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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1S75.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 15.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Tin: cattle disci
in Homo counties i
Till: jury in t!
I he murderer of
ntnli Territory, h
‘not guilty.”
to is making sad havoc
i England.
• case of Wintormute,
Gov. McCook, of Ou
ght
erdict of
timnted that already the loi
crop of the
The Iu^iai
path out in
ready butchi
npjx*nr to Ik* on the war-
.estern Utah, having ul-
•d a numlier of settlors
ud miners. Troops are lM*ing sent for-
aid to squelch the red-skins.
Tin: success of tin* new Atlantic cable
inures communication with KurojH* at
inch lower rates than have lierutofore
ta n charged. 'The enormous capital now
.ihmerged beneath the sea can only In*
lade to pay a low tariff ami large busi-
nttle
unooment that j. r »
witment for hoof and mout
ine county in England h.
ed bv anxious discussions i
the spread of the
rapidly increasing prle
country.
ntati
! of meat
1 of the
in that
all
UiiHsia. Old v •
l'r.-r.cli jww't.
running.
Frank IIah
Hrooek, astonis!
lias written
• prove that the
alliance with
mers, es|>ecially
ingle journal of the
f the idea he is
bv
n fav
nil’s throe-old colt, Tvi
•d tlie knowing ones a
making the fastes
locating the supixiscd invincible
Windier. Ten Broeck is by Bhm*t<
eomple-
Anglici
l/.mlon
■d in England fo
ve lieen ulmost
■ the great Bnn-
• the one held ill
Anglicanism.
The I/ondo
ate Archbishop I/ningly.
churches will Ik* fully rep-
lis ecumenical council ol
Times gives a summary
of the failures in England during the
last three months. The liabilities of
tweney-nino amount to a total of $2t>,-
000,000, and their assets to $10,000,000,
*»f which alkiut one-third are regarded
as doubtful. Hut the Times lutH a mis
giving that this is verv f
ag the t
n this \
till hisses of the late pal
ew it is probably correct
service authorities have
epre
formation that a company of Italia
have gone west with a large amount
len-dollar counterfeit bills of the first
national bank of Philadelphia. These
counterfeits are exceedingly dangerous.
f of Egypt. Only a abort time
since, and for the third time, was he ten-
d the jMsition. This time it was
urged ujHm him so strenuously that
at length consented, and is making
preparation to go over and assume
his position immediately. He is to get
$100,000 to prepare himself an outfit,
is to receive the sum of $20,000 an
nually for having supreme control of the
army of the Khedive of Egypt.
01- men and IAS women were recently
indicted in Russia, of whom 205 wore
arrested for participation in the socialist
movement. The Procurer General in
the indictment, says socialism is rapidlv
spreading throughout the Empire. The
most ardent propagandists of the move
ment belong to the upper classes.
Among the indicted are retired officers,
professors, justices of the peace, officials
of all grades, and several ladies of high
family, lie says the socialists] only
await an opportunity, such as foreign
war, to organize a revolution at home,
and put into practice their extravagant
ideas.
THE SEWERAGE OF PITIES.
to provide for the mctro|Hdis of London
a system of drainage that should lie ef
ficient in itself and that should at tin
time leave the waters of tin
Thames pure aut
I luring seventeen ye
more than twonty-i
the works have Iks
inly itEmt two
uncontamiimtcd.
. and at a cost ol
> million dollars,
n progress, and it
r there-
alKiuts that their ultimato rumple
was announced. The sewerage of one
large section of Dindon, covering an
area of nearly one hundred and twenty
i*l tin re miles, is now carried away ill the
most iH'rfect manner, and provision is
made bv which, for a long time to conic,
and making all allowance for the contin
uous growth of the city, the drainage
The great value of sewerage of a large
city is fully acknowledged. That ol
. with its dense |Mipulation ol
represents a vast animal
icy. Yet it is not utilized
Hy the great s'
aplet. d it is carrie’
mouth of the Thai
o How into the i ierinnu
Duly admits that the
-lilting from such a
four milllor
amount of mo;
the
A fo\
•oily is
ain that wot
ore utilized ii|
oinpn
ell <
London for utilizing in this
•rage north of the Tliumes,
was then a novel one; at
public had not been educated up to
appreciation of its value, an *
pital.
f Engl
< >ne
the t
t li< *i
ish root)
small i
ently
Hindu
erfeit is probably the most dungerom
■xtant. It is perfect on its face, hut hai
i few defuoLs on the back.
l»i:-i*rri: the general depression o
nisiue-.- since the panic the New Yorl
Tribune says then* has been a steady ini
the
pres
list us
during
i of the
during the p«
sinuate,
•nth the
idcrful
ve {tower of France is more
palpable. It is officially dc-
i her trade returns for the first
onths of IK
sho
in the value of exports of 200,000,000
francs (.$52,000,000.) as compared with
the corresponding period of 1874; in the
sum- time the value of the imports has
decreased |>y 4-1,000,000 francs ($8,800,-
°00;) the r. suit is that France obtains
the difference in gold.
A Spanish organ at Havana, the
Hairi.. dc la Marina, admitted recently
1 hat it was possible that the island might
become an independent state, and ad-
visj d the in-n.-gents to treat for the pac
ification of tin* country. Affairs, indeed
look promising for the reitels, who over
run the whole eastern part of the island,
burning sugar plantations and enlisting
the slaves as fast as they are set free.
The steam vatch Octavin has succeeded
in landing three cargoes of supplies for
the insurgents on the north coast.
Gaum: Advices announce the failure
of tl..* Credit Fancier of England. It
of $8,000,000, nearly all
gli its headquarters were
business is chiefly pn the
through fur the
of tho midland
of tlu* local lx■:
took on lease f.
of twenty-eight
intention ol utilizing tin
their own district, which
illation of alMitit
fn
health
•f la
oil, badly cultivated.
id inefficiently drained. The
* X pci
tig. At first tlu*
he expenditure,
vns onl v $1,055, h
cut. lint every
narked improvem
Months ending M
nit still the profit
more than cneourag-
ceeipts fell far short of
In 1870 tlur income
irely enough to cover
year has shown n
-n’t, and when tlu* u<-
ROMANCE OF THE INSANE.
i»I> i li«> liiiiiiri* ul' ii Viral tv I ft* I .«H mi iiir
II nil ii.
A short time ago a .Votlng-looklltg wo-
am of the middle class, who laid seem
ingly lost her mind, Wait arrested in a
scnu-destlttlle condition and carried to
the central station on Caroiidelet street,
charged on the books with being insane
and not being aide to give satisfactory
account of herself.
Though her hair was unkempt ami dis
heveled. and her clothing scant, soiled
and draggled from her Wanderings far
and wide in the streets “looking for her
lost husband," as sin* said, there was
such a pitiful look about her lace ami
eyes that the officials, and especially
Lynch, the. turnkey of tlu* station,
treated her with more consideration
thanisusually shown prisoners of her chew.
And as she sat in her coll swaying to
and fro, as suffering women often* do -a
■ •it of keeping time, as It wore, to her
sobs and moans, all about her lost hus
band Lynch, who looked in u|m>ii her,
thought ho recognized in the Mary
Stephens before him the wife of Stephen
Mat I ill, a confirmed lunatic, who had
E'en sent to the insane asylum several
months ago.
This suspicion ho communicated to
Hr. Cooper, who at once had tin* woman
removed to tlu* insane asylum, whither
she would have been sent in tin*end, had
she been duly arraigned before Judge
When taken to the
placed in the reception
afterwards Stephen Mi
tight in and pla
isvlutn, she
ul shortly
Instantly the
I ill, the lunatic
ed before her.
roman sprang to
died forward placed her
arms alkiut her husband. McGill, for a
moment, stood as though more dazed
than ever, and then rubbing his eyes and
face with his hands and shaking his head
slowly, as if to clear away the obstruc
tion placed upon his brain by his disease,
said, “ Is it you, Kate? 1 lave you come
to sec me at last?”
At this mention of the name of Kate
the face of the woman Hushed and
clouded for a moment, and then recover
ing herself quickly she said: “ No, it is
not Kate, your Iirt wife, Steve, hut
plums, whom you married ufler-
er, could not ttilder-
tlint the woman before
ate of early days, and do
uld he kept calling her Him-
” '* li*>um.M.i.1 *»»-ria^e
ward
McGill, ho
stand how K
ply “ Kate, Kat
was evidently blotted out from his dis
tempered mind as though it had never
been a reality.
Then the two were separated and the
man went back to his place of coniine-
incut calling now and then lor his Kate,
his “own dear wife Kate," until his
daily ravings came on and lie was again
stark mad —forgetfill even of Ills first love
'riu* shock of tin* meeting had a con
trary effect upon the woman. She ii
growing better and better and will short
Iv he able to con
world alone and ioii
toilers seeking tliei
Orleans Picayune,
The IV
t again into tin
in tie* multitude ol
daily bread.—Nru
Tn
for tin* t
Ik>
eh, 1875, the
cx | tended. Such
less than thirty m
that there in
method of culture.
t 1)0
expo
o'.fir
a farm of
ckahirc,
tried, hi:
paid up
Its chic:
obit
flu;
there, the farm being in private owner
ship, it is not easy to arrive at the re
sults. It is acknowledged, however, l»y
the Ear) of Warwick, to whom the
place belongs, that the profits are very
large. The Earl pays to the town coun
cil of I/cainington, $2,250 a year for the
town sewerage, and la* has jK’rfected ar
rangements for receiving and distribu
ting it over tin* farm, which is 400 acres
in extent, as occasion may require. It
is applied to Almost every description of
crons, from cereals and roots, to bean.-,
and |K*;ifl, cabbage, celery, rhubarb, and
even strawberries, and with uniformly
favorable results. Ilye grass irrigated
with sewerage has D*on already cut
five times, and it is expected that at
least two additional crops will be secured.
The root crops are described ns simply
enormous; turnips are obtained in js*r-
fection throughout the season, and man
golds have produced as much ns 82 tons
|h r acre. It is also worthy of note that
the water which flows off this farm is
bright and sparkling, nlisolutcly free
from all fungoid growths, and quite fit to
drink. The farm, the soil of which is
n rich loam with n gravel subsoil, has
lieen under experiment four years.
Is it t<x> much to say that the sewerage
' hich is every year allowed to flow into
the rivers from this city would suffice to
make nil the land in the ncighlxirhood
for miles around, including the now bar
ren flats of New Jersey, highly produc-
A writer says: Among bis other
great public enterprises Garibaldi, the
famous Italian hero, is engaged in plant
ing the Eucalyptus or blue gum tree
about Home, to prevent the malarial
fever with which the Inhabitants of Unit
city are afflicted. As this tree is lilth
known in our country, some necotin
may not Ik* uninteresting. According D
the best authorities it is an Australian pro
duction, and was first discovered by the
French scientist, La Nillardiere, who
visited Van DienmnV Land in 17U2. It
brought into the south of Franco
t tin* beginning of the present cen
tury, end noble, specimens of it are now
growing in the promenades and public
gardens of Nice, Cannes, llyeres, and
Algiers. Its medicinal qualities, how
ever, did not become known until nlxnit
thirty years ago. The Spaniards first
discovered that it was a pro
fever and the colonists of 'lasinania used
its leaves for a variety of pur|K)HCH. It
was not until 1800 its full power Ixcnme
known, and, a# a hygienic measure, it
was introduced in the Spanish realm as
an antisetie. The |K*ople of Valentin
were suffering from malarial fever;
Euenioptus trees were planted nlxmt the
city, and a marked improvement in the
healthfiilness of the locality followed.
So iKipular did it become that the trees
limf to Ik* guarded, the inhabitants steal
ing the leaves every opportunity they
had, to make decoctions to drink. The
Spaniards named the Eucalyptus the
If
* take
of :
•d u]ion what
nit mobilit-r, howl, oi
tajB'
regarded by j taken t-
M reliable
that hu
d and ha*
iander-in
ic Boulevard des Ttali
l* other day, a well-dressed man
•ved walking alone, but with his
[•xtended and curved as though
iven it to a lady. He looked
rith an irritated air and suddenly
1 a j XT-on who had in passing
•a/.ed him, “ Look out, you block-
voti will hurt my wife.” “ How,
ife!” said the other, astonished,
v wife,” was the rcplv, neeom-
y a blow. < )n being arrested and
the station-house
1 that he was
wife, who di
habit
tnhl over the cakes, beat up the whites
to a froth and drop on the custard. If
the cake is stale it is even hotter, The
almolids must lie placed evenly to make
the dish picturesque.
introduced int<
eled to tin
Sirilv, South
Garibald
Alger
• aft--
i it
a|K*
It
Ho,
id Galifoi
trav-
pi to introduc
Koine is not entirely new. Home years
ago a few dozen specimens were planted
alxmtthc walls, and although nearly all of
the trees lived hut very few of them are
vigorous. After a trial of many years in
Southern France it has failed to Ixteoine
hardy or suck up and destroy the poison
ous vapors of the swamps in which it
was planted. The trnppist monks of the
Tre Fontana have recently set out large
plantations of the Eucalyptus trees, and
nr<* tending them with the utmost care.
This may be looked upon
experiment
lyptiui tre
I of the Jv
nitisetie and disinfec-
ellent. The districts in which
it is indigenous are healthy, and those
into which it has lieen introduced and
thriven have become healthy. A few
miles from Algiers is a farm which was
once noted for its deadly fevers. Life on
it in summer months was almost impos
sible. In the year 1807 the
1 1,000 Eucalypti!
An Accomplished English Hangman.
CalcratA, tin* hangman in England fur
many years, has lx*eome HU|K*raiuumted,
and has retired with a pension. Ho was
a curiously reticent man, uml the re
porters uud others who tried to Interview
him never succeeded in getting anything
out of him. Ho hud a habit, however,
of always whispering in the eur of his
victim just before the supreme moment,
and various gloomy stories wont uUmt
as to what this last message was. Some
people said it was a curse: “Down, down
to hell, and say I sent you tiiero!"
Olliers pretended that Cuicraft always
whispered, "Stand firmf Good news for
yon! Your pardon has count, and you
will hear the sheriff' read it in a mo
ment I” Others, still, said that Calcruft
was a spiritualist, and that his whlsjH*red
farewell message was an injunction to
the victim to visit him that night and
bring him news from the other world.
Another of Ids habits wan always to shake
hands with the condemned in*non at the
moment of whispering in his eur; but it
was observed that his nerves were never
strong after the execution of Margaret
Walter at Newgate, un unliuppy women
who was hung lor the murder of some
infants consigned to her care. She seized
bis baud with so much force that it was
with tlu* utmost difficulty that ho disen
gage! himself, and as tie hastened to
pull the bolt his face was observed to be
fearfully pale. Caleraft's successor is u
limn named Murwood; and a eurresjiond-
unt who traveled with him in a third-
class ear u few days ago thus describes
tlu* man:
Murwood carried with him in a black
oilskin wrapper, fastened by a leathern
strut), articles which 1 afterward discov
ered to Ikj the implements of his call
ing. Sentence of death on sovorul crim
inals Imd been carried out that morning,
and Murwood, after ixirforuiing his dread
offices, was returning to his home in
Lincolnshire. In general up|x*amnce,
Murwood was not unlike a decent work
ingman, just passing the prime of life.
His shoulders are brood; his chest deep;
liis hack straight and hard; his arms are
long and sinewy; his hand bony uml
|M)werful, and set upon thick muscular
wrists; ami his legs, slightly Ixiwed at
the calves and at the hs, gave
aditimml power to the whole frame.
A casual glance at his countenance
would rattier give the Idea that
ho was a simple, mild diH|Nisitioii;
hut a more earoiul examination discov
ers in it little of pity and much of quiet
self-approval. \Ve had been running o
few minutes when I engaged him iu con-
cessation, which was carried on with
difficulty amid tin* din of the mail train.
Sometimes, so loud was the noise, he
placed his ears close to my lips to hear
the observations 1 had to oiler. Those
were generally applied to himself rather
than to tin* horrid details of any partic
ular execution in which he had taken
part. Ho far as I could gather, Mar-
wood, up to within the last four or five
years, led an unenviable life. He car
ried on the business of master shoemaker
iu llorncoxtlc and employed several
workmen. He was a well-known local
character and was iu his way respected.
It was when the old man (meaning Cnl-
eral't) began to decline that the idea of
becoming a liangmau entered bis mind.
“ I Ic felt he could do it,” and immedi
ately applied himself to the study of the
hanging frame iu order that he might,
by the introduction of Improved meth
ods, “work off” condemned criminals
with dispatch and dexterity. Two or
three jobs came in this wav, and acquit
ting himself snlisfactorinfly, he became
an officer of the crown. For long it was
not discovered in Monicastli* that lie had
entered upon a fresh avocation. Even
his wife was kept in ignorance as (o what
liiH business could he when called a'
on her majesty’s service. In answer to
her inquiries he. would say, "I'm going
on a little law IniHiuess, my dear,” ami
would tell her when to expert his return.
When the truth did conic out noDuly
would believe the retiring William Mar-
wood, master shoemaker, Churehlaiie,
I lornenstlo, could have lx*eu canal to
the hanging of his fellows. Hut (this t »
me aside) “ I am a I wavs there when I
am wanted; manly, firm, honorable!”
Of course he was in favor of capital
punishment; the law, person and prop
erty must 1m* rCH|x*cled, and it was with
strong feelings on these points that lie
had taken up his present “profession.”
Bay was nothing, though lie had no
euow of complaint in that resect. It
had been Ins endeavor and lie thought
lie had succeeded—to put those who
came under his attentions out of pain as
quirk as jxissihle. On one occasion a
murderer, who was hardened to the last,
asked to Is: “snapped off' quickly,” and
la* was snapped off' quickly, the words
scarcely going out of the culprit's month
when life was extinct. Indeed, he had
brought his system to a state of perfer-
tion;die defied any improvements to he
made upon it. There was Heap, the
quack doctor at Liverpool, who had
caused the death of a young woman ;
mid Hill, at Bristol, who hail cut his
wife's throat—his “working off” in the
case of these two men uiigiit be classed
among the most expeditious and satis
factory of his executions. They were
ixith heavy men, and each fell without a
muscle quivering. The best Manilla
hemp, lie said, formed the rope he used
Almost a Duel.
Arsene HoUSsave, in a Baris letter to
the New York Tribune, relates the fol
lowing Lit of personal experience: 1
once Tuul a hill adventure myself. It
wn» iu 1800. ll WIM lit (he hull of the
Hotel de Ville, escorting Mine. Victor
Hugo, while M. lltlgo gave his arm to
Mmo. Uouamyo. There was a clutlr
empty, and the next one to it contained
a hat. 1 took up the hat and gave the
chair to Mine. Hugo. Of course 1 did
not pur|M)Hc to hold the lint all night, so
I put it on the floor. Its owner soon ar
rived. It was a celebrated duelist, M.
Sherbet tc, a deputy from lsilxsons. lie
came straight to the chair which had
laid the honor of holding his hat. lie
uhout to attack Mine. Hugo, hut as
is talking with her he turned upon
Is it you sir, who have displaced my
lint?" “Yes sir.” Did you put it on
ic floor?” “ Yes, do you think l
ight to have put it on my head?”
But, sir, you have iusultcd me. Here
my card.”
1 took out a card and throw it in his
hat.
Monsieur I” said the deputy furi
ously, “do you suppose I am going to
pick*up my hat I”
“ 1)0 you suppose,” I said, “that I am
going to put it mi your head?”
Victor Hugo laughed, Mmo. Hugo
smiled, but Mine, llouasnyc was not at
all amused.
“ 1 require, sir,” said the deputy of
Ixilssons, “ that, you replace mv hat on
the chair where it was.” I began to
laugh. A little circle had gathered.
M. Shcrbottti finally picked up his hat
under tlu* pretext of taking my card.
“Minis. Arsene lloussayo,” lie said,
“we are from the amu* pfaeo, a reason
umre for your mooting."
“ I await your seconds, M. Bhorbotto,”
I replied.
“At what hour?”. At this hour.
We can light jih soon as we leave the
hall.”
M. Bhorbotto bowed to the two ladles,
and went on search of two seconds. 1
usked Victor Hugo and the Marquis de
Belloy to net as my witness in this ridic
ulous affair. M. Blierbutte's seconds
soon appeared. It was decided that we
should fight with pistols at twenty paces
at tlu* Blois dc Boulogne at daybreak.
It was then hardly midnight, but wo re
solved to pass the rest of the night at
the ball. At that time 1 was very fond
of waltzing. They told Mine. Ilousaye
that the affair had been amicably settled,
so that we amused ourselvcH pleasantly
until nearly dawn.
As ill luck would have it, we all met
iu the cloak-room, principals and seconds,
“ It is a nuisance,” said one of Slier
betto’s seconds, "to go to the Blois in
this snow storm.” “Como," said the
other laughingly to M. Sherbette, “
you are the injured party, you can apol
ogize.” “NeverI” said M. Sherbcttc.
The two seconds came to me. “ Say
one word to free us from this task, Wo
want to go to lx*d.” “ Never I" 1 cried
in my turn. M. Sherhctte put on his
hat with a slant over the right ear. I
put on mine with n slant over the left.
The four seconds besieged us, and said
they would not accompany us unless wo
were good-natured nlxmt it.
all,” said Victor Hugo,
offending my hat lie did not
offend me 1 will hold myself satisfied.
I declared that I laid not aimed at M.
SlierlM*tte under Lis hut and the duel
was at an end. It was agreed in the
verbal proees-verhal, that whenever we
met thereafter wo were not to salute
each other with a touch of the hat.
Halo Around (lie Sun.
NewspaiMTH printed iu Syracuse,
Utica, Heiincctady. and Troy, N. Y.,
Rutland, Vt., and Laconia, N. If., make
mention of a remakahlo halo which was
seen around the sun on a late Sunday.
The Syracuse Journal thus dcscrilicH it:
Shortly after ten o'clock a complete lu
minous circle around the sun, or the col-
of the raiulKiw was seen, and at tho
n* time, in the cast a segment of bril
liant rninDiws, with another scarcely less
distinct in the south, and, directly over
head, scvcrals concentric rings like their
oiintcrpurt, the main circle nlxmt the
un, were also visible. This phenouie-
ioii continued in much brilliancy for
about half an hour, and for an hour the
halo about the sun was distinctly, though
brilliantly visible. During a part of
the time, the sun’s disc was traversed by
irtical hand of white, and tin 1
around the sun inclosed an elliptical
hand of white, whoso extreme length
tended from
of the circle, northerly and southerly,
With tin: aid of a slacked glass these
various Imjwh were distinctly to lie
E. Johns!
accepted the I with* hint , ,
chief of the c^>llide«f with the -pint.—r<
piritualist, and
eking a walk
l a single
feet
in thirtee
: of fev
id they
oritlis, and
law tlicr
• fet
apjK*a
- thcr
cake
Tii-y Cake.—Bake a sponge
a mold of some fanciful device—the
le ad of some animal makes tin* best
show and can Ik* procured in tin. When
the cake i- three or four days old or
more, put it in n deep glass dish and put
brandv or sherry over it until it is well
soaked, then stick it full of almonds,
having first blanched them by pouring
Deling water over them and carefully
removing the skins. Now make a rich
custard of one quart of milk, six eggs,
h aving out tin* whites of two, sweeten to
the taste, no flavoring. Four the cuh-
d of it he had inserted
ring, so that the noose might slip
freely when the lxxly fell. His sole ob
ject was dispatch, and it was always bis
aim to snap the spinal cord. By the
improved system which he had intro
duced, all from the pointing to the final
“cast off',” could Ik* accomplished in less
than three minutes. He never spoke to
the condemned, nor did he ever shake
hands with them unless they wished,
localise he considered shaking hands
brought on weakness. He did every
thing “manly, straight and firm; stir
nlxmt it.” It was a good “fall,” he
considered, when tin* noose was drawn
tight that the neck was compressed three
or four incites. Death was then
Htuntnneous.
Tiikee hundred tons of living marine
animals, that had been stealing ride
the hull of the Great Eastern, were
moved recently.
the naked
oppressive. Tho ixiw in
•pixis'itii
loosing their hold from exhaustion, the
liny having meanwhile jH*rlHh<.'d, and
rntVed them to the light-house. Miss
Lewis should lx* among the first to reeoivo
tho new decoration to lx* bestowed by
congress for heroic deeds in saving life.
Springfield Itcjuiblican,
Tvkhitahle little duck.
MIm llcrk m lili'ii Five .Ml lea N tv I in from
l.oiitloil Mi-Mao lo Mreenttleli.
A young gill named Agnes Alice Beck
with,* daughter of the professor of swim
ming at Lambeth baths, yesterday ac
complished the difficult feat of swimming
from London Bridge to Cl reeitwieh. The
distance is rather more than live miles,
ami tho time was remarkably font—namely
lb 7m. 45s. Mr. Beckwith has been con
ducted with the Lumboth baths for nearly
a quarter of a century, mid for fourteen
years held the proud position of champion
swimmer of England. The heroine of
yesterday's proceedings is but fourteen
years old. of slim make and diminutive
stature. The object was to decide a wager
ofjC()0tojC40 laid against her hy Mr. Bavlis,
the money being deposited with lkU'« Life,
The event created a great deal of excite
ment, and all along the route the progress
of the swimmer was watched hy excited
crowds on the wharfs and barges. In ad
dition to the London Steamboat Com
pany’s Volunteer, a private steam launch,
ami a rowing boat containing tier father,
the referee, and some half dozen others
immediately interested in the result, a
perfect swarm of boatH accompanied—and
Indeed impeded—the swimmer the entire
distance. London bridge was crowded,
as were the vessels and other points
whence a view of tlu* start could be ob
tained.
MISS DECK WITH DIVED
front the rowing boat ill nine minutes to
five, and at once commenced a rapid side
stroke, which she maintained to the finish.
.van attired iu a swimming costume
of light rose pink llama, trimmed with
white braid and lace of the same color.
The water was very smooth ami the title
running about three miles per hour.
Swimming about a couple of yards iu the
rear of the referee's bunt, Tunnel Bier was
reached at 11 minutes past five. At
llorseferry dock (5:22) a salute was fired,
and the swimmer was encouraged with
lusty cheers. The Commercial dock was
uickly left behind, and soon after the
lihla, on her return from Margato,
rowdud with excursionists, passed the
flotilla. Bossing Mill wall Miss Beckwith
crossed to the north side and took advan
tage of the strong tide. At tliirt point
she was met by tnc saloon steamer Vic
toria, whose passengers were vociferous
iu their applause. The Foreign Cattle
market at Dopford was breasted at twelve
minutes to Hix, and, as Greenwich hos
pital appeared in sight, the intelligence
was conveyed to tho swimmer by repeated
cheers, a salute being also fired from the
Unicorn. The pier at Greenwich and
the grounds of the shipyard woro crowded
with people who cheered to the echo when
the spirited strains of “See the Conquer
ing Hero Cornea” announced the success
of the attempt. Miss Beckwith swam
some distance beyond the pier, and was
taken on Ixiard at 5h. 5Hm. 45s., having
accomplished the d (stance, as stated above,
iu lh. 7in. 45s.
She seemed almoat as fresh as when she
started, and to all appearance was capa
ble of going considerably further.—Ao/i-
tlon Stamford.
think that Arsene Houssaye having in
sulted only M. Bhorhette’s hat, might
make his apologies to it.
At this moment a word from M. Sher
bet tc changed the face of things. “ If
" Arsene llonssayo declares Hint iu Tho registrar-general's report on the
agricultural statistics of Ireland for 1875
Ireland’s Agricultural Condition.
comes to eon firm the sanguine estimate
of Irish prosperity in which the lord-
lieiitenaul indulged at Derry. Borlmps
tho most striking piece of evidence is
that of emigration returns, which
Vliut in ciiiigruviuii iuiiii un, mum wu
only include among agricultural statistics
hy something like'a “hull.” That 81,-
000 jxirsons left tho shores of Ireland
during the first six months of the present
year, as compared with the 45,000 who
emigrated in the same period Iant year,
shows that Die domain! for labor is really
improving. The inference is suggested
hy the return of total acreage under
crops, as compared with the acreage un
der grass—tho former showing an increase
of 02,000 acres, the latter a decrease of
40,000 acres. Thus there is a slight
turn in the tide which set in after the
famine, and some land apparently that
was given up to pasture lias been recon
quered hy the plow. Tho danger is that
in the uncertain climate of Ireland this
reaction may go too far, and Hint crons
of too speculative a kind may again is:
grown. At present this is not so; the
acreage under wheat, of which the culti
vation in Ireland is not safe in one year
out of five, has diminished by one-third
since 1871, while oats, barley, and green
crops show an increase. Botalocs, which
are a fine crop this year, are less in favor
than they were, partly owing to the pop-
the other ulnr change of habits, and partly to tho
dread of tho American pest—the Colo
rado lxetle.—J/mdon /Spectator.
taclr
east and
south were in ••jijKisition to the ring
nlxmt the sun (like the ordinary
how,) hut only a small part of either of
' e arches were visible.
The Heroine of Newport.
Ida I.
from Lime Rock lii
Ncwport harbor Thursday, and rescuing
a man from drowning, recalls the earlier
achievements which have given her the
title of “the Grace Darling of America.”
She first came into prominence in 18(5(5,
when on one of the coldest and most blus
tering days ever known in this latitude,
she saved the life of a soldier who bad
started for a sail on the barlsir in a light
skiff. One day, iu the autumn of 1807,
while a terrible gale was raging, two men
set out to cross the harbor with several
sheep, and in trying to rescue one that
had fallen overboard, cuiiio near swamp
ing their Imat; seeing their jM*ril from the
window of her father’s light-house, Miss
Lewis went to their aid, and, after land
ing them safely, wont hack and rescued
the sheep. But her greatest exploit was
performed on the 21Hh of March, 1801),
when a Ixiat containing two young sol
diers and a Imjv was struck hy a squall on
the harbor and overturned. Though ill
at the time, Ida rushed out of the house,
launched her lifc-lwmt, sprung in, with
neither hat on her head nor shoes on her
feet, reached the wreck just in tijnc to
* ivc the two sailors as they were about
White Field Labor in the South.
How is it that a white man can nov
labor in tho rich fields of our State,
where formerly the climate was consid
ered an insurmountable harrier? Has
tlie climate changed? Are the men of a
different breed? No! Only the
taken ideas of tlie insalubrity of the
liinnto, false impressions about the
height to which the thermometer attains
midsummer, have, hy dint of self
vestigntion, aided hy the press, 1m:cii dis
pelled, at tlie least in small circle ,
there are still many in tlie west and
north, and also in Europe, who mentally
compare the fertile lands of Gulf States
to the mephitic Itonmn coitipagna
White labor, and particularly the purtic
ipation of tho planter or farmer himself
in the lalxirs of tho field, have of late
tended to shorten tho jicriod necessary
for tlie cultivations of most of our crops,
who application of science to farming,
Tliich naturally follows iu the wake of
white labor, will not alone raise large
crops on a given urea, hut also improve
the quality of the harvest. Once let it
Im: generally understood that a white
man can work in the field in this State
as well as anywhere in the west or north,
with 1 letter health, more comforts, and
with at least a double profit, and thou
sands of small fanners from the sterile
sections of other states will take up tlie
rich alluvial lands of Louisiana which
arc awaiting tin* husbandman's coming.
—NcW Oilcan* Price Current,
SAVINGS AND IH^m
A mahuiaoi: on a railway train may
pro|wrly Ik* termed a railroad tie.
“No ballot, no haiiies,” read a trans
parency at a recent woman-suHinge dem
onstration.
A MiuiiATOliY sheep-raiser in Beatrice,
Neh., lias a (lock of 800 sheep. 11 in
home is on wheels, and with his family
he moves from place to place, wherever
he enn find good grazing lands.
When a Missouri engineer ditched his
train lie faintly asked: “Did it kill any
one who parted his hair in the middle?”
They answered that three such were lying
dead. “ Thon 1 die happy 1” ho siglicu,
and was soon no more.
“Is he anything, anyhow?” said ono
young lady to another iih they prom
enaded Laramie street, and discussed a
nice young man. “ Oh yes,” replied tho
other, “he’s something; lie’s an awful
big fool.”
“ You lutvc been boro a long time, I
suppose?” said a t raveler to an old hunter
Oregon. “You may swear I have,” and
then pointed to Mount Hood, ho con
tinued: “You see that mountain
there? Well, sir, when I first rnnie to
tills country that mountain was a hole in
tho ground.”
A kind gentleman prevented some
hoys from stoning a pigeon fastened hy
the leg, and extricated it with much
trouble, putting it tenderly into his
1hmom. The next day he remarked that
it made a much nicer pie than ho ex
pected.
John Hunky had a guest at dinner tho
other day, and during a pause in tho con
versation the nfant terrible spoke up:
“I wish I was you.” “ Do you, my little
boy, and why do you wish you were me?”
“Com you don’t get your ear pinched
when you eat vittles with your knife.”
“ Fine cane you’ve got I” said Crab-
apple to Bhawnoyhaum. “ Yes, sir,”
said Shawneyhaiim : “ 1 brought it from
llcnglund. “ What kind of wood is it 1”
said Crahapnle. “ Well, sir, it looks
like 'iizel or 'iekory, or you might tako'it
for a helm or a hook ; hut, hal'tcr hall,
it’s only a hash I*’
A vet eh an picnickor says: “Girls
with small feet are the most veilluresonto
in climbing trees or wading swamps. Tho
girl who will fly in terror to the arms of
her escort at sight of a toad, will if she
happens upon a snake hy herself, deliber
ately catch it hy tho tail and jerk its
hcml off. One ordinary handkerchief is
not large enough for two persons to^ siti
upon at one and the same time. Tho
young man whoso pants have been tho
most mercilessly torn hy thorns is the
most urgently solicited to climb trees and
fix wings. Bugs have no sense of pro
priety.”
On, she was an Al Ciiniicaut belle, of
e “very first water,” or more; and she
married a regular fine-haired “swell” who
clerked in a dry goods store. And ho
clerked and lie clerked, fill at last he fell
into trouble with some of tlie money; and
they went out west iu a way, folks tell,
not particularly funny. And, after a
time, the hollo come, tho old folks for to
see; and the neighbors asked, when they
found she'd come, what her husband a
hi/, might lie. “ Oh, he iH a railroad man
now,” slu* said—“assistant conductor,”
said she; hill sonic ono asked, as he shook
his head, what tho dickens that might
ho. And then, with that high old “style
of hors, she answered the Interrogation:
“ He assists in slacking the sjieed of tho
ears when the train approaches a station.”
•1 *tt tabu la News.
Till?centenary of Michael Agelo has
revived tho interest of tlie Italians for
q very thing connected with the great
artist, anil to tho discovery of some in
teresting facts concerning him. Thus tho
examination of the judicial archives of
Home, has disclosed the existence ol an
official inventory made hy order of tho
city, immediately after the death ot
Uuonnroli. In that document are men
tioned, not only the furniture, the clothes,
tlie money, and the horses belonging to
him, Imt also different unfinished statues,
ral cartoons are spoken of. Homo
information is also to lie found as to his
domestic: arrangements, his illness, etc.
An equally interesting eircuhistaneo is
the discovery, or rather the deciphering,
published sonnet hy him. It is
written on the hack of an original draw
ing of his, which forms part of the col-
lotion made hy Sir Thomas Lawrence,
and purchased hy the University of Ox
ford. ^
Gkjantic Tunnels.—At present two
gigantic engineering feats are in contem
plation-one a tunnel under the Straits
of Dover, between England and France,
the other a like opening between Spain
and Morocco, under the Straits of Gi
braltar. The recent achievements in
tunneling leave hut little doubt of tho
ultimate success of tho enterprises should
competent persons undertake them. Tho
length of the Dover tunnel will licit little
•ver twenty miles, hut at no ]x)int is tho
Jcpth of the water 170 feet. The com
pletion of such a work and the extension
of a railway to the continent would he a
grand improvement in every point, of
yiew. Tho Suez, canal is no more im
portant work relative to difficulties or
commercial advantages than the Dover
tunnel would Is*. At present the union
of Spain and Africa by incansofn tunnel,
does not seem to offer such a vista of
convenience and profit, though the ad
vantages would undoubtedly increase in
time. The distance is only nine miles,
but the maximum depth of the water is
2,021 feet, or nlmut half a mile. Ho tho
difficulties for boring here are much
greater than at Dover. Wo nlmll expect
the former work done before tho
latter. Spain is a kind of Bedlam;
Morocco is famous for any thing but
enterprise or exchangeable wealth. So
neither affords u very respectable exit
for a Gibraltar tunnel. Hut a Dover
Most farmers keep currycombs, cards,
brushes, and the like in the horse-barn,
and use them daily: but how many cows
throughout the country ever him a ‘•ard-
hriish applied to their dirty sales / 1 fie
dairy rows conic out of the stable in the
spring looking more filthy than tlu* swine
in the gutter. Does it pay to keep tho
cattle clean? Ask any intelligent farmer
if’ it pays to use the brush on his horses,
and then ask him to point out a reason
why it does not pay equally as well to
give the cows the same attention and
care.