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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDAUTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1S75.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 17.
TIM 101. Y TO TICS.
Tin: clay pits near Now Hntuxwick,
N. .1,, vic^l annually some 235,000 tons
of clay, worth over $1,000,000.
A< voitmN*ii to Hon. L. 11. Minner, of
California, (Jen. Taylor 4jU not nay “a
little more grape, (’apt. llnigg,” lmt he
<lit! sav this: “('apt. Hragg, it is letter
to Ion a battery, thaji a little.”
Tin; Jlritlsh Arctic expedition will
winter at a point only -DO geographical
miles from the north polo, and the explo
re r^e\p,;clrto start upon their important
mi-tit.n in April. All that science and
t \|H»rienct can suggest has Ihhmi done to
make thi-* expedition a success.
I'.xi’KniMKNi'H prove that eolFee can lx*
raised in every port ion of California where
tin 1 soil is congenial. California plants
produce twenty-two shoots, while those
of Knro|h* produce hut one. The Cali
fornia soil is kdioved to he more favor
able, as, unlike those of Eiiro|K‘uu coun
tries, it needs no irrigation.
l‘ho
■otto
Factor
IK). Ilc-ides tl
eluded maehinei
glc A lh.1
(tally mannliie-
* firm, than are
Kneland riwblnH
"*ri«d. They employ linn
df million of capital, and
last year amounted to
hev are running to their
’ to fill order- foreign and
of abduction like that of
The la
wit ho 1
Tin
ceding five thousand dollars
littlent at hard lidxir not exooet
•eu years, on conviction of eon
in harWing, or concealing, or ei
way,any child, either within c
i Hint commonwealth.
population of the original thir
teen states of the Union in 1700, the
period of the first census, together with
that of M
Ten new, which were formed fi
original thirteen, and admitted to the
Union subsequent to 1700, was only
3.020,21 | The population of the same
-tales, in IS70 -oijr last cons its-was IP,
070,(100; showing a gain of lt>,0ll,l05
in granting the aid required to luiild it;
it can lx* luiilt at less than a Third ot the
expense of the existing line, and can l»e
o|«erated projKirtionatelv more cheaply ;
it will furuisli much the shortest tiansit
across the continent; it will not Ih* liable
to the snow and ice harriers of the north
ern route; it will ojtcn the Ix-st part of
our western territories and states to set
tlement; it will increase foreign immi
gration and attract foreign capital; and,
finally, it will lx 1 of incalculable advan
tage to the trade interests of the whole
country by breaking up a formidable
monopoly, and greatly reducing the cost
of transportation l>etween the eastern
and western divisions of the continent as
well as l*etween the Atlantic and Pacific
Till! nqsirt of the Massachusetts hu
reau of statistics shows that the annual
surplus earnings <>L the families of
ehanies, as indicated by the earnings of
307 families, is $21.72; of these 407 film
dies. f».H ran in debt, 5*2 earned a surplm
of $0.8ft, llo a surplus of $20.2.’*, 71 i
surplus of $.‘12.18, 38 a surplus of $37.77
1(1 a surplus of $40.51, 1 a surplus of
$103.80, -1 a surplus of $120.85, 2 a sue
plus of $172, and 1 n surplus of $228.77
and of $275.80. The wages of two fam
ilies were over $1,000, 01 i*etwccn $000
and $1,000, and 331 from $300 to $1
The average earnings of the whole
$702, and the average ex|*ensos $788. ()f
250 families, however, the s»vde of wages
rnoKod from $50(Vto $.80", with a projsir-
tionatc scale of rX|*enses, leaving an
annual averagp«d>rplusof $5.13 to $20.25*
Only out* s'oekman in a Imielred owm
the hoMse in which liis family resides.
Tiik failure of the Hank of California
is now known to have been precipitated,
in large part, by the unprecedented ship
ments of gold from San Francisco from
January to .Inly. The shipment of gold
for the first six monthsof 1X7-1 footed up
$2,311,100; for the same period in 1875,
it reached the startling sum of $18,257,-
400! No such amount of gold had ever
Ik’cii shipped from that city in the same
|>eri<sl. In fact it was more tlfan I lie
market could l*ear. F.ven during tin*
Ismdon panic in 1800, no such volume
of coin disappeared, lienee the ineou-
venienee. Hut the coin movement
• Vermont, Kentucky and j gnu to fall oll’in .Inly, gnd has been still
li'-b were f.irm.-d fmm if... I | rss ||,j s mon(h to date.
froi
! the.mlv
euciide* of the Underwrite
from a lighted pipe have can
A ruction of many a superb steaml
causing a fearful lose of life, as well i
valuablenirg<H*s. A gentlemanly smoker
who i brows down a cigar stump carelessly
is often the “unknown cause" of man)
lire*. Cannot insurance companies do
vjsc greater care this matter, and thii:
PKiitorwof financial depression, amount
ing sometimes to panics, have pervaded
all nations. < If the cause no satisfactory
solution can Is* made. For more than
two years past EnjJIniid has been subject
to this depression. It seems to i>c
greater now than nt any previous time.
Sparks I Heavy and disastrous failures have ad-
I the de- to tho trouble, and hence capital is
• unnecessarily cautious, and thereby a
1 j great existing evil, without apparent
; cause, has lwon greatly aggravated. 'Flic
• j same state of things, ton considerable ex-
’’ tent, exists on the continent.
oid ■*
- boa
Tm; Suitherii Pacific railroad is meet
ing wiih iijiich opposition. Tho change
of guogc. according to a rojMirt just made
to tin- Memphis chamlicr of commerce,
cun Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
North Mississippi, Virginia and Mary
land, out of all chance to a participation
in il.sadvantage**. Hut can that l*o justly
ealle<| a Southern Pacific- railroad which
excludes two-third* of the population of
tesfrom all participation
its hi
ret urns that
rs from astatciueut just isuiod
i.-lieal Hureau that in the fis-
liog .(line, 1871 -the last year
iul« Up full
ie exports
I ,|*OC
ralue
For the same period of the pre-
deeade. that ending June 30, IHiiJ,
eel.-il value of the ^xjmrts was hut
$7d3,o0oo,00»)-
thnS’-IVdtl in t
i the dir
lion of the Hoards
withstanding the hnl;
tho world at large is
land,
ions of tho Associa-
f Trade in England,
fact, that not-
of trade with
Kng
• ( fr-sjm-mly happens that gold
•d to nfeet balances against her
ular jktukI-.. Another fact is
•nstrated, and that is. that gold
uiodity which goes where it is
nd where it will bring the l>e*t
ail rood
A lath London letter gives this report
of the condition of monetary affairs
there: “Theofficial minimum isstil 2 j>cr
cent., and in oj»cn market the l>est hills
are taken at 11 to Is per cent. The
supply of money seeking employment is
very large, and there is but little pros
pect of any diminution. There is just
now, owing to the timidity of the public,
a great demand for sound dividend-pay
ing securities. These have lx*cn forced
up in value to a |>oint which yields to
the investor hut a small return of inter
est ; hut ns safety is every consideration
with the public, it is necessary to Ik 1
content with small profits. Among these
are United States government and first
mortgage railroad Rinds. .These are
quoted at high prices. Hecond-rntc se
curities cheap and much neglected.
Tin; president •!’ the Continental in
surance company of New York, in a con
vention of insurance men held last week,
made the astounding statement, that the
losses of insurance companies in this
country are six times greater than in
England; that in his own company, he
thinks twenty per cent, of the losses paid
are for fraudulent claims, saying nothing
of claims that are fraudulent and not
paid; that legislatures often do all they
ran to help swindlers of insurance com
panies; that the law courts “generally"
strain the law in favor of incendiaries,
and that the. honest part of the com
munity has to make up for those bur
dens on the companies. The. cannot 1m:
said to form an agreeable picture for
contemplation.
tire country will lx* directly or individ
ually I* nolited by Direct Trade Ix'twoon
HouU-crn ports and South America, the
enterprise l*cing really National and not
local.
Till* consumption of Uyuzil coffee in
this country is enormous. During the
sensoij of 1874 it was 103,751 tons, or an
average of 8,0-IO tons per month. This
was the largest consumption ot Hrar.il
coffee in the United States that was ever
known, with the exception of that of 1870,
when 108,502 tons were consumed. Tho
coffee trade is now on a firm
footing, and the consumption stead
ily increasing, especially in thU cmm-
try, where it is alxiiit one-fourth
of that of the entire world. It is worthy
of note that (lie world’s consumption of
coffee is nearly, if not fully, 425,000
tons, or 035,000,000 |M*unds! The jMMiple
of the United States consume more coffee
than any other pcoplo on the glolxi, The
main source of eolfee supply is Hrnril,
hut Java, Ceylon, and the West Indies
furnishes a considerable quantity. The
yearly value of the coffee crop is esti
mated, by an Amsterdam authority, ut
first bands, at $125,000,000, and this
amount is considerably reduced before it
flows back from tin* consumer.
Till* Scptcnilicr report of tho dopnrai
ment of agriculture says of the cotton
crop: Could it Is- tborongly ripened, its
aggregate would exceed any previous
crop,and the yield per acre would lx: one
of the lx*st, notwithstanding the losses
by the overflow of Ixittoins and tho
saturation of heavy flat soils. Hitch
losses have proved less (him the usual
damages by drougth and insects, while
the rains have greatly lxmefittcd the
crops on drier and higher sails. Nearly
everywhere corn is late In maturing from
one to two weeks. In general a high
condition is still maintained, the average
lx*ing one jxir cent, higher than in
August. The sfate averages are :
Mnlno - - - - * 107 Now ltaiii|>*lilro - 100
V.-nixml - - - - - *.*n UimwicliiOMM.tlN - - UNI
ink
Vlrjtlnla - -
Sniih Ctimllnu
Mln-i.-hf |i|i| - ■
MUlilumi - -
I Vini-y I THiil.-t
(Wollnu
fc! 1
7 (iii.rgli
H Alnlmiua -
)|L>itii4«iia -
Vliulnln
!«l nidi!
I Ciilllorniu
Mtmotirl
NHirioku - ^
Amiuiican* sugar refiners are now sel
ling refined sugar to the English, Scotch
and other nations at \ery much less than
the same articles can lx- furnished by
Hritish refiners. Last winter congress
authorized -a rebate or draw-bark to be
paid on all refined sugar cxjxirtcd after
March 1st, and this rebate is $3.75 in
gold per 100 |x>unds on bard, and $2.50
in gold on soft sugars. The result is flint
American refiners of sugar have found a
market for over twenty-eight million
pounds of their product in foreign coun
tries -not one pound of which, ill all
probability, could have been sold under
previous laws. At II eenfc |x:r (Kiiind,
the export of refined sugar, during the
past six months, ending in August., has
aggregated a money value of over three
millions of dollars, of which over seventy
per cent, lias lieeii drawn from the Uni
ted Kingdom and dejicndenc.ieH. Tho
English press are down on this flanking
of English refiners, and the l/ondon
(iroeer is frank enough to confess, that the
American sugar trade has already grown
into positive dimensions,and that, unless
•heekiiiated by some doliltcrnte or ncci-
Iciitnl means, the English market wijl in
time he so inundated with sugar from
America, that the finest loaf and other
aigar will eventually Iwconie things of
the past."
LATEST NEWS SUMMARY
ee iftve ju
Nashville
llotpd their la
the law, just
'•••I, which make* railroads liable to
: lor lxuh state, and county purposes,
railroads were all allowed to chorine
later to Ik: :
pmiTfT Trade with South America,
mi Southern ports, is certain sooner or
room pi inlied. At the present
no regular and rcljahlu coin-
^ _ tjj| with Venezuela, and hence.
• t arn:". - or JO Vents on the 1 ' nn * ,loW ’ n, l K,rt ' n " »team engines
1 value oi-Ha ir nrni - frHra SnirlaiMl. Our Imbl iipui, Hrazil
• in ;l.i- ..lata. Xj,„. raced lw * dl«iini»ll«l duce the fuilnn-
| r itiej;. i»..|udl„ K ',|„.j'-f* Bulthnore firm thnt era, cnp.-cd |„
h ami (‘i:»rl**s|ou. while fourteen j exixirting provisions and manufaetures
(In J ' jh r rent, altentative thither in exchange for Hrazilian coffee
., iV ing the i ivrht of the state to nm * ot ^ ,;r l» ro( R*ctfl. This circumstance
. i 1 i.id-. It i-e-timated that the r *?*ult favorably to the eflbrts of the
:(•»! from all lines of railroad {Mississippi Valley Uoinjvany in establish-
- e will aggregate'll 00,000. . I 1 ,ir < ‘*e Trade in that fiortion of the world:
j Their ships will have the advantage, too,
rgurnents in favor of a Southern of a shorter distance from New Orleans
railroad,rif pro|>er gauge, may lx: | to South America, and all the gains of
tatel. a- follow*-': Such a road i interior watcreoinmunieation. Even the
■ Is 4 buik with‘.' YrrniuenL aid ; Philadelphia North American ronfesse-
srnment need not risk any thine that the intero^ts of the people of tbecn-
alifornia is Mending two a
hope licit in i
they will realize
ports <>f frail tli.-ui
The Hlaek Hills
! getting
r loads of
•I Hie Him*
few years
i Iheir
exports of
legotiations, which
at fin- l((yl C loud
siieecssfnl termination. Not only flint, Imt
the commissioner* on tie part of the United
Slates had a narrow ewnpo irota being at
tacked hy home of (he infliriilfCd red skins
The-corn crop ih Iowa is l>ecoining
enormous in its proportions. In 1S7I it was
I2ft,(SX),0<S) limdu l-. This year the area is
much enlarged, and it i- eoimated that the
yield will be 1.70,000,0-Mt bushels, which, if no
disaster come to it, which does not seem
probable, will be worth $70,000,000,
About one-third of the wheat grown in
tin- United Staten i, produced in the three
states of .Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin,
and this otic-third is in round numbers a
hundred million bushels. The heavy rains
have damaged this crop somewhat in those
states this year. The St Paul Dispatch says
that from the most trustworthy nfonnation
that it lias been able to obtain it would seem
that in Minnesota five per cent, of the entire
production for the year lias •been totally
destroyed, while the damaged condition of a
large proportion of the crop* is equivalent to
a further loss of about ten per cent. Th con
tinued rains have delayed the operations of
(he farmers, and the crap of that state will
not reach the market until several weeks
A B|x’eltil rejx»rt« tho town of Yaleaao,
Texas, as entirely swept iiwiit by the flood.
No lives lost.
Hon. Hcnjiimiu II. Hill, of (Icorgiu,
says be thinks that just nt this time there
ought t<> be but little, if any, public speaking
oil political questions at the south.
Tho Ixmrd of trade of Hnltimnrc is
about lo petition the legislature of Maryland
to enact a law by which breaches of trimt
■hall be piiuisned ms hroenlcs.
I air go contributions for Indianola and
the coast hu fibre rs are heiug seat forward
from Austin, San Antonio, New HriilinfclN,
Dallas, Wneo and Shreveport i also from
many northern and eastern cities.
The Arkansan Slat« Hoard of Finance
has effected a loan ot money suftb-leiil to pay
I list expenses of the state government from
July 1st of the present year to the 1st of
July, 1873.
A letter from tho steamship and rail
road agent at Indiamdii reports 200 houses
swept away, mid (lie steamboat and railroad
wharf, which cost $200,000, almost n total
wreck, and 150 to 200 lives lost.
The Ht. Dials businessmen are making
active efforts to secure a wide-awake railroad
convention in November,tho object of which
is to promote (lie construction of another
Paeilie railroad and give the great Northern
monopoly a bitter taste of opposition and
competition.
Tim venerable Dr. Lovick Pioroc, of
the M. E. Uliureli, south, who is nearly a
hundred years old, is still able to render
occasional service in the pulpit. He is a
fraternal delegate from Georgia to the gen
eral conference of the Northern Methodist
church, which meets next year.
The North Carolina convention has,
by a vote of Qfl to 50, refused to remove the
disabilities of cx-Govuruor Midden,
peached ill 1871, upon the ground that the
oath of the members prescribed by the legis
lature, restricted them from leglslativi
action.
The ship Western Empire, Captain
Hertie, front Pensacola, the 11th last., for
Grimsby, with timber, became water-logged
In (he hurrioiiuo of tho IHtli in latitude 18°
5.7 it., longitude 87°, 54 w., and was nhiiu
doned. The captain and crew landed <
Vincent’s island, Apalachicola Hay, Florida,
in boats from the ship. Ill landing, o
the boats capsized and seven mon
drowned. The remainder, seventeen in num
ber, including the captain, were landed
Pensacola on (lie -Mill insl., in a destitute
condition,
Ait examination of the hooks of tho
Planter's National Hank, of Louisville, ri
a defalcation of $105,000, taken during the
Inxt live years by the 'late teller, Lnilis
Helim. It will be remembered that Itcliiu
recently robbed the bank safe of
$100,000, and was apprehended before
lie could escape, and the money was r
ered. An examination reveals u defalcation
whs (bell made. The loss amounts to .70 pc
ei-nU of the capital stock, and will fall oi
stockholders only,.depositors being safe.
Till! hank will gn into liquidation,
(leu. Joseph E. Johnston lias Ih 1
considerably unnoyed of lute by the fabrica
tions or misinformation of some Georgia .pa
pers tlmt have been milking him the gei
issimo ot llie hosts of tiie Khedive,
general thus writes to n personbl friend in
New Orleans: “ 1 mu very sorry to say (lull
the Khedive has not. made me I lie magnifi
cent nlb-rs reported hy some southern editors,
no do I know if lie is still appointing Ameri
cans in his army. He vent I of my noqiiiilnt-
nncpH have received ninth appointments,
however, hy making application through Mr.
H. L. Merchant, No. 7ll Mouth street, 'New
York, who seems to In: the agent of the
Kgyptlnu government,"
Galveston advices from Hrnzorin, (luted
2.7(1, confirm life repnrts first received from
Matagorda. The town was washed flwa
eepting only four houses, which roiiinlli
standing. No lives were lost. The. peoph
were saved by clinging to the cedar trees ii
the vicinity. At tin: town of Goltmibin
twenty houses were blown down. No llv
arc reported lost. One man was killed
Chenango bv the falling of a tree. Mat
plantations have been greatly damaged nml
some literally torn to pieces, and s
bouses, gin-houses, fences and everything
partly or wholly blown down. The great
losses can not be reported.
s'inl.
Ah far as ki
Indianola.
BOUTrl
iwn 173 live
MISCELLANEOUS
Detective Pinkerton him exjKmdcd
$18,000 trying fo find Charley JJohh, and still
' lie is at it.
The number of potdpDmoney ordc
issued during the year ending June .70, 183
was 5,00.7,32.7, amounting to $77,1.71,251.7
tin inert-use of $.7,000,320.87 over the previous
The Hceretaryof tin* treasury Imh given
directions for flu: retirement of $.704,584 of
outstanding legal tenders, Unit amount being
80 per cent, of the national bank circulation
issued during the pits! month. Until further
orders tin- outstanding legal tenders will lie
$.77.7,041, 124.
The president low appointed Win. F.
Green collector of internal revenue for the
Sixth district of Tennessee, and Win. Cnf-
frey, of Ncbr.-.ska, receiver of public moneys
in the Wyoming land district. He Iihh*h1so
signed the commission of Alex. White, of
Alabama, to be chief justice of Utah ter
ritory.
The agricultural report for August
and Ht’ptenibcr gives the condition of wheat
where harvested for all spites as 72 per cent.,
quality poorer tiiun for several years. Tin:
oaf crop is superior in quality and quantity,
mostly secured in good condition. Of bar
ley, the average of the country in 85 per
cent. Potatoes are ten per cent, above aver
age; the wool crop is a full average, weight,
or little above, in nearly all the states. To
bacco lias fallen ten per cent, below an aver
age. Hope, New York mid Wisconsin, which
together produced from three-quarters to
four-fifths of the entire crop, have largely
increased their acreage.
BAST.
Mrs. Young, the mother of the little
girl who was cruelly murdered in tUg belfry
of Warren avenue Hnptkft church, Itoston,
lias been taken to the insane asylum, the f ile
of her child baying deprived her of reason.
Matters nt Fall river ate quiet, hut it
is the quiet enforced by bayonets. The
labor troubles them are begiuiag to attract
a good deal of tit tent ion outside.
Mmsra. ( .’rexswell, Purvlx and Lolpohl,
commissioners of the Freedman's Having and
Trust Company, umuuiu-c that they will com
mence paying a dividend of 20 per emit, on
all audited clams on the first of November.
The splenic fever, nr Texas cattle dis
ease ns It is generally called, which eatised
so great a mortality among cattle in the west
ii few years ijgo, has recently made its ap
pearance in Now York, the animals affected
having undoubtedly contracted the con
tagion from Texas cattle brought north for
daughter.
A dlxpnteb from Hielummd, Me., re
ports that the captain, Ills wife and 11 out of
n crew of 12 of the ship Emily Southard
were lost by the wrecking of that vessel on
the F.nglish const n few days ago. ('apt.
Woodswortli Is the nitilli sea-captain from
llowdohlhniu lost within tIk* year.
The horse dlHtfmper, which threatened
heavy losses of stock in New York a few
days ago, has nearly disappeared from the
the stables of tlmt city. The vctcrnnrv sur
geons say the disease is not like tho “epizoo
tic" that prevailed several years since, and
they suppose it to Imve been brought on by
the sudden mild weather. A horse disease
similar to it Inis Just appeared in Washing
ton, hut does not seem to he doing much
JOREIGW.
The Carl 1st leader, Oitmandiij lias been
defeated at Castillo, in Catalonia.
A fearful atorm has done immense
damage In England. At Manchester a large
mill was prostrated. No lives lost.
Fart o4' the county of Cork, Ireland;
Inis been devastated by finods, mid great de
struction of property Is reported.
The rebellion lit the Turkish provinces
appears to be as formidable as ever, if not
more so. The is a great dent of privation
mid suffering incident to the general up-
There are only *10,000 Jews in Franco,
hut their importance there in art, polities,
commerce and finance is out of all propor
tion to their number.
Eminent.engineer* in France are work
ing iiHfdduntiHly at the problem of construct
ing a bridge between France and England.
Payton, tho absconding teller of the
Mimhnnlca bank of Montreal, is reported
have embezzled over one hundred llioiisimd
dollars.
Dispatches from tho Swedish Arctic
expedition report Its arrival at IliiuuTterfesl
Norway. All the officers and men werowel',
Important limps ami scientific collections
have been made.
The rcjx>rt is confirmed Unit. Don
(Kurils lino dismissed Gen, Maladies froi
command fn wliioli (Jon, CNmtellex lito
(’ceded. Tho Alfonsists continue lo push
operations in tho neighborhood of Hernia.
It is rejxirtcd that dissensions Imv
occurred among the VarHst lenders, Dorn
go ray, Mcmllm and I'emla, which Don Carlos
himself In nimble to reconcile. Tin- Carlist
leader Gcrinaiiile lias been defeated ill ('as
lillo in Cntnlonin.
Tho wrath of tho English over Hon
duras finances is jusHllable. M. Ouiforrcz,
tlidllniidii rax minister, misrepresented allidr
to Hrltixh capitalists and got $22,000,002 for
the purpose of effecting "internal Itnprovi
incuts." As the revenues of the state nr
only $288,(881 and the governmental expense
fur exceed that hiiim, it is likely that the
aspiring capitalists in F.nghind are not likely
to get their money bank very soon, nor wil
they lend any more after the recent develop
AVo tire to have a royal visitor, next
year, who will Ije heartily welcoihed--Dom
Pedro II, Emperor of Ilrnr.il, who has secured
the sanction of ids chamber of deputies
proposed absence of eighteen * months in
Europe and the United Htates, Inking in the
the Philadelphia Centennial, of coil
Dorn Pedro lias proved himself tin- n
intelligent ruler tlmt South America liltse
seen, noil Hrn/il has made steady and rapid
progress through Ills reign. He Ims ftlw
shown himself a warm friend of tin: United
Httpes.
Ho fhr an outward uji|xmmnco goes, the
Cabin insurgents are as determined
as they were eight years ago. They have
jiiftt promulgated a war order ilmt all incx
Mongers from the Spunisli party bringing pro
poHulx of peace based on any other tcrmi
save those of Cuban independence, will hi
treated as spies. There, is not much sub
mission in tlmt. The successful ■ lauding of
their late filibusters lias fully supplied the
with iniinitionH.of war, mid their spirits and
courage seem as fully reinforced.
Jt nppears that the BonnparlistH did
have a meeting at Arcmmbtirg, Switzerland,
after all. A special to tho New York Herald
professes to give the programme evolved from
the consultation of the empire dreamers. If
the Empress Ktigiiilc lias abdicated the
regency and tho young prince is to direct the
party “guided by counsels," lie will be more
of a tool titan lie ever was before in the
iiandti of a very rasli set of men, who have
thus far been restrained front ruining tlu-ir
by the prudence and forethought of
the empress.
Hard Tnn« fok tiik Dri;mmuiw.--
is not improbable that Inc prolonged
dullness of trade will greatly’curtail the
system of commercial traveling. It isan
extravagant practice, and must neces
sarily involve more outlay in many
branches of trade than for llie retailer to
have established relations with a few
houses, from which he can order at any
time by telegraph, or hy visitation twice
ir. The American Grocer, in iHh-
cuMting the question, gives the following
opinion ns that of n prominent merchant:
“ My salesmen on tfio road cost me three
tyncs us much, in proportion to the
ninount of goods sold, ns my house snles-
lo." Tin: reason is plant. Thexales-
iu the shop is dealing with custom
ers eight or ten hours a day ; the rtnles-
on the road is not dealing with
customers more than one or two hours a
day, being obliged to spend the, retd < f
bis time and cnti-ddornbl'- money hi •diift-
ing about.
Mark Twain’s Dying Wish,
An Incident of Mark Twain's Uslifnr-
Mta life is tliuu related by the Sonoma
Democrat : Sam Diemens while a res
ident of Jackiish Hill, iu this county, lx<-
cmiuo imbibed wltRtlie idea that hit-
future existence deluded upon a sight
of the Hig Trues ; so one day he started,
accompanied by liix mining partner.
After passing Murphy's the “lay of the
county" b> ’ante unfamiliar to the truvl-
ers, and ns. night closed upon* them (hoy
came to the conclusion tlmt they were
not only lost, hut that the prospects of
food and shelter Ibr the night were as
slim ns they well could be. Titov had
followed a wood roml to the summit of a
chnppxrol-crowued hill and did not know
which wav to turn to reach the road
agalu. After ilotthdering around in the
ehemisal for .tar-weed tor tin hour or
more they reached a road near an ap
parently deserted house. Their ludloos
soon brought around them as vicious a
pack of dogs as ever haunted the canine-
infested streets of Constantinople.’ They
numbered toward fifty ami not one ill
them was dumb. They dashed at Sum
and his companion with murderous furv,
compelling them both to seek u tremit-
ling resting place on the fence. The
howls of the dogs finally brought nlxmt
t wenty of their masters from the houses,
and these men must have smiled iu the
t wilight when their eyes fell upon Clem
ens and his friend clinging wit ii heel and
hand to tho top rail of the fence sur
rounded hy tin 1 hungry, snapping dogs.
They proved to be Italians, who did not
understand u word of English. Then,
and not till then, did Clemens lose his
temper. He swore at himself for get
ting into the Hornjx*. He cursed Itis
companion for not knowing the rotul.
lie iiuittheuiati/.ed tho Italians for com
ing to litis country before they hail
mustered tho English language. lie
profanely alluded to the gap iu liis early
education that luul nut been filled iii
with the soft, melodious tongue of Italy,
winding up his remark with a glance of
concentrated hate ut the pack of yelping
dogs beneath him, as he turned to his
companion and in that iimiitnble, lazy
drawl so peculiar to him, said: “Do
you know, Jim, if I might id this mo
ment ask a favor of Providence, after
my familiarity with His name, if it was
to lx: the last roaming desire of my
heart, I would ask that 1 might be con
verted into a ton of pritno beef, loaded
with strychnine, and dumped among
that gang of curs. I’d die contented
after that."
A Dory Conqueror.
And wluit ails you?" asked his honor
*>f the first man out.
“ Weakness," was the mild reply.
“ How?”
“Can't stand up under a pint of
whisky as I eoitld when I left the army."
“ Don’t t ry tinv jokes on me, old relic
of gory bnttlelleldH," continued lito
court. “ You were iu tho army, eh ?"
“Fi vo years."
“ Did you go as a sutler or a colonel."
“Sutlers didn’t get them off, did
they?" asked the vet us lie held up a
hand minus three lingers, “ nor bullets
in tho shoulder, nor sabre cuts on the
bond? No, sir; I fit—waded righl for
the jaws of death I"
“ And now von wade for the jaws of
demijohns and decanters ? "
“ I got drunk," answered the soldier, j
“hut it Was a mean, slinking drunk-— j
none o’ the old sort wo had (luring the
war-time. I’m kinder sorry, but I'm
going to stand by tho colors and take
sentence.”
" Your Homo 'ih rod, your eyes bleary,
your voice way down in your knee pans,
Charles Hildreth,” said the court, “ami
it is evident to me Hint whisky is kill
ing you. Still I'll try you once,
isn't the righl way to attempt the
quest of tho world hy carrying your bat
tle ling on yo*r nose, but there is
clmiice in a million for you lo reform.
' Hoiit face, forward — guide right-
march 1”
Fouling of Wolls.
engagement lie. tminedi-
himsclf
The most insidious process is that of
the gradual fouling of the semi-porous
cartli lying between tho source of her
impurity and tho drinking-water well.
In such Clines tho exudation is usually
quite or nearly constant ; there is no
on|H>rtunily for the air to restore the
filtering power of the soil, and it be
comes saturated with impurity inch by
inch, until, perhaps after several years,
the saturation reaches the well; then
every drop oozing in from this source
carries with it its atom of filth. While
llie supply of water in the ground is
copious, and while there is more or less
rirculation through the water veins, the
foulness may he too much diluted to do
harm; hut in dr^ seasons, when the
supply recedes to a depth of only a few
feet at the bottom of the well, the con
tribution of drain water continuing f lic
i, the dose becomes sullicicnt to pro
duce its poisonous effect.
The dangerous character of the water
of such wella is often manifested by no
odor or taste of organic matter; tho
tiiis mutter seem to ,
Id little who intends presenting them to t
peror of Kussin, to lx: placed
organic character having entirely,
TiHiippcared. Indeed, some of the most
dangerous well-waters are especially
spuming and refreshing to the taste.
Hut the chemical processes which have
fleeted this change appear to have had
-fleet on the germs of disease- if
-which retain their inju
rious character to such a degree that ilie
worst results have often come of the use
of water that was especially sparkling
its a beverage.
more than vivifying nitrates to the water,
their organic character having
FACTS AND FANCIES.
- America is ahead of the world 'in
the nuiiuifiicture of axes, and the Amer
ican shape is being sdoptud every where.
—Only ninq persons out of a hundred
are insane from hereditary muses. -Tho
jim-jams f instanee, are more reml-head-
itnry than hereditary.
A tree iu Ceylon is said to have
been standing more than two thousand
years. The Hiiddldst priests sell its
loaves ns a panacea for sin, and it is a
real bonanza to those pious teachers.
It is said that the game of chess was
invented by a tender woman, more (him
two thousand years ago. Hite was a
queen, and played the first gnmo with
the teeth she had extracted from one of
her slaughtered enemies.
Chateaubriand said, “Mine. Ulmt-
emthrhind Would nut dine later tlum
five. 1 was never hungry till seven.
Hut wo compromised and dined at six,
so that we could neither of us enjoy it;
and that is what people call the happi
ness of mutual eonccHsiouH.”
11 mm Tammcr, an Austria i, is exhi
biting in Purls a canine quartet, lie
has four dugs, and he has taught each
dog to bark in two notes, and uadi dog's
notes tiro dill'cront from those of the
other dogs. He thus commands eight
notes, and gives “ Le donuo mobile”
and some other pieces.
While a couple of women were tils-
eu .sing, the other day, tho merits of u
certain physician, otto of them asked
the other what kind of a doctor he was,
“ Huro, 1 dttnno,” was the reply, “hut I
think it's an alpaca doctor they call
him.”
—Said a distlngulkhed politidnn to
his son: “Look at mo! I began as an
Alderman, and hero I am at the toil of
the tree; and what is my toward? Wh
when I die, my son will bo the greatest
rascal iu the city.” To this the young
hopeful replied : “ Yes, dad, when you
die*—Lilt not till then.”
—It will hardly Ik: necessary to toll
the name of the facetious party who
went into a village dry goods store tho
other day, ami was observed to lx: look
ing about, when the* nroprietor remarked
to him tlmt they didn’t keep whisky.
“ It. would save you a good many stepH
if veil did,” was the stage-driver’s quick
reply.
—A tramping printer on the routo ho-
tween New York and Newburgh, is ac
companied hy his wife. When asked
the other day by ft country editor, why
lie carted her around with him, re
marked tlmt Site took him for hotter or
worse, and, having lmd a good taste of
the latter, was endeavoring to find out
where the bettor came in.
--“Job printing ?’* exclaimed an old
lady, the, oilier day, as she peeped’over
her speetaeloH, ut the advertising page of
it country paper. "Poor Job! they’ve
kept, him* printing, week after week, over
since I limit to read; and if ho wasn’t
tho putientost man that Over was, ho
never could have stood it so long, no
how! ”
—There are in France, according to
the last census returns, one hundred and
one thousand seven hundred and twenty-
six persons who Imve titles and over
three hundred thousand others who use
the prefix <lu or or tic In. There are,
however, really only about thirty thou
sand scions of nobility in France, and it
is stated that of these hut forty-six
th roe princes, seven dtikes, eleven mar
quises find thirty-five, counts, can prove
the creation of tapir title and trace Imdc
tliolr lineage anterior to tho seventeenth
century, a period of two hundred and
seventy-five yours.
—“ Uncle Pole" was asked to sub
scribe fifty cents to hit; parson’s salary
yesterday. “Can’t do it, I tell ye.
Kasu dol e’s mighty Imrd times ’proaahin
on liytir!" “Oh, no, Pete, de scraps is
good, and we linli plenty money dis
winter! ” “ Yoii’hc a fool! How kin
dal he when J beer Mr. Jcemes tip dnr
nt de bank snv dot de L'idoraforny Hank
done busted, jis like dnt Freedman bank
did ? Can’t ’scribe mithin,’ honey, but,
I’ll Iliad de preacher my wood saw and
buck, of he wants to yearn sontfin.”
This proposition was not accepted.
• I was acquainted once with a gallant
soldier who assured mo that his orjly
mot hod of courage was this ^ IJix:
dead
'main-
of ail
dead
limbs
koned
....... ujxm It!
man. He then fought out tho
der of the (lay perfectly rcgardlc
manner of danger, as l»ecomcs
man Vo be. Ho that all the life
lie carried back to itis tent lie t
clear gala, or, as 1m himself expressed
"so much out of tlu: lire.”—Stern*.
—On the morning of September 4th,
s house on Great Peter Ktrcct. Lon
don, n sideboard, a book-case and nit
iron client were found which were made
by Peter the Great when he was living
as a workingman in England. The Lon
don Gazette of Febiinry lli.lt, H5‘J8, de-
ribes these articles, which are said to
Imve remained where the Ozar left them,
he left them, since tlmt time.
Latterly t^v Imve Ikkmi considered*
iither in the light of lumber; hut hav
ing been seen by M. Stanislaus, a Polo,
they have Iteeotne tiie property of a
litisdan nobleman, Oregoiro Tschertkofi’
them to tiie Em
peror of Hussta, to lw? placed among
other relict* of Peter tho Great at Mos-
Tliis good little boy was sitting on
the front steps whittling up Ids sister’s
embroidery-frames, nno muttering to
hiniHcl&: “ This ain't no good world to
live in unless a feller is bin father’s and
mother's only orphan lx>y. What makes
me git so mad is to have my sister go
and "take all my ripe jxmehee to give to
that big loufur of a sweetheart of hers
tlmt comes round here seven nights in a
ek to git a square meal, and make out
ub if he wanted to talk politic&wjlh the ......................
old man. I wislu they’ll*nlurry and go in Gath and miblish it in AhkcIou ; tne,
to Texas, I do!" And then he threw-! remedy is infallible*’’ It.was so. 1 ex-
remmints of tin* Irani* :- into the ! jx'rionccd u sensation of colducss on ap-
i and seemed light-hearted,—- At-1 plying it, which gruuually subsided, and
lan(". Comdlulhit, with it tho torment of the toothache.
Tin;TooritAC'HF..-rA gentleman says,
after sttfi'ering excruciating Ttftin from
this riche, and having tried m vain to
obtain relief, Hetty told me a gentleman
bad Ix-en waiting some time in the par
lor, who Bald lie would not detain mo
minute, lie came-—a iriond I hud
seen for years. He sympathized
with tiie, while I briefly told how sadly
was afflicted. “ My dear friend,” ex
humed he, “ I ntii cure you in ten min
utes. “ How? how?” inquired J ; do it,
in pity!” “TnfltanUyi” said he. "Pet
ty, have' you any nb»n?’ ; " Yes.
“'firing it, and some common utlt.
They were produced ; my friend.pulver
ized’them, mixed iu equal quantities;
then wet a small piece of cotton, causing
the mixed powders to adhere, and then
j,laced it in my hollow'tooth. "There,”
.-aid he, "if that does not cure you I
ill forfeit my head. You may tell this