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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & CO,, Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1S75.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 13.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Thk public debt statement for August
shows u reduction of about u million
and u lmlf during tho past month.
“ Camr to bis death by accidental
drowning,” is tho verdict of tho Han
Francisco jury in tho cnso of Ralston.
Tub Freedmen’s bank commissioners
think that a dividend car be declarod
for tho unfortunate depositors by Christ-
PitiLADRtiPiiiA this year beads tho list
of United States jiorls in tho molasses
trade. Tho bulk of tho importations
for the year nro usually made in tho first
half year.
Uecknt rejH»rta say that tho colony of
Liberia ih prospering. Now plantations
aro developing, commodious dwellings
uro going up, and the schools and
churches nro well attended.
Nrxr Tuesday will boa blaok-letter
day in tho annals of Arkansas. No less
than six murderers aro thou to bo exe
cuted at Fort Smith. Arkansas can
claim pro-ominenco in ono respect ut
least.
Tiik “wheat bolt” is enlarging its
area. Arkansas, for instance, will ex
port small grains this year for tho tlrst
time in its history. Tho Hamo general
tendency to raiso rnoro and buy less is
observable throughout tho south.
Thk Atlantic Mills, nt Lawrence,
Mass., started on Monday, after boirg
idle seven weeks. Tho stock on hand
has been sold to good advantage. There
is a prospect now for steady employ
ment for one thousand hands.
Tine emineut ooinposor, Gounod, has
declined the dircctorslrop of tho pro
posed American College of Music,
goutly hinting at tho sumo time that
an Amorieau institute of tho kind
should have an American director.
In an agricultural couvontiou at
Dalton, Go., a fow days ago, u gentle
man oallod on all present who owned
sheep and no dogs to rise, and thirtocu
roso. Ho then called upon all who
owned dogs and no sheep to rise, aud
sixty or seventy responded.
Thk great suspension bridge between
New York and Brooklyn is assuming
shape. Tho towers on both sides will
i>o oornpletvd next spring, and tho 1
tilings, who constructed tho suspension
bridge across the Ohio at Cincinnati,
will porf< mi tho feat of spanning tho
Bixtecu hundred feet chasm with
Valmakkda has callod on tho loyal
merchants and planters of Cuba for
$800,000 in gold to pay for tho trans-
porta! i >n of tho fresh troops from.Hpaiu.
Ho gives each person twenty-fonr hours
to “respond favorably. If they do not
rot oo his circular they aro declarod
relicls. Yalmaseda will sqncezo tho
gold out of theflO unfortunates.
There is evidence that tho French
governmont will put a stop to tho Ger
man Catholio pilgrimage to tho shrino
of Oar Indy of L inrdos in tho south
of France, if it oar. da so. Tho pope
has given bia blowing to tho movement,
howovor, am! ho will hardly interdict it
now. Tho Fronoh fear complications
with Germany.
Tnn liabilities of tho Into bank of Cal
ifornia are estimated at £11,000,000, aud
its assets at 87,000,000. Tho stock
holders will loso not only their invest
meat in stock, bnt will bo heavily as
Bossed to pay tho claims of depositors,
tho «ntiro assets of tho bank only foot
ing up about eighty per cent, of such
claims.
Dbhpitk tho laws governing tho im
portntion of cattlo in England, which
Are so strict that if only ono animal is
found diseased tho whole cargo is
slaughtered, tho distemper hai broken
out in Dorsetshire, and is rapidly
spreading. Happily, few cattlo nro
brought to the United States from
Europe, bnt tbo present circnrastacoes
warrant every precaution being em
ployed at Americau porta to guard our
herds from this fearful plague.
will bo but littlo defloionoy over
last year. Tbo eutiro surplus of tbo
(Jnitod States will, however, bo con
sumed by Europe, aud good prices will
thereforo be roalizod nntil tho next har
vest. That which makca tho farmer in
Europe groan, makes tho Americau
granger smilo liko n basket of ohip".
At Inst it looks as if tho Carlist oaneo
ns about to bo abandoned. Tho unr*
ndor of Soo do Urgel was a sad blow
to Don Carlos, who is represented ns
boiug greatly dispirited. It has boos
followed by disastrous routs of smaller
bodies of Carlists, who, besides being
greatly outnumbered by tho governme nt
troops, have but littlo hope for tho
future, and tight only because thoir sit
uation is desperate, nnd compels it.
Their fnturo affords scarcely a hope,
and wo may look, therefore, for an
early disbandening of tho army and tho
flight of its lenders into France.
Tiiruk is a good deal of iuterest nt
tho east relative to tho location of tho
tow mint nt tho west. New York wants
a coining oflloo in connoctiou with tho
assay office there, nnd will combine with
Chicago if Chicago will support her
claim. Philadelphia will light New
York's enterprise, for if carried it would
make tho Quaker city a secondary placo
in tho matter of coinage. Philadelphia
will also form a combination with some
western oity to defeat Now York. If
New York and Chicago unito, Philadel
phia nnd 8t. Louis will form a combina
tion. Tbo quostion, nt any rate, will
oreato a good deal of troublo in tbo
next congress.
The General Outlook.
Whether tbo expectations which havo
been entertained of an improved condi
tion of trade for tlio present year are to
bo realized or not the next ninety days
will determine. That these hopes of
revival havo not boon sanguine ia true,
but tlio disappointment wbioh may fol
low their non-fulfllmont will bo nono
tho less serious. With tho exception of
a few important localities, the ngrioul
tnral production has boon unusually
largo, and tho favorable prices that p
vail for several loading products ought
to stimulate an early realization. Tlio
movement of crops is the old fashioned
legitimate machinery by which to get
money into circulation, and thus in-
oroase tho purchasing aud dobt-paying
power of tho pcoplo, oapoo ally in
agricultural localities. That thia would
bu a vital step toward improvement
trade nono will deny, following as
•lues two years of great economy, a
in view also of small stocks of merchan
dise nnd exceptionally low pricos for
all staples. Great manufacturing eon-
tros ami important importing interests
ought to be bonofltted by tho absorption
imulated stocks of goods, anil
tho wholo oouutry should feel tho thrill
life in business. A few weeks
will determine whether this will bo tho
ffoot of nu imracuso increase in tho
roalth of a vast producing class ; and
though it will undoubtedly tako many
months to realize that wealth, tho oper
ation by which that realization will bo
carried forward ought noon to bo mani
fest, and the probable result pretty
definitely anticipated. Wo are, there
fore, on tho ovo of a most important
and critical season in tho commercial
history of tho country, and close ob
servers will watch witli some anxiety tho
indications which tho next fow weeks
will afford.—Ihe American Grocer.
This Man Ought to bo a Banker.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
EABT
The old publishing houso of Loo A-
Shepherd, Bouton, has failed; liabilities,
*500,000
At Hopkintou, a boy natnod Morris
ltyan, aged sixteen, started down stairs with
a loaded gun, IntoiuliiiR to shoot, a cat, when
his sistor Mary, agod Ilf toon, who dosirod to
saro tlio cat's life, caught tier brother by tlio
shoulder to pull him hick. At the same time
two other sisters, younger than Maty, came
to tlio head of the stairs. In tho sou III o he-
twoon Morris and Mary tlio gun wont off,
killing Mary and ono or tho other sisters,
other sister was wounded in tho arm aud
luted in tlio
lother
WEST
Tho Euglish Earl of Dmirnvon has
bought a largo pices of land in Estes Bark,
Colorado, and dosigns to proservo tho game
there for spoiling purposes, Tlio neighbor
ing solders do not approve of ttiiH, ami Ills
lordship wilt probably havo to employ a largo
foroo of gamekeepers.
A flispatoh from 8au Francisco, saya
I). O. Mills, Prosldont of tlio Bank of Califor
nia, autlioiiznsa statement that capitalists of
that city will subscribe sufficient to tako up
tho stock of Hie Bank, and guarantees tlio
stockholders against loss. All claims Against
tho Bank will bn paid in full, and they will ro-
sumo business immediately.
The flood of Ralston to Wm. Sharon
conveys all Ills property, real and personal,
wherever found, and abaoluto ownership,
with tlio right to ilispoi
terms and prfoo i as ho
ply tho same and pr<
proporty hereby oonvo
and uses as said Wn
judgment, deem best fi
> of tho eatuo on such
onum beat, and to ap-
iooiIh thereof, and of
ed, to Biioli purposes
Sharon may, In his
our Joint and soveral
board aud drowned. Thero was great danuigo
n Central proviuco of Japan. Earms
Hooded and many lives lost. Houses,
bridges and upwards of *2,000,000, or produce
woro destroyed.
A special to tho Times from Berlin,
says: '•Tliore is no doubt that all of North
era Bosnia along tho river Havo is full of
roballlon. Tlio fugitives who sought safety
on Austrian soils number SO,000 nnd are
mostly wives and children of robots who havo
dosorlol their villages and made for the
hills. llerzegovinla the iuaurgcntn have
funned a national government under Lynbo-
bratloh. Tlio iiisurgout loaders havo boon
assured by llioir Montonogrln fi lends that
very shortly Montonogro wilt cotno to thoir
assistance. In Hervia military organisations
continue. In Belgrade Ihe war oflloo lias
ordered tlio arms, etc., of tho militia to ho
made ready for immediate Inspootion. The
Sorvin militia tnou have been diroolod to pro
vido themselves with three days’ food, should
tlioy ho ealloil out. Provisions aro being
stored in tho forlress. Arrangements havo
boon made to seize all horses in tlio country.
Tho steady growth of tho robolllon may ho
inferred from tlio following pnssago in a
Montogrin official Journal, the Olas-Oorna*
gor.a: “Tho luaurrootlnn is fast assuming
formidable dimensions. Hyniploms of serious
dodgus multiply. Mon aro yoarning for war,
ai d oily-tonguod diplomacy is impatient to
t Lhci
Tills
iction Ih h
result in emancipation. Not tho rulot
it nations will doeldo what is to ho done,
o robolllon becomes gonornl, Hervia ai
ontonogro will not bo idle spectators. N<
Hhe snifl slic'd tako a
bnt while tho grocer wn
out sho uskefl tho prioo,
and aho shrieked :
“ Seventeen cents ?”
dozen of f ggs,
i counting them
He told her,
• Why that’s outrageous !”
• Well, it's hard times, and everything
i up.
Thk government is reported to have
more silver on hands than it can stow
away. An effort has been mado to get
ppaoo in the Boston custom-house, but
tho blundering Mnllett put tho vault in
the second story without sufficient sup
ports, and only 83,000,000 can be placed
there. Every money mill tho govern
ment owns is rattling out silver by tho
millions of dollars, and it looks as if the"
secretary of tho treasury contemplated
tho speedy substitution of silver coin
for fractional rags.
Tire much-mooted consolidation o
the Western Union nnd Atlantic A- Pa
oific telegraph lines has at last come to
pass, and tho telegraph system almost
of the entiro continent of North America
in now gathered into the control of
vast monopoly. The Western Union
absorbs the rival corporation, the terms
of the transfer being a guarantee of an
annual dividend of 7 per cent, upon a
25 per cent, valuation of the stock of the
Atlantic fc Pac flic, or 82,000,000.
Thk recent pleasant weather in Great
Britain and on the continent has en
abled tbo farmers there to gather their
crops with but little iojnry. The yield,
however, is deficient, both in quantity
and quality, especially in Great Britain „ „ m
and Franoe. In other parts of Europe 1 ia least his first
8he sat down on a sugar barrel,
sighed several times, and asked if eggs
were likely to bo lower or higher.
“ r don’t claim to be a prophet,” ho
replied, as ho twisted a sheet of paper
into tho shape of a funnel, “ but 1 daro
say that they'll bo down to 101 cents in
]. hh than a week, and perhaps go lower.
Trade, which is naturally depressed
during July and August, is looking up
a little. Our oxj>ort« of gold are now
qualed by our imports. Tho calling
n of bonds puts moro ready money
afloat, and capitalists aro mudi moro
hopeful this week than last. Tho crops
aro about ready to move, navigation
prosjiects are brighter, and public con
fldenoe in financial measures is rapidly
returning. Ono thing moves around
another, you Bee, and though, as I said
before, I am not a financier, and my
predictions are not entitled to any great
weight, it seems to me that eggs have
got to come down. A great current of | yin
eggs is setting toward this point from a
dozen different directions, and oven if
the calling in of bonds and tho sale of
surplus gold don’t produce lower prices,
BOUTH.
Tho yellow fever has disappeared at
Barrancas. Tho Mayor inmiod a proolamatli
removing <|uarantimi agaiiiHt Ponsacola
that city is porfootly lioalthy.
Tho Rev. Dr. Barns Hoars, agent of
tlio Poahoily Educational Fund, write
agent Tor Louisiana that tlio trilHtooH of tlio
fund havo docUlod to withdraw any fiirtln
appropriation to that Htalo on account of It
unHottloil condition of affairs tlioro.
Tho Dallas (Texas) Ilorald estimates
tho total of tlio wheat crop in Toxas tills yoar
n . 8.000,000 imshols, of tthloh tlioro will bo
shipped out of tlio Htato about 0,000,000
bunbolH. Tho probable increase of aeroavo in
this fall’s sowing ovoi last will bo forty-tlvo
por cont. ~
Tho body of an unknown man lins
boon found at. tho inuutli of Ollur orosk,
Meads county, Koiltlickv, with a Htono weigh
ing fifty pounds attached to his nook and an
hxo gash acrosn Ills forohoad. Ho cannot bo
rocognlzod but was probably murdorod and
thrown in tlio crook.
Two counterfeiters of coin— Jnokso
Loo and Goorgo MoKau, of (Jhorokoo county,
Alabama—worn arrested on Tuesday UhL by
P. Sheridan, United Utatos Deputy Marshal.
A lot of counterfoil coin, not yot cleaned of
.f tbo moulds, was found in llioir
possession. Tlioy confessed to being guilty
countoi foiling.
Tho Committee of Engineers, .invited
by Oapt. James B. Eads to consider Ills plans
for increasing tbo depth of water over the
bar at tlio month of tlio* Mississippi IUvor,
and facilitate navigation, havo as yot formod
no permanent organization, bocauso of tlio
absenco of Prof. Henry Mitoholl, of tlio
United States Coast Survey, who is ono of
those invited to bo present at tbs examination
of plans.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Hecretary of the Troasnry has
deddod that hewn plus timber, commercially
known as squared or sided is subject to duly
at the rain of ono cent per cubic foo
twenty psr cont advalorem, as hurotoforo
statod by tho dopatlmont.
Tho reduction of tho public dobt dur
ing August was *1,585,011); coin in the Troon-
ury *71,117,272; curronoy *1,002,805; special
deposit for redemption of certificates of de
posit *01,780,000; coin certificates *17,018,-
500 ; legal tenders *374,215,70*.
Tho Post-offioo Department has ro-
eoived information that the Mississippi Valley
and Brazil Htoanisliip Company propose to
run a lino of stcainpackets from Ht. Louis to
Brazil, Hnuth Amoiica, asking that tho United
Htatcs mail may bo given to thoir lino. Tbo
Uupnrirnont will grant tlio nxpiost, and soud
tlio mail by thoir sloarnors, allowing ocean
rates of postage as remuneration. They ex
pect to start tbo first steamor October 1.
Oo-oporntlvo Business Idea.
Tho Mississippi Valley Trading com
pany has fivo hundred thousand livo
working members in England, with au
active business capital of twenty five
million dollars. This company ia tho
natural outgrowth of now ideas in re
gard to productive industry, and tho
exchange of tho fruits ot labor by tho
producing elastics of ono nation and
oontmonl with those of the Maine ola
living in auothor nation, perhaps i
diff.rcut continent, The managing
director of this company is Mr, T. I).
Worrall, who, by invitation (with
others) recently addressed a large moot
ing in St. Lome. Ho said “tho plan ol
o>operotion was tho snlt which was tc
savor this country. Tho grange oper
ation began by buying at wholesale and
distributing to its members. Tho plan
will do harm. If the patrons of h
bandry will adopt tho Rockdalo plan it
will prosper. As a people, Americans
want to do too much ut otioo. Begin
with u small amount of capital; but bo-
gin. Jliro a clerk; tho oonimitteo, how-
over, must run tho machine. They
must meet onoo a week with great
punctuality,” oto. Mr. Thomas, presi
dent of tho Lead’s ocutyofitivo soolo-
ty, gavo un interesting account of^tho
Ho dropt into my wwjr olialr
And i.mVh about tlio iiowh.
llo |ioi |im liitn my mniiiuorlpt,
THE DEAD BANKER.
of the
W. 0. Ralston, tho president of tho
bunk of California, who ia supposed to
havo drowuad himself on Friday last,
was, in many respects, tho most re
markable man of tho proseut century.
Ho was intimately known to many of
our londiug oitizous, several of whom
worn entertained nt his beautiful
oouutry ronidcuoo within tho past fow
weeks.
Balaton wan born on a farm noar
Wollsvillo, in Oolumbiana County,
Ohio, tuul iu early life served aa olor)
on boats hot ween Portsmouth util,
points ou tho lower Ohio. Ho also run
in tho trado to Ht. Louis, and in our
mail lino hero. lie prospered, and in
and workings of that organization,
in very humble beginnings tho
profits of tho society wore now twenty-
live t housand dollars a year. Ho ro-
marked, that “as soon as a mau bo
comas u co-operator, ho bogius to think
and to save, and tlio result Is that ho
bo mines u bettor citizen. Ho felt con
fident that oo operation, if faithfully
carried out, would result in incalculable
good to tho people of America.
Co-operative ideas have taken a
strong hold of tho people who speak the
tho English language on both sides of
Atlantic. They number some
eighty million conls, including tho
FOREIGN.
Another revolution has begun in Hau
te Domingo, Ex-Prondont Bni*z has Loon pro
claimed Provident by tlio revoIuUoni«tn,
A Berlin correspondent telegraphs
that Northern Bosnia Ih in fail robolllon
agaiiiHl tlio Porto. Insurgents of fforzogo-
ivo established a national govommont.
egro and Hervia aro actively prepar
ing for war. Tbo official prats of Montonogro
conceal its sympathy with Uio movo-
I cannot gee why figures should go up.
She reached into tho picklo barrel,
nipped a cucamber, and went away
wondering why her husband never
knew anything.—Detroit Free Press,
—All the ladles wear a medal or a
cross, attached to a ribbon, round their
necks. On dose inspection I saw that
these medals and crosses were the same
at given to distinguished men for ser
vices rendered to their country on the
battle-field. On inquiry, also, I ascer
tained that they were in reality the
medals and crosses ol the husbands of
the ladies who wore them, and that it
was now to be the fashion of all ladies
to show in this way that their husbands
aro decorated. “Ho,” they say, “wo
aro snre that this fashion at least will
not bo. copied by tho vulgar.’ —Paris
Correspondence.
—Tho papers are always saying smart
things »’>d one of them has just sa d
this; “No young lady who values ter ., .
happiness will marry a widower until ably injured. Chief officer Ritchie aud a
wife Is dead,” J mail named Patterson, were washed
Late advices from the Polar Expedi
tion lias bdon received from West Greenland.
'Die Alert and Discovery had arrived at Disco,
after a pleasant passag^from England. Both
sailod from Rittenbarik July 2<, for tho Upper
Eovik. All well. Preparations have boon
made for pushing as far north as possible in
the Alert, and for sledge expeditions beyond
tho polo.
Advices from Hayti state that soven-
toon followers of Gen. Canal, who are now
under the protection of United Htatos Minis
ter M. Bassett, were condemned to death
July 27, and it was stated that tho Govern
ment contemplated a forcible ontry into the
American Consulate to tako tho refugees in
to custody, they having been condemned a»
murders and assassins by tho Haytian tribu
nal. Tho editor of Lo I'npilo has been cau
tioned by tbo Government for his violent ar
ticles against Spain.
On the 14th. of August in a heavy
typhoon in the China sea several ships
:cked Tho steamship Oaelie
British Provinces north of tho Umtod
Htatcs. Fraternal sympathy, freqjtrado
and groator economy m tho adminis
tration of government affairs, will bo
among tho first fruits of tho cordial
union of the industrial clnsros of Great
Britain and this ropublio. IP is tho bo
ginning of changes in agriculture, man
ufactures, trade, transportation and of
reforms in government, of unknown
extent, and of inestimable* vnluo,
Those representative men are of a typo
that lias never before visited this
oouutry, and will carry back to England
information gathered in New Orleans,
Memphis, Georgia, Hfcv«Lou is and other
places in the south and west, of telling
iiifluonoo on the minds of both capital
ists and operatives in a land whion has
a redundant population. Business
tercourso and confidence botw
millions of laboring people living partly
in Europe, and partly in America, are
a new featuro in tho progross of modern
civilization, and in tho distribution and
accumulation of wealth. The Vidley of
the Mississippi is beginning to bs better
understood, and moro appreciated in
London, tho center of tho world's com
merce and capital. Tho agricultural
resources of this vust water-shod of
moro thuu a million rquuro miles, call
for an industrions, enterprising people
of ut least one hundred million to own
and cultivate tho soil. Quo English-
man (Mr. Grant) has purchased in
Kansas, and is Bottling with Immigrants
over 300,000 acres in ono body. We
havo no doubt of tho success of tho
effort to deepen tho water at tho mouth
of the Mississippi, so that ultimately
some 20,000 miles of river front can
shin direot to any part of the commer
cial world, Heientifio engineering,
backed by oo operative industry and
capital, will in a low dooados show what
the waters of tho groat lakes and rivers
of North America woro mado for. These
waters are placed by nature in a position
to havo a thousand fold greater agri
cultural and mechanical force than is
appreciated. Huch hikes os Hu-
perior and Michigan, placed so high
above sea-level, do not elsewhere exist
the globe. Tho sflluents of the Mis
sissippi aro constructed not only hard
by on tho same continent, but on tin
sumo magnificent scale. Tho intelli
gence, industry, enterprise and capital
time built tho old stoamor Memphis
hero in 1H47, aud run her. in tho Mem
phis nnd Now Orloans^lrndo. In this
trade lie mado n forLuuo of 8100,001).
lie was afterward pap tain of a boat, that
run from Now Orleans up the Missis
sippi aud Missouri, and afterward drifted
to O difornla, whoro ho first appeared
hh clerk in a bunk. Lator ho became
cashier of another book, and during
this timo speculated with remarkable
success. no was afterward appointed
cashier of tho bank of California, an
iustitutiou greater iu its influence, if
possible, than flip bank of England-
Ralston held this position iu ’72, nnd
shortly after became president of the
hank. Ho was no Jim Fisk, in any
Konsoofthu term. He was the pro
jector of tho Pacific const, prominent
among which woro the Kimball manu-
faoturing company^ tan establishment
ploying 2,000 moo,” nnd engagod iu
...j menuiooturo of furnituro, railway
conches, oto; tho Pacific watoh com
pany; rolling mills and mnohino shop)-;
and not the least among thorn all, Hie
I’alaoo Hotel, ono of the Inrgnst in tlu>
world. In tlio construction of this vast
building he personally suporiutondftd
and directed tlio work, compelling the
architect to conform to his .plans. In
tho management of this hotel ho devoted
two hours daily, amid tlio multifarious
duties that devolved upon him.
Ho was always ready to assist in any
entorpriso that would advance the in
terests ohliis section, aud nevor failed
to give hearty encouragement to busi
ness men. Belmont, his country resi
dence, situated about thirty milos from
Han Frauoisdo, near pan Jose, was a
magnificent structure. It would lodge
sixty two people elegantly, and every
arrangement wan ou tho most superb
soalo. His stables contained nearly
ono hundred of tho finest horses that
could bo purchased; and his carriages,
of various kinds, woro proportionately
numerous.
He entertained a largo number of
pcoplo daily, but particularly on Hatur-
dajs ami Sundays lii« invitations wero
generonnly extended nnd accepted. No
hotel could vie in profusion and luxury
with Ralston’s entertainments. His
guests, if they traveled by rail, would
bo met nt the depot with elegant car
riages, drawn by four horses, and were
Tho Future of FiBU-RaUlug.
iVo are only driven to cultivate any
thing through iiccesHity. Farming
lommencod when there were not enough
pontnncom productions to servo us
food for man. Animals woro first
domesticated and fed wliea the chase
failed to supply a suflloiout amount of
i snino is Hibstnutially true
Among savages tlio plants,
animals, and birds are like themselves,
11 wild, Aa tlio men becomo civilized
nnd come to live in towns and cities tho
spontaneous growth of plants and the
natural inure iso of the animals and
birds me not sufficient to supply the
demand. Tlioro is thou need of farm-
h, stook--minors, and poultry faueiois.
Fish were lliolast things to bo domes-
tionted nnd tho reason ia obvious. The
iron of water as comparod with that of
ho laud is very large. Tho number of
Ish is greatly iu excess of that
•f animals or birds, and it takes
lunger to exterminate or greatly rodtiuo
thorn. Hoi.cj the need of doing any
thing to protect or nmUiply fish is post
poned longer than iu the case of ani
mals or birds. As population grows
ilouso, however, in any oouutry tlioro
nornes a neeossity for protoetmg fish,
and for increasing their numbers. This
period arrived oanturioH ago in Uhiua,
"ini fish feeding there lma been engaged
in many eenturii s.
Ivmlimd, though suiroundod by sous
and lilted with lakes and rivers uli ooi
t lining fish, found it necessary lung ago
to prevent tho catching of them nt
ojrtnin neriods of the year. More rc-
oontlv it lias been found needful to
adopt moro stringent measures to pre
vent tho wanton destruction of fish,
aud to onsuro their increase. Within
tho post few years tlio artificial propa
gation of fish, tho stocking of lakes nm»
rivers, and of prirnto ponds, have rn-
eeived great attention nt tho hands of
tho governmouts and of individuals.
Fish-breeding in Groat Britain tc day
ranltH among the great industries, and
it shows better than almost anything
elso tho high civilization of tlio pcoplo.
In this country the population 1ms
been comparatively suiull, while our
food products have boon very largo.
The inland parts woro well supplied
.. with fish while the const fisheries became
1 famous almost as soon us tho country
Y was discovered. Buoli being tho fact it is
nofoflrnugo that tlio fish wero very plenty
for a rang time. Years ago, however,
lortniu muoh-prizod varieties began to
grow very noaroe. This was especially
truo of tlio salmon, trout, and shad.
L’ho last, which was n fish of commerce,
almost disappeared from tlio unikni.
Midmou was too expensive a luxury to
be eaten by any but tho rich. As to
brook trout tlioy wero only to bo found
iu st roams remote from ncttlmuontu.
During tho past five yonra fish-breed
ing lias made a rapid udvanoo iu this
dry. Eights
of tho best purta of the Old World find
in the Valley of tho Mississippi room
and vergo enough to invest their lal>or
and money, and plant thoir offspring
to becomo a part of a nation whose
future is so full of promise. Direot
trado with the south and wont is what
Mr. Morrall nnd Mr. Thomas seek.—
Nashville American.
—Littlo Alice wu.i crying bitterly,
aud on being questioned, confessed to
having received a slap from ono of her
playfellows. “You should . have re
turned it,” unwisely said the questioner.
“Ob, 1 returned it before,” said tbo
little girl.
drivou to Belmont through delightful
H °Ho r waB the modern Monte (Jristo.
Ilis power to command gold scent'd lo
bo unlimited. In his personal appear
ance Ralston was plain and unassuming.
Hi* apparel gavo no indication of
wealth. He was tho personifioatir n ol
business. . .
Only a fow weeks ago, while visiting
Hnn Francisco, Mr. George W. Morris.
Dr. Dennis Long, Mr. W. Hi‘e, Jr.,
Mr. Muldoon, and loveral other oitizons
of Louisville who had known R ilstan
for years, and admired him, partook ol
his gouorous hospitality at Bolmont.
His doath will be sinoeroly rogretted by
his Lonisvillo friends. Those who
know him intimately judge him well
Tho morning the tolograph announced
tho failure of tho bank, and tho ex
citomont consequent upon it, a gentle
man in this city just from the Pacific
coast predicted that Ralston wonld not
bo ablo to endure the disgrace of Ins
fall. Tho prodiction was too true. He
died in the prime of manhood, amid a
wreck of falling fortunes and tho ruin
of vast iutorosta.
After all, such men aro invaluable.
They are worth au army of plodders.
They wrost fortune from fato itself.
Through thoir indomitable energy aud
wonderful brainpower they build.up
nnd inoite vast interests, whioh cause
deserts to bloom and hamlets to spring
into cities. They make and unmake.
When th«:y fall ruin and distress follow;
but, after all, it is better to have ac
complished much and then failed, than
to have done nothing for one’s country
or fellow-mao. Tho blowings which
_ states now have flab
commissioners. Last your tho commis
sioners of New York turned looso
5,000,000 slmd into the Hudson river,
fn tho Oonneoliout rivor hh many as
00,000,000 young slmd have been lot
looso within a fow years. In oouso-
quonoo of thia slmd have fallen in prioo
iu some places from 825 per hundred to
$3. In ono instance 3,500 tlsli woro
taken nt u single haul on tlio Connecti
cut river. This was so in spite of tlio
fnot that the shad fisheries hud almost
run down to nothing.
In tho mountimo privato flsh-liatohc-
ries have multiplied very fast, in tho
iioitliwostern and I’aoifio states. As
they woro gouerally owned by persons
who constructed thorn quite as much
for pleasure as for profit, they generally
turned out fanoy fish, such us trout,
salmon, and grayling. At proseut tlioso
privato fish-breeding establishments nro
very profitable, ns people who buy tho
eggs or small fry of salmon, trout, or
grayling, expect to pay roundly for
them. There is also quite a demand
for largo trout to put in tanks in orna
mental pi o astir o grounds. There area
plenty of persons who uro willing to
pay a dollar a pound for the tront the
onteli iu privuto waters.
As soon as it ia demonstrated that
there is ns much, or moro, money in
raising fish as in raising hoof, pork,
or mnttou, farmers will not hesitate to
engage in fish-farming. It ia rare to
find a parson who does not havo a taste
for catching fish, and a tusto for outing
them uftur they aro oaught nnd cooked.
Many persons take kindly to brooding
fish, nnd would not oxohango work in a
flsh-hutehory for work olsowhoro. Tho
labor is light, and tlio occupation pleas
ant. It is moroovor singularly adapted
to persons who aro not ablo to do heavy
Hold labor.
It requires as little knowledgo to
engage iu tho business of fish brooding
us iu any branch of farming. There
uro several works on tho subjoot that
uro cheap, plain, aud comprehensive.
Ono oan learn to bo a good fish furmor
by tho study of books. In no yery^
FACTS AND FANCIES.
The Troy Timos in assured by tho
chief sigual officer that, not withstand
ing the periodical oxonsaivo rainfall,
the aggregate raiutall iu tho Unitod
Htatcs is not increasing.
Tlio following is signiflouit of
Spanish morality: “No Spanish maiden,
however poor, or however low her rank,
iver walk alono in tho Htreot oven
i few paces; if sho tloos so her
ohnrnc'or is gono.”
Madame do Btnol wrote oil nu al
bum roeontly delivered, “When two
boings truly lovo enoh other, tlioy obey
without knowing, and that slate of
mutual donendCiioo constitutes tlio
warmest and mildest of tyrannies,”
Happy Bridegroom—“Moro money,
madam I Moro money I Iluva you for
gotten that my mouny lias bought
ivory thing that you possess—tho very
Iri'Ha that you stand in?” Bride--
•No, sir; nor havo I forgotten that
your money has bought what stands in
it.”
— During nclorioaloonforenoo, tho fol
lowing conversation was hoard botweon
two nowaboys: “I say, Jim, what’s
tho moaning of so many ministers hoing
here altogether V”
“ Why,” answered Jim, scornfully,
llioy al ways moot once a year to swap
ermouB.”
—“What wealthy old follows those
Knickorbockois must have beou,” said
a stranger, walking through ono of our
nuolcnt graveyards.
“Why so?” nuked his o.ompanion.
“Boanuse,” nnswored tho first, “I seo
Diedrioli’ insoriljed on so many of tho
tombstones.”
—“ How obliging tho hoys in town
•o,” remarked a rustic to hiH wife tlio
other day as thoy wero paying n rare
visit to tbo oity.
“Wo haven't bean here half an hour
yot nnd lots of’om havo offered to oarry
our bags for us and even to black my
boots and give ua jinpors. Tears liko
tlioy must bo mighty well brought
up.”
—A London papor tells of a oouutry*
man being token to a tboatro, and whon
tho lights wero down and the play had
commenced ho was offorod tho use of
nil opera glass. Examining ifc as closely
as tho darkno s of tho placo would per
mit, lie placod it to his mouth and
turned it upwards. Finding that no
liquid was coming-out of it, ho handed
it bnok in dospnir, : “It’s empty, John;
thoro's not u- single drop lu’t wnn.”
—During a denso fog u Mississippi
stuumboat took ft landing. A traveler
auxious to go ahead, oarno to tho un-
porturbod manngor of tbo wheel and
askml wliy tUo »>o«t atonpod. .
“Too much fog; oan t see tlio rivor.”
“ But you oau soo tho stars over-
ropliml tlio urb»no pilot;
until Urn bilor bunt" woniu t gum Hint
way.” Tlio puMbongor went lo u«l mil-
isfied,
—A. Norriatown rann Iim iu vim toil a
"hull wlilub iloHnm-H tlio imtnmlmto at
tention of Hoorotniy Bobmon. "It m
Itlli-il with muull aliollR, ami whon it
bursts among ton thousand soldiers,
those smaller sliolls are sonttorod iu all
dirootiims, and bursting iu turn, semi
oub still smaller shells, wbioh travel
arjund recklessly, nnd by the time tlio
miniature sliolls, contained in tho Ultra
size explode, the army is nearly wiped
out, and the fow men romainiiig want
to go homo.”
distant fnturo fchero will he suflloionC
patronage for ft flsh-breoding establish
ment in every county in the wost. At
presont every town of fivo thousand
inhabitants remote fiom u fishery sup
plied by nature, would give sufficient
support to a fish pond owned by an in
dividual and stooked artificially.
Tn timo wo believe tho grent majority
of farmers who havo a supply of water
will raise fish. To do this it will not
bo necessary for them to havo hutching-
houses, though they are cheaply mado
and managed, as thoy can obtain sranll
flih at hataherios nt a slight cost. Few
things would add moro to Uio value of
a farm than a well-stocked fish pond.
Nothing would mako farm life moro
moro enjoyable than a conotant supply
of livo fish. Almost ovory ono enjoys
fishing. Nothiug would bo finer than
to o itch a mess of fine fish when com
pany calls, aud tlioro is nothing moro
suitable for a good dinner.
—The now boot in Paris which ladies
aro now looking forward to with eeger-
nos is tho Pompeiian. It is of blaok
velvet and very high ; the legging in
front all Venetian cut work, ombioid-
ored with a tinv nilver cord. Tbo pink,
red. or scarlet Pompeiian silk stocking
is thus seen through tho open clover or
diamond-shaped pattern. Plain stock
ings of decided high colors
or fellow-man. me niejsiugH wuicu mgs oi ubwhw mgu
accompany tho workor will outweigh clooked on tho edges of the feet and
the curses which naturally follow around tho anklee in white silk, or some
f&ilaxe, I strong contrasting oolor,
Torrible Tragedy.
Tho pilots of Hell Goto and Long
Island Hound gave a olambako at City
Island last, woek to tho congressmen and
other distinguished persons residing
during tho summer on the Hound.
Among tlio oompnny was Hignor Vinnui,
said to bo of tko suite of Count uorti,
tho Italian minlstir. Aftor tho clam
bake nnd tho osmpnny had enjoyed
themselves making speoohos and singing
songs, Dr, Doroinns announced that
Signor Vinnui would givo a «citation
in imitation cf Ristori. Mr. Vinnni
took his position in tho centre of tho
group. His voice was olonr and won
controlled, his gesticulation highly
dramatic; his limbs seemed to quiver
with passion, whilo the expression of his
face was startling. Hu finished with
tho exclamation, in Italian: ‘God
who judges all will judge this 1 Ho
then took a pistol from the outer poekot
of liia coat, nnd, placing it to his
temple, flrod. Ho foil partly on hid
face and perfectly motionless. The
spectators c xslaimod, wonderful! and
upplauso commenced, whon Doromus
rushed forward, exclaiming, " Groat
God, gentlemen, ho is killed. Many
at first thought this a part of the enter
tainment, but ou lifting the body tlio
horrible truth bcoamo mnuifost. Dr.
Ellis probed tho wound and pronounced
tho cnso hopeless. Ho lived for half au
hour, but never spoko. No cause was
assigned for tho torriblo act,
Djhkahb a Help to thk .Intbldiot.
—In his “ Enigmas of Life, Mr. Orog,
the well known English essayist, takes
tho ground that bodily pain and disease
aro not only compatible with, but may
directly oontr .bute to tbo loftiest efforts
of tho intellect—sometimes positively
enhancing its powers—that the effect of
some disorders and certain sorts of piin
upon the nerves is to produce a cerebral
excitation, and that tho stimulus thua
communicated to tho material organ of
thought renders it for the time capable
of unusual effort. Mr, Greg asserts
that men under tlw stirring influence of
sovoro pain uro oapable of a degree of
imaginative aud ratiomnative brilliancy
which astonish them solves and all who
havo known thorn only in jydioary
moods of comfort; torpii aooltiM l^;
adv B Dr. Conolly monttona a gontle-
man who." mental faoalt.es never
reached their full power except cnder
tho irritation of a Winter.
Htaaoea aa those are regarded by Mr.
Orog aa fully corroborating bis theory.