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ATLANTA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7.
Brevities.
A woman horse thief named Nancy Hill was recent*
'3j hanged by a mob near Montague, Texas.
Acoaple of young and pretty Cleveland girls are
footing it np the Saint Lawrence, carrying only
The Hew York World estimates the shrinkage of
latlroad Stock* during the panic at $185,000,000, and
Western Union Telegraph at $15,000,000.
Missouri has been nnder Democratic rule for two
j»3trs, and daring that time the State debthaabeen
reduced, from thirty-eight million to eighteen million
dsDan.
A colored man, named Isaac Moore, was taken
vrlth cholera on Frl.'ay last in Knoxville, atd died in
the evening. This is the only death of the kind that
4t*s occurred In that city for many days.
It is supposed that the falling off in the internal
revenue receipts on Monday, as compared with last
Monday, vie $200,COO, Is mainly, if not altossther,
■attributable to the scarcity of currency for remittance.
The Silt Lake Tribune mentions the ease of a
'Mormon bishop's wife who, haying lost her charms,
has been turned out to shift for herself, and is now
■■ Setting her! 11 ring by doing family washing.
Canada eats $110,000 in value of oysters yearly, and
produces only $13,003 worth, paying the balance,
-$97,000, to tho Doited States far bivalves. An effort
is to bo made to produce a full supply, the shores of
Mew Brunswick being pronounced favorable.
The power of love receives a fresh and striking
illustration in the case of the Milwaukee girl who
knocked her lover heels over head down a flight of
stairs, because he wanted to stop kissing long enough
•to get a good long breath.
Signor Ealvinl has, we are informed, presented to
Mr. Edwin Adams the right to perform the English
version of "La Morte Civile.” Mr. Adams' repertoire
needs replenishment, and this most graceful courtesy
of Signor BsMoPrwftt well begin the work.
Peter Moll, of Cincinnati, on whose brow rest the
laurels gained by manufacturing the first glass of
lager beer ever made in that city, was waited upon by
nix blooming damsels, clad in white and w.th blue
sashes, recently, and presented with a gold-headed
cane, in token of his early enterprise, ingenuity, and
-discriminating swallow.
Hr. Alexander T. Earle never "popped the ques-
" Son" to Miss Boxalana Homan, bat had pressed her
hand, kissed her. and was most attentive to her, and
a. Brooklyn jury, thinking the inference wa3 plain,
awarded the injured Boxalana $15,000 for what was
faf erred to ba a breach of premise, and the conrt of
appeals confirmed the judgment of tho lower conrt.
'The following are the ages of the members of the
arm of Jay Ccoke & Co.: Jay Cooke le about fifly-two.
William O.Moorhead flfty-elght.Henry D.Cooke forty.
(Etc, H. C. Fahnestock forty* three, George C. Thomas
forty, Pitt Cooae forty-two, Jay Cooke, jr.twenty.cix,
J. A. Gartland twenty-eight.
.This evening Signor Salvini contemplates appeasing
-At toe Hew York Academy as Hamlet. All that we
foel safe in stating at present is that his concei tlon is
-sCrietly original, and that, whatever be thought of bis
''fcathfulnewa to Shakspear*, it will probably realize the
etwlih of the managerial heart, and create a
All Honor to the Brave Business
Hen of Atlanta.
At a public meeting in Atlanta Thursday
to consider the financial situation, the mer
chants and leading citizens of the place
passed with enthusiasm, resolutions.agreeing
to sustain the banks in every way possible.
It affords ns pleasure to record some of the
sentiments nttered on that occasion, showing
the animus of the large body of citizens who
the meeting. * * * * A
We believe that the example of the people
of Atlanta will do great good. Let same
spirit be exhibited everywhere and the peo
ple of the South will come ont of the crisis
unscathed.—Borne Commercial.
The New York Democracy
The New York Democratic State Con
vention met yesterday. Liberal Republicans
were invited to co-operate with them.
Tammany Hall and Apollo Hall of New
York city sent rival delegations. The Tam
many lot was admitted. Horatio Seymour
was elected President of the Convention and
made a pointed speech, the main harden of
which was that a ticket must he nominated
that was worthy of public confidence.
The Yellow Fever.
The dreaded fever has spread northward
in Alabama until it has reached the capital,
although the Advertiser claims that the first
cases were developed in some Germans who
had just arrived from a town in Illinois. Be
that as it may, the fearful malady is there,
and at least three deaths have occurred,
There are many exsgerated reports in circu
lation, as there always .will be while
an epidemic prevails. It is known, however,
| 1U^ AlwvS V IwUSej vAvlVVU kuv AJi^UVull mi tlvl
that Eofaula and West Point have quaran- pations. It is sufficient to say that three
^ were all realized and that those who are to
The report of the Beceivur upon the affairs of the
Bint National Bank of Washington Is silent about the
return of President Grant’s deposit, and it is thought
tut Congress will appoint a spe cial committee to in-
• vesligate the affairs of tne bank. Sn:h an investiga
tion would throw much light on official, Congret-
- atonal and District corruption.
Jdhannah Erdmann, of St. Louis, known as Sister
l Bona vent ore. died on Sitnrday In Memphis of yellow
. rarer. She was twenty-two years of age, belonged
**» thcFrasciscaq Order, and had beyn jn .t^eir »ca
«oot in that citp fonr, years. The good S:ater, -whi
;cd witn the disease, wae nursing the sick in Bap-
Hollow, and was catried In a blanket to the con-
A,from which eUswas never more to emerge alive
'Noticing the fact that the Congressional appropria
tion fer feel for Grant's honse in Washington is half
as couch as It costs to ran the Cincinnati waterworks,
too Cincinnati Enquirer says: "It is $5,000 a year,
wtiicb is about $15 a day. In other words, the Prest-
-ffeotis supposed to consume, in his private residence,
be ween three and four loads of coal each day the
year round! He must keep warm fires, especially as he
and his family are not in Washington more than
eight months in a year.
-Last week Lydia Thompson bide farewell to the
-pofclie at the Olympic Theatre, previous to making
•what she announces as her sixth and last tonr of the
Doited States. It may be the sixtb, bnt we doubt
whether it will he tbe list The United States will be
scoured by the Thompson burlesque troupe just as
Song as the fair directress or it continues to retain
those charms which some of her disparagers declare
-already to be upon the wane.
Unce-Johu Haiper, in the wmtu- time of hia life
grows t-sll-nt, and regales lady visitors at the L»x-
logtonrasiconrasaiih smiles.nd peppermint candy.
Ho entered the Ha with only s i wo yea - old colt this
. year, and wagered a dollar that ihe a.lmal would come
to third, and won. Tac colt has stolen hia affections
from Longfellow, and if the bluff and hearty old turf-
dam is to be be.teved, the young animal has Longfel
low’s laurels before him.
Abont three months ago it was noticed that many
convicts, and some of the keepers at 8ing Slug, in
toe quarry gang, were more or less intoxicated when
they went in at night, and many were the devices to
catch the supposed smuggler of liquor. Friday night
oao of the guard heard a convict talking in his cell,
and say, "I’ve always been a good friend to yon, why
. don’t yon ait np straight!” The guard looked in and
«aw a convict addressing a pop-bottle, which betook
.from him. It bad the odor of whisky and the convict
was drank. When questioned by the Warden, be
aaid-he bought the whisky from the quarry distillery,
at one dollar per bottle. Under a ledge, hidden by
come beards, the Warden found John Short, a con,
vlct, at work in hie distillery. He bad an iron kettle,
boarded over, which he used as a boiler. Some old
bacretocontained the rnssb, which was lees of bread,
corn, tomatoes, apples, potatoes and carrots.
The ‘SUU, which was In a fuel blast, and
f coma half-inch gas-pipe (he was making Cincinnati
whiaky.> twisted Into a worm, ran a good stream of
spirits. John waa searched and eix hundred dollars
was found in hia possession. He sold his staff at one
dollar for a pop-bottle. The keepers, he said, were
, good customers, and helped him to keep np his es
tablishment, and he had Just completed arrangements
to ecpply some of the neighboring saloons. The
yffll produced an average of five gallons a day.
Belief for Sbreveport.
In response to the call in this morning’s
Constitution for help for poor pestilence-
-Gcssecuted Shreveport, Easjman’s Business
College sends in $34 collected from its
students. Who -will follow the good ex
ample?
Our Fashtiou Letter.
Our lady readers will find in this morning’s
Constitution our' Tegular monthly fashion
letter from Jennie June.
Some startling novelties in hats are re
ported. Very fiJe ready-made dresses are
not much sold. There seems to be a great
-conflict in styles. Panier rages against
panier and both equally fashionable,
-lead for yourselves.
OCR OCTOBER FASHION LETTER,
Jennie Jane, The Constitution’s Cox res
pondent, Tells our Fair Readers all
Abont their Dads.
Great Contraction in Style?;
Something Startling in Hats*
There are other women—sensible women— | standard of ready made clothing for women,
who, whatever they have, must always have more nearly to that of men—that is, the aupy
one good black silk dress, and who are apt ply of good, useful, ordinary suits and gar-
tobe prejudiced in favor of a "heavy” silk, menls, leaving the superfine, as it should be
To these I wish to state a simple fact, which to be made to order.
is, that these heavy corded silks which look Ladies (with the exception of a very new
so substantial, are apt to be strongly chaiged rich woman or an occasional actress) who
with sugar; and if they are not, they do not can afford to spend five or six hundred dol-
last so long or look so well, as a pure silk of lars upon a dress do not care to purchase one
a lighter make, because they “rub” against that has been up”n exhibition before Mrs.
everything with which they come in contact Tom, Dick and Harry ; has been handled
and acquire a greasy apppearance, and commented upon and criticised, as elabo-
The modern heavy failles and gros grains rate dresses inevitable aie'm spite of the pro-
do not wear so long or so well as the old- hibition—“Do not Touch.”
fashioned smooth taffetas and glace silks, novelties in lace.
but then modern fashion does not. require I The woolen guipurre of yoke laces, and the
that silks should last long. Durability is a introduction of lace as a material trimming,
fault rather than a virtue. has brought out any quantity of novelties in
One of the best modern fabrics for wear lace, and stimulated ingenuity in its manu-
is the all-wool satine (notthe cotton mixture), f acture in the very highest degree. The
but it is under a cloud with all glossy fabrics, patterns and combinations in woolen
and can therefore bs bought, at reduced guipures are something marvellous, and the
prices. It appears however, in all the fine fineness renders them almost equal to silk
dark cloth shades, makes a handsome and guipure. Some patterns rank exceptionally
serviceable winter dress and can bo heartily fijgh, from the fact that only one or two per-
recommended to ladies who subordinate sons can manufacture them* There are also
fuv>tirert moms in hoarding bouses or hotels ;^®^hioii to use. , I Alsatian manufacturers of silk lace in white
. . . . V® , j .I n Upon all fine figured goods—silks andjandcolorswithwoolenedgeandtopsoartis-
the vast multitude of schools and colleges J others—merchants liave lost so heavily the| finally wrought that the beauty is heightened
With the first of October the season in
New York may be said to begin. By this
time the residents have most of them re
turned to their homes, birds of passage have
(everything is a college now-a-days, just as
every singing schoolteacher is a “professor")
are in fall operation, theatres are all open,
even the first notes of opera have been struck,
and last, bnt not least, the new bonnets have
been seen, and the one which is to lead the
other, been recognized by the unmistakable
voice of popular approval.
Notwithstanding some squally symptoms,
the prospects of a pleasant and prosperous
winter are very general. Commercially and
socially, people are trying to adapt them
selves to new conditions, and though it takes
time to retrieve mistakes and widen one’s
outlook, yet it would be done no doubt.
THE NEW STAB.
The first great dramatic success of the
present campaign has been achieved by Sal
vini, the great Italian tragedian, whose com
ing had previously excited the highest antici-
fined against the infected town; and that
there has been a perfect hegira of her scared
citizens. From the Columbus papers of
Sunday we learn that the train for West
Point was crowded with people to its utmost
capacity, some stopping at Opeli£a and inter
mediate points, and eighteen or twenty going
on to Coiambus. The fleeing citizens were
not allowed to stop in West Point.
Columbus is undergoing a thorough cleans
ing and disinfection. No apprehensions are
felt of a visitation, on account of the sur
rounding pine woods and its geological for
mation. A case of the disease has never
originated within the limits of the city, and
it is believed that none will.
There is no abatement of the epidemic at
either Memphis or Shreveport. The condi
tion of the latter city is simply awful. No
account can exaggerate the horrors of its
prevalance in that town, and there is little
hope of abatement until a frost comes,
there is a lack of victims to feed the fatal
fever.
THE FINANCIAL SITUATION.
The reports from all quarters are encour
aging. In New York there is a decidedly
better feeling. Trade is improving. Cotton
has gone up. Money is easier. An effort is
being made to put Jay Cooke & Co. into
bankruptcy, on account of the assignment of
certain property, in violation of the bankrupt
law. Cooke alleges that the assignment Was
made to preserve the property for the general
creditors.
In the West trade is locked, bnt still there
is an improving feeling.
There is general talk about the resumption
of specie payments. Some of the strongest
and ablest financiers are urging this policy.
Another important measure that is mooted is
the separation of the Stock Exchange from
the banks in New York.
In the South, we see better feeling gene
rally prevailing. Augusta bought over 400
bales of cotton Tuesday. Macon boasts of
money. Savannah has passed her crisis.
Atlanta is moving smoothly.
In a sensible article on the reciprocal de
pendence of all the classes as shown in this
crisis, the New York Bulletin thus winds up:
A brief consideration of three facta show
the utter emptiness of the denunciations so
frequently made against particular interests.
The farmers, unable to send their grain to
market or exchange it for any useful product,
are brought to a realizing sense of the rela
tions witn'and dependence on the “Railroad
Monopolies” and the Eastern financiers. The
latter discover that their resources depend on
the producing class. The idle Trades’ Union
ists can now meditate at leisure on the “tyr-
rany of capital,” while millionaires with dis
honored checks ponder the true sources of
wealth, and acknowledge their dependence
on the swarthy sons of toil. The panic car
ries lessons to all, and to none more than the
legislators and voters who enacted and tole
rated the false systems of currency and
banking to which the present panic can be
sa clearly and directly traced.”
have the pleasure of seeing him. during his
stay of one hundred nights in America, may
prepare for a treat of no ordinary drecrip
tion.' He is a noble • looking man
courtly and gracious in bearing-
and so thoroughly an artist as to be no
longer himself, Out the absolute incarnation
of the part he assumes. We have never be
fore had anything like him—not even Fech-
ter. During the progress of the play, he
does not-in any way acknowledge the pres
ence of the audience, though they shout
themselves deaf and tear their red gloves
applauding. He goes straight on, allowing
nothing to break in yipon the illusion, or his
own purely realistic performance.
The return of Nilsson wan, of .course, the sig-
But
Sontb Carolina News.
Columbia Phoenix: Mr. John Knott,
Superintendent of the Graniteville Factory,
died very suddenly Wednesday morning,
abont 10 o’clock.
Lieut. Gov. B. H. Gleavre has issued sn
order to the managers of election of Feir-
field County to hold a senatorial election on
Wednesday, the 8th of October next.
The candidates for Mayor of Charleston
are; Conservative, John A. Wagner; Repub
lican, George J. Cunningham. The contest
will he a spirited and close one.
There are ten ministers in Anderson coun
ty who are over seventy-five years of age,
and of three there are six or seven arc 80 or
upwards. The Rev. Thomas Dawson,
Baptist minister of this county, is 93 years
old, and is the oldest minister m the State.
The town council of Spartanburg, last year,
received $3,968.20, and paid out $5,801.67,
leaving cash on hand $1,106.53. The inter
est paid by the town on the Air-Line bonds
amounted to $3,060.50. The clerk and treas
urer, received for his services, $311.98—2$
per centum for receiving and the same amount
for paying out.
Governor Moses, of South Carolina, nar
rowly escaped a kicking the other day.
Benjamin Hernandez, of Charleston, went to
see the Governor about $500 which his
Excellency owed him. The doorkeeper
refused to let him in, and he knocked the
doorkeeper down. Moses went to the res
cue and Benjamin threatened to whip him
too if he didn’t pay up. A policeman ar
rested Benjamin.
nal for a grand ovation, preceded by a
dress reception from the Arcadian Club,
which was attended by many distinguished
persons of both sexes.
These clnb receptions are getting to be a
distinguishing feature of metropolitan life,
and afford an opportunity for social inter
course to a class of people who would other
wise rarely meet upon social ground. Hotel
life and boardiog-house life'are gradually
absorbing the business as well as the profes
sional part of the community; and the brilli
ant variety of a club reception, with its art,
its mnsic, its variety of entertainment, its
always fresh “lions,” is a great improvement
on the old and worn-out “party,” whose only
point of attraction was the supper.
Moreover, few now can give parties, even
if they desired to do so. The expense is too
great, and the ease of meeting friends upon
common ground, without trouble,
and at only such outlay
one may choose to incur,
irresistible to busy people, and wilLmake i.
cln£> ■which.titlmita tiokn sexes to a1
tion in its social life, a growing institution in
the immediate future.
Nilsson looked radiantly happy and very
charming in a trained dress of white faille,
trimmed with tolie puffings and lace, and
ornamented with large sprays of roses. She
has certainly a polite man for a husband;
for a lady remarking to him, that if she had
been a man and rich enough, and he had not
been around, she'should have married Mile.
Nilsson herself, he bowed profoundly, and
declared that he had recognized at first sight
the strong similarity of tastes that existed
between them. Tins was not so bad for
Monsieur Rouzand.
BASIS FASHIONS AND AMBBICAN IDEAS.
There is a conflict between Paris fashions
—or rather Parisian impression of what
America wants in the way of fashion—and
American ideas. The cultivated young
American woman is probably the best em
bodiment of taste and style to be found in
the civilized world; not that she is perfec
tion in this respect, but her quick intelli
gence enables her to readily appreciatswhat
ever is fine; and tho greater liberty she en
joys to work it out into results. Thus there
is an idea rather than a sentiment in her dress,
an evidence of thought straggling into being,
rather than the perfected growth of a capri
cious fancy.
This intellectual assertion generally finds
iteelf at war with the fantasies of French
milliners, which have no bias bnt a noted be
lief in the American love of whatever is
startling and sensational, without regard to
cost.
Last spring and summer some of the young
fashion leaders of American society dropped
raffles, puffs, paniers and the enormous bustle
and adopted a straight and almost classical
costume, which was wonderfully effective in
contrast with the regular over-trimmed dress
which had preceded it. This went to Paris
and has returned within a few weeks as
W orth’s latest style. But in the meantime
quantities of fall costumes—coats, jackets
and other outside garments—have been re
ceived, all of which are arranged for the big
bustle, the overskirt and other antedeluvian-
isms.
We shall therefore have “fashions”
throughout the winter of an entirely opposite
character. We shall have practical and
classical American fashions and modern
‘Trench” fashions, which have become snch
a confused heap of vagaries that they invol
untarily suggest that “when the gods wish to
destroy they first make mad.”
FASHIONS IN FABRICS.
For the present fashions in fabrics we
have every reason to be thankful. They are
good and sensible. For the street self-colored
woolens are the vogue—camel’s haircloth
(plain and tufted) ranking first, serges or
“diagonals” next, and then all wool reps,
Empress cloths, English waterproof, and the
like. Fine soft woolens, such as cashmeres,
French merinos and twilled flannels, are in
great demand for indoor dresses and chil
dren’s wear, but for a thoroughly serviceable
dress, which can he worn at home and
abroad, cleaned and worn again, there is
nothing like a good alpaca; and though
fashion is in favor of fabrics without gloss
or stiffness, yet its inherent excellence gives
pure mohair alpaca a standard position which
mere fashion cannot affect.
This is, of course, still more true of black
silk. Half the women in America look upon
the acquisition of a black silk dress as the
ultimate of their ambition and many die
without ever realizing it. One I knew, who
succeeded after years of anticipation in ob
taining the silk, but could never make up her
mind to have it made up. She died with it
folded in her trank, consoling herself that it
would do for daughter, who doubtless found
it a powerful mitigation of her grief.
last few years, that they will be very cau- by fi^e combination. The special changes in
tions how they touch them in future. _ A few design are effected by a plain stitch which
narrow, broken, black and white stripes for forms admirable outlines and the addition of
polonaises are Jin the market, and quiet tiny raised flowers and leaves to simple pat-
jasper silks, which are much used by elderly ters. “Garniture” laces, (as tney are called,)
ladies and for housekeepers; but otherwise, which are so much worn abroad, are in bold
there are the darkest cloth colors only for the oriental designs and are not expensive
Street and visiting wear, and the same light though very effective for costumes, robes de
colors—of rather deeper tints—for evening chambre, and day occupations,
wear, that were used last season. The latest things in black Yak lace is the
One new evening color may be mentioned, addition of fine jet. It is largely used upon
-.which is called “ aquarium” color, because it capes and trimming laces, and has been so
is the color of the dirty water in an aqua- well received abroad that it was supposed
rium. It lights up effectively, however, and that it would be equally welcomed here. It
JrHns well with black lace. Oar grandmother I ia fifteen years, however, since a jet furore in
would have called it “whitey-brown.” _ this country, and since that time, though
Scotch plaids are not nsea at all excepting many attempts have been made to revive it
for Scotch costumes for boys. none have been successful
autumn hats and bonnets. “ e called “pearled” laces stand a
much better chance, as they are really won-
The new fall and winter styles show a derfully well adapted to certain purposes,
great and daring change in hats and bonnets, that is, the trimming of light silk evening
The approaches to which have been so dresses, opera cloaks, and the like. They
gradual, that we only realize what has been consist of white silk or white woolen gui-
accomplished by comparing it with the past, pure, wrought with pearls as large as peas,
Within fifteen years the bonnet has passed and ringed with a mixture of the two consti-
throngh all the gradations _ from coalscuttle tuent parts. They are almost too apparent
to saucer, and recently retired into compari- for ordinary evening dress, but they are won-
tive insignificance, overwhelmed by the derfully well adapted to stage and fancy
superior prettiness and coquetry of the hat. dresses.
From this obscurity it emerges this winter There is a revival of lace scarfs, and par-
into something absolutely startling. A com- ticularly of the graceful Spanish mantilla,
promise has been effected between the hat this season which, it is asserted, can be
and the bonnet, which gives us a somewhat draped with infinitely more grace than the
bold but highly successful result. There are ] 0 ng lived “points.”
no old women in France or in fashion; there- English thread lace, black and white, is
fore the old ladies as usual are unprovided more fashionable than point just now, while
for. These, and ordinary women of limited for point lace collars there is no demand
incomes, who cannot afford toilettes to cor- excepting from very stoat old ladies whose
respond with the new “Dauphine” and “Di- obesity will not admit of the fashionable
rectoire” bonnets, must be content with such ruff,
insignificance as we have had, and think what nots.
themselves happy to escape notice. ' I _ . , „ ._P. I
Both the “Dauphine” and “Directoire” have Large fans—by some called the Mamtenon
straight, somewhat high, and what would be by s ° n ? e tlie Mane Antoinette, and by others
called Oxford crowns ; but the brim of the the Trianon—have succeeded in obtaining a
first is set up and stands out-all round, some- foothold which will certainly carry them
thing like the Rubens, while the brim of the through the winter. Somehow they agree
latter is broader, drooping on the sides to the with the picturesque and striking character
ears, and only flares up from the front,which of the present style of dress; and, strange to
is faced with a band of feathers, a ruche of sa y> are not nearly so embarrassing to
lace, or a wreath of flowers. ca ”Y ancl P s ? as tlie ones ‘ , , , .
The only material used for elegant winter Suspended from a ribbon or a chalelaine,
bonnets is plain Lyons velvet of the best the y Lang at the side of the dress ready for
quality. The trimming is mainly turquoise I use , and are kept in motion with the hand
silk and feathers, or branches of-fruit, grapes resting upon the hip. . ..
or berries in their natural leaves. All the Long gloves are dertguer, but bracelets are
ornaments, materials and accessorie hardly to be seen. Extravagance in jewelry
are of the very richest description and they has taken the form of huge solid gold and
are used with a profusion and lavish display silverdaspsfor belts and magnificent jeweled
of color which would he vulgar on the ex- afi^ 3 f° r 1116 aa8 h ant * looping of the skirt.
e it tints were less daintily chosen and Jennie June.
admirably harmonized. I counted 251 .* f „
iterant shades of colors in the feathers Alabama News.
one bonnet, yet the blending was so Judge Harper has postponed Escambia
^thgre w ¥ nothing outre m the cou d r ^ g e e ca S e ^ yellow feverT
A beautiful black velvet of the Dauphine The Birmingham News says it is rumored
shape, trimmed with a twisted torsade of the Savannah and Memphis Railroad will
frou-frou (pinkish salmon) turquoise silk, lose $8,000,000 by Jay Cooke’s failure.
of the brim. The report of the Mobile Board of Health
In contrast was a charming reception for the six days ending Fridays, shows no
bonnet in pale bine, ornamented only with new cases or deaths from yellow fever,
ostrich plumes in their natural colors, and a That city is more than usually healthy.
The Monroe (Ala.) Journal remarks that
ht>hinH^ aCefUl arran 8 ement of the velvet I «^j a bama shows a poor product of cotton in
icomparison with its woking force. It aver-
The sage greens, the olive browns, and Lges about 400,000 bales of cotton to 390,000
greens ; the bronze colors, mulberry and Ss This nZber of hands ought to pro
dark blue are the colors most in vogue, com- t tha w calculation 1 900 000
binedin the trimmings with the lightest, ?“{*“ e * owest caimall0a
brightest and most opposite shades. These u ~r 8 * , ,, T ^ m ,
combinations, however, absolutely require a Eufaula Times: Mr. John W. Weed, of
strictly harmonious toilette, or they look bad Dade county, is a model farmer, whose ex-
and out of place. ample, if followed, will contribute more to
For street costumes there are felts in all the t5i e redemption of this country than any-
dark and fashionable shades of blue, green, thing else, or all things else combined. He
brown, gray, and steel color. The brims of has gathered this year from six acres
these are covered plain with velvet or silk °? poor ndge land, an average of forty-
ana the trimming consists of cross pul braids nine ana a half bushels of com per
of the same, with a raised bow of fan shaped acre i which was fertilized with lot ma-
omament over which plumes are arranged I nure. He never buys any com or meat,
as an aigrette and fastened with a dagger, a hut on the contrary, always has these
horse shoe, a buckle, a ring or some other articles for _ sale. His meat he raises
ornament on old silver, jet or steel, pearl f‘ variety' of hog3 known as the
being reserved for more dressy designs and Poland, white and spotted, but nearly black,
lighter colors. an d of these he now has one which weighs
Very fashionable promenade hats are of °. ver 80® pounds. _ Here is_ a practical sola-
black English beaver, with straight crowns ^ion of the hard time question which farmers
and narrow brims, bound with heavy satin ou gbt to adopt
finished gros-grain. The style of trimming John Long, the murderer of Blevins Tay-
is simple but very distinguished and exactly lor in DeKalb county, on the 2d instant, was
suited to the young girls for whom they are arraigned and tried at Lebanon last week,
principally intended. It consists of a bow The jury returned a verdict of murder,
of the silk surmounted with a dark willow Long was sentenced on Friday to imprison-
plume, set high on one side, tbe end drooping I ment for life. Saturday he was started,
at the back, and a cat steel dagger or a under a strong escort, for the penitentiary,
horse shoe of mixed gilt and platinum—a Long i3 thirty-one years old. He was
fall novelty in ornaments. sentenced to be hanged in Georgia
There is a great deal of dissatisfaction since the war for the killing of Echols,
with imported bonnets on account of their but Bullock commuted the sentence to
high prices and the very poor quality of the imprisonment for life, and afterwards par-
materials used. There is almost an entire doned him out of the penitentiary. We
absence of the beautiful black thread lace learn that he acknowledges the killing of six
which was formerly used in profusion, and men, and the wounding of many. Daring
which gave something of real value for the the war he was in a command of a squad in
prices charged. One house only is mentioned McLemore’s Cove, and frequently came in
as an exception to this rule, and this sends contact with Gatewood’s command.—Qads
but for October wear very graceful bonnets den Times.
made of black thread lace upon anetfeunda- Relief Association has been organized in
tion, the edges being bound with black vel- Montgomery.
vet and three curled ostrich tips of different Th Montgomery Board of Health reports
S toXf&d?; “ 0«. on Mona.,, »«%»
new cases.
gabmbnts fob out-doob weab. William O’Brien secured the contract for
Imported clothTgarments for the street con- building the new county jail in Birmingham,
gist of. fancy.coats and jackets, such as wo- at $12,800.
men might wear who were masquerading as The dirt fell on Henry Peterson, a negro,
men. They are in dark cloths in the prettiest while he was down in a new well which he
shapes imaginable, the edges piped with pea- was digging in Greenville, and completely
cock green or blue silk, mustard colored’silk, burie l him twenty feet under ground,
or some other striking shade of which only
the simple line above the hem is permitted. PoinPr^
Buf the tails and lappels, the dear little vests frreinn 3 qnrln Ata*?
and waistcoats fastened with gold, silver or Eufaula, Ala., Union Springs, Ala. ,froy,
pearl buttons are “too trilling,” as young £ la> 5 ^Min*
ladies say, “foranything,’-and suggest canes, p al St . villea^ Brickvard? but not
and neckties, and manilias. and all uj 6 Cal., Cooleyvule and tLoiiricayara, but not
naughtiness which is supposed to be so fas- Columous, ua. .
cinaiing. The Advertiser has the following: “Jus-
There is a coat, however, which is a much tices Fuller and Parker, after a full and im-
more useful and substantial garment; and partial hearing of all the testimony in the
there are plain double breasted polonaises all case of the State vs. Herbert A. Jones for
the way down; and a lovely paletot shaped the killing of Samuel T. Agncr decided that
but not fitted to the form, with graceful the case was one of justifiable homicide, and
dolman sleeves, which is the model for the released the defendant unconditionally. We
nfbro elegant oi the whole opera cloaks, congratulate Mr. Jones on his acquittal. He
Fewer costly ready made dresses are exhibit- stands deservedly high in this community,
ed by the great houses this season than have and lias.hosts of friends and_a .large family
been for several seasons past. They have connection who will gladly join us in this
been taught a lesson by the immense waste expression of kind feeling. A case where
and loss they have experienced in three ex- the killing was more clearly justifiable has
pensive productions, and are bringing the 1 rarely been before any court.
Granze News.
A general mass convention of farmers and
Grangers will take place at Jefferson City,
Mo., October 1.
There are now twenty-six farmers’ Granges
in Oregon. The State Grange will probably
be organized in about four weeks. ,,
Tha State Grange of Pennsylvania was
organized at Reading on the 18th. Twenty-
five masters of subordinates; J. Wilkinson,
State Deputy of Iowa; T. A. Thompson,
Lecturer of the National Grange, and two
hundred others participated.
An immense farmer's barbecue was held
at Orrick, Mo., on the 12th. Five thou
sand persons were on the ground. Addresses
were made by J. T. Childs and Col. N. J.
Coleman, which were well received. It was
the greatest outpouring of the farmers since
the war.
x The St Louis Democrat avers that Ignatius
Donnelly in Minnesota, Grinnell in Iowa and
Colman in Missouri, are foremost, in their
respective States, among the politicians who
are trying to steal the Grangers?, thunder, and
loudest in their entreaties that the “ honest
farmers” he not misled by “political hacks.”
The Patrons of Husbandry of Cooper
county. Mo., assembled at New Palestine,
September 6, and adopted a declaration of
priciples, among which was the following;
That the great want of the country now is
honest men for office, and that they will
seek the men, and do not want men who seek
the office. '
A prominent official of the National
Grange, in conversation Saturday, referred
to the street and the editorial statement made
quite often during the last week to the effect
tnat a considerable proportion of the panic
is due to the position taken and the influ
ence exercised by the Grangers. This, he
said, was a reversal of the facts, for the
position in regard to transportation in
terests in their relation to produce and
freights, popularly assigned to the Grange, is
entirely due to the same causes, in the main
as those iwhich have produced the crash.
The Patrons of Husbandry are
strongest in States where, with honest man
agement,the railroads should have been sound*
But their desire to extend connections west
wards construct roads to benefit vast real es
tate speculations, fostered by the land grant
system, produced speculative value, and an in
flated market, only to he sustained by the
Drompt Dayment of divieends,which of course
lad to* be forced from some one.
Hence the high and discriminating
rates whieh have given vigor to the farmers’
public movement. There is another, and
even more directly potent reason for these
discriminations, to be found in the necessity
which was upon the railroad bankers and
their allies, who have been kiting the “street,”
to bring the crops to the seaboard, in order to
retain values there, and thus keep control of
the markets. It has been of primary impor
tance for them to bring the crops through.
The farmers, as a class, this representative
of the Granges declares, understand the
eyils that follow from a too rapid construc
tion of railroads, and long ago, he says, it
was affirmed, in discussion within the
Granges, that the producers of the older
Western States must be mulcted in heavy
freights to pay the cost of the uncompleted
and unnecessary (at the time) roads, which
the corporations and their hankers have been
pushing forward as feeders and speculative
instrumentalities.
Tbe Ways of Writers.
James T. Fields, in his new lecture on
“Fiction and its eminent Authors,’’ has the
following concerning the habits of novel
writers:
Hawthorne waited for moods, and mount
ed his tower stairs for composition only when
the fit was ton him. Dusky firocessions
constantly moved about him as he mounted
his piny hill-top, but his characters
rarely spoke to him until he he had locked his
study door and shut out’all ingress from the
worfd of living beings. Anthony Trollope,
whose novels Hawthorne greatly delighted
in, writre every day regularly, when he i3
engaged on a new story, given a number of
manuscript pages before 11 o’clock, and
smiles at the idea of waiting until he “feels
like writing,” as it is called. Thackeray
was constantly studying character, and bis
observation was unceasing. His eyes were
alert in the street, in the club, in society,
everywhere. I remember one evening he
whispered to me in a brilliant drawing
room: “How I envy you fellows who are not
in my line, and not obliged to utilize profes
sionally all the fine creatures for your next
novel.” Dickens was at one time so taken
possession of by the characters of whom he
was writing that they followed him every
where, and would never let him be a mo
ment. He told me that when he was writiug
the “Old Curiosity Shop,” the creatures of his
imaginations so haunted him that they would
neither allow him to sleep nor eat in peace;
that Little Nell was constantly at his elbow,
no matter where he might happen to he,
claiming attention and demanding his sym
pathy, as if jealous when he spoke to anyone
else. When he was writing “Martin Chuzzle-
wit,” Mrs. Gamp kept him in such paroxysms
of laughter by whispering to him in the most
inopportune places—sometimes even in
church—that he was compelled to fight her
off by main foice wh<n he did not want her
company, and threaun lo have nothing more
to do with her, unless she coulo behave bet
ter and come only when she was called.
df How a wife was swapped for a horse
is thus told by the San Francisco Chronicle :
Comstock, the man who took all the pres
tige of the discovery that bears his name.had
lots of money, houses and lands, and he set
ont to find a loving companion to share his
worldly goods with him. A Mr. Carter,- liv
ing near Comstock’s camp, was poor, but he
was possessed of a young wife, and upon the
ground that a fair exchange was no robbery
they made a trade. Comstock gave a
horse valusd at $225 and $75 in
money, making $300, for 'he wife; and to
make the matter still more bind
ing Comstock gave Carter a bill of sale of
the horse, and Carter gave Comstock a simi
lar document with the usual guarantee that
the animai was sound, kind and true, and
warranted not to kick in the harness. Bnt
the novelty of a transaction so revolting to a
woman of any spirit soon wore away, and
Comstocks wife and money left him about
the same time. Soon after she left him Com
stock told the writer that he could compel
her to live with him if he chose, and in proof
produced his bill of sale.
A Tbagedv Indeed.—One of the most
heartrending stories of the year comes from
Fonddu Lac. A young lady was passing
through a piece of ground adjoining a farm
house with her lover when the girl was at
tacked by a savage dog. Before her escort
could protect her the dog had seized her by
the breast and tom the breast from her body.
When the young man saw the dog shaking a
portion of the body of his intended he faint
ed away. The young lady, however, did
not faint. She was so mortified that she
seized a fence rail and she went for that dog,
and she pounded him until he laid still.
When her lover recovered the young woman
was trying to hide one of the wire screens
that people put over plates to keep the flies
off It seems that the dog did’nt draw blood,
owing to the fashions at Fond du Lac, which
is needless to describe. However, there is
great excitement at Fod dn Lac, and the
young man has broken off his engagement
and has bought the dog—what there i3 left
of him, and he is going to set nim again.—
LaOrosse Democrat.