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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S, D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 1, IS75.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 46.
TIMELY TOPICS.
A danourous counterfeit $5 uoto of
First National bank of Paxton, Ill., lias
been discovered.
Attorney Urn. Williams lias ten
dered to the president the resignation
of bis office, to take effect the 15th of
May.
The blockado on tho Union aud Cen
tral Pacific railroads has been broken,
aud tho delayed trains and passengers
are coming through to Omaha.
Cardinal Manning considers himself
“ entrusted with a commission of war
fare,” ior be believes the Catholic
church is “ npproaohiug a crisis, the
most llery for three hundred years."
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
*pp®
Tiik state board of immigration of
Missouri is about publishing a map of
tho state and a band-book for distribu
tion in European countries, to induce
immigration. Ten thousand copies of
tho work nro to lie printed.
A physician in Maine lias been in
quiring into the statistics of infantile
narcotism with soothing syrups, and Rnm ,„i tin
states that tho sale of these dangerous
nostrums annually disseminates 15,-
(XX),000 grains of morphia among our
nurseries.
A resident of Mil lodgevillo, Ga„ who
saw the reeout whirlwind striko the
Oconee river, says the water wont np,
ho thinks, 100 foot in tho air, and for a
fow moments the bottom of tho rivor
whore tho tornado passed was laid bare,
and the mud and soil was blown into
tho tops of the trees.
Gov. Stamford's 800,000 horse, Occi
dent, and bis companion, St. James,
have arrived safely in Philadelphia, on
the luxurious equino palaoo-oar pre
pared expressly for them. The horses
aro stabled at Point Breeze, and are
now undergoing training for the great
oastern races.
Advk uh from the west aud northwest
indicate wide-spread damage io crops.
Winter wheat and small grain sown
early in the spring have suffered severe
ly. In many cases Holds will be resown
in corn, and this coroal promises to bo
tho main depondoaoo of farmers this
y‘ :ar -
A numdrr of prominent Louisianians
have resurrected the old railroad soUome
of building a lino from Now Orleans to
Shreveport, and a bill incorporating tho
company has boon presented in tho leg
islature. Tho rend iH designed to con
nect with tho Texas Pacific railroad,
with a viow to divert tho trade of Texas
to Now Orloaus.
EAST.
A well known merchant of Now York,
a bachelor, upward of eighty years of age,
has civiu a million dollars, and si B ned a will
bequeathing all the lost of hid ertato, valued
at ♦1,000,000. to endow a college of music,
excepting a lifu inter, st of about ♦‘.'50,000 of
tho estate to sovcral rolatlvoa. A charter lift*
already passod one branch of tho legislature.
Trustees have not vet been selected, hut the
ics of CornoUtiH Vanderbilt, W. 11. Astor,
t. Kiugslaud, Dr. Elmer, (’has. 1). Tiffany
WEST
The Union Pacific railroad is suffer
ing a high water blockade, and tho largo emi
grant traffic is consequently euspondud.
The fruit crop iu Boutboru Indinni
is Killed by the late f. *obo. The orchards ii
tho highlands do not esospo.
The earnings of tho Union Facilh
railroad company for tho tlrst tiftoon days li
April amounted to 1514,052, an increase o
about CO por cent, over tho earnings m tin
same poiiod last year.
The Houston (Texas') Telegraph soy
tho Colorado potato-bugs havo made their
a number of gardens ii
city,
ad the
.vages upon tin
•gelation aro already quito visible.
As many as two thousand letters i
day are rocolved at tho agricultural buroau h
Washington from Kansas, Nebraska am
Southern Dakota, asking lor suppllos of seed
The department is making heavy shlpmont
daily, tho last session of congress having Bp
propriatod for this purpoao *30,000, wlilo
will, however, booh lm exhausted by thoe
first of July, It li
ia« been determined to assess
1 national hanks tho expense
1 assorting their notes, at tho
domptlon agency, on tho first
■igln-
f July, a
The comptroller of tho
onoy,
will inn
r tho i
odlatoly dlro<
ivoral din!
lole, in tlm
.wuraoof their examinations of tlm different
banka, to inspect all cheeks and vouchors ro-
qutrod to ho stamped with two cent stamps,
and report tlm facts in reference thoroto,
which information, when received, will ho
transmitted to tho commissioner of internal
Tho troubles of tho Northern Pftoiflo
railroad company have oulmlnatod iu tho up
lotntuiont as receiver tho president of tho
ompauv, who will take Immediate control of
.11 tho property. Tho comtition of thofinnn-
ial affairs of tho oompany has not improved
vith timo, aud tho offorts of those who wore
rving to build tho road wore hampered, it is
laid, by tho creditors. It is understood no
natoriul oliango will take place in tho system
•porating lli
WHAT SHE THOUGHT.
istrui
or!, or in the
irking foi
n will he
ndortakor
A Hingulur accident occurred at
Menomonee, Michigan, Thursday. A heavy
gale drove tho ice in tho laUo upon tho shore,
where it was piled to tho height of thirty fool
or more. Hovornl small buildings wore
crushed, tho inmatos barely oscuping will
their lives, aud some other damage was done
but fortunately there whs but little valuablo
property in that vicinity that could ho in
jured.
Tho warm days liavo batched and i
itruotli
til tho company is placed on such a hasi
it money can he borrowed for the purposi
FOREIGN.
Emperor William, by a decree last
mill, ordored thirty now fortroaBO
ound to he bought for tho onhu
rtftln works of fortification now o
the sldo of tho empire looking town
Ten natives of Ixtuoaleo are tin trial
tho City of Mexico for a horrible
They are charged with burying til
•lug only their heads above ground,
dispatching them with hatchots and
or a prolonged torture.
roHpondout, at Ht. Petersburg,
i tlm
the
dis.
of all It'll
MY RIVAL'S REVENGE.
UY .milN .1. OILRKRT.
From among the experionoos of a vi
riod, I may say tumultuous life, 1 r<
call with singular vividness the hoiiho
of my Bojouni in M , a populoti
and flourishing town in Central Pom
sylvania. 1 would gladly efface from
my mind tho recollection of either
phtoo or those who inhabited it, wo:
in my power ; yet with ton-fold strongtli
tho scones through which I was dragged
by tlm impulse of Fate, seem pictured
1 —' —a startling-
est.
SOUTH,
old snap was
ory ilostruot-
The late t
ivo to tlie toll
Henry Hazeu, the col
toms at rernamlina, Fla., k
parts unknown, leaving a doll*
of about ♦8,000.
There was a killing frost last week,
doing aoriouh injury in Georgia and South
Carolina. It was tho hardest froozo l»|yeai
Truck farms arc* badly Injured.
•ivate information from Central m
N'orthom Georgia iH to tho effort that twonl
lililary disoipHno fre
rout to pink out their
illes ahoad, aud know
hiinsolf. .lust ns lho UhlniiH did
German government} have put
roH Into communication with i
ovbrnmouts to diaouas tlm poc
of tlm pops ututor tho Italian a
tho aotion of the
territory to bo nt
aggroBHivo nioasi
whilo it t
•riminnl lie
tokod in nr
now moro clearly,
ly, than over.
Tlioro aro momouts of retrospection
... tho livos of all mon—moments in
which the sympathies of the miinl and
heart aro ilovotailod ; when one lives
anew the whirlwinds of tho past, and
exhumes from tho sepulchre tho faded
mages of tho dead, with the memo
's, bo they glorious or blood-curdling,
desire to witness industry that load mo
so regularly to my watching post.; and
I may as well confess that there was ; a
l ratty girl was the parson's daughter ;
in natural beauty, tho hollo of the town
and all the prettier, sbo seemed to me,
because of the simplicity and purity of
her attire. For many a morning T saw
her pass and ropnss my window or, with
in range thereof, her plump littlo arms
richly bronzed by the sun, laden with
fragrant and beautiful flowers, tho re
sult of her morning walk ; and finally
come to my window to look for her
alone. Tho froBbiioss that Boomed oven
to enshroud her was, to mo, my morn
ing bouquet, and to have boon deprived
of its fragrance would have made tho
day of my deprivation desolate.
t finally booamo acquainted with tho
parson’s daughter, and when our ac
quaintance was of sufficiently long dura
tion to render my visits to her father’s
house quito proper, wo learned to like
each ot her very much iu contemplating
the grandeur of the scenery, the lovely
points of which she Beomorl to appreci
ate with an artist’s eye. Her language
wnH the language of the fiowors, and her
....co as silvery us tho waters of tho
golden brook that flowed gracefully at
the foot of tho mountain. Her eyes
wore soft, yet seareliing at times, aud
when I looked into tlioir rich depths,
couoludcd some glowing tribute to na
ture, I must confess I felt startled at
tho severity with which they were re
garding mo. Bo suddenly, however,
would they molt again, and half ob
scure themselves behind their satin lids,
that l half beliovod I wuh mistaken
when I imagined them capable of
lmrahnoBB. At longtli l booamo dooply
nttnohod to*my pretty little companion.
.1 felt, that I dearly loved lmr, and would
have told her bo, wore it not for the
stony, freezing stare, with which she
ohockod all allusion to the tondor pas
sion. I had partially resolved to leave
the matter of our union to tho ngonoy
of time, when a circumstance occurred
that admonished me of the dangers of
delay. One bright morning, some ton
or twelve Weeks after my arrival, the
sooial atmosphere of M , for which
I had long sinoo ceased to furnish tho
fragrnnoo, was alive with rumors of the
return of Roland Powers, the hankor’s
, whose long ahsonoo from the town
The last, retreating rays of light had
faded behind the parson’s quaint resi
dence ; and now t-lint I had nought that
related to her to look upon, T closed tho
sash and retired for tho night.
My sleep was a troubled one, and
every now and then I would awaken
with a start, and glare around mo, ex
pecting to he confronted by something
torrihlo—I know not wlmt.' Tho storm
without raged with unwonted fury, tlie
elements seeming to oombiuo in on ef
fort to shake tho earth to its centre.
1 wuh glad when the morning otirno,
bleak and dull though it was, and Anally
fell into a heavy sleep.
How long l lmd slept I do not k
when 1 was awakonod by a loud knock
ing nt my door. 1 sprang from my
ooucli, auu was about to open it, when
tho iron hinges suddenly gave way, and
a stream of men poured pell-mell into
my room. At their head was tho sheriff
of tho county. Of him I demanded
sternly the moaning of tlio intrusion ;
hut liis only roply
my prisoner I”
They manacled mo with lionvy gyves
and hurried mo through tho strode of
the town—streets thronged with oxoitod
pooplo who donouncod me as a mur
derer, and threatened to tear mo to
pieces. When 1 ronohod tho jail I was
informed that I had been arrested foi
tho murder of tho parson’s daughter,
who was found that morning in tho
gavdou, contiguous to the parsonage, in
a most horrible condition, and stono
dead. , , „
I will not go into tho details of tho
trial which followed, and upon tho re
sult of which my life depended. Let it
suffico to say that my “ alibi ’ wan fully
established, and that when investigation
dovolopod suspicions ooucorning How
land Powors, it was disoovorod that ho
had Hod.
Ho is fleeing yet, and ever will, until
he is summoned to appear before that
tribunal from whoso judgment tlioro ih
appeal.
Tho Centennial.
In roforouoo to tho toast, “Tho Com
monwealth of Massachusetts,” Governor
Gaston said ho beliovod that
had been occasioned by his European
tour. Roland, of course, hud L> "
THREE STEAMERS BURNED.
It is stated that the old Bpanish fort
at Bt. Augustine, Florida, is to ho con
verted into a military prison, for the
reception of a number of rebellions
Indians from the western reservations,
now in custody of the United States
army. The colls formerly occupied by
the Bcmiuole chiefs, Osceola and Tiger
Tail, have boon pnt in order, and otliors
are undergoing repair for the accommo
dation of the rod men of the forest.
An investigation into the condition of
tho winter wheat by tho statistical di
vision of the department of agricul
ture, the crop as a whole much below
the status of that of last year in April.
There is an apparent inorooso of about
7 per cent, in round numbers to a mil
lion and a half <>f acres. Though that
portion winter killed and to ho re
planted in other crops may be equal in
the west to the enlargement of tho
planted area, this increaso is small in
the middle states, considerable in Illi
nois an l Missouri anil proportionately
the lurgest in tho Gulf states and Kan
sas, reaching 30 per cent, in tho south-
will l
iis pr
Tht
wilh <
five p<*
tlioro tl
will not intorfr
Tho iron factory pf tho Chattooga
company. Atlanta, Georgia, was bumod Sat
urday night. Lobs, ♦150.000 ; Insurance, *35,-
000. Three hundred and fifty workmen are
tin own out of employment.
A petition has boon filed in the United
Slates court at Louisvillo by tho first mort
gage bondholders of tho Louisvillo, Paducah
and Southwestern railroad for tho appointment
mid to pay
ud that the
debts.
y pa
A suit has been brought
cory court at Louisvillo,
the l’aluo sleeping cars in
pel tho Pullman Palace Cf
Pullman Rrmthorn Oarcoi
000 of stock in the latter c
dividends.
Congressman Wheeler says t
adjustment is a triumphant success,
there is good fooling on every ha
condition of affairs in Now Orloam
d when the lie
ly am
iwpeful than it appe
Tlie
a thologiMlat
doptod in
faith, and under circumstances which
compel its observance.
Reports to tho Courier-Journal, Ky.,
»m all parts of the state say that great item-
*.... southern railroad linos havo not the
np to this date joined in the genornl
war among tho northern roads. It
having been announced that tho Now
Orleans and Mobile railroad, known as
the coast lino between New Orleans and
eastern cities, had oat its rate very
largely, tho Jackson route, in connec
tion with tho Louisville, Nashville am
Great Southern railroad havo an
noanotd a reduction on rates to Louis
ville, Washington, Baltimore aud New
York of from one-fifth to throe-tenths
of the regular rates. It is expected
that the competing route will make
still another reduction, to he followed
by a farther reduction by the Jackson
route. The fight between the two lines
promises to he a warm one.
It mny appear surprising that, in re
gard to the oost of transportation,
Rome, Go., is almost os near Birming
ham, England, as Cincinnati, O. When
we add that the article transported was
pig iron, the surprise increases. Yet
the Birmingham post notes tho arrival
of an experimental consignment of Ala
bama and Georgia pig, which sold at $35
not per ton, leaving a Bmall margin,
and Bays its transportation cost only 31
more por ton than to take the same iron
from the furnaces to Cincinnati. The
Cornwall iron company of Cedar Bluff,
in Cherokee county, Ala., are now pre
paring to ship a hundred tons of thei
charcoal iron to tho English market.
As an earnest of what the early future
may witness in the way of southern re
cuperation, this novel movement is apt
to arrest attention.
t and s
bod foi
of last wook.
iacco growoj
in Kentucky, and much destitution has fol
lowed in consoqiioiico. Another bad season,
which r.ooniH now probable, will groatly in
crease tho suffering. Other crops soom not
to bo greatly damaged.
Tho attorney-general has replied, and
iHionod the law firm of Emn
A II&i
, ha
tent tho
suits foi
ii, of Now York,
government in the a
ages brought by the five democratic members |
of Louisiana who wore displaced by Col. Do
Trobriand at tho time of the organization of
tho legislature. Tho suits are against Gen.
Hhoridan and Col. Do Trobriand. and damages
aro laid at *100,000 in tho case of each un
seated member. The government undertakes
the dofonso of the two military officers.
In tho United Htatcs court at Little
Itock, Ark , last week, Judge Dillon placed tho
dppi, Washita and Hod ltiver, and tho
Bluff and Chicot railroads in th
At. Nmv Orleuus, on the 23rd inst., a
tiro broke out in tho blacksmith shop of
the steamboat John Kyle, which was
Wing at tho foot of Poydras street. I ho
Kylo lay 1-otwoon '!■« V"" io ' J -ffl? lor 11 b ?'
low nmf the Exporter above. Tho Bod-
man lay above uml next to the Exporter.
Boon after the alarm was given, the tug
boat Ella Wood came upandcoramonood
throwing water on the burning vessel,
hut without effect. Onpt. Hutchinson,
of the Kyle, was standing on tho front
deck when the fire broke out. Ho
promptly notified all on hoard, as it was
apparent from the first that the boat
could not ho saved. Onpt. Hutchinson
thinks every one on the Kylo was saved.
Wm. Brown, chief clork, who opened
the safe and took out tho money and
papers, was tho last to leave the Kylo,
which had in tho meantime been set
adrift. In escaping ho was enveloped
in tho (lames and severely, if not dan
gerously, burned over the face and
bunds. ‘ His eyelashes anil mustache
were singed off. Ho, however, jumped
into the river anil swam ashore, and was
at once taken to the hotel, whore ho was
attended by a physician. , . ,
Capt. Hutchinson says the cabin of
the Kyle was enveloped in flames in
loss than two minutes from the time tlie
first alarm was given. When the Kylo
was out loose the eddy drifted her up
stream, and those on shore seeing the
danger, cast off the hawsers by which
the Exporter and Bodman wore tied up.
This not proved disastrous. The Kyle
drifted against the Exporter and Bod-
man, and all three boats drifted into
tho stream. Bo rapid wuh the progress
of the flames, that the Exporter took
fire the moment the Kylo touched her.
The people on hoard tho Exporter hav
ing no other refuge, jumped on the Bod
man. This boat, in less than a minnto
after the Exportor, also caught fire and
the three burning vessels drifted to-
I aether into the stream, whore they
I wore soon burned to tho water’s edge.
Many persons who had gone on the
Exporter and Bod man as spootators,
that wore buried with thorn.
r look upon these visitations of things
to bo forgotten, with mysterious awe,
for I have hoard it- whispered that the
houIs of tho myrdurod rest not. quietly
while tho inurdoror Loads the oarth,
and that the black blood t rickles fre
the gash ’till dire retribution overtali
the guilty one. Now I do not moan to
huvo it inferred that 1-ovov committed
murildr—far from it. But one tlioro
was—one I once knew, ohoo dearly
loved, that did ; and 'tis with him my
thoughts nro interwoven now. Betimes,
at night, I boo him iu my dreams, lus
pale, haggard face, furrowed by the
pangs of remorse, turned upon me
piendiuglYt ' 11 K * M *“ ,1 “ , ‘
, .... though from the depths
oThhTwiM despair a lurkiug phantom
bade him hope that I could liolp him ;
and when I shudder at his near approach
lie turns his hack upon me aud walks
rapidly away. Ho never halts for one
moment, hut in the gnawing misery of
his desolation I seo him floe to the tops
of mountains, tlionoo into the deep
reeoHHOH of tlio far-off forests. Always
moving, now faster than before ; yet
whither lie flies his implacahlo pursuer
follows; and when he turns about, a
ghastly image urges him onward.
It was his presence that disturbed
my sleep but a moment ago; and now
that I am broad awako, I’ll toll you a
story that for many ft year has lain tho
closest secret of my Iioart,
It was in the summer of 1857 that 1
visited, by the advioe of my physician,
many of the interior counties of Penn
sylvania. I had boon suffering for some
time from tlio effects of distressing
hemorrhages, and it was thought that
the pure mountain air of the Keystone
state would affect me favorably, and
possibly restore me, in time, to renewed
health and vigor.
J was then iu my nineteenth year,
possessed of an inoomo sufficiently large
to enable mo to support tlio dignity of a
traveling gentleman, aud of buoyant
spirits, rendered the moro so, perhap
by tho pro ‘ “■
ing recovery,
ing from one .
at M . Its situation
ingly pleasant in a sanitary point of
view and. besides, tlio town itself was
so daintily constructed, and the good
pooplo who made up it» population
pro-rod ho un-enable, intelligent and on-
torprising, -nil I resolved to acquire
more, than a transient knowledge or
thorn. Accordingly, I took up my rosi-
dcuoo nt tho -p-airit old country inn that
-it-----1 near tlm outskirts ol tlm town, and
prepared to make my-clf comfortable
for Home timo to
Dlir. XVUlllllU, HI oilIII nu. nmm ••■*"
rout wonders of the old world, had
lived in tho onpituls of Europe, and was
au fait iu whatever apportainod to
Parisian lire, ITe was a tall, well-built-,
liaudsomd follow, just tho kind of man
to eatcli tlio eye and outran tho houit of
a romantic mnidon. His face boro tlio
linns of dissipation, too, and for all the
world, ho looked t-lio bonu idoal of a
man—tho personification of genteel
I rooUlOHSiiOHS. I was jeulous of tho nt-
rtukos J tentions lie received at. first, hut, filially,
wlion 1 discovered what a jolly, good
fellow lie was ; how entertain ing. intel
lignnt, devil-may-oaro aud unselfish, 1
.moil to like him very muoh, indeed..
,...d finally censed to think of tho lion’s
share of Attention, which ho invariably
received at tho hands of tho ladies.
dexterous at curds, mid many
a game we plnyod together iu my apart
ments till tlio gray dawn wuh upon us.
Our acquaintance soon ripened into
friendship.
Tho summer had fled, and goldon
autumn was about exchanging its
loveliness for tlio bleakness of winter,
when, one evening, Roland and I sunn
toreil lazily from tlio town for a short
tramp in tho open country. Ho had
boon exceedingly gloomy for several
days, aud on this ooeasion, was partic
ularly so. His stop seemed to have
boon forsaken by it.n aooustomod elas
ticity, his voice had lost its rich sweet
ness, and a deadly puller overcame his
face.
“Aro you ill V" I asked, as I sud
denly noticed his singular appearance
and domonnor.
I never felt bettor in my life, old
hoy—that is to say, physically.
nth of April, ami on tlm historic X “ tlm term is d,J
grounds of Oonoord and Lexington, from' a Virginia farmer named
Massachusetts needed none to speak rival from g ^ ^ .
has to think now and then, though
and thoughts, you know, are not always
pleasant companions.
Tlioro was an earnestness in Ins
strango words that startled mo, and
could not refrain from hosoeoliing him
to explain himself. We had grown
very intimate that I felt authorized
make the request. „ ,
“ Well, as you wish it, I will, ho
said.
We nut down.on tho stump of a fallen
FAOTB AND FANCIES.
—It turns out that tho bullosa oats
havo hulls which come off by thresh
ing, if the grain is very ripe.
—Tlioro iB a ohnnoo for somohody to
got. a rod hat. Arribnl Capulti, one of
the Cardinals, is dead.
—Dio Lewis says: “Lot a woman
touch school (We years mid no man can
live with her as a wife.”
—The way they mauago it in England
is to dismiss any person in tho omploy of
tho civil service who may give tho news
papers an item.
—Tho latest novolt.y in dairying con
sists in tho uho of the stomaoh of tlio
pig instead of that of tho calf in tho
manufacture of choose.
—“ I loved Charles,” said she, wiping
her eyes with the hem of hot overskirt
I* loved Charles as much as any wo
man could love a man: hut when lie
commenced wearing spitourls I dropped
him.”
Ho vory oiroumspoot in tlio olioioo
of tlio company. In the society of thino
equals thou shult enjoy moro pleasures,
in the sooioty of thy superiors thou
shult find more profit. To ho tlio best
in tho company is tlio way to grow
worse. The best menus to grow hotter
is to ho tho worst tlioro.
Ban Frnnoisoo has tho champion
religious idiots, who dress nR children,
not as ohildron, and play mnrblos and
leap-frog, hooauso tlioy bolivo “ Lx-
copt ye bo converted mul become ,,u
little ohildron, yo shall in
tho Kingdom of nouvon.
—Thoro is no man, but for liis own
interest, hath an obligation to ho honest.
Tlioro may ho somotimoB temptations to
ho otherwise; hut, all things considered,
ho shall find it tho greatest ease, tho
highest profit-, the host pleasure, tlio
most, safety, and tho noblest fame, to ho
honest.
—In tho Lynchburg (Va.) Nows tlioro
is au obituary notice of Mr. Charles
llonrv Lynch, who, it is stated, was tlio
grandson of OlinrloH Lynoli, tho origi-
nntor of tho famous " Lynch law. Tlio
nlil troo in Htill standing m tlio yard of
tho family homostoad from which Judge
Lvuoli’s victims wore suspended, this
ntatoraont iH omiDrmod liy tho authority
3 outer
Br^nd^M^t W Lynch, ^,o thus took the law into his
ular response was given to this own hands,
toast, hut in lieu a let,ter was read from _Tlie fact is our eyos dooolve
the ex-premier of Euglnud, Mr. Glad- most ridioulonHly, oven about tho oo,
stone, as follows : monest things. At first thought, which
London, March 5,1H75. nhould you say was the taller, a J-yonr-
—I have the honor to re- H j d or rt Hour barrel? And could
coivo tho letter, in which you convoy to nny tbi„g but actual measurement con-
mo a vory warm and courteous invito-1 v j noo you that the same child is half as
tion to attend tho banquet which it is b j Rb ftH u nix-footer ? Tlioro is an ol
proposed to held at Lexington, in com- i ga yi n « that a child at 2 yours old is
memoration of the attainment of tlio I UH tall as ho ovor will ho, and after
independence of tho Uuitod Btates of I j ow experiments in measuring oi
America. Tho circumstances of tho ouu 0Ii8 jiy believe it, but not boforo.
war, whioh yielded that result, the Tminiffration is on tho iuoroaso.
principles it illustrates and too remark-1^W^t three months of tho
able powers and characters of tho prill- During n soiiKors landed at tho
Oinnl moil who took par , whether oa yoM, 17428 'U8“ r f n ‘““”“ 0 , li08B
HoldlorH or oivilinim, in tho -druggie, port of smYm - n 0r io<l of 1874.
huvo ulwnyu invootcl it with u pooulmr ° v ®“ h ? h “°""Xt 0 roa entriok of tho
intorost in my oyon, -putc indopoudciitly 1-rom t o wh „ ], u „i„d nt
of tho Intimate concern of thin country “ 1 .J 1 5 ooo of
in tho events themselves. On upeonnt O-istlp Oanlo - 1 seems ,
of these features, that war and its no- ‘ to U.o west, and
oompnnimouts seemed to mo to oonsti- than N _ j • ,j,, tl iH hardly
lute one of the most instructive olinp- 407 ‘“VX" to foreign enterprise
tors of modern history, and I havo re- moro atiraoUv b * for0 B H i ftVory had
poatodly recommended them to younger now than ^ uttlo progress
men us subjects of espeeml study. boou . H( ,,q 0 u of the conn-
With these views 1 need not say how oan bo made in that « t » “ h)lH
...r I um from regarding tho approach- try until all danger j
ing celebration with indifference. It is passod,
entirely beyond my powor to cross tho _']q 10 Moravian missionaries
son, even with the present admirable Thibot mon tion this singular oustom n
communications, for tho purpose of at- u bnHHft: “Every year tlie lama commu-
tendanoo. The present time happens nit prov i ( i„ a man of tho lowest olasa,
to bo for mo, even independently of my dre J Hf | him „« \ n goat-skin, with tlio hair
attendance in parliament, one of very out .„ifl 0 an ,1 a singular head-dress,
urgent occupations, which I am not at , ti 10n drive him out of tlie town to
liberty to put aside, hut I earnestly 1 .. r j vor -whore they lay on lum tho
hope and I oannot doubt that tho eolo- . 0 j tbo w bolo pooplo. The man
hration will ho worthy the occasion,. L tbe n to cross the rivor, and livo in
In a retrospective view of tho eventful ^iidornoss in solitude for some weeks,
period my countrymen can now con- bdn(? abundantly supplied with food
template its incidents with impartiality. dnr j nfr this eeason. Oa Ids return ho
I do not think thoy should soveroly rooiovoB miin y presents from tho pooplo.
blame tlioir ancestors, whoso struggle The di H graco is so groat, however, that
to maintain tho unity of t,lie British ono found voluntarily to go
empire is one that must, I think, aftor fc i. rou „b tho ceremony, except iu very
tho luto great war of tlio north and I rftr() i UB tanccs, It is a singular analogy
south, ho viewed in America with some tbo H0ttpe g 0 at of tho Old Testament,
sympathy and indulgence. We can 1Uoho l presented herself at
eyes upon me with t
rendered the moro so, porintps, f>|lk( by tho H ido of the road, and for a threw their weight into tho other BOalb, or uiroo y i» roV 0Bt, another co
-nfcSSfSftJSSS -f-JS
fassrs?
onrnestnoBH that
had hover soon him betray.
“ Philip,” ho began, his voice trem
bling with some emotion which J could
not divine, “you do not know mo. I
am no moro tho man you bolievo mo to
ho than I am worthy of your esteem.”
“Proceed,” I said involuntarily, a
strange sensation overcoming mo that
made me dread, I knew not why, to
hear his revelation.
“Do not hurry mo,” he replied j
you will know all soon enough
in Ponimylvutlill to.n...Id not tobo
- U“>"° p T/’iv l in mnrrio.l, -tfid linvo linked mo w bo ynnr
nto the stream, aud hud to jump over- interior towns ; and it cau do casny m What would you think
nto the stream, a , , - n ^ howW)ont h 0 queries conoorning gjoomsmau. wna forWd ^ mar .
my former residence, my hiiHiiioss, pluce oi me
i board when the boats drifted diffi
board. Borne of them were resened,
but a large number are believed to have
been lost. The number lost is estimat
ed at from 20 to 100.
Tho commander of tho United Btates
steamer Kansas promptly sent out his
boats, one of which rescued 13 persons.
The jobbing tug boats made
Smith railroad,
effort
of"a receiver who whh seloctolby tho Boston to re scue those on the burning boats,
bondholder*. Tho samo parttts own tho Port The Bodman had discharged most of
* her cargo. The Exportor had about
-100 tons of freight on hoard, all
which was lost. Among the lost l
daughter of Capt. Reese, of the Ex
porter. Capt. Bhinkle, of the Bodman,
was much burned about the face and
hands. A son of Capt. Bhinkle
ported among tho lost.
recently completed
ty miles, leaving loss
than "fifty" to be built. K. E. Redfleld, of
Connecticut, has boon appointed roooivor of
tho Pine Bluff and Chicot, and Mississippi,
Onichita and Red River railroads.
miscellaneous.
The famous race-horso Kentucky,
owned by August Belmont, died Monday at
tho Nursery Mlu.l Farm, ll.bylnn, Long Kluid.
Kentncky «u bred *-? J-' 1 " 5L ^ in lm ■
on the Ashland estate in Kentucky.
Tbe n-cretary ol thf. troaiinry liai
ie.uerl « r.»U lor»r,,000.000 of S 201-oncin, npon
which iutori
9n tho 20th of July.
mutant
. begin
my former resilience, my riaao't ”
Pf-Z'S r Th-Twitbout •• That you hail taken leave of yoiir
tl-rongliont the
III vie* of the retiremeut of Gen.
Spinner from ll.e -Birr, of lree.nrer, oa the
Tho Exporter wan owned by James
Keene, Br., of Pittsburg, and was val
ued at $45,000. The John Kylo wait
owned by Capt John Kyle and P. H.
and W. F. DuvidnoD, anil wim valued at
$00,000. The Bodman wa« owned by
Capt O. P Bhinkle and othcrH, of Lin-
cinnati, and was valued at $75,000. All
are supposed to ho insured in western
offices.
Tho hulls of the Exporter aud Bod-
tho
Gyle’s coal yard, while the Kyle floated
down the river a couple of miles and morning,
sunk. , I I ^ar there
satisfactorily answered. Thus, without
any intervention on my part, was I in
troduced, individually and morally, to
the worthy denizens ; and an exceeding
bother was I delivered from indeed.
They were a thrifty, enterprising
people, as I have guid-busy folk, who
bustled about at day break, and per
formed a good half day’s work boforo
breakfast. I soon learned to like them,
and liking them, to watching thorn, and
comparing their industries, habits, and
faces aglow with health and vigor, to
tho sleepy people in the great cities,
who grumbled at the dreatl sound of
the breakfast bell.
In M , the merry songster of tho
air heralded tho approach of morn, and
people awoke from beautiful slumber
glad that tliny worn awake.
I ononpind 11 cozy little room m tlii:
hotel which fronted upon the principal
Btrcet or thoroughfare of tho town. IIh
poaition w.ih Ruffloicntly lofty to; Mini-
mnml a full view of the wnlka without;
and I reineniher taking advantage of ilH
eligibility to review the hnay p-mpl
they hurried to
id fro in the early
senses,” 1 replied, annoyed by the
pority of his tone.
“ Then lot mo toll you,” ho contin
ued, springing to his feet and scowling
upon me liko a demon, “ that I do for
bid it I Boonor than you should marry
that girl I’d ,” the words seemed to
ohoke him, and liis face was distorted
and livid, with wild, and, to me, unac
countable rage.
The insult that ho had offered me,
however, was too palpablo for mo to
overlook, and I rose from my seat de
termined to quit his presence and seek
the satisfaction to which, us a gonfclo-
man, I believed myself entitled. Ho
sought to detain ino, but with a strength
to which I Intel long boon a stranger, I
shook him from mo und harried back to
the town. I proceeded at once to my
room in the hotel, overcome by the ex
citement. under which I labored ; noi
did I again exhibit myself that evening.
Boated bv my window, I looked out into
the gathering foam, conjuring up tlio
most extravagant, fancies of every hor
rible nature imaginable, till £ was warned
by the keen gusts that wore heating up
1 believe wo can. and uo now, uoiiwm- ui -.j
ptp ProvoHt,
that of tho American oit zona thorn- positoil T0 u buy Bomo V You
kcIvch anil can ro jo co uo leas heartily allying : Won t you “I™.' „
Tho oiroumatunooH under winch tho 1 propliot. .... .
United Htatea began their national ox- —About one in flva of all tho pnaon-
iatoucu, and tlioir unexampled rapidity or „ j n tho United Btatoa aro boys, from
of advaneo in wealth and population, ton to twenty yoara of ago. limy aro
eutorpriao anil power, liavo lmpoaod on )my „ who wore onrly deprived of tlioir
theirpooiilonn onormouH roaponalbillty. [right to bo compelled to roapoot tho
Tlioy will ho tried lift we al-all at tho bar r jght a of otliora. Almoat ovory poiaou
of hialory, hut on u greater -cale. w ho will road tlieao linos labors under
They will ho compared with tho men I Hom o one groat disadvantage beoanao m
not oidy of other couutrioH, but of other Lin childhood ho was a “P n ™ d "
times. J Thoy cannot escapo from the right. Ono aoorotly bowails tho powor
“ J , . 1 I P 1...1 1..UI . <i nr. Hi or ltliislics at Ills
moro than a simple I the valloy, of au approaching storm.
hStiea Sd burdens ’whioh' their ^‘had habit, another Uoth. t hto
groatnoaa impose on Uiem^ No jgnqranoo i; pother ," *
- - - - ” 11 1 -■ regrota n neglected tnl-
jro Hnflor in body and
belong to thoir groat position in tho I minj „ B well as inflict froanont snfforiug
family of mon. I liavo Ilia honor to be, „„ 0 n otliors, without knowing tho
gentlemen, yonr obliged aud faithful 0 „„ B o. Homo have a bnd tompor nn-
Horvant W. E. Goadhtonh, controllable now, whioh it was their
’ right in childhood to ho aidod and com-
Fivo cents faro for that ohild, polled to control; others are brutally
madam " said a atreot-oor conductor aolUsh, beoauBO they were cheated of
vnatordav, os he opened tho door und their right to ho taught, and tramod,
imt hia'head into tho door. “ Very and foroed to refrain from bullying tho
well " alio replied, fooling in her pook- weak and trampling npon tho holploBB.
et ’• Thia is an orphan child,a,id An ita Otliors go thoir way hrough life do-
guardian, I must lmvu a roooipt fur jeetod and ajnntlosH hooauso they d d
g - nonnvii paid out, and no you write Hot enjoy their right to ho obliged to
I'll drop a nickel in tho box." Ho Lorn,> out of timorous, bashful seeln-
Hhiit tho door and leunod over the broke nine, and match tliemsolvon with thoir
liko one iu deep thought. I poors.
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