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THE CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1874.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 7.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
Four steamers of the White Htar lino
will hereafter letvo Philadelphia for Liv
erpool, iuetead of sailing from New York.
A personal published by Mr. Ross,
of Philadelphia, informs the n'.ealers of hid
child that tho money for hid ransom ia ready,
and %ekd, “How ahall I know your agent ?
Tho mayor of Philadelphia lms is
sued a proclamation offering a reward of
$20,000 for the capture of tho abductors of tho
child, Charley Brewster Rons, and. tho re
storation of the child.
Tho strike among tho glass-blowers
of Pittsburg, l'a., which had continued about
a year, in now at an end, and tho various man
ufactories aro mutating bumnesd. The Htriko
wad Mused by a proposed reduction of wagon.
Eastern establishment being able to manu
facture gland cheaper than here". The men
are now willing to resnmo work at a reduolion
of about 20 per cent, below the former prices.
A Boston dispatch states that after
tho inquest into the mutder tho child Ratio
Curran by Jenso Pomeroy, three physicians,
thinking thero must bo some cogent reason
for his conduct, called upon Ida mother, who
waa frank in iter answers to tlioir questions.
Him said her husband was a butcher, and is
now lugger in tho market, and that whllo she
was pregnant with Jeeso elm often wont to tho
alaughtor-honso to soo tiio killing of tho ani
mals, in which she took particular delight;
and a ho had even assisted her husband it. his
work. No sooner had Jesao grown largo
enough to havo a knife in hia hands than ho
wa« continually using it, tlirustiyg it into
piocoa of wood, and when ho waa older, into
piocea of meat. There aoemod to bo no doubt
•that ho Waa “ marked ’’ Just as otlior children,
though in a different way.
WEST.
The " drive " of Texas oattlo through
Kansas thia season ia estimated at 165,000
head.
Lnto intellingouco reoeievd nt tho
adjutant general's ofllce from tho Indian Ter
ritory atatos that on Juno 28, tho Cornanclics,
Kiowaa and Clieyonnos attacked tho soltio-
mont at I) »ly Wells, and were repulsed with a
loaa of fifteen killed and twenty-three
wonndod. A largo number of horses were
killed.
An Omaha, Nob., dispatch says tho
granshoppors nro still coming eastward, doing
much damage in tho middle and northern coun
ties. Wheat and oats aro out of their reach.
Corn and everything oho is destroyed oven
with tho giound.
Tho minors nt the Lake Buporior,
Cleveland. Now York, I.ako Angeilue, and
Uaruuin'* uiinos, at Marquette, havo been on a
Mriko since tho 30th. Tim piinora have thus
far been very orderly, but they guard the
mines and will not allow any workmen to re
main in tho mines. The strikers untubor
about two thou Hand men, composed princi
pally of Kwedcs, Norwegians and Cornish.
A Fort Sill letter of the Kith states,
that on tho 14th I ho wood camp of Mi. Evans,
thirtoon m lea from tho fort, was attacked by
Indians. A small detachmont of United
States troops followed, compelling thorn to
abandon about sixty head of cattle. Tho
body of a whito man was found, full of ar
rows and I is bend scalped.
In oonuection with nu application of
General Hheridan for effective operations
against Indiana, Kiowaa, Oomanches and
Cheyonno vtho secretary of war his instructed
the general of tho army as follows: Tho
guilty Indians will bo pursued and punished
vhorovor found, and reservation linns should
bo no barrior to such operations. Csro should
bo taken not to strike innocent or friendly
Indians who aro near tho agency, and who
have taken no part in tho rocont forays-
Measures should bo immediately f ikon to
keep friendly Indians from others, and per-
mfcaion be h (forded to otliora who are friendly
and liave not had opportunity to Join thorn to
come in. Then all who persist in hostilities
should be puisned ami puuiehod.
SOUTH.
Iu Xlmilgomer.v county, liy., rcoent-
ly. Mrt. Htovens split the skull of another
woman for mupeotod intimacy witli Mr.
Btcvona.
Ooorgr- Simpaon, a planter, residing
fifteen miles from Hlircveport, Louisiana,
was imirde' od by a negro Saturday ovoning.
Tho nogro was afterward killed.
The lioqso of John Biogler, near
Cuba, She i>y county, Tonn., burned Sunday
night. Hia wifo, two children and Mrs-
Ligon wore dangerously burned. Tlio latter
is not exp:. ted to live. Tho fire is believod
to be the work of a* negro with whom Mr.
Ligou had a difficulty about some work.
James Dunning, charged with em
bezzling about $6,000 from the Atlanta, Oa.,
potitoffico, while liia father was postmaster,
waa arrested at Ht. Louis, last week and sent
to Atlanta iu caro of deputy U. H. Marshal
Goodwin.
On Saturday last Thos. Alvard, an
old merchant of Ht. Charles, Arkansas, and
his son, star ed to Indian Bay in a skitf. Noth
ing was heard of them until Wednesday morn
ing, when their bodies were found floating in
White river, very much decomposed, and bad
ly eaten bv fish. The bodies were taken to
Indian Bad by a steamer. The general im
pression was that they had been accidentally
drowned, though a number of citizens bo-
lisTo they wore murdered.
The Atlanta cotton exchange sent a re
port to the New Orleans cotton exchange con
taining fifty-nine answers from twenty-five
counties,fio n which it appears that the weather
has genera ly been reported more favorable to
the crop than during tho Hama period last
year. No Ir.-ida planted havo been abandoned,
but most of tho early planting has been re-
plnnted and nearly the whole ia of late plant
ing. Tho labor ia efficient, the condition good,
and tho plaids growing rapidly. The weed ia
not aa largo, and there ia le^s fruit than last
year at this time. Hixty to seventy per cent.
lesB of fertilizers have been used than last
FOREIGN.
Manuel Galvo telegraphs from Spain
tha f . troops will be sent to Cuba to fill up her
original place.
A carliz t telegram from Bayonne de
clares that lion Alphouso entered Cuonca on
the lGtb, and levied a contribution of £32,-
000. Two thousand of the garrison fell pris
oners into his hands
Tho North Gorman Gazette says, it
rofcronco to tho recent outrages by carlista
Germany, in behalf of outraged European
civilization, will seek and find tho moans to
teach oarlists that tho murder of a captured
Gorman shall not remain unpunished.
President MoMahou, in response to s
deputation of memhora of tho aaeuibly, said
ho waa not summoned to power in order to
restore either monarchy or empiro. Hia
proved that ho would not participate iu
Decrees are issued declaring all Spain
in a state of siogo, and sequestrating the
property of tho carlista, whose eslates wi
held liable to lioavy penalty to relatives of
republicans slain, and finally creating a special
roaorvo of 125,000.men.
A proclamation lias been issued sup
plementary to tho demoo establishing a state
of aeigo. It doclsros that charges of sodition or
conspiracy against the state shall bo tried by
court-martial. All persons Interfering with
tho operation of tho railway and telegraph
shall suffer death.
Nassau advices to tho 20th state that
tho Pacific mail company's steamer City of
Gautemula, Oapt. Hildreth, from Now York for
Aspinwall, was lost off tho uortlieaaf point of
Walling inland, Bahamas, on Thursday l(Uh
nst., at midnight. All hands saved.
Advices from India reprosnt thero
aro fears the cholora bus has broken
among the fifty thousand pilgrims assembled
in Poor for tho Juggernaut fostival. Tho
floods iu tho north havo submerged tho
country. The southorn districts aro still with
out rain. Even tho little that has fallen iu
aomo sooliona has done no good.
Tho captain general of Cuba has de
creed an extraordinary tax of two and a half
IM>r cent, on tho value of city and county
property, industries, commorce, arts, and
professions, the capital whereof 1h to ho ns-
of which tho tax is to bo estimated.
In a spot eh lust week, nt London,
Disraeli ia reported to havo said. “No ono was
able to view tho sla'.o of Europe with com
placency. Every one must deploro the an
archical condition of aomo favored countrios.
England would use bar Influence in the inter-
eatH of peace. Disraeli repudiated tho princi
ple that tho country was not to ho held respon
sible in many questions which snse abroad
affecting the fortunes of tho world.
An official report of tho loss of Cu
enca has boon received. Tho defence wn
brave and obstinate to tho last. Gen. Yglo-
sias, the republican commander ami all his
officers and tho men surrendered ns prisoners
of war. Tho carliats sacked and burned
many bouses, mnrdured a number or inhabit
ants, uia lo heavy requsiliona for provisions,
demanded a contribution amounting iu the
Don CArlos has issued a manifesto
guaranteeing religious toleration, onjolng not
to disturb sales of church property at prosont
nip).
ed, pr
ising -
ropr
ilutlonary
taking to rostoro t'eo finauoea of tho country
and insuring liberty so far as it is consistent
with order. Tho manifesto concludes as fol
lows : If tjin rebellion continues wo will
stitlo it. Thoso who rojeot our pray ora of
conciliation to-day will he compelled to sub
mit to the law of tho conqueror to-morrow.
Political affairs iu France are still in
xitleal condition. On tho tlth -lust, tho as
sembly passed tho municipal doctoral hill.
The committoo of parliamentary initiative os
tho same day rejoctcd M. On Larchofoucnuld
monarchical proposition. Tho assembly aos-
sion on tho 8th was ono of intonso oxoltomont.
A motion expressing groat regret over tho
suspension of tho Journal L'Union by tho
government waa rejected by a voto of 8711 to
80, tho Loft generally abstaining from voting.
Thoroupou M. Paris, of the Bight contro,
moved a resolution to energetically uphold tho
septennial powers of President M’Mahon,
and, reserving tho questions submitted lo the
commiltco on conHtltutiooal bills, pass to tho
tho order of tho day. General Do Clssoy,
blister of war, announcod that tho govern-
ont identified itsolf with tho motion. Tho
isolation was voted down by 831 yoas to 308
ays. Tho ministry immediately toudorod
tlioir resignations, but they wore not received.
On tho 0th President M’Mahon sent a mes
sage to tho assembly firmly insisting upon tho
obligation of following up tho law of Novem
ber last, on which Iho septennate ia fouudod,
by tho legislation nocossary lo comploto it.
if they would, ho insists, rovoko
tho powers intrusted to hirn under that law.
M. Raoul Duval moved tho dissolution of tho
as-einhly, and tho motion was roforrod to a
committoo.
MISCELLANEOUS.
San Franoiaoo has donated §20,000 (o
tho Louisiana sufferots.
Tho last Huviving sister of tho late
E igar Allen Poe died at Washington last
week, agod (58.
Marshall Jewell lms loft St. Peters
burg, and is on route for Washington lo as
sume tho duties of postmaster-gcnoral.
Vice-President Wilson says lie has bo
much improved in health that if congress wore
to assemble to-moi row ho would ho prepared
to resume his position as presiding officer of
the senate.
The fourth congressional district con
dition (republican) at Conshatta, I.a, norni-
ated George L. Smith for congress, and
passed resolutions endorsing Grant for a
third term.
Tho department of agriculture re
ports 2,000,000 acres increase iu com, or G per-
last year. Tho per cent, of in
crease is largest in the south. Condition
generally good but variable.
George Smith, who erected for the
late Professor Morse tho first liuo of telegraph
poles in this country, between Washington
and Baltimore, in 1844, died at hia residence
in Nowfield, Maine, a few days ago.
The effect of the reduction of tho
rates on package envelope*, from ten to eight
cents, is shown in tho increase of sales. There
were 138,815,500 stamped envelopes sold by
the poatofflee department through tho post
masters, an increase over tho preceding year
of about 600,000.
In Minnesota the graBshoppers have
undoubtedly, destroyed a million and a half
bushels of wheat, and aro liable to destroy an
other half million bushels. Tho wheat crop
of the state may he roughly estimated a*, from
twenty-two to twenty-five million bushels
Barley, rye and oats promise well.
The supermt-eudant of the mounted
recruiting service |s ordered to forward 100
Austin, re units for Texas, for tho fourth cav
alry, and all tho dis|>oaal>lo colorod recruit s to
tho sarno place for assignment to tho ninth
cavalry; also 80 recruits to Fort Dodge, Kan
sas to tho sixth cavalry.
The examination of the young men
who rocoived permits to roport for admission
into tho naval nendomy as cadet engineers
takes place on the 15th, Ititli and 17th of Hop-
touibor instead of any time between tho 16lh
and 21st, aa heretofore. Thia will ho a com
potltial examination. Tho recent act of con
gress permits (ho appointment of twenty-live
cadet engineers annually.
In tho onse of tho Union Trust Com
pany of New York vh. the Rock Island A Ht.
Louis railway, brought In tho United HtatoB
court, to foreclose tho nitio million dollars
trust dooda against tlm company, and
for the appointment of a receiver, Judge
Blodgett has dismissed tho bill on tho ground
that tho necessary number of bondholders
bad not Joinod in tho roqitost to forodoso as
to former defaults in interest.
Tho biila for tho five per cent, funded
loan forwarded from Now York, representing
thoso filed by foreign bankers for European
markets as weir as those for domostlo hold,
lugs, will aggregate not Iohs than $80.01)0,000,
The largo bids will come from syndicates
whio.i have boon formed, tho principal one
representing a combination of Gorman bank
ers, and to oach of those bide will bo attached
a condition that tho bidders aro to have a call
on tho entire romaindo* of tho loan so that
should the secretary accopt any ono of tho
bills, it would ho to tho exclusion of all
A dividend of flvo per cent., author
ized by iho committoo of creditors of Jay
Cooke A Go., has not yet boon paid, tho regis
ter having doubts aa to its binding cfTeot upon
him. Ho has, however, proceeded with tho
nocossary calculations, so that there should
lie no delay if tho court ordoroil him to pro-
oood. In tho meantime tho fundi in Ida hands
have incroasod to such an amount uH will war
rant tho payment or seven luetoad of llvo por
cent. It Is boiiovod that ho will bring tho
matter beforo tho court when its opinion con
he obtained, and if a proper ordor is made,
payment will ho proooedod with as early us
possible).
Tho lieutenant governor of Missis-
sippl has telegraphed that ho has sent to tho
president by mail a slalumont of affairs nt
Vicksburg, which led him to approhond dis
turbance of tho poaco, which, owing to tho
unorganized stale of Iho militia, ho would he
unable to suppross. Tho mayor and post
master of Viokaliurg havo on tho other hand
telegraphed to Iho president protesting
against tho sending of troops to that city, as
leh p
mid hi
log the excitement, as thero aro no indications
or an outbreak. Tho socrolnry of war, in
view of tho protest of tho mayor of Vicks
burg and tho postmaster nt tnffr ’ulfy against
tiding troops there, has countermanded hia
dor directing troops to proceed to that pluoo
until tho full particulars of tho whole troithU
eoolvod from tho acting governor.
Mural (uUuio in flic True End of Life.
Men iiBk, What httvoyoti got? Wlmt
do you know? Wimt can you do?
God asks. What urn you ? On tho ans
wer to that question lmnga our des-
tiuy. Thun all things, all inoidenta,
ull cottiugs, all losses of this life,
should ho moosurod by tlioir outoomo,
tho rcHultaut effect ou our character.
A possession in good if it mokes us gen
erous, if, in tho use of it, wo develop
all those right faculties that portaiu to
its handling. But if not, woo to the day
on which tho wiudfall came I Whether
it ahal! prove to us n god send, or a
curse, depends entirely upon our uso of
it. A loss may be u good if through
its means wo develop these graces that
come from tho‘patient endurance of
life’s hard aud heavy things. In either
case wo aro not to estimate them by
what they aro iu thorasolvos. This is
but a superficial, and thus a false view
to take. What they make of us is what
determines tlioir value. Ono of the
first times I over preached without
notes, ft friend said to n.o, “ One disad
vantage is. that you haven't got the ser
mon, now it is preaohed.” “Yes,” 1
said, “ but I've gotth 1 practice of going
without it." A botanist makes a fine
collection of lenves and flowers, and
graanoH. When done, tho fire takes it."
But tho best part—tho drill and prac
tice and kuowlcdgo acquired in ranking
tho collection—these are left, anil they
are worth more than a dozen collec
tions. Tho practice and study of col
lecting makes even a botanist. But one
might own the colleotion forever and
know nothing about it. A painter by
long yours of work becomes skilled in
oye, and finger, and judgment and im
agination. At the ago of 50 lie h>-1Ih
ail his pictures to Rome one ricli enough
to buy them. He lms left only eye and
finger, and judgment, and imagination,
and the skill of all these. But these
sro as much superior to ono of his pict
ures as God is to tho eartli he has
made. Ho is an # artist. But tho man
who fills his house with his paintings
may be only a down. What ho becomes
in his work is wortli more than all he
producos or what he gets paid for it.
You can buy pictures ; but you can't
buy genius and skill.—M. J. Savage.
Where It All Cornea From.
A writer on “hair" says: Though
tho day for the best bargains lms gone,
it is still not uncommon to obtain a
magnificent ohevelura from a Breton
peasant for a gaudy cotton harnlk robiof
or a twenty sous pair of earrings. Ty
ing his horse to a spreading Iree, the
hair-monger, armed with a formidable
pair of scissors, soon attracts a orowd
of village maidens, who, after a little
haggling, submit to ho sheared like so
many sheep. After dextrously and
gracefully clipping tho locks, lie de
posits them, neatly tied, in his bas
kets, and Jeannie ’is liberated, to* be
greeted with shouts and laughter from
her companions, for so well has the
work been done that her head lias the
appearance of being shaved. Nowhere
but in Brittany will the girls submit to
this wholesale cropping, insisting upon
preserving a few thin locks, at least, of
nature’s fairest gifts. In that province,
however, where the custom is for wom
en to wear hideous, close-fitting caps,
hair which would bo tho glory of Arac-r
icau ladies is useless, and it is there
that the hair-merchant reaps his richest
harvest.”
I'klUllTkl). A. 1). 1874.
" Two souls with lmt a Btnglo thought, ’
Two hearts thut boat n* one.”
Nat.ua, loquitur.
UIcm my heart I YouYo comqat last,
Awful glial to sec you, dear!
Thought youM ittoil or somothlug, Hollo —
My engtgonuuit ?' Gracious i’^Yoh. 0 "
humor’* hit tho mark this (hoc.
Auil the victim 7 Charley Uray, •
Stu-h inuMacbtaaV Hponilhl 4yle°| * *
Thou bo's not ho horrid fit*U-
WuIUoa llko a seraph, too,
Has forno fortune-best And hut,
Love him ? Nouiouso. Don’t be •• .oft."
IlKdov "wt^anVln Um" 1
I’ll rt<’i »wnd to him, I I'pora. ..
Flnt-luvo? Humbug. Don’t talk stuff!
ltollu Drown, don’t lie a fool l
Next you’ll ravo of flAiiir*4it<tg)*tU,
Like a chit 'it boardlug-Mhoo!,
Don’t ho “miffed," I talked Just so
Some two years hack. Fact, tny dear 1
ll.it two Reasons kill romailoo,
l.cavo min'd views of life quite clear.
Why, tf Will Bat robe had asked
1 d havo thrown up all and'gono
Out to Kuiihah, do you know;
Fancy mo a senior's wife! » _
Yrs/lt'/haruTy in my liuo
To enact “Love In a Cot.”
Well, you see, I'd had my swing,
ltoou engaged to eight or ton,
Bo It don’t much matter whim.’
Amnio tiRtiH old jouuU, nu.d thinks
»I'uV't hu 'i.oiVTif' j!!!r ~
tiedown for life.
Hurt' I See mj ring
it? BollUj*
Mivy and doifalr,
j)rrr'writo'yrm,‘lll&jiyA
I Milled li
Bill for lot
*’;Er
. Hht'i ah "
h all f
Motif hie.
O yew I Uraoo Uhuroh, llrTwn, an
I’ll be"oir hiH*llulidh'for"gtodl" 1 ’
AK AHI .VN MU UTS ^ THE It) I'll
( TINXU I
When tho breeze ol a joyful dawn
blew free in the silkc/i sails of child
hood who hud not wandered into that
delightful fairy laud of tlm Arabian
nights?. The “ goldtli primr’ of good
Tliiroun Airuschiil iu po more; many a
revolving lustre haul come and gone
sinoo his “goodly time;’’ but years have
wrought little change! m the habits of
tho east; its gorgcouaiORg is us rich 48
over, uu<i still it showers on its kings
“ barbaric pearl andigold.". RhilWays
intersect the land 0/ the sun, and the
bulbul is startled byiho shriek of tho
locomotive; tho omiittutition wulnfh ro-
po:;os under the- i-olomn paiius ’’un-
wooM of sumaier tviuil \' r (ho Union
Jack Jiuh for many a day iloated iu the
iiluo of “Mm deep sphere overhead;’’
oollogeH for tho training of young In
dian aristocrats havo been established,
and aro well attended, yet immemorial
customs not only linger but livo all over
the oust, notwithstanding the western
light which system, and rule, uud col
lege, aud travel have homo over the
Indian ocean or wafted across tho tide-
loss son.
A marriage took place towards the
oloso of April in the town of Bhowuug-
gur, in iho KtUtywur peninsula, which,
illustrates tho pertinacity of custotps
in India, and gives iih at 01100 a curious
uud iulerestiiig picture of native life.
Bhownitggur is a town distant from
Bombay about 200 miles, is the capital
of a slate bearing the same name--a
stato whose ruler is his Highness Tuk-
hntsingh Juwuutsiiig. whose official ti
tle is Thukore. The Thukoro completed
on tho 10th of April his soveutoeutk
year, and is consequently a minor ac
cording to Britit-h notions, and, there
fore, holds his slate under administra
tors. But according to native ideas lie
is every inch a man a ml a ruler, and
hence tho poor young “follow had to
marry four wives on tho very day he
came of ago. To marry four wives
even in the eusL oil tho sumo day is n
most unusual thing, and tho rousou why
lie was hound to lake four bettor Jiulves
will be made plain by aud by. Mean
while let us attend tho oaremony ami
hasten to Bhownuggur.
It is tho 19th of April, and wo can
scarcely move in Bhownuggur for tho
crowds who aro making holiday, and
I rejoicing with a goyoty of demeanor
and richness of coloring that make a
Roman carnival scorn lame. And well
may thero bo this huge congestion of
festivity—sounds and sights of joy on
all sides, and stretching aud vibrating
far—for tho rejoicing is produced by
fourfold action, and four brides are be
ing honored to-day. The Thakore mar
ries (1) tho daughter of tho Groat Chief
of Wudwan, a princess fourteen years
old ; (2) the sister of tho heir apparent
of tho GonduL dynasty, w*ho is only
fifteen years old; (8) tho sister of the
father of tho reigning Chief of Nanka-
neor, aged twenty-two; and (1) the
daughter of a very opulent landowner
of Dunk, at Taluja, aged only ton or
eleven years. Wudwan was the first wifo,
as in her veins there flowed tho 4 ‘ bluest
blood," while Gondiil, the socond, is
not only tho wealthiest—having brought
an immense dowery—but the most
pleasant to her husband. Wonderful to
relate, she can "read a little English
and desires to learn to play on the
piano." Long before this auspicious
19th day of April tho festivities con
nected with the fourfold wedding com
menced, tho brides having to be brought
from their respective homes by tho
trusty retainers despatched with all due
formality by tho young Thakore. Then
came tho processions uud marches and
counter-marches by sunlight and star
light, and tho torches blazing, and the
long bray of tho heralding horn, and
behind tho “dancers dancing in tune."
What a picture Millais would havo made
of it all I Tho Thakore’s mounted and
foot guards; the huge elephants, fling
ing about their trunks und swaggering
under tlioir howdahs of blue and gold ;
the camels and palfreys ; the drummers,
with their tom toms; the royal chariot
followed by an interminable lino of car
riages, and on all sides the masses of
Bhownngger admiring tho rich robes of
the courtiers, their gold and tinsel flash
ing and flickering iu tho sun, the horses
and camels dyed of various hues and
patterns, funtastic or grotesque, the
flags flounting the blue sky, the gar
lands and plates of gold on vermilion-
strenked buffaloes which drew the lessor
nobility. But there woro many things
tho onudi of Millais would be power
less to render in this Oriental hoodoo,
and ho would havo to ask tho imagina
tion of the spectator to supply the buzz
of myriad voioos, the shrieks of pin
aud twang of guitar, tho bray of tlte
trumpet, tho trump of the drum, tho
laughter aud gay talk of tho oourtiora
and of tho Rajah himself, who Rooms to
bo a vory pleasant fellow’. There wni
tho sumo tumult and oolor and gorge-
ousness about all tho prooossions—
about those despatching the envoys and
thoso which attended their reappear
ance.
Iu tho midst of tho rolling crowds
came tho olosely-ourtainod oars of tho
bridges, drawn by oxen having tlioir
horns ouoased in thick plates or gold,
tho silver bells depending from the gar
lands round tlioir throats tinkling ns
they trotted along. All Bhownuggur
lms come out to meet the bridal proces
sion : alms are lavished on the poor ;
silks and gold on tho rich ; the people
aro frantic with joy and oxoitomeut;
ro so-water hisses gently through tho
air; garlands nro flung hither and
thither; attar of roses and sandal falls
as thick as if tlioro was a thunder-storm
of clouds made up of exhaled purfumo,
Tho brides, following native otiquette,
oamned outside the walls of tho city
until the happy day, when at high noon,
under the waving palms and quivering
tamarinds, a procession, headed by the
young bridegroom laughing and joking,
goes to totoh bride No. 1. She, too,
lms set out. See I Her rath, or car,
comes in sight, and tho eager aud gal
lant Thakore throws himself from his
splendid steed, rushes forward, (tutors
the ruth, and seats himself beside the
prino hh —an ifmovation. it being tho
custom hitherto for tho bride to sit at
the feet, of tho bridegroom on his enter
ing the ear, in order to indicate her sub-
smvionoy. The cortege now proceeds
to the house of a relative of tho Tim-
koto, whore, in the centre hall, in the
presouoe of about a hundred of tho
noblest Ragpoots of Kattvwar, tho mar
riage ceremony is performed. The rite
is simple. A few flowem are strewn ;
utter and pan distributed : the Doity’s
blessing invoked ; the bride authenti
cated • and then tho sacred caftan is re
moved, aud tho bridegroom for tho first
time eatchey a glimpse «»f tho girl lie
lms married ! Immediately tho young
bridegroom wont out to show hiinsoll
to t ie ohiering crowds, mid then took
Ids young bride to the palace. To make
a long story short, he went forthwith
ami did likewise to tho three other
brides. But it would bo a mistake to
"Oppose that when tho fourth marriage
was over all was at an end. They do
things differently in Bhownuggur, uml
dayGiftor day the re’were procession, mul
tho young bridegroom was compelled
to go about with his voiloil brides.
The troussoaux, our lady readers will
he interested to learn, were extravagant
ly rich, Gondul having umongst. lior
“ kit" about five thousand silk dresses.
Wild man'h dowry was 200,000 rupees,
Goudill’s tho same Vankanoor’s 100,000
roupcos, and Dank’s 85,000. Tho
trousseau of Gondul was tl»o richest,
und the oorrespondent was permitted to
see a part of it. Huoli a night for a
European lady would it have been I
‘Huge slmwls, olothos, scurfs, mantles,
uinnterpnncp, and handkerchiefs of
lilk, embroidered most elaborately and
stiff witli gold unrl silver thread work.
Hero was a shawl from Benares with
gods in gold and silver worked on a
Iiluo ground of softest silk; unotker
lay outspread beside it representing a
(look of small yollow birds nestling in
iutiumi ruble flowery bowers. Ono
Kattywar slmwl cost, according to my
information, six hundred rupees. Thu
most gorgeous of tho other cloths were
literally stiff with gold." Especially
curious was a silvor veil sprinkled with
pale blue ami primrose colored flowers,
and “one dress, all blue satin aud
silver embroidery, resembled an Italiun
sky soon through a gentle shower of
snow or lilies. Nearly every cloth lying
beforo me cost more than fivo hundred
rupees etioh, Around and near these
drcssSs lay a most extraordinary littor
of various valuables, gold, silvor, nud
brass dishes, precious stones, fans,
armlets, nose and ear and finger rings,
massive ornaments for tho forohoud,
breast, and ankle, necklaces sparkling
with ruby and diamond, emerald,
umethys 1 , topaz, opal, and pearl, rose
water bottles of pure gold, basins of
silvor, and huge bruHsoooking utensils,
robes und tiaras and chains, sapphire
pendants und enamelled jugs and ewers,
silver lamps aud trinkets rough with
precious jewels, and a hundred other
articles of value for uso or .ornament."
Aud this was but a small part of tho
trousHoou of tho brides !
Tho Thakore was educated at tho
grent Indian seminary for princes, Raj-
ooomar College, which he attended up
to the (late of his murriugo, nud proved
himself earnest and painstaking, though
not brilliant. Wiiy then, it will bo
asked, was ho not more enlightened
than to marry four wives at his ago?
Borne havo oontended thut our English
training failod. But no. Tho young
prince personally did not wish to take
four “ better halves." He had in truth
no option. His father lind betrothed
him, und honor and native notions com
pelled him to carry out his father's
wishes. Was he to refuse to marry
tiiose girls they would be ruined—be
ing placed in tho position of widows—
and ho himself would become hated,
aud would most likely havo his exist
ence terminated by poison by tho secret
action of outraged patriots.
John Morrisbry'h club house at
Saratoga is in full blast. Most open
and shameless is the various gambling
carried ou iu this really elegant estab
lishment. It almost joins Congress
Hall, and young gentlemen and old steal
away from gay partners in tho waltz in
the ovoning, and go from Hie parlors of
the Grand Union and United States
over to the gambling don of tho illus
trious law-maker.
A Kalamazoo judge wont to a neigh
boring town to see a man, ond tele-
graphed bock to his wife, “Have found
Garland ; won’t be home in a week "
When the dispatch roachcd her it read,
“ Have found girl, und won’t be home
in a week,” Here let us draw a vail,
“ Aro Women Bolls."
It is uhoIobh to assert that women art
what they were ono hundred years ago,
hut is tlioro wood that they should be?
Then, every man was in some souse a
pioneer. Then, ns much depended upon
hor efforts—often upon her notual labor
- us upon his. Hi r hands must minister
to tho oomforts of hor household,—she
must bo both mistress and servant. Not
only did she propare tlioir daily bread,
but the linen for tho house, and the
clothes worn by every member of tho
family, from the crude wool or ilax, to
tho last stitch in them. She was equally
at home iu the dairy, the spinning and
weaving’ room, tho parlor, tho kitch
en, the garden, or the field. Yon ask
" Where aro they?’ Gone with the
times in which they lived, gone with
tho need for them, gone ns are the
strong, »turdy, helpful, brave, wholo
souled, honest men to whom they wore
helpmeets.
It may not bo too much to say that it
is as surely folly and weakness to mourn
for the people us for tho thirgu of the
past, or, iudood, for tho past itsolf. The
day lms gono by when women can bo,
at lentil here, wlmt our graudmothers
were, and the day is but a memory when
men required or wished them to he
that.
I am not iu favor of shirking any
blame which properly attaches to use-
li sa, wasted, purposeless lives that nro
a burdon lo husbands, a curse to chil
dren, und a disgrace to woman, but I
want to ask who mado thorn wlmt they
are ? Meu know ns well us I do that it
is tlioir own work, aud having done it,
why nro they not' satisfied ?
If womou aro dolls, I repeat who
made them so, or wlmt are men doing
to make them anything better? Bo
long ns you show in every possible way
tlmt. you give all tho admiration you
can sparo from yourself to tho vaiu,
pretty, senseless “doll,” rather than to
more quiet, sober, earnest women, why
should they uot ho dolls, and earn tho
premium you offer for folly? So long
as tlio belle of the ball-room and the
nymph of tho pave are more attractive
than tho gentle, modest woman who
would blush at a rude stare, why should
not all be attractive?
Bo long as art is considered fairer than
nature, and woman’s beauty depends
upon her toilet, why should she uot
make it a study ?
Bo long as she soes the bold, fast,
girl of the period the universal favorite
because she is hold and fast, why should
she not ho bold and fast too ?
I have any amount of protty theories
about these, thiugs, but there *iu uo uso
in talking, for no far as she knows how,/
wonmn will be the thing slio belioves
you admire aud desire.
I urn far from danyiug «>*., inHUfyiim
facts, but thero is .nothing true under
tho heavens than tlmt women aim at be
ing wlmt ihoy think men wish them to
bo, and imitate wlmt men scorn moBt to
udmiro.
You uslc whut can bo dono—this:
Help her to ho something better than
she is now—take your young wives out
of hotels and hoarding houses, lot them
bo tho honored mistress of a neat, plain
cottage home in which they auu fool
pride and interest, and which will give
thom occupation for hands and brains;
givo up your extravagant habits, your
cigars, cards, billiards, wine, and the
numberless ways in which your small
change goes, in ordor that you may pay
for your homes, and then you will find
hor a willing, loving, generous, patient
helpmeet, ready to sacrifice as much or
rnoro tliau you, a jowol whoso prioe is
abovo rubies. Bo wlmt your grandfath
er was —that was good, honest, aud
manly, and she will he wlmt tho women
of her time were.—Garnet Ji. 1'rtkman.
The Child Kidnapped In FliiladelpUIu.
It is known every whore that n little
four-year-old hoy, tho son of Mr. U. K,
Ross, of Gormuutown, has been “ kid
napped." That ocourrod on lash Wed
nesday two weeks ago. (July 1). Tho
little follow was playing with a brother
a year or two older, on Washington
lane, Germantown, when two men, who
woro driving in a wagon along tho^nue,
stopped to talk' to tho children and of
fered them some candy. The missing
child, understanding that he could get
a lido in the wagon, childlike, took ad
vantage of tho opportunity, and with
Itis older hrothor, got into the wagon.
The moil thou drove off with both.
Bomo hours later, tho wagon hnving in
tho mnnntimo boon driven into the
northeastern part of the city, tho older
hoy was induced to leavo tho wagon
and liis younger brother ou tho pres
ence of buying somo fire-crackers, and
whoa lie returned tho man and tho
wagon aud his brother were gono. This
older boy was soon retnrued to his
home, hut since that time the younger
ohild has not been seen by any friendly
eye, and his whereabouts are unknown
to tho family anil police authorities.
Thero was some delay in getting word
to tho chief of the detective police, but
since lie first got information, we believe
ho has worked earnestly, diligently and
faithfully to got upon tho track of the
child and tho thieves without intermis
sion to tho present time. Whether all
has been done with tho best judgment
or under tho best advice, it would bo
prerauturo to say at present. Bo tho
matter rests, without result.
Tho declared object of tho thieves,
or of those for whom they are noting, is
to extort n large sum of money by way
of ransom after the manner of the bru
tal cutthroats called “ brigands,” in
Italy and Greece. Heroin they lmvo
committed a fatal blunder, us well as ft
most atrocious crime. This is not the
oity in which snob business can be car
ried on. Wo have had traffic made of a
great many extraordinary subjects, but
an attempt to trade upon tho heart-ago
nies of‘the mothers of a wholo commu
nity will not do. There is but ono wuy
open to the brigands, and that is to re-
storejtho child with tho leastpoBsibledo-
lay, and then got away from Philadel
phia as far und foat as possible.-—Phil
adclphia Ledger, July 17.
An American, writing from France,
says cheap living in that country is not
to bo found, and thoso who come there
must lie prepared to pay fully ns much
vh at home. Relatively speaking, ho
adds, living is cheaper in the United
Btates than iu Franco.
SAYING. ANB DOINGS.
, Romantic school girls uow spell
‘jelly" with a final “lo,”.
Tun Ohicago base ball club has boon
beaten iu everything but drinking oat
meal water.
T'b has been noticed that nothing
makes a woman laugh so much as a
now set of teeth.
It is shrewdly obsorvod that sawdust
pills would cure a grent many diseases
if the pntiont would only make, his own
sawdust.
Ehtiiuu Bhaw, of Davenport, Iowa,
worked thirteen yours in 0110 family be
fore asking for a cont of pay. Noodn’t
writo for nor; she’s dead.
A RRTtuiNiNo emigrant wagon passed
through Goilnr Falls, Iowa, last week,
bearing tho expressive nud euphonious
label, “D—u tlio grasshopperfl,”
A Cincinnati bonrdiug*sohool girl,
while indulging witli her companions
in tho amuHomcut of kicking nt a mark
tho other day, dislocated hor thigh
joint.
OoNNiccmoUT loses 3,800 sheep every
year by dogs, but if it* wasn’t for a
spotted dog under tho buggy who
would take any pleasure in driving
out ?
Tnicr can’t agree in Douvor how long
tho blade of a bowie-knife should be, uo
that you sen all communities have a
skeleton in tho closet, and no town can
expect to bo perfectly happy.
Tknnvhonian, Mona on Lkbh:—
Low 0
Dow
Dr. Ouylor wants all young ludicB to
band together and say: “No lips
shall touch rnino that havo touched a
bottle." Rather rough this 011 tho fol
lows thut woro brought up by hand.
“ Wjiat do you know of tho oh nr ao tor
of this man.?" was asked of a witness at
a police-court tho other day. “ What
do I lumw of his character ? I know it
to bo unblonohablo, your honor,” lie
roplied with much emphasis.
It is estimated that it costs the peo
ple of tho United Btntes $5,000,000
yearly to keep their tooth in repair. All
the consoquonoo of drinking ioo water,
which, say tho dentists, oraoks tlio en
amel.
Torn for a moment from tho Beeohor
soundal and ponder over the faot that
tho foot prints of a Chicago lady on
tlio promo near Michigan oity got a
crowed of men out to hunt for a stray
elephant.
WaKN an Indian oliiof cornea down
to making ax haudlon aud Bolling them
at eleven cents upicoe, as the ease
with Big W**w,_jjL_Ne.viuta, it’s timo to
oliip in for a monument to'(JiTBporrmni
Longfollow,
Onu reason why Wisconsin hired girls
get four .dollars per week is because,
they havo to go down stairs nt midnight
to investigate strange noisos, while the
man of the house takes up a position
under tho bed.
“ Djchkrted by all*but his aged bob-
tailed dog, his life wont slowly out ns
the Shadows of tho sotting sun crept
ovwr tho front stoop of Darling’s gro
cery,” is the way they express them
solves iu Georgia.
Well, Johnney, how aro you getting
no? How do you liko your now mas
ter'?” “Faith, Miss, I dunno.” “He’s
a .very excellent man ; you can’t do too
much for him.” “Au’ sure, Miss, I
dou't mane to.”
Aunt Bella (who lms just rend aloud
The burial of Bir John Moore ”)—
“Now, then, which of the verses do
you liko best?” Jack (with alacrity)—'
“Oh l I know^-‘Few and short woro
tho prayers wo said.’ ”
Father Taylor, while lecturing on
temperance, was hissed by ono of his
hearers, a notorious drunkard. Taylor
stopped, pointed to tho offender ’ and
said, “There’s a red nose got into oold
water ; don’t you hoar it hiss?"
When a Tennessee husband will
horsewhip his wifo for washing potatoes
in his Sunday plug hat it is time to in
quire whether this generation of men
isn’t getting to bo too confounded high-
toned for the ago of the country ?
At High Falls, N. Y., tho other day,
a young lady, while crossing a field,
was knooked down by a ram, and tho
next time the damaged damsel saw her
lover 1110 informed that astonished
youth that ho might go about his busi
ness, ns she was disgusted with tho sex.
A Horpout Haw au oaglo gain,
O11 Hoaring wing, a mountain bright,
And onviod hint, and crawled with pain
To wlioro ho wan tho bird alight.
Ho flobln fortune oftentimes
HofriomlR tho ounning and tho base,
And oft tho groveling reptile ollraba
Up to tho eagle's lofty place.
OoLUMRUH, Ga., is enthused with wild
delight over the establishment in that
oity of an artificial ice manufactory,
wherein the crystal lumps are mado at
a cost of less than one-tenth of a cent
por pound. Iu consequence, a wonder
ful stimulus bus been given to tho con
sumption of juleps, smashes, and other
iocd drinks hitherto strange to the
parched Columbian palato.
A colon y of snob men as the late
Bimon Bturges, of Allentown, Pa., sent
into a state wlioro tho fomalo portion
of the populations out numbers (he
males six to one, might accomplish a
groat deal. “ Ho had been married
four times, tlio weddings having been
on his fortieth, fiftieth, sixtieth and
seventieth birthdays. His hist wifo*
was dead* too, and it is likely that, had
Mr. Bturges lived another year, ho
would havo celebrated his eightieth
birthday in the accustomed style, be
cause the local paper says he was a
very methodical old man.’’
Our recent celestial visitor is the samo
distinguished historic oomet whose ter
rible aspect in 1550 frightened Charles
Y. off his throne, and forty-three years
before the Christian era figured as the
“spirit of CiD3ar,” taking its place
amongst the gods, beyond which timo
it was observed 616 and 1194 B. O. It
is also to the near approach of this
comet to tho earth about the poriod as
sumed aa that of the deluge that Whis-
ton attributes tho catastrophe, and as
time wijl show that comets' tails aro
largely composed of watery vapors there
may be somo truth in the poetry charge^
to the fanoy of that astronomer,
