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vannah as Sccoud Claw TIalter. ^
by the river.
laugh and dance through all their days,
, shadows fall across their way,
v, me the wintry years drag slow,
—lee are always gray:
~ rong heart beats the weak heart down
Tn life’s amalgamation;
p«.od and the had are all so near,
ru-h man’s pall, the poor man's bier,
w anton's laugh, the oimhan’s tear,
They come in swift rotation.
The tide run3 high, the tide ruDS low,
The years gTTLtst, the days go flow;
For me 1 care not how it seems,
So long as I can dream my dreams.
xl man thinks that he is good,
Tli. r - _
Tli,. i,ad man knows that he is bad;
. k. well-fed virtue lifts his eyes,
\ Iu i thinks that vice is sad. so sad;
Tl., one hates with a good y hate
To call the other brother;
I5,,t poradventure. it may be
A startling, yet divine decree,
When truths, made manifest, shall he
Change places with the other.
The tide runs high, the tide runs low.
Hue year- go fast, the days go slow;
For me I care not how it seems,
cu long as 1 can dream my dreams.
Ah. friend, you say that life is short,
vie with men is much the best;
I cure not if the world stands still.
Nor if the sun dawns in the west;
B r midst the reeds upon the shore
1 hear the babbling river sa} ing
This dirge of fate: “Too late! too late!”
O idle life! O empty heart!
Unused to bear, unskilled in praying.
—San Francisco News Letter.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, APRIL (i, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
(ioonrla Affairs.
A friend writes from Tennille that
heavy hail storm fell there on Sunday even-
iug about four o’clock. It lasted half an
hour, and was the severest storm known in
that section for years.
At a festival last Saturday night near
Ncwnan, two negroes had a quarrel over
ten cents, and one shot the other through
the heart.
Tne ('"jf'te County Gazette boasts that In
that county is to be found a boy only five
years old who is twenty nine inches high, Is
well proportioned and weighs sixty pounds.
It calculates that should he fatten in the
same proportion that his growth should
be, by the time be is sixteen he will weigh
at least three hundred pounds.
The Thomaston Times reports considerable
frost in that locality on Wednesday last, and
aiso some ice. It trusts, however, that no
serious damage has been done to either the
growing crops or the fruit.
According to the Madisonian, during the
heavy rain on last Saturday week, Mr. E.
Heyeer, of Madison, caught a good-6ized eel
in the act of emigrating from a branch near
by to his pond. It bad worked its way
about twenty feet from the stream, had as-
eeuded over six feet up the bank, and had
almost succeeded In reaching the pond when
It was caught.
The Americus Recorder mentions a case
of • much ado about nothing,” which oc
curred in the county court of Sumter last
Saturday. A lady went Into a neighbor’s
garden, and pulled up about thirty cents
worth of onions to which she thought 6he
was entitled. The neighbor brought suit
against the lady for malicious mischief, and
it took a judge, twelve jurors, a sheriff and
two lawyers two hours to hear the case and
bring in a verdict of “not guilty.”
The Conyers Examiner sa\s the prospects
for a fruit crop in that section are very flat
tering. ^
Governor Colquitt has offered a reward of
one hundred and fifty dollars for the arrest
of George Dye, alias George Bell, charged
with having murdered Martin Murphy In
Oglethorpe county, on the 9th of March
last, and who, after the deed, made his es
cape. Dye, alias Bell, Is aboqt forty years
old, black, about si* feet high, weighs from
ISO to 190 pounds, Is well built, and has
rather a good countenance.
Now that Senoia has a Clement attach
ment In operation, the Farm and Home
wants some one to come there and 6tart a
cotton seed oil mill. It believes such an
enterprise would prove a paying invest
ment.
The A rlington Advance says that “owing
to the excessive warm winter our farmers
lost nearly all their meat; from the same
cause the wheat has nearly all died, and
now the oat crop is almost worthless from
rust.”
We have already mentioned In onr tele-
graphlc columns the suicide of Mr. George
pshaw at Monroe, Walton county, a few
days since. The Conyers Examiner 6tates
that the deed was committed with a double
barreled fchotgun 5c held the weapon so
close to his head that bis Drains were blown
to the ceiliDg above. lie was one of the most
highly respected citizens of Walton county,
being a deacon of the church and a strictly
honest man. Mental aberration was the
cause of the act.
An Atlanta special says reports have
reached that city of severe storms in North
Georgia. Cyclones are reported in several
localities, which blew down fences and dam
age! crc^s badly. 8everal railroad lines
were reported washed away, and several
houses were blown down. Two or three
deaths are also reported. Malls will not be
delayed.
Mr. J. M. Edwards, Superintendent of the
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia, has been
' outdated Superintendent of the Macon and
Brunswick Road, under Its new manage
ment. He will taice control about the 15th
of the present month.
8ays the LaGrange Reporter. “LaGrange
wll agog ou the subjects of temperance,
prohibition, etc. The people scarcely talk
about anything else. On the street corners,
at heme, ia stores and offices—everywhere
the ail-absorbing topics are ‘temperance,’
i»r« hibition,’ ‘wet or dry,’ ‘blue ribbon.’
7 he blue ribbon greets the eye at every*
turn, old men, young men, boys and girls,
g) about the streets with a little bow of
blue ribbon conspicuously displayed.-'’
Says the Cedartown Advertiser: “Cedar-
town was not represented at Cincinnati In
'be recent entertainment in that city, as we
br-ieretand there was not a single ticket
1 :.t here. Whether this was on account of
indifference of parties here, or because the
| oys up there didn’t know where our town
on the inap, we arc not prepared to say;
but eertaiu it is that if they will take time to
^certain, they will find out that ours is a
I o*e the trade of which is not to be sneezed
at.”
The Middle Georgia Tunes spys: “We con
gratulate Georgia wool growers on their
jc»od fortunes in the advance in price of that
important commodity. It is 6aid buyers are
anxious to buy at forty cents per pound. We
glad the price is so good, and as the clip
in Georgia this year will be large, the ad
vance in price is a matter of considerable
importance to our State, especially the
Southern part, where most of the wool is
grown. Many thousands of dollars will be
tent to that section to pay for this crop, and
coming at the time of year it does will be
doubly valuable.”
“Since the recent heavy rains have sub
sided,” says the Oglethorpe Echo, “ it Is dis
covered that bottom land is not. as badly
"’ashed in i his county as was atone time
expected. The rainfall was gradual, so that
the overflow, so far from carrying away low
grounds, in many places improved it by a
i»yer of sediment. The rain last Friday was
more washing than the previous two weeks’
fall, it played havoc with the roads that
had just been worked. Mr. Jim Smith says
his big bottom was not much hurt by the
overflow, the ditch having held water, ex-
-^U]*t in a few low place*.”
Atlanta /W : “ On last Saturday a negro
woman who lives on Fort street gave birth
to a child—a fine, healthy infant. The
mother seemed to be left In quite a critical
condition, and her neighbors were unable to
understand what was the matter with her,
until yesterday evening, when she gave
birth to two more children. They are all
large, healthy infants, two males and one
female, and are said to resemble their mother
very much. The mother is doing very well
and our informant says that she is expected
to give birth to another child, though per
haps this is only a joke. If the darkies
mean to keep up this business, another
exodus will soon be necessary.”
The first cotton factory with a Clement
attachment ever erected in Georgia is now
in full operation at Senoia, Coweta county.
The Farm and Home is exceedingly enthusias
tic over the enterprise, and says: “We are
proud that Coweta, that Senoia is honored
with being the starting point of that which
is to revolutionize Georgia’s industries and
lift it on that high platform of the empire
manufacturing Southern State. Some of us
will live to see the ten thousand magnificent
water powers which dot Georgia from Rabun
to Savannah, now wasting their strength
‘on the desert air,’ making the laboring man
rich, feeding the hungry and clothing the
naked. The Creator has blessed Georgia
above her sister States in natural facilities,
and we thank God our people are learning
to appreciate these great gifts. Any one
desiring information as to the operation and
success of the ‘Clement’ can have It by ad
dressing Farm and Home, Senoia, Ga.”
Says the Oglethorpe Echo: “Are farmers
not^nistaken about wheat having rust? We
rather suspeet that did they examine close
ly it would be found that the blades had
fired or turned red. An old farmer of sixty
years’ experience, and a close observer, 6aid
be had never known wheat to rust unless
the temperature had reached 90 degrees. It
Is probable that on account of excessive
rains the blades have turned red.”
Hon. Emory Speer has given another evi
dence of the political bias of Georgia Inde
pendents. It seems that he says he will not
vote to unseat Mr. Washburn, of Minneso
ta, although the Committee on Privileges
and Elections has clearly shown that his
6eat was secured by bribes and fraudulent
votes, whereupon the Rome Courier says
that Mr. Felton once voted against a Repub
lican under similar circumstances and that
it has been the source of political entan
elements and heart-burning ever since. Mr.
Speer is doubtless directed in his present
course by the sad but independent fate of
his highly esteemed colleague, and would
rather be wrong than inconsistent.
Conyers Examiner: “Col. A. C. Perry, of
this place, who went to Atlanta one day this
week for the purpose of attending Supreme
Court, happened to quite a frightful acci
dent, and lucky, too, that it was not a fatal
one. He went up on the freight train from
this place, anil having to walk some distance
from where the train stops In Atlanta, over
the ‘net. work’ of side tracks, to the car
shed, as he was walking along near one of
the side tracks talking to a friend, and not
noticing the train of cars backing up behind
him, was knocked down by the corner of the
$ car, and received a painful blow, his head
having come in contact with a cross tie.
The engineer tooted the whistle too late; the
Colonel was down, and theshrttl notes from
the whistle only frightened him the more,
and made him scratch around livelier
to regain his proper attitude. We are glad
the accident is not as bad as might have
been. Look out for the engine, etc.”
Florida Affairs.
Five hundred watermelons were sold In
Key West one day last week. They come
from the Bahamas.
Magnolia trees are in bloom in Tallahassee.
Mr. L. Warrock, of Jacksonville, has
struck a bauanza. He has for years been
engaged In the manufacture of marmalade,
and has recently succeeded In getting it
introduced Into the commiesary 6tores of
the army. A few days ago he received
from Major R. MacFeely, Commissary Gen
eral of Subsistence, a large order, as fol
lows: 1,200 glasses 8 oz. tumblers, 2 dozen
in case; 2,400 China jars, 1 pound jars,
dozen in case; 1,200 China jars, 2 pound
jars, 1 dozen in case.
The Conservative-Democratic party of
Florida will hold a State convention at
Gainesville, In Alachua county, on Thurs
day, June 10, 1880, at 12 o’clock m., for the
following purposes: To choose eight dele
gates and their alternates to represent the
State In the National Democratic Conven
tion, to be held at Cincinnati, Tuesday,
June 22d; to nominate candidates for the
offices of Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor, to be voted for at the next regular
State election; to consider the question re
mitted to the State by the last National
Democratic Convention—whether it be de
sirable to continue the two-thirds rule
longer In force in the National Convention;
to transact such other business as may come
before the convention.
The Episcopal Church is flourishing at
j£ey West. The Dispatch, ot the 1st iust.,
tnnouucea that on the Sunday preceding,
bishop Young administered confirmation
there to forty-seyen person.
Marshal George H. Mays, of Jacksonville,
was arrested on Friday last, charged with
having falsified the public records by enter
ing the name of one Tony Chadwick in the
registration book of the city, he, the said
Marshal, not having the right so to do, not
being city clerk. He was bound over in the
sum of one thousand dollars, but on Satur
day woe released from arrest on habeas cor
pus. He claims that he did nothing fraudu
lently, and that at the time of the re«Utra-
tlon he was acting as deputy clerk, having
been regularly sworn in as such.
The Republicans of Fernandina have split
In twain, and now two separate tickets of
rival fs^Jpjje are In the field to be voted for
at the municipal election 8pO^ to be held in
that city.
The Spring jt air of th,c Middle Florida
Agricultural and Mechanical Association,
consisting of a flower show, fruit and vege.-
table exhibits, races, professional and amar
teur glass ball shooting matches, a base ball
match for the championship, etc., will be
held at Tallahassee om the 8th and 9th inst.
Liberal premiums will be offered, and there
is every indication that the occasion will be
an entire success.
The Jacksonville Breeze wants the City
Council of that city to pass an ordinance to
prohibit *‘tfce incessant and everlasting
whistling of steamboats while lying at their
wharves.” It thinks the sounding of a bell
will do Just as well to announce their hours
of departure.
In the last issue of the Jacksonville Breeze
Major Albert L. Russell announces his vale
dictory as editor of that paper. He leaves
it greatly to the regret of the publishers,
who state that they are now negotiating
with a gentleman of unquestioned ability to
succeed h m.
The telephone has at last made its ap
pearance in Tallahassee.
The Tallahassee Floridian regrets to learn
that the oat crop in that section seems to
be almost ruined by ru6t. It fears that the
loss of this crop will be a serious one to
farmers, not three out of five of whom have
planted enough corn to Eupply their wants
until the present crop is matured.
Tallahaesee Floridian: “A small frame
building In the western portion of the city
was burned down Sunday evening. It was
occupied by a colored man and his wife who
were asleep in the building at the time It
took fire. A cinder from the burning roof
roused them to a sudden consciousness of
the situation and caused them to vacate it
rather unceremoniously. Returnlne, they
succeeded In saving most of their effects.
The man was burnt on the back by some
falling molten metal from a sheet that had
been used as a protection between the house
^d chtaney. P The fire Is thought to have
originated from the stove pipe.
"A novel ease presented itself a few days
since, in the court room of one of our Jus
tices.'’ says the Pensacola Advance. A
trial was to take place In which several
parties of both colors and sexes were Inter
ested when one of the interested, fearing,
it is thought, that matters would result un
favorably to her side, quietly approached
the Judge, before the case was called, and
whispered to him that a liberal reward
would be his portiou If he would but ar
range things to the interest of her aide. His
Honor was severely taxed In order to pre
serve his gravity, but at last told the appli
cant that all that saved her from going_to
the county jail was the fact of her being a
woman, and his belief, moreover, that she
really did not appreciate the nature of the
step she had taken. This Is the first In-
etance, in our knowledge, where such an
attempt has been made to buy jflstlce.
Says the Sumter County Advance: “Oar
county is improving so rapidly that it re
quires but a few months to change the gen
eral features so completely that the old
landmarks through the country are entirely
lost. In visiting Captain Marshall’s grove
this week we were surprised to see the vast
improvements Mr. Cuuuingham, Dr. Cbarle-
ton and Messrs. Anderson, Bostick and
Stimpson are making in clearing land and
enlarging their groves, and this spirit of im
provement is manifested throughout the en
tire county.”
“Quietly and unostentatiously,” says the
Tallahassee Floridian, “has an enterprise
been successfully inaugurated that now
supports thirty-two families, runs eight
hundred and sixteen spindles, and con
sumes about four hundred bales of cotton
annually. We allude, of course, to the cot
ton factory, so unobtrusively but con
veniently located near the depot of the
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Rail
road. The power used in driving the ma
chinery is supplied by a forty horse power
engine, which is amply sufficient at present,
but which will not answer the increasing
trade of the proprietor, Mr. Alex. McDou-
gall, In a year or two. Connected with the
factory is a gin house, which coutains an
eighty saw gin capable of ginning ten bales
of cotton per day. The gin is run by a
twelve horse-power engine. The proprietor
has also fixed up a grist mill with a grind
ing capacity of one hundred and twenty
bushels daily, using one-fourth of the
power of a forty-horse engine.”
The Pensacola Advance regrets/to learn
that the efforts recently made by the com
mission merchants of that city to form a
timber exchange have thus far proven of
no avail. This is owing, it is said, to the
action of the timber cutters, who, for some
reason, refuse to co-operate with the mer
chants in any manner. The cutters, thinks
the Advance, are doubtless on a more inde
pendent footing than they were last
year, and under the present circumstances
desire to dictate terras. To this the mer
chants are unwilling to agree.
Fernandina Mirror: “On Tuesday the
north bound passenger train on the Transit
Road was detained several hours by run
ning off at Burrin’s mill, near Lawtey.
By the carelessness of the mill hands the
switch had been left open, and the engine
and three box cars left the track and were
ditched. No one was hurt, and the engine
and cars which were ditched were not mate
rially injured. The passengers were brought
on in time for the train iuto Jacksonville
from Baldwin at 7 o’clock, aud the freight
train brought in the Transit train, reachiug
here in the night. No fault attached to the
officers of the train, and the recurrence of
such an accident will doubtless be guarded
against.”
Orange City News: “The seven-year-old
ten-acre grove in Orange county, near San
ford, belonging to Messrs. Graves and
Thorpe, of this place, is, we learn, In a most
flourishing condition. The former gentle
man visited it last week, and during his
stay a gentleman from the 8?ate of New
Jersey offered him the sum of $20,000 for it,
which sum was refused. These gentlemen
have expended about $11,000 upon tbi6
grove, but the land was bought at an exor
bitant price, $150 per acre, and they paid
two dollars for trees to set that can be now
bought for fifty cents, ami labor at time was
much higher than now. They state that they
can now make such a grove with the experi
ence they have had, with half the money that
has been expended upon this one. Is there
money in an orange grove?”
The Fernandina Mirror gives the follow
ing interesting items of information: “We
subjoin reports just received from several
localities along the Transit Railroad giving
the area planted in vegetables and orange
trees. There are about fifty acres planted
In early vegetables in the immediate neigh
borhood of Bronson. More attention is
given to cotton in this region than to vege
tables. Crops are in a flourishing condition.
Colonel Shipman, at Lawtey, reports there
are set out in the orange groves at that place
900 eight-year-old trees, 10,000 six-year old
trees, 10,000 four-year-old trees, 10.000 two-
year-old trees. There are about 200 acres of
Dewly cleared land. All the improvements
denote thrift, and show that our settlers In
tend to remain in Florida. Many of our
Southern farmers are putting in more cotton
and corn than ever before and feel confident
of success. Colonel Shipman thinks the
I country more prosperous than ever before.
The acreage planted in vegetables near
Archer is estimated at 140 acres in cucum
bers, 100 acres in beans, 40 acres in toma
toes, aud 40 acres in watermelons. Crops
two weeks earlier than last season, and very
promising. A correspondent writes from
Gainesville that he is of the opinion that
there are about 300 acres planted in vegeta
bles within a radius of three miles of Gaines
ville, the truck from which will be shipped
from this depot if seasons continue favora
ble. About one-half of this is In tomatoes,
one quarter each in beans aud cucumbers.
Tomatoes yield about 300 bushels per acre*
cucumbers 100 to 200 bushels per acre, ac?
cording to laud and cultivation. There arc
about forty acres in melons; the yield will
be from 800 to 1,000 melons to the acre.”
The smallest Protestant commune
probably in Europe, and certainly the
most primitive, is that of Ablandchcnen,
canton Berne. Ablandchenen, a word
literally signifying “a little outlying
place/' is situated in a remote mountain
valley four thousand feet about the level
of the sea, and its unsophisticated inhabi
tants contrive to dispense with most of
the appendages which are considered
inseparable froip qjodern civilization.
They do not possess a single publicliouse.
There is no doctor in the place, but there
lias not foeejj a death for many years.
1‘ommerue and handicrafts are conspicu
ous by their absence; there is neither
blacksmith, baker, wheelwright nor shop
keeper in all the commune, apd the peo
ple,being all honest and peaceable,require
neither notary, lawyer nor policeman.
Every fourteen days a peddler with a van
goes tbp round of the commune and sup
plies the housewives with ail they w«ut
in the shape of crockery, drapery, thread,
needles, paper and sundries. Food is
provided In’ their own (locks, herds aud
poultry. They have a tiny church with
a single bell, and it is a standing joke in
the place tnal when a gill lo uorn they
ring a peal, bqt on the birth of a lad they
ring only one tell. A correspondent
writing thence to a Zhrifch paper says
that they enjoy a far larger measure of
bappiuet* than falls to the lot of most
men, and have no desire to exchange
their Alpine home for the life of cities
Refractory Radicals in Penn
sylvania.—A Washington dispatch says;
“Some considerable interest ha* beep
created in political circles on account of
the visit here this week of certain promi
nent Pennsylvania Republicans in con
nection with the Republican Presidential
nomination. It is understood that these
gentlepjen came here more particularly
for the purpose of having an interview
with Don Cameron, apd that they in
formed him, in terms not to be mistaken,
that it would be simply impossible for
the Pennsylvania delegation to Chicago
to be controlled as a unit for General
Grant. At the Cincinnati convention in
187G Mr. Don Cameron found that he
could not vote the Pennsylvania delega
tion lo suit his own personal views and
ends, as the friends of Mr. Blaine re-
fused peremptorily to allow their votes
to be cast for other candidates after the
Ilartranft farce was through with. It is
considered quite certain, as things are
now going, that Senator Cameron will
find his delegation refractory from the
start, apd that the Elaine men will de
mand the right to east their ballots for
their own favorite/'
A Generous Gift.—The New ^ork
Observer announces that the Union Theo
logical Seminary in that city has this
week received a gift of $100,000 from
ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan. Mr. Mor
gan’s motive for this generous act is that
he is “desirous of showing his apprecia
tion of the usefulness of the Union Theo
logical Seminary, and aiding it in the
great work it Is now doing for the coun
try.” The money will be used to form
a fund which is to be called the “Edwin
D. Morgan Library Fund.” The new
building to be erected will also bear his
name. tl f -
“Oh, dear! I feel so tired/’ sighed
Mrs. Hickenlooper as she sank into a
chair. ‘ ‘Well, I should think you would
be,” growled Mr. Hickenlooper as he
put on his coat to go out, “you tramped
around more’n seven miles this after
noon making your silly calls. I shouldn’t
call myself half bright if I did such a
thing.” And then he went down the
street and walked nine miles around a
billiard-table at twenty-five cents an
hour, and she thought how hard he had
to work at his business, poor man, when
he came home at midnight and dragged
his enfeebled limbs into bed. Some
women are just like that.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
LAWLESSNESS IN LOUISIANA.
French Unauthorized Religious Con
fraternities Defiant.
LATEST FROM THE BRITISH
ELECTIONS.
Foreign and Domestic Items.
IHarlne DUamtcra.
LAWLESSNESS IN LOUISIANA.
New York, April 5 —A New Orleans
special says: “The following remarkable
statement of the lawlessness existing in
North Louisiana is made by the officers of
the steamboat Era, No. 10, just arrived here.
On March 27th, while the boat was
putting out freight at Redmouth land
ing, Bteuf river, a man named J.
J. Adams, with a crowd of ruffians, captur
ed the boat, aud attacked Capt. Hamilton,
using him pretty roughly. The boat had to
cut her lines, and quietly back out from the
landing. Adams and his party followed the
boat some distance, and ordered the Captain
to bring her to 6hore, which was not done.
Adams then began firing on the boat, and
pat seven balls in the pilot house.
The boat had a number of passengers, in
cluding men, women and children, but for
tunately no one was hurt. Officers of the
Era No. 10 do not think it safe for them to
return to that point. ^Adams was implicated
in the assassination of Judge Crawford and
District Attorney Harris several years ago,
but could Dot be convicted.”
THE UNAUTHORED RELIGIOUS CONFRATER-
NITE9 DEFIANT.
Paris, April 5.—The Moniteur and Gazette
De France announce that at a meeting of
the Superiors of the unauthorized religious
confraternities on Friday, it was decided
neither to communicate their statutes to
the government nor demand authorization,
but stand upon their common law rights.
London, April 5.—A PaAs dispatch says
the operations of the decrees against unau
thorized congregations have been extended
to the colonists. The Jesuits have establish
ments in the islands of Bourbon and Mada
gascar.
MARINE DISASTERS.
East Hampton, L. I., April 5.—The
schooner Ralph Powers, Captain Getcbell,
of Belfast, Maine, from Wilmington to
Boston, loaded with rosin and tar, is ashore
twenty-two miles west of Montauk. The
crew was saved. The vessel and cargo are
not insured.
London, April 5 —The steamer RacllD,
from Newcastle via Dundee for New York,
has put into Kilrusb, Ireland, with a loss of
her hurricane deck, life-boat and saloon
cabin. The crew refuse to proceed.
THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.
London, April 5.—The Liberal net gain is
now 50 6eats. An election meeting was
held yesterday near Ossory, In the county
Carlow, to support the candidature of Mr.
Gray, Lord Mayor of Dublin, who, in a
speech, stated that particles of dynamite
were found under the platform on which he
then stood, to blow up those wishing to vin
dicate the rights of Irishmen.
WALKING MATCH FOR THE O’LEARY BELT.
New Y’ork, April 5.—The second contest
for the O’Leary belt commenced at Madison
Square Garden at midnight, with eighteen
men on the track, including the negro Hart,
Dennis, Krohne, Merritt and Taber.
WAGES INCREASED.
Baltimore, April 5.—The Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company have restored ihe
wages of their employes to the ratesfpald at
the time of the reduction, July 10,18<<, thus
making au increase of ten per ceut.
TERRIBLE FIRE.
London, April 5—A Paris dispatch re-
S >rta that a terrible fire has occurred in
ontalmenta, a village of Savoy. Seven
teen of the inhabitants perished and thirty-
one dwellings were destroyed.
Effects of Tea Upon the Chinese.
Prof. S. Wells Williams' Lecture before the
Sheffield Scientific School.
If the sanitary effects of tea upon the
system are so great and wholesome, its
effects since its general introduction
among Occidentals cannot be overlooked.
The domestic, quiet life and habits of the
Chinese owe much of their strength to
the constaut use of this beverage, for
the weak infusion which they sip allows
them to spend all the time they choose
at the tea table. If they were in the
habit of sipping even their weak whiskey
in the same way, misery, poverty, quar
rels and sickness would take the place of
thrift, quiet and industry. The general
temperance seen among them is owing to
the tea much more than any other cause.
One who remembers the carousings de
scribed in Scott’s novels, and compares
these scenes with what would now be
considered good society, will acknowl
edge an improvement, and tea has had
much to do with it. One of Wilson’s
stories in “Lights and Shadows of Scot
tish Life,” of the same date, about
eighty years ago, makes one of the
characters lay great stress on the com
plete disuse of tea as one of the prime
jueaus of success in lifp. But it qas won
its way more and more, till in the present
generation the associations that cluster
aroufi4t|ie tea tqblp ffirmaq integral payt
of the social life among English speaking
people.
One of the most likely means to re
strict the use of spirits among them is to
substitute thp use of warm leverages of
all kinds by those whose system has not
become vitiated. I think’tea is one of
the greatest benefits to the Chinese,
Japanese and Mongols, and its universal
use, for at least fifteen "Ties.through
out their territories, has proven its
satisfaction as a nervjnp^ ^ stimulant aud
a beverage. If one passing through the
sltreetA of Pekin, Canton or Onosaka, and
seeing the good natured hilarity of the
groups of ^laborers and loiterers around
the cka ticaus and the c-ha yi-i of those
cities, doubts the valup dT teq as a
barmonizer and satisfier of human wants
and pqsslons, it must bo taken as proof
of his own unsatisfied cravings.
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The sovereign families of Europe are
made up at the present time of 719 mem
here. The most titled potentate is the
Emperor of Austria, who is once Empe
ror, nine times King, once Archduke,
twice Grand Duke, eighteen times Duke,
once Great Prince, four times Margrave,
five times Count and twice Prince. The
King of Portugal, who has eighteen
Christian names, is styled King of the
Algarves, and he is also Signor of Guinea
and Congo and Duke of Saxony; his
eldest son has twenty and his younger
son twenty-nine Christian names. The
title of King of Jerusalem is borne by
the Emperor of Austria, the ex-King of
Naples and the so-called Prince of Lu-
siguau. In the same way the title of
Kin" of the Goths is assumed both by
the King of Sweden and by the King of
Denmark, and these two monarch9 also
style themselves King of the Windes and
King of the Vandals. But the force of
Contrast pomes out the strongest in the
case of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg?
Strelitz, whoi9 General of Cavalry in the
Prussian army, Colonel of infantry in
the Austrian army and D. 0. L. of Ox
ford University.
Suppose that, after pretending an in
tention to force the Qrant Presidential
candidacy upon the liepublican party,
the Cockling Cameron Logan Syndicate
should, at the last moment, withdraw
Grant’s name and effect the nomination
of some milk-and-water compromise man
who has no enemies because of a lack of
sufficient individuality to create antag
onisms! The effect would be a wave of
enthusiastic applause that would reunite
the party, and the Syndicate would yeap
4 harvest of approval. We beg to make
the prediction that the above supposition
outlines the policy that will be adopted
at the Chicago Convention by tbe Grant
faction.—Bridgeport Farmer.
A carrier was recently arraigned for
homicide at tbe bar of an English Court
of Assizes. As his counsel was ending
his defense the prisoner rose, trembling
in every limb, perspiration pouring off
him, and he screamed in agony: “I see
nothing. All is darkness! Pm blind!
I’m blind!” There was great excitement,
The presiding judge ordered a physician
to examine the prisoner. He was found
to be blind,
THOMAS F. BAYARD.
The One Candidate Satisfactory to
Southern Democrat* aud Northern
Republican*.
Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening.
A correspondent signing himself “G. S.
M.,” writes from Springfield, Massachusetts,
to the Nation urging the nomination of
George F. Edmunds as the Republican can
didate for the Presidency, on the ground
that he will be satisfactory to reformers on
account of his freedom from alliance with
rings and his personal purity, while his
sincere partisanship makes him acceptable
to honest stalwarts, whose opinions and
prejudices the writer thinks should be con
ciliated by practical reformers who seek to
nominate a candidate who can win. The
writer disclaims any great sympathy with
these prejudices, but declares that they un
doubtedly exist, and are a force which
seekers after political reform are too apt to
ignore in choosing candidates; vet in his
recital of the causes for the persistence of
war feelings and prejudices he shows very
plainly that he does share them, to some
extent, and that he is, however “inde
pendent,” very thoroughly a Republican in
feeling and spirit.
The very fact that he is an honest believer
in the Republican party’s principles, and
cherishes an unconcealed affection for Us
organization and history, lends strength,
however, to his pretest against the probable
action of the party’s convention of the
present year, and to his proposal of a reme
dy, which is the union of the Independents
to urge the nomination of Senator Bayard
by the Democratic convention, and his sup
port at the polls in case he is nominated.
The writer is a mau among men, and no
mere dreamer about politics, and he knows
that the one hope of those who are sincerely
opposed to the elevation of such men as
Grant and Blaine to the Presidency is for
the thinking and reputable Republicans who
ask nothing of their party but a fit candidate
to turn, in case their demand is refused, to
the other party and ask it to give them a
candidate they can vote for. If it also re
fuses to do 60, then they can consider
whether they will refuse to vote or vote for
a third term candidate, but their duty as
citizens is to first turn to the other party to
6ee whether or not it will give them a can
didate for whom they can vote. This the
Nation correspondent puts in about as plain
English as possible. He says:
“The considerations urged by 1 correspond
ent in your paper of March 18 against discard
ing Bayard as an unavailable candidate are
very weighty. They seem irresistible In view
of the fact that Independents must reckon
with the strong po-sibiiity of Grant's nomina
tion at Uhicago. In that case the situation will
be a most serious one. The first and pressing
duty of independents seems to be to work
against the nomination of Grant or Blaine. If
defeated here, and especially if the convention
declares for Grant, their only line of reserve
seems to be a strong demonstration in favor of
Bavard. If Tilden is nominated against Grant
the state of things will be to the last degree
disheartening. It will be impossible to contend
with anv spirit, even against the immense
evils ai.d dangers of Grantism, with
such a candidate as Tilden. And, in
the face of those evils and dangers, the
luxury of voting for a third cindidafe, as
a mere protest, will be far too costly. No; If
Grant be nominated the supreme effort of the
ensuing weeks must be to secure against him a
candidate, not onlv worthy of election, but who
can be elected. The only place where this can
be done is the Cincinnati Convention, and, os
before that convention, the man who pre
eminently combines fitness and availability is
Thomas F. Bayard. His war record will be a
burden, but under such circumstances it must
and can be carried. F«tr under such circum
stances. and under bis leadership, the De
mocracy will represent constitutional govern
ment as against mi'itary hero-worship and
machine politics, backed by menace. Before
such as an issue, differences upon the obsolete
questions of twenty years ago ought to be for
gotten.”
We pass, without other comment than an
expression of our dissent, the suggestion
that Mr. Bayard’s opposition to the inaugu
ration of the war is now a matter worthy a
reasonable man’s thought, and call the at
tention of Democrats to this perfectly rep
resentative presentation of the ideas of the
best class of Republicans, from whom the
Democrats must draw any support they are
to receive as the result of the candidature of
Grant for a third term. Every one of such
men would prefer to vote the Republican
ticket if he could, and being opposed to all
Democrats, as Democrats, they do not make
nice discriminations among them on the
score of mere shades of feeling or opinion.
Politically, Bayard, Tilden, Seymour, Han
cock and Thurman are very much alike
to them, and they look beyond their
mere political opinions to something in
the men themselves as a cause of prefer
ence lor one over another. Remember
that these men not only have been, but
are, Republicans. They would prefer, now,
to vote for what they regard as the right sort
of a Republican, but see little hope that they
will have the chance to do so. Rather than
vote for Grant or Blaine, they declare they
would vote for some Democrat, if that par
ty will give them a man they can respect
and trust. They do not want any soldier,
because one of their grounds of opposition
to Grantism is the thrusting of military hero
worship Into polities. Au unknown and
untried man will Dot satisfy them, because
they have seen so many varieties of profes
sion and conduct among alleged Democratic
statesmen that they are wisely disposed to
judge a man’s future by his past,and he must
have had a public career within their memory
to enable them to do this. For an inflationist
of any sort or shade they will not vote, come
what may, and as to Tilden, they would ice
Grant take this country U# t^e devil before
tuey would vote for a man whom they re
gard as a cowardly whisperer and corrupt
intriguer, who has forfeited his personal
share 6f the sympathy due his p«vty on ac
count of the uvenis Of left! * by engaging tn
a dirty attepipt to meet fradd by fraud.
Such toen have with practical unanimity
settled on Senator Bayard zz ti*£ one man
among the!,- uppopepts vfio has won their
respect. He ha© never toadied to them,
never abated a jot or tittle of his own be
liefs, bqt iu the very vigor and earnestness
of the battle he has made to 6ave his own
party from foes wftbjn as well as defend it
against foes without, he has won the respect
of his opponents for his sincerity and for
hie courage, They say of him, “here ia a
Democrat whose Demoerarv — .
though we - ••‘-understand
a, ^ -oent from it. Despite our
dissent, we prefer even Democracy as inter
preted and illustrated by Bayard, to Repub
licanism as interpreted and illustrated by
Grant. The steadiness, the pluck and the
consistency of Bayard’s opposition to us,
from the time he entered the Senate,
with but six other Democrats there,
to the time when his party became a
majority, has enabled us to know the worst
as Well as the best of him. What he says
he believes, and what he believes he will
stick to, and as he never hesitated a moment
to risk his political prospects and party
standing for conscience sake, while regard
ed as a Presidential candidate, he can be
trusted to meet any possible temptations of
the position. His is the old-fashioned
Democracy of Jefferson and JacksoD, and
not as satisfactory to even reform Republi
cans as the Republicanism they would see
cotablishttd if they hut. it. ia nt least.
something tried, and safer than the unknown
danger of taking up Grantism again where
it left off in 1S76.” This is the way these Re
publicans talk and feel, and it is useless for
Democrats to attempt to argue with them as
though they, too, were Democrats. They
are opposed to both Grant and Blaine and to
the tendencies In the Republican party which
these two men represent. They are so
much opposed that they will even vote for a
Democrat they thoroughly know rather
than vote for either of the men named, but
they will not vote for a Democrat they do
not know and respect. To ask such men to
support a candidate simply because he Is a
Democrat is, in their opinion, to ask them
to fly from Grantism, which they know and
detest, by embarking in an open boat with
a crew of strangers and an untrusted pilot
on an unknown sea. To show 6uch voters
how good a Democrat a man has been is not
enough. They sr.y, in all honesty,they do not
know what that means, apd do not care
anything abqqt it, anyway. They only
accept a Democrat because they feel they
must, and they have no means of judging a
man except his own conduct in public
affairs. Mr. Bayard, they say, has f been
proven by that, the only test they recognize,
and though they openly declare, as does
this correspondent of the Nation, that they
regard his war record *s “a buyden,” they
say they will, nevertheless, take up that
burden and vote for him if he is nominated.
In turn they ask, “is not Bayard a good
Democrat? Why then does not his party
nominate a man It knows outsiders will
vote for, unless it has some design which it
fears so pure and honorable a man would
»ot carry out?”
Now all this may not he a sufficient reason
for nominating Mr. Bayard. The Demo
cratic party has the right to choose the can
didate it prefers without regard to the
wishes of outsiders. It can, if it phooses,
close its doors and put up as a warning to
outsiders, “full,” or “standing room only.”
It need not pay the slightest attention to
these people, who confess they are not in
sympathy with it@ past record, and
find no one in its ranks to whom they
would not prefer some Republican, if they
could get the chance to vote for the right
sort of a Republican. If, however, the
Democratic party is not absolutely sure
that it has all the votes it wonts, and that
any additions would he a mere wasteful
superfluity, it had better pay some attention
to the utterances of those from whom, In
certain very probable contingencies, added
votes are to be had. It can get 6ome such
yotes against any possible candidate the
Republican party can nominate, and a
great many 6uch against either Grant or
Blaine. The way to get them is absolutely
plain. By a fortunate combination of
character and principles, the one unques
tioned Democrat who calls forth in the
North such expressions as those we
have quoted from the Nation moves to
enthusiasm all that is best in tbe South.
His nomination is the way to make assur
ance doubly sure In case the Democratic
leaders are already confident, or to secure
every* chance of success in case they are in
doubt. It is beyond doubt or question the
surest way. Search this broad land from
ocean to ocean, call the roll of its whole
forty millions of people, and we defy you
to find any other name than that of Bayara
which at once arouses the enthusiasm of
Southern Democrats and commands the ap
proval and respect of Northern conservative
Republicans.
THE THIRD TERM.
Kx-Prcuident Woolsef, of Yale, on
“National Habit*. 9 ’
Ex President Woolsey has written a
private letter from which the Springfield
Republican is permitted to publish the
following extracts:
Your letter seems to call for an opin
ion in regard to a third term without
reference to the person to be voted for.
I shall answer it therefore without refer
ence to persons now talked of and promi
nent. The question is this: A national
habit having been formed by the coun
try of abstaining from a certain unques
tioned right, under the Constitution, of
electing the chief magistrate as often,
either by successive or by intermitted
chances, as the people may think fit, is
the preservation of that habit of auy es
sential importance ? That it may be very
important in the course of ages to make
an exception to it is of course a possible
thing, and so it is best probably for the
Constitution to continue as it is; but if,
without manifest reason, this should take
place, beyond question a second term or
a third or even a single term would be
made the limit within which the tenure
of this office must remain.
Now I need say nothing of the im
portance of national habits—that is espe
cially of practical limitations which the
good sense of a people puts on its own
liberty of action in the political sphere.
One effect of breaking once the habit in
question would be the opportunity held
out to a clique within a party of continu
ing their special influence in the govern
ment by the election of one who is in
debted to them for his success. In a
government like our9 such a clique be
comes all-powerful and selfish, so that
the sooner it is disbanded the better.
Another effect is that the President, after
two terms, would be tempted to accept the
offers of his friends to endeavor to con
tinue him in authority, and it is such
considerations that have made limitation
to a single term seem at present to be de
sirable in the view of many. And aside
from the e reasons, if a partjp is to re
main in power for eighteen or twenty-
four years, or longer, it would be found
in all probability more conducive to
national welfare and unity lo Lave the
smaller changes of policy likely to occur
under a new administration made pos
sible than to have the old fixed regime of
a single man and his special friends con
tinue. As for dangers to the Constitu
tion from any terms beyond a third,
especially dangers from' a military
usurper availing himself of office in pro
moting his cause, I do not apprehend
very much. I am more iu dread of the
possibility of lawless resistance to elected
Magistrates.
To conclude, as the first of all consid
erations in weight I would put the im
portance of adhering to a habit self im
posed and long acquiesced in. The State
is like an individual. He has come
(whether by happy accident or by wis
dom) to lay down rules for himself which
in the experience of years haye been
proved or believed at least to be impor
tant. But he breaks away from them,
and now he has one help less against ac
tions done without forethought. His ac
cidental and changing will has got the
mastery over his deliberate judgment.
Suppose a citizen who was not “natu
ral born’’ should be by far the mosi
available candidate of a party, would it
be wise on general grounds to attempt to
alter the Constitution in order to make
him eligible? Even so to alter the na
tional habit &£ ta a third term for u par
ticular instance, unless in an extreme
case, would be an injury to the stability
of institutions supported mainly by opin
ion. T. D. Woolsey.
New Haven, March 29.
The Whangdoodle of Texas.
San Antonio Herald.
From vounty he came. His
name IS N. A. Edmondson. Edmondson
stands, in his socks, over six feet tail
He is bearded “like a pard,’ ; and w&s
dressed in le^’hev pants. When he enter
ed u saloou.on the military plaza yester
day afternoon his boots sounded uo the
floor like the thum^iug of a pair of pile-
dfivers. when he shook his leonine head
his long hair twisted about lihe black
snakes. “Givp we gome beer!’’ he
rpared. “J am dry! Give me a three-
gallon bucket, full to the brim and no
foaml X am dry! I was weaned on
herring brine and don’t eat nothing now
wilt “ USU ” lttde ° f fi unpow ' * i * * * * * 7 ^ and tish-
The barkeeper filled a quart £’,as;—
the deepest vessel in tho bouse—and tills
was repeated four times. Each glass
the thirsty man emptied at a gulp.
4t the fourth he said, “Wait a minnit.”
Just then a small man entered, and
Edmondson, taking the Sfnall man up as
if he was a baby, said, “Give hit beer;
hit’s dry. ”
The little man was supplied, restored
to his feet and shrank away from the
giant, glancing back from a corner likea
mouse looking at a Newfoundland dog.
Once more the wild man opened bis
month and it presented the appearance of
a cave opening, overgrown with sumac,
in autumn.
“I am the man that ketched a wild
mustang by the tail and hilt.him till his
chime come out all the way to his ears; I
o»n link a rinnhlp-HerJr hog car full of
panthers, with nothing but a corn cutter
to fight with, and 1 can dance a jig on
the pint of a copper lightning-rod. I ain t
liable to cold, but when I sneeze the re
porters telegraphs a fresh earthquake in
Cuby; when 1 give a whoop tbe dishes
rattled on tbe Kussian King’s table till
old tiotchearmolikicboph swears that a
keg of Nihilist gunpowder has just pop
ped in the cellar, and the Empress has to
hunt her new teeth from her coffee cup,
Give me some beer!” This time he
struck thecounter with his fist and jarred
the anchor bolt of thcwbjsky bell punch
loose, causing the machine to run back
ward like Hczekiah’s sun dial, aud the
record of 400,000 drinks disappeared
from the dials—an instantaneous loss of
$fi,OC0 to the State of Texas.
Moue Titles.—One of the objects of
tbe visit of the King of Siam to the
great centres of Western civilization is
declared to lie his desire to decorate
Queen Victoria with the Order of the
White Elephant, one of the most venera
ble insignia of rank that is known. Of
course, when the King learns that the
masquerade monarch. Hex of New Or
leans, has conferred upon ex President
Grant the title of "Duke of America,"
he will be ready to bestow the Order of
tbe Elephant tjpen his late visitor also.
This will be highly appropriate, and the
degree will be appreciated in this coun
try, where, on several occasions, the peo.
pie have seemed to louk upon General
Grant as an elephant on their handu.—
HaitiuMre Sun.
When tho Tennessee candidate for
Congress appealed to the voters for sup
port, telling them that he ran a reft
down the Red river, was President of a
lead mine. Vice President of a coal com
pany, Captain In the militia, and Trea
surer of a saw mill corporation—an old
boatman who bad been through a good
many campaigns cried out, “you are
doing too much, aud it wifi be danger
ous to put any more load on your deck."
There were three cheers, and the over
burdened candidate didn’t go to Con
gress.—NuiihnUfi Amerwn.
BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENTS.
Birth, Bridal and llurtal-TheThree
Important B’t of Life,
One sometimes finds a gem among the
castaways of the forgotten years. The
following congratulatory letter to a young
lady on the eve of marriage is venerable,
but is good. The gentle heart that in
dited it, with the bride and her maidens,
may have passed away with the flowers
that perfumed the past; but the “old, old
story” is told as sweetly now as then,
and the same stately ceremonies usher
in the event which links the destinies of
two hearts:
’ ‘I am holding some pasteboard in my
hands—three stately plucktngs from the
bush of ceremony. I am gazing upon a
card, and upon a name—a name with
which your gentle life began; a name
with which your throbbing lieart was
lost. There is nothing strange about
that card. The maiden sign still looks
up from it, calm and cust imary, as it
looks on many a friendly visit, as it lies
in many a formal basket
“I am gazing, too, upon a card where
the nearer parent tells the world she
will he ‘At Home’one day: and that is
nothing new. But there is another card
whose mingling there put a tongue of
fire into its speechless pasteboard. It
tells us that feeling is maturing into the
tiny, and that these cards arc but the pale
heralds of the coming crisis when a
hand that has pressed friend’s hands and
plucked flowers, shall close down on one
to whom she will he a friend and a flower
forever after.
“I send you a few flowersto adorn the
dying moments of your single life. They
are the gentlest type of a delicate, dura
ble friendship. They spring up by our
side when others have deserted it, and
will he found watching over jour graves
when those who should have forgotten
us.
“It seems meet that a past so calm and
pure as yours, should expire with a
kindred sweetness about it; that flowers
and music, kiud friends and earnest
words should consecrate the hour, when
a sentiment is passing into a sacrament.
"The three great stages of our being
are birth, the bridal and the burial. To
the first we bring only weakness, for the
last we have nothing hut dust. But here
at the altar where life joins life, the pair
come throbbing up to the holy man,
whispering the deep promise that arms
each with the other’s heart to help on in
the life struggle of care and duly.
“The beautiful will he there, borrow
ing new beauty from the scene—the gay
aud the frivolous will look solemn for
once, and youth will come to gaze on all
that its sacred thoughts pant for—and
age will totter up to “hear the old words
repeated over again, that to their own
lives have given the charm. Some will
weep over it as if it were a tomb; some
will laugh, as if it were a joke; but two
must stand by it, for it is fate, not fun,
this everlasting locking of their lives.
“ And now can you. who have queened
it over so many bended forms, can you
come down at last to the frugal diet of a
single heart?
“ Hitherto you have been a clock giv
ing your time to all the world. Now
you are a watch buried in one particular
bosom, marking only hours, and ticking
only to the beat of his heart, where time
anil feeling shall be in unison until these
lower ties are lost in that higher wedlock,
where all hearts are unitea arpunil tbe
‘ Central Heart ’ of all.
“ Hoping that calm sunshine may hal
low your clasped hands, I sink silently
into a signature ’’
K-*-".
Stonewall Jackson, the l’rofessor.
Wheeling Register.
Jly first recollection of Stonewall
Jackson is when 1 was a college boy at
Lexington. Yirgiuia, in the fall of 18<50.
1 am not able to say whether it was the
peculiar carriage of the stiff, military
looking institute professor who daily
passed the college grounds that was of
chief interest to the students of Wash
ington College, or whether the stories
told of daring and reckless courage in
his early military life invested him “with
a halo of romance and made him an ob
ject of hero worship in their youthful
minds. Whatever the cause, the solid
tramp of Major Jackson on the plank
walk would be the signal to stop all
games of mirth that ro®y have been in
progress on the college campus until he
had passed. The sti$, stolid-looking
man would pass on, turning his head
neither to the right nor left, but a single
touch of his cap was tha silent
recognition given of the def
erential respect shown by
the boys. “Old Jack,” as he was
familiarly called by cadots and students,
was so plain iu manner and attire, there
Was ao little effort at show, his feet were
so large and his arms and hands fastened
to his body in such an awkward shape,
that the cadets didn't take much pride in
him as a Professor. They feared him in
tho lecture room, they paid the strictest
deference to him on parade,but in show
ing a stranger the sights about the insti
tute a cadet was never known to paint
out “Old Jack” as one of the ornaments
of the institution. He was more popular
wi’.h the college students, who did not
haye the same reasons for fearing the
austerity of his manner, but who knew
him as the son injaw of their college
President, the Key. George Junkin.
My first meeting with General Jackson
in the social circle was one evening when
he called to see a friend at our boarding
house. I shall never forget the impres
sion his manner and appearance made
upon me. Boy as I was, I looked upon
him with a reverential awe. I had heard
the stories of his struggles in early life;
of how he had walked from his house in
Lewis county to Washington to receive
his appointment as a cadet to West
Point: of his being ill prepared, and the
difficulty he had in keeping up with
his classes; and then I had heard of his
brilliant career in Mexico; of his mount
ing the walls of Cheruhusco with the
Aiuorioon flag in Lta Lauda) and Loin
now was the hero of my youthful en
thusiasm before me. He was so different
from what I thought a hero ought to be!
There was so little animation, no grace,
no enthusiasm. All was stiffness and
awkwardness. He sat perfectly erect,
his back touching the track of tbe chair
nowhere; the large hands were spread
out, one on each knee, while the large
feet, sticking out at an exact right angle to
the leg, (the angle seeming to have been
determined with mathematical precision),
occupied an unwarranted space. The
figure reoalled to my boyish mind what
1 had once seen—a rude Egyptian carved
figure intended to represent one of the
Pharaohs. But when the conversation
commenced I lost sight of the
awkward looking figure. I even
lost the reverential awe which had
so deeply impressed me at first. I
only saw the mild eyes emitting gentle
beams, and only heard a soft, melodious
voice—speaking, it is true, in short, crisp
sentences—but withal as mild and win
ning as a woman’s. I then understood
how it was that Major Jackson could be
a hero. Underlying that rough, uncome
ly exterior was a vein of the most ex
quisite sentiment. In the soul of the
man was that magnetism which attracted
and that power which controlled and
made him the master of his fellow men.
In after days, when I saw the uplifting
of his dusty cap excite the wildest enthu
siasm among his veteran legions, I knew
whence tbe power emanated.
Glucose.—A manufactory for glucose
is about being established at Cleveland.
Ohio, ou a liberal scale. A bushel of
corn costing at Cleveland say 40 cents
will produce thirty pounds of grape
sugar, or three gallons of syrup. The
value of this sugar is 3^ to 4 cents per
pound; tbe syrup 33a40 cents per gallon.
Tbe difficulty at present is in finding ex
perts In the art of manufacturing glu
cose. The Cleveland people talk of
sending to Germany for a suitable person
to superintend their works. This article
is largely used by confectioners through
out the country. At present the princi
pal manufactory is at Buffalo.
Kron 2?ittrrs.
HEALTH • STRENGTH?
i -HAPPINESS*.
BITTERS
IRON BITTERS,
A Great Tonic.
IRON BITTERS,
A Sure Appetizer.
IRON BITTERS,
A Co*plet# Str»ngthen«T.
IRON BITTERS,
A Valuable Medicine.
IRON BITTERS,
Not Sold u a Bcvrrare.
IROfl BITTERS,
For Delicate Female*.
Highly recommended
to the public for all dis
eases requirl ng a certai n
and efficient lO.VIf;
especially In lntiigea-
tion. DyHpvptti a,
Intermittent Fe
vers. Haul of Ap
petite, l.o* m of
Strength, l.ack of
Energy, etc. It en
riches the blood,
strengthens the mus
cles, and gives new life
to tne nerves. To the
aged, ladies, and chil
dren requiring recuper
ation, this valuaole
remedy can not lie toe
highly recoin mended.
It nctn like n chnru.
on the digestive organs
A teaspoonful be for
meals will remove aL
dyspeptic symptoms.
TRY IT.
Sold by all Druggists,
THE BROWN CHEMICAL CO.
BALTIMORE, Md.
For sale at wholesale and retail by SOLO
MONS Si CO.. Savannah, Ga'
dec4-Th SJfcTu&wly
Jiostfttrr’s fitters.
*itter s
Fever and Ague.
The true antidote to the effects of miasma
is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. This medicine
is one of the most popular remedies of an age
of successful proprietary specifics, and is in
immense demand wherever on this Continent
fever and ague exists A wineglassful three
times a day is the best possible preparative for
encountering a malarious atmosphere, regu
lating the liver, and invigorating the stomach.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers gener
ally. apl-Tu.Th.SAwlm
©wrrifs and Frorisloai
5,000 Bus, Whits & Mixed Corn
X AAA BUSHELS OATS.
O,UUU 40,COO pounds BRAN.
^yOO bales Philadelphia, Eastern and Northern
200 bushels COW PEAS, all varieties.
40 cases FLORIDA ORANGES.
S5 barrels APPLES.
150 barrels POTATOES.
MEAL, GRITS aud RICE FLOUR.
RICE and PEANUTS.
T. P. BOND,
(Successor to T. P. BOND & CO.),
ap5-tf 157 BAY STREET.
FLORIDA GUAVA MARMALADE.
FLORIDA GUAVA JELLY. •
ORANGE PRESERVES.
HUCKINS’ SANDWICH MEATS.
HUCKINS’ SOUPS. •
—AT—
A. M. & C. W. WEST’S,
COR. WHITAKER AND LIBERTY STS.
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Fresh Country Butter, Very Fine,
B est table butter 35c.
Good TABLE BtJTTKRflOe.
Good COOKING BUTTER 20c.
Smolced HALIBUT, Smoked SALMON.
Baked BEANS.
CODFISH BALLS, put up in cans.
Also full assortment of [resh BISCUITS just
in and for sale by
H. W. TILTON & CO.,
Sign of the Big Ham,
mh'25-tf 30 WHITAKER STREET.
R. L. 3IERCER,
Reservoir Mills,
CONGRESS AND JEFFERSON STS.
GRITS AND MEAL,
Choice and Fresh always.
Grain, Hay,Flour,Bacon,
Constantly arriving and for sale at very low
est ruling figures. Good quality, correct
weights, dispatch guaranteed. mh24-tf
HUCKINS’ sours.
TOMATOES.
PEA.
VERMICELLI.
MOCK TURTLE.
OKRA.
GREEN TURTLE.
TERRAPIN.
Q.mpo am nulukmtoJ fnv thair |)nPttV
and flavor. For sale by
a. c. Harmon & co.,
81 WHITAKER STREET.
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IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC
DELICACIES.
C PJ OTHA Truffel Leber Wurst,Cerrelat Wurst,
T Amr&ms Kosher Wurst. Hamburger Eels,
Dutch Herrings, Brabant Sardelles, Trout
Norway Anchovies, Russian Caviar, Swiss
Cheese, Munster, Neufchatelle and Roquefort
Cheese, Limburger Cheese, and a full line of
GROCERIES just received by
NICHOLAS LANG & BRO.
(Candles.
CANDLES.
Pure Wax Candles.
Pure Sperm Candles.
For sale by
JAS. McGRATH & CO.
mhiltf
Segal Entires.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS.
S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham Cocmtt.—
Notice is hereby given to all persons hav
ing demands against WILLIAM ROSE,
late of said county, deceased, to present
them to me, properly made out, within the
time prescribed by law, so as to show their
character and amount: and all persons Indebt
ed to said deceased are hereby required to make
payment to me.
March 1, 1880. MARY ROPE,
Administratrix of the estate of William Rose,
deceased. mh2Tu«Jt
Another Land Slide
Tlie Bottom Clean Gone
to
CASKS 4 4 PRINTED PERCALES at 12)&.,
worth 30c.
20 pieces SILK and WOOL BLACK HERNA-
NI, 00 inches wide, at $1 25, worth $2 50.
10 pieces SILK anti WOOL IIERNANT, two
yards wide, $1 50, worth $3, suitable for shawls
or dresses.
100 pieces ALL-WOOL BUNTING, at prices
that no other house can afforir to sell at, we
having purchased in December for future de
livery.
BLACK CAMEL HAIR GRENADINE—goods
that never wear out or turn rusty—suitable for
mourning. The largest stock and lowest
figures this side of Mason & Dixon's line.
100 pieces NEW DRESS GOODS.
200 pieces finest quality PRINTED ORGAN
DIES.
300 pieces RUCHING, new designs.
Beautiful CREPE LISSE KUCHING, at 25c.
We again assert that the above line of goods
are exclusively confined to our house, and
challenge any house in Georgia to show the
goods at any price.
MISSES’ HOSIERY, a new line just opened.
Tho best DOLLAR SHIRT in the world—
“THE ELCHO,” unlaundried.
75 dozen. Any gentleman ran wear them.
They are reinforced l»ack and front, $1 each.
GRAY &
GEN UIIVE
Eye-Openers!
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED FROM AUC
TION,
Tremendous Bargains,
\ ND have determined to give our customers
the fuU benefit of it. We will mention a
few articles, to show what can be expected:
BIRD'S EYE LINEN, yard wide, best quality,
at 40c., worth $1.
BIRD'S-EYE LINEN, 45 inches wide, best
quality, at 50c , worth $1 25.
2 yards wide LINEN SHEETING, at 60c., real
value $1 25.
yard wide LINEN PILLOW CASING, at
25c., worth GOc.
FRONTING LINEN, yard wide, at 38c„ 44c.,
48c., worth 60c., 75c., $1.
20 lots of DRESS GOODS, consisting of
Japanese Silk Poplins,
PLAIN AND FANCY LINEN BATISTE,
and many other styles, at 10c. and 12J4c. The
real value of these goods is from Co to 50c.
We have also extraordinary bargains fa -
Black all wool TAMLSE CL(JTH, Black and
Fancy GRENADINES and various other styles
of DRESS GOODS.
Our LACE and WHITE GOODS DEPART
MENT is stocked with immense bargains. We
especially call attention to a very large lot of
Real Applique Tidies,
WHICH WE OFFER AT
UNHEARD OF PRICES.
Our HAMBURG EMBROIDERY we guaran
tee is the most varied and cheapest in the city.
Our assortment and prices of
Parasols and Sun Umbrellas
are bound to please the humble and fastidious.
Black and Colored Silks!
We warrant to satisfy every judge of these
goods. We desire to close out this stock and
offer special inducements. We have reduced
our 50c. LINING SILK to 30c.; our 75c. SILK
down to 60c.: our $1 GROS GRAIN PURE
SILK to 75c , and all other goods we have re
duced in the same proportion. Be sure to look
at these goods before purchasing elsewhere.
We have determined to give our customers
GREATER BARGAINS than they have ever
received, no matter when and where.
A Tremendous Rush
For these bargains we anticipate, and as we
cannot duplicate any of these goods for any
such money as we offer to sell them at, we ask
to call early and secure these bargains, TO
AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT.
DAYID WEISBEIN,
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153 BROUGHTON STREET,
gfu-einj, &c.
A. L. DESBOUILLONS,
JEWELER AND DEALER IN
Walthom and Elgin WafnhRS,
DIAMONDS,
STERLING SILVERWARE,
QUADRUPLED PLATED WARE,
CLOCKS, GOLD PENS and PENCILS,
GOLD-HEADED CANES,
OPERA GLASSES.
Bargains in FRENCH CLOCKS,
FLORIDA JEWELRY, ORANGE CANES.
21 BULL STREET,
jan31-tf Opposite Screven Honse.
Do Tou Want Specks f
T HE largest and best assortment of SPEC
TACLES In the city. Single glasses to see
near and far My goods suit all eyes and all
pockets.
P. LINDENSTRUTH,
ect&-tf Jefferson street.
(furpcntiKf aools.
TIMTUE TOOLS, ETC.
VITATSON9& BRADLEY S PULLER3 and
W HACKERS, DIPPERS, FROES, HOOP
IRON, Brass and Iron WIRE CLOTH. TRUSS
HOOPS, iron bound, TRUSS HOOPS, plain,
RIVETS, BUNGS, HACKER STONES, and a
fuU line of small Tools.
For sale at Hardware House of
CRAWFORD & LOVELL.
mh23 If
Rudimentary Instruction
I N the English, French, Italian, Spanish,
Latin, Ancient and Modern Greek, and He
brew Languages, in private or in danaes. Will
assist and prepare scholars in all the English
branches requisite to enter college. Terms on
application. Address
HUGO B. PLATEN,
feb5-tf Savannah T