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jII-IS IE, SWEET DAT !
.w. ft day. pood bye!
_ , |,,ved thet*. but 1 cannot hold thee,
. like a dream, the shadows fold
rfect beauty fades away;
,-et day!
sweet day. good-bye!
. ic thy golden hours of tranquil
elidor.
, ; ufldest to the evening tender,
fair from thy fir t morning ray!
sweet day!
su-.-et day. goo't-bye!
•mii charm thy smiles and tones
i gladness
: last, and solemn night advances,
ill ii yet a little longer stay!
.vveet day!
sweet day, good bve!
•1 gifts iny grateful heart remem-
• 1 watch thy sunset’s smouldering
t beneath the twilight gray.
ret day!
—Celia Thar ter, in Scribner.
Louis
Atlanta,
ce of
Local
sjured
drum.
Tfce circ
Keonria Affairs.
M-bocneick, the joung German of
,!i whose account the unfortunate
, I’enn committed suicide a few
, was on Monday afternoon last
acquitted of any responsibility for
ii*.* death. He was forced to flee
city, however, to avoid the venge-
he jouug girl’s friends,
ulities in Augusta are assumiug a
:ing phase. Ou Mouday evening
■ a party with a band were on their
m Kstes meeting, they were at-
a mob who stoned them, badly
wo of the baud and broke tbe
lie party proceeded to the meet
ver, but were soon again stoned
rcurred outside the city limits, and
protection the place of the meet
changed to a point within the
in, so that the services of tbe
i.'bt be called Into requisition,
of this was that there were no
ning*, but the opposing partv
around and made such noisy
.iiions that the speakers could
t>e heard. The News calls such
us a new idea in politics In that
It is now pertinently asked why the name
me a* irleman to whom Key. Felton, D.
. v,his letter is suppressed? and why
e reverend gentleman, who is a “Jeffer
Hint! D mocrat” (Heaven save the mark !),
cuM have published his letter in such a
billy Radical paper as the New York
iv>' This is piling on the questions a
It- too thickly, hut, people will be curious.
Hie I >u;>ont Okafcuokcan hoists atrlts edito-
! ma.'fhcad the following banner : “For
esideut, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware,
r Vice President, W. II. Hancock, of In
ica ,For Governor, ‘the* Hero of
Ustee, Alfred II. Colquitt.”
h one news Item the DuPont Okeejenokc-in
ties that on Sunday night, as the edi or’s
i>k was preparing his supper, a suake
curing four feet crawled out from one
he put*, and was killed. In another item
the same i.*sue, the UkceJ'eeuokean remarks
it “ a dead snake can be brought to life
rtha pint of whisky. You drink the whisky
cd look at the snake.” Add these two
together, and what is the result?
N- wnan lit raid tells how a stranger
i:that place a few day ago proved himself
n»l d shot with a rifle, knocking out
tie bull's eye every time. One of the young
nen of New nan, who was standing about
iirty yards < IT, seeing this, placed a small
on the top of his head and in a spirit
' jest asked the marksman if he could
tick it . No sooner taid than done. In
DomenMlie crack of the rifle was heard,
id the stone fell to the ground, much to
ii aauz. in-2.t of the Newuanite.
Tur Syivai.ia Telephone states thit on
bsdaj of !:i*t week, as Mr. R. T. Mills,
her:IT of Scrivea county, was out levy-
Son t . • property of a negro named Jake
tioaips ui, to satisfy a fieri facias, be was
ttcly attacked by tbe negro and his
sather. The latter Mr. Mills soon placed
«*■'* (hi -„„bu with a well directed kick,
c Thompson succeeded lu inflicting a
etous wound with a knife In Mr. Mills 1
id*. Wounded though he was, however,
2forced the negro to surreuder, and, tying
2a is hi* binary, brought him intoSylvauia
&i - Ida'. I him in jail. Mr. Mills is badly
but i i> hoped he will speedily recover.
Ihe Louisvil-e and Wadlcv Railroad has
ipped about two thousand bales of cotton
fee tLr Pith of October.
Wbilt- M . (jii irles Hodges, of the Irwln-
toSjutherner and Appeal, was out driving
23 some y.»ung ladies a few days since,
^hors^ became frightened, and the entire
P^y were thrown out of the buggy. Mr.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
™ on /- A verdict that the deceased came to
his death at the hands of unknown parties
was rendered.” *
Discussing the cotton crop of Monroe
county the Forsyth Advertiser says; “A good
proportion of the cotton crop is still un
opened in the fields. It is quite impossible
to say what proportion, but there is proba
bly one-fifth or one-sixth. We have con
versed with intelligent planters, and their
opinion is that the bolls which had matured
previous to the first freeze will open and
yield good white cotton. These bolls will
open rapidly, and If pickers are lively and
will keep up with their work the cotton will
all be out of the fields early In De
cember. The slowness with which the
bolls opened during the former part of
the season discouraged many, and there were
numerous predictions that the crop would
be a short one. We hope for a fair average
yield, and if it is had the extraordinary price
should cauee us all to feel satisfied with the
year s labors. No doubt a great many' bolls
will never open. But It must be remem
bered that the cotton plants were fuller of
bolls than for many seasons, and the pro
portion that did and will open will make a
yield equal to almost any average crop. 8uch
is our opinions gathered from conversations
with planters. We have heard several say
that already they had picked out about a
bale to every two acres, and this is certainly
a good enough yield to pay handsomely.”
Lumpkin Independent: “On Friday of last
week while Larry Williams, a negro well
digger, was engaged in cleaning out a well
on the plantation of Mrs. Terry, In the At
tioch district, he became suffocated with
gas and gave a 6lgnal to be drawn from the
well. His assistant drew him up as quickly
as possible, but when within about Jour,
feet or the top of the well he fell back and
was instantly killed. The well is about forty
feet deep. Larry was about fifty years of
age, and was well thought of by those who
knew him. His body was gotten out of the
well on Friday evening by another negro,
who ran a great risk in entering the well, as
be, too, was nearly overcome by the gas.
The Coroner held an inquest, which is the
first service he has been called on to per
form during the year.”
The Griffin Acws says: “A young man in
this city attempted suicide on Saturday
uight by taking morphine. Skillful ph>-
sicians, however, cheated death of its vic
tim. The would-be suicide has beeu tram
pled under the foot of race horses and run
over by a Central Railroad train without
damage. He 6urelv bears a charmed life.
He can’t be killed, and, as it seems, he can’t
kill himself.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
THE UTES PREPARING FOR
HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION.
THS THORNBURGH HASUCRE
INVESTIGATION.
THE
TRIAL OF CURRY AGAIN
POSTPONED.
ADVANCE IN GABLE STOCKS.
Litigation Over a Silver Mine.
Minor Matters,
re
ths face, hi.
£y in j un
sa.* the
ivetl some painful bruises about
fortunately no one was 6erl-
Atlanta correspondent of the
“La*t night at the Drew
p-F'-iai.ce meeting, in Triulty Churcb,
^•piain John Milledge tied the blue ribbon
^ Governor Colquitt. Of course, Gover-
quiti a temperance man before,
® t >ii speeches at the Drew
®peranre revivals now going on, but
r ^ow :u,> never donned the blue ribbon.
u >‘ !ain MilleJge also wears tbe gentle evl-
fcce of fealty to the cause.”
•a reeard the Clement attachment the
2limbus /; -jnircr has this to say: “Before
: t « - engage in the purchase of
• •• > they would do well to have
^‘aniii.e.i by experts in manufacturing.
"-Mr.,* :hat some among the most ex-
' rnctil in ( oluuibus have no faith in the
s-w. >" r h ive we had the evidence of a
5. -L; t el, practical man who knows
" ; tmu-binerv can do. We simply
;"■<•( !e who dt sire to invest in
. r;: r;to make haste slowly. Do
newspaper accounts. Take a
' t hat is known and trusted aud
Get some of the numerous
;-J n 1,1 "f "ur mills to give their judg-
attachment will make the
. . : ‘V’' ; is it uot strange that capi-
jlu.. r. <t invested? They delight in
t'f " '“"Us interest ou a small amount
r„’“' v - ' •'respondents may be paid to
Gl> a thing to si-u it.. We desire our
^•on to he on the safe 6ide.”
Montezuma Weekly says: “We have
j|T r. fcarJ a very pleasant little snake story.
Martiu, oce or the millers at
i 02 .- ,c Minor’s mill, in this place,
lti *‘ null during the late warm spell.
},, ‘i s, g brisk, Duck kept the mill
’-he night, aud would take a
* th^ l " t<u hnpper fillings. It was on one
War *’n nights, when Duck lay
-fh? 1 tji ' 1 daisy, that he was aroused
**»->*ht i‘ ns ' T * lat showed a disposition to
J w ‘ r h him. Imagine his horror
*i vlu n lie discovered a huge,
'ou«, copper bellied moccasin
i£ t body, ready to dispute the
Ifnp nwn.-rship of the bed with him.
Perfectly still, aud calling for help,
X 0 .. Ua5 relieved without injury by
* • 1 ^uttou, colored, who, being near
b; P ut hi an appearance and ended
v ' vxi6te nce. Duck don’t want
^ L ‘ su akes for bedfellows.”
thJ s P atc h es raentioaed yesterday morn-
fevYV ‘ynchiug of the colored burglar
rtrvW T 1:01
£ r * at ^ ort Galley, on Tuesday.
' ,n , “kgraph says: “The body was
fu, i l«ng‘
gth in the breeze. The
*Sl3 of »» 1 “ s • “
^2 ti , ,ree » an d "was made fast by
110 a root of the tree, which pro-
^.l v h " ve jhe earth. Tbe man had evl-
ta,i Pome hours. The sight
*^or t t °n^» and brought a thrill of
*Cor.jnp r > '\ body was cut down and
k i ury em paneled, and the case
5*itnL« ore lt * The evidence of sev-
1,4 Wn a ^ but litttle light
a on the execution by their testi-
Walton County Videlte: “Through the cour
tesy of Mr. Ezekiel Patrick, we were shown
one of the most beautiful birds on Saturday
last ever seen in this part of the country. It
measured four feet and nine inches from
the tip of one wing to that of the other, was
twenty-two inches from beak to tail, aud
was as white as snow, except on the ends of
his outer feathers, which were tipped with
a dark drab. Except his tail and wing
feathers, and those which 6erve to hold his
wiags in position, and known as bol
ster feathers, and a few around his
breast, bis body was covered with a most
beautiful aud thick coat of the finest down,
notunlike Eider-down, the more exposed
parts resembling much the fur of a cat or
other animal. His eyes were a brilliant yel
low, aud his talons mui>t have been strong
enough to have carried off a young lamb,
the nails being nearly an inch aud a half
long. No one In this community ever saw a
bird like it, but natural history tells us that
its name is the Arctic, or snow owl, and is
usually the premonitor of unusually cold
weather. The bird was shot by Mr Thomas
Herring, about oue mile from town, on Fri
day evening. Mr. Patrick will have the 6kin
stuffed.”
Warrenton Our County : “ Snowballing
was tbe favorite amusement among the
young people of the village last Wednesday*
(17th). A few of the grown-up citizens also
took snares in the sport. Among the latter
Judge Wellborn was moat prominent, but
the Judge fought morejon the defensive. He
was waylaid by a company of young ladies,
and for a few minutes they made things
lively for him. He sustained the attack
right manfully, however, and came out of
the battle unscathed, with a triumphant ex
pression ou his face and a smashed-up bea
ver on his head. ’Rah for the Judge !*’
SHERMAN
NOT ELIGIBLE
OFFICE.
TO
A Law Whose Enforcement Will
.Hake the Secretary a Private Citi
zen.
Washington Post.
When the late lamented A. T. Stew
art was nominated to be Secretary of the
Treasury by Grant, Caleb Cushing, then
in Congress, defeated his aspirations and
compelled his withdrawal by digging up
au old law that expressly says:
“No person appointed to the office o£
Secretary of the Treasury, or First
Comptroller, or First Auditor, or Treas
urer, or Register, shall directly or indi
rectly be concerned or interested in car
Tying on the business of trade or com
mercc; and every person who offends
against auy of the prohibitions of this
sec!ion shall be deemed guilty of a high
misdemeanor aDd forfeit to the United
Slates the penalty of three thousand dol
lars, and shall upon couviction be re
moved from office, and forever thereafter
be incapable of holding office under the
United States.”
The provisions of this act, the full
text of which will be fouud in section
*243, United Slates Revised Statutes, will
probably be found to apply to Mr. John
Sherman, who is distinctly, openly and
defiantly' violating its explicit regula
tions. He is well kn wn to be, in tact,
admits it himself, a director of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail
road, which is engaged in carrying on a
commercial business between several
States. And, although not exactly
director of the First National Bank of
New York, perhaps has something to do
with directing its commercial policy.
Air. Sherman could probably easily
afford to pay the $3,000 fine; could, per
haps, even survive the shock of removal
from the usurped office he now occupies,
but it would be awful to think that his
amenability to law would forever de
prive hirn'of the privilege of holding
office.
Repugnance to a military life has in
duced, among the inhabitants of certain
villages in the department of the Seine,
a curious practice of atrophying one of
the great toes by some secret method of
muscular retraction which has baffled
the scrutiny of the most experienced army
surgeons. The deformation prevents the
proper surface of the foot from being
brought fairly and fully on the ground.
With such success has this system of
mutilation been carried on for the past
fory years in one particular village, and
so discreetly have the peasants kept their
own counsel that, in the whole of the long
period, only three conscripts have been
drawn who were found able to march.
It must have appeared to the baffled in
vestigators of this physiological pheno
menon as if a new species of countryman
were being developed; but at length .a
peculiarly suspicious case attracted their
special notice and led to an inquiry be
fore the local tribunal. A young man,
who had been noted as a good walker,
and was in great request among the
maidens of the district as a partner in the
dance on Sundays and fete days, took to
absenting himself from those junketings
until he came forth from his retirement
an accomplished cripple. It remains to
be seen what can be done with him and
with other evaders of patriotic duty.
Perhaps a law may be passed which will
compel all owners of crooked toes to
contribute a fixed proportion of their
sedentary earnings to the State.—London
Telegraph.
Child Killing at School.—While a
little child named Pierce was being pun
ished by her teacher in one of the schools
in Norwich, Ct., a fortnight ago, she at
tempted to break away and run home.
The teacher caught her at the door, and
in shutting it caught the girl’s head be
tween the door and the jam, inflicting
several bruises. The hurt was not be
lieved to be serious by any one, though
the child was taken out of school. Last
week she died, and a post mortem ex
amination by a Montville physician is
said to have revealed clots of blood upon
the brain, believed to have resulted from
the accident. There is a good deal of ex
citement in the district.
Rev. Dr. Usher, of the Reformed Epis
copal Church at Montreal, Canada, in
his sermon on Sunday night mentioned,
on the authority of two English journals,
that a Princess of the blood royal will
shortly become a convert to the Church
of Some.
THE THORNBURGH MASSACRE INVESTIGATION.
Washington, November 26.—Secretary
Scburz to-day received the following :
Los Pinos, November 24.—We have in
formation that the White River Utes are on
their way, Including Jack. We are now of
the opinion that we shall be successful in
carrying out your wishes. At all events we
have patience enough to try it. So far as
danger Is concerned, the commission have
not given that a thought. They must take
the chances. Hatch,
Commis^oner.
HOSTILE DEMONSTRATION BY THE UTES.
Denver, Col., November 26 —Los Pinos
dispatches state that up to Mouday the hos
tile Indians had not returned. Ouray said
the hostile* were arming, evidently fearing
trouble. The commission do not expect to
accomplish much more. It Is reported that
plans of a campaign are already arranged.
One cdlumn Is to march from Milk river,
one from Utah, and two from the South.
The commission are still barricaded, and
prepared to resist any attack.
LITIGATION OVER A SILVER MINE.
Pueblo, Col., November 26.—Litigation
has broken out worse than ever over the
Bull Domingo Mine of Silver Cliff. Shafer,
who sold the miue to Lend & Dorsey, of
New York, claims that he was to have one-
four b of the miue, aud that the parties at
tempted to freeze him out after securing a
title to the property. He has attached the
mine and asked for a receiver, and brought
suit for two hundred thousand dollars dam
ages.
CURRY’S TRIAL AGAIN POSTPONED.
Galveston, November 26.—A Sews dis
patch from Marshall says the case of the
State against Curry, for the murder of Por
ter, was again postponed until April, on
account of the absence of* witnesses for the
prosecution. A line of five hundred dollars
each was entered against Barrymore, Miss
Cummins and Harvey, they* having for
feited their recognizances.
TRIAL POSTPONED.
Petersburg, Va., November 26—The
counsel in the case of the Commonwealth
versus John Merritt, who 6hot and killed E.
M. ilicks at Weldon, have waived an ex
amluiug trial, and the case has been put
oyer to the March term of the county court
of Halifax. N. C., for a final hearing, and
the prisouer has been remanded to jail until
that time.
ANOTHER DISASTROUS COLLISION.
Liverpool, November 20 —The steamer
Lake Champlain, from Montreal and
Quebec, arrived here to-day. The Lake
Champlain came in collision with the bark
E. J. Harland, from Ardrossan for New
York, and the latter vessel was sunk. The
crew were saved. The steamer had her
bows damaged.
ADVANCE IN CABLE STOCKS.
London, November 26.—The Standard,
in its financial article this morning, says:
‘•The notable feature in the telegraphs yes
terday was tbe upward movement in Anglo-
American aud direct United States cable
shares ou rumors that the working of the
new French cable will be unavoidably post
poned for some time.”
THE CALLENDER BILLIARD CONTEST.
New York, November 26.—There was a
tie for the fourth and fifth prizes in the Cal
lender billiard tournament last night, the
game being five hundred points and up. It
was won by Daly, Gamier scoring 496.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
RELATIONS BETWEEN KUSSIA
AND PERSIA.
Report of the United States Inspcc
tors on the Champion Disaster.
MR. GLADSTONE ON THE DISSO
LUTION OF PARLIAMENT.
LATE CABUL ADVICES.
ILLNESS OF THE RUSSIAN EM
PRESS.
Snpponed Loss of a Steamer.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INSPECTORS ON
THE CHAMPION DISASTER.
Philadelphia, November 26.—The report
of the local board of steam vessel inspec
tors concerning the collision on the 7th
iust., between the steamer Champion and
the British ship Lady Oct avia, declares that
the disaster was wholly due to the absence
of a proper lookout on the Champion. The
board is of the opinion that tbe fault rests
mainly with R. H. Leonard, first mate of
tbe Champion, and if he had survived
his action should have been condemned
in severe terms. The evidence shows that
ir. was the Lady Octavia that ran into the
Champion, but that under the evidence the
officers of the Octavia should be exoner
ated from all blame. The Champion ap
pears to have been fully equipped with life
saving app ianccs, and the loss of life woul.
uot have been so serious had the steamer
kept afloat a few minutes longer. Credit is
given to the officers and crew of the Lady
Octavia for the prompt mauner in which
they went to the rescue of the passengers
aud crew of the wrecked steamer.
SVA^HJNUTON WEATHER PROPHET.
office of the Chief 'ignal observer,
Washington, Ti C.. November 26.—Indica
tions for Thursday:
In the So’tth Atlantic and East Gulf
States, falling barometer, stationary to rising
temperature, east to south winds, and partly
cloudy weather, possibly followed by light
local rains.
In the West Gulf States, generally lower
pressure, southerly winds, warmer, cloudy
or partly cloudy weather, and local rains.
In the Ohio valley and Tennessee, falling
barometer, increasing southeast to south
west winds, generally warmer, threatening
and rainy weather.
In the Middle States, falling barometer,
increasing east to south winds, warmer,
threatening and rainy weather, partly as
enow in the northern portion.
RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND PERSIA,
London, November 26.—A correspondent
of tbe Daily Sews at St. Petersburg, says:
“The Golos publishes a leading editorial
article, showing a marked change of feeling
here towards Persia. Evidently the rela
tions between the two countries are not now
on a cordial or friendly footing. The tone
of the Golos article seems to confirm the
recent intelligence of an understanding be
tween England and Persia, and of the ten
dency of the latter to throw In her lot with
England rather than with Russia.”
A STEAMER LOST.
Toronto, November 26 —No tidings have
yet been received of the steamer Wonbano.
Three tugs are making careful search among
the islands fringing the eastern shore of the
Georgian Bay, but owing to rough weather
they were not expected to reach any port
before to-day. There is great excitement
In Colllngwood over the probable fate of
the vessel, as all the officers and crew were
residents of that town.
MR. GLADSTONE ON THE DISSOLUTION OF
PARLIAMENT.
Edinburgh, November 26.—Mr. Glad
stone on receiving the Liberal address here
made a long speech He insisted that a
dissolution of Parliament ought to have
taken place ere now, but said that the
government abstains therefrom because it
inows that the country is against it, and
also because It desires to be free for a year
to give England and Europe new surprises.
LATE CABUL ADVICES.
London, November 26.—A dispatch from
Cabul to the Standard states the weather
there is very cold, tbe thermometer mark
ing twenty degrees of frost. Most of the
European troops have been sheltered In
huts. Telegraphic communication with
Cabal and Candahar is now open, ana the
morning papers publish dispatches from
both those points dated yesterday.
ILLNESS OF THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
London, November 26.—A dispatch from
Rome, to the Times, says the Empress of
Russia, whose Ill health suggested her re
moval from Cannes to Florence, has been
obliged to postpone her journey on account
of Increased sickness.
business to be suspended.
New York, November 28 —To-inorrow
being a legal holiday, basineM will be sus
pended on tbe Stock Exchange and In flnan-
gial and commercial circles generally.
ON THE WATER.
En Route to Darien—Hie David
Clark—Incidents By the Way-
Captain Ward—Sapelo and Com*
modore Islands—Do boy—Union Is
land—Darien and the Superior
Court—Side Notes.
Darien, November 24.—Editor Morning
News: In all my wanderings over the
world I had never seen Darien. The oppor
tunity presented Itself, and I have improved
it. On Saturday afternoon last I hurried
with bag and baggage to the foot of
Lincoln street, expecting to embark upon
the City of Bridgeton for this port, but
found that she was steamlDg up for
a trip to Charleston. I was directed
to the wharf of the David Clark, as she
was the outward bound vessel for Florida
and intermediate points. I was soon abroad
and expected to be off at advertised time,
but the freight continued to come in until
It was five Instead of four o’clock before
we had turned a wheel, and a full half hour
longer before we steamed down the river
and passed out of sight of the glittering
gas lights of Savannah. Then came the
rush for staterooms, everybody fearing that
everybody else would get ahead of them. I
was admonished two or three times
to press up in the crowd and demand a
showing. Having learned wisdom by ex
perience, I patiently waited 'until the rush
was over, and then paid my compliments to
the purser, and depositing my 6bare of
“filthy lucre” was assigned to No. 11, an
elegant state room, all to myself. Those of
my companions who were in such a hurry
were doubled In every instance. Moral—
don’t be in too much of a hurry to be waited
on. There is ofttimes luck in leisure.
The steamer David Clark is just from the
hands of the repairer. A new boiler has
been put in place and all ot her machinery
overhauled. The cabin has been renovated
and every part has received a new coat of
paint. Everything looked new, fresh and
clean. This was her fir^t trip, and Captain
Ward was watching every movement with
interest. The company aboard was large,
but pleasant. I didn’t encounter a siugle
grumbler. Before supper was over night
had deepened about us, and the head
wind was cold and search ng. Although the
moon was bright, it was too unpleasant
to be outside. The evening was spent in
the cabin. There were a number of young
ladies aboard, to whom the younger men di
rected their attentions, while the older of us
enjoyed our cigars aud newspapers. There
were several persons en route to Florida,
fleeing from the rigorous climate of the
North. Some were invalids; their bent forms
and their pallid faces told too plainly that
the insidious destroyer, consumption, was
preying upon their vitals. The English
man with his gun and his dog was
ab.-ard. He was going to Florida to “ ’uot
halligator heggs” and such like. He was
always on the alert for fear somebody wonld
take advaotage of him. Then there was
the new married couple. Intensely lovin
and devoted. Such parties always furnish
an interesting study, as well as the material
fora large amount of the conversation going
on. Then there were some couples aboard
who were not married. They may have
good desires In that direction, but I did not
hear them express them. Then there were
several members of the Savannah bar on
their way to McIntosh Superior Court. In
all, we had a jolly good company.
Capt. Ward is well known both on the
Savannah river aDd the Florida route. He
is an excellent officer, and looks well after
the comfort of bis passengers. I feel under
special obligations to him for attentions and
kindness, and would commend him and his
goodly craft to all who desire to make the
trip to Florida.
Wearied with constant travel for several
consecutive days, I retired early and
slept soundly. During my slumbers, we
passed St. Catharine’s sound and landing.
When I awoke we were rounding Sapelo
Island, and in fall view of Doboy. When
but a boy studying geography, I was often
puzzled to find this point off the coast of
Georgia, but from the peculiarity of the
name, and tbe difficulty attending my
search for tbe island, it imp.essed itself
upon my mind and created a desire to visi
it. Alas! when I came to look upon it
It was not what my boyish fancy
had painted. Like many other air-
cattles which I have builded, its
beauty bad dissolved into thin air. Still
It is a real place—a place of importance.
The Hilton Lumber Company do an im
mense business, while tbe rivers reaching
up even into Middle Georgia send down
millions of timber, which is carried to the
various foreign ports. Sometimes there are
fifty to 6ixty vessels here, all loading with
our Georeia yellow pine, Liverpool and
South America claiming the largest share.
Our stay was too short to go on shore, and
I had to be content with observations from
the upper deck of the Clark. I could oDly
see two or three 6torcs, and about the 6ame
number of dwellings.
From Boboy we diverge from the direct
line to the right, following one of those ser
pentine streams which penetrates the
marshes in every direction. After an hour’s
run we reach Uuioa Island, upon which is
located two **xrensive saw mills, one belong
lug to the Hiltons, and the other to Capt.
James Lachlfson, formerly of Savannah.
Here w*e discharged some freight, and lost
one of «»ur most charming passengers, Miss
Lizzie Lachlison. We fouud about and
back to Doboy. Thus enteriug another
outlet, we hasten off toward this port,
twelve miles distant, and which we reach
at two o’clock.
Darien might be said to be an old town
having passed her centennial year seme time
ago. At one time in its history it is said
that she rivaled in commercial importance
our own Forest City. Darien of to-day is
not The Darien of the long ago. Her com
mercial Importance has waned since the In
creased prosperity of Savannah, and the
building of tbe Atlantic and Gulf and the
Macon and Brunswick Railroads Still, she
is neither dead nor doomed to annihilation.
Darien suffered fearfully from the ravages
of war, being almost totally destroyed by
the Federal army. But with a spirit un
conquered and an energy undaunted, the
citizens went to work and rebuilt more
handsomely and more substantially than
ever before. The magnificent live oaks,
with their drapery of gray moss and out
stretched limbs, impart a very charming
appearance, while the newly built and newly
painted cottages give an air of com
fort and render everything homelike
and attractive. The business part of
the city Is compactly built, and some
of the store rooms are ample and well filled
with every variety of goods. On the Ridge,
three miles distant, where the people sum
mer it, there are many fine residences, 1 am
told, but I have had no opportunity to visit
that part of the town. I have been agreea
bly surprised, both as to the size and beauty
of Darien. Merchants say that business is
exceedingly dull, fully a mouth behind in
the receipts of timber, and the prosperity of
the town depends almost entirely on the
timber trade.
SIDE notes.
The Superior Court opened here to-day,
Judge Fleming presiding. One case has
taken the whole day and will consume part
of to morrow—Pease vs. Pe&6e. The Sa
vannah bar is well represented In the per
sons of Hon. R. E Lester, Major Basinger,
Judge Tompkins, P. W. Meldrini, Esq., So
licitor Smiih and Hon. A. P. Adams.
The Magnolia House, where I am most
fleasantly quartered, is kept by our old
riend Capt. White, formerly of the steamer
Reliance. He was in command of her
some year or so ago, when the boiler burst
and quite a number were injured. He has
quit tbe deck and gone to hotel keeping,
and is destined to be as popular in his new
vocation as he was on the “inland route.”
His rooms are elegantly furnished and car
peted, and everything about him is as neat
i a pin.
Tbe crowd in attendance upon court is
said to be quite small. The colored people
have ceased to take that interest in litiga
tion as formerly. Since the dethronement
of Tanis Campbell comparative peace has
reigned In Wgrsa\y.
The colored population of the county is
In large excess of the white, and I do not
know but what they are in Darien. And
notwithstanding every store has a bar at
tached, I have 6een but very little drunken
ness since my arrival.
Tbe celebrated case Involving the owner
ship of Commodore Island was called and
many thought It weald -be disposed of this
term of court, but it was continued. This
island lies seaward from Doboy, and was
purchased a few years ago by Messrs. Laug-
don <fc Co. Mr. Malcomb and Mr. W.
Mitch el 6on erected each & very nice and
comfortable residence, and greatly improved
the property. After it was in splendid
order a new claimant presented himself and
entered suit In the Superior Court, praying
that he be put in possession of the property.
The uncertainty of title has always worked
against this whole country along the coast. It
is true that in many instances ownership has
been declared, and there is no longer any
dispute, but that this question has hindered
the development of this section of the State
no one can deny.
Colonel Grubb, of the Gazette, has been
very kind and courteous to me since my
arrival here, and Is a st-ong friend of the
News. He Is a member “of the present
grand jury. By the way, he is a candidate
for tbe appointment of censos taker of the
Third district. A more competent man for
the place cannot be found in the district. I
hope he will be successful, because be de
serves it.
Darien has a Presbyterian, a Baptist,
Methodist and an Episcopal Church for the
whites, while there are several colored
churches of the various denominations. The
Catholics have a church on the Ridge.
There are several new brick business
houses going up on Broad street.
Jack Plane.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Proposition to make Grant Cap-
lain General of the Army—Increase
of Appropriations—Testing Cigars
^-Mr. Kelley as a Reporter.
Special Correspondence of the Momino News.
Washington, November 25.—No doubt
you have seen frequent references to the
proposition to make Grant Captain General
of the army with a liberal salary attached.
You may have also seen the announcement
that a bill has been prepared creating that
office and giving it to Grant, which bill is to
be introduced at the next session of Con
gress. A good deal of inquiry has been
made as to who is the man, men or party at
the bottom of this project. It is all the
work of one man. The Sunday Gazette some
weeks ago contained the proposition to
make Grant Captain General of the army, anch .. . - . . - . . . ...
has siuce been whooping up the Idea. The 4 0411 made, by Several years of skill-
Republicans have not tackled kindly to the
lead of the Gazette, and the Democrats have
not thought anything particular about it.
It was a novel idea, that was all. Major Wed-
derbnrn, tbe pleasant editor of the Gazette,
has the Captain-General idea on the brain.
It is he who has drawn up the bill to he put
in at the next setsion. Yon can always get
a bill, no matter what its character, intro
duced. The Major is in love with his scheme,
and will keep pounding away at it until it
fails of itself, as it certainly will after afford
ing a good deal of uneasiness to the Sher
man family, and much food for newspaper
discu^-sionl You can get up a boom
on anything now-a-days with very little
preparation and no expense to speak of.
Hence the Major’s boom.
“increase of appropriations.
The vearly batch of reports of the differ
ent officers of the government has been
nearly exhausted. They have all occupied
more or less space in the columns of the
newspapers. Different recommendations
are made by the various officers, but all of
them unite in one plaint. “The appropri
ation made for the service has been applied
to secure the best results for public good.
Ir has. however, become most apparent that
the clerical force of this office (or depart
ment) should be increased and money ap
propriated therefor. It is also earnestly
recommended that a more thorough and
enlarged system be entered upon,
which will, of course, necessitate larger ap
propriations.” All of them *ay that. Tue
estimates which are to be' submitted next
Monday are much larger than those of last
year. In some very few cases the growth
of tbe eervice has so extended that addi
tional appropriations are needed. Under
proper management it is doubtful if there
Is auy need of the increase even in these
cases. The ambition of every officer Is to
increase his power by an additional number
of sub ordinates, and to have the disburse
ment of larger sums of money. Congress
will have to touch very strongly upon this
subject. The tendency is ever on to
more expenditures— more unneces
sary expenditures. This tendency
was checked hy the Democrats a few years
ago, but the reaction is setting in. If the
Democratic party wants to make a record
for the Presidential contest It cannot do so
in auy better way than by a pretty general
loppiDg and pruning of appropriation bills.
There is every indication that the party will
do this same thing. It has ever been for an
economical management of tbe government,
and everybody wbo knows anything at all
of the matter knows that there Is a wide
field, even now, for reform in that direc
tion, after what has already been accom
plished by the party. Thousands of dol
lars can be cut from every appropriation
bill, and the work done as well then, if not
better than now.
TESTING CIGARS.
Ranm, Commissioner of Internal
Gen.
Revenue, on Saturday last received a box of
cigars from a Georgia man, who had manu
factured them, aud claimed that he was
forced to pay too much internal revenue
tax. He sent the box on for Gen. Raum to
test for himself and decide. The recipient
opened the box, took out a cigar and
applied a lucifer to one end of
it and his mouth to the other. A fearful
odor arose. He took half a dozen puffs,
rushed to the window and spent some min
utes in recovering from his sickness. The
cigars were, perhaps, the worst article ever
put up for smoking purposes. Gen. Logan,
the ruthless slayer of Lindlay Murray, had
been seated in the back part of the room.
Raum thought that he had not been a wit
ness to his experience. Logan was on busi
ness with Raum and drew up a chair to his
desk. The latter having a JoKe in mind
ff'-red his visitor a cigar from the open
box. Logau took it and drew bis chair to
within a foot of that occupied by Raum.
He lit tbe thing and began to smoke and
talk. He has a strong stomach, and blew
the sni* <ke right under Raum’s nos^ For
ten minutes he talked, smoked an(Polew.
Raum was too polite to request him to get
further off. He got paler, and then paler.
At the end of ten minutes he could stand
It no longer. He jumped from his
chair,rushed to the window and lost bis din
ner on the Treasury steps below. Logan
said nothing but that “he would call in
again in a half hour or so,” and left. When
he came back Raum had no more cigars to
offer him.
KELLEY AS A REPORTER.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, who is
great on “feenances” and the “tarcef,” one
night last winter rushed iuto one of the offi
ces on Newspaper Row and rather excitedly
asserted that the correspondent whose
throne was therein contained had willfully
misrepresented what he had said in the
House the day previous. He had a copy of
the paper in his hand and wanted a cor
rection. The correspondent made a dispatch
to the effect that “Judge Kelley 6aid he
did not say so and so, but thus and so,” and
printed it. A few days ago Judge Kelley
was in the same office. The correspondent
showed him a copy of tbe paper containing
a letter written by Kelley from Berlin in
which he gave an account of an interview
which he had had with Bismarck, and in^
which lie said that the German Prime Minis^*
ter announced himself as a bi-metallist. Tbe
correspondent also showed him a copy of the
denial of Bismarck that he ever made any
anch statement At latest accounts Judge
Kelley had not set Bismarck right in tbe
public prints. In this connection it may be
stated that Jndge Kelley’s misrepresentation
of his talk with Bismarck has amounted
to something more than a devia
tion from the truth. It wilt be
remembered that early in the summer
the government opened negotiations with
foreign powers looking to an adjust
ment of the international monetary standard
ou an equable ratio between gold and silver.
Germany and England, the two powers
most important to be consulted In this con
nection, made a favorable response to this
government’s invitation. In the meantime
Mr. Walker had been sent abroad to con
duct these negotiations. Before he arrived
in Berlin, Judge Kelley had appeared and
published his aistorted interview. Bismarck
refused to receive Mr. Walker. The most
important power thus objecting to the
negotiations, the whole matter has fallen
through. Our relations with Germany have
also been somewhat disturbed on account of
the action of Mr. Kelley,who, as a member of
the United 8tates Congress, Bismarck
thought could be trusted; and certainly
never dreamt that he would be misrepre
sented. Mr. Evarte, Secretary of State, is
naturally very much put out. He Is not
disposed to look with all kindness upon the
Republican member of Congress who, by
the too free exercise of his chin, broke up
one of the most important diplomatic nego
tiations entered upon by this administration.
Potoiiac.
Preparing Soil for Strawberries.
E. P. Roe, in December Scribner.
In the garden, light soils can be given
a much more stable and productive
character by covering them with clay to
the depth of one or two inches every fall.
The winter’s frost and rains mix the two
diverse soils, to their mutual benefit.
Carting sand on clay is rarely remunera
tive, the reverse is decidedly so, and top-
dressings of clay on light land are often
more beneficial than equal amounts of
manure.
As practically employed, I regard
quick, stimulating manures, like guano,
veiy injurious to light soils. I believe
them to be the curse of the South. They
are used “to make a crop,” as it istermea;
and they do make it for a few years, but
to the utter impoverishment of the land.
And yet, by the aid of these stimula
ting commercial fertilizers, the poorest
and thinnest soil can be made to produce
fine strawberries, if sufficient moisture
can be maintained. Just as a physician
can rally au exhausted man to a condi
tion in which he can take and be
strengthened by food, so land, too poor
and light to sprout a pea, can be stimula
ted into producing a meagre green crop
of some kind, which, plowed under, will
enable the land to produce a second and
heavier burden. This, in turn placed in
the soil, will begin to give a suggestion
of fertility. Thus poor or exhausted
ful management, to convalesce slowly in
to strength.
Coarse, gravelly soils are usually even
worse. If we must grow our staw-
berries on them, give the same general
treatment that I have just suggested.
On some peat soils the strawberry
thrives abundantly; on others it burns
and dwindles. With such a soil, I should
experiment with bone-dust, ashes, etc.,
until I found just what was lacking.
No written directiona can take the
place of common sense, judgment, and,
above all, experience. Soils vary like in
dividual charracter. I have yet to learn
of a system of rules that will teach us
how to deal with every man we meet.
It is ever wise, however, to deal justly
aud liberally. He that expects much
from his laud must give it much.
I have dwelt at length on the prepara
tion and enrichment of the land, since
it is tbe cornerstone of all subsequent
success. Let me close by emphasizing
again the principle which was made
prominent at first. Though we give our
strawberry plants everything else they
need, our crop of fruit will still be good
or bad in proportion as wc are able to
maintain abundant moisture during the
blossoming and fruiting scosod. If pro
vision can be made for irrigation, it may
increase the yield tenfold.
“THROW UP YOUR HANDS.”
Row Ex-Governor Amy Obeyed—
Fool in* with Robber*—An Inci
dent of Western Travel.
Money aud Marriage in Paris.
Scribner for December.
The place given to money in Parisian
marriages tells heavily upon the poor,
especially upon those who are obliged to
wear the livery of respectability. The
cost of service in the churches seems
skillfully planned iu the manner best
suited to goad to expense not only vani
ty, but self-respect also. Custom, too,
makes burdensome levies on the purse.
There must be carriages to the Mayor’s
office and to church; the bride must have
her outfit, and there must be an enter
tainment. I remember the marriage of
the daughter of an officer in the French
army. He was poor as a church mouse,
and never was quite sure that his wife
would succeed iu making his pay last
the month. A little hunchback met the
daughter at a ball and fell in love with
her. He was worth $8,000 a year. She
saw his spine in his land (where it was as
straight as an arrow) and let him know
at onc^that his suit would be successful.
By dint of borrowing $25 here, $30 there,
$50 in'another place, and other driblets
right and left, and by getting a “toilette
dealer,” to make all the purchases for
the outfit, upon promise the husbaud
should pay before the honeymoon
changed, they managed to get through
the ceremony without confessing their
poverty. The day after the wedding the
mother said to me: “You cannot
imagine the embarrassment into which
we were thrown by Louise’s marriage,
for, poor as we are, we could net send
her stark naked into her new family.
My husband had his uniform, and that,
of course, passes muster anywhere; but I
did not know* what to do for a dress. I
bought a shawl trimmed with lace for
tbe marriage. I took the lace from the
shawl and put it on my new silk dress
for the ball. Thi9 morning I removed
it from the dress and put it back on the
shawl in time to pay visits.” Running
the gauntlet would be a pleasant prome
nade, compared to the auxioty and em-
birrassmcBt of this family during the six
weeks before, and the three weeks after,
their daughter’s marriage. The wedding
over, it remained painfully uncertain
what reception the husband would give
his betrothed's bills. They were many,
and some of them were heavy. The sum
total was very large, but he paid them
without wincing.
T Acknowledge the Corn,”- This
is the origin of the phrase, “I acknowl
edge the cornIn 1828 Andrew Stewart,
a member of Congress, said in a speech
that Ohio. Kentucky and lndmana sent
their hay stacks, corn fields and fodder
to New York and Philadelphia for sale.
Wickliffe, of Kentucky, called him to
order, declaring that those States did not
send hay stacks or corn fields to New
York for sale. “YTell. what <Jo you sepd?”
asked Stewart. “Whv, horses, mules,
cattle and hogs.” “Well, wjiat makes
your horses, mules, cattle and hogs?
You feed $100 worth of hay to a horse.
You just animate and get upon the top
How is it with your cattle? You make
one of them cany $50 worth of hay and
grass to the Eastern market IJow much
com does it tafce, at thirty three cents a
bushel, to fatten a hog?” ‘‘Why, thirty
bushels.” “Then you put that thirty
bushels Into the shape of a hog, and
make it walk off to the Eastern market”
Then Mr. Wickliffe jumped up and said
The effects of “dime novel” reading,
with its Buffalo Bill and Joaquin Miller
style of long-haired swash and buckler
heroes, is illustrated everywhere in the
ambitious freaks of the rising generation.
In Canada, last week, a party of boys of
11 and 12 years of age were arrested as
embryo pirates. They had got possession
of an old vessel on Lake J3rie, and had
secured several revolvers, and were dis
cussing the kind of armament that was
necessary for their ship, to insure an ex
citing and gallant career of piracy on
the lake, when they were taken in hand,
treated to a sound whipping, and sent to
bed. Here in Connecticut two 14 year
old boys in Ansonia have run away from
home with the expressed intention of
getting to Colorado, where they expected
to duplicate scents they had seen enacted
within the yellow covers of novels.
They had about $9 in all, which one of
them had laid In in the savings hank
from the sale of newspapers, and to ob
tain which he forged his father’s name
to an order. His father went to New
York to look for the runaways, but was
forced to return without any tidings of
them. These occurrences are repeated,
somewhere, almost evpiy week/ They
show the influence of the “yellow-
covered” kind of literature - hut how is
it to be prevented?—Hartford Times.
The Hartford correspondent of the
Springfield Republican tells the following
story of how a Hartford manufacturer
lost and found $10,000 in United States
bouds. The gentleman in question is a
heavy capitalist, who occasionally has to
borrow large sums for a short time and
uses United States bonds as collateral on
such occasions. In the present instance
he bad just paid up a loan aud called in
his bonds, which lie placed in a tin box.
On his way to his office he stopped at his
bootmaker’s and tried on a pair of new
boots. Nothing more was thought of
the bonds for a fortnight, when another
member of the firm needed to use them
at the bank and searched the office safes
in vain. The hero of the tale was in
New York, to which point a dispatch
was sent to the effect that the bonds
couldp ? t be found. He returned to Hart
ford post haste and went over the route
taken the day he had last seen" them. As
he entered the shoemaker’s shop the man
of leather said: “Ah, Mr. , I am
glad to see you. Didn’t you leave an old
tin box here a week or so since?’
have you got it?” “There it is, stowed
away on that upper shelf. It lay here on
the floor a day or two after your call,
when I shelved it until some claimant ap
peared.” The manufacturer eagerly
opened the box and found his $10,000 of
4>6fkls uninjured and intact.
A Scarlet Fever Epidemic. — A
_ _ . Springfield, IU., dispatch says an epi-
of your haystack and ride off to market, .femib of scarlet fever is now
raging at
It is spreading rapidly, mid
Oyer -five hundred cases have been re
ported by the physicians and ten deaths.
The board of health has ordered the pub
lic schools closed until after January 1st,
and adopted a resolution recommending
that no public funerals be held either at
churches or private residences. The phy
sicians differ in their theories as to the
New York Sun.
Accounts of the robbery of ex-Gov-
ernor Arny, of New Mexico, while on his
way East in September, were published,
but none so accurate, detailed and amus
ing as that given by the venerable
frontiersman himself before his departure
for Europe.
“I was on my way East,” said he, “in
a four-horse stage—the mail stage that
runs between Santa Fe and Las Vegas,
the terminus of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad. My only fellow
passenger was Mr. J. F. Strahan, a New
York lawyer. We had ridden aU day,
and were within five miles of Las Vegas.
It was just getting dusk, when suddenly
the coach stopped.”
“What’s the matter?” I called out.
“Get out here and you’ll see what’s the
matter,” the driver answered.
“I did get out, and was met by a
masked man with a double-barrelled shot
gun. He ordered me to throw up my
bauds. I said that I would not do it.
Then he ordered me to go to the side of
the road and sit down. I told him that
I intended to stand up and see what was
going on. He swore some, and ordered
one of the other men ('here were three
of them) to ‘search that old feller.’ They
did, and found my greenbacks. How
much? Well, a right smart bunch; some
that I had got together to go to England
with. They didn’t get my watch or my
silver that time.
“ ‘Don’t point that gun at me,’ I said.
T don’t know but it’s loaded. It might
;o off and kill me, and I tell you if you
till me you’ll get yourself in trouble.
I’ve got lots of friends around here, and
they’ll make it warm for you, I tell you.’
He laughed and said he wouldn’t get hung
if he did. He’d only get sent up twenty
years. I told him that if I had a pistol
I’d send him up in about twenty seconds.
You know I never carry a pistol—I don’t
believe in it, and am a non resistant on
principle. My people were Quakers.
Well, after we had this conversation the
leader and his men were rummaging
around. ‘Well, I guess you’d better
search the antediluvian again. ’ The men
looked me over again, and pulled my
gold watch out of my pocket.
“ ‘Now, don’t take that,’ I said, ‘it’s
got my name on it, and it will lead to
your detection.’
“ ‘Damn his watch,* said the leader.
“So they left it, and turning to Stra
han took his watch and chain and $500
in money. All this time the leader was
covering me with the shot gun. I saw
one of the men beginning to overhaul the
mail bags, and I stepped forward.
“ ‘Stop !’ said the leader.
“I told him I wanted to see what the
man was doing.
“ ‘Stay where you are,* he said.
“But I wanted to see, and so I walked
along and talked, and stood by tbe mail
bags. Then I advised the man not to
cut the bag, but to cut the strap. He did
so. Then 1 told him to pour out the let
ters, and he did that. He began to tear
the letters to pieces.
“ ‘Now stop,’ said I; ‘tear off tbe ends
carefully. You won’t get anything
there. This is Monday’s mail, and no
one sends money in Monday’s mail.
Most of them letters are love letters.
Our boys out here have girls in the
States, and I hate to have their love torn
up.’
“And so the fellow did tear off the
ends carefully. He didn’t find any
money in the first bag, and that was all
he opened. 1 told him the other bags
contained only newspapers and way
mails, and he believed me. I had a has
ket of lunch in the stage, and I said to
the leader:
“ ‘There’s some lunch in there. We
might all take a bite.
“ ‘Oh, you shut up,’ said he, and he
laughed, and then he said:
“ ‘I guess you’d better go through that
reverend old gentleman again,’ and they
did, and got a bag of silver I had. While
the man was searching me he turned his
side to me, and I saw the butt of a pistol
iu his belt. I made a grab at it, and he
ierked around. As he did so the cloth
he had over his face was pushed aside,
and I saw his face. I afterwards iden
tified that man. Well, by talking and
ioking I kept those fellows there an
hour and a quart er by my watch. Within
a mile of us there were 3.000 men
at work on the railroad, and I hoped
some would come. At last eight meu
did come along—Mexicans, with hay.
When one of them saw us he picked up
two stones and ran toward us. The
leader threw up his gun.
“ ‘If any of you can speak Spanish,’
he said, ‘tell that fellow if he comes here
I shall shoot him.’ Some one did tell
the man. and he and the rest ran away.
Then the robbers ordered the driver to
take the harness off the horses, and,
throwing our blankets and overcoats on
them, the robbers rode off. They took
that Navaio blanket there, that lam
going to take to England with me. and
give to Queen Victoria. Two days later
the blankets were found along the rail
road, and the shotgun broken. I drew
eighteen buckshot from one barrel.
From these blankets the men were
tracked to a dance house and found
dancing. These trousers were covered
with hair from the horses. On the next
Saturday four other meu hired a horse
iu Las Vegas, drove out four miles,
stopped and robbed.the coach, and two
of them afterward drove back with the
horse. They were all arrested, and the
seven lodged in Santa Fe jail. When I
came East I went to General Davies and
represented to him the condition of the
jail. It was a regular shell. He said he
could do nothing; he had no money.
One of the robbers has already got
away, and the others will, probably, be
fore February, when the court sits.
Since I was robbed the robbers have
stopped a railroad train. The trouble is
that they are not prosecuted. The govern
ment don’t sustain the prosecutors, and
so the rascals go unpunished,”
A Heartless Imposture.
New Orleans Times.
He didn’t enter the village in a forty*
six horse band-wagon, or in any other
high-toned, stylish way, bnt came by
Walker’s line. His raiment was not of
the kind that could well be calculated to
g et away with the attire of Solomon in all
is glory; and his countenance didn’t im
press the public deeply as a sign of a soul
uplifted. He walked into a saloon, and
announced that he had the colic.
“Drug-store three doors up—doctor on
the corner,” was the unfeeling reply of
the first assistant engineer.
He wasn’t disconcerted. He gazed
around for a minute or so, and then ad
dressed a group of young men who were
seriously engaged in a pastime which they
“California Jack.”
called
“Gentlemen,” said he, “perhaps you
would oblige a stranger with a little inf or
motion. I’m here in search of an engage
ment. Perhaps yon might pat me on to
one. I am, sirs, the world famed Pro
fessor Veribeeri, late of the Strikeout
Opera Company—firrt tenor of that ilk,
gentlemen.”
Then he folded his arms like a statue
of Napoleon, and frowned haughtily.
Oue of the young men, who had just
got out, took him by the arm and led him
aside.
“You say you art « boss singist?” he
asked, anxiously.
The professor cleared his throat, and
began to show symptoms of an exhibition
of his powers.
“No, no,” said the young man, hastily,
I’ll take your word for it Now, see
here, I want something in your line, and
if you will do it I’ll pay you welL I
suppose you may be willing to accept a
five dollar job. eh?”
‘Yes, sir,” said the professor, as I fear
my letters to the bank have miscarried,
ah—just at present—’"
T see—exactly. Well, when you was
coming up the street you must have no
ticed that large white house with eagles
on the gate-posts? Yes. Very well. My
girl lives there, you know, and I’d like
to serenade her; but I ain’t on the sing
myself. If you could go around there to
night and touch up your liarmouy on the
front gallery, I’d fix it all right with the
servant girl to slip out and hand you a V
for vour trouble. What do you say?”
“My dear sir,” said the professor, “I
shall oblige you most gladly.”
“Then here’s- four bits to run you till
night. Good-by—see you to-morrow. ”
It was midnight when the professor
pened out before the large white house.
e was somewhat far gone in “booze,”
as he had invested his half-dollar entirely
in that article, and his ideas of serenade
music were not in good working order.
He went in on that ancient lyric:
“In the Green Mountings there did dwell
A Igveli youth—1 knovred him well—
“Old Deacon Jones' eldest son.
And skeerceli turned of txenti one.
No,t long ago a well-known collector of
curiosities in Paris, who had devoted con
siderable sum3 of money to the gathering
together of bank notes of all countries
and all values, became the possessor of a
Bank of England five pound note to
which an unusually strange story was
attached. This note was paid into a
Liverpool merchant’s office in the ordinary
way of business sixty-one years ago, ana
its recipient, the cashier of the firm, while
holding it up to the light to test its genu
ineness, noticed some faint red marks
upon it which, on closer examination,
proved to be semi-effaced words, scrawled
in blood between the printed lines and
upon the blank margin of the note.
Extraordinary pains were taken to de
cipher these partly obliterated characters,
and eventually the following sentence was
made out: ‘ ‘If this note should fall into
the hands of John Dean of Longhill, near
Carlisle, he will learn hereby that his
brother is languishing a prisoner in Air
giers.” Mr. Dtan was-promptly com
municated with by the holder oi the note,
and he appealed to the government of
th‘e day for assistance in his endeavor to
obtain his brother’s release from captivity.
The prisoner, who, as it subsequently ap
peared, had traced the above sentence
upon the note with a splinter of wood
dipped in bis own blood, bad been a slave
to the Dey of Algiers for eleven years,
when his strange missive first attracted
attention in a Liverpool counting house.
His family and friends had long believed
him dead. Eventually his brother, with
the aid of the British authorities in the
Mediterranean, succeeded in ransoming
him from the Dey, and brought him
home to England, where he did not long
survive release, his constitution hav
ing been irreparably injured by exposure,
privations, and forced labor in the Dey*s
galleys,
-Mr. Speaker, I acknowledge the com.” cause of such au unusual epidemic.
Jim, nrifi
In Paris there is an “Association to
Prevent the Abuse of Tobacco and Alco
hol.” A prise of two hundred francs
and a medal are offered for the best
work showing ti
alcohol.
“One day this nice young man did go—’’
And finished the ballad with due
mournfulness of expression. Then be
sang several more songs, and began to
wonder why the servant did not come
with the money.
“Gues3 that girl mus’ ’a’ pizened ’self,”
said he. “Well, here goes again.”
But, as the first strains of “Little
Fraud” arose on the circumambient air. a
passing citizen hailed him:
“Sa-a-y, what yer yowlin’ about there?”
“Serenading the young lady, sir,” po
litely replied the professor.
“Young lady! In your mind. Don’t
you know that’s the court house?”
The professor folded his ears like the
Arabbits and silently, etc.
A Horrible Barber.
St. Louis Republican.
A very well known St. Louisan went
into a Market street barber shop recently
in quest of a shave and a hair cut. Them
were three chairs in the shop, but the
barbers were all out and had left tl e
premises in charge of a little ten-year-
old white headed girl. The gentleman
accosted the child, and she answered his
question by calling one of the barbers
The gentleman saw the tonsorial artut
coming out of a neighboring saloon and
walking toward the shop. This was
the reason he had for seating himself in
a barber chair with feet outstretched and
resting on a stool in front The barber
entered. The gentleman's back was
turned to the door, but he saw him come:
in by the aid of a looking-glass. The
barber spoke first
“Shave, sir?”
“Yes. sir.”
“Hair cut, siri*
“Yes, sir.”
“Sit up, sir. I’ll cut your hair first”
The gentleman sat up. The barber
tucked a piece of calico under the gentle
man’s chin, and poked it down around
tbe neck. Then be took a pair of shears,
and set to work in real earnest First
he took a chunk of hair off one side of
the cranium, and then a chunk off the
other. Then he poked his victim under
tbe left ear,and came within a hair breadth
of cutting the end off the left auricle.
The gentleman smelt something. It was
the barber's breath,and it was very strong
—like the interior of a distillery. He
remembered that he had told the barber
that he wanted a shave, and he imagined
that he already saw the barber with razor
uplifted and in the act of slitting hi*
throat from ear to ear. Horrible thought!
Now was the time for action—the
scissors could be fought easier than the
razor. He looked the barber right in the
eye and said, “You’ve been drinking,sir.”
The barber looked blacker than night
and muttered “You’ve mistaken, I assure
you.”
“You are drunk, sir; take this wrapper
from my throat,” insisted the gentle
man.
“I’m not drunk, sir; you’re a liar if you
say I’m drunk. I’ll cut your throat wish
the shears, sir, if you dare to leave that
chair.”
Tbe gentleman grasped the barbers
hand, disarmed him, pulled the calico
from his own neck, and grasping up liis
hat. darted for the door, with the barber
running after bipi, this time armed with
a razor and threatening to decapitate th<
unoffending customer. When last feen
the gentleman had the best of the race.
Extensive Mall Thievery—An Aristo
cratic Colore*! Hogue. '"jSlj
It has been discovered that extensile
pilfering has been going on in the Rich-
mond, Va., poet office for many monthk
Over four hundred complaints of lettets
addressed to parties, which failed o
reach their destination, have been lodge!
with post office officials in the past few
months, most of them being remittance?
to newspapers. H. J. Gordon Baugh,
the colored letter carrier, who was ar
rested on Monday charged with
being implicated in the robberies, anc!
who confessed thef he stole the test
letters mailed by Special Agent W. T.
Henderson the night before, waived ex
amination and was bailed in the sum of
t 1,000 for appearance before the United
fates District Court at Alexandria,
January 15. Among those who have
suffered from Baugh’s depredations are
the Richmond Circulating Library and
others who receive books through the*
mails. At the handsomely furnished
residence of Baugh a gentleman, wbo
lost a valuable book in the mails, and got
out a search warrant, found the missing
volume in the carrier’s well filled library
of over seven hundred valuable books.
It is believed that many other missing
books will be identified in tbe same col
lection. BaughJived in handsome style,
and entertained most of the distinguished
colored statesmen who visited there.
The Hot Springs of Arkansas.—
The number of hot springs of Arkansas
has steadily increased since they first
came into notice. Professor Owen, in
1860, speaks of only forty-two, while
now there are seventy or more m con
stant flow, discharging in the aggregate
about 500.000 gallons a day. The high
est spring bursts from the side of the
mountain one hundred and eighty-five
feet above the level of the valley, and
others at various heights from that town
to the margin of the creek. The tem
perature of the springs range from 93
to 156 degrees, and many of them are
hot enough to cook an egg or a fish.
The number of visitors to the springs
for the last ten years has averaged 10,700
a year, representing every region of the
world and every degree of culture and
refinement.
The demand on the Treasury Depart
ment for additional circulation from the
national banks continues. Two million
and a half additional circulation has al
ready been taken out this month, and it
is estimated that the total for the month
will exceed three million dollars.
?im Pills.
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
of Appetite, Bowels costive. Pain in
tneHead, withr.c.::lloensat ionia the back
part, Pc:n under the sho jldcrblide, fr»n-
ncssczlerc&tniK, "With a disinclination to
crcrlxon cr bony or mind, Irritability of
temper. Lott spirits, withafeeiinp; cf hav-
inpr ne-lecto-i acme <!;:!-/, Wca rine-ia, Uiz-
amess, J?li2tterin<s st t lie Heert, Doti be
fore the eyes. Yellow fctia, Ileadacho
Kggvgjy oyer fbori-ht eye. He-tleasnras
m.hnztui dreams, highly cclered Urine.
nr Tmsz vtahj.’ihgsaise ukeeeded,
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED.
TUTTS PILLS are rupcr-laHy nilapted Co
such cases owe do,, cflbcf. .urh a riianee
of feeling a.*4 to aatosNh the suOcrcr,
CONSTIPATION.
Only w.ih regularity of tbs bowels can perfect
health be enjoyed. If tbe constipation is
of recent date, a air.f.e dose oi TUTT’S PITTR
will suffice, but if it has become
nil should be taken every p!-:,!,praduaHv leesen-
ng the frequency cf thatfose until a regular duilr
morement is obtained, which will soon follow.
Dr- I-Gny Lewis, I'u'ton, Ark., nays:
■■ ^ a Tactics of £5 years, I pronounce
TC1I S PILLS tho best anti-bilious medicine
ever made."
^Ongnody New Vork, nays :
__ i nave hud Dyspepsia, Weak Stomach and
I never nad ar
Nervousness. I never bad anr medicine to do
me so much good as TUTTS TILLS. They are
as rood as represented.”
OHicc Murray Street, New York.’
TUTT’S HAIR DYE.
Goat Hair on Whiskmh chanced to a Glosst
I.Lacx by a sir?••> application «.f this Ijtt. It hn-
parts*Natural Cal.ir,acts Instantaneous'*, end is
as Harmlesscasprinc w.-.ter. Sold by UruViusta.cr
spn n« ti
gent hyeaptrsa on receipt o. , ..
Office 3S Murray St., Kow York,
fobi 7-Tu.Th.S. wATeJ 1 v
frg ©oofls.
F. McKEffli,
137 BROUGHTON STREET,
Between Ball and Whitaker Streets.
H AYING just returned from my second fall
visit to the Northern markets. I am pre
ps red to offer customers fancy sroods
tail far below the wholesale prices of a few
w eeks a#?o
cashmere stripe and dam as see dress
GOODS, at 10c.. handsome.
Handsome BENGALEE BROCADES at 12Wc.
BROCADED POPLINS Seal Browns, Navy
Blues, Garnets, and other shades—at 35c,
at'c and 25c.
Plain COLORED CASHMERES, in choice colors.
Pekin STRIPED CASHMERES, all wool, 45
inches wide—Navy Blue, Seal Brown and
Garnet—Hoc.
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTAS, in superior
and sublime qualities.
BLACK CASHMERES A SPECIALTY.
BLACK SILKS.
Antoine Guinet's and Alexandre Gerund's
celebrated Satin-finished BLACK SILKS -war-
ra ted perfectly pure Silk and free from
changing—from $1 10 to $2 59 per yard.
Ladies’ Beaver Cloaks.
The protracted warm season having retarded
the sa - of Cloak?. I will offer my entire stock
at great y reduced prices.
A very full line of WATERPROOF CLOAK
INGS—Blues Browns. Grey Mixtures, etc.
Double wi- th all wool SUITING* at 50c.
A SPLENDID ARRAY OF CHILDREN'S
FANCY HOSIERY—French, English and
German—in all the new color combinations.
Hr. Hendricks States HU Position
Seamless KID GLOVES, every pair warranted.
Joiivin's KID GLOVES.
A good 3-Button KID GLOVE, medium colors,
at 37c.
An auction lot of KID GLOVES, in evening
snodes and black, at 25c. per pair,
entlexnen's KID and DOG SKIN GLOVES.
Ladies' -tockingTop CASHMERE GLOVES.
Children’s Long Top CASHMERE GLOVES
and MITTENS.
HANDKERCHIEFS, Etc.
A splendid assortment of Ladies*
Hen
r lendid assortment of Ladies' Plain
emmed Stitched and Colored Bordered
H \NDKERCHIEFS.
Gentlemen*8 Hemm-d Stitched and Colored
Bordered HANDKERCHIEFS.
Children's Colored Bordered LINEN HAND
KERCHIEFS.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati En j
miirer, who met Hon. Thomas A. Htn- '
dricks in Indianapolis last week, called {
his attention to a recent statement In the
Washington Star that a prominent j lAd Hickaad Whit?* SCABFSand FICHU p*
Indianian had said that he (Uendricks) ; Gentlemen's NECKWEAR, new and fashioo-
bad denounced Mr. Tilden in the bitter- | able.
est terms. Mr. Hendricks is reported as ; blankets, flannels, linen table DA-
saying: “I have never denounced Mr. { masks, napkins, towej>, etc.
Tilden, nor haTe I censured him eyen. I j A u my housekeepiof- goods having been
did not attempt to advise Mr. Tilden ns , bought before the advance in price, I am en-
to his course after the electlou In 1876. i ublcd to offer them at least twenty per cent.
He decided bis courts without suggvs- . heiow current market value,
tions from me. and 1 have no doubt he I
thought he va- doing that which would .
result the best for the country. As to j
myself, I have always thought it fortu- ,
note far me that I did not fill tbe Vice -
Presidential office. I did not want it. !
because it would not add to the honors I, «-—V— V A -w- m
have bad conferred upon me by my. f . f • /\ I j ’
countrymen, and in a financial way "l 1 — — — *
think my profession quite as profitable.” j
Mr. Hendricks further said: “Ido not I
ask a nomination as a matter of vindica I
tion. When a party elects a man to an !
office it vindicates him, if such a thing * CCOTCH PARLOR,
js necessary in politieg. If he does not 0
B. F. McKENNA.
novSl-XATeltf
-fuel.
or cannot assume the office afterward,
that ia another matter. At least it is so
in my case. If I ask anything of my
countrymen it will be upon my merits.
I shall support any man whom my party
will nominate. I have no exclusive
WELCH PARLOR.
RED ASH, egg and stove sizes.
WHITE ASH, egg and store sizes.
CUMBERLAND.
Orders _
Messrs. A. M. A <
filled if sent to boxes at
W. West's and Mr. John
claim on any nomination. The people, j Ljon«", wharf foot ofWest BrooA street, us
not aspirants, are the judges in such mat-, Taylor street, or by telephone exchange to
ters. I regard Indiana as a Democratic j un:
State, and would be disappointed if any - M ^ M ,
nominee of the party should fail to cany l_J_ S?_ I H [j IVl A S .
it. At any ratehe would receive all thi , ** m **'■ ■ 1 ‘WlfiriVj
assistance I could give him. 1
SraocxAK Cause of Death.—A Cm-.
cinnati Enquirer special horn Calhoun, ‘
Ky., says: “Lee Houston, a youth of
thirteen, was leaning on the muzzle of a
abase ball match, when
af
Oak, Pine and Idghtwood