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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,