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T H E A T L A N T A W E E K L V S U N
THE DAILY
Fbidax Mobbing
Dr. Bard Again.
We notice in the True Georgian so-
Vnailed of the 25th instant, a short
Editorial, headed “Mr. Stephens don’t
answerand concluding with the
interrogatory, “Does our friend in
tend to answer?” We were at a loss
at first to imagine what was meant by
the interrogatory; but upon looking
over some of the back numbers of
the same paper, we find a question
put to us, which in cursory reading,
had not attracted our special atten
tion. The Doctor may be assured
that our failure to respond has arisen*
from no indisposition to answer any
and all questions that may be put to
us, of this character, nor from any
inclination to treat him with the
slightest discourtesy.
The question referred, we find to
be couched in the following words:
“Does he propose that the Democratic
party, in the approaching political strag
gle, should make the issue directly and
squarely upon these obnoxious Amend
ments, with a view to get a judgment of
tho people upon them, or to remove or
expunge them from the Constitution ? Xs
this what ho means?”
To this we say distinctly and em
phatically, and trust there can he no
mistake or misunderstanding ot our
language, that wlmt we propose is
that the Democratic Party in the ap
proaching struggle shall arraign the
Party in Power before the people’ di
rectly and squarely for all their mis
deeds—conniving and winking at
none—much less endorsing or sanc
tioning any one or any number of them.
We hold that if the.Party in Power
are to be turned out, it ought to be for
their misdeeds—their high crimes
and misdemeanors against the Consti
tution and the liberties of the people;
and that in their arraignment for pop:
ular condemnation, their' highest
crimes should be made to stand forth
most- prominently in the Bill of In
dictment against them.
These "obnoxious Amendments’
attempted to be interpolated in the
‘Constitution by bold "usurpation,
fraud and perfidy,” sustained by bayo
nets, we hold to be the highest crimes
perpetrated by them, and among the
Highest crimes against popular rights
that can be committed by men in
vested with official power. Our ob
ject in having these most iniquitous
of all the acts of the Party in Power,
thus made prominent in the bill of
indictment against them is with the
view to get a judgment of condemna
tion against them and their authors by
Ahcjocoplc at thepolls. •
H is not, however, with a view to
get them rcinovcd or expunged from
the Constitution. It is with the
view of having them declared by the
xightful authority to be no rightful
parts of that instrument, and conse
quently to be wholly inoperative—ut
terly null and void—as all usurpato-
ry, unconstitutional acts are.
We do not propose to invoke this
popular condemnation of these mon
strous frauds with any view of having
them removed, or expunged, or re
pealed, or even touched with a ten-foot
pole.
Our object is, that the ovenvhelm
ing majority of the voters in the
United States, who recognize these
so-called amendments, as nothing hut
the consummation of tlio most infa
mous frauds and usurpations ever
practiced upon a free people, shall so
-declare at the polls; and put into
power men who, iu their official posi
tions, shall so hold them to be. Un
constitutional acts require no remo
val—no expunging—no repeal to get
rid of them. All that is required to
get rid of them, is for the people, at
the polls, to turn out of office those
w ho passed them, and put others in,
who, in all the departments of Gov
ernment, will give no sanction to their
effect or validity.
What necessity was there for any
removal, expunging, or repeal, of the
unconstitutional, despotic, alien and
sedition acts passed in the days of an
Elder Adams, when the Democracy,
under Mr. Jefferson, in lS00,put into
power men who, in their official posi
tions, held them to be void, and of
no effect, as they were passed without
rightful authority ?
.No judge ever removes or expunges,
4 or repeals an act, when he holds it to
■be void, because of the want of
.rightful authority to pass it It still
;stands upon the statute book, but
without operative effect This is an
illustration of how we propose to get
rid ■ t> these fraudulent amendments.
Fraud of itself, to say nothing of
-iuixv or other unlawful means, viti
ates awl invalidates everything that
resttr or stands upon it. If, therefore,
SUN an ovorwhelmnmg majority of the
1 people of the United States, hold
.. .July 28. (y jCse s 0 - C alled amendments, as we do,
(and as we believe they do), to he
nothing hut the consummation of
the most daring and reckless usurpa
tions ever perpetrated in this or any
other country, where the principles
of libeity have even a lodgment in
the public mind, then it will be easy
enongli to get rid of them, through
the peaceful and quiet, ., but all
powerful agency of the ballot box.
We believe in the virtue, intelligence
and patriotism of the people of the
United States. We dont believe that
they are ripe for despotism, whatever
contrary opinion maybe entertained
by others upon this subject; and what
we want 13 that their sovereign and
unrestrained voice shall be heard upon
their stupendous outrages upon their
rights as well as the rights of the
States.
We hope Dr. Bard will feel fully,
clearly and satisfactorily answered.
A. H. S.
GEORGIA POLITICS.
The LaGrange Reporter on the
"\eu .Movement,” to which a
“New Name” is Given.
will go for principle. What falla
cious reasoning! Do they think to
dupe the voters of the country in any
such way ? Do they think Republi
cans will come over their pontoon
bridge to be cut off so summarily.
They are greatly mistaken if they do.
If the great vital questions, so much
involved in the XIV and XV
amendments, are pretermitted in the
next campaign, even if success is won
on that line,do thehew departure’ man
for a moment imagine that vitality
can ever again be imparted to them?
Once committed on the line of ac
ceptance of the situation, even tem-
; >orarily, the party can never retrace
its steps. Thus committed, the way
to central despotism will be open
from eveiy political avenue; and un
der the provisions of the amendments,
giving Congress power to enforce the
same by ‘appropriate legislation,’ the
liberties of the people will disap
pear at almost every Congressional
enactment.
The ‘new departure’ has done
more to demoralize the Democracy
than all other causes combined. A
few ambitious men have sought to be
tray the Democracy of the country
from the path of political rectitude
and consistency by a slink movement
that is discreditable to third-rate pol
iticians and humiliating to the Dem
ocratic party that it has such unfaith
ful members. Prior to this false move
on the political chess-board, there
was no apparent division iu the Dem
ocratic ranks. Had it not been made
no division would have occurred.—
Who, then, we demand, are splitting
up the party, and thus handing the
country over to the Republican party
for an indefinite time ? They are .not
the staid Democracy who propose to
remain true to principle. They are
the ‘new departure’ men, few in num
ber, aud growing beautifully less, we
are glad to say, who constitute what,
at one time, seemed to be the Trojan
Horse of Democratic distraction
These are the few in number, claim
ing to be the Democratic party, who
are endeavoring to break the organi
zation, and denounce the true Demo
crats as Bourbons, redhots, &c., be
cause they firmly adhere to principle
and call upon the party to remain
true to the old aud sacred landmarks
of the founders of the Republic.
“The slink movement won’t do. It
is a political bastard, born of the cor
ruption of the times, which the gen
uine Democracy of the country will
spurn as an illegitimate child of cor
rupt parentage—conceived in sin and
brought forth in iniquity.—La Grange
(Ga.) Reporter.
we cease to believe and to declare
that these amendments are t iZie
joint products of force and fraud,
to be unceasingly warred upon, and
extirpated by direct attack, and not
by the palliative of "construction;
while you departures propose to
hush up the whole matter, or if you
speak it is only to make the Radicals
believe that acquiescence in them, as
parts of the Constitution, is for all
time. How either the “Departure '
cheats the Radical or it cheats the
friends of a restored, purified Consti
tution, and we really have not made
up our minds which. The "depart
ure” has all the ear-marks of a dodge.
It is not straightforward; it requires
too much explanation; it is forked in
tongue, and has none of the yea-and-
nay simplicity of a direct and truth
ful proposition. We cling to the be
lief that when the Democratic party
assembles in its integrity and its wis
dom in the National Convention, it
will not trust its great fortunes to
such a ricketty dug-out as this.
Fr6m tho Mobile Begister.
ALABAMA POLITICS.
GEORGIA NEWS.
INDIANA POLITICS.
Another New Departure.
“In all kinds, of organizations,
whether political,” religious or civic,
there are to be found malcontents and
agitators, reckless and impatient, who
are ever ready to sow the seeds of con
tention and depart from the objects
and aims for which they ostensibly
became members thereof. So it is in
the Democratic party. We have
Democrats who are not satisfied un
less they can stir up strife and con
tention, and thus exert all their ener-
r to thwart the aims and purposes of
the Democratic organization. These
agitators and fomentors of strife in
our party are mainly composed of
men who are ambitious of place and
power, but who have never acquired
either, to a great extent, from the
hands of the people.. Failing to he
the recipients of official position and
to he rewarded for the services they
have rendered the party, as they
doubtless reason to themselves, they
at once become impressed that long
and well-established principles are de
fective, and that the party needs to be
reorganized—hoping in the end, to
reach long sought promotions as lead
ers of some new departure from the
original landmarks of political ortho
doxy. , , r .f •
“The sporadic conception of the
‘new departure’ is an illustration of
the facts above recited. It has some
what affected the Democratic party,
but scarcely in no two cases alike.—
It is variously construed in various
sections of the country; and the'only
thing we can make of it in general
terms, as definitive of its true char
acter, is that it is a slink movement
from the principles that the great
masses of the Democratic party, en
dorse and adhere to. It is a sorb of a
spontaneous'combustion on the part
of the outs in the Democratic party,
against the ins in the Republican
party, in which the great body of the
people of the country have no par
ticular interest. It is a spawn of
political corruption in the Democratic
party, aud deserves to be crushed to
atoms at the very incipiency of its ex
istence. .. ‘ ’
“We have denominated the ‘new
departure’ a slink movement from the
time-honored principles of the Dem
ocratic party. Its intention is claimed
to be by its advocates, to afford a sort
of bridge “whereby those who were
earned into the Republican party
during the war may cross back over
the gulf of political separation to the
Democratic fold—a sort of pontoon
affair that can be removed when de
parted spirits have returned, and
thus cut off all connection with the
enemy, unless they can get up a pon
toon bridge in the Republican party
in the shape of another ‘ new depart
ure.’ Like the Mobile Register, we
think that “ there is good reason to
believe that the ‘ new departure,’ so
far from being a bridge to pass new
members to the Democratic camp, is
a bridge that lures and marches the
Democratic camp over to Radical
mongrelism.
“ But to be serious we do not see
how the ‘new departure’ advocates
can hope to augment the strength of
the Democratic party by their policy.
They must remember that party dis
cipline has not the force it possessed
in former days. Men act more inde
pendently now than they did fifteen
years ago. Men who are inclined to
be politically consistent, are not to be
dragooned into the support of all sorts
of principles, especially those they
have bitterly denounced as unconsti
tutional and usurpative in their char
acter. Hence they cannot look upon
the proposed amendments to the Fed
eral Constitution as a ‘settlement of
all issues of war,’ which the ‘new de
parture’ Democrats propose to recog
nize as ‘no longer political issues be
fore the country.’ They cannot, and
will not ‘accept the situation’ by a
promise never again to disturb the
fraudulently declared amendments to
the Constitution, and make no effort
to blot them from existence as parts
of the fundamental law of the land.
“But, say the “Departnrists,” let j parts of the Constitution as to be
us get into'power, aud then we can obeyed, for the present. So do we.
dispose of these -obnoxious amend-j Xow where do we differ? In this,*
ments in out owli way. We are after j that neither now nor hereafter
power now, that secured, then we • before or after the election will
Tliai “Departure.”
J/r. Vallandigham’s resolutions are not a departure
from Ike Jeffersonian principles of the Constitution in
any sense whatever.—Montgomery Advertiser.
No; they only acquiesce in the Radi
cal departures from the Constitution,
abide by it, as fail accompli, and decline
to combat it because it is a “dead issue.”
The Amendments are in themselves a
departure, because they transfer from the
States to the Central system the regula
tion of the subject of citizenship and
suffrage always exercised, until recently,
by the States.—Advertiser.
Yes; and the Advertisb’ and its coadju
tors just agree to “depart” along with the
authors of them.
What is called the Now Departure is
simply a declaration on the part of the
Democratic party that it does not pfopose
to treat these amendments as being “rev
olutionary, null and void,” but as having
become parts of the Constitution not
withstanding their efforts to prevent it,
and as being valid as law, however bad in
principle. —Advertiser.
“ Which is simply a declaration”
that a part “of the Democratic party”
(the Advertiser, Courier-Journal,
etc.) have made up their minds not
to oppose these amendments as in
their hearts they abhor them, be
cause they think it is impolitic. Is
not that “a dodge?” Certainly it is,
and what is worse, it is a weak dodge.
It has not even the merit of “ente-
ness” to. recommend it The Hew
York Times, from which the Adver
tiser quoted the other day, had not
need to read after Mr. Stephens to
see through its transparency. It is
not only to weaken and demoralise
our great party, but it is to strip it
naked to the lashes of the ridicule and
invectives of its accursed enemies.—
It is another dodge to pretend that
the "departure” was necessary to
make the country believe that the
Democratic party aid not mean revolu
tionary force and violence to get rid
of the obnoxious amendments. No
body has ever hinted such a thing
from the Democratic or Southern
side; and it has existed nowhere ex
cept in the lying throats of Radical
managers.
It is another false dodge to say that
the Democracy was beaten in 1868
because of the clause in its platform
denouncing the amendments as revo
lutionary, null and void,” because
Grant himself stood in that race on
the Chicago platform, which insisted
that the suffrage was exclusively a
State question. If Seymour was
beaten for this reason, for the same
reason Grant ought not to have been
elected. If there is not "dodging”
in all this, we have never encountered
that article in onv whole political life.
Just look at it. You departurists are
dead against the-amendments. So
are we. You say yon won’t oppose
them by violence. So do we. You
hold that they are in so far actual
Under the above caption, we clip the
following scathing rebuke from the States
and Union, a thorough Democratic paper
published at Ashland^ Ohio. It says:
“The New York World, a hybrid jour
nal, pretending to work in the interest of
the Democratic party, but which is really
a sapper and miner for the Republican
party, undertakes to lay down a pro
gramme for the Southern Democracy for
the campaign of 1872. The first assump
tion is, that the Democracy of that sec
tion of tde Union should not presume to
be represented in the Convention to nom
inate a candidate for the Presidency to be
supported by the Democracy; in other
words, that the task of selecting that can
didate should be confided wholly to the
Northern wing of the party. We find
Northern journals insane enough to sup
port this New Departure, chiming in with
the World, and hinting that the South
should be glad to acquiesce in the wisdom
of such a proposition, and quitely stand
and look on while the wise (?) men from
New England and other sections, should
set a dead-fall to entrap and destroy the
whole Radical party politically! Yes,
when the heavens fall all the larks
can be easily picked up. It is amaz
ing that any Democrat can be found
to countenance such proposition.
Its insanity is only equaled by
its audacity and political meanness. The
idea that the South would submit to such
a base proposition is absurd. How long
do pretended Democrats intend to do the
dirty work of trying to gag the people of
the South in the interest of the villians
who are striving to consolidate all au
thority in the hands of the Presidential
Despot.in the Federal Capital. To insist
on a proposition of that kind is to insure
the disruption and defeat of the Democ
racy for all time. If alienation and es
trangement are desirable in political
management, the doors of the Conven
tion should be slammed in the face of
the Southern delegates, and Radicalism
will reign. If we desire harmony, pros
perity and national greatness the sooner
the scars and wounds- of the past are
buried and forgotten the better. By ju
dicious management, every Southern
State will vote the Democratic ticket in
1872, and thus insure our success over
the disunionists, theconsolidationists and
the venal crew that now rob the coun
try and feast upon the treasury of the
people. The people of the South should
be cordially invited to send delegates to
the National Conwention—should be con
sulted and made to feel they are welcome,
that unity of effort may obtain and all
marks of humiliation be eraced from the
minds of her people. By doing so, they
will cheerfully aid in expelling the van
dals from the White House; and per
sonal liberty, the rights of the States and
the Union will bo secured. Let the
whole country be consulted, and success
will crown our efforts.”—Rockport find.)
Democrat, 22dJuly, ’71.
A sailor went to sleep in a second story
Savannah window and fell upon the pave
ment. Injuries not serious.
Savannah mortality for the week end
ing July 22d was only 21, of whom 10
were white.
Mr. Hargiss, of Eingston, was robbed
of one thousand dollars, a night or two
ice.
From tlio Borne Commercial.
Mr. Conch, of Kingston, is putting a
handsome Hotel, and true to the fashion
of the day, proposes to call it the H. I.
Conch House.”
Cartersville cannot be happy until slie
has a “public market house.”
From tho Cartersvilio Standard.
The Tax Returns of Bartow county, for
1871, show the value of taxable property
in the county to be 83,429,SOI, an increase
of near $105,000, over last year. This
speaks well of the prosperity of our peo
ple. The Receiver informs us that there
are scarcely any white defaulters.
The Cartersville Standard is one year
old and “largo for its age.”
From the Athena Watchman.
We learn that a hurricane passed over
portions of Banks ond Franklin counties
on Tuesday last, which prostrated the
corn, forest and shade trees, and in some
instances, blew down small houses.
On and after next Sunday passenger
trains will run on the Macon aud West
ern Railroad.
From the Macon Telegraph, 20.
A little four-year-old son of Mr. Wm.
Cronan was shockingly bit in the face
yesterday, by a large bull dog owned by
Mr. Cronan.
From the Eatonton Press and Messenger, 20.
We understand a negro nominating
convention will meet in Eatonton next
Saturday to put one of their race in the
field for Representative.
The Cholera, we understand, is raging
destructively among the hogs in the
western portion of this county. Numbers
are dying daily.
—
Of Interest to Cotton Planters.
We learn from the “Money” article of
tho New York Journal of Commerce, of
the ISth instant, that a late legal decis
ion, if honestly carried out by the Fed
eral Executive Government, will restore
to cotton planters a small portion of the
ta^on cotton unjustly extorted from them
in 1866-’67 and ’8. Inasmuch as the du
ty was laid by act of Congress upon cot
ton,'and not upon burlap covers, cotton
bagging, iron, or rope, suit was commenc
ed against the Government and a decis
ion reached that the tax was only collect
able on the net weight. The tare usually
ranges from twenty-six to thirty pounds
per bale, and it is said that the depart
ment has compromised on an allowance
of 80 cents per bale. Whether this con
cession is general, or the refund will only
be made to those who paid nnder protest,
remains to be seen. It is easy to seen, that
if four million bales paid the tax, and the
refund is made on each, then the claim
ants will be entitled to upwards of three
million dollar® " Chronicle and Sentinel
Found Dead on the Track.
The Columbus Sun, of the 26th,
says:
The freight tfain between Macon
and Columbus, which left the former
place under charge of conductor Ed.
Jeffers, Monday at 8:12 p. m., when it
had advanced about forty-three miles
ran over the body of a white man
that was lying on the track. It was
discovered too late to stop the train,
hut the engine was reversed as soon
as possible. The body was picked up
lifeless. There was a dent in the fore
head, but from the fact that no blood
could lie seenissuingfrom the wound,
and the extreme coldness of the
corpse, all on the train thought that
the mau hod been previously killed
aud laid on the rails. The body was
that of a middle-aged man, very de
cently dressed, and whose name was
unknown. It was carried hack to
Macon and delivered to the coroner
of Bibb county.
Origin of
Financial
tions.
AWnevia-
The New York Journal of Commerce
thus answers a query as to the origin of
the dollar-mark :
The dollar sign (8) was used long be
fore there was any Federal coinage to be
represented. All these old characters
grew into use so gradually that their ex
act origin is often disputed, and frequent
ly lost even beyond the reach , of long-
armed tradition. The origin of the dol
lar-mark is disputed. Most old writers
claim that the 8 came from the old
Spanish pillar dollar, which bore on its
reverse the two “Pillars of Hercules,’
the ancient name of the opposite prom
ontories at the Straits of Gibraltar. The
parallel lines in it (thus ||) stand, accord
ing to this explanation, for the two pil
lars, and they are bound together thus
(8) with a scroll. More modern writers
claim that as the Spanish dollar was a
piece of eight reals, “8 R” being one
stamped on it, and it was then called
“piece of eight,” that the figure 8 with a
line drawn through it, as characters were
generally formed, produced the sign of
the dollar. It was called a dollar, but
“piece of eight.” The name itself was
born in Germany, and from the fact that
the first piece of "this character was coined
in the Valley of St. Joachim, in Bohe
mia, in the year 1518, it was called Joa
chim, Thaler, the last half of the word
being pronounced (aud often written)
duller. The character £ is the first letter
of the Latin word librae, with a line
across for the pound sterling, and the
letters ft, with a line across it, represents
the same word as applied , to a pound
weight.
A Female Odd-Fellow.
T _____
An old man, sixty-five years of age,
uamed Stoole, who was the janitor of
Odd Fellow’s Hall in Indiapolis, and had
charge of the private books and work, as
well as keys, for some time past, has been
under the domination of a Mrs. Pillbean,
who acquired a fearful influence over
him, and prevailed upon him to let her
witness tho initiation ceremonies in Odd
Fellowship, while she was concealed from
view. There is a room adjoining a main
hall of the Odd Fellow’s building, des
ignated for the reception of an organ.
Entrance to this room can be obtained
only from the outside, and there Mrs. P.
was admitted by the janitor on several
different nights. Thence she witnessed
three if not five initiations. She was sup
plied with the private books and work of
the Order, and the keys to the rooms.
These articles were taken from Indian
apolis a day m-two ago by the Chief of
Police. It is said that the janitor in
structed the woman in three degrees of
Masonry. Sho makes her boast that she
is an Odd Fellow and a Free Mason, and
has given evidence that she knows about
Odd Fellowship. For some time past
the janitor has paid twelve dollars a
month rent for the woman’s house. She
wanted more money, and demanded o:ae
thousand dollars a year. This he refused
to pay. She asked for five hundred and
a mortgage on one of the janitor’s
houses. This was also refused. Then
she told what she had seen and learned.
On Friday night the janitor was tried be
fore a committee of Odd Fellows aud ex
pelled from the Order. It is said that he
is keeping close to his house.—Baltimore
American.
Crop Iteporl.
From Southwest Georgia we get
the report that corn has passed all
danger from rain. The crop is large.
The same is remarked in this section.
Cotton has mnch improved of late,
yet with the most favorable weather
after this date it will be impossible
for three-fourths-of last years crop
to be gathered. "We beard one of our
largest, safest and most reliable cot
ton merchants say, the other day, be
did nob believe there would be 3,250,-
000 balesjproduced this year (1,000,-
000 less than last) because there were
not enough stalks in the field to pro
duce it. He believed, too, that if the
fact was fully established that no
more than three and a quarter mil
lion bales would Lq the yield of the
United States, that Cotton would im
mediately advance twb or three cents
in Hew “York.—ColumbSun, 26/7/.
Dying for Love.
BY A. R. WATSON.
Kate load a suitor who had seen
Tho shade and shine of thrice fifteen;
Vet was he lover spry and gay,
As though his life were in its May.
None moved about on readier limb;
No younger beau could rival him
In'picking up a fan or glove,
Or plunging headlong into love.
He pressed his snit with ardent zest,
Anil hoped that Kate would mako him blest-
He promised all things good and fair,
Tho best of homes, the best of wear;
Ho promised too, in reason’s spite,
That ho would be uxorious quite;
In fact, held Kate so very dear,
He thought he’d like to die for her.
Kate heard his speech and then refused-
She really begged to be excused!
She liked him first-rate—as a friend—
And hoped their friendship would not end-
Was grateful for the preference shown.
But really could not marry one,
No matter what tho prospect is,
Whoso hair had grown so gray as his.
John heard her reasoning, unconvinced,
Though ’neath her arguments ho winced,
(One docs’t mind so being old,
But hates to hear the failing told),
And then let loose his oily tongue.
To prove to her he still was young.
“My form is straight, my step is light,
Although my hair has caught some white;
Aud then, to prove my loving true,
I really think I’d dye for you.”
A Decision which Ought to ^ e
Published.
A decision was rendered in a Justice
Court here several weeks ago which we
intended to publish at the time, but for
got it. A gentleman made a contract
with a carpenter to shingle his house,
stipulating that upon tho completion of
the work he would pay him so
much money. He had nothing to do
with, or to say to any other mechanic up
on the subject whatever. The carpenter
then hired two other men to do the work,
he leasing the job. When finished, lie
so reported to the owner, and was prompt
ly paid, in full, the whole amount orig
inally agreed upon. But the carpenter
pocketed the money, took the first train
and absconded without paying his two
workmen. Whereupon the workmen
went to the owner of the building and
demanded of him the wages the carpen
ter agreed to give them. They were re
fused.
They then formally brought the malj
ter before a magistrate who, after hear'
ing the evidence and speeches, decided
the case against the owner and in favor
of the workmen. The case was appealed,
but we have heard several members of
the Macon bar say that under the pres
ent law of Georgia the magistrate was
right. If that is law, people having such
work to do had better understand it
fully.—Macon Telegraph, 26.
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A Man With ail Appetite.
The city of Los Angeles, CaL, is just
now honored with the presence of a most
extraordinary glutton. He is a native of
the Grand Duchy of Monaco, and seems
to have had an eventful life. At the age
of threb years he could masticate coarse
dried beef, and at nineteen had such a
voracious appetite that the Grand Duke,
probably fearing a famine in his small
principality, sent him, as one of a pur
chased quota, to Roumania, whence he
afterward escaped to the United States.
Immediately on his arrival at Los Angeles
he ate thirty-four pounds’ weight of pork,
pork-fat, train-oil, and tallow-candles, and
subsequently consumed all the cold joints
of a good-humored restaurateur, to whom
he offered a twenty-five cent stamp to
cover the damage. The citizens of Los
Angeles, like all Californians, have a pe
culiar fondness for “big things,” and the
result is, that instead of riding this “big
eater” out of the town on a rail, they
have taken hold of him with their accus-
customed enthusiasm, and now offer to
back him for a “square meal” against the
world.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
A correspondent-, writing from Sarato
ga, relates this incident.
“Among our visitors is a young clergy
man. He is smart and has his eyes open.
He is a churchman and will make his
mark. An incident will illustrate this.
His college chum is settled in
the Baptist ministry. Our church friend
made a call on Iris chum. It was Satur
day, aud he proposed to spend Sunday
with his old associate. He was made
welcome, but with the least bit of embar-’
rassment that he did not fail to observe.
At length the Baptist brother spoke. ‘I
should be delighted to have you preach
for me to-morrow; but the fact is, it is
our communion. We have it directly af
ter our morning service. It would ho
very awkward, you know, for you to
preach for me and then go out of the
house with the unregenerate, for, by the
rules of our Church, yon, not being bap
tized, cannot commune with us.’ The
churchman laughed and said: ‘Oh,
don’t be uneasy. I will preach for you.
But were I forty times baptized, I could
not sit down to your table, for, by the
rules of our Church, you, you know, are
not ordained, and cannot administer the
ordinances at all.’ And so he preached,
and at the close went out to his dinner.
Unfortunate Difficulty.
Last week, iu a billiard saloon in
Talladega, Alabama, whilst John
Bowlin and a young man named
Knox were playing a game, a dispute
arose which resulted in a quarrel,
when Bowlin drew and cocked his
pistol, and asked Knox "if he was
armed. At this point Samuel Fisher,
the game keeper, interferred and at
tempted to disarm Bowlin. In the
scuffle the pistol went off, shooting
Fisher through the lungs, from which
it was not thought he could recover.
Bowlin was considerably steeped in
whiskey.—Columbus Sun, 25th.
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[ ^George Sand, the well known au
thor, is stated to be lying dangerous
ly ill. Grave doubts are entertained
of herrecovery.
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English ritualistic clergymen want
to exclude female voices from the
choirs of all churches. They are un
willing to give women any chants.
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KBr* Wisconsin puts forth David Styles
as the oldest Mason. He has seen 105
