to appear hopeful, but
the mother wept as if her heart would
break. Three miles from Walker’s sta
tion they came upon a thick, sttinted
bush, anti there, lying in the thickest
part of the bush, was their child un
conscious.
He had fallen out of the window into
the friendly arms of the bush, and t
though seriously hurt, was not killed.
The parents were overjoyed at finding
their little one alive. They took him
tenderly in their arms and carried him to
Walker’s station,where they took the next
train coming eastward. At Grafton Dr.
Van Kirk was called to attend the injured
child. A wound was found on the head
two inches long, through which about
spoonful of the brain had oozed. Strong
hopes are entertained of the recovery of
the child.
Dr. Van Kirk said the accident was
the strangest on record, and he considers
it almost a miracle that the child was
not killed outrighL He is now in an ex
ceedingly dangerous condition, but may
with careful nursing recover.
Who Takes the “Heads” aai Who
the “Sides” la a Set?-A Point Ikat
Should be Settled at Once.
A MAD WOLF’S WORK.
It Bltee Twenty-two People at
Bnsslan Fair.
house and front yard by itself. If one
gaged. Fublic opinion is strongly in the I editors into dungeons, and break up pub- I you and your whole interior department
/ T. 1 -if l _ .i.ic . i. . __ I lio montinira rtf ^iir>iolivta ami imnricnn I tn TTa fo mni-t nnfo.nnolnn
id’s favor, and it will be difficult to se
cure a jury who will convict her.
An association has been formed in
Westphalia for the extinction of poverty
throughout the world. The theory of
its promoters, who are not Socialists, is
that the wants of mankind have so in
creased of late years that luxuries are
now looked upon even by the poorest
as necessaries. Life, it is urged,
may be sustained and comfort insured at
a trifling cost by simply putting aside
the superfluities of modern existence.
lie meetings of Socialists and imprison
or fine any man who takes p::rt iu them,
but socialism itself, as a vital force in
Germany, he cannot extirpate. It still
rears its ugly head at elections
and sends men to the German Parliament
to annoy the government without any
overt act exposing themselves to arrest
and punishment. Bismarck will pfob-
I ably put down and keep down socialism,
without modifying his high protective
tariff, for he virtually has the whole
I civil government of Germany in his
I hands and the army at his back. But in
the United States we should trust to the
can attend to. He is most enterprising,
irrepressible, brimful of lawless activi
ties. Do what you please, you can’t
make him stay’ on his reservation. [Pro
longed laughter.] Sufficient unto the
day is one baby. As long as you are in
your right mind don’t you ever pray for
twins. [Roars of laughter and blushes
by General Sheridan.] Twins amount to
permanent insurrection. [Laughter.] It
was high time for the toast-master to
recognize the importance of babies
when I think what was in store
for the present crop. Fifty years
hence we shall all be dead,
This object can only be attained by a, . _ _ . . , „ »
complete revolution in our social and I persuasive powers of reason and justice I trust, and then this flag, if it still sur-
domestic habits. Children should be and DOt to f° rce to suppress socialism I vives, and let us hope it may. will be
and all organized forms oi disorder, and ~ ’
the first precautionary step to be taken is
to reform the tariff !
trained from their earliest infancy to look
for no other shelter than that afford
ed by wooden huts. Their food should
consist only of bread and vegetables, and
their drink of pure water. The style of
modern clothing, as regards both men
and women, is condemned as extrava
gant, barbarous and unwholesome. One
thicK garment of good material for win
ter, and one of slighter texture for sum
mer, is all that is required. It is estima
ted that under good management on the
new system fifty dollars a year will be a
sufficient income for any person to exist
upon comfortably, and will leave a small
A characteristic anecdote of the Em- i . _ n T . in ...
peror Nicholas is contained in the memoirs I died babies of to day will be on deck.
»l.n Inin P.Mltr PAilnnillni- I . . . .
floating over a republic numbering 200,-
000,000. According to the settled laws
of increase our present schooner of
State will have grown into a political
leviathan or Great Eastern, and the cra-
of the late Privy Councillor Boguslavski.
extracts from w’hich have just been pub
lished by theRusskaya Staryna, a month
ly magazine of St. Petersburg. Hearing
that a play, entitled “Catherine II. and
Her Favorites,” had just been brought
out in Paris, which represented the Em
press in the blackest colors, Nicholas at
once sent a special courier to Count
Let them be well trained, for we are go
ing to leave a big contract pn their
hands [applause]. Among the three or
four millions now rocking in this land
are some which this nation would pre
serve for ages as sacred things, if we
could know which ones they are. In
one of these cradles an unconscious Far-
ragut of the future is at this moment
margin which, it laid .aside annually and ££ “X th ” »
carefully invested, will amply provide
Tor all the reasonable wants of old age.
French Court, with the following letter: I future renowned astronomer is blinking
“On receipt of this, go at once, whatever I a t the shining milky substance with
mnw Iwt t im linitp l rt f lln T V mir rtf I im I ■ . .... . .. ... ..
An Eagle Dashes Through a Win
dow.—The family of William L. Sher
man, at No. 1,026 Wells street, experi
enced a sensation last evening under
very singular circumstances. An eagle
crashed through an upper light % of the
bay window, and flew about th'e apart-
jnent wildly, just as 3Irs. Sher
man was leaving the room with
the children. Had the family
mained seated they would have suffer
ed injury by the falling fragments of the
heavy giasn. The eagle fell, as if par
tially stunned by the concussion, and
then fluttered about the room. The
may be the hour, to the King of the
French, and announce to him my will
that all the printed copies of the play
of ‘Catherine II.’ be immediately con
fiscated, and that its performance be for
bidden in all the Paris theatres. H the
King declines to do this, ask for your
passports and leave Paris within twenty-
four hours. I answer for the conse
quences.” When the courier arrived,
Count Pahlen was dining with King Louis
Philippe; and, acting on his master’s
orders, the courier sent to inform the
Count that he had arrived with a pressing
message from the Czar. The Count read
tbe dispatch, and then, hurrying back to
but a languid interest in the poor little
chap, and wondering what is to
become of the other one they call
a wet nurse. In another, a future great
historian is lying, and doubtless he will
continue to lie till his earthly mission is
ended. [Laughter.] In another, a fu
ture President is busying himself with
no profounder problem of State than
that. What in the mischief has become
of his hair? So early and in mighty
array in other cradles there are some 60,-
000 future office-seekers getting ready to
1 urnish him the occasion to grapple with
that same old problem a second time.
And still one more cradle; somewhere
men nuuereu atioui me room, me l . r». « . . i suu uiuie wouic, cnyiucwucxc
royal bird was secured, to remaiu the
guest of the family whose comfortable
Home he had so precipitately invaded.
It is presumed that he escaped from a
cage either on the National Home
grounds or in one of the German gar
dens, and that he darted through the
window while confused by the strong
I him a few minutes’ audience. Louis j
Philippe, much astonished, went with
the Ambassador into the ad joining room,
where Count Pahlen handed him the |
dispatch. “But” observed the King,
after reading it, “though your Emperor’s
I will may be an order to you, it is not to
^ of Prevailing at E 3?
Milwaukee Sentinel.
An Italian Colony for Florida.-
The idea of forming a colony of Italians
at Vineland, New Jersey, occurred to
31r. G. F. S. De Cesall, editor of L'Eeo
<f Ralia, about six years ago, and the nn
dertaking has met with siich success
that he is now taking tbe. initiatory steps
for establishing a second colony of his
country men in a fertile region in Florida.
For the purpose of selecting suitable
lands, Mr. De Cesall expects to visit
Florida Dext month, in company with
the late 31inister to Belgium, General H.
S. Sanford, who is a large land owner in
that Stat^ - , and who proposes to sell
lands to the colony on easy conditions.
Attention will be given by the Italian
settlers in Florida chiefly to the culture
of oranges, lemons, grapes, figs and
almonds.
cannot comply with this demand.” “If
this is your Majesty ’s * final answer.”
rejoined Count Pahlen, “I must beg to
have my passports got ready.” The
Kiog then said he would consult his
3Iinisters; and a few hours afterward a
decree was issued confiscating all the
mander in-Chief of the American armies
is so little burdened with his approach
ing grandeurs and responsibilities as to
be giving his whole strategic mind at this
moment to trying to find out some way
to get his own big toe into his mouth.”
31r. Clemens continued at great length,
bringing down tbe large audience with
roars of laughter.
The Sickles Elopement Rumors.—
The New York Tribune says George G.
Sickles, the father of General Daniel E.
Sickles, indignantly denies the rumor of
—. , . . , - —-ithe eleopement Ify his granddaughter,
copies of the play and prohibiting its Mjss Laura Sickles, at Paris. He says
performance.
Border Life in Texas.—At Paris,
Texas, Wm. Pitts went to a festival of
colored people. Walking into the mid
dle of the hall, and in t.ie midst of the
crowd, he pulled his pistol and fired it
off, the bullet going through the roof.
Another quiet looking white man walked
up and said: “You ought not to act that
way.” Pitts replied: “Take it back, or
you, I will kill you.” “I don’t
take it back,” replied the stranger. The
yahoo then fired, hitting him in the right
shoulder. The stranger then drew a
sharp bowie knife and made for Pitts.
The women shrieked, and negroes seized
the stranger; but he broke loose, and,
A Novel Idea.—Mr. J. B. Aken, of
Franklin, who is responsible for a gaeat
many new and valuable ideas, hands the
Merrimack Journal a slip on which is
printed a novel method of arranging
words in printing books, etc. We reprint
the slip, which is its own explanation.
Read the first line from the left to right,
the second from right to left, and so al
ternately’, and just see how much time
you save in reading it.
“The way I would propose is simple,
those to acceptable be would think I and
given to study or much reading. I have
or page the across lines when noticed
columns are of considerable length, that
trace to eye the to tiresome more is it
its way back across the page or column
; line preceding the read to was it than
besides, it takes time to do it. The way
first the Let : this is suggest would I
line be printed in the ordinary manner,
the in as then .right to left from reading
Hebrew, commence the reading on the
•al on so and ,lcft to right from line next
ternately. In this way the eye would be
more much and labor its half of relieved
accomplished in the same time.”
every word of the report is a falsehood;
that 3Iiss Sickles has been an invalid for
| over two years; she has had trouble with
| her brain, and for several mouths she has
been sick and under the care of a phy
sician. Edward P. Field, General Sick
les’ associate in law, reiterates the former
denial. The gentleman who furnished
the particulars of the rumor on Sunday
said that he -had heard the report from
several different sources. He also said
that an account of the affair had at>-
peared in the Paris daily paper, Le
Gaulois, and that it had been the chief
topic of conversation upon the European
| steamers at the time.
The New York Star states that General
Charles K. Graham, Surveyor of that
| port, and an intimate friend of General
I Sickles, says the reported elopement of
3Iiss Sickles is correct.
Insisting Ufon a Wedding.—A tele
gram from Canton, New York, Novem
ber 5, says: David Weller and Mary Fox
were to be married at the latter’s house.
On tbe appointed evening the clergyman
and the guests were present and the feast
spread, but the bridegroom did not ap
pear. After waiting a reasonable length
of time Hattie Aldrich, one of the guests,
■I, . I . . Site Fainted.—Colonel Williamson,
getting at Pitts, slashed him across the I a noted Texas lawyer, who had suddenly 1 who was soon to be married, saia there
throat and slashed both cheeks in two, I become insane, stood up in church and I would be a wedding any way. She went
besides cutting him in the abdomen. I asked a younglady to come forward and j out and found her lover and brought
Pitts is reported dying.—Louisville I many him. The young lady was so sur-1 him in and they were married. Weller
Courier-Journal. • prised and shocked that she fainted.' ■ has not yet appeared.
St. Petersburg Oolos, October 13.
On the 7th of October, about 7 a. m.
the peasants from the adjoining villages
had collected together at a fair which
was held at the settlement of Barvenkoff,
district of Izume, and the male portion
of the assembly had dispersed to the
drinking shops to make bargains and
drink each other’s healths, leaving the
women and children in charge of the
carts. Suddenly there resounded through
tiie square a heartrending shriek for as
sistance, and then all was quiet The
peasants rushed out of the drinking
booths into the street, and before they
had time to collect their thoughts there
appeared from behind a building situated
on the edge of the square an enormous
wolf. Everybody rushed in great confu
siou to their carts,shouting, “Mad wolf!’
Meantime the gigantic wolf, frothing at
the mouth and with his tongue hanging
out, made for the carts. A dreadful
tumult occurred. The horses and men
dashed in all directions, but tbe majority
getting entangled, fell, overturning the
carts, while the noise made bv the pigs,
sheep, geese, fowls, etc., added to the
uproar and confusion. The wolf vhen
within a short distance of the first group
of carts turned round, sprang on to a
woman who was running past, and in a
moment she was prostrate on the ground,
having lost her nose, scalp and lower
part of her face. The wolf then -ran
farther and attacked a small lad about 7
years of age, but just at this time a pig
rushed at the wolf and bit its tail. The
wolf turned on his assailant, but not be
fore it had bitten the boy’s face and hand.
Leaving the pig, the wolf ran down the
main street, attacked a woman with a
baby, then two boys about 4 years of age,
and, having bitten thei/ heads through
to the brain, rushed up the street;'and,
after biting several other persons, turned
off on to tho railroad. By this time a
large crowd, headed by the village elder,
and armed with whips,guns,.scythes,etc.,
gave chase to the terrible animal. They
came up with the wolf about one mile
from the village, and a peasant, allowing
it to approach him within fiftten paces,
shot the animal straight in the open maw.
Notwithstanding the wound he had re
ceived, the wolf sprang up and attacked
the peasant. The latter did not lose his
presence of mind, and struck the animal
with the butt-end of his gun, which shat
tered at the blow, and the wolf seized
the peasant byr the side, but, owing to
the man wearing three coats, his skin
was only scratched. The courageous man
then firmly gripped the animal with both
hands. During this struggle between a
man and a mad wolf the crowd which
had come up hesitated through fear to
attempt the rescue of^ their comrade.
Fortunately a local policeman galloped
up at this juncture, and, drawing his re
volver, shot the wolf through the head.
The wolf had bitten no less than twenty-
two persons, ten of whom are in a danger
ous state. The sufferers were isolated
from the rest of the inhabitants, and
medical aid was at once administered to
them. It is reported that the wolf came
from the settlement of Dovgenikoff, situa
ted about eighteen miles from Barven
koff, where a mad ox had died and had
been buried, but so carelessly that on the
following morning his body was found
scattered about.
The German criminal code contains
some laws that have no counterpart in
our statute books. Such is that which
prohibits, under heavy penalties, the
use of insulting language about the
Emperor, a law under which there have
been very many prosecutions in the past
year. Another is the curious statute
prescribing punishment for behavior in
violation of tbe respect due the dead.
This law is said to have been rarely made
the occasion' of prosecution, but a case
has just been before the Circuit Court at
Berlin in which it has been applied.
Several months ago the widow Langen-
heim was interred in the church yard at
Weissensee. She had been possessed of
ample wealth, but her numerous child-
dren, with one exception, were greatly
disappointed in their expectations, the
bulk of her property having been be
queathed to one daughter. Unable to
restrain the rage and disgust aroused by
this discovery, one of the sons-in-law of
the widow, a provision dealer named
Hackmeister, presented himself at the
interment, and as the grave was about
to be closed stepped up to it, and, in the
presence of the priest and the assembled
mourners, with loud expressions of con
tempt, spat upon the coffiu. He was ar
rested and prosecuted, the attorney for
the government demanding that he
should be sentenced to six months’ im-'
irisonment. The court was merciful,
lowever, in consideration of the rarity
of such an offense, and imposed fourteen
days’ confinement
Virginia Citw(Sev.) Chronicle.
Charles Clarkson was tried yesterday
afternoon for assaulting William Mitchell
on Friday, evening last. The parties
reside in this city, but the trouble took
8 lace at a ball given on American Flat
[itchell testified that he went down to
American Flat last Friday evening to
attend a ball given for the benefit of a
poor widow. As a rule, he did not care
much for social dances, but he went to
this one to assist the widow. While a
quadrille set was forming on the floor he
noticed that Clarkson, who had taken a
position on the side, went across and
whispered to a couple opposite him- He
oveheard enough to know that a con
spiracy was forming between the' tow
side couples to dance the first figure—a
figure always danced in well regulated
bail rooms by the head couples. He
determined to assert his rights, and as-
soon as the music struck up aud the order
was given to “foriard and back,” he broke
for the centre of the floor. All of the
dancers in the set did the same, and tbe
result was that there was a violent quadri-
laterafcollision. Clarkson suddenly haul
ed off and hit the witness in the eye.
The fight then became general, and for
the next ten minutes that famous society
event known as “Lannigan’s Ball” wasn’t
a circumstance to the scene of confusion
there enacted. During the row 3Iitchell
received a black eye and a swelled nose
from Clarkson’s energetic fist.
Clarkson next took the stand and swore
that he and his girl were at the end of the
set, and were not a side couple at all.
He had been at a ball or so in his time,
and knew something of tbe rules of
dancing According to the rules the two
head couples al wavs danced as the cracks
of the floor ran. He bad started to dance
as designated by the cracks, and knew
he was right. He admitted that he had
blacked tho complainant’s eye, hut he
made it a principle at a dance to hold his
own against all comers. He would allow
no man on earth to indulge in any “funny
business” at his expense.
Thomas Jenkins, a man who had fur
nished the music for the dance, was put
on the stand. He said it was usual to
dance lengthwise of the cracks, unless
the hall was larger the other way.
Witness—If the cracks run lengthwise
of the hall the head couples dance along
the cracks, and, if tbe hall is large,
across ’em.
The Court—Suppose you have a square
room, carpeted, and no cracks in sight,
what would you do in that case?
The witness—You dance toward the
music.
The Court—Where was the music on
this occasion?
The witness—In the comer.
The Court—If the cracks run across
the hall, and the hall was larger the other
way, and the music was iD the corner,
how could you expect people to dance
straight?
The witness was completely dumb
founded ny this joint consolidated ques
tion. He made no reply, but stared
helplessly about the room. He was
finally dismissed. Several other wit
nesses testified as to how the cracks in
the floor ran. Some were of the opinion
that there were no cracks in the floor at
all; at least they didn’t notice any.
One witness was asked, “Did you
notice any cracks?” and answered prompt
ly:
“I got a crack on the head with a stove-
poker, and it ran north and south, as near
as I can recollect.”
This reply caused some merriment, bat
the constable was fully equal to the oc
casion.
John IU Briggs, who was at the ball,
told his experience in this way:
“When the row opened up, I sashayed
over to the centre of the room, and got a
lift under the ear, and I let out my left
at the man who bit me.”
Justice Moses (jocosely), “A sort of
alley-man left movement', eh?”
The witness—Yes, your Honor. Then
I got kicked in the stomach, and the
women screamed, and. the lights went
out. I got some fellow’s head in chancery
and hammered away at it as long as I
could hold it.
The District Attorney—Didn’t you
know who it was?
The witness—Haven’t any idea. I was
just trying to hold my chances level with
the crowd.
The case then went to the jury, who
returned a verdict of not guilty.
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