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Georgia Affairs.
r ft publican, of Americus, is
[o the last. In Its last issue it pre
0 ng it.- leading editorial paragraphs
kV ji.g sentiment: “The Savannah
, News is unquestionably one of
i a ilv papers In the South.”
u/ii'r RcjiuUican tells how some
ii there recently killed an anoma-
,Imped, which seemed to be part
part goat. They preserved the
. a., and now are anxious that some
: will examine them and classify
Tue residence of Mr. A. Ilirsch, on Lee
t Americus, caught on lire on Mondaj’
-vu: U'\ and at one time it was feared it
U U entirely consumed. By strenuous
of the fire company, however, it
*aved from total destruction. Mr.
Eir-cli estimates his loss at about two bun-
y-eJ au*l tifty dollars. The property be-
•.jL£vl to tieneral Phil. Cook.
Tdc liul’.cr lit raid is of the opinion that
•*ue political iudependentism In Georgia
being independent of Dr. Felton, D.
0., and hi.' allies.
On Monday next the Columbus Guards
gv _• ..mg to shoot for turkey. A turkey
vnl be placed at a distance of three hun-
irrd yard' and tne marksman who takes off
-iLei 11' to take the prize.
A corn-'pondeut from Darien, writing in
regard to friend Grubb’s application for the
Position of Census Supervisor, says that bis
ji'Kjintniciit would receive the cordial ap-
p-QVal uf the entire district. Col. Nicholls,
our tumn-diate representative in Congress,
is warmly Mipporting him.
A letter from Valdosta brings the lnfor-
-itioii that Mr. Charles K. Pendleton, of
-_- e Valoo-ta Times, was married on Wed-
; c; iay evening last, at eight o’clock,
g the re.-idei.ee of the bride’s father, to
jli.-- Sadie Peeples. Kev. James Rushing,
of quit man, Ga., performed the ceremony.
JI:. IVi.dletou took a great many of his
frun-l- bv surprise, as he has been trying
Lird keep nis expected nuptials a secret.
I: addition to being an editor, he is a Lieu-
tenant m the Lowndes Volunteers, who gave
him a tir*t class serenade on the evening of
the wvi-ling. We tender to him and his
bride our hearty congratulations, and our
bertwidles for future health, wealth and
The Sparta hhmaelite says that “a few old
dilapidated Democratic qutduuncs in Geor-
riiseeiu to have united themselves into a
son of political Clement attachment for the
purp.se of r-piuniug yarns in the Graut in
icrest. They are going to realize the fancy
of the man who dreamed that he attended
his own funeral. There is going to be a
rrgular rush in the business of political
pre digging down here in the republic of
0a Tuesday last the receipts of cotton In
Columbus were 1,465 bales, the largest re
ceipts in any single day since the war.
Americus wants a Clement attachment.
In- North Georgia Methodist Conference
limbers one hundred and ninety-two min
tiers and forty lay members. One clerical,
R:y. Win. .1. Florence, and one lay member,
F. Langston, of Gainesville, have
uring the year. There are twenty-
uperaunuated preachers in the body.
Hollis Belt, of Marion county, ba6
,-easou thirty-nine barrels of wine,
is worth in the market two dollars
stated that a gentleman in Muscogee
determined at the beginning of the
MVh one hundred ’possums before
iu.«. He has already caught between
y :i v • and eighty, and says the chances
good for as many more. He is the
i-»:i ’possum hunter,
f't t’e in Talbot county is on the ad-
Ai cording to the Standard, the
i'nearly out of debt, and by the
January every dollar of Its indebt-
wiil he paid and there will doubtless
icy in the treasury besides.
ft rail rejoices over the fact that
• and loafers are unknown in Swalns-
On Wednesday last Judge Simmons, who
I bolding court in Perry, charged the
jury to investigate thoroughly the
’ lynching in Fort Valley of the negro
Henry Walker. Although the
had (ummitted many crimes in
I Hous’ur. county, some of which he con
Sitd. hi- unlawful and summary taking
* a condemned by the best people of the
S'-nty without exception.
,w " negr > women and a negro man,
a * c '* up in old-time plantation 6tyle,
Atlanta last Wednesday on
ar way to Kansas. They said they had
^bt tickets to Memphis, but would have
TMitr de big road de balance of de way.”
^eatked how long tliey proposed to stay
'•replied, ‘ We’s going to stay Uar for
|?j°d. • They probably will, for if, before
Leak winter is over and before the buds
I wine in thi
I wav
they wil
i \ a
•pring, they are all not laid
"i" in narrow beds about sev-
ix feet deep and three feet
1 he exceedingly fortunate.
T<n,fa-. “We have recently
ii*.* very good farming, but
heard of tome that is worth
of. Mr. A. J. Grant, who
Plains district, Harris county,
cultivated a crop with one
eh he has gathered eighteen
cotton and three hundred
besides about three thous-
' fodder. He only used oue
ultivatiou. Another farmer,
c. made four hundred bushels
i teen bales of cotton, weigh
t'd pounds, on a one horse
- beside a crop of fodder,
. etc. He bad six bales of
atv yesterday, aud has eight
This is good farming, aud
•* r can make so large a crop
- n why others could not
‘i d up to making equally as
I hey certainly could if they
’ heuiselves to a smaller area,
•• attention that is too ofteu
ug to cultivate broad acres.”
Republican: “On Monday last,
Harr..Id, Johnson «fc Co. received
•' loaded with syrup from one of
^atiuns of lion. John A. Cobb, of
t T ,/ U: '.'- v - There were thirty-six barrels
ru P. and wc learn from the
SqjA 11 r ’ ci-iveil it that Capt. Cobb made
tDCrt * lo tbe bands on four other
■Ka-j'.^‘^ -. longincr to him. The wagons
* ut-.-ilay morning' loaded with
^■-• yruj, i, arre j s Xbtr Captain is one of
*/// fjri ucrs who make their rations at
t>7„ . I' { k«*ir beads above the high pres-
Cjn-j °* ^ant, and run smoothly with
IViven.^' * s fbe true independent
itjulii j!!, 1 <J ! Georgia, in which all farmers
*«£.•! JJlIi bauds, and keep the ball in mo-
thinks that while
lb--.'■ Georgia are thinking so much
■v’.
I? other‘ m* iu * <to consider the importance
a “ at *hments to their business of
l^oldf'., ,r instance, the attachment of
1^* “ur ' n ‘ t ' inoke house, an institution
I*both a ' ,low a i most obsolete, would
Cuni fort and a home argument
, 0 ^ Western bacon. An at-
■ rcyof f a blooded milch cows,with
I?ii4 W( OI i a , ir 1 e for both summer and win-
I l, e an investment every way
Ih'ii i' r °fltable, for we know of
now l bat commands readier
I N>r. , ,/. a prices than choice country
|5«om rH ? er , attac bmente in the shape of
libor^ 5 ’ f . u11 ^ ran aries, improved stock
■ -saving agricultural implements,
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
proper rotation of crops, an intelligent sys
tem of reclaiming waste or depleted lands,
hiS3.u°J? d eo . f .Y towari1 ‘be complete re-
habilitatlon of the countv, and the revival
of its manifold Interests/’ revival
Atlanta Constitution: “In several of the
counties in Northern Georgia there is much
e f? ver a new and terrible method
of killing flsh which is being practiced with
great efficacy. When the government sur
veyors were Improving the beds of the Eto
wah and Coosa rivers they used dynamite In
blasting rock. It was discovered that the
explosions were very fatal to the fish all
around them. The shock was so terrible
that hundreds of dead or stunned fish would
rise to the surface and be easily taken. The
people around the country heard of this de
struction of fish and resolved to put it to
practical use. They procured a number of
dynamite cartridges and began such a killing
or fish as was never heard of before. The
practice rapidly spread until now it is com
mon in several counties In North Georgia.
A place In the stream is bated well for
several days until fish congregate thickly
there. Then the managers of the destruc
tive plans go to work. The dynamite cart
ridge is placed deep under the water. It is
exploded by means of a small galvanic bat
tery, or by some cheaper concussion. A
terrific stir is made in the water, and for
yards around fish are killed by the hundreds.
\V e learn that not far from Cartersville, the
other day, two hundred pounds of fish were
thus killed in one stream. The news of this
practice is rapidly spreading, and wherever
it is heard of there is a desire to try it. The
destruction of fish in the streams and ponds
Is consequently terrible. Much indignation
is felt by those who deem this an extrava
gant waste of fish, but there seems to be no
way to prevent It. There is no law on the
subject, aud protests amount to very little.”
Sparta InhmaeliU: “Addle Dodge, son of
Rev. W. A. Dodge, while attempting to
jump from a moving passenger car to the
platform, missed his footiug and would in
evitably have fallen under the wheels and
been crushed, had not bis father reached
out his hand and caught him as he was
falling. Had Mr. Dodge been a foot further
off, or bad his attention been directed to
some other quarter, the little fellow would
have been crushed to death. The depot is
no place for children. This jumpiDg ou
and off of cars ought to be stopped. Reck
less boys sometimes lose their lives in that
way. This is a sermon addressed to parents.”
Augusta News: “The readers of the News
will remember an accouut of the capture iu
this city some weeks back of Hal Garrett,
and bis return to captivity. Hardly bad the
Information got abroad before the Columbian
brings the information that on last Thurs
day, when on his way'to the coal mines In
charge of a guard, and while the night ex
press freight was at Harlem, Hal asked the
guard for water, who went to the other end
of the car to procure it. As he turned
with the water he saw his prisoner es
caping through the door. The train be
ing in motion, and the night very
dark, he made good his escape. Hal was
sentenced to the penitentiarj- for life from
Columbia, lSio, for the murder of bis wife.
For a few days after his sentence he was
very low-spirited and seemed loath to leave,
but a day or two before he was carried off
he regained his cheerfulness. lie said that
he had had a remarkable dream and was
confident that be would make good his
escape. llis dream seems likely to be
realized, as he has made two escapes. He
is doubtless now basking in the smiles of
one of his wives over in the elysium of ne
gro criminals—South Carolina.”
“Newton county,” says the Covington
Star, “has one of the greatest living curiosi
ties in the person of Green Hayden, a col
ored man, who has not walked a step since
he was a small boy. His legs have perished
away, and he has no use of them whatever.
This deformity was caused by a severe hurt
when he was a child, and he has never since
been able to walk. His body above the hips
is as well developed as any mau’e,
and he Is otherwise stout and healthy.
His only means of locomotion
is to sit down flat upon the
ground and lift himself along with his
bands. In this helpless condition he does
the work of a well man. He works in the
field, hoes cotton in the summer, and picks
it out in the fall. He has purchased a home
since the war. He supports two families,
has made five or six bales of cotton this
year, and bas a nice little surplus of cash
capital In hand. He is a shoemaker, and
makes shoes at night aud ou rainy days.
In this way he earns a nice little
sum of money, which greatly assists him
in payiDg for bis plowing and other
farm expenses. He pays cash for the
small amount of farm supplies he bas
to buy In the spring, although he could buy
any amount he wants on time. His credit
is better tban that of the best of his race,
and is even better than that of a large class
of white farmers, and yet he has made all
he is worth since the war. He has accom
plished what a thousand others in hla con
dition could not have done; yea, he has
done more for himself than thousands of
able-bodied white and colored people have
accomplished for themselves. He has solv
ed the problem that auy one with common
eense and good physical health can make a
living for themselves in this country.”
Speaking of the alleged Grant boom in
Georgia, the Canton Advocate grows indig
nant and 6a3's: “We felt humiliated beyond
measure when Georgia voted for Greeley for
President. If the people forget themselves
so far as to vote for Graut, the bitter enemy
of the South and free government, for
president we 6hall feel ashamed for them
while we live. He Is, in our judgment, the
worst enemy to our American Institutions
on the continent. For the white men of the
South to aid in making him President of the
nation would be an Insufferable outrage.
We want a better man. He may be virtuous
and good enough for the gentlemen named
In connection with the boom, and lor
Messrs. Stephens, Felton and Speer, but the
country needs a better man. We are not
going to vote for him if every other man in
the Union does.”
Swainsboro Herald: “The most comical
looking sight we have seen in a long time
was a darkey who passed through town last
Tuesday. He was aboat the size of a well-
grown monkey, and had a hat on bis head
nearly as long as bimselt and looked large
enough to hold two bushels and a half, aud
was traveling with a horse aud buggy that
would compare first-rate with the driver
and hat—horse about the size of a well de
veloped William goat and the buggy large
enough to haul half of a negro camp meet
ing. This sport stepped about on our streets
feeling like he was a ‘bigger man than old
Grant.’ ”
Stalwarts and Brigadiers.
Ye gallant brigadiers, who strove
To strike the Onion down,
Come up and help us give to Grant
A grand imperial crown.
This poor txperiment of ours.
By which the many ruled.
Has failed, and to a safer plan
The people must be schooled.
The soldier's law. the sword's sharp sway.
To which you fain would bow
When ruled and robbed by alien rogues.
Will best become you now.
What do you cars? You lost the stake
For which you boldly played.
But lately proved that much may be
Recovered by a trade.
The talk of law and right, you know.
Is nothing now but cant;
You made vour terms with facile Hayes,
Why not with glorious Grant?
’1 is true that we, your stalwart friends.
Have loaded you wi.h chains;
But they shall all be wrought of gold,
When Grant, the conqueror, reigns
Beneath the iron heel we love
To crush the Southern worm;
But it shall feed on fatness when
Grant gets another term.
When North and South shall both be caught
In Grant’s imperial toils.
No lines will then be drawn, except
On questions of the spoils.
Then let the Constitution slide.
And strike economy down!
Come up and help us give to Grant
A grand itmtenol crown!
—Sew Yorlc Sun.
BY TELEGRAPH.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
PANIC IN A ST. LOUIS SCHOOL
KOOH.
Arrest of a Counterfeiter in New
York.
INCREASE OF WAGES IN FALL
RIVER.
FREXCU POLITICAL HATTERS.
Alleged Forgers Held for Indictment.
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
Powder Explosion in New Orleans.
General New* Item*, Foreign and
Domestic.
Tiie Right to a Name.—Mr. Frank
Leslie, the well known publisher, has
begun an action in the New York Court
' Common Pleas against his eldest son,
w have him enjoined from using the
name of Frank Leslie, Jr., in the publi
cation of rival papers. The father claims
that the son was named Henry; that dur-
j all of his early years he was known
uy’that name, and "has only recently as
sumed the name of Frank Leslie, Jr., to
deprive the father fraudulently of the
property in the name which he has built
during his long life. The case came
before Judge Larremore, in cham
bers, Monday, on a motion for a tem
porary injunction.
has been suggested that the South
erners who profess to be in favor of
Grant for the next President desire to use
modern Ciesar to “stop a hole to
5 Shaks]
keep the wind away,” as Shakspeare says
about
“Great Ccesar dead and turned to day.”
Like poor Tom, they arc "••a-cold.”
The Northern blasts are too penetrating.
Perhaps Grant might be made to shelter
them from those bleak winds.—Rich
mond Dispatch.
PANIC IN A. ST. LOUIS SCHOOL.
St. Louis, November 27.—Fire was dis
covered yesterday morning ou the ground
floor of Webster school, the largest pri
mary school In St. Louis. Upon the school
fire alarm being struck the children on the
ground floor went out In good order,
but a panic seized the girls on the
floors above, and despite the exertions of
the teachers they rushed wildly Into the
stairways and the greatest confusion re
sulted. The pressure caused the balusters
between the second and ground floors to
give way, and several children fell to the
floor beneath. Ellean Llnck’s arm was
broken, Emma Dillon was badly hurt about
the head and the upper part of her body by
the balusters falling on her, and Eva Shafer
was severely bruised. Mrs. Baltazzar, a
teacher, lu her brave efforts to stop
the children at the head of the stairs,
was knocked down, trampled on and borne
to the ground floor. She was much bruised,
but not seriously injured. The panic was
confined to the girls, the boys beine dis
charged without disorder. The terror, of
the girls seems to have been greatly ‘in
creased by the ringing of the large bell on.
the top of the building by some one un
known. The fire was a trifling affair, and
was soon subdued. It Is considered re
markable that the casualties were 60 few.
AKKEST OF A COUNTERFEITER.
New York, November 27.—James Boyd,
Jr., alias Jim Boyd, has been arrested
charged with dealing in counterfeit quarters
and ten cent pieces. The Commissioner
committed Boyd to jail for examination in
default of five thousand dollars bail. Some
time ago Boyd sold one of the officers of
the secret service several hundred dollars
worth of spurious coin, aud he has since
been kept under coustant surveillance.
His arrest was not made at the time of that
transaction, as the detectives desired to
arrest others engaged lu the same Hue of
business. These having since been captured
and being in jail, the arrest of Bovd fol
lowed. Boyd bad on bis person 5508 In
good money. He bas been a detective, lu
former, merchant and traveler, each in turn,
and once was a mail carrier.
INCREASE OF WAGES—THE AMERICAN LINEN
COMPANY.
Fall River, November 27.—The Board
of Trade have voted to restore, on January
1st, the schedule of prices paid to opera
tives in April, 1878. This Is equivalent to
15 per cent. Increase.
The stockholders of the American Linen
Company have voted to fuud the cor
poration debt in six hundred one-
thousand dollar coupons, bearing G
per cent. interest, to ran five
years No dividend is to be declared nor
any division of property made until the
bonds are paid. The Indebtedness, includ
ing the Paine losses, is about #550,009, leav
ing a working capital by the new arrange
ment of #50,000.
THE LEADVILLE LAND TITLB DECIDED.
Denver, November 27.—The case involv
ing the title to the land on which Lcadville
stands was decided in the United States Dis
trict Court to-day. Title to said land is de
rived through patents from the government
for the placer miniDg grounds. The St,
Louis Smeltiug and Retiniug Company sued
Thomas Kemp et al , to recover leases pur
chased by that company from the patentee
Thos. Stow, and which had been taken pos
session of by the defendants. The court
decided the patents void, it not appearing
that the patentees had fulfilled their condi
tions.
FRENCH POLITICS.
London, November 27.—The Times Paris
correspondent reports that at a caucus of
the Deputies belonging to the pure Left
great complaiut was made of the mainte
nance in public offices of antl-Republicans.
The caucus directed Its bureau to wait upon
the Cabinet and insist upon changes on the
staffs of the various departments.
Paul De Cassagnac denies In Le I\xy*
that he has rallied to the support of Prince
Jerome Napoleon. He says he will not do
so until Jerome’s religious principles have
nothing to dread from a third empire.
FATAL EXPLOSION OF A SAW MILL BOILER.
Salem, Ind., November 27.—The boiler
of the portable saw mill at Rush Creek,
near here, exploded with terrible force
Tuesday, blowing the mill to atoms and
instantly killing the engineer, Joseph
Hanger, whose body was hurled in an un
recognizable mass across the street. Three
school children, who were passing at the
time, were severely cut ami scalded, but
their injuries aie not fatal. The mill was
an old one, and the engineer had considered
the boiler unsafe for some time previous to
the explosion.
HELD FOR INDICTMENT.
Richmond, November 27.—A. Ellers, a
German, who was arrested with a numberof
supposed fraudulent foreign drafts for large
amounts, with which he had endeavored to
effect the purchase of a large quantity of
tobacco for shipment to Germany, was ex
amined in the Police Court to day and sent
into the Hustings Court for indictment for
attempting to obtain goods by false pre
tences. Ills companion, Wm. Schneider,
was held until Saturday with a view of
heariug from New York as to his identity.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN THE WEST.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, November 27.—A
fire at Vandalla, Fayette county, destroyed
the entire business section, except one struc
ture.-There is little insurance. The fire
originated in Sidman’s saloon, and it is
thought to have been set by a rival 6aloon
keeper.
Cincinnati, November 27.—One-half of
the town of Owensburg, Ind., has been
burned.
FATAL POWDER EXPLOSION.
New Orleans, November 27.—By the ac
cidental explosion of five pounds of powder
at the residence of William Knapps, of
Pointe Coupee parish, Knapps and oue child
were severely burned, and two of his chil
dren (one three and the other six years old)
and their grandmother, Mrs. Evariste Faber,
were killed.
IRREGULARITIES IN THE TORONTO CUSTOM
HOUSE.
Toronto, November 27.—Irregularities, it
is reported, have been discovered in the cus
tom house here, and an examination of the
books show the cash to be short #20,000.
Collector James E. Smith and Cashier Wm.
McKay are Implicated. The money is said
to have been spent in land speculations.
GLADSTONE IN FAVOR OF LOCAL HOME RULE
FOR IRELAND.
DALKEiTn, Scotland, November 27.—Mr.
Gladstone, in a speech to the electors here,
expressed himself In favor of giving home
rule to Ireland, but in local matters only.
THE CITY OF RICHMOND’S PASSENGERS.
Halifax, November 27.—The steamer
Circassia sailed for New York this after
noon with the passengers from the disabled
steamer City of Richmond.
INDIAN MURDERERS IIUNG.
San Francisco, November 27.—At Yaki
ma, W. T., Sauluskinc and Kvpe, Indians,
were hanged for the murder of the Perkins
family, in an Indian war two years ago.
Both died stolidly.
DEATH OF A PROMINENT COMMUNI6T.
London, November 27.—The death of
Gabriel Ranvier, Communist, who superin
tended the destruction of the Vendome
Column, is announced.
OCCUPATION OF IQUIQUK BT THE CHILIANS.
Rio Janeiro, November 24 —Intelligence
has reached here that the Chilians have oc
cupied Iqutque, which had been previously
abandoned by the allies.
ORDERED INTO WINTER QUARTERS.
Rawlins, Wt., November 27.—The
troops now stationed here have received or
ders to go into winter quarters.
The opera was “Faust,” and as he and
his adored gazed upon the apotheosis as
the angels carried Margarita into heaven,
he muttered: “Beautiful, beautiful!
Here the soul clothed in all its purity is
wafted to eternity to sweet strains of an-
•elic music.” “Yes, Gus,” she replied,
dreamily, “but I think if that grappling
was to give way and dump her on the
stage, it would kind of chum her up
some.”-:St, Louis Spirit,
SENATOR HILL’S VIEWS.
In Favor ora Constll nUonal Declara
tion of a monarchy.
Atlanta Constitution.
On the 23d ultimo the editor of the
Rock Islander addressed to several promi
nent men in the South the following let
ter:
“Rock Islajsd, III.. October 23,
1879—Dear Sir: I will mail to you a
copy of my paper of this week, and I
respectfully ask that you will read the
remarks of mine in an article on
proposed Yorktown Centennial.
“Something should be done at once by
Southern leaders of public opinion to
counteract the efforts of Republicans who
are endeavoring to make a solid North
on the idea that State rights means seces
sion; that the people of the South are
still for secession; that there is no free
dom of speech or of the press in the
South; and that the South has been made
solid by means of the shot-gun.
“Will you briefly give me your views
as to Southern sentiment on these points
for publication? Southern men should
take every occasion to enlighten public
opinion in the North on these points.
“Very respectfully yours,
“J. D. Daxfortil”
ANSWER FROM UNITED STATES SENATOR
BEN HILL.
Atlanta, Ga., November 12, 1879.—
Mr. J. B. Danforth, editor of the Rock
Islander, Rock Island, Illinois: Dear
Sir—Your very kind letter of October
23d was received some time since, but
absence bas delayed an answer.
I also received the number of the
Rock Islander, and read your article on
the proposed Yorktown Centennial with
interest. I read with still greater in
terest j our article on State rights in the
same paper.
The view you there present of State
rights is so clear and correct—though in
so few words—that I do not see that any-
thing can be added.
I do not believe there is a man of in
telligence in all the South who now ad
heres to the doctrine of secession. It is
utterly abandoned. Before the war seces
sion was au open question. Being so,
its affirmance or denial then could not
be treason. But by the war secession
has become a closed question. This we
all admit. It follows that any attempt
to reassert secession would necessarily be
treasonable.
The attempt by Republican speakers
and papers during the late campaign to
confound secession with State rights was
the mo.'t criminal exhibition of ignor
ance or deceit or both ever seen in any
controversy. No man can keep his oath
to support the Constitution and deny to
the States the right to exercisd the pow
ers not delegated to the General Govern
ruent but which were expresslj’ reserved
in that Constitution itself.
The right to exercise these expressly
reserved powers is all we mean by State
rights.
This has no relation whatever to seces
sion. The powers reserved are as dis
tinct and as constitutional as the powers
delegated. It is just as treasonable for
she General Government to usurp a
power reserved to the States as it is for
the States to resist the exercise of a dele
gated power bj’ the General Government.
The secessionists committed the latter
mistake. But they' had the teachings of
great men in every section and in every
g eneration, since the adoption of the
onstitutiou, to plead as their authority.
The Republicans are committing tlie
first mistake—that of usurping supervis
ion of the General Government over the
reserved powers of the States. Indeed,
they now propose to destroy those pow
ers, or they confound them with secea-
sion and say they are already destroyed.
Now, there is not a single respectable
name in our history to sustain this con
struction and claim of the Republicans.
It is a bold attempt to destroy the States
aud then the Union. It is sought to be
accomplished under cover of the passions
engendered by the w ar. If the Republi
cans succeed in this new attempt of dis
guised revolution, they will destroy our
system of government far more effectu
ally than the secessionists could have
done. If the secessionists had succeed
ed the Northern States would still have
had free constitutional government. But
if the Republicans succeed neither North
or South will have such government. All
will pass under the yoke of that despot
ism which is so significantly heralded
under the demand for “a strong govern
ment.”
I trust that the discussions now to be
had will show the Northern people the
immeasurable difference between State
rights and secession, and thereby save our
constitutional system of limited State and
Federal Government from final and dis-
jistrous overthrow.
Equally wicked, though not so dan
gerous, is the Republican charge that
“ the South has been nftde solid by the
shotgun.” This is simply a disgraceful
untruth. The South has been made solid
by the policy of the Republican party,
and the “ shotgun ” slang is resorted to
for no purpose but to hide the truth from
the masses of the Northern people.
The Republicans have made the South
solid by unmitigated wrong upon the
Southern people, and arejiow seeking to
make the North solid by unmitigated
slanders of their victims.
We have bad men in the South. You
have bad men in the North. But the
greatest criminals in either section are
those men who teach the people of one
section to hate and distrust the people
of another section of our common coun
try.
If the Republican party will let alone
the issues settled bj r the war and treat
them as settled, and will cease to mal
treat, slander and malign the Southern
people, and will thus allow parties to
form on economic and proper political
questions, the people of the South, like
all other people* will divide.
This whole matter must be decided by
the intelligence of the Northern people.
If they are unable to see the very plain
motives of the Republican leaders and
papers in keeping alive the sectional pas
sions and issues, or if they are unwilling
to rebuke those motives, wc shall have a
solid North against a solid South, and
verj' soon a solid despotism for all.
We, of the South, sincerely abandon
secession and slaveiy, and are doing all
in our power to improve the freedman
into an intelligent, good citizen. While
the Republicans had control in Georgia
neither white nor black could accumu
late property. But since the Republi
cans were expelled from control, the
black3 of Georgia have accumulated six
millions of property, and under their
own oaths return over five millions for
taxation, including over five hundred
thousand acres of land!
When the Republicans had control in
Georgia neither whites nor blacks could
obtain free education, for all the school
fund was diverted—in plain words,
stolen.
As soon as the Republicans were ex
pelled from control in Georgia, whites
and blacks alike and in equal propor
tions began to be educated at the public
expense. In 1878 over seventy-two
thousand colored children were in school
at the public expense in Georgia, and
the School Commissioner thinks that the
number in 1879 will reach over ninety
thousand!
You maj’ search the whole earth and
all the ages in vain for benefits to the
colored race equal to those I give you
from the official records in Georgia. In
the face of such facts is it necessary to
use the shotgun to ioduce the colored
►eople to vote the Democratic ticket?
n the face of such official facts will the
Northern people still believe the reckless
demagogues who slander and abuse.the
Southern people?
I repeat, we of the South accept the
results of the war in good faith. We will
soon recover from all the losses of the
war if Republican rogues and slanderers
will permit us to do so. We are strong
ly in favor of preserving and perpetuat
ing to our children our constitutional
system of Federal and State governments.
We do not believe a better system can
ever be devised for this countxy. But
sectional despotism accomplished by sec
tional slanders and administered in sec*
iry worst form of all
possible despotism. We are opposed to
anymore civil wars for any purpose, even
to maintain liberty. If sectional despot
ism maintained through sectional malig
nity cannot be otherwise avoided, we
will respond to an honest proposal to
change our system from a free to a strong
government, peaceably and regularly.
It will be better—inexpressibly better
—for the Southern people to be governed
by a wise, able and just man as Emperor
and King, than by an infuriated sectional
mob under the lead of a narrow, sensa
tional, sectional demagogue as President.
Will intelligence save or will monopoly
destroy our constitutional system of gov
ernment?
This is the question. The North must
answer, and the South abide the answer,
be it what it may, insisting only that the
peace be preserved.
You can do as you please with this let
ter, as I am a public man full of earnest
desires for the public good, and entirely
without secrets in my public opinions,
and without shackles in uttering them.
Yours very truly.
Benj. H. Hill.
A QUEER EXPERIENCE.
Wanted to
Invest In Counterfeit
money.
Baltimore Sun.
A man apparently six tv j'ears of age,
who gave his name, and said he came
from Finksburg, Carroll county, Mary
land, where be has lived forty years,
yesterday visited Police Marshal Gray
at Baltimore police headquarters, anc
made some queer admissions about coun
terfeit money. Marshal Gray is authority
for the statement that the man came to
Baltimore last week and called on a Pratt
street restaurant keeper, who, be said,
he had been told by a horse trader in the
country would sell him all the counter
feit money he wanted. The restaurant
keeper, who thougat his would-be cus
tomer was. perhaps, a little off in the
head, told him to come again at another
time, not expecting to see him again
Yesterday, however, the old man re
turned and said he came to buy the coun
terfeit The restaurant man, who is not
in that kind of business, determined to
let the police know all about the matter.
He took the man into a back room and
told him to wait until he brought a man
who would sell him all the money he
wanted. The restaurant man in a short
time came back with Qfaief Detective
Crone, whom he introduced to his coun-
trj' friend as the boss of the counterfeit
ers. Chief Crone carried on the decep
tion, and at length told him to walk up
the street and he would take him to the
man who would bargain with him. The
man was taken directly into the Mar
shal’s office, in the City Hall, where
Marshals Gray and Frey were. The man
was still unaware of the,trap into which
be had fallen, and went directly at busi
ness. The Marshal, to draw Kim out, said
references as to capacity to pass counter
feit money, the parties on whom he ope
rated, etc.. were necessary. The old man
then went to some pains to tell how suc
cessful he had previously been in the ne
farious trade. He said he had shoved
off a good lot of the stuff, chiefly bank
notes in ones and twos, as larger denomi
nations were not easily handled in the
country. He admitted that he got the
bad monej' from Pennsylvania, and had
been smart enough not to get caught He
stated that he had been three times to
New York after a fresh stock, whither
he went on receipt of a circular offering to
sell all the greenbacks desired. He found
the place in New York and paid $250
good money to the sharpers there, at the
rate of $20 for every $100 of bad notes.
He saw the money counted out, packed
in a box, and nailed up, but when
he got home he said he found the
box had been changed and the one
he had was full of old rags with a good
one dollar bill laid on top. He said this
trick so disgusted him with the rascality
of the gang that he had not been in the
business for some time, but was now
ready to make another venture. He
wanted to get samples and rates for a stock
of the stuff, and Deputy Marshal Frey
pulled a counterfeit twenty dollar and a
five dollar note from the drawer. The
five dollar note is excellently executed,
and bas sent a man to the penitentiary.
This note was enthusiastically admired
by the old man, and be wanted to trade
for a lot of them at once, but his
ardor was restrained, and after the Mar
shal had pumped him dry he was sent
to the detectives’ quarters. Only then
did he begin to suspect that he had gone
into the wrong shop, but he had to stay.
At night, when the police commissioners,
Warden Wilkinson of the penitentiaiy,
and others were present, he was taken
back to the Marshal's office, and Marshal
Gray went for him in terse Euglish. He
told him his proper custodian would be
Warden Wilkinson, and promised to
make a full exposure of all be had heard.
The man begged hard and said be would
not do so any more if let off. As there
was no special evidence on which to lay
a charge, and he could not be held in cus
tody, he was dismissed with a very lively
Ilea in his ear.
Romantic Brigandage.
Despite the repeated declarations of
the Turkish Government that brigandage
had been effectually checked in the Greek
provinces of the Sultan, recent develop
ments conclusively show that robbery
and murder are as common os ever in
those provinces. Besides, brigands who
heretofore were accustomed to limit their
operations to some remote villages, now
extend their “industry” into the towns
and large village 3 , to which these depreda
tions lend occasionally an element of ro
mance
Not long ago a band of highwaymen
surrounded a house in the neighborhood
of Volo, the largest and most flourishing
city in Thessaly, while the festivities of
a wedding were in progress. After kill
ing the man who was placed at ihe door
to prevent intrusion, they entered the
premises, assured the party that thej*
came there with no evil purpose, but
merely requested of the bridegroom to
part with liis gold watch and chain, and
to give them the sum of
two hundred and fifty dollars.
The brigands being armed to
the teeth7 their request was acceded
to, and the intruders ordering the musi
cians to play the “brigand’s dance” air in
sisted on dancing with the bride, and
drank to her health. After spending a
couple of hours making themselves ex
tremely pleasant, each of them in his
turn printed a kiss on the forehead of the
bride, and all took their departure, only
begging that a respectable man, related
to a merchant at Volo, should accompa
ny them “lo put them on the right road
to the hills.” The respectable man did
follow them, but at latest accounts has
not since returned to his home. A letter,
however, has been received by his friends
demanding $2,250 as bis ransom.
An American lady, who has lived in
England, says: “For the street English
women dress horribly, but for dinner
parties and balls they are lovely. They
wear usually either white or black, anil
their skins and complexions are dazzling.
But every English woman, when she
;ets to thirty-five or forty, has a rash
ireak out on her nose. I believe it is
because they drink so much. They are
always drinking wine and all that with
their meals. They don't get faded and
worn, looking as we American women
do; but they get very stout, and their
beautiful complexions get to be really
beery."'
N. B. Rion, Jr., of Paris, Kentucky;
was hunting on the Red river a few days
ago. He had around hi9 chest a ca&
tridge belt with thirty nine loaded
charges in it. When he fell from his
canoe, which he accidentally did, the
weight of the cartridges held him head
foremost down. His boots stuck up
above the surface, for the water was
about five feet in depth. Parties in the
vicinity saw the boots and hurried to the
rescue. Rion was apparently dead when
taken out, having been under water for
fully three minutes, but he was restored
by the use of proper remedies.
UNFORTUNATE MISS SICKLES.
The Career of Adveatiirer KleCat thy
Wltfa whom She has Sloped.
Washington Star.
The news of the elopement of General
Sickles’ daughter, which was published
exclusively in the Star of Sunday, No
vember 16, has been fijlly corroborated
by later sources of information. Passen
gers who have arrived from France du
ring the past week confirm the scandal,
ana state that the escapade was the lead
ing topic of conversation in the Ameri
can quarters of Paris and in social cir
cles in London. Mr. James Richmond,
an old fnend of the Sickles family, was
seen at the Brevoort House j'esterday by
a Star reporter. “I have no doubt of
the truth of the story,” said be, “since
the newspaper account of the unfortu
nate occurrence has been confirmed by
reliable persons who have just arrived
from Paris.”
“When did you first hear of it?'
asked the reporter.
“J read it first in Sunday's Star and
again in the Star of last Tuesday.”
“Have you received any additional in
formation?”
“Well, I might say I was informed
that it occurred while the General was
making preparations to return to this
country.”
“What did you learn was the feeling
among American people abroad in the
matter?”
“I am convinced that their feeling i3
one of deep sympathy for the poor
father, and of pity for the unfortunate
young lady.”
“Do you know anything of McCarthy’s
antecedents?”
“I trust you will excuse me from
further conversation upon this painful
subject. The matter has received pub
licity enough through the newspapers.
I regret to say that Ihave implicit faith
in the truth of the story.” The-Star’*
original statement was also fully con
firmed in an interview with Gen.
Graham, and from dispatches received
last evening it was learned that the story
was generally credited in Washington
among the members of the foreign lega
tions,
Miss Laura Sickles, the victim of the
unhappj* occurrence, is about twenty-six
years of age, of prepossessing appear
ance, and highly accomplished. She left
this country about ten years ago in com
pany with a relative, and took up her
residence in Paris, where she soon be
came an ornament to the brilliant society
of the French capital. McCarthy, who
is described as a handsome man, of fine
presence, well educated and over forty
years of age, is a Virginian bj' birth,
having been born near the town of Mon-
ticello in that State. His career reads
like a romance, and stamps him
at once as the prince of adven-
turefs. During the late civil war
he identified himself with the Con
federate cause, and participated in
many of the principal battles. In 1871
he made his appearance in Washington,
and on his representation that he had
been a member of Maximilian's staff in
Mexico, he was received into society and
soon ingratiated himself with prominent
army and navy officers and members of
the foreign legations. During the winter
he organized the “Texas Land and Cop
per Company,” which proved to be a
bubble after be had squandered in luxu
rious style its capital of $60,000, which
had been subscribed by his misguided
friends.
Qe was next heard of in Chicago,
where, as chief of a “mining bureau,” he
succeeded in realizing upward of $150,
000. r l here he met his present wife (he
has another in Canada). It was while in
Chicago that his true character became
known, and his office at No. 77 Clark
street was the scene of numerous hair
breadth escapes, in each of which he
played a leading part. He was quick to
resent an insult, and was remarkably
prompt with his revolver, which he in
variablj r carried. He disappeared from
the city for a while, only to make his ren-
tree as the mentor and guide of a party
of English noblemen, who were en route
to Nevada to undertake the development
of a mine. McCarthy was in the most
prosperous circumstances, and spent his
money freely. He remained just long
enough to involve a daughter of a promi
nent and aristocratic family in a scandal,
and he then left secretly. Some months
later he returned and openly defied his
accusers, meeting their threats with per
fect complacency.
During the same year he turned up in
New York city, where he was arrested
for a diamond robbery, nnd acquitted for
lack of evidence. In 1877 he returned
to Washington with forged letters iu re
gard to Cuban affairs, with which he
hoodwinked the Secretary of State and
obtained a large sum from the Spanish
Minister. He then fled to England,
where he was known as Col. William
Fitz-Charles Mason McCarthy, nnd after
ward to France, where he became inti
mate with the most polished adventurers
of Paris, and also in American circles.
The latter connection threw him into the
societj r in which Miss Sickles moved, and
there it was that the mesalliance, which
is said to have been planned two years
ago, was completed. It i9 rumored in
Washington that a girl formerly well
known in Washington society, was the
confidant of Miss Sickles in Paris, and
aided her in meeting McCarthy. From
what is known of McCarthy’s antece
dents, it is generally believed that be will
soon desert Miss Sickles aud depart for
new scenes of conquest.
Immensity of the Stars'.
Prof. J. Vinot
It is known that the stars arc true suns,
that some of them are larger than our
own sun, and that around these enorm
ous centres of heat and light revolve
planets on which life certainly exists.
Our sun is distant from us 38.000,000
leagues, but these stars arc distant at
least 500.000 times as far—a distance
that, in fact, is incommensurable and
unimaginable for us. Viewed with the
unaided e\*o, the stars and the planets
look alike; that is, appear to have the
6amc diameter. But, viewed through the
telescope, while the planets are seen to
possess clearly appreciable diameters, the
stars are still only* mere luminous points.
The most powerful of existing telescopes,
that of Melbourne, which magnifies8,000
times, gives us au image of one of our
planets possessing an apparent diameter
of several degrees. Jupiter, for instance,
which, seen with the naked eye, appears
as a star of the first magnitude, with a
diameter of forty-five degrees at the most,
will in this telescope have its diameter
multiplied 8,000 times, and will be seen
as if it occupied in the heavens an angle
of 100 degrees. Meanwhile a star along
side of Jupiter, and which to the eye is as
bright as that planet, will still be asimple
dimensionless point. Nevertheless that
star Is thousands of times more volumin
ous than the planet. Divide the distance
between us and a planet by 8,000, and
you have for result a distance relatively
very small; but divide by 8,000 the
enormous numlier of leagues which repre
sents the distance of a star, and there re
main a number of leagues too great to
permit of the stars being seen by us in a
perceptible form. In considering Jupiter,
or any of the planets, we are filled with
wonder at the thought that this little
luminous point might hide not only all
the visible stars, but a number 5,000 fold
greater—for of stars visible to our eyes
there are only about 5,000. All the stars of
these many constellations, as the Great
Bear, Cassiopeia, Orion, Andromeda, all
the stars of the zodiac, even all the stars
which are visible only from the earth’s
southern hemisphere, might be set in one
)lane, side by side, with no one over-
apping another^ven without the slightest
contact between star and star, and yet
they would occupy so small a space that,
were it to be multiplied 5,000 fold, that
space would be entirely covered by the
disk of Jupiter, albeit that disk to us
seems to be an inappreciable point
“Two ladies without lany character!”
was the loud announcement of a stupid
usher at a fancy ball, who had been told
to announce persons in the character as
sumed, and who saw that the ladies in
question were in ordinary attire.
GEN. HANCOCK ON THE ARMY.
A Patriotic Opinion by a Soldier an*
a Statesman.
New York Star, November 22.
A large standing army is against the
settled policy of the nation. We rely
upon creating armies from our poplation
when the necessity for them has actually
arisen or is impending. But “in peace
prepare for war” is an accepted and re
spected maxim among us. Under the
operations of these somewhat contradic
tory principles we have been led to the
compromise of a small standing army,
which is expected to keep pace with the
progress of the profession, construct
adequate and suitable national defenses,
hold some of our most important military
positions, preventing their sudden seizure
by an enemy, his occupation of our har
bors and destruction of our great com
mercial cities; be prepared at all times to
supply the national forces with the most
improved weapons, implements and
munitions of war and to guard these and
other public property until distributed
for service; be ready at a moment’s notice
to organize, equip and supply, with
efficiency and economy, armies of any
magnitude which the occasion may call
for, and, lastly, to serve as a nucleus for
the raw levies raised as needed.
These I understand to be the main
purposes for which our regular army
is maintained. As a physical force,
our little standing army can never
be of appreciable importance after a great
contest has set in. Its value consists
in its serving as a model and a stand
ard for the militia and in the
knowledge and system, the spirit of
discipline, and the military information
which its members store up in peace and
disseminate among the “national forces”
when the struggle comes.
What, then, should be the strength,
composition and organization of the army,
that it maj* best accomplish the objects of
its existence?
Looking from the standpoint assumed
the first questiou which presents itself is
the question of cost. What, during
peace, arc the people able and willing to
pay in the way of insurance by military
proficiency and preparation against heavy
loss in case of war? If nothing, then the
armjr as a permanent institution ought to
be dispensed with. A discussion of the
question arising from our Indian frontier
is omitted in this connection. The Indian
furnishes only incidental duty for part of
the army. The service is of secondary
importance and is comparatively tempo
rary in its nature It must for a few
j'ears longer occupy the attention of our
cavalry and infantry, aDd some parts of
the staff, and, from time to time, influence
the strength and organization of these
arms, but it is entitled to no weight in
considering the question just proposed.
COLOR IN THE THEATRES.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.
A Proposition to 1
by Electricity Instead of Hanging,
The Grand Opera Home and the
Publisher or the Progressive Arne*
rlcan.
New York Sun.
William R. Davis, the business agent
for the Progressive American, a newspa
per published in the interest of the col
ored residents of this citj*, appeared be
fore Mr. Fiero, Assistant United States
District Attorney, yesterdaj'. as com
plainant against Messrs. Poole & Don
nelly, the managers of the Grand Opera
House. He said that he is a full-blooded
negro, and was a slave in South Carolina.
He dresses fashionably. He went to the
Grand Opera House on Saturday after
noon last, with a young lady friend, an
octoroon, who has Saxon features. She
had previously bought two orchestra
tickets at the box office, but when the
tickets were presented at the gate the
keeper said that they were not good,
and that the holder might get i he money
for them at the box office. The tickets
were handed into the office, but the com
plainant refused to accept any money for
them. He went outside of the theatre,
Und, obtaining the services of a small
boy for ten cents, gave him money with
which to buy two other tickets. These
the complainant gave his companion,
and the couple re-entered the theatre.
The lady passed the doorkeeper unchal
lenged, but her escort was told that his
ticket was not good and that he could
not enter the theatre. He explained that
he had just bought the ticket, but the
doorkeeper forcibly ejected him from
the theatre. At this juncture a police
man appeared on the scene.
The complainant told the Assistant
District Attorney that he bud some
thought of making a criminal charj
against the managers o f the theatre. He
was told that he might get redress in a
civil suit iu the United Slates court
under the civil rights bill. He left his
complaint with Mr. Fiero for such action
as he may deem proper. William R.
Davis is the same person who, in Sep
tember, 1875, began a suit against Jarrett
& Palmer cf Booth’s Theatre. The wit
nesses who were to sustain his complaint
did not appear when the complaint was
called for trial.
The Great Flood in Russia.
New York Times.
One of Russia’s gloomiest anriversa-
ries is the 19th of November (the 7tb by
her reckoning), on which St. Petersburg
was overwhelmed by the most devasta
ting flood which it has ever known, that
of 1824. During the three previous days
a very strong westerly wind had forced
buck the floating ice of the Gulf into the
mouth of the Neva in such quantities as
to completely block the river, at that
time swollen to an unprecedented height
by one of those sudden thaws which
often occur at the beginning of the Rus
sian winter. The water continued to
rise so rapidly that during the whole
night of the 18th (6th. old style) watch
men were stationed along the bunk, while
the ringing of bells and the firing of alarm
guns was unceasing. Many of the inhabi
tants, fearing the worst, got together such
of their belongings as they could carry
off. and fled for their lives. They were
not an hour too soon. Early on the fol
lowing morning the river burst its banks,
the canals overflowed at the same time,
and within a few hours two thirds of the
main city was under water. The houses
upon the low-lying islands beyond the
river were even more completely sub
merged, and the air was filled with the
crash of falling buildings, the shrieks of
women and children, the incessant boom
ing of signal-guns from the citadel, and
the roar of the surging waters, which,
they deepened, whirled along
wagons, barges, sentry-boxes, loads
buy, and the corpses of men and
beasts. Toward afternoon boats began
to ply through the streets in order to
rescue the inmates of the threatened
houses, and the reigning Czar, Alexander
was himself among the foremost in
the good work. But notwithstanding all
efforts, as well as the rapid subsiding of
the flood 'toward nightfall, the havoc
was very great. Upwards of thirteen
thousand buildings were destroyed in St.
Petersburg alone, and four Hundred and
eighty lives lost, without reckoning the
scores who, having taken refuge upon
the trees in the Admiralty square, escaped
the flood only to perish miserably by the
merciless frost oi the succeeding night
The height of the inundation is still
marked by a red line painted on the
houses which flank the river, with the
significant date, “7tb November, 1824.”
A lake with an India rubber bottom has
just been discovered fifteen miles north
west of Reno, Nev. The GazeCe of that
town describes the soil in the bottom and
around the margin of the lake as “of a
grayish color, quite tenacious, and with
hard smooth surface, over which a car
riage rolls as smoothly and noiselessly as
over a carpeted floor. When a ball made
from the soil is thrown down it will re
bound like rubber. There is talk of
making a race coarse from it.”
Ginseng is being gathered on the
mountains in Clinton county, Pa., and
sold at from 90 cents to$l 25 per pound.
The root is shipped to China and made
into an article for- the women of that
country to smoke.
Mr. Park Benjamin has written a let
ter in which he urges the execution of
condemned crimimds by the use of a
powerful current of electricity rather
than by the clumsy agency of the rope.
In his letter Mr. Benjamin says:
“A flash of lightning—or the electric
discharge—occurs in the hundred-thou
sandth part of a second—that is, it is a
hundred times more rapid than the rifle
bullet, and its deadly effects are propor
tionately quicker. The person struck
dies within a period so infinitesimal that
it is beyond our imagination. It is a
curious fact that Professor Tyndall once
came very nearly demonstrating in his
own person the deadly yet painless effica
cy of the electric discharge. He states
that while lecturing before a large audi
ence, he accidentally touched & wire
leading from a battery of fifteen Leyden
jars. The discharge passed through his
t>ody. In describing bis sensations he
dwells on the point that ‘life was abso
lutely blotted out for a very sensible in
terval without a trace of pain,’ and he
ad Is that ‘there cannot be a doubt that
to a person struck dead bj' lig‘
passage from life to death oct .mn
out consciousness being in the least de
gree implicated.’ It remains now to
consider how the electric discharge could
be produced and adapted to the purposes
of the law. Fortunately the practical
difficulties are few. By means of an
inductorium or induction coil the
tension of the electric discharge is
so greatly increased that a few cells of
a galvaoic battery can be made to yield
very powerful physical, chemical, and
physiological effects. With small ex
peri mental apparatus, shocks so potent
are often produced that the manipulator
is prostrated. The Stephens Institute of
Technology of Hoboken has a coil which
yields sparks twenty-one inches in length,
which penetrate glass blocks three indies
in thickness. The great induction coil
at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in
London gives miniature lightning flashes
twenty-nine inches in length. Either of
these machines would give ample dis
charge to kill simultaneously more men
tban have ever been hanged in companj'
in this co mtry.”
The awe-inspiring influence of such a
mj'sterious mode of capital punishment
he considers one of its important recom
mendations. whereas hanging produces
on the public no emotions superior to
disgust.
Colonel Coli’s Estate.—At Hart
ford, Conn., a few evenings since Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Colt, widow of the late
Colonel Samuel Colt, gave at her ele
gant mansion a party in honor of the
twenty-first birthdaj' of her only son and
child, Cadwell H. Colt. Over one thou
sand invitations had been issued, nnd it
was the greatest society affair which
Hartford has seen in many years.
Young Colt is to come in possession at
once of a very large fortune, and will be
the richest person of his age in Connect!
cut. His father died in 1864, and left
an estate valued at between $5,000,000
and $6,000,000. The bulk of the prop
erty was bequeathed to Mrs. Colt and the
boy, the latter’s share to remain in trust
until he reached his majority, and, if he
survives his mother, he is to receive tjie
r .e and valuable homestead property
I other portions of the estate of which
be has a life use. In 1866 there was a dis
tribution of the intestate estate, and at
that time the boy, who was eight years of
age, had awarded to him 716 shares of
the stock of the Colt Patent Firearms
Company, valued then at $143,200, and
“cash to equalize his share” amounting
to $105,531 93, making a total of $248,
731 93. The income from this alone for
fifteen years bas been much more than
has been required for his support, anti
he will realize considerable from the
surplus. The young man will probably
get, in all, to start with, from $1,500.00*0
to $2,000,000.
Honors to a Dead Dog.—Last Satur
day Messrs. Clausen & Hawk, under
takers, of No. 86 Sixth avenue, recefrfed
an order from a Mr. Wilmarth to call at
No. 106 East Fifteenth street to prepare
a body for burial. Mr. Clausen went to
the house and was there shown the body
of a large Newfoundland dog. He re
ceived instructions to take it to his ware-
rooms and make a coffin for it. This he
did, and the following morning the
body, inclosed in a neat pine box with
the name “Gypsie” on a silver plate,
was put into the undertaker’s wagon,
aud followed by two carriages, the first
of which contained Mr. and Mrs. Wil
marth as chief mourners, was taken to
Greenwood, where it was buried in Mr.
Wilmarth’s plot. There is as yet no
monument to mark Gypsie’s grave, but
that is to be added in a few days. Mr.
Wilmarth said that the dog was given to
him years ago, and that he and Mrs. Wil
marth grew so fond of it that they de
cided to do it suitable honors at its death.
No one could help loving Gypsie,” said
Mr. Wilmarth. “ ‘None knew her but
to love her. None named her but to
praise.’ Why, I assure you, she was
almost human, and we miss her dread
fully.”—-AT. 7. World.
An aedbunt of Grant’s reception at
Chicago says: “A reception at the hotel
followed, with a welcoming speech to
the General by the Mayor ana a long
]>eriod of hand shaking. Long John
kYentworth, on greeting him. yelled,
‘This is a nation.’ which brought down
the General and the house generally^
Somebody else said, ‘General, we’ll put
a crown on you next year,’ but that tell
flat.”
King Grant didn't want any cheers or
noise over the propoai'ions to place a
crown on his head. He doesn’t care
about the crown at present. He wants
the power and be wauts it for life. With
that a stove pipe bat would suit him just
as well as a crown. The people are a
little scary about “crowns,” but a good
many of them favor a centralized Nation
with an N., a “third term,” and as many
more terms as may be necessary to suit
the powers that be. Massachusetts wants
to “put down the South.” Crowned
heads do no more. The Czar only “put
down” the Poles, and they were rebels.—
Hartford Time*.
New York Times: “The vote of New
York at the recent election will.in round
numbers, reach 900,000 on Governor,
being but little over 11 per cent, less
than the vote of the last Presidential
year. Cornell’s share of this vote will
be less than 420,000, but, giving him
credit for all that, his proportion of the
vote of the State will be less than even
that received bj' Dix when the Tilden
wave swept the State in 1874. Beginning
with 1875, the declining course of Re
publican strength in the State may thus
>e represented as follows: 1875, 40.03
per cent.; 1876, 48.12 per cent.; 1877,
47.26 per cent.; 1878, 47.21 percent;
1879, 46.66 per cent.”
Cut up very fine two small onions and a
lettuce, a pint of green peas, a teaspoon-
ful of salt, some pepper (to taste), four
tablespoon fuls of water, two ounces of
batter; put all in & stewpan, closely
covered, and simmer for two hours.
Onion Soup.—For tea pints of soap
cut four large onions into little pieces,
brown them in two tablespoonfuls of beef
dripping or mutton gravy; add to thin
five spoonfuls of flour; pour some warm
water upon it and let it bofl. In serving
the soup add some slices of bread, accord
ing to the quan.ity of flour, making the
soup more or less thick.
Eggs for Breakfast.—Take four or
five eggs, boil them three and a half min
utes, then take them oat of the shell and
beat them up in a basin with pieces of
butter the size of a quarter; salt and pep
per to taste. After well beating, spread
the mixture on hot buttered toast; place
in a hot oven for about five minutes, and
serve hot.
Fruit Cake.—This is not only an ex
cellent cake, but is light and digestible.
Three cups of sugar, five of flour, two
of milk, two of butter or lard, seven
eggs, three teaspoonfuls baking powder,
one of salt, one pound of raisins, one-
half pound of citron or currants or figs,
spices. This will make three cakes.
Bake one and one-half hours.
Pigeon Pie.—Line the dish with steak;
strew over i. chopped parsley and a very
small quantity of onion or shallot; stuff
the pigeons with parsely, the iuice of a
lemon, a small bit of the peel, butter and
a little flour; lay them oa the steak and
cover them with a thin steak, small pieces
ham, chopped herbs and a couple of
, hard-boiled, eggs in slices.
Fish Fritters.—Take the remains of
any fish which has been served the preced
ing day; remove all of the bones, mid
mince fine; add equal quantities of bread
crumbs and mashed potatoes; stir in two
beaten eggs; season with pepper and salt;
add enough cream to make the mass of
the proper consistency to mould into little
bolls, and fry them in boiling lard.
Ham Salad.—Cut up small bits of
boiled ham, place in salad bowls, with
the heart and inside leaves of cabbage or
lettuce, mix in a saucepan one pint of
sour cream, half pint of good vinegar,
pepper, salt, a small piece of batter,
sugar, a small tablespoonful of mustard;
boil, add the well-beaten yolks of two
eggs, stirring until thick. When cold
pour over the salad.
To Preserve Eels.—Cut them in
pieces and prepare them as for cooking,
then laj' them in a jar with good strong
gravj*. half stew them, tie them down
closely and they will keep for six weeks.
They should lie well seasoned in the first
place, and a little wine put with them.
The jar must not be opened until the eels
are about to be used, when they should
be stewed until done.
Cream Fruit Pie.—Make a pie of fresh,
canned or jam strawberries, raspberries
or peaches. One cup new milk or cream;
one-half teaspoonful corn starch, dis
solved in alitt'c cold milk;one tablespoon
ful of sugar; whites of two eggs, beaten
to a still froth. Boil three minutes.
When quite cold take top crust from pie,
pour on the mixture, replace crust,
sprinkle with powdered sugar, and set
awnj' to cool. Very nice.
Stuffing for Fish.—Chop a small
onion and fry it in a tablcspoonful of
butter; when turning yellow add three
ounces of bread crumbs, a tablespoonful .
of water, pepper, salt and a little chopped
parsley; stir all well together, then take
from the fire and add the yolk of a beaten
egg. If the bread is very dry it can be
soaked for a few moments in cold water;
then squeeze dry, and the water omitted
from the recipe.
Savory Eggs.— Six or eight eggs boil
ed bard and then cut in two; remove the
yolks and ground them in a mortar quite
smooth, with about a tablespoonful of
anchovy sauce (more if required), a little
cayenne and a tablespoonful of cream,
to'make into a paste; pile the mixture
roughly in the twelve half whites, which
must have a piece the size of a sixpence
cut off at the bottom to make them stand
in the dish, garnish with parsley.
To Preserve Grapes.—It is said that
the Chinese have a method of preserving
grapes during the entire year by cutting
a circular piece ojt of a ripe pumpkin
or gourd, making an aperture large
enough to admit the hand. The interior
is then completely cleaned out, the ripe
grapes are then placed inside, and the
cover replaced and pressed in firmly.
The pumpkins are then kept in a cool
place, and the grapes will be found to re
tain their freshness for a very long time.
Not a Boarding-house Hash.—Cut
three pounds of stewing beef into small
pieces; slice two onions and put beef and
onions Into a stew pan, with two ounces
of butter; dredge with flour slightly; add
two tablespoonfuls of water, or soup if
you have it, and let it stew. When it is
cooked add more water and let it boil
gently. Then put in a spoonful of mixed
spices and a bay leaf. Set the pan aside
and let it cook for two hours. You can
double” up this dish by adding potatoes
to it.
Chicken in Jelly.—Skin a large
chicken: cut the meat off the bones as
close as you can; season it as yon would
for a pie; put a meal crust over and stew
it in the oven for two hours; boil the
bones down to a strong jelly; season,
strain off and add a little gelatine; line
your shape with a little of the jelly, and
then cut hard-boiled eggs in slices, to
gether with pieces of bam,and laj' around
the mould; fill it up with the chicken;
pour the jelly over; and, when cold, turn
it out
Italian Mode of Dressing Mac
aroni.—Boil half pound of macaroni
with two blades of mace and an onion.
Put on with it a sweet-bread and let all
boil until tender. Add a pint of toma
toes, a large lump of butter, pepper and
salt and a teaspoonful of mustard. Put
in a deep dish alternate lajcrs of mac
aroni and thick layers of grated cheese
till the dish is full,*puttizg cheese on the
top. Serve hot, with a small glass dish
of* the finest cheese grated, so that each
one may add cheese if preferred.
Cod a la Creme, au gratin.—Remove
the skin and bones from some cold boiled
fresh codfish, lay it on a baking dish and
pour over it the following sauce: Stir
together over the fire, one ounce each of
butter and flour; when perfectly blended
add half a pint of milk, stirring it in
gradually, season with half a level tea
spoonful of salt and a very little pepper;
when the sauce boils pour it over the
codfish, dost the surface with fine bread
crumbs or cracker dust, put a few bits of
butter on it and brown in a quick oven.
Delicious Soup.—One chicken, four
quarts of water, one tablespoon of rice,
one onion, one potato, one turnip, one-
hal r cup of tomatoes, two stalks of celery,
pepper and salt to taste. Put on the
chicken in cold water and boil to shreds.
Strain the broth, return to the kettle and
add rice, and in about half an hour add
potato, onion, and turnip chopped fine.
About twenty minutes before serving add
the celery cut in"small pieces, the temato
and pepper and) salt. Boil well, and
serve very hot, and you will have a de
licious soup.
Cereal Product of the United
States for 1879.—The following from
the Agricultural Department shows the
cereal product of the United States for
the present year:
Sop gittnp.
Crop.
Corn
Cotton.....
Barley
Buckwheat
Oats.
Potatoes...
Rye
Tobacco....
Wheat
53.065,401
12^95,510
1,660.000
640,800
12.681,500
1,836.820
1,625,400
493,167
32^45,900
Yield.
30.2
*176
23.9
20.9
28.7
98.9
14.5
779
13.7
Product.
L60J.15LS70
40,184.000
13,436400
365,000.000
181,369.340
23,646,000
384,069,669
448,750,000
•Lint, not seed cotton, 450 lbs. to bale.
All true sorrow has in it what the Ger
mans call a Heimweh; that is, a home
feeling; .a longing, a yearning, a desire
for home. If this world were all sun
shine, if your heart were always bound
ing, if there was never a black shadow
in your sky, nor a thorn in your pillow,
nor a grief in your heart, nor an ache in
your body, nor mists gather upon your
eyes, nor your hair whitening with the
light of the approaching eternity to
which yon are going, yon would
tossy: ‘-This world is our home.”
Cummings,
If you are a man of business, weakened by the
strain of your duties, avoid stimulants ana take
HOP BITTERS.
If you are a man of letters, toilinw over your
midnight work, to restore brain and
•-. nerve waste, take
HOP BITTERS.
If yon are young and suffering from any in*
discretion or dissipation, take
HOP BITTERS.
If you are married or single, old or young, suf
fering from poor health or languish
ing on a bed of sickness, taae
HOP BITTERS.
Whoever you are, wherever you are, whenever
yon fee1 that your system needs cleans
ing. toning or stimulating, with
out intoxicating, take
HOP BITTERS.
Have yon dyspepsia. Kidney or urinary com
plaint. disease of the stomach, bowels,
blood, liver or nerves? Yon will
be cured if you take
HOP BITTERS.
If you axe s-mply ailing, are weak and low
spirited, try it I Buy it. Insist upon it.
Your druggist keeps it.