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HE ATLANTA W^ELY SUN. EOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBR 18. 1872.
THE ATLANTA SUN]
General aud Pemonal.
— Ni)s*on U coming ag^ n.
•—Brignoll la la Milan.
—McEtoj la on the tramp la Ohio.
Tutu had voted for Hendricks an<l Brown for
^•aidant and Vice President.
Janauachak la in Germany, bat will return to
America thla winter.
Oar Public Schoole.
The report of the Superintendent of
the Publio Schools oi Atlanta, for the
school year ending August 31,1872, the
X Bud End of a Bad Beginning
A love of notoriety is one of the most
fruit fnl Bourcea of degradation. Many
young ladies, who turn up their nr sea at
The Georgia Frees Upon
ship.
the Senator.
rules for the government of schools, and j a poor young man who honestly earns
a letter from Hon. Joseph E. Brown, firing, are always ready to go into
chairman of the Board of Education, ad- ecstacie3 over a Grand Duke ox a plug
_ d 'cssed to the Mayor and Council of At- ugly who may be fortunate enough to
—him Morgan is <he name of Phil Sheridan’s I j anta ]j av0 |j een published in pamphlet obtain a dubious celebrity. We have
I form. been led into these remarks Dy a St.
The report of Superintendant Mallon Louis romance, from which a moral
I fa a paper of interest to every class of might be taken. In 1868, Mike McCool,
our citizens. I* will be read with in- the prize fighter, was in the heighth of
tense satisfaction by every one who has bis renown, and was recognized as the
j at heart the cause of universal educa- bead and front of the St Louis roughs,
tion. Before the inauguration of the ^ young and beautiful girl, Miss Mary
— m:bs Lucille western 1b in. »nd gives notice I p a biic School system about 1.200 white Ann Nanghton, became enamored of the
^p^M 0iC, ^ todtS1,U ° rUV;llUe£r0m children of the city were receiving mon ster, .nd despite the entreaties of
—Mu. Bloomer, the inventor of the Bloomer cob- L„bol astic instrue ion. Under the new Mj scr eet friends, agreed to marry him.
tame, blooms in Illinois. She lies now t etched a . __ I . , , , ... .
gnestionsbio sge. system 2,075 have been registered—or The weddmg was celebrated with great
—Mr. s. E. criuendon, former proprietor of the gyr w b 0 formerly had not been attend- pomp, and the church was crowded with
Madison House, M»dis«n square. Now York. ing schools. This diflerence is partly thee/iteof St. Louis society, who attended
I composed of the children of tho weal- to see a foolish g rl throw herself away
thier class of citizens, who have hereto- j p or awhile McCool gave .up the roped
i fore been schooled at universities in j arena, au<l “capered nimbly” in his lady’s
other States, bnt who now find ade- chamber to the poaise music of “ brandy
ete.
— Horace Greeley’s will is in his own hand
writing.
Sucan B. Anthony at last figures in a courting
•cone.
General McClellan is suggested for New Jersey's
Beit Governor.
—There is no provision m tbo constitution to su-
yercede the President if be should become insane.
— Mark Twain is of opinion that a ]oke, to be
pood, most be cracked st some other man’s expense.
manhood. The people oi
his twenty-first birthday.
—Anthony Trollope lias gone home to EncUnd to I
mite another book on America and Australia, after j
an extended tour through both.
j^tebiiokln^'Soompanf for ail papers they I quate advantages in our high schools, j smashes for six.” But Mike was not
I Bnt the larger portion is of the chil- permitted to rest. Tom Aden cbal-
do not soil or itrow old on their hands.
— Hon. Alexander Morris has been gazetted, - .. , , , .
lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and the North- dren of the poor who had not been able I lenged him, ana while he .was in training,
^ — 1 Mis! Catherine Bums w.s burned to death at P a 7 he left his wife and his saloon in charge
to. boiise. in BoAvuie Centre. Eons !-and, Satur- A comuarative statement by Prof. Mai- of a trnsty friend. When at last Me
— The AKMit of the Webb lino of Australian steam- Ion shows that the cost per annum’of tui-1 Cool returned home he heard such ru
o"u>Vimeto^e C &c°MS Simony! 1 * *** tion for the 1,200 chUdren attending pri- mors as made him shoot at his friend,
— he Grand jury of Boston has indic'ed Leavitt I vateschools, oefore the inauguration oi | and have a scene with his wife. After
:LlSobLrcUAn u.0ChM?es riv^ the present system of public instruction, this, reports represented Mrs. McCool as
— .ho Dnk<» doNoaiiirs, the Er nch Minister. h*» was greater than is now incurred by the being “ rather fast,” aud one or two sep-
Thterawfil'bo*susudnidThut^ajmg^riist'^B^Si city for instructing the 2,842 white and arations occurred. On the 15th cf last
have to make some concessions. colored children. This being the case, August the unfortunate woman reached
— Azro B. Bartholomew, who killed Charles F. ... „ , , . I .. , . , , . , .
Stover, of Cheisea, M«s ., in February last, and the Public School system is a positive the culmination of her misery oy eloping
“a™‘“the‘suttpXr 1 - saving to the tax-payeasof the city, while with a printer named Manion, formerly
—Edwin Booth “coined money” in h ltford, tha- *b 0 number of children receiving the of Charleston. She is now an inmate nl
ivenml the receTphi'Caching"the sum'of two tho°u“ - benefits of education is doubled. a low, disreputable house in New Orleans,
mad dollars. The appropriation ot $75,000 by the and the physical monster claiming to oe
the coast «.f Pern. Thcyaro ruddy and fair, witu city for the purpose of building school her husband applies to the Courts of St.
xemnaiftB'oi^aiicien^rorany^^crijapB! 111 rds " S °“° I houses and inaugurating the Public Louis for a divorce. Thus ends a woman’s
—John Bright, it is announced with somo show of School svstem, has been found inade- romantic marriage in her own degrada-
authrlty, has of lstemado HiostBatislactoryprogress ’ , , , , .. , , . . u ,, ,
towards good health, and his return to Faritsmen- quate to build the school houses ana tion; ana what better could she expect
MmoOTfiSwa 1011 l8 ' tbereforo * ex * ected wi,h affered the accommodations required for from marrying a man of McCool’sclass ?
—The Waidcosian synod repots thirty-seven mis- the convenience of schollars and teach-1 Their companionship alone is enough to
eiKhty^'irii't 8 laborer? ami wmi ammuntou- ers. Another grammar school house is degrade a woman.
Outsides of the valley* of tho Waldenses 4,000 would f nr Marietta street nnd one
probably represent the whole number of Pro tea- y ec neeaea Ior marietta Street, ana one *-+■
tent commuuicauts In Italy. house for a colored school, somewhere in Convention or tne State Agricultural
—To be locked up with an IbBane man is not at all .. -rrr . . . Society.
times ploasant. A couple of gentlemen recently *“8 Western part of the City.
w^m?e e a“n°cdXmTith B ^ e th1f th^bndged'lin II is de ® iiaDle for the thorough success I The place of the next meeting of the
inch. They s». periecuy still until tho keeper feu of the system that these buildings bo j State Agricultural Society has been defi
Into a comfortable doze, when they , . , , , .1 ° j' ...
“Folded t ieir tents, like the Arabs, I furnished r»y the city. Wuue we are in I rately decided upon. It will meet in
And silently stoio away." j f avor c f retrenchment in our publio ex- Augusta on the 11th of February. Coun-
penditures, our Public Schools must I ty Societies are requested to appoint del-
be sustained. Let the retrenchment be legates and forward their names prompt
elsewhere than in the crippling of this h y to the Secretary’s office, in Atlanta.
From the Greensboro Herald, 13th December, 1873.
Hon. A. H. Stephens for United
States Senator.—In tue past and oetter
days of the Republic, the South had am
ple reason to be proud of the character
and ability of her representatives at
Washington. They were men of integ
rity, ability, eloquence and influence.
Statesmen of high order, of whom any
people might well have been
proud, and whose glory gave lus
tre and renown to the American
Congress. Bnt between those days
and the present time, a gloomy chasm
inteivenes. Reoonstruotioi, fraud and
proscription have done their work; the
light of Southern genius has been ex-
cuded from the halls of Congress, and
with the exception of a few honest men,
tne places of the Randolphs, Calhouns,
Clays, Troups .nd Cobbs of the past,
are filled by miserable carpet-baggers
and scalawags, who, with brainless vani
ty ai d unprincipled audacity, assume to
represent tho Southern people.
But upon Georgia and some of her
sister States, a better day has dawned,
and we can now extend the Senatorial
crown to the man of our c; oice. Geor
gia has many sons who are well quali
fied to fill the position with honor to
themselves and their constituency, and
— Mrs. 8cott-Slddons read Shakespeare, Scott,
Tennyson, Sheridan, Browning and Whl tier, to th>-
adminng Chic goans, attired in a rich mofre an-
tlqne, trimmed with deep flounces of old Venetian
point lace, confined by a ruby satin band. Ob her
wrists sho wore a pair of bracelets present* d to her
hy Queen Victoria, and composed of massive gold, ] important public interest now SO SUC-
studcled with thirty-six rubies and numerous dia-1 _ .
monds. She also were a locket of gold, studded | OCSSfully inaugurated,
with diamonds, presented to her publicly, in Bos
ton ,
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Hotttkcrn News.
Soutla Georgia Conferenct,
Of Prof. Mallon’s administration, the I ^ correspondent of the Macon Tele
people of Atlanta cannot entertain too graph and Messenger notices the opening
high an appreciation. And he, withtbe J 0 f this Conference in Ihomasville outlie
OrkSTiSimmlLd’yateuTi 1 Board ot Ed- hub instant. Bishop Marvin presides.
-Mrs. Ann Howard ElemiDR, wife ol“° S 5 0 °’°f ae f Wll ° SaI f D “f““ ““ I E ‘ Bhop Pearc0 is “ la0 oU6n<l!ulce '
Col. John M. Fleming, of the Knoxville Pabllc Sch ° o1 »JBtem has been estab- Rev. S. D. Clements was elected Secre-
Press and Herald, died in that city De- Wished, deserve, and will receive, the ] tary,
•ember 7. thanks of an appreciative and grateful
—The Montgomery Advertiser thinks community.
that the Republicans of Alabama cast] ► ♦-«
10.000 fraudulent votes at the Presiden- -MaJ. Benj. b. crane.
iiM election. Ry our telegraphic dispatches it will be
we couid select four Senators, we
would select tne four men whose names
have been most frequently mentioned
connection with the position—Col
quitt, Gordon, Jonhson and Stephens,
Towards two of these, Gens. Colquitt
and Gordon, we feel, in its full force, the
sentiment that usually exist between men
woo have stooa together in the samt bat
ties, and if we were to consult our feel
ings alone we would most probably favor
the brave and gifted Gordon, the peer-
le-8 chevalier of the Southern army,
above all others. But under all the cir-
um&tunces of the situation, we regard
Mr. Stephens as preeminently qualified
and entitled to the position,
Mr. Stephens is ohly a man, with the
frailties of humanity, liable as are men,
to err, though not as liable to efr us
most men. We offer him no hero wor
ship, no blind adoration, nor unques
tioning support. These we give-to no
man, but he is beyond question a man
of unbending integrity—clear, calm in
tellect, profound learning, remarkable
foresight, true and effective eloquence,
and if in the Senate woula be a oower
felt throughout the length and breadth
of the United States.
Imbued with a high sense of honor
and justice, possessed of moral courage
that shrinks, from no ordeal, free from
prejudice, open to conviction, but firm
and unyielding in his convictions; in full
sympathy with the great Southern
heart and thoroughly aiive to the cen
tralizing tendencies of the Grant ad
ministration and Republican party,
is peculiarly fitted to represent, not only
Georgia, at this critical juncture, but the
entire South. The next four years must
decide, whether Repuolicanism in Amer
ica, lives or dies. Stephens is not only
champion of free institutions, bat
strong and courageous champion—“a
mighty man of valor” on the arena in
which the battle on which our political
destiny depends, must be decided.
8S?* Will the Macon Telegraph explain
why The Sun never receives credit for
news it takes from our columns, while
items or articles from either the Constitu-
—There are two hundred and eleven I I tion or Herald are credited to them. Why
Btudents at Randolph Macon College, the ® een tbafc ° Qr , ^ J * ?Jf ’ this discrimination,' Brother Clisby ?
institution founded and kept up by the I been honored by the National Uommer-1 ^ a t
"Virginia Methodists. cial Convention, sitting in St. Louis, with A notumt* Trip
—The name of Hon. O. O. Scales, oi the Presidency of that body. It- is grat- j haye recently a tonr thrt « ah a
Ki'iitoDy is mentioned m connection witli J jfuinp +a epa on Atlflnti nmn thus lion* I • ^ , . . ,
the office of Clerk of the Ccnrt of Ap- y ° 8 , - ^ ™ considerable portion of the most po] -iiotw
peals. The election comes off in August, ore ^> an ^ no man in Atlanta is more fitted par j. o{ North, mostly for the pn
1874. f o wear it than Maj. Crane. He is ener observing the character and mt-mige
_ inoffensive pistol, while being getic, able and honorable, and occupies a ment of 8ome of the pecalidr iastim . l0nB
handled by a quiet and peaceable freed- pr0 ud place in the commercial world. f the dav established for the edm- tion
man of Aberdeen, Miss., accidentally I n , o1o „ i OI1 t, Mn t,. o1 tfleday ’ estaDU8Detl lor tne ea,h ltl0n
went off, and the bullet lodged snugly iu ^° * ^ eemB » also » has been honored by and otherwise bettering the eondiaon of
that Convention with a promment place. our raoe- Many of them are of hig t rder,
For Secretary of state.. and seem to completely supply h tuiani-
Gen. Wm. M. Phillips, of Marietta, I ty’s wants. They reflect- grei.t credit
the neck of a sleeping music teacher.
—An unsuccessful attempt was made
to abolish tho office of chaplain in the
South Carolina Legislature. It was
and
thought that the body was past praying W e learn, will be a candidate before the a P on those generous mindB with whom
,or - t e , L gislature for Secretary of State. Gen. they originated, and still more upon the
th7cha»SVoSrS&a.'“om UiiiUiP" “ “4 .blj kno^ banavofent people, who Produ«.i from
Richmond to White Sulphur Springs, J throughout North Georgia, and if elected I their ideals, substantial realm*
amount to $26,857 more in 1872 than in would make an excellent officer. world-wide blessings.
1871. # business relations.
ofTh^^nmiyi^ani^I^^islatt^^^n^mv j *^ Adotber Btar has fallen from the LSSS^ 1
employed in a Dallas (Texas) railway theatrical horizon, and hereafter the no contending int- rest. The business
warehouse, iu some subordinate ca— j name ot Forrest will belong to history I men cf tne North deserve a great deal of
Pac^y. like those of Garries and Macready. His P raise for tb ® indnlgence and the pn-
—Two Germans who settled near Tus- name had yea-s ago, won a bright place gomlfern business mluffn^rder to^ena-
xenting lUTarm^have'msed 6 anZsold*moe * in tbe tem P le b * 8 P r °l essioil » an ^ now | ole them to repair their shattered for-
hundred and twenty-six bushels ot I tbat he is dead, whatever we may think tunes,
wheat, six hundred busliels of corn, and I of his domestic transactions, we can but
IN SOCIAL LIFE
eight bales of cotton.
—M C. Foulk, the missing Nashville
carriage-maker, who disappeared myste
riously from Cincinnati three months
ago, has been found at Farmersville,
Oni'., quietly working at his trade. H
admire his wonderful genius.
I am sorry to say tlie relations are not so
{pleasant as they were beiore the war.
of society news. A dashy widower, hav
ing woo the affections of a .beautiful
did not know that there had been any J blonde, is interrupted in his amours by
serch for Him. Tho error arose from the I the appearance of an original wife, who
failure of his wife to receive his last dis- S eems averse to the course of her “ dear
patch from Cincinnati. 1 .. , „ . „ .. * . , ,
— A letter from Dallas, Texas, to the ^P 1101180 - A11 the P^ rtie3 belon S
Houston Age, says that twelve “Indian” the bon ton, aud the matter excites some
cattle thieves were lately caught in one j interest,
ot the Western counties and hung to a
limb of a tree, because there was no | We acknowledge tne receipt of
71 . * •'* , . ... ... Tne coldness towards Sontherners, and
Washington has a delicious tit-bit a j inos t positive inaifference, were too
« °i ^ be .^ aw to plead for them. | an invitation to attend the Second An-
“ Before hanging them their faces were , _ .
scrubbed, and eleven of the twelve did nual Fair of . lb f Agricultural and Me-
not pan out as Indians— they being un- clianical Association ol Georgia, at Sa-
protected orphans from Kansas mostly.” vannah, on 30th inst. Geo. S. Owens is
—The St. Louis and Southeastern Rail- President of the Association, andJ. H.
road Company have built their track Estill, Secretary.
down to the water’s edge on the Ohio, at —
Henderson, and have adjusted a float, so iC§y*The Memphis .4coianc7ie is boldly
passenger aud freight cars may bo trans- j stepping into the Woman’s Rights ranks,
ferred to tne otner side of the river . . 5 -*r- xr
Trains, will, therefore, go throngh ^ A late numoer says Miss Nellie Grant i»
Evansville and St. Louis direct without “ a ca P ital horseman.’ What a good
a change of passengers or breaking bulk editress the Avalanche man mnst be!
oi freight. 1
-About sixteen yearsago, Mr. Cyrus ^ 11.864,976 acres of public lands
Poage, of Ashland, Kentucky, became I ^exesold last
ie creditor of Mr. Blank, of Massacbu-
hundred dollars.
f® bt '"t? loiJ g since buried, without
“J weeks hu , a M^ aWe retUrD; but a
* g Poa g° received a let-
ter from Mr. Blank requesting him to
come to Pittsburgh and fa e would pay
tins old debt, with interest thereon for
sixteen years. And then, as a climax of
this honest act, Mr. Blank handed Mr.
Pnage a sufficient sum to defray all ex
pense iu going to and returning from
Bittsburgn, aud in addition twenty doi-
to purchase a new dress for Mrs.
On the 9ih mst. Hon. W. P.
Price, M. O., from the 6th Georgia dis
trict, introduced a bill to establish a na-
'bool of minesiu the North Geor
gia Afipticultural College at Dablonega,
G- rgi , to provide for the selection of
a lacuiiv for the same, and appropriate
money for the support and maintenance
thereof; which was read a first and sec
ond time, referred to the Committee on
Mines and Mining, and ordered to be
printed.
strongly marked in many instances for
one to be mistaken, to which, however,
there were many noble exceptions.
Tbe social feeling, when once disturb
ed, is not adjusted with the same ease as
business relations. It lakes time for
them to find an easy channel.
POLITICALLY
with the people of the North, we have in
the South but one pure, bright star,
shining with undimmed lustre in our
political horizon, and that is the
HON. A. H. STEPHENS.
They consider him a true patriot, a man
of high-toned moral sensibility, having
a just apprehension of men and things
They regard him as one who preserved his
integrity throngh all the political corrup
tions of the times. His deeply trit d and
yet triumphant virtues are truly worthy
of all praise. It was pleasant to know
the South had one bright light shining
amidst tne social and political gloom that
was tbe cynosure of all eyes. They re
membered him in tRe palmy days of the
South; when be stood first in the Legis
lative halls of the nation, surrounded by
the se r ene atmospht re of conscious in
tegrity and consummate wisd< m. A man
who, by bis life, both public and private,
has inspired such universal feelings of
rispect and confidence both at home and
abroad, is surely one of whom any State
in any country may be jostl* proud.
JPer-President Grant ha> recognized
the PInchbeck-Longstreet regime
Louisiana.
£©”“ The Clayton Times i ivors Hon
B. H. Hiil for the United ss step Sena
torship.
Why Did Jacob Weep?
Jacob kissed Raohel, and lifted up his
voice and wept.—Scripture.
If Rachel was a pretty girl, and kept
her face clean, we can’t see that Jacob
had mnch to weep about.—N. T. Globe.
How do you know that she slapped
him in the face ?—H. 0. Della.
Gentlemen, hold yonr tongue. The
eause of Jacob’s weeping was the refusal
f Rachel to allow him to kiss her again.
Flag.
It is our opinion that Jacob wept be
cause he hadn't kissed Rachel before, and
regretted tbe time he had lost—Age.
Green—Verdant, all of ye. The fel
low boohooed because she didn’t kiss
him in return.—Lancaster Advertiser.
Jacob was a man that labored in the
field. When he kissed Rachel, he had
just returned from his labors, and had
not washed his lips. Aiter he had soiled
Racb“l’s cheek, he wept for fear she
would think he was dbe of the “free-
soilers.”—Detroit Free Press.
No, gentlemen, none of you are cor
rect. The reason Jacob wept was, he
was afri id she would tell his mamma.—
Jersey lelegraph.
The reason why Jacob wept was be
cause Rachel would not let him stop
kissing her when he once began.—Penn.
Register.
May be she bit him.—Yazoo Whig.
May it not be that it was his first at
tempt at kissing ? If so, she ought to
have bit him.—Nonsemon Enquirer.
What a long list of innocents! We
know, for we have tried it on. There
were no tears shed, and the good book
does not say there were. It was only bi8
mouth that watered, and the lifting of
his voice forced it out of his eyes.—Peo
ple's Paper.
Jacob wept 1 Yea, tears of joy 1 for
well he knew he might: when Rachel, all
confused, stood before his ravished sight.
—Louiszdde Democrat.
Wrong, wrong, one and all of ye!—
Rachel was preserved by the Lord ex
pressly for Jacob, and the taste $f good
pickle always fetches tbe brine to Ja
cob’s eyes.—Land and Law Adv.
He wept at his rashness in rendering
himself liable to a breach of promise
case. He didn’t want to be hauled into
court, and cried about it.—Summerville
Journal.
We’d weep, too, under the same cir
cumstances. If you don’t believe us,
pnt us there We weep at the thought
of it.—Lincoln Statesman.
All wrong! Jacob wepl because he
found no more Rachels to kiss.—Patriot,
BamesviUe, Ga.
Love is a tender sentiment—Jacob was
a gushing youth, and bis tears were bis
melting heart overflowing. Or it might
have been Decause Rachel’s mother sent
her off to tne nearest millinery establish
ment to look after her new Dolly Varden
—Greensboro {Ga.) Herald.
A Good Move*
From the Borne Courier;
Wo understand that there is an effort
on foot, by competent parties, to estab
lish a cotton factory at this dUco. It is
deoidedly a move in the right direction,
and ono that should meet the hearty
encouragement of all parties. There is
no enterprise that will pay better, and at
the same time insure more to the pros
perity of our city than this.
A correspondent writes to the New
York Journal of Commerce some highly
interesting faots relative to cotton man
ufacturing in the South. Referring to
Langley Mills, near Aiken, S. C., the
writer says:
“The manufacturer of cotton yarns
from Manchester, England, after looking
at our boons, told me that we manufac
ture cheaper than they did, by about the
difference in the value of our currency
and gold—that is to say, four and three
quarters of 1 per cent per pound.
Among the advantages enjoyed by tbe
South oyer the North in manufacturing
cotton may be enumerated the follow-
ing:
1. Here the raw material is produced,
and by working it here various expenses
incidental to its transportation could be
saved—such as profits made by those
who invest capital, time and labor in
moving it irorn place to place; insurance
daring transportation; loss by samplings
an<* stealages from the bales.
2. Experts claim that in our warm
Southern clime cotton works better to
advantage as high as ten per cent.
3. Reclamation on false-packed and
damaged cotton is direct and easy.
4. Freights on manufactured goods
are less in proportion than our bulky and
hazardous bales of cotton. Yarns can be
delivered in New York from this viuini
ty tor sixty to eighty cents per hundred
pounds.
5. Abundant supply of operative labor
at low rates, and consequent exemption
from strikes. Northern superintendents
of Southern mills admit the superiority
of our factory hands (whites) and the.
ease with which they are controlled.—
The average wages paid at the Saluda
mills is $142 per annum,
6. Tbe mildness of tho climate enables
the operatives to enjoy a larger propor
tion of comforts on a given amount of
wages. In cold climates a larger propor
tion of carbonaceous food is requisite,
which costs more than farinaceous food
nor do the houses for operatives require
to be so expensive as in colder regions.
Lumber of the best kind costs only $11
or $15 per M. The short winters require
less fuel. Land is cheap, aud each
householdcaa have ‘its garden, cow and
pigs.
7. There is a home demand for the
goods—the larger country stores keep
supplies of yarn for sale as regulany as
they do sheeting.
8. By purchasing seed'eotton from the
planters and ginning it at the mill the
cotton is in better condition for working
than after it has been compressed into
bales, and the exp°nse of packing the
cotton, bagging, ties and handling would
be saved, as well as the expense cf run
ning it throngh the picker. The wastage
cotton undergoes in different ways has
been estimated from one-tenth to one
eighth of a bale.
Gould the entire crop of cotton be
converted into yarns at the South and
shipped abroad in that form, it would
add $150,000,000 annually to the wealth
of this portion of the United States.
Foreign mills would adapt their maebin
ery to working up the yarns instead of
the raw cotton. If but one-quarter of
the crop could be thus converted,
womd be a greac blessing to this country,
and enable numbers of women and chil
dren, who are now dependent upon oth
ers, to support themselves.
German Frugality.
And yet the correct reasons has cot
been given, the whicb we rise to explain
Jacob’s tears, if his eyes saw this far in
the future, were affliction drops, drawn
out by foreseeing such Bonsense as the
foregoing in tbo press of the nineteenth
century.—Atlanta Sun.
The best economists in the world are
the Germans. In their native land noth
ing is lost. The produce of the trees
and of the cows is carried to market —
Much fruit is dried for winter use. You
see wooden trays of plums, cherries and
sliced apples lying in the sun to dry.—
You see strings of them hanging from
their chamber windows in the sun. The
cows are kept up for the greater part of
the year, aud everv green thing is col
lected for them. Every little nook where
the grass grows by the roadside, and
river, and brook, is carefa’ly cat with
the side, and carried home, on the heads
of women and children, in baskets, or
carefully tied in large cloths. Nothing
of any kind that can possibly be made of
any kind of use is lost. Weeds, nettles,
hay, and the very goose grass which
covers waste places, are ent up and taken
for cows. You see the little children
standing m the stieets of the villages, in
the streams which generally run down
them, busy wasliiog these weeds before
they are given to the cattle. They care
fully collect the leaves of the marsh grass,
carefully cut f heir potato tops for them,
and even, if other things fail, gather
green leavek from the woodlands.
Ono cannot help thinking continually
of the enormous waste of such things in
England—of the vast quantities of gross
on banks, by roadsid s, in the openings
of plantations, in lames, in church yards,
where grass from year to year spfngs and
dies without care, but which, jf properly
cut, would maintain many thousand cows
for the poor. Perhaps it is because
Germany is a poor producing country
that such care is tak“n of her meanest
products, but Gertain it is that nothing
is waBted. Tbe very cuttings of the vines
are dried aud preserved for winter fodder
The tops and refuse of the hemp serve as
bedding for cowb; nay, even the rough
stalks of the poppies, after the heads
have oeen gathered for oil, are saved,
and all these are converted into manure
for land. When these axe not sufficient,
the children are sent into the woods to
g ther moss; and all our readers familiar
with Germany w.11 remember to have
seen them coming homeward with large
bundles of this ou their heads. In au
turnn, the falling leaves are gathered and
stocked for the same purpose. The fir
cones, wiiich with us lie and rot in the
woods, are carefully collected and sold
for lighting fires.
WIf AT?
What was it that Charlie sawlo-flav
Down to the pool wh.ro the cattu 1U»
A shoal of the spotted trout at D’a*» U *
Or a sheeny dragon-fly? 1
The fly and the fiBh were there, indeed
But. as for tho puzzle, guess agamf’
It W98 neither a shell aor flower lor reed
Nor thenestofalagtyesr’s wren.
Some wmows droop to the brooklet’s bed.
Who knows but a bee had fallen do»S*
Ora spider swung from hi* broksu thi..,
Was learning the way to drown? ld>
Yon hare not read me the riddle y»f
Not even the wing of a woundedVee
Nor the web of a spider, torn and wet ’
Did Cnarlie this morning see. *
Now answer, you wnoba.a grown sa
Wnat could the wonderful sight have
Bnt the i-implfd face and great blue cve, Q
Of the rogue who was looking m?
Kate 0. Pot-,,,.
A HKAItIKENimG CAvUAL'rV
Two Estimable Ladles Roasted
An attentive correspondent has gen^n
the following affecting description of#
harrowing casualty, which occurred «!
Graham’s, S. C.: “A terrible and fat,
accident occurred in tbe neighborhood
recently. Mrs. R. H. Martin and dansh
ter—sixteen years old—were burned tn
death under the following harrowing
circumstances: Miss Martin was in thf
store room attending t<> domestic adiir«
and in passing or standing by the fit#
her dress ignited, and she became dnad
fully frightened and ran to t ie adjoinicf
room to her mother. s
Tbe latter in attempting to extinguish
the flimes, took fire herself, and the
consequence was every vestige o! her
clothing was burnt off, and both literally
roasted. No person was about the house
at the time of the accident, except a
crippled son, who could give no aid,
Tne accident occurred on the 29th
about eleven or twelve o’clock. Mrs.iL
survived until about ten o’clock in the
evening, when she breathed her las{ a
Miss Martin lived until cne o’clock p. h,’ r
and died. Both vere very estmab'a
ladies. Mrs. Marnn leaves a husband
and four sons to mourn the untimely end
of wife, mother an<l_f>ter.”
Something fo< the Ladies.
To be sure the heads of the beet regtj.
lated households are apt to grumble
while paying their wives’ dressmaking
bills. Yet men are usually fastidious ij
regard to woman's dr*-ss. Even those
who are careless in leg rd to their own
attire take delight iL seei g their wives
neat in appearance. They admire co
quettish garments, neaciy dressed hair
and all the thousand tasty and fanciful
little articles with which young women
adorn themselves, more than they would
be willing to allow. The neatness and
order which charmed them too often ^
gives place to a slovenly morning govra,
frowsy hair, slipshod and unlaced shoes,
and tho like; for many women who make
it a study to please the men they wish to
marry, display great carelessness in dress
after marriage. Men do not like this.
They reason that women shou>d Lave ±e
same desire to please the men they have
chosen, afier marriage as they hadbefoie
it.
The last new song loses its charmcom
ing from the lips of a slattern. The
poetry goes out of life at a glance, and
the household loses its brightness. The
wife, who on account of household cates,
neglects ner personal appearance, com
mits a grave mistake; which too often
bears bitter fruit, and their husbands
leave their society for that of c
without really knowing tho cause; most
men are too proud to tell them. Let
women always give the same care to dies
after marriage which they give it before,
and not rush from the room to “dres
up” only when there is a prospect o!
“company.” Let them consider tk
that which gives them a charm in tin
eyes ot their friend has a like effect on i
husband, and they will see that he ml
not have so many business colls in th
city in the evening, but will nave th»
same delight in their society as in th
days of courtship.
> ana*
SOar dispactnes state that the Ju
dietary Committee will report in favor of
raising the President’s salary to fifty
thousand dollars per annum.
—The Lexington Press says: “ Capt
O. P. Beard has eighty-eight hemp
brakes at work in one field. He has
31,000 pounds of the new crop broken,
nearly all of which has been delivered.
8uch an instance as this has never before
been heard of in this State. Messrs.
McGrath Sc Morgan pronounce it tbe
finest crop of hemp ever raised in Ken
tucky. Capt. Beard sowed a bushel and
a peck ol seed to the acre.”
Horrible Accident.
A WOMAN burned to death.
Mis. Matilda Hernandez, a widov
lady living in East Macon, was burned to
death about 4 o’clock yesterday after
noon. The circumstances of this fright
ful accident, as far as can be ascertained,
are about as follows:
Mrs. Hernandez was left at ho
alone, by her daughter, wuo had gout
to make a visit to some of her neighbor!
When the daughter left, her mother, ir
her usual health, was sitting before ta
fire. The daughter was out some con
siderable time, and when she
she fonnd her mother dead—having been
burned to death. How she caught
cannot oe Known, though it is snpp
she had a fit .nd fell forward into th
fire, though she is not known to havf
been subject to fits of any kind
When found, her clothes were w
all burned off her, and her face
the upper portion of her body were!
erally roasted to a black, ’ aid
Her stomach was also burned until he
bowels protruded, and her hands
arms burned until they were shapei^
In the charred condition in which a-;
was found, no one could have idenw$
her.
It is awful to think of wbat a
the poor woman had with the flames; sp
it is humane, at least, to hope mat ^
accident was caused by a fit of so&
kind, and that she was unconscious
the fire seized her.
—
A Census ojf Worses#
The general prevalence of dis^
among horses, and the special
in them which grow? out of then
condition, gives value to the foil® •
statistics: The whole number of
in the United States is 8,619,219-
these 7,132,849 are on faims and *1®*'
370 in cities and towns and not 0.
wise on farms. The number in <
State is aB follows: Alabama 92.S0<> .
zona 4,432, Arkansas 2d2,240,
241,146, Colorado 13,317, Connect^
54.137, Dieotah 2,343, Delaware
Floriua 14,451, Georgia 110,21/.
2,775, IUino’s 1,017,644, Iuiiiana55d.-
Iowa 484786, Kansas, 152,000,
tucky 351,200, Louisiana 62,58*. J" *,
79 781, Maryland 102,216. MatfseW***
80,286, Michigan 253,670, Minn^'
102.678, Mississippi 104,600, M
545,822. Montana 6,733, Nebraska
Nevada 14,490, New Humpsbire v*
New Jersey 103,663, New Mexico-®^
New York 756,241, North Carolina *
466, Ohio 704,644, Oiegon 65,625. rc
sylvanm 511,488, Rhode Island ii;*
South Carolina 54,052, Tenne^e
200, Texas 547,641, Utah >, •
mont 69,775, Virginia 68,938,
ton 13,923, West Virginia 99,oW,
consin 270,083, Wyoming 3,753.