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AcfUg Uionstitnlion.
Fulton Democratic Ticket
TOR ORDINARY:
DANIEL PITTMAN.
NOR 8TTXRI7F:
AfJL PERKERSOH.
TOR CLKXK fCTERUMt «6CKI:
W. R.VENABLE.
roB OQU.ili nxAsons:
a M. PATHS.
to* tax SKcnrxs:
A. G. GRIER.
to* tax coluctob:
& HZ HOYLE.
B. 7. WALKER.
to* coroner:
WILLIAM KILE.
Atlanta. Tuesday, December 10.
DimqckaticTkiciifh ib Atlanta.—>The
nMn Democratic municipal ticket wu elect
ed In Atlanta on Wednesday jwith Hon. C.
C. Hammock for Mayor. The vote for May
or stood. Hammock, 2,133 ; T. Stobo Farrow
(Independen ). 1837—majority for Hammock
799. We congratulate the Atlantese upon
the triumphant victory of their regular tick
et. It tni a deserTed n hnke to independent
combination* to break the discipline of the
party, and Atlanta Democrat* cannot do bet
ter than to repeat the dose whenever occa
rion offer*. It is a healthful purge, and will
work off the entreating influences of IT-
ched coalition*.—Augusta Chronicle <t
mill'd
tmantry el stats flews.
WARRENTON.
The “noblest work of God” Urea In Olaa
cock county. He walked 14 miles through
freezing weather to pay a lawyer in Warren-
ton ten dollars. The gin house of Mr. J. A.
Scruggs, of Warren county, was destroyed
by Are on Wednesday. Eight or nine bags
of cotton destroyed with it.—Georgia Clip
per.
WASHINGTON.
Mr. O. Toombs, of this place, measured off
forty-eight acres of land on his plantation
ftair miles from Washington. He put on the
laud, ms a miner*, ,'cciinn seed and plaster,
no other being used, to the ralue of three
doDan and a half u> the acre. This Mr.
Toombs has gathered, ginned and packed
from these forty-eight acres forty-seven bales
of cotton, averaging in weight, 450 pounds
to the bale.— Waekmgton Gauite.
WATBZMtOBO.
W. J. Wimberly, of Burke, has been nom
inated by the Democracy as a candidate for
Ordinary. The stable of Mr. R. H. Barr, of
Waynesboro, was consumed by fire last Sun
day night.—Waynetbora Expositor.
Sunday morning the train on the Savan
nah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad
ran to the Chattahoochee, nine mile* west of
Newnsn, carrying about fifty excurtionbb.
.Wwnan Herald.
The epizootic Is on the increase in Barnes-
ville. Several deaths among the hones in
thbricinitT during the laat week. The crops
cf rye and barley, sown a month or two
since, arc lot ting exceedingly fine since the
laat shower of rain. We do not believe the
farmers are sowing as mneh land with wheat
this season as they did last. Cotton will be
the crop next year.—AtnumsZb Gazette.
LUXTKCr.
Dogs are dying freely around town. Some
every day. Don't know whether it is the
rpisooUc at not—Lumpkin telegraph.
The horse disease, in mild form, is in Mad-
ham. Waltons Bros™ have commenced mov
ing their steam saw and shingle mill to Sa
vannah. Morgan county needs an Agricul
tural Association. The Georgia Railroad is
evidently doing afincbusiness noth in frriahts
and passengers. A good deal of real and
personal property was sold in Greensboro on
Torstlsy last Land told from $8 to $10 per
sere, bought mostly by legatees. Union Point
is doing a lively business. Cotton coming
in, goods selling, and the place Improving.
Mm.
The horse malady exists in a mild form in
oar city. The new bridge over the Etowah
lathe' ‘
. The commissioners have let out the poor
boose of Perry, for the year 1878. to Mr. R
F. Avaunt, for two hundred and fifty dollars.
The yoong people of Perry propose to have
a maaqnrrade party on the 24tb or Decern
her. Rev. A B. Gailliard and William McCay
organized a 1’rfsbytcrian Church in Fort
VaUey last Saturday. The Hawkinaville
Bank end Trust Company baa been organized
with Charles T. Latrop as President.—Home
The Baptist Church 'of this city Is to be
repaired and otherwise beautified. The citi
zens of Americas have presented Captain W.
N. Freeman, who has been Marshal of the
dty, revlened and intends moving to Texas,
with a silver salver, pitcher and two goblets,
as a testimonial of thetr appreciation of his
worth aa f citizen, and efficient discharge of
hi* doty as an officer—Amerieue Republican.
About $50j000 worth of property sold in
Culhbast on Tuesday las'- Cuthbert now
has #so tiro engines.—Cuthbert Appeal.
Alim*
A young lady walking down Broad street,
Tuesday morning, dropped a certain article
of dram. Upon being pit ked op and opened
it was found to remain five numbers of the
Georgian, three pounds of loose cotton, four
towels and other article* The horse disease
» abating la Athena There was a row at
WatkinaviU# on Saturday last between some
white men and negroes. A justice ordered the
bailiff to arrest the negroes and hesnoceeded
in arraatiag four of them. On Sunday night
the bailiff’* wood shop was burnt and he lost
about four bandied dollars in tool* timber,
etc. To prove certain points taken Ire coun
sel in a hog case in Athens, the animal wi
introduced Into Court.—A’brtieajt Georgian.
SAVANNAH.
Miss Charlotte Cushman, and Miss Char-
k*te Thompson, each, are to play in the city
during the season. Allan's has contrived to
get Profeasor Malloa from n* and now D.sh-
loarga steps hi to entice off Mr. Perry. We
^aiaaonr voice against the interior gobbling
tap onr teachers in this way. Their services
are needed here at home, and we can ill afford
•r las* in so short a time, two such men
Malkm and Perry.—Sanmnah Repubtiean.
The Committee of the Legislature to which
was referred the matter of direct trade and
immigration, met in this city on Fridas.
After dtscmstiag sundry letters and docu
ments they reached certain unanimous con-
duai ns in regard to the trading points in
lire scheme The establishment of direct
commnaicatlou between European and
tvuthsrn ports is con coded to be one of the
first and most important desideratum* They
resolved that it is necessary to organize and
maintain steamship communication between
Savannah and the part*' of Europe, with a
View of inducing immigration on the part of
are not dissimilar to our own. _
journal to meet in Savannah on.iheSStbinst
, language, etc.,
iwn. They ad-
Sheriff Bradford, of Mnecogre, shot and
dangerously wounded, on the 7th, a cegro
r carried from fall to the
'. when be pulled loose
Iran. TheBainbridge,
Cuthbert and Col umbos Railroad is to be
sold at pubUcoatery. Shippers alone bought
2,717 bale* of cotton In Columbus for the
week ending Friday, and street operalo: s
most hare purchased about 300, making a
tots] of 3,017 bale* The United Stales of-
ffrere are getiiag atone well in their survey
of the Chattahoochee and Flint riven.—Cb-
Cottnn—Be. 14.
Tire receipts this week are 110,000 bale*
35.700 more than last year, and 12,000 las
than two years sine* It Is likely the receip t
for next week will be about 145,000 biles,
compared with 121,000 last year, and 155,000
the year before; and the receipts at the inte
rior towns 85/100 bale* compared with
40,000 last year, and 49,000 the year before.
This week the weather has been clear and
cold one day, cloudy and windy one day,
and dear and pleaeant five day* Ho rale.
The thermometer has averaged 53 degrees at
noon—one day Iff degrees at 7, A it., and
30 degrees at noon.
The market in New T rt this week has
been active; large sales and a rise of f of a
cent in the pric* This Is aa we expected,
and b principally caused by estimates of the
crop being redoced, aa there are but few per
sons In this country who estimate the crop
otct three and a half millions at this time.
Many well informed persons pot the figures
at much lea* This lowering of the figures
for the crop has caused spinner* and ex
porters to buy much more freely. In fact it
b hard to supply the demand for good cotton
at the ruling rate*
The lightness of the mousy market, and
the necessities of planters are the onlj^ai
sons for the offerirga which have, so^V 1
only partially supplied the demand. Liver
pool has risen again this week, but the rise
for two weeks has been only 4 of a penny.
Momy is still high in Londoif,' and many
dealers in Liverpool and Manshester cannot
understand how this crop can be a smalt one,
when the receipts 10 far arc 200,COO bales
more than the great crop of 1870, which
turned ont nearly four and a half millions.
We believe they will wake up, some time
within the next month, to the fact of there
belrg a abort supply of g». d cotton for this
year’s consumption; and if they.ehonld,
there will be eome very active buying. We
have received a large number of letters lately
which state that thedmmoge toall late cotton
(which is about one-third of the crop) from
the frost the 15th of October, was fully SB
percent
Last mouth the receipts were 15 per cent
more than laat year for the same time. Add
this per cent to last year’s crop, and this crop
will be only 8,882/100 bale*
The receipt* lost month were 55 per cent
more than the year 1858 for the same time.
Add this per cent to the crop of that year,
and this crop will be 3527,000 bale*
We must recollect however, that in the
past four years many new railroads hive been
built many new gins have been started, and
planters all over the South are much better
prepared with stock to haul their coiton than
they were so soon after the war. If, as we
suppose, all these things have caused the crop
to come forward 10 per cent faster than four
yean ago, this crop will be but 8,325,000
bale* 80 it would seem that our estimate
sat week of 3,500,000 baleswss not too small
and possibly may be too large.
If there should not be an active
maiket and much higher prices before
the 27th of this month, we believe there will
be a strong rise about that time; as it
likely the stock in Liverpool at that date will
be down to 300,000bales,compared with 567,-
000 same time last year, and the total for stock
and afloat 050,000 bale* compared with 986,-
tOO same time last year. It is likely the
stock of American in Liverpool and afloat
for that port, on the 27th of December,
which is three weeks from this, will not be
over 200,000 bale* compared with 356,000
same time last year. This will be 156,000
bales less of American, for Liverpool,and we
know there was not a bale too much hut
year. The exports to the continent are sni*
prising to every one, and show the increasing
demand for good styles of American cotton.
If this apparently insatiable demand from
the continent continues, it will most surely
affect Liverpool and cause that mar
ket t> go much higher, however,
many persons suppose that as con
tinental spinners are taking to much from
this country they will take none from Liver
pool. In answer to this, we will state the
entire export of American cotton from Great
Britain for the four months of last year, end
ing December 81st, was only 25,000 bale*
whilst this yeas, for the same time, it has
already been 60,000 bale* and will likely be
10,0.0 more. The stock in Liverpool Is
882.000 bale* compared with 445,000 last
year this date. We give the figures for last
year and thi* and the quantity and kinds of
cotton composing the stock* which show
thst not only is American cotton scarce, but
all the better kinds are lees than last year.
1871. 1871
American 41.001
■mat Mono
Kgjp'tao, etc 30,000 loo
WrattedI* etc 10.000 T4.M0
Kart Inal* etc 300,100 rss.oor
44*000 28X000
The receipts of American cotton at Liver
pool for (he month of December, this year,
will not be over 150,000 bale* compared
with 854,000 last year and 877,000 the year
before tame time. The India crop is late,
and the receipts at Bombay and auipments
thence to Liverpool,compared with last year,
for the past two month* is surprising—re
ceipts 22,010 bales against 90,000 last year,
shipments 11,000 bales against 67,000 last
year.
We give here the quantities and kinds of
cotton bought at Liverpool by spinners for
three year* up to this dale. Three figures are
tie weekly averages:
1870 1871 1S72
amortize ~
Brasil.
mitaam. ■
West Irdian. etc 1.260 *100 *120
Kart India* etc 11,780 *10) 11,810
MAM ’MAW
It will he seen from the above figures thst
whilst they have bought less American they
have taken about the same quantity of Brazil
and Egytian that they did two years ago. This
they will not be able to do next yearns the firm
prices of this year hare iwept the cotton
conn tries of all old stock*
The imports into Liverpool this je*r,
compared with last year for the different
kinds of cotton, have been of American 60
per cent, of Brazil 150 per cent, of Egyp
tian 103 percent, of West Indian 120 per
cent., of East Indian 100 per cent; total 84
per cent of last year, or 8,023,401 against
3/K4510.
As to the future wo weald advise our
friend* if any of them ere short on the mar
ket, to cover at one* If they want to boy,
to do to now. Our planting friends will al
ways do well to sell their cotton when they
con get sorb flue prices as they are now of
fered.
alerting of the Joint Committee on
Direct Trade and Immigration.
The Legislative Committee on Direct
Trade and Immigration met yesterday morn
ing, and after reading and discussing certain
document* adjourned to meet at the City
fVltvnoil ('KtmhdV thi a Amor mt Q n’eln W
Prize-Fighting In the Eait-A Boltalo
and a Tiger ta Conahat. '
A correspondent of lhe London £ tankard,
writing from Hong Kong, on October 12,'des
cribing one of the entertainments supplied by
the Mnharajtr of Singapore to the Grand
Duke Alexi* in honor of the visit of the lat
ter to the island. He says: “ After luncheon
the party proceeded to witness a fight between
a buffalo and a tiger. Those who bare never
seen a combat of this kind would have been
inclined to bet freelly on the latter; but the
natives arid the chances were in favor of the
buff Jo, and indeed, that the tiger was never
known to win. The arena in which the ani
mals were to fight was of an oval form, some
fifty feet leng by about twenty wide, in an
enclosure of bamboo poles, fifteen feet high,
firmly driven into the ground and strongly
fattened together. Similar poles, laid across
the top, form the root The whole structure
had the appearance of a gigantic cage. A
platform bailt outside, enabled the more dis
tinguished visitors to have a good view of
the interior from a safe distance through the
space between the pole* while the general
psblic crowded round the cage as dose as
their respect f/rr the claws of the tiger would
allow. The boflitlo was confined to one end
of the csge by a canvas curtain stretched
across the arena; the tiger was enclosed at
the other extremity by po.esplaced across from
one wall to the other. When the fight was
to begin the curtains were withdrawn, the
poles were removed, and the animals were
for the first time seen by the spectat ra.
The buffalo stood for some moments at his
end of the cage, looking with little apparent
interest toward bis foe. The tiger was sit
ting on his bsnnche* seemingly unconsious
of the presence of his formidable adversely,
his attention being attracted by the crowd
outside. After waiting some time, the buf
falo seemed to think be might as well make
a < laser inspection, and slowly and deliber
ately walked to the other end. The tiger
was now clearly aware of his presence, lor
he turned his head over his shoulder and
watched the approach of the buffalo with evi
dent anxiety. His eye glued, but Be did not
move a muscle. • •
The buffalo wss almost near enough to
touch him with his muzzle. But at length,
and before the buff-Jo made any sign of at
tacking him, he jumped up and galloped off
aa fast aa his legs could carry him round the
csg* The buffalo followed, and jammed
him against the wall with his horns. The
tiger, in return, gave the buffalo one scratch
on the back and another over the eye, just as
a cat. mightdo.aud then fell apparently dead.
But his breathing betrayed him; he was only
shamming.
Noone seemed to understand this betterthan
the buflalo, who stood close by, and kept his
eye on him, bat disdained to touch him while
he was down. For sometime the two ani
mals maintained their respective positions,
■IQ at length the public began to be impatient.
They stirred up the tiger with a pole, but that
was of no use; then they tried crackers, and
for some time they succeeded no better. It
was not till a bundle was thrown close to the
tiger’s nose Ibst he got thoronghly roused,
But be had evidently no intention of fight-
ing. He again ran round the csg* wu again
pursued by bis relentless enemy, and wu
severely gored, and once more sank to the
ground.
This process wu repeated several times,
always with the same result—the tiger would
not fight the buffalo, and the buffalo could
not kill the tiger. At length the men on the
roof lowered a rope with a noose in the end,
in which they caught up the tiger by
one of his hind legs, and while he
»as hanging the buffalo completely
finished him. But the Grand Dnke
wu spared the pain of witneuing the latter
part of the spectacle, u he left when the tiger
counterfeited death for the second time. The
natives were right—the tiger fights unwil
lingly when he cannot surprise his enemy.
But the Rajah has taken unusual pains le
make the combat as rqual u possible, far the
tiger was a very savage one, while the bnffa
io, bat two days before, had been quietly
drawing a cart along the road.”
A Tolls Willi Tyndall.
Tbns standing and looking ont, Tyndall
TBOCILI IB TB1BD ITREKT.
Mystertoas .Woolf eaustlona In a Hass:
H4 Hama— Brickbats aa A Dishes
Dancing a CTaltx-Cbank.af
Coni Sped Across me
Basms—Bo Solmtion
•f ike Wystery.
Charleston is determined not to be behind
the times, even in things so unsubstantial as
ghost* The excitement of the Surrency
mystery hu hardly died away, and the mem-
eve w o%9 tlm 5fsL as, a A ■ T a a—*—2— — . 7
WILD WAWKEEN.
MORE REMARKABLE FACTS ABOUT
JOAQUIN MILLER.
HOKSES AND SQUAWS.
-like a colossal porcelain-lined preserv
ing kettle, without the lid—lying opposite to
a* up, up among the peaks, between the
Jungfrau end the Eigcr,.and called our atten
tion to the massive walls of ice directly facing
ns, over which, he said, he, with a small par
ly, had been slowly and painfully making
tneir way, at the same date the year before.
The H-itb.il I think be called it, though in the
AVGUSTA.
R. F. Urqnhart hu been elected President
of the Angtuta IceCompiny. Oa Thunder
night Allen Branch, colored, wu robbed at
the hones of Allen Pinckney, colored, of one
hundred dollars. The epizootic is disappear
ing from August* Mr. & P. Wei tiger lost,
on Saturday, n pocket book containing three
thousand two hundred dollar*—Okrwvefa
and tSentineh.
l>e
Vr. Richard Gilbert,of Wilkes concty, died
on Saturday lasL
In Franklin, on the 5lh bet, Mr* M.J.
Btittri
Mr* Katin* of Athen* died one day last
week.
Judge Isaac Cherry,of Talbot county, pro
prietor of the Chalybeate Spring* in Me.-n-
n:y, died b Ootarabos on the «th
Mr. S H. Smith, from Fatak* m, died In
Mr. John BeddingHe!)], of Jefferson county,
died one day last Week.
Mr. J. W. Alexander, of Jefferson county,
died 00 Monday last.
Council Chamber this day at fio’clo. k.
The committee have found it impossible to
prepare a report nntU more ample informa
tion hu been gathered, and in picturing thi*
the co-operation of our merchants and others
is invited.
An interesting letter from Mr. Edward
Farrenc, of Pan* wu read, extracts of which
are given in another column.
The Committee seem utb-fi. d that direct
au am communication with Europe would be
the first practical step towards securing the
obircl submitted to them.
Toe Direct Trade and Immigration Com
tnittee returned their session yesterday morn
ing, and alter further Consideration of im
portant topic* adjourned to meet on the 23iD
ot December, of which farther notice will be
given.
The proceed! n-rs have been harmonious,
and the future labors of the Committee are
likely to present valuable plans for legislative
action. The Committee, expecting further
information, have not yet made any
report, bat have invited from the Auxiliary
Committee of citizens a written statement of
their views: and thi* when completed, will
be given to the pres*
The committee desire to express their
thank* to the Cite Council and their courte
ous Executive officer* and to the gentlemen
who kindly waited upon them.
The Rev. Wm. McKay, formerly of Man
chester, England, took part in the deiibera-
** ' * ’ ’ matter of interest.—Siran-
t3T Olive Logan says: “I am not fickle;
lt»t do yon know that whenever I get a beau
and come to like him I find axotl.er m.w t
like.better?"
face of the dazzling, sheeney whiteness,
which wu all we could see, the name seemed
Ametbing of a misnomer. It wu the old
story—slow, careful cutting of steps in a
steep diagonal, the guide going ahead, hack
ing away in the almost perpendicular surface
of the glacier wall the few inches of indent
ation which offer a bold to the hobnailed
boots of the climber—one from which the
tyro would shrink and fall in sheer terror, or
be bruised by tiro slightest gust, but to which
the trained mountaineer clings with the te
nacity. and almost In the attitude, of a fly on
■hewalL
I could not but remark, in looking at him,
the spare but well-knit, elastic figare; the
firm jaw, and keen, determined glance of the
clear, gray eyes, which spoke the man ready
for all emergencies, and wu curious to know
how long be trad been training for his moun
tain work. It wu somewhat of a surprise
to leant that his clambering wu almost of a
recent date, and wu first taken up in com
paratively middle life, on occasion of a jour
ney to Switzerland to recuperate bis nervous
enetgy, exhausted with overwork in bis Lon
don professorship. Since that time, he said,
he came over every season, frequently very
seriously out of condition, bat never failed
to return, af’er a few weeks’ glacier work,
completely re-invigorated in mind and body.
The same testimony to the inestimable value
as a nervous tonic, of high glacier sir and
exercise, was afterwards furnished me by that
admirable scholar and moat amiable of diplo
mat.-, Geo. B. Marsh, wh.we habit i* or was,
on all pr-ssible occasions to pass a considera
ble part of the summer in expeditions above
the snow-line.
From climbing we drifted on to books and
literature, especially in America. I found my
comDan.on singularly well-informed in our
literature, and (specially enthusiastic about
Ralph Waldo Emmerson, who he pronounced
with some energy by fsr the greatest mind in
onr literary annul* Such an admiration,
coming from a professor of physical science,
sounded a little surprising. It hu been am
ply explained, however, by later utterances
of Tyndall, which have made plain to us
that, along with bis study of material forces,
he has always maintained a lively and sym
pathetic interest in the subtler refinements of
imaginative or metaphysical thought, and
that side by side witb’his scientific formnlie
hu always lain, bait hdden, a spring of
fresh poetic feeling and appreciation which
ha* in an evident way, permeated and
adorned all his severer labor*—From Scrib-
oar’s Monthly f.r December.
South Carolina flew*
Nearly every horse in Abbeville is down
with the epizooty.
Mr* R. H. Martin and daughter, of Gra
ham* on the line of the South Carolina Rail
road, were burned to death by their clothes
catching fire, on Wednesday last.
The ehoets have rescued Charleston and
are puzzling the reporter*
ory of the dish-thrdwing brickbatting and
clock-twisting Is still fresh in the popular
mind, when a genuine Carolina spirit, which
makes no distinction on account of race,
color or previous condition, awakes from its
slumber and drives a whole household into a
state of frenzied terror.
THX SCORE or TBS TROUBLE
is a quiet looking two-story house on the
north side of Tradd street, three doors west
of Meeting street It hu long been looked
npon u a haunted house, because of the
pranks wh ch ghostly visitors were said to
playatnight One of the former tenants wss
startled by seeing live coals hop out of the
fire-place and skip across the room; unearthly
noises were heard in rooms, the doors of
which were locked and bolted; just before
cock-crow thecoveriDg was violently dragged
off the beds, leaving tne hapless slumbertrs to
shiver in the cold. The subjects of these
pleasant experiences moved away in a hurry,
and the house, which is now rented by a col
ored woman, named Emma Moultrie, rested
m peace until last Monday at noon, when
THE BFIRITOAI. high-jocks began.
Emma Moultrie was at her shop in King
street; two of her friends, named Priscilla
Simmois and Carry Butler, remaining in
charge of the hytse. The front door, which
opens “n the gardbn, was not closed, and,
soon after midday, a lamp of coal was thrown
into the front room, and fell upon the floor.
A little later a small piece of the mineral
whizzed into the room. Ho attention was
paid to these occurrences, it being thought
that some bad boys outside were the culjfrits.
But Priscilla Simmons grew tired of the one-
sid£ game, and sent a child to the door to
drivethe boys away. Ho one was to be seen.
The child remained on guard, and while it
was there another Mece of coal flew across
the room, coming, mis time, tram the oppo
site or north side. The two women hastily
closed and fastened the doors, and rar*
stairs to a small room on the second Bt
every door and window in which they care-
fuliyshut. Theyhadhsrdlycomposedthem-
selve* when, in quick succession,
TWO CHUNKS OF COAL BARGED ACROSS TEE
^■Boarc,^!
and these had hardly come to a dead stop
when a child’s doll ou the mantel sprang from
its place and flew across the room, striking
heavily against the wall This was too much
for ordinary nerve* The two women made
for the door, but before they could get out a
hair brush, os if instinct with life, darted after
them. They flew down stairs, closely fol
lowed by a glass medicine bottle which
reached the ground floor at their heel*
PALSIED WITH FRIGHT, *
the women sent for some of their friend* and
dispatched * messenger for Emma Moultrie,
who is a quiet, sensible woman, not easily
scared When she reached the honse,-with
several acquaintances, she closed the outer
doors and set to work to investigate the mys
tery. This wss about half past six. As the
conclave weie listening to the astounding
history
A DISH DARTED FROM THE CORNER
of the room, in full view, and fell, without
breaking, it a rocking-chair, which chair
rocked steadily for several minute* The
myterious part of the operation is that the
dish was known to be outside of the house,
in a tub. When Emma Moultrie and her
friends came in. Just before this a quantity
of nubbinsof ■
COAL CLATTERED DOWN STAIR*
to the surprise of the whole party. These
were growing rather weak in the knees, but
tbey managed to keep up their courage until
a large brick was thrown with great force
from the back room into the front
Tula demoralized the ghost-seeker* who
beat a hasty retreat The few who remained
witnessed pieces of coal and bricks darting
across the room at intervals of five or ten
minutes, and latest night Emma Moultrie
sent to the guard-house and asked for help.
A detective went to the spot and examined
the whole building. Doors were found
locked and windowsbarred. Every hcle and
corner was looked into, and the dust of aces
severely scrutinized. There were the brick-
backs and the lamps of coal, but there was
NO SION THAT HUMAN AQE5CT
had anything to do w th the mysterious busi
ness. Things were quiet for the rest of the
night. Early yesterday morning a number
of curious persons flocked to the spot.
Twenty perrons or more were standing in the
rooms peering about when a brick was
thrown from the north room into the south
room. Immediately afterward a similar
brick was thrown from the south room into
the north room. There was a general
stampede. Later in the day an old man
came in who declar&l that
Sluuta, CaL,Letter to the Cinrian&ti Comaercijl ]
Here and in this vicinity are the materials
for the unwritten history of Mr. Heiner Mil
ler, now better known to the literary public
as Joaquin (vVswisen) Miller. He resided
hereabouts for three years—1836 to 1859—aud
did not adopt his poetical title till some time
after bis hurried departure. His achieve
ments are still celebrated in local chronicles;
his Sbasis squaw still 1 ves near her* and in
the county are many traces of him. particular
ly in the county clerk’s office, the following
remarkable document:
“Slate of California, Shasta county.
The people of the State of California v*
Heiner Miller, in the Court ot Session* in
the county of Shasta, July term, 1859.
“Heiner Miller is accu-ea by the Grand
Jury of the couDty of Shasta, by this indict
ment. of the crimeo-f grand larceny, a felony
committed as follows:
“ That the said fifciner Miller, at the county
of Shasta, oa tbe-lOth day of July, A. D.,
1859, one gelding hprseof the value of eighty
dollars, one saddle of the value of fifteen dol
lars, and onebridittof the value of five, of the
property, goods and chattels of one Thomsa
Bass, then sod there feloniously and willfully
did steal, drive and take awsy, contrary to
the statute in such cose made and provided,
and again*! the peqee and dignity of the peo
ple of the State. |
"’Names of witnAes: ThomasBtss. Wil-
1 JAMES D. MIX,
District Attorney.
came back after bis return from Europe
he employed the Brock previously mentioned
to steal her and take her to San Francisco.'
She was soon missed by Kallokello, who sp
illed to Judge Rosborough, and a writ of lia-
teas corpus was issued to Brock, who.-fled
into the mountain* where he still remain*
Bat the child was on her way to San Fran
cisco, where she wss taken m charge by a
l ood family and given the name of Carrie
: iiller. She is attending school and making
rapid progress in her stndie* Being half
poet and half Digger, the onion of two such
tribes out to produce some remarkable tal
ent* John S. Fo'.ansbee, Esq., attorney has
in his hand for collection a claim against
Miller for her maintainance while watting to
be forwarded, iill er seems to be tike the
great poet in the sentiment, “Bus is the slave
who pay*”
Such in brief U the history of Joaquin Mil
ler in Shasta, and t ike it all In all if is about
ea beautiful a mess of romance and nastiness
as I have ever been called on to investigate.
WALD BLASTS.
The Lyon asd Tiger Trade-How the
BAonmrebs ef the Forest are Bought
and sold.
TENESSEE’S QUEEN CITY.
A Graphic Description of Knoxville
From Our Own Correspondent.
An Interesting Aggregation el Facts.
“Bountiful Knoxville ”
lismKappeL
[Indorsed.]
“Indictment—A True Bill.
“D. D. Hahhill, Foreman Grand July.
“Filed, July 19,1859.
“0, J. Van Horn, C. S.
, “By A. C. Taylor, Deputy."
4 [Authentication.] -
State of Califoraia»county of Shasta.
“I, Wm. H. Bickford, County Clerk in and
for the county of Siiaata, do hereby certify
the foregoing to beajtrue and correct copy
of the indictment as (he same appears on file
id my office at this time.
“[Seal]—Witness my band and seal this
twelth (I2lb) day of -November, A D., 1872.
“WM. [I. Bickford, Clerk.”
The document, although not strictly gram
matical, is suffleientir explicit; and alt the
till reside in this State, and the
In the course of my wanderings around
the city I cam* the other day, across a mon
opolist pur et simple. He is a trader on a
large scale, but is generally very careful not
to handle that live stock in which he deals;
nor for that matter, do any of his employee*
His business is the importation of every va
riety of wild beast and bird, from an elephant
to a guinea pig, from an ostrich to a Java
sparrow. Does the proprietor of a menagerie
lose his elephant, he repairs to this gentle
man’s repository. He states whether he
would prefer an African or an Asiatic ele
phant. He gives his order according to his
fancy, and in due time the animal arrive*
and Is immediately shipped to wherever his
new owner’s caravan may happen to be. If
an African lion is wanted, a di-patch is at
once sent to Capetown; if horned horses
giraffes, or rhinoceroses are' in demand, otders
are at once sent out to ship to New York all
that can be bought or found. The fact is,
this gentleman has some fifteen employees,
who are scattered over Africa and Asia, whose
sole business consists in collecting rare wild
animals for him. So complete are ail his
arrangements that none are found to com
pete with hixXt in the business. He has the
entire trade to himself, and '.rre'i-ea every
menagerie in this country with such animals
aa they need, from time to time. There are
over thirty menageries traveling about the
mnntrv event vear. Everv tear tiiev lose
HE DID NOT BELIEVE IN SPIRIT*
Id his opinion it wss a stupid trick; he
wasn’t afraid, not he? As he spoke a broken
bnck came from from the dead wall in the
northwest comer and sped across the room,
Just missine the top ot
THE BCORKER’S ROSE.
That old man stampeded and has not since
been seen at No. 64 Tradd street This was
st about 4 o’clock. Later in the evening
another brick flew ont, striking a woman on
the wrist and foot. The coal and bricks were
thrown with amazing force, and were seen
by at least twenty person* All day long
crowds fif visitors hung about the spot, but
at 12 o’clock last night
THE HOUSE WAS PERFECTLY QUIET.
The News has no theory to offer in expla
nation of the strange occurrences above re
corded. Tbey Were seen, and are vouched
for by Emma Houltri* Priscilla Simmon*
Carrie Butler, Susan Dovle, Thomas McPber
sou, and other* who tell a straight forward
tale which cannot be shaken by a severe
cross-examination. These are the fact*
The knowing ones most make just such
explanation of them as will suit their own
idea* It is certain that the cause of the Bar
renly doings has not been discovered, and, in
the way of ghost* 8onth Carolina is able
see Georgia and go one better.
General News.
Russia depends upon wood for fuel, and
that is giving out.
New York fire insurance companies lose
$13,000,000.
It takes four tons of candles per month to
Illuminate the Hoosac tunnel.
B wtoo will erect a monument in memory
of the men who lost their lives at the fire.
During the next fire years Philadelphia
will build five millions of dollars worth of
bridge*
Z3T A gentleman said to an old lady who
had brought up a family of children near the
Merrimac river: “I should think you would
have lived in constant fear thst some of them
would hare got drowned.” “Oh, no,” re
sponded the old Isay, “we only lost three or
four that ^ay.”
Crasbkkbies—t here are now planted in
New Jersey, according to the most reliable
(Uthority, ti.t.-OO acres with cranberries Two
year* from now there will be in full bearing,
the value of this crop the past year is esti
mated mt about $6.10,600. There will be large
additions made 10 there acre* daring this
year. Hundreds ate now preparing to plant,
and the price of improved as well as nnim-
provid hogs has rapidly advanced.—Vineland
f.
tSTCdeb Cushing, while in Pari* last
May, is said to have devoted three hours
daily to the study of French, trader guidance
of an eminent teacner with a view “to ac-
qaire a greater facility of expressionMr.
t 'ttsuing has spoken French for more
than forty years, and is seventy-two years
old—but not too old to learn.
Editor—A poor wretch who empties his
brain to fill his stomach.
It is said that corkscrews have sank more
than corit jackets have saved.
Some one speaking of the red nose of an
Intemperate mas, said: “It was very expen
sive {minting.”
Bow to Bead.
Thomas Wentworth Hlgginson say* in
recent number of the Woman’s Joarnal:
I was once called upon to prescribe intel
lectually far a young girl of fair abilitie*
who showed no want of brains in conversa
tion, but bad a perfect indifference to book*
She read dutifully and torpidly whatever was
set before her—novel* travels, history, all
were the some; each page drove out the pre
vious page, and her memory was a blank.
Her parents asked me to teach her to read
she Joined in the request, and I consented u
the experiment, on condition that she would
fai Jifully read a single book in the way I
should direct. She consented.
It wu the time of Kossuth’s visit, when
everybody wu talking about the Hungarian
revolution. The book I chose wu “Hungary
in 1848.” by Bruc* of fsr more interest then
than now. I prescribed it in daily doses of
onechapter. 11 possible she wu to read that
—the chapters being short—bat under no
conceivable circumstances wu she to read
more. After each chapter ahe wu to put
down. In a blank book I gave her, some re
mark suggested by it. She must mention
something that baa interested her, or seek
tbe explanation of some word, or anything
else she pleued. Her comment might be only
to isy that Gorgey wu a traitor, or to inquire
how his name should be pronounced; but at
leut there must be one sentence of remark per
chapter. From time to time I wu to see
what she had written, and answer her ques
tion* tf any. This wu the prescription and
she took it courageously.
I knew in advance what would be the
greatest difficulty. It wu to keep her to one
chapter. It seemed to her such a mistake,
such a waste of opportunity, when she could
so easily manage live or six chapters in a
day. Had she done so, all would have been
lost, so I wu inexorable. The consequence
wu that she never failed to read her chapter;
and when she got to tbe end of it, for want
of anything better to do. she read it over
again, or went to work with her note book.
It wu a very nice note book and she wrote a
beautiful hand. When I came to look over
the page* every few day* I wu uton-
ished at the copiousness and variety
of her note* On some day* to be
sure,there would be but* single sentence,
and that vi-ibly written with effort; but al
most always there were question* doubts
aud criticisms til of which I met u I could.
I found my own mind taxed by her* and
finally re-read every chapter carefully that I
might be ready for her. And at the end she
told me with delight that for the first time in
her life she bad read a book.
Where wu the magic of the process? I
suppose mainly in the restraint, the moderate
pace and the necessity of writing something.
“Reading,” sayi my Lord Bsc-m, “msketh a
full man, writing an exact man.” To clearly
define and systematize all yon know, write.
tsf The New York Commercial, which as
sumes to be well informed on the subject,
uys there are ten different organizations in
Ctitadg haring in view annexatisn to the
United .State* and that they are working
steadily Sfid efficiently to that eni
The Montgomery City Council bu some
objections to granting right ot way and other
franchises te a street railroad company.
Decatur wants a lodge of Good Templar*
Two German* who settled near Toscum-
bia not quite a year ago, rented a farm and
have rai ted and sold 126 bushels of wheat,
600 bushels of com and 8 bales of cotton.
Seventy-eight prisoners are confined in the
Selma jaU.
A floor company, with a capital of $250,-
000, hu been organised in Dali**
The Birmingham water works or" progress
ing rapidly. ^ *
witnesses still _ _
foreman is onaqf the oldest citizents of
Shasta. The facts, as related to me, are
these: «.
Thomas Bis* the principal witness, was st
a Democratic meeting at Churutown, a little
mining camp a few miles from here, when his
horse and accoutrements were stolen. Pur
suit was made; the trail was discovered that
night, and late next day Miller wu found in
possession of the horse on Cloud river. He
wu arrested by Nelson Babcock, constable,
and William Kappel, brought to Shssta, bad
a preliminary examination and wu commit
ted to the county jail .The Grand Jury, sit
ting a few days after, found a true bill, but
before the day set for his trial. Miller broke
jail and escaped. H. .Clay Stockton, then
sheriff, now resides at. Susanville, Lassen
county: Ksppcl lives ia Humboldt county,
and Mix is now an attorney at Walla-Wall*
W. T.; and all identify the poet positively.
After his escape, Miller found it Impossible
to live with the Shuts* and went to the
illamaths; thence he went to a logging camp
i 1 the Siskiyou Woods, an£ hired u cook to
John C. Carrol & Co. Proceeding thence to
Dead wood creek,he cooked tor a mining camp
aud having some difficulty about getting his
pay,took ahorse belonging to tbe company,
and went into the mountain* Bradley, the
constable, pursued qim there and shots were
exchanged between* Bradley getting a slight
wound in the leg.
Miller then left California, abandoned his
wild lit* and went to Grant county, Oregon,
where he studied law, too rank as a respect*
ble citizen and wu elected County Judge—
which office he held one year. The indict
ment here, and the charge in Sisltiyon, were
allowed to sink into forgetfulness; and when
Miller came back from Europe and came to
this country after his halfebreed daughter, he
wu not molested.
This girl’s mother is of a Pitt river band
of the Digger* and now lives with au old
mountaineer named Block, in the upper part
of this county. Miller joined the band in
1350, and lived with them nearly two years.
His half-breed daughtsiuwu bom early in
1857, when Miller and OH squaw lived in a
cabin on Cloud river, a branch of tbe Pitt,
at the foot of the Shuia Mountain* He and
Brock were good hunters, and supplied them
selves and Indian companions plentifully
with game, but in other respects lived
exactly like the Indian* The staple
food of The »Diggep4f*i*»,' of (acorns,
grass-seeds, pine-nuts and kamu-roots;
but in times of scarcity they eat ser
vice-berries, manzsnita-berries and the balls
of the mountain buckeye. These last, in
their natural state, are s deadly poison; but
toward spring they become compartively
barmies* Then the Diggers gather and
pound them in a m ess, which they allow to
freeze; then it is made into a sort of pute or
bread, which is highly nutritiou* Their
great luxury is dried or tainted salmon; and
while men, strange enough, team to eat it so,
and like it even more tainted than do the
savage* But this Fitt-river hand appears
to me one of tbe very lowest of the
Digger race; and from the specimens I
have seen, I should Say the sight, or
rather tbe smell, of one of their squaws
would turn the stomach of any man not a
poet. Nevertheless, many old mountaineers,
and even some later comer* are to be found
cabined among these hill* living each con
tentedly with his sqnaw; and it. is common
testimony that after a white man hu lived
with one of them two or three year* he
would not leave her for the beat white woman
in the country. Tbey learn to do housework
after a fashion, and on gala days rig up in
hoops and waterfalls of most fantastic pat
tern. But they boil or roast the carcasses of
their dead relatives; mix the grease with
tar, and mat it on their beads and necks,
making a sort of hamlet, with onlv the eyes
and mouth free; then for seven weeks they
howl on the hill-tops evety morning and eve
ning to scare away the evil spirit* I saw
one of these “ in mourning” to-day, and am
convinced that if she don’t scare the devil
away, he must be a spirit of some nerve. A
white man, disposed to Indian life,can adopt
all their custom in a month, while au Indian
cannot adept ours in fifty year* Arithmeti
cally speaking, it is a hundred times as easy
for a white man to go wild as for an Indian
to civilize.
It was amid snch associations as these, and
in a wild life among the beautiful scenciy of
these mountain* that Miller first tried his
band at literature. A pile of his first manu
scripts is in the possession of a lawyer here,
but nearly all the material is gross in charac
ter, and unfit for publication. His reading
while here wu exclusively of French ro
mance* amatory poetry, and the livea of
pirates and robber* From one of the lut
he adopted his present name. Joaquin Mu-
rietta wu a noted outlaw and murderer, some
years befote the American occupation, and
wu long the terror of the Upper Joaquin
Valley. He appears to have been of the
“dulling, chivalrous” Clusde Duval style of
bandit* and spent his gains freely with the
senoritu of Montery and other Mexican
town* This character seems to have fascin
ated Miller. The most charitable opinion
nere about the latter wu that be wu slightly
insane and crazed with an affectation to imi
tate the heroes of Spanish romance.
But while Miller wueDjoying himself and
absorbing poetic fire from the companionship
of Sbata squaws, a serious tragedy wu en
acted, whicn nearly proved the death of the
incipient poet. In January, 1857, a colony
of twelve white* on Fitt river, were massa
cred by the Indian* some of the same race
with whom Hitler wu living. Among tbe
settlers were twin brothers named Harry and
Samuel R. Lockhart, but the latter being ab
sent down tbe river escaped, the only survi
vor He swore undying vengeance against the
whole Pitt river bund, and pursued them for
nine yesu* until he hod killed twenty-five,
every ODe of the hand concerned in tue mu-
sacre. He became a monomaniac on the
subject, and though often arrested by the
Federal authorities, u soon u released took
to the mountains “ homing for Shuu*” He
stole two Indian children and made them
spies and deciys, and by their aid killed sev
eral of the family with woich Millet wu
connected, and captured Miller himself. Un
certain of the poet’s guilt, he titd him and
brought him to Yreks, and into the office of
Judge Kosboroagtf, where he stood guard
over his pti-oner for two nights and a day,
until the Judge could collect the evidence.
There wu hone to criminate Miller, and
Lockhart was with difficulty persuaded not
to shoot him.
The fateof Lockhart wuamelanchoiy one.
After the last of tbe gn Ity band wu killed
be went to c-iiver City. Idaho, and w.<s em
ployed by the noted Hill Be-.cby u a guard
on the Ida Elmore Mine. When the battle
took place over the possession of the mine,
Lockhart wss shot through tbe left arm.
Amputation wu delayed by hia ohstinaev
until Beschy had convinced him there would
still be enough of the urn left to rest a rifle
across ond take aim. It wu then too late;
mortification followed, and he diei a terrible
death.
Meantime Mille's Indian daughter wu
taken captive by me Klamath Lake Indian*
in one of their raids upon the lower Diggers,
and carried into the mountains cut of Yreks.
Itwu reported injhat place that “a white
child had been seen among tbe Kkunitha.”
Upon which Judge E. W. Patten.’of that
city, went out and ransomed the child; bat
learning who she wu seat her back to the
Indian* and the wu attached to Kallo-
ktllo's hand of Digger* Whe> Miller
country every year. Every year tbey lose
a certain percentage of their animals from
natural death or by accident. Same ct the
more rare animals are generally dciicat-:, and
never become acclimatised, consequently do
not live long. This makes them ^ery costly.
Others again, like the giraffe, o u die of sea
sickness on the voyage. The giraffe, too is
so awkwardly built that it does not lie down
with its legs undet it like other of the ante
lope tribe; consequently if the vessel rolls at
sea it losses its balance, is swung against, the
side of its cage, and frequently breaks its
long, ungainly neck. This runs up the price
of giraffes to a high figure.- A year or two
ago a well known showman, who had im
ported four giraffes through the gentleman’s
agency, but who took the sea risk on himself,
lost them on the voyage. He could not now
get four equally good specimens under
$25,000. But when a cargo does come safely
across, the profits to the importer are vety
‘Tis a great mistake to suppose that any
of these animals are captured when full
grown. Afullgrownllon.couldhebetrapped
and put in a cage, would soon pine awsy and
die.
A full grown, wild elephant is the most
savagely treacherous of animal* Even
when captured young aud trained in a circus
the elephant betrays those inborn qualities
more and more os he grows older. It is only
of late years that elephants have been im
ported from Africa. Many persons will
recollect P. T. Bamum’s advertisement of
the first one, a dwarf, which was to appear
iq his menagerie. The animal, however,
died on voyage, and wss consequently never
seen in this country. Our monopolist dealer
iu wild beast soon after obtained four young
elepuants from Africa and retailed them here
to different showmen at about $3,000 apiece.
They were “ babie*” The elephant ia an an
imal of very alow growth when five years
old it does nof stand more than three feet
high; and one out of the alluded to above
was only thirty inches high. They were,
howerer, a perfect godsend to showmen in
the way of startling noveltie* One, the
thirty-inch on* was cooly exhibited aa a
dwart. Another was shown as an offspring
of an old female elephant, which had been in
this country years before the youngster saw
the light m hts native African jungle. Three
of these young elephants are still alive and
ia this country, but they have grown ont of
all knowledge, especially the dwarf. The
showman who exhibited the calf, asserted to
have been bora here, made a great bit as it is
pretty generally known that elephants will
not breed in this country. Lions breed freely,
in fact, there are few menageries which do
□ot have a litter of cu>>s every year. But
the mothers always destroy or desert them,
aud they are obliged to be brought up on
milk given to them in a bottle similar to
th'&t u\cd in rearing babies by baud. The
bippolamus has also been known to breed in
the Zoological Gardens, in London. Like
the lioness, she distroys her young as soon
as they are bora; but the attendants in Lon
don did once succeed io rescuing a young one
from its mother, and in bringing it up by
hand. But animals brought up in this artt-
fici d way, and bora in a confined cage, never
grow up to be such fine specimens as those
bora in a state of nature.
At a general thing, all animals are captured
when young by the natives, acting under in-
sliuctions from tbe white .agents. If lions
are wanted the natives tally up the country,
and either kill the parents and then secure
the cub* or track the lioness to her den, and
then, waiting till ahe gOcs for food, size the
opportunity of stealing tue cub* In captur
ing elephants they drive them, old and young,
into an inclosur* hamstring the old so as to
disable them from protecting their calves, and
then easily secure the young one* An Afri
can lion commands a higher price in the mar
ket than aa Asiatic lion, on account of his
more noble and commanding appearance, his
mane is much thicker and longer than that 01
his Asiatic brother, and is blame Tbe quan
tity and length of the mane is the test of the
value of lion* An African linn sells for
$30U0, au Asiatic only sells fur $2090. The
same with tiger* Royal, Bengal tigers wil
command $0liU0 apair; Brazilian only $4Uj0
a pair. C mels and Dromedaries bring about
$1.20 ) a piece, but white camels have been
sol-1 mt $35119 each. A good ostrich can be
bought for about $400; elephants $6000 to
$8000; homed horses, socalled. though they
aro really only a variety of anteloji* from
$1500 upward*
Tbe importation of animals is only a branch
of the business; but it is. in tbis cos* very
extensiv* for the last fifteen years the value
of tbe animals imported having averaged
over $1,000,000 e reu Ofjcourse, the need
of evety menagerw are known; and when
one wants tosell« *”*rplus animal or two or
to replace them with finer specimen* they
are almost invariably anld direct to this gen
tleman, or titrough him, on commission, to
the proprietors of other menagerie* Avery-
fair menagerie may be bought for $30.000;
but some few of the giant abows value their
stock of animals at two and three times that
figure. The aggtegata value of all the wild ani
mals In the different caravans in this country
must approximate $2,500,000. In no oihei
country :a the world are there 90 many kept
in confinement The show business is esoen
tially. American, and as a general thing ia »
very profitable one—-N. T. lime*.
Literary Items.
Godey’s Lady’s Book has been conducted
forty-two years by tbe same editora and pub
lisher* Tbe number of volumes in press is
said to be unusually large fur the season.
Alexander Dumas was nrobnbly the most
incurably extravagant nun that ever lived.
When he died he left twenty fran a—he who
had earned millions by bis splendid talent
and energy.
It is said thst nearly 30,000 copies of Mr.
Teanysoo's “Gareth and Lynette” were
ordered.
tST Tbe statistics as to the Dickens’ Read
ings in America are furnished. The Ameri
can Reading Tour of Mr. Dickens extended
from December 2, 1887, to April 26.1868.
The number of readings given was 76. The
assemblages aversged lfiuO prisons—the net
receipts, $3, r 00 a night. The whole number
of persona who heard Dickens was 144,000.
The total net receipts were $218,000. The
largest audience wss a$4,000 one; tbe small
est—at Rochester. New York, a $2,700 one.
At the first sale of tickets in Boston, on No
vember 18, Mr. Dolby sat at the pigeon hole
13 consecutive hours, and took in $ 12,001.
The Little People.
Bored of Education—The truant
“ When does tbis horse car run ?” said the
old gentleman from the country to tbe little
boy. “ Dunno,” said little chap,” “ the horses
runs at the nose.”
borne children at tbe dinner table were dis
cussing that which has often troabled the
beaus of older and wiser persons:
“ Wasn’t Adam a good man before he got a
wife J ’
“ Of course he was,” answered a lirile girl.
“ How long was he a good man after he
got a wife?”
At this juncture a little fellow spoke up
Miss Ann, I can’t answer that question.”
“ Well, what was it ?”
“ Eve made him eat the wrong apple.”
13T Titusville girl* with an eye to mat
rimonial matters, stain their fingers with
shoe bronze, and, when their gentlemen ac
quaintances ask the cause of the asm* softly
whisper. “I have been helping mother put up
canned fruit,”
Editor* Comtitution: I involuntarily ex
claimed, as I stood upon one of the many
knoll* commanding a fall view of the city
no wonder thy gallant sons and noble daugh
ters are satisfied to spend their lives amid the
wild and rugged grandeur of thy mountain
scenery, tempered down as it is by the soft
sweet pastoral beauty of the valley—every
where grand or beautiful. This picturesque
city is situated on the north bank of the
Tennessee river, and is the county site of
Knox county. The Smoky mountains on the
south; the Cumberland mountains on the
west and nnrth; and the Clinch ou the east;
all of which are from ten' to forty miles of
tbe city, and in full view; while the beauti
ful river winds its way lovingly along its
Southern boundary, all conduce to its
romantic grandeur. There are two
beautiful streams of water trickling
along gently over their pebbly beds,
now'Hulling like silver threads iu the rays of
the sun; now gurgling plaintively in the
shadow of tbe mountains, which stand on
every side like grand old fortification*
Along the banks of these streams are almost
iunmnennle perennial springs of limpid
water leaping forth from tbe earth, aud in
viting the thirsty, tired pedestrian to
pmse and drink. The climate of Knoxville,
Tennessee, especially at this season of the
year, is unsurpassed in healthfulness aud
purity. Its location is midway between
Cbaitapooga aud Bristol, and in importance
and population it is the third city of the
State, (it contains about fifteen thousand in-
hibitunta) Upon lofty eminences overlook
ing the beautitul river are erected many ele
gant and imposing mansions whose observa
tories command a view of as picturesque and
lovely scenery as any of which tbe Hudson
can boost. In other portions of the city,
also, are elegant residence* while in every
direction mav be seen tbe bumble cottages
in which dwell tbe honest sons of toil.
COMMERCIAL INTEREST.
Knoxville is the great commercial center of
East Tennessee, and- ia supported on every
hand by fertile lauds ana an industrious,
moral and thrifty population. It ia to this
grand division of the State what Nashville is
to Middle and Memphis to West Tennessee.
It has already pushed its trade throughout
East Tennessee and penetrated far into ad
joining State*
Gay street is the principal business street
in the city, extending from the river on the
south, a distance of more than half a' mile,
to theE. T. V. and G. Railroad on tbe north.
On cither side of this street stand many bus
iness houses, woile here and there are grand
and'elegnnt four-story buildings occupied by
wholesale establishments, one of which does
bordered on either side with luxuriant grasses
run through it in every direction. Many
humble slabs and modest tombstones mark
the last resting places of the beloved dead,
while here and there is to be seen the elegant
monument of some more favored son or
daughter of fortune. . „ , .
One mile east of the city are the Confed
erate, Catholic and pauper cemeteries.
There is nothing imposing in any of
these receptacles of the dead. But
In the middle one lie the remains of many a
noble brav* who took his stand for Dixie.
Holy angels guard the spot.
Taking into consideration he social, com
mercial, manufacturing, educational, and
moral advantage*; salubrious climate and
central location, with her net work of rail
road* Knoxvil-e is destined to bee ime a great
and important city. - * *
gjtligious.
AT CHURCH.
With mind* all.wearied witfc our fix
With heart* rtorm-toeaed upon llie’a troubled tea,
This day we eome upon Thy holy
~ * 'ms our rett, our rc*t,0 Lord, ia Thee.
We lay oar troubles down before Thy throcte.
a larger business than any other in the State.
Ita ealea this year will approximate two
millions.
N. B.—The United States Custom House,
made of Tennessee marble, is a grand and
imposing structure.
MANUFACTURING
interests are becoming quite extensive.
Prominent among these are the Nail Factory,
the Rolling Mills, the Founderies, the Ma
chine Shops, the Sash and Blind Factories,
and more recently the Carriage Factory.
The materials in the adjacent country are so
abundant that Knoxville will ultimately be
come one of the great manufacturing em
poriums of the South.
EDUCATIONAL
advantages are good. Just outside the cor
porate limits, and west of the city, is located
the East Tennessee University, a State insti
tution established in the early part of this
century. The buildings, though antique in
style, are commodious and imposing in ap
pearance. The college is in a prosperous con
dition. Its past history has been bright, and
with ita present faculty and trustees its future
is destined to be even brighter. There are
now about two hundred and fifty pupils con
nected with it. Many of the most learned
and eloquent professional men of the State,
in the pu’pit, the doctor’s shop, at the bar,
and in the halls of learning, not only in this
bat in other Southern States, look proudly
this institution as their beloved
Mater.”
The Deaf and Dumb Asylum is also a State
institution, erected for the amelioration of
the woeswf an important part cf our race.
It is situated iu the northwestern
p irt of the city. The building
four stories high and very commodious,
accommodating witu the greatest comfort
two hundred inmates. The campus covers an
area of seven acr,js, a part of which is sown
down in blue grass, the remaining portion ‘
laiu oil in beautifully terraced plats, flower
beds and gravel walks. The present number
of inmates is about one hundred and twenty.
The l&d Tennessee Female Institute is a
time-honored Institution of learning and af
fords good advantages to young ladies.
An able faculty and a large number of pu
pils daily grace its halls. It is devoutly
hoped by many that the wealthy cit'zens of
Knoxville will, at no distant day. endow the
Institution with at least two bundled and
fifty thousand dollars.
FREE cmr GRADED SCHOOLS.
Within the last fourteen months a thor
ough system of graded free schools has been
inaugurated. There are about seventeen of
these schools, and nearly two thousand pu
pils. Being sustained by taxation, they are
patronized by a good clas9 of society. Be
sides these schools there are a number more
select
ART GALLERIES.
A love of the fine arts has in all ages
the world characterized people of refinement
and culture. Knoxville, therefore, must pos-
s -ss a large proportion of that class of citi
zens, judging from the display of beautiful
paintings ot rare artistic excellence, with
which her picture galleries abound. The
handsome collection of James C. Btuigis,
formerly of LaGrange, Georgia, is worthy of
special notice. In connection with thin gal
lery is his large book store, known as the
East Tennessee Book Store.
Among the artists of tbe city, Floyd Bran
son, a youth of eighteen summers, takes the
foremost rank. Youne B anson, familiarly
known as ** The Boy Artist,” is the child of
plain country parents, who came to Knox
ville just after the close of the war. Up to
that time he had known but little of letters,
and nothing of painting as an ait. At tbe
early age of ten ye-irs, with coarse brush and
house p$int of different colors, he painted
likenesses of persons that were recognized by
their friends. ' A promineut physician, four
or five years ago, being called in to see his
sick father, observed some rough looking
portraits of well known persons in the city.
Upon inquiry he discovered them to have
been tbe work of this remarkable child. He
asked to see him, and was so pleased with
his sprightly, manly countenance, and man
ners, that he posted off up town
and invested several dolUrs in paint,
brashes, eta, etc, which Ae presented
him with many kind and encouraging ]
marks. Soon he called the attention of some
of the wealthy citizens to this wonderful
genius and now fatherless boy.* At their own
expense those benevolent gentlemen imme
diately sent him to college, where he remained
until recently. In the meanwhile every mo
ment he could spare from his studies he <'
voted to tbe work of his choice, in which
has, indeed, made wonderful proficiency.
HU pictUies are in many of the most elegant
parlors of the city; while in his studio are
some of the ee?t portraits of the dty. At the
late East Tennessee Fair he took an elegant
premium for the best portrait on exhibition,
tie has just finished a life-like and beautiful
portrait of our bt loved and only brother who
fell for the “Lost Cause ” at Franklin, Ten
nessee.
With the advantages of observation and
travel, he is destined to lake rank with the
very first of American artists.
CHURCHES.
Knoxville has her full share of Churches.
There are two Baptist; two Presbyterian,
two Episcopalian; two Southern Methodist,
two Northern Methodist; one Roman Catho-’
lie; one Congregational; one Zninglean—in
all fourteen, besides quite a number for the
bl^ick population. Tne buildings in which
different congregations worship are generally
good, while two or three of them are
magnificent edifices for a city numbering _
more inhabitants. By way of parenthesis, I
would pause to pay “honor to wnom honor is
due.” One of the churches of this city is
favored by having for its pastor mine host
and friend. Rev. LaPayette Lloyd, son of
Rev. Bei jimin Lloyd, eo widely known in
Alabama and Georgia—an honored clas»mate
of the Hon. W. G. McAdoo, of Georgia, he
was graduated in the East Tennessee Univer
sity, in 1857; eubseqaently married Miss
Mary A. Henderson, the accomplished and
amiable sister of W. A. Henderson, Esq., a
young, wealthy lawyer, of Knoxville. He
is now about thirty-seven years of age and
has been in the ministiy thirteen years,
.shortly after the war he became pastor of the
Baptist Church at Athens, Alabama. In 18 *8.
removed from there to Meridian, Mississippi,
assuming the pastoril care of the church
there. Daring bis administration there about
seventy members were added to the church.
From Meridian he was called to the
pastorate < f the First Baptist Church
of Knoxville, where be has been preaching
three years. His style is solemn and impres
sive and full of the unction of gospel truth.
Two hundred have been added to the church
since he has been laboring for it, and to day,
in point of moral power and influence, tbe
First Baptist Church of Kooxville ranks in
ferior to none in the city.
THE CEMETERIES
in the city number four. Gray Cemetery is
in the northern part of the city, and is very
handsome. Beautiful gravel walks and streets
O blessed daVt O day of all the seven 1
Fortsais uT all that Heaven i*eelf will be;
perfect peace 1 that to out aonlUjrivcn, _
our rest, onr rest, O Lftrd»in Thee.
THE WIDOW’S SON;
OR,
A Light in the Window for Thee
In nearly all of our Sunday-school publi
cations of music will be found a piece enti
tled “ A Liitht in the Window for The*"
This beautiful hymn wss written from the
history ot“The Widow’sOnly Son.” Iiwas
originally printed, we beliere, in one of the
New York papers some twelre years ago.
Wc think it will brer rereading, containing,
ss it does, many beautiful sentiments:
“Mother, I will be everything to you that I
can be; I promise yon that.”
The boy lifted hu head. A look of high
resolve made the young brow manlike in ex
pression. Not yet had ten summers deepened
the gold on those fair lock* The earnest
blue eye looked fondly in the face that bent
over him. There was a world of love in hia
soul—a lore that was not only lip-deep, but
wa. proved by acts of self-denial.
They were poor—that mother and son—oh,
how poor they were You could almost we
how poverty had drifted over everything
about them—drifted whitely over the pine
chairs and tables—drifted over the humble
quilt thst had grown so faded—drifted over
their clothes and through them, till patch
after patch was placed on the sad havoc that
pittiiess, drifting want had made
But iu holy heart-love they were richer
than the Rothschilds; ye* out of thetr bank
ia heaven—that bank directors here might
sneer at—they drew every day, every hour,
uncounted treasure.
Mother, I will be everything to you that
He had kept himeelf as f potless as if at
every nightfall li’s feet had oeen turned to-
wards the door of his mother’s cottage. How
his heart bounded as he tUouvbt of her.
Stranuely enough, he never dreamed she
might be dead. It did not occur to him that
n-rliaps her silver l.icks were lying under the
id of the coffin. Ob, no! be only thought
of the pleasiDt light in the window that her
hands had trimmed for him.
Beautiful and bland wss the day on which
he traveled again the long accustomed roid.
How pleasant now to go home with sufficient
to provide for the comfort of thst dear
motner. She would never want again. He
would take her to a better home, and give
her the luxuries he bad once longed to see m
her possession. That old arm-chair-*he
should have a new one. easy in motion, ele
gant in material. The faded-shawl, that ho
had been folded and refolded year after
year: the old-fashioned bonnet, with ita one
band of crape; these,ye* eyenrthing, should
be replaced with newer and better The
flowers on the road all smiled as be lo ked
toward them; the very klne seemed to him
turning their meek eye* at the sound of
strange footsteps, to know that his heart wa*
glad with love and anticipation. Hope on,
dreamer I Yonder cornea one who trudge*
on laggingly—a farmer in heavy boots and
frock, his whip in his hand. He cheers the
lazy oxen, but suddenly stop* amazed.
“1 see you know mef said the young sailor,
smiling. “Well, fanner Brown, how la—-
“Know ye I why, how tall ye are! So”—
his eye drop* his mouth trembles—“toye ve
got home” . ...
“Ye* and glad enough to get back again—
It w*s my mother P* ...
-Your—mother”—he says it in that slow,
hesitating way that telegraphs ill tidings be
fore they are told in word*
“Yes—is she well? Is she expecting me?
Of course she is; we’re late by a month.
Your mother, Henry, weil—the old lady
’ He plays with his whip, or, rather.
kes it hard on the dusty road. How can
he crush that hippy heartl
“There,you need not speak! cried the
voung man in a voice of sudden anguish, and
he recoiled, almost staggering, from the farm-
el’s side, and buried bis face in his hind*
Henry, my poor lad, your mother is—-a
Don’ll don’t I” cried the other, showing
now a face from which all color had fled.
I can be; I promised you that.'
The words are beautiful enough to be re
peated. Henry Locke smiled^because ms he
spoke there came tears to his mother’s eye*
He had that morning been promised s place
in a little country store, five miles from the
cot, or rather cabin, where they lived. It
was but a small pittance; but of lato the
mother had grown so feeble that she could
earn nothing; could ecarcelv do the little
that order and neatness called for at her
hand*
One dollar a week ! It was a very little
sum, but better, much better than nothing.
Beside* Hcnty was to have his meals with
his employer, aud could, if he chose, sleep in
the store. But he did not choos* For
glad smile from mother; for a pressure of
tUat feeblo hand; for the tender Christian
wonla that came from those pale lip* be was
bravely willing, after his day’s hard work, to
walk the five,miles, dork and tedious though
the nay wa* Often became bringing some
little delicacy that he had earned, and which
was sweet to the invalid, because he brought
it to her.
One night the sky was curtained with
cloud* The widow looked from her little
window facing the hilly road along which
the hay wagons went on their way to the
city, and said, as he saw the twilight deepen
ing earlier than its wont, “ He will notcome
to-night.”
No, he would not surely come that night
The wind blew fiercely, and sent the branches
of the old apple tree rattling against the
clap board* and threw the rain, as with a
spite, over the little windows, sheeting them,
aud making dreary music So the widow,
quite confident that Henry would not venture
out in that storm, read her Bible till her heart
kindled with tbe holy word* and putting out
her little light, went to her rest
She knew not how long she had slept,
when a voice awakened her. The sweet voice,
so dear to her was crying, “Mother I mother P
At first she thought it a dream, but listening
intently she heard, blending With the wail o
the wind, that cry, and a sound against the
Ulch greeted her. Instantly rising, she
groped fra light, unfastened the door, and
behoid, there stood Henry, a piteous sight in
deed, covered with mire, lite ally, from head
to foot. His face was wet, but the honest,
happy smile was no ways abated.
“jly boy, how could you come on such
night 1" exclaimed the widow.
“ Why, mother, storm couldn’t keep me
from you,” was his hearty response. “ I’va
had the greatest time, though, you ever did
see—lost my way, got into a creek, and it
must be midnight; but I meant to come, for
S. gave me a trifle over to-night, and I knew
bow much you needed it.” -
“ My dear boy ” sprang from the mother’s
full heart, with a tear or two that trickled
down her pale cheek*
“ i wonder I haven’t thought before," sbe
said, musingly. “ After thi* I’ll put a light
iu the window. To be sure, it won’t show
far; but when you get to the top of the hill
it will be pleasant to see it, and know that I
am watching for you."
For three years the lamp was placed in the
little window every night. People often re
marked it; and “as bright as Mother Locke's
little window” became a favorite saying.
At the end of that time young Henry was
offered'* good chance on board of a whaling
vessel, and he resolved to accept it. It cost
him none knew what a struggle to part from
the being beloved with an almost worshipful
affection. But he knew thst the time had
come when he must go forth into the world
to do battle for himself and for her; and
sailor’s life was his coveted calling.
“It seems to me, Henry," said the mother,
when with trembling lip, she parted from him,
“as if I must still put the light in the little
window. I shall think sometimes 1 hear the
sound of your footssep* the click of the latch,
and your pleasant vote* Oh, Henry, Henry,
if I could but light you over the stormy wa-
ten!”
“ Mother, God will do that," said Henry,
pointing to the glowing heaven. “ God will
light me Uirougn storm and through calm;
but, mother, I shall think every night that
the lamp is in the window; that you sit near
it; that somebody blesses yon for tbe guid
ing ray, aud, above all, that you are praying
for me.”.
The long voysge was almost ended, but
another voyage was to the end before than
The widow Locke was taken ill. Yet, with
unfailing regularity, with feeble step and
treuralous hand, nightly the dear woman
trimmed the little lamp and placed it in the
window. Still, when the bended form could
no longer totter about tne cottage, when she
lay helpless upon her bed, and the neigh
bors came to care for her, she would say,
“ Put the tittle lamp in the window; my
Henry will be th nkmg of it”
Night after night, and even until ber eyes
grew dim, ahe would watch the radiance of
the flickering light, only saying sometime*
“Shall I live to hear his footsteps? Will
that feeble flame still burn when my life’s
light has gone out?”
“Pray with me” she muttered, “that I
may see him before I die. Uh for this most
precious boon 1 ”
In vain all prayer. Slowly, more slowly,
the wheels went round, and the pulses, like
ebbing drops, fell fainter and fewer, until,
one calm night in summer, the waters were
scarcely stirred.
She lay quietly, a smile upon her lip* her
eyes closed, her hands folded.
“I have longed to see him,” she said: “I
have prayed earnestly; but 1 have given it
all up now. I shall not meet him in this
world."
“ Hsae you pot the tight in the window I"
the asked suddenly, earnestly,a few moments
after. “ It is growing dark."
AJasl it was not the light that was growing
dark.
Her hands grew cold. Over her counte
nance came that mysterious shadow that falls
but once on any mortal face.
“Oh, my boy, my boy I” she whispered;
“tell him —they bent lower to catch the
failing words—” tell him 1 will put a tight in
the window of heaven to .guide his footsteps
there.”
The thrilling sentence was hardly spoken,
when tbe snadow dropped from the suffering
face, and it smiled in the calm majesty of
death.
A funeral followed; humbled hearts at
tended the body of one who was loved for
her sincere goodness, all tnrough the hamlet;
and on tbe hillside, in a tittle graveyard, she
was buried.
Not many days after a great ship came
into the port of a busy city. Among all
those who stepped from her decks none were
more hopeful, more joyous, than young
Henry Lock* He had passed thronqU the
ordeal of a sea life, so far, unscathed. No
Plight el Immortality had fallen upon Wffl,
“ Oh, my mother 1 my mother 1—sbe is bom,
gone—and I am coming home so happy.
For some moments ho sobbed as in agony.
How < reary the world had grown I The
flowers had lost fragrance, the tun warmth;
his heart seemed deal
“ Henry, she left a message for you," said
the old farmer, wiping his eyes with the
sleeve of bis frock.
“A message for me? it seemed ss if the
white lips could hardly speak.
“ Yes; says she—eo my dame told me,and
so tbe minister said—‘Tell Henry I will pul
a tight in the window of heaven to guide his
footsteps ther*’”
“Did she, oh, did she say that? Godblesa
you for telling me! All my long voyage l
have thought of the tight in her tittle win
dow. I have seemed to see It streaming
along, along down to the foot of lhe bill, til.
it grew brignter and brighter as I drew nearerl
A light in the window of heaven. Ye*
mother, I will think still yon are wailing for
me. I could not see youln'theaelong yean;
but I knew the light was burning. 1 cannot
see you now, butl know the light is burning.
I will come, mother.”
Slowly and reverently he went to the hill
side graveyard, and there he knelt and wept
upon her lowly grav* But not there ho
thought her. A sweet vision was vouchsafed
him. All robed in he vcrly garments he
saw the beautiful soul he had called mother,
and streaming from the brightness of her
glorious home a slender beam seemed to come
trembling to his very feet Th-n he knew
that the light was placed in the window of
heaven.
Once more he knelt in the little room where
he had last left her. Nothing was removed,
but, oh, how much was wanting! There on
the window-sill, stood the tittle bmp—that
bronght the tear* afresh. But be took hit
mother’s well-worn Bible, and, kneeling by
the (bedside, as if she could hear him, be
sought her Savior, and consecrated himself
to a life and work of tighteousnesL From
that cottage be went out Into the world, car
rying hb grief aa a sacred memorial, bat
seeing always, wherever hb work led him,
his waiting mother, and the little lamp in the
window of heaven.
Sir Alexander Cockburn.
However, I have no intention of writing an
ssay upon a system. I merely propose to
draw, after my own fashion, a few sketches
of living men belonging to a particular data
—thst of English lawyers who have made a
reputation in Parliament 1 cannot perhaps
do better than to begin with oae whose name
has been recently very prominently set before
the world, Sir Alexander Cockbun* the Lord
Chief Justice of England, who represented
hb country at the Geneva arbitration.
Cock bum b now rather more than seventy
years- of age; bnt although hb health b not
good, lie has the brain, the spirit, the ani
mation, and the freshness of youth. He b a
man of very varied culture aud accomplish
ment* well acquainted with many nurture*
and having indeed a great deal of tbe liter-
ateur or the artist in his composition. Every
thing he does is done with such an apparent
ease that he alsrays impresses one with the
idea that he b really only trifling with bis
own power* that he never put* forth hb real
strength, that he coaid do much greater
things if be tried, I do not believe that thb
is so. I feel little doubt that all this bright-
some ease of effect b the result of patient
thought and study as well as natural endow
ment A man does all that be can in any
case; and if he has no: the gift of plodding
labor, it b not likely that any amount
of plodding labor would add a cubit to the
stature of his fam* Cockbura'a handsome
face, hb bright, sweet manner* his dear
voice, hb free; facile style, are all in keeping
with that int> Ueclual character which makes
toll itself seem like easy and natural play.
Perhaps from hb mother, who was a French
woman, be derived some of that graceful
and polULed e-.se and vivadty of manner
which lend such a charm to hb speaking.
Cockburn belongs to a fine old family, and
bad ancestors distinguished in war ufloit
and ashore, one of whom wss killed at
the battle of Fontenoy. He inherited hb
baronecty, and did not receive it aa a re
ward for public services; be b in evety
sense what people in England call a
S ntleman. I believe, however, that be began
e without much fortune, and that bis eaily
career at the bar wss a rather hard straggt*
If report does not greatly belie him, young
Cockburn varied the monotony of hard study
by a good deal of fast bring. Indeed, all
through hb career he hu been the subject of
a succession of rumor* and jokes and more
or less apocryphal anecdotes—of which I
shall not narrate any—tending to prove thst
public opining places hb personal discretion
and sdf-comrol considerably below hb po
litical and judicial wisdom. Cockburn was al
most unknown to the public at large until he
left hb youth far behind him. He was. nearly
fifty yean old when he won bb celebrity;
and he won it all in a flash. He had found a
seat in the House of Common* and made not
much of a way thereuntil the famous “D m
Paciflco” debate in 1850. Tbis wa* the
memorable occasion when Lord Palmerston,
defending a pert of his loreign policy which
waa arraigned for high-handed arrogance,
captivated the House and the country
by hb boast that a citizen of Eigland
might, by virtue of hb protection, para
phrase the immortal “Ctris Homan us
sum.” Palmerston's defense of himself
was one of bb happiest effort* if it be
right to describe at efforts those extraonfi.
nary ebullitions of easy and seemingly care
less force which were LI* peculiarity But
even Palmerston's speech wu thrown into
the shade by the unexpected brilliancy,
5J*’ spirit, and grace of the speech in
which the almost unknown advocate, Alexan
der Cockburn, surprised and delighted the
House. When the orator sat down tbe minis-
tciial benches were in a moment almost desert
ed, such was the rash of members to con
gratulate him. That speech waa the setua-
tion of the session. I doubt whether ary
speech delivered within my memory ever
created such a sensation. For.sltbougL tjere
have been many far greater speeches yet
these came from lips to which tbe ear of the
honse already tamed with the natural and
well-justified anticipation of great thing*
But Cockburn rose to speak that night an ob
scure man, and be sat down a celebrity.
f/toBU Engiith Lawyers," by Jrattee McCarthy,
in December Galaxy.
■Wedding cards are now breed with the
notice, “No plated ware," printed in one
corner.
“ Where’s my wile?" inquired Nil, on re
turning home early one evening and mbting
hia better bait “ She has gouj to bed with •
u»th achfc” “Well," said the indignant Nil.
if she had rather go to bed with the tooth
ache than with me. let her go,” and he forth
with settled himself to the perusal of the la
test new*
A young drug clerk committed suicide in
Bristol a few days ago. At the inquest the
oironer.asked a fellow-clerk of the deceased
H he knew of any cause for the suicide.
No,” wu the reply: “ he wu getting along
nicely, and wa» going to be married next
month.” “Going to be married, wm he t"
exclaimed the coroner. “Tbat will do. We’ve
got at the bottom of the business”
Hews Condensed.
Tbe Boeion Coliseum sold for $18,692. .
New York pays $1,00*000 annually for
gas
Cleveland, Ohio, has had a fourteen inch
snow storm.
The Baptiste of Iltinsb have a membtrship
of 60,000.
Boston wia valued at six billions before
the fir*
Cornell University pays 2b etudenls $10,.
000 a year for work.