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THE ATLANTA SUN
From The Pally Snn of January 1, 1873.
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.
Cathedral talks
of a
—St. Joseph’s
910,0(0 organ.
—Admiral Semmes is City Attorney of
Mobile.
—“Call Benson” enjoys an incomo of
$00,000 • ye*r.
—At San Antonio, Texas, apples are
*1* » barrel *nd beef two cent* » pennd.
—The hog erop ot Icrwa is 1,325,170,
against 1,008,671 last year.
—Kansas City warrants are taken at
*1 cents on the dollar.
—Bears are now trapped in the Shade
Mountains, J uniat* county, 1'*.
—An intelligent grave-stone cnttei in
Detroit, keep* ready-made grave-stones with the
awe Smith cat thereon.
—Mem phi s has a city debt of over
$4,000,000, and there is gTevion* complaint because
Ho arrangement* ha* been made to pay toe interest
— Chicago capitalists have bongLt
*,000 acre* ofiaud in Jackson county, Wi*., to be
converted into a cranberry marsh.
— The corn crop of McLean county,
1,1., for the limt season is estimated at upward cf
*1,000,COO bushels.
— Virginia hadn’t a sinele cotton
Mctory In 1864, but h.s erected twelve of them
slues.
—The narrowest guage railroad is in
SAe of the English mining districts, the line being
Only eight inch** wide.
—Mrs. James Fisk, Jr., will have less
than 1100,000 when her husband 1 * affairs are
straightened.
—Ar dibishop Bay ley, of Baltimore, is
too ill to receive visitors. His complaint is Bright's
disease of the kidneys, from which no person was
orer known to recover.
—The activity of the matrimonial
market in Illinois has given a fresh impetus to the
quilt business, one hundred and twenty-five are
torned oat daily at Moline.
The number of dogs in Great Britain
on which annual tax of five shillings was paid In the
ftnanclal year 1871-72 was 1,127,944. This shows t»x
■aid on a dog (at 1 <*ct six montus old) for every 23
parsons. There has been a dog tsx in Orest Britain
for seventy-six yeers.
They have compulsory education in
$tacss. The lew requires that all persons under
y,« age of fiften shall attend school. A married
lady in Houston who has not yet reached the age
that would entitle h.r to exemption, attends school
segultrly and carries her bsby with her.
It is reported that the Japanese Gov
moment Intends to establish s comprehensive edu
cations! system; Including eight colleges, two nun
dred and fifty-six high schools, sud over fiity-three
thousand public schools, atwhich the attendance is
to be compulsory for all children above six years ol
—When Mrs. Stanton was delivering
her lecture on the “Coming Girl," in Green Bay
Wi*., she told how her father, whsn they were go
fng over the h ghlands of Scotland together, had
■air of bools made for her. After the lecture
nrourod-faced, furzy individual said to her; -‘An
Wl’ ye shek haau's wi 1 the maan thaat whs made
the booties for ye V and there he was. She d.d.
—A loving Franciscoan tucked bis lit
tie wife lu bed, kissed her, sud went to his office on
Important business. Two hours later, while ciriv-
tng along with a fast woman, he ran against a bugsy
* upsetting it and his own. There was a scene when
he discovered that the occup.nts of the other buggy
were his wife and a well-known gambler. His wit«
thought sauco was sauce, whether intended for
masculine or feminine specimen of the anstr.
— A man of portly size was traveling
by diligence from Macon to Chalons; he mode the
following complaint to his fellow-passengers: I am
■ fat man, said he, and require much room. I sent
the rascally gargon from the betel to book two places
for me. When I came to the office I found that he
hsid booked one scat for me in the inside and one on
the outside. He had not yet solved the problem of
filling his two seats.
—At the marriage, on the 5th instant,
tn 8*n Francisco, of Flora, only daughter of Ch&s.
Main, of Portsmouth, N. H., to C. F. MacDcrmott,
of San Francisco, the bride was presented by her
father with f 3JO,000, and by her husband with
$100,000, in addition to numerous rich and costly
S resents from other parties. The ceremony was
oubly performed, first by Kev. Horatio Ktebb’ns,
Unitarian, and then by Archbishop Alcineany.
Catholic.
OKOllUU SKW8 DREVnias.
Culled from our State Exchanges.
—Rjme is to have a temperance paper.
— Christmas passed off quietly in
Waynesboro; only one nocident— a muu
bad his thumb blown off. Wood is four
dollars a cord.
—A young lady named Miss Ella Sit-
ton, of Greensboro, fell iu the tire at
Gainesville last Saturday nignt and was
seriously burned.
—An old lady named Smith fell down
» flight of stairs at her residence in Au
gusta last Tnesday night, and it is feared
MM fatally injured.
—In the case of Strong, for killing
McElligott, the coroner’s jury rendered
a verdict came to his death by a pistol
shot inflicted by the hand of W. M.
Strong, in Savannah.
—On Friday night, in Augusta, a little
daughter of Mr. Zack Rogers, let his in
fant child tall from her arms into the
fire, and the little thing was severely
burned before it oould be rescued.
—The shipments which have passed
through Columbns for Savannah far ex-
oeed those of last year to the same date.
Thus the Western Railroad has bronght
to Friday night 19,450 bales and tne Mo
bile A Girard 1,954—total 21,404. Last
year to same date the Western Railroad
transported 13,513 bales, and the Mobile
k Girard 876— total 14,389. Thus, tbe
excess this year over the last is 7,015
bales, quite a respectable difference.—
Much of this cotton has been obtained
from Montgomery, Selma, and as for
west as Vicksburg.—Sun, 29/A.
—We have heard of many smart tricks
of Young America, but the most sensible
act is reported of a Columbus boy, son
ol Mr. Nelson, a compositor in Colnm
bus. All know the great attraction
which the glitter and show of circuses
m have for the small boy. This youth was
a pupil in our public schools. At noon,
not long sitoe, his father sect for him
to go to the circus that afternoon. The
boy sent the reply that if his father
wished it he would come, but if he was
left to his own choice, he preferred re
maining at school. Other boys may
have done likewise, but, if so. we have
never heard of it, and we don’t Relieve
one in ten thousand would act similarly
—Sun, 29/A.
_—The Columbus manufactories lo last
night, since August 31st, have taken from
the warehouses 1,614 bales. Last vear
in the same time they took 1,102 biles.
Ibis sheas an increase of 512 bales ia
four months. This is exclusive of th
Intil whlok wiU not •cuated
«2£ icubTu ?
«i# i-r P „ nu /s
pounds to the bale, they i ° 50U
»">7 Siiisa? Sulf” -
built factories which treble, and la seme
oases quadruple this value. rn*u %h
good- when .-at from the city *i;i re *
•ontntJo.780 If v* had so f. ( . t P n > s
w V et on * The uiff r, nee
Mi favor of ColiimbuM ibiu far
caftrquite an item.—Sun, 29/4.
Tbe Georgia Prrss Upon the United
ktatsi fienatorabtp.
The Atlanta Herald has come out in an
able editorial in favor of the election of
General Gordon.
Tbe
Constitution has not editorially
committed itself to any one of the several
candidates spoken of; bat we present
below a long extract from a communica
tion which appeared in its issue of the
28th December:
AN APPEAL FOB LIBERTY.
Editors Constitution: I append some
startling telegrams and facts that I have
collated:
Wxshisotow, December 3, 1872.—8amner at
tempted to call up civil rights, but was prevented
under tbe rule*. _ _
Washington, December 8, 1872.—Morrill, of ( er-
mont, called up the bill on the endowment of na
tional colleges and spoke on it.
Washington, December IV, 1872—Senate.—Cole
offered a joint resolution to amend tbe Constitution
so as to elect President, Vice-President and Sena
tors of the United ■*• ttes by the direct vote of the
^Washibgtok, 1 «.-«mt>«r 9—House.—Under the
regular call, resols 2c as to amend the Constitntion
and authorizing Congress to fix a uniform time for
State elections.
Amendments.—According to the Boston Journal
there are now no less than twenty-four amendments
to the Constitution pending In Congress—Atlanta
Constitution, December 24,1872.
Who that loves tbe institutions of onr
fathers is not horror-stricken in contem
plating this array of little telegraphic
and newspaper items? Who tliat loves
liberty is not overcome with a mortal
terror for its fate on this continent,
when he views our “Prometheus bound,”
and the vultures, Sumcei, Morrill, Mor
ton, Oonaling, and a multitude of others,
gnawing at its vitals witn such voracious
greed?
And yet what is there to stay their
traitorous hands? Their opponents are
less than one-third minority. No Dem
ocrat of towering intellect and conti
nental fame can be seen in the ranks of
the slender opposition. There is no
clarion voice near to startle these wolves as
they greedily devour the carcass of the
Constitution. No brave heart whose
bugle note could arouse tbe sleeping
echoes of liberty in the Republic, and
command a parley till the people could
speak !
No ! Arrogant in the knowledge of an
overwhelming majority in Congress, and
confident of tbe apathy of tbe people,
they think to make haste to steal away
our libertiesw*«’'e we sleep, and they
Hold power,
Friends of I • erty 1 whisper beneath
your breath, ^.d say “What of the
night ?” How can we rescue freedom
from its impending fate? This un
adorned situation is more terrifically in
teresting than ever Booth, with all the
grandeur of his genius and the imposing
illusions of the stage, made the scene in
Richelieu, where he says:
“Hush! s shriek, a cry, a breath
too loud
Would startle from its horrent pauso
The swooping death. 11
If Providence were to raise up some
man of grand intellect aud marvelous
eloquence, intensely imbued with the
principles of Democracy, who possessed
the love of the South, and commanded
the confidence and esteem of the North,
and we were to placo him cn the theatre
of the Nation, all might yet be well
The people of this Republic Lave not yet
forgotten their ancient love of liberty; it
only sleeps and awaits the touch of
master hand to awaken it.
Friends, there is one man who seems
to be the instrument of Divine Provi
dence for this grand mission. He is one
of the purest men of the age; a man of
marvelous eloquence, and an intellect
that has no superior on the continent.
Ho is profoundly and intensely a Demo
crat. He possesses the trusting
love ox tbe South. He commands
the confidence, esteem and admi
ration of the North. The South
loves and trusts him becanae he held
the second office in the Southern Confed
eracy and was true to his people, though
he thought they had committed a grave
error in seceding from the Union; and
tbe superior sagacity of his rejected
counsels for the success of out cause is
admitted by all unbiased people. The
North has confidence in him because of
hiH well-known attachment for the Union
and his grand, almost single-handed
struggle for its preservation. They es
teem and admire him because of his
great fame made in the old United States
Congress. His marvelous eloquence
couU arouse them, and there is no other
Southern man to whom voice they would
hearken. Listen to the press:
Ms. Stephens" Speech—We give our readers,
this morning, the powerful speech of Mr. Stephens,
delivered on Friday night in this city.
We give it without comment at present, eeve to
say that tbie distinguished Georgian has lost none
of that marvelous eloquence that has made him a
Continental reputation. His oratory is as wonder
ful and electric as it ever was.— Atlanta Constitution,
Dec. 23d.
Th* London Saturday Review says that Alexander
H. Stephena is a vary great man—for an American.
It is further of the opinion that “thsr* ar* rot half
a dozen men in th* whole North who have the lssrn
Alexander Hamilton Stephens,
From the Selma Times, 29th.
There seems to be a determination on
the part of the Montgomery Advertiser
to bold Mr. Stephens np to the people
of Alabama as a small demagogue, and
treacherous politician. It has assumed,
with its usual unfairness and reckless
ness, that everything that the distin
guished Georgian utters is for demagog
ical eftect, and that eveiy principle that
he enunciates or maintains is solely for
the purpose of accomplishing some sel
fish object of personal ambition; or, to
gratify some personal spite. The Adver
tiser, in speaking of Mr. Stephens’ late
speech in Atlanta as a "harangue," shows
its appreciation of the eloquence of one
of the most distinguished orators the
South has ever produced, and the logic
of one of the finest debaters that ever
graced the Hall of the National House
of Representatives: Yes, when giants
met there in contest on the great ques
tions that made parties in the better days
of the republic. Only a few months ago
the Advertiser, with a malignity unpar
alleled, charged by insinuation that the
compliment paid by Mr. Stephens, in
his great representative work of the
Southern side of tbe “ War between the
States,” to General Grant, was prompted
by a motive that, looked to tbe removal
of the political disabilities under which
he whs laboring; hl-*i iu us i-sue of yes
terday, it with special delight copies an
article from the peu of Col. Lamar of
the Savannah Advertiser, that will Ijp
found ei.-ewliere, which does Mr. Ste
phens unintentional injustice, and com
ments on it as follows:
From ths first heur turn M . s;u
Clement VallaDilitiLuuu Ui IjU ta.i i
Democratic- party m-d tueo.um. j,
predicted, that ho would turn is,* m
man, and Georgia radical. U- <x;<.
ties to be removed by r. lUdical C
t us opposed
it to saiethe
Let iv, at d no
> -ml * Grant
It s liisabili-
aud then
to be elected to the Sen*.- p-iuciptw.y by itie in
fluence. of the Administration 1”
Mr. Stephens’recun! :» a y*-rt of the
record of his own native State aad no
man stands higher, or is honored and
loved more than he. Ho has been a
repieseutative man of the great State for
years, aud to-day, in spite of the differ
ences between himseli and many of his
political friends aud associates, on the
policy of endorsing the action of the
Cincinnati Convention, aud supporting
Greeley for tbe Presidency, he com
mands the confidence of the whole peo
ple, and is respected, honored, and loved,
by all classes, regardless of political
affiliation. Calumny does not barm him,
and the puerile shafts of disappointed
politicians, of soured journalists, fall
harmless at their feet, and are treated by
him with the contempt that they deserve
to be.
Mr. Stephens’ radicalism is the radi
calism which has declared, from the day
of their passage, until the present time,
that the XIYth and XVth Amendments
to the Constitution, aud all their villain
ous sequences were usurpations; that
they were unconstitutioual, and there
fore null and void. Can the Advertiser
say as much ?
The radicalism of Mr. Stephens is of
such a character that three-fourths of
the Press of the “Empire State of the
South,” redeemed from radicalism and
its terrible concomitants, are calling up
on the Legislature to honor the grand
old commonwealtu by sending him as
Senator to the Congress of the Nation.
The people from all sections as far as we
are able to judge, from our large Georgia
exchange list, are sustaining the action
of the Press, and we hope that the Leg
islature will send the noble “Georgia
Radical,” so-called by the Montgomery
Advertiser, as the representative ot the
people to the Senate. * * *
Mrs. ddwl)
A Prominent City Contractor Accused
of Keeping Two ’Wives.
From the New York Herald,
Yesterday morning there was bronght
to light in Hoboken a transaction which
will become a fruitful topic of comment
and discussion for the unrivalled gossip-
era and scandal-mongers of Hoboken.
At the suit of one Willisa Stephens
Recorder Bohnstedt issued a warrant for
the arrest of a well-known city contractor
named James Coughlin on a charge of
bigamy.
From the statement made by the said
complainant it appears that on the 25th of
January, 1870, she was married to the
accused in New York by the Rev. John
E. Coopman, pastor of the Bedford street
Methodist Episcopal Church, and in con
firmation of this the marriage certificate
was produced in Court. The pair lived
thereafter, as alleged, .as man and wife,
although Coughlin resic.ed nominally in
Hoboken, while tbe alleged Mrs. Cough
lin kept house in New York.
Not long ago. so rumor has it, his eye
fell on a Miss Ilortense Griser, a young
lady of seventeen, who has not been long
out of the school. Between the latter
and Mr. Coughlin sprung up an acquaint
ance, the upshot of whicn was that on
last Tuesday the pair were united in mat
rimony by the Rev. Dr. Cauvin, pastor
of the Catholic church iu Hoboken. On
that same morning it is said Coughlin
had been iu the house of Willisia.
When the news of his marriage to
Miss Griser reacned the ears of Willisia
she hied to Hoboken, in company with
her two sisters, and procured the war
rant as stated. The complainant, instead
of keeping the matter secret, sought to
give it the utmost publicity by every
means. She avows her determination
to send her alleged husband to the State
prison. This may prove a difficult task,
inasmuch os it is alleged the accused has
fled to some unknown region. Owing to
Coughlin’s prominence in Hoboken, this
alleged duplicity on his part has given
rise to much excitement among the Ho
boken ites.
ing and ability to give them a fair ohancs against
such an adversary."—Columbus Sun.
A strange Pro\ idence is aronnd him
He is the ehild of destiny. He was al
ways a fragile man, and several times be
fore the war his life was strangely pre
served when his feeble frame seemed in
capable of surviving the shocks. And
since the war, God’s providence towards
him has been marvelously displayed
He was preserved from certain death in
Fort Warren, by the kindness of the
present Vice-President. He was stricken
down four years ago by disease, and it
seemed that he was immnred for the re
mainder of his fr$$l life, in Liberty Hall.
This prostration (in the bidden councils
of Deity! produced a double Palladium
of freeaom. His “War Between the
States,” and his “School History,” were
born nr:to libertv from that visitation of
Providence. The first has awakened,
and is awakening, all over the Republic,
the minds of the people to the truths of
our government. The second will imbue
the minds of tbe ohildren of this and af
ter ages, with a knowledge aud love of
those truths, and thus perpetuate the
work begnn by the first. Wuat a grano
conception of the Statesman—his twin
Palladium of freedom I
As sr oa as this work is done, and the
soil prepared, he is most remarkably re
stored to his wonted health, and at a
time when an opportunity is presented
for him to step upon the front theatre of
the nation, aad :u the Senate chamber
call the people back to constitutional
liberty, end at a juncture when all
Amende woele hail with joy his advent.
His grand speeoh of Friday evaning
Forrest at Her llntbaad's
Bier.
Mrs. Edwin Forrest, the tragedian’s
wife, was. according to the statement of
a reporter, at her husband’s funeral. He
says:
Sitting at the window facing Broad
street, aud with no one near her, her
arms resting listlessly upon her knees,
her fingers nervously drumming and toy
ing each other, was Catharine Sinclair,
the divorced wife of the dead. If any
one knew who she was they appeared to
keep their distance. She arrived yes
terday morning and entered the house
at half-pa it twelve. She was dressed in
deep mourning, with a double-black
crape veil flowing nearly to her feet. She
moved nervously toward the rear parlor,
where the remains were lying. There
were but five or six persons iu the room.
Throwing aside her veil she stood for
nearly ten minutes, placed her hand up
on his head, and followed the arm down
to the hand, which she grasped for a few
minutes. Then she glided toward the
foot of the coffin and plucked one or two
flowers from the cross which lay upon
the dead man’s feet. She then moved
rapidly to tbe front parlor, where she
was seated until the coffin L-ffc the
house.
Juvenile Education In Central Ger.
many-
The President of the Statistical Board
at Berlin, Dr. Schwabe, according to tbe
London Echo correspondent, lately made
a speech at a publio meeting in order to
prove the deficiency of juvenile edaea
tion ia the centre of Germany. Ctuldren
are much improved by public instruction,
but they aie strangely deficient in the
knowledge of nature aud natural pheno
mena. li was stated that lrom about
1,000 children examined before being
admitted iuto school, 777 neve r saw any
rainbow, 633 a field of potatoes, 602 a
butterfly, 533 the sunset, 462 the rising
of the snn, 460 a meadow, 406 a cornfield,
3S7 a flock of sheep, 364 a forest, 264 an
oak-tree, and, lastly, 167 bad never beard
the song of the lark. This statement
created great sensation, and everybody
is eonvmctd tl at, notwitstanding the
generally good education of youih in
Germany, sometl ing is still to be dun*
to fill np tuose voids in the primary ed
ucation of children.
*-♦ -*
Sale id* l>y t» sick Man.
Hergianu Krause, a Gorman gilder,
shot himself through the huart, at No.
108 Seventh birw«t, New York, yttatwrduj.
He cams to tnis uonntry swver.d years
agianfi prueUeed bis trade successfully,
Out a a* l wcLulj forced to abandon Wurk
health.
A queer Bntertslnraent.
From the Columbia Union.
Thursday night the first of the hops
for the season yearly inaugurated by Dr.
J. F. Eosor, superintendent of the State
Lnnatie Asylum, was given. The in
clemency of the weather kept away many
invited guests, yet there were enough
present to make an aggregate party.
The enjoyment of the occasion was unin
terrupted. The music was furnished by
the institution.
Seventy-five of the patients were pres
ent, and entered into the festivities w ; th
much zest; not a word or action by them
was out of place, and the accuracy of
their movements in going through the
various figures of thodauce, surprised all.
Many of them waltzed well, and they all
appeared to view the occasion with great
relief and satisfaction.
Tl^e promptness and delicacy which
characterized their selections of part
ners, and the politeness of them toward
each other, as well as towards those with
whom they came in contact, might be
envied by circles claiming more reason,
and was an endorsement of tbe patient
care and hard toil of the officers in greeley, sewakd and morse,
charge at the asylum, under every diffi- j These were our own countrymen, and j
These dea d leaves were a violet one.
A tender, timid thing, **•
A sleeping beauty, till the wind
Kissed it awake in spring.
Then lor one little, little honr
It knew love's deep delight-
Unto tbe wooing wind it gars’
All that a violet might.
And then It drooped and faded hsnmw
For, having loved. It Is not pain r? dj£ ;
TUB BBJtTU MOLL.
Eminent Men Who Have Passed \
The year now fleoting to its eW** T
been remarkable over most of its ; m Ca8
diate predecessoi s for the number of*
sons who have died in it who wereo^'
usual prominence before the world 1 tUl '
A review of the death roll of' ic-
would be inter sting at this tim e
would certainly recall many
thoughts inspir d during the ve^f 1
the sudden taking off of this or that’ ^
spicuous public character, and whirh^’
the hurry and whirl of our busy r la
were necessarily transitory. Tbg lves
names which naturally occur to
moment we begin to think of death's!)
ings for the past twelve months »
those of
Tile North Carolina Outlaws.
Wilmington, N. C., December 27
At Eureka, a small station on the Wil
mington, Charlotte & Rutherford Rail
road, in the head of *ho fcicuffletown re
gion, and about eighty miles from this
city, there was a Christmas gathering of
the class of the outlaws on Thursday,
Steve Lowry Vas absent, but Andrew A.
Streng was there with a number of his
friends. At about 2 o’clock in the day,
while a number of negroes were in a
store at the station, one of them stole a
number of lock* and secreted them in
his pocket.
He was charged with the theft by a
youug man named William Wilson, a
cltrk ia the store, but be denied having
taken them. Mr. Wilson then put his
hand in the man’s pocket and drew forth
tbe locks. The crowd soon after Juft the
store. About an hour after this, Andrew
Strong, who bad evidently been drinking
came into the store and ordered Mr. Wil
son to leave the county, swearing that
is he did not he would kill him. The
youag man informed him that he would
do so, whereupon Strong left the store.
About 5 o’clock bo returned, more intox
icated than before, and repeated his com
mands, telling Mr. Wilson that if he
found him there at 6 o’clock in the morn
ing he would certainly kill him. After
sayiDg this the outlaw turned to leave the
store, and as he (lid so Wilson raised a
double-barreled gun and discharged one
barrel at the outlaw, planting eighteen
buckshot in his back and head. Strong
fell with scarcely a groan and expired at
once.
Rhody Lowery, the widow of Henry
Berry Lowery, the defunok outlaw lead
er, and sister of Andrew Strong, sent in
a deputation requesting that the body be
delivered up to her, bat this was of
coarse refused. Word was sent to them
at the same time by Mr. Wilson that be
would shoot the first man who dared to
touch the body. Nevertheless, fearing a
rescue might Ue attempted, Mr. Wilson
and a number of other gentlemen hastily
placed the body in a wagon and oonveyed
it to Lnmbertown, arriving there at 2 a.
m. The body was at once surrendered
to Sheriff McMullen, and was yesterday
folly identified. The Sheriff at onoe
paid over to the fortunate young man
31,000, the reward offered by the county
for each of the outlaws, dead or alive.
Besides this, there is a sum cf $5,000 to
be paid by the State.
on account oi ui health, ii* frequently
proves him abn-ast of vh* atra. and not a i tlir ,“ lU ' u ” d to k u * PIi(1 Lis *»■*«»«■.
;< m ji i t • r* i and ^es t «ritj4r found drad in
*fos*n. Ik show* him to have a elearer | ^ V ith a pisu-1 ut h.s side. He bad
evidently *not h:m^- If tur-nigh the heark
conception of the asoe&rities of kite hoar :
than aty otter American statesman.— I , , _ - _
There ,* ne revolnuonary Boni-bo.tem ia “ nVVf'“"I > ,r - vv . m '- ! ~ T ' Cosoner Yona*
it. The resort to the peaceful w,n. wlH ho>d » u
mentalities of the Constitution f r re- 1 —A Louisiana sut-r.n rigged up a
of grievances is fcls platform, and (.uillotiue, an ^ it works ** smooth and
nice that he will ask i lie LegiHeture te
let him behead somebu i .
Advantage* of Bearing ths Sene Han*.
From tka Norwich, Conn., Bulletin.
One of those occurrences in real life
which read so much like the imaginings
of a romancist is reported from New
Hampshire. Some years ago a young
operative at a Great Falls cotton mill,
Sarah Butillou by name, was called home
to care for an invalid sister, and when
the latter died, the aged parents were
left alone, so that Sarah deemed it her
duty to stay by them, giving up her
chances of worldly prosperity. Now, it
happened that certain small articles of
personal property, which she had brought
from the factory were wrapped in a stray
newspaper from Louisiana, and on
removing the wrapper her eye oanght
i the family name—ButilLon—upon it.
After that she was moved by a strange
impulse to write to this person bearing
her name, and finally did so out of curi
osity meieiy. A reply came in due time,
from which it appeared that the writer
musk be a distant relative of the factory
girl. He, it seems, lived alone and bad
bnt lew friends. They corresponded
three years or more, when suddenly the
letters from him eeased coming. Three
months intervened, and then came
lawyer’s letter informing the New Hamp
shire girl of tte death of her relative aud
uf her inheritance el $100,000. And she
uas gone with her husband to come into
uer lurtone. Bat we trust that all the
factory £rl> will not fell te writing let
ter* to their namesakes, with the de asive
nope ui semilisr results.
Three zealous soeverts were re
cently baptised through six inches ef ice
ia Lake Pepin, Minn., bo* tseir religi
ous fexvos wue aaeh ttat they melted their
surroundings to an extern sufficient to
float a Gan order.
Weasel's frights are practically
exemplified ia Spain. A correspondent
thus desertoeu the leading of iron ore at
Kilhea: “It is a eutieu* sight to see the
i loading the akipe with their
culty, for the benefit of their suffering
fellow-beings.
The danoiuig was kept up to a rea
sonable hour, the guest joining freely in
the same, contributing much towards
breaking the monotony of the lives of
the patients. Other similar occasions
are to follow at convenient and stated
times, when cards of invitation—which
the experience of past seasons has sug
gested to be for the best—will be issued.
Those people who may receive them
should not fail to add their presence for
the good of the patients and the pleasure
of themselves.
SOUTHERN news.
Clipped from our Exohsngea.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
—Columbia fears that its gas supply
will bo cut off for want of coal.
—Two hundred children enjoyed a
Christinas dinner at the arsenal in Beau
fort.
—A hook and ladder fire company is
about to be organized at Bennettsville.
—Louis Trumbley and William Alex
ander escaped from the county jail at
Union Court-house ou the 18lh instant.
—George E. Tunbury has entered
upon his duties as county tresisurer at
Union, in place of Thomas McNally,
removed.
— The “Fantastics” enlivened the
streets of Beaufort on Christmas in spite
of the bad weather.
—A fracas occurred between a number
of negroes in Aiken on Christmas day, in
which several of the participants were
stabbed.
—The cantata and tableaux iu the fe
male college building at Due West ou
December 23d are said to have oeen a
most brilliant success.
—The tax for Richland will amount to
$120,996 20. The State assessment is
twelve mills, yielding $98,396 96; coun
ty, three mills, yielding $24,599 24.
—A prominent dry goods merchant of
Columbia is distributing fifty cords of
wood among the deserving poor, without
distinction of color.
—The Greenville & Columbia Rail
road is now in fine running trim, despite
the heavy weather which has crippled
nearly every road both North and South.
—D. A. Foskett, charged with the
killing of Gulledge in the recent Gran-
iteville trouble, has been released by
Judge Carpenter in Columbia on two
thousand dollars bail.
VIRGINIA.
The ladies of Farmville are to give a
concert next week for the Hook and
Ladder Company.
—Judge T. S. Garnett Las been elected
cashier of the Suffolk Commercial Bank.
—The wife of Marmadnke Jones, a
merchant of Suffolk, died suddenly iu
that town on the 24th.
—Rev. Dr. Mousey was to have lec
tured in Bristol Thursday night on the
Ideal Art Music.
—Hampden Sidney College will no
longer celebrate the 22d of February, as
the intermediate celebrations will here
after take place on the 21st December.
— Christmas appears to have passed
off quietly iu all parts of the State. No
rows or disorders are reported iu any
quarter. I
— A negro boy named John Hol
combe was found dead in his bed, in
Lynchburg Thursday morning. He was
not Known to have been sick at all.
—An old negro woman, by the name
of aunt Cely, said to be a century old,
was accidentally burned to death in Suf
folk Tuesday, her clothes havaiDg taken
fire while she was Bitting in her room
alone.
NORTH CAROLINA
'I
Ova i n ?m?La
balky aacgin. a*Mf in* it in baskets on
tneir hnad< ain^uig gay'.y the while,
and tripping np ul dew* the steep
alanke Witt these shot* pettieoate, brown
burs legs, aad straight enpple banks.
Mr. George H. Williams, of Raleigh,
was united in marriage Tuesday to the
beautifol and accomplished Miss Fan
nie M. Jones, of Warrentou, daughter
ot the president of Warrenton Female
College.
—The Statesville American says that
a severe shock of an earthquake was
lelt at the Company Shops North Car
olina Railroad last Sunday morning at
21 o'clock o’clock. The Hotel was shaked
bo that the waiters ran ont in fear. No
damage done.
— A negro named Tom Moore, while
sitting beastly drunk in his cart near
Ringwood N. C.. on the 22nd, cursed
two.negroes who were passing when they
fell on him with knives and whittled him
toffeath. All drunk.
An East Saginaw, Mich., Lotha
rio has twice stolen away the wife of an
other man and <u often been arrested and
punished. He has now ventured the
third time, and the long-suffering hus
band says “let ’et go.”
The editor o! the Duluth Tribune
says he isn’t a Candida** for a clerkship
in the eoiaiug Legislature and adds: “Nor
are we a candidate for any other office
in tbe gift of the nation. State, eity, or
oonnty.” Who would have expected to
find such modesty iu Duluth ?
JKnF* Thirteen yeers ngo, G. P. Pep
per, ef Waukesha, Wia, w«e hnriod in a
well, where be remained seven hours,
bnt was fishod on* idiva, and now yesriy
•sdebrntea what u* < toe anniversary
. hie “resnnenneo. ”
is worthy of notice that tbe old woriii
has no losses of equal value and distiav
tion. It is a curious coincidence ttat
the founders of three leading metropor
tan journals should die within fi
months of each -other—Greeley, of th 6
Tribune; Bennett, of the Herald
Spalding, of the World. A celebn^
French journalist, Adolph Gueroult eS
tor of the Paris Rationale, and a well
known American editor, Edward A. PoL
lard, formerly of the Richmond
ner, also passed away. Among the
DISTINGUISHED ijpLDIERS ,
who died were Major-Generals Meade
and Halleck, of the regular army, both
of them very conspicuous commanders
in the late war. Lieutenant-Generals I]
Ewell and Patten Anderson, of tneCor- I -
federate army; Marshal Forey, of ^ 1 J|
French army, the man who beat the Am- V
trians at Montebello; Field Marshal Sr V
George Pollock, F. C. B., Constable of P
the Tower, a veteran of the IrJli^ -
wars, and General Pennefather, anothe-
British soldier of renown. Among
AMERICAN STATESMEN
were Seward, ex-Postmaster General Ban
dall, ex-Minister to Russia Ingersoll
Humphrey Marshall, tne rotund anc
jovial Kentucky Congressman; Hon.Lin
ton Stephens, one of Georgia’s gres'es
jurists; ex-Governor Crawford and Gei
Ambrose Rausome Wright of the sanu
State; ex-Senator Wall, of New Jersey
Grimes of Iowa; .Walker of Wisconsin
Bragg of North Carolina; Van Winklej
of West Virginia; and Senator Garrett
Davis, of Kentucky over whom eulogies
were pronounced last week in the Senate.
Ou the roll of
FOREl GN STATESMEN
were Juarez, the President of Mexico;
Earl Mayo, Governor General of India,
who was assassinated by a religious fa.
natic in that country; Joseph Mazzini,
the famous Italian agitator, who vas
planning another revolution when death
quitted his restless brain; the Duke of
Persigny, the Third Napoleon’s favorite
and right-hand man; Sir Henry Bolwer,
formerly British Minister at Washington,
and recently created Baron Dalling and
Bulwer, brother of the novelist; Lord
Lonsdale, Late Postmaster General, and
the Duke of Bedford.
ROYALTY SUFFERED
iu the loss of King Charles XV, of Swe
den, a wise and industrious monarch;
the Archduke Albrecht of Austria, known
in history as “The Victor of Custozzi;”
the Duke of Guise, one of the younger
members of the Orleans family, and Don
Angel Iturbide, the sou of the first Em
peror of Mexico. Among
THE NOTED WRITERS
of books were Charles Lever, author of
“Charles O’Malley” and a score ot other
Irish novels which have given delight to
mi 1 lions of readers in both hemispheres;
D’Aubigne, the famous author of the
“History of the Reiormation;” Tlieophile
Gautier, the popular Parisian feuille
tonist; Prof. Hadley, of Yale, the Greek
and Oriental scholar; Sir John Bowring,
who wrote on reform; “Fanny Ftm”
Parten; Norman McLeod, the theologi
cal author; and Fullom and Horace May-
hew, the English novelists.
In the departments of
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
deaths have been of the illustrious Prof.
Morse, inventor of the magnetic tele
graph ; Feuerbach, the German philoso
pher; Babinet, the French scientist, and
Dr. Francis Leiber, of our own country.
DIVINITY HAS PARTED
with the Roman Catholic prelates Car
dinal Amat, Archbishop Spalding, of
Baltimore, and Bishop McGill, of Rich
mond. The Episcopal, Dr. Francis Vin
ton, rector of Trinity Church, New
York, and the eccentric* Me^hod.-st, old
Peter Cartwright.
AMONG THE ACTORS
who have died are Forrest, the “Nestor
of the American stage; Hackett, tte
greatest of Falstaffs; Miss O’Neil, the
greatest tragic actress in England fifty
years ago, who died Lady \Vrixon Beech
er; Eliza Logan, McKean Buchanan, and
William H. (Sedleyj Smith. Two emi
nent German tragedians, Bogumil D** 1 ’
son and Emil Devrient, died in Dresden
daring the year. The former visited this
countiy in 1869.
AMONG THE ARTISTS
were Westmaeott, the English sculpt-
K^nsett, Sully, Ames, and T. Bncnan
an Read, who was also celebrated a*
poet.
THB DEAD LAWYERS
were David Paul Brown, of Phila lelpa*’
General Howard, anther of “3ow»r ^
United State*Supreme Court R“P , * r “P 1
and James R. Whiting, R(.ber r
Dillon, and John H. McCunn, °t
city. The
COMPOSERS OF MUSIC ^
were Lowell Mason and Henry G. GaJ*
lej;
THB MILLIONAIRES .
and speculators, James Fisk, Jr.,
N. Pike, Erastus Corning, John A. b
wold, and Joseph II. Scranton,
founder of Scranton, Pa. List
least among th* useful members of
ty were two great hotel proprietors,
ran Stevens and Simeon Lelapd.
JbfcS- Hiram R***-», a
min 86 years old, lately walked tw ^
*wo miles in six hours and a ha! , ^ ^
u cu.fl'J
empty stomachy That’* wh-it
says, though wuo ever H.nnrid
stomach twenly-lwo mil.* long