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FRIDAY, MARCH 4. 1881
TAPPING THE WIKKS.
In the Senate yesterday the supplemental
funding bill, received from the House, was
read and referred. The Senate insisted on
, It, amendments to the sundry civil bill. The
deficiency bill was read and passed, Mr.
Hoar’s amendment, embodying the features
of the House funding bill without the filth
section, being withdrawn. The apportion
ment bill was received from the House and
referred, and a recess was taken till even
ing.
At the evening session the reports of sev
eral conference committees were concurred
In and the Japanese fund bill was proceeded
with. An amendment was offered to the
sundry civil bill and concurred in by the
House, authorising the purchase of bonds,
but not for the sinking fund, with the sur
plus in the Treasury.
The apportionment bill was to be re
ported to the Senate without recommenda
tion one way or the other last night. A
single objection would kill it.
In the House, the message of the Presi
dent was received vetoing the funding bill.
On motion of Mr.Tucker it was laid on the ta
ble for future consideration, despite an effort
of Mr. Robeson to have it considered at once.
The apportionment bill was taken up, and
after considerable debate and several votes
by various bases of representation the
House agreed on 319 and the bill passed.
The Yorktown monument commission bill
was passed, as also a bill for the payment
of war claims allowed by the commissioners
of claims. The House refused concurrence
in the Senate amendments to the sundry
civil bill. A recess was taken till evening.
At the evening session the House passed
a number of bills and agreed to the various
conference reports, the most important of
which was that on the sundry civil bill.
Washington is gay with music, flags and
bunting and crowded with visitors. General
Hancock arrived on the limited express and
was escorted to Wormley’s by the Wash
ington Light Infantry and admiring throngs.
A heavy snow began in the city and con
tinued last evening. It is feared it will in
terfere seriously with the procession.
President Hayes, in vetoing the funding
bQI, contends that while funding ehonld be
passed, tbe Wood bill failed to meet the
object It has in view. He maintains that
tbe fifth section of the bill, known as the
Carlisle amendment, is calcnlated to strike
at the national banking system and thus
damage the business and prosperity of the
country. He eulogizes the system of na
tional banks and says that if the bill be
comes a law the banking business would be
come a monopoly In the hands of existing
banks.
The Basutos profess to be willing to sub
mit to the Queen or her representative.
They want peace, but wish to know on
what terms it may be obtained.
The London Times states that Don Fran
cisco Calderon has been selected as Pro
visional President of Peru, and that terms
of peace will ehortly be arranged.
The Boers have sent a message of condo
lence to Lady Colley.
Two engineers, two firemen and a physi
cian were killed in a collision of a freight
and material train on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Road yesterday.
Mr. Gladstone appeared in the House of
Commons yesterday, and was loudly
cheered.
Dispatches from the Northwest say that
the entire region is visited with the severest
snow storm of the season. Trains are
abandoned, and it is thought that a week
will be required to open routes of travel.
The Dublin correspondent of tbe London
Times states that some days must elapse ere
the coercion bill can be enforced. A copy
of it must first be officially transmitted to
the Viceroy and districts must be proclaim
ed ere arrests can be made.
The New York stock market was marked
by considerable fluctuation yesterday. The
veto affected it to some extent, but it closed
nearly fully recovered. Transactions
aggregated 645,000 shares.
In the House of Commons Mr. Parnell
moved that the Boers have by their gallant
stand deserved the restoration of their free
dom.
In the House of Lords a lively debate
arose on the question of the retention of
Candahar. Lord Lytton urged its neces
sity to prevent the march of Russia in Asia.
Other peers, including Lord Chelmsford, of
Zulu repute, argued in favor of its evacua
tion.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says a
basketful of old papers was found there by
a woman which throws much light upon
the gigantic land swindles made known two
years ago.
Tbe injunctions to restrain telegraphic
consolidation were refused in New York
yesterday.
Secretary Sherman resigned yesterday.
Hayes’ Last Veto.
We are not surprised that Mr. ll&yes
has signalized the last hours of his
fraudulently obtained power by vetoing
the funding bill. Aside from aq£ real
objections he may have to a measure so
clearly in the interest of the people, the
opportunity to cast a Parthian shaft
at tbe Democratic party, and to
attract to himßelf public notice just
when the country was permitting him
to drop quietly into the obscurity from
which no future fraud will ever resur
rect him, was not to be neglected.
Our dispatches, which closed at two
o’clock this morning, leave the impor
tant measures under consideration by
- Congress in a very uncertain condition.
Both houses, it is presumed, con
tinued their sessions during the
night, and it is possible that some
definite action may have been
reached in reference to the funding and
apportionment bills before the Forty
sixth Congress adjourned tine die.
That this country still continues to be
the chief and almost the only goal of
German emigration is shown by the offi
cial statistics of departures for 1880 from
the ports of Hamburg, Bremen, Stettin
and Antwerp. Of 106,191 emigrants who
shipped at those ports, 103,116 were des
tined for the United States, 2,119 for
Brazil, and 761 for other American
States, while Australia was the aim of
only 132, Asia 36, and Africa 27. The
many efforts that have been made to
draw German colonists to Brazil seem to
have met with little success. The few
that have tried it there have not fared
welL An unhealthy climate, a shiftless
and prejudiced population, storms and
fevers, and the absence of railroads have
been serious obstacles. Nearly every
experiment has ended disastrously.
Creameries Bince 1879 twenty six
creameries for the manufacture of butter
and cheese have been established in
Bucks county, Pa. Three creameries
have each a capacity of ten thousand
pounds of milk per day, and although
they have gone so recently into opera
lion they are making butter and cheese
at the rate of six hundred and fifty tons
of butter and two thousand tons of
cheese per annum. They are said to
have proved very successful, and that
<he chv* I ** product is almost a pure gain,
as It is made of the skimmed milk from
-which tbe cream has been taken for but
ter. The cost of a creamery of a daily
capacity of 10,000 pounds of milk is
$8,900, and the running expenses ten dol
jareaday.
Neglect of County Offleers to Perfect
Their Bonds.
The Comptroller General of Georgia
addressed a communication to Governor
Colquitt on the 23d of February, notify
ing him that the Tax Collectors and Tax
Receivers of seventy-four counties, more
than half the counties in the State, have
failed to comply with the law which re
quires such offleers to file their bonds in
the office of the Comptroller within forty
days after their election. This remissness
on the part of the officers elected seems
to have grown out of a misunderstanding
of the law on the subject, notwithstand
ing that as soon as it was ascertained
who was elected in January last a didimus
and certificate was sent from the Execu
tive office to every county, and a blank
bond to each Receiver and Collector,with
printed instructions about the execution
of the bonds.
This failure to comply with the law has
raised a very serious question as to what is
necessary or can be done in the premises.
Is it necessary to order anew election in
the counties where the offleers have fail
ed to comply with the law? or will a
bond made after the expiration of the
forty days be a good statutory
bond? What still further aggravates
the case is the fact that in the event of a
new election those persons who have
failed to comply with the law will be
ineligible to the offices to which they
were previously elected. The Cvnstitu
twn says:
“The Governor seems to dislike the
idea of ordering another election, and
will not do so unless he can find no
other course to pursue. The law re
quires the Tax Receivers to begin their
work immediately after the first dav of
April. If an election is to be held it
will defer this work. The Comptroller
General says it will take all the time re
quired by the law to prepare the tax
digest, and he thinks it is better not to
have any election if it can be avoided
in any way. The opinion is also ex
pressed among the offleers that when
the matter has been fully looked
into it will be found that the offi
cers have made their bonds and that the
Ordinaries have failed to forward them
to be filed ia the Comptroller General’s
office. The Governor has referred the
legal questions involved to the Attorney
General of the State, and he is now con
sidering them. In the meantime
the Governor is taking steps to fiad
out the true status in each county where
the Collectors and Receivers have failed
to comply with the law. The question
will be determined as soon as the Attor
ney General delivers his opinion.’’ .
The counties that have failed to com
ply with the law are: Appling, Baker,
Baldwin, Berrien, Bibb, Bryan, Butts,
Calhoun, Camden, Charlton, Cherokee,
Clay, Coffee, Columbia, Coweta, Craw
ford, Dade, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty,
Douglass, Echols, Effingham, Emanuel,
Fannin, Forsyth, Floyd, Fulton, Glas
cock, Glynn, Greene, Gwinnett, Haber
sham, Hall, Harris, Heard, Hen
ry, Jackson, Johnson, Lumpkin,
Madison, Marion, Mclntosh, Meriweth
er, Miller, Milton, Mitchell, Morgan,
Newton, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Pickens,
Pike, Polk, Putnam, Rabun, Richmond,
Schley, Screven, Spaulding, Stewart,
Sumter, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor,
Towns, Upson, Walker, Walton, War
ren, Wayne, Webster, Wilcox, Wilkes
and Worth.
Making a due allowance for a proba
ble lock of common sense on the part of
that doughty son of Mars, Crittenden, of
the Washington committee, who refused
to allow any ex-rebel to participate in
the inauguration procession, it was still
a wonder that he should select such an
occasion to make an ass of himself. But
the matter is explained by die Nashvill*-
Ameriean, who reminds us that this
Crittenden is the self-same individual
who, with a full brigade of infantry and
a battery of artillery, allowed Forrest,
with a small force of cavalry, to capture
him in his shirt-tail at Murjreesboro,
and whose surrender was disgraceful.
It is no wonder that such heroes as he
should hold “ex-rebels” in utter abhor
rence.
Conkling’s Vice President Arthur and
his friends, in lionizing Dorsey as the
bead of the committee (displacing Jewell)
who carried Indiana in October, has
caused a quiet smile on the face of know
ing Republicans everywhere; and some
Republican newspaper paragraphs have
broadly hinted that the less that is said
in public about tbe means used in that
election, the better. Tbe Boston Oatetie
says of Dorsey himself: “Mr. Dorsey,
who has had a dinner in New York, was
one of the most disreputable of all the
carpet-baggers of the South. The move
ment to give him distinction means a
further opportunity to prey upon the
public Treasury. ”
None of the national banks which are
retiring circulation do so to the full
amount of their outstanding notes. This
is very remarkable. If their claim of
inability to do profitable banking on a
three per cent security basis is true, why
does each one retain a part of its circu
lation—generally the greater part? The
truth undoubtedly is that they are with
drawing their four per cents in order to
realize the large premium, and that each
bank’s retirement of circulation is meas
ured by the amount of four per cents it
has on deposit in the Treasury.
Vice President elect Arthur is a
widower. His first wife died abroad,
and it was while returning with her
body to this country that he met the lady
whom he made his second wife. She
died two or three years ago. Mr. Arthur
is to be married to his third choice—a
society lady—in a few weeks, and, it is
said, will maintain a handsome estab
lishment at the capital. He does not
propose to hide his light under a bushel
as most of his predecessors have done.
Suppressing Gambling.— The Mis
souri House of Delegates has passed, by
a vote of 95 to 3. a bill to make the keep
ing of a gaming bouse or table a felony
punishable with imprisonment in the
penitentiary two or five years. The Bt.
Louis Republican says the people of Mis
souri are growing impatient and intol
erant of crime, and seem to have made
-up their minds to treat certain classes of
criminals with their sternest displeasure.
Now that the Legislature of Arkansas
proposes to fix by law the pronunciation
of the name of their State as Arkansaw,
the Washington Star thinks it will be
quite in order for the law makers of
Kansas to require their State to be called
K ansa if. Applesats would also be a good
substitute for applesass in the dialect of
the Southwest
Evictions, many of them of the most
distressing character, are taking place all
over Ireland. Made bold by the new
laws, which place great powers in the
hands of the authorities, the landlords
are not only evicting their tenants, but
are making extraordinary efforts to sup
ply their places with Protestant#.
A Grand Showing fob the South.—
Of tbe twenty eight new Iron furnaces
completed in tbe United States last year,
six were located in Virginia, and five In
other Southern States. Four new fur
naces are now in course of construction
in tbe South, and three more are pro
jected.
Vegetable Fibre Utilised.
A company recently organized in Dus
aeldorf, Germany, claims to possess a
new invention, which, upon its adop
tion, will create an immediate and
thorough change in the woolen manu
facturing industries of the world. This
discovery, or invention, for it partakes
of both, is a chemical process by which
the structure of vegetable fibre is said to
be entirely changed and made so identi
cal with the fibres of wool, that it can be
homogeneously dyed, spun, woven, or
in fact passed through every stage of
woolen manufacture together with wool,
by means of the same manipulations and
the same machinery used in manufactur
ing fabrics made exclusively from wool.
It is well known to all woolen manu
facturers that the great difficulty of
simultaneously carding wool and cotton
or any other form of vegetable or artifi
cial wool lies in the fact that the two
fibres are different in their natural struc
ture—the wool or animal fibre being
crisp and curly, while the vegetable
fibre is comparatively straight. Previous
efforts have faded to harmonize these
differences, but the inventor, Anton
Eduard Neumann, a native of Hungary,
claims to have discovered a chemical
process by which he has absolutely
removed from vegetable fibre what
ever differences existed to prevent its
thorough milling with the fibre or wool.
And the special achievement is that by
the agency of chemicals he has succeeded
in curling this vegetable fibre to that ex
tent that it retains the crisp of its altered
structure through all the manipulations
of manufacture, and by one and the
same process can be dyed with wool and
develop a perfect harmony of color and
texture. Samples of the cloth consisting
of thirty, forty, or even as high as fifty
and sixty per cent, of the fibre mixed
with animal wool, are so soft and fine
and strong, and so perfectly blended in
color and tissue, that an expert in pull
ing out the threads finds it difficult to de
tect the presence of any foreign sub
stance.
It has long been known that the ramich
plant, a species of the common nettle,
which grows in immense quantities
throughout British and Dutch India and
the French Algerian colonies, possesses
qualities which, if thoroughly developed
and utilized, would be a great source of
wealth. Appreciating this fact the Eng
lish Government not long since offered
a premium of £5,000 for some process
which should extract the fibrous portion
of the plant and prepare it for manufac
ture. No one has ever claimed the
prize, but the problem has been solved
by the Dusseldorf Company, which by
this invention has not only removed the
woody and resinous substance of the
plant, but has produced a long, silky,
beautiful fibre, which can be utilized as
a substitute for fiax and silk.
Oroomiah and the American mission
aries have been wonderfully spared
amid the terrors of the Koordish war.
The latest news is a letter in the New
York Evangelist from Missionary Shedd,
dated Oroomiah, Persia. December 16.
Dr. Shedd states that the college and
Seir were for nearly a month within the
Koordish lines, and thinks that if the
siege had continued much longer they
must all have gone down in the general
ruin. A Persian army of 5,000 under
Titnour Khan, relieved the beleaguered
place, though the Koords continued
their camp for several days in the vicini
ty. Dr. Shedd says : “ The region
around for four days’ travel has been
made a desert. Several hundred villages
have been burned and thousands of the
people killed. But the war is over for
this season, and the Commanderln-
Chief of the Persians will distribute his
army along the Turkish frontier and be
ready to cross swords with the Turks if
they don’t give satisfaction for the in
juries done by the Koords.”
John Bull and the Boers. —That
the British will continue the pounding
policy toward the Boers, notwithstand
ing the signal reverse they sustained on
Hunday, is manifest enough; but their
ultimate success is by no means certain.
The Boers have courage, intelligence and
that staying power which is one of the
best of soldierly qualities. They are
strong, too, in a firm conviction of the
justice of their quarrel. It is true that
the number of their fighting men is
small compared with the force which
Great Britain can bring into the field
against them; but they are in their own
country—a countiy, too, where one de
fender is equal to at least half a dozen
invaders—and their sturdy Dutch phlegm
will only he inspired with a more uncon
querable valor as the odds they confront
appear more desperate. It is not at all
impossible that these brave- farmers may
successfully defy the whole power of
the British empire, and achieve the in
dependence they so gallantly set out to
win.
A Singular Case of Emaciation.—
John Mohr, a thirteen-year-old boy, was
admitted to the Jersey City Hospital six
weeks ago.. He was covered with cuts
and bruises. He said that the wounds
had been inflicted by his father, a
butcher on Jersey City Heights, He
soon afterwards became unconscious,
but recovered consciousness, to all aj>
pearances, a few days later. He has
since been unable either to hear or to
speak, and for nourishment has taken
only milk. He has meanwhile
become singularly emaciated, and
now weighs not over twenty
five pounds. Dr. King, the
attending physician at the hospital, says
it is one of the most remarkable cases
ever brought to his notice, and the suf
fering lad has been a study for New
York physicians, who have visited the
hospital to look at him.
It is rather hard on President Gar
field that he should be expected to pay
Mr. Hayes’ old scores for villian-service.
But it seems that among the horde of
cormorants who are besieging him in
Washington, are some who think their
rascality in stealing the Presidency for
Hayes entitles them to the favor of his
successor. A Washington dispatch
says: “J. Madison Wells is here and
proclaiming that he wants an office un
der the Garfield administration. He
says that he made Hayes President, and
if Hayes had not been President, Gar
field could not have been elected.”
Transfer of the Charter of the
Georgia Western Railroad. —“H. W.
G. ” telegraphs to the Atlanta Constitution,
under date of New York, March 1, as fol
lows: “After the many delays inci
dent to a trade with a corporation, the
Louisville and Nashville board to-day
officially ordered President Baldwin to
sign the contract made in December
turning over the Georgia Western char
ter to General Gordon. Mr. Baldwin
officially notified Messrs. English and
Murphy of this action, and they leave
for hoip.e to night in fine spirits over the
outlook. General Gordon says that he
will put out a company of surveyors at
once beyond Prybarsville, and while
this survey is being made will begin the
repairing of the foad bed for the thirty
miles now graded. I cannot see how
anything can stand in the way of the
early beginning of this long wished for
road or its prompt completion.”
An Impressive Incident of the Mardi
Gras.
An impressive ceremony took place in
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, on
Saturday last. The Charlestown Cadets,
a Boston oompany attending the Mardi
Gras Carnival, went oat to the ceme
tery on cars, and, having alighted,
marched into the grounds. Drawing np
in line in front of the monument to the
Confederate dead, the company present
ed arms, then came to a parade rest, and
the hymn “Nearer my God to Thee”
was sung by the entire company. After
the hymn a beautiful emblem, “Union,”
made of colored flowers, with a crescent
and star in the centre, was offered to
the dead, and attached to the marble
bust of Lee on the monument. Then
“Sweet Bye and Bye” was sung, after
which the company marched silently to
the cars and returned to the city.
This demonstration of true chivalric
sentimeDt on the part of the Boston sol
diers was alike honorable to themselves
and to the memory of the brave men
who gave their lives to what they felt
was a righteous cause. The Charlestown
Cadets did not belong to Crittenden’s
brigade.
By our New Orleans dispatch it will
be seen that the New York Seventy-first
Regiment yesterday paid similar hoDors
to the Confederate dead in Greenwood
Cemetery.
The Cabinet Outlook.
There is still nothing definite about
President Garfield’s Cabinet further
than it is generally conceded that Blaine
will be Secretary of State. It is now
considered certain that the Treasury
will not be given to New York,
though it is said Gen. Garfield has
not yet made up his mind as to where it
will go. Hon. Levi P. Morton is to
be Secretary of the Navy, and it is
thought that Governor Foster, of Ohio,
stands a very good chance for a position.
A special to the Baltimore Sun says:
“The selection of a Southern man for
the Cabinet gives a great deal of
trouble. To every man in that section
whom Garfield has seriously considered
there have been objections raised. He
has considered Bruce, Settle, Bax
ter, and Hunt and Morgan, of
Louisiana, and others. As yet this
matter has not been settled, although
it can be positively stated that a
Southern man will go into the Cabinet
unless the present programme is
changed. The Pennsylvania represents
tive will lie MacVeagli or Wharton Bar
ker. New York will have Morton, who
will be Secretary of the Navy. This
much is practically settled.”
It is expected that President Garfield
will name his Cabinet appointments to
the Senate on Monday.
The California Telescope.
The contract for the construction of
the mammoth telescope for the Lick
Observatory (Mount Hamilton), San
Jose, California, an institution endowed
by the late James Lick, a millionaire of
the Golden State, has been awarded to
Abram Clark & Son, Cambridgeport,
Mass. Capt. Richard S. Floyd, formerly
of this State, a son of Gen, Floyd, and an
officer in the Confederate Navy during
the late war, is Chairman of the Trustees
of the Lick estate, and has had charge of
details of the contract for the telescope.
The following extract from the San
Francisco Bulletin will in thisconnec
tion be read with interest:
“Alvan Clark & Sons, of Cambridge
port, Mass., have contracted with Rich
aid S. Floyd, Wm. Sherman, Edwin B.
Mastick, Charles M. Plum and George
Schoenwald, Trustees of the Lick estate,
for the construction, for the Mount Ham
ilton Observatory, of San Jose, of an
achromatic astronomical object glass
with thirty six inches clear aperture, to
be completed before November Ist, 1883.
The sum of $12,000 was paid at the time
of signing the contract, and the further
sum of $38,000 will be paid upon the
completion of the work. The definition
of the glass is to be not inferior to that
of the telescope constructed for the
United States Naval Observatory in
Washington.”
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce has passed resolutions requesting
Congress to pass the bill providing for
the restoration to Japan of $1,463,224,
the principal of which was forcibly
taken from that government in 1864, as
alleged indemnity for “damages” incur
red by our navy in an indefensible raid
on .Japanese forts in the straits of
Shimonoseki. The fact is, there never
was a meaner act perpetrated than this
bullying game of the United States Min
ister and a United States naval officer
against a weak power. Every cent of
the money should be returned to the
Japanese Government.
On Saturday a proposed item for
SIO,OOO for the sundry civil bill, to be
devoted to inquiring still further into the
customs of tbe cotton worm, was de
feated, as was also a proposed item of
$5,000, designed to be expended in look
ing after the bad habits of the Rocky
Mountain locust. These items were not,
however, rejected from considerations
of economy; they were ruled out on a
point of order.
The Boston Journal wishes to know
why Democrats celebrate Washington’s
birthday ? The Mobile Register gives a few
of the reasons: Because he loved the
whole country, and was not the slave of
partisanship and sectionalism; because
he was willing to retire to private life
when his terms of office were over; and,
lasily, because he was a Southern gen
tleman.
A Man Murders His Mother.— An
atrocious murder has occurred near
Weeks’ Mills, in China village, twelve
miles from Augusta, Me. A young man
named Charles Merrill killed his mother
in a barn near her house by
striking her on the head with a
hammer. He concealed the body
in a hay-mow until it was frozen,
and then cut it into pieces, a part of
which he partially burned, throwing the
charred remains in a manure heap. The
other portion he buried in the snow in
Barton’s wood. The woman being miss
ed for several days, suspicion attached to
the son. He was arrested and confessed
the facts given. Me witnessed the dis
interment of the portion of the remains
hidden in the woods, directing the offl
cers where to search. No motive is as
signed for the crime.
Mil Wood’s Solicitude for His
WiDqw.—Hon. Fernando Wood in his
will exhibits a touching solicitude for
his widow. He leaves to her interest
one quarter of his estate, and in case she
should become mentally incapable of
transacting business he requests his ex
ecutors to watch over her interests with
a vigilant eye, and concludes by eujoin
ing his children to “see that she is pro
vided with every comfort due to her po
sition and the many virtues she pos
sesses as a pure, elevated and Christian
woman and as the widow of their de
ceased father.”
Benator Vest tells this story on him
self: “Several years ago there was a
email bore editor out my way who got
smart one day and printed a beastly li
bel on me, and, to make the unpleasant
ness complete, the rascal actually sent a
copy of it into the bosom of my family.
I aid the first thing that occurred to me,
and wore both myself and a cane out on
his back. Do you know he sued me
for assault, and I came back with a li
bel. He recovered about S7OO, and had
me put under bonds to keep the
peace, °nd I’ll swear he had me adver
tised as a rascal in every issue of his pa
per for a year. That’s the relief I got,”
LETTER FROM COYLE DOUGLAS.
Chicago a Summer and Winter Be*
•ort—lts Palatial Residence*-The
Hotel*—The Exchange—'The New
Court Honee—Pair Haven n* a
Pleasure Beeort—The Southern
Colony-Garfield** Church—The
People** Church—Rev. Hr. Thom
as—Unity Chareh —The Latest
Clerical Scandal—Tn rf Matter#—
Chicago Driving Park-The Win
ter Cholera.
Chicaoo, February as.— Chicago present* tbe
peculiar attraction of being at once a great
summer and a great winter resort for strangers,
these being Southerners for the most part ia
summer, and in winter anyone who wishes a
busy, actively pleasaat time, with much to aee
and more to hear. This winter the thermome
ter has stood fixedly at its lowest figures, and
sleighing and skating carnivals have taken the
lead in the outdoor merry-makings of thin im
mensely live city. For weeks together the
snow has lain in great frozen drifts in the more
untraveled thoroughfares, while each gutter
was a sheet of ice, over which the small boy—
and the Chicago specimen is a very ob
noxious one—skims in excess of delight.
The price of skates went up during
the cold term, and pneumonia and bronchitis
were a drug in the market. But Chicago is
one of the gayest cities at all times that can be
imagined. The wealthy classes spend their
money lavishly and entertain in sumptuous
style. There is such a large element of the
nouveau riche in society here that the pomp
and circumstance of revelry and feasting are
carried to the most extravagant extremes.
Calumet avenue is the precinct sacred to the
beau monde, and is a noble thoroughfare,
lined right and left with marble-faced palaces,
and lawns that in summer time are dashed
with flower colors.
Potter Palmer last summer bought a haul
some building lot on Cass avenue, on which
he is to erect a magnificent dwelling. The
McCormick mansion has the reputation
of being the most elegant in the city, but Mr.
Wilbur F. Story, of the Timet , has one in slow
process of erection that bids fair, from the plan
and beginning, to rival all the costly homes in
the Garden City. It is to be of white marble,
but the only part completed is the beautiful
marble lodge in one corner of tbe yard and the
elevation of severe 1 blocks forming tbe lower
story. Mr. and Mrs. Story are a very distin
fuished looking couple, he with his snow white
air and beard and his wife elegant and state
ly. They are acknowledged leaders in the so
cial world.
The Puiim&n residence, tbe home of the
Great Mogul of the Palace Car Company, is
another splendid brown stone monument of
taste and luxury, whose surrounding grounds
sweep back in the rear to the railroad.
It Is almost a treat to walk through the two
great hotels of Chicago, the brag hotels, the
Palmer House and Grand Pacific. These are
the most fashionable, elegant and the newest,
and the ambitious traveler, footsore and weary,
will endure many privations that he may ac
cumulate the requisite number of shekels to
lodge him in a sky parlor in either of these, or
allow him to sink hi* foot in the velvet pile of
the warm crimson carpet. In the evening, when
everything glitteis under a flood of light, and
beautiful women, in shining silken apparel and
flashing jewels, trail up and down the corridors,
when the incense of flowers blooming prodi
gally on every hand, and the strains of bewitch
Ing music rise up and float together, it is like
a dream of the Feast ef Roses, and one might
expect to see Nourmahal, “with her eyes of
dark, dark splendor,” come forth from behind
one of the fluted columns and glide among the
promenaders.
A novel experience is a visit to the Chicago
Exchange. You clamber up to what seems to
be the twelfth story, but is really only the
third, enter a door, and are at once in the gal
lery, a narrow railed platform running across
one end of the hall, and from which one looks
down and beholds the inner workings of the
vast machine called the grain market. The
great, wide room, with its “many windows all
a-row,” is filled with an indescribable, restless
throng, going and coming with a continual
rush of hurrying feet. The row of telegraph
offices in the corners of the room opposite the
gallery are constantly ticking off messages to
the great marts of commerce, showing the
brilliant strokes in finance or the crushing
calamities that happen hourly in this great
gambling place. There are the swinging
blackboards on each side the room, with the
prices of grain noted upon them in other
markets. There are the mysterious Utile
tables ranged around the hall, where eager
men dabble in the innocent looking samples
spread over them, and play with Fortune at
haphazard; and there are the pools—o r 'e in
the centre and one at the end. It is a strange
looking place for men to pass so many of
their days in, and seem so wedded to it. But
they don’t appear particu’arlv miserable—
there was no despair pictured in their faces,
and none seemed inclined to rush forth and
commit suicide.
Opposite the Exchange is the new court
house, now just about finished. It is a joint
affair between tbe city and county, the two
portions being joined together by a cumbrous
stone arch. The county seems to have fulfilled
her part of the contract with a more generous
hand, as that portion of the building is much
more splendid than the city’s part.
In the summer season Chicago does not, as a
rule, send her population rushing off to spend
their money in distant pleasure resorts. With
such a beautiful lake washing her feet, and
such delicious winds blowing over it, there is
no sort of reason or excuse for people to say
they are stifling, and must run away for a
breath of fresh air. Summer tourists from
distant places come here for enjoyment and
health, and it is one of the few large cities that
can make this boast.
Across the lake, jnst on the Michigan edge,
is Grand Haven, fast becoming a pleasure re
sort for Chicagoans, who cannot resist the
temptation to go somewhere on excuisions.
It is a great market for fruits and vegetables,
supplying Chicago profusely with these neces
saries. It has anew and commodious
hotel now, and further improvements
are to be made this sprirg. A
regular line of steamers ply between
here and the city, in the warm season, for the
benefit of excursionists, and they receive lib
eral patronage. There are numerous pictu
resque villages round about Chicago, where
many city people board quietly during the
heated term, pouring back into the city for
every parade or public festival that happens.
There are so many Southerners resident per
manently in Chicago that they have come to
be generally known as the “Southern Colony.”
They are and have been for years identified
with her most important business interests
and have grown up with the growing city.
Many are Kentuckians, these and Virginians
probably making first in point of numbers;
there are also many old Georgians installed
here and large numbers from other sections of
the South. The Waller family, very numerous,
wealthy and influential, are from Kentucky;
so are the Honores, Garnetts, Breckinridge*
and hosts of others.
Almost all the prominent citizens of Chicago
may be traced back to a Southern origin, near
or remote. So much for Souther* thrift and
energy and talent iD the great Northwest.
The First Christian Church, of this city,
probably to be better known hereafter as “Gar
field’s enureb,” has called to its pastorate the
Rev. Dr. O. A. Burgess, President of Butler
University, Irvington, Indiana, and the Doctor
has accepted the call. Dr. Burgess is one who
believes doubtless in the union of Church and
State, or that the fact of being a minister of
the gospel need not interfere with the little pri
vate transactions of the politician when a man
wants to claim a place in both professions at
once. Dr. Burgess led as a dark horse in the
race for the Sen&torship in Indiana, and has
the reputation of being a professional wit.
This church has been under the charge of Rev.
George Sweeney, formerly of Louisville, Ky„
and has flourished amazingly under his minis
try. There are four Christian churches here
now and all prosperous, where, tan or twelve
years ago, there was but one, supported almost
entirely financially by the H. nore family.
Of course no one thinks of visiting Chicago
without going at least once to the People’s
Church to hear Rev. Dr. Thomas, and having
Sme once the desire is irresistible to go again.
e preaches in Harley’s Theatre for the pres
ent, as Rev. David Swing does in Music Hall,
the church property being retained hy the
ecclesiastical body from which he departed.
One of Dr. Thomas’ deep-reaching, comfort
ing, human sermons, that seems preached to
meet the needs of the eager souls that ask for
help in their every day pains and griefs and
disappointments, is something to be remem
bered with happy thoughts ever afterward.
The building is filled to overflowing every
Sunday, and this too in a city where the
ministers of orthodoxy complain loudly of
their array of empty pews and insufficient
support. The congregation is made up of peo
ple from every class and creed—and of those
the Doctor most labors for the worldlings, the
people without fixed religious ideas, who have
been drifting about In Vanity Fair, and per
haps given to some mild scoffing on the sub
ject of Christianity in general. Every Bunday
morning Dr. Thomas holds an informal recep
tion at tbe foot of his pulpit after services,
when all strangers go up to shake his hand
and exchange a word or two. To Southerners
he Is specially kind and genial, having a warm
interest in and real love for the Bouth. He is
doing a great work for this great city, gather
ing in by his power of attraction and the wide,
liberal truth that he teaches, the wayfarers
from the highways and byways who meet on
one common ground beneath his eye and voice.
The Rev. George Miln, of Brooklyn, has suc
ceeded Rev Robert Collyer in the charge of
Unity Church, where it is said he will have an
almost superhuman task on hand in gaining
the same place in the affections of his flock
and the community at large as that held by
bis prodcccflflor.
The most recent clerical scandal has been
the Rev. Kerr Tupper’s attempt to burn his
church—the Michigan Avenue Baptist. It has
been discovered that he 'ried his hand at the
same thing in Paducah, Xy., from which place
he was called here. HU motive is surmised to
have been to gain tbe insurance money and
build anew church for the major portion of
hU flock, leaving the disaffected minority most
clearly in the lurch.
Turfmen and persons generally who take an
interest in racing matters are enthusiastic
over the spring and summer meetings and the
bright prospects of the Chicago Driving
Park, for this is the new name
of the old Jockey and Trotting Club,
the property of which was purchased
last fall by the son of Dean Richmond, of New
York, for SBO,OOO. Not only U there a change
of management with the new name, butacom
plete hauling over in the arrangements of the
grounds. The new and magnificent family
pavilion to be located near the Club House is
to be erected at a cost of between *IO,OOO and
*15,000. Besides the rooms and offices on the
first floor, there will be fifteen private rooms
opening on a balcony, luxuriously fitted up,
and commanding a rental of *l5O annually.
Over these in tbe second story are to be eighty
nine private boxes, also sumptuous in their ar
rangements, the rent fixed at *125 for the first
row and *IOO for the remainder. These ar
rangements are under the supervision of the
Chicago Club, led by Marshall Field, of the
great dry goods house bearing his name. The
great event of the summer meeting will be the
trotting match between “Sorrel Dan,” “Maud
8.” ana “St. Julian.”
Chicagoans are talking of L Z. Loitner, tbe
retired merchant prince, as a possible candi
date for Mayor on the Democratic ticket.
Mayor Caiter Harrison is pronounced to be
officially and personally the moat popular
Mayor Chicago ever bad. Ha cerriea his old
fashioned Kentucky hospitality to an extrema,
for hla house la always crowded with guests,
his fair daughter, Mbs Lina, being a great at
traction.
All uneasiness has not vanished in regard to
the fatal putbpeak of "winter cholera,'’ or
cholerine, as the physKsan#choose ti> designate
it This fanciful ana dainty chancre in the
name of a terrifying disease is probably de
signed to lessen the pangs of the victim, but he
goes under all the same just as surely as
though he had been gripped by a plain unvar
nished cholera. There nave been quite a num
ber of deaths from this cause in the poor dis
tricts, though public attention was not attract
ed to it in this quarter. Oovus Dorans.
The Panic in the Eastern Stock
Market.
Hartford Timet.
| On Friday last the fall in stocks was
so great and rapid that the brokers could
not keep track of their margins, and
they declined to take new ones. If any
I one desired to purchase any stock, he
was required io pay for it in full, cash
down. A “margin” is a percentage,
usually 10 per cent., of cash paid down
on the amount of stocks purchased. Ten
thousand dollars buys SIOO,OOO of the
stock, the broker carrying the stock for
the buyer, so long as its price holds up.
But if the stock falls 5 per cent., the
broker demands more margin. If it
falls 10 per cent., the broker sells the
stock, and saves, if possible, his com
mission and himself from loss. But
if the stock rises 10 per cent, the
purchaser makes SIO,OOO, less broker’s
commission on his venture. If the
price advances 1 per cent, the purchaser
makes SI,OOO, or he loses SI,OOO
if it falls 1 per cent. The com
mission of i for buying or selling is
12i cents on each hundred dollars,
j When stocks fell suddenly 12 per cent,
on Friday, margins of SIO,OOO on SIOO,-
000 of stocks were at once swept away
from the purchaser. By putting up
margins the purchasers can handle ten
times the amount of stocks that they can
command by a complete purchase.
Hence the temptation to gamble on mar
gins is very great—for it is simply gam
bling. When stocks are rising “all
along the list,” the margin operators
make money rapidly. The rise of 1 per
cent, on the stock gives to the margin
investor 10 per cent, on the amount of
his margin.
It is a mill that grinds rapidly, and it
is as likely to grind one way as another.
The heavy capitalists, like the Vander
bilts, Stewarts and Astors, never put up
maigins. They inquire into the sound
neßs of the stocks —the amount of in
debtedness of the companies, their earn
ings and expenditures, and they always
have an eye to dividend paying stocks,
or to those where the companies are
paying off indebtedness, increasing their
receipts, and traveling along surely to
dividend paying positions. Of these
they purchase heavily, pay cash down,
lock up the stocks or bonds, and snap
their fingers at panics. Or, if this class
of capitalists ever speculate, they
make up a syndicate of men as rich as
Vanderbilt, Gould and Sage, and
throw upon the market large blocks of
stocks, crushing down prices, buying at
low prices of each other; then, when
prices get low enough, they purchase all
that is offered, and at once put the
prices up. In “bulling” the market,
which is to toss it up, they begin by
purchasing stock to be delivered in
three, five or ten days. In this time
they purchase all that is offered at ad
vanced prices, and the brokers are
obliged to pay heavily in the
settlements. The “lambs” are out
siders, who know nothing of
the operations or intentions of the
syndicates, but who put about all they
are worth on margins, and they are
“sheared” by theiasideor knowing ones.
A case of shearing was that of a sport
ing man in New York, on Friday, who
had $40,000 up on margins. At noon on
that day he found it was all sunk. He
put up s2s,ooo;more to save his stocks.
In three hours time that amount was also
swept off, and he was sheared close down
to the skin. A woman of means and
pluck, who had $13,000 on margins,
finding it was lost, stepped up squarely
with $87,000 more, and purchased out
right all the stocks, amounting to SIOO,-
000, on which she had been gambling.
With compressed lips and a toss of the
head she quickly retired, leaving the
bulls aDd bears to fight it out on their
own account.
A Sovereign Remedy for Small-Pox
and Scarlet Fever.
Philadelphia Record.
About two years agoffhe Record made
known through its columns a small pox
specific which had been given to the
public by a correspondent of the Stock
ton (Cal.) Herald, who declared that it
had been successfully used to his know
ledge in hundreds of cases, and would
prevent small-pox, or cure it even though
the pittings were filling. The recipe was
originally published as a panacea for
small-pox by some of the most scientific
schools of medicine in Paris. It is
claimed to be of infallible efficacy. It is
a cure also for scarlet fever, and it is
harmless when administered to well per
sons. The following is the prescription:
Sulphate of zinc, one gram; foxglove
(digitalis), one grain; half a teaspoonful
of sugar; mix with two tablespoonfuls
of water. When thoroughly mixed, add
four ounces of water. Take a spoonful
every hour. The disease will disappear
in twelve hours. For children smaller
doses should be given, according to
their age.
A subscriber of the Record called at
this office yesterday with a slip cut from
the issue of this paper which contained
the recipe above given, and stated that
the preparation had cured his child of
smalbpox In one day. The remedy ap
pears to be precisely the same as that
now being dispensed to scores of people
daily at St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum, at
the corner of Seventh and Spruce streets,
in this city, and which has been found
remarkably efficacious. Mother GoDza
ga, the venerable head of the institution,
who is busily engaged in compounding
the medicine, has been a member of the
order of Sisters of Charity for fifty
four years, and is now the Mother
Superior of the order in this city.
She states that she received the specific
from Father Eenrich, of Germantown,
some ten years ago, who first had it
from a French physician, who discovered
it during the prevalence of a small pox
epidemic in Paris, where it had been
used with great success. When the Sis
ter first began to make it she voluntarily
sent a bottle or two to families that she
knew were suffering from small pox; the
result was so surprisingly beneficial that
the report rapidly spread, and in a short
time the news was known all over the
neighborhood. Several priests in the city
not only recommended it, but an
nounced to their congregations where it
could be procured, and the additional
publicity thus given has necessitated the
constant labor of all the Sisters in the
work, of preparation. It is made in a
large copper vessel, which holds eight
gallons, and not infrequently twenty
gallons a day are distributed. Any per
son can procure it, no distinction being
made on account of religion. It is given
free where persons are unable to pay,
but those who desire can make a small
offering in return for it. It is the cus
tom of the Sisters to send out a printed
£rayer and a small scapula of the Sacred
[eart with each bottle. Many cases of
cure are recounted by people in the
vicinily, and the Sisters say that in no
case where it has been used has it failed
to give the best results.
Thread from Wood. —The manufac
ture of thread from wood for crotchet
and sewing purposes has, it is said,
recently been started at the Aby Cotton
Mill, near the Norrkoping, in the middle
of Sweden. The manufacture has arrived
at such perfection that it can produce,
at a much lower price, thread that is of
as fine quality as “Clark’s, and has from
this circumstance been called thread ‘a
la Clark.’” It is wound in balls by
machinery, either by hand or steanij
which, with the labeling, takes one
minute, twelve seconds, and the balls
are packed up in card board boxes, gen
erally ten in a box. Plenty of orders
from all parts of Sweden have come in,
but, as the worts are not yet in proper
order, there has hardly been time to
complete them all. The production
gives fair promise of suocess, and it is
expected to be very important for home
consumption. —Naahau Gazette.
The night editor of a Nova Scotia jour
nal wrote the following head line to one
of his cable dispatches: “The British
Lion Shaking His Mane." He was un
able to eat his breakfast next morning
when he found the printer’s version of
the matter staring him in the face thus:
“The British Lion Skating in Maine."
W. L Blair, Danville, Va., says: “I have
lon* suffered from Torpor of the Liver and
Dyspepsia, and have tried almost every
never derived half the benefit
have from Tntt’s Pills. I recommend
them to all who are afflicted with Dyspep
sia, Sick Headache or Biliousness. Know
ing Dr. Tutt personally, it gives me pltfMUws
to add my testimony to the merits of his
pUs.”
THE COTTON WORM.
Its Probable Appearance in Immense
Numbers ibis Year.
Cor. MUledgeviUe Union and Recorder.
As is well known to many of your readers
the National Government has expended
quite a large sum during the past two years
In investigating the habits of various insects
deetrnetlre to cotton and the enemlea to
these Insects. A commission of gentlemen
qualified for the work have been engaged In
investigations since 1378, and the result of
their labors are extremely valuable and
throw a good deal of light upon what has
been a vexed question. It has been a ques
tion until lately, whether a cotton worm
(known to entomologists as Aletia Argil
laeea) hibernated at all in the cotton States,
or came up from the tropics. It Is now defi
nitely settled that it does hibernate in the
perfect state (as moths) in the southern
portions of all the cotton States from Geor
gia to Texas, surviving the winter In pine
forests, in the cracks and crevices of cotton
gin houses, and other places. Many have
thought that they hibernated in the soil in
the pupal stage, similar to the boll and cut
worms, but this has been proven to be erro
neous.
Fortunately for us, however, only a very
small proportion of the fall hatched moths
survive the winter. If all survived the voung
cotton plant would fall a prey to the cater
pillar iu May and June, before a boll had
set, and consequently would make a clean
sweep of it. In the wise provision of Prov
idence it becomes necessary that several
broods shall be hatched before they become
Injuriously abundant, and so it happens that
it is not until fall, or late summer, after
cotton has set much of Its fruit, that the
worms appear in great numbers. It Is likely
to happen at times that the cotton worm
may do a little more good than harm. If
they should put in an appearance late in the
fall and on late planted cotton their de
struction of the foliage causes the cotton to
ripen more promptly and fully than it other
wise would. Admitting this, the cotton
caterpillar must be regarded, however, as a
great enemy, and to be annihilated It pos
sible.
It Is not definitely settled as yet how
many broods there are in season, but it is
either five or six. The first two or three
broods are not generally noticed by many
farmers, as their numbers are not great
enough to cause any noticeable damage.
Asa single moth lays from four to six hun
dred eggs, it would not require many gene
rations to create the worms in sufficient
numbers to destroy a cotton field in a very
few hours, but again, fortunately for us,
Providence has designated numerous ene
mies to beset the path of the cotton worm is
all its stages, from egg to moth. Some of
these enemies eat the eggs, some eat the
caterpillar, some are parasitic on the papa,
the dormant stage, and again other enemies
destroy the perfect insect. So the life of
the cotton “worm” 13 not free from anxie
ty. Its road through life is beset with
many dangers. How many enemies there
are to the cotton worm is not yet fully de
termined, of course, but such as are known
are too numerous to mention here. It is
enough to state that birds, spiders, wasps,
and numerous beatles (chief among which
Is the lady bug family), and files, all have a
band (or mouth rather) in keeping the
Eest in check. The lady bug family proba
ly do as much towards checking the cater
pillar as any other family of Insects. The
lady bug and its larva constantly prey
upon the egg and larva of the cotton worm.
In comprehending the nature and habits
of the cotton worm, It is necessary to un
derstand that it is a separate and distinct
insect from the boll worm, and besides this
It should never be called the “army worm.”
This latter Insect Is peculiar to the grass
family (grain) and it is very Incorrect to
speak of the cotton worm as the army worm.
The egg of the cotton worm is flattened,
circular and ribbed, of a bluish green color
when first laid, changing to a dirty white
before it hatches. It is laid on the under
side of the leaf, one In a place, and gener
ally about the middle of the plant. Every
farmer ought to be able to identify the egg.
The egg of the boll worm is altogether unlike
that of the cotton worm. Instead of being
flat, it is elongated, shaped somewhat like a
teacup and of a delicate green color—about
the same color as the leaf oh which it is laid.
It is not apt to be observed unless a
close examination is made. (1 know it will
be a surprise to many to be told that the
boll worm of cotton, the corn worm and the
worm that eats into the green tomato, are
all one and the same thing, but it is now
understood to be a fact thoroughly estab
lished. In the tomato field the boll worm is
the mo6t destructive enemy to this vegeta
ble that we have. Every one that have
grown tomatoes of late years no doubt have
observed how injurious It Is. The “tomato
worm” proper, does but little damage com
pared with the boll worm.)
The egg of the cotton worm hatches in
from two to seven days, according as the
weather is hot or cool, and the young cater
pillars after feeding a little on the leaf on
which it was hatched, makes its way to
wards the top of the stalk, where the leaves
are more succulent. The newly-hatched
caterpillar is very minute, and not readily
seen. It lives and grows for thirteen days,
and webs up on the fourteenth day. They
remain suspended in their pupa (or
dormant state) six or seven days in summer
weather; longer in the cool weather of
autumn. They then emerge as moths—
their perfect stage. It will be seen that
from the laying of the egg until the last
transformation it consumes about twenty
five days, a little more or less, as the
weather determ’nes, or one brood per
month. The moths immediately proceed to
laying their eggs.
In examining for cotton worm eggs, eggs
of other insects will be discovered on the
cotton leaf. Two are especially noticeable:
One is the egg of the lady-bug known as
hlppod&mta converglus. The eggs are yel
low and long, and are laid In patches and
not single like those of the cotton worm.
The other is the egg of the “lace wing fly.”
This once seen will always be remembered.
It is white and attached to a long delicate
foot stalk Instead of being laid directly on
the leaf. The larvaee of these two Insects
are fierce and voiaclous little creatures,
destroying eggs and caterpillars at a rapid
rate, and are of coarse great friends to the
cotton growers. As remarked before, there
are numerous other enemies, fortunately.
In fact, entomologists state that even the
caterpillar of the boll worm oftentimes
destroys the cotton worm.
One remarkable feature of the cotton
caterpillars is their varied color at different
stages. A casual observer would take them
to be different kinds of caterpillars, but
they are all one and the same thing. This
has not yet been accounted for by natural
ists, other than that nature was in one of
her festive moods at their creation. It is
extremely probable that cotton growers wil
be called upon to fight vigorously the cater
pillar this year. Entomologists have de
monstrated that since their first appearance
In 1793 that they have come in waves with
certain well defined premonitory symptoms
that operates as a guide in enabling them
to foretell the year that they are likely to
appear in destructiye numbers.
The commission predict that they will
appear in immense numbers this year—that
this is the climax year. Their last destruc
tive appearance was in 1873, and the pre
monitory symptoms of 1880 are similar to
those of 1872. It will be well to regard the
warnings given by the commission. While
It Is possible that these calculations may
not be fully met, it is ver* probable that
they will be, and it will be the part of wis
dom for our farmers to attach enough im
portance to them to be prepared to fight
them promptly this summer. It will be
well at any rate to lav by a few dollars for
the special purpose of buying the necessary
poison, If It should become necessary to
use such an objectionable remedy. If the
money should not be needed for this pur
pose, the farmer can but congratulate him
self, and can spend the money on a “chro
mo” If he chooses. The use of arsenic In
the form of Paris green or “London pur
ple,” Is undoubtedly to be reprehended and
avoided if possible in this land of poor
fences, but as these are the only remedies of
approved value, it may become necessary
to resort to them. Unfortunately the cot
ton plant is eaten by horses and cattle,
causing a difficulty that does not exist in
fighting the great foe of the Irish potato.
I would suggest, in view of the necessity
that may exist for using poison this year,
that every farmer take advantago of every
wet dsy between now and summer and get
his fencing in as good condition as possi
ble, (May the day soon come when we will
have no fencing!) In another number I
shall present the results of experiments as
to the best method of applying the pois
on. etc.
Those interested in the subject will Qnd a
very full account of the cotton worm, boll
worm and their parasites In the sgricultural
report of 1879. Numerous handsome plates
accompany the report, and by all odds it is
the most valuable document issued by the
department. S. A. C.
Milledgtvtile, February 35,1881.
One other thought by way of postscript.
On account of the lateness of the plowing
season it is possible that much of the cot,
ton will get in later than qsnal. if at all
practical, this should he guarded against
this year, and cotton planting should begin
just as soon as frost will permit, and pushed
forward so as to get it as far advanced as
possible by the first of August. Late cotton
wlll|of course experience greater Injury than
that that is more advanced, if the worms
should come early. At any rate it will In
volve no loss, whether caterpillars appear
or not.
The English guinea was so called be
cause the gold of which it was first made
was brought from Guinea by an Afri
can trading company. Originally it
was intended that the guinea should be
worth twenty shillings; but, owing to a
number of errors in calculating the pro
portion of gold and silver, it never cir
culated at that value. Sir ka&c New
ton fixed the true value of the guinea,
in relation to silver, at twenty shillings
eight pence, and by his advice the crown
proclaimed that m future it should be
current at twenty one shillings.
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SAVANNAH THEATRE.
Announcement Extraordinary t
TWO NIGHTS ONLY—FRIDAY AND SATUR
DAY, MARCH 4 AND 5.
MATINEE
On SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Man* sth, at
2:80 o'clock.
CARJEIENOS
GRAND
OPERATIC AND CONCERT CO.
T. CARRENO
A GREAT novelty! Popular Concerts and
Grand Italian Opera in a viagie pro
gramme. Part I.—Grand Concert '■'* 1.v.„
Carreno’s Combination. Part II.—V vi'* moat
popular Opera, II Trovatore. Fol ;th a. : re
sen ted with complete and elegan cos; um#.
introducing the ’Miserere,” and al the iumo s
gems of the opera, with the follow; vg brilliants
cart: Leonore. Miss Emma Roderii As. nera
(the Gypsy), Miss Emma L. Under! , i. Mour -o
i the Troubadour), Sig Stantini; Count <ll Luna,
Sig. Tagiiapletra. Admissiou Si. Gallery 50c.
and 25c. No extra charge for reserved seats.
Seats now on sale at Bren's Ticket Office.
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SAVANNAH THEATRE.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHTS AND
GRAND SPECIAL FAMILY MATINEE
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, March
7 and 8, 1881.
Return for two nights and one Matioee of the
distinguished Artiste, MISS
_A_cltx Grray
Supported by
CHAS.A WATKINS' STHAVE. CO.
MONDAY NIGHT, March 7,
CiniLLE.
TUESDAY NIGHT, March 8,
FROCJ-FROU.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON GRAND MATINEE,
especially for Ladies and Children, admis
sion, adults 50c. children 35c., of ,
EAST LYNNE.
Usual prices of admission during the night
performances. Reserved seats without extra
charge at Bren’s Ticket Office. mh4,7.BATeIB
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
TWO NIGHTS ONLY, WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY, March Bth and 10th, the
distinguished Actress.
MARY ANDERSON,
Supported by
MR. MILNEB LEVICK,
And her own Company.
WEDNESDAY -KVADNB.
THURSDAY-IN GOBI AR.
Reserved seat s $1 50. Sale will open at
Bren's Ticket Office Monday, March 7th.
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jgt* maiferttgemuHs.
ROCK CRYSTAL
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES.
EMINENT oculists recommend them as
embracing all the merits required to con
stitute them the best helps to sight in use.
Every pair uiarranfed to give desired satis
faction. I have the latest invention in use. the
GRAPHOSCOPIC OPTOMETER, for fitting
sight accurately.
A. F. FLINT,
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVER
and PLATED WARE,
mh4-F,M&Wtf 135 CONQRBBB ST
MOHAWK PURE RYE
WHISKY.
SHERRY WINE, BOTTLED L4GER BIER.
MESS MACKEREL.
CODFISH.
SMOKED SALMON.
RUSSIAN SARDINEB.
DUTCH HERRINGS.
And all kinds of Imported and Domestic
CHEESE.
For sale by
NOUS urn & BR0„
mh4-tf 18 BARNARD STREET.
WATCH.
AN you tell me name of driver or describe
him and team*
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MME. DEMOREST'S PATTERNS.
NEW and beautiful designs for ladies and
children for the Spring and Summer.
Quarterly Journal, price sc. Catalogues can
be had on application. Patterns mailed on re
ceipt of catalogue price. Also a beautiful as
sortment of Scrap Pictures.
E. M. CONNOR,
mh4-lt Bull and Broughton streets.
i
D—
'vv.A.aKisrEiFVs
Opposite Palaiß He—.
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VALENTINE BEANB at $3 75 per bushel
EARLY MOHAWK BEANS at *3 50 per
bushel, EXTRA EARLY PEAS at $5 75 per
bushel. Black Eye MARROWFAT PEAS at
$2 50 per busheL Also Corn and other Seeds
at same low prices. All guaranteed to be
Buist’s Fresh Seeds. For sale at
L. C. STRONG’S Drug Store,
feb24-tf Cor. Bull and Perry street lane.
Rattlesnake Watermelon Seed
—AND—
GOLDEN DENT CORN
—AT—
Osceola Butler’s Drug Emporium.
feb!9 tf
Fresh Flower and Garden Seeds
Tropic-fruit laxative, sanford’s
LIVER IN VIOLATOR, HOSTETTER’S
DRAKE’S and HOP BITTERB, in store ana for
sale by
G. M. HEIDT & CO., Druggists.
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Boarding and limj) Stables.
THOMAS F. GLEASON,
Liverj and Boarding Stable.
OPEN and CLOBE CARRIAGES, HORBKB
and BUGGIES to hire. Orders for Wed
mngs. Balls, Parties, Theatre, Railroads,
Steamers and Funerals promptly attended to.
97 and 99 York street, between Drayton and
Abercorn.
Orders filled at all hours. nov2B-F.M&Wtf
piiltg.
forTsale,
K A HEAD first-class MULES, salta
w" ble for Planters and Timber
men. Haviag purchased the above
gtock from first hands, we are pro- Mate
pared to sell on reasonable terms. Apply to
MORAN & REILLY,
Janfi-tf New street.
JNO. J. NEVITT,
ARCHITECT,
/"OFFICE, No. S3 Commercial Building, Ba
vannah, Ga. Furnishes plans and specifi
cations for Churches, Stores and Dwellings
Old buildings altered and remodeled. Designs
for fresco work prepared. Paintings in oil and
water color from nature. jan2B-F,M&W2m
fttffliriiul. "
DUTBNHOFF’S
Pectoral Balsam of Wild Cherry
Found to be the beat for all affections of the
Throat and Lungs. Manufactured by
G.M.HEIDT & C 6., Druggists,
Mantel
\\ ANTED, by a white
agaraaga3“s-.Aaaaft
KSk'gL'sar fssg-jSs
%UTANTED -We desire to
V V eral agency in Bavaim2h l>llrt> *
control the sales of a stacle
saatthg.’aSsSSMi
W ANTEI> ’ Wharr
dredfeet of wharf at Savannah. Appt?
once to
f
! mbirtf £>. q
I TAINTED. 500 tor.? >ta
I- Direct to 3ASJBBII 1
Rrcughqavta-eaii,.
I WAf®,
si young rnarntu man (■>*
business, with unexceptionab'e *** ia
dress, care News office, WORKER* *4-
WANTED. —CHATHAM
TION STOCK wanted. Addlv^ ol *
REPPARD, No. 70 Bay street PP ?10 • B.
—.— ftlh2-3f
\\T ANTED, consumers of ■
VV I have placed in my offlee
promptly filled, R. B. Ca SSE LS. j
WANTED, *
to know that the finest View(f^^ ww ‘
in the Bouth are for sale at 2t Hull
posite the Screven House, “Headon** ’ 0 P-
Views of Southern Scenery.” quarter * for
iiLwnao,,
YJLT ANTED, Pianos and Organa~to~Z!
W repair. Rates reasonable BeaStS** l
instruments. T. B. TURNER, 134 suSr'?* B4 '
between Bull and Whitaker sts. deesqf’
rrEIKS WANTED TEXAS LANDS T?
C'OR BALE, Sycamore and Elm
P ARNETT & SON. at D. C. Baco? b , y W
ber Wharf, foot of Farm street, and ,ft
u- e Sfd toanyp * rt of the Citvacd P‘S
- mh4
Tj'Oß SALE, Gents' Suits only jn nTiT'
-U once and select from Jacob'
SONB’ samples, before sold out and
from sale. A perfect fit guaranteed ““ “
„ DAYB BROS. & Cos
Bull and York street.
FOR SALE. 20 lots adjoining the
Cotton Factory. Also lu) acres land ft
rate stand for a grocery store, at H mil*
Augggtaroad, by ISAAC D. LaROCHE*SS
UX)R BALE, the following stereotype anru
X 1 ratus: 1 Steam Drying Press (Hoe’s
Platen 18x24; 1 Iron Beating Tatft i'ir'i '';
Iron Casting Mould (Hoe’s No 6), to cm
They are almost new and in good conditio
Address J, H. ESTILL, Bavannali. fS ft
tpHE largest stock SEASONED FLOOMnq
in the city. Call and examine our stock.
BACON & BROOKS.
TT®!! °° ** ull street, opposit*
U the Bcreven House, for Ferrotnx*
Photographs, Copying and Frames. Head’
quarters for Views of Southern Scenery
jan24-N&Teltf K ‘ WILSOy ’ Phot( W*.
%oiSt.
LOST, a hand satchel, containing a small
lßan l^£, ra ? ney and a few articles of doth
“ Sini n Whitaker or Liberty streets. Findtr
wui be rewarded if articles are returned to thi,
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THE drawing of the Louisiana Sta'e I otterv
will positively take place on TUESDAY
March 8, 1881. Whole Tickets U‘, Halves SI
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SCHEDULE FOR FEBftUAHvft
MONDAYS. TUESDAYB, WEDNESDAYS
THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
OUTW’D, | INWARD. *
lkavk arrive leave | leav*"
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH. ISLE OF HOPE MONTS’IHT.
6:40 p. M. 8:38 A, M 8:10 a. m'| 7:35 a, m.
Monday morning train for Montgomery on lt
at 6:25 a. m.
Wednesdays additional train will leave city
10:25 a.m. Returning leave Montgomery 4:45
P. M., Isle of Hope 5:20,
SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS.
LEAVE ARRIVE I LEAVE I LEAVE
SAVANNAH. 8A VANN AH j ISLE OF HOPE I MONTO’HT.
10:23 A. M. 8:38 a. M. 8:10 a. m 7:35 A. M.
*3:25 p. m. 1:20 p. m | 12:50 p. m. 12:15 p. a.
7:00 p m. 5:50 p. m. | 5:20 p. m. 4:45 p, M,
•Sundays this Is the last outward train.
. , EDW. J. THOMAS.
feb!2-tf Superintendent
COAST LINE RAILROAD OFFICE, I
Savannah, October 30, 1880. (
ON and after MONDAY, November Ist, 1880,
the following suburban schedule will be
observed:
leave j Leave leave
SAVANNAH. THUNDERBOLT. BON A VENTURI.
7:00 A.M. 8:00 a.m. 8:10 ail
10:35 i. m. 12:50 p.m. 1:00 p.m.
3:35 p. m. | 4:50 p. m. 5:00 p. M.
6:35 p. M. | 7:05 p, m. 7:15 p, it
BUNBAY SCHEDULE.
Cars leave Bolton street at 6:30, 10:00 and
12:00 o’clock in the morning, and in the even
Ing every half hour from 2:35 until 6:00 p. M.
Last car leaves Thunderbolt at 7:06 p. m.
FRANK LAMAR,
oct3o tf Superintendent
(Bit.
iTTlfi
TOO LATE TO MEND, REFORM OR 6AVE
MONEY, and you can’t accomplish any
of these objects better than un
der the auspices of
HEADQUARTERS
BED BANANAS.
YELLOW BANANAS.
RIPE BANANAS.
GREEN BANANAB.
And BANANAS any way you want them.
COCOANUTS, PEANUTS.
OOCOANUTB, PEANUTS.
POTATOES. PEANUTS.
ONIONS, PEANUTS.
CABBAGES, PEANUTS.
GREEN and DRIED FRUITS in fine variety.
CANNED SAUSAGE (whole).
CANNED HAM SAUSAGE.
PIG 8’ FEET.
MACKEREL.
HERRING.
CODFISH.
And a full line of FANCY GROCERIES-
Fine WINEB, LIQUORS and CHAMPAGNE.
J. B. REEDY,
GBOCER AND IMPORTER,
CORNER BAY AND WHITAKER STREETS.
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Apples, Potatoes, Onioos,
AND A FRESH SUPPLY OF NELSON’S
PURE APPLE CIDEE,
IN STORE AND TO ARRIVE.
L. F. NELSON & CO.,
febat-tf 1.6 BAY STREET^
cabbages
Fresh from ths country srery tW.A
Florida Oranges and Apples-
CORN, COW PEAS, OATS, CBQWjff
PEAS. HAY, Virginia and Ten“eW<|f?
NUTS. BRAN. COCOANUTB, GRITS.
BUST PROOF OATS RYE, 500 barrels E- “•
and Peerless POTATOES, ONIONS, etc., at
T. It BOND’S*
151 W, 153 AND 155 BAY STREET.
decß9 tf
(gtotftittg,
OPENING OF
Spring Clothing and Hals
—AT—
ES. HEIDT'S-
Headquarters for Good Clothing,
139 CONGRESS STREET,
NEXT
Look out for the ope ß ing advertirW.W r i< ; e*.
are closing out winter stock at reduceo v
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