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CEDARTOW'N RECORD.
W, S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors,
(’Kl)ARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, .ILLY 31, 1876.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 7.
TIMELY TOPICS.
twukeri from it* thirty ^
frith i
Wily i
< hTN>p
>o spr
) hundred n
lat (1 *
eighty-
elate! Russia, ami
•avaged ami almost depopu-
‘Pnrts of Europe,
Fon young children Now York is nt
present ouo of the deadliest cities ; at
no time do they thrive there overmuch,
but last week’s mortality among them
wus exceptionally great. Under flvo
years of Hgo tl oy died at the rato of
eighty-six per diem, the main trouble
being diarrhieal disease.
Tiik Ikiston Journal of Chemistry re
grets that the millers use all their
finest, soundest wheat for tine flour, and
the i*o«>rost for Graham or brown broad,
f?rr
lv for fai
name given to mixtures
spoiled flour. “ What •
d, sweet, whole wheat flo
ind. and put up seen
lv use, and any western m
ler who will give his
to furnishing such fl<
fortune Bpeodily ; sei
nutritive principles t
fitored up for mau’s fo
Tb
)d. M
suhstauce of Jno, D. Lee’s con
fession ih I hat thirty Mormons, with the
assistance of a largo number of Indians,
deooyod emigrants from their entrench
ment by a flag of truce ; that all wore
t the deed was do
the leaders of tho Mormon Church;
that he took news of tho massacre to
Brigham Young, who deplored tho
transaction, and said it would bring
r upon the Mormon people. The
state
the
lent of Lf
ns pr
> far as known, only
cports in regard to
Fr«
urn clerical nowspnpc
spooulale on the causes of the great
flood with somo asperity. It n]ipears
that the municipal council of Toulouse
recently refused to erect a statue to
"Ihn glorious and miraculous shep
herdess of 1‘ibrnc,” ,md one of theooun-
who had seen him displaying liis imita
tion hills, hail mistaken him for a per
son of largo aud available means, and
had murdered him for his money. Tho
Swede is now a fugitive,*niul lie fools
doubly tho weight of the joke, for ho
got no money, and tho Governor has
offered 81,000 for his arrest.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
EAST
Among tho improvements introduced
n tho United Htstoa asHiiy ofllc® in Wall
street, Now York, is a pair of balances to
weigh gold and Other piocinus motalH. Their
1,000,0
equal
10,0<
of gold, n
id the scalo
WERT
Four new Roman Catholic monaster
's aro to 1k> established out west,-
The small extent of flic damage done
i Kansas by grasshoppers is shown by tho
tot that her ^ resent crop of wheal Is the
-tho Hurjilui
>: t being
about ton inil-
Ro4 Cloud agency <
r hoof tracks. Ere
ml killed
examination of T. A. Edmunds
row J. Cochran, charged with being
>d in tlie attempted robbery of the
Express ear and killing of engineer
at Long Point, on the VamUIia roail,
took place at (Iroonnp, III
id afto<
on and n
doratih
mtiineny
“We
i fountain.''
Whereupon the Gazette do Nimcs now
remarks, “God has fulfilled the wish of
these honorable councilors and sent a
fountain to tho impilal of r.ngu«»doo
which they little expeoted. Had the
town voted the required sum Divine
Providence," says tho editor, “would
never have treated Toulouse so se
verely." It in understood that tho
bishop of Chartres is of the Mime
opinion.
Tn
lit te
e Fri
fith the
t (In
appointed by the
mention to
the pr.
tho gn
hip companies in
rd fo the shipment of peaches to
rpool have reported that they called
i the authorities of the American
ompany, and they favored
The company wonhl allow
to fit up tho steerage for-
with their refrigerators,
bo dono with five hundred
uch vessel. This port ion of
•old hold 25,000 or 00,(XK)
nth i
uld Ik
fitted up
which would carry 0,000 additional,
l in y would charge the growers for tho
diipimnt of this amount of frnit to
IjivorjKMil about two thousand dollars,
*»d give them the privilege of sending
uut an ngenf free of charge with each
consignment.
Tho contest for principal chief of the
liorekoo nation is getting ninro exciting i
The St. Louie Globe Democrat, has a
nt of a ilcspe
nlTvav Ih.
political factions or tho Obomkoo Imlian Na
tion at HWiu llayou, twolvo miles from Port
Hmitli, Aik., on tho 18th Inst., in which throe
moil- Sylvester King, Win. Bandars, and Jo-
nopli Oomly- wore killed. Seven men omptlod
louhle-barreled shot-guns into Ooodv. At last
» the
factioi
; abo
dirty on each side, ha t gathered at the scene
>f the dmioulty, and some tiring had taken
da ’p, hut with what result la not known.
Returns of the department of ngri-
mlturo, for .Inly 1. show tho condition of
pring and winter wheat logo til or, at about
Wii
leal, in-
l.eat W. H,.ri
in tlie
Of
enerally in high eon-
urea tho HoutUAt-
1 Gnlf states are generally above tho
hut in the Middle stales the oondl-
ry low, Now York ranging down to
I of tho Allughanios the prospect is
> botw
California repo
i 71 i
■ Springs, olectod
Stephen w^r
The follo\ .ig
dvoston . W. L. Tronliolni, Charles-
ury Hall, Mobile; J. W. Lnthrop,
; W. A. Good win, Memphis; J. F.
. Nasliville. and W. 0. Reynolds,
A commit!so of throo was appointod
saident to inquire Into the question
i'y of hills of lading. It was moved
■ompletton of tho Texas and Pacific
and acceptance of tho proposition
Col. Tima. A. Boott. Tho motion
od to without discussion.
I'ltldu tho past sixty tl
latioi
n. This ha
» than 20,IK
Moi
ooth
nlttod by
»f quarrols growing out of fouds ox-
•tween tin. Boss and Downing |>arties.
roman, Mr. Bmdiyliead, Jack Double*
nl Dick Fields, promiuout Downing
, have li' i
in churcli
Tho
t Talaqna
Tin. gonoral o<
Seminole nation is now in sossioi
It in thought they will reject tin
* Their nation foreshadc
umout with other natin
itory. MaJ. Ingalls has locati
uihlings and farm for tho Unit
II tho civilised trll-os near tl
nlldings aro now hoing orectoi
omo $10,000 or 816,000, Tho I
si,ip i
rill fai
ciihiih will make tho
filiation of Now Orleans about 205,000.
Jefferson Davia haa formally declined
ho prosidoncy of tlio Texas agricultural col-
ago.
There in bilk of establishing a lino of
toamera between Richmond, Va.,
Gen. Joseph E. Johnaton, of <
ins l,oflii elected president of tlie
uduntrial university
Diapatehea from Uaatrop, Li
>,f tho Ini
Tn
July
eighty tv
Island, ]■
below I
otnrna to the department
of agriculture allows that the acreage in
corn is about three per cent, greater
than luat year. New England haa in
creased iu<r acreage about olevon por
cent, and the Pacific states about one
per cent. All the great corn growing
regions have increased acreage—Mid-
elo states two per cent., Honth Atlantic
stab's three per cent. Gnlf states, iu-
lauil Bouthern atates, twelve per cent.,
states north of Ohio seven, wost of the
Mississippi fourteen per cent. Tho
oondition of the crop is below an aver
age in tho New England and South At-
'ho minimum condition,
cent., being in Rhode
and Alabama aro alao
srage, bat other Gnlf
states and inland southern states are
about the maximum, 112 in Mississippi.
All other states except Missouri, 108
are below tho average, the minimum
eighty-two being in Wisconain.
That roost, insufferable of all idiots,
tho practical joker, does not always
escape on earth the wrath that is laid
np for him. There lived and taught
school in St James parish, Louisiana,
recently, a man by the name of Bow
den, a well-meaning person, but af
flicted with that peculiar sense of
humor which is sure to get somebody
or other into trouble sooner or later.
One of his most successful jokes was
that of displaying advertising bills
printed in imitation of greenbacks, end
off-ring to bet hundreds ana thousands
of dollars with people who didn’t know
that he was fooling. The other day an
offejflive smell coming from an ont-
housoied to a search for the canse, and
the co»yfte of Bowden
beneath t. e floor and under
of corn bufc Bt where it was rapidly
decaying. ^Swedish plantation hand,
>wn by flrii last wool.
E G. Johnson, deputy oolloeto
of tho Florida
MISCELLANEOUS.
Lady Franklin, famous throughout,
tlio world ah tlio iM’ntod Wife of SlrJbhn
Franklin, who was Inst hourly thirty yours
Ago, iliod nt London on tlio 18th.
The Oonfederate ram Merrinmo Is to
ho rniHO.l from tlio bothau Of Hampton Bonds
nt onoo. Thorn Ih no runnoy/ih liar, hat j»
good iloal of old iron. .<? ^ *
The United Ht&te* mifttt nt Philadel
phia, Han Francisco, and Cunbti during Inst
fiscal yoar ooinod amrinnUi os follows : Gold,
31,000,000, trade dollar, ffl,000,000; subsld*
iry Hilvor and minor ooins,' $5,260,000.
The Northern Pacific railroad is to ho
old lit auction, nndor a doorito of tli
n Aligns! 2, in Now York oily, for tli
f tlio first mortgage bondholders,
basing committee lias been formoi
essoMsian of the road in the Interost of nil
ondheldorn doHlring to take port in tli
cliome.
Of tho twenty-fonr atliletic prize
min pot oil for At Hnrntoga by the Uiirtoon no
ngoH, Williams has taken
mil
’nle four each, Amherst throo, and Columbia,
iarvard, Wcsloyan and Uni.
Irown, Bowdoln, Prineolnn,
lartmouth did not take any prl
There seems to have boon a good deni
f humbug In the stories of tlio linm
manure, which could he hail for diving f.
United HI a) cn frigate (
in the wroe
herlanil in
mated ilia
win. It Is
ban *10,0
will h
A summary of the losses of fire ii:
Muranco oompanies for the first six months i
this year, shows that they aggregate inoi
than the ontiro Iohhoh for 1871. Tho lossi
this yenr liavo fallen, not upon great citio
hut ohlolly on country towns, on property di
stroyed on which insurance companies Inn
paid about twenty-six millions of dollars.
The July returns to tho department
od ho
Noi
olios
miles from Fori
With respect to tho southern ugrie.nl-
fail in the south.
The Maoon fGa.) Telegraph and Mos-
adly down at tho bool.
A teiriblo figlit occurred :
Iscambia county, Ala., last week,
7; Florida, 211; Mlssissipi
l; Tonnossoo, 203 , Xontuok
Indiana, HI; Illinois, 5«; Mi
York, 1'onnsylvanla and Tox
area as last year. Now Ham
•«d her small acreage 80 p
ADVERTISING RUSES
10 , I.oi
Kentucky is 31 pn
iidition is noted t
. Hal
tid Bye
famille
-fathor and two sons on o
gaged. Five of the party w
while tho sixth and last Ii
shot in his si.lo which mils!
only family foud.
Tennessee is to have plenty of fish
for her brains. Only a few days ago 70,000
<1 outright
1 of buck
'loath. A i
ad wore dc|
1 in I
agent of the government, and now 1
have been placed in tho same f
Knoxville 80,000 have been left in t
Tlio Tennessee river is also to rec
finny immigration before long.
Information has been rece
rrt Marion, Fla., that Lone Bear,
Cheyenne prisoners at that fort, 1
a. and application has boon m
him Hent to tho govoi
'onnd
a the
r, India
mptod s
on tho road to Florida. Under tli
order to send the families of those prisor
to them, directions have been given that
wife to each prisoner and tho children un
twelve years of age bo forwarded.
The government has purchased
New Orleans the steamer Planter, drawing
four feet of water. Hhe will be properly
o the Rio
o To:
•ande to pr.
as and i
iiit Me:
The Planter lias he
other steamers of
ning o
FOREION
The Irish eight won tin
»nge shield. Tlio score w
Icotch 1,603, English 1,502.
Tho Carlists have rolem
if the Hpanish steamer Bayoi
Russia has officially i
of tho Bru
ioIs c
Sanguinary New York.
The scenes of blood in tho oity
during the last twenty-four hours
transcend even onr usual shameful ex
hibit of the crimes of Saturday and
Hominy. In tho Eighth ward a gang
of drunken negroes carried a fight over
a gambling dispute from one bar-room
to another and thence into the streets.
One of them, maddened by pain and
liquor, plunged into a crowd of per
sons returning from church, and draw
ing a clasp kinfe, cut his way along the
sidewalk with ntter recklessness as to
tho result. Two innocent men received
his stalls; one pierced through the
heart died instantly, and the other now
lies in a hospital, mortally wounded.
In another part of tho city a son kills
his father on the plea of protecting his
mother from a violent, assault.
Hester street, an Italian was fatally
stabbed. In Mulberry street, also,
there was a probable murder, and
uumorons crimes of a more ordinary
character are reported. It should be
said that in most of these cafes the
police conld not have expected danger,
but they will lie held to strict account
if the criminals are not brought to
Besides queer anil eurious advertise-
mmits, of which a number of exnuples
were given in the World, tho msos
which advertisers now and then resort
worth recording aud fon t an
interesting study. One daring genius,
for instance, not long ago oallod on a
large advertising concern in this o'ty
and proposed to post, tho ndvortisohoiit
df a patent plaster for tlio chest on the
tomb stones in Groonwood oemetorv.
Of course a howl of indignation would
have been raised from Maine to Taxas,
and the plaster would thereby have
an advertisement that hun
dred’s of tlumsauds of dollars could not.
have purchased. Tho agent, however,
declined tho tempting offer, much to
the youth’s astonishment, who dtoaiut
hail made the happy discovery which
9 to float him oh the full tide, to for
tune.
ANIUSHSON’h OHKWINO TOBACCO.
The tlrHt. successful experiment in the
iy of outre advertising was made shout
teen years ago by Anderson, tho to
bacconist, who adopted the following
method : Desiring to have his goods
introduced extensively among the retail
irs, ho employed a number of njbtn
work," as tho politioiui'H say, iho
us wards or the city. One of these
issers would enter a oigar store a
ask the proprietor for a paper of " /
fine-out." Tlio tobaooonist
all probability had never heard of f)io
article, but rooommondoil some otilwi
aker’s, which the enuvaskor\)ontenipi.-
utsly declined. Tn About au hour an
other customer would eomu iTtiuid nitrite
milar demand, and boforo tuo week
t ovor the proprietor would find
many inquiries for this special brand
that ho was compelled tc make n pur
chase, and an the article was only stild
Ihn urge packages, it became tinsvf&fty
him; in order to effect a salo, to rec
ommend it to bis customers, and so ttu
article ‘became ouite'popular. Theoau-
yassers were oftoutimos compelled to
buy, bijt ns tho goods woro returned to
jtho manufacturer and resold, vary littlo
JoHt x iu the transaction. Ton men,
therefore, at a salary of 8H a woek, for
thoso were the days’of low wages, ootttd
id .three months have induced ov«ky
cigar-store nropriotor to make a pur
chase, and thus nt an expense of hurtfly
81,000, the goods ware effectually intro
duced to the trado.
This idea, though very old,
nessfully tried by tho Lorillards ahoift
four or five years ago, and emulated,
Hopio wag
iqu fiirnv
dhw^o^ <«» ’ wniionrliflfd fiucohn
Tlie TJOfftlords — A '
in the newspapoi
to 81 denomination were plaood in f/itdr
papers of priao-tobnoco, also orders for
ineersehaum pipes, Ac. Tho niiniility
if the allowing puhlio was aroused, and
every man who found a bill—for the
precaution was taken to keep ono-hnlf
of it at the office-—or an order, was
obliged to register his name and rosi-
whioh were \iu due time pub
lished in tho papers. The Lorillards
rino placarded the advertisement exten
sively over the oity and throughout the
uountry, until the article became a
liousoholil word. Owing to the princi
ple perhaps that, habit, is second nature,
the man who purchased this brand for
the sake of a probable prize became
accustomed to ask for it, anil the sales
got to bo quite extensive.
•I ICL1COHATMIIO DISPATOIIKH.
About six years ago n well dressed
person called upon tlio proprietors of
one of the large sewiug-muoliine manu
facturers, and for a very moderate oou*
sidoratlon offered to bring before the
notice of a large number of residents
the qualities and superior advantages of
their make. Tho offer was accepted,
mid the enterprising projector hired a
number of boys and attired them in a
plain uniform somewhat resembling that
now worn by tho conductors on railroad
lines. Those youths had books similar
to those used liy telegraph messengers,
and their duty was to deliver at various
residences what purported to bo tolo-
graphio dispatches. On tho receipt of
omitmus-looking missives of
o, there was a groat, commotion in
the house. The hoy, who doomed to
have been born in a hurry, and hud not
reached a point of leisure, would insist
ii having his book immediately signed,
'lie anxious recipient, after opening the
formidable looking envelope, would dis
cover only a circular about sewing-inn
chinos, and in the first, outbreak of in
dignation at being badly sold would
crush it up and throw it leddufbiitafter
little culm consideration generally
picked it up to show it to her husband
and have a laugh over the shrewd
played upon her Tho circular was read
ami re rcud, and when the time
buy a machine tho names of the makers
seemed like those of old friends.
One of the most original plans of
effecting a large sale of a novel was
practised by an Ann street firm a year
or two ago. They employed a number
of penmen to write and address copies
of something liko the following letter to
over twenty thousand people throughout
t he Union :
No.- AnnHtkkt, NkwYens,
they are still making a profit and giving
employment to their full eomplemout of
operatives. The fabrics made at the
southern mills are in steady demand,
while thoso of the Now England mills
are henped up in unsold and unsalable
stooks—tho reason for tho olosing last
week of tho Atlautio mills at Lawrence,
Mass., whereby 1,250 operatives are
thrown out of employment, being that
the company have n surplus of goods on
hand which they cannot, dispose of. In
addition to this fact, it is stated that tho
Georgia, Honth Carolina aud Tonnossoo
goods are driving tho northern goods of
the same grade out of tho inarkot. They
ooitlil not do this unless they are manu
factured at. loss cost,—and this is the
•crot of the whole diiTcrouoo between
the oondition of the mills iu the two
sootious.
Crop RoportH.
The Chicago Timos publishes re
ports of tlio oondition of tho growing
crops and the progress of tho harvest.,
collected from all portions of tho United
States east of tho Rocky Monntaius.
The dispatches comprise reports from
or 000 counties. Tho Times makes
t> following analysis: The wot.
iiither of the past two mouths has re
sulted in an extraordinary growth of all
kinds of grasses, oonscmiontly tho hay
crop will bo large in all parts of tlio
west., and aa it has boon very generally
harvested, and is therefore tree from
all dangor of damnge, thoro nood be no
fear of a scarcity of hay. Wheat has
boon harvested in tho soctiou lying
south of the -Mth degree of latitude,
lu Wisconsin it is much above tho
•rage in ouantity and quality.
Illinois and Indiana some damage has
boon dono to tho crop by rains, hops
aud other onuses, so that tho yield will
not probably exoood three-fourths of
tho average.
In Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and
Iowa the reports show that the oropB
will ho largely iu exoess of last year ;
in tho two first named statos tho depre
dations of grasshoppers has boon in
significant ; unless Home unlocked for
aalamity occurs tho producers will re
alize groator return for their labor than
ever boforfl. In Kentucky, Michigan,
Ohio, Missouri and tho custom states
thoro is overy prospect, of a far hotter
yield than heretofore, and tho produc
tion will bo in oxoobb of tho consump
tion. The produot iu those stntos is
represented iih boing muoh superior in
quality to that of former years. It is
notable for tho first time in 12 years
tho south will raise sufficient bread-
stuffs for homo consumption.
Oats promise an extraordinary large
yield. In some suctions the heavy
rains that havo fallen recently have
lodged tho graiu somewhat, and tho
bhiuoli hug ollMwhera 1ms oiiiiHod some
dainage, lmi ilium In ovary hirtlowti-w
that tho yield will bo at least 15 to 50
bushels to tho aore, and iu many sec
tions much larger.
Rye and barley promise well ; these
crops are not extensively grown, but
there is every indication that, tho supply
will lie equal tn tho demand.
Corn is not yet matured in tho north
west. In Alabama, Mississippi, Geor
gia and some parts of Arkansas and
Tennessee the orop has been hurvosted
and is more abundant, than for many
years. in Illinois, lows, Missouri,
Ohio and Indiana the crop is hack ward,
Inti unless fronts should occur previous
to the middle of Muptomhor, there is no
reason to apprehend a short orop. lu
Miuuesotu, Wisconsin and Michigan the
backwardness of tho orop is sueli that
there is little hope of more than half a
crop, but us these states raise but little
corn, the diminution of tho orop will
have littlo iiifiueueo on the supply.
Potatoes will yield u full orop in nil
sootions. The Colorado bug is or.ly
seen for the most part iu the eastern
states. In the west it 1ms disappeared,
having been almost exterminated by
heavy rains. Home oomplaints of its
depredations conic from points east of
the Ohio.
Tho reports of tho cotton
favorable. Tho army worm, so destruct
ive to tho plant,, Ims appeared in but
few sections and has been deferred from
active operations by exigencies of the
weather. The cotton produot of Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and Virginia will be the largest
ever produced. Tho plant is flowering
in even the more nortnern latitudes, nml
in the extreme south pioking bus com
menced. Planters are sanguine of a
splendid crop, and us there has been no
trouble with negro laborers, there will
lie no dangor of loss from iuoomploto
harvesting.
As to fruit and vegetables, dispatches
uro not very full, but as those products
supply but temporary wants, aud there
is no complaint of failure, there will bo
probably enough.
ENGLAND'S NEW RIVAL.
MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE.
'dfuiioin/ h'li. ilnt (h. Font Dow <\f thn VV.ot-
llow th, Hutch, I- ir.M Fhnnol nn.f E,
At the opening of the trial of tho
Mormons implicated iu the Mountain
Meadow massacre, at Reaver, Utah,
Robert Kays testified as follows: Came
to Utah ’October 2, 1857, through
Mountain Meadows saw piles of bodies
of woman and children, piled promis
cuously ; there were sixty or seventy
bodies; the ohildvon wore from two
months old to twelve years ; the smaller
were torn by wolves and crows; some of
the bodies were shot, some had their
throats out. some stabbed, and all were
torn by wolves oxuopt one woman, who
laid a little way off, and appeared as if
ittdocp, a hall hole in her left aide; it
appeared the bodies woro dead fifteen
days; seven of uh saw it. Piles of men’s
hodios woro further on; didn’t, go to see
thorn; no clothing on the bodies, except
one sock on the log of one man; nono
woro scalped.
Assatol Bonnott culled: Was at tho
Meadows December, 1857; saw the
bouea thoro; horrihlo sight; skeletons of
women and children; curls, long tresses
hair, driod blood; children 10 to 12
years; some skulls had flesh dried
ou; tho bodies had boon covered
up; woIvoh evidently dug them up
Phillip Liugor Hmitli. a dofondont. of
Hau Rurimmli, California, oalleil: Pros
ecution entered nolle proHoqui us t.o
himself. Lived in Cedar oity from
1852 to 1857. Was at tho massnere iu
Hoptombor, 1857; hoard of tho em
igrants coming. The people were for
bidden to trade with them ; felt had
about it; saw u few of them at Codar ;
heard rumors of trouble H inlay. It
was tho custom to have meetings of the
prosidcut anil council, bishop and
council and high ooiiuoil. Tho matter
came up for disouHsion as to their du-
struution. Haight, Ilighoo, Morrill,
Allou, Mills, myself unit others won
there. Homo brothorn opposed their
destruction. I did. llaight jump
up and broke up tho meeting. I ask.
what would bo tho oonsequenoes of
such an not. Then llaight. got mail.
Tho Vndinus wore to destroy them. Ou
Monday, Highoo, Whito and I mot;
sumo subjoot. again. 1 opposed the de
struction. llaight relented, aud told
White anil I to go uhoud and toll the
pooplo tho omigrauts should go through
safe. Wo did so, and on the road
mot John 1). Loo. Wo tolil whore
going, and he replied 1 have
something to say about that matter;
we passed the omigrauts at Iron Hprings;
next morning we passed them again ;
as we ontne back they hail twenty or
thirty wagons ; over a hundred people,
old men, middle aged men, old w»-
mou, middle aged women, youths and
children; uour home I met Ira
Allen ; he said tho fltrifVfunts'
doom was sealed, the rile on$ no-' '
struct ion ; throo days after llaight sent
THE QKAVE’B VOICES.
FACTS AND i’ANULEB.
—A hello nt Hnrntogn wears diamonds
ou her shoes.
—Dio Lewis is respectfully allndod
to as an idiot.
A lively urchin accosted a drug
store man tho other day : “ Mister,
please gimme a stick of lieorioo, your
clerk goes with my sister."
—Tho London Lnuoot says that uo
person should sit for moro than half an
hour. H’poBon a follow is sitting on the
sofa with his girl, in ho going to be
particular to a minute?
—Tho supply of diamonds from
Honth Africa has fallen off while tho
from Honth Amorioa has inoronsed
Well informed porsons assert that half
of tho diamonds worn in Amorion have
been smuggled.
—Tlio Patrons of Husbandry of Indi
ana havo resolved that they will uotbuy
certain agricultural implements, for tho
very reason that tlio manufacturers re
fuse to rooognizo the grange agents, and
will only sell through tho old established
agents.
—Thoro in uu English papor wliloli
thinks thnt in oaso of war the chief
food producing nations, by combining
against England, could conquer her
», anil said orders had come from
oainp; didn’t get, ulong, wanted rein
forcements; thnt. he had beau to Prnwiu,
and got, further orders from Oolouol W.
H. Damn to fiuinh the tnnsnncro, to de
coy and spnre only small children who
could not tell the tale. I went, off, met
Allen, our first runner, and others.
Ilighoo said : you aro ordered out,
armed and equipped; so I went; Hop
kins, Highoo, John Willis and Hum
Purdy went along; had two Imgga^e
Jtajnd Dwelot
i „/ Cor
Indin.
Manufac
i loam that yon ha
ami tl... boro of tliat popnlar
will be purchased and fitted out to act I justice—Ncv) York £riOune,
Grub, Esq., entitled
“ Tho Hounding Hummer of tbo Big Gulch,"
and I fool constrained to call upon you for an
explanation of your unpardonable conduct.
Yours, <to., Bamuki, Hiiaiip.
The roipiont of this startling letter,
not having read the popular work,
would experience some curiosity to
know what the hero was like, and seek
ing the first book store mane a purchase.
Southern and Northern Cotton Mills.
The Ht. Louis Republican considers
it a fact worth making a note of, that
while nearly all tho New England cotton
mills have been running on short timo
for nearly a year, and several of the
largest of them have been compelled to
suspend work entirely, the mills
south have generally been running up
to their full capacity ail through tho
dull times, and still in fall operation.
It is true these southern mills aro uol
declaring the 80 and 40 por cent, divi
dends they declared prior to 1873, but
The manufacture of cotton is rapidly
increasing in Rritish India, and as con
siderable profits aro realized, the ten
dency is toward continued investments
and tho extension of this groat, indus
try. It in now manifest that Manches
ter has lost its former control of the
astern markets. In tho single presi
dency of Bombav thoro are twenty-five
cotton mills in full operation, working
(100,000 spindles and 7,000 looms. Tho
spindles produco about 130,000 pounds
of cotton thread a day, of which about
50,000 pounds are used to produce
waggons; got to Hamjileu’s riinoho iu
the night, three miles from emigrants ;
there met Loo and others from tlio gen
eral camp, where the lurgust number of
men were ; then found the omigrauts
not all killed. Estonian or Loo went
out with a white flag. A man from tlio
emigrants met them. Lee and a nmu
set down on the grass aud had u talk ;
don’t know what they talked. Leo went
with the man into the iutrenehments.
After some hours they came out and the
emigrants name out with their wounded
in wagons ahead. Tho wounded wero
tJiosu hurt iu the three days previous
light. Next came tho W'*mon, next the
men. As the emigrants came up tho men
halted, and the women on foot and chil
dren and wounded went on uhoad with
John D. Lee. Tlie soldiers had to bo
all ready to shoot at the word. When
tho word halt came the soldiers fired.
I tired onoo; don't know if I killed a
man; not ull killed at the first fire.
Haw the women afterward dond, with
their throats cut. I saw, as I came up
to thorn, a man kill a young girl. Tho
meu were marched in double file first,
then thrown in siugle file, with tho sol
diers along side. Tlio emigrants
congratulating themselves on
safety from the Indiuns. At last John
M. Highoo came and ordered my squint
to fire. Loo, liko tho root, had firearms,
No emigrants were allowed to escape ;
saw soldiers on horses to take on wing ,
those who ran; saw u man run ; saw Bill
sturt on a horse and kill him, anil a
wounded man beg for life. Highoo out
his throat. I wus told to gather up the
littlo children. I went, and saw a
woman running toward tho men, crying,
“ My husband, my husband ! ” A
soldier shot her in the baok, and she
fell dead.
—An Englishman -traveled, of course
—relates that an American gentloman
who had nt an early age gone the over
land route to California, told him this :
We crossed the sandhills near the scene
of the Indian mail robbery and mussaoro
of 1853, wherein the driver anil con
ductor perished, and also all the pas
sengers hut one. Rut this must have
boon a mistake, for lit different times
afterward on tho Pad fie ooast,
personally acquainted with
tills
ohiefly in the
without flriug a shot or landing
soldier by simply declining to deal with
her.
-Lightning plays some straugo pranks.
Iu Massachusetts it struck Deacon Kim
ball's house; in Now York it sent a
tract peddler on his way to tlio shilling
shore, Now in Tonnossoo it lias been
1 fooliiUMviAb thu liimL. foot-, of a,mule.
TlfoSSuIffiu.vtKo W*.
ning moltedUiB shoos off boforo ho
conld kick.
James Brown,” of Ht. Gilos, Lou
den, claims to bo rookonod among tho
n. tile hand of vivisoetionists, his trado
being the catching of oats and “skin
ning’em alive." “Tho simple fact iH,"
he says, “I got an honest living by
skinning cats^nd bjicauft skins takon
from tho live“ats are worth sixpence
apiece moro then those token from tho
animal whon dead I (-kin tho oats alivo
whenever I can."
—This is what a bank oashior wrote
hi Washington when he wanted “reg
istered bonds" : “I may not havo ex
pressed myself properly, not knowing
much about this business of swopping
bends, but my intentions aro pure and
innocent. I wish to havo these bonds
iu snob a oondition that whou burglurs
come to my room at midnight, put a
pistol to rav head, twist my nose, take
no by tho ear, load me to my bank,
lompol me to unlock my safe, I onu
1 on template tho removal of my t Kinds
cloth. These
Bombay Island, where a new spinning
mill, just opened by a wealthy Hindoo,
and working 25,000 spindles, makes u
total of seventeen working mills. Up
country there are soverul others—one at
Hnrat, two at Broach, two at Ah mod a-
bad, one at Jnlganm, one in tho native
state of Bhownugger, and one at Mu
dras. Extensions aro also rapidly going
forward. Eipht extensions uro in course
of construction at Bombay, chiefly on
share capital, and those will provide at
least for tho working of 40,000 more
spindles and 1,845 looms. Tho machine
ry is always of tho very newest and most
approved construction, and uo efforts
aro spared on tho purt of the Indiun
producers to enable their goods to com
pete uccessfnlly with tho choicest pro
ducts of foreign mannfaoture— United
, &tat08 Economist,
thirty* three
t wero wonndod
during that massacre and barely escaped
hundred
four pooplo who
with their lives. There was no doubt of
tho truth of it; I had it from their <
lips. Aud one of tho parties told me
thut ho kept coining across arrow heads
his system for nearly seven years
after the massacre.
A farmer on tho road between Charl
ton aud Worcester, Mass., having been
terribly annoyed by drummers, put up
a sign : “No sowing-maobines wanted
here. Got one." It was no use; tho
next drummer wanted to see the
machine, “and perhaps he’d hitch up a
trade.” Ho the farmer put up: “Got
tho small-pox hero." That worked well
for a littlo while, but then came along a
drummer frightfully pitted with the
small-pox, who smilingly said ; “Heein’
you’ve got it bad here they've put me
on this route,”
smile that is ohild-liko and
bland."
If thoro is a manufacturing oity on
this continent which might bo oallod
thu Manchester of Amorioa, it is
Lowell; Mass. Thoro aro daily em
ployed uourly eighteen thousand opera
tives in tho various mills. The capital
stock of the several corporations is
over 813,000,000, whilo the total valua
tion would foot up six times sixteen
millions. In many instances tho origi
nal stockholders have, perhaps, more
than doubled their investments by mag
nificent dividends ; aud it is a notable
fact that oven in these donrossod times
the stock of those old and wealthy cor
porations is not for sale at any price.
Bismarck’s Sons.
The two Bismarck boys aro, perhaps,
the most vicious of their kind, aud yet
in the towns whore they havo played
thoir most scandalous pranks, they aro
spoken of with a sort of admiring awo.
Count Herbert, who has been in during
his winter mission, has introduced more
than Prussian diplomacy into tho by no
moans grateful Bavarian court. Thoro
is no end to tho scandals circulated con
cerning that young gentleman, the hun
dredth part of which would servo to
banish nim from self-rospeoting com
munities in any other oountry. His
younger brother, Count John, is too
young to conceal his excesses, and too
blunt, even if he wero not. He is of
tho impression that iris father holds
Germany iu foe simple, and if that
doesn't give him the right to do as ho
pleases, what can ? Bo lie does as ho
pleases, and he ploasea to do exactly
what the world in general holds to bo
low and very debasing. His haunts are
moro notorious for democratic vioions-
iiess than aristocratic seclusion. His
habitual state is not one to recommend
him to polite attention, anil if the face
Mr. Beecher soarehiugly soys in
some of his characteristic analysis, an
index of man’s ruling passions, Count
John would bo about the person to bring
on a Brooklyn witness stand. Herbert
is rather fine-looking as his race go, but
John is dump, blear of oye, soorbnnoof
vissuge, and ooaroo of manner generally.
Tho pair give the prince, their father,
unceasing anxiety, not -uly for their no
torious profligacy, but for the difficulty
he fluds in keeping thorn on terms with
their army and diplomatic associates.
Ho has been striviug to marry Count
Herbert to a pretty oountess of the
Protestant party, bat I am told tuo
father refuses. The consent.of the lady
is never asked in affairs 0* this kina.—
Berlin Letter,