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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1875.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 5.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Cyrch Field wants the modest snrn
of ten million dollars from the British
government for his Paoiflo cable, and
tho probabilities are that lie will got it
sooner or later.
‘The United States has now beoorno
the greatest silver produoiug country in
the world, taking preoedeooe of even
Mexioo, which has heretofore beeu sup-
posed to furnish two-thirds of the total
■apply.
* It is feared that the new direct
cable in a failure. Though some timo
has elapsed sinoo its completion was
announced, it esnuot l>o learmd that
any signals have been transmitted.
This would prove a great misfortuue, us
tho other can hardly do more than half
the business offered.
Tnn government of the littlokiugdom
of Greece, being without money, has
hit upon an exoollent means of defray
ing the expenses of its foroign diplo
matic service. It has sent a letter to
each of its legations abroad, informing
the heads of those legations that they
are at liberty to continue to manage
affairs as heretofore, provided they do
it at their owj expense I
Thk Guelphs and Ghibbelines of tho
('horokoe nation have sttoccoded in get
ting up twenty-seven murder cases,
which were reoeutly tried before tho
United States district court at Fort
Smith, Ark. As a result of tho trial,
seven of the semi-civilized will be
hnngod in a batch on tho third day of
September. This will be tho largest
wholesale hanging since the execution
of the thirty-three Sioux Indians at
Mankato, Minn., in 1802.
Anotiiku American shootist is loose
in England. We refer to llogardus, of
Illinois, tho champion pigeon slayer.
II • jor*onlay beat an unhappy English
man matched to shoot with him, and
now, of oonrso, ho challenges all Eug-
land, twirling his double-barreled shot-
guu in the face and rubbing it nnder
the nose, as it wore, of John Hull. We
wish Ilogardus would cotuo home. lie
is rather rubbing it in.—Cincinnati
Commercial,
Pnor. Jennet, who is prospecting tho
Slack Hills for gold, under instructions
fnnn tho government,has sent in another
report, fully eonllrming his tirst impres
sion that thoro aro no de|H>sits of. the
metal in tho region arotuul Harney’s
Peak that will pay for the mining. Ho
pro)loses now to explore the supposed
deposit* in tho bed of tho Ohoyenno,
and will report the result. Tho pro
fessor is apparently doing his work in a
thorough and conscientious manner,
and, until it is completed, tho best ad
vice that can possibly hu given to por-
i oiih who entertain tho idea of going to
the lllack Hills is—“ Don’t.”
Tiik reoont abrogation of threo
articles of the constitution of the Ger
man empire which brings tho Komnn
Catholic church in Germany in com
plete snbjection to the government, and
the severity of tho Falok laws passed
in 187.” are showing results in the flight
of German ecclesiastics to tho United
Whites. The telegraph announces the
arrival in New York of a large number
of priests and nuns, who propose to
settle in Illinois, where Ihsmarck and
Dr. Falck can not curtail their ecclesi
astical freedom. The Prussian ecclesi
astical bills, in effect, banish every
Homan Catholic from Germany.
Tiik San Francisco Chronicle predicts
a heavy Italian immigration into the
United Stub's, and n consequent acces
sion to tho number of organ-grinders
and plaster-cast venders, hitherto the
Italians have been pouring into Uruguay
and tho Argentine Republic, the Italian
|K>pnlntiou there now numbering a half
million souls, and constituting the chief
business eloment. The unsettled state
of affairs, however, iu these countries,
has led tho emigrants to turn their at
tention to tho United States. And tho
Chronicle cites the fact that an Italian
ngent has recently been buying large
tracts of land in California for his coun
trymen to settle npon during this year.
Tne postoffico department is much
ploaAod with the system of demanding
the prepayment of newspaper postage,
and will, at the beginning of the next
congress, at once endeavor to seonre
the repeal of the law in relation to
postage on transient matter in tho
mails. Tho law regulating the puy-
ment of pontage, will, however, bo re
tained. It has been found that, al
though the rate has been reduced, the
department now receives as much as it
did when it had a higher rate, but col
lected the postage at the office of de
livery, which leads to the melancholy
conclusion that some of the postmas
ters are not as pure and honest in the
discharge of their duty as they should
l>e.
The American rifle team will prob
ably shoot at Wimbledon range, near
London, before their return. If thoy
succeed there as at Dollymonnt, there
will be a growl from John Bull, for ho
hates to be beaten. Wimbledon was
established about fifteen years ago,
and at the grand opening Qaeen Vic
toria fired the first shot, and put her
bullet through the boll’s eye at 4QQ
yards. But then any woman could
have done the same thing, as the queen
sat cosily in a luxurious arm chair, and
pulled a silver cord which pulled a
rifle trigger, sixty yards off, tho rifle
itself having boon sighted for her and
fixed immovably in a vise for this
ospeciul occasion.
The Texans of the border will cer
tainly enjoy a brio! respite from deso
lating cattle raids just now while the
Mexioaus on tho Rio Grande aro at
loggerheads about the nrrost and incar
ceration of Cortiua. Tho dispatches
indicate a high degree of exoitomont in
Mutiunoras, which doubtless extends
measurably throughout tho state of
Tamaulipus. Tho capture of their
leader is regarded »s an unduo inter
ruption to their smuggling operations
by the people of Matamoras and vicin
ity, and President Lerdo evidently has
an insurrection on his hands whioh will
require tho presonoo of more troops.
Matamoras, where the troublos now
center, is immediately opposite Browns-
villo, Tcxos, nsd contains a population
of about 12,000. As on effort will bo
made to oarry Cortina to Vera Cruz, a
conflict botwoen the citizens and the
Mexicnn troops is probable.
Dispatches from the Black Hills
geological expedition indionto that near
Harney’s Peak gold has roally been
found in paying quantities. Tho cor
respondent ol tho New York Tribuuo
accompanying tho expedition writes
that, after the party entered the unox-
plorod region from tho east, they struck
grauite formation nnd gold-bearing
quartz, besides finding gold in flakes in
tho gnlolios. Prof. Jonuy, Limit. Mor-
aud Dr. Lane, of tho govornnumt
expedition, are said to bo satisfied that
gold exists there. Whether it will bo
fouud in sufficient quantities to fill tho
pockets of tho thousands who are wait
ing to crowd into the hills, makes no
difference. The people will go, in spite
of restrietions, and possess tho land on
tho mere intimatiou that gold is there.
If Gen. Oubtar had never rambled in
that vicinity, the Indians to day might
be resting in secure possession of this
refreshing and rich oasis.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
WEST
Chicago coutinues to fill up with grain
** fast as nhn Ships east, showing that tho
northwest Is still carrying liuit year's crop to a
largo nxtout.
8. B. Hinman, of fho Sioux oomniis
Sion, tvlographs that they hope to bring the
Northern Hlonx into tho council, hut cannot
before the lattor part of August.
A “ long, slim, slate colored bug” has
received tho raantlo of tlm Colorado post, and
is now chewing up tho potato vinos in Illinois.
Tho insoct pundits aro bothering thoir brains
over tho now scourge.
Tho wives nnd children of sixty Kiowa
an<l Comaanho Indians, who surrendered at
Staked Plains, aro to ho transported to Ht.
Augustloo, Florida, at govornmout oxpenue,
wlioro captivon aro now eonllund.
For tho post year tho Han Francisoo
mint lias colu«d ♦30,527,000, being tho largost
amount It has coined for Iwonty years. Tho
silver amounted to ♦4,327,000, more than half
of which is intended to tako tho placo of thill-
Tho Chicago Tribune tolls of a swarm
of grasshoppers whioh, moving at tho rato of
fifteen miles an hour, occupied sixty hours in
passing over a town in Missouri, and was esti
mated to ho from thirty to eovonty-flvo miles
wide and a half a milo deep.
With tho departure of tho grasshop
pers from Kansas, tho Htate Itollof society has
been dissolved. The society ox pended about
♦ 135,000. From other sources about ♦400,000
more w as contributed for tho 20,000 grashop-
per sufferers, or abont S20 a hoad.
Tho Mcnnonites who have settled in
the northwestern states say that it is an error
to call tho Insect which has been desolating
the country a grasshopper. Thoy reoognized
in it tho locust of their own eonthorn Russia
as soon as they laid thoir oyos upon it.
Dispatches from the frontier state
that largo parties of Hionx, Oheyonnos, and
Arapahoes started on Urn war-path lately.
Thoir objective points aro thought to be the
. Uto,
agci
which have been warned of tho Impending
raids. It is believed by men well posted in
savage ways, that the Hioux and other hostile
tribes are preparing for a gigantic Indian war.
and that tho government will have to decide
—protect the poaco-
fni I
nd tlm
lettlorc
i the
their fate and keep miners out of tho Ulack
Hills. Tho troops aro not strong enough to
do both.
SOUTH
Au additional submarine wire is to bo
laid at once between Cuba and Florida.
Tho boiler of a saw mill near Hot
Springs, Ark., exploded on Haturday. killing
four and seriously injuring seven other per-
Tho Executive Committee of the Na
tional grange have agreed to remove the
head')Harters of tho, national grange from
Washington to Louisville, Ky. They also re
solved to hold the next meeting of the na
tional grange at Louisville on the third Wed
nesday in November, 1870. Headquarters
will he removed to Louisville within a month
or six weeks.
Reports from Brownsville say Gt»n.
Cortina wai arrested on the 1st, and his chief
of police, Manuel Garaza, on the 3d inst., by
order of the Mexican minister of war. Both
wero forwarded from Matamoras under guard
to Bigdad and there placed on board the Mexi
can war vessel Lebasce. which sailed for Vora
Cruz, m route to the City of Moxico, for tr.al
by military commiseiou.
Prominent medical and other officers
of the navy, who have at various times been
in localities afflicted with yellow fever, and
paid some attention to its cause and treat
ment, exproee the opinion that it would he
wjtie m it timely precaution for all southern
cities on tho Atlantic coast to tnako and en
force etringont sanitary ntlos, as tho early
appearance of tho fovor at Koy West. Fla., is
au indication that it tuny extend along tho
coast tills summer.
Last Thursday, a blacksmith named
Jno. Henley, living near Horn Lake, Miss.,
Imd a quarrel with a woman named Martha
Morgan, omployod by him as cook. That
night while Ilonloy was asleep, Mm. Morgan
approached his bed and with a razor out a tor-
riblo gash in his throat. Ilonloy awakonlng,
attempted to catch her arm, hut caught tho
razor, which was drawn through his hand in
flicting au ugly wound. Mrs. Morgan Uhon
seized hor^child and fled to tho woods. Inm-
loy lios in a preftario^comlltion. ^ v s
Tho Galveston Nows’ Brownsville
special says a force of fifty cavalry and twoh-
ty customhouse guards, undtr command of
Col. Tarrot, escorted Cortina and prisoners
to Bagdad. They allot and hung Maurico
rartiguls, who had throatouod to shoot ofll
core of tho Uth cavalry, near Matamoras. Tho
gunboat Juarez, with tho prisoners, sailed
yesterday. Bho had on hoard arms and am
munition. Permission grunted her to dis
charge her at Brazos Santiago. Mexican
papers claim that tho romoval of Cortina will
allow tho pooplo of Matamoras to oxoouto the
MISCELLANEOUS.
Postmaster General Jewell has just
put in operation 5,000 now mail service routes,
mostly in tho Houthorn stales.
Postmaster General Jowoll favors dis
continuing tho letter-carrier system iu all
cities containing a imputation of lesa than one
hundred thousand.
Bogardus, of Chicago, boat Rimmcl,
tlio champion shot of England, at a pigrfon
shooting match at London, killing thirty-six
birds to Rinimol'a thirty.
Twenty-ono cities in England, with a
population of over nix millions, do not own as
much money aH tho single city of New York,
with a population of less than ono million.
Under tho act of July 18, 1874, pro
viding for resumption of specie payments, tho
treasury department has diaposod of about
ton millions of bonds known as 5 per cent.,
authorized by act of July 14, 1870, and with
tho proooeda has purchased about nine million
in silver for tho pnrposo of retiring fractional
After August 2d thoro will bo a direct
exohango of money orders holwoon tho United
Hiatus and Canada, for sums not to oxoood f50
to each order iu the formor country, and ♦ 40
gold, Issued in Canada. Throe hundred money
order ofllooa will ho shortly designated in this
country, where Canadian money ordors will he
issued and paid.
Another dispatch received at tho In
dian Bureau from Prof. Jemmy, Iu whioh ho
reiterates his former statement that so far ho
ban not found gold enough in tho Black Hills
to warrant the supposition that it will pay to
mino for it. Tho professor status tin has
tested It sovuial times and cannot tnako au
average of over l>< pc. eont. por pan. Ho
doaorilios tho character or tho formations, and
Hays it does not indicate gold.
The Comptroller of currency hns
railed upon the National batiks for li report,
allowing thoir condition at tho close of busi
ness Wednesday, Juno 30. Tho comptroller
desires to retire all circulating notes of de
nominations of live dollars of tho following
hanks, notes or that denomination having
been successfully counterfeited: First, Third,
and Traders' National hanks of Chicago, First
National hank of Paxton, IIIh., First National
hank of Canton, Ills. National banks
throughout the country arc re.Riested lo re
turn all notes of tliiiso hanks of the denomi
nation of live dollars to the treasury Tor re
dumption. and no additional issues of thin de
nomination will lioroafter lie issued to these
Tho comptroller of oufrOnoy reports
tho amount of additional circulation issued
during tho month of Jane tl,315,525; tho
amount of legal-lender notes deposited dur
ing the same period, ♦3,0011,028; additional
circulation issued since tho passage of tlio act
on Juno 20, 1874, 14,001,802; amount of cir
culation destroyed and rotirod during tlio same
time, ♦7,027,000, showing au actual increase
of bank circulation during tlio >0ar of only
♦ 1,078,820; amount of legal-tender notes dn-
posited for tlio purpose of rotlring circulation
since till* passage of same aid, ♦26,523,057,
and tlio amount dopo-itod by hanks in liquida
tion piovlous to that date, ♦3,813,075, making
a total of ♦20,830,732. Deducting from thla
amount ♦0,027,000, the amount of circulation
pormanontly retired, will leave ♦1,070,700
legal-tender nolos on deposit July 1st, for tlio
purpose of retiring circulation.
FOREIGN.
It in estimated that tho 'lostmotion of
proporty by inundations in tlm southwest
portion of France will amount to 300.000,OOOf.
Tlio number of persons who perished is placed
at 2,IKK). President MacMalinn continues Ids
tour through the inundated district.
Recently tho Italian parliament passed
a law for tho suppression of brigandage.
Upon hearing of this in Bicily tho population
organized indignation demonstrations, os peo-
plo bore do against prohibition laws, brig
andage is thoir most agreeable pastime.
The Rub dan government in renowing
the old-timo persecution of the Jews. A num
ber of those pooplo having shifted thoir places
of rosidonco in consoquonco of tho changes In
business brought about by tho introduction of
railroads, tho police, acting npon a ukase
issued a fow years ago, have compollod them
to leave thoir hemes, and have driven thorn
altogether out of the province. Tho Christian
population protested, and ovon petitioned tho
authorities against tlm injustico, hut thus far
thoir efforts have boon ineffectual.
Later advices received from Cuenca,
tho scone of tlm recent dreadful oarthquako
in Mouth America, rather increase than miti
gate tho horrors of the situation. Cuenca was
a city in Ecuador, having a population of 20,-
000. located in a wide plain. Ton thousand of
tho inhabitants were killed at the outset by
being swallowed up, or by falling walls. Many
of tho survivors wore moro or loss injured,
and of those largo numbers have since died.
The people are without food, shelter, or med
ical attendance, wandering about tho suburbs
of tho destroyed city. It is feared that tho
putrefaction of the dead bodios of tho victims
will cause a plague. Nine other towns besides
Cuenca wero destroyed, and it is estimated
that the total loss of life will aggregate at
least 20,000. Hiabscriptions for tho relief of
the sufferers aro being made by tho people of
tho unharmed districts. A government com
mission will iqyeutigate tho pauses of the
, calamity.
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
, hundred years mo ?
The lip* that smiled,
K.rffi* 1 '’
Tho plot thlt wort
t br.dkctV hurt t
" hero, u where ai
The pour linin'* h<
That lived no lor
TOBACCO AS A MONOPOLY.
^I«w the I’ntcrtiwl tlnrernuinil of
frrnm-e lUninifnitui e« .tlio Weed An
Unpleasnitf KatnhtUli meat on (lie
final d’Oraay.
Every ono known that tho monopoly
of manufacturing tobaoqg by tho .State
was suggested to Napoleon III. by the
gorgeotiH appoar.moo of a lady at ono
of tho court balls, nor diamonds, in
faot. excited much admiration and not
a little envy. “Who ia aho?” askod
tho emperor, and the answer was, “Tho
wife of a rotirod tobacco manufacturer.”
From that ovouing froo trade iu to
bacco waa doomed in Franco, nor has a
republican form of govornmout cared
to do away with a most profitable
source of rovonuo. At tho name timo
it must bo oonfoHHod that tho produoo
of tho regie is, for tho moat port,
"cheap ami nasty.” A viRit whioh I
Imvo juHt paid to tho manufactory on
tho Qua! d’Orsay, ono of tho fifteen
whioh oxifltn In Franoo, line confirmed
mo iu thin belief, though T came away
with tlio improHHiou that tobacco and
no other loaf wan, whether good or
bad, oxoluBivoly tiHed. Tho ilrnt thing
whioh strikes a visitor on on tori ug tho
establishment. is tho rank overpowering
■moll of niootino whioh porvadoa tho
whole place—a smell, moroovor, which
iH utterly indofloribablo to thoHO who
do not know it. In tho lower rooms
half naked men, brown with tlio juioo
of tho plant, wero ongAgcd in wotting
tho loaves and packing thorn in groat
stacks for tho purpose of fermentation,
whioh goes on for oightouu months.
OIobo by, under a shod iu nu open
yard is tho powerful steam engine, of
English make, which gives rotary power
to all tho machines on the premises.
A lurgo part of tho mnohino work is
dovoted to the making of snuff, and
this I was shown in all the various
stages of its fabrication. Iloro, I find,
it ip composed of Various tobadoos.
such as Virginia, Hungarian and
French, togothor with all contraband
tohaooo—some of it very suspicious-
looking stuff— aolzod by the custom
house oflloors. This mixture ia pro
portionately divide^, and nmkos a total
of 100 parts. Tho snuff makers are, I
was informed, the least healthy of all
tho persons employed iu the establish
ment. It may hu stated that the
number is 2,000, of whom 1,000 are
women and girls. Up stairft are rhoms
dovoted to the sorting of the leaves by
experienced hands, who nun toll at onoo
if tho tohnoco he of foroign or of homo
growth, though 1 must confess that to
mo it lookod much the same. In addition
to tho vnrions snuff cutting and pound
ing mnohinon, a long gallery in filled
with implomontn, also worked by steam,
whioh neatly splice the compressed
leaves iu tho pine tobAoods knotVn as
“Maryland" and “Oaporal,’ the latter
being considerably coarser, but, it is
said, purer than the former. “(Jap-
oral," induod, is the favorite kind with
wlmt my guido called %> lcs vrain fu-
incurs,” When salted and dried those
tobaccos aro, aftor being weighed, oom-
proRHod into paper packets by hydraulic
pressure, fastened and then ro-woighod,
any over-weight or the opposite being
at onoo detected, and the packet con
demned on tho spot. This is entirely
done by Women, and the quickness and
deftness whioh thoy display in “making
up" iH really astonishing. During tho
last two years there lms boon a Very
groat demand for cigarettes so great,
indeed, that it has occasionally been
greater than the supply. (Jonsuqnoutly
thoro aro many rooms filled with girls
with strings of stnmped panor—out by
muehines in another room—boforo them,
and oaoh, with tho aid of a gum-bottle
and an ingenious little instrument,
turns out 1.000 to 1,000 cigarettes a day.
Tho manufacture of aoigar is certainly
not a pleasing oporalion. The Woman
takes a Ji And fill at. nbAifh.lbbkipfi to-
baooo, given it u roll with her hands,
rolls a trimmed leaf round it, touches
tho end with brown paste to make
everything secure, and tho result is
n cigar, which is thou made of the re
quired length by an instrument like a
turnip-cutter. Homo of those cigars
cost us little as two ol 1 throb halfpence,
and fow government brands are sold at
8 penco apiece. Tho regie provides
tobficco suited to every taste, therefore
a Whole department Is deleted to tlio
I irooess of twisting rolls into what is
mown in England as pigtail, destined,
for the most part, to bo ohovod by
sailors and tho population of neanort
towns, though 1 Was shown a milder
kind, which was made expressly for and
smoked ill seVoral aeftartinOntf. The
govornmout factory is ccrtiinlv a
enrions, but not by any means i nleas-
unt sight, and if any parent wishes to
ouro liis son of tho “pernicious habit of
smoking” he could certainly not do
bettor than take him to sSo thti bstub-
lishraonl iiii tho Quai d’Orsay. Any
confirmed smoker, however, I would
advise not to go, as ho would pjobably
be digested without being cired,—
Paris Letter,
The Iron Mask.
When General Cass was minster to
France ho becamo somewhat ntimato
with the then king of tlio French,
Louis Phillippo. One evening when
thoy wore alone, the general nq nested
permission to ask a question.
“ Ask what you please, ” tho king re
plied.
“Then," queried tho minister, “oan
yonr majesty tell mo auythiu| of tho
man in tho iron mask ?”
“Ah,” replied Lonis, stmowhat
amazed, “yes, and I will toll -on all I
know about it. When I retunod from
America, immediately upon Being my
cousin, Count D’Artois, I, eviming the
could toll mo anythiug about tho mys
tery. ‘Only this’ replied tho count,
'onoo iu rumbling through the Tuilories,
I found 'myself in tho apartmonts of
tho quuon, Mario Autoinotto. Farting
tho ourtains which conooaled mo from
her oyos, I saw hor on hot kneos boforo
tho king. ‘Iu mercy’s name,' said she,
,8iro, toll mol who was tho man iu tho
iron mask?, ‘I oaunot toll you,’ an
swered Louis XVI., sternly, ‘i loarned
it fnnu my predecessor, and oan toll it
i nly to my successor. But this I will
toll you; if you know wh > ho was, you
would bo greatly disappointod at tho
curiosity whioh ho has excited.’ ”
.DOLLYMOUNT.
Both at tho Orood moor shooting last,
your and now at Dollymonnt tho rnngos
wore the same—800,1)00 and 1,000 yards;
tho targets six foot by twelve in size,
with a ot ntor six foot by six, and a bull’s
eyo throe foot by three.’ A shot in tho
bull's oye counts four; iu the center
throe ; iu tlio outer, that is, any wlioro
else on tlio target, two. The tonniH arc
oaoh of six mou; each man has fifteen
shots at each range, forty-five in nil.
Tho liighoet possible team sooro is
1,080.
At Oroodmoor, tho total of the Ameri
cans was 984, that of tho Irish, 081 —
thus mado up : At 800 yards, Americans,
825 ; Irish, 817 ; 000 yards, Amcrioaus,
810; Irish, 815; 1,000 yardB, Americans,
208: Irish, 808.
This affords us ground for comparison
with tho shots at Dollymonnt yos or day,
when tho total was ! Americans, 007;
Irish, 029—thus mado : At 800 yards,
tho Americans made 887, tlio Irish, 82)8;
000 yards, Amorioaiis 2)27, Irish 202;
1,000 yards, Americans 2108, Irish 205)
Therefore tho Atnorioaus boat thoir
former scores heavily in each oaao—12,
17, and 0 points respectively. Tho Irish
gaiued heavily at 800 yards, 21 'points—
lost 221 points at 000 yards, aud at 1,000
yards lost 4. The Amcrioaus boat tlio
IHhIi by 88 points, and thoir Oroodmoor
score by 2)8 points ; the Irieli full behind
thoir Oroedmoor performance 2 points.
Tho American Hhonting was indeed
splendid, and the Irish compared favor
ably with tho best shooting at Wirnhlo-
don, the great English rifle range.
Though beaten they maintained a high
reputation, and justified thoir former
title to the Eloho shield, tho oliiof
Wimbledon prize. They lmd exhausted
hospitality to the Amorioun team pre
vious to tlio match, atul thoy gavo un
stinted honot to their Siiooessful oppo
nents when thoy retired victors from
tho field.
Dolly moil lit, the range, is on u samly
island iu Dublin bay, about throe
miles from tho city, oidled tho North
Bull. It is part of the bar at tlio mouth
of tho Liflev, a stream famous in Irish
history. The celebrated lmttlo of Olon-
tarf, fought by Brian Born, tho ro-
nounod chief, against tlm invading
Danes, before William tho conqueror's
timo, occurred on its banks. It was a
lit place tor thtt friehdly contest be
tween tho riilomon of tho Now Amurioa
and Old Ireland.
The qualities required in tlieso long
range rifle shots arc endurance, steadi
ness of nerve and careful calculation of
tho varying windage. Tho oontost
lasts for several hours; tho man aro
kept up at high nervous tension by tho
exoitomont of riompolithln afld tho sym
pathetic partisanship of tho vust crowd
of witnuHHOH. Only tho strongest self-
control, ovonuosH of pulse and rigidity
of nuiBolo can hope to win even a docent
hiioochh. The positions assumod by tho
different men arc many uiid frequently
amusing—all, however, depending on
tho ono principle of tlio pffort of tho
man to find as many points of suppoit
for his body on tho unyielding ground
as ho can seenro, and at the same timo
to bring tho roar or poop sight of his
rifle as clone to his eye as poflsiblo.
The target at thefio groat distances
looks of about the sizo of say ono inch
by half nil Indh at throe yards length
from the oye, To put shot after nbot in
the bull's eye— a just appreciable blank
spot—at800, 000 and 1,000yards, and to
keep up the Ire through forty-five con
secutive shots, is U; tent the endurance
and steadiness of tho murksmufl to a
marvelous degree.
Tlio fact that tho American team never
fired at long ranges until'fast summer,
though their opponents have been in
praotico for ton years, gives added merit
to tlleir vihtwry: .They.hate put them
selves at the head of all lontf rah'^o title
shots. Next month thoy will have an
opportunity to tarry off tho cham
pionship from Wimbledon likewise.
Ouriflus Death From Hydrophobia.
The death from hydrophobia wiiioh
occurred in Brooklyn lust week is in
some respects noto vorthy. Tho victim
Was a Ifirgb, robtist Than, 8f temperate
habits. Tho dog that bit him snowed
no symptoms of disease, nnd is still
alive, apparently in perfect health.
The wound wus inflicted accidentally
when tho man nnd dog wero at play ; it
Imalod kindly, and no murks were left.
The patient however cdutiuUed anxidtifl
and morbid. Ho consulted a physician,
and was assured that thoro was no
danger. Still he lived in constant
dread of hydrophobia, passing sloeplefls
nights, and yfton subjecting himself to
various toHis iu fear of disCoVrtribg
traces of disease. Finally, on tho lltli
of Juno, eight weeks after tho bite, tho
first symptoms of hydrophobia wore
manifested. {Spasms supervened, and
tho patient died in groat agon*. Tho
easo is anomalous, hilt not without a
parallel. Just about a year ago one
McUormiok died in Now York city
under much tho sumo cireiirostuncoH.
All that seems to bo established iu re
gard to hydrophobia does not conflict
with tho developments just noticed.
The primo condition of tho disease iH,
that tho animal oommuniouting the
virus should bo excited, which has been
tho ease with all hoaltby dogs whose
bites have proved fatal . — Chicago IrL
—Aftor all tho street-oar oonduotors
who have committed suicide because
their honesty was doubted, the Now
York companies now find that thoy have
sayed over a million dollars by tho use
of tho bejl-punoh,
BOSTON’S BOY FIEND.
aa*noti«i*ct<* (iniinoll Hny He Rluaf
flvo to four, authorized tho governor of
Massachusetts to issue his warrant for
the oxroutiou of the boy murderer,
Johho Pomeroy,
Tho facts of tho two murders com
mitted by this boy aro only too woll
known. For months an immense press
ure has boon brought to boar on tho
governor and mombers of tho council,
by parties .in favor of mooting out to
Pomeroy the full oxtout of tho law—
i. o. hanging instead of commutation
of soutonoo to imprisonment for life.
Delegation after delegation of ladies
(mothers in nearly all easoH) have waited
upon mombers of the council at
thoir homos, oflloos, on tho street,
at tho hotels whilo dining, and ovon
in stores when making nooessary
purchases have thoy boon bosiogoil
by ladies as soon os reoognized as mem
bers of tlio governor’s oounoi), to oast
thoir votes in favor of hangiiig when
ever his ease should ootno before tho
council for (Inal disposition. Hearings
to tho public havo boon given at tlio
state house before tbo govornor and
oouuoil on tlio nuoRtion of commutation
of soutonoo, and most ablo arguments
havo boon mado, on both sidos, and yoH-
tor.lay tlio decision was made. In viow
of this, I urn committing no hroaok of
oonildonoe when I write yon of oortain
foots oonneotod with this case. Johho
Pomoroy is a moral monstrosity. Ho
murdorod two small children for no
oiiuso whatovor. no did not rob thorn
of even a pin; ho had no quarrel
with them, whoroby liis passions might
have boon oxoitod ; be suffored no ro-
vengeful footings towards tho parontR of
the viotims. Tlio children and thoir
fnmilios woro perfect strangers to him.
No onuBO for tlieso murdors aro known.
CONFESSION.
Ho was visited at tho iail whoro lie
bus boon oonfinod sinoo his conviction
by mombors of tho council, who cou-
vorsod with him on tho subject of his
orimc.s, Thoy found him to ho an un
usually bright and intolligont lad ; his
answers wore given with promptness
and decision ; thoro was no wavering or
hesitation in tliom, but right to tho
point. When asked how mauy murders
lio had committed liis quick reply was,
“Two, sir I” Ho was* asked why ho
killod tlio littlo boy, and ropliod that
“ho did uot know.” Ho said that “lie
was standing with othors looking at tho
working of a flro ongino, when ho
noticed a pretty looking littlo boy
standing noar. Ho suddenly a-.kod tho
littlo follow if lio wouldn’t tako a walk
with him, and upon oon soli ting, ho wns
lod aorosH marshes a distance of at least
a milo, whou suddonly ho folt a flutter
ing in his head and moohanioally he
took his pookot knife from his poekot,
rapidly oponed it, and stabbed, stabbed,
stabbed it into his littlo victim, having
no consciousness of wlmt ho wns doing
at tho timo, nnd never thut day fully
realizing what ho hud done. That in
all tho timo ho Wan walking with tho
boy ho did not havo it in his mind to
injure Him, his only notion in having
him with him Was for companionship,
and it was only when suddenly soizod
with this unooutrollablo immilso that
ho did tho dood, and it all occurred
within a minute. Tlio boy was a pretty
child and that was what attracted him
toward him."
flfM MIJR1IBH OF THE LITTLE OWL.
When aAliOd about the circumstances
of liis killing tho littP) girl in Boutli
Boston, ho said that “that morning his
mother and brother woro away or ou-
gagod, and ho wus obligod to attend to
tho nilflodidal store. Ho SAt reading
awhile when a pretty little girl, whom
ho had novor soon before, oamo In nnd
askod for some papers. As soon as she
spoko Ibis terrible fooling all through
him, with tho fluttering in his head,
oamo over him, and he ropliod, “ they’re
down collar.” Unsuspectingly sho open-
nd tho door mid passed down tho stairs,
Pomoioy immediately following, draw
ing his knife as lie wont. As soon as
the bottom was reached ho plaood his
left hand ovflr hot mouth, drew hor head
bnok toward his shoulder, and with tho
kuifo in his right hand out her throat
and sho was dead in a minute. Not
three minutes had oxpirod from tho
timo ho firiit laid ayes on tho littlo girl
boforo sho was dood.
A DIME NOVEL RBAOBn.
Pomoroy has boon a close reader of
dime novois and yollow-oovored litera
ture until, as ono of tho gontleman
stated in iiis argument before tlie coun
cil, “his brain was turned, nnd his
highost ambition was to bo tlio * Telus
Jock’ of South Boston."
Domrttlo, after being subject of
discussion for ft yoat'oi- two, has beep
opened at last. It admits to itfi privi
leges persons of both soxes, and is a
decided novelty in conservative Eng
land, inasmildh fifl til* pptrriago relation
is quite ignored in making ilfl tile mem
bership. A female mombor is at liberty
to invite to tho dinners of the club
whatovor persons of either sox sho may
elect, and, Vice, Versa, tho mnlo members
may brihg In Alioll of their lady friends
us thoy ohooso. Tlie rill# Ui absolute
equality, however, scorns to bo igflofed
l important particular, for tho ladios
to be rigidly exolndod from tlie
flmoling-rbott. Whether tho lady mem
bers have a gossiping-fdtiffi equally
exclusive, wo are not informed ; but ono
thing is certain, there will bo plenty of
material for soundal in a olub so poou*
liarly organized. It is said Unit tho
founders of the olub, who number about
throe huudrod, comprise some of the
“ best men ami women In England,”
and thoy doubtless roly on thoir high
reputation to put soandal to flight.
Evou among opioenos all sorts of trouble
is likoly to urise where women may be
long to their olub without their hus
bands, and may invito to dinner snoh of
their male friends os they fancy. The
Albemarle will opon brilliantly, but it
is not destined to survive long.
—Tho Niagara bookman has once moro
come to tho surface. Ho drove a young
couple to a plorgyman’s houso, officiated
as “best plan” for tbo bridogroom,
drovo the pair back to thpijr hotel, and
thou called upon tho clorgymun tq di
vide the fee with
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Hr bird l<
Wlion liMl'niiig fondly lumin,
No'or Hloons to oarth her wing, nor flios
Where idle warblers roam.
Hat high she shoots through nil* and light,
Abovo all low delay,
Where nothing earthly islands hor flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.
Ho grant mo, (loti, from orory oaro
And Htaln of paiudnn froo,
Aloft thtough virtue’s purer air,
To hold my courno to thoo!
No Hin to olond, no biro to atay
My soul aH home eho springs ;—
Thy Huuahlnn on her Joyful way,
Thy froodemon hor wings.
—Tlio proaont rago in Paris for floral
dooorations ns a part of femalo embel
lishment is snoh, that to look nt soma of
tlio ladios us they move along, ono would
imngiuo that thoy lmd pokod their head
and waist through a bod of gardou (low
ers, mid woro boariug off tho spoils over
half thoir porsous.
—A littlo throo-yoar old, warned by
hor mothornot to put hor fingors into tho
ohopping tray, lost tho knifo should ont
them off. said : “I will havo moro when
I got to honvon.” Hor mothnr replied,
“You will not nood thorn thoro." “Yos,”
said tho child, “I shall; elso how oau I
play on my harp ?”
—The Priuoo of Walos, tirod of tlio
dull routine of English publio dinners,
with tho snmo bills of faro, tho mono
tonous toasts nnd prolix spooalion, in
troduced smoking into tho programme.
Ho set tho fashion at tho last dinner of
the Agriculturists, lighting his oigar
almost os soon ns tlio roasting was ovor.
Of oourno, ho did not laok a following,
and soon tho prinoo's party woro whif
fing away oontontedly, nud proof against
tlio stupidest speeches that could be
made. Henooforth the poatpraudiul
cigar will bo a foaturo of Euglisu publio
dinners.
—At tho Oontral markot yoHtorday a
long-haired man mounted a box aud
oommonood : “ My friends, who hath
rodnoss of oyos ? Tho drunkard. Who
hath woo ? Tho drunkard. Tbo Lord
sent us pnro cold water. There’s noth
ing like w .” At that moment a boy
who wns throwing water from tho gar-
den-hoRO used around there nooidently
turned tho stream against the strangers
book, and hu jumpoa down aud said it
was a case of nesnult, and ran after a
warrant. He said that no human boiug
could throw oold water ovor him with
out boing mado to suffer for it.—Detroit
free Press.
—If you are woll, lot yourself alone.
One of tho groat errors of tlio ago is, we
modioato tho body too ninoh. More
persons aro doatroyed by eating too
muoh. Gluttony kills moro than drunk-
onuoss in oivilizod sooiety. Tho best
gymnasium is a wood yard, a olonring,
or n corn field. A hearty laugh is known,
the world over, to bo a health promoter;,
it elevates tbo spirit, onlivons tho circu
lation, nud is innrvolously ooutugeous in
a good sense. Bodily activity and
bodily health aro inseparable. If the
bowels are lose, lie down in bed, remain
thoro and eat nothing until you uro woll.
Tho throe bust medicines in tho world
aro warmth, abstinence aud repose.
If my lovo smile:
Ho burps of leaves laugh 'uoatli JSolian hands.
If my lovo speak :
Ho ring Uio merry voices of tlio woods,
That uiioor alike sunshine and solitudes.
carnation with tlio twilight dies.
If my love wnop:
Ho fall tlio crystal tear* of night in dew.
Hklos woop that earth may bloom moro
" Tampered ” Class.
Varied ns will be its application for
sciontifio and industrial uses, its utility
for domestic purposes will lie consider
able. It will bo a boon to the careful
housewife; besides its utility for all
articles of oommon household crockery,
china, hot water, and washing appara
tus, M. do la Uastie’s iuvontion will iu
future relieve her mind of all anxiety
regarding her most favorite china and
glass, for, if " tempered ” by this pro-
ooss, they will be proof against the
carelessness of tho most careless ser
vants. To give an illustration.
Amongst several articles which wo in
spected and tried one, which appeared
to tin to be a oommon china plate,
turned ollt to be of tho tempered glass
enamelled on the top. It was thrown
on tho floor, gave forth a bell-like
sound, but did not break. In foot, it
may be thrown about anyhow without
breaking. A square pieoo of glass
about one-eighth of an inch in thiok-
noss wits put into a wooden frame, rest
ing only with its sides on tbo latter, and
we wore surprised to find that it sus
tained the weight of an ndnlt man.
Chimney-glasses and globes will fly
dirootly if tho gas is turned on too sud
denly on lighting up; tempered glass
will stand any sudden changes. It is
eveu stated that pipes mode of this
glass will withstand tho greatest press
ure, and that it would bo worth while
trying it for water-pipes. If it wore
ouco established to be proof against
frost what discomfort would be spared
tho householder of London, who looks,
at the breaking up of frost, for the
bursting of his water-pipes and its oon-
oomitant misery, as regularly as to
tho non appearance of watoring-oarts
when an east or north wind is blinding
him with dust. Wo should not omit to
mention that thoro is a great probability
of tho efficiency and durability of the
now glass being pttt to a severe test.
We are informed that thoro is some
prospect of its boing used for tho large
tanks of the now Westminster aquannm,
now in oonrso of erection. The glass
plates forming tho sides of the tanks
are, of necessity, of such an enormous
thickness, to insure safety, which is not
always obtainable, as to make their con
struction very expensive. Glass tom-
pored by M. de la Bastio’a prooess, it is
stated, nood only be of a quarter the
thickness of ordinary plate glass used
for that purpose, and even then resist
any possible ftWQunt of lateral pressure.