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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.