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TRK ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 25 1872.
PtntBKl and General.
■— Gm is eighty cents a thousand in
ondon.
— Flrtsaan Pacha, son of the Khedive
•f Egypt, la In lUljr.
•—Lady Napier, of Magdala, has recent
ly returned from Indie to EogUnd.
—Rattlesnakes with hair overcoats,
and far In their teeth, abound in the Tellowitone
Valley.
—Only 600,000 bnshels of wheat were
ibijqxid East over the Lake Superior Boad this
season.
—Junius Henri Browne is engaged on
a series of articles on "Women,” to appear « the
Galaxy during the coming year.
— Massachusetts bank robbers are
Willing to allow their victims ten per cent, of the
■polls, and no questions asked.
—Rady Hornby lately dined with the
Prime Minister of Japan, the first European woman
who eYer had had that honor.
— Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria’s
youngeat acn, has lust been admitted to Chrlat
Church College, Oxford.
—Prince Alphonzo, son of Isabella of
Spain, lately brgau his sixteenth year. He is still
at the There slannm Colic go In Yiennrn
—If is proposed in Kentucky tliat the
Legislature charter a faro bank, to b« run by best clti-
sens, in opposition to the Louisville Library lot
tery.
—The Grand Duke Nicholas and
Prince Eugene da Leuchtenburg have extended
their visit to Egypt and returned to St. PeUrburg
through Italy and Austria.
-Giovanni Battista Falciori, the servant
in whose arms Lord liyon died, is a clerk in the In
dia House, London, a hale old man of aeventy-five,
and ho almost worships the poet.
— Paul May, the young German who
was Indicted for the murder of his friend, Hermann
Nagel, at Chelsea, England, because be agreed w.th
him to commit suicide, and Nagel died while May
didn’t, has been acquitted.
— Mrs. General Sanderson, of Wash
ington, Ohio, owns a box said to bave been brought
to America by Cortez, when be came to conquer
Mexico. It la Inlaid with ivory. Its age is stated
to be about 400 years.
—After declining the appropriation
frqm the Italian government His Holiiness, the
Fope^csnnot bo said to bo in straitened circumstances
Hedorlves about eight million lire a year from
Peter’s pence, besides a large income from Church
endowments.
—Mr. George Frederick Rose, a gentle
man of ample fortune, died lately In Ion don. Ho
bad shut himself up in bis room for years, and
neither left it or allowed any one to enter and absi'-
lutcly perished from want of food and soap and
water. la thero no flower of his kindred, no rose
bud nigh to Inherit his money?
THE GEORGIA PRESS On -THE BEkA
TORS HIP. /•
‘‘Common People.”
From the Greensboro Herald.
Read the communication on the Sen
atorial question above this nom de plume.
The style is somewhat peculiar, but the
article is full of good sense, and brings
out the good points of Mr. Stephens
strongly.
Mr. Stephens is deservedly popular
with the common people, for he baa
never held himself aloof from them, and
has never been indifferent to their wishes
and feeling, bat has devoted the best en
ergies of his life to their interest. He
has always opposed class legislation, and
advocated "the greatest good to all.”
Is TH ■ Oocxtt, D«c. 16, ’73.
To Gbeekedobo Haa/xs: Dear Bur—Yoojeacgga-
actlv hit the ti*)« plum on the had. whea you eed,
"under ell the drcumaUncea, Mr. Stephens is tbs
most capable end best entitled to it.” I no you sed
it, b'-kate I seed it copied in Thb Bus. You kin
rite better langwidge nor me. but you haint got no
more ho.* sense. Jes, as you aez, sum hew we all
likes Gordon bekase he fit so brave like In the war.
Wo admirea him bekaso he it aiett a daahln feller,
an’ all that sorter thing; but the thing we need now
ib hoHB tense tc git ua out of the trubblss tbs war got
us inter. LitUe Eilick’s got that, an’ evsrybbJy
now la
It goes mltely gin the grain to go agin Gordon,
bekaso my snn Joe fit under him and liked him.
But tbeo, when he wuz wounded and sent to the
Itichmun hcspittles, and Little KUick heerd he wuz
thar from Georgy, he jes waited on him like a
bruther ’ell he dido, an’ then sent me wurd. I tell
you, LUUe Ellick is wan or us. He alnt nun ov
yore hl-laluUn folks. Gordon’s hi-faluUn. Ben
Hill's bl-lalutin. Miller’s hi-falutin—all ov ’ems
hl-falntin, only when they wants an or-
pbis, ’ceptin Little Ellick. He aint bi-fa-
luiin no Ume. He don’t turn up his nose
at us when big folks is around, like them nther
fellers. He luves ua an’ wanta to see us git along.
An’ he don’t do an* say things jes fur maks b’leeve.
He means it all. He works hard and dresses pore,
and mskes a beep uv munny. How, what dnz he do
with bis munny? He don’t buy fine placet an’
drive fine bosses, and cut a swell like anm ov ’em.
B'ets bis honest heart, he’s a livin in theaameole
bouse whar his father lived. He aint abuv bis old
folks and his old naburB. Hut what has he bin doin
with the piles ov munny he’s maid? I'll teU you.
bo spent it er givin eddicatlon to pore boys, to make
good men ov ’em. God bless biml He’s eddicated
nl onto 6b, what was pore and no kin to him. 1 tell
you he’s our friend—he’s the pore people's friend.
And that’s the difference ’ twixt him an’ Gordon.
We admires Gordon. We luvs Little Blkk. Then
Little EUick’s got the sense. Gordon may her fitin
sense, but little Edict's plucky, too, an’ then he’s
got the government sense. All them fellers
up North likes him. He’s ellegint.
JSSy* Senator Norwood has written
letter to a prominent citizen of Rome
on.the Great Western Canal question
The Senator evidently sees a mountain
to bo removed from the path, of the Canal
question. He says the "enterprise is
vast, and will be closely scrutinized, and
long, I apprehend, before the General
Government will take hold of it.” He
thinks " the accomplishment is a fixed
fact, but uncertain as to time.”
Death uf General A. R. VVrignt.
A special telegram to The Sun an
nounces tho sad news of the death of
General A. It. Wright in Augusta yeater
day. The lateness of the hour prevents
an extended notice to-day of the life and
services of the deceased.
He was born on the Cth of September,
1825, and was yesterday forty-seven years,
three months and fifteen days old. He
was a Brigadier General in the Confed
erate army. For several years ho has
been connected editorially with the
Chronicle and Sentinel, and was recently
elected to Congress from his district,
His funeral ceremonies will tako place at
12:30 to-day, in which the Mayor and
Council, Masonic brethren, tho military
and citizens will take part.
General A. R. Wright Dcntl.
Special Telegram to the Sun.
Augusta, Ga., December 21.—General
Wright died ten minutes to ten o’clock
this morning. For more than three
weeks he labored under a complication
of diseases, accompanied by nei
fever. His constitution having been
previously prostrated by a disease of the
kidneys, for the past three days he has
been insensible—not recognizing inti
mate friends. Occasionally when aronsed
he recognized a-friend or answered
question. In his last lucid interval, in
response to a question, the last articulate
word recognized was "Freedom.” His
death has oreated a profound grief. The
office of the Chronicle and Sentinel is
draped in mourning. Many stores are
dosed. Many Republican officials called
to express sympathy, also very many of
the colored population.
HtmlBlKenccs of an Gift Family Ser
vant.
From theMajivllle (Ky.) Eagle.
A remarkable negro—old Sam Jack-
son, or as he is more familiarly known,
Uncle Sam—resides in the town of Lew-
isborg, in this county. He was born in
Maryland, as the slave of a family named
Goldsborougb, in the last century—
when, he cannot tell. He remembers
distinctly Bra. Pbysick and RoBh, two
of the most noted physicians of their
day, and describes with minuteness an
operation that Dr. Physick performed
for cancer in his master’s family, and at
which Dr. Rash was present, and he
(Sam) was detained to hold a bowl of
water.
About the commencement of the war
of 1S12 he was purchased by Thomas
Marshall, of Kentucky; and his master
receiving the appointments on Gen.
Pogue’s staff of aide-de-camp, with tne
rank of Major, he accompanied him
throughout his term of service as a body
servant His first presence in Kentucky
was at Washington, in this county, on
the night of its illamimition in honor of
Jackson’s victory at New Orleans. Soon
after the war his master, Major Thomas
Marshall, sent him on a perilous trip to
Virginia with four fine horses. For two
days he was followed., by horse thieves,
who were urgent in their proffers of aid,
and at length he eluded them by strata
gem, and reached Winchester, Virginia,
and thence the end of his journey.—
Here he learned that he was to conduct
seventeen slaves belonging to Major
Marshall to Kentucky by the most prac
ticable route which then lay through
Ohio. This task he successfully accom
plished.
From thence to his master’s death he
continued his confidential servffot. He
sold his crop3, and deposited his money
in bank, carried his keys, his bank book,
and went with him wherever he went.
He has been with him in nearly all the
Northern cities, and never once desired
to escape. At the breaking out of the
Mexican war Sam Jackson again accom
panied his master (who soon after its
■■ . , _ ■ Grate crowds'll
rush to hear. * He’11 vrako up the min patryotic
bind iu them fanaty.es in Yankydum. They’H sonar j commencement was appointed by Presi-
with G ™ve 8 ry ov'us • whi^sT’^an’^theyu 1 denttolk a Brigadier General) timragh-
lur if I tell you Little Edict's the manfur Secnltor
Sum ov ’eai though sez that maybe he aint abni
to go Now, you jea hold yore elUy tongue. Ain’t
LitUe Ellick got more sense nor you an' mo ? An’
doaut he kno his own sitivation better nor hb? An'
aint he onnest? An’ aint he the people’s frend?
An’ don’t he do everything he duz for the poeple's
good an* not his own?
I tell you ef he’s willing to go, that's ennff sed.
He’ll tako care of the bal ance. He aint selfish; ho
out his service in Mexico. There he
frequently met and delights to talk about
such' men • as Col. Alex. McClung, Jeff.
Davis, Col. Bailey Peyton, and other
distinguished men of that and subse
quent times.
He entertained a high opirion of the
aint got no ambiehans to gratify; he aint got no | OI wIS plflllOML gamo cock, QHuj
axes to grind, but jes to do good fur tho peepie like as he always accompanied Gen. Marshall,
he’s atlors dun. I . .. - --
I tell you, Mr. Grcensbnr Herald, yon hit the nale
plum on ttie hed when you sed he wuz the man for
tho place—at lease that’s the idees of ns
Common Pexfls,
P. S.—All tho onnest newspapers what's in lavnr
of ns common peeplo, and doant want to choake us
down, will please publish these fue lines.
c. r.
■ Perhaps none of the recent col- . .
liery disasters to which England is so | comfortably,
subject has been more terrible tnau that
which recently occurred at the Pelsall
Hall Colliery. In fhis pit forty miners
were working, when an adjacent and dis
used mine, full of water, which bad not
been operated since forgotten times, and
whose existence was unknown, burst its
partition and swept through in a resist
less flood into this busy hive. Several
saved their lives by swimming, and one
whether to the cock-pit or to the fan
dango, he gives interesting reminiscences
of those places which would adorn a
magazine. Throughout his eventful life
neither his honesty nor veracity has ever
been impeached, and in the sunset of
life he enjoys the respect of the commu
nity in which he is living quietly and
A Sian Deliberately Kisses a Girl in
the Street.
Among tho people of the Orient, and
other nations of the globe, the custom of
saluting with a kiss waB, and is still,
practiced. Should two or three friends
meet, either in private or on the crowd
ed streets or highways, they “passed tne
man had a remarkable escape, being car-1 time of day” by a cordial grasp of the
ried for a quarter a mile
ground, clinging to a ladder.
under I hand and a union of the lips. In' this
When country, the 'custom of kissing has not
taken out he was insensible. Seventeen I become obsolete, but is practiced under
GEORGIA NEWS BREVITIES.
Clipped from our Exchangee.
— Valdosta has Temperance fever.
—Columbus has had a small fire.
— Mrs. John Hoge, of Macon, is dead.
— A Macon negro, Joe Thomas, met
with an accident and died.
— Profeasor Rutherford has been in
Albany.
— On Thursday last in Waynesboro
a difficulty occured between Mr. T. H.
Blount. Jr., and a negro named Henry
Hector, in which the latter was shot by
the former.
— Mr. N. M. Nicholson, one of the
best citizens in Decatur county, died
suddenly of erisipilas, at his residence
nine miles from this city, on Sunday
morning last. He was in the prime of
manhood, being only about thirty-eight
years cf age.
—Two young girls of Worth, residing
near Gin Town, brought to market, yes-
tfciday, the last of their crop—being the
seventh hale. Only think of it, young
men—two girls produce seven bales of
cotton, while you are lying round town
waiting for somebody to offer yon a “sit
uation.”—Albany News.
—At the Atlanta Catholic Fair, the
lovely Miss Jennie Nance, of Colnmbus,
was voted to be the most popular young
lady. She received 622 votes. Her com
petitor, Miss Maggie Gardner, received
455. The oeautifnl maidens of this city
conquer all rivals, no matter where they
go. The Atlautese have shown remark
able good taste.—Columbus Inquirer.
—The Hawkinsville Dispatch says: A
negro boy about ten years of age was
burned to death one day last week, near
Mobley’s Crossing. The boy was not
sane, and was left by his father, an old
freedman named Ruffian Coley, in the
house alone. Ruffian left a big fire burn
ing in the hearth, and when he returned
he found his cabin in ashes and the bones
and heart of his child in the ashes.
— Three sons of T. J. H., of Worth
county, this year, with two mules, raised
twenty bales of cotton, and seven hun
dred bnshels of corn, besides oats and
potatoes in abundance. They paid out
about $50 for labor in chopping out and
picking, ana after settling all expenses,
including bagging, ties, bacon, &c., they
netted over $1,200, and are ready to be
gin anotheryear’s labors.—Albany News.
—Shippers for the cotton week ending
Friday sold 3,292 bales of cotton, paying
about $90 per bale on the average, or a
total of nearly $300,000. Street buyers
bought Bomo also—making the cotton
sale of the week foot up 320,000. Mon
ey is, however, reported scarce and col
lections difficult. Our planters must re
ally deserve the title of overseers for the
Western grain and provision merchants.
—Columbus Sun.
—A frightful accident occurred at Cap
tain John A. Davis’ on Wednesday
night. A kercsine lamp was upset and
broken in a bed chamber, where there
were fourohildren and his mother-in-law
Mrs. Hampton. The room was instantly
in a blaze, but, luckily and as by mira
cle, Mrs. Hampton and the little girls
escaped, giving the alarm with their
screams. Captain Davis, and Dr. R. M,
Smith, who was Bpending the evening
with him, rnshed up stairs and succeeded
in extinguishing the fearful flames, with
only slight damage to the carpet and
furniture.—Albany News.
others escaped, but there was no help
for the other twenty-two. The efforts to
pump out the water continued for days,
while arouud the edge of the pit the
wives and children of the doomed men
gathered, rending the air with their cries.
somewhat different circumstances.
In American society the practice of
kissing is but rarely indulged iu by old
people. By a sort of tacit conventionali
ty, society assigns this agreeable task to
the young members, who generally as-
The appearance of fire-damp left no same its duties and responsibilities with
hope, but the women hoped against it. fear and trembling, bat invariably with
There being a superstition in the mines pleasure. We were forcibly reminded of
that as long as the wife refrains from the subject of kissing, yesterday, by a
eating the husband will remain alive, for
days tears was the only meat these poor
women fed upon, until in imminent!
danger of their lives they consented to
take bread, and then all hope departed
from the village.
"little circnmstance” which transpired
up Washington street, near Park.
The principal actors were a male and
a female; both were yonng; the gentle
man not particularly handsome, bat
Ml ’ the lady quite pretty. Both
were walking in the same direction, lady
££S°" Creswell says that the boys of leaning confidingly and fondly on the
to-day will see the time when letters will | arms of the escort. Suddenly both
bo sent anywhere for a penny.
stopped, as if moved by a common im
pulse. With a careful but unsteady
The Italian opera season of forty hand, the gentleman removed the veil
performances in New York, just closed,
aggregated $150,413 gross receipts.
jJ@“Mr. Wm. Finn, of Green county,
Ky., is one hundred and seven years old.
He has been engaged iu the business of t
making wooden bowls for perhaps 751 fcfog on the lips of the guileless
vrrtr*/inn fnun Turn h/im o nnw /•Intt I . — . .. — .. r 1
from the lady’s face, and he then
and there, on the open street, in broad
daylight, at the hour of high
noon, in the eyes of a Chris
tian world, and withont any malice afore
thought, deliberately impressed a smack-
years, and can turn two bowls per day maiden, who smiled and smiled again,
now. He was born in Virginia. r- - — - — - -
A Pittsburg paper wants a real
Hob. A. H, McpucM lor l/ullca aims*
Senator.
JVo the Senate and House cf .Representa
tives elect for the ensuing (Jeorgia Legisla
ture: Without disparaging the merits
of any of the gentlemen whose names
are so favorably and prominently before
you for Senatorial honors, please allow
an old citizen, who has spent his best
days in public life, bat now retired, to
add one additional reason to all that has
been said why Mr. Stephens should at
thifl time, under all the circumstances,
he permitted to walk over the track
without competition. Everybody knows
that the action of the Baltimore Conven
tion has had a demoralizing effect upon
the Democratic party in Georgia, and m
order to harmonize and unite ns agate,
it will be necessary for some sacrifice to
be male by somebody.
I admit those who followed party at
the sacrifice of long-cherished principles
done it as an alternative, and voted for
Mr. Greeley only as a choice of evils.
Now let ns heal the breach by electing
Mr. Stephens to the Senate, and peace
and harmony will be at once restored,
and Georgians will feel proud to know
that they are represented by one who is
able to measure arms with the most pow
erful adversary with whom he may be
brought in oontact, and one who can
command more respect and do more for
us than any man in Georgia.
Upson.
n__Xu the Frenon rendering of Bouci-
canlt’s "Long Strike,” everything has
been suppressed wich relates to the in
subordinate movement of the disaffected
worman.
A. man who has tried it in Kansas
4»ys religion and Texas cattle-herding
don’t go hand-in-hand.
Far West Points.
bat was no villian. The gentleman liked
the first kiss so well that he took two
printer’s monument erected to Horace 1 more,^ sandwiching each with a hasty,
Greeley, to be cast from worn out type, Bheepish glance around, too see if any
which newspaper offices from all over one ' was looking at him.. But he was
the country can contribute, and be 8 ? en - The first kiss, which resounded
mounted on a granite base. like the popping of a champagne cork,
—— »-♦-< - _ . attracted the attention of the inmates
It is now claimed that Pnnce of a certain private boarding house
Luualilo, of the Hawaiian Islands, an Hard by, who, with one accord,
elaborate account ot whose travels in 1 rushed pell-mell to the window just in
America has been given in New York time to see the chap take the last two
journals, is still in his own realm and has "busses.” It was a mean trick for the
never left it. | inmates to do so, but alas for human
Roasted AUre by its Brother. weakness and curiosity. Thev "larfed
A little baby of Mrs. Wright, *ho » tremendous “larf,” so loud that the
lives near the corner of Clark avenue and ®° u Pl®. U P to the window and
Twelfth street, was fatally burned yeeter- £ new tUt “other eyes” than their own
day afternoon. The motner left the ] had witnessed their little tete-a-tete. They
house for a few moments to get a backet i®it that locahty, and haven t been seen
of water. It seems that while eh* was ® nce \ E-* 88 * 1 ^ °. n t^ e street is pleasant
gone her little boy, three years old, light- e * e l r018 f.» *? Q t lfc ls sometimes attended
ed a piece of paper and set the baby’s I Wlth ahttle embarrassment to the par
clothes on fire. Its poor little body was
burned to a crisp, nothing but the face
escaping the flames.—St. Louis Times.
Beaten to Deatn.
Philadelphia, December 19.—Jo-j
hauna C. Conners, aged 65, was beaten
to death to-day in the police station
house, on Bedford street, by Sallie Back.
They were both drank and had* beenI
taken in as prisoners. The victim had |
just been liberated from the alms house.
— Bishop Coxe, of Western New York,
has sailed for Hayti in pursuance of the
action taken by the Home of Bishops re
cently. The object of the Bishop’s mis
sion is to organize the eight Episcopal
congregations there into a diocese, and
to admit to the ministry of the Church a
number who are awaiting authority to
preach the Gospel.
—Rev. George B. Beecher has accept
ed a call to the pastorate of the First
Presbyterian church of Cincinnati, and
was received into the presbytery yester
day on his standing as a minister in the
Congregational church without a letter
from the Congregational association.—
ties.—Portland Oregor.ian.
IN GENERAL,
—Mount City, Kansas, has coal at 10
cents a bushel.
The indebtedness of Council Bluffs
is $234,570 58.
—The first locomotive of Iowa whistled
in Davenport in 1855.
—One Ashland (Neb.) farmer is win
tering 3,200 head of Texas cattle.
—Wild turkey, venison and buffalo,
are a drag in the Wichita market.
— The Union Pacific sold 3,000 acres
of land in Nebraska, one day last week.
— Grading dn the Colorado Central
Railroad is being pushed ahead vigo
rously.
— Kearney Junction, 191 miles west
of Omaha, is destined to make a "good
town.”
— The first train passed over the Platte
River bridge, at LaPlatte, Nebraska, on
he 10 th inst.
— Daring November the sale of the
Iowa Railroad Land Company amounted
to 9,827 acres for $66,513.
— None but temporary detentions
from snow have thus far been expe
rienced by the Union Pacifio this winter.
— The ground was broken by strong
mules and energetic men October 24th, for
the Bingham Canyon Railroad, Utah.
— Girard is called the hay centre of
Kansas. Thousands of tons axe being
pressed there preparatory to shipment to
St: Louis.
—The business at the land-office at
Duluth for the month of November foots:
Sales, 6,194 acres; homesteads, 843.—:
Total, 8,037,
— The grange societies propose to
build a railroad across the State of Iowa
that shall transport their prodnee and
provisions at cost.
—Small-pox is playing havoc at Silver
Lake, Shawnee county, Kan. A number
or persons have died, and scarcely any
family is exempt.
—An enthusiastic Nebraska editor
rays: "Nine months of the year in Ne
braska is summer, and tne rest is mighty
late in the spring.”
Deatn of George W. Lamar, Sr., Esq.
SOOTHERN news
Clipped from Exchanges.
KENTUCKY.
—Mr. Dick Sarver, of Allen county,
lost one of his arms last wetK by a gun
explosition.
—The Sulphur Springs, near Orange
burg, Mason county, will be improved
and fitted up.
—Mr. Calistns Abell, of Marion county,
died of small-pox last Saturday at his
home, four miles from Lebanon.
— A ferocious black bear escaped from
sor-c- traveling menagerie, is sn 1 to.be
P'vwling on the Cumberland river in
the neighborhood of Burksville.
— The Paducah Kentuckian thinks it
will require close financiering on the
part of that city to enable her to meet
he January interest on her bonded debt.
— Mr. Henry Chiles of Lexington,
sold his fine yearling colt Hail' Storm,
by Mambrino Patchen, dam by Ned
Forrest, for $2,500 Wednesday, to Wm.
Monshan, of Springfield, Ohio.
— The quality of stone taken from
the Glasgow quarry, near Glasgow Junc
tion, has been pronounced by experts in
building stone, os fully equal, it not su
perior, to any building stone in the
United States.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
— Snow fell last week in Marion.
— Marion has been making earnest but
fruitless endeavors to organize a fire com
pany.
— The ladies’ monumental fair is the
event of the day in Sumter.
— Gov. Moses has appointed John
Woolley a trial justice for Aiken county.
— L. C. Northrop, Esq., is being
strongly urged as a fit successor to Judge
Orr.
— Riley Barker has been arrested in
Columbia by Detective Coates on the
charge of being implicated in the recent
row in Graniteville.
—At a recent meeting of the Comrnit-
teo on Privileges and Elections, inquiry
was made- in relation to the contested
seat of Mr. Gaither, member from Ker
shaw. It is probable Mr. Gaither will
retain his seat.
—In Darlington, the old clerk refuses
to surrender his office, on the ground
that his commission holds good till Jane,
1873. The newly elected clerk does
not fancy this view of the matter, and is
after his seat.
—The new and handsome little the
atre in Sumter will be thrown open to
the public for the first time, to-night,
with the Chapman Sisters as the attrac
tion. The Sumter News speaks in com
plimentary terms of the courtesy and
energy of Mr. Julian O. Levin, who is
acting as agent for the Chapman troupe.
TENNESSEE.
—Brownsville has one policeman.
— A few n’ghts ago, thieves raided the
store-room of W. J. Jones at McMinn
ville.
— The laboring men of Knoxville
have nominated Wm. Rule, a Radical,
for Mayor.
—In Manry county an old bachelor, aged
21, is soon to marry a young maiden of
40 winters.
— The proposition for Bradley coun
tv to subscribe $50,000 to the Ducktown
Railroad has been defeated.
— Rev. J. M. P. Otts, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Columbia, has
received a call to visit a Church in Dela
ware.
— On the 19 th instant, Harrison Hall,
colored, was drowned at Snelbyville by
the upsetting of a canoe which he was
endeavoring to pull over a mill-dam.
FLORIDA.
—Work has been commenced on the
Jacksonville & St. Augustine railroad.
—Work on the St. Augustine light
house has been suspended for want of
funds.
—•The Jacksonville Republican an
nounces the death of Ezekiel A. Adams,
an old citizen.
— The ladies of Tallahassee make
money for the Methodist Chnroh by sell
ing japonicas.
—Our Florida exchanges notice large
arrivals of visitors from every section of
the North and Northwest.
—Burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt ou the Freedmen’s Bank' iu Jack
sonville on Supday night last.
—O. A. Lincoln, Esq., a well-known
real estate agent of Hartford, Conn., has
purchased the fine villa of the Marquis
de Talleyrand for about $13,000, and has
gone North to arrange his business, pro
posing to return with his family in a few
weeks, and to become a resident of
Florida.
SOMEBODY'S DMILIJSU.
Daylight has passed through tho red Western por
tals,
Dowd through the grey misttho stars softly peep,
Bringing sweet rest to tho eyelids of mortals,
Watchiug a world where the many are B eop.
Pale start, op there, smiliDg down In yonr gladness,
Threading tne night with tho tiniest rays,
Watching yon shine, how my heart in its sadness
Turns to the fond dreams of bright, vanished days.
Beautiful dreams, which grow brighter in parting.
Now, in tne night time ot absence and gloom,
Star-like they shine, with their gentle .aya darting
Threads, golden threads, through the heart’s bit
ter doom—
Long cherished dreams, how they make me remem
ber
Vows that were holy as childhood’s first prayers,
Warm finger claspings and looks sweet and tender,
Somebody’s darling, so puro and so fair.
Soft, Joying eyes, under long silken lashes.
Veiling their beauty with exquisite grace,
Bonny brown eyes whence tho brightest of flashes;
Quick, truant sunbeams steal over her face.
Cheeks whero lho daintiest dimples aro playing
“Hide and seek" always with roses of June;
Lips wreathed with smiles through which kisses era
straying.
Ambushed for him who would steal their perfume.
iones low and sweet as tho music which angeJ3
*tr.ke from their tnnclul strings harping above;
lhv.u... ts that float ’round you like whlto-robod
even ;els.
Bearing a rue 'sage of gladness and love;
Bright winning ways, that aro always enchanting.
Heart warm and true ’neath a bosom of snow;
Never a grace or a charm that is wanting
Fairo ,t and purest of creatures lelow.,
Palo stars, up there, may the lips of a lover
Speak to you now in a tremulous prayer I
Ali through the night long watch lovingly over
Somebody’s darling, so pure and so fair—
Lo! through the Eastern gate daylight is stealincr,
Down through tho grey mist the stars faintly
shlno ;
List to a recret too sweet for rovealir g.
Somebody’s darling, she said she was mine.
Feminine Personals.
— Phoobe Cozzens is lecturing at vari
ous poiuts in Iowa.
— Mary Short, of Harrisburg, Pa.,
shortened the spun, of her ma’s life with
a shot gun the other day.
— Mrs. Sickles, the yonng Spanish
wife of our Minister iu Madrid, has pre
sented her husband with a son.
VIRGINIA.
— The qualities of human nature
brought oat by the Boston fire were not
all noble. A story is told of a merchant
who ipvited a neighbor to store some of
his imperiled property in the establish
ment of the former. The generous offer
was accepted, and a few days ago the
Boston “merchant” presented the af
flicted neighbor a bill of $100 for storage.
Boston knows who is the meanest man
— From short bridal trips among the
fashionables the transition has been rap
id to none al all, the happy couple mere
ly going to somebody’s country seat un
til the novelty wears off.
— An English clergyman has been ar
rested for resurrecting dead bodies, not
by the power of the spirit, bot with pick
and ?pade, according to the ordinary
method.
—A Kansas man known as the “Red
Peddler” was recently killed by a runa-
From the Savannah Advertiser, 23d.
George W. Lamar, Sr., Esq., died at
his residence in thiB oity on yesterday
morning, at 9y o’clock. He was sudden
ly prostrated by a stroke of paralysis
twelve hours previously.
Mr. Lamar had reached the ripe age of
seventy years, only a few of which had
been Bpent in our city.
He was a native of Augusts, where his
remains have been carried for interment,
and spent the greater portion of an hon
ored and useful life in that city. Thongh
bred to the bar, the busiest portions of
his life were spent in planting and bank-
inf:.
He never songht public life, bat rep
resented the eonnty of Richmond in the
Georgia Legislature during one session,
having defeated the Hon. Charles J.
Jenkins after a heated contest. He was
a gentleman of kindly, genial manners,
who numbered his friends by the scores.
Besides a widow and two married
daughters, be leaves a number of sons,
residents of oar
Henrv Ward Beecber. rncle *»f the al>ove | way horse and his head eated off by rats,several of whom are
named clerzym^n. will i— invited to j all of which is nn excellent basis for a I city—among them the editor of this
preacl* the i^atoiiatMu iw-ravu. ; dime novel ur a Virginia city drama. J journal.
— There are six cases of small pox in
Alexandria.
— "We gather the following fremthe
Norfolk Virginian, of yesterday: It was
rnmored on the streets yesterday that
Thomas Bmith, so cruelly and unmerci
fully beaten a few nights ago, by several
yonng men of this city, was in a dying
condition at his home iu the country,
from the effects of the injuries received
on the occasion referred to. We sincere
ly hope the rumor is unfounded.
A very distressing accident occurred
in Portsmouth sometime daring Tuesday
night, by which an infant son of Mr.
James H. Clements, the postmaster of
this city, was burned to death. The lit
tle fellow was named Louis, and was
about seventeen months old. The cir-
cams tan oes, as we learned them, are
these: Mr. Clements and his wife occu
py different sleeping apartments, and.
the child was sleeping in a crib in its
mother’s room. It was late when she
retired, and upon going to bed she left
candle burning upon the bureau.
About seven o’clock in the morning, Mr.
Clements went into his wife’s room,
and foand the child on the floor at the
foot of his wife’s bed. ItB night dress
was burned off, and the little fellow was
dead. The bed clothing in the crib also
was burned, and the room was fall ol
smoke. It is not known how the fire
originated or how long the little fellow
had been dead when he was discovered.
He got oat of the crib on to the floor,
and both the smoke and his cries if he
made any, failed to awaken his mother.
He was a sprightly little fellow for his
age, and his death under the circumstan
ces is pecntiarlf distressing to his par
ents. We believe the carpet in a portion
of the room had been on fire, and it is a
miracle that the house was not burned.
It is strange that Mrs. Clements was not
i awakened.
— A couple were recently married in.
Naugatuck, Conn., three hours after
their first introduction to each other.
— Mrs, A. Whipple, of Portland, Co
lumbia county, Wis., died suddenly from
the effects of paring a corn too closely.
— At the last hanging in Pennsylvania
a Miss Cady asked permission to adjust
the fatal noose with her “own fair
hands.”
—Luda Shows! ter, a resident of Terre
Haute, Ind., is-commissioned a notary
public, the first woman so appointed in
the State.
—Mrs. Melissa Dawson, a well-known
and highly respected old lady of Owen-
ton, Ky., was burned to death one day
lost week.
— At Elmira Female College the fair
sophs” have interdicted the wearing of
false hair and bustles by the fresh women.
— The name “ grass widow” is of
French, origin. It is derived from the
French “ grace,” and originally meant a
widow by courtesy.
—A Pittsburg woman, insane through
jealousy, of course, lecently shot at her
husband, but being tco nervous to shoot
well no hurra ensued.
—Mrs. Millina Faireloth, of Mitchell
county, Ga.j has reached her one hun
dred and sixteenth summer, and is still
sprightly and in good health.
—A Mrs. F. C. Drake has the contract
for painting the swords manufactured at
the Springfield, Mass., aimory, and gives
employment to several girls.
—A colored female preacher in North
Carolina was unfortunately caught steal
ing cotton the other evening, and her ex
hortations will now be confined to narrow^
limits,
—Japanese paper-work is the latest re
creation and amusements for ladies. A
vast deal of tissue paper, paste, scissors,
paints, and an enormous amount of pa
tience is nil that is required.
—A Paterson, N. J.,lady has compelled
her recent husband to pay her $4 weekly
for her support, the courts having refus
ed to recognize a divorce from her which
he procured in Indiana.
—Illinois has produced another beau
tiful blonde clergy woman in the peison .
of the Rev. Miss Jennie Tracy, aged >
sweet sixteen, who is turning the hearts -%
and heads of sinners in the town of
Elgin.
— Oswego yonng ladies hold ear-pierc- -
ing meetings. These meetings are not -
the scenes of shrill debates, but cf mu
tual improvement (?) in the shape of mu
tual ear-puncturings for the wearing ot
ear-rings.
— Two young American ladies recent
ly filed the unprecedented petition to ha
allowed to sleep in the lighthouse at
Leith, Scotland, for one night, to the
abject bewilderment and astonishment
of the authorities.
— Miss Grata Kingsbury, a maiden
lady sixty-seven years of age, myste
riously disappeared from tho residence
of Louis Smith, in Sullivan, Mass., on
the 2d of November, and no tidings of
her whereabouts have been since received
by her friends.
—Misses Nelson k Tylar, two yonng
Springfield, Mass., ladies of business
tact, have taken a two-years’ contract for
the manufacture of a patent surcingle,
and are giving employment to twenty
girls, and prodneing about fifteen dozen
per day.
—A French lady and gentleman at
Cape May have been into the ocean ev
ery day since early last summer. They-
are trying to persuade themselves ttiat by
going in every day they will not notice
the change in temperature, and so be
able to go in all winter.
We had the pleasure of a call on l8<
Saturday, from Mr. Nebhut, traveling
agent of The Atlanta Sun. Mr. N. is a
jovial, genial gentleman, an efficient
newspaper agent, and_ represents the
ablest conducted paDer in the State. T©
state that Hon. A. H. Stephens, Georgia’s
ablest, trustiest son, is proprietor and
political editor, is commendation enongb.
Subscribe for The Sun.—Calhoun Times.
—Miss Sarah F. Smiley, the noted
Quakeress preacher, has been holding
meetings for some weeks in the city ot
Chicago. Hdr modest, simple and ef
fective talks in the pnlpit have disarmed
criticism. Sho has been invited into the
Presbyterian pnlpits.
—Benjamin L Haight, D. D., T.T., D.,
assistant minister of Trinity Chnrch, in
New Yors, and a moderate High Church
man, is Chosen Bishop of Massachusetts,
as successor to Bishop Eastburn. He
had 43 votes, to 36 for Dr. Alexander
Vinton, Low Church.