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She Sunday Seleytam.
SAVANNAH, MAY 13. I*B3.
SO NEARLY WON.
Whitehall lietiw.
The carriage was just turning the cor
ner of the drive w here the tan evergreens
grow thickest, the tinal shower of rice
and the last old satin slipper were falling
far behind it. when James Grafton real
ized for the first time that Lettie was
gone indeed, and had left him there alone
and unprotected. For him the bright
June day seemed suddenly overclouded,
and his own little domestic world
strangely empty, in spite of the merry
chattering groups of bridal guests on his
sunny lawn. In another instant the car
riage had disappeared: the bridesmaids
and their attendant swains turned laugh
ingly away and sauntered off mostly in
couples; for one wedding is very provoca
tive of another, few things being more in
fectious than lovemaking.
James Grafton went toward his house
with a very grave facet he had been stand
ing on the path that he. might watch the
carriage to the very last), and on the door
_st‘«p he met his two sisters-in-law, Mrs.
Charles and Mrs. Harry, both widows,
and arrayed in different shades of iron
gray silk. It was awful to have to face
them alone, without that good, kind, brave
Lettie, who had hitherto looked so well
after him and his interests, who had al
ways stood between him and the wid
ows. They seemed to have come fearfully
near to him all at once. Were they going
to crush him completely? Would they eat
him up ami pick bis bones? What would
they do to him ?
James Grafton was a bachelor of forty
or thereabout. Lettie, his only sister,
whom he had a couple of hours ago most
unselfishly given away to Colonel Rath
bone at the little white church at t|ie foot
of the hill, although many years younger
than himself, had always fought "his do
mestic battles for him and had been quite
equal to the task of defending him from
any number of aggressive relatives. And
James Grafton needed a protector badly,
for he was the only man ot his family who
had ever made any money; while his
brothers, after trying hard to ruin him as
well as themselves, had died penniless,
leaving him thirteen nephews and nieces
to care for as well as two widows, whose
only jointures were a couple of very dif
ferent but, to James Grafton, equally ob
jectionable tom pers. A heavy burden truly,
but he and Lettie had taken it up bravely
and cheerfully, and had done very much
more than their duty.
But now James Grafton had given Let
tie away; she was gone, and the widows
were standing on the doorstep saying all
sorts of pretty things about the pretty
wedding and charming bride. There was
a great blank where Lettie had been. Oh,
then, surely the widows and the thirteen
children could fill it! Everything his
friends said brought this thought to James
Grafton’s mind; but that only made the
blank look blanker. Mrs. Charles and
Mrs. Harry did not love each other. How
could they, being the mothers of two ri
val clans of children? “That woman’’
was the term by which the one indicated
the other in a general way: but to-day, as
each tried to excel the other in doing the
honors of James Grafton's very pictur
esque little house, noone, except the keen
est observer, could have told that open
war raged permanently between the two
smiling ladies who received so graciously
the parting congratulations of the wed
ding guests. James Grafton, however,
knew the state of affairs only too well,
and as he watched the groupson the lawn
thinning, and carriage after carriage
driving off, his heart sank down ami
down, and the blackness of darkness set
tied upon him.
At length all had departed except the sis
ters-in-law and their children. Mrs. Charles
at once began to explore the house, which
during Lettie’s reign she had never been
able to do quite to her heart’s content; and
Mrs. Harry followed her stealthily about,
as a detective might watch a suspected
thief. As for James Grafton, he groped
his melancholy way into his library.
“Ha! what’s this?” he exclaimed with
sudden joy, as his eyes fell upon a note
lying upon his desk. “From Lettie! Dear
girl! How thoughtful!”
He eagerly tore open the envelope. It
already appeared to him as if she had been
gone some centuries. The note had been
scribbled in desperate haste and excite
ment, but it brought hope and courage
with it.
“My dearest old Jim,” it ran, “be firm
now, or you are lost forever. I see they
don’t, mean to go. They must go, most of
them. Keep to our arrangement. Don’t
yield an inch. You dear lamb, how 1
grieve to leave you defenseless! If vou
value my peace of mind, speak to Eunice
Bell to-morrow and know your fate. She
likes you; Lam sure of it." lam fond of
her; so are you. Perhaps vou think vou
are not; but mind what 1 "toll you—you
are. How happy I should be if I could
only feel you were in her good hands. Be
lieve me, dear, she is a most sweet thing.
With fondest love, your own Lettie."
James Grafton had always had deli
cate complexion. It was not much the
worse for wear. It turned a vivid scar
let as he read the last part of his sister’s
note.
"How <>n earth could she have guessed?
M hat have I said or done to suggest such
an idea? ’Believe me, dear, she is a most
sweet thing!’ 1 knew that well enough
without Lettie's telling me. ‘l’m fond of
her; so are you.’ ” Ami in spite of hav
ing lost a first love ‘‘whom the angelscall
Lenore," or some other delicious name,
James Gratton, tills bachelor of forty
years, sighed with almost youthful fervor
for his second. “‘She likes vou; I am
sore of it! ” -Aye, there’s "the rub!
"Likes likes—likes me,’’ he repeated,
“but perhaps still loves some one on the
other side of the world. Doesshe? Why
shouldn't I know?”
He read Lettie’s note through again; it
was singulaily inspiriting; never before
had the ease been put before him so clear
ly, m ver had he dared, even in his inner
thoughts, to put it so clearly to himself.
He opened his eyes widely.
“Have I been a fool, 1 wonder? 1 must
have been or 1 should have—"
But here he was interrupted. Mrs.
< harles’ girls and Mrs. Harry's boys,who
always had the greatest contempt for each
other, had come to blows, and now burst
into the library crying and sobbing, and
making the house resound with their
clamorous demands for instant justice.
I’he mothers, who had been harrying each
other until frail human nature could
stand it no longer, rushed to the rescue.
I lie noise became t<Tritie. Mrs. Charles
demanded the immediate expulsion of
"that woman and her ill-mannered chil
dren.” Mrs. Harry returned the compli
ment with vigor. James Grafton, unused
to such scenes, tied in dismay. They fol
lowed him to the shrubbery’, and when
they had driven him thence "they tracked
him to the poultry yard, whete, rendered
desperate by sheer despair, he turned
upon them and declared he would not re
enter the house until both had left it.
There was something so resolute in the
way in which he sat down on some logs
by the pump, as it he would stay there
forever sooner than yield, that, knowing
further resistance was useless, the wid
ows departed. For many hours afterward
James Grafton felt that he was the great
est brute in the world. He was. as regard
ed women and children, a most tender
hearted creature. He hated him
self for bis harshness; it made him feel
degraded and unworthy even to woo so
sweet a being as Eunice Bell. It was far
in the next day before his self-respect re
turned.
James Grafton's house was pleasantly
situated on the slope of a hill, not manv
miles from London. Eunice Bell lived
within a married sister in Tuliptree-lane,
with an easy walk of the bachelor’s resi
dence. J antes Grafton, being on intimate
terms with the family, knew, as indeed all
the neighborhood knew, that about two
years ago Miss Bell had been engaged to
be married. Then there had been a quar
rel and estrangement. He. the lover, had
gone abroad: she—vvhv onedav she eaught
sight of her own face in the looking-glass,
and repeated to herself:
“C harlotte, when she saw tier lover
Borne before >ti a shutter.
Like a well conducted person.
Went on cutting bread and butter."
Other people say she went on living the
same simple, helpful, beautiful life that
she always had lived.
There was a difference to her in the as
spect of things, doubtless; but if there
was she never made others feel it. But
now that broken romance was all over.
But there are some events which never
recede into the past; they live forever in a
perpetual now, although one may agree
with one’s self to behave as if they had
never occurred.
Now, James Grafton had a broken ro
mance of his own early life Gentle
death had taken his "Lenore.” leaving a
wound in his heart which, although deep,
had no bitterness in it. So it had healed
very fairly; jt was deference to .Miss
Bell’s feelings, not his own, that had kept
him silent hitherto, for in truth he was
very much in love with her and had been
for some time past. James Gratton
bail promised to dine in Tuliptree-lane the
day after hi**ister’s wedding. He read
Lettie's note over three times before he
started.
•’it's that -likes' that makes me hesi
tate." he said to himself. "Or. perhaps."
he ventured to hope presently, -perhaps
the ‘like’ was only Lettie’s modest ways
of putting ‘loves.’ Lettie was always "so
mixlest. Yes. yet it may be so; but no!
• it won’t do, I’m a fool for thinking so.
And yet—why not?”
And bis thoughts recurred to that other
time w hen he asked his Lenore what he
now wanted to ask Eunice Bell,
That other time—ah! then he had been
voting, impetuous, madly in love. Then
he had bad no need to ask himself ques
tions; then he had been only too sure,
Now. going down the hill to the house
where Eunice Bell lived, he was full of
doubts and fears and hesitations. “Yet
why not ?” he asked himself, as he turned
the corner into Tuliptree-lane.
He had grown very fond of that lane.
As he turned the well known corner, it
was to him as if he were in the presence
of a familiar friend and counsellor: it was
as if he had asked —“Yet whv not?" to
some one else than himself. And every
thing in the lane seemed to hush his
forebodings, and say with a curious, all
pervading nothingness—“ Why doubt?”
Beyond the low hedges there were miles
and miles of smiling, undulating English
landscape, full of infinite calm and gen
tleness. How it happened I cannot say";
but as James Grafton walked soberly’
through the lane, all hesitation fled awav,
and his face grew as restful as his heart
had suddenly become. And was not that
kindly face, with its strange and winning
touch of purity, one which a good woman
could hardly fail to love? The inevitable
voting couple who haunt the lane passed
him: be dtd not covet their happiness, as
he bad often done; he was too happy him
self. A turn of the road showed him the
house where Eunice Bell lived; a large,
old-fashioned house, dignified but home
like. From the lavVn rose a statelv cedar.
Beside the dark cedar was a great tulip
tree covered with pale blossoms. The
voices of children at play reached him
from behind the old red wall of the gar
den. With them came—Ah! what was
that? Her voice. James Grafton felt his
pulse quicltrn as he hastened his steps
toward the bouse. In fancy he saw her out
there under the tree, the guardian of the
little group of children. Propitious mo
ment! Now ho could but seize it! And
eagerly, as if for the first time in his life,
heliurried onto meet his fate—his Late
that at that very moment was rushing how
surely, how swiftly, to meet him !
Vv bile James Grafton had been coming
through the lane the object of his thoughts
and affections, Eunice Bell, had been sit
ting, just as be had imagined, and as he
had often seen her, within the shadow of
the great tree. She was dressed for din
ner, in a half-toilet of some soft dove
colored, summer-like fabric. She was ten
years younger than James Grafton, al
though for the last two years she liad con
sidered herself distinctly an old maid.
Her hair was soft and fair. Her figure tall
and slight- a little tooslight perhaps. Her
face was very placid. At the moment
James Grafton had turned into the lane
it was grave as well as placid. Present
ly (wasn’t because she knew by the strik
ing of the church clock that he must be
coming nearer), a thought made her
smile. She was thinking of James Graf
ton then: telling herself she liked him,
feeling that somehow or another the idea
of being always an old maid was imper
ceptibly melting. “Is it only friendship
just touched with sentiment, or does he
really care for me?” The question
pleased her, but she knew the answer per
haps well; she knew he cared for her.
Then she sighed; her lips half curled with
scorn, but not scorn for him. No one(ex
cept his sisters-in-law) could regard
James Grafton with anything but pro
found respect. "Rest, truthfulness and
love! Ah! I have sometimes thought them
idle words; but to see the smile ol this
good man is to know—”
She never finished the sentence.
“Auntie, auntie! see, there is Mr. Graf
ton,” a little voice‘cried gleefully; and
Eunice Bell, raising her eyes, which had
been fixed on the grass at her feet, saw
James Grafton crossing the lawn, and the
children all scampering toward him as
fast as their chubby legs could carry
them. Eunice rose and followed them,
laughing gently at the earnestness with
which the little things rifled his pockets of.
those sweets which a many-nephevved-and
nieced man is never without, if he knows
his duty and does it.
So they, Eunice and James (after all,
forty is not so very great an age)—they
were both laughing when they met. It
was pleasant, very pleasant—in fact,
quite delightful; but, somehow before
that gentle domestic laughter, sentiment
fled abashed. They were out in the garden
one quarter of an hour—one bright, de
licious, happy quarter of an hour. They
sat side by side under the trees, while the
evening sunbeams played upon the softly
fluttering leaves. The children prattled
about their knees. Their glances met
with kind, familiar ■ smiles. Eunice felt
a contented resttulness in his presence,
and he was conscious that it was so. It
was to him a most golden, blissful quarter
ol an hour. But of course he could not
say what he wished before the children,
and there was all the beautiful long even
ing before them, and no need to hurry.
Presently, after sunset, he and she would
stroll out there; and then—he felt certain
now, absolutely sure, that she would an
swer yes. As absolutely sure as I am at
this minute that had he asked her to be
his wife during that happy quarter of an
hour she would have accepted him with
the frankest smile of perfect trust. The
gong sounded for dinner. They sauntered
up to the house side by side, the children
still playing about their path.
“I always feel whenever I come here
that you have all attained to the ideal
state of domestic peace and happiness,”
said James Grafton, thoughtfully. “Af
ter the stormy scenes one is sometimes
called upon to witness’’—he thought of
yesterday and the sister-in-law—“the
sweet, calm atmosphere pervading the
entire home-like here is most soothing.”
“We get on very well together,” said
Eunice, in her soft, placid voice.
‘■Your sister and her husband are, 1
think, the most admirable young couple I
ever met. They never wrangle. By the
way. I haven't asked how thev were. How
are they?”
"Oh, as flourishing, as usual,” returned
Eunice. “I wonder they haven’t been in
the garden. They generally like to be out
he-; during t he children’s half-hour, as we
cah the half-hour before dinner.”
So saying they entered the house to
gether—that house the bachelor had now
for some time held so sacred. They en
tered by the drawing-room’window,which
opened on to the lawn. They rather sur
prised -Mrs. Catheart, the young and love
ly wife, diligently reading a novel on the
sola, and her gallant husband apparently
absorbed in the evening paper, immediate
ly behind her. They were, in fact, back
to back. And this was the more remark
able, as the honeymoon ways of this
charming couple had often been a subject
of comment among their friends. They
were both reading so diligently that Mr.
Grafton and Miss Bell had time enough to
t ake in the coup d' a it and its meaning tie
fore either husband and wife moved. A
moment afterward they lioth started.
Catheart sprang up blithely to meet his
-■guest as if he were intensely relieved by
the interruption of a threatening tete-a
"You are a good fellow to turn up after
the awful affair of yesterday. I'm sure I
wonder you survived it!" he exclaimed,
nearly wrenching the bachelor’s hands
off.
"I'm sure I wonder how it’s been done!”
returned Grafton.
"Weddings are such a sell.” growled
the young married man. as James
Grafton turned to the sofa and expressed
a fervent hope that his hostess was quite
well.
"Dreadful headache; nearly frantic with
it!" said Mrs. Cifthcart, knitting her pret
ty brows and rising, pressing one hand to
her forehead as she did.
There had been times, and distant but a
few hours ago, when such words and such
a movement of pain would have
wrung her husband’s heart, and his “Mv
darling! what can I do for it?” would
have sounded perfectly agonizing: how.
the wretched being only turned abruptly
to his sister-is-law witli. Come. Eunice";
dinner's late enough already, and march
ed off with her, huffily.
“1 am sorry you are so unwell. The
day has been oppressive. You will be
glad to get down to the seaside, won’t you?"
said James Grafton as he gave his arm to
the the evidently snubbed wife.
"I shall be glad to get away some
where. I’m sure 1 don't care where it is. I
want change terribly." said Mrs. Catheart,
with a certain hardness of tone in her voice
that her guest bad never before observed.
"Doyon know. 1 always admire your
dining-room so much." put in the bachelor
as they entered the room.
"There’s a perfectly hideous glare on it
just now," retorted Mrs. Cathcart.
“And your decorations are charming
—these trailing bits of briony and wild—"
••Don’t agree with you, Gratton. I’m
sick of seeing the place littered with
weeds." interpolated Catheart, the young
married man. with an angry snuff, as
they took their places at table. "John.”
he exclaimed, turning to the servant,
"see that there's something decent out of
the conservatory in theeentreof the table
to-merrow something at least three feet
high, and busby."
John, as he went about his work with
Imperturbable gravity, remembered with
great inward mirth that only a few days
before he had been ordered to’remove a tail
fern, because, as his master had said, it
hid his wife’s face.
"Rum 'tins, married folks, ain’t thev?”
lie remarked to himselt.
Ah. indeed they are. especially when
young, good-looking and veiw much in love
with each other! But the#-"rum"-ness,
O worthy John, strange as it is, is as
nothing to their utter want of considera
tion for other people’s feelings.
What James Grafton ami Eunice Bell
suffered at that little square dinner I
really have’ not the heart to relate in de
tail: and. indeed, there is but small need
that I should do so, for have not you and
I taken a melancholy part in many only
too similar scenes? I could, however,for
get the young couple for their conduct
during dinner: but what 1 consider ab-
Iqtely brutal and unpardonable was that
although I feel certain lioth Captain and
Mrs. Catheart knew that James Grafton
would have enjoyed a quiet stroll about
the grounds when the sun was setting
(for of course he was on a certain
subject as easy fur them to read as the
morning paper), yet these two selfish mar
ried creatures, absorbed only in the in-
teresting game of irritating each other,
hung on to the two unmarried ones the
whole evening with a relentless malice
that is perfectly unattainable except by
a husband and wife who are. for the time
being, not on speaking terms.
After dinner Mrs. Cathcart, byway of
pretending she did not care, rattled off her
gayest dance-music, and sang dozens of
her brightest songs: but nothing would
please tier except to have Eunice sitting
quite close to her. turning over the pages!
Once, indeed, Miss B-ll ventured as far
as the window, but she was speedily cap
tured; a sisterly arm being gently put
firmly around her waist, while a plaintive
voice murmured in her ear:
“Ah, Eunice! a sister's affection—love—
is. after all, the only thing in the world one
can really depend upon!"
And while this was going on in the
drawing-room Cathcart had effectually
button-holed Grafton, and was confiding
to him that as his domestic life had suffer
ed an utter collapse he intended—indeed,
it was his only chance of saving his life
and reason—he intended to exchange
with Hutchins, and go to seek glory and,
he devoutly hoped, death in South Africa.
But the most wretched evening must at
last come to an end. Aliout ten o’clock
James Grafton again found himself in the
I uliptree-lane; but instead of the happy
calm of a few hours earlier, he now felt
as if he had lieen assisting at an earth
quake. He was quite dazed, and unable
to contemplate anything at all except the
extraordinary ways of married people, at
which he gazed, so to speak, with mingled
wonder, terror and anger. Should he ever
be able to re-enter that house, that dese
crated sanctuary ?
It was, however, a sweet, peaceful
night, so that by the time he had reached
his own door he had so far recovered him
self as to-see that it was his boundenduty
to rescue Eunice Bell from—good
heavens! it was maddening to think what
she might be enduring that very minute.
He entered his house as soon as he had
made up his mind, while taking an extra
stroll or two in front of it, that nothing
should hinder him from going over to
Tuliptree-lane the first thing in the
morning and taking circumstances fairly
in hand.
Now one might perhaps get along fairly
if one had merely U> deal with the circum
stances that properly belong to a case, if
it were not for the collateral cireumstancs
that are always lying in ambush on both
sides of our path, ready to spring out and
eat tip both us and our’ease. James Graf
ton found a letter and a telegram await
ing him. He tore open the telegram; it
was from Mrs. Harry. Her youngest child
had been suddenly seized" with croup.
James must come at once and bring a
physician with him, James went atonce
and took a physician with him. On his
way down he read the letter which,
recognizing Mrs. Charles’ only too well
known hand, he had thrust hastily into
his pocket. Mrs. Charles wrote to him
regularly every day. On one day she
called him a good angel, the next a de
mon; it was the turn for being a demon
now. He was so entirely upset by one
thing and another that he quite believed
what she said, which was nctf what he did
very often. ’
Mrs. Harris child’s croup turned out to
be something -far less terrible, but duty
kept him with her for some days. At
length, however, he was again walking
down Tuliptree-lane, thinking that this
time no domestic complication should pre
vent his saying his say, when who should
he meet but Mr. and Mrs. Cathcart
arm in arm, conversing with most lover
like actions on a subject that any one
could see was deep, interesting and amus
ing!
They looked so lovely-like that James
Grafton almost hesitated to approach
them. But Mrs. Cathcart espied him.
“Oh, Mr. Grafton; what do you think
has happened?” she asked, laughing in
the brightest way and looking very much
excited. “Why—really we’re all so de
lighted about it—why, Eunice’s old sweet
heart has come back, and it was all a
mistake, and he’s the finest fellow in the
world, and they’re going to be married at
once, and they’re as happy, as happy,
as happy”—and she looked at her hus
band and rapidly nodded her head up and
down—“as happy, very nearly, as we are!
What do you think of that, Mr. Grafton?”
A BANQUET FOR ARTISTS.
The Wonderful Way in Which Some
Things are Done in California.
The San Francisco Argonaut, in a
recent issue, says: The banquet given by
the directors of the Art Association to the
artists of the city took place in the Main
Exhibition Room on Wednesday evening.
Extensive preparations had been made
during several weeks past, and the affair
was a success in every sense of the word.
A high paneling was constructed the en
tire circuit of the hall, on which Messrs.
Tavenier and Williams painted a continu
ous field of grain, in which grew in plente
ous profusion of scarlet poppies and the
showy fleur-de-lis. At intervals of six
feet gold medallions encircled with laurel
were set, each bearing the portrait of one
of the great masters, beginning with
Giotto and passing on down through Leo
nardo, Albrecht, Durer, Michael Angelo,
Rembrandt, Murillo, Vandyke, Lely,
Poussin, to Hogarth and Sir Joshua Rey
nolds. Above were wreaths of pine,
evergreen and flowers. At the north end
ot the hall was a throne, on which was
seated the Genius ol Art, a beautiful
figure, modeled in plaster by Marion
Wells. The plaster figures of two giant
warriors were placed at the entrance of
the class room; these were also from the
atelier of Mr. Wells.
On the south side of the hall a table was
placed, running full length, in the centre
of which President Hawes was seated.'
From this table three other tables, at
right, left and centre, ran northward.
These banqueting boards were mainly
decorated by the ladv artists, and pre
sented a brilliant spectacle. Gardens and
conservatories had been rifled of their con
tents, and garlands and festoons of roses,
camellias, lilacs and numberless other
floral treasures were cast in a profusion
which would have struck with wonder
the souls of the banquet givers in the
East who are now paying fifty cents a
piece for roses. Every few feet were
graceful baskets, one containing nothing
but pansies of Brodingnagian size, heap
ed together with graceful carelessness
and plenty; another, in which rich Rus
sian violets were massed; a third with
golden marigolds, and soon, ad infinitum.
Silver candelabra, with their waxen
torches reflecting in crystal pendants,
gave a glancing shimmer to the whole,
while greater warmth of color was given
by the yellow of the oranges and bananas
piled high on huge fruit pieces.
The most enjoyable feature was the tact
that the lady artists were present in full
force. The invitations read for half-past
six, and at that hour a greater part of the
one hundred guests were assembled in
the Jinks Hall of the Bohemian Club, a
portion of the rooms of which had been
placed at the Art Association's disposal.
About seven o’clock President Hawes,
escorting Mrs. Virgil Williams, led the
way to the banquet hall. At the door
quite an exciting ceremony was partici
pated in by each couple. Secretary Mar
tin presided over a box which contained
on one side a stock of beautifully painted
menu cards, and on the other a heap of
folded number cards. As the guests pass
ed through they each drew h card, and
were then entitled to the menu which bore
the corresponding number. These menu
cards were very elaborate, and had been
in preparation for three weeks. Each
artist prepared several, and many of them
were gems of art. In one corner was the
printed bill of fare, prepared in humorous
art jargon; the rest of the card was given
up to a sketch in oils, water color, or
sepia. Some of the artists had prepared
comic conceits, punning on the different
dishes; others sent in charming land
scapes, graceful figures, or dainty sprays
of wild flowers and fruit blossoms. Hill
sent in some mountain scenery; Yelland
made some sepia studies of marine and
country views; Miss Hoppe devoted her
self to Lake Tahoe; Mrs. Williams pro
duced some lovely effects in pink and
white peach blossoms; .Miss Dugan and
Miss Chittenden painted some equisite
flower sprays; Keith revelled in quaint
Jests; Farrington and Bush followed his
example; Mapes depicted pretty, old-time
English scenes: Wores centered his entire
attention upon a fish picture, and suc
ceeded in making a marvel in still-life
Study.
The guests quickly found their places,
and after the sumptuous meal —consisting
of a dozen courses—had been disposed of.
toasts and speeches were in order. Presi
dent Hawes eulogized the "Artists of San
Francisco." This was responded to by
Virgil Williams, after which the quartet
sang "Billows of Bright Champagne."
At this point Mr. Reddmig stepped for
ward and presented President Hawes
with a large portfolio tilled with pictures
from the hands of the artists of San Fran
cisco. President Hawes earnestly thank
ed the artists in a speech which" showed
that he was affected by the surprise and
pleasure of the moment. After the ban
quet the company adjourned to the Jinks
Room, where dancing and singing fol
lowed. the last guests departing about one
o’clock.
Can’t .Make Anything Like It.
Simmons Liver Regulator, prepared by
J.II. Zeilin & Co., is steadily gaining popu
larity, and is one of the in'dispensables in
every family that has given it a trial. No
other remedy within our knowledge can
till its place. I have been practicing
medicine for twenty years, and have never
been able to put up a" vegetable compound
that would like Simmons Liver Regulator,
promptly and effectively move the liver
to action and at the same time aid (in
stead of weakening) the digestive ami as
similative fiowers of the system.
L. M. Hixton, M. D.,
IVashington. Ark.
Picture of Mrs. Langtry (the Jersey
Lily) mailed free on receipt of address by
United States Mutual Accident Associa
tion, 4W Broadway, New York.—J.dc.
THE GREAT WHITE CZAR.
Central Asian Princes at the Czar's Coro
nation-Conquered and Dependent
States. 9
A tVriter in the London Times says:
"Not the least conspicuous personages at
the forthcoming coronation of the Czar at
Moscow will be the Princes representing
the conquered and dependent States of
Central Asia. It was thought possible
that the Ameer of Bokhara might tie
present in person to demonstrate his com
plete subserviency to the Great White
Czar, but it now appears that either his
bodily infirmities or his natural reluct
ance to do anything so far derogatory to
the dignity of the Head of Islam in Turk
istan will prevent his personal attend
ance. Bokhara will, therefore, lie re
presented instead by the heir-apparent,
Jan Torah, who is already well-known in
Russian society from several previous
visits. Bu t if Bokhara will not send its
titular chief to grace the august cere
mony, Khiva, more dependent on Russia,
will express its allegiance in the person
of its Prince. By some arrangement,
which is not to be commended for either
its good taste or sound policy, there is
classed with these Princes the exiled and
dethroned son of the late Yakoob Beg of
Kashgar. It is not clear in what ca
pacity he has been summoned or allowed
to attend, but it is certain that the pres
ence of the fratricide. Kun Ben, on whom
the guilt of his brother Hacc Kuli’s
murder should lie heavy, will hardlv add
to the effect of the ceremony, or be" con
sidered a compliment by the other guests.
There will be many more chiefs of the
Asiatic people in attendance on the Rus
sion Emperor, and, no doubt, the com
pleteness of the conquest of the Turco
mans will be testified to bv a delegation
from the nomads of Kara Kum. But none
will have either the same rank or the
same importance as those representing
Khiva and Bokhara, and a brief sketch of
Russia's past diplomatic relations with
these States may not be unacceptable at
the present time.
Russia’s relations with the Khanates
have not always been of a warlike charac
ter; but while the course of her cam
paigns has been frequently described, and
should by this time be well known, com
paratively little has been said about the
diplomatic missions which, originally pro
ceeding from Russia to Turkistan—from
the west to the east —have now been per
manently changed into embassies from
the Khanates to the capital of the Empire
in Europe. As additional testimony to
the inherent superiority of the civilization
and resources of this continent there
should not be any regret that the former
process has been finally reversed. As
soon as the Grand Dukes of Muscovy had
expelled the Tartars, and established the
independence of Russia, steps were taken,
partly by’ individual adventurers, partly
as a scheme of State policy, to establish
commercial relations with" those regions
of Asia whence two centuries before the
Mongol conquerors, had come to desolate
the eastern parts of Europe with fire and
sword. The natural difficulties which
hindered the march of armies and the
progress of caravans to the kingdoms of
the Qxus and Jaxartes region were en
hanced by the independence and turbu
lence of the Kirghiz tribes, who flourished
on the plunder ot their wealthier neigh
bors. .Many caravans were attacked and
pillaged, one when within two days’
journey of Tashkend, and those who ac
companied them were either slain or
carried off into captivity. The earliest
date of a Russian official being received
at either the capital of Bokhara or Khiva
is a matter of dispute. Professor Vam
bery was once disposed to recognize in
theformer case that of M. Negri in 1820,
but “he late Russian publicist, Gregorieff,
strongly combated this view, and was
inclined to place the first two centuries
earlier. It is sufficient, perhaps, to admit
that as soon as the Cossack Irmak had
completed the conquest of Siberia, com
mercial relations and a semi-official cor
respondence sprang up between the set
tlers on the Irtish and the most powerful
State in Central Asia. TheSe did not
possess much importance until M. Negri
was sent in 1820 by the Czar Alexander
to Bokhara to draw closer “the ancient
bond” of amity between the two States.
The interest and, indeed, the importance
ot this mission consisted in its affording
M. Negri’s companion, Baron von Meyen
dorfl', the opportunity of writing an ex
tremely interesting aud instructive work,
After this date the dispatch of missions
became frequent. Berg, in 1826, Demai
son in 1834, Vickovitch the year following,
Aitoff in 1840, and then De Boutinieff,
were one and all travelers occupying a
more or less official position at Bokhara as
representatives of the Czar. It was only
when Russian aggression began to assume
the form of a personal danger to Bokhara
that the Ameer showed any disposition to
break away from the long-standing entente
cordiale,, and to refuse to receive Russian
emissaries at his capital.
It is a somewhat singular coincidence
that the first Bokharan ruler to regard
Russia with disfavor should have been
reserved by fortune to be more dependent
on her moderation and more subservient
to her wishes than any of his predecessors.
Mozaffur Eddin, the present ruler, took up
in 1865 an attitude of the most pronounced
hostility to the Czar and his lieutenants,
and although the capture of Tashkend
caused him to put off a declaration of
open war it really intensified his anti
pathy. When, therefore,-General Tcher
naieff, relying upon past friendship, as
well as on the effect of his recent suc
cesses, sent an Embassy to Bokhara, the
Ameer threw the Russian envoys into
prison, and refused to release them. He
had during twelve months such personal
satisfaction as was to be gained from the
retention of those prisoners, for General
Tchernaieff’s precipitate efforts to effect
their release resulted in failure and in his
own disgrace. They did not recover their
liberty until after the battle of Irjar in the
following year; but it was several years
later before the operations of war were
finally displaced by diplomatic' relations.
The successful campaign against Khiva,
followed as it was by concession natter
ing to Bokharan vanity, completed the
revulsion of feeling inevitable after so de
cisive an overthrow. The Russian Govern
ment was represented at Bokhara by a
duly accredited agent, the late M. Wein
berg; and the Ameer sent his son to Rus
sia to be educated and to figure as a page
at court. He will now express for him at
the approaching coronation the complete
dependence of his family and kingdom on
the favor of Russia.
The relations between the Czar and the
Khivan ruler are probably ot more ancient
date, while they have been of very similar
character. They are now still more in
form than in the ease of Bokhara those of
vassal and suzerain, and it is therefore
quite intelligible that the Khan, Mahomed
Rahiw Bahadur, should proceed to Mos
cow in person. Early in the seventeenth
century, if not before, the Russian Govern
ment had come into contact with the
ruler ot Khwaresm, or Khiva, while the
Cossacks of the Ural were engaged in an
unceasing struggle with the Khivans and
Kirghiz of the Steppe. In that strife the
Cossacks did not attain uniform success,
and whenever they ventured too far into
the waste they were cutoff and sometimes
exterminated. In the year 1715 the large
and important expedition ol Prince Be
kovitch was sent by Peter the Great with
the view of extending his influence, if not
his dominion, to the Amon, which was
stated to be “a river of gold.” The expe
dition consisted of a small army of 6,000
men, but not more than half this number
succeeded in making their way across the
Urt Urt, from the Caspian to the inhab
ited districts of Khiva. There they were
allowed to remain undisturbed for some
time, but the Khan, getting tired of his
guests on finding that their supply of
presents and money was exhausted,
resolved to rid himself oi them in a sum
mary way. Prince Bekovitch was in
duced to divide his force into small de
tachments, whereupon they were attacked
and destroyed to a man by the people of
Khiva. Prince Bekovitch was himself
flayed alive by order of the treacherous
Khan. Peter sent two envoys subse
quently with the view of learning the fate
of his lieutenant, but his death prevented
any attempts to exact vengeance, and
they returned without accomplishing anv
thing more than learning some of the sad
particulars of the catastrophe. This
tragedy left a permanent cause of hos
tility, and between Khiva aud Russia
there is no record of amicable relations
similar to that with Bokhara. M. Danil
efsky succeeded, indeed, in 1842, in ob
taining a treaty of friendship of general
terms, but its stipulations were never
carried out. This unsuccessful expedi
tion of General Peroffsky, in 1839, and the
successful attack ’under General Kauf
mann in 1873, more fitly represented the
tenor of the intercourse lie tween these
two States. This relation of mutual
enmity has now been placed on the com
pletely new basis of the unqualified de
pendence of the smaller State to the
greater. The Khan has no army, and his
river is at the disposal of Russia alone.
He owes to the protection afforded by the
Muscovite garrison of the Amon Darya
district the immunity he enjoys from
attack by the predatory Turcomans. It
is therefore very natural that Mahomed
Rahim Bahadur Khan, who was born in
the year 1849, and whose personal charac
ter and appearance have been favorably
sketched by English travelers, should
proceed to Moscow to express in person
his devotion to Russia on the auspicious
occasion of the Czar's coronation.
He Had Two Balls in His Stomach.
He put them there because it was the
fashion at his boarding house. They were
codfish balls. But the boarders found that
putting too many codfish balls in their
stomachs produced dyspepsia, especially
when washed down with salt mackerel
and tough steak. Had they not found that
Perry Davis’ Pain Killer cured dys
pepsia. their boarding house fare would
have killed them.
American artists are making Norway
summer headquarters,
Aflvirwltural Xlrpailmrnt.
THE FIELD, FARM AND GARDEN".
IVe solicit articles for this department.
The name of the writer should accompany
the letter or article, not necessarily
for publication, but as evidence of cood
faith.
Farming in Liberty.
Mr. John Axtell, of Liberty county,
paid a visit to the News office last week,
bringing with him a hamper basket laden
with the products of bis thrifty farm, and
we were greatly pleased with his account
pf his success and the capabilities of the
soil and climate of that section. He has
been there but a few years, and though
unlucky in some other ventures, now
owns nine thousand acres of excellent
lands in the county, including a valuable
home at the station, where he has every
convenience for shipping produce. We
have before referred to his successful ven
ture in the cultivation of the early Amber
Sorghum, and upon which he has an
article in the present numbet* of the W eek
ly News. He laid before us a sample
of the grain from this crop, which may lie
examined at our agricultural bureau.
The grain is full and heavy, colored as its
name indicates. Mr. Axtell has fourteen
acres in the Early Amber the present year,
and so much faith has he in its profitable
yield in Liberty that he is ambitious of
being the largest sugar cane grower in
the State next year. He says that this
sorghum, beside its yield of sugar, syrup
and forage, will produce one-fourth more
grain to the acre than the common corn,
and will weigh six pounds more to the
bushel without the fertilizing necessary
to the latter.
But his success with the Early Amber
is equaled by his triumph In strawberries,
for he also presented us with a basket ot
the finest we have seen during the season,
accompanied by a plant in fruit and flow
er to show the variety, which he thinks
is new. We find it apparently identical
with the Champion of Kentucky, intro
duced in Southern Georgia by Mr. McKay,
ofTennessee. The large uniform size,
bright red color and Wilson-Albany like
qualities of the berries, and especially its
large and unusually vigorous tall
growing foliage very much resemble that
variety. Mr. Axtell represents them as
growing two feet high in his patch with
proportioned breadth of stool, bearing
enormously from January to July, on
light sandy land, with only »small hand
ful of marl to each bunch. He gives as
its origin that he took up some straw
berry plants near an old church in Mc-
Intosh county, where had been, perhaps, a
strawberry festival, and set them out in
his garden. Os the number, one proved
to be far superior to the rest, and from
this he propagated until he now has a
large and profitable patch.
It is certainly an admirable berry, and
in every respect worthy of the high esteem
in which it is held by Mr. Axtell. He in
tends largely to increase his acreage in
these valuable products, and will take
pleasure in giving further account of his
success for the benefit of his brother far
mers.
Scarlet Fever Among Horses.
Dr. I’eters, of New York, in the Sani
tarian, is writing an excellent article on
this subject, and farmers will be sur
prised to find that tlie infectious disease
of scarlatina was, jjntil recent years,
known only as a horse disease. It was
communicated to man as many other unu
sual diseases, says Copland's Cyclopaedia,
less than forty years ago, and has
more recently appeared epidemically as
an epizooty among horses. There is sim
ple and malignant scarlatina, but as the
latter is the sequel to the former, both are
to be provided against. *
Truck Farmers.
Among the foremost truck farmers of
Brooks county, Ga. t the Free Press men
tions Mr. Baldrick as having the best field
of onions in the county; Mr. R. Avera
the best corn, now in silk and tassle; Mr.
John Brooks the best watermelons; Dr.
Wilkinson the best cucumbers; Mr.
Charles Duncan the best strawberries;
the editor of the Free Press (Capt. A. P.
Perham) the best beans and Irish pota
toes; Mr. Perdue, a too thick, but paying
field of cabbages, and Magor Lane a poor
stand of melons, but a hennery that gives
him 200 fresh eggs and a broiled ’ chicken
every day.
A Suggestion.
As the *no fence law has been defeated
in many counties of the State, localities
where farms join may have much of the
benefit of the no fence law by the co-op
eration otTfarm owners in keeping up one.
fence around their neighborhood. This
would be far cheaper and better than for
each to fence his own farm.
An establishment at Chicago for raising
vegetables in winter has over four miles
of hot water pipes, and 300 tons of coal are
required to heat the 22 houses used in the
business. The capital invested in the
houses is $35,000, the land on which they
stand is valued at as much more. The
great winter crop is lettuce; parsley is
sown for Thanksgiving, and spinach for
the holidays. An acre of rhubarb roots is
taken up each year and forced for the
early market. Cucumbers are raised in
May, and the value of this crop when in
season is SIOO a day. The crops are un
certain, one year $2,000 net was made on
cauliflowers, the next year the crop did
not pay expenses.
Deep drains on the farm are best. The
slow percolation ot the water through the
soil before it reaches them gives oppor
tunity for the earth to take up and absorb
the nutritive properties before they are
carried oif by the drain and is lost. The
cold water of the subsoil passes off first.
The warmer water takes its place and
thus warms the soil and offers a larger
area of land for the roots and enables
them to gather larger stores of plant food.
A first-class garden is seldom met with,
except among professional gardeners, and
yet it can be made a source of profit and
pleasure. A large amount of fertlizing
material that accumulates about the house
is allowed to go to waste. A large cask
or barrel with a tight-fitting cover should
be prepared to receive the soot from the
chimney, soapsuds, urine, etc., all valu
able to the soil before or after planting.
A gardener at Naples holds out the
hope that in the near future the camellia
will rival the rose in fragrance as well as
in beauty. After j’ears of experiment he
has succeeded in producing a camellia
with a delicate perfume. It is of a pale
rose color, and the gardener hopes to
obtain before long fragrant white blos
soms.
As a remedy for hog cholera, a corres
pondent of the Journal oj Agriculture
recommends a half teaspoonful of carbolic
acid in a gill of milk. This remedy, he
states, has been successful in every ease,
and not only cures but stops the spread of
the disease. It is administered from the
mouth of a long-necked bottle.
A writer says that he has never failed
to cure garget by the use of beans. He
feeds one pint of bean meal, mixed with
other meal, for four successive days, and
has found that quantity sufficient to ctire
the worst cases. He thinks if cows were
fed with bean meal several times a year
they would never be troubled with garget.
The way to grow horseradish is from
the little roots four or five inches in
length. These will produce good radish
fit for use in one season's growth. Plant
the root small end down, and so that the
top will be two inches under the soil.
A Kentucky fanner cures fowl cholera
by boiling a bushel of smartweed in ten
gallons of water down to three gallons,
and mixing the decoction with their feed
twice a day for three days, then every
other day for a week.
In selecting a pig to fatten it is well to
remember that fineness of bone is rarely
disappointing. A broad, dished face,
with snout short and turned up, indicates
an aptitude to fatten, and is one of the
surest indications of a good pig.
Monroe, Mich.. Sept. 25, 1875.
Sirs —I have been taking Hop Bitters
for inflammation of kidneys and bladder.
It has done for me wha, four doctors
failed to do. The effect of Hop Bitters
seemed like magic to me.
W. L. Carter.
Agricultural Improvement.
A paragraph in the Tallahassee Flori
dian of last Wednesday says: "The de
mand for improved agricultural imple
ments is steadily on the increase in this
section. Even the old style plantation
plow is being abandoned by all classes of
farmers, and merchants who deal in im
proved plows have this season had to
duplicate their orders to supply the de
mand.'*
And still another adds this encouraging
information: “A gentleman who last
week traveled over a considerable portion
ot Ix'on county says he was surprised and
delighted to notice the many signs of im
provement and prosperity indicated by
good fences, farm stock in lietter condi
tion than he had ever seen it. a better
class of implements in use. crops clean,
lands in tine condition, and everybody
busy. Not only was this the case among
white farmers, but the colored people—
men, women and children—were hard at
work everywhere.”
Seed and Plants to the Acre.
The Southsn Aqricitlurist gives the fol
low table, as showing its view of the
quantity of seed and plants to be used to
the acre of ground:
Asparagus in 12-inch drills. 16 quarts.
Asparagus plants. 4 by 1% teet, 8,000.
Barley. 2% bushels to the acre.
Beans, pole. Lima, 4 by 4 feet,2oquarts.
Beans, Carolina prolific, 4 by 3 feet, 10
quarts.
Beats, mandgolds, drills 2% feet, 9
pounds.
Broom corn in drills, 12 pounds.
Cabbage, outside, for transplanting. 12
ounces.
Cabbage sown in frames, 4 ounces.
Carrots in drills, 2% feet, 4 pounds.
Celery, seed, 8 ounces.
Celery, plants, 4 by % toot, 25,000.
Clover, Lucerne, 10 pounds to the acre.
Clover, Alsike, 6 pounds.
Clover, red with timothy, 12 pounds.
Clover, red without timbthv, 16 pounds.
Corn, sugar, 10 quarts.
Corn, fiejd, 8 quarts.
Cucumber, in hills, 3 quarts.
Grass, timothy, with clover, 6 quarts.
Egg-plant, plants. 3 by 2 feet, 4 ounces.
Endive, in drills, 2% feet, 3pounds.
Grass, timothy, without clover, 10 quarts.
Grass, orchard grass, 35 quarts.
Grass, Bed-top or Herds,2o quarts.
Grass. Blue, 28 quarts.
Grass, Rye, 20 quarts.
Grass. .Millet, 32 quarts.
Hemp, broadcast, % bushel.
Kale, German greens, 3 pounds.
Lettuce, in rows, 2% feet, 3 pounds.
I.awn grass, 35 pounds.
Melons, Water, in hills 8 by 8 feet, 3
pounds.
Melons, Canteleupes, in hills 4 by 4 feet, 2
pounas.
Oats 2 bushels.
Okra, in drills, 2% by % foot, 20 pounds.
Onions, in beds for sets, 50 pounds.
Onions in rows for large bulbs, 7 pounds.
Parsnip, in drills 2% feet, 5 pounds.
Pepper, plants, 2% by 1 foot,-17,500.
Pumpkins, in hills 7 by 8 feet, 2 quarts.
Parsley, in drills 2 feet, 4 pounds.
Peas, in drills, short varieties, 2 bushels.
Peas, in drills, tall varieties, 1 to
bushels.
Peas, broadcast, 3 bushels.
Radish, in drills 2 feet, 10 pounds.
Rye, broadcast, 1% bushels.
Rye, drilled, 1% bushels.
Salsify, in drills 2% feet, 10 pounds.
Spinach, broadcast, 30 pounds.
Squash, running, 8 by 8 feet, pounds.
Sorghum, 4 quarts.
Turnips, in drills 2 feet, three pounds.
Tomatoes, in frames, 3 ounces.
Tomatoes, plants, 3,800.
Wheat, in drills, 1% bushels.
Wheat, broadcast, 2 bushels.
How to Hive Swarm of Bees. ’
If the cluster is low it is easily perform
ed. The queen is usually in the lower part
of the cluster, and by finding “her
majesty,*’ and placing her in a hive, which
should be placed conveniently near for the
purpose of hiving the swarm, and with a
dipper, or any other convenient vessel,
place the bees down in front of the hive on
a sheet or piece of paper. They will then
crawl into the hive, and, finding the
queen, be satisfied to remain. When the
bees are in place the hive where it is to
Temaia; a shaded position will be the
best.
If they have clustered on a branch or
twig, a basket will be quite essential into
which to shake or brush the bees. If on
a wall or fence, or on the trunk of a tree,
brush them into the basket, and proceed
to hive as before described.
A frame of brood and another of honey
placed into the new hive will be of much
advantage to the bees. The former will
prevent the swarm from leaving the hive,
and should the queen be lost it will give
them the means of raising another, and the
latter will give them a good start.
Sometimes a swarm will make for the
woods without clustering, but this is rarely
the case.
The beating of tin pans and all such old
fogy notions is, of course, of no avail;
throwing a stream of water from a foun
tain pump is often done to bring down an
absconding swarm, and cause them to
alight and cluster.— Hee Journal.
Lice on Live Stock.
A writer says that to destroy lice on
live stock he has found nothing better
than strong carbolic soapsuds. The soap
usually sold under the name is not strong
enough for the purpose. It may be easily
preparecLand at any degree of strength
that may be required, jpet a pound of
carbolic acid crystals, which may be had
at any wholesale druggist’s. I get them
in Boston at a cost of sixty cents per
pound. Take ten pounds of common bar
soap, put in a pan with a little water and
heat until dissolved. Take out the cork
from the bottle containing the acid, and
set in hot water, which will cause the
acid to become fluid, add this to the soap
and stir well. Set away to cool and you
will have a soap at small cost which will
be strong enough to kill any vermin which
infest domestic animals, and which will
cure barn itch and any cutaneous dis
eases to which they are liable. It is good
to cleanse and heal sores, and a wash of
it will be found good where animals are
hide-bound and the skin out of condition;
it will be found good to wash the inside of
poultry houses to render them sweet,
and kill and prevent vermin. It is a
cheap, safe and sure remedy, and should
find a place in ail well regulated prem
ises.
Salt as a Fertilizer.
That salt is in large demand by the
vegetable kingdom is evident from the
fact that its constituents, chlorine and
soda, are essential elements in plants, and
are absolutely necessary to their susten
ance and growth. Some plants—aspara
gus, etc.—require more saline matter than
others, but it must be found in every
productive soil, as it is in universal de
mand. Professor Johnson reminds us that
spray from the ocean supplies the coast of
England for a considerable distance in
land with salt in sufficient abundance, but
tlie crops of the interior have been in some
cases nearly or quite doubled by the ap
plication of five or six hundred pounds of
salt to the acre.
New Invisible Ink.
C. Widemann communicates a new
method of making an invisible ink to Zi/'e
Natur. To make the writing or the draw -
ing appear which has been made upon
paper with the ink, it is sufficient to dip
it into water. On drying, the traces dis
appear again, and reappear by' each suc
ceeding immersion. The ink is made by
intimately mixing linseed oil, 1 part";
water of ammonia, 20 parts; water, 100
parts. The mixture must be agitated
each time before the pen is dipped into it,
as a little of the oil may separate and float
on top, which would, of course, leave an
oily stain upon the paper.
An Insect that Secretes Prussic Acid.
It has often been noticed by gardeners
and others that some kinds of centipedes
when caught, or otherwise irritated, emit
an odor of prussic acid. G. Geldensteeden
has shown that the insects do absolutely
contain prussic acid, and Dr. M. Weber
points out that the acid is contained in
glands in the skin, which lie symmetri
cally on both sides of the creature. The
glands are situated in the adipose tissues,
are of an elliptical shape, and about 5
mm. long.
Professor Law says that “the great ma
jority of ringbone in young horses comes
from the failure to shorten the toes.” To
this may be added that ringboge is apt to
lie formed if colts are allowed to stand on
a plank floor, or anywhere else where the
footing is hard during the first eighteen
months of their age. When instable or
yard during this period let them have
earth for standing or walking, free from
stone or gravel. If their summer pasture
is a gravely soil, or even somewhat stony,
it is not objectionable, because the colt*
will always pick out springy turf enough
to stand and walk on without injury to
his feet, legs or joints.
Hens are early risers, and do not like
standing around on one foot waiting for
their breakfast. The morning meal with
them is the most important one of the
day. Boiled potatoes, turnips, carrots,-
anything in the vegetable line, mixed
with bran or shorts, seasoned with pep
per and salt, and fed warm, will make
any well regulated hen cackle with sat
isfaction. Feed a few handfuls of
wheat screenings at noon, and at night
give a liberal feed of whole grain of some
kind.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that goats
are the best land cleaners known. It is
said that a herd of 1,000 entirely cleared
five hundred acres of brush laml in three
years. Not a vestige of undergrowth was
left.
There are 85,000 people in West Vir
ginia who do not know how to read or
write, :
Working the Soil.
The Hural Messenger says thorough
working of the soil in cultivation is a
great source of fertilization. The soil
needs refining, opening, loosening, before
the roots of plants can penetrate it effect
ually in search 'of their appropriate
food. Through tillage breaks up the soil,
mingles its particles together in a more
homogeneous mass, opens it to the chemi
cal action of the sunbeam and the atmos
phere. liberates its stores of plant food,
and thus its fertilizing capacity is greutlv
enhanced without the application of a
single particle of manure mon* than the
soil itself possesses. Tillage, therefore,
is a powerful and important source of
fertilization. In other words the farmer
may greatly enhance the producing ca
pacity Os bis land simply by good and
thorough cultivation: so that cultivation
is manure, or may be made to take the
place of manure. This is an important
fact, for when the farmer is short of ma
nures. he may, by cultivating his land in
a more complete and perfect manner than
has l»een his wont, supply to his crop
enough of the elements of vegetable food
to yield paying returns. This, however,
is only true on the supposition that the
soil has not been thoroughly worked be
fore. It was once thought that thorough
tillage would continue to take the place
of fertilizers indefinitely, without the ap
plication of any foreign sources of fertili
zation, but this, as ought to have l»een
known from the first, is a mistake. Til
lage does not create fertility. It onlv un
locks the sources of it already existing in
the soil, and as there is a limit to these
in any soil, of course there must come a
time when under this process the supply
would lie exhausted. It is true that a
mellow soiltr’der cultivation is constant
ly receiving fresh supplies of certain ele
ments from the atmosphere, and if a soil
is allowed to rest it will gain fertility
without artificial aid. The process, how
ever. is too slow for practical purposes.
The farmer generally cannot afford to
wait so long and must go on cultivating,
although the strength of the land is con
stantly diminished.
This, then, is the chief end of cultiva
tion, to supply plant food to the crop. The
more thtyoughly this work is done the
more nourishment the plant will find, and
the greater will be the yield. Tillage
yields immediate returns’: manure both
immediate and future. The two together
pay from the start, and pay better the
longer they are followed. When there is
little or no manure, the tillage must la*
better, or there will be a falling off in the
crop; and when manure is abundant the
farmer need not cultivate so assiduously
and closely to secure a paying harvest.
Tillage is always necessary; manure al
ways beneficial. Crops may be grown on
fair land without manure,’but never to
j>erfection without tillage, and the more
thorough and exhaustive the tillage is.
the less necessity will there be for apply
ing fertilizers. Os course the cultivation
must always be of the right sort—sensi
ble, judicious, timely; it must leave the
soil fine, mellow, porous, so that the sun
beam and the air can freely act upon it
and impart to it the life and" vitality neces
sary to sprout the germ and feed the root.
A great deal of so-called tillage is no til
lage at all. So far as the best results go
the farmer might as well be playing foot
ball with a twenty-pound rock. But there
has been of late a manifest and rapid im
provement in the modes of tillage. Farm
ers are learning that it pays better than
buying fertilizers to put oh land that is
never worked.
Taking Care of Fresh Fork.
The livers of old hogs are not healthy
food for people, but the livers of healthy
pigs may be eaten by those who relish
them.
When cutting meat to cook, always cut
across the muscle. If cut lengthwise of the
muscle it is tough and indigestible, and al
most valueless.
Let the fat meat fry some time before
putting in lean pieces, as the latter fry
sooner than the. former and become too
hard before the fat pieces are done.
Do not salt fresh meat while frying un
til it is nearly cooked, as salting makes
the juice of the meat run out more and
the meat is not so tender.
Some people relish a sprinkling of sage
on freshly fried pork. The sage should be
dry, and pulverized and dredged on while
frying.
The tenderloins and spare-ribs are used
for fresh meat. When the spare ribs are
to be kept awhile, unless they can be
kept frozen and cool, they ought to have
the blood washed off before it becomes
dry, and some fine salt rubbed over
them.
The heads are opened, the brains re
moved, the eyes dug out, the ears cut off,
and all superfluous parts, with the snout,
removed. Some families bake the upper
part of the head, and salt the lower part
with the hams and shoulders to smoke.
Before baking the heads they should be
boiled till quite tender; a handful of salt
should be added to the boiling water, and
whether they are to be baked, made into
head-cheese or scrapple, each family can
best decide for itself, according to the cir
cumstanees and likings.
The legs are sometimes salted with the
pork; sometimes they are worked up into
head-cheese or scrapple.
Some people wash off the bloody pieces,
cut off some of the lean from the side pork
which is not so good salted, and work the
pieces into sausage. Some take a shoulder
for sausage. After cutting the sausage
meat up and grinding it through the ma
chine, it is seasoned with pulverized sage,
pepper and salt; then the easiest way
to dispose of it is to pack it in long,
narrow cloth bags and hang it in a cool,
dry and airy place. When wanted to
cook, rip down the bag till enough sausage
can be obtained for cooking. Add a lit
tle water and cook slowly.— Hural New
Yorker.
Profitable Bee Keeping.
Mr. G. M. Doolittle gives his account
with his bees for a period of ten years.
He says that a report of a very prosper
ous year is often misleading, but one ex
tending through a period of ten years
should approximate very nearly to what
might be expected for the same length of
time to come. His average yield for each
colony for the summer of 1873 was 80
pounds; 1874, about 100 pounds; 1875, a
little over 106 pounds; 1876, 50 pounds;
1877, a fraction of a pound less than 167
pounds; 1878, 71 pounds; 1879, 58 pounds;
1880, a little less thau 62 pounds; 1881,
nearly 135 pounds, and in 188-2, st was 51
pounds, making an average yieWl each
year for the past ten years of 88 pounds
per colony, five-sixths of which has been
comb honey. The average price at which
it has been sold is about 20 cents for com!)
honey, the highest price 28% cents, being
obtained in 1874, and the lowest 10%
cents in 1878. Thus the 88 pounds, at 20
cents a pound, gives sl7 60 average cash
yield for each colony. Hence, if a man
is capable of keeping 50 colonies, the in
come would be SBBO a year; if 100, it would
be $1,760. After an experience of four
teen years in the.bee business he can »ee no
reason why it does not compare favorably
with any other pursuit in life, as far as
dollars and cents are concerned, and when
one looks at it as a fascinating and health-*
giving pursuit, it places most other avo
cations in the shade.
The Light Brahma Fowl.
This breed of fowls has not merely held
its own, in the estimation of farmer and
fancier alike, ever since its introduction,
quite a number of years ago, but it is
steadily growing in favor. There are some
few objections which can be urged against
them, perhaps with truthfulness, such as
the fact that the young chicks remain bare
quite awhile, which makes them liable to
sun scald when hatched late, and that
they are not very active or enterprising.
Aside from this they are hardy, vigorous,
grow to large size, lay well winter and
summer (provided, of course, they have
the best of care, food and attention > and
invariably prove profitable, and especial
Jy so for their weight and quality of flesh.
A Fine Hair Dressing.
Cocoaine dresses the hair perfectly, and
is also a preparation unequaled for the
eradication of dandruff.
The superiority of Burnett's Flavoring
Extracts consists in their purity and great
strength.
The Storv Without an End.
Again, its great monetary value seems
almost monotonous. The 155th Grand
Monthly Drawing of the Louisiana State
Lottery at New Orleans, on April 10, has
this record: Ticket No 62,887 drew the
first grand prize of $75,0110, of which Henry
M. Kiessling, of No. 188 Dearborn street,
Chicago, 111., and A. Garnier Tricot, Ver
milionville. La, held each one-fifth. Ticket
No. 72,692 won the second capital of $25,-
000 —collected in one whole lump through
the Manufacturers’ National Bank of
Troy, for M. Connolly, of Troy New York.
Ticket No. 52,989 won the third capital,
SIO,OOO, and was sqld in fifths—one to Ed
win T. Eisenburg, Jr. (collected through
the Central National Bank of Philadel
delphia); another to 11. H. Harper, of St.
George’s. Colleton county, S. C.; another
to Wm. H. Hampton, ofTracy City. Frank
lin county. Tenn.; another to R. F. Kru
ger, No. 241 Fourth street, Milwaukee,
Wis. The two fourth capital prizes of
$6,000 each were sold to holders of tickets
No. 58,507 and 26.502 two-fifths were sold
to James R. Day, Malta Bend. Saline
county, Mo., and to parties in Fort Wayne,
Ind., and New Haven, Conn. For further
information, apply to M. A. Dauphin,
New Orleans. La., 1/efbre the next draw
ing on June 12th, when the grand capital
prize will be $150,000.
Delaney gained something at least by
his plea of guilty, in case escaping the
hangman is a gain. But the value of his
plea was of such use to the government
as a confirmation of the informers that the
government can well afford this slig
leniency.
Small Farms.
Nashville A meriean.
Small farms are coming more into sash
( ion every year down South, and this is a
i good sign. We find the Savannah ,V<’»rs
i saying to its readers that small farms
I mean a wider distribution of the* wealth
' of a country, and consequently more con
tentment and happiness among the peo-
I pie. I’he long list of advantages men
, tioned in addition to this feature is almost
j up to the danger line of fancy: but the
I subject is. after all. not too highly drawn
by the _V. »c*. and it is a healthful indica
tion that its readers are prepared to profit
. by giHHLadviee on this subject. No soc-
I tion has more clearly demonstrated the
advisability of farming on small tracts
than the neigliliorhoodof Savannah, where
truck farms almond and yield in the ag
gregate a handsome return. The people
of the cotton States have l»een slow to
break up their large possessions, as was
naturally to have been expected, hut the
•change is apparently in process now, and
will eventually gain full swing.
Connecticut derives the bulk of its reve
nue from taxing insurance companies,
savings banks and railroads, and from the
latter derives $500,000 annually. Except
ing on the railroads, the percentage of
taxation has been reduced, but the roads
vet pay the rate established during the
war. when the State was pressed for
funds. During the present session of the
Legislature representatives of the rail
roads came forward with a demand for
tax reduction, ami the finance committee
has reported a bill reducing the rate from
1 per cent, to seven-eighths of 1 per cent.
HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE
Drank with Soda Water
is delicious. All druggists have it. It is
refreshing and cooling. Try it often!
(fommrvrial.
SAVANNAH JIAKkEt.
Savannah. May 12, 1888, Ip.m.
Cotton.—The market opened steady, amt
closed quiet ami steady. W||li sales of 519 bales.
We give the official quotations of the Savan
nah Cotton Exchange:
Good middling 10 9-16
Middling. 10 3-16
Low middling 9 11-16
Good ordinary 9 1-16
Ordinary 7 15-16
< onijiUrative Cotton Statement.
receipts, Exports and Stock on hand May 12. 1883, and
EOR THE SAME TIME LAST YEAR.
1881-BS. 1381-81.
Sea Sea
, Island. Upland. Inland. Upland. \
Stock on band September 1. 66 5.331 378 11.588
Received to-day 5 2911 445
Received previously 11,926 791,072 17,047 693,531
Total 11.997 796,694 17,425 705,564 j
Exported to-day. 3,886 1,514 1
Exported previously 11,884 776,427 16,865 690,0471
Total 11.884 780,263 | 16,865 691,561
Stock on han't and on ship
bonrd this day 113 560 1 14.003]
Rice.—The market is quiet, with fair in
quiry, and prices firm and unchanged, sales
of 65 barrels were reported. We quote:
Broken 3%(54
Common ■*^s®' r>
Fair 5%«55%
Good 5- , K (op5 7 rt
Prime 6* H @o%
Choice nominal.
Rough-
Country lots fl 10<Al 15
Tide water. 1
Naval Stores.—Rosins opened and closed
steady, with sales of 3,167 barrels. We quote:
A. B, C, I> fl 50, E fl 50, F fl 55, G $1 70, H fl 80,
1 $2 00, K $2 05, M $2 35, N $2 50, window glass
$3lll2 1 2 . .Spirits tur|>eiitine opened and closed
steady. No sales were reported. We quote:
Regulars37c., oils and whisky's 36c.
naval stores statement.
Spirits. Ronin.
On hand April 1,1883 2.105 44,971
Received to-day 691 1,661
Received previously 15,485 43,207
Total 18,281 89,839
Exported to-day 703 1,981
Exported previously 11,924 51,362
Total 12,627 53,346
Stock on hand and on shipboard
this day, by actual count . 5,651 36.493
Receipts same day last year 440 1,261
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
Noon Report.
FINANCIAL.
Paris, May R. 2 p m—Rentes. 79f 90c.
Havana, May 11.—Spanish gold, 197%@
197%. Exchange steady; on the United States,
60 days sight, gold, 7%(<y7% premium; ditto
short sight, B%@B%premium; on London, 18%
@lB% premium.
New York, May 12.—Stocks weak. Ex
change-long, f 4 83'.,; short, $4 88%. .State
bonds neglected. Government bonds gen
erally unchanged.
COTTON.
New York, Maj- 12.—Cotton opened firm;
middling uplands 11c, middling Orleans ll%c;
sales 1,344 bales.
Futures: Market linn, with sales as fol
lows: May delivery, 10 04c; June, 10 06c;
July, 11 03c; August, 11 09c; Septcmlx-r, 10 60c;
October, 10 28c.
The Post's cotton report says: "Fnturede
liveries opened 8-100e. to 4-loOe. higher, and
closed 12-100 c. to 5-lOOc. higher, and dull but
steady. The total sales of the day were
61,000’bales.”
The total visible supply of cotton for the
World is 2,937,433 bales, of which 2,174,933 bales
are American, against 2,707.026 and 1,704.492,
respectively, last year. The receipts of cotton
at all interior towns for the week were 36,225
bales; receipts from plantations, 34,194 bales.
Crop in sight 6,717,564 bales.
PROVISIONS, GROCERIES. ETC.
Liverpool, May 12.—Lard. 59s 6d. Bulk
meats—long clear' middles, 535; short clear,
565.
Havana, May 11.—Sugar has an upward
tenuency: molasses sugar, 86 to 90 degrees po
larization, (i%@7%’ reals, gold, per arrobe;
muscovado, common to fair, 7%W7% reals;
centrifugal, 92 tonedegrees polarization. 8' 2
@9 reals.
New York, May 12.—Flour opened dull
and unchanged. Wheat opened quiet and %
(o%c higher. Corn firm ami higher.
Pork steady; mess, S2O 37%f<£20 50. Lard weak
at 11 95c. Freights quiet and steady.
Baltimore, Maj- 1?. —Flour opened quiet
and unchanged; Howard street and Western
superfine, $3 25@4 00; extra, $1 25(<55 00;
family, $5 120r4’> 25; city mills superfine, $3 25
r®4 00; extra, fl 2504,6 50; Rio brands. $6
6 25. Wheat—Southern steady; Western,
firmer and 'lull; Southern, red $1 170/1 22,
amber $1
red on spot, fl 21%©1 21%. Corn—Southern
steady;; Western higher and dull; Southern,
white 60@64c; yellow 626 c.
NAVAL STORES.
New York, May 12.—Spirits turpentine,
42%c. Rosin, $1 75/a.l 80.
Evening Report.
financial.
New Orleans, May 12.—Exchange, New
York sight fl 50 ]»er SI,OOO premium; bankers’
sterling. $4 83%<a,l 84.
New York, Sfaj- 12.—The weekly statement
x>f the associated banks shows the following
changes: Loans decreased $56,400; specie in
creased $4,252,900; legal tenders increased
$803,500; deposits increased $6,626,800; circu
lation increased 44.800; reserve increased
$3,397,700. The banks now hold $5,003,825 in
excess of all legal requirements.
New York, Maj' 12.—Excnange, f 4 83.
Government Ixsuds irregular and mainly
higher; new five ]>er cents, 102 bid: fourand a
half percents, 113 Vi; four per cento, 119%;
three percents, 102%. Money 2%(<0 per cent;
closed offered at 3. State Ixmds neglect<-d.
Sub-Treasury balances—Coin, 4115,440,000:
currency, $7,742,000.
Six-culation on the Stock Exchange to-day
has lx-en quiet and generally - weak. The mar
ket opened irregular, but in the main slightly
lower than it closed yesterday, while Cleve
land, Columbus. < incinnati and Indianapolis
opened 1% and Memphis and Charleston 1 per
cent, higher. During the first hour the mar
ket was dull but generally firm,
and prices sold up per cent., led by
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, After this
a selling movement set in, which resulted
about middaj' in a decline ranging to 1%
percent., in which C. C. < . A L. Norfolk and
Western preferred, Ixuiisville and Nashville,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and the
Omahas were;the greatest sufferers. In the
early part of the aftern/x/n there was a gen
eral rally. extending I@lJ ( |x-r cent, but from
then till sbortlj- Ix-fore 2 o'clock the market
was again weak’, and underthe lead of Louis
ville and Nashville, which dropped to 48 7 H
and Central Pacific to 73- M , prices
fell off ‘ 1’ ' per cent. In the la 1
hour there was an improvement ot '
per cent. the latter for Louisville
and Nashville, but in the final dealings this
was lost, the market closing weak at alxvut
the lowest prices of the/lay and%@l%j>er
cent, below the closing figures of the day.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western arid
Southwestern stocks lx-iug the heaviest suf
ferers in thedajr’sdecline. Transactions 343,-
600 shares, at tlie follow ing quotations:
Ala.classA,2tos 83 Manhattan Elev. 44%
Ala. classA,small’B4 Memphis & Char. 41
Ala.classß, 5s .101 Metropolitan EL. 81
Ala. clans C,.to Michigan Central 92%
Georgia 6s lo2* Mobile A Ohio 16
“ 7s, mortgag<.”lo7 Nash. A Chatt’a 52
“7s, gold . *114‘7 N. J. Central . 77%
Lonisiana consols <>4% New Orleans Pa-
N. Carolina, old. *3O ci lie, Ist mort 89
“ new . .*l6 N.Y.Central lzi%
“ funding . 10 New York El 104
“ special tax ”5 Norf. &W. pref. 40%
So. Caro. Brown, Nor. Pacific,com. 50% I
consols 103 “ pref. 87%
Tennessee 6s. old *40% Ohio&MiMissippi 32
“ new *4O “ “ pref. 100
Virginia 6s *4O Pacific Mail 41
Va consolidated.*36 Pittsburg . 130
Va! deferred .10 Quicksilver .8
Adams Express 127 “ preferred . 401
Am’can Express 91% Beading 5:4%
Ch'peakc A Ohio. 2>i Itu hm’dAAl'gh’y 12
Chicago A Alton 132 Richm’d A Danv 63%
Chic. 4 N’rthw'n 13:4 Richm’d A W.Pt.
“ preferred 150% Terminal "34%
Chic, St.L.A N.0.*80 Rock Island 123%
Consolid’ted Coal 24 St. Louis It San F 33
Del., Lack. A W 124 “ “ pref 53%
Den.iliioGrande 49% “ “Istpref 98
Erie 35% St. Paul . 103%
E. Tennessee Rd 9% “ preferred 119%
Fort Wayne 133% Texas Pacific ...38%
Hannibal ft st. Jo’l l Union Pacific 9.7%
Harlem . 194 U.S. Express .. 56
Houston 4Texas.'73 Wabash Pacific xo
Illinois Central 143% " “ pref 45%
Lake Shore 109 Well ft Fargo .121 1
L’ville ft Nash... 49% Western Union .>3
•Bid. 1 Asked.
MINIATURe'aI.MANAC—THIS DAY?
Scn Rises s:im
SvnSkts 6:50
High Water at Ft Pulaski. 12:24 am, 12:46Pm
SUNDAY. May 12 83.
ARRIVED YESTERDAY.
Steamship Wm Lawrence. Hooper. Balt
more—.fas R West ft Co.
Steamer City of Bridgeton, Fitzgerald. Fer
nan.lina—Woodbridge ft Harriman.
CLEARED YESTERDAY.
'-teamship 1 >tj of savannah. Catharine.
Philadelphia—G M Sorrel.
''teamship Nae<xH'hee. Kempton, New York
—G M Sorrel.
Bai k Jo.va Nor. 'soreusen. Am terdam
A Fuliartoa ft Co.
SAILED Y ESTERDAI.
>team-lnpi ity ot Savauuab. Philadelphia,
steamship Naeoochee. New York.
Bark < aleb k Nor). < onmna.
selir A Denike. Baltimore. •
MEMORANDA.
Tylx'e. May 12, 6:20 p m—Passed up, steam
ship Wm Lawr«*nce.
Passed out, steamships City of Savannah,
Nacoochee, bark < aleb ■ Nor).
l ame down and anchored, schr A Denike.
w ailing, bark Boomerang (Sw .
M inds, fresh; cloudy.
New York. May 12—Arrived. Elbe, Dovan.
Freja, Nederland. Thornholme.
Later— Arrived, Silesia.
Arrived out, Pavonia, Rhein, Autocrat,
Astrea. Utlda. Chrysolite, Wellington; Cor
gal. stormy Petral’ from Queenstown for
Norfolk, is’ aground in Carlingford Lough,
and is in a bad position).
New York. Ma\ 10 —Cleared, sehr Mary F
t arson. Bay lev, Jacksonville.
vile. May 9-Arrived, bark Frisia (Dtchi,
Boswvk. Darien for ilarlengen.
Baltimore, May 19— Arrived, schr Crissie
M right. < lark. B’riilisvv ick.
Philadelphia. May 10—Cleared, sclir<<t*oS
Marts. Henderson, Savannah.
Vineyard Haven, May 9—Arrived, schr Ar
thur Burton. Crockett. Boston for st Simon's,
Ga.
Darien. May 11—Arrived 10th. bark Romu
lus <Nor . Noi-d. Porsgruud; 11th. bark Au
rora 'vv , Rose, Rouen; 10th, sehr Joseph
Hilton, Rogers, .
Cleared 9th. bark Northern Queen (Br). Dol
lar, Amsterdam; 10th, schr Fannie Kimmey,
New Ixmdon.
RECEIPTS.
Per steamer < itv of Bridgeton, from Fernan
dina— 2 bales wool, 1 bale hides, 28 COW hides,
25 bbls rosin, 7 bbls spirits turpentine, 24 bbls
■ and 14 crates cabbages, 13 crates cucumbers,
20 pkgs mdse. /
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway.
May 12—1 bale cotton, 105 lx»\es tobacco, J 2
eaddies tobacco, 10 eases Ix'er. 1 boxed piano,
5 blocks granite, 1 car cattle, 1 horse, ami
mdse.
Per Savannah. Florula and Western Rail
way, Mav 12—89 bales cotton, 21 cars lumlier,
1,532 bbls rosin. 610 bbls spirits turpentine. 103
bbls and 3,39scrates vegetables. 11 refrigera- <
tors strawberries, 12 bbls pottery, 5 bales moss, V
6 bah's rags, 12 sacks rice, 1 lot h li goods, I car
Ixvx headings, 4 cars wood, 1 car cattle. 2 ears
meat, 3 bales wool. 8 bales hides, and mdse.
Per Central Railroad. May 12—194 bales cot
ton. 162 boxes tobacco, 145 caddies tobacco, 30
lubs butter. 27 bbls whisky, 25 pkgs mdse, 20
bales domestics. 17 bales yarns, 20 pkgs furni
ture, 15 boxes candles, 16 bills rims. 12 tierces
hams, 6 bales plaids, 4 kegs lead. I cases Sta
tionery, 4 k d carts. 4 bales rags, 2 bait's naiier
stock. 2 Ixixe- IxHiks, 2 boxes hardware, 12 lixs
machinery, 3 cases wine, 1 hf bbl beer. 3 cases
empty cans, 2 copper fountains, 1 Ihi\ dve
material. 1 Imx steam guages, 2 lots h h goods,
2 Ihixcs g ware, 1 case shoes, 1 irom drum acid,
1 cylinder ami ram, 1 box drugs, 8 Ixixes eggs,
2 cases cigars, 12 cars lumber, 1 car cement, 1
car cattle. 551 bills rosin, 229 bbls spirits tur
pentine.
EXPORTS.
Per steamship Nacoocliee. for New York
880 bales upland cotton, 39 bales domestics. 26
bbls rice. 1,430 bbb-; naval stores, 96,699 feet
lumber. 12 Ixixes fruit, 773 bbls and 6,779 crates
vegetables, 375 pkgs mdse.
Per sieamshipt ity of Savannah. for.Phjlß .
delphia—493 bales upland cotton, 78 bales do- N!
inestics, 74 bbls rice, 897 bbls naval stores, |
‘►4,990 feet iumlier, 583 bbls ami 2.401 crates
vegetables, st; bales paper stock, 1,127 empty
bbls and kegs, 14 bbls nnd 1 hhd iron, 21 tons
louse iron, 30 casks clay, 55 pkgs mdse.
Per bark Josva (Nor), for Viusterdam—39B
]iieees pine timlx-r, measuring 347,173 super
licial feet; 20« i pitch pine deals, measuring
18,694 feet.
PASSENGERS.
Per steamship Tallahassee, Horn New York
Mrs Arnold. W Bimley, B J < randall, W
Furman, M B < lawson.’N G Bozeman.Dr
Kellogg, Mrs Wing, G L Wilson, < W Pike, s
B Sheppard, J W Freeman, and 5 steerage.
Per sleamship Uityof Savannah, for Phila
delphia John < Mei all, F l> \an Alatyne,
Mrs J II Patzki, Rev E Wortz, Miss Anna
Roberts, Mrs E < Roberts, Miss May Florence,
Misses Jennie and Nellie Penrose, < harles W
Meadowcraft, Adam Strain, wife and 2 chil
dren, M <>'< allaghan. Miss Julia Jacobs, YV T
Duhring, and 4 steerage.
Per steamship Nac'xiehee, for New York—
Mrs Friedman and child. Miss Maria L Gil
bert, Mrs A W GillxTt.TA Darby,A G Black
man, A S lewis nnd wife. Mrs Scott and
maid, Edward Winter, Geo W Edwards, Miss
Susie Wooley, Miss Z storm. Miss Julia stach,
Eutil Klein, Geo Ernst Jr, Mrs D 1 Bacon,
Mias Newman, Mrs J I. Newman, F H Jach
ens, R K Fisher, Mrs M M Humphries Mrs A
E Boardman, Mrs J H Bostwick, Mrs GC
Tallman, It F Lyon and wife, Miss A < Lyon,
Mrs < Barber, Mrs Robert Johnson, J H Bost
wick, Wm Grayson Mann, Frank Smythe, A
I‘ Proctor. Aaron Fend, J M Frank, M E Car
ter and wife. Miss Clark, Mrs N Alvord Jr, J
J Pilsliury and w ife. Miss Helen Bradshaw,
Mrs F Tray. Mr Brevoort, It C Bradley, wife,
andchil'l, J 1. Ripley, John Neilson, Miss M E
Smith. Miss Hattie V Smith, J M < ad well and
wife, Miss Fannie I'i Seamens, Mrs J < urtis.
Miss Latti re, Mrs Lattimore. 11 S Clark, D
F Tyler, E W Andrews, A Dawson. Miss Anna
Quackenlxiss, Miss Bertha Bodine, Leslie
Merideth, .1 It Hazen, Hubert Hernandez and
servant, W M.Mi rw iu, George T Smith, Ts
Walsh, II A Barties, 11 W Hasselkus, E M
Smith, II French, J It Pineo, J E Gable, and 7
steerage.
Per steamer Ci tv of Bridgeton, from Fernan
dina—Jno Nelson, Mi-s Jacobs. Mrand MrsS
< ase, Mr and Mrs J M Cndvvell, G A Wright,
Jno Whiting, It H Ix-e, F L Southern, J B
i alvin, < apt F J Magill, Mr and Mrs M E
t arter. Mis V. oolev. Miss Storm, Miss (dark.
Miss Hart, I L Ripley, 11 E Clark, II ESmitli,
DFTvler, 11 VI Rogers Jr, Mrs A L Alvord,
Miss Butler. Miss Gibbs, Mrs and Miss Latti
more, < apt < onnauglit, Mr Fernandez, and 4
deck.
JStirrt HdUioaDo
SPRING SCHEDULE.
THREE TRAINS A DAY
—TO—
Isle of Hope and Montioniery.
GENERAL MANAGER’S OFFICE, i
City and Sibcruan Railway/.
Savannah, April 20. 1883. S
ON and after April 22d the following daily
schedule will be observed:
OUTWARIU
LEAVE ARRIVE I LEAVE | ARRIVE
CITY. 18LE HOPE, j ISLE HOPE | MONT’O’Y
10:25 A. M. 10:55 A. M. . 11:00 A. M.TTi:3OA.M.
3:25 P. SI. 3:55 p. M. 3:58 P. M. 4:28P.M.
7:10 i*. m. 7:40 p. m. | 7:13 p. m. | B:UP.M.
INWAKD.
LEAVE ARRIVE LEAVE ARRIVE
MONT’G’S- ISLE HOPE. ISLE HOPE CITY.
7 :35 AM. 8:05 A. M. 8:10 a7m7 8:40 A. M.
12:15P.M. 12:45 p.m. 12:50 p.m. 1:20 p.m.
j :25 p.m. 5:55 P.M. 6:00 p. M. 6:30 P. M.
Monday mornings early train - for” Mont
gomery only at 6:25 o’clock.
♦Sundays this is the last outward tram. Re
turning, leaves Montgomery 5:45, Isle of Hope
6:20, arriving in city 6:50 p. m.
Saturday night’s "last train 7:30, instead of
7:10. EDW. .J. THOMAS,
General Manager.
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f BEFORE AND AFT&V)
Electric Appliance* are sent on 30 Days’ Trial
TO MEH OHLY, YCUHG OR OLD,
arc Bu!r, ' l!Y ? Gora Nitavocs Psbility.
V V 1- > • VITALITY, LACK OF NkHVi’ Foi" Z AMI*
v>« K, w„n>., wuu e siß. rl(! ,ii
<.r i Pe::-.-.:.al Natvkb re* al ting from Amu and
I a' 'KA. Speedy r»-:.et and complete, resto.
r.'. ncrHEALTB.tr loaand Slashoopguaka- .■ ep
The grandest dlwovery of the Nineteenth Century
Bend at once tor lllar trated Pamphlet tree. Address
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